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Bringing Out Mel's True Nature
She had to catch up, she could not let him get away. She had already killed her mother and the aunts, and now was the time to kill him. She had to kill Leo, he could not reach Wyatt or Chris. If that happened, she would not succeed. Luckily he had turned down an alleyway with a dead end.
Melinda had won. She faced her father and stood in front of him.
"There's no where for you run, daddy," Melinda smiled sweetly, "I win." Melinda was just about to throw an energy ball at the mortal, as blue orbs filled the alleyway, in between her and her target. The orbs materialised into Wyatt and Chris.
"Mel, don't do this." Chris begged her. She hated begging. This had been going on for months now, and she could not stand anymore. Telekinetically she threw her ex-lover into a dumpster.
"Melinda, this isn't you." Her older brother shouted at her.
"Isn't it?" Melinda asked, throwing the Twice-Blessed into the same dumpster as his brother. She stepped closer to Leo.
"Once you are gone, they will join me."
"No they won't Melinda." Leo stood up against his daughter, wishing they had helped her before she turned evil. Electricity flew out of Melinda's hands straight at her father…
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Melinda sat up with a start. She looked around where she was, still in the manor, still in her own bedroom. It was all a dream. Her mother was not dead, she had not killed her family. She was not evil, but she was not so sure. She could not be sure if she was evil or not. She decided there was one way she could find out. She got out of bed and stepped out of her bedroom, walking towards the attic. She needed to check with the Book of Shadows, if she was truly evil, it would not let her touch it. It had been a month since her miscarriage, and something inside of her still felt wrong.
As she made her way across the hallway, she could hear Wyatt with Bianca in his room. They had gotten closer since Patience had apparently told them they loved each other. She was not there, that was the night that she asked James to bring her the tonic, the night that she had done the most evil thing in the world. The night she had caused her miscarriage.
Pushing that night into the back of her mind, she got to the stairs of the attic. Was she ready to find out if she was really evil? If she was not evil, then what did that dream mean? Was it just her subconscious telling her what she feared or had she suddenly got the power of premonition?
Deciding she needed to know, she walked up to the attic. Seeing the Book of Shadows on it's podium, she started to fear the outcome. What if it did not let her touch it? What would she do?
"What'ya doing?" she heard a voice behind her. She turned to see Chris. Had he followed her up here?
"Nothing." Mel started to walk back out of the attic, she could not do this in front of Chris.
"You still think you're evil?" Chris was not impressed. They had not spoken much since he had found out what had happened, it hurt him too much to talk to her.
Melinda looked to the ground. Chris had blocked his thoughts from her. It had been like this for the past month, and it hurt, knowing how much he hated her at the moment.
"Well go on then, touch the book." Chris leaned against the door, eyeing his sister. He had blocked his thoughts so she could sense how hurt he was, how much he still loved Melinda, but could not understand what she had done.
Melinda looked at Chris and then looked at the big book again. She started to walk to the book but then felt someone else in the room. She turned to see a demon standing between her and Chris.
Chris saw the demon shimmer in. He was about to throw the demon away from his sister but it was too late. The demon grabbed the 16-year-old and shimmered out. Leaving him alone in the attic.
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'Powers of the witches rise,
Course unseen across the skies.
Come to us we call you near,
Come to us and settle here.'
Chris had been trying that spell for hours now. As soon as he saw his sister taken by the demon he had woken everybody up. Wyatt was the first to reach the attic, trying to sense for his sister and then went to scrying. Chris was the one who started the 'to call a lost witch' spell. They had tried everything but nothing was working.
"It's my fault." Chris sighed as the spell did not work for the 8th time.
"Why is it your fault?" Wyatt asked, walking to his younger brother, who was stood at the book. He passed his scrying crystal to Bianca and asked her to keep scrying.
"I was so pissed off at her that I just let her get taken." Chris sighed.
"You did not let her get taken, you tried to get the demon didn't you?" But then Wyatt looked deep into his eyes. Chris had not tried whole heartedly to save his sister. Wyatt closed his eyes and sighed.
