"You can't be serious!" Piper said.
"We don't have a choice Piper, they need us" Paige replied.
"But Paige, it's been ten years! Why now?"
"I don't know why now; but I do know that we are still the Charmed Ones! We still have a duty to help innocents"
"Piper, Paige is right." Phoebe said. "As much as I hate to admit it we are the only ones that have the power to do this. Could you really sit by and do nothing while everything we've ever fought for is destroyed?" she continued.
"For crying out loud, I can't believe this is happening!" Piper stated.
"So you'll help?" Paige said hopefully.
"Do I really have a choice?" Piper asked sarcastically. "But I'm warning you, if I get killed, I'm so gonna haunt you forever!" she added hastily.
Phoebe couldn't help but chuckle at that statement and as soon as Piper noticed she added, "You too missy!" with a stern look and Phoebe quickly stopped laughing.
"OK, so what's the plan Paige?" Piper asked, "The sooner we get on with this, the sooner I get back to work."
"Well I haven't quite reached the plan stage yet. I figured you guys would help me out." Paige replied.
Piper and Phoebe exchanged an exasperated look.
"OK then, let's start at the beginning, what exactly do we know about this demon?" Phoebe said.
"Well, according to the Elders, it's the usual M.O.; demon wants to rule the underworld to take over our world and it thinks now is a good time to do it." Paige explained.
"Yeah; big deal! The underworld has been in disarray since we got rid of the triad. Every two bit demon from here to hell and back has been trying to take over the underworld. What's so different about this one?" Phoebe asked.
"Well, two things; one, this one may actually pull it off and two, this one is from the future." Paige said.
"And? We've dealt with demons from the future before!" Piper said.
"Yeah but this one's different. He knows everything about us including the fact that we are out of practice." Paige
"And technically we haven't dealt with a demon from the future; two warlocks and a phoenix but no demons!" Phoebe pointed out.
"Oh yeah, good point!" Piper said.
"So if this demon is from the future he won't be in the book of Shadows, will he?" Phoebe said.
"He might be, it's possible one of our ancestors dealt with him. Come to think of it, we may have already faced him." Piper said. "Only one way to find out. Ladies, shall we?" she continued rising from her seat in the sun room and heading towards the stairs. Phoebe and Paige quickly followed.
As they entered the attic, Piper said, "So what exactly am I looking for Paige?"
"The demon is called Brazilious and oddly enough, he prefers to kill using an athame!" Paige replied.
Piper got to the lectern where the Book of Shadows rested before the others and began to browse through it looking for the demon while Phoebe took a seat on an old couch and Paige rested against an old chest of drawers.
"Why the hell would a demon use an athame instead of the traditional energy ball?" Phoebe asked.
"Funny you ask that! According to the Elders, it uses an athame because energy balls cause too much damage to the victim and the kill passes too quickly. This sicko likes to make the victim suffer, enjoy the pain, that kind of thing!" Paige explained.
"OK, we have to get this thing quickly!" Phoebe said, clearly alarmed by what Paige had just told her.
"Well, I've found one reference to a demon called Brazilious but I doubt it's the one we are looking for." Piper informed her sisters.
"Why" Paige said as she walked over to join her sister at the lectern.
"Remember the source?" Piper asked.
"Which one?" Phoebe replied.
"The original!" Piper stated in a tone of voice that suggested she thought it was obvious which source she meant.
"I was only checking!" Phoebe said. "Who could forget that charming fellow? What about him?"
"It says here that Brazilious was the demon that scared his face in the battle that brought him to power!" Piper explained.
"Wait, didn't Zankou take the credit for that?" Paige asked.
"It would appear that Brazilious was one of Zankou's minions and actually caused the damage." Piper stated.
"OK, so why can't he be the one we are looking for?" Phoebe asked.
"Well, if he was that powerful, surely the source would have vanquished him or we would have run into him before now!" Piper said.
"Let me see that." Phoebe said as she made her way to the lectern and as she reached for the Book, she suddenly gasped as she was pulled into a premonition.
There was a large stone wall covered in antediluvian writing and a male in his early thirties was standing in front of the wall. The male had jet black hair and was dressed in jeans and a black leather jacket and he appeared to be chanting as he had his head bowed, eyes closed and his lips were moving. The man then raised both arms in the air and he slowly changed form. He grew taller, his hair grew longer and his skin changed to a pale grey colour. He also grew a large set of silvery black wings from his back and two large horns from his forehead. When he had finished changing form, two beams of light were emitted from his hands and the wall began to disappear to reveal another version of the demon that appeared to be asleep.
When Phoebe's vision cleared she turned to her sisters and said, "I think I know why we haven't met Brazilious!"
"Why?" Paige asked.
"He hasn't freed himself from his prison yet." Phoebe stated
"Just what we need, a demon that frees himself from prison!" Piper said.
"Is there anything in here about how to vanquish him?" Paige asked as she began to read through the Book of Shadows.
"No, don't be silly, that would make things too easy!" Piper said. "I'm thinking that the best way to deal with this will be an upper level vanquishing potion with a vanquishing spell just in case!"
"Sounds like a plan!" Phoebe said. "Piper, you do the potion, I'll do the spell and Paige, you can check Magic School to see if there's anymore information on him there like a way to find him so that we can get a sample of his flesh for the potion!"
"OK, I'm off to the library, see you guys soon." Paige said as she disappeared in a flurry of blue of white lights.
"Are you ok honey?" Phoebe asked Piper.
"I'm fine; I just can't believe that I'm back making vanquishing potions after ten years!" Piper said sadly.
"There must be some small part of you that misses it? This is what we were born to do!" Phoebe said optimistically.
"I guess!" Piper replied after a few minutes of deep thought.
