A/N: Prue and Piper get some sisterly bonding time in this chapter. Please read and review!

Tanhay, Andy and Prue broke up as part of the storyline but there will be more about their relationship towards the end of this fan fiction.

Algrandz, Thanks. Prue is not an easy character to write. I am glad the slow progression is working out well. It gives me a chance to have different combinations of characters chances to bond. I prefer all the original/canon relationships in Charmed, so that is Prue/Andy and Piper/Leo (and possibly even Cole/Phoebe, but only their season three relationship. Their season four/five relationship was too annoying). I am not splitting Piper and Leo. I just could not have them together in this due to the age gap. Piper is fourteen, Leo is somewhere in his twenties. The Locky relationship is just vital to the storyline of this fan fiction. I cannot say more than that or I could ruin the next few chapters.

Chapter 10

A puff of smoke erupted around the five of them. When it cleared they realised they were standing in a cave-like tunnel which was lighted by torches on wall brackets.

'Is… Is this the… the underworld?' said Piper hesitantly.

'Either that or the potion sent us into a mine…' said Prue.

'Or those caves at that beach we went to when we were little,' added Phoebe.

'Yeah, Pheebs, because the beach caves really were lit with torches,' said Prue sarcastically.

Phoebe glared at Prue. Paige laughed.

'Prue, how were you planning to find this demon or warlock? There must be millions down here,' said Piper.

Prue did not reply.

Piper, Phoebe, Paige and Locky turned to see why Prue had not replied.

Prue was lying on the floor. She was out cold.

'No!' shouted Piper, annoyed. 'She did this on purpose!'

'Did what, Pippy?' asked Paige.

'Don't you get it, PJ Paige?' said Phoebe, who was also annoyed at Prue. 'Prue still did not want us to come with her. She wanted to find and fight this demon all by herself. So now she knows she can astral project, she has decided to use that to get ahead of us, leaving us here where we are unable to follow her because we do not know where she has gone!'

'She won't find him,' muttered Locky, shaking his head.

'I cannot believe she did this to me!' shouted Piper. 'I did not want to be here, and now I have been left to protect you all! What if any demons attack right now? I have to protect her lifeless body too!'

'At least Prue left us her notebook of handy spells,' said Phoebe, lifting the notebook from Prue's pocket.

'Oh no, without that her only defence against demons is her telekinesis,' said Piper. 'I hope she memorised some of those spells…'

Phoebe started reading through the notebook.

'Paige, can you just orb us back to the manor, please?' said Piper. 'Prue's body too. That way when she comes back to it, she will be in a safe place.'

'We will miss out on all the fun, though, Pippy,' said Paige.

'Please, Paige,' said Piper. 'We need to be in a safe place, and I am hoping that no harm can come to Prue's astral self. I think the only harm can be to her actual body.'

'Okay, but can I ask you something first?' Paige said.

'Sure,' said Piper.

'Where did Locky go?' said Paige.

Piper turned around to find that Locky had wandered off.

'You have got to be kidding me!' said Piper. 'Locky!'

No reply.

'From here to the end,

I must defend,

I must not hide,

From my family pride,

So to my foe send.'

As Phoebe finished uttering those words from a page in the notebook, she disappeared before the eyes of Piper and Paige, along with the notebook.

'No!' shouted Piper. 'Did you hear the words of that spell?'

'I only remember hearing the word 'foe',' said Paige. 'Is that bad?'

'Well, considering that spell may have taken Phoebe to the demon or warlock that released our powers in order to kill us and steal them…' began Piper as she burst into tears.

'Oh Pippy, don't cry,' said Paige. 'I am sure everything will be okay.'

'Prue is somewhere in the underworld at the moment, so is Locky, and now Phoebe too!' said Piper. 'Three people have gone missing right in front of me within the past five minutes! Everything will not be okay!'

'Why isn't everything going to be okay?'

Piper and Paige turned to see Prue standing up.

'You are back!' Piper ran and hugged her older sister.

Prue pushed Piper away.

'I don't do hugs,' said Prue.

Piper managed a laugh. After all they had been through over the last two days she had forgotten that Prue did not like people breaching her personal space.

'Locky wandered off and then Phoebe read a spell from your notebook!' said Piper.

Prue stuck her hand in her coat pocket to find the notebook missing.

