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"Why does every demon have to be after my son?" Piper asked as she threw another ingredient into the potion she was making, turning it dark purple.
Paige simply shrugged, afraid to answer her worked-up sister. She sighed as her scrying crystal continued to spin aimlessly above the map.
"How could I be such a terrible mother, to not notice that he was gone?"
"I was standing there too, and I didn't notice a thing," Chris pointed out.
"But you're not his mother. Though, seriously, does every single random demon have to go after our family?" Piper ranted. She put the final ingredient into her potion, causing a puff of smoke.
"I'm sure Wyatt's fine," Phoebe consoled her sister. "He's got his shield."
Piper glared at her. "He's not fine until he's back here where he belongs. And where is Leo? I've been calling for him for forever."
"He's probably up with the Elders or something," Chris said.
As if on cue, Leo orbed in. "You called?"
"Only about a thousand times!" Piper exclaimed. "Our son has been kidnapped, but it takes you forever to even come!"
Leo winced. "I was with the—"
"Elders, we know," Chris said.
"Speaking of which, the Elders still want to see you."
Chris rolled his eyes. "I don't care what they want," he said. "We have more important things to worry about, like how Wyatt is in danger."
"Do you know who took him?" Leo asked dropping the subject of the Elders for then.
"Possibly that knight guy," Phoebe said. "He's the only demon we're currently fighting."
"Do you have anything to scry for him with?"
"Yes," Paige said sarcastically, "I'm scrying for him with this teddy bear." She held up Wyatt's teddy bear.
Leo sighed. "I take it we have no solid leads."
"Why don't we just summon the Dark Knight?" Paige asked.
"With what?" Chris asked. "We don't have anything to use."
"We could summon with the weapon of one of his goons," Paige suggested. "If we phrase the spell right, then we should be able to summon their leader, who will tell us how to find the Dark Knight—with the right amount of persuasion, of course."
Piper nodded. "That's a good of a lead as any. I can't stand to just stand around doing nothing."
Twenty minutes later found them with a spell and a crystal cage. Phoebe had written the spell while Paige had set up the crystal cage. They would set the axe outside of the cage as a sort of tether to the demon, as in scrying.
Phoebe walked over to the crystal cage with her sisters. "Ready?" she asked, holding up the sheet of paper the spell was written on.
Together, the three sisters read the spell:
Leader of Executioners, we summon thee
Come to us the power of three
Quickly, before we age
Paige cocked an eyebrow at Phoebe. "Really?" she asked. "Is that the best you could come up with?"
Phoebe shrugged. "Piper was rushing me," she defended. When a demon shimmered into the cage, she smirked at her younger sister. "See, it worked."
"Who dare summons me?" the demon asked with fake bravado.
"The people who have you trapped in a cage," Piper said. The demon sneered. "You are the leader of the Executioner demons, right?" she asked.
"Who's asking?"
Piper shrugged. "None of your business, but I'll take that as a yes."
Chris stepped up to the cage. "What can you tell us about the Dark Knight?" he asked.
A fleeting look of anger crossed the demon's face. "Nothing."
Chris rolled his eyes. "Do you really think we would believe that? We know that you have been working with him; we've seen your goons with him twice. And you know what? We vanquished all of them." Technically, he'd only fought them once, but going off of the sister's stories really helped his threat.
The demon could no longer contain his anger. "You have been the ones killing all of my men!" he exclaimed. "You will pay for this!"
Paige laughed. "You do realize that you're the one in a cage, right? If you don't tell us everything you know, we won't have a problem with doing this the hard way."
The demon paled considerably. "Okay, fine," he broke down. "The stupid knight wanted my men, but they weren't good enough for him. I guess I'm never getting that place on the round table," he mumbled that last sentence.
"Wait, what about the round table?" Chris asked.
"Nothing—he probably wasn't going to give it to me anyway. He especially won't now, since he said that he'd failed to keep Excalibur out of the true heir's hands." Chris flinched slightly. "He kept saying some crap about how that Mordo creep said that—"
"You mean Mordaunt?" Chris asked dreadfully.
"Yeah, that's his name. You know the guy?" the demon asked.
"Not particularly," Chris said stiffly.
The demon smirked. "Good for you. The guy scares the hell out of me. But you asked about the Dark Knight."
"No, tell us more about Mordaunt."
"Chris, stop wasting time," Piper said. "We vanquished Mordaunt. It's the Dark Knight we're worried about."
The demon then looked confused. "Sure, I heard rumors about his death, but I saw Mordo earlier talking to the Dark Knight."
Now it was Chris's turn to pale. "Wait, so he's alive?"
The demon shrugged. "It looked that way to me."
Chris grabbed a potion from the table and used it to vanquish the head executioner demon. "Mordaunt's the one who took Wyatt," Chris said with conviction to the sisters before they could protest to him vanquishing their source of information.
"How can you be so sure?" Piper asked. "You never told us how you knew he was evil."
Chris sighed. "In the future, he's one of the source's most infamous allies," Chris started.
"Wait, he's from the future too?" Paige asked.
Chris nodded. "I guess ally is too strong of a term, since the source never did trust Mordaunt, he just kept him around to scare people and eventually steal powers from. At least that's what I've heard." Once when Wyatt had captured Chris, he had told Chris about how Mordaunt was an expendable asset, and Mordaunt knew it. Wyatt had also mentioned that Mordaunt would kill him if he ever got the chance. However, Chris's parents and aunts didn't need to know who the source was in the future.
"Anyway," Chris continued, "he has a reputation as one of the slimiest and power-hungriest sorcerers ever. With all of the powers Wyatt has, it's no wonder he would want them. Trust me when I say that he took Wyatt."
"I'm all for vanquishing him again, especially to save Wyatt," Piper said, "but Mordaunt showed up after you drew Excalibur claiming to be a teacher for the heir. Also the head executioner demon said that he was working with the Dark Knight, who also wanted Excalibur. What does kidnapping Wyatt have to do with getting Excalibur?"
Everything, Chris thought.
He shrugged. "I guess it's just another source of power to him."
Next month I will be participating in the NaNoWriMo, so updates may be sparse. However, I do have some chapters saved up to keep it going at lest the first week or so.
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