Chapter 11: Mistakes
Phoebe POV:
Each plan seemed worse and worse than the last one. Though progress has been made, still crumpled paper became somewhat of a problem. Piper was down in the kitchen making some a.ss kicking potions while Paige and I were coming up with spells. Suze on the other hand knew nothing of the craft, so she ended up inspecting every square inch of the attic.
"Well, we have the spell, but how on earth are we going to trap him?" Piper, frustrated, accidentally blew up a small part the attic. Suze, unaware of Piper's tiffs, jumped up and landed on the pile of crumpled paper, causing them all to fly up in the air.
"Jesus Christ! That is not funny!" Suze screamed in rage before storming out of the room. "I'm going into the kitchen to look for some Diet Coke!" She informed us.
Piper snickered at that thought. "Like Hell I would keep anything remotely sweet around here."
"How about we just go there…you know, wing it," Billie suggested. More than once we've gone into battle without so much as a clue on what was going on, but this was different. This was The Source of Evil, the original to be more precise. And he had all this power that we never knew existed. Paige and Piper seemed to be thinking along the same lines as well. I was about to say something but pots and pans clattered to the floor.
"Was that because I didn't have any diet Coke?" Piper whispered to herself. We ran down the stair to the kitchen and found Suze had collapsed on the floor. I scooped her into my arms and placed her on the couch.
"I have to get to Jesse, I need to go…" she mumbled.
"Okay, okay, um," I began, "Billie, get everything we need, Piper, bottle up the rest of the potions and, Paige, help me at least revive Suze!" They all went into separate directions to prepare for the fight of a life time.
"We have to leave now, we have to leave now!" Suze repeated over again in the chaos.
"Everybody ready?" Paige asked. We all nodded our heads and grabbed each other's hand as Paige lifted us into the sky.
Only guided by Suze, we landed in the hall of my premonition. Hopefully, with the future on our side, we would once and for all vanquish Seth.
"I see you've come crawling to me Susie-Q. I never really picked you to be the type that does that. Oh well!" A person in the corner laughed. Suze's eyes intensified and became little slits, this could only mean one thing: bad news.
"What are you doing here Slater?" She seethed between her teeth. The Slater boy chuckled and came out of the shadowy corner.
"Susie, sweetie, you better leave before something happens that you would regret." In his arms materialized Jesse who struggled against invisible ropes.
I diverted my attention from the fountain to Suze--she was in a stanza that I all know to well--we were about to fight. I looked to my left and found my sisters holding couple of vials and a piece of paper.
"The only people who are willing to fight me are three witches and a newbie shifter?" Seth laughed tauntingly through the boy. "Give it up already! No spell or potion will stop me, especially after this last sacrifice!" What? This wasn't suppose to happen! Seth—not Slater—was suppose to say that!
"Oh, how I do love a good decoy," said another Slater appeared out of thin air. Suze was wide eyed and confused by the multiple Slaters. "If I were in my true form then you wouldn't be able to understand me and vice versa, but when I kill you all,—except for my darling daughter—I wouldn't need to be in this form," Seth-Slater informed us.
"Let. Him. Go!" Suze ordered, her fists clenched.
"Sorry, Susie-Q, but he needs him, and there's nothing you can do; Seth is too powerful, even for these witches," spat Slater. Her face became sour, but still did nothing for Slater held Jesse with a knife at her boyfriend's throat.
"Good girl," Seth cooed.
"We have to throw the potions now!" I hissed to Billie and my sisters. They threw the vials at Seth's feet but nothing happened. Absolutely nothing.
"My dears, you really should brush up on your artifacts!" Seth pulled put from under the light blue polo a golden amulet. "This prevents any witch magic from harming me! And also," he waved his hand and the explosions that should have harmed him. Instead it attacked Billie and my sisters and threw them against the lockers. "be able to manipulate it!" I ran to my sisters to aid them in anyway possible, but I couldn't do anything. Blood loss was too rampant, and I had to do all I could to stop Seth.
"Why Paul?" Suze turned and tried to bring out the humane side of Slater, "Why?"
"Because I love you, and you rejected me. Do you know how that hit my ego? But when I found out what we truly were, how could I refuse?" he smiled wickedly.
"You always thought you were a god, Slater!" Suze snarled back. His smile dimmed at her reaction, and he raised the knife to do the unthinkable.
"Now, you should play nice, Susie, if you don't, then I will be forced to do things that I really don't want to do," he warned her. She took a few steps back, showing that she was willing to comply. As she took her last step, Paul Slater drove the knife through Jesse's heart, instantaneously killing him.
He dropped the body and back away when Suze rushed to Jesse's side and cried.
"How could you?" she screamed, "How could you kill Jesse?"
"It was necessary because he was the official sacrifice and Seth needed a distraction as he killed your precious Father Dom." His smile grew wider to the point of flashing those pearly white at us. He looked my way with the obvious thought of victory. I, in turn, looked at Suze who already left Jesse's body and took her fighting stanza. Between her and Seth was the body of the old priest we failed to protect.
Seth merely grew bored of his reincarnated daughter and flung her, with his mind, against the wall. Her head slumped onto her shoulder, much like the way it did in my premonition.
"Do you see know, witch?" Seth roared, "Nothing can stop me, I'm invincible!" Before I could even react, Seth was about to sentence me to the same fate as everyone else.
Where did we go wrong? What mistakes did we make? We knew everything that was going to happen, so how come we lost? What would ever happen to the child that I was promised? The future Piper and Leo worked so hard for?
Seth and I knew this was the end. The end of the line. No one could help or save us now.
As he opened his mouth to mutter an incantation, a bright, blue swarm of lights appeared in the air. It descended to Suze and formed into a handsome, old man with clergy clothing, much like the old priest was wearing. He held his hand over Suze and healed the head wound she received, then moved on to my sisters and Billie. Soon after he went onto Jesse, they all woke with aching muscles.