Post by StoryGirl83 on Jul 18, 2010 14:09:11 GMT -5
Chapter Seventeen – First Hand Knowledge
“Aunt Piper?” Vicki’s voice called over the speaker. At first no one noticed. Then, when she called another time Seth looked up from his pacing. He speed walked over to the phone. “Hi. Vicki, I assume.”
“Uh huh,” she agreed. “Who’s this?”
“Name’s Seth Silberman,” he informed her. “I’m a friend of Wyatt and Chris’.”
“Can you get Aunt Piper?”
“I think she and Aunt Paige are in the kitchen working on potions,” Seth informed her.
“Did you call her ‘Aunt’ Paige?”
Seth grinned. “Yeah, I kind of grew up doing that with all your aunts and uncles, at least on your mom’s side. I can take a message.”
“All right then,” Vicki agreed somewhat reluctantly. “There are some children here that have been here a very long time. Two of them actually knew our demon first hand. He was from their village in the 1620s and he killed everyone in the village and the surrounding area except for their children he took from them. And now, these two girls are all that’s left.”
“I’m not really sure how that helps,” Seth admitted.
“It helps,” Vicki informed him, “because before he destroyed their village he lived among them and the girls got to know him outside of this place. I’m going to put one of the girls on the phone. She’s never seen one before, so . . .” Vicki glanced at the nervous look on Faith’s face, “she’s a little reluctant to touch it, but she’s agreed if it will help get them out of here.”
Back in the sitting room Halli climbed onto her dad’s lap as Hope headed into the kitchen for a snack. “Does anyone want anything?” Hope asked as she reached the doorway. Receiving no reply, she shrugged and headed onward.
Halli snuggled up close to her dad. “It’s going to be okay, Daddy. They’re going to find them.”
Tyler didn’t say anything for a moment and then he felt a giant tug as Halli was ripped from his arms. “Halli!”
Chris and Wyatt looked up form what they were doing. Seeing Tyler’s expression and seeing no sign of Halli, Chris heaved in a deep breath and concentrated on turning himself invisible. He knew the second it happened. The first thing he noticed was Halli screaming for help. Then, he saw what looked like a man dragging Halli across the room.
“Mom, freeze!” Wyatt yelled, not knowing what was going on.
Chris looks at Halli and in a loud voice called, “Halli!”
Halli orbed in front of him as the demon, James Thomas, began to fight a freeze.
Chris glanced around and spotted James’ destination. A few feet from him was a partially opened door. Hugging Halli to him, he tried to pull open the door. It didn’t budge, but through the crack he could see a strange hazy world and children, dozens of children. With a quick look at James, who seemed to have lost his battle to the freeze, Chris turned himself visible. He let go of Halli and let her run to her parents.
Tyler stood and hugged his daughter tight.
Miranda started weeping. “Halli, are you okay?”
Halli nodded. “I’m okay. Chris saved me.”
Miranda sniffed as she looked at Chris. “Thank you.”
Chris nodded and turned to his brother. “Wy, visibility spell? Anything come to mind?”
“What?” Wyatt asked surprised.
“There’s a door there,” Chris informed him. “We need it visible and we need him visible.”
“In the light of day, shadows come to play,” Paige chanted as she and Piper entered the room. “What was once unseen, can now be seen.”
As soon as Paige finished casting the spell both the demon and the partially opened door turned visible. The demon is still frozen.
“Thanks, Aunt Paige,” Chris called out.
“You have a spell ready?” Piper demanded.
Wyatt looked at her hurt. “You doubt me?”
“Just cast the spell,” Piper urged.
“Innocent as a child’s heart,” Wyatt chanted, “mother and child are apart. What it takes to stop the hurt, turn this demon into dirt.”
Not only did the demon not blow up, but he started to move as Piper’s freeze ended. He looked around and seeing every eye on him he started to run for the door to the other dimension, ramming into Chris to get him out of his way.
Chris screamed in pain as he hit the corner of a table hard, causing the table to break and a lamp on it to come crashing down. He could only watch as James continued his run for the door.