Power of "Goddesses"
Six months later...
Everyone was sleeping in the Halliwell manor. All was silent and peaceful until a loud car alarm went off. Then there was a lot of yelling and then what sounded like a brawl between neighbors. All the noise from outside instantly woke up Prudence aka DeDe and Wyatt which had them crying from the top of their lungs. Piper and Leo got up to tend to them.
"What is going on out there?" Piper asked, rhetorically.
"Everyone has seemed to be a bit hostile lately." Leo said.
"It's ok babies, you're ok." Piper said, rocking Wyatt in her arms while Leo did the same with DeDe. "I still can't believe we have twins. It's so strange for me since I had been to the future but it's interesting. They're both twice blessed and for us it's twice the blessing."
"Do you think this is the same daughter you saw in the future?"
"Yeah it is. I can tell." Piper smiled. "Wyatt is the first boy and blonde in this family in a long time... We have such special children. How did we get so lucky?"
Finally DeDe and Wyatt calmed down so Piper and Leo put them back in their cribs then went back to their room and went back to sleep.
The next day Piper was downstairs with the babies. They were both in their own bassinet. Phoebe and Melinda came downstairs and went over to the babies.
"Hey DeDe, hey Wyatt. Our niece and nephew are so cute! I could just eat them up!" Phoebe exclaimed.
"That's not cute considering demons actually do try to eat them up." Melinda said.
"Right." Phoebe said before she and Melinda sat next to Piper on the couch.
"Speaking of demons, Phoebe and I set up a demon alarm system." Melinda said.
"That exists?" Piper asked.
"It does now. We invented it." Phoebe said.
"How does it work?" Piper asked.
"It's a sensor that senses when a demon is in the house and when a demon is sensed all the lights will blink." Melinda said.
"So are you going to have the babies' wiccaning?" Phoebe asked?
"You two have been bugging me about this all week and I guess we can do it tomorrow. Is it me or has there been more demon attacks than usual and has the world become more and more hostile lately?" Piper asked.
"I've noticed that too and it's strange. It's like I feel their anger." Phoebe said.
"Whatever it is, it's only on this plane because the ghosts I've come across lately aren't effected by whatever is going on." Melinda said.
"Well I have an interview with Regis & Kelly today!" Phoebe exclaimed excitedly.
"You're blowing up sis!" Piper exclaimed.
"Wish me luck!" Phoebe took Melinda's hand and they orbed into an empty restroom of a restaurant across the street from the studio. They went outside and people were arguing and fighting all over the place.
"Are we in World War Three?" Melinda asked.
Phoebe felt all the anger all around her.
"What the hell?" Phoebe yelled in anger toward Melinda.
"What's wrong?" Melinda asked.
"I don't know." Phoebe realized she channeled the feelings of a woman that just got walked intoand coffee got spilled on her. "Oh my gosh... this isn't the first time this has happened... I think I'm becoming an empath."
"Congratulations."
"This isn't a good day for this though. I feel all this anger from everywhere, I have a television interview and I can't control this yet." Phoebe and Melinda went inside the studio. Melinda stayed with Phoebe for a little while then went to work.
The Bay Mirror expanded the newspaper to national news and distribution so Phoebe wasn't only becoming popular in LA but the entire country. Phoebe managed to get through the interview without latching on to anyone's bad feelings. Thank God Regis and Kelly were as bubbly as they looked except Kelly was worried about the typical things that mothers worry about but Phoebe could handle that. Regis and Kelly were really nice too.
It had been so long since Phoebe had been in NYC that she wanted to walk around and shop on fifth avenue but she couldn't relax with all those angry people surrounding her so she called Leo to come take her home.
"Great interview, Pheebs." Piper said.
"Thanks... I think I'm becoming an empath and it's becoming harder and harder to handle. Is this a good thing because I remember when Prue became an empath?"
"Prue wasn't meant to be an empath, you are. It'll take time but you'll learn to control it just like you learned to control levitation." Leo said.
"All I know is, if people get any angrier I'm going to explode."
-v-
Melinda just rung up a customer and Andrea was on the phone in the midst of an argument.
"You can shove it down your throat and choke on it!" Andrea hung up. Melinda was surprised. She never heard Andrea talk like that. Something strange was definitely going on.
"Are you ok?" Melinda asked.
