Chapter 1: New Dawning, Part I
Author's Notes: Okay, while you're waiting for the latest part of "Darkness Chronicles", you have something new to tide you over. After downloading and watching the Season 3 Finale, "All Hell Breaks Loose", for the second time (the watching part, I mean), the idea almost instantly came to me for another, perhaps more interesting Alternate-Universe, Halliwell-gone-evil story (I love writing evil Halliwell stories, so much material, so little time). For this one, we go back to the deal made between The Source and Phoebe. Here's a refresher course for those who forget: The Source was going to summon Tempest to turn back time (thereby killing him), since Piper had died and Prue was about to die due to them being found out and exposed by the media. However, for him to do so, Phoebe had to agree to turn evil. Phoebe agreed on the condition that Cole be allowed to warn Prue and Piper that The Source's Demonic hitman, Shrafts, was coming to kill them, because they'd be dead anyway if he didn't. However, The Source betrayed them, leaving Prue and Piper to die. Leo managed to save Piper, but not Prue. However, in my story, The Source will have kept to his deal, feeling that turning Phoebe from a good Witch into an evil entity was worth it, because of the great power Phoebe showed as a Warlock in the episode "Bride and Gloom". We open as time has been turned back, and Prue and Piper have managed to get a frantic Dr. Griffis to calm down, just moments before Shrafts arrives.
"Well, what the hell do you plan to do about Shrafts?" Piper said frantically.
"I don't know, I don't know, just give me a freaking moment to THINK!" Prue yelled out. "Where is Phoebe?"
"I don't know, Leo can't sense her, we tried a little while ago." Piper said. "She must have gone back to the Underworld to find Cole without telling us."
(Author's Note: Underworld isn't affected by time being reset so Phoebe is still there.)
Cole suddenly shimmered in, breaking up this frenzied conversation.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Prue yelled at him. "And where is our sister?"
"I don't have any time to explain." Cole said. "Just, use this amulet to kill Shrafts."
Cole grabbed a small red amulet, strung to a necklace, out of his pocket.
"Piper, more exactly." Cole said. "It will magnify her explosion power and will allow her to vanquish Shrafts with it. He'll be coming any second, and if you don't use this, you'll both die."
"How do you know..." Piper began to say, but Cole shimmered out. Piper turned to Prue. "Well?"
"I guess we have no choice but to trust him." Prue replied.
Piper nodded and put the amulet around her neck, just as the tornado that is Shrafts made its way into the Manor. Piper waved her arms, and the tornado exploded in mid-air, leaving a resdue that signaled its vanquish.
"Wow, that's one powerful amulet." Piper remarked. "Now, what do we do about the doctor?"
"Come on." Prue said. "Let me take the lead."
"As always." Piper snorted before following her sister.
Cole shimmered back in front of Phoebe and Leo in the Underworld.
"It's done." Cole said. "They have the amulet."
"Does that mean they vanquished him?" Phoebe asked him.
"Of course." came a voice from behind.
Phoebe, Cole, and Leo turned to see a man in a black suit standing behind them.
(Author's Note: Since he's never introduced in my story, I have "cast" the person who played the Vampire Rowan in "Bite Me" as this character. So, he looks just like Rowan. Yes, I can do that.)
"Aerax." Cole said. "The Demon Aerax, one of the most powerful in the world. Also an old enemy of mine."
"You and I never got along very well, did we?" Aerax said with a laugh. "But now, it looks like we will have to, since we're going to be one big, happy family."
"What do you mean?" Cole asked him.
"I've been assigned to help you and Phoebe." Aerax said. "Phoebe is new to evil, and she doesn't need the sole guidance of a man who can't decide whether he's even evil or not."
"What makes you think Cole is even staying with me?" Phoebe asked him. "He's free to go, that wasn't part of the stipluations, and I brought out his good side again."
"Cole would never abandon his Witch." Aerax replied. "He's so predictable that way. Aren't you, Cole?"
Cole gritted his teeth at him, as Leo backed away.
"The Source sent me to inform you all of a little spell added to Tempest's final work." Aerax said. "The deal can never be broken. If Phoebe returns to the side of good, Tempest's turning back of time is autmoatically ended and we return to the time that we left."
