Hey Guys! Hope you all had a mystical week and didn't run very close to being late for something important like our friend Karlia here did.

Trystyle – Yes Matt and Alec are quite different aren't they? But then again Selena and Karlia are different too, so both seem to work for both. I'm glad your enjoying the story.

Ursala H – Yes at the moment the plan is to only do 10 chapters, but I'll see how I go. Ultimately I am hoping to get back to my Fighting for no Reward series soon and that is why. But I'll see how the book goes and if I need more I'll add more. I would then just be writing 2 books and it may take longer.

Ok so let's get back to the Power-Port shall we, where Karlia is indeed cutting things quite fine.

The Power of Three – A Lover's Day/Night.

CHAPTER THREE – I care more than you think.

"What the heck Karlia?" she started. "We have to get going in 7 minutes to fight demon woman and her minions and god only knows what else and here you are making out with some dude like it's the finale of the bachelorette?!"

"Don't worry," Karlia replied racing past her. "I'm going I'm…"

But then suddenly Karlia was gone.

"Karlia!" Selena screamed. "Where the hell are you?!"

"I'm in my room!" Karlia screamed out. "…somehow."

Indeed Karlia had somehow managed to make it up a flight of stairs and into her room without really moving too far at all.

"Hey Karlia," Philippe said from behind her. "Nice orbing!"

"What the?" Karlia jumped, before turning around and seeing Philippe there sitting on her bed. "Philippe! You scared the crap out of me!"

Philippe quickly jumped up and motioned for her to turn around, which she did. He then immediately unzipped her dress, shocking her even more.

"Ok change of clothes on the bed, I'm not looking," he advised.

"Ok changing, changing…jeez!" Karlia replied as she quickly stepped out of her dress and changed into the stretch pants and loose t-shirt Philippe had placed ready.

"Now can we talk about what you just said, this ah, orbing thing."

"Orbing?" Selena questioned. "Who's orbing?"

Philippe forcibly pressed a hair-tie into Karlia's left hand and yanked on her right leading her out of the bedroom.

"Karlia is," Philippe replied dismissively. "But that's not what's important right now. Karlia listen up and listen good Leo will be here in 5 minutes and there is so much you still need to know."

And he continued talking to her all the while dragging her up to the attic.

"*"

By 11pm Selena and Philippe had only just managed to get everything through to Karlia. Whether she would be able to retain it or not was another story altogether, but she had been advised of the basics of the plan.

"So you got all that?" Selena asked.

"I think so," Karlia replied. "Leo takes us there, we split up and surround the place and then when one of us sees her we call for him and he'll orb us to the others and then we vanquish her sorry ass right?"

"Basically right," Philippe said. "Now don't forget-"

"Right," Karlia stopped him. "She's recruited minions, though we have no idea what so we need to be extra careful."

Philippe breathed out a huge sigh of relief and handed her two vials of the potion they had made earlier before turning to Selena.

"Oh my god that was so close I can almost hear Pete Evan's say-" Philippe started.

"Times up step away from your benches?" Selena guessed.

"Pretty much," Philippe replied.

"We'd better hug then," Selena said. "You know like the contestants do."

The pair did and at that moment Leo orbed in.

"Philippe and Selena," he said seriously having everyone worried. "Tonight you served me Karlia prepped for the task ahead and therefore I score you…"

Enjoying that Leo had joined in to their little joke Philippe and Selena mocked looking at each other worried and Philippe bit into his nails for effect.

"…A ten!"

Philippe and Selena smiled and cheered.

"Ok. Well done Philippe, Well done Selena," Karlia mocked. "Leo, it's 2 past 11 now just so you know."

Indeed this brought Leo right back to the present.

"Ok everyone hang on to me and-"

But before he even had the chance to finish his sentence Philippe jumped forward and grabbed Leo's waist. There was no way he was going to miss this opportunity.

"Um ok," Leo replied smiling at Philippe's eagerness. "Selena and Karlia grab onto Philippe."

Karlia pocketed her vials then she and Selena grabbed onto Leo as he orbed them out of the attic.

"*"

As soon as they arrived Philippe had known it, but that didn't mean he couldn't feign not knowing this to grant himself more hugging time with Leo.

"Ah Philippe?" Leo questioned soothingly moving a hand through his hair. "It's ok we're here."

Philippe who had his eyes squeezed shut for dramatic emphasis now opened them.

"Oh," he replied acting embarrassed. "Thanks Leo, you just never know with orbing."

