Chapter Twelve – The Date!
Chris rushed down the stairs in a hurry, intending to tell his mother before smoking out to his flat, however when he reached ground floor, the doorbell buzzed on cue, stopping the young witch in a skid.
"I've got it." Chris called out to his family in sight as he made his way towards the door, only to be stopped abruptly when the air before him rippled, reforming and reshaping into a ugly looking demon. "What the….?" Chris started but didn't get time to react as he felt a searing pain flash across his left cheek and the air whistle past him as he crashed into the small foyer table behind him - only to realise through his blurred vision that he was surrounded by ten demons alike, with murderous glint in their eyes.
"Shit!" Chris hissed in pain, struggling to get to his feet – just in time for nearby demons to be slammed into the wall by gust of wind, while the doorbell went off again. "COMING!" Chris shouted as Prue and Henry Jnr orbed down at the noises.
"Out of my way bozo!" Chris shouted as he flicked his wrist in the direction of the nearby demon, obliterating the creature into millions of light particles, clearing the pathway to the door. Ignoring the battle zone behind him, the young Witch opened the door slightly, in order to take a look at their guest, only to swallow his tongue in shock at the sight of his hunky blonde date standing there.
"Wyatt?" Chris squeaked as a demon behind him went up in flames. "One sec." With a quick wave of his hand, he froze the blonde. "I'm getting tired of meeting him like this." Chris muttered under his breath as he closed the door to glance back - only to find his cousin Henry Jnr being hurled across the room while at the same time a demon being thrown across the sitting room.
"What is going on?" Ashley shouted as Paige orbed Henry and Leo out of the house. Dark smokes appeared in form of another couple of demons with tribal tattoos plastered across the face, while dark orbs appeared in form of darklighters – it seemed like the news of little piper being out of her timeline have spread across the underworld like wildfire, so now all the demons are bent on killing that child in order to change the history for good, not caring how much of them died in the process.
"Mass attack!" Patricia shouted back to her family as Chris waved his hand, slamming a demon randomly into a wall.
"Who is it?" Piper called out to Chris, as she blasted a demon - which dived out of the way as Piper's power blasted half of the wall between the sunroom and the dining room. Paige and the twins dealt with the darklighters and their deadly poisonous arrow, while Phoebe, Henry Jnr and Prue dealt with the tribal marked demons.
"My friend! So try to keep it down guys" Chris shouted out to his family.
"We try!" Charlotte shouted as she sailed across the air and crashed out of view. Chris exhaled deeply before turning around - only to jerk back startled at the sight of a pale woman standing nearby the door. "What the….who the hell…huh? What? You?"
"Miranda?" Henry Jnr shouted just as Chris turned around to find his cousin being yanked off the ground by his legs.
"I guess you're with him then." Chris said with a smile as the pale woman nodded lightly. Sticking his hand out, Chris unfroze the blonde before slipping out of the house, making double sure to shut the door behind him properly. "Hey!"
"Hey!" Wyatt replied back with a smile causing Chris to smile back nervously. However it was the way Wyatt was dressed that made Chris even more nervous, since the blonde was suited and booted in, dark blue jeans, white shirt and a coat, making him look like a cross breed between a hot businessman and a jock. Chris didn't get a chance to drool over Wyatt as voices from inside the house interrupted his thoughts.
"Son of a bitch!" A voice shouted followed by a sound of china breaking. "You're so going down!"
"Why don't we go down there and talk?" Chris said leading Wyatt couple of steps down the porch, in case of any demons was to come, flying out of the house.
"Suck on this shithead!" Another voice shouted just as an explosion rocketed the place.
"Henry Language!" Another voice shouted.
Chris only smiled even more awkwardly as he took in Wyatt's confused face. "Sorry, cousins are staying over and they're having a movie marathon in there." Chris said lightly wincing at another explosion and a scream of a demon going up - what Chris assumed must've been on flames.
"Sounds like a one hellva marathon." Wyatt said as Chris nodded. "It almost sounds as if it was happening right now in there."
"Yeah, my brother loves his speakers; everything he watches has to be on HD with surrounding speakers." Chris said as Wyatt nodded with understanding gesture.
"Sounds like your brother knows his gadgets." Wyatt replied back as Chris plastered another one of Paige's fake smile and nodded. "What are they watching inside?" The blonde asked at the sound of scream from a demon.
"This old movie, really cheesy one if you ask me." Chris brushed it off as Wyatt took in the witch's outfit.
"You look really nice." Wyatt stated as Chris blushed instantly.
"Thanks." Chris replied back. "Y-You look nice too."
