Well here is chapter six, I'm not sure how this turned out. It didn't exactly match my expectations, I sort of just did it... So sorry for not updating sooner. Tell me what you guys think.
Chapter Six
Two brothers will lead the final battle against evil;
One twice blessed-
Past, present, and future king
Wielder of Excalibur.
The other strong;
Forged by the past.
His eyes darkened by the burden of life
And it is he who will end it;
He who will make the final sacrifice-
For his family.
The war will end,
But only one side will prevail.
"What are you talking about?" demanded Chris.
"Your destiny is far greater than just me. Yours and Wyatt's-"
Chris shook his head, disbelieving. "Wyatt's the twice blessed one," he protested futilely.
Piper nodded. "Yes he is, but you both are also part of a prophecy."
"Prophecy?"
Piper nodded, with a hint of sadness. "You and Wyatt will lead the final battle against evil. The warriors of Valhalla under your command as well as the many forces of good."
Chris shook his head. "Are you out of your mind?!" he nearly shouted. "And what the hell does that have to do with you fucking dying?"
Piper sent him a stern disapproving look which Chris merely ignored, too pissed to care.
"Christopher Halliwell!"
Chris sighed. "Mom, I just don't understand," he explained.
"The prophecy is about you both. It said Two brothers will lead the final battle against evil. Their mother, their family, one brother once lost to evil…
One twice blessed. Past, present and future king. Wielder of Excalibur.
The other strong, forged by the past. His eyes darkened by the burden of life…"
"What do you mean, once lost to evil?"
"I was lost to evil, wasn't I? Well killed, and the rest of us, we're all gone… finished by evil as well. And your brother Wyatt—we lost him to evil," she slowly explained, her eyes filling with tears.
"And you knew about this?" demanded Chris.
She nodded.
"Since when?" he asked angrily.
She bit her lip.
He shook his head, unwilling to believe his mother had known all along what would happen and had done nothing to prevent it. To prevent his pain, their deaths, Wyatt's turning… Nothing!
"You knew-" he whispered stunned. "You didn't care. All these years, everything I suffered… You let it happen!"
Piper stood deathly still. "I'm sorry," was all she could manage. "I didn't realize-"
"Stop!" he yelled, tears now streaming freely down their faces.
"Ju- just go!" he stammered.
"I truly am sorry, peanuts. I don't like it anymore than you do, but I learned to accept it in time. Because I know you are strong, you can make it through all of this."
"I told you, I asked you to talk to Wyatt so many times after it happened, but you never did. Is this why?"
Piper shook his head. "No I guess I though nothing could get to Wyatt. We all thought that. We were all wrong," she admitted.
"When you – died, he was close to the edge. Then everyone else died and that did it, I guess. He truly believes good was responsible for it all. It was--"
Piper nodded, remembering.
"What do I do now?" he asked bleakly. "Am I gonna die?"
Piper shook her head. "No, sweetie. Leo's healing you right now; you're going to be fine. But you have to tell them the truth. They need to know."
Chris shrugged. "What? Is that another part of the prophecy or something?"
Piper shook her head. "No. But you can't go on like this. I won't let you. Those woman, meaning younger me, and your aunts need to know the truth. They can help you better that way," she answered.
"It's better this way."
Piper understood. "You will change the future, and that might change-"
"Or it might not!" he interrupted sharply. Was he willing to take that chance? Get to know, let them get close and then go back to a future where they might not be??
"I suppose that's a risk you'll have to take," she answered slowly, standing near him.
What if I don't want to?! He thought. What if I'm tired of taking risks?
"It's almost time," she whispered distantly, looking away into the distance as if seeing something.
"Time?" asked Chris puzzled. But it was soon when he too realized what was happening, as everything slowly seemed to enclose around him as he fell back.
"Mom!" he cried out panicking.
She knelt down beside him, and held him. "It's ok, baby. It's ok!"
"Tell them the truth, let them help you! Please, promise me!" she begged desperately.
Half conscious he nodded, unable to deny his mother's wishes, just as he succumbed to the darkness.
(Underworld)
Bianca shimmered into the cave, anger raging through her. She would find those demons sent by Wyatt and she would destroy them-
Not vanquish --- d-e-s-t-r-o-y!
If Chris died ---
There would be hell to pay.
The two demons and the darklighter felt her presence almost immediately and despite their urges to leave they stayed. They would end her and rescue the demon that had been so foolish as to have been captured.
