Charmed Ever After? The Story Of A Charmed One And A Half-Demon

Chapter 29

"Are you sure you're ready for this Harry. It won't be long now" I sighed as I leaned against my bed and looked at my brother, though I couldn't see his face. He shook his head.

"Of course Lila. I trust you and you trust me, I would never let you down" he replied and I sighed again before running my right hand through my red hair and swallowing at how strange it felt.

It has been a week since my elements told me that the battle would be soon, and since then Harry and I have trained harder than ever. Harry's energy balls have gotten stronger so that he can now create one large enough to actually shield people, which is fairly strange. His fire balls are strong as well, but no where near as strong as mine, not that I'm bragging about that.

I, on the other hand, can now manipulate lightening so that I can create lightening storms out of nowhere, but it takes a lot out of me both physically and emotionally. Physically because just like with spirit it has side effects and emotionally because I have to get so angry, even more so than what I get to control fire. I didn't mind though because it is an awesome power. My elements have also become more powerful and I'm positive that I have a chance to defeat Wyatt now.

That isn't the only thing about me that has changed though, along with my powers changing so has my physical appearance. I still looked like me, just a paler version with much shorter hair. My fiery red hair has always been long, over the years it grew from my waist to my hips and it was probably the one thing about me that I treasured since my red hair was inherited from my mother's line. About three days ago I decided to get it cut since, firstly it was way too long and hard to manage and secondly it might become a hindrance when the battle comes. It now ended just past my shoulders and I'd had my bangs cut so that they were swept to the side instead of them being full across my forehead. My hair was still bright red though.

"Yes Harry I know, and I appreciate your trust. But this will get very dangerous and I don't even know if everything will turn out the way it's supposed to" I said shrugging even though Harry couldn't see.

We were sitting in my room. I was sitting on my bed with Josey spread across the bottom sketching in her pad, while Harry was sitting at the table that we used for studying. Not only had he focused more on training but Harry also studied books more, and I appreciated it because he was much better at that than me. I saw Harry shrug.

"Lila please do me a favour and shut up. I'm staying with you and that is final. You need me at your side and even you can't disagree there. We're stronger together" he said, turning to face me and flashing me a smile. I grinned back at him.

"You're right there" I grinned and Harry gave me a thumb's up.

"Harry what exactly are you doing?" Josey asked from the edge of my bed. I turned to her to see that she had momentarily put her pencil down.

"Nothing really just writing" he said and we grinned at each other. Josey glanced between us before rolling her eyes.

"Whatever" she replied obviously knowing that we weren't going to say anything.

I watched her sketch for a while and admired the way her wrist and arm flicked across the page in even confident strokes. I was creative but only when it came to music and words. I'd always been rubbish when it came to art and drawing, or making things. Even so I couldn't help but grin at Josey, even though she wasn't paying attention to me.

I was happy at the fact that I had Josey and Harry with me. Josey and I were really close and she feels like another part of me, she reminds me of myself slightly, but obviously an older version of me since I'm younger than her. The relationship we have reminds me of the relationship I have with Harry, a sort of sibling relationship. Whereas my relationship with Harry couldn't be any better. I didn't think we could get any closer but we have and now we are best friends as well as brother and sister, which I find quite sweet, I'm sure not many people can say that, if they have a younger sibling.

Harry understands me, both as a person as well as understanding my way of thinking. He sees life the way I do, especially when life is to do with magical people. There is no such thing as good and evil because from my perspective nature versus nurture doesn't have anything to do with how a person can be defined. The only thing that matters is power and what you do with that power. Like Harry and I for example, we have power, especially me, yet we don't define ourselves as evil. Sure we kill people but there are also times when we feel mercy and save innocents as well, but the Halliwells don't see it in that way, though I suppose that's mostly because Harry and I are half demon.

Blinking myself out of my thoughts, I turned back to my right arm which was stretched out on the bed next to me, ready for me to do my exercises. I focused on my hand, bringing it up so that it was the same height as my thigh before scrunching my hand into a fist. As I did so my hand caught on fire before the fire whipped up my arm, until the whole of my right arm- from my shoulder down to my hand- was alight. I flattened my hand back out to its normal state and the fire disappeared before I did this with my left hand.

"You're getting better at that Lila" Josey mused and I looked up to see that she was watching me. I shrugged.

"Yeah I'm getting better. Yesterday I found I could do that with my whole body" I grinned and Josey nodded, obviously impressed.

I nodded back to her before frowning to myself as I felt a change in the air vibrations out in the main cave where I had been crowned the 'champion' and I immediately knew who it was. I cleared my throat and both Josey and Harry turned to look at me.

"You know what Harry? It's great that you're here. It was kinda lonely for the first two weeks or so just being by myself and knowing that all of you believed that you no longer knew me, but I guess that blood is thicker than water right?" I said and Harry nodded.

"What makes you say that?" he asked and I grinned to myself but I wasn't going to tell him what had made me say that, instead I shrugged.

"No reason, I was just thinking that it's great you were here. Do you know what I still can't believe though? The fact that I thought of Leo as my father, I mean our dad isn't the best father ever and quite frankly I'm glad we never knew him, but Leo's not related to me by blood so he would never be my father, no matter what I thought of him. He would never truly be able to understand me you know? Just like none of the other Halliwells would understand me. Not like the way you and I understand each other" I said and Harry nodded looking thoughtful before his eyes widened and he stared at me. I shrugged slightly before nodding my head. He'd obviously figured out what had triggered me to say that. Harry clucked his tongue in thought.

"Yeah I understand what you mean by that Lila" he said before standing up and stretching. Josey frowned at us.

"God you two talk about the strangest things" she said.

"You love us really" I replied and she rolled her eyes in amusement before turning back to her sketchpad, and picking her pencil up.

I gulped before focusing on the energies coming from the main cave. I knew who it was as soon as he orbed here. It was either Wyatt or Chris but I couldn't tell who it was. Since I'd saved Chris' life from the disease that Darien had inflicted on him- though how he'd gotten close enough to do that is a mind boggler to me- both of the boys had done their best to close the bonds off. I still felt flickers of emotions every now and then, because emotions were real and strong and even the Halliwells couldn't control them, but because the bonds were dulled so much I wasn't able to differentiate between the boys.

Just then I heard cries coming from the main part of the cave and Harry and I instantly looked at each other. I gulped knowing what was happening before I bit my lip and jumped off my bed. I ran out of my quarters and into the main cave closely followed by Harry and Josey.