Melinda
Power of One
Episode 5
Normal
10th of July 2025
Today I'll become eighteen. I can't believe how time flies. Both my brothers are already in college and soon it will be my turn. I can't wait to leave this place. Here all is so normal. In college, there are so many possibilities. Katrina and I have decided that no matter what, we will go to the same school, but we can choose different classes as long as we have one class in the week together. We choose for drama together...
Today at school, I talked to this new good looking guy. His name is Jake and has greenish/grey eyes. Blondie spikes. Very nice muscles. He has a great smile. I really really hope that he is interested in me too. I never had a real boyfriend. Of course guys that are chasing me, but only for one thing and I'm so not ready for that yet.
Ok I have to go now. My aunts are coming and we have a family dinner together, so I still have to choose an outfit to wear.
See ya
Mel
After throwing her whole closet on the bed and changing outfits over 20 times, before she found the right dress. The thing is that her aunts loved wearing nice clothes. Non-stop. No matter what they did, they always looked so charming. Now was this her night, so she needed to look good. She went downstairs in a nice hazel coloured dress, which made her look taller then she actually was. She never wore it yet, because she always thought that it showed too much of body parts she didn't want to show to anyone yet. But she was becoming eighteen today and would be an adult, so now the time had come.
She was almost down, when her father walked by, but stopped in his tracks and opened his mouth, without sound coming out and looked mesmerized at his daughter.
Leo: Melinda, you look absolutely fantastic. Look at you, he said smiling. Last time I turned around, you were a little girl and now you have become a woman. Melinda smiled at her father and walked the last stairs and she hugged him. Her father was a good man, who always listened. Never got angry quickly, but sat down with you, to discuss gently.
He worked as a mechanic, but of an accident at work, he couldn't do heavy work anymore, so now he runs together with mom, P3, mom's restaurant. Melinda hated that name. It sounded like a parking place, but it meant actually Piper, Phoebe and Paige. People, who know Piper, knew also what it actually meant, so she never said anything about it, to her mother, what she thought of the name. They were almost at the kitchen, when the doorbell rang and Leo turned around to open the door and Melinda walked in the kitchen, where her mom, was trying to make everything ready on the same time.
Melinda: Need any help? Her mother turned to look at her daughter and her mouth fell open and she had to watch out to not let the chocolate cookies she baked fall.
Piper: Oh my goodness. Look at you. That dress looks absolutely fabulous on you.
Melinda smiled shyly and walked over to the island to help her mom.
Melinda: Wow. Someone has been busy?
Piper: Well the dinner is ready, so I thought let me make some cookies for your Aunt Phoebe to take home and for Paige I made her favourite apple pie.
Melinda: Wow I'm impressed! Phoebe walked in with Leo in a beautiful black dress which covered her whole slim body till her neck and had no sleeves. She looked like she just turned eighteen.
Phoebe: Do I smell chocolate cookies? She asked smiling when she came in the kitchen and behind her, three little girls, her nieces Prue, Patty and Penny. They all greeted each other and complimented about who was wearing what. Uncle coop had to work so couldn't come.
Not much later. Aunt Paige came with her three children Henry junior. Pam and Pat, the twins and Uncle Henry.
Time lapse and we see that they having a great night and they all are enjoying their dinner when Melinda turned to her mother.
Melinda: Mom, can I ask you something?
Piper: Sure, spill.
Melinda: Why are all the girls in the family starting their names with a P, except mine? Piper looked at her daughter, surprised by the question and then thought for a moment.
Piper: To be honest, I'm not sure. Things didn't go the way they were planned back then. We were expecting a girl and we were thinking of names with a P, but then Wyatt was born. Then we tried again to get a girl, but then Chris came. For me it was then I sign that I would have boys and no girl. Everybody in the room became quit to listen to Pipers story.