'How many times do I have to tell you and Phoebe not to go through my stuff!' moaned Prue.

'Paige,' said Prue. 'Can you orb back and try and find the spell that Phoebe read? It will be somewhere in the Book. Write it down, and then come straight back here.'

Paige nodded and orbed out.

Prue sat down next to Piper who had slumped onto the floor, she was upset. Prue stroked Piper's hair.

'Everything okay, Piper?' asked Prue.

'Of course not,' said Piper. 'Phoebe is missing, Locky has gone, and we are basically demon bait just sitting here. What am I forgetting? Oh yeah, apparently magic exists and we are all witches!'

'Listen, Piper,' said Prue. 'This is all strange to me, Phoebe, and even Paige. You need to calm down and think about what the rest of us are going through too. We are all going through the same experience, okay.'

'Is that another way of telling me to shut up?' Piper said, laughing a little.

'You know me too well,' laughed Prue.

'Once we have found Phoebe, we will look for Locky too, right?' asked Piper.

'Do you really like Locky?' asked Prue.

'Whether I like him or not, shouldn't we make sure he is okay and not stuck in the underworld? He has no powers!' said Piper.

'Piper, firstly, he has the potions which will take him back to the manor if he needs to, which is okay because we have Paige to orb us back to the manor when we decide to leave. However, Piper, you are avoiding my question. Do you like Locky?'

Piper was reluctant to reply, but decided this was one of those rare moments that she would have a chance to confide with her older sister about life and boys.

'I quite like Locky,' admitted Piper. 'When we were making the potion up in the kitchen, he told me that he liked me. That is the reason the potion exploded with so much smoke. He told me that just as I was adding some peppermint to the potion, and the recipe said to only add a sprinkle. The news that he liked me just as much as I liked him made me add a little too much. And then when we were alone bottling up the potion, he kissed me…'

'Aaww, that's sweet, Piper,' said Prue, smiling. 'I am glad that one of us gets to have a functioning relationship.'

Piper turned to Prue realising who she was referring to. 'I am sure you and Andy will get back together, Prue.'

'Yeah, I think he was quite close to apologising when you froze him,' said Prue.

'Sorry,' Piper quickly said.

'No, don't be,' said Prue. 'I really do not know whether I should get back together with him or not. Your freezing him has given me a chance to think. He…' Prue paused. She did not want to say it, but it seemed right for the conversation and the moment. 'He broke my heart. And although I love Andy, I just do not know if I can go through it again…'

Piper hugged Prue. This time Prue did not push Piper away.

Piper released Prue and looked at her older sister.

'Either that or you have too much pride to take Andy back,' said Piper. 'You do not want to look weak by accepting him back after he so rudely rejected you.'

Prue pushed Piper playfully. 'I do not think I will look weak,' said Prue. 'Okay, maybe I don't want to look like a push over, but with all this witchy stuff going on too… You are lucky that Locky knows about it all, but if I were to get back together with Andy, I do not know how I could keep this a secret. And there is no way he would accept me if I did decide to tell him what I am. What we are.'

Piper hugged Prue again. This time Prue did push Piper away.

Prue stood up. 'Where is Paige? She has been gone a while now and we still need to find Phoebe.'

'And Locky,' added Piper.

'Yes, him too,' said Prue. She smiled at herself, happy to see how much her little sister cared for Locky.

There was a swirl of blue lights on the ground. Prue and Piper looked at the ground. On it was a piece of paper which Paige had scribbled the spell down on but Paige was nowhere to be seen.

'Why do you think she would orb the piece of paper down here but not come back?' said Piper, looking worried.

'I don't know,' said Prue. 'Something must have happened at the manor. Maybe Leo and Andy unfroze. We cannot get back to the manor without Paige here to orb us, so our best bet is to just do the spell, find Phoebe, and then find Locky, so as we can use one of the potions he has on him to go back to the manor and find out why Paige did not come back, okay?'

'Okay,' agreed Piper.

'Let's go find our little sister then,' said Prue as she took a deep breath.

Together the two elder Halliwell sisters read the spell.

'From here to the end,

I must defend,

I must not hide,

From my family pride,

So to my foe send.'

The two Halliwell sisters appeared in front of a demon, who on seeing Prue shouted 'You again!' The demon snarled.

Piper turned to Prue confused. 'Again? What does it mean by again?'

