Thanks to everyone that reviewed. This continues 'Witch Wars.' Not much else to say I guess. I do not own Charmed.
Wyatt and Chris stood a lone in the attic. Chris was pacing, lost in his thoughts, while Wyatt sat on the old couch starring at a random spot on the wall. He finally looked over at Chris and broke the silence that had been placed awkwardly between them. "You should have just come back with me to the future." He said. "Why did you have to be so stubborn and stay here?"
Chris stopped in his tracks and turned to Wyatt. "What do you mean?" He asked back.
"Look at us, we're getting weak, changing." Wyatt explained. "We're both getting attached to people that aren't there in the future."
"I didn't come back here just to save you Wyatt, I came back here to save my whole family." Chris replied. He thought about what Wyatt said though. He was getting attached to his family and because of that, he was starting to get a bit too relaxed with his family, letting some of his duties as white lighter shirk off. He wasn't pushing the sisters near as much as he used to when it came to demon hunting and considering the fact that they knew exactly who was after them, he should have been pushing them all the more. He didn't come back to the past so he could shop with his mother for baby items or so he could babysit little Wyatt. He came back to save his family and that was just what he was going to do.
Before Wyatt could really think of anything to say, Chris turned away from him and headed down to the kitchen where the sisters were. He heard some strange noises and quickened his pace. When he entered the room, he heard Paige calling out for Leo as she struggled with an arrow in her shoulder. Phoebe reached for an athame that was on the floor of the kitchen. She had knocked it away from one of the attackers. "What happened in here?" Chris asked. He glanced around and saw cabinets open. Most of their potion ingredients were strewn about on the floor. Some jars and bottles that contained ingredients were shattered.
Leo and Piper formed in a swirl of orbs. He ran over to Paige to examine her wound as Piper took in the scene before her. "It looks like a bomb went off in here." She said.
Wyatt walked in after Chris, but opted not to speak. He assumed someone was about to explain something and sure enough, they did. Phoebe spoke as Leo carefully removed the arrow from Paige's shoulder, careful not to touch it with his bare hands. "I think someone knew we were coming in here to make potions. There was an ambush waiting for us and most of our ingredients have been compromised." She explained. "There was a shapeshifter who looked like you, Leo and then the dark lighter seemed to come out of nowhere."
"If I didn't know any better, I'd say they were competing against each other." Paige added in.
"Well, we have something to scry for them with. We just need to see what ingredients we can save from this mess and which ones we need to go out and get." Phoebe replied.
"This is just getting ridiculous. It's not like we don't have enough to deal with, considering Bellock and Gideon are still out there." Piper said in frustration.
"It looks like I'm going to have to cancel my date tonight." Phoebe replied.
"You had a date planned?" Chris asked.
She looked at her youngest nephew and said. "I gotta squeeze in my dating life sometime."
"No, no. There will be plenty of time to date after I'm born." He replied. He thought back to the date Madame Serena had given him. It was the day before his birthday, though at first he didn't even have the date right because of the older woman's hand writing. He assumed that the only reason she would have given him that date was because she suspected something would happen that day, something bad and that she was trying to warn him. He didn't know if that were the true reason she had given him the date, but he knew it had to be of some importance. Well, that date wasn't too far away. "We don't have a lot of time left before I'm born and we really need to focus on little Wyatt, focus on getting Bellock and Gideon taken care of before anything happens that could screw up the future even more."
"Chris, you aren't due for weeks." Piper said.
"But anything can happen." Chris remembered Phoebe telling him about the day he was born. She said that there had been some complications with the pregnancy and he didn't want his mother to complicate things worse by running head first into battle. "I understand that some of you have work to deal with, but that's it. No more lunch or dinner dates, no more social life...except for Mom. She is the one carrying a baby, so she can do whatever she wants as long as it's something relaxing and safe for the baby." He looked at Phoebe and Paige. "You two are going to have to take on most of the burden. We are going to overturn every rock in the underworld and the mortal world until Bellock and Gideon are no longer a threat."
Gideon sat contently in the Underworld, still at the demonic bar. He had watched the scenes unfold with each sister. Piper had been attacked at P3. Phoebe had been attacked at work. Then, two contestants attacked at the manor. He had seen the sisters browsing through the book of shadows in the attic and then he had seen the chaos when they had entered the kitchen. Though Gideon had not thought to place a crystal in the kitchen, each contestant had one that both recorded their encounters with the sisters and also showed what was being recorded in the manor so they could spy in on the sisters before attacking.