Your dad and I decided that two children were enough with our work and everything so I made sure that I couldn't get pregnant anymore, by going to the doctor. Then two or three years later or so I felt sick and I was getting a belly and first I thought I was getting fat, you know! Melinda smirked as the little ones, by the word fat. I went to the doctor, not thinking for a second that I was pregnant, till the doctor announced it. I was in shock and couldn't believe it. The doctor neither. He was more confused than I was. He didn't understand how this could be. Your dad was thrilled. He always wanted a big family, she said looking at her husband Leo, who smiled with love in his eyes at her. Then I started to get these weird dreams about a little girl, who just looked like you when you were little and her name was Melinda and she had powers and we were witches. I kept dreaming about her and her adventures against very bad men. Then it came to me. I was getting a sign that I was getting a daughter and that she would be Melinda. There was a moment of doubt when I was giving birth to you. First thing I asked when you were out. Is it a girl? Otherwise the boy had to wear all pink clothes, she said finishing her story. Everybody laughed and Melinda and Piper hugged each other. Melinda loved her mother dearly.
Time lapse and the family finish their dinner and are cleaning up. Melinda is standing in the kitchen with her face to the door. She looks up when Phoebe walks in, who smiles back at her and walks up to her.
Phoebe: Did I already tell you that you look absolutely fab tonight.
Melinda: Back at you auntie, she said smiling. Phoebe holds her hands open, so they could hug. Both were instantly sucked into a premonition at the moment they hugged each other:
Melinda was lying in the middle of a circle with crystals and candles around her on a pillow. On both sides her brothers Wyatt and Chris were sitting and looking very concerned. Her mother was standing behind this huge book and was flipping through it rapidly. Her aunts were also standing beside her and looking with her in the book.
Piper: This can't be happening? How it is possible the day we all leave the house, Melinda gets catatonic. She has never ever been ill in her live and now she is a plant? She said almost screaming and very worried.
Paige: I don't buy it. I still think this is a demons work. I just know it.
Phoebe: I agree. We all know that the new generation has unusual powers, then the demons we had to face in our time. So maybe this is something like that. She looked at Piper, who had her eyes closed. 'Piper, are you ok? Maybe you should sit down for a minute and let us look in the Book of Shadows.
Piper: Do you remember when I was captured by the Source and he tried to make me think that I was normal and that you guys were an imagination and the only way to make it go away was if I said the spell, which takes our powers away.
Phoebe: Yes I remember and then Paige and I had to go in your unconscious to get you out of there. Do you think that will work in this case also?
Piper: Do you have any better ideas?
Phoebe: But how are we going to do it? I mean back then we knew the source was in your head and now we have no clue, who is doing this and in what state she is?
Piper: I know one thing for sure. My daughter will not die like this or lose her powers like this! She is Melinda Halliwell, my daughter and next in line for the Matriarch. Her destiny will not end like this, she said very strongly, earthly as a true Matriarch, who cares about her family.
Paige: I think I know how to get in her head, but not figured out in what way? She said more to herself then to the rest.
Piper: How Paige, Spill it for god's sake, she said almost screaming! Sorry, she said right after that. I didn't mean to shout at you.
Paige: No worries. I understand. We all love her and don't want to lose her, she said looking cool at Melinda while she said that. I think the only way to get in her is only Phoebe. She has premonitions and empathy. There must be a way to work with that, so they can connect in some way.
Phoebe: I think I understand what Paige is saying and I think actually that you're right sis. Only how? We cannot do things too quickly. I think that the boys still should look at any leads of which demon are behind this. In meantime we will work on a way to get in Melinda's head.
Piper: Boys, you heard your Aunt Phoebe. Now I know you both want to stay here, but you are at this moment more helpful out there, tracking this demon and vanquish his sorry ass, if you get the change. We will work on getting in Melinda. Both brothers looked at each other and doing their telepathy talking thing with each other, which always had annoyed Piper and after a minute or so, they nodded and orbed out together.
Melinda en Phoebe opened their eyes to see that they were in the kitchen and the whole family were around them, watching them carefully, till Melinda got so dizzy, she almost past out, when she felt the strong arms and chest of her father behind her, holding her steady.
Piper: What happened? You two were suddenly gone. We couldn't get you lose or wake you up!
Melinda: It felt so real, she whispered.
Piper: Ok, everybody to the living room. Family meeting! They all walked to the living room. And they sat down around the girls.
Melinda: It was so bizarre. It felt familiar. It felt like a premonition, or I don't know. In a parallel world or something. Anyway. I lay on the ground. I didn't move. All of you guys were there and my brothers and all around me were candles and rocks. Each brother on each side. Then you mom, started to speak that this couldn't be happening and that my destiny couldn't end like this and that I was Melinda Halliwell next in line of a Matriarch and I think I had powers, she said looking at aunt Phoebe.
