Charmed: The Return
Disclaimer: See Chapter One.
Summary: After their parents' deaths, the Charmed Children moved on with their lives. Now they return home to where it all started and back to the world, they turned their backs on.
Chapter Six: Broken Trust
Wyatt and Sam orbed into the living room in a swirl of blue and white lights. Chris and Rachel were seated in on the large sofa, the Book laying on the coffee table, opened to the page on Jekyll. Ali and Rose were both in the large chairs opposite the sofa. Ali sat, her clothes still the same, with her legs crossed and a vial of purple liquid in her hand. Rose, who was wearing track pants and a tee shirt was sitting Indian style.
"Hi, Wyatt." Chris said to his older brother as he materialized. Wyatt nodded in his direction.
"Where were you?" Ali asked with a venomous tongue. Sam glared at her as he wedged himself between Rachel and Chris.
"Let's focus on the demon right now and we'll discuss Wyatt's activities after." Rachel said, trying to avoid a family conflict.
"So what's the scoop on this demon?" Wyatt asked as he placed his suit blazer on the piano stool and loosened his pale purple tie.
"Someone tell him, because if I have to tell this story once more, I'll blow something up." Chris said in aggravation. And Sam started to tell the story.
About ten minutes later, Sam was finished telling the story. Wyatt looked at his family with a confused look on his face. "And if we don't have the flesh, what is the purpose of the potion?"
Ali looked blankly at him before realizing that he was actually talking to her. "Oh, it's simply a stunning potion. So we can stun him and get the flesh. Because you never know, Sam's power might not work on the demon."
"Oh. So let me run upstairs and get dressed before we do this?"
"Fine." Ali said, and Wyatt walked out of the living room. Sam looked down at the Book and read to himself the description of Jekyll, and once Wyatt cleared the room, he knew what was going to happen.
"So where was he?" Rose asked, sitting upright.
"That's not for me to tell." Sam said as he flipped a page in the Book of Shadows.
"Come on, tell us!" Rachel said nudging him slightly.
"No. He swore me to not tell, and I won't betray him like that." Sam said with conviction.
"Sam, he's my brother. If he is in trouble, I should know." Chris pleaded.
"He's not in trouble, per se. But he has his reasons for being secretive, and we should leave it at that. Once again, it's no one's business until he tells you."
"Damn it, Sam, come on! I tell you everything!" his sister said to him.
"Yes, but it's not something for me to tell." Sam said as he flipped yet another page in the Book. His eyes never leaving the old yellowed pages.
"Okay, I'm all set." Wyatt said as he entered the living room wearing a gray University of San Francisco hoodie and a pair of matching sweatpants.
"Okay, let's summon this bastard!" Ali said excitedly as everyone stood up and went to different corners of the room. Chris, Rachel and Sam stood in the center of the room and read aloud the spell. "Demon of darkness, we call on thee. Descendants of the power of three. Through our bloodline, we call you. With our magic, we summon you!"
There was a crash of thunder in the room and a swirl of black and purple lights swarmed about the room. The colors similar to that of a darklighter's orbs. The orbs circled in the living room before finally congregating in the foyer in front of the stairs. There was another crash of thunder and four minion demons appeared and a tall, human looking demon appeared in the middle. His eyes threatening with malice. The lights had barely disappeared before an energy ball was thrown towards the young witches. Wyatt threw his hand up and a large purple shield formed in front of him, and the energy ball was deflected and flew towards Chris, who knowing his brother's intention, flung his arm and the energy ball sailed through the air and hit one of the demons. The demon burst out in a ray of flames.
Asthe fighting continued in the mortal plane, the congregation of demons circled around an orb in the center of their lair. It glowed black as the Charmed Six took out the demons, one by one. Attempting the impossible: to get close to Jekyll.
"Medusa, now is the time!" Argus yelled at the demoness. Her eyes glowed with anger as she turned towards him. "The time is not yet right!"
"Damn it woman! Do it, the witches aren't watching. They will never know until it is too late!"
"Toying with this type of magic is dangerous. It is not as easy as possessing a homeless man to scare the witches! Instilling doubt is one thing, but bewitching the Halliwell tome to turn on it's owners is more complicated that you know."
"Just cast the damn spell, you two bickering children." a hooded man roared
"Yes, Echoic." Medusa complied and chanted a spell.
"Rachel watch out!" Rose yelled to her sister as an energy ball flew at her. Rachel looked at the ball and jumped slightly, causing her levitation to take her higher out of the ball's path. The ball of concentrated energy flew at the wall, which Wyatt yelled out for it and orbs enveloped it and sent it flying back at the sender, causing him to burn in a roar of flames.