"It's ok, we'll get her back and then you can make it up to her." Wyatt walked around the room, thinking of a plan to find out where his baby sister was. Where would this demon take her, hang on they had not even tried to find out who the demon was. Wyatt looked towards his brunette brother.
"Have you checked for the demon in the book?"
Chris shook his head and started flicking through the big ancient book. He had seen the demon well enough to find out who he was, as long as he was in here.
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Melinda looked around where she was. She was chained to a wall. The walls were jaggered and wet, they were underground somewhere. The underworld, probably, after all it was a demon that took her. Then she thought back to the attic, Chris did not really try to help her, but was that just because he was surprised to see her?
Deciding to stop thinking about that and figure out how to get out of here, she looked at the chains that were holding her. Her arms were aching form being up in the air, and the chains around her wrists were tight.
"Ah, I see your awake." She heard a voice from the other side of the cave that she was in. Melinda strained her eyes to see what the voice belonged to. She did not really get a look at her attacker, just a glimpse and then he took her. He attacker walked out of the shadows of the cage and she finally saw him. He was tall with dark hair, he had tribal markings down the left side of his face and a scar down his right eye. The demon stood directly in front of her.
"Now I can put my plan into action."
Before Melinda had a chance to ask what the plan was, the demon grabbed her throat. Had he really just brought her here and chained her to a wall to kill her? Melinda thought of the 16 years of a life, but the one thing that stood out was Chris, everything that had happened over the past two years, mainly the last month. Soon she realised that the demon was not actually strangling her, just holding her head steady. She hardly realised that the demon had grabbed her mouth and was pouring a potion into it. Melinda tried to resist from swallowing the potion, but the demon had covered her mouth and nose with his hand, meaning she had to.
"What was that?" Melinda asked, eyeing the demon.
"Just bringing out your true nature. After all, I've been watching you Melinda."
Melinda suddenly found herself freed and transported back to the manor. She looked around the attic to see Wyatt, Chris and Bianca all looking at her.
"Mom, she's back." Wyatt shouted as Chris ran to her. She looked into Chris' emerald eyes and hugged him.
"Chris!"
Chris felt Melinda's arms around him, holding on to him, never letting go. He finally stepped away from the hug when he heard Piper and Leo enter the attic. They still were not happy about the two teenagers, and he was not about to upset them more.
Wyatt stood back, looking at his sister, wondering how she had gotten back, wondering where she had been, what had happened while she was wherever she was.
"Melinda, you're ok." He heard his mother cry, as she hugged her daughter, but suddenly Piper was thrown across the room. Wyatt looked towards his sister to see her clothes change. Her PJ's that she was still in started turning black and into a leather cat suit. The cat suit had a zip to it, which was only zipped half way up showing a black bra. Her blonde hair turned black.
"Melinda?" Wyatt said her name, it was still his sister but something was very different.
"What's wrong, Wy?" Melinda walked to her older brother, letting the evil take over her, "You sound a little shocked."
"Mel this isn't you." Chris grabbed Melinda's arm, turning her to face him, looking deep into her hazel eyes, which were usually warm and inviting, but now were cold. What had happened to her in the underworld? He knew she had feared that she was evil after what she had done to the baby, but deep down she knew it was not her.
Melinda looked into Chris' eyes, her features softened as the green eyes helped her focus. She felt her conscience come through.
"Chris, help me." But then the evil took over once again and she threw Chris into one of the attic walls.
"Melinda Grace Halliwell!" Leo shouted at his daughter, surprised at what had happened.
Melinda looked at her father in disgust and then felt herself being transported out.
"She just shimmered!" Piper screamed at her husband, "How did our little girl just shimmer?"
Wyatt stared at where Melinda had been and then remembered her asking Chris for help. She was under some sort of spell, she had to be. This was not her, she was not evil.
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Melinda shimmered into James' room, although she did not know yet that she had shimmered, she just knew everything about the teleportation was evil.
"Whoa! Mel! Since when do you shimmer?"
Melinda looked at the young half-manticore, laid on his bed. She smiled and walked over to him. It was still early in the morning, and she could see that James' barely had anything on. She straddled him on the bed and looked at him.
