by PrudenceGemini » Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:57 pm
Chapter 9
Prue knew the demons had done something to her, the last thing she remembered was one of the demons put a wand on her head and they started chanting.... And that was it. She had 'woke up' in some sort of room, a big white room with no doors or windows and no ceiling, the walls just seemed to go up forever. She heard whispering behind her, she turned around and saw one of the demons, she kicked her, but her foot went straight through the demons body. The demon smirked.
"Who are you?" Prue demanded. The demon laughed in her face.
"I'm your worst nightmare." she declared then shimmered out.
"Come back here!" Prue yelled, "Come back and tell me what you are!" An evil laugh echoed around the room and Prue looked for the source of it, then sighed.
"Something tells me that isn't the end of her." she said to herself.
Andy looked around the attic. It was the first time he had ever been up here. The girls were flicking thriugh a big green leather book which they called the 'Book of Shadows', he then looked at Prue, passed out on the couch in the attic, she looked like she was sleeping but they couldn't wake her, no-one could. Andy felt overwhelmed, he was ina magical house in a magical attic with three witches hunting for demons, it wasn't something he had signed up for when he had fallen in love with Prue.
"Andy come look at this please, we need you to ID the demons as you saw more of them then we did." Piper said.
"Emulator demons," Andy read aloud, " Lower level demons who copy other demons and do as they do but with a twist. Easy ways to recognize them them are the glowing red eyes with inverted pentagrams instead of pupils. The demons can also shape-shift and have the invisibility power, they can maintain normal eyes for a limited time. The most common Emulator demons copy the work of Barbas, the demon of Illusion and Belthazor, but only the demons copying Barbas use wands that can be any shape or size. They render their victims unconcious and scare them to death in their dreams.... This is them!" He declared, Piper and Phoebe started looking worried.
"Does it say how to wake the victims?" Phoebe asked. Andy scanned the text.
"It says there are three words in latin that can wake them instantly, or the victims can overcome their fears. We have to find those words and save Prue." Piper nodded,
"Phoebe you search the 'Book' for anything that looks like latin." Andy backed away from the book and Phoebe started flipping through it.
"Piper, what can i do?" Andy asked desperately, he had to do something to help Prue.
"Take Prue downstairs and put her in bed then search through her books, she must have some latin books in her room." she replied. Andy picked up Prue in both arms and carried her downstairs carefully so as not to drop her, he laid her her on her bed, he felt her forehead, she was freezing. He covered her with a blanket from the end of the bed and started rummaging through her bookcase.
She kept hearing that laugh, pure evil, taunting her, trying to scare her, it wasn't going to work, she wouldn't let it. Prue glanced up when she heard a noise, she could see some sort of black cloud climbing down the walls, she looked again properly, that was no cloud it was a swarm of spiders! Prue eyed the walls around her in fear, she hated spiders, she knew she was being silly, she fought demons way more dangerous than a few spiders but she couldn't help that irrational fear everytime she saw them. The spiders got closer and closer until they reached the floor and started scuttling towards her, as soon as they got near to her she would blast them away with her power but they kept coming back. She had to try and remember a spell from the 'Book of Shadows', she flipped through the 'Book of Shadows' in her head when she remembered a spell. She made sure she remembered it exactly then started chanting.
Let the object of obection become but a dream,
As i cause the scene to be unseen.
Prue saw a flash and closed her eyes, she re-opened them after a minute expecting an empty room. The spiders were still there and there were more of them, she screamed terrified and curled into a small ball trying to protect herself.
Piper and Phoebe stopped talking, they heard a scream, they glanced at eachother and rushed to Prue's room. When they got there Andy was sat on Prue's bed cradling her in his arms trying to sooth her even though she was still unconcious and couldnt hear him.
"Andy what happened?" Piper asked out of breath. Andy looked up and saw Piper and Phoebe at the door.
"I'm not sure, i was looking through her books and she just screamed." he told them still cradling Prue's shivering form in his arms, "They must be doing something to her." Andy felt completely useless, the woman he loved was so scared and he couldn't do anything to help her.
Somewhere 'Up There' Patricia Halliwell was watching her daughters struggle and she couldn't take it any longer, she knew where the spell was that could free her eldest daughter and she had to take it to them. She orbed down to her daughters and Andy to tell them.
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