Charmed

Chapter 3:

Yet AGAIN, ANOTHER loss, but for a good reason.

"Okay, I'm here. What's the plan?" Billie asked, hurrying into the room. Her blonde hair was down, just past her shoulders and straight. Her features worried.

I sighed and pointed at Leo. "That Ex-husband of mine-" Leo sighed, I was joking but still. He was in trouble. "Is going to send out astral selves down there, we'll go down. They'll try kill us. When they realise they can't I'm hoping to talk, try figure out how to get us out of this time loop because every spell we've tried so far won't work."

Billie scowled at Leo but nodded.

"Let's do it." Phoebe, Paige Billie and I all walked over to stand in line in front of the couch, while Leo stood before us. He sighed, lifted up the sheet of paper in front of him and read out the words. Suddenly I felt magic on me, in me, a red glow ran on the surface of our skins, and my eyes felt heavy, droopy, then I was falling.

When I opened my eyes I was standing, and felt fine. I looked down at myself, patted my chest and looked at my sisters and Billie. We all looked the same, but now we were in the attic.

"Now what?" Paige asked,

"We wait," Phoebe said, she walked forward but suddenly a fireball shot from nowhere and went straight though her chest as if she weren't there, it crashed against the wall, leaving a circular scorch mark.

"That didn't take long." Billie said, as if they immerged form behind a hidden veil, cloaked figures walked forward. The Absorbers. They looked confused, each held a fireball or an energy ball in their hands, they grunted and attacked, the balls flew through us, not even tingling as they did.

"What's going on?" one of them asked, walking forward.

"We're not here, we're in astral forms, and we want to talk."

The leader threw another fireball, it passed through my stomach like it was nothing.

"Really? You're going to try again?" I asked, he sighed and they lowered their hands.

"There is nothing to talk about. We were promised powers, and we want them."

"Yeah, I want a new car, a raise in my job; we don't all get what we want." I said, he scowled at me.

"But for some reason every time we kill one of you, the day starts again, and we are weak, the powers we took are gone."

"Wait," Phoebe said, "You remember the days that have already happened."

"Up until two days ago, we remember showing up but for some reason you already knew we were coming," A female Absorber answered.

"It's just like you, piper." Billie answered. "They can't remember the day the spell was cast, but remember every day since."

"What are you talking about?" The leader asked. I sighed and we all explained the situation, they seemed to calm a little yet they were demons, which meant one way or another I was to kill them.

"So it seems we have a bit of a dilemma." One of them said. "We need powers, that white lighter of your made a deal, a binding deal with us. We need a set amount of powers, these powers could only come from you, all of you. Dead."

"That's what you want, but you can't have it." Phoebe said. "Because the moment you try take it, the days starts again, sure you kill one of us, and get the powers, but the day will start again, and all who died are alive again, technically we're a whole lot safer than you think, sure only piper will remember the days' previous to it, but we'd all be here. Alive. Whereas you all will be weak, stuck in this timeline. Forever."

"Correct." One of them spat.

"Well how are we going to solve this one, that benefits us all, without any of us dying."

"I'd prefer some killing." the female smirked.

"So would I." Billie said, I saw a red aura glowing around her hands, I lifted my hand and put it on her shoulder and she calmed down, her magic fading away.

"No. We're all trapped here, only I and you guys-' I pointed to the group, '-Know about the loop, and each time you get what you want, the day's starts again. So how about this. We agree to restart the day again, when that happens, none of us attack, on either side. I'll have chance to inform my family on the deal we have, that way when the day is up, and no lives have been lost, the time loop should break, seen s though the deaths of my family seem to be the trigger, if no one dies, then tomorrow should start."

"And then what?" The Leader of the Absorbers said.

"Then we're free, no time loop. Just us, against you. And then we kill you." I said,

"I like you're thinking, witch." and he turned and threw a fireball and it struck Billie in the chest. She was taken by surprise and screamed as she flew back across the attic, she crashed against the windows and flew straight through it, and I heard the smash of her body against the concrete before any of us could move."

"Billie!" Paige screamed, she and Phoebe ran over to the window, to check on her but I remained still. Knowing that any second now, the loop would trigger, and the day would start again. My eyes closed, and opened to see Leo in front of me. In bed.

"Here we go." I said.