The four demons were dead. Now all that remains was the demon in the center.
"Jekyll, I presume?" Chris said as he adjusted his shirt.
The demon stared at him, silent. His eyes roaming all over the room. To each witch. Wyatt standing with his hands on his hips. Chris standing upright and in charge, his arms limp by his sides. Sam leaning against the wall by the grandfather clock, his arms crossed. Rachel sitting on the back of the den's couch. Rose standing next to her in a poised elegance. And Ali standing in the doorway to the dining room, ready to strike if need be. His eyes glanced at the potion in Ali's hand and sneered.
"Crystals, circle!" Wyatt yelled out of no where. Crystals? Everyone thought, no one had even thought of using crystals and where were they coming from? He couldn't possibly summon them from the attic...could he? No.
Six citrate crystals, under the end table by the downstairs phone, were enveloped in orbs and disappeared. Only to reappear around Jekyll creating a large forcefield of energy. Jekyll sneered once more and looked around. He was able to see a faint red glow in the living room, which no one else seemed to notice. He laughed to himself, a deep, dark laugh, which was cold enough to cause one chills. Only Rose showed facial fear.
"It is done." he said to his enemies, before being circled in a ray of dark light and disappearing.
"What the hell was that?" Rachel said flabbergasted.
"He couldn't dark-orb like that, for starters it's not his power, and second of all the crystal cage keeps magic in, he wouldn't have been able to get out!" Chris said in frustration as he ran his fingers through his hair.
"Let's check the book." Sam suggested and lead the way into the living room. He walked over the Book and proceeded to pick it up. His hand was barely on the pages of the tome before it glowed a deep crimson color and propelled Sam backwards towards the window. He would have made contact with the glass if he hadn't orbed mid-propel.
He reappeared seconds later, visibly shaken and confused.
"The real question now becomes, what the hell was that!" Sam yelled in anger.
"Why is the Book preventing me from touching it! I'm not evil, damn it."
Chris went towards the Book and as his hand approached it, it glowed that deep crimson color once more, and before it could do any damage, he retracted his hand like a moth to flame.
"The Book thinks we are evil." Rose rationalized.
"Thank you for that marvelous conclusion, Nancy Drew." Ali bit back. Rose ignored her.
"How does the Book go from trusting us to hating us in a matter of one demon fight?" Rachel asked.
"If it trusts evil, then we'll give it evil." Ali said as she walked forward towards the Book and stared down at it. She took a deep breath and ran her hand over her face. She was enveloped in bright light as she took the form of Jekyll. She used her glamouring power, the one power she had no mastery over. In her new form, Ali/Jekyll reached forward and placed her hand on the Book. Nothing happened.
"Way to go, Ali!" Chris said excited, but oh how that was short-lived. The Book then glowed it's red color and sent Ali/Jekyll flying into the mantle of the fireplace.
"Ow." was all she could muster.
"The Book's smarter than we thought!" Sam said as he helped his younger sister up off the ground.
"I got it!" Wyatt exclaimed.
"Got what? A solution?" Ali asked as she glowed again and took her normal form again.
"No, more of a conclusion." he said lightly as he took a seat on the couch.
"We were just discussing how he was able to get out of the crystal cage, right?"
"Which by the way, was incredibly genius." Rose pointed out and then urged him to continue.
"The cage won't let magic out, but perhaps let magic in? He was probably summoned by an outside source. He was prepared for us. He knew what we were planning. Now all of a sudden the Book thinks we're evil. He probably acted a decoy so this outside force could infect the Book, turning it against us. Why? Because Jekyll or whoever it is pulling the strings here, knew this was the first place we would turn. Now we're virtually powerless."
"Sonovabitch." Chris exclaimed angrily as he slammed his foot down in anger.
"Now what, we have no power?" Rachel said, taking a seat next to Wyatt.
"We go the one place where there is power." Wyatt said.
"Magic School." Ali said, understanding where he was going.
"That's right. It was entrusted to our family since Dad was teaching there at the time of his death." Chris said. And for the first time, the word death didn't cause unsteady emotions in the room.
"Yes. And we gave it over to the Elders after we left five years ago. It's still ours and we can use it's magic, plus it would expand our search radius on Jekyll." Rose said.
"Yeah just one thing, though." Sam pointed out.
"What is that?" Ali asked.
"It still doesn't help solve the fact that evil can now get the Book."
"Damn it." was the phrase heard all around the room, along with other colorful expletives.
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