'You won't get away this time!' shouted the demon.

'Excuse me I am trying to talk to my sister!' Piper said to the demon. 'Prue, why does this demon know you?'

'I think we are a little too busy to chat, Piper,' said Prue, deflecting a fireball that the demon had thrown at them.

'No, we are not,' said Piper, freezing the demon.

'Piper, we need to find Phoebe!'

'I never asked where your astral self went earlier, did I?' said Piper, thinking back to when Prue had deserted them in the tunnels. 'Did you come here?'

'Not here,' said Prue. 'Some other area of the underworld. That demon just so happened to be there at the time, and he decided to try and kill me.'

'Oh my gosh, Prue!' said Piper. 'Are you okay? You are not hurt, are you?'

'Well, I quickly found out that I was unable to use telekinesis while in astral form,' said Prue. 'And when I got hit by a fireball, I just woke back up in the tunnels, finding you in hysterics.'

'Okay,' said Piper. 'What do we do with this demon now? Do I blow him up? If I do that then we cannot ask what he has done with Phoebe. I do not see her anywhere… Do you think this is whoever released our powers?'

Prue shook her head. 'Maybe. Maybe not. Piper, do you think you can just unfreeze his head?'

Piper turned to Prue. Her eyes were wide with fear. 'Just his head? I only got this power yesterday and you think I can control it that well?'

'It might work,' said Prue.

'This is coming from the person who only just found out that they cannot use their powers in astral form!' shouted Piper.

'Shush!' hissed Prue. 'There may other demons nearby. We do not want them to know we are here! Just try, Piper. For Phoebe.'

'For Paige,' Piper added.

'And for Locky,' Prue finished.

Piper nodded. She looked up at the demon in concentration, and held her hands out towards the demon.

Its head and only its head unfroze.

'Why can I not move my body?' shouted the demon.

'Listen to us,' said Prue. 'Where is our sister?'

'Your sister?' said the demon puzzled.

'Why did you release our powers?' asked Piper.

'Powers?' said the demon. 'Stop talking nonsense witches! I will kill you!'

'Our sister. Where is she? She looks like us but is shorter, around this high,' said Piper, holding her hands at a particular height.

'You are not the evil fiend that unbound our powers in order to kill and take our powers?' asked Prue.

'I know nothing of your sister,' said the demon. 'Unbound your powers? You are the Charmed Ones? I thought you would be older and more experienced witches! You are just children!'

Prue turned to Piper. 'So if he has not seen Phoebe…'

'And he was not the one who released our powers…' continued Piper.

'Then that means that the spell Phoebe said – the spell we said – will send us to any random demon or warlock that it considers to be our enemy…' went on Prue.

'So considering that all demons and warlocks are against witches, specifically the Charmed Ones…' Piper continued.

'The spell could have sent Phoebe to any random demon or warlock in the underworld!' finished Prue

'So how do we find her?' asked Piper.

'You don't!' answered the demon. The effects of Piper's power had worn off and the demon was regaining control of its body. 'I am an upper level demon. Did you expect that to hold me for long? I will kill you! And then I will find your sister witch too and send your regards when I kill her too!'

'Piper, blow it up!' shouted Prue. 'Quick! We have to find Phoebe!'

Piper nodded and in an instant blew the demon up. 'He can't have been that high a level if I could blow him up that easily.'

Prue looked at Piper. 'Any idea on how to find Phoebe? We know no spells by heart. And we cannot keep reciting the one that Paige wrote down for us until it sends us to wherever Phoebe is, or it might be too late. And of the powers that we know Phoebe has, there is no way she can defend herself against demons or warlocks.'

'I remember reading somewhere in the Book of Shadows that witches can make up their own spells, I think,' said Piper. 'I think all it needs to do to be a spell is to rhyme.'

'Hmm…' said Prue. 'Phoebe is the creative one. This seems more like something she would be good at doing.'

'Can't you just astral project to Phoebe?' asked Piper.

'Even if I did that, I would be unable to help Phoebe, as I would be powerless,' said Prue. 'Plus, I would not be able to bring you with.'

'Right,' agreed Piper. 'Then let's think up a rhyme, I mean, a spell.'

Prue closed her eyes in thought, while she continued speak to Piper. 'Well. We want the spell to take us to Phoebe, right? So something that rhymes with Phoebe… No, that is too difficult. How about sister? No, still too difficult… Hmm… Help me out here, Piper.'