Fortunately for them all, Lest the seemingly smarter of the demons had thought ahead back then. He had suggested not all of them go to the Manor and attack right away. He along with the darklighter had instead orbed to the Underworld and investigated what the young Halliwell was up to. Meanwhile the other three demons had gone on straight to him, and what happened? One got vanquished. Another trapped and the other barely managed to escape. And now the assassin was after them.
Although from what the demon Sek, the one that had managed to escape had said, the whitelighter was now probably dead. What was left to do was obviously get rid of the assassin, and then go after the Wyatt from this time. Better than just killing the boy, they'd stay here in the past, and corrupt the boy to their liking. They would control him.
"Bianca!" exclaimed Lest, with a sneer.
Bianca instantly recognized the demon as Lest, one of the more arrogant demons. One of the more daring ones, too. He had the nerve to have had question Wyatt once or twice, and it had definitely not ended well for Lest. But what shocked Bianca was the fact that he had not been among the demons that shimmered and attacked them at the Manor. But he was definitely from the future. So not all of the demons had immediately gone straight to them.
"Lest," she growled menacingly. She conjured an athame and leaped at him. Lest laughed mockingly and easily leapt aside.
"My, my you really do need to practice. I must say you're getting rusty," Bianca turned sharply around and came face to face with another demon and a darklighter. It had been the demon that escaped, the one that had injured Chris.
Sek!
"You!" snarled Bianca.
Sek nodded. "How's your little boyfriend? He dead yet?"
Bianca could not contain her anger anymore. With athame in hand in less than a second surged forward and impaled the demon with the athame. The demon writhed in pain and burst in flames, taken by surprise.
Lest shook his head, obviously disappointed. "Oh well..."
The darklighter seemed to step back in fear. Bianca glared at him.
"Now, now Bianca. That's enough." Bianca stared Lest unbelieving, how dare he give her orders.
"I have a proposition to make," he began.
Bianca lowered her athame. "I'm listening." No way in hell she'd consider anything that demon had to stay, but it would do no harm to hear it out and then eliminate him.
The demon nodded. "I offer you the chance to join ... me. Do so and I will spare you."
Bianca remained apparently composed, although raging inside. "Join you .. in what exactly?" she probed further.
The demon shook his head. "I think you know, Bianca. Sek it seems was the first to point out the obvious about Wyatt. He's at our mercy, Bianca. Imagine what we could do!" Lest exclaimed, his eyes widening.
Bianca shook her head, moments later. She had to admit she was in some ways tempted but her love for Chris was stronger.
"No," she answered. And in an instant moving closer to the demon and connecting with his abdomen. The demon's eyes widened in surprised. "You fool!" he cried out.
To her surprise he did not burst into flames, merely stood there clutching his wound and hissing in pain. He threw her one last glare and shimmered out before she could stop him.
Bianca stared in disbelief at the spot where Lest had stood. She searched the cave for the darklighter but discovered he had also fled. Not knowing if she had actually managed anything, she shimmered back to the Manor in hopes of finding Chris alive and well.
"What's taking so long?" demanded Paige not entirely patient. She had felt a connection with their young whitelighter ever since they had discovered he was in fact a hybrid like herself. Half-with, half-whitelighter. Even though, she like her sisters at times grew tired of his everlasting pressure and hunting demons demand, she liked him. And that meant she cared about his safety, for some unknown reason beyond their similarities.
Leo felt tense, scared even. And although he had not known long the truth about Chris, he did in fact view him like his son. It scared him to think he might not be able to save him. And worse yet that Piper may never even know the truth.
Chris opened his eyes slowly, attempting to adjust to the light. Was in he in heaven, he wondered. No he quickly realized as he saw his family before him, the ones in the past…
But to his surprise they all seemed pleased enough to see him alive. But one person he did not see was his Bianca. Where was she? Had she gone and done something dangerous? He wondered.
Leo couldn't hold back any longer, he let out a small sigh, relieved. He glanced quickly in Piper's direction. She was so obviously tensed, stiff, wrong... so not Piper. It was so plain to see she was struggling with what to do, what to say to Chris. Her sisters at least seemed comfortable enough with the situation at hand. Phoebe was busy fussing over Chris, asking him if he was ok… Paige had suddenly gone mom mode or something similar, she was attempting to ruse Chris out of bed and into the kitchen for some food. It was certainly Paige the one that felt the most connected to Chris.