"Which means Piper dead." Phoebe said.
"Correct." Aerax said. "One little other stipluation."
Aerax turned to Leo.
"Whitelighter, listen to me, and listen to me good." Aerax said. "The Source does not want Phoebe interacting with her siblings just yet. That will only reinforce the good still left inside of her and will not help her progression into evil. So, you are to report to them that they are dead. Thanks to a powerful spell cast directly by The Source himself, it is what the Elders will believe as well. Only you will know that it is not true. If you ever reveal to them that Phoebe is still alive and serving evil, Tempest's turning back of time will be automatically ended."
"Fine." Leo said.
"You are also never to step foot in the Underworld again, or I will personally see to it that a Blacklighter puts an arrow right through your heart." Aerax said.
Leo gave him a nasty look, and then turned to Phoebe.
"Phoebe....I don't know what to say to you." Leo said. "You're making the ultimate sacrifice....without you, my Piper would be dead. My wife, would be dead. And since this is the last time I will ever see the good you, the real you, again, I want to thank you, with all of my heart."
Phoebe, with tears welling up in her eyes, embraced Leo.
"Yes, yes, that's all well and good, now get moving Whitelighter!" Aerax shouted.
Leo let go of his embrace, and mouthed "Goodbye" as he orbbed out. Phoebe began crying a bit and hugged Cole's shoulder.
"It's going to be okay, Phoebe." Cole told her. "I'm going to be here with you, always. I'll always love you."
"But I won't always love you, Cole." Phoebe said between sobs. "You'll always have good in you because you're half-human, but me.....I'll be fully evil, and once I completley fall into evil, I won't be able to love you anymore!"
Cole embraced her again.
"We won't let that happen." was all Cole could say to her.
"Enjoy your last few moments as a Witch." Aerax said. "You are to be brought in front of The Source for your ceremony."
"Ceremony?" Phoebe asked him, removing a tear.
"Your turning." Aerax told her.
"Why does my turning need a ceremony?" Phoebe asked him. "If I'm just going from Witch to Warlock, that's natural progression from Good to Evil."
"You're not becoming a Warlock, my dear." Aerax told her. "You're becoming an upper-level Demon."
"What?" Cole asked him.
"According to The Source's Oracle, Phoebe's powers will increase greatly if she is turned into a Demon." Aerax said. "And she will do it by mixing your blood with hers."
"So wait...." Phoebe began. "I'll be a half-Witch, half-Demon?"
"Correct." Aerax told her.
Secretly, Phoebe began to work this out in her mind.
If I remain half-Witch, that means if I can resist evil on my Witch side, I can remain half-good, just like Cole! Phoebe thought. And as half-good, I can still love him!
She nodded as she walked through the exit of Cole's quaters in the Underworld. Aerax then turned to Cole.
"And by the way, I just love how you sneaked the Amulet of Mer'Kai to the Charmed Ones, giving them the ability to vanquish the Demons that The Source sends without the Power of Three." Aerax said. "No, I'm not going to go tell The Source. You being tortured to death would be counter-productive to Phoebe's turning. I am, however, going to keep my eye on you, old friend."
Aerax turned and went towards the exit as Cole glared at where he was once standing, before walking towards the exit as well.
Prue and Piper were upstairs in the attic, frantically searching through the Book of Shadows.
"Leo!" Piper yelled.
"It's no use, Piper, that's the tenth time you called him." Prue said. "Did you find anything in the Book about that amulet?"
"No." Piper said. "Think that means it's Black Magic?"
"We'll have to ask Leo whenever we manage to find him. "LEO!"
This time, Leo finally orbbed in.
"Leo, we need your help." Prue said. "Cole showed up, gave Piper this weird amulet that let us vanquish Bracks without the Power of Three, then left again. And we haven't been able to find Phoebe since you told us that you couldn't sense her. Just where have you been?"
"With the Elders." Leo lied. "Prue, Piper, there's something I need to tell you."
"Well?" Prue asked him. "What is it?"
