It's been a while since i updated this, but i haven't forgotten it xD. This chapter is split in 2 parts, it turned out longer than i planned. Soon i'll post the rest.
"This was not supposed to happen!" said Chris worried, looking straight to the Hellmouth; the same Hellmouth he has heard many stories since his family crossed paths with the Slayers, but those stories never mentioned how hard the evil vibe could be felt.
The Halliwell sisters had never seen anything like this before; they've been in different dimensions, and the underworld, so this isn't totally new for them, but unlike those times, this Hellmouth was a bigger treat due to the fact that it's a free unprotected gate that could allow any demon in hell and underground to cross freely to this world, this could easily unleash hell on earth in no time.
"Looks like all hope is about to get lost," the sisters heard a familiar voice. Piper and Phoebe immediately turned around .
"Prue?!" both replied in a mix of surprise, joy, and doubt.
"Is that really Prue?" asked Paige in hopes to finally meet her oldest gone sister.
"It's good to see you all," said Prue with a smile, "I've miss you."
"What are you doing here? will you help us?"
"Sorry Phoebs, I'm here to tell you that there's nothing either of you could do to stop this; this time… this is the end," Prue said with pain in her eyes.
"No! there must be something…"
"Paige…" she smiled to the youngest sister, "I've been sent to get you all, to guide you to cross over.
The sisters were speechless, was this really the end? Had they failed?
"Just let it go, stop fighting" insisted Prue, "and come with me, we'll be together again, along with mom and grams," she finished with a sweet smile.
"Prue…" Piper began to speak but didn't know what to say.
Dawn; who wasn't far from the sisters; heard Piper calling Prue's name; and although she just met the sisters not long ago, the sisters when they were all in Rome at her apartment sharing stories told them about Prue and how they lost her.
"Don't listen to her," Dawn warned "this could be a trick from the First."
Prue's eyes showed a little anger, "and who are you to tell my sisters who can or cannot they listen to?"
Dawn ignored her, "the First plays with people's minds this way, showing itself as persons who passed away."
"Look at me, you know you can trust me," Prue told her sisters, looking at them straight to their eyes. Seeing the Halliwells' teary eyes she continued, "and look around, do you think you can beat this? Soon this will be happening all around the world."
The sisters took a look around; while they were facing their oldest sister, the others began fighting against the horde of demons and warlocks that came from the opened Hellmouth, they didn't even realize when the fight started.
The source was watching in delight the battle, more creatures were coming out from the seal, and as fast as they could they were trying to climb out of the crater, the others weren't able to hold them all, but still they kept fighting.
Buffy in spite of her still bleeding wound was standing her ground, with Angel and Anne close by, attacking as many enemies as they could handle. And the fact that Anne couldn't touch anything didn't mean she could not help, she was watching the fight and warning the others of any attacks coming at their backs.
Spike had a gash on his forehead, and the blood was blinding his sight at moments making it harder for him to fight back; and added to that was the lack of his lost vampire strength. But even that he wasn't going to give up.
Chris, Wyatt and Leo were doing their parts too, using their powers to attack or to orb back to the bottom of the crater the demons that were almost out of it.
Faith, Nikky and Wood were back to back protecting each other from the horde.
Xander was protecting Willow while she gathered her powers to attack with all of her strength.
"You're right…" Piper agreed with Prue, "this may spread world wide… we might die… all humanity might die…" Prue nodded at Piper's words "but I won't give up yet," Piper continued with determination, "our family and friends are fighting as if there were no tomorrow, and there's no chance in hell I'm gonna sit and do nothing," her sisters nodded in agreement.
"The real Prue would do the same," Phoebe challenged the figure pretending to be Prue.
"You fools, don't you see that there's no hope? We've won… the fight between good and evil has come to an end and evil prevails, we can't be defeated." The First turned to itself.
By instinct, Piper tried to blow the First up but the incorporeal evil was unaffected.
Recovering from a blow that almost knocked her out, Buffy regrouped with the other scoobies, "we need more back up," she said
"What if we ask Wyatt and the others to orb some Slayers to help us," suggested Anne. Buffy nodded to that. Anne ran to her boyfriend, soon Wyatt, along with Chris, Leo and Paige were close to Buffy to ask her where they could find the Slayers.
Wyatt and Chris orbed to England, taking Giles with them so that the slayers could trust them.
And Leo, Paige and Dawn orbed to the Italy base.
They could go to any point of the world and for sure find a group of Slayers, but the biggest armies were located in London, Rome and L.A, but they assumed the L.A crew were still dealing with the remaining demons, so deciding who to call wasn't hard.
