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CHAPTER TWO:
Paige landed in the underworld. Better find Leo, Paige thought to herself. "Leo!" No answer. "Leo!" she called again. Paige decided to walk forward, deeper into the cavern.
After a while, she came across Leo and… Barbas!
Not only that but Leo was on his knees with a hurt look on his face and there was an apparition of future Wyatt and future Chris were telling him how much they hated him.
That must be his fear, Paige thought, being a failure as a father…
Paige ran up to him, "Leo! That's not true, they don't mean it! They are not real! Snap out of it!"
"Ah, a Charmed One, nice of you to join us…" Barbas sneered with an evil grin on his face. "Now your greatest fear is… ah, losing Piper after the operation," Barbas cackled, "Well, it's about to come true!"
Next thing Paige knew, Piper was lying on the ground in front of her…dead.
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Back at the manor, Chris had given up hope on Leo. "Damn it! Where is he?!" Chris said to himself.
Gideon orbed back into the manor. "Hello Chris!" he said.
Chris ran for Wyatt and they orbed to the woods. Gideon orbed after him. "Chris, you know you can't escape me any longer," Gideon said mockingly.
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Back in the underworld, Paige said, "This is not real! Piper is alive! Rock!" she called for a nearby rock, and it orbed into her hand and she threw it at Barbas. It hit his head.
Her fear vanished. "Well, I think I knocked him out," Paige said.
But Leo's fear was still right in front of his face. "We wish you were dead!" the images of Wyatt and Chris in his fear screamed.
"Leo!" Paige shouted, "Come back to your senses! Wyatt and Chris need you right now! Gideon's after them!"
"You're right," Leo said. His fear vanished too.
"Now, come on!" Paige said, and they orbed back to the manor.
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Back into the words, Chris flicked his hand and sent Gideon smashing into a tree. "Keep away from us!" Chris shouted.
"Ouch! You foolish boy! You're going to pay for that!"
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Back at the manor, Leo said, "I sense Chris! He's in trouble!"
Leo and Paige orbed to where Chris was.
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In the woods, a terrible pain shot through Chris and he fell to the ground. "Perfect," said Gideon and started to walk closer to Wyatt.
Then Leo and Paige orbed in. Paige shouted, "Wyatt! Evil!" and Wyatt's force field shot up.
But Leo had a decision to make; at one side of the forest there was Gideon who could escape any moment and on the other, Chris sprawled out on the ground, moaning in pain.
"Athame!" Paige shouted for the knife in Gideon's hand. It orbed into her hand.
For Leo he didn't have a choice, he ran to Chris's side and Gideon orbed away.
"Darn it! He escaped!" Paige said in annoyance.
"We will get him another time, right now Chris needs us," Leo said.
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The world was back in balance because Gideon, having broken his oaths as an Elder and allied himself with evil, and gone after innocents with the intention to kill them, thereby committing a great act of evil and fixing the balance between worlds.
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Back at the hospital, Phoebe was looking out the window, when it turned into nighttime. It's night! She said to herself, the world must be back in balance. "I do hope everyone's alright," she whispered.
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Meanwhile, Gideon went back to Barbas, "Wake up you idiot! You were supposed to distract them!"
"I did for a little while," Barbas said, rubbing his aching head.
"Oh, why do I even bother?!" Gideon murmured.
"Hey! I heard that!" Barbas said, "And by the way, that's not the only thing I did. I happened to get you a small following of upper level demons."
"Well, save them. I want them to be waiting for the right time to strike. But right now," Gideon ordered, "I'm going alone for the one person who affects big Chris the most, so I'll have him out of the way."
"Who?" Barbas asked.
"Who, you say? Why baby Chris of course," and then he orbed away.
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