And Magic Merged Our Paths, Pt 2
Written by: "Rush Howley".
Based on Charmed by: Constance M. Burge & Brad Kern.
Based on "Little Box of Horrors" written by: Cameron Litvack
Season 1, Episode 02
Disclaimer: "Charmed", "The Charmed Ones" and other related entities are owned by CONSTANCE M. BURGE, AARON SPELLING Television Inc (A Paramount / Viacom Co.) All Rights Reserved. This history was made without their permission, approval, authorization or endorsement, only for entertainment proposes. No copyright infringements intended.
Scene: Outdoors. Sean, Mathew, Vlad and Kat are running on the sidewalk. They start to slow the pace.
Vlad: Though at this time is sort of obvious… I forget to tell you that I had barely gas.
(Kat gives him a glance.)
Mathew: Do you think we lost him?
Sean: I think we're not going to see him for a while.
Vlad: In what stuff are you guys into?
Kat: (pointing to Sean.) Ask him.
Sean: I… I don't know why you are always blaming me.
Mathew: It's not time to blame anyone, I think we are safer together. Do not fight.
(Kat gets close to Mathew.)
Kat: Mathew, are you crazy? Look (looking at Vlad) He seems like an emo drunkard and the other guy is not my favorite person since he got us in all of these…
Mathew: We are in this magical stuff; we can't separate until we know we are safe.
(Kat starts to talk to everyone.)
Kat: Maybe we need to go back to the witches' house.
Vlad: And you also know witches! C'mon…
Sean: Don't get that excited. But yes, I think that's the best think to do, but we are too far away and my house is not as far from here. (To Kat and Mathew) You can call your parents from there if you want...
Kat: Ok and my dad can take Mathew to his department.
Mathew: Sure.
Sean: What about you guy?
Vlad: I live in a house... a green house… yeah.
(Kat holds a laugh.)
Sean: Mine is very big, I have a lot of space. You can sleep there this night.
Vlad: Cool!
Sean: Let's go.
Scene: Time lapse. Sean's house. Sean opens the front door and everybody enters.
Kat: I mean… wow.
Mathew: What do you do to pay all of this?
Sean: It's… something.
Kat: (whispering to Mathew.) Drug dealer…
Vlad: If that thing is chasing us, it probably going to come here as well. Let's call to this guy's parents.
Kat: Wow, that's a good suggestion. I thought you were drunk.
Vlad: I'm not drunk, I'm just… absent-minded.
Mathew: Weird…
Kat: Anyway.
Sean: The phone is in the kitchen.
Kat: Ok, Mathew, come with me…
(They walked to the kitchen. Sean looks at Vlad who is staring at Sean's stomach. Sean claps.)
Sean: Hey, did you loose something?
Vlad: I'm… sorry. I'm just not feeling great today.
(Vlad still holds the glance. Sean gives him a look and wants to get away, but a small blue sphere slowly fades in.)
Sean: What the...
Vlad: Did you see that? I saw that! I dreamt this too!
(The sphere widely expands to cover Sean entirely, as a forcefield. Kat and Mathew walk in.)
Kat: We took a glass of water if you don't mind (She sees the scene.) For god's sake!
(She freaks out and throws the glass of water to the forcefield. It breaks when the glass touches it.)
Kat:What's that?
Mathew: Maybe he's a monster too!
Sean: A demon? Sure, how come I didn't notice
Vlad: I'm NOT a demon!
Sean: (to Vlad.) How are you doing this?
Vlad: I don't know!
Kat: Turn it off!!
(From nothing, an energy-ball appears to hit the forcefield. It fades out as the energy-ball disappears.)
Vlad: Oh…
(Paige orbs in, as the same time a female demon shimmer in. She opens her mouth and a lot of fire butterflies rush to attack the witch.)
Paige: Hell Butterflies!
(All the butterflies orb back to the demon, which is vanquished by her attack. Paige turns to the guys that are visibly shocked.)
Paige: Butterflies... I feel insulted.
Cut to Scene: Big dinner room. All of them are stand up, talking.
Paige: A demon is chasing you.
Sean: Yes, and we don't understand what he wants from us. Clearly we have nothing special… or at least… (he looks Vlad.)
Vlad: What?
Sean: You created a forcefield before the energy ball could hit me.
Vlad: Was that a forcefield?
Paige: Maybe we finally found the Guardian. Tell me, did you use your powers before?
Vlad: I'm… confused.
Paige: Clearly not. Look, magic is wiser than we expect. It activates when we need it desperately. What you did was a forcefield.
Vlad: You have right guys, I'm sort of high.
Paige: (to Sean.) Is he even listening?
Sean: I don't know.
Kat: What do you think the demon want from us?
Paige: Well, I was expecting to have all my sisters to explain it to you but we have some complications. I'll be brief.
Mathew: We are listening.