"Phoebe is dead. When she returned to the Underworld, Cole....he killed her."
It seemed as if life stopped at that very moment for Prue and Piper. Their baby sister has been killed....tears began to flow. Mourning began as Piper dropped to her knees, and Prue turned and exited the attic. Leo kneeled down and embraced Piper, trying to deal with the guilt of lying to her and forcing her to go through this. It was the end of the Power of Three.
In the chamber of The Source, black crystals had been spread into a circle of dark energy. As The Source, still in his red robe, stood behind the crystals, Aerax entered the room, and went to his side.
"Sire, Pheobe is ready for the ceremony." Aerax told him.
The Source nodded.
Outside in the hallway, Phoebe and Cole embraced one last time.
"You're sure that you want to go through with this, Phoebe?" Cole asked her.
"I don't." Phoebe replied with a tear in her right eye. "But I must. It is the only way to make things right for Prue and Piper."
"And what about you?"
"I will survive....somehow." Phoebe said. "Cole....if I can resist evil on my Witch side, can't I remain half-good, just like you?"
"Yes, but it's not easy, Phoebe." Cole said. "It's a lot easier if you allow yourself to be turned evil on your Witch half as well. That way, you can be fully evil. It's easier to deal with than the nagging voice of good, especially considering you can never return to good."
"But then I can't love you." Phoebe said. "This way, I can."
Phoebe kissed him before the two held hands and prepared to enter The Source's chamber.
Several men in dark robes began filing into the chamber, each holding red candels. Then, after the final one had filed in, Phoebe and Cole stepped into the chamber, Phoebe wearing a black gown. Emotion was no longer seen in her eyes, as she had given herself up to a harsh coldness of her new reality. They entered the center of dark energy created by the black crystals, and stood before The Source.
"Today, we arrive at a new era." The Source said. "This powerful Witch, a Charmed One, is ready to shed the restraints of good, and become a much more powerful Demon for evil."
Phoebe felt a jolt of dark energy run through her. It felt like an eerie cold rage, a boiling, yet cool feeling of anger and darkness. One of the men in dark robes stepped in front of The Source, in-between himself and Phoebe.
"This Dark Preist shall complete your transformation." The Source said.
"Are you willing to embrace darkness, and completley reject all that is good?" the Dark Preist asked her.
"Yes." came Phoebe's reply.
Another jolt of dark energy ran through her veins, as the Dark Preist took out a ceremonial knife. With it, he cut Phoebe's wrist and Cole's wrist, and held their arms parallel over each other, allowing their bloods to mix. He only did this for a slight second before pulling them away.
"I summon the spirit of all that is dark to come forth!" the Dark Preist screamed. "Bring the demonic powers forth, and allow her to accept them!"
Phoebe struggled to maintain her composre as inside her, an avalanche of dark power had been let loose. She felt her body changing inside, her mind changing as well. She finally fell to her knees, unable to keep her stance with the dark power so suddenly arriving inside of her. She closed her eyes shut, and suddenly seemed to be at peace.
"It has been completed." the Dark Preist said.
"Excellent." The Source replied. "Phoebe, how do you feel?"
Phoebe opened her eyes, and an evil smile formed on her lips. From her kneeled position, she opened her left hand, and a stream of fire shot out of it, hitting the Dark Preist, and vanquishing him into nothing as he screamed and exploded. She stood up, and kissed Cole, then turned back to The Source.
"Wonderful." Phoebe said. "Absolutley wonderful."
She kissed Cole again as The Source broke into a maniacal laughter.
To Be Continued.....
(Yet Another Author's Note: Since I want this to feel like a real "season" of Charmed, with stand-alone plots and such besides the plot of the entire story, I'm adding a "next up" thing at the end with a preview of the next chapter. Hope you like it.)
Next Up: New Dawning, Part II
Phoebe recieves her first assignment as a Demon- she's to kill a young boy who will grow up to be a future peace negoitatior, saving many innocent lives that would have died in wars he prevents. Cole and Aerox help her through her first mission. Meanwhile, Prue and Piper figure that something is up when something blocks them from locating Cole and the body of Phoebe, and head to the Underworld themselves to investigate.