'Piper? I am not Piper. Who do you think you are talking to?' whispered a voice.

Prue opened her eyes to see Phoebe. She was hiding behind a rock and a few metres away was a big red demon with black flame-like markings all over his face.

'Dang it! I must have astral projected over here by mistake!' hissed Prue. 'Listen, Pheebs. Me and Piper need to come up with a spell which will send us directly to you. It has to rhyme, any suggestions?'

'Er, try something like, er…' Phoebe stopped to think.

'I will find you witch!' growled the huge demon.

Prue crouched lower behind the rock, hoping she had not given away Phoebe's hiding place to the demon.

'You were trying to think of Phoebe or sister? Right?' Phoebe asked.

Prue nodded.

'Try sis. That will rhyme with miss. 'Please take me to the person that I miss',' began Phoebe. 'And that could go with 'That just so happens to be my sis'. How does that sound?'

'Perfect,' said Prue. 'I will be back with reinforcements in a tick, little sis.'

Everything went dark around Prue. She opened her eyes to see Piper looking down at her.

'Where did you go this time?' asked Piper.

'I got a little help from the creative member of our family,' said Prue. 'Okay, repeat what I say.'

'Please take us to the person that we miss,

That just so happens to be our sis.'

Prue and Piper appeared right in front of the huge red demon.

Piper screamed and the demon smiled, grabbing hold of Piper.

Prue used her telekinesis to throw the demon against the cave wall. As the demon fell backwards, he dropped Piper.

'Phoebe's not here! The spell did not work!' shouted Piper.

Phoebe came running out from behind the rock.

'I am here!' Phoebe shouted.

The demon stood back up. He had not been injured by Prue's attack. He snarled.

'Thank you, little witch,' he said to Phoebe. 'Thank you for bringing other witches. Now I can kill three instead of one.'

'I am getting tired of the number of demons who have decided that they are the ones who are going to kill us!' said Prue, rolling her eyes. 'You can't all do it. There are only three of us to about a bazillion demons that make this claim.'

Piper flicked her hands at the demon. A puff of smoke erupted on his shoulder but quickly dissipated.

'Why won't you blow up?' she said.

'Ha! You think you can vanquish the mighty Belthazor!' shouted the demon.

'What do we do?' squeaked Piper.

'Well, he is not the guy who released our powers,' said Phoebe. 'I kind of found that out when he grabbed me and I had a vision of his future.'

'What did you see?' asked Prue.

'I am not telling you,' said Phoebe, looking all serious. 'However, I can tell you that he is not the demon we came down here to face.'

Prue nodded. 'Then if we cannot defend ourselves against him, we will run. We do not have enough time to try and win this fight. A demon or warlock released our powers, Paige is absent, and Locky is missing. Those are our main concerns.'

Piper and Phoebe nodded.

Belthazor was slowly approaching them.

'I can try and think up a spell which will take us to the guy that released our powers,' said Phoebe.

Prue nodded. 'Think one up. Me and Piper will try and hold him off until you do.'

'Are we not going to find Locky first?' said Piper. She blew up a rock that Prue had moved over Belthazor's head by telekinesis.

'We can find Locky afterwards,' said Prue, moving another rock towards Belthazor. 'He has no powers, so it is best we face our enemy without Locky there.'

'I have an idea for a spell,' smiled Phoebe.

'You lead and we will repeat after you then,' said Prue. Piper nodded in support.

'We three know who we want to find,

Take us to the unkind,

The one who our powers did unbind,

Will now face us three refined.'

A tornado like plume of dust began to appear around the three sisters.

As the sisters disappeared from Belthazor's sight, the demon heard Phoebe say, 'Bye Cole. Start law school soon, and then we will get a chance to meet again in around twelve years!'

Belthazor was confused as to how the youngest witch knew of his human half's name, and as to what she meant by starting law school.

Prue and Piper were about to ask Phoebe what she had meant, but their attention was distracted by the person whom they found standing before them.

A/N: Yes, I had to have Cole appear in it, well, Belthazor anyway. And yes, Phoebe did see their future together, hence why she was nice to him. However just to clear things up, she only saw that they would be together, not all the nasty stuff before they dated, or all the nasty season four and season five events concerning Cole. Please review.