Hey guys, last chapter, if you haven't reviewed yet please do. I have already started work on another story centering around Mel, Chris and Wyatt. If you also have a suggestion for a story let me know, I'm game for writing requests. Made love to everyone, and as always enjoy!
Andras stood facing the nine Halliwell witches.
"You really think you can take us all on even without our powers. Hello, did you not see us take out the other demons you brought along. And they weren't even taking on all of us at the same time" Faith said with a cocky grin.
"I guess you'll just have to try and defeat me and we will see what happens" Andras replied.
"This seems off. I mean one Halliwell witch is a lot to deal with let alone all nine of us. He is planning something" Parker whispered to Wyatt.
"What are you waiting for, vanquish me already" Andras egged on the witches.
Mel was the first to make a move. She threw the potion that erupts into fire at the demon. Andras shimmered out of the path of the potion. He reappeared in front of H.J. with a fireball conjured.
"To slow I'm afraid. Say good-bye to your cousin" Andras said as he drew his arm back.
"Fire ball" Hope said as she held out her hand. The fire ball appeared in her hand and she threw it back at Andras. The fireball hit him square in the chest, but nothing happened.
"Well, I see you did get your powers back" Andras said as he shook off the blow from the attack. "Well it doesn't matter anyway, I still have a few tricks up my sleeve." Andras waved his hand and next to him appeared several human-looking demons.
"Oh you think just adding more demons will help you. Once again, did you not see the previous fight" Chris said.
"Kill them" Andras said in a calm non-chalant voice.
The 10 demons came forward at the witches. A bald demon with a scar over his eye conjured a purple energy ball and threw it at Portia and Faith. Portia stepped forward and used her empathy power to channel the energy ball back at the demon.
"One down, nine to go" Portia said as she stared at Andras.
"No you know what" Wyatt said as he held his hands out flat. A wave of light came out and the nine remaining demons were incinerated. "None, to go, stop hiding behind your minions Andras and fight" he commanded.
"Fine then, if you insist" Andras said as he mimicked Wyatt's hand motion and disks of fire shot out at the group.
"Wyatt shield!" H.J. said. On command Wyatt's blue shield went up and the fire disk blasts were repelled.
"He's got like a mystical machine gun!" Peyton said in shock.
"Yea thanks for the update Pey, but we sort of noticed" H.J. said to his cousin.
"Alright new plan, Mel you came up with a spell to vanquish him right?" Chris asked his sister.
"Yea, Portia, Faith and I" she replied.
"Use it" he said.
"Something wicked in our midst, bringing rage that does persist, Elements please hear this call, vanquish this demon once and for all" Mel said.
The nine cousin's looked at Andras as he stood with a confused look on his face.
"You call that a spell! I tell you, young witches today, no flare for poetry" the demon mocked.
"What happened?" H.J. asked.
"It wasn't strong enough, I knew it wouldn't be with as much anger as he absorbed earlier it's going to take a lot of power to beat him. Wyatt maybe you should say the spell, like it or not you are more powerful" Mel suggested.
"Alright, but I may need to put my shield down, it's taking too much power to keep it up" he said.
"Don't worry, we'll cover you Wy" Portia told her cousin.
Wyatt lowered his shield and Andras started with his fire disk attacks. The cousins ducked and dodged around the attacks and took refuge behind various trees.
"Something wicked in our midst, bringing rage that does persist, Elements please hear this call, vanquish this demon once and for all" Wyatt said as he moved behind a tree to avoid getting hit. "Nothing happened Mel!"Wyatt called out.
"Yea, I can see that" he heard his sister's reply through the fog.
"I tire of you witches" Andras said as he changed his fire disks into energy balls.
"Yea well we tire of you as well" Chris said from behind Andras.
"Stupid witch" Andras said as he waved his hand and sent Chris flying through the air.
Chris landed with a thump against a tree. He stood up and looked at Andras "Don't you mean witch-lighter" and then disappeared in a flash of red light.