Author's Notes: Okay, while you're waiting for the latest part of "Darkness Chronicles", you have something new to tide you over. After downloading and watching the Season 3 Finale, "All Hell Breaks Loose", for the second time (the watching part, I mean), the idea almost instantly came to me for another, perhaps more interesting Alternate-Universe, Halliwell-gone-evil story (I love writing evil Halliwell stories, so much material, so little time). For this one, we go back to the deal made between The Source and Phoebe. Here's a refresher course for those who forget: The Source was going to summon Tempest to turn back time (thereby killing him), since Piper had died and Prue was about to die due to them being found out and exposed by the media. However, for him to do so, Phoebe had to agree to turn evil. Phoebe agreed on the condition that Cole be allowed to warn Prue and Piper that The Source's Demonic hitman, Shrafts, was coming to kill them, because they'd be dead anyway if he didn't. However, The Source betrayed them, leaving Prue and Piper to die. Leo managed to save Piper, but not Prue. However, in my story, The Source will have kept to his deal, feeling that turning Phoebe from a good Witch into an evil entity was worth it, because of the great power Phoebe showed as a Warlock in the episode "Bride and Gloom". We open as time has been turned back, and Prue and Piper have managed to get a frantic Dr. Griffis to calm down, just moments before Shrafts arrives.
"Well, what the hell do you plan to do about Shrafts?" Piper said frantically.
"I don't know, I don't know, just give me a freaking moment to THINK!" Prue yelled out. "Where is Phoebe?"
"I don't know, Leo can't sense her, we tried a little while ago." Piper said. "She must have gone back to the Underworld to find Cole without telling us."
(Author's Note: Underworld isn't affected by time being reset so Phoebe is still there.)
Cole suddenly shimmered in, breaking up this frenzied conversation.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Prue yelled at him. "And where is our sister?"
"I don't have any time to explain." Cole said. "Just, use this amulet to kill Shrafts."
Cole grabbed a small red amulet, strung to a necklace, out of his pocket.
"Piper, more exactly." Cole said. "It will magnify her explosion power and will allow her to vanquish Shrafts with it. He'll be coming any second, and if you don't use this, you'll both die."
"How do you know..." Piper began to say, but Cole shimmered out. Piper turned to Prue. "Well?"
"I guess we have no choice but to trust him." Prue replied.
Piper nodded and put the amulet around her neck, just as the tornado that is Shrafts made its way into the Manor. Piper waved her arms, and the tornado exploded in mid-air, leaving a resdue that signaled its vanquish.
"Wow, that's one powerful amulet." Piper remarked. "Now, what do we do about the doctor?"
"Come on." Prue said. "Let me take the lead."
"As always." Piper snorted before following her sister.
Cole shimmered back in front of Phoebe and Leo in the Underworld.
"It's done." Cole said. "They have the amulet."
"Does that mean they vanquished him?" Phoebe asked him.
"Of course." came a voice from behind.
Phoebe, Cole, and Leo turned to see a man in a black suit standing behind them.
(Author's Note: Since he's never introduced in my story, I have "cast" the person who played the Vampire Rowan in "Bite Me" as this character. So, he looks just like Rowan. Yes, I can do that.)
"Aerax." Cole said. "The Demon Aerax, one of the most powerful in the world. Also an old enemy of mine."
"You and I never got along very well, did we?" Aerax said with a laugh. "But now, it looks like we will have to, since we're going to be one big, happy family."
"What do you mean?" Cole asked him.
"I've been assigned to help you and Phoebe." Aerax said. "Phoebe is new to evil, and she doesn't need the sole guidance of a man who can't decide whether he's even evil or not."
"What makes you think Cole is even staying with me?" Phoebe asked him. "He's free to go, that wasn't part of the stipluations, and I brought out his good side again."
"Cole would never abandon his Witch." Aerax replied. "He's so predictable that way. Aren't you, Cole?"
Cole gritted his teeth at him, as Leo backed away.
"The Source sent me to inform you all of a little spell added to Tempest's final work." Aerax said. "The deal can never be broken. If Phoebe returns to the side of good, Tempest's turning back of time is autmoatically ended and we return to the time that we left."