Phoebe: Yeah, I saw exactly the same thing. Paige you and I were talking about a demon that couldn't have done this and were trying to figure out how to get in the head of Melinda.
Paige: What do you mean, getting in her head? She said with huge eyes at Phoebe.
Melinda: I think with a spell. Mom was standing by a book called Book of Shadows. I know a girl at school has also a book called like that and she is saying that she puts her spells in it. What does this mean? It feels like the universe is trying to tell me something but I don't know what?
Phoebe: What I don't understand is? How is it that it only happened when we touched each other? It was so weird? I felt so all so natural, like that was our real world and this one is the fake one. Her girls came sitting closer by their mother.
Penny: Mom, you think we are real, right, she said tears welling up her eyes?
Phoebe: Holded with her hands penny cheeks and kissed and hugged her and then her other girls. I could never imagine a world without you girls and if you are not in the world I have seen, then I don't need to be there, but right here with you and your dad! I love you girls and I will always be there, she said with a motherly smile to her girls.
Melinda: Wait a minute. Mom? Didn't you just told us on the table that you were starting to get dreams about this girl Melinda, who had powers and was a witch? Piper eyes become huge and she made the connection which was Melinda making in her head.
Piper: Oh my god! What can this mean, she whispered almost?
Patty with all the wisdom of a ten years old. 'It means that aunt Melinda is a witch!
Piper: No, that is ridiculous! Melinda is no witch, then it would mean that we are all witches and I actually think that is offensive. We are Catholics and don't believe in witchcraft and magic.
Phoebe: How do you explain the dreams you had and what Melinda and I just saw?
Piper: I don't know, but I think I had enough of this conversation. If you all will excuse me, I still have a kitchen to clean. Piper got up, very upset about the whole thing and hoping what her little cousin said wasn't true. Leo has been quit the entire event and just listened to all what was told and was in thought. Something didn't felt right anymore, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
Leo: Don't worry honey. It will all be fine. He said to Melinda. Let me check up on your mother ok? He kissed Melinda on her forehead and walked out of the room.
Time lapse and we see Melinda saying goodbyes to her aunts and nieces and nephews. Melinda walks distracted to her room and throws her on the bed and starts to cry.
John's apartment Present world
John: Is it working Jessica? Did you managed to get to her?
Jessica: Yes my liege. She is in a catatonic state and I have created a world where she thinks she is normal and there are no demons.
John: Good. Now it is time we go to step two of my great idea. He closed his eyes and 2 demons appeared in front him. When they saw it was John, they kneeled.
Rax: What can we do for you my liege?
John: You two are going to help me, kill a Charmed One, he said with a devious grin on his face.
Max: Of course my liege.
Jessica: You two come with me. She walked over to another room and asked them to lie down on the two beds, which were in the room. You both will be put in a catatonic state and then I will transfer you to the world of where the witch thinks she is normal and has no idea of her powers or anything. You two will go there and kill her and don't worry. You will have full access of your powers. They both nodded and closed their eyes, so Jessica could start.
Normal world
Melinda woke up and got up to go to the bedroom. She got in and looked in the mirror and almost shrieked when she saw herself. She hadn't slept almost all night. Every time she closed her eyes, she kept reliving the vision she had seen. She tried to fix what she could and got dressed and walked downstairs into the kitchen.
Piper: Good morning honey. Slept well? She said smiling at her daughter, like nothing happened last night. Her dad was sitting on the dinner table, reading his newspaper and being in his own world.
Melinda: Well actually not. I kept getting the same image of last night. Piper completely ignored her daughter and poured some coffee and put it down in front of Melinda. Not looking at her. Melinda could see on her mother's face that she had difficulties to talk about it, so she decided not to talk about it, right now. She finished her breakfast and left quietly.
Katrina was waiting for her at school and while they were walking to their special place behind the school, Melinda informed Katrina off all the events of last night.
