Power Surge

Meanwhile- The Streets Of San Francisco

         After leaving the manor Glenn found himself traveling further into town than he had intended to.

"Why does everything have to be so damn complicated all the time? Always their way? I'm tired of rules," Glenn found himself thinking about ways to get back at Piper, but then he thought about Paige and the last events with her. "Oh, Belland; why do you have to be such a jerk!? I've been gone for nearly 3 hours already wandering the streets. I don't even know where I'm at right now."

As he came to an alley he leaned against the wall. He reached down to his pocket to find his cellular phone but found nothing there. "Oh, great! In all the anger and madness I forgot my cell. Damn magic!" he shouted loudly. By now it was 2:45am as he looked at his watch, and a very clear night with the stars shining bright, but no moon present. Clearly the extra darkness added by a new moon made things in an old alleyway in the middle of San Francisco all the more eerie. Glenn looked around him, noticing he was in the back-roads of the old industrial district, with very few lights.

"Great; just great. I have to toss my family aside and put myself in the middle of nowhere. There's no telling what's out here at three in the morning...where's a cop when you need one?" Suddenly Glenn turned the corner, noticing a street lamp with a pay phone under it. As he began to step toward it, a large rat ran across his path. Startled, he flung his hand out, sending the rodent flying against the brick wall with a screech. All Glenn could think about was the rat demon that had held him hostage.

As he turned to walk away, curiosity struck him, as the rat seemed unharmed from hitting the wall with such force. Was it possible...could someone have been spying on him? A mix of emotions, mostly fear and anger, began to surge through Glenn. "Who's there?" he asked in a low tone. The wind gusted then, banging the door of an open dumpster against its side. Glenn figured it was just his imagination messing with him. After all, he had a vivid one. But with all the things he had seen over the past year it seemed like nothing could surprise him; well almost nothing. Shrugging it off, he turned to head toward that pay phone. "At least I actually have some change on me. I can phone home to talk to my wife and let her know I'm sorry and see if she'll orb me home."

"Orbing, huh?" came a menacing voice from behind him. When Glenn turned around, he found himself confronted by the sight of a man with glowing yellow eyes. Out of the blue, the very rat he had flung away earlier ran beside the man and magically formed upright into another man. "Oh my God!" Glenn cried. "Quite the opposite!" the rat demon exclaimed, forming an energy ball. Glenn seemed to freeze for a moment. A flashback took him to that magic stage where there had been a ring of death levitating him from the stage-top, ready to decapitate him. He remembered wishing the demon gone then and burning him to wherever it is the evil ones ended up. The red-eyed demon raised his arm and threw his glowing ball of electrical energy at Glenn. Glenn's first instinct was to duck, and in doing so he allowed the demonic power to pass him by.

"You won't get lucky again. I promise I won't miss next time," the rat demon told him. "Neither will I, you red-eyed freak!" Glenn let out as his battle cry, while throwing his arm out and sending the demon flying, toppling over garbage cans in the alleyway. "You want some of this!?" Glenn screamed to the yellow-eyed, gothic dressed demon. As he finished speaking, the demon's yellow eyes lit up sending forth a double plasma beam at Glenn. It was moving at him too fast to dodge it, so Glenn put his arms up, shielding himself. The demon grinned with sadistic delight, thinking he had hit his mark. Suddenly Glenn felt the sensation of bouncing off of a rubber mat and lowered his arms, seeing the beam smack into the wall and disperse. The rat demon sat up from the garbage cans and shimmered from his location, to the backside of Glenn. "You missed me, Yellow Eyes!" Glenn smarted off.