"Which means Piper dead." Phoebe said.
"Correct." Aerax said. "One little other stipluation."
Aerax turned to Leo.
"Whitelighter, listen to me, and listen to me good." Aerax said. "The Source does not want Phoebe interacting with her siblings just yet. That will only reinforce the good still left inside of her and will not help her progression into evil. So, you are to report to them that they are dead. Thanks to a powerful spell cast directly by The Source himself, it is what the Elders will believe as well. Only you will know that it is not true. If you ever reveal to them that Phoebe is still alive and serving evil, Tempest's turning back of time will be automatically ended."
"Fine." Leo said.
"You are also never to step foot in the Underworld again, or I will personally see to it that a Blacklighter puts an arrow right through your heart." Aerax said.
Leo gave him a nasty look, and then turned to Phoebe.
"Phoebe....I don't know what to say to you." Leo said. "You're making the ultimate sacrifice....without you, my Piper would be dead. My wife, would be dead. And since this is the last time I will ever see the good you, the real you, again, I want to thank you, with all of my heart."
Phoebe, with tears welling up in her eyes, embraced Leo.
"Yes, yes, that's all well and good, now get moving Whitelighter!" Aerax shouted.
Leo let go of his embrace, and mouthed "Goodbye" as he orbbed out. Phoebe began crying a bit and hugged Cole's shoulder.
"It's going to be okay, Phoebe." Cole told her. "I'm going to be here with you, always. I'll always love you."
"But I won't always love you, Cole." Phoebe said between sobs. "You'll always have good in you because you're half-human, but me.....I'll be fully evil, and once I completley fall into evil, I won't be able to love you anymore!"
Cole embraced her again.
"We won't let that happen." was all Cole could say to her.
"Enjoy your last few moments as a Witch." Aerax said. "You are to be brought in front of The Source for your ceremony."
"Ceremony?" Phoebe asked him, removing a tear.
"Your turning." Aerax told her.
"Why does my turning need a ceremony?" Phoebe asked him. "If I'm just going from Witch to Warlock, that's natural progression from Good to Evil."
"You're not becoming a Warlock, my dear." Aerax told her. "You're becoming an upper-level Demon."
"What?" Cole asked him.
"According to The Source's Oracle, Phoebe's powers will increase greatly if she is turned into a Demon." Aerax said. "And she will do it by mixing your blood with hers."
"So wait...." Phoebe began. "I'll be a half-Witch, half-Demon?"
"Correct." Aerax told her.
Secretly, Phoebe began to work this out in her mind.
If I remain half-Witch, that means if I can resist evil on my Witch side, I can remain half-good, just like Cole! Phoebe thought. And as half-good, I can still love him!
She nodded as she walked through the exit of Cole's quaters in the Underworld. Aerax then turned to Cole.
"And by the way, I just love how you sneaked the Amulet of Mer'Kai to the Charmed Ones, giving them the ability to vanquish the Demons that The Source sends without the Power of Three." Aerax said. "No, I'm not going to go tell The Source. You being tortured to death would be counter-productive to Phoebe's turning. I am, however, going to keep my eye on you, old friend."
Aerax turned and went towards the exit as Cole glared at where he was once standing, before walking towards the exit as well.
Prue and Piper were upstairs in the attic, frantically searching through the Book of Shadows.
"Leo!" Piper yelled.
"It's no use, Piper, that's the tenth time you called him." Prue said. "Did you find anything in the Book about that amulet?"
"No." Piper said. "Think that means it's Black Magic?"
"We'll have to ask Leo whenever we manage to find him. "LEO!"
This time, Leo finally orbbed in.
"Leo, we need your help." Prue said. "Cole showed up, gave Piper this weird amulet that let us vanquish Bracks without the Power of Three, then left again. And we haven't been able to find Phoebe since you told us that you couldn't sense her. Just where have you been?"
"With the Elders." Leo lied. "Prue, Piper, there's something I need to tell you."
"Well?" Prue asked him. "What is it?"
"Phoebe is dead. When she returned to the Underworld, Cole....he killed her."
