A/N: I know I've been slack. But I have holidays coming up in a couple of weeks so hopefully I'll be able to get a few chapters in then. In the meantime I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Chapter Eleven
It had been a couple of days since the attack and they were no closer to finding out about the demon that had attacked Callie. Callie was still staying with them for her safety, and had become friends particularly with Belle and Prue. With the coven's help she had discovered that her gift was Psychokinesis or the ability to move things she couldn't see. They were working with her to be able to use her power and she was becoming more at ease with her new found place in the world of magic. Chris was also adjusting to his new power with surprising calm.
"So what's the plan?" Bianca asked. "It's been four days and we still haven't found anything on this demon."
"The only thing I can think of is to retrace our steps and go over everything again. There has to be something on this demon, we must have missed it," Chris replied.
"Okay, so back to the Book of Shadows?" Prue suggested.
"Seems like a good place to start," answered Belle.
"Do you guys mind if I go lie down for a little while, I have a headache," Callie asked. While she was still more at ease with everything, the idea of demons trying to kill her still freaked her out.
"You go ahead, we've got it," Chris said kindly.
Chris, Bianca, Prue and Belle headed up to the attic to the Book of Shadows. They gathered around it and began to flick through it in the hope of finding something, anything on the demon that had attacked Callie.
"Oh my God! That's him," Bianca exclaimed after a while.
Prue looked at the page. "Are you sure?" she asked.
"Positive. Look, clawed hand, shimmering, and the picture looks like him too," Bianca told them.
"She's right. Let's see, his name is Carden. Surprise, surprise he's an upper level demon, and he has never made any secrets of his ambitions to rise to the top of the underworld," Chris read in surprise.
"Okay that's different. So if he wants to take over the underworld, why is he serving the new guy? I mean that's what this attack would have to be about doesn't it?" Prue asked.
"Why don't we ask him?" Belle asked, clearly with a plan in mind.
"What do you have in mind?" Prue enquired.
"Well if we could figure out a way to summon him here and could trap him maybe we could get some answers," Belle replied.
"Well there's nothing here, but we should be able to write a spell to bring him here," Chris said confidently.
"Well if you guys write the spell, I'll go grab the Crystals," Bianca said.
"Grab some candles too for the spell," Chris called out as she left the room. He then sat down with Prue and Belle to write the spell.
"Are you sure that will do the job, it seems to be such a simple spell for a powerful demon," Prue queried.
"Sometimes it's better to keep things simple," replied Chris.
"Should we get Josh and Peyton back here? We might need there power with him," Prue said.
"We shouldn't unless we have to. You remember the trouble our parents always told us about with there jobs. We should keep them mysteriously disappearing from work and school to an absolute minimum," Chris replied.
The other two nodded in agreement when Bianca returned to the attic with the crystals and candles in her hand.
"Okay I think we've got everything," Chris said, as he took the ceremonial candles from Bianca and set them out.
"Where should we set the trap?" Bianca asked, as she still held on to the Crystals.
"Over there," Chris pointed. "Unfortunately we're not going to be able to summon him directly into the trap with the need of the candles, so we're going to have to use force to get him there. Be ready to put the Crystal down as soon as he's in."
Bianca nodded to her boyfriend, and set out all but one of the crystals leaving the circle open for Carden.
Once everything was in place, Chris, Bianca, Prue and Belle stood in a circle in between the candles and read the spell:
"We call to us
The demon in our mind
Come to our coven Carden
Through wind and fire."
The quartet braced themselves as a whirlwind of wind and fire built up in the middle of them and the candles. It kept building in strength and they knew that the demon they were summoning was trying to fight it.
After what seemed to be an eternity the wind and fire died down and the demon from the ally way appeared. Chris took advantage of the initial shock of the demon to telekinetically send him flying back toward their trap.
Prue joined in and sent a bolt of electricity toward Carden sending him flying back closer toward the circle of crystals.
Bianca, knowing she had to be there to launch the trap did a flip toward him, summoning an athame as she did so. She landed a fist to Carden's face. He lifted his clawed hand to strike back. Bianca took a step back to avoid the blow and as she did she suddenly disappeared from everyone's view, stunning everyone in the room.
