Mel's P.O.V

"Is there a reason why you guys are up hear whispering?" I asked.

"Nothing." Polly and Henry replied immediately.

"They were accusing you of being evil because they think you are the one that died at birth and was resurrected." Tafarie answered.

"Did you tell them?" I asked.

"Yea."

"Wait, you knew?" Henry asked before Polly could.

"No time for this people, we need to see a Pharaoh about a stone and a boy."

"Exactly right. Let's do this, take my hands." Tafarie said.

"Wait, aren't we bringing Matt?" Polly asked.

"He does have some serious abilities." Tafarie said.

"Guys we can't get Matt involved." I said.

"Mel's right, we put him and his parents through too much already, this is too dangerous." Henry agreed.

"Wow, you two agreeing is almost scary, but I see your point." Polly said then we orbed out.

Within a few seconds we were there, only I doubted there was where we were supposed to be, it was an oasis I expected a desert, there was a castle, I expected a temple or a pyramid or at least a dessert full of yellow orange sand, sphinx and other weird statues.

"Is this the place?" I asked in disbelief.

"Yes. The last place you'll be seen alive." Someone, a man said from behind us.

We all whipped around and took defensive stands.

The guy was early 20s, impossibly pale, all most as if he was wearing makeup to appear ghostly, his eyes and only his eyes revealed that he was Asian.

He had all white hair and a violent yet empty look in his eyes.

"If it isn't the new charmed ones and their whitelighter, Tafarie Diety Marley, how nice to see you again."

"Does everyone know who we are?" Henry exclaimed.

"What?" I asked.

"Tafarie what's ghost face talking about?" Henry asked.

"Are you Cepheus?" Polly asked.

"For the destruction of the latest incarnation of the Charmed ones, Tafarie what are you doing?"

"Alright that's enough of this." Melinda said then blasted the ground below the white haired man causing him to almost stumble, but he caught himself and glared at her.

"My cousin asked you a question and I'm not in a mode to echo her." Mel said glaring back.

"Mel, cool dung man." Tafarie said.

"Wow, they were right you are powerful, maybe even powerful enough to save your love life, maybe." The white haired man replied.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Polly asked.

"It means the stones you seek will not be of any used to you, you don't even know who cursed you."

"I'm not the one that was cursed and how do you know so much?"

"Amethius!" Tafarie shouted.

"So that's who you are. Tafarie how come you didn't tell us you guys know each other?" Henry asked.

"There's a lot of things I can't say outside of some kind of burial ground." Tafarie said and it dawned on me that not only the Pharaoh was surely buried there, but many others were buried beneath our feet.

"You could have given us a heads up." Henry said.

"Whatever, where do we find the stones?" Mel asked.

"You mean these?" Amethius asked removing his white scarf revealing a necklace decked with amorite.

"Yes, we need them." Polly said and Amethius smiled mischievously.

"Unfortunately the ones you see, the stones around my neck are the last pieces of amorite in existence." He replied sounding very satisfied with himself.

"I'm guessing you're not a lender." Henry said.

"You'd be correct, especially when it comes to gifts from my beloved Pharaoh."

"Wait, what?" Polly asked.

"Another thing, amorite can do a lot more than you know, if used right it can cause a person to become a slave to someone else's desires, make them think they are in love." Tafarie said and it worried me.

Would it affect me like that?

"That must be how Cepheus has kept him here so long." Polly said.

"I guess pixies don't age." Henry observed looking at Amethius who looked entirely too young for some who had been a prison for several decades.

"You should speak up Taf, you were never so quiet as a child, is it because you're no longer the prince of the sea?" Amethius shouted in sing song tone.

"Shut up you nat." Tafarie spat indignantly, his eyes never looked as furious as they did then.

Amethius raised his arms and spun them around and what looked like a gigantic bubble surrounded Tafarie trapping him inside the rubber like circular prison.

"I told you never to call me that!" Amethius spat.

"Tafarie!" I exclaimed.

I immediately tried to blow up the bubble and was sent flying backwards.

"Mel,are you good?" Henry asked helping me up.

"Yeah."

"Don't waste your time, my deprivation chambers have outer layers like diamonds and they ricochet whatever you throw at them."

"Tafarie, are you okay in there?" Polly asked hesitantly touching the bubble.

"There's no air, but whitelighters don't need to breathe, as you know we're not living beings." Tafarie said and that's when I realised he never told us about how he died so young, it was so scarcely talked about, I forgot about whitelighters being humans who passed away and were chosen to become angels in a sense.

"Yes you are dead, but I know as much as you do that it hurts just the same and so would drowning." Amethius said.

"Drowning?" Henry asked, he and I were standing a little further away from Polly and Tafarie.

"Guys the bubble is filling up with water. Tafarie, why can't you orb out?" Polly exclaimed.

"My prisons prevent that, each one is specifically tailored for my intended prisoner, do not refer to them as bubbles they are far more complex."

I tried to blast him mid speach, but he ended up behind me about to trap Henry and I, Henry orbed us out and over to Polly.

"We need ideas fast, it's already full." Polly said, Tafarie looked like his head was about to explode, I could tell he wanted to exhale, he didn't need to, but he was still built like a human and he would soon experience endless drowning.

"He's suffering." Henry said.

"Why are you doing this?" He asked Amethius.

"Because you are not welcome, leave here and I'll free him."

"We can't leave without the amorite, you don't understand, I need it." I said.

"I understand that you have no idea who really cursed you." He replied.

"You keep saying that, I was not cursed, Moon was." I whispered Moon's name.

