Destinies Toll Is Ending

Chapter 13

With the world in its shambled state, and the laws of the universe changed, demons of all kinds stepped up from behind the shadows. San Francisco was quickly turned into demon central. The clubs were revived under demonic rule and so were the restaurants. The Charmed Sons had no idea what their next move was, they were stuck. They were a little lucky though... They worked hard to figure out what Zedai had meant the day he approached the boys at Sciton Corp. With the clue that there were actually two forces coming after them helped, but only so little.

Downtown, the demons manged to get the electricity going thanks to some of their powers. All sorts of demonic beings sat on the couches and cheered for the demon strippers. They were totally in the lap of luxury and was convinced the Charmed Sons were either gone for good, or they just didn't care what happened anymore. A group of four demons were sitting together, sharing bottles of vodka and tequila. "And then I told her," one of the demons said while holding up a bottle of tequila, "Nobodies gonna save you now, witch, you are history!" The demons laughed together while the demon holding the bottle chugged the alcohol in his mouth. "Come on Sigme, share some with the rest of us!" The demons laughed loudly again, and Sigme handed over the bottle. "Here Collisius, your turn!" The second demon, Collisius, took the bottle and chugged the rest of the bottle until every last drop was out.

"You better be buying us another bottle, Collisius, or you're a dead demon!" With a grin, Collisius waved towards the bartender and a few seconds later, a new bottle materialized, "That's what I'm talkin' about, babies!"

While the demons laughed and joked, two men were walking down the steps of the club. Sigme looked up and his eyes widened in shock. Getting the attention of his friends, they all looked back and didn't know what to do. Zedai and his Partner were on the main level now and Zedai lead the Demon to the bar area. "I don't know how good this place is, I only came here once before." Zedai ordered two bottles of vodka and paid the bartender, "And you can keep the change." Giving the bartender a smile and thumbs up, Zedai slid one of the bottles towards his friend. "Thank you, Zedai."

Leaning towards his friends, Sigme asked them what those two were doing together. Other demons had noticed the pair, and were all obviously talking about it. It didn't make sense that those two were hanging out together. "Maybe they have a deal... or maybe he's getting soft and wanted to use Zedai as a last minute choice, or somethin'." The red haired demon looked over at their table, but he didn't acknowledge them. The Demon just told Zedai they were as worthless as they came.

"Say, whatever happened to the Charmed Ones' mother? Isn't she a demon? Maybe someone got to her and finally brought her back to the side of us." The Demon was very interested when the topic of the Charmed Sons mother came up. Kira was a demonic seer who died a long time ago, but word had it the new Counsel of Elder's looked over her case. She was reborn, but at the price that she would have all her demonic abilities. Nobody knew why this was, but it was the way the Elder's wanted it. After that, she met Wyatt and everyone knew what happened after that.

"Once a demon traitor, always a demon traitor. That chick didn't deserve to be reborn." Shaking his head, the third demon Xigmus, had said.

Using the corner of his eye, Zedai watched as the group talked. Honestly, he wished they could've been more quiet considering they were in a loud as hell club. His partner advised him it wasn't polite to stare, and Zedai didn't need anymore attention. "What do you mean, anymore?" The Demon smirked, simply telling Zedai he knew exactly what he was talking about. Giving his only friend a shrug, Zedai took another huge gulp of vodka. "So, how was your little fight?"

Zedai just shrugged, admitting there wasn't much of a fight. He explained everything that went down at Sciton Corp, and surprisingly the Demon didn't even look annoyed. Zedai had to keep remembering himself that the Demon would never be mad as long as Zedai never physically harmed the three boys. "They were fun though. I told them about their cousins without giving them exact details. Hell, even Tyler didn't wanna kill me! Now that was pretty cool!"

Suddenly the group of demons were laughing hard, and made it known they were towards Zedai. "Honestly, excited that the Witches didn't care to fight him?! I wonder why!" Sigme was laughing so hard, he could feel the alcohol rise in his system. He coughed it back down and punched his own chest. "Oh God, that's good..." He looked back at his friends, but they weren't laughing along. Chuckling, Sigme stated that is was funny, and was okay to laugh about it. He blinked a couple times before realizing the entire bar was quiet. "What? What's going on?"

