Broken Seals

Ch 4: Love and Hate

After Chris had gotten back from P3 he had spent the rest of his evening cleaning the house. He might not have inherited many of his mother's characteristics but he was as much of a neat freak as she was. When the house was almost sparkling clean he finally took a break to eat something before going to sleep. He was eating a sandwich as he watched the news talk about some disaster that had happened at the airport. Something about a freak electrical storm destroying part of the airport and seriously injuring some people.

Chris was not stupid enough to fall for that bunch of garbage. A battle dealing with the end of the world happened there and whoever the Seal was too stupid to raise his spiritual shield to protect the people from harm. He went through the list of Seals in his head to try to figure out who was involved in the fight. Melinda for all he knew was still in New York. Besides she cared about what happened to the little guys so much that at the first sign of trouble she raised her shield.

Henry would most likely raise his shield too. He was more likely to have some fun before raising it first though. Cynthia was a girl that was ruled by common sense so she would have done the practical thing and raised the shield. Jamie being connect to nature so acutely would most likely raise her shield if there was even the chance of a mouse getting hurt.

That left only one person, Wyatt since he was the only one of the Seven Seals that hadn't had the training to learn how to access their spiritual shield. Guess this really is the last battle then. Wyatt had finally returned to the magical world setting into action the end of the world.

Chris turned off the TV and went to the kitchen to put away the plate. Chris was about to leave the kitchen when he felt a presence somewhere in the manor. Chris touched his chest and the pentagram formed and engulfed the manor in light. Chris slowly went up the stairs knowing that the intruder was after Excalibur.

Chris pushed the attic door open and saw someone he thought he was never going to see again. Chris stared into the green eyes of his ex-lover. Chris was overcome with such extreme feelings that he was almost to late in raising his hand to deflect the red energy that Colin sent at him. Chris sent five beams of blue energy back at him and watched as Colin created a shield composed of an inverted pentagram. The Blue energy hit the pentagram and faded away.

"You should know that we are too evenly matched for either one of us to get the upper hand." Colin said as his emotionless face allowed the corners of his lips to rise in amusement.

"Oh but where would be the fun in doing nothing." Chris said as he drew three lines of blue energy in the air and sent them towards Colin. Colin dodged them and sent a blast of red energy back at him. Chris sent his own blast of blue energy and the forces met and built in a battle to see which one was stronger. The forces finally exploded under the pressure. When the smoke had finally lifted the manor was in ruins.

Chris stood on top of a column of wall that was still intact facing Colin who stood among the ruins. They both stared each other down, neither one willing to make the first move.

"Do you still want to kill me?" Colin said letting a few seconds pass before continuing "After all I did kill your mom."

Chris said nothing as he used his telekinesis to send a large piece of wall at him. Colin drew a vertical line of energy that sliced the wall in half before it could reach him. They faced each other again before Colin said "We're getting nowhere with this."

"Your point?" Chris asked.

"I propose that we call this one a draw and continue this fight another day."

"Fine," Chris said as he touched the pentagram on his chest and they found themselves standing in the attic once more. Colin started to walk out of the attic but stopped when he was close to Chris and said "You know, you're still as cute as ever," Before continuing on his way. Chris lowered his head and stared at the ground.

Melinda was late for her date, class had run late and she had three minutes to get to her dorm room change and get to the restaurant. It was times like these that she wished she could orb like her brothers could. She entered the restaurant and found that Zack wasn't even there yet. She sat at the table reading the menu before ordering a coke as she waited for her boyfriend. She thought about the disaster that had happened in Chicago and thought that this might be a sign that her destiny had finally come. She made a mental note to call Chris and see how things were going.

She had lost touch with him when she had gone to college. She knew that she should have kept in touch but life got in the way. She still regretted the fact that she hadn't spent more time with her mom before she had died. She still remembered with pain how broken Chris had been at her funeral. She was even more shocked when she had returned to attend her father's funeral a little later to see that Chris had become a could emotionless person.

He didn't seem to care about anything anymore. She was worried that when the time for the final battle came he wouldn't care enough about the world to do anything about it. She knew that her aunt Phoebe was also worried about him. The Seal of the Mind was way too powerful to become this chaotic. Chris was so powerful now after awakening his power as a seal that he could most likely beat Wyatt if he had too. Phoebe said that this was because almost everything in the world was somehow connected to the mind. Chris was able to create psionic energy that took the form of blue energy.

Melinda was about to take a sip of her coke when she saw an inverted red pentagram appear on the surface of the glass plate on her table. Melinda looked around frantically for any sign of a threat but couldn't find anything. Melinda jumped when she felt a hand touch her shoulder. She looked up to see that Zack had finally arrived. Melinda smiled as he leaned down and kissed her.

"Sorry, honey I couldn't get out of a last minute meeting at work." Zack said as he sat down. Melinda smiled and told him that it was no problem and that she had just arrived a few minutes ago. Melinda pushed her thoughts about Chris and the appearance of the inverted pentagram to the back of her mind as she started to enjoy her date.