Chapter Five: Who's Destiny?
"Okay honey just calm down, I'm going to need you to push okay." Laura Halliwell said as she held her sister's legs open. She could see the baby's head as it crowned. Cassie had been screaming none stop since they were stuck in the underworld. "Okay, that's it just a couple more." Cassie let out a piercing scream and began to pant.
"Laura I can't do this." She said as she began to cry. "I can't have this baby in the underworld."
"Honey you have to, I'm sorry but if you don't you could lose the baby. Besides I will not let anything happen to you or this baby." Cassie couldn't help but smile. "Alright one more push, a big one." Cassie pushed as hard as she could and a second later she could hear a baby's cry. Laura began laughing as she wrapped the baby up with her shirt. "It's a girl." She said as she handed the baby to Cassie.
As soon as Laura stood up she was hit from behind and sent flying into a wall. "Laura!" Cassie yelled as she looked at her sister. She was too weak to stand, but had enough strength to send the demon into a group of demons that were coming from an opening. She teleported over to where Laura was lying and shook her, "Come on wake up." Cassie said as she shook her sister.
Laura began to move and slowly regained consciousness. "What happened?" she asked as she sat up and leaned against the cave wall.
"Demons, they finally found us."
"Probably from all you're screaming." Cassie just glared at her sister and helped her to her feet.
"Okay we need to find a way out of here and fast."
"Well I could try teleporting again, but we might just bounce off."
"Well it's all we got, let's go" Laura placed a hand on Cassie's shoulder as held tightly onto her baby.
"Get them!" Both heads shot up when they saw the group of demons running towards them.
"Great more freaks in leather." Laura mumbled, but before the demons could reach them, she teleported. When they reappeared they were standing in another cave, this one with better light. "Oh come on, why can't we ever land somewhere nice."
"Well this was easier than I thought." Laura and Cassie turned around and saw a woman in a green velvet dress standing with three demons. "Alistair, call off the search party. Our guests have arrived." Cassie and Laura glanced at each other.
"What! Well where is she?" Piper Halliwell cried as she paced the attic for the millionth time.
"You creating a hole in the floor is not going to help get her back." Prue said as she looked up from the Book of Shadows. Piper glared at her, "Sorry, I'm just as worried as you are. I mean one minute she's here, then the next she was gone. They might have grabbed her when Melinda ran to help me, but wouldn't we have seen or heard anything?" she said as she looked at her brother, who was staring out the window. "Hello earth to Wyatt."
"Oh yeah sorry, I don't know how it happened, but we need to find her before anything bad happens." He walked over to Prue and placed a hand on her shoulder. "You know you should probably let us work on this, you've been looking through the book for hours now."
"Are you kidding, I'm not going anywhere, besides it's not like your making any progress by staring out of the window."
Before Wyatt could even respond, Piper spoke. "Enough don't make me put you two in separate rooms. Wyatt why don't you orb to the school and see if Melinda and Chris need help and you missy need a break."
"But—"They both said in unison.
"Ah, I don't want to hear it, now move over." She said as she pushed Prue aside and began flipping through the book. Prue walked over to the couch and plopped down with her arms crossed. Piper rolled her eyes and looked at her son, "Well what are you waiting for?" He threw up his hands in surrender and orbed away.
"Why do you guys always do this?" Prue said, breaking the silence.
"Do what?'
"Baby me. Act as if I can't help."
"Now that's ridiculous Prue, we let you help."
"No you don't, the only time I really ever get to help is if you guys don't know about it. I'm not fragile you know."
"No one said you were, so can I get back to work so I can find my daughter."
"Yeah sure go ahead; just don't expect me to help since I'm so fragile." Prue turned on her heels and left before her mother could say anything. Piper watched her daughter walk away and sighed.
"Anything?" Chris Halliwell said as he paced the room.
"No, and can you stop please, all of your hostility is giving me a headache." His sister Melinda said as she held her head in her hands.
"Sorry, it's just if I wasn't knocked out none of this would have happened."
"Excuse me? You think just because you weren't up that any of us tried. Hell if it wasn't for me, you would probably be dead."
"Mel I didn't mean it like that."
"Of course you did Chris, because you're the all-knowing Halliwell, the one with all the answers. So tell me Obi-Wan Kenobi, what would you have done differently if you weren't taking a beauty nap?" Melinda said as she glared at her brother.
"Mel what's wrong with you?"
She sighed, "I'm sorry, I don't know where that came from." Just as she was about to say something else, Prue stormed in the room. "Prue how did you get here?"
"I flew."
"Prudence, you don't need to lash out at Melinda like that." Chris said as he glared at his sister.
"Chris zip it, this is no time for any lectures okay, oh and by the way my name isn't Prudence, its Prue." She walked over to Melinda and sat next to her.
Melinda placed a hand on her shoulder. "Honey what's wrong?"
"Everything. All of you." Melinda looked taken aback, pain flashed across her face as she turned away from Prue and went back to scrying. "Ugh not you too."
"Well what do you expect Prue, you just accused her of being the source of your problems." Chris said as he folded his arms across his chest.
"Actually Obi-Wan Kenobi, I said all of you, not just Mel."
"Wait did you just call me—." But before he could finish Melinda screamed and fell to the floor holding her head. "MEL!" Both Prue and Chris said as they ran to her side. "Melinda, Melinda!" Prue shook her sister as she held her in her lap. She looked up at Chris with a pleading look.
"WYATT! GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE!" Chris yelled at the ceiling.