Despite his own shock, Carden took advantage of the coven's momentary distraction of Bianca's new power to advance toward Belle. Prue recovered first and saw what he was about to do.
"Belle look out!" She called. Belle turned toward Carden and put her hands up.
Carden was immediately immobilized as he was surrounded in a tunnel of water. As that happened Bianca returned to view of everyone.
"Okay what just happened?" Bianca asked, momentarily stunned.
"I think you just acquired a new power," Prue responded.
"Okay, we can deal with that later, I don't think that water is going to hold him for long," Belle said, feeling the power starting to loose its hold.
"Okay, Bianca get into position, as soon as that water disappears he'll be flying on that direction," Chris said, pointing to the crystal circle.
Bianca nodded and stood over beside the crystals. Just as she did, the water disappeared, releasing Carden. As it did, Chris held up his arm and flicked his hand and Carden went flying to just before the crystal circle, beside Bianca.
As he stood up, Bianca kicked him square in the chest with a round house kick, which sent him sliding into the circle. She immediately put the crystal, already in her hand, down, activating the forcefield trapping the demon.
Carden, not wanting to believe that he had been trapped, ran towards Bianca but was flung backwards as soon as he hit the forcefield. Chris walked up to Bianca, followed by Prue and Belle.
Chris put his arm around Bianca's waist. "Are you okay?" Chris asked Bianca.
"Yeah, I'm fine, but we can talk about it properly later," Bianca replied, knowing he was referring to the fact that in the middle of the fight she had used a new power she didn't know she had.
Chris nodded and then turned to face the trapped demon who was sneering at them.
"We have questions that we think you can answer," Prue said assertively to the demon, who simply stared back at her.
"Who's the new leader of the underworld?" Belle asked.
Carden just smirked at them at the question, knowing that they had know idea that they were being betrayed by their own flesh and blood. "Wouldn't you like to know?"
Bianca felt her temper rise at the smugness in the demon's demeanour and was about to conjur up a weapon that they could use to torture him with when she felt Chris's hand on her shoulder.
She looked up at her boyfriend and realised he had a plan and relaxed her arms to see what he was going to do.
"You know Carden, I'm just wondering what's it like serving someone else?" Chris asked remembering the passage in the Book of Shadows about his ambitions.
"How do you know I'm serving someone?" Carden replied, trying to stay calm despite the flare of rage he felt at the question.
"C'mon man. You were attacking a which. No leader would do the dirty work when he can send someone else to do it. You were doing someone else's dirty work," Chris pointed out, seeing that Carden's temper was coming to the surface.
Bianca, realising what Chris's plan was, joined in. "Yeah. Face it Carden, your nothing more than someone else's lackey," she said, smirking.
Carden lost his temper. "You fools! You'll never figure it out who the new leader is. Not unless he wants you too. You know who it is but you haven't figured it out. You stupid witches let your emotions cloud your judgement!" Carden yelled.
Before he could say anymore he disappeared a ball of flames leaving four stunned witches in the attic.
In the Underworld
Carden suddenly found himself in front of an enraged Wyatt and immediately fell to his knees in reverence.
"My lord," he said respectfully, despite hating it.
"You fool. You fell into their trap and then gave them a clue as to who I am," Wyatt said furiously. "You failed me Carden. You were supposed to keep them distracted, not lead them to me."
"I haven't my lord. They love you too much to even suspect you," Carden defended himself.
"THEY AREN'T STUPID!" Wyatt exploded. "What you told them is a pretty decent clue. They could easily figure it out off of that" Wyatt looked at Carden. "But maybe that's what you want Carden."
"I…I don't know what you mean, My Lord," Carden stumbled.
"Do you think I don't know of your ambitions to take over the underworld? Maybe your hoping the witches will figure it out and destroy me so that you can take leadership yourself," Wyatt accused, menacingly. Carden shook his head desperately, know he had made a fatal mistake. "I can't afford disloyal people like you in the underworld."
With that Wyatt held his hand above the shaking Carden's head and released a fireball on top of him. Carden screamed in pain as he burst into flames and then exploded.
Wyatt turned and stalked out.
