Charming the Halliwells Chapter 39: Anti-Climate
"Demon!" Warren shouted, causing Wyatt and I to duck! A demon shimmered in behind him and he threw a fireball at the demon, causing the demon to explode.
"What was that?" Wyatt growled, " You could have gotten someone killed!" he said, walking over, " And you know the stress is not good for the baby."
Warren smiled, "Sorry, little cousin, I just wanted to make sure that there is no interruptions for the wedding." He said, patting Wyatt on the back.
Wyatt sighed, "Still, we're shooting for a `safe' environment for our baby." He said.
I chuckled.
" What?" Wyatt asked, turning to me.
"That's you. I'm not that gullible." I said, rubbing my stomach, " So, his name's gonna be Matthew Wyatt Halliwell, right? Cause, that was the future."
"Of course...unless you want to change it." Wyatt said, "So, are you sure you're okay having this wedding here?"
"Of course, Everybody gets married here, except for Phoebe, but she was born here." I smiled.
"The Honeymoon...I was thinking Tahitti or...where do you think?" Wyatt asked.
I shrugged, "Anywhere as long as we're together." I said, rethinking it, "That was very corny."
"Sweet." Wyatt said, kissing my forehead and rubbing my stomach.
"Yah...I think I'm going downstairs." Warren said, walking past them, "Call me if you need me."
"He seems well-adjusted." Wyatt said, watching him leave.
"Maybe. Or maybe he's a really good actor." I sighed, "Are we doing the right thing? Throwing him into demon fighting so soon after..."
"It's not our decision." Wyatt groaned, "We've been over this enough, you can't deal with the Charmed stress anymore. It's making you sick and it's hazardous to, not only the baby, but yourself!"
"OK!" I said quickly, "I get it, me no demon hunting! But I can still help."
"How?" Wyatt asked.
Suddenly, Chris orbed in with some woman. She looked disshoveled. Her long, brunette hair all over her head and her green eyes surveying the room.
"Innocent?" I asked.
"How'd you guess?" Chris said, heading for the book.
"I'm psychic." I said, rolling my eyes.
"Who are you people?" the woman said, looking around, " We need to go before those men come back!"
I froze her, "What's after her?" I asked.
Chris shrugged, turning the pages of the book, " Some demon. I've got it." He said.
"Right, I'm going to the store. Get somebody to help you." I said, walking to the door.
"Umm, bro, can you unfreeze my innocent?" Chris asked.
I waved my hand and she broke from the freeze, "How..." she asked.
"Don't worry, I'm gonna find this demon." Chris reassured her.
As I pulled up in the driveway and began to get groceries out of the back of the car, I felt as if I was being watched. I shook it off and began unloading groceries.
"Hey baby." Wyatt said, wrapping his arms around me, "We should go in."
"why is that?" I asked.
"You don't wanna know." Wyatt said, looking around.
"I can't leave the groceries here! Help me out." I persisted. My phone jingled and I looked at the screen to see a text message. I opened it and it said, "Sorry." From Spencer.
" What's that?" Wyatt asked, looking the phone.
"What's going on?" I asked, "The truth."
Wyatt looked down, "Paparazzi. Apparently, you're a bigger star because you like your privacy." Wyatt said innocently.
"Huh?! I...wait, why? I haven't..." I stammered, "Do THEY want my baby?"
"We just have to be really careful." Wyatt said, looking around.
I nodded, "Oh crap, I'm gonna look fat." I said.
"You look great." Wyatt said, picking up two bags of groceries.
"I'm gonna kill Spencer!" I said, " And these stupid groceries!" I said, causing them to disappear from Wyatt's hands. I looked at his empty hands, "Oh Shit..."
A camera man across the street looked at the film again, wondering what he had just found.
"What're you doing?" Piper asked, "The wedding is in a few days, so what're you going to do?"
"I'll write the speech, but first I've gotta help Miranda." Chris sighed, flipping through the book.
Miranda sat on the couch, looking lost.
"Chris, this is serious! Wyatt and Drake have overcome all these obstacles and they deserve to make with the love!" Piper said, slapping Chris on the shoulder.
"Owww," Chris jumped, "Okay, okay, but can I find the demon first?"
"What do you mean?" Piper asked, " What makes this demons so..." she walked over to see the page, "Shax...the demon SHAX! Why are you iding this from your brothers?" she asked.
"They've been through enough. Besides, this day is going to be great for them and I'm going to vanquish him forever." Chris said.