Karlia and Selena both rolled their eyes but Leo, focused on Philippe didn't even notice.

"That's ok," he smiled. "It takes a bit of getting used to."

"I do feel a little light headed," Philippe lied.

"That's normal too," Leo admitted. "Why don't I stick with you just to make sure you're ok? Selena and Karlia you too can go together too."

"Thanks Leo," Philippe replied hugging his white lighter.

Now facing Karlia and Selena, Philippe gave them a big toothy grin. Karlia smiled back trying desperately hard not to laugh, while Selena simply glared at Philippe. Both knew exactly what he was up to.

"Ok," Leo continued stepping out of the hug and addressing Selena and Karlia. "You two go to the left, we'll go to the right. Any signs of danger you can't handle…"

"We'll holler," Selena quickly replied before taking Karlia by the arm and leading her to the left.

Philippe took a moment to look straight ahead. There in front of them stood what appeared to be a very old mansion. Despite it being appropriately lit, this mansion seemed to be surrounded by nothing other than a huge forest. Now that he thought about it he realized just how strange it was to have this huge property literally in the middle of nowhere.

"So, this is it?" he asked Leo slightly in awe.

"Yep, the old Bloodworth mansion," Leo replied.

Philippe looked at Leo not quite knowing what to say.

"Bloodw-"

"It's a name Philippe," Leo replied smiling. "Derived from old English, it literally means enclosure."

"Oh," Philippe replied. "In that case, how original."

Leo smiled tightly.

"Come on we better get moving. Katya could be in there already."

The pair made their way around the cream coated property and noticed the golden framed arch windows and the gorgeous cream pillar railings. Had they been here at another time and not when they need to be on the demon-hunt, Philippe definitely would have loved to give this place a proper look over.

"They sure knew how to do it back in the day didn't they?" Leo asked noticing Philippe enjoying their surroundings.

"That's for sure," Philippe replied. "It's gorgeous, spacious and not to mention private. It's perfect."

"Well I wish Mr. Bloodworth was still around, I would've let him know for you," Leo cracked.

Philippe nudged the white lighter in the ribs but chuckled nonetheless.

"It's awfully quiet," Philippe noticed. "You'd think there'd be a lot of noise what with Katya and her minions inside and surrounding the place."

"They're probably not here yet," Leo replied.

"Well then Leo, what exactly are we planning t-" Philippe stopped midsentence as from out of nowhere a giant dog raced directly at him. "Oh my god!"

Instantly Leo grabbed onto Philippe and orbed him inside the mansion.

"*"

Meanwhile Karlia and Selena weren't finding anything interesting at all and so had turned to their own form of entertainment, gossip.

"Can you believe him?" Selena asked, referring to Philippe.

"Well kind of yeah," Karlia chuckled. "The guy is crazy in love with him and took a chance."

"As long as it doesn't get us all killed," Selena replied moving yet another branch out of her way.

The left side of the mansion seemed to be filled with so many trees and their branches seemed to make it almost all the way to the mansion wall itself.

"It won't," Karlia said. "I'm sure he knows what he's doing."

"I mean what if some demon starts attacking us and we need L- our white lighter," Selena carefully corrected not wanting him to suddenly appear. "And he comes half dressed and exhausted because he's used too much energy on Ph-"

She stopped as soon as she heard Karlia laughing.

"Ok," Selena admitted giving Karlia a sideways glance and a small smile. "Maybe that was taking it a tad too far."

"Hey it's a beautiful mansion," Karlia replied. "Who knows? Warm fire, cozy bed…"

Selena nudged Karlia in the ribs.

"I swear if it happens I'm blaming you," she replied moving yet another branch out of her way.

"Speaking of warm fire, cozy bed," Karlia continued. "How'd things go with Matt huh?"

"Oh Matt's fine," Selena replied. "He just…"

Instantly Karlia stopped walking.

"What?" she asked.

Selena turned to face her friend. If she couldn't confide in her, who could she confide in?

"He ah…has this weird food thing!" Selena whined.

"F-food thing," Karlia replied through laughter. "What food thing?"

"It's silly," Selena replied walking once more. "Let's just keep moving."

"Oh, no-no,no!" Karlia challenged. "You can't say something like that and stop halfway through!"

"Fine," Selena relented. "But we better keep moving anyway. I don't like the look of that forest over there and the sooner we get done the sooner we can leave."

"I'm with you there sister," Karlia replied. "The inside may be cozy, but the outside is just…creepy."