"Yep!" Andrea said.
Jim walked in with lunch for Melinda and gave her a kiss.
"You're so sweet! Thank you!" Melinda smiled. "You're not angry about anything, are you?"
"Not with you." Jim said, hinting that he was angry at something, just not with Melinda.
The next day, Piper summoned Penny to prepare for the babies' wiccaning. The sisters and Grams were in the attic when demons attacked. The sisters and Penny were fighting them off when they heard the babies crying from their room. Melinda, being the only one who could do anything about it in that moment orbed down to them. Leo had just run in. Two demons were there, one standing over each crib trying to break through the babies' force fields with energy balls.
"Energy balls!" Melinda called both of them and threw them at the demons, vanquishing them. The babies let their force fields down and cried. Melinda picked up DeDe and Leo picked up Wyatt. A couple minutes later Piper, Phoebe and Penny came in.
"They're ok. Demons must've been distracting you all to get to them." Leo said.
"Aww, my precious grand-babies." Penny said, seeing the twins for the first time and feeling sorry about them having to be attacked so young but it was exactly what she and Patty had to go through with the sisters. Penny went over to the babies. "I can't believe you had twins, a boy no less... Well... they are going to be just fine. Those big bad demons won't beat the Halliwells, no they won't." Penny spoke baby talk to the babies.
Finally after a long day of constant attacks, the day calmed and they were able to perform the wiccaning for DeDe and Wyatt. They noticed that even for this occasion they couldn't see Prue with all the other Halliwell matriarchs but they didn't mention it. Before the wiccaning started, Piper asked Melinda to be the babies' godmother. The wiccaning did turn out to be a beautiful thing.
After a week, everyone noticed that nothing was getting better on the outside. The people were just getting angrier and more violent. It seemed that the magical community wasn't effected by whatever was going on. Whatever it was, not even the elders knew the reasoning behind it.
Phoebe couldn't take it any longer. She locked herself in the basement to try and disconnect from it all. She was getting the feelings of the outside and the family. It was just too much. She had a hard enough time dealing with her own feelings half the time.
While the world was going out of whack Melinda and Piper felt out of whack themselves. Melinda was beginning to uncontrollably travel into different planes, mainly the ghostly plane but sometimes others. Piper's power to blow things up was growing bigger. It was more explosive and could handle more than one thing at a time. Her freezing power had been growing for a while, being able to freeze more and more things at a time for longer spans of time.
Leo had just come back from checking with the elders about what was gong on with Melinda.
"Your power is expanding too. All of you have a higher level of consciousness which allows you to be witches but Melinda, yours is even higher than your sisters. That's why you can see the ghosts all the time, no matter what. Now you can completely crossover to the ghostly plane without actually dying yourself and other planes as well. You could eventually be able to cross dimensions. Don't worry. I know it seems scary but you'll learn to control it just like you learned to control your other powers."
They heard gunshots outside and looked out the window to see what was going on. A man had a machine gun and was shooting senseless. Piper froze the scene, meaning the entire street. Leo orbed outside then orbed the gun away. Piper unfroze the scene. The gunman was confused but it was already a horrific sight because of the people he had already shot.
"We have to figure out what's going on." Piper said. Then Leo orbed back in. "Stay with the babies, we're going to bring Phoebe out of her shell."
Piper and Melinda went down to the basement and convinced Phoebe to come out of hiding. The three of them went to the attic.
"All of our powers are growing. Maybe now you can force a premonition." Piper said.
"I doubt it." Phoebe said then looked at Melinda. "You're sad about something. Why are you sad?"
"Stop doing that." Melinda said.
"I can't help it, I'm as annoyed as you are but why are you sad?"
"I'm just a little upset about not being able to settle my relationship with my mom that's all. It bothers me a little."
Piper looked at her watch. "I have to feed the babies but when I come back we have to figure out what's going on." Piper left the attic and Phoebe and Melinda looked through the book. First thing first, Phoebe found a potion that would allow her not to be able to feel the emotions of the family. She made it and had Melinda drink the first bottle. About fifteen minutes later Phoebe and Melinda were attacked by a gang of demons. They couldn't even react because it happened so fast and their were so many of them. They were both knocked unconscious. Suddenly someone orbed in and threw potions at the demons to vanquish them then healed Phoebe and Melinda. When they came to they were faced with a twenty something, handsome, blue eyed, brown haired, tall man.