Paige: You are…
(Interrupting, a red-glowing twister forms in the living room. Kat get close to Sean and Vlad which already is together with Mathew. The twister stops and Pandora's Box is revealed. Everyone looks with expectation. An old, white woman projects in front of the box.)
Paige: Hi again.
Old Woman: I can't believe I'm finally seeing all of you.
Vlad: How did you appear?
Old Woman: Dearest, you need to wake up in life. (To Paige.) Did you tell them?
Paige: I was about to.
Old Woman: Thanks goodness, I want to tell them by myself.
Kat: Who are you?
Old Woman: I'm Hope.
(The camera zooms in Sean that already knows that name.)
Sean: Hope as…
Old Hope: The girl who was in your mother's tale? Maybe. I'm a magical concentration of all the magick that has to be inherited by future Guardians.
Mathew: I can't believe this… I…
Old Hope: Honey, you don't have to freak out. Magic is caring and kind, you just need to open your heart to your new destiny.
Sean: Don't freak him out. What are you talking about?
Old Hope: I see it. (She gets close to Sean. She wants to touch his face but her fingers can't touch him as if she were a ghost.) The vividness of your eyes, the strong glance you have. There's not doubt you were the first Guardian summoned.
Sean: Excuse me?
Old Hope: Magic is wise, as well the time. Your powers awoke before everybody else, even before the Box passed down to Hope. You are going to be the protector, I'm sure.
Kat: (whispering to Mathew.) When they get distracted, we are leaving.
Old Hope: I need you to protect the Box. The former guardian, Hope, was a clever girl that used the magic of her heritage as the ultimate recourse to save the Box from evil. We can't let anyone to reach that point again. That's why not only one girl was summoned as the new Guardian, but several people are going to work together in order to…
(A claxon is heard. Kat hides the excitement in her face.)
Kat: Is my dad, Mathew and I are leaving…
Mathew: Great… I mean, I don't want to offend you but…
Old Hope: Do what you think is right, but I can guarantee you that he is not your father…
Kat: What? And who else could be?
Old Hope: You only heard a claxon honey… but this is the first lesson you are going to learn. I'm going...
Mathew: What?
Vlad: Wait please. I still have questions about my… thing.
Old Hope: (She smiles.) You are going to be okay. Just… be more active.
(Old Hope glows red again and disappeared. Paige puts her hand in her eyes. Kat and Mathew go over the front door to get outside.)
Sean: Huh, do you feel okay?
Paige: Yeah, I think I lack of sleep. One of my sisters have problems with a demon and her son and the other one is obsessed with me using magic, like if she didn't hit this point. Besides, another who lives in the manor, Billie, is calling me and I'm in charge to protect her. My head jingle like a Christmas Musical.
Sean: That seems like a lot of responsibilities.
Paige: Of course they are. Look, I need to go for a minute or two and if I guess correctly about what is happening in my house, I wont' be able to return until tomorrow. 2 out of 4 of you have active powers and you are the only one who knows how to use them. I don't trust too much on the drunk guy.
Vlad: I'm still here... hearing…
(Paige gives him a forced smile.)
Paige: Don't let them separate until tomorrow. Be creative to stick you together. And for nothing in the world open that box.
Sean: Got it.
Paige: Thanks. If is really, really an emergency, call my name.
Vlad: May I call you too?
Paige: If you want…
Vlad: Cool…
(Paige rolls her eyes and orbs out. Sean laughs. Kat and Mathew walk in.)
Kat: That was weird; I swear I heard a claxon.
(The demon that was chasing them shimmers in. Kat and Mathew moved back.)
Demon: You humans are so easily tricked (He notices the Box on the floor.) You have it!
Kat: That's what he wanted.
Demon: If you mind, I'll take it.
(The demon bends to take the box but a forcefield protects it rejecting the demon's hand.)
Vlad: It's simpler than I thought.
Demon: Don't make me laugh.
(Sean shoots the demon with a bolt, sending him flying. He and Vlad start to run in the house. Kat and Mathew run to the front door but the demon closed it with a gust. They quickly follow Sean and Vlad.)
Scene: Sean's House. Big Living Room. Sean, Vlad, Kat and Mathew are there, also the demon. He is throwing fireballs randomly. One of the guys is covering everyone except the attacker with a light-blue forcefield.
Vlad: I don't know how much I can resist…
Sean: Don't worry; I'll get out attacking him.
(Kat holds his arm. Her face exposes her panic.)
Sean: What… uh, Katherine, right?
Kat: Don't go. I mean… holy god is a demon! Stay with us.
Sean: I know how to use my powers, don't worry.
(The demon is still throwing fireballs at the forcefield. The shield starts to get weaker.)
Mathew: Well, let's give him the box!!
Demon: I support the kid's idea. He has a brilliant future… in his other life.
Vlad (sweating): Damn…
(Three fireballs hit the forcefield and breaks it. Vlad blacks out. The demon smiles. Kat screams. Sean gives Mathew a box.)
