Eternal Night of the Lost Souls: Chapter 1

Author's Notes: This is a sequel to Darkness Chronicles, which is a sequel to Despereat Measures, so I'd suggest reading those first.



"Watch out!"

Paige leaped out of the way just in time, as a streak of red lighting blasted into the cave wall where she had just been standing a few moments ago.

"Thanks for the warning, Leo!" Paige yelled back.

She ducked another shit of the red lighting, rolled under it, leaped, and tossed a white orb at the source of it- a demon dressed in (what else?) a black suit. He screamed as he was vanquished.

"Life in the Underworld is definitley not easy." Paige said, as Leo helped her back to her feet.

It was four and a half months since the Armageddon. Piper, the new Source, had taken most of demon-dom up to the surface, where they now ruled a planet plunged into eternal night, thanks to Piper's dark powers. Humans were nothing more than slaves, while the good souls remained in the ruined Above, as merely playthings put through eternal suffering by demons who dwelled up there. The Underworld, completley abandoned by evil, is where the free humans and the remaining witches and whitelighters now dwelled, but of course there were demons constantly coming to kill them.

And of course Paige, as the Sacred One, always had a huge mark on her head.

"Come on, Leo." Paige said. "Let's see if we can't save a few more humans down here before we call it a night."

Leo nodded as the two continued on.



"I cannot stand all the failure!" Piper screamed.

She was in the throne room of the Castle of the Source, built on the outskirts of San Fransisco.

"I am the SOURCE of all evil, and I have completley taken over the entire planet, and yet I can't find one fucking demon who's strong enough to take out my bitch half-sister?" Piper practically screamed. "This is a COMPLETE outrage!"

"Settle down a bit, Piper." Phoebe said. "If you want, I can take care of Paige....personally."

"Do it!" Piper yelled out.

Phoebe kneeled for Piper, and then blinked out. Piper moved her right arm outwards, and instantly a pair of female demons shimmered in and began giving her a manicure.

"Sometimes this job is just so tough." Piper said to herself.



Paige and Leo ran into another cave, where a demon had a man dressed in mostly rags cornered. Paige threw a white orb at him and he was vanquished instantly.

"Lower-level demon." Leo said.

"Yeah." Paige agreed.

She turned to the man.

"Run off now before they send another." she told him.

He nodded and ran. Paige turned around, and suddenly Phoebe was standing there, a smirk evident on her face.

"Phoebe." Paige said. "I didn't think I had become important enough for The Source to send her own sister to kill me."

"Well Paige, you have been quite the annoyance in the past four months." Phoebe said. "You're the only one in the puny Resistance still left down here that can vanquish our higher-level demons. And you've turned down our offers in the past four months to join your half-sisters in evil. I mean, think of it- others would jump at the chance to escape the eternal torment and hunting we've brought upon them by joining us. You actually can, and cause your Sacred powers to increase as well, but you refuse still. And why is that again?"

"Because I don't fight for evil, I fight against it." Paige replied. "Like you and Piper once did."

"You don't have the right to call The Source by her real name!" Phoebe screamed, and used her increased strength to send Paige flying into the wall with one punch.

Paige picked herself up as Phoebe smiled at the sight of blood trickling down her face.

"Now, Paige, I will give you one last chance." Phoebe said. "Join your half- sisters, or I kill you right now and end it all."

"Never." Paige managed to reply.

Phoebe raised her left fist to smash Paige's head in with her increased strength, but found her left arm was suddenly grabbed onto by someone.

Leo.

Phoebe gritted her teeth in anger and turned to face him. Her eyes turned completley black, without pupils, as Leo was suddenly shocked by a black electricity, sending him flying back into the opposite cave wall. Phoebe's eyes then went back to normal.

"I'm the sister of The Source now." Phoebe said. "I'm no longer just a Warlock, you two cannot hope to defeat me. Now, where was I."

Phoebe turned back to Paige, ready to crush her skull, when this time she was sliced across her left arm by a sword.

"Huh?" Phoebe said.

She turned to see a man dressed in blue armor, with a very handsome face as well.

"You." Phoebe said with gritted teeth.

The man didn't respond, instead went to slice Phoebe with his sword again. She flamed out before he could, and flamed in behind him. She raised her left hand and sent the man in armor flying into the wall with the same black electricity that had hurt Leo, but this time Phoebe was then sent flying into the wall as well, courtsey of a white orb from Paige. Paige grabbed onto the man, and then Leo, and orbbed out with them both.

"Damnit!" Phoebe yelled, and flamed out.



"So, how is the building of my Carribean mansion coming?" Piper said, back in the castle.

"Beautifully, my liege." the demon before her responded. "The slaves are working with increased purpose and speed since we threatened to take away their water, since it is very hot there this time of year."

"Keep strategies like that in place." Piper said. "I want that mansion done by the end of the month."

The demon bowed, and then shimmered out. Meanwhile, Cole appeared in a flash of dark light.

"What do you want?" Piper asked him, a bit annoyed at his presence.

"I came here looking for Phoebe." Cole said. "I wanted to thank her for the Crystal that allows me to teleport. It works amazingly well, as you just saw."

"Yeah, yeah." Piper said, who in the back of her mind still hated the fact that this human recieved the royal treatment because of his relations with Phoebe. "Phoebe's off trying to kill the Sacred One, if you have to know."

Just then, Phoebe flamed in.

"Cole." Phoebe said, and walked over and kissed him.

"Excuse me, but do you mind telling me how things went?" Piper asked her.

"Not so good." Phoebe replied. "He interfered again."

"You don't mean.....oh." Piper said. "Damnit, the Resistance is becoming much too organized! We need to nip this in the butt before it gets out-of- control!"

"It would be my suggestion to summon the Fallen Saviour for a job of this magnitutude, Piper." Phoebe said. "He should be able to take care of them."

"Right, good idea Phoebe." Piper said. "You two are free to do go do whatever."

Phoebe and Cole both bowed, and then Phoebe flamed out while Cole flashed out (what I'm calling teleportation using Phoebe's crystal). Piper, meanwhile, waved her right hand, and the Fallen Saviour flamed in.

"I have a job for you, Michael..." Piper said with a grin, as the Fallen Saviour gritted his teeth and snarled.

To Be Continued.....