"Mel, what are you…?" But James did not have chance to answer, Melinda cut him off by kissing him, hard. James gave in by kissing her back, and then pulled her closer to him. Lust was getting the better of him, even though he knew there was something seriously wrong. Shimmering was a demonic power, and Melinda was a witch not a demon. What had happened? But he could not think. The kisses were getting more and more passionate. Melinda was hungry for him, or at least she seemed it as she kissed him. James finally broke away from the kiss.
"Mel, what's going on?" He suddenly realised that her hair was black. He ran his hand through it and looked deep into her eyes. She was evil, he could sense it, but did Wyatt know?
Suddenly his room was filled with blue and white glow of orbs, but they were not Wyatt's orbs, they were Chris'. Once Chris had materialised, he pulled Melinda off the bed to him. He was slightly hurt that Melinda had gone to James, but then realised that maybe her evilness was calling to his demon half.
"Sorry, she's evil, gotta get her home." Chris explained to the brown-haired 21-year-old and orbed out of the room with his sister in tow.
Once he got to the manor, he let go of Melinda.
"Now!" Chris shouted, but was too late. Melinda had shimmered back out of the manor.
"We need to put an anti-shimmer spell on this room next time." Wyatt called to his younger brother, trying to get the last crystal down to make a crystal cage. He looked to Chris, who looked like he was trying to sense for Melinda again.
"I've lost her," Chris opened his eyes, "She's cut off our connection." Usually, Chris could not only sense her through his whitelighter abilities but also through his empathy connection. Wyatt tried to sense for her.
"I've got a faint connection," Wyatt explained, "P3. Go, orb!" Straight away Chris orbed out.
"I'll go and help him." Bianca looked at her boyfriend with worry, maybe she could get through to the young girl. Seeing Wyatt nod, she shimmered out of the attic to Piper's club, P3.
As she materialised, she saw Melinda stood behind the bar drinking from a bottle of vodka. She saw Chris trying to talk to her.
"Melinda, listen to me, this is not you." Melinda looked at Chris, and then at the new figure who had shimmered in. Once she realised it was Bianca, she jumped over the bar and attacked her. Using her kickboxing skills she had learnt from Wyatt, Melinda managed to pin Bianca to the ground.
"Mel!" Chris yelled, pulling his sister away from his brother's lover, "Stop this now." He suddenly found himself flying through the air and hit a table. Then Melinda climbed on top of him, straddling like she had earlier to James. She pinned Chris to the table, holding his arms above his head.
"I want you." Melinda whispered in his ear. Chris could not help himself. He loved Melinda, and now this side to her was becoming alluring, but no she was evil. He had to think. How could he use her lust against her? As he felt her kissing his neck and ear, he suddenly realised. If he could get on top of her, he could orb them back to the manor, and would still have old of her to stop her from shimmering away. Chris let Melinda lay kisses down his neck, to his collarbone, her hands moved down his body. Now he had his chance. Grabbing Melinda's waist, he rolled her over and pinned her arms above her head.
"So you want to take control." She smiled, wrapping her legs around her lover's waist, pulling him closer to her.
Chris smiled at Melinda's comment and kissed her. As they kissed he orbed them out of P3 and back to the manor. As he materialised again, he broke the kiss and looked into Melinda's eyes. He saw the shock on her face, once she realised what he had done.
"Yeah, I want to take control."
As soon as Melinda realised she was in the manor, she started struggling with her lover, but it did not work. Chris was too strong for her. She could see movement around her. It was Wyatt placing the crystals. She felt Chris' weight get off her body and then Wyatt place the last crystal, activating the cage.
Wyatt stood back to see Melinda try to get out of his crystal cage, then he turned to Chris.
"Where's Bianca?" He saw the look of shock on Chris' face and quickly orbed to P3, to find his girlfriend.
Chris watched Wyatt orb out and looked at his baby sister. They were the only two people left in the room, and now he had a chance to admire her outfit, without the chance of her jumping on top of him.
"Like what you see?" Melinda asked, calmly, as she saw Chris staring at her.
