AUTHOR"S NOTE: I'm not really that great at describing fighting, but I did my best!

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The woman gave a chuckle as Piper tried to blow her up. Nothing happened, she didn't even shutter like the green demon had. "Your powers don't work on me witch," she explained. "Give me what I want and I'll leave without a fight."

"Fight?" Paige repeated. "You and what army?"

Bera sneered. In a quick movement she waved her hands, behind her several demons appeared. The green scaly demon from earlier stood in the front, as if he were second in command to Bera. "Give me the child you bear and we will not attack," she told Phoebe.

"Never!" Phoebe replied.

"You just made a huge mistake," the woman replied angrily. She waved her hands again, this time toward the three sisters before her and every demon behind her charged at them.

"Awe man!" Piper exclaimed at the approaching army. There were no more than fifteen of them, but that was 15 too many. Each of them were swarmed with demons.

They fought and kicked and punched as much as they could, even vanquishing a few that weren't immune to Piper's powers. But it was a loosing battle. "Paige go get Cole!" Piper exclaimed, but he was already on the landing to the stairs, the noise of the battle downstairs had woken him. He shot energy balls at the demons, and was soon swarmed with several demons himself.

Phoebe did a roundhouse kick to one of the many demons surrounding her. They weren't attacking her like they were her sisters and Cole, simply trying to capture her for their mistress. But she was not about to let them take her baby, not this time.

Paige began a game of volleyball with a demon, only using an energy ball instead of the traditional ball. She kept up the game with him for several seconds, then turned and threw the energy ball at a demon about to jump on Phoebe's back. Her volleyball opponent quickly produced a fresh energy ball and the game resumed. She continued to trick him by throwing them at other demons, and once faked it and threw it at him instead. He burst into flames a disappeared.

Piper kicked and punched every demon that came her way. Her exploding power wouldn't work on all of them, but her freezing power worked on some. "Paige, call for an athame!" she exclaimed to her sister.

Paige did so and orbed the knife into Piper's hands just as the freeze wore off one of the demons near her. She plunged the knife into it's chest. The demon screamed and disappeared. She continued this with all the frozen demons left. Their number dropped from fifteen to seven, but there were still too many of them and they seemed not to tire.

She cast a glance over to Phoebe, four demons were charging her, and despite her martial arts skills, she was loosing the battle to them. She saw Phoebe leap into the air to avoid a particularly large demon coming at her. She hovered in the air for a few seconds. Weird, she's got her powers back, Piper thought. It must've been that dizziness she felt.

Suddenly she saw Phoebe be thrown against the wall by an unseen force. She was distracted from running over to Phoebe by two charging demons. She plunged the athame into him, he died a fiery death. But the other had much better reflexes than the first and artfully dogged all her attempts to stab him.

Meanwhile Phoebe was knocked out on the floor, no one had noticed she hadn't gotten up from her flight into the wall because they were all to busy trying to save their own lives.

Bera walked up to Phoebe and grabbed her crumpled form by her hair. She yanked her head back and the act drew a painful cry from Phoebe and her eyes fluttered open. "How does it feel to know you'll loose your child again?" Bera whispered evily.

"No! Please don't!" Phoebe exclaimed. "Please!"

Bera ignored her cries and placed a hand on her stomach. She pulled her hand away slowly, as if straining to do so. Phoebe looked down and saw something blue form between Bera's hand and her stomach, it grew bigger and bigger and came with an unbearable pain. She screamed at the pain and Bera continued to pull the baby out of her stomach with her magic.

Several seconds past before anyone noticed her screams of pain. "Phoebe!" Cole yelled while fighting three demons of his own. He glanced over at Paige to see if he could call her to help, but she was playing a new game of volleyball between two demons. His gaze moved to Piper who was still fighting the demon with an athame. No one was free to help Phoebe.

All at once Phoebe's screaming stopped. He stole a glance over at her and saw that Bera was putting the blue substance in her own stomach, Phoebe was knocked out on the ground. Inside the blue substance was the almost unrecognizable form of a three month fetus. His child, and Bera was putting it into her own stomach.