It seemed as if life stopped at that very moment for Prue and Piper. Their baby sister has been killed....tears began to flow. Mourning began as Piper dropped to her knees, and Prue turned and exited the attic. Leo kneeled down and embraced Piper, trying to deal with the guilt of lying to her and forcing her to go through this. It was the end of the Power of Three.
In the chamber of The Source, black crystals had been spread into a circle of dark energy. As The Source, still in his red robe, stood behind the crystals, Aerax entered the room, and went to his side.
"Sire, Pheobe is ready for the ceremony." Aerax told him.
The Source nodded.
Outside in the hallway, Phoebe and Cole embraced one last time.
"You're sure that you want to go through with this, Phoebe?" Cole asked her.
"I don't." Phoebe replied with a tear in her right eye. "But I must. It is the only way to make things right for Prue and Piper."
"And what about you?"
"I will survive....somehow." Phoebe said. "Cole....if I can resist evil on my Witch side, can't I remain half-good, just like you?"
"Yes, but it's not easy, Phoebe." Cole said. "It's a lot easier if you allow yourself to be turned evil on your Witch half as well. That way, you can be fully evil. It's easier to deal with than the nagging voice of good, especially considering you can never return to good."
"But then I can't love you." Phoebe said. "This way, I can."
Phoebe kissed him before the two held hands and prepared to enter The Source's chamber.
Several men in dark robes began filing into the chamber, each holding red candels. Then, after the final one had filed in, Phoebe and Cole stepped into the chamber, Phoebe wearing a black gown. Emotion was no longer seen in her eyes, as she had given herself up to a harsh coldness of her new reality. They entered the center of dark energy created by the black crystals, and stood before The Source.
"Today, we arrive at a new era." The Source said. "This powerful Witch, a Charmed One, is ready to shed the restraints of good, and become a much more powerful Demon for evil."
Phoebe felt a jolt of dark energy run through her. It felt like an eerie cold rage, a boiling, yet cool feeling of anger and darkness. One of the men in dark robes stepped in front of The Source, in-between himself and Phoebe.
"This Dark Preist shall complete your transformation." The Source said.
"Are you willing to embrace darkness, and completley reject all that is good?" the Dark Preist asked her.
"Yes." came Phoebe's reply.
Another jolt of dark energy ran through her veins, as the Dark Preist took out a ceremonial knife. With it, he cut Phoebe's wrist and Cole's wrist, and held their arms parallel over each other, allowing their bloods to mix. He only did this for a slight second before pulling them away.
"I summon the spirit of all that is dark to come forth!" the Dark Preist screamed. "Bring the demonic powers forth, and allow her to accept them!"
Phoebe struggled to maintain her composre as inside her, an avalanche of dark power had been let loose. She felt her body changing inside, her mind changing as well. She finally fell to her knees, unable to keep her stance with the dark power so suddenly arriving inside of her. She closed her eyes shut, and suddenly seemed to be at peace.
"It has been completed." the Dark Preist said.
"Excellent." The Source replied. "Phoebe, how do you feel?"
Phoebe opened her eyes, and an evil smile formed on her lips. From her kneeled position, she opened her left hand, and a stream of fire shot out of it, hitting the Dark Preist, and vanquishing him into nothing as he screamed and exploded. She stood up, and kissed Cole, then turned back to The Source.
"Wonderful." Phoebe said. "Absolutley wonderful."
She kissed Cole again as The Source broke into a maniacal laughter.
To Be Continued.....
(Yet Another Author's Note: Since I want this to feel like a real "season" of Charmed, with stand-alone plots and such besides the plot of the entire story, I'm adding a "next up" thing at the end with a preview of the next chapter. Hope you like it.)
Next Up: New Dawning, Part II
Phoebe recieves her first assignment as a Demon- she's to kill a young boy who will grow up to be a future peace negoitatior, saving many innocent lives that would have died in wars he prevents. Cole and Aerox help her through her first mission. Meanwhile, Prue and Piper figure that something is up when something blocks them from locating Cole and the body of Phoebe, and head to the Underworld themselves to investigate.