"Who are you?" Phoebe asked.
"I'm Chris, Chris Perry." He helped them up.
"Thanks for helping us. Where did you come from?" Melinda asked.
"I'm from the future. Had I not come, Phoebe you would have died and the power of three would have died with you. That wouldn't have been any help to the disaster this world is headed to as you've all been witnessing lately. I'm here to help alter the future."
"Who sent you here?" Phoebe asked.
"I can't tell you that. I'm here to change the future but I'm here to change certain things, not the future in it's entirety. If anything else changes, it won't be by hands."
"You know what's going on?" Phoebe asked.
"Yes and I'll explain that in a little while but if I'm right, Piper and Leo need us right now." Chris headed down to the conservatory, Phoebe and Melinda followed.
Leo had been shot by a darklighter and Piper was crying.
"Oh my gosh! Leo!" Phoebe exclaimed at the sight.
Piper had already pulled the arrow out so Chris just went over to heal him.
"You would've figured out a way to save him anyway, I just sped up the process." Chris said.
"Thanks... Who are you?" Piper asked.
"Chris Perry, he's from the future. He says he knows what's going on, why everyone is so angry." Phoebe said.
"We're listening." Piper said and they all sat down to listen.
"On the day that Wyatt and Denny were born-" Chris started.
"Denny?"Piper questioned, they didn't call her that.
"Some people call her that in the future." He was the only one who called her that really but he digressed. "Anyway, on the day they were born someone accidentally released the ancient Greek god of war, Ares from his frozen tomb where he was meant to be trapped for all eternity."
"Wait, the ancient Greek gods of Olympus that I read about in social studies were real, Zeus, Aphrodite, Ares?" Piper asked and looked at Leo.
"Yes, they were mortals who were given power to defeat the Titans but afterward they were so consumed with the power that they, lost their humanity, proclaimed themselves gods and forced people to worship them. Legend has it, Hercules trapped Ares in an iced tomb for all of eternity so that he could no longer wreak havoc on the world." Leo explained.
"In the future where I came from, most of the people in the world with the exception of the magical community became consumed by anger and hatred and the world was at a constant war. Eventually, you all figured out how to defeat Ares but by the time you did the world was already a disaster. The reversal of Ares' effect was very slow." Chris explained.
"Aren't you afraid of the consequences of changing the future?" Phoebe asked.
"Sometimes the future needs to be changed. I'm sure you understand that more than anyone."
"So what do we need to do?" Piper asked.
"Well there's only one who can stop Ares, a warrior woman who lived thousands of years ago. She's the only one who Ares ever truly loved."
"How will she help?" Melinda asked.
"I think Chris is saying that the answer to defeating war is by true love." Phoebe said.
"Exactly." Chris smiled.
"So does this warrior woman love Ares too?" Phoebe asked.
"That's debatable but there was a time when they were lovers."
"Who's this warrior woman and how do we get her here?" Melinda asked.
"Her name is Xena. They called her the Warrior Princess and also Ares' chosen one. You can use the summoning spell."
"Can we trust you?" Piper asked.
"What do you mean? I just saved Phoebe and Leo and helped you figure out how to stop the world from going to hell."
"How do we know this isn't for your own agenda?"Piper asked.
"I'm a whitelighter, my purpose is to serve and protect good!"
"I think you should listen to Chris." Leo said.
"Thank you!" Chris exclaimed.
"Fine. Let's go." Piper said and the sisters headed up to the attic.
"Leo, I think you should head up to the heavens... The darklighters and every other evil being is working with Ares. He wants to reclaim his full power as a god."
"...So he has to get to the elders." Leo figured out.
"You're not safe down here and they're not safe up there. Hopefully, it's not too late."
Leo orbed up to the heavens. When Chris got up to the attic, the sisters were in the middle of the spell. When they finished, a tall, raven haired blue eyed woman in an ancient Greek warrior outfit appeared.
"Where am I?" Xena asked.
"The future... We need your help to defeat someone." Piper started.
"The name, Ares ring a bell?" Phoebe asked.
"Ares? What about him?" Xena asked.
"He's planning to take over the world with war. The only way to weaken him, then defeat him is through love." Melinda said.
"And he loves you." Phoebe said.
