Charmed
Chapter 7:
The last chance.
I felt my heart in my chest, it cracked, it burned, it shattered and it was gone.
Leo was dead.
I waited a few seconds, with my hands on my head, preparing to be thrust backwards in time, to have the day restart and to have him there, smiling next to me in the early morning.
But as the seconds ticked by, I didn't feel the same wooziness I had felt before the day begun, I just felt woozy and sick, and dead because of the sight before my eyes; that pile of ashes.
I started wailing then, unable to actually cry? I just fell down and wailed, while the fight to the death still raged on around me.
Billie was crying, she headed towards me but an Absorber grabbed her, turned her to face him and slammed his fist into her face, a blood splatter hit the wall.
I lifted my hands and thrust them, but as we knew before, our emotions were tied to our powers, so of course my aim was off, of course I let it get out of control and of course I blew a hole in the attic wall; the extent of my blast blew both the Absorber and Billie across the room.
Paige screamed, orbed forward and caught Billie and then Orbed down next to us. I reached out and held them, but my eyes were only focussed on my husband's ashes.
Phoebe slid down under an attacked and landed next to us
"Paige!" she roared, "Get us out of here!" Paige held us all, and begun the orb, but as we started to disappear, I felt a hand on my leg. I cried out as I was pulled away from the orbs and I hit the floor.
I saw the orbs in the air, and I reached out for them but an Absorber grabbed me and threw me back.
My sisters and Billie would go somewhere safe, and once they realised I was not by their side, they would return, but by then it would be too late and I would be dead. I prepared for the worst.
The Absorber looked down at me.
"Leo had the most powers out of you all because of us, we would have happily taken his powers, you're and your sisters, we wouldn't need the other witch, but now...Leo is gone. He's dead." he said, those words, they were like knives to the heart.
"So now we need to replace the powers we've lost and you know how we're gonna do that? Huh?" he kicked me in the ribs and I slumped down.
"We're going to kill Billie as well, and then I'm going to go and I'm going to find your children...and I'm going to kill them, I'll drain the life out of them, their screams will be like music to my-"
He was on fire.
I had thrown the potion; Phoebe's potion that had been dropped was close by. The Absorber was still glowing because of the light from the spell.
So when I threw the potion...
He let out a giant scream; it seemed, luckily enough for me, that the absorbers were connected, as we had thought. Because just as the leader exploded into nothing but a pile of ash, each and every one of them exploded also, and was identical to him.
My sisters and Billie appeared and looked around.
"Piper? Piper are you alright?" Phoebe asked, helping me up, I was still crying.
"Piper...you did it, you killed them all," Billie said, I nodded.
"He's gone."
"That's right, you did it." Paige said.
"No!" I snapped, "He's gone! Leo is dead," I looked over at his ashes.
But suddenly my eyes moved to another pair of ashes, and then another and another, were...where the ashes...glowing?
We all screamed when suddenly, from every pile of ashes, long white streams of light shot up and around the room, like transparent ribbons. We all held each other, confused on what was going on.
Suddenly the lights came forward and hit me straight in the chest. I couldn't see, or hear, or move. I had no control over myself. I was up against the attic wall, jerking ferociously as all the ribbons shot into me, throwing me back against the wall with a thump.
Then once the last ribbon slipped in, I dropped down.
"Piper!"
"Oh god, what the hell was that?"
"Piper, honey are you okay?"
Phoebe asked.
I paid no attention to them. I felt something, in me. I felt the blood in my veins writhe with magic; I felt the magic booming in my mind, my brain. My heart was speeding up. I grabbed my head, trying to gain control of my thoughts.
Magic tingled in my fingers and shot throughout my body.
"Holy..." Billie said, we all looked down.
I was glowing?
My arms, legs, head, hair, fingers, eyes, teeth, every single part of my shining like a thousand diamonds.
"Oh I get it!" Paige said. "They were Absorbers, it mentioned in the books they took magic form others, to keep for themselves or to trade and deal, but the magic was never theirs, they just held it in them, used it. After they died it was released."
"And went into the witch that set the magic free." Phoebe said.
"So...I have the magic of a thousand witches..." I whispered,
I imagined this was what being high felt like.
It almost made me chuckle but then I realised something.
I had the power of a thousand witches.
"Leo..." I gasped. I walked forward, and waved my hand across the air.
Fire white candles appeared loosely in a circle, around Leo's ashes.
"Piper...I know what you're thinking..." Phoebe said
"Hear these words, hear my cry. Spirit from the other side, Come to me I summon thee, Cross now the Great Divide." And I held out my hands and pointed towards the pile of ashes. I used all the magic in me, every spec of light, and of love, and of hope for my husband. For our true and undying love.
Nothing happened.
"Piper...I don't think even you can..." Phoebe started.
"No." I said, I clapped my hands together and started again. "Hear these words, hear my cry. Spirit from the other side, Come to me I summon thee, Cross now the Great Divide!" This time with more emotion, and more fear this time, I needed him. I needed Leo.
"Leo!" I yelled.
Someone put their hand on my shoulder.
"No!" I yelled, pulling away from them and running towards the circle. Anger bubbled in me, and the flames on the candles shot up.
"Piper..."
"No, it should work, why isn't it working!" I yelled, lightning cracked outside and the lights in the house flickered, the shadows in the room started to move,
"Piper...look up." Phoebe said. I did so and gasped.
Billions of little lights, like ant sized lights, were moving in a circular motion above my head.
I reached out for them, knowing exactly what it was.
As my fingers caressed the edge, a hand came out of the lights and held it. I yanked and he fell out and into my arms.
"Leo!" I yelled, wrapped my arms and legs around him, as he laughed and held me. He was crying, and he turned and looked at the pile of ashes.
"You did it." he smiled. "You brought me back." he laughed.
"She used magic that should have killed her." A voice said. We turned and all gasped then.
There had to be over fifty elders all stood looking at us, all in white and golden robes. One man walked forward.
"The magic should have killed you upon entering you, Piper." he said. "But for some reason, you lived. You were lucky, but then you go and bring back a spirit from the dead...you're magic is too dangerous to have around." he said.
"That won't be a problem." Leo said, and as he said that I felt as if I had been split in half but felt no pain, and the ribbons all shot back out of me and through the window, disappearing into the night sky like stars.
"They only went into her to repay her for freeing them, and long enough for her to let me return; now they will go their separate ways." Leo said. The Elders all murmured, some happy, some angry.
"I guess you wasted a visit," Phoebe said.
"It appears so." The Elder said, and they orbed out one by one.
"Piper...I can't belie you did that." Leo said.
"You talk too much," I said, grabbing the man I loved and kissing him on the lips as if it were our last kiss, and I knew I would cherish this am even more than before as you never knew what kiss will be your last. I was lucky enough to have a second go.
Leo grinned at me.
"Oh," I said, smiling as I turned around to them. I Put my hand on my stomach and smiled.
"Don't want to be too much the center of attention here but...I'm pregnant."
The end
Ha-ha finally finished. I had been dragging this out because I knew it wouldn't be a long story, and wouldn't have too much going on but I hope those who did read enjoyed and please let me know what you think.
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