Katrina: I knew it! She almost shrieked! This made Melinda jump. All our lives you knew things before it happened. When someone was about to call, you said something like: I wouldn't answer that if I were you, you're not going to like it. Then I pick up the phone and it was my ex who I hated. Or when we were walking on the street, you say something like: Let's not take this route today, but let's go this way and then later on you hear on the news that someone was shot in that street, just around the time when we decided to take another route. All little things like that. You didn't even notice it yourself and I never really really paid attention to it, till now. Melinda eyes became huge when she remembered the stories Katrina just told and that she felt every time something weird in her, before she predicted stuff.
Melinda: Oh my god. Can it be? Am I a witch?
Katrina: Maybe we should talk to Evita. She is a witch. Well that is was she claims, but maybe she can help you out. I agree with you, that this has to have a meaning. This kind of stuff doesn't happen suddenly. There must be a reason, that you find out that you are a witch.
Melinda: I'm scared. I don't want to be a witch. I just want to be normal and have a normal not complicated life. That's not too much to ask, right? She said starting to cry and Katrina and Melinda hugged and after a while they got up to find Evita.
Present World
Piper was still looking in the book, while Phoebe and Paige were trying to figure out how to go in the mind of Melinda. In meantime the boys had gone to the underworld and started the attack on the surprised demons. They made sure not to kill the demons, but hurt them just enough that they would be able to get some answers. None of the demons talked so eventually they were vanquished by the brothers.
Wyatt: Damn it! Someone must know something he said pacing around the cave while Chris observed him and waited till his brother was calmed down a bit.
Chris: I still think the only way to get to Melinda is like Aunt Paige said, through Aunt Phoebe. She is a strong empath and gets visions. If anybody can find out what is going on, it will be her.
Wyatt: ssst. Someone is coming! They hide behind some rocks and listened closely to the conversation the demons had.
Demon1: Unbelievable that John chose Rax and Max to kill that witch. They can only shoot energy balls, while I have more power than those two together.
Demon 2: Maybe because of your temper and desire to kill. If he had sent you to that other world and you had seen the witch, you would have attacked her, without thinking and John wants her dead, but not the way you would like to do it. Demon1 groaned and they passed by the Charmed brothers, without noticing them.
Wyatt: Did you hear that? So it is John, who is doing this? Now we have to find his hiding place and I have a feeling that it will not be easy to do that.
Chris: I have an idea, let's orb back to the manor and talk to mom and so they did.
Normal world
Melinda and Katrina searched for almost a half hour before they found Evita sitting close by some trees behind the football field of the school.
Katrina: Evita? Can we talk to you for a minute? Evita looked a bit alert but just nodded. The girls sat down on the grass and told what had been happening to Melinda. Evita listened interested. When Melinda finished her story, Evita was in thoughts.
Evita: I have a feeling that we have to get answers fast. Something in your story is off. If only you would have the vision then you could say that you were daydreaming or were nuts or whatever, but that your Aunt had the same vision at the same moment, which means something? I think we should go to my house right away and talk to my mother. She is a highpriesteress. The girls looked at each other and then got up to go to Evita's house.
Present world
The boys orbed in in the attic and all looked up to them. Chris and Wyatt walked over to their mother.
Wyatt: We found out that John is behind this. John has sent also two demons to kill Melinda in this world she is in.
Phoebe: Ok, this is good. Now we know that she is in a different world. I was terrified to get in her mind, while she is catatonic.
Piper: Did they mention anything about the whereabouts of John?
Wyatt: Well no, but Chris has an idea. They all looked at Chris.
Chris: Well…euhm...i thought that Mom is possessing the power to feel great evil at one place when she scy for evil as a Matriarch. I figured that John is powerful and he has a demon that is doing this to Melinda, must be powerful to and if they also have two demons, also in sleep to get to Melinda. With that kind of amount of power at one place, it shouldn't be hard for mom to find him.
Piper: That is brilliant. Why didn't I come up with that? She hugged Chris and then walked over to get the map and the crystal to scry for John.
Normal World
They arrived at the house of Evita, which was lovely actually. She opened the front door and they could smell instantly the nice smells of incense. The walls were dark purple and it looked very witchy.
Evita: Mom I'm home and I have visitors who need to talk you, she yelled through the house. An older woman, who looked very wise, came out of one of the rooms. She came over to them and introduced herself as Emma. The moment she touched Melinda's hand, she was sucked in a vision, it took just seconds, but when she opened her eyes, they were huge and watching Melinda as she was watching right in her soul. Melinda got nervous and let go of the old woman.
