"We're what now?"
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Chris was leafing through the Book while Dai watched him with a curious look on her face.
After Piper, Leo and Phoebe went downstairs to see what had caused the crash, Chris had started going through the Book.
"So…who are you again?" Dai asked.
"Chris Perry. I'm sure we already went through this." He said.
"Yeah, but all I know is you're some dude from the future who came here to fix the timeline or whatever. Doesn't tell me much." She commented.
He gave a crooked grin as he looked over at her.
"What?" she asked.
"Nothing. You just never change in the future." He said.
That made her turn to him with a confused expression on her face.
"We meet in the future?" she asked.
"You can say that." He said.
She gave him a pout as he went back to looking at the pages in the Book, then Dai walked over to Paige, gently touching it to see if she could feel any life from it.
Chris watched her as she looked over her cousin who was frozen in stone, worry in her chocolate brown eyes that the women in her family all seemed to inherit, save for two who happened to be Dai's mother and cousin Prue.
"She'll be fine. She's just frozen. You see this type of stuff in museums and even in old monuments. No one never notices though." He told her.
There were angry footsteps approaching the attic making Dai look over to see her cousin who has a temper that is as explosive as her own power.
"What are you doing?" Piper demanded as she walked into the attic.
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm trying to find a way to free stone cold Paige over here." Chris said with a nod at the statue.
"Step away." Piper warned.
"What's up? I mean, the Books would run away or whatever if he was evil, but it's not. Isn't that proof enough that he's a good guy?" Dai asked.
Truthfully, she trusted him because she felt a natural instinct inside of her that was telling her that she could trust him just like with Ken.
"Thank you." Chris said to her.
"Demons have found ways around it before." Piper said making the pyro groan.
Veemon then came into the room, looking excited.
"Dai! Dai! Dai!" he called as he jumped on her back and clung to her shoulders.
"What? What? What?" she mimicked.
"There are elves and dwarves and fairies downstairs." He informed with a starry eyed smile.
"Huh? What? Are you serious?" his partner asked.
"Yes, he is." Piper said.
"By the way, you should update your goblins entry. It could come in handy someday." Chris said to change the subject.
He moved to sit down on the old loveseat that was in the attic while Piper moved to stand in front of the Book.
"Goblins?" she asked.
"Yeah. Trust me, it gets ugly." He said with a secret smile that Veemon found oddly familiar.
"Piper, come on. I'm just trying to help." He said.
"Well, then tell me how to vanquish the Titans." Piper said.
"Except you can't vanquish them." Chris said.
"You mean not without the Power of Three?" Piper asked.
"Maybe not even with that. The only way the Elders could stop them 3000 years ago was by infusing some mortals with a hell of a lot of powers. Way more than you guys have." Chris informed.
"Well, then they can do that again." Piper said.
"Not after what happened last time. When the mortals trapped the Titans, the power went to their heads. They declared themselves Gods and forced the world to worship them. The Elders swore they would never allow that to happen again." Chris said as he stood up.
"Hang on a second, I'm getting a ninth grade flash back. You're talking about the Greek Gods; Zeus, Athena, Aphrodite? They were all mortals?" Piper asked as Chris nodded.
"Great, so the shit I'm learning for finals isn't even real." Dai pouted as flames started to dance around her hands.
She had a hard time trying to control her powers, but when she saw what was happening, she took in a deep breath to calm down and make the flames die away.
Piper noticed this and sighed in relief that the girl had managed to gain control with such a destructive power and then she turned her attention back to Chris.
"Mythology left that part out, not the only inaccuracy by the way." Chris said making the pyro whine.
Phoebe then walked into the room with two short men making everyone look at her.
"Phoebe, what're you doing? You're supposed to be…" Piper trailed off as she pointed to downstairs.
"I know, I know. But I thought they could help us free Paige. After all, leprechaun's luck has helped us before." Phoebe said as she patted the chubby midget with a bit of balding on his head on the shoulder.
"He's the leprechaun; I'm one of the Seven Dwarves. Try to keep it straight will ya?" the dwarf asked a bit grumpy as he moved the witch's hand off.
"Sorry, heh." She said.
The leprechaun walked over to the statue, giving it a curious look with a bit of worry.
"It's gonna take a lot more than me luck to free this one." He said.
"We're gonna need some pixie dust too." He said looking at the dwarf.
"I'll get a fairy. Left my ax downstairs anyway." The dwarf said as he left the attic.
"OK, so where are we?" Phoebe asked as she walked over to her sister, cousins, the dragon and the White Lighter.
"Screwed, possibly. One thing I'm still not clear about; if the Titans are roaming around, why are they killing White Lighters?" Piper asked Chris.
"Because they need their orbing power." He answered.
"Orbing power? What on earth would they want to do with…"Piper trailed off as she thought of something.
"Oh my god." She said.
Phoebe, Dai and Veemon all looked confused as to what she had come up with.
"Leo!" Piper called as she walked out of the attic.
"What did I miss? What did she just figure out?" Phoebe asked.
"Nothing good." Chris said with a grim look.
(Later on…)
Piper had come back saying that she figured out the Elders were the Titans' targets and Leo went up to warn them, but he hadn't come back down for hours.
Phoebe, the dwarf, leprechaun and fairy were still working on trying to free Paige while Dai was watching the other magical beings with Veemon.
When she became bored of watching them, Dai made Veemon digivolve into Flamedramon to watch over them since his mental capacity matured in this form and she then went to the attic to see what was going on, a female elf taking care of Wyatt while all of this mayhem went on.
The child of Miracles then made it to the attic in time to see that Chris had orbed off.