"*"

"Are you ok?" Leo asked seeing Philippe shake.

"I'm fine," Philippe replied standing up and moving away from Leo. "I can take care of myself you know."

"I never said you couldn't," Leo replied surprised at the edginess in his voice.

"What do you care?" Philippe asked. "It's not like you're my boyfriend or anything. Just…urgh…I hate when animals lunge!"

"I care more than you think," Leo replied.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have…" Philippe started, and then realized what Leo had said. "Wait. What did you just say?"

"I said," Leo replied walking over to him. "That I care more than you think."

Philippe was shocked, startled and very shook-up, so he didn't exactly know what to say. So he said the first thing that came to mind.

"Well you're our white lighter, so that's good to know." He said before rushing on. "Do I need some healing?"

He looked at his arms and then started looking at his legs.

"No Philippe-" Leo started to reply.

"Oh. Well…" he stopped looking and dared himself to look at Leo. "That's good then, shall we go?"

Despite where Leo had thought this was going, now was clearly not the time to get stuck into it.

"Sure," he replied taking Philippe's lead. "Um…"

He looked around to get his bearings.

"That door on the left will take us on a path towards the front; the one on the right will take us on a path towards the back."

"So many choices," Philippe replied. "Funny, just like life."

He smiled at Leo and then rushed to make a decision.

"Right, let's go right."

The two men walked across the room and Leo held open the door allowing Philippe to walk though.

"Oh my gosh!" Philippe gushed. "It's absolutely GORGEOUS!"

"Shhhhhh!" Leo warned.

"Oh, right. Sorry," Philippe replied temporality forgetting.

He had just been so mesmerized by what he had seen.

The door had lead to an almost all-white room save for some tinges of pink and tinges of gold around it. A huge glass table sat in the middle of the room with no less than 20 chairs surrounding it. All of the chairs looked simply regal with golden open patterned backs save only for a pink cushion square in the middle embroided with roses. The glass table itself was bordered by a golden bumpy patterned line and sets of gold and silver cutlery and dishes sat in front of each place a wine glass with a white napkin placed inside completed the look. Pillars surrounded the room and on the wall each with a 5ft margin sat a shelf with a beautiful vase of roses in them.

"It's like being invited to dinner with the queen herself," Philippe whispered notching that even doing this allowed his voice to carry.

"Or not being invited and breaking in anyway," Leo whispered back smiling. "I never knew this sort of thing interested you."

"Well you don't know me that well," Philippe replied. "So I forgive you."

"Maybe one day I can take you to a fancy place I know, similar to this. You'd be so amazed you'd scream louder than you did before."

"I like the sound of that," Philippe replied smiling before heading off to the set of golden doors that lay ahead.

"*"

"Seriously!" Selena started at once. "If I have to deal with another freaking branch I'm going to crack it."

"Hey, at least they haven't cut you yet!" Karlia replied.

As much fun as the guys were having the women were not doing anywhere near as well. Not only had they found absolutely nothing but they felt like they were being attacked by every single tree branch they passed. Karlia had indeed been scratched by one earlier. Though it had been a minor cut it had begun to bleed. Selena had tried to do whatever she could to stop the bleeding, but found it to be to no avail as moments later another branch hit Karlia in the face and she started bleeding again. By this time Karlia had advised they keep going and hope for the best.

"You know," Selena started. "Piper Halliwell had the power to blow things up! Why can't we have that bloody power right now? Would save a lot of time!"

"Ah sweetie," Karlia began. "Didn't Philippe get Piper's powers?"

"It's an al-a a-" Selena started before a branch whacked her again. "Figure of speech Karlia!"

"Oh, ok." Karlia replied. "Ow! Damn it another branch!"

"You know what?" Selena started. "I am so done with this crap. I say we call our white lighter and get him to take us to the non-obstacle-intruding part of this course. What d'ya say?"

But as Selena looked to her left she noticed Karlia wasn't there. She whirled around quickly and noticed the blonde a few feet away staring off into the distance.

"Karlia?" She raced over to her friend. "Karlia wh-"

But Karlia shushed her immediately.

"There's something in there," she said at last trembling with fright.

"*"

The golden doors had led the men to a staircase. It was as beautiful as the rest of the house pinkish-white stairs completed by a black rail with a golden finish.

"Oh my god is everything here gold?" Philippe whispered.

"Mr. Bloodworth was a very rich man," Leo whispered back.

As they made it down the stairs the pair heard voices. The first voices they'd heard since they'd arrived.