Emma: I don't believe it. A Charmed One. Here in my house. So the stories were true?
Melinda: What do you mean? I don't understand? Emma waved with her hand to the living room and they all followed and sat down.
Emma: Long ago, my mother told me about a story about three withes. They would rise up after centuries and vanquish the evil from this world, but centuries past and nobody rose up. Witches had a terrible time. A lot of were killed over the years. Hunted down by evil beings. Katrina and Melinda looked at each other in horror and then back to Emma, afraid of what she was going to say more. 'Can I look at your hand palm? She asked Melinda. Melinda opened her right arm and Emma holded her hand on the backside and stared at it and then back to Melinda and back to the hand. She looked confused.
Melinda: What's wrong? What do you see?
Emma: That's the thing. I see nothing. Completely blackness! You are not real. You don't belong in this world, but to another. The one you have seen.
Melinda: What are you saying that I'm nuts and imagining things and that all this and you are not real?
Emma: Yes that is exactly what I'm saying. Somebody is doing this to you. Making you think that you belong in this world. Unfortunately for them, they have underestimated your inner raw power I sense coming from you in waves. Your inner power is trying to fight back and is given you signs, you need to solve to get back to your own world, before it is too late and you completely believe that this is your world or you get killed by a demon or worse.
Melinda: You must be joking? This can't be happening. Demons? Are they after me? Or my family?
Katrina: Hold on. Something is not right in your story, she said bluntly to Emma. You said that they would manifest them as three witches. As far as we know if Melinda the only one at this moment.
Emma: Do you have siblings my dear child? She asked Melinda.
Melinda: Yes two brothers.
Emma: I see. Interesting. The prodigy said it would be three female witches, but maybe by actions of others, destiny has changed.
Melinda: How can we take it away? This witch thing? I don't want it.
Emma: You are born with it. It like saying that you don't have brown eyes, she said looking deep in Melinda her eyes. The best thing I can do for you is make a potion of herbs, which will make you see things clearer and open your mind to the idea. Till that time I can only say to you. Have eyes in your back.
Melinda: I will. Thank you so much for helping me. You don't even know me!
Emma: I don't have to. Every witch would give their lives to help a Charmed One. They got up and Evita walked them to the door.
Evita: Wow that was fascinating. I will see you guys tomorrow then!
Melinda: Looks like it. Thanks again and see you tomorrow.
Both girls walked down the street, not saying a word and both in their own world.
Katrina: Do you think we are also friends in this other world? She said with a bit of sadness in her voice. Melinda stopped walking and turned around to Katrina.
Melinda: I think in which world I may live. You will always be around. She said smirking and Katrina started to laugh also. They were just about to walk again, when I police car stopped in front of them. Two big cops came out and walked up to the girls.
Rax: Excuse me ladies. Can we have a word with you girls? Run. Go now. Danger. Melinda heard the voice in her head and turned around to look around where the voice came from. She became suddenly very scared and something didn't feel right about this situation and she wanted to get out there as soon as possible.
Melinda: What's this about officer? Danger. Danger. Run now.
Max: Where were you girls about an hour ago?
Katrina: We were with a friend, chilling at her house and her mother was there too. She lives just a few houses away, if you want to check, she said challenging the cop?
Rax: We will for sure do that. But now we would like to come with us to the station. We have got a call of two girls shoplifting with exactly your description. Even your clothes match the description.
Melinda: What? This is ridiculous! We haven't done anything? Like my friend said. We were at a friend's house. If you just go with us to them, then the mother of our friend can confirm that we were there for at least the last hour.
Max and Rax weren't planning to check the house at all, so they took the girls harsh by the arm and pulled them to the car. Both girls struggled to escape and Melinda was able to bite the cop in his hand, so he let her go…she ran away from him. Max who was holding Katrina had enough of her struggle and created an energy ball in his hand and hit Katrina right in the chest. With one loud scream of pain, she was gone. Vanquished. Melinda watched in horror of what just happened, but she had no time to think. She started to run for her life and she kept running tills he reached the house of Evita. She knocked the door like crazy and Evita opened it, right at the moment the police car stopped in front of the door. Melinda run inside and closed the door. Emma came out of the kitchen.