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Chris shook his head grumpily. "Paige, I'm really not hungry. But I would appreciate me if you told me where's Bianca?" He glared over at Leo, who seemed to be enjoying the 'entertainment'.
"She didn't really say, Chris. After the demon escaped she sort of shimmered off, she was really – mad." It was Phoebe who answered slowly. She had felt Bianca's fury and it scared her. But she had also felt her pain and concern for Chris. Going after the demon seemed to be her way of coping with the possibility Chris might not survive.
Chris sighed sadly. She'd show up soon enough…
"So-"Paige said. She then turned to Piper.
"Piper, food!" she begged her eyes widening.
Piper nodded meekly. She looked away; avoiding Chris' gaze altogether and hurried to the kitchen. She resolved to later have a word with him.
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Bianca shimmered silently into the Manor, she walked slowly to the kitchen where all the voices were coming from.
From the doorway, she saw Chris eating with the others, although he seemed to be the only one eating. Piper was standing a bit further away from Chris unlike the others all huddled around Chris.
Bianca couldn't help but smile at the sight. It wasn't long before Chris noticed Bianca.
He stood up and walked towards her. "Hey," he whispered smiling.
Bianca nodded at him. "Hey yourself."
Before Chris could protest she grabbed a hold of him and with a nod to the others shimmered them out of there.
It was their place.
Chris looked at her confused.
"Remember?" prompted Bianca gesturing towards their place.
He nodded. "Of course!"
Bianca met his gaze then looked away. "I'm sorry," she said quietly.
Chris moved closer to her, and put his arm around her. "It's okay, well obviously it wasn't ok, but I've had worse. And I know you were just trying to do what you thought was best. Besides it's all over now."
She leaned closer to him, grateful. "But it's not over," she said after a while. "He'll come here!"
Chris tensed slightly. "Let him come," he whispered harshly.
Bianca sighed. "What are we going to do?"
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"Wonder where the lovebirds went?" she said gently. She smiled at the thought. They really did love each other, she felt it.
Leo shrugged, not all too happy about it.
"Aww... so cute!" commented Paige sighing. "Love is so- lovely!" She nudged Piper. "Isn't it?"
"Yeah—"
"Piper come on, Chris isn't dead. And well it was a mistake, but we all make mistakes." Phoebe nodded at Wyatt. "You only had your son's safety in mind, it's understandable."
Understandable, doesn't cut it, thought Piper. But she nodded at Phoebe.
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"Are you ok?" asked Bianca concerned. She had felt something different about Chris since she'd returned.
Chris shrugged. "I saw my mom." Bianca gaped at him.
"I'm not crazy, Bianca. I know it was her. She said- said that it all had to happen. Her death, me in past, all that – and –and I don't know what to think anymore!" he answered honestly.
"Had to happen?" she repeated.
He nodded, turned his face towards her and it showed obvious distress.
"Oh baby." She held him tightly. "It's ok-"
"What am I to do, Bianca?"
"Baby I know I said you shouldn't tell them who you really are but I think you should. They need you, you need them. They are your family after all."
"They can help us better that way," she added quickly not wanting to sound too cheesy.
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"Piper, are you all right?"
Piper glanced at Leo, and nodded. She really missed him.
As if reading her mind, he said, "I miss you too."
"Wyatt misses you, too," added Piper. Leo flinched, knowing the meaning of her words.
"I'm sorry." Sorry for not being here for him, sorry for not being here for you.
She regretted her words, knowing she had purposefully said them to hurt him.
Phoebe and Paige watched from the distance Piper and Leo talking. How they wished Leo wasn't an elder. How they wished their older sister could be happy again.
They were all interrupted by the sounds of orbs. Chris arrived, followed by Bianca.
"Where's the demon?" he asked referring to the demon they had managed to capture.
Paige motioned towards the living room.
The demon sat looking glum. He smirked at the sight of Chris. "I see you survived." He sighed. "Too bad."
Chris glared at the demon. "Who sent you?" he growled, knowing the answer fully well.
The demon chuckled. "Oh come on, I think you know."
"Who?!!"
"Lord Wyatt," the demon finally answered.
The sisters gasped. They had known about Wyatt being evil, but to actually hear the demon refer to him like that.
Chris continued unnerved. "Why did he send you?"
The demon shook his head. "You already know, why ask?"
"Why?!"
"To get you and your little girlfriend, why else?"
Chris sighed. He had expected this. He turned to his family.
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