Sigme noticed his friends were looking behind him and figured he needed to do so. Turning, his eyes widened when The Demon stood over him. Oh shit, what is he getting himself into? He didn't want to show The Demon fear however, and waved his hand off, "Don't you see we're busy, here? I'm sure your bestie wants to have a nice conversation with you." He laughed, but stopped when nobody else would. The Demon asked Sigme if he could please stand up, while Sigme just stared. Slowly, he could feel himself stand and was right in the Man's face. Zedai's partner placed his arm over Sigme's shoulder, "Now, Sigme, is it?" After Sigme nodded, the man continued, "Sigme, how many times have you faced the Charmed Ones? You know, the witches before the men?" Sigme didn't need to think twice about that, and answered that he never got a chance to confront the four women.

"Now, Sigme," The Demon cleared his throat before he went on, "how many times have you confronted Tyler, Andrew, and Chris? Gimme an estimated number." The demons around the two, including Zedai, began to all smirk and chuckle. Sigme confessed he never confronted the Boys to initiate a fight. The Demon was liking this and looked around to all the other demons in the bar, "Hear that, lot? Sigme here not only hasn't been up against The Charmed Ones, he hasn't even been up against the Charmed Sons!" The demons laughed while Sigme could start feeling himself sweat. Why was this fool doing this to him?!

Walking over to Zedai now, The Demon placed his hand on his redheaded friends shoulder, "Zedai, how many times have you confronted the Charmed Sons?" Zedai smirked towards Sigme, and proudly stated three times, but confessed the first two was only up against one of the Charmed Sons. Nodding, The Demon stated to everyone that out of the three times Zedai confronted The Charmed Sons, individually or otherwise, he had survived all occasions. The other demons nodded and some even offered congratulations to Zedai. "Now, I'm sure everyone here knows Zedai here is an Upper Level Demon," he was looking towards Sigme now, and asked him which level he was at.

Gulping, Sigme stuttered out that he was neither a Lower Level or Upper Level demon. "Now, do you really think you of all demons can question my friend Zedai here?"

Sigme fell silent and quietly sat back down on his chair. After a couple seconds, his chair began to shake. Everyone was looking and wondering what the hell was happening. Above Sigme, a black and purple spiral opened, revealing a portal. Sigme was sucked up into the portal and everyone could hear his screams as he eventually disappeared from the realm and the portal closed."Does anybody else have a problem with Zedai?"

The demons scattered around some "No's!" or "Absolutely not's!" and the Demon sat back down on his chair. Zedai blinked and looked back down at his bottle of vodka. He mumbled something incoherently and his partner had to ask to repeat himself. "I said... thank you. For what you just did. You didn't have to do it... I'm use to being talked down by the others." The Demon shrugged, telling the other it was not a problem. Zedai's head tilted, "So, what's your name, anyway?" The Demon smirked while he held his bottle of alcohol. His name, huh?

"Rowland." Zedai raised his eyebrow, and knew he just said to say something, "No offense man, but "Rowland" doesn't sound like a demon name..."

Rowland chuckled and patted Zedai's back. He complimented his honestly and went back to drinking the bottle of vodka. Zedai just shrugged and continued drinking his own bottle. Rowland. What a weird ass name for a demon like him...

Something in the bar had caught Rowland's attention. Looking towards the entrance, he asked the bartender who had just entered. The bartender, an upper level demon named Phalix, just shrugged. He told Rowland he hadn't seen the three before and promised to keep a close eye on them. Zedai broke their suspicions when he looked over and smirked, "Well I'll be damned! It's the Charmed Sons' cousins!" Getting a closer look at the three, Rowland surprised himself and scolded that he should have know know they were...