"I swear to god if he does not come back with Leo, I am going to blow his ass back to the future, orbs and all." Piper said sternly making Phoebe and Dai's eyes widen in shock.
She was not in a good mood and when she made threats in this state, she would see them through.
Phoebe then walked over to her elder sister, turning her around with her arms around the angered witch as they walked towards the door.
"You know what? Why don't you go be with Wyatt and I will take care of everything up here. I'll call you if anything happens up here. You're not breathing." Phoebe said.
"Nope." Piper snipped.
"Breath." Phoebe said as she sent Piper off, doing a few examples of deep breathing until Piper was out the door.
"OK, next sister. Dai, come help." Phoebe said.
"What do I have to do?" she asked.
"Help me make a potion and when I say so, blast the statue with your flames while the rest of us use the potion, gold, hammer and pixie dust. Got it?" Phoebe asked.
"Yes ma'am." Dai gave a salute.
The cousins then got to work on the potion which took them about an hour to make.
When they were done, the little fairy then showered her dust on the statue.
"Now." Phoebe said.
The leprechaun used his gold to turn into dust as it flew onto the statue.
Phoebe then threw the potion while Dai threw her arm out, allowing a stream of flames to hit the statue and then finally the dwarf used his hammer, shattering the marble off of Paige.
She gasped as she looked around in confusion, Phoebe and Dai rushing over to her.
"Honey. Hi! Oh, I'm so happy to see you. Are you OK?" Phoebe asked as she hugged her younger sister.
"What happened? Where's the Titan? What the hell are these guys doing here?" Paige asked as Dai hugged her next.
"Long story, I'll tell you on the way." Phoebe said as she led the two girls out.
While the three witches walked down the stairs, Phoebe catching Paige up on everything that had happened while the redhead was encased in stone.
In the living room they spotted a depressed Piper as she sat on the couch looking worried about where her husband could be.
"There you are." Phoebe said as the three walked over to stand in front of the eldest.
"OK, I get the whole epic Titan thing, but what I'm not getting is…the Chris thing." Paige said.
"Yeah, we're still trying to figure that part out. Look who's not stoned." Phoebe said.
"Welcome back. You've missed a lot." Piper greeted her youngest sister.
"Yeah, I can't help but think it's kind of all my fault though. I mean, I'm the one who lured the Titans here. Insert 'I told you so'." Paige said.
"Done." Phoebe said.
"I'm just happy that I finally know something before one of you three around here. I hate being left out." Dai smiled making Paige pinch her arm.
"I just kind of was obsessed with the whole weird dreams thing and…but I am so sorry for any distress I may have caused you, Piper." Paige apologized.
"Don't worry about it. I should have listened to you in the first place. Just trying not to worry or to panic. But I've just got this terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach." Piper said.
"What kind of feeling?" Phoebe asked.
The eldest was quiet for a bit before she finally answered.
"That Leo's not coming back." Piper said making her sisters and cousin grow worried over that.
"Oh, sweetie. Of course he's coming back." Phoebe said as she sat on the arm of the couch and took one of Piper's hands in her own.
"How could he not?" the prophet asked.
"I don't know, it's just something that Chris said about Leo having to go through this alone." Piper said as her eyes teared and her throat started to crack.
"I don't know. What the hell is he doing up there?" she asked looking up.
Flamedramon then came into the room with the dwarf that had helped them, the dragon lying on the floor as his partner leaned against him to rest.
"Sorry to interrupt, but we're all leaving now." The dwarf said.
"Wait, why?" Phoebe asked.
"Didn't you hear the distress call? Surviving Elders have all been flushed out and they need our protection." He said as some of the creatures zoomed out of the house.
"Surviving?" Paige asked.
"The elf will stay behind to take care of the kid while you battle the Titans. Ciao." The dwarf smiled a bit sarcastically as he left.
"Isn't he nice?" Flamedramon quipped.
The witches then all shared stunned looks at this new message that they didn't know about.
"Wait, who said anything about us battling the Titans?" Phoebe asked.
"Leo." Piper stated.
She then started calling for her husband, all four witches standing up as they waited for the family White Lighter to show up while Flamedramon stood behind his partner.
"Leo, for god's sake, if you can hear me." Piper said.
There was then the blue and white orbs making the four witches turn to them to see if it was Leo, but instead it was Chris who had arrived.
"You? Where's Leo?" Piper asked.
"He's safe for now. Paige, hi." Chris greeted the Witch Lighter.
"Hi." She said confused.
This was her first meeting of this new male and she wasn't sure how to react to him.
"Forget that, what do you mean 'for now'? What's going on?" Piper asked.
"And what is this about us supposedly battling the Titans?" Phoebe asked.
Chris licked his lips as he had that same secret smile on his face that everyone swore looked so familiar to them, like they had seen it on someone else's face before.
"You're about to find out." He said.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Paige asked.
Just then, there was a clap of thunder as a swarm of smoke came rushing over to the witches from above them and it enveloped the four as they were covered in a twister of white light that was transforming them and filling them with a new power.
When it all faded away, the four were stunned to see that they were wearing fancy white dresses along with gold sandals that had heels.
Phoebe had long blonde hair that she held in her hand and turned around in shock before she yelped at the trident that Paige was holding.
Dai was looking over herself as she found herself wearing a dress that that sleeveless and had a slit up the left side while her hair was left down around her shoulders and was curled.
"That's what that means." Chris smiled brightly.
"What happened? What are we?" Paige asked.
"You're Gods." Chris said.
The four all gave him confused looks at that while Phoebe played with her hair, Flamedramon staring in awe.
To be continued…