They heard commotion downstairs so they went to go check it out. It seemed that every good being in the magic community was there, even an elf nanny who went to tend to the babies.
"What are you all doing here?" Piper asked.
"The balance of good and evil has shifted to evil and evil is having a field day eliminating us so we came to the safest places we know while you, the Charmed Ones fix this mess." Grumpy, the dwarf said.
Melinda got all the magical creatures into the conservatory.
"All this must seem ridiculous to you." Phoebe said to Xena.
"Nope, heard of them all. I've even dealt with furies and banshees just to name a couple. There isn't much that can surprise me."
"I've been turned into a banshee." Phoebe said.
"I've been turned into a fury." Piper said.
Both sisters shook their heads at the thought of all the things they've been turned into over the years.
"Now we just have to find Ares and soften his heart." Melinda said.
"Don't worry, he'll find me in due time. He always does." Xena said.
"Yeah but stopping Ares is only half the battle. The balance between good and evil must be restored before it's too late." Chris said.
"You tell us that now. Are you leaving out anything else?" Piper asked, irritated.
Meanwhile in the heavens, Leo was devastated at the sight of what he saw when he arrived there. Many elders were killed which meant that Ares was one step closer in getting what he wanted. Leo had been up here for a little while and finally Chris orbed to him.
"You knew this would happen." Leo said.
"I warned you... Not all the elders are dead. Well, they're kind of already dead so I guess a better phrase is that they haven't all moved on to their next stage of existence. The rest are hiding on earth where they won't be found by Ares or anyone else so you have to take over up here for now. After Ares is weakened, the sisters will have to defeat him and then restore the balance between good and evil. You know how that has to be done." Chris said.
Chris went back to the manor.
"Where's Leo?" Piper asked.
"He's taking care of things up there. He has something in store for you three."
"What?" Melinda asked.
"You'll see."
A white glow surrounded the sisters. The next thing they knew, they were dressed as ancient Greek goddesses. Phoebe couldn't believe the extremely long, curly blond hair on her head, it was all the way down to her knees. Melinda's hair had changed as well, it was red, down to the bottom of her back, straight and she had bangs. Piper's hair was a bit longer too, with a few curls but basically the same.
"Now you can add goddesses to the list of things you've turned into." Chris said.
"Leo did this?" Piper asked.
"Yep, this is how you will restore the balance of good and evil. Phoebe, you're the goddess of love. Mel, you're the goddess of spirituality. Piper, you are the goddess of the earth."
"Ares is coming." Xena said. Ares appeared from a red light.
"Xena." Ares said with a smile on his face. It's the first time Ares' mind wasn't completely power driven. Right now, his heart was ruling.
"I hear you've been a bad boy." Xena said.
"Well of course. Care to join me?" Ares asked.
"Can we have a moment?" Xena asked. The sisters and Chris left the living room to leave the two alone. Ares had a seat and Xena sat on his lap.
"She does love him." Phoebe said as the four waited in the parlor.
"Is that your witch powers or your god powers talking?" Melinda asked.
"I don't know but I know I'm right." Phoebe said.
Every minute Ares spent with Xena, consuming himself in the love made him weaker. The power of war lessened within him. With a kiss, he was drained. He felt mortal though he wasn't but if he tried, he wouldn't have the strength to use his powers or fight. Not even the powers he had taken in the last few months would work, not even ones from some of the most powerful good. It was the sisters cue to attack. Xena got out of the way and the sisters all came out with a hand facing Ares, using their power to defeat him.
"Xena, how could you?" Ares asked.
"Not even a few centuries can change us. You told me a story once, and you mentioned something about the scorpion being asked why he stung and the answer was-" Xena started.
"-That's what I do." Ares finished the sentence.
"Yeah, that's what we do, play games with each other." Xena said.
Ares was sent into the pits of the earth, never to be released again.
"Thanks for your help." Piper said to Xena.
They soon sent Xena back to her time and then it was time to restore the balance of good and evil, frankly, defeating Ares was an easier task.
"I want to talk to Leo." Piper said.
"Me too." Phoebe said.
"Me three." Melinda added.
"You can't right now. Leo needs to stay up there for now." Chris replied.
"That is not acceptable. You sent him up there. Tell him to come back!" Piper commanded
"I can't." Chris responded.