Melinda: You were right. A demon just killed Katrina and they are now here! Help me? Please?
Emma: We have to hurry. Come on, she said firmly and the girls walked quickly to the back of the house and closed the door, right on time, because the demons broke the door in pieces with an energy ball and came in the house. They split up and started to search through the room. Emma, Evita and Melinda walked to the closet and opened it. There was a secret door behind it and they walked through, closing the closet behind them. The room was small full with burning candles and a circle in the middle. They walked quickly in the circle and Evita started to close the circle with salt and saying chants. We should be save in this circle Emma said. They shouldn't be able to sense us here. They heard one of the demons come in the room and opening the closet. Melinda heart was beating like crazy and she was sweating, because the room was small and hot of the candles.
Rax: She not in here. It looks they disappeared. But we will find her again. Let's go, before someone calls the real cops. They waited for another half hour before they opened the secret door and got out of the closet. Melinda was shaking and she was about to cry.
Emma: There is no use of tears my dear. You need to be strong now. If they can find you, then sooner or later they will find out where you live. If I were you I would get home as soon as you can to warn your family and get them to safety. Melinda eyes were huge. She didn't even think about her parents yet.
Melinda: Thank you for everything, she said sincerely. She hugged Emma and Evita and run out of the house as fast as her legs could carry her to get home.
Present world
Piper was standing at the table with the map open of San Francisco. The rest of her family was standing behind her and watching her closely while she had her eyes closed and she let the crystal go round and round around the map. After a while she opened her eyes.
Piper: Guys, it is very hard to concentrate if you are standing so close and staring at me. Boys check up on your sister. Girls you hit the book or work on a spell. Leo you stay here with me, she said firmly. Everybody did as they were told. Piper closed her eyes again to focus on great evil and the crystal started wanted to go the location, but it felt like something was blocking it. Piper started the breath lightly in and out. Through the years she had learning to meditate and she could get in trance in seconds. When she was in trance, she could somehow access her full power faster and the crystal started to go around like crazy and everybody gathered around Piper and slowly it finally hit the map. They all looked down at the map.
Phoebe: Oh my god. That can't be! Piper needed a second to get out of her trance and she opened her eyes to look down at the map and then looked at Phoebe.
Piper: Isn't that the addresses, of the penthouse were you and Cole lived?
Phoebe: Yes it was. That's creepy.
Wyatt: Ok. Chris and I are going there and kill that demon that is doing this to Melinda and with bit luck we kill John along the way. Wyatt looked at Chris, who was ready for battle and they orbed out.
They orbed in the lobby of the penthouse. They heard talking in the other room and they followed as quit as they could the sound of the voices.
John: How is it going? How long can it take to kill a powerless witch in another world? He said impatiently.
Jessica: You know well my liege, that I can only create other worlds, but have no control over it of what happens in there.
John: I know. It bugs that it is taking so long. I want this to work. She must die. She is a pain the ass and preventing every time for me gets full leadership of the Underworld. They may see me as the leader, but when I have full power of the Underworld. When they fear me, then I can start make bigger plans to take over the world and bring evil everywhere we can. But first the Charmed Ones must die. Starting with her! The brothers walked in the room.
Chris: Or you can start with us? John and Jessica both looked in surprise. John shot a triple energy balls at one hand and threw it at the boys, who split and ducked to not get hit.
John quickly closed his eyes and three demons appeared.
John: Kill them he yelled to the demons!
Chris threw one of the demons to the wall with his telekinesis. Wyatt shot Wyatt light of his hands which made one demon explode. The other one ducked and threw an energy ball at Wyatt. His shield came automatically up and Wyatt shot his white light at the demon, who shimmered out to the other side of the room. John started to shoot energy balls very fast not directly to them, but all around them, so if they tried to avoid them, they would get hit. Wyatt shot his white light at John, who ducked, but then Chris moved his hand and moved John with his telekinesis over the floor to the other side of the room. The demon who was watching had shimmered out a bit away from Wyatt and while Wyatt was focused on John, he threw his Athame at him. It hit him right in his back. Wyatt screamed out in pain and fell on the ground. Chris was right there by Wyatt and pulled the knife out of his brother and threw it right in the chest of the demon, who vanquished with a lot a pain.
