"What do we do," Piper yelled to her sisters. The manor was wrecked, and furniture was thrown all over the place. The past couple of weeks had been overwhelming for the sisters as they continually faced Brendan's brothers as they scrambled to destroy the sisters.
Kaleb, Greg, and Paul had desperately tried to put an end to the charmed ones by going to the past and preventing Charlotte from giving birth to Melinda Warren. After that mission failed, they tried to intercept a warlock's attempts to gain the charmed powers by having Patty bless a ring with immunity. Next, they had tried to gain control over the nexus and take over the manor itself. Now the brothers had ambushed them and were causing mayhem in the manor.
"Duck," Paige yelled throwing a potion at two of the brothers who were advancing on Piper. Phoebe hid behind the dinner table which was serving as a barracks and trying to come up with a spell to provide some much needed time for her and her sisters to plan their next move.
Prue waved her hand and sent Greg hurdling into Paul after they had managed to explode Paige's potion before it ever hit them. The brothers grumbled as they picked themselves off of the floor and Kaleb blinked in behind Prue, grabbing her and blinking out before any of the sisters could do anything. Greg and Paul followed their brother's lead, leaving Piper, Phoebe, and Paige one sister short of the power of four.
"Not to be ungrateful, but what do you get out of making Prue Halliwell my wife," Kaleb asked the dark priestess.
"I was but a humble servant of the Source, Kaleb. I get nothing other than the benefits we all reap whenever good is turned evil, and the satisfaction of revenge for his vanquish."
"Still, for all the unions you've consecrated, it seems you should get something, especially for this one."
"There is a spoil that intrigues me," Dantalian said as she dropped a scorpion into a metallic bowl. "The Halliwell Book of Shadows is said to be the most magical of all tomes."
"The witch's Book of Shadows? That shouldn't be too hard to get now that the sisters are down a member. My brothers should be able to take them on as I obtain it for you," Kaleb said with a mischievous gleam in his eye.
"This one is. Evil can't touch it, although turning Prue evil should turn her sisters and their Book evil as well. Their magic is interconnected."
"Well, then I'll get it for you myself, as a token of my gratitude," he told her.
"First things first. Performing the ceremony. That's what this potion is for. After I bind her in evil, she'll fall into a deep sleep where the transformation to evil will occur."
Phoebe sat at the table scrying for Prue while Piper came down the stairs carrying the Book of Shadows. Paige was trying to sense her eldest sister and Brendan was fuming.
"Find her," Piper asked setting the book on the table.
"Not yet," Phoebe answered and Paige just shook her head in response.
"We're screwed," Piper told them.
"Not yet," Phoebe reaffirmed when Leo orbed in, grabbing everyone's attention.
"Leo, what did you find out," Piper asked.
"Nothing."
"Okay, now we're screwed," Phoebe said agreeing with her sister.
"Nothing on the map, nothing in the Book. Leo, somebody must know something," Piper asserted.
"Well, the Elders support your theory that the brothers are somehow blocking her from our radar, but they can't get a clear read on the situation."
"So there's no way of sensing her," Paige asked, clearly angry.
"Something like that. But she can't be dead. They'd be able to sense that no matter how evil is interfering."
"So how are my brothers hiding her?"
"With powerful magic, or very powerful knowledge."
"Or someone with a lot of knowledge," Paige said. "They've never been able to pull off something like this on their own, so they have to be working with someone right?"
"Okay, but who? You destroyed all of my brothers' allies. You even took out the source," Brendan reminded them.
"But we didn't take out his most close and personal friends," Phoebe said getting an idea. "Whoever is helping them would have to be pretty up on the food chain, too, if they have the kind of magic we think they do."
"So what," Paige said, "we go on a new crusade and take out all upper level demons? How would we even know where to start?"
"With the one we have in our pocket; Cole."
Kaleb stood over Prue, who was dressed in a black top and skirt that combined the delicate and sensual states in silk and mesh fabric. Greg and Paul were overjoyed with their success, yet still angry about not being able to decimate the sisters.
"Shut up," the eldest screamed. His eyes were as dark as the depths of hell, with no light or warmth coming through. "We have an opportunity even better than killing the witches," he told his little brothers. "We can turn them away from good, add their numbers in our favor, and use them to sway Brendan to our side. And if we play our cards right, gain a bride for each of us," Kaleb said. "Imagine the kind of power we could create in our offspring. Think of the world we can create for ourselves, and all we had to do was steal one of the witches to turn all four."
"Shall we begin," Dantalian asked.
"I'm ready."
"We must prepare her for the evil before we bind her to you. It will prevent her from being able to fight through the magic later on, should her sisters find you before they too have been affected by the magic," Dantalian informed Kaleb.
"Do it," he said.