"Astral projection, just like your Aunt Prue. Willing to meet her same demise" Andras said as he turned around, only to be hit with a potion thrown by Hope. Mel conjured an energy ball and threw it at Andras while he was under the effects of the stun potion. To her dismay, the energy ball only pushed off his feet.
"Mel, get your butt over here now!" Wyatt said through the fog.
Mel orbed in behind her brother.
"You rang" she said.
"Re-write the spell" Wyatt said.
"What? Why?" Mel asked.
"Because it didn't work that's why" he replied back.
"Wy, the only way I can make that spell stronger is if it's a power of three spell" Mel replied.
"You heard what Blake said, write a power of 3x3 spell" he said.
"Wyatt, I don't know if I can do that, I mean what if we aren't the power of 3x3?" Mel asked.
"Well, just hope we are, I'll get H.J. to give you some cover, I have the most fire power so I will help keep him distracted. Try and hurry" Wyatt said.
"Alright" Mel said.
Wyatt orbed to his cousin.
"H.J. stand guard for Mel, she is going to try and rewrite the spell" Wyatt instructed.
H.J. orbed out and Wyatt looked around for the rest of his cousins and his brother. Andras had resumed the rapid fire of energy balls so Wyatt figured his cousins must have taken cover. Wyatt took a deep breath and then concentrated on Andras' fire. A moment later the energy balls turned into flowers.
"What the hell?" Andras asked as he looked at his hands.
"Projection power, comes in handy. You know what else comes in handy, Excalibur" Wyatt said as he motioned his hands as if he was holding a sword. Excalibur appeared in his hands and Wyatt charged Andras.
"Um, let's see, spell spell, 3x3, uh, I don't know" Mel said.
"Come one Mellie, if anyone can write this spell it's you, and you better make it quick, it looks like even Excalibur isn't going to take this guy down" H.J. told his cousin.
"Ok, um, wait Wyatt called Excalibur?" Mel asked.
"Yea so we need to hurry this up a little bit, he seems to be able to deflect the strikes" H.J. responded.
Wyatt was facing off with Andras when in his head he heard Mel's voice "Wyatt, can you stab him?" Using his telepathic link with his sister he replied "I think so, but it's not going to do anything." Mel responded back "That's ok, that's what the spell is for, give me 30 seconds." All at once, Peyton, Parker, Portia, H.J., Hope, Faith, Chris and Wyatt heard in their heads "Guys, Wyatt is going to stab Andras with Excalibur and then I am going to channel the spell to you telepathically, if you can say it with me that would be helpful, but if not we may need to say it again" Mel instructed.
Once Mel's voice left his head, Chris gave Wyatt the opportunity that he needed by astral projecting behind Andras and simply tapping him on the shoulder. While Andras turned around Wyatt ran him through with the famed sword. Mel started chanting out loud and in everybody's mind "three times three stand as one, with powers drawn from Avalon, take this demon that crossed the veil and return him to his firey jail."
Mel, H.J., Portia, and Faith were the only ones able to keep up with the spell, which was enough to hurt Andras, he doubled over in pain and then fell to his knees, the witches raced toward Wyatt and stood before the demon of rage. At once they all started the spell a second time "three times three stand as one, with powers drawn from Avalon, take this demon that crossed the veil and return him to his firey jail." With all nine of the cousins chanting the spell, Andras was penetrated with rays of light and then exploded before the young witches.
"Whoa, now that was cool" Chris said as he looked at his family.
"Avalon? I thought Excalibur came from Camelot" Portia questioned.
"Well, technically I think it does, but the Lady of the Lake was from Avalon, I don't know I had to come up with a rhyme just in time" Mel said with a grin.
In response to Mel's little pun, the group just groaned.
"So guys, um Happy Halloween" H.J. said with a shrug. "At least we got our powers back, I wonder how that happened?"
