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Springtime….mmmmh…springtime…!
Wyatt: Oh my god she's singing! Damn, is it really spring again? Haven't we just survived the last attack of "feeling frisky" kind of …maybe yesterday?
Chris: No bro! There is already another year gone by!
Wyatt: Wonder who will be her latest victim?
Chris: Oh no! Don't you remember...we blasted up her friend…!
Wyatt: Shit! That makes us her prime target! What are we supposed to do now?
Wyyyyyaaaaat! Ohhhh Chrissyyyyyyyyyy! What about going for a walk outside?? You know looking at the flowers, enjoying the sunshine… and stuff like that?
Chris: +mutters to Wyatt+: I'm afraid of the "stuff like that…"!!
Wyatt: Me too! Let's hide somewhere!
Ohhhhh booooooooyyyys!
Chris: Already too lat she's got us!
Wyatt: Orb bro, NOW!!!
Chris: It doesn't work!
++dragons- still singing++ I bound your powers this morning!
Chris: I knew the coffee tasted strange! Why don't you ever listen to me, Wyatt Matthew Halliwell! "New coffee brand" …NOT!BLOODY!LIKELY!!!!!
Wyatt: OK, OK blame me! I'm kind of starry-eyed if it comes to dragons…
Chris: Believe me, she's capable of ANYTHING!!! Now we will pay the price, Wy!
Wyatt: Have you at least some earplugs?
Chris: Yes…
Wyatt: Thank the greater good…
Chris: …exactly one pair!
Wyatt: Mind to share???
Chris: No way, Wyatt! I sacrificed my life one time. I´m not hell bent on doing it a second time!
Wyatt: Awww, brother! Can you really watch how I bleed to death out of my ears? If we take turns with the ear-plugs we have at least a chance…
Chris: Another idea: One takes the plugs and the other the MP3-player – how about that…
Wyatt: Congenial idea!
Chris: We always knew who got the brains in the family…
Wyatt: +mutters+ I think the batteries are almost empty…+aloud+ OK bro, you can have the MP3-player and I will settle with the plugs.
Chris: Hey, that's nice!
Wyatt: +smiles evilly+ Yeah, I think I'm back to normal again…!
Chapter twelve / part seven
…"This guy's a whitelighter!!!!
…Now you are so going to pay for that, boy!" The gigantic demon growled as he started at the same time to attack Chris with his huge claymore.
Chris, still on the ground, accomplished it to roll out of the way of the deathly blow just in time, taking Phoebe with him in his sideways movement. He shoved her behind him where she was protected with the cave wall behind- and a damn pissed off withelighter before her. "This was a bad mistake, buddy!" stated Chris dryly as he let the three approaching demons crash into the opposite wall with one powerful telekinetic strike.
"Phoebe you're O.K. ? Ready to do a bunk?" Chris asked almost convinced of the contrary.
"As ready as I'll ever be!"
The stunned demons slowly staggered back to their feet, determined to end the annoying fight rather quickly.
Chris took Phoebes hand while his other started to produce a second telekinetic blow…
…but nothing happened!
The demon-bunch guffawed wildly, while the irritated whitelighter and a slightly wobbly Phoebe drew back in direction off the cave-wall.
Chris felt as if he could use all the curses he knew at once.
Why didn't his powers work anymore?
"Paige! We could use a little help down here" He yelled, hoping her whitelighter senses would register that.
Unfortunately just after his mother and youngest aunt appeared, started the boy to develop an idea of what was happening down there.
"Paige, don't orb…!!!" He'd started to scream, but it was already to ate.
Blue white orbs had started to form the Halliwell sisters right besides him.
"SHIT!" Chris cursed, while trying to get his family out of the line of fire.
"Nice welcome, son!" Piper growled, venting her growing anger by blowing up one of the three attackers instantly.
"Two to go!" Paige commented dryly.
"NO!..." Chris still tried to impede what he thought was happening here.
Piper meanwhile raised her hands again, to give one more demon a free ride straight back to hell.
She was, to put it mildly, taken aback as nothing happened.
"What the…?" she just managed to scream, as the four Halliwells had to make a headlong dive behind some fallen rocks, to dodge the fireballs that now flew into their direction.
