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"Find anything yet?" Blake asked as Bianca kept looking through the book.
"I found a demon who can make witches paranoid, a demon who can create portals, and a demon that can come back to life if it isn't buried in a grave yard, but nothing about a demon that can make people angry" Bianca said as she closed the book defeated.
"Here, let me take a look" Warren said as he walked over to the book. "Uh oh."
"Uh oh, what's uh oh? I don't like uh oh" Blake said panicked.
"The cover changed. The triquetra is broken" Warren responded.
"Why would the triquetra be broken. I thought it represented the power of three" Bianca asked.
"It does. But maybe because it is the children of the Charmed Ones it is still affected" Warren said.
"That doesn't make any sense. I mean I know that they are connected to the book, but it shouldn't change because they are upset with each other" Blake said back.
"I know why this all seems familiar now" Warren said. "I remember reading about it in the history books in Magic School. There was a demon, I think of anger or rage, and he managed to amplify the Charmed Ones' anger to the point where they used their powers against each other. Once that happened it broke the power of three leaving the Charmed Ones powerless" he explained.
"Well if they were powerless then that means the gang is powerless now" Bianca said as she flipped through trying to find the demon of rage.
They can't be powerless, they all orbed or hearted home, they still must have their powers" Blake said.
"Not necessarily, the power outage could have happened right after they left, you know a slight delay in the magical system and all, my guess it that they don't have powers anymore" Warren stated.
"Here it is" Bianca said as she read,
Andras is the spirit of rage. He makes pre-existing anger worse, and can possess anyone he has infected. He is a low-level spirit who has not yet reached demon hood therefore he is vulnerable to several supernatural attacks and often serves other Upper-Level demons.
Andras used his power to enrage the Charmed Ones, causing us to use our powers against one another, thus weakening our sisterly bond and the Power of Three. This was reflected when the Triquetra on the Book of Shadows separated.
Andras was vanquished by Balthazar.
"Well if he was vanquished already then how could he have caused them all to go crazy?" Blake asked.
"Halloween" Bianca said. "The veil is thinned on Halloween he could have crossed over."
"Not if he was just a low level demon, something would have had to help him" Warren replied. "Wait, didn't Portia say she started feeling the anger after we did the ritual?"
"I think so. Yea she said Hope and Parker were snippy with Wyatt, and she said she felt a lot of anger coming from Mel" Bianca stated.
"Do you think something went wrong during the ritual?" Blake asked.
"That would be my guess, but what? Maybe if we look at everything we did during the ritual it will help us figure out if Andras could have come back or not" Bianca said.
"Well let's get started, this may take some time" Warren said as he got a notebook and a pencil.
"I'm going to go and keep an eye on everybody, if they don't have powers Andras may go after them and they won't be able to defend themselves" Blake said as he shimmered out.
"Ok Bianca I'll say what we did and you look in the book to see if that is how it was supposed to be done" Warren suggested.
"But Mel said she improvised most of it, that wouldn't be in the book" she responded.
"True, but she was using the book as a guide, and she learned the magic from somewhere to me the book is our best resource" he said back. "Ok she lit the candles first right, there isn't exactly an incorrect way to do that. Then what did she do?" he asked.
"I think she invoked the elements, she lit a candle, poured water, sprinkled dirt and fanned the air" Bianca said.
"Well that doesn't sound like it could have gone wrong" Warren added. "What else."
"There was that thing with the apple and the laurel leaf, something about protection" Bianca said.
"Hmm that sounds right, what does the book say about that" Warren responded.
"A laurel placed over the pentacle in the heart of the apple will protect from evil. Um, lavender and rosemary are protection herbs, she sprinkled those around, using a broom sweeping east to west following the path of the sun sweeps evil from our path, yadda yadda, um poppets symbolize the women and witches that came before us and their knowledge will guide us. We did all that stuff" Bianca said.
"Wait what did you say?" Warren asked.
"What the poppets or the yadda yadda?" Bianca smirked.
"The yadda yadda, before that about sweeping evil from our path" he replied.
"Using a broom sweep east to west following the path of the sun. This act sweeps evil from your path" Bianca said reading from the book.
"Does is say what would happen if you went the opposite way west to east?" he asked.
"No it doesn't say anything about that, why?" Bianca questioned.
"Well that could have been something that went wrong, we all know how much Mel pays attention to detail, even you were getting bored reading this little bit, if Mel didn't realize she had to follow the path of the sun, then maybe that's how Andras crossed over" Warren stated.
"Which way is East?" Bianca asked.
"Um that way" Warren said as he pointed towards the door in the attic.
"Mel was facing the sofa while doing the ritual, and I was directly in front of her. She started with the broom to her left so my right" Bianca said as she stood in the spot she was in during the ritual "so that would mean she moved the broom from the window to the door, she went west to east, not east to west. You're right kid that must have been what helped Andras cross the veil. Do you think he could absorb power from the rage he creates?"
"It's possible especially on a night like tonight. The gang needs to get over their issues fast, they are vulnerable right now and there is no telling what will happen if that demon absorbs all that rage" Warren said.
Blake shimmered back into the attic. "So far everyone is safe and sound in their rooms, I don't even think they know their powers are gone. How did you guys fair?"
"Well Blake we have big trouble, we think that Andras was able to cross over because Mel swept west to east instead of east to west, if he gathers enough strength there is no telling what he could do. And with those guys powerless he could kill them" Bianca said.
In a dark alley Andras pulled out a Lazarus demon from his portal. He now was accompanied by Vicus, Gith, dark lighters, and drone demons.
"This should do for now" Andras said.
"What is your plan for those Charmed brats?" a dark lighter asked.
"Well I got them to use their powers against each other, as we speak they are powerless, even that twice blessed pain" Andras replied.
"What do you get from pulling us across the veil?" Gith asked.
"Well once we kill the Charmed offspring we will remain alive, in return, I ask for your support in becoming the next Source. If you do then I will reward you greatly" replied Andras.