Demon: Don't you feel like you have lived this before?
Sean: Don't let him have it.
Mathew: Dude…
Sean: I'm going to be okay…
(The demon throws him a fireball. Sean raises his palm and a short white ray came out. It hits the fireball disappearing.)
Mathew: What the…
Sean: Stay away!
(The demon extends his palm too and a wave of wind throws Mathew and Kat to the wall. Mathew let the box fall. Sean throws another ray but the demon shimmers out before he could get hit. He shimmers in front of the box and the guys.)
Demon: Pandora's Box, finally…
(Mathew jumps to cover the Box. The demon kicks his back. Sean throws him a ray but the demon picks the box up. The ray hits the Box that slowly opens itself. A black vapor, more like smoke starts to spread in matter of seconds. By the force of the vapor, everyone falls to the floor. The camera spins to see everyone panicked and the box' beings escaping from it.)
Sean: Paige! (Nothing happens.) Paige!
Kat: Shut it!
Demon:Finally!
(Kat drags across the room. The demon wanted to shoot something to her but Sean throws him lighting bolts one after another, reaching a point when he is finally vanquished. The box starts to glow red. Sean can't move.)
Sean:Don't let it go away!
Kat: What?
Sean: The Hope!
(Kat reached the box and shut it before the red glow could escape. All the black smoke was covering the house, pressing everyone's bodies heavier and disables to see each other.)
Sean: Paige!
(The box glows red again, blowing all the evil that were in the house. Paige, Phoebe and Piper orbs in, to see a creepy old house with Sean, Mathew, Kat and Vlad unconscious, bleeding everywhere.)
Paige: What just happened?
Phoebe: Go to heal them, hurry up, Piper and I will take care of the Box.
(Paige rushes to see Sean and heal him. Piper and Phoebe carefully remove Kat's hand from the Box. It glows again and Old Hope appears.)
Old Hope: For all the heavens, this is an awful moment in the humanity.
Piper: Do these guys?
Paige: (not too far away) He's breathing, he's going to be okay.
Old Hope: I think that I did enough to get all of them weaker.
Phoebe: You are referring to…
Old Hope: Yes honey, the evil inside of the box, now outside of course. They aren't going to have the strong to end with our world, but I now have no power to protect them again. (She sees the guys.)
Piper: Do you want us to protect the Box?
Old Hope: No, they are the Guardians: the only ones that can "cage" all the evil that was once released it. They might think that keeping the Box empty is going to be a waste of time, but they save me to go with the tide of the evil and, without my power and lock, evil need me and the Box more than never.
Phoebe: We know they are going to try to live normally.
Old Hope: But their lives are going to change forever.
Piper: I think that the elders could send something useful here to help them. But, they did it? No, just for a change.
Old Hope: Honey, don't get mad with them. Though we are somewhat connected, the Box's destiny was to be opened. And now, their destiny is to protect the Box (she starts to fade away.) I'll be near, just being sure that you explain to them everything.
Piper: We will.
(Old Hope completely disappeared.)
Fade to black and then fade to scene: The Charmed One's manor. All of them are in the attic.
Paige: (holding a wooden box) and these are five crystals to make the crystal cage. Use them to cage a demon or being you can't vanquish and call me to do the dirty job.
Sean: Sure. I'll keep it with the Box at my home.
Mathew: I still can't believe that I'm here again.
Vlad: It's so... wierd.
Paige: And you (she walks over to Vlad.) you need to practice your powers, okay? We are going to need a lot of defense until Katherine and Mathew develop their own.
Mathew: I will not have any powers. Where's Kat anyway?
(Kat enters holding Wyatt's hand. She gets closes to Vlad and Wyatt to Piper.)
Kat: This piece of heaven showed me what things he could do with his powers. (to Mathew.) So lovely!
Piper: Did he show you? (To Wyatt) Did you show your powers to the lady? Did you? (He blushes.)
Phoebe: He blushed! Isn't he cute? I can't wait to see Chris blushing.
Piper: Hey, hold your horses.
Sean: Uh… thanks for everything.
Kat: Yeah, and for helping me with my parents.
Paige: We are going to be in contact.
Piper:You live separately, but try to stick together most of the time. Believe us, together the magic is stronger.
Mathew: (ironically) and Magic again…
Kat: He's not that receptive with magical stuff until he's in danger, let him be. But I love it instead! Thanks for taking care of us. Are we going to get out of this manor orbing? Maybe with a portal?
Vlad: I think we are going to walk.
Kat: You like me better when you are drunk.
Vlad: I was not drunk!
Sean: Yeah, yeah, lead us to the exit Vlad.
Phoebe: (Laughting.) You guys are more connected that you think.
(They all walk out of the attic except for Paige. She opens the book and flips to an unfinished page. It says "Hope" with an illustration of Old Hope holding the Box. She grabs some materials and continues to work in it.)
END OF EPISODE