Stranger Bedfellows
Teal-Lover – Well I can't say he's evil or that he's good…this might enlighten you enough to make your own call and I'm glad you found that its not all just mindless sex, you should thank my friend ANGELO for that. He actually writes more to these stories then I do sometimes!
Yo – a simple yet effective signing name. Here is more
IMAROCKSTAR – are you really? Well this is headed in a BIG direction…that sounds weird
DrewISAHOTTIE – indeed he is. Well I can't really say yes or no so just call it yourself
Thank you all it's been so helpful to get reviews. Also this is AU a bit so let's just all note that Leo is still an Elder and things are less complicated.
"Mom! Dad! I'm home" Chris called as he orbed into the laundry room. "Mom? Dad?" he frowned as he walked into the kitchen – there was laughter in the TV room so he headed in.
"Then Chris looks up and says – are you sure the prawn's dead?" Piper laughed and Wyatt snorted with a laugh. Chris' eyes widened.
"Nick" he gasped. "How did you -"
"Get here? Well that's easy bus you dope" Nick smiled sweetly. "Gosh I probably should have brought you a gift or come dressed a little more practically" he looked down at his black runners.
In his hand an athame appeared. He tightened his grip on the red leather bound handle. "Well…here's your present" he hurled the athame at Chris who ducked and dived aside. Piper froze Nick but the boy fought through it with all his strength.
Wyatt raised his hand and hurled an energy bolt – in a blur of speed Nick dodged and appeared on the other side of the room. Eric lashed out with his tongue but Nick caught it and dragged Eric down. "People always wonder why I am the way I am" Nick said. "But considering I can wear black in a stylish fashion – yay for me!"
His body morphed, his hair slicked back with gel and a small amount of eyeliner appeared first then his outfit changed to a black t-shirt with cotton sleeves and a leather torso and black leather pants.
Spiked leather bands appeared on his wrists and neck and his medallion glowed. It was a shining blue gem on a silver tear drop shape that had an eye shape carved on it in gold inlay.
He tucked the medallion into his shirt and gestured. His athame flew back to his hand.
"How did you get out of the club?"
"I've been killing demons for a while now…and with my magic mirror – well you know doorways to worlds and whatnot…oh but this is no family affair -" he smirked.
He raised his hands
"Rooms shuffle, space extend
Halls start and never end
Limitations knocked out of phase
This house and hearth become a maze!"
The house rumbled and Wyatt hurled an energy bolt but Nick deflected with a wave. The walls and halls stretched and shifted as the house was knocked out of synch with the laws of physics – turning into a maze of stairways and halls.
Nick waved a hand and Chris was flung down a hall. "You should all - chill"
He muttered a demon spell and slashed the air before him as he stepped out of the room. A blue cube formed in the air, everyone looked at it – it stretched and coated the room – Phoebe ran at a door but it deflected her.
"Chris!" Leo called.
"I can't orb out" Paige exclaimed.
"He's on his own" Eric moaned.
Nick moved slowly down the hall, two athame in his hands. Chris appeared in a doorway. Nick hurled an energy ball but his opponent dodged. Nick growled and Chris hurled a bolt back at him.
"I don't want to hurt you!" Chris exclaimed.
"That's not stopped you before" sneered Nick. He hurled his dagger, Chris dived into a corridor and went sliding down the curved hall. Nick leapt after him. The sliding corridor led to a vast fall onto a Persian carpet the size of a field.
Chris orbed onto a carpeted bridge overhead. Nick grabbed the edge of the slide and stabbed his daggers into the wooden floor. "I'll murder you momentarily" Nick shouted up.
"Don't count on it" Chris said sadly. He raised his hand…Nick kicked off the wall, in the same blur as his speed functioned in he landed on the bridge. Chris hurled the energy bolt he'd prepared at Nick but the boy twisted aside like a dancer and snapped his fingers. Two copies of his visage materialized.
"Three for the pain of one Nick" they chorused.
Chris stepped backwards. "Here catch this" he hurled an energy bolt at Nick and destroyed an illusion. Both remaining Nick's looked at the shimmering shadow as if faded then waved and knocked Chris down the impossibly long bridge.
Chris rolled to his feet and used his own telekinesis to fling the illusion and Nick aside. One toppled over the side – it seemed like he only fell a few feet despite the sheer drop it appeared to be. But the body dematerialized. Nick frowned and walked forwards.
"Stop Nick. Please" Chris whispered.
"Oh say it like you mean it" Nick slashed at Chris but was punched over by the boy. Nick kicked Chris' legs from under him and snared his neck with his heavily booted ankles. Chris choked. "Suddenly getting between my legs isn't so much fun – is it?" sneered Nick.
Chris grabbed an athame and slashed Nick on the thigh forcing the demon to let him go. A low voltage energy bolt knocked Nick back as he tried to get up.
"Why? Why come after me?"
"Because you hurt me" snarled Nick. He rolled to his feet, back-flipped and hurled his dagger. Chris orbed in behind him and grabbed him in a neck lock.
"I didn't-"
"Yes you did!" Nick roared as he rammed an elbow into Chris' chest and twisted free, his roundhouse kick sent the young man flying.
"The spell was cast
But the time has passed
Break the curse
For better or worse"
Chris chanted. It was Wyatt's spell from when he was 5,but it worked. It undid the maze spell. Chris and Nick were on the stairs. Nick was on a lower step, Chris kicked him down and he crashed onto the floor. "I never thought-"
"That was BLATANTLY obvious" spat Nick. "So DIE!"
