Post by StoryGirl83 on Mar 17, 2009 14:12:07 GMT -5
Chapter Three - The Hiding Spells
Prue looked at Piper and Paige. “All right. We have work to do. Piper, you said you know where the Book is. We will need that for the summoning spell and the unbinding spell.” She turned to Paige. “Would you like to help me set things up for the summoning spell? I remember enough to so that much.”
“Okay.” Paige had helped the sisters before with magical stuff. She had even used some spells, which as she thought about it was weird because, if her powers were bound wouldn’t that negate the ability to use spells. “Can someone with bound powers use a spell?”
Prue nodded as she headed up the stairs with Paige following. “Phoebe unbound our powers with a spell, so I’d have to say yes.”
“What’s the point of a binding spell if you can still do magic?”
Prue stopped and turned around on the stairs. “I suppose it is possible that she wouldn’t have been able to say any spells if Grams had still been alive. Maybe the death of the binder loosens the power some. Maybe. I haven’t really thought about it.” Prue turned around and continued up the stairs.
The two women headed down the second floor hallway until they reached the stair case to the attic. They climbed it and opened the door. Prue walked inside and Paige followed her. Paige slowed to a stop as she took in the damage. “What happened?”
“Past self. Nothing to worry about,” Prue assured her. She walked to the center of the room. “Magic hidden from mortal view, fill this chamber with magic brew. Ten fold the hidden lock, unhide all as we walk.” Prue walked over to the gapping hole in the wall. She sighed.
Behind her Paige watched amazed as the room transformed. Some thing appeared over turned on the floor, but for the most part the three remaining walls were filled with potions and magical tools.
Prue turned around. She looked not at the magically altered walls, but at Paige. “Well, we can safely assume my magic isn’t gone, just not working right. Any ideas on what to do with this wall? We can’t exactly leave it like this.”
Paige focused her attention on the wall. “My guess would be by some means other than magical.”
Prue nodded. “Yeah. That’s how we got into this mess, using magic where we shouldn’t use magic. Much as I wish I could, I agree that magic isn’t the answer in this case.”
Paige looked at her surprised. “Last week you would have argued with me on that point.”
“Last week I hadn’t lost my sister for what amounts to a misuse of magic. Last week I hadn’t experienced a full on blast of the thoughts of my younger past self on the subject. Last week, yesterday even, seems like a lifetime ago.”
“Do you think Leo would help? You said he’s had experience in handy work.”
Prue nodded. “He might. We certainly can’t have someone who isn’t involved in the magical world.” Prue walked over to one of the walls. “Help me get these crystals downstairs.”
Paige joined her at the wall and picked up several crystals. “Anything else we need?”
“Not from up here,” Prue told her as she stepped away from the wall. “Go stand by the door.”
Paige walked over to the door and waited.
Prue walked to the center of the room. “Magic hide from mortal view, rid this chamber of magic brew. Ten fold the hidden lock, hide all as we walk.”
As Prue walked toward the door Paige watched amazed as the room returned to the way is had been when they entered. “Do you use that a lot?”
Prue nodded. “Ever since Phoebe was arrested.” She sighed. “We can’t afford to risk it.” Prue headed through the door and down the stairs.
Paige looked once more at the attic before she headed out the door, closing it behind her. She was careful to make sure she kept a good grip on the crystals Prue had entrusted her with. When she reached the second floor, a sound caught her attention. “Prue.”
Prue stopped and turned around. “What?”
“I want to check something.”
Prue shrugged. “Be quick.”
Paige nodded. As Prue continued toward the stairs Paige looked down at the crystals. She heard the noise, a shuffle of sorts, again. It was coming from Piper’s bedroom. She put the crystals down by the door and pushed the door open a crack. Inside she saw a man looking through the dresser drawers. “Hey!”
He looked up startled. He blinked and suddenly he was gone.
Paige knew enough to realize that meant he was a warlock. She glanced around the room to make sure it was clear. Finding it so, she picked the crystals back up and headed down the stairs.
The front room still showed signs of the the recent battle, but it did not show signs of Prue and Piper, so Paige kept walking. She found Prue in the dinning room. Prue had put her crystals on the table and was looking through the Book of Shadows for the spells they wanted. “Where’s Piper?” Paige put the crystals in her arms down on the table with the others.
“Kitchen,” Prue told her without looking up. “She want to stockpile potions.”
“Find anything?”
Prue looked up with a sigh. “Nothing of much use yet. There has to be an unbinding spell.”
“How did you unbind your powers?”
Prue sighed as she flipped another page. “Phoebe read the Power of Three spell.”
“Could that give us an idea?”
Prue flipped to the first page. She stood and indicated that Paige should sit. “Feel free to give it a try. Phoebe was the one who did most of the spells.”
“I’m not Phoebe.”
Prue smiled. “I know. I’m just saying, I’m not either. Besides you’ve written spells before and you are creative, so maybe you’ll figure something out.”
“Where are you going?”
“I’m going to see if Piper wants help.”
“And leave me alone with the book?”
Prue shrugged. “Why not? We trust you. And right now, you seem to be the only one with powers.”
“Yeah,” Paige said rolling her eyes,” you claim I orbed.”
“You did.” Prue walked out in the direction of the kitchen.
Paige sat down and looked at the spell on the page. She silently read the directions on the page. The longer she read the less she thought it would work. She scribbled the spell onto a pad of paper Piper had left next to the book. She then drew a line under it. Beneath the line she wrote the conditions needed for the spell, midnight on a full moon. If nothing else worked she would try this spell in a week or two when the full moon arrived.
Paige ripped the page off the pad and stuffed it into her pocket. With a sigh she started writing. What would an unbinding spell need? Did someone need to know who bound their powers? She flipped through page after page after page, but couldn’t even find the binding spell. Surely something in that would give her some hints. She picked up the Book and the pad of paper, taking them with her as she joined her friend in the kitchen.
Piper looked up as she entered. “What’s up?”
“I couldn’t find the binding spell. I thought maybe that would give me some ideas.”
“You looked through the whole Book?” Piper asked skeptically.
Paige shook her head smiling. “No, I just thought I’d ask the experts for a ballpark area to search.”
Piper nods. She frowns and looks at Prue. “Didn’t I take it out earlier today?”
Prue thought about it. “Yeah. You did.”
Paige sighed, slightly deflated. “Do you remember what it said?”
“Something about taking their hand in yours,” Piper told her unsure. “Another reason to call Grams, I guess. Maybe she remembers.”
“So we are summoning Grams rather than Mom?” Prue asked. “I kind of wanted to see Mom.”
“Mom didn’t bind out powers,” Piper reminded her.
“No, but Mom is the one with the freezing power and I can’t imagine she was far away when Grams was binding them. I want to see Mom.”
Piper smiled slightly. “Mom it is then.”
Prue looked at the potion bottles Piper was filling on the table. “Why don’t we give those a break and summon Mom now.”
Piper nodded. She walked into the dining room followed closely by Prue and Paige. Piper picked up two crystals as she reached the pile on the table and began a circle on the ground. Prue and Paige did likewise, all three adding to the circle until it was complete. Once completed they stood a few feet from the circle and all three chanted. “Hear these words, hear our cry, spirit from the other side. Come to us, we summon thee. Cross now the great divide.”
Sparkling lights came up from the crystals swirling around the circle. Slowly a ghostly figure formed in the center.