Destiny 6

"Chapter 6: Vindictae, Revenge."

Chris set the scene for the next part of the story, "Chris, Wyatt and Katrina collected both jars and orbed out of The Underworld together to preserve strength, as all three were tired."

The three reappear in the Manor, "Mom!" Wyatt hollers.

Piper walks into the room, her long brown hair brushing the backs of her legs, "Wyatt? Chris? Is that you?"

"Where's Leo?" Chris asks urgently.

"With The Elders. What's wrong?" Piper asks worriedly.

"We'll tell you later. We've got to warn him!" Wyatt yells and orbs out, still holding the others hands and the jars.

They reappear "Up There" and their jaws drop open, the scene before them is one of absolute horror and destruction.

"We're too late." Chris whispers in shock.

The white, marble columns are in pieces and covered in scorch marks, heaps of robed figures lie sprawled out all over, scorch marks clear on their bodies, eyes frozen open, clearly dead.

In the center of the room, on his knees and in obvious despair, "Dad!" Wyatt calls and runs towards his father, Chris and Katrina close behind.

Leo looks up, joy tempers the pain in his tired green eyes, "Wyatt! You guys are okay, I was so worried."

"Dad." Chris starts, "We found out who did this, we were coming to warn you, but got held up."

"Who and how do you know?" Leo demands.

Chris reveals the ceramic jar and Leo's eyes widen with horror and knowing, "It couldn't be..."

"But it is, The Titans are back and have already begun exacting their revenge."

The scene fades and Chris picks the story back up, "And so began the Shadow Ages. After that Leo, Wyatt, Chris, Katrina and the rest of the family blessed with abilities that allowed them to travel great distances scoured the earth locating whitelighters, the few surviving Elders and other members of the Magical Community bringing them all to the Magic School in America. Soon as word spread, they started to come on their own showing up in San Francisco in places the Halliwell family frequented, including the Morris family. End of Part One."

Chris closes the book after marking the page with a silk bookmark, "Any questions on part one?"

The room explodes into noise of about a dozen Halliwell's asking a hundred questions all at once. Chris sighs and waits silently until, as he knew she would, Piper whistles loudly silencing the room.

Chris nods his thanks, "One at a time please. Honestly." He mutters the last part under his breath but Grams hears him and wacks him on the back of his head.

The room falls silent until Piper breaks it, "You said some names would be changed and faces blurred to protect identities, correct?"

"Yes." Chris says slowly.

"Is, was, Sammy your mother's real name?"

Chris looks down in an attempt to hide his eyes which are tearing up again, "No and Teddy wasn't my father's real name either."

"We know them don't we?"

A nod.

Leo speaks next, "So in your time you make it sound like we'd faced the Titans before and we were surprised they came back. Care to explain?" His voice isn't hostile like before but cold and unfriendly.

"Yes, I'll show you. I need a blank piece of paper please." Chris says, deciding a diagram would be the least confusing.

"Paper." Paige calls and a blank sheet orbs onto the coffee table.

"Thanks." Chris says pulling out his pen.

Chris draws fast and doesn't allow anyone to see exactly, then he rolls the paper up, closes his eyes and mutters a quick incantation. He opens his eyes and a few flecks of turquoise fade from them as he tosses the paper up, instead of falling it unrolls and floats in the air, translucent.

Chris caps his pen and clears his throat to silence the muttering that had commensed, "Okay. One don't ask, from the future here. Two this is a timeline, on the top in green is this timeline and on the bottom in red is my timeline." As he spoke the parts he had pointed out lit up.

"I'm only using this to explain the Titan situation, which is why it starts when the Titans attacked a month ago on both lines. So as you can see the Titans attacked on the same date in both times, however as you can see on the red line, they attacked again 10 years later. This is because of what happened originally the first time they attacked." Chris claps once and the timeline becomes a paper again, falling into his hands.

"You're probably still confused, so I'll quickly explain what happened the first time the Titans attacked originally." Chris concentrates, closing his eyes and a manila folder appears in his hands, "Now I summoned this from my room at P3, the Titan attack wasn't recorded in this book, but my father did make a record of the attack."

Chris opens the folder and pulls out a small packet of paper, "This is writtem by my father in a first person account and I'm going to read it as is, the paper was enchanted to change the names like in the book, so if you don't trust me to read it someone else can."

The Charmed Ones and Leo have a quick powwow and Leo reaches out to take the packet, Chris glares at Leo, but hands it over without protest.

End of chapter. Wow, okay I haven't updated in a while but I've been busy watching a certain soldier boy for inspiration. Cookie if you guess who the soldier is. Anyway, shorter than normal, but I wanted to update and put the next chunk of story in a new chapter. Let me know if you're confused and I'll be happy to PM you or if a lot of you are I'll put it before the next chapter, which will come faster promise. Comments, suggestions, just a quick word, idea, review.

To my loyal reviewers I thank you all so very much...

Charmedwho20: Well I suppose that's a good think and 'for now' is probably a good guess as you just read. Thanks for reviewing each time and I hope this chapter, although short was okay.

lizardmomma: I know you're not a fan of short chapters and this one doesn't exactly pack much of a punch but oh well. As for Tomorrowland it's a new movie so I'm not surprised it was okay but most of it was well kind of like the unchanged future not very happy. I'm always happy to hear what you have to say so Thanks again.

: It's not as much but here's a little more. Thanks again.

Angelicat2: Thanks! I'm glad I haven't bored you w/this and as for what's next I hope not confusion ;) Thanks again.

I just want to thank the only 4 reviewers for chpt 5, all of them have reviewed every chapter more or less, so thanks and remember as I always say; "The difference between a good fanfic and a great one is this: A great fanfic is always made better in future chapters by input from the reviewers. A good one expects the reviews and doesn't make changes."

I've learned that lesson due to a sunburn a while ago and I don't mean to insult anyone, but what I'm trying to say is Thanks, fanfics are written by more than the writer, the reviewers write too.