After less than 5 minutes, blue and white lights covered big part of the crater revealing both Slayer squads, making an army of around sixty slayers.
Each squad leader approached Faith and Buffy.
"We can handle this for a while," said the leader of London Squad as each slayer went straight to fight the demons and pushing them back into the Hellmouth, they weren't going to let anything pass them.
"I could do some research on how to close the seal or weaken either the Source or the First," offered Giles.
"Buffy…" called Piper coming closer to her, "there's not much we can do here, I don't thing any of us came prepared for this."
"You're right… call your people, we're leaving," the blonde agreed.
"Leaving?... mom, we can't leave, what if the hellmouth starts to suck the world!" Anne opposed.
"If that happens we're screwed, we need a plan, this is to big for us to handle right now… I know this can't wait, but for now the girls can get us some time to come up with a plan and finish this."
Anne just nodded at Buffy; ever since she became slayer and asked her mom to train her instead of train with the other girls, she got used to her mother's manners and handle fights by herself before risking others. In the future every time there was an apocalyptic thing going on, usually she along with Nikky are the first ones to go into battle, only the two of them, along with the Halliwell young men.
And ever since Buffy became one of the two mayor Slayers of the whole bunch, she started to get used to trust the girls to handle things she would usually handle by herself. And she and Faith only intervened when things grew bigger. And in this moment, she trusts the other slayers to keep the situation under control until they can come up with a strategy.
They all decided to go to the manor, where the Halliwells could check on the book of Shadows and make potions.
Giles asked to be orbed to England to the Council's main office so he could do research. Leo went with the Elders in hopes to get some help.
San Francisco
Paige and Wyatt were healing the wounded. Wyatt tried again to heal Buffy's wound but the negative energy of the knife was still preventing his power to work.
"It's ok, the slayer healing will take care of this soon," Buffy said wincing when Angel pressed a towel against the wound.
"I think we got so used to being magically healed… this is all we have," said Phoebe entering to the living room carrying a few bandages and water to clean the blood.
Angel took the items and in silence cleaned Buffy's belly, she didn't say a word either, she was just staring at her former lover, it was then when she realized that even that she's loved again after he left, she hasn't felt this kind of love, so strong, full of passion and pain, yet so pure and everlasting.
Anne watched her parents and recognized the love for each other in their eyes, even in her time after many years they have the same sparkle when they're together.
When Angel finished with the bandage, he pulled Buffy's shirt down, she put her hands over his; by instinct he held her hands as protective and tenderly as he always held her.
Their moment was interrupted when they heard Anne grunting, they turned to see caused that and saw her sitting on the floor rubbing her nose.
"Crashing against a wall is more painful than it looks," she says while Wyatt hurried to her side.
"Did you crash?" he asked placing his hand over his shoulder, he was relieved when he felt that her shoulder was solid. Anne jumped to her feet and held her boyfriend.
"I kinda got used to the incorporeal part… distances were shorter….I can't walk through walls anymore!!! No more ghostly me!" she said cheerily.
"Must be because Buffy is safe now," deduced Paige.
"Let's make sure we all remain safe," added Dawn.
Wyatt stared into space as if hearing something, "Mr. Giles has something, he's calling me, I'll be right back," he said giving a small kiss on his girlfriend's cheek.
After a couple of minutes Wyatt and Giles orbed in, the British man carrying a big, thick old book, the cover was hard to identify due to it's oldness.
"I think I found a spell that can come quite handy in our situation."
"That's the Giles I missed… all British even when the world's at stake… again," interrupted Xander with a small grin, getting one in return from Giles as he remembered the old days.
"This is an ancient magic book, it's translation was lost in time, but it has references in other dead languages, I believe we will be able to work on it," the Watcher explained.
"Are you sure this book can help us?" asked Willow
"If I remember correctly, there's a spell to give… uhm, or return flesh, in a matter of speaking, to spirits and creatures that can't walk into our dimension.
"If we use it on the First…" Willow spoke, her eyes reflecting enthusiasm.
"…we could kick its ass." Finished Buffy
"Yes, that's the plan," Giles added, "but I'm afraid it's going to take us some time to translate the right spell, and some parts of the text can't be read, this book isn't in prime conditions."
"Maybe we could improvise, fill in the blanks, after all, we're witches, improvise spells is what we do," Phoebe suggested.
"Very well then," Giles started to flip over pages, soon he opened the page he needed having bookmarked it the first time he found it. "But I have to warn you, this book is known for its dark origins, so basically this is a book on dark magic…"
There was a silence in the room.
"Is that our only shot?" asked Willow , doubt in her voice.
