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Thank you for the great reviews. Let's see if they can vanquish Zenic...

CHAPTER 9

Henry stormed into the manor, leaving the kids to wait in the car. "Paige!" He started yelling. It was nearly evening now and he hadn't heard from his wife all day. He called the manor only to find out from Chris that Paige was in spirit form. He called out again. "Paige!"

Paige whisped down to Henry from the attic. "Henry! What are you doing here?" She asked.

He stared in shock for a moment before answering. "I don't hear from you all day and then I call and find out from my nephew that you died today." He stammered. "Don't you think that's something you should have told me yourself?"

"Well, I plan to get back into my body." She replied with a hand on her hip.

"That's not the point." Henry shook his head in anger, but tried to keep his voice calm. "When something like this happens, I expect you to keep me informed on what's going on."

"I know and I'm sorry." Paige said. "It's just that..."

Piper stepped off the stairs. "Wyatt thought of a way to track Zenic and..." She stopped mid sentence. "Hi Henry."

"Hi Piper." He replied.

"Well, I think I'll leave you two alone. You can't really help us as a spirit anyways." Piper said to Paige.

"No, wait. I'm coming." Paige argued. She looked at Henry with regret in her eyes, regret for not telling him about what happened. "I'm sorry. I really need to be there to help. I'll come home as soon as I can."

Henry sighed. "You know I can't stay mad at you forever. Just come back to me and I mean in your physical form."

"I promise." She replied as she whisped back to the attic.

Piper went to the kitchen to fill more potion bottles with the potion to vanquish Zenic. Luckily, she had extra ready and waiting. Once filled, she took the bottles up to the attic with her and handed them out to each corporeal person in the room.

"So what's this idea to track Zenic?" Paige asked curiously.

"Spell is done." Phoebe said.

"I thought that we could use a spell to take us to Zenic instead of bringing him here, since that didn't work so well last time." Wyatt explained.

"Won't he be expecting that though?" Paige asked.

"Let's hope not." Phoebe replied. She held up the spell. "Are we ready?"

Piper sighed. "Ready as we'll ever be I guess." She said.

"Warlock Zenic, we seek to find. He who is lost in space and time. Take we witches three to wherever he may be." Phoebe, Wyatt, and Piper read aloud. A golden glow formed around them as they started to dissolve. Paige whisped away after them.

They appeared in a dark cavernous place. A few fire lit torches lined the walls. A demon approached them and Piper reacted, freezing him in his tracks. They heard voices speaking around the corner.

"Now Anton, we must prepare for the coronation ceremony tomorrow evening." They heard Zenic say.

"Did he just say Anton?" Phoebe asked in a whisper.

"Yeah, but I don't think he meant Anton as in your Anton." Piper whispered back.

Paige was clueless. "Huh?"

"Evil ex of a past life." Was Phoebe's explanation.

"I know that, but he was vanquished." Paige said.

Piper reached her hands around the corner, trying to freeze Zenic and Anton or whoever was in the room. It didn't work or so they assumed because they still heard voices, They decided to just charge in, hoping to catch them off guard. There were a few other demons in the room that froze and Zenic noticed right away. He readied himself for attack and actually caught the Halliwells off guard.

Blasts of fireballs came at them before they could even think about throwing any potions at anyone. Wyatt put up his shield protecting himself, his mother, and Aunts. As the fireballs continued, the shield weakened. Phoebe held up a potion, ready to throw and just as the shield dissolved, she let it fly.

Piper started blowing up the other random demons with her power before she realized that Riley was standing behind Zenic. She didn't see anyone that looked like Anton. Some demons remained unfrozen and one of them jumped in front of Zenic, protecting him from the potion thrown by Phoebe.

Anton saw Phoebe and immediately thought about Pearl. He wanted her more than ever and wondered if the spell Zenic had used to bring him back would work on Pearl as well.

Paige's spirit whisped into one of the demons. She began using his own energy balls to attack another demon so that Phoebe could fight her way to Riley. "Come on Riley, we have to go." She said.

Riley's eyes met Phoebe's and she could instantly see the lust in them. "Yes, we do." Riley replied. He grabbed Phoebe's hand tightly and tried to blink away with her. He was surprised when he faded out instead, as it wasn't one of his powers.