"I thought he was here already?" Prue said as she placed that back of her hand on Melinda's forehead.
"He was, but he went to check with the Elders on something. WYATT!" A swirl of blue and white lights appeared next to Chris.
"You know that gives me a headache when you scream like that." He looked at Chris and then Prue. "What the hell happened?" He said as he bent next to Melinda and placed his hands over her body. It took a second, but then the light emerged from his hand. Melinda slowly opened her eyes and looked around the room.
"What happened?" she asked as she tried to sit up, but Prue was squishing her. "Prue…can't …breathe."
"Sorry."
"Cassie."
"What?"
"Something's wrong. I think she trying to tell me, or at least anyone with empathy. We need to find Aunt Phoebe." Prue looked at Wyatt, who nodded and orbed away. "It's a girl by the way." Chris and Prue looked at Melinda with a puzzling look.
"I can't believe this is happening!" Samantha Mitchell said as she paced the attic. "How did they even get her and why can't I communicate?" She said as she sat down next to her cousin Eric.
"Hey chill Sam, it's not like we aren't looking for her." He said as he placed a hand on her shoulder. She only just glared at him.
"Okay, tell me exactly what happened." Piper Halliwell said as she walked in the attic with Junior on her heels.
"Well Eric and I were playing a video game then all of a sudden a group of demons pop out of nowhere and start throwing fireballs and the sort. Eric managed to freeze two of them and I killed one with a fire poker."
"A fire poker?" Sam said as she looked at her brother, but stopped when her aunt gave her a look. Piper rolled her eyes, "Continue."
"Like I was saying we killed most of them, but when I was about to kill the last one he shimmered out. We were about to go to Magic School when the demon from earlier popped back in and grabbed Grace from behind. It all happen so fast that we didn't have time to react. I mean if only I had been paying more attention rather than trying to argue with her we might not be in this mess."
"Henry you can't blame yourself okay, what's done is done, all we need to do now is focus on getting them back." Piper said as she placed a hand on her nephew's arm. "Have you told your mother yet?"
"Yeah she and Aunt Billie are at the house making potions and writing spells, but I think she said they were coming here afterwards."
"Okay well why don't you and Evan go to the school and help Chris and Melinda, and tell Wyatt to come back I need to speak with him." Henry nodded and held his hand out to Evan, but before they could orb away a swirl of blue lights appeared in front of them. "What's wrong?" Piper said as she looked at her son and daughter.
"Cassie and Laura have been kidnapped."
"WHAT!" Piper and Junior said in unison. "When?" Piper asked.
"About two hours ago, Chad called Patty freaking out saying that Cassie was in labor and then ten minutes he called back saying that they weren't at Memorial. And Mel had this weird empathy connection to Cassie and she said that wherever they're at it's not good." Wyatt said as he began to pace back and forth.
"Stop you're going to give me a headache again." Prue quipped as she walked over to the couch and plopped down next to her cousin. She placed her head in her hands and sighed. "What the hell is going on, why is everyone we care about being kidnapped?"
"Who you telling I thought at least this stupid twin bond would let me know if something was up, but apparently nothing's going off.", Sam said.
"Wait what?" Prue asked.
"Oh you didn't hear, Grace got kidnapped too, dumb and dumber were just on their way to Magic School to inform you guys?"
"Sam…" Henry warned.
"Sorry okay but this is getting a little too weird for me and it's started to piss me off, my baby sister was taken by a demon okay so excuse me if I can't be a little cynical." With that she stood and orbed away.
"SAM!" Henry cried as he stared at the ceiling. He pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. "I'm going to find her, can you bring Eric to the school?" he said as he looked at Wyatt, who just nodded and watched as his little cousin orbed after his sister.
"Okay what the hell was that?" Prue said as she got up and walked over to her mother.
"Apparently Sam's breaking point" Eric murmured.
"Enough! We all need to just get our emotions in check, freaking out and having nervous breakdowns is not going to get them back so, you two Magic School." Piper said pointing to Wyatt and Eric. "And you with me." Wyatt gave Prue a sympathetic look and grabbed Eric's arm, but before Prue could say anything they were gone.
"Great." Prue mumbled.
"So the famous children of the Charmed Ones, well I thought you would at least put up a fight, but I shouldn't have gotten my hope up." The woman said as she gave the girl's a grin.
"What the hell did you do with my baby?" Cassie said as she struggled against the chains that were holding her back.
"She's in good hands for now, so don't worry yourself my dear." The woman said as she gently brushed Cassie's cheek. Cassie pulled her head away from the woman's touch and spat at her feet. "My, my I thought that your mother would have thought you better manners than that, oh well." She slapped Cassie across the face causing her lip to bleed.
"Back up bitch" Laura said from across the room. The woman turned towards her and smiled.
"Well looks who's joined us, did you have a nice nap?"
"Listen lady you lay one more finger on my sister again and you're going to have me to deal with, got it?" Laura said as she smiled coldly at the woman.
"You have spirit that I'll admit, but what makes you think you're going to escape let alone live for much longer."
"Well the fact that my family is going to find us and kick your sorry ass." Laura spat.
"We'll see about that, but for now I think we should get started." Jade walked over to Laura and placed her hand on her head. Laura began to scream as pain seered through her body. "Stop!" Cassie screamed as she began pulling on her restraints. "Be patient Cassandra I'll be with you in a minute." Jade smiled as Laura's screams continued to echo throughout the cavern.