Disclaimer: I don't own charmed
A/N: I want to say thanks to all those who reviewed (just keep them coming), the next update will be sometime this week
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The underworld
"You are sooo dead" commented Melinda from behind her crystal cage as Gideon frowned and winced the pain in his shoulder since he lost his every part of his arm beneath his elbow and didn't feel anything except his shoulder that was mostly pain, but since when did Chris become so powerful? That was one of many questions that were popping in the elder's head
"You know I don't get it your bimbo there saves your ass from hell and you just keep asking us for a reason to send you back and all of that based on what? A suspicion?" Melinda continued quite clear on how much she was annoying the elder
"Does the word "silence" mean anything to you?" he asked
"No" she answered sarcastically
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The Manor
A loud crash was heard coming from the basement Piper, Bianca, Paige, Phoebe and Wyatt tried to ignore it knowing that it had come from Chris practicing with Leo, his new power of lightning blasts came with a dangerously low level of control hence Chris insisted that he was to dangerous to be around them and had closed himself of in the basement only Leo with him who insisted that he had nothing to fear from his son (Piper had insisted that he as well found out what happened on his vision quest since Chris wasn't telling)
"This is impossible no being had ever held that power! Besides the elder's of course" complained Odin still stuck in his prison, the Halliwells plus Bianca ignored him
"Tried summoning, scrying, sensing nothing where ever she is we can't find" exclaimed a frustrated Paige and banged her head against the table
"I'm sure that Mel fine she can take care of herself" assured them Wyatt "And besides if she was really hurt we would know"
"How?" asked the sisters
"Well it's kinda like your power of three connection if one of us in mortal peril the other two would know trust me"
"In mortal peril? Aren't you a drama queen" teased Phoebe
"Guess were I get that from?" replied Wyatt with a smirk
"He's got you there Pheeb's" commented Paige as Phoebe stuck her tongue out at Wyatt
Another loud crash was heard coming from downstairs that startled Bianca (the roses in the garden suddenly grew and opened luckily no one noticed)
"Everything alright!" Piper bellowed as they heard Leo's voice
"We're fine! Penny's old trunk wasn't so lucky" followed by Chris's voice
"Sorry!"
"That's ok its not as if someone actually liked that old thing!" yelled Piper back remembering how she hid in the basement when her power of molecular combustion manifested
"I did" mumbled Phoebe under her breath
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The basement
Another blast of blue lightning illuminated the room as it hit the wall next an old lamp
"This power is useless I can hardly control it with out accidentally electrocuting someone" complained Chris as he sat down on the floor
"That power is a powerful weapon" offered Leo as Chris shot him a look "You cant give up that easily surly you didn't master your other powers without effort" he offered his words of comfort
"Easy for you to say I can't even tell the difference when I'm blasting, freezing or blowing stuff up"
"Your mother had the same problem when she developed her power of molecular combustion she mastered it and I'm sure you will too" he said and continued to encourage his son
"Do know how many people had this power beside elder's" Leo asked Chris shook his head "Exactly you are the first and that includes Wyatt" he said with a smile as offered his hand to Chris helping him up
"Thanks Leo" he answered as Leo's eyebrows pulled together in confusion
"Leo? What happened to dad?" he asked
"Huh?" asked Chris
"You called me Leo, why?"
"I don't know" he replied honestly
"Chris what happened when you were in your vision quest?" his father asked
"Nothing important so let's try this again" he brushed Leo off as he took his hands up sparks of electricity flowing between his fingers and palms
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The underworld
"I have brought you this" spoke Rita softly as she presented a demon arm wrapped in bloodied cloth
"I think that "disgusting" simply wont cut it this time" commented Melinda behind her prison her nose wrinkling in disgust, Gideon looked as if he might just agree with her
"Your new body it can absorb and heal" she explained "You are no longer an elder now you are better" she continued as she placed the demon arm on the elbow of Gideon
Gideon's body jerked suddenly as its flesh reached out and grabbed the piece of flesh assimilating it in the process, Gideon looked stunned, Rita looked very pleased, Melinda on the other hand looked as if she might vomit then se spoke
"I was right this is waaaay beyond disgusting"
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The Manor
"That is not going to work", moaned Odin as Piper shot him a glare
"Why won it" asked Wyatt as eyed the new potion they just made
"Because Gideon is no longer an elder" he explained "The spell used to recreate him only gave him the powers he possessed in his former life not the actual form"
"So what is he now?" asked Bianca
"He is a wraith" Odin explained as Wyatt gasped
"What the hell is wraith?" asked Phoebe and Paige
"A wraith is being that was resurrected by black magic…" began Odin
"You don't say" interrupted Piper
"We fought a wraith once in the future, it nearly killed aunt Paige…" continued Wyatt " It isn't that powerful nor a problem at beginning but the longer it stays and changes the worse it gets"
"Worse what do you mean with worse?" questioned the sisters
"A wraith's body is constantly deteriorating…decaying if you will to survive a wraith must replace the lost organs not to mention that the wraith absorbs the magic out of the parts he uses as replacement" explained Bianca as she remembered that encounter
"Replace?" asked Phoebe as she the repulsion on Bianca and Wyatt's faces
"Think George Romero's zombie movies" added Bianca
"So how do we get rid of it?" asked Piper
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Gideon and Rita had gone into the underworld probably looking for allies leaving Melinda alone with a brute demon that Rita had hired. The tall bulking demon only sat there and looked at her much to Melinda's annoyance then it meant that she couldn't get out with out fight. Thankfully she remembered a spell she had once written mainly to annoy Wyatt and Chris but it just might be helpful of course she tweaked it to make the experience far worse for the demon she turned her back at the demon and began to chant
"Powers far and wide
Answer my cry
Come here and forth to break the demons hold
For me to flee make the demon's body old"
With a faint white glow the bulking demon turned old his black hair turned gray and he lost his height and his muscles reduced in its size, his skin withered the demon looked as if he was a common old man. The brute demon looked at her then at itself and fainted much to Melinda's joy
"Ok now to get out of hear" she thought to herself