Wyatt held his mother back for a moment before standing firmly in place and reaching his hands out. A burst of energy came from his hands and crashed into the demons. Most were annihilated, turned into piles of dust. Piper wondered why Wyatt hadn't just done that in the first place, but it was one of his newer powers and he hadn't quite mastered it just yet. Zenic was thrown off his feet, but not vanquished with the rest of the evil bastards in the area.

"You can't vanquish me." Zenic sneered, an evil smile forming on his lips. He started to shimmer as he made his way back to his feet, but Paige was quick to react.

The demon she had whisped into turned to dust and as Zenic tried to shimmer, she whisped into him and fought his magical urges, keeping him in place. "I don't think so." She said sternly. She couldn't risk letting him go. She wanted desperately to get back into her body.

Piper threw her potion at Zenic, hoping to vanquish him and end his attempts at becoming the next Source of All Evil. The potion struck him and the vial shattered. That was Paige's cue to leave his body. Flames began to engulf him and he started screaming out as they crawled up his body. "Noooo!" He was finally vanquished.

They all took a look around, gazing at the remnants of the vanquished demons. Piper took a breath of relief, but her relief soon turned to panic as she realized Phoebe was no where to be seen. "Where's Phoebe?" She asked.

"Last I saw she was trying to save Riley." Paige replied. "I'm not..." She stopped mid sentence. Something was happening to her ghostly spirit. It was fading.

"Paige?" Wyatt asked curiously. She disappeared before their eyes.

"This can not be good." Piper said frantically.

"Maybe Paige went back to her body." Wyatt replied, trying to calm his mother. "We should go and check on her and then we can find Phoebe." Without waiting for a response, Wyatt took his mother's hand and orbed to the attic with her, which is where Paige's body rested on one of the old couches.

Paige heaved in and out with uneven breaths as her eyes burst open. She sat up slowly and glanced at Piper and Wyatt. "Please tell me I'm alive." She said.

"Yes, I'd say you are very much alive." Wyatt replied.

"What about Phoebe?" Piper asked. "You said she was trying to save Riley. So what happened to both of them?"

"Zenic was talking to someone named Anton, right? Phoebe said that was an ex lover or past ex lover." Wyatt explained and then asked his mother specifically. "Did you see this Anton when we went in for the attack?" He knew of Phoebe's past life, but hardly knew a thing about Anton.

Piper thought for a moment. "No, I didn't. I saw Riley and Zenic, but no one else I recognized."

"Isn't Riley a descendant of Anton though?" Paige asked.

"Yes." Piper answered.

"But what does that have to do with anything?" Wyatt added in.

Paige began to explain her theory. "When we summoned Zenic to the attic, he started to read the spell he had used on me in the alley. Riley stepped in and took off with him before he could finish the spell. I doubt Riley took him to the Underworld. Zenic must have overpowered him and took him to the Underworld. Riley claims that Zenic was the one to turn Anton against his family and against good magic. Maybe they were close, friends even. What if Zenic found a way to bring Anton back from the dead?"

"Is that even possible?" Wyatt asked.

"We've seen demons and warlocks come back before." Piper replied. "It's possible that Anton could have been brought back into Riley's body." She thought back to her high school reunion, when she herself had someone else in her body. It wasn't a pleasant experience and she hoped that wasn't the case for Riley.

"Do you think they are both still in the Underworld?" Wyatt asked. He let out a yawn, though he tried to hide it. It was late, nearly midnight now. The world was totally dark.

"Probably not. If Anton is back, he doesn't want to hurt Phoebe." Piper said. "That much I know."

Wyatt walked over to a table and pulled out a map and crystal. "Guess we should try scrying for her." He replied.

"I think her purse is downstairs. I can go and get something to scry with." Piper started to walk off.

"Wait, I can get it. I should go down and call Henry anyways, let him know I'm alive." Paige said.

Piper agreed. "Ok, you do that and I'll let Alyson know they can leave now. Zenic is gone, so there's no threat to them anymore. It's late and they probably want to just get to bed."


They stopped Zenic and saved Paige, but now they have to figure out what happened to Phoebe. I kind of made up a few tidbits about Anton, such as him being able to blink...even though he triggers Riley's power instead. We didn't see him blinnk in the show, but it could have been one of his powers. Plus, I needed a way for him to get out of the Underworld. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!