Gideon had not seen little Wyatt in any of those scenes and wondered if it would be a good time to attack or not. In a matter of moments, his orbs were carrying him to the manor. He walked into baby Wyatt's room and gazed around until his eyes fell on the boy himself. He was standing in his playpen with a mass of toys around him.
When Wyatt saw the man before him, his shield went up almost instantly. Ah, but Gideon could penetrate the boys shield with a special knife, one he had to steal back from the Phoenix witch. He approached Wyatt, but stopped and immediately went invisible when he heard foot steps. Piper walked into the room and went to the playpen, reaching for the boy.
"Hey Wyatt." She said, filling with worry when she saw that his shield was up. She picked up Wyatt and stood strong with a free hand more than ready to deter a possible foe. Once in Piper's arms, Wyatt relaxed his shield though. She called out, "Leo, Chris. She walked towards the door.
Both men came running, assuming something was wrong. They made it to Wyatt's room. "What is it?" Leo asked curiously. He gazed around the room. He was filled with the feeling that they weren't alone, like someone was watching them. There didn't seem to be anyone else in the room though.
"I came to get Wyatt and his shield was up. I think someone or something may have been in here before I came in." She explained.
"It could have been one of the demons that attacked earlier." Chris assumed.
"No, I think whoever it is is still here." Leo said.
"Ok, I'll just start blowing random things up until I hit him." Piper replied. Gideon's eyes grew wide with fear. He tried to move passed the Halliwells and out of the room, but Chris and Leo stood too close to the doorway. He couldn't orb out or they would see his orbs and know immediately who it was. He couldn't just stand there and be blown to pieces though, supposing Piper had a handle on her powers now.
She put her hand out, but Chris stopped her. "No." He said. "Unseen, this enemy may be, reveal his true form here to me." Piper was surprised that her son had come up with a spell so quickly, but unbeknownst to her, he had used it before in the future.
Gideon's invisibility cloak started to fade. Piper put her hand out, bent on blowing him to pieces. His orbs carried him out of harms way just in the nick of time. Wyatt's bedroom window was destroyed once more. Leo hadn't had a chance to fix it after Gideon's last attack, but the board he had put over it had just been destroyed. "Damn it." Piper said.
Chris was quick to follow Gideon, leaving his parent's and brother back at the manor. Being that he was part white lighter, he could sense just like his father and most white lighters and even Elders. He could even follow orb trails and he was quick to follow Gideon's.
He followed Gideon's orb trail to various locations around the city, but eventually lost track of the Elder. He must have gone into the Underworld. He couldn't track anyone in the Underworld, not with his white lighter powers. Wyatt was an exception to that rule though. It seemed he could track Wyatt where ever he was and vice versus, unless either one of them had their own mental shield blocking the other from doing so. He didn't really understand how any of that worked though.
After losing track of Gideon, Chris orbed back to the manor. Piper stood outside of Wyatt's room, almost keeping guard on him. "Hey." He said. "Lost Gideon, think he might have gone to the Underworld."
"I'm keeping an eye on Wyatt. He's sleeping now, but I put some crystals in his room and still don't really trust leaving him alone." Piper replied.
"Where are Phoebe and Paige?" He asked. "I thought they could help me track down Gideon."
"They used that athame to scry for the shapeshifter and went after him. I made them take Wyatt with for back up." Piper explained.
Chris glanced into Wyatt's room. "I see you fixed the window." He said.
"Used a little magic to fix it actually." Piper replied.
"I figured." He glanced down either side of the hallway. "Where's Dad? Maybe he can help me track Gideon."
"He went to talk with the Elders about Gideon." She explained. "He thought that maybe they could help us."
"Piper." Phoebe yelled as she came down the attic stairs.
Piper's arms flailed out in protest. "Shh. I just put Wyatt down."
"Sorry, but we found the shapeshifter. We found something else too." She said, speaking softer this time.
"What?" Chris asked.
"Some kind of crystal. Wyatt's trying to get it to work again." She said. Phoebe headed back towards the attic.
"Again?" Chris questioned curiously. He turned to follow her.
"It was showing a video image of the manor, of us. It stopped though." She turned back. "Piper, you coming?"
"Well, I don't want to leave Wyatt alone." Piper replied.
"I don't want him left alone either, but you put the crystals in there." Chris said. "That will keep anyone out. I'll come check on him in a few minutes."
