Truly Charmed (Part 3/3)

Chapter 3

I opened the door to my bedroom and everything was still in its place. My dresser, my bed. And in the middle of the floor were all of my bags with all of their things spilled everywhere.

Fantastic. I've got my neurotic, jealous boyfriend pissed off at me and now my bags are sprawled out all of the floor just to let me know that he's pissed off.

I couldn't be bothered to do anything with them so I grabbed the door handle and then closed my bedroom door.

I turned around and then saw Melinda in her bedroom. She was staring at some dresses that were displayed out on her bed. I walked over to her room.

I leaned on the doorframe and knocked the door.

"Hey. What are the dresses for? Another school dance?" I asked.

"No." She sighed. "Payton and I are sort of going on a double date."

I raised my eyebrows. I then walked over to her and looked at the dresses.

"And who's the unfortunate fellow that has to deal with you for an entire night?" I winked at her.

She nudged me in the side.

"His name is Jeremy. He's a friend of Miles. Payton's boyfriend." She answered with an unsure look.

"Don't you like him?" I asked.

"No I do. A lot. It's just..he's usually with all the popular skinny girls and he's constantly making out with them. I'm just worried incase he wants to do something with me." She said with a furrowed brow.

"Listen, all boys are like that. Some might not be as open about it as others but they're all like it. But if he tries anything with you, if you don't want to, I give you permission to blow him up." I told her.

She laughed.

"I can't do that. It's exposure. Plus it will be personal gain. It's against the rules." She reassured me.

"I know that and you know but James doesn't know that." I grinned.

We both laughed at the thought.

"Don't worry Melinda. If he upsets you, he has me, you're two older brothers, the rest of you're family and an entire line of ghost Halliwells who's scorn will be worse than yours." I said.

She smiled and then turned back to the dresses.

"Which one?" She asked.

The selection on the bed varied from Red, Blue, Purple and White floral dresses. Some had straps, others didn't. Some had belts and others and cut outs.

I pointed to the blue one with straps and no cut outs. It had bluebells printed on the white fabric.

"I'm nervous." She said.

"I was like that on my first date. But luckily I was a with a friend and he wouldn't let anything happen to me." I answered her.

"What if I mess up and tip something on me or worse him?" She frowned.

"Don't frown. Smile while you still have teeth. Do you want me to go with you? I promise you won't see me." I offered.

"You'd come to my mothers restaurant and eat a three course meal by yourself?" She asked with raised eyebrows.

"If you're going to you're mothers restaurant then why are you worried? If you don't blow him up I'm pretty sure she will." I laughed.

"She's going to P3 tonight. So her assistant chef or whatever is looking after the restaurant tonight." She explained.

Oh...

"Don't worry. I'll keep an eye on you. I'll be a foot away." I comforted her.

She smiled and then hugged me again. I wrapped my arms around her and then kissed her forehead.

Suddenly I heard a scream and then crash from downstairs. Melinda and I immediately ran downstairs.

When we came to the bottom of the stairs, Phoebe, Coop and Pandora were flying through the air. They all crashed down on the side table.

"It's the Miner Demon!" Melinda shouted.

She then ran past me to get downstairs. I ran after her.

"What the hell is a Miner Demon?!" I shouted.

Then came to hault. Standing in the conservatory was a huge man with long wet hair and a huge flail in his hands.

Holy...shit..

I saw Melinda throw her hands at him and his shoulder exploded with blood and yellow puss. The demon groaned. He then turned around and glared his yellow eyes at us. The demon had brown, tough skin like leather and yellow spots were dotted all over his grotesque face.

The demon then jumped up and flew through the air. He landed with a hard thud in front of us.

Oh crap...

He lifted up his foot and kicked Melinda out of the way. She went straight through the staircase and hit the wall. She fell to the floor unconscious.

The demon then turned to me and grabbed me by the throat. He lifted me up my the throat in one hand. I felt his rough skin tighten around my neck and the air was completely cut off from my lungs. I held both of my hands on the demons and tried to pry him off.

I suddenly felt a sharp pain shoot through my head. It was paralysing. I attempted to scream out but I couldn't. I then picked up the urge to form a bolt. My hands dimmed blue sparks. I saw the demon laugh at me pathetically.

Then the pain began to spread down to my chest and pierce my heart. It was unbearable. I saw my skin start to turn grey and lifeless.

Then I began to burn a pit of fire in my stomach. It was faint against the searing pain of whatever the demon was doing to me. I suddenly saw my hands glow bright with blue sparks. Then with one push I sent it through the demon.

The huge beast suddenly crippled to the floor. He let me go and the oxygen flooded through my body and to my brain. But as I went to get up off of the floor I found that I couldn't. My limbs wouldn't move.

I urged my legs to move but they just stayed on the floor. Was I paralysed?

I then heard the demon get up after recovering from my bolt. He towered over me with the flail in his hand. He stared down at me with pure yellow eyes.

He then lifted the flail over his head, ready to strike it down on me. My heart was racing and fear was running through every vein in my body.

I got the urge to send off an aneurism. He glared at him and then he started to scream. He dropped the flail and landed by the side of me, just missing my head.

The demon collapsed to the floor holding his head. I radiated the aneurisms to the demon. A ringing began to pound in my ears but I kept sending the aneurisms off.

I then saw a glass shard from the broken glass cabinet. I focused on the shard and tried to make it move but I then realised I didn't have the power to move things.

I saw the demon crawl towards the sofa. He then picked up the shard and began to slice open his skin and the yellow spots. The yellow liquid that oozed out of the spots began to sizzle and erode the leathery skin of the demon. He screamed out in pain as his own skin was killing him.

Then, as the demon sizzled with poisonous yellow liquid he exploded into pieces, sending the yellow goo all over the place.

Once the demon disappeared there was smoke coming off of the floor where the yellow liquid had landed.

I still couldn't move. I was paralysed on the floor and everyone else was gone or knocked out.

I think Chris was right when he said that we shouldn't have come back...