"Do you have any i…"Paige started, but was cut short by the young whitelighter.
"…it's the cave! I think this is a giant trap! It absorbs our powers as soon as we use them.
Damn, I knew this was all too easy!"
Chris mind raced on high-speed.
The defence the source had installed was simple but effective. One by one the invaders were loosing their powers.
Though the youngest Halliwell was endowed with a huge assortment of powers, even the most multitudinously and mighty magic powers only lasted for so long, if you lost them bit by bit.
His favourite powers – the only two the sisters knew of – were already lost. Chris hoped to get out of there soon and that he would get them back eventually.
A life without orbing and telekinesis – unthinkable for him.
And all the trouble to cure his stupid scars!
Wyatt actually affected his life, when he was a lifetime away.
But at the moment: First things first…
"O.K.!" He told the others. "We have to get out of here without using our powers,,,"
"There are anyway only so few left of them…" Paige mumbled while trying her hardest not to use up her telekinetic powers over fending the next two demons that approached.
Chris and Phoebe meanwhile took hold of the swords of the vanquished demon and fell automatically into a defensive back-to-back position, awaiting their offenders with raised blades.
"Wow, nephew, where did you learn that strategies?" Phoebe asked impressed.
"You have one guess…!" Smirked Chris over his shoulder.
One guess was everything they anyhow would have time for, cause the two remaining demons had already gained strength in form of a third one, which had been alerted by the noises.
Together they assaulted even more sure of their victory.
Had the future Piper been there now, she would have been one more time convinced that both of her sons should wear visible demon warn-signs: "Beware of the Halliwell!" Or something like that. But the people of the past, demons and witches likewise, were clueless about that.
Piper and Paige watched the scene from behind the relative safety of the rocks, the latter with raised hands, ready to sacrifice her powers to save her family.
"How much have you learned from me?" Phoebe asked carefully – better being save then sorry´, she thought, or dead´ in their case.
"Pretty much everything…
Plus some dirty little tricks from Wy too."
"Just don't know if I like to know THAT, but let's put it that way: Everything's allowed in war and vanquish, right?"
So Phoebe had trained her nephews well.
How well actually only Christopher could tell, having felt the effects of his brothers training with his own body.
So it's just save to say…DAMN WELL!
…
Chris arms shook under the impact of the first sword stroke on his blade, which he parried easily. Much to easily the sisters wondered.
Only the youngest Halliwell knew that being Wyatt's favourite exercise-target for Excalibur had for sure its advantages.
Now that the fight was opened, Blows and pareys followed at top speed.
Chris and Phoebe turned in circles each watching the others back while they fought the three pugnacious offenders at once, trying to lead the focus away from their now helpless relatives which they knew had only found temporarily safety behind the only shelter in the whole cave.
They managed this at least for now.
The three demons had their hands full with the two sword waving and highly martially Halliwells.
"Duck!" Phoebe yelled as one thrust found its way around her defense, hoping that her future self had trained her nephew that move too.
And indeed she had…
Like being one single person both fighters dove under the death-blow of the sharp double-edged demon-sword.
The beast which had laid all of his vigour into its thrust, was brought out of balance as its sword moved into thin air.
Using this Phoebe threw herself wit an ear piercing scream against her massive opponent. In one fluent movement she impaled her weapon into the beasts armoured chest.
The demon hadn't even the chance to scream anymore as he was vanquished into a smoking pile of ashes.
Paige admired her sisters fighting skills, as she abruptly realized what mistake lay in her tactics:
Phoebes action left Chris back unprotected, which the remaining demons instantly took advantage of.
While one of them kept Chris occupied with a series of hazardous blows, the other one sneaked behind the young whitelighter, ready to ram his gleaming dagger with both claws through his back right into his heart.
After this, there wouldn't be much left to heal for any whitelighter, the boy would be dead before he knew what even hit him!
"NO!" Paige screamed, jumping forward.
A nearly fatal mistake, as she registered almost too late.
Chris, distracted by his aunts' cry, just hesitated that deciding second too long.
However, Paige saw coming, what Chris, who still defended his bare life with all his might, could not.
She saw her nephew raise his eyebrows in confusion as the death-bringing dagger was pushed forward…
TBC…