"Shall we go?" Wyatt asked the witch, Chris nodded only to stop himself as he realised something.
"How did you know I was here?" Chris asked the blonde mortal before him, since the witch clearly remembers telling the bartender to meet him outside his flat, not his mother's house.
"Oh," Wyatt chuckled nervously. "Well I was waiting down at your flat but when you were no show after ten minutes, I thought," Wyatt shrugged. "That maybe you probably forgot about our date and since I didn't know your flat number or your number, I…I kinda rang every buzzer on your building asking for you."
"You did?" Chris asked little taken back as Wyatt nodded nervously, clearly embarrassed by his actions. "Then how did you figure out?"
"Well this guy, I think his name was Tom… well he said you were at your mothers and your flat number is 178 for future reference." Wyatt said as Chris chuckled at the comment. "And he also told me to get away soon as I can, before the entire block can regroup to attack the door buzzer." At this Chris laughed out loud, especially at the sheepish look Wyatt gave him, reminding him how adorable the blonde looked. Chris still couldn't believe everything that's happening was real, since they all seem surreal…I mean what are the chances of getting a hot date with a guy like Wyatt in Chris' history…well none.
"Hey Chris!" A voice called out as Chris and Wyatt turned around to find Ashley head sticking out in-between the door gap - wide enough just to accommodate her head. "Can you, get in here please, need little help."
"What? But…" Chris started only for another explosion to rocket the air, and the entire window panels in the house shook like a small earthquake.
"Now!" Ashley shouted before disappearing out of view as if she had been yanked away from inside.
"They really need to turn down the volume." Chris said out loud, hoping to throw Wyatt off.
"Yeah, before the neighbours call the cops." Wyatt added with a smile as Chris once again flashed him a smile. Although Chris knew Wyatt was right, the Halliwell don't really need to fear about the mortals ratting them out, since the Charmed offspring's have come up with a spell that reduce the sound waves emanating from the Manor to its surrounding house down to a medium level – so even if a bomb was to go off, the neighbours would hear it like a small thump.
"Why don't you go and start the car, I'll sort these lot out and be right out in a second." Chris said as Wyatt gave him a nod.
"I'll be waiting." Wyatt said with a wink as he made his way down the steps towards his GTO, leaving Chris to watch the blonde with a forlorn look; however another sound of china breaking snapped the witch out of his trance.
"One date, they can't even let me enjoy it in peace!" Chris thought to himself as he rushed up the steps, understanding how everyone else must've felt when they had to battle on their date night. Quickly slipping in through the door, ensuring to close the door behind him, he turned his attention towards the scene before him – only for his jaw to lightly drop open at the sight.
Two demons are being slammed into the ceiling by a mini tornado that's controlled by Brianna, sending debris flying all over the place. Penelope was commanding vines and plants to do her bidding as they covered the walls and ceilings of the dining area like cobwebs - some have created a suffocating cocoon around the demons. Ashley is throwing water balls at the demon who's throwing fireballs, each going nowhere – since each ball extinguishing each other in mid-air. Phoebe is hovering in the air, kicking demons up and down. Henry Jnr is swinging back and forth from a living room chandelier – for whatever reason Chris doesn't know. The twins are creating a spiralling dome of fire and ice around a clan of acid spitting demons. Paige is attacking darklighters with their own weapon, while Piper and Prue are nowhere to be seen, however explosions from upstairs, indicated that they are having their own fun upstairs. The wall between the sunroom and the dining room stood half melted – so did half of the sitting room, which Chris assumed must be from the result of his mother's advanced molecular combustion or the acid spitting demons.
"What am I supposed to do? Looks like everyone got everything covered." Chris thought to himself but waving his hand, to send a demon that's advancing on his aunt spiralling across the air as it crashed into the fireplace.
"You can come and help me!" David's voice shouted inside his head.
"Thanks sweetie." Phoebe shouted as she grabbed the lamp and smashed it onto the crashed demon's head.
"Where are you?" Chris thought back, looking around the chaos filled house as demons went up on flames up and down.
"In the kitchen. Hurry!" David shouted as Chris sighed at the news, since the whole house seemed like a war zone and he doesn't know if he could make it without getting caught in the cross-fire.
"Unless…" Chris thought to himself, while flicking his wrist to blow up a demon that just shimmered into the house, not giving it a chance to attack anyone. "Stupid demons." Chris thought to himself as he gave a quick sweep around his surrounding before grabbing his teleporting potion out of his back pocket. His thoughts directed towards the kitchen, he let the vial meet the ground causing torrents of smoke to surround him but what Chris wasn't expecting to see when the smoke cleared away was, ten demons of different higher archery attacking David - who stood behind his force field but winced at every fireball, energy ball and plasma ball that came his way.
