The Source’s Chamber:
Piper: “But I thought we vanquished the Vampire Queen when Paige went all batty.”
The Seer: “You did, but there are darker powers at work here.” – The Seer shimmered in to the Source’s Chamber where Cole a.k.a The Source, Phoebe, his bride, and Phoebe’s two sister, Piper and Paige were. –
Cole: “What do you mean?”
The Seer: “That is something you’ll have to ask the Council, oops sorry,” – That last part she said very sarcastically. – “The…advisors, if you will. In a short time neither you…any of you, or the ‘advisors’ will be around.” – She actually made quotation marks with her fingers. –
Phoebe: “How dare you speak to higher power that way? You will tell us now what the hell it is you’re talking about.”
The Seer didn’t respond, she just stood there and said nothing. After a few seconds, Piper raised her hands threateningly which either meant she planned on freezing her, exploding her or…
The Seer: “The Black Council of Mages has given all vampires, including the Vampire Queen, invulnerability to sunlight…also including Old –World Vampires.” – Right after she said that, she shimmered away not wanting to answer any more questions Cole might throw at her. –
Piper: “What are Old-World Vampires?”
Leo: “Old-World demons are demons that existed before The Source first appeared.”
Paige: “Do you want us to go vanquish The Vampire Queen…again?”
Cole: “Why?”
Phoebe: “Well…honey, the last time she acted, she was trying to gain control of the underworld. Maybe we should vanquish her.”
Leo: “Yeah and plus with the new abilities you three called from your past lives, it should be easier.”
Cole: - He let out a sigh. – “Ok go. But don’t go turning good on me.”
Paige grabbed Piper and Phoebe’s hand and dark-orbed them to the Vampire Queen’s lair.
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A Hotel Room In Downtown Manhattan:
After their concert, the world famous pop band known as N’sync sat around JC’s hotel room enjoying take out. It was the closing night, which meant they had a couple of weeks to do whatever they wanted. Well…as long as they didn’t have any ‘work’ to do. Only known by a few, the five were also known as The Elite, one of the most powerful group of mages under the Arch-Council. For about an hour, all they did was chow on some Chinese food when JC felt Lance ‘look’ for something. His eyes were closed as he sensed around for any sign of the dark arts.
Joshua: “Find anything?” – This got the attention of the rest. –
Lance: “No. Do me a favor and everybody block your mind. It’s hard to find anything if I can feel you thinking.” – Lance got up from sitting down and concentrated until he became surrounded by a blue fire. – “Found it.”
Joshua: “Where?”
Lance: - He opened his eyes and the fire subsided. – “Pretty far from here. Los Angeles, California.” – He closed his eyes again and concentrated on a power he knew lived in that area. – It’s up to you three, until we get there.
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The Manor:
Alex: “Mages?” – Luke had just confessed to them the thing he’s been holding back for a few days. – “What do you mean by mages?”
Luke: - He sighed. – “Michael, call the book. There might be something there to help me explain better.” – After Michael used his power to call the Book of Shadows from the attic, Luke held his hands over it as if he were trying to heal it. The bright light came from his hands and the book flipped to a page marked ‘Mages’. He read:
Mages are descendents of a group of powerful humans that were cheated into becoming
outcasts of ‘The Gifted.’ Being thrown out of the Law of The Elders, the mages
started their own law known as the Arch-Council of Mages. Some stayed on the
side of good, or white as they call it. But some craved revenge and started the Black Council.”
Luke: “Unlike witches, mages are born with power centres where their powers come from. It keeps them from worrying about their powers being stolen. Their magic is pure since it comes directly from Gaia, or the spirit of the Earth.”
Michael: “So why did The Elders turn on them?”
Luke: “They were deceived. They were made to believe that the mages would corrupt the Law and take over since they were more powerful.”
Jackie: “So all we do is kill the Vampire Queen. The mages will do the rest, right?”
Luke: “No. The Elders made them agree to not interfere. They aren’t allowed.” – He hesitated but decided that this other news he had was something they should know. – “Look maybe I shouldn’t even tell you this but the leader of the Arch-Council, a woman named Baram Nihorsa, came to The Elders to tell of her vision. She’s an oracle. She said that The Elders would soon come to an end and that the Arch-Council will take over as it should have been, if they don’t destroy their enemy and complete their destiny in 9 months time.”
Michael: “What’s the destiny of The Elders?”
Luke: “To defeat The Source, once and for all. And to make sure he doesn’t come back. As well as the Dark Charmed Ones therefore ending all evil.”
Michael: “Nine months time.” – He sat there thinking if he turned before they did it, it would mean the fall of The Elders. – “And we’re no where near powerful enough to do it now.”
Alex: “Yeah but I think we could pull of vanquishing that Vampire Queen.” – He took the book from Luke and closed the book to the front cover. –
Jackie: “What are you going to do?”
Alex: “I don’t know. But the words just came to me.
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The Hotel:
Lance: I think that’s the way a witch’s spell is supposed to go.
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The Manor:
Michael: “Nice one.” – He was referring to the spell Alex just used. –
The triquetra glowed a black color but then stopped and started flipping its pages. In a second’s time, it stopped on a page marked ‘The Vampire Queen’, which was a surprise to Luke. That information wasn’t supposed to be there.
Jackie: “So what does it say?”
Alex:
She has control of every vampire made by the ones she has made.
There isn’t a way of a transforming a vampire back to their human state after they had their first kill.
If the Queen is vanquished before that, the innocent will be saved.
The only way to defeat her is by removing her soul trapped by evil.
To vanquish the vampire queen a stake through the heart that was soaked
in Holy Water and enchanted with this spell…” – He was cut of by Jackie.
Jackie: “Hold on. Might as well do this is in one shot.” – She went to get the vials of Holy Water and looked around for something they could use as a stake. There was nothing, apparently. – “What can we use for a…”
Michael: - He held out his hand. – “Stake.” – The stake apparated into his hand and he handed it over to Jackie. – “There you go.”
She put the stake that Mike handed over to her into the silver mortar that was filled with the Holy Water she emptied out into it.
Jackie: “Okay now say the spell.” – She brought the mortar over so that it was in front of the book. –
Alex: “It’s a power-of-three spell. We all have to say it.”
They stood in front of the book, Alex in the middle, Jackie to his right and Michael to his left.
The Charmed Ones:
Michael: “Great. If only we had it when we were attacked. Guess it takes a bite to the neck for The Elders to react, doesn’t it?”
Luke orbed them to the Vampire Queen’s lair. When they arrived they turned around to see three figures dark-orb into the lair as well. When the orbs faded away, the Haliwell sisters stood there.
Phoebe: “Well, well. Look who we have here.”