Piper smiled at him tearily, hugging him, "Oh, that's my little Chris." She said.
"Time traveller?" Chris joked, " Besides, with the baby, we can't afford for Drake to freeze up and get killed."
"You have to tell them, how are you going to pull this off without the power of three? And where did Shax come from? We vanquished him twice." Piper said, her head spinning.
"I'll tell Wyatt, but I'm not going to tell my best friend that the demon that almost killed him is back, especially since the last time he disappeared without a trace! And Miranda had a run in with Shax, I barely made it in time. We can just use Warren." Chris explained.
"Do not go after him alone, you hear me?" Piper commanded and Chris nodded, "And be careful, when we dealt with Shax, we exposed magic. Don't, under any circumstances, do that."
Paige and Phoebe orbed in.
"We've got a problem." Paige said.
"What? What is it?" Piper asked.
" The fetus exposed magic!" Phoebe said.
"WHAT?!" Piper and Chris shouted.
Downstairs, the door opened and closed.
"Piper!" I called, heading to the attic.
"We're all in here!" Piper shouted.
As I came into the room with Wyatt, I was instantly aware of something wrong.
Wyatt looked at them, "What's going on?" he asked.
"You two exposed magic!" Paige blurted.
"What?!" I shouted.
"Groceries, orbing, which, by the way, is a power you really shouldn't have." Phoebe panicked.
"The baby is way powerful." I said, rubbing my stomach, "Okay, how widespread is this?"
"National." Phoebe said, "Elise has been calling you all day."
"My phone's...umm...somewhere by my ass," I said, pulling it out, "She's calling now."
"What do we do?" Wyatt asked, grabbing me.
"Cleaners?" I asked.
"I don't think that'll work for this. It's too widespread." Paige said.
I sighed, "You still looking for that demon?" I asked, "Lemme see..."
"No, umm, I just need to take her back." Chris said quickly.
"NO! I won't," Miranda said, standing and about to run.
I froze her, "Book of Shadows!" I said, obring it to myself.
"Book!" Chris said, causing a tug-of-war in the air. The book was being tugged by an invisible rope and just as I was losing grip, I was surrounded by orbs and the Book appared in my hands.
"Shax?!" I asked, "Chris...Why're you looking up Shax?!"
"Because the source brought him back." Chris said, "I don't know how, but he did."
"He wants my baby." I said, stumbling back, but Wyatt caught me.
"Easy, sweetie, calm down." Wyatt said, "He's not getting our baby."
I nodded, "Ok, what's the plan?" I asked.
"Me, Wyatt, and Warren are going to vanquish him, then we all come back and celebrate and have a seriously epic wedding." Chris promised.
"NO!" I shouted.
"You can't go." Wyatt said angrily.
"He's right." Chris said.
"I didn't volunteer. You guys aren't going either!" I said.
Chris walked around and put his arm around my shoulder, "Look, it's simple, we got the spell, an extra potion, and we're twiced blessed Charmed ones. We're taking him out for good."
" Go, but if you die, I'm resurrecting you and killing you...both of you. And pass that on to Warren." I said nervously.
Wyatt kissed my forehead, "I'll be back as soon as I can." He said, orbing away.
Chris grabbed a piece of paper and a potion and orbed away too.
There was a banging and I turned to the sisters, "Someone's at the door." I said.
Phoebe looked out the window, "Uhhh, Guys, I think we have a problem." She said, running back over to us.
"What could possibly be going wrong?" Piper asked sarcastically.
"How about every t.v. station outside!" Phoebe groaned.
We all exchanged nervous glances.
"Sound familiar?" Phoebe asked.
"I gotta go to the kitchen." I said, running out of the room.
"Too familiar," Piper sighed, "Paige, go to the Elders, now."
"Right." Paige nodded, about to orb.
"Wait!" Kyle said, orbing in, "We need to protect Drake, where is he?!"
They all looked at each other, then hustled out of the room. I hurried to the kitchen, trying to reach the crackers, but as I got off the stairs, the door burst open and Shax floated in. I immediately flashed back to graduation day and stopped dead in my tracks. I heard Wyatt's name being called and Wyatt and Chris orbed in. As Shax fired an energy ball, Wyatt pushed me out of the way, taking the energy ball! As I sat up, Chris jumped in front of me and took the other energy ball, sending him through the wall! Kyle dove on me, orbing me out!
ToBeContinued