"Whoa! What the hell is going on here?" Chris asked his brother telepathically, not making a move as all the demons were focused on trying to penetrate the force field to notice the young witch behind them.
"Give it up Witch!" A demon out of view shouted as it shot ray of light into the force field which was repelled from the force field, like all other powers.
"You won't able to hold us out for long; your strength is already waning." Another demon hissed with glee.
"Not if I can help it." Chris said out loud as he made a sweeping motion in the air, hurling all the demons to one side, as one went through the kitchen window and landed out of view, while others crashed on to each other, creating a pile of dazed demons in the corner near the fridge.
"Hurry take little Piper up to the attic," David thought out as he lowered his shield, giving Chris a chance to see little Piper standing behind him, looking beyond terrified. "The spell is there, I'll try and keep everyone down here long as possible, just make sure she gets to her timeline." David thought out looking directly into his brother's eyes before holding his hand out to shoot jet of ice on to the demons - turning the pile of demons into a mountain of ice sculptures. "Go!" David said waving his hand towards his brother and Little Piper as they both dissolved in orbs.
David turned his attention back to the sculptures, this time throwing jet of flames onto the demons, creating a bonfire of screaming creatures – their agonising shrill scream being drowned out by explosions and smoke alarm that filled the air.
Meanwhile up in the attic, Chris and Little Piper re-appeared in colossal of orbs. "You okay sweetie?" Chris asked the moment his feet touched the ground as the little kid nodded with eyes full of tears.
"I want mommy." Little Piper sniffed as Chris nodded.
"Don't worry honey; I'm going to send you to mommy right now, okay." Chris said as little Piper nodded. "First…" Chris thought as he waved his hand, just as crystals on the nearby shelves levitated into the air and zoomed into various directions, settling themselves comfortably around the attic creating a safe zone for the two witches. "Second…" Chris rushed to the window to take a peek outside, where he found Wyatt sitting in his car, fingers drumming to – what he assumed to be music - as he calmly waited for Chris. "Just give me few more minutes Wyatt. Please god, please make him wait." Chris thought to himself as he rushed back towards the book of Shadows, where it sat open on a spell that spelt: To Return Back Home!
"Great, easy as pie." Chris thought to himself as he glanced towards the circle of candles, with more explosions and screams erupting from downstairs, the young witch worked fast to light the circle of candles. "Alright sweetie, I want you to stand inside there okay." Chris told the young version of his mother, as he picked her up and placed her inside the circle - who didn't move, but as always she pulled her bunny close to her for comfort.
"Okie dokie." Chris said with a smile as he returned to the book.
"A Time for Everything,
And to everything it's place…'
Chris began his chanting just as another explosion rocketed the house that shook the entire Manor like it was caught in a mini-earthquake. Little Piper whimpered at the rumble but didn't move from her space, but what did move from its place that Chris wasn't aware of was, one of the crystals – deactivating the cage.
Return what has been moved…
Given the open chance into the attic, a demon shimmered in – the evil glint in its eyes shining with glee at the sight of little Piper standing unprotected inside the circle, with a hope of changing the history for good, the held its hand open where static gathered. Chris also saw the demon and the energy ball the gathered in its arm.
"Through time and Space." The last sentence left the Young witch's lips as he jumped into the firing line to protect little Piper, while golden orbs appeared around little Piper, swirling around to teleport her back to her timeline. However what the demon or Chris saw coming was - the moment the energy ball collided into Chris, it threw him back in the line of the last fading golden orbs – causing the orbs to take Chris with them.
Meanwhile downstairs, the three elemental charmed ones have gathered together to get rid of the house with evil, rather than vanquishing them one by one, wasting their strength and energy.
When in the circle that is home
Safety's gone and evils roam
Rid all beings from these walls
Save sisters three
Now heed our call.
As everyone watched, every demon in the house obliterated into pieces - leaving nothing behind but their ghostly echo of their agonising screams.
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Hope You All Enjoyed this Chapter much as I writing them…Ooh, What happened to Chris, where did he go? Yikes! Poor Wyatt sitting in his car, all alone waiting for Chris to show up! Plus I know some of you find Prue little annoying but that's what she is there for, she is the big sister that bosses Chris around – remember we are not looking at them as Witches but as normal family dealing with magical issues – that's the whole point of Charmed, so that's the whole point of my stories too – So whether Chris is all mighty in this fic or not, doesn't really matter cause we're not going to be see that much of the magical world interfering in his life much as it would be with his Sister and brother – so him being less powerful is more advantage for him in his quest for normal life. ^_^
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