Piper sighed. "Ok." She followed Phoebe and Chris, though she did so quite reluctantly.
In the attic, Wyatt was examining a red crystal. Paige was skimming through the book, trying to find any information on said crystal. She wasn't finding anything though. "I can't find anything in here." She said in frustration.
"There has to be something in there." Wyatt replied. "Or maybe there's a book in magic school that can help us."
"There is a teacher at magic school who knows a lot about magical artifacts. Maybe he might be able to tell us what it is." She said back.
"Ahem...We interrupting something?" Phoebe asked.
Paige looked up from the book. "No." She said. "Sorry."
"So, this crystal was showing a video?" Chris asked.
"Of the manor actually. It flickered between various rooms, the attic included." Wyatt said.
"What does that mean? Is someone watching us?" Piper asked. She glanced around the room, wondering where any possible cameras could be.
"I think so." Phoebe said. "That might explain a few things, like how they knew to ambush us in the kitchen earlier or you at the club."
"Wait, that demon we interrogated earlier mentioned something about contestants." Chris replied.
"Like from a game show?" Wyatt asked, taking the words right out of his brother's mouth. "In the future, I heard rumors about a demonic game show. Bellock said that Zankou put an end to it when he took power in the Underworld."
"Zankou?" Piper asked.
"He's the demon that..." Chris trailed off. "Why did you have to bring him up?"
Wyatt stared at Chris. "Sorry, I...I was just saying...I wasn't trying to stir up any memories for you." He replied.
"That what?" Paige asked. "What did he do?"
"Oh, we shouldn't say. Don't want to give you to much knowledge of the future." Wyatt said to take the pressure off of Chris.
"Well he's here in the book." Paige replied. She had stumbled on his page in the book of shadows.
"I wouldn't worry about him for a while." Chris said, knowing that the demon was still locked away deep in the Underworld, at least for now. "Anyways, back to this game show idea."
"Why would demons be on some kind of game show?" Phoebe asked. "And what game show? I mean, do they have some sort of secret cable network or something?"
"Actually, they have network in the Underworld. Only plays on enchanted TV's." Wyatt said. "We could check out any demonic bar. If it is some game show, it would no doubt be playing on one of the bar TV's."
"There are demonic bars?" Piper sounded surprised.
"Yeah, a few here in the mortal realm, more so in the Underworld." Wyatt replied. "The Dark Lantern is a popular one.
At the Dark Lantern, a demonic bar near the center of the Underworld, demons were beginning to worry as the Charmed Ones planed a visit to their very bar. Some demons took cover, while others shimmered and faded out of harm's way
As some demon's were seeking refuge in case of an attack, another demon was shimmering in, followed closely by a dark lighter. He rounded up a few demons in the bar to distract the Halliwells so he could sneak in for an ambush.
"What if we run into that Brute demon?" Paige asked as she, Phoebe, and her nephews were readying to head down to the Underworld. "We weren't able to make an explosive potion to vanquish him with."
"I almost forgot about that." Phoebe replied. "Our ingredients were ruined. We may need Piper's power to take him out."
Wyatt eyed Phoebe and smirked. "I think we have that covered." He said as he flexed his hands out.
"But..." Paige protested.
"Just trust him." Chris cut her off. "Wyatt can probably blow up the entire bar if he wanted to, so I think we're good."
"Ok." She said and in a matter one moments, they had orbed from the manor. Phoebe and Paige had not known of any demonic bars or that such a thing even existed. It wasn't all that surprising though.
Paige followed Wyatt's orbs, not realizing he was orbing just outside of the bar. They had assumed that someone might have been watching them and that being the case, Wyatt wasn't about to orb straight into the bar in case an ambush awaited them. Once they formed, Wyatt and Chris began to formulate a plan for infiltrating the bar with their aunts. It wasn't like Wyatt to plan anything, but he knew that Chris wouldn't let them run into the bar without some kind of idea as to what they were doing.
After they formed some kind of plan, though it wasn't anything all that spectacular, they headed into the bar to take on whatever demons awaited. Wyatt and Chris went first, their aunts following behind them.
So, Chris has refocused himself a little bit. Someone mentioned that although my story has been good so far, that I might have lost the Chris we all know and love along the way and I must agree with them...lol. He's been changing as he's gotten closer to his family though, become more relaxed and I had him sort of realize that and try to refocus himself and the sisters. Sorry to leave a sort of cliffhanger, but I don't have time to type up any more right now...please comment though. Thanks!