He gestured and Chris was bashed against the blue force field in the doorway to the TV room. It flared and he crashed down in pain. The force field faded and the Halliwell family rushed to aid Chris.
"Not so fast!" snapped Nick. He hurled a large energy bolt at them and knocked them aside. He moved at superhuman speed to Chris as the boy got up – grabbing an arm he swung Chris into a wall, grabbed the back of his head by the hair and hurled him into the conservatory.
Chris stood up.
Nearby a bounty hunter demon shimmered into the kitchen. A dark lighter orbed after him and quietly they approached the sounds of the fight. Eva hurled a power bolt at Nick. He stumbled, turned and sent her crashing through a window into the garden. "I hope that hurt" he muttered.
Wyatt and Eric rushed him. Nick blurred aside and kicked Wyatt over into the living room. Eric and Nick met in superhuman speed, the world was blurred and distorted to them as they punched and kicked.
Eric caught Nick by the throat but the boy twisted the Manticore arm and savagely backhanded him into the hall. "You and me Chris" spat Nick as he deflected Piper. He dodged the lightening Leo hurled and hurled a dagger, wounding the elder.
Nick hurled the energy ball. Chris raised his hands in shock – the ball froze and Nick had to fight out of a freeze. The shocked witch ducked in time to avoid the unfrozen ball of energy.
Nick's eyes widened. "You're not supposed to be able to do that" he murmured. With a cry of rage he sent the sofa flying at Chris. The Darklighter fired his crossbow. "NO!"
Nick gestured, the bolt flitted through the air and into a wall. The Bounty Hunter charged Nick but the boy spun and hook kicked him in the side of the head, flooring him. Nick gestured and dragged the Dark lighter forwards onto his knees.
"No one takes my revenge from me" hissed Nick. He pulled the darklighter into a kiss – the energy flowed from the Dark lighter into him. Then the Darklighter burst into flames. Nick kicked the bounty hunter down and hauled him up.
The kiss was passionate and cold. Nick's eyes remained trained on Chris who was struggling to his feet at all times. He stabbed the bounty hunter with an athame and slit his throat. "Adieu" he said. The body dispersed into his dagger.
Leo hurled a lightening bolt. Nick shimmered across the room. "The odds are against me – next time – and to prevent anyone following me – might as well make the best of it" the crossbow appeared in his hands.
Chris waved his hand. The Arrow flitted into the doorframe near Wyatts Head. "Sorry" Chris grimaced. Nick escaped, blowing a kiss as he vanished.
"What was that all about?" Eva asked as Leo healed her injuries.
Eva opened the book. "Okay gang, we have a crazy demon" she shrugged. "This is unusual but we'll take him down. What clues do we have?"
"Assortment of powers" Eric said. "He had ones that usually don't go together"
"He bypassed the energy gems when he got in" Wyatt
"Okay let me see" Eva raised her hand and blue sparks hit the pages of the book
Nick cracked his knuckles and rolled his shoulders over and over. "I swear they're worse the damn Brady Bunch!" he was in a cloaked cavern that was dark and depressing on many levels. "So be it – we'll play this game on their terms" he snarled.
He walked over to a table and opened a jar, pouring ingredients into a bowl he started to stir them. "Let's see what we can do to make things all that more difficult for them" he snarled.
"Furies – not the kiss we're looking for" sighed Eva. "He wasn't a fury, way to male and sexy for that…though he did seem very effeminate' she was talking to herself for the most part.
"How did you know him?" Eric asked. Wyatt looked at his brother, he was staring vaguely at the book over Eva's shoulder.
"Hm? Oh – Book Club" blinked Chris.
Wyatt was about to ask for more details when Eva gave a loud "AHAH" she had the page opened on a book with a sultry female demon on it. "here we go – He's a Nix" she read. "Nixen are the tempters of the underworld, they are irresistible but rare. Nixen females are often the heads of Power Broker clans because they can regurgitate powers into others, however males are far rarer and are most sought after for their skills as…lovers" she raised her eyebrows.
"Nixen undergo a right of passage at a young age when they must use their powers to drain the power of teleportation from a Demon to reach the upper worlds. Nixen are powerful creatures and above ground they can be found granting wishes, usually they feed off the chaos and mayhem as a route to stealing human souls" Eric continued. "Nixen grant wishes to the sinful – male Nixen however are usually caught and put into slavery at a very young age, it is believe no more then three have ever existed and have all committed suicide or died from depression and captivity"
"Nixen are hard to kill and will amass power with each victim they claim with their kiss, there is also the matter of any powers that they have from Crossbreeds with magical folk of other orders…" Wyatt paused. "Crossbreeding? It's like a horse show!"
"Nixen are clever, deadly and skilled hunters, when fighting one, never allow it to embrace you, always be ready for its speed and never let your guard down, be prepared for ANYTHING" Chris finished,
"We'd better tell Mom and Dad" Wyatt said firmly.
Nick stirred the liquid. "I've really got to focus more…how to get to the Charmed ones? Use what they don't know…" he poured the liquid into a vial. "Now…let's go back to school"
He shimmered away.
TBC
Next chapter: What does he plan to do at the magic school? Will Chris' dirty laundry get an airing? How does Nick plan to get at Chris this time? All this and more, same slash time, same slash channel.