John who had recovered started to shoot energy balls at Chris and Wyatt. Chris deflected it with his telekinesis back at John who shimmered out of the scene. Chris completely forgot that Jessica was still in the room hiding all this time behind the couch. She had not the power to shimmer out, so she stayed there. Chris turned around to his brother, who was becoming very pale and was bleeding badly. Chris didn't know what to do? He had to kill Jessica, but his brother was dying.
Normal world
Melinda had been running for ten minutes now and had been crying all the way.
Her best friend Katrina was killed right in front of her. They had tried to kill her and now they were also after her family. It was all too much. She finally made it. She first catched her breath before she slowly walked in the house. She didn't want to make much sound, just in case they were in the house. Slowly she walked around through the living room to the dinner room and then slowly to the kitchen. She walked in and had to hold her hand in front of her mouth not to scream. Her father and mother were both sitting on the kitchen table with their dinner in front of them, untouched and both their throats were sliced with a knife. Melinda cried silently and she sat down on the ground and not knowing what to do. She cried very hard as silent as she could. Then she heard voices coming from upstairs.
Max: Damnit! Where is that filthy little witch? He shouted!
Rax: Relax! She will come home eventually. Her parents could get worried, he said sarcastically. Bot demons laughed. Something in Melinda snapped. How could they kill her parents and make jokes about it. She went back in the kitchen and she took a middle size knife and walked slowly up the stairs to the first floor. She heard the demons walking on the top floor, which meant they were in the attic.
Melinda decided to split them, so she could kill one of them and then the other. She walked slowly to her room and closed the door loudly. She knew if you opened the door completely the point the door would hit the huge dressoir which was standing there, you could easily hide between the dressoir and door, if someone opened it.
Rax and Max who had heard the door slamming run downstairs to the first floor.
Rax: You go check downstairs and I will check this floor. Max nodded and started to go downstairs.
Rax checked first the bathroom then the bedroom of her parents and then finally he walked in the room of Melinda he slammed the door open, but Melinda who was hiding behind it, couldn't get hit, which she knew, so she stayed there, waiting for the right moment. Rax checked the closed and under the bed and he walked by the dressoir and looked on the huge mirror to check himself quickly and that moment Melinda came behind the door and put the knife right in the neck of the demon. Rax grapped the knife and pulled it out with huge eyes. Blood started to come out of it and he grapped with one hand his neck and tried to walk to Melinda with the knife in the other hand. Melinda grapped his other hand and somehow she was able to, in the struggle to make him cut himself and that made him drop the knife. Melinda quickly picked it up and Rax backed away from her. But in the meantime he has lost quit amount of blood, which was dripping on the floor. He slipped and fell backwards on the floor. Melinda jumped up him and threw the knife right in his chest and pulled it out again and got up quickly and run out of the room. She knew that the other demon must have heard the fall of the demon.
She was right. Max came running to the first floor and run right to the room of Melinda. Just about in time to see Rax breathing his last breath and being vanquished in fire till there was just a pile of ashes.
Max: Rax no! You filthy witch, he screamed! You killed my brother! You are going to pay for this. Where are you? When I find you, I will cut you in pieces and fed you to the rats? Melinda, who was hiding in the attic now, was shaking all over. She had killed someone and had blood all over her and this nightmare was still not over. She heard Max raging like a maniac and stuff breaking and falling. He was turning the whole place upside down.
She came from her hiding place of boxes that were piled up in the corner of the room and ran to the window to see if she could sign someone for your help. Even when she tried to walk as silent as she wanted, she made a crack in the wood. Before she could turn around and run back to her hiding place, Max shimmered in.
Max: Found you, he said with an evil grin. He shot an energy ball at her, which made her fly through the room hard against the wall. She had hit her head hard and was not able to get up quickly. The demon picked up the knife which had felt on the ground, by his attack. 'I believe this is the knife you have used to kill MY BROTHER, you bitch! He shouted. Know you will suffer the same fate as him, but in a much worse way. Oh no. I'm not killing you yet. I want you to suffer he said standing now right in front of her with the knife in his hand pointed at her. Melinda knew that she was about the die and there was nothing she could do about it. She closed her eyes and waited for the knife to strike her.
Present world
Chris was holding his brother and crying. Wyatt was very pale and about to die.