"Perhaps I can answer that" a voice came from behind them. The nine witches turned around to come face to face with an Elder.
"Who are you, well, besides an Elder" Mel said with an attitude.
"Forgive me, my name is Sarrin. I am one of the prophecy keepers of the Elders. And you nine have just embarked on a very interesting journey" Sarrin stated.
"Yea we know, we do so much good as witches, that we forever sway the balance toward the side of good, we got that part" Faith said standing strong beside Mel.
"Yes, the power of 3x3. We weren't exactly sure that it was going to occur, prophecies are tricky you know. But of course, everything fell into place just as we were expecting" he told the witches.
"Expecting, you were expecting us to use our powers against each other, loose them, and nearly die" Wyatt yelled.
"No we of course didn't know how you were going to get the power. But it stated that bonds would be broken and ties would be mended. You had to loose each other in order to gain each other so to speak."
"Gain each other, we already had each other" Peyton retorted.
"Ah yes, but as witches, the power of 3x3 lies in your bond as a family. And although you have always been there for each other, you have never acknowledged it before tonight" Sarrin said.
Upon receiving confused glares from the witches Sarrin continued "Look, I don't write the prophecies, or detail how they are suppose to come to fruition, but I do know that your coven is a strong one, and it lies in your family ties. Embrace it you have bright futures ahead of you" and with that he orbed out.
"Anybody have any idea what that was about?" Parker asked.
"I think we were basically recruited to do the Elders' bidding" Faith responded.
"Oh well, it was only a matter of time, wasn't it?" Hope supplied.
"I don't even want to think about this now, let's just go home" H.J. said.
With a collective nod the woods were filled with blue, white, and pink lights. The lights appeared in the attic of the Halliwell Manor.
"You guys are ok!" Blake said as he grabbed the nearest witch to hug, who was Melinda.
"Yes we're fine, good to see you too Blake" Mel said as the half-manticore dropped his grip and looked away sheepishly.
"So Andras is gone?" Bianca asked.
"Yep, and apparently we have a prophecy to fulfill" H.J. said.
"Great, just what I need, another one" Wyatt said joking.
"Well, Mr. High and Mighty Twice Blessed Greek God of Great Hair, at least you have some help with this one" Mel said with a laugh. "You focus on your first one, and we will fulfill the second one."
"Thanks baby sister" Wyatt said as he mussed up Mel's hair. Mel swatted Wyatt's hand away and gave a scowl that turned into a grin.
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm exhausted" Portia said with a yawn.
"Is it sad that we will all be asleep before our parents get home?" Mel asked as the group headed down the stairs.
"No, we had a busy evening" Wyatt said.
"One that I feel should be kept quiet" Warren said, granting him a look from everyone. "Oh come on, like Aunt Piper isn't going to create a nuclear size explosion if she hears about what happened tonight."
With a laugh and an agreement to keep everything quiet, the hallway was filled with four columns of orbs, and three hearts leaving Wyatt, Blake, Bianca, Chris, and Mel.
"Are you sure you're ok?" Bianca asked.
"Yea we're fine. Thanks for everything you did tonight Bianca" Chris said as he gave her a kiss on the forehead.
"No big. Well I guess I should get going" saying good-bye she shimmered out.
"And with that I am going to bed" Chris said as he walked into his bedroom and shut the door.
"Thanks, Blake couldn't have done it without you" Wyatt said as he and Blake knocked fists. "Talk to you later" Wyatt said as he went into his room, closing the door behind him.
"So, big bad demon wasn't big and bad enough for a Melinda Spell?" Blake asked the young witch.
"You ought to know by now, there isn't anything I can't write a spell for" Mel said with a smile. "Thanks Blake, for everything you and Warren, and Bianca did tonight. We honestly couldn't have done it without you" Mel said as she gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Good-night" she said as she went into her room and shut the door. Blake stood in the hallway for a second and rubbed his cheek, then with a smile he whispered "good-night" before shimmering out.