"Apart from your black hair and the evilness to you, yeah. You wanna keep hold of that outfit, bit of roleplay you know."
Melinda laughed coldly at Chris' response, but then felt her conscience take over.
"Chris, please, help me. I can't stay evil."
Chris ran to the cage. While Melinda was good he wanted to take away a crystal but knew it could be a trap, so he stood looking deep into her eyes.
"We'll help you, Mel, is there anything you can remember?"
"A potion. The demon gave me a potion."
"For what?"
"To bring out my true nature. I'm evil Chris, you have to vanquish me."
"No!" Chris shouted, "I will not vanquish you, you're good Melinda, you just have to fight this."
"It's too strong." The evil started to take over Melinda again, and her eyes turned back to the coldness. Chris could see it and stepped back. "You scared?" Melinda cackled at her brother.
"We'll find a way to save you, Melinda. I promise you."
"Save me from what? I've never felt so free."
That was not something that he wanted to hear, he knew that Melinda feared that she was evil but for the past month had put it to one side, and now that she was having a taste of it she was giving in. He started to fear that he was going to lose his sister, lover and best friend.
"Oh, you got her back." Leo stated calmly as he entered the attic, to see his daughter in a crystal cage. He walked towards them and then saw tears in Chris' eyes.
"Go and help your mom with the potion."
"What potion?" Chris asked.
"To help remove the evil."
With that, Chris left the room, he knew his father had sent him out because his emotions were starting to get the better of him, and was thankful for it.
As he reached the kitchen, he saw that his aunts were there.
"Hey, dad sent me down."
"Have you got her back?" Piper asked, anxiously. After seeing her daughter turn evil, she panicked that she would lose her forever. What if they could not turn her back? What if this potion would not work? This was the same one that they used when Wyatt had been turned evil, it worked then but it was different circumstances.
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A 15-year-old Wyatt Halliwell had just returned from the underworld, after following a demon with James. James had had to shimmer him back to the manor, because he had inhaled some smoke from a demon. Piper was the first one to see him, and noticed that something had changed straight away and knew James could see it too. Wyatt's eyes were glazed over, as if something was taking over his body.
After James had explained what had happened, Piper went to work on making the potion, she had never made this potion before, and was taking a guess at what would go in it, but she had been making potions for years and knew what qualities each of the ingredients had. She had trusted James to look after Wyatt until Paige could come from Magic School, but realised it was a mistake when she heard James yell for Piper and then the sound of the Grandfather clock shattering again.
"James?" Piper called from the kitchen, and then saw a tall, dark figure walk in. It was Wyatt, but not the Wyatt they knew, this Wyatt was evil. He was very similar to the Wyatt they had seen when Piper's spell had backfired when trying to find out what was wrong with her two-year-old Wyatt. The only difference with this Wyatt was that his eyes were still glazed and he was 10 years younger than the other Wyatt. As Piper looked at him, it was as if his body was being controlled by somebody else.
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As she thought back to that event six years ago, she realised this was completely different, what if this potion would not work?
"Have you found out what happened?" Phoebe asked her nephew as he sat on one of the chairs by the wooden table.
"The demon that took her gave her a potion."
"Do you know who the demon was?" Phoebe asked again, realising that Mel had given Chris some information. Was this because she trusted him because of their love, or was she still trying to fight the evil? She hoped it was the latter for Piper's sake, she still had not got over the fact that Chris and Mel were in love, the only reason she had was because she accepted Coop's explanation. Also, with living with Coop, he could explain everything to her at home, slowly.
"The demon's called Faroth, he's lower level, shouldn't be too hard to kill. I'm just hoping that killing him will reverse the potion."
"Well, your cousins are at Magic School with your Uncle Coop, researching for anything on curses. I'll just go and tell them to change their MO." And with that, Paige orbed out of the kitchen. Once the orbs had disappeared, Chris put his head in his hands and ran his hands through his brown hair. He felt Phoebe sit next to him and pull him into a hug.
"It's ok, we'll get her back," Phoebe told her nephew calmly, "You're not blame."
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