Chris: I'm taking you home. Aunt Paige can heal you he said sobbing.
Wyatt: No, he said very weak. You have to save Melinda. You have to kill the other demons that are in that world with her, before they do.
Chris: I'm not leaving you! He hugged his brother. Suddenly he felt something strange. He let go of his brother and his hands started to glow in golden lights. He had earned his healing power as a whitelighter. He holds his hands over the wound of Wyatt and he was healed.
Wyatt: You healed me? He said surprised. You have earned your healing power. I'm proud of you bro, but now we have to hurry. They wanted to get up, when suddenly Jessica got up from the couch and run over to Chris and touched his forehead before he could do anything and Chris fell in sleep immediately and was sucked in another world like his sister. Quickly she tried to touch Wyatt's forehead, but Wyatt orbed out and orbed back in behind her and blasted her to oblivious. Chris woke up immediately and Wyatt helped him get up. The door behind them opened and a confused Max came out of the room, looking around. He saw the brothers and he shot immediately energy balls to them, which they ducked and Chris landed right next to the knife he had used before to kill the other demon and with his telekinesis he threw it right in the forehead of the demon. Who screamed out and exploded and was vanquished.
Wyatt: Let's get out of here, he said to his brother and they both orbed out and John shimmered back in. Raged! Now they knew where he stayed, they would come back. He had to find another hiding place and he had to find a way to kill at least one of the Charmed ones. He looked around at his beautiful penthouse one more time and shimmered out.
Melinda opened her eyes, because she was not striked by the knife and saw that she was lying on the floor and she sat up.
Paige: She is back! Piper looked up and run over to her daughter and hugged her tightly. Then her father and aunts hugged her too. Her brothers orbed in and saw Melinda awake and well, they walked up to her and hugged her really tightly.
Melinda: No air. No air. She said. They let go of her. Chris holded her on the cheeks and kissed her on the forehead.
Chris: You gave us a fright there lil' sis.
Melinda: Thank you guys. Thank all of you for saving me. I think if you were a minute later, it would have been too late.
They all sat down around the attic and Melinda, who could remember everything from the other world, told them what happened. They all listened interested. Melinda started to cry when she came to the part that Katrina was vanquished right in front of her. She admitted to everyone that she still missed her. Then she cried even harder when she told them how she had found her parents and Piper who was holding her hand started to get tears too. She couldn't handle the idea that her daughter had gone through that and experience such a thing. Then she told them how she killed the first demon and that the second demon was about to kill her and that she had closed her eyes, accepting her faith when she opened her eyes and she was in the attic. Wyatt and Chris told her that is was the work of John. He had also sent the two demons after her.
Melinda: That guy is really getting on my nerves. Maybe it is time that we bring the fight to him, then waiting what he is going to do next?
Chris: Spoken as a true Charmed One. He said proudly to his sister.
They stayed up till late in the night, before Paige finally orbed out with Phoebe and Piper and Leo teleported to the Magic School and the boys went to bed. Melinda went to her room and lay down on the bed to write in her diary.
1st of November 2025
Dear Diary,
What a day. This John guy is really starting to annoy me. I think it is time that I vanquish his sorry ass. Because of him I thought I lost my best friend and parents today. How could he do such a thing to somebody? The bastard!
The funny part was that even I always wanted to have a normal live. I'm glad I'm back in the real world. Where I have my powers and we are the Charmed Ones. Fighting evil on daily basis. No matter what happens, it is who I am and always will be. I'm destined to be a witch. It is time to accept that. I have a feeling if I do, then I will get full access of this raw power, which I have inside me. This saved me out of this mess today like Emma said. I wonder if they really exist. I had never met them before, so how they fit in this whole story is a mystery to me. Note to self. Search for Evita and Emma!
I'm so grateful for my brothers. I have to admit that John has his negative sides, but somehow he is bringing us more together then we ever were.
I'm beat, which is funny if you think that I have slept all day long while I was under a spell. It is my head. Too much is happening. The last couple of months and John is making sure that I don't have the time to deal with stuff. The bastard!
I really hope that things are alright with Katrina and that she is soon ready to be friends again. I really miss her. Being with her and spending time with her like the old days made me realise that.
Enough writing. Sleep is calling me…
See ya
Melinda