"In the beginning, we were damned, and through damnation, we found freedom, power, and purpose to allow ourselves to do as we please, and shed unwanted burdens that hold us down. May these gifts increase so your powers may grow in the service of evil. So be it".
"How long before her transformation is complete?"
"Sundown. Can you wait that long to make her your bride?"
"For the power of the Charmed Ones? I can wait a few hours," Kaleb said.
"Well, that doesn't make sense. Warlocks don't have that kind of power," Cole said after learning that Brendan's brothers were somehow blocking Prue from the elders. "He must be working with somebody that does. Certain dignitaries have the power to shield their activities. Demonic judges, dark priests, anyone who needs privacy for rituals."
Phoebe stood in the attic with her sisters, whitelighter, and Brendan. She had summoned Cole in the hopes that maybe a small part of him –the human part—had been saved when Paige had vanquished him. "What kind of rituals? To accomplish what?"
"It's hard to say. Could be anything. They may want your Book. We all want your Book."
"Well, how can we find out who wants it now," Paige asked.
"I want my sister back," Phoebe told him, noticing his look of hesitance.
"No matter the cost?"
"We want our sister back," Piper said stepping closer to him.
"You'll need a bounty hunter," he told the three sisters. "You won't be able to find her yourselves because you're not evil."
"I thought you said there was nothing in the Book," Leo said.
"Well, now there's just a whole bunch of weirdness in it. Look," Piper shoved the book at him.
"Hemlock killing spell? That doesn't belong in here."
"But it does have possibilities."
"Piper," Leo said a little concerned and before he knew what was happening she had blinked into the kitchen.
"You blinked," he told her.
"I did not. Only warlocks do that."
Brendan and Leo sat in the sun room with the book. The three sisters had long since gone, having started their own version of magical freeze tag.
"The Book is changing because of them. It is an extension of the power of three and whatever turned them evil is affecting the book."
"This is what I was afraid of. Whoever has got Prue is somehow reaching her sisters. It could be anyone willing to gain favor with my brothers if they think they have a chance of overpowering the charmed ones," Brendan told Leo.
"You know, if what's happening to us is happening to Prue..." Piper began to say.
"Then the power of four can be truly amazing. We have to find her," Phoebe said.
"No more obeying the rules, considering the consequences, none of that crap," Paige said.
"Time to find Prue and go for broke," Phoebe told them.
Piper and Phoebe blinked out, letting Paige orb in a swarm of black, glittering lights that traveled close to the ground.
"Are we there yet," Paige said snidely. "Prue," she said noticing her eldest sister.
"Nice to see you've arrived just in time for the nuptials," Kaleb said as the sisters turned their attention to the Rowe brothers. "Are you ready to give away the bride," he asked smartly.
Prue woke from her sleep and allowed Kaleb to assist her off the alter as Dantalian took her place behind the alter.
"Excuse me," Piper said.
"This ceremony will cement you and your sister in evil, sanctifying your recent change."
"All the better," Paige said stepping to stand behind Prue. Phoebe joined her shortly and Piper looked back and forth between Prue, the priestess, and the brothers. "Let's do this," she said.
The priestess performed the ceremony, and it was about to come to an end when Brendan blinked in. "Stop."
Kaleb looked from his bride's eyes to his youngest brother's. "Do you really think you can stop us? In case you haven't noticed, it's seven against one."
"I'm not trying to stop you from turning them," he said stepping onto the alter and displaced Kaleb. He looked into Prue's eyes. "But I'm going to be the one to be joined with Prue."
"By all means," Kaleb said. "But seeing as how you've spent your life trying to deny your heritage, you won't be insulted by my suspicion of your sudden willingness to be bound in a dark union and the need to take measures to ensure the outcome of today's event."
"What do you need," Brendan said slowly turning to look at his brother.
"Four men; four women looking to concrete our status in the pursuit of evil. One marriage alone is not as strong as four."
"You want us to marry you," Paige said and snorted.
"Do you want to go back to good," Paul asked.
"So that's it? If I want Prue, we have to have a quadruple wedding?"
"It's the only way to make sure you aren't tricking us," Phoebe said.
Dantalian instructed the four couples to stand together, hand in hand, with Kaleb joining hands with Piper, Greg with Phoebe and Paul with Paige. The grooms presented each bride with a blood red rose, as instructed by Dantalian, and each bride's finger pricked by a thorn. The priestess had them each drip their blood in a goblet of wine, and both the bride and groom drank from their offering cups.
"Not two but one, then life be gone. You may kiss the bride," she said.
Leo sat at the table, praying that Brendan had found a way to save the sisters when he heard the elders' call and turned his head up towards the ceiling. He retreated from the manor and made his way to the heavens before the sisters and their grooms reclaimed the manor. The elders had revoked Leo as their whitelighter, because once they had chosen evil, they had revoked their right to a whitelighter. He had no idea what he was going to tell the girls' parents.