"Guys take my hand, I have an idea." Polly said, not taking her eyes off Tafarie.

"Tafarie knows this guy, if I can reach his mind using the power of three we should be able to communicate." Polly said.

"Okay. Henry keep an eye on him, orb us if he tries anything." I said.

"Repeat after me. Day or night a witch has been denied entrance into the mind of this being, I call upon the power of three, open up his mind so we may communicate seamlessly, by the spirits use the connection shared between this man and the power of three let us share thoughts let it be." Polly recited, Amethius was about to strike and Henry orbed us out of the way and we repeated the spell.

"Use your special abilities they are amplified here." is all Tafarie got out, he was screaming in his head.

"I think he means your lightning and your power of persuasion." I said trying to figure out what it meant for me.

Polly was about to speak when she was engulfed by one of the bubble prisons.

"Mind control, aye can't have that." Amethius said appearing behind us.

Henry orbed us out and to a safer distance.

"We have to get Polly out of that thing, she's terrified of drowning and small spaces." I said getting a little scared.

"That was weird." Henry said to himself.

"What?" I asked confused.

"I think you've noticed that ghost face is like vampire fast, which means he could have snuck up behind us and done that all along at any time." Henry replied.

"But he waited."

"The cages take time." Tafarie got through.

"Of course he said that the cages are tailored for each prisoner, which means..." Henry said.

"Polly won't be able to escape." I said but Henry didn't seem to agree.

"That's right, and I have a feeling unlike Tafarie she'll stay drowned." Amethius said appearing in front of us, we stayed put knowing he needed time to trap us.

"Leave and she lives, last chance charmed babies." He said.

"Mel, blast him!" Henry exclaimed I did he dodged then Henry orbed out surprising me a little, when he orbed into Polly's bubble then back out with her in hand just as the bubble was about to fill up with water, I was shook.

Polly inhaled and exhaled rapidly and I remembered that she was without air inside the cage.

"No!" Amethius exclaimed.

He was about to lunged at us when Polly raised her hand and stopped him then forced him to his knees.

"You cruel bastard." She was furious.

"We have to help Tafarie it's unbearable inside those things."

"I can't orb in, if it's truly tailored for him it won't allow me to." Henry said.

"Haha ha." Amethius laughed trying to stand.

Polly held him and made him bite his tongue until it bled.

"He's fighting my hold."

"Maybe you can use him to free Tafarie." Henry suggested.

"I'd have to know how his powers work and have more experience with this power." Polly said then stumbled, her nose bled a little.

"Cute trick little witch." Amethius said then trapped me inside of one of his bubble cages, I immediately felt removed from the fight, the view of outside was blurred and holding my breath grew more difficult with each fleeting second.

"Mel!' I heard Henry shout from outside.

I almost screamed when I felt water rising to my ankles.

"Mel! let's get out of here." Henry said after orbing in, I shamelessly hugged him and waited to exhale, but nothing happened.

"Oh no!" Henry exclaimed. I could hear Amethius laughing from outside, I saw Polly fly into the air above us to escape him.

"He made this cage for the both of us." I said.

I didn't wanna mess with time, but I closed my eyes and recited a spell in my head.

"Cute trick little witch." He said, I blasted him him before he could get the chance to trap me.

"Henry orb us into Tafarie's cage." I said grabbing his hand.

"Are you crazy!"

"Trust me." I said then he orbed us in, I blasted the bubble from the inside and it exploded and all the water rushed out almost as eagerly as we did with Tafarie who was exhausted.

"I thought it couldn't be blown up." Polly said.

"Not from the outside it couldn't be and not at all if it were tailored for me, but it wasn't." I said.

"I can't believe it allowed me to orb in." Henry said.

"I can. He made it so it would allow you to orb in because he didn't expect you to be able to escape, because it prevents orbing from the inside." I said.

"Righteous. Alright ghost face hand over the stones or we'll take you out, power of three style." Henry said as we connected hands.

"Guess I'm a little out matched." Amethius said.

"Facts." Henry said.

"I'll trade my amorite for your orbious portus ability." Amethius said.

"My what?"

"Orb balls." Tafarie clarified.

"Hell no." Henry spat.

"Then I trap myself in deprivation chambers one that prevents orbing from outside as well as inside."

"You're bluffing." Polly said.

"He's not, he can survive in his cages." Tafarie said.

"Why would Cepheus allow you to give them to us?" Henry asked and Amethius laughs.

"Just now realizing how much you and those pretentious elders don't know Taf. Cepheus did not capture me, yes when I came here I was on a quest to find his ghost, I did, I helped him moved on several years ago, this necklace does not to have me under any kind of spell."

"What!" Henry and Polly exclaimed, I waited for Tafarie to reply.

"So you abandoned your family and sent false news to the elders! That's just like you."

"Yes, exactly why are you even surprised? Taf you remember our games."

"Games, is that what you call them?"

"Tafarie, what should we do?" I asked.

"He's spiteful and stubborn, he's not gonna give us those stones unless Henry relinquishes that ability."

"Then I'll find another way." I said resolved to not let anyone, but myself take risks for what I wanted.

"How noble." Amethius said bitterly.

"Why do you want that power from me?" Henry asked ignoring me.

"Henry."

"Mel, it's okay."

"If you must know, I want to combine it with my chambers."

"Deal."

"Henry, you can't I won't let you!" I said.

"This power doesn't work on upper levels and It's not much help against swift enemies and ones that can shimmer and I want to do it because... we have to fight like hell to have a life separate from magic."

"You know it's serious when he quotes our parents." Polly said.

"Spare me charmed kids."

"That's The charmed kids to you."