"I'm afraid so…"
"That could be our plan B!" offered Paige after yet another couple of minutes of silence, receiving confused glances from everybody she continued, "that dark spell thingy can help us against the First, but we've defeated the Source before, maybe if we do a stronger potion against him, we might be able to vanquish him... and maybe the First would retreat… after loosing his ally…." She trailed off when she noticed she still was receiving confused looks.
"I think that's our best bet, dealing with dark forces might be dangerous and harmful," said Leo.
"Tell me about it," chuckled Willow embarrassed.
Then, we deal with the Source first… that's fine… but just in case, Giles, could you start working on the spell translation? In case we might need it?" the blonde Slayer asked.
The watcher nodded. The Halliwells, including Wyatt and Chris headed to the kitchen to make the potion.
Shortly the potion was ready, but they still needed a part of the Source's flesh to make it more effective. Faith asked to be orbed back to the crater, where the slayers were still fighting and hopefully find the Source. Wood obviously didn't aprove the idea, and in fact Faith wasn't thrilled about going but someone had to go and get the flesh. After some discussion on who should go, Buffy came with an idea.
"The knife!" the blonde remembered, "I stabbed him with it, there should be some remains or flesh don't you think?"
"Or blood..." added Piper, "blood works too, and you stabbed him when he was one with the First, so maybe that blood will be more than enough to vanquish the Source in his normal form."
"Ok, I'll go get it," said Paige standing up from her seat, "I'll just orb, look for it and orb it to my hand, I'll be back soon," waiting for no reply she orbed away; and just this once luck must be on her side because even in the middle of the mayhem caused by the slayers fighting the demons, she easily saw the knife on the ground where the Source/First threw it after being stabbed, calling for it, Paige held it by the handle and orbed out of there before anyone could notice it.
Back at the Halliwell manor, Spike let out a sigh of relief he didn't know he was holding when he saw the youngest sister orb back in.
"Got it" she said handing the dagger to Piper who headed back to the kitchen.
After a short time an explotion could be heard, meaning that the potion was ready.
"It's ready people," informed Piper coming out from the kitchen carrying five vials of potion and giving them to her sisters and sons, one each, "I suggest we go first, we've dealt with the Source before, but if something goes wrong you guys can still do something to stop him, there's potion left in the kitchen."
Receiving nods, Phoebe and Paige stood next to Piper who looked at his sons from the future, and hoping that his still young sons are safe with Coop at Phoebe's place.
"I have a plan," declared Buffy a after the Halliwells orbed away.
The Hellmouth
The Halliwells appeared in the crater, the scene indicated that the slayers managed to hold back the demons, the Seal on the ground was blocked with dirt and rocks, they were big rocks so they assumed that the slayers placed them there on purpose.
Some slayers were wounded but luckly they were all breathing, over the ground several bodies were lying, none of the bodies were human.
The Source and the First, looking as Prue, were still there; but in spite of the fact that the Slayers took defeated their demons, the two of them seemed calm, unworryed.
The First noticed the orbing persons, and smiled hapily, the Halliwells walked straight to the two evils, determination in their faces.
"I was hoping to see you again," said 'Prue' warmly, "we've got plans for you,"
"Save it," Piper interrupted, "we came for him," without waiting for a reply and giving no chance to do anything, Piper threw her vial at the Source who looked down at the wet spot the potion left on his robe.
"This won't help you witch!" the Source ran towards Piper knocking her down. She used her power to blow him up, but it only made him step backwards, this gave the others the chance to act. The Source found himself being hit with four vials, and heard how five voices started chanting.
"Prudence, Patricia, Penelope, Melinda, Astrid, Helena, Laura and Grace;" the family of Charmed ones chanted the spell they've used before "Halliwell witches stand strong beside us;
vanquish this evil from time and space."
The Source screamed in agony as a swirl of flames surrounded him, the slayers stared in awe how this evil was being defeated; "that wasn't too hard," said Phoebe with relief as the Source was vanquishing in their presence.
The First didn't look surprised by this, taking its real form, extended its arm to where the Source was dying, being unaffected by the flames or the spell, the First started absorbing what was left of the Source's power.
None of the present knew what the First was doing, they didn't know what to expect. Suddenly, when the flames dissapeared leaving no trail of the Source, the First raised both of his clowed hands sending a ray of energy up to the sky, that ray separated in many smaller rays of energy that were making their way back to the grownd, if it wasn't by the fact that it was evin energy, it would be a beautiful view, as if millions of shooting stars were falling around all the persons in the crater.
The Charmed ones and Slayers were watching the energy flow, then the next thing they saw was nothing but black.
San Francisco
"I can't sense them anymore!" Leo's hurried words full of worry and concern were heard through the manor.