"It's coming from over there," Philippe whispered pointing to the right where yet another set of double golden doors stood.

"Lamia, et unus spiritus, sicut et!" was what they could make out.

"It's differently demons," Leo said. "I can feel it."

"And that's definitely a spell they're chanting," Philippe added.

Leo raised his eyebrows.

"Who else speaks random Latin at midnight in an old mansion?" Philippe asked.

"True," Leo responded.

"Question is," Philippe asked. "Is it Katya?"

"I could glamour and find out," Leo suggested.

"I think not!" Philippe replied harshly.

"Why think you not?" Leo asked.

"Because what are you going to do if Selena and Karlia need your help?" Philippe replied. Then put on an accent. "Um…ah, sorry your majesty. Gotta run! I don't think so."

"Well what else do you have in mind?" Leo asked, frustrated.

"Try this one on for size," Philippe replied and placing his hands outwards he softly chanted.

Show me what I cannot see.

But make sure it's one sided.

The people behind cannot see me.

That would be undesired.

Unbelievably, it worked.

No sooner had Philippe chanted the made-up spell and the golden doors suddenly became transparent allowing Philippe and Leo to see what was happening on the other side.

"How'd you?-" Leo started.

But Philippe was too transfixed on what he could see in front of him.

"Yep that's definitely her, give or take a few years and…she's having tea?"

Indeed it certainly looked like Katya was pouring out some tea for three people that were with her. There was an older gentleman who appeared to be in his late forties. An older woman who appeared to be in her early forties and a younger man who appeared to be closer to Philippe's age.

"This I did not expect," Leo whispered.

"Is it bad?" Philippe asked before putting his arms back up and jumping straight into another chant.

Let me see what cannot be see-

But Leo grabbed his hands and pulled them down.

"I'll tell you what can't be seen," Leo whispered harshly. "Those people in there with her…are vampires."

"*"

"What do you mean something's in there?" Selena asked on the verge of freaking out.

"I mean there's something…following us," Karlia replied.

"Ok," Selena replied. "Going to need you to be more specific."

"What do you mean?" Karlia replied frustrated.

"Well human or supernatural," Selena replied as though it were obvious.

"Well I don't know if it's supernatural or not Selena, if I did I would tell you!"

At that moment, curiosity seemed to get the better of Selena and she boldly informed Karlia.

"Maybe we should find out."

"Find out?" Karlia questioned. "Are you crazy? This is not some riddle about a wolf, a fireman, a box of cabbages and a goat!"

"You mean goose, farmer, beans and fox right?" Selena corrected.

Karlia annoyed shoed her comment away.

"Who cares?" she cried. "The point is I'm not going in there and neither are you! Who knows what it could be!"

Then just as she'd finished talking a huge dog-like animal came out into a lit area and snarled, its big white teeth clearly visible.

Then suddenly, it began to charge at them.

"Oh my god it's a werewolf!" Karlia rushed, though more matter of factually than anything else.

"A werewolf!" Selena freaked. "That's great Karlia, why couldn't you have told me 5 minutes ago so we could have called Leo and not AHHHHH!"

"*"

And that is where we'll leave our friends for this week.

What do you think will happen to Selena and Karlia? Sounds like Philippe was a bit short with Leo earlier, what do you think this means? Atleast they have found Katya. From what I know she has never needed vampires before, why do you think she employed them now?

Please leave a review and let me know what you thought.

Next time on the Power of Three: With everything they've been through you'd think the Power of Three could handle anything right? But next Monday…

(Selena): "You know I'm kind of getting sick of this whole magic thing."

(Philippe): "It's just hard you know?"

(Karlia): "Get with the times people!"

Love isn't as much in the air as once thought.

(Karlia): "So there is no you and Philippe?"

(Leo): "Honestly, I don't think he likes me."

(Philippe to Selena): "For your information there *is* no Leo!"

As the Power of Three come face to face with reality.

(Selena): "What the hell do we do now?!"

(Leo): "It's a file on Bloodworth."

Suddenly desperate times call for desperate measures.

(Selena): "Philippe, what are you doing?!"

(Philippe): "You said to do whatever I needed to do."

(Selena): "ARE YOU CRAZY?!"

But it's what's revealed at the end of the chapter that will leave your blood running cold.

(Philippe): "On three…"

(Selena, shocked): "Philippe! That's…"

BEAT-BEAT-BEAT….WHO-IS-IT?

All new Power of Three next week.