Ruled by anger he shot three energy balls at the demons in front of him, each disappeared in a burst of flames. He ran over to Bera, intending to choke the life out of her but she stopped him with an outstretched hand. "You won't kill me, I hold your child within me."

That made him stop when he realized she was right. If he killed Bera he'd kill the child too. Damn her! he thought angrily.

With a satisfied smile she disappeared and along with her, the remaining three demons. Paige and Piper looked around in surprise as their enemies disappeared, and for the first time, noticed the dent in the wall Phoebe'd flown into and her crumpled from below it.

"Oh God!" Piper exclaimed and rushed over to her, with Paige at her heels. She rolled Phoebe onto her back and felt for a pulse. She found it, weak and barley pumping. "Leo! Leo!" she screamed. "God damn it get down here!" she added when he went to slow for her.

In a swirl of bluish-white light Leo appeared standing next to them. He surveyed the scene in shock. The room looked like a tornado had dropped down, literally, Cole, Piper and Paige were bruised and bloodied, and all three were huddled around Phoebe's unmoving body. He didn't even waste time in asking what had happened, it was obvious. A demon had attacked, but by the looks of them and the room, it looked like there had been more than one opponent for the Charmed Ones.

He knelt down between Piper and Paige and placed one hand above her heart and the other above her head. Slowly he healed her from the inside out. Once he'd healed her concussion he moved that hand above her body searching for another major wound. He sensed one in her womb and began healing that as well as her heart which was slowly beating stronger.

Phoebe's eyes opened slowly and she groaned in pain. Suddenly she remembered everything that had happened. "Ohmigod! My baby! She took my baby!" she exclaimed.

Piper, Leo, and Paige were stunned, they hadn't seen Bera take the child. "Are you sure?" Piper asked.

"It's not there," Leo confirmed as he still held his hand over her womb healing it.

"H-h-how!" Piper asked raging.

"She used her powers," Cole said slowly. They all turned to him. "She pulled the baby out of Phoebe and put her inside herself."

"Why would she do that?" Paige asked.

"It's what she was made to do. She steals magical children from the womb and raises them evil," Cole replied. "I think her name's Bera, I might be wrong though, it could've been one of her daughters."

"So Phoebe's baby is gonna be raised to do exactly what Bera did?" Paige inquired, still confused.

"No, only her blood children will continue doing what Bera does. One's that she's stolen from witches she raises in the dark arts," Leo replied. Cole nodded in agreement.

"Okay, so we look for a vanquish in the book," Piper concluded.

"No," Cole exclaimed as Piper and Paige stood. They turned to him wondering why he'd stopped them. "You can't vanquish her, if you do you'll vanquish the baby as well."

"He's right," Leo nodded. "We have to think of something else."

They stood in silence. The only sound was of Phoebe crying into Cole's shoulder softly. Piper bent down next to her sister and placed a hand on her back. "Don't worry Phoebs, we'll get your baby back this time. I promise."

"How?" Phoebe asked through a sniffle. "We don't even know where she is-"

"That's it!" Paige exclaimed. "We'll find her!"

"And what are you gonna do when you find her? You can't vanquish her, or else you'll kill the baby?" Leo asked.

"We'll let her have the baby and when she does we'll take it from her," Paige replied as if it were that simple.

"Paige-" Cole began shaking his head.

"I know Cole. It's not that simple," Paige cut him off. "But we've got six months to figure out a way to pull it off. That should be enough time, don't you think?"

"It's a good idea, but it's too dangerous," Leo replied.

"Yeah, what if she has more demon-soldiers when we try to get the baby back?" Piper added.

"So we'll all train hard and go over every possible side effect," Paige answered. They were silent. "What other choice do we have?"

Slowly they all nodded, ending last with Phoebe and Cole. Six months, six months until I kill her, Phoebe thought angrily.