"You can't or you won't?" Piper asked. "Leo! Get your ass down here now!" Piper yelled then was surprised to hear jingles. "Did he just jingle me? Don't jingle me!"
"Chris, we need him." Phoebe said.
"I understand the need for Leo, honestly I do but right now his responsibility isn't only to you but to the world."
"Is there something you're not telling us?" Melinda squinted her eyes at him.
"If I did, I couldn't tell you, future consequences and all."
"You said you wanted to change the future." Phoebe twirled her hair with one hand on her hip.
"I also said that that doesn't mean I can tell you everything."
As much as the sisters longed for one of Leo's motivational speeches that they realized that they took for granted and usually cut off, they got down to business. They went around vanquishing demons that had acquired new powers from Ares' plan but their ultimate power was the fact that Ares' presence made the humans more prone to sway to their side rather than good. The sisters went to the top of the golden gate bridge and spread their powers of love, spirituality and oneness of the earth across the globe. Piper also restored the beauty to the earth that was damaged with the war and violence. Everything was fixed before it was too late to turn back. The sisters then went back to the manor.
"You did it. You saved the world... You changed the future." Chris said. He didn't know how much but he knew this was the first step and it was a big deal.
Leo finally orbed down to them.
"Leo!"Piper exclaimed and hugged him.
"You all did it! I never doubted you." Leo stated happily then took the powers away from them.
"Now you can stay down here." Piper said.
"...Actually, I can't..." Leo stated.
"What the hell do you mean, you can't?" Piper asked, getting upset.
"I've been made an elder." The sisters were stunned. Piper looked at Chris.
"You knew this would happen. This was apart of your master plan." Piper said.
"I didn't know Leo would become an elder. My master plan was to save the world and look, the world is no longer in chaos." Chris replied.
Phoebe and Melinda knew Piper and Leo needed some time alone so they went into the kitchen and took Chris with them.
"You can't leave me." Piper said.
"I'll always be watching over you." Leo replied.
"It's not the same." Tears began to fall from Piper's eyes. "Why is it that every time things are going beautiful, something comes along to mess it up? You asked me to marry you, I did, despite everything we had to deal with to get there. You wanted a child, I gave two. Now you're telling me you're leaving... This was always my biggest fear. I saw the future and I told you we had a daughter but what I didn't tell you was that we were divorced... I wouldn't let you clip your wings or something so we couldn't make it. We changed so much of that future that I hoped and I was determined to change that too but I guess we're not destined to be together after all. That's just not acceptable to me. I can't take that for an answer, I can't take that as a destination in my life."
"Becoming an elder was not my destiny but it's because of you that I am worthy of this position. I love you, nothing can ever change that. If I could choose, I'd choose my family but this is not a choice, it's a calling. I'll watch over all of you... I can erase your pain."
"No! I'd rather deal with it now than later."
Leo went to say goodbye to the babies. It broke his heart, hurt his soul. He had all he ever wanted in two lifetimes and now he had to let go though he would never completely let go. He would always watch."
Piper cried all the next morning long, playing flashbacks of every special moment they ever shared in her head. Just as she and Melinda had done with Phoebe when they had to vanquish Cole, Melinda and Phoebe came in Piper's room, laid next to her for comfort. The babies were thankfully sound asleep in the nursery.
Chris looked in on the sisters, understanding every bit of their pain then he orbed into the nursery and looked in on the babies.
"I changed the future. Save Aunt Phoebe from dying before her time, check. Save the world from Ares' destruction, check. Somehow, the future is already much better but that's only half the mission completed." Chris then orbed to the office in P3 where he s
lept last night, unknown to Piper. Leo orbed in.
"You slept here." Leo said.
"I'm from the future, my options are limited." Chris said. "Did the elders figure out what they wanted to do with me because I won't be leaving any time soon? I can tell you that."
"We've decided to make you the Charmed Ones whitelighter for now but I wonder if Piper was right, was this part of your master plan? I'm not completely sure I can trust you but you did help a lot. Just know that I'll be watching you." Leo couldn't read any emotion in Chris' face, he had no clue what was going through his mind. Chris just nodded then Leo orbed away.
Fun fact: Did you know that one of the meanings for the name Perry is 'traveler?' Lol
I have some new twists coming with the Chris story so stay tuned.
What do you think so far?