Brad had talked his siblings into coming out to the bar for some investigating. Basically, it was hopes that they'd bond and be able to create their own Power of Three. Which honestly, was starting to annoy Morgan and Craig. But to make their brother happy, they were just going to go along with it. Morgan offered her concerns, "What if a demon recognizes us and kills us? This is a suicide mission, Brad!" Craig was agreeing, but their brother just wouldn't listen to them. He promised they would be perfectly fine, and nobody would recognize them at all. Oh boy, was he ever so wrong! Zedai was snickering beside Rowland, "I can't believe they decided to come here! It isn't exactly their scene." Rowland was listening and rolling his eyes. These damn fools would only ruin his plans... he could not see them advancing them at all.

"Look, we won't be here for long. I just wanna get the run of the place and see what's up. You don't see our cousins here investigating, do you?!" Craig rolled his eyes and mumbled that maybe there wasn't anything to investigate at all. "Even they're not dumb enough to go on suicide missions..." Luckily, it was so loud in the club that Brad couldn't hear his brother. Since the cousins were approaching the bar, Rowland spun Zedai around so they wouldn't immediately recognize them. Zedai gave Rowland a wink and continued to drink the vodka. Luckily for him, there was a mirror so he could see the witches faces.

"Yeah, we'll have three Corona's." The bartender gave the witches a smirk, and told Brad the cost was five bones of a mermaid's fin. Brad just blinked as he felt a little shock in his system. Craig face palmed himself while Morgan was thinking they were going to be dead in five seconds flat. The bartender began to laugh loudly, and stated he was only joking. "It's seven dollars, though." Brad did his best to laugh it off, and handed over the money to the demon.

"You three new around here?" Rowland smirked as he used the corner of his eye to look at the witches. Brad did his best to stay cool, and told Rowland they were out and about checking out the new places. Morgan was tilting her head at the demon, wondering if she'd seen him before, but nothing ever came to her. Rowland turned to the face the three while Zedai was just grinning from ear to ear. This was just too rich, even for him. "Checking the place out, huh? You lookin' to run your own business or something?" Brad replied to Rowland saying that he was the owner of a very popular nightclub and was looking to form an alliance type of deal with other bar owners. Craig just rolled his eyes and wished Brad would shut the fuck up already.

At this point, Zedai had a hard time keeping his laughter in and had his hand over his mouth. The bartender admitted that it actually was a pretty hilarious exchange as well. Rowland cleared his throat before replying. "Well, you might find what you're looking for in here, but I doubt it. Maybe if you go over across the street, you'll find what you're looking for." The bartender snickered, and grabbed a cloth to clean the counter top. While Craig was telling Brad that they should go since they found out what they were hoping to find out, Morgan just looked at Rowland. I've seen him somewhere before... The young witch/whitelighter couldn't explain it, but she was so sure she recognized him...

"Is there a problem, Miss?" Morgan blinked a couple of times before telling Rowland there was not a problem at all. Craig grabbed Morgans arm and started pulling her away while telling Brad they were going to be waiting for Brad in the front. "Um, wait, haven't we-" Before Morgan could finish her question, Craig had her dragged outside while Brad was staring at Rowland like a complete and utter fool. Chuckling softly, he excused himself and rushed out of the club.

Since they were finally gone, Zedai just cracked the hell up, saying that those three were the most pathetic excuses for witches, ever. Rowland was shaking his head, annoyed that they even attempted to come in there. "What were they hoping to even gain? Inside knowledge of the apocalypse or somethin'? Even we don't know what the hell is goin' on around here." Zedai shook his head while he finished off the bottle, and asked the bartender for one more. Rowland in the meantime, had his gears turning in his head. He needed the cousins out of the way so his plan for the boys could work. It couldn't be too hard destroying the cousins... they were powerful if they took their heads out of their asses and properly thought about the situation at hand. With a sigh, Rowland finished his bottle and saw Zedai ordered another for himself. "You sure can drink, Son." Zedai patted his stomach proudly, and stated he could probably go for one more after this one.

Rowland laughed and ordered himself and Zedai one more bottle, "You got it, Kid." Zedai was chuckling and commented on how the cousins of the Charmed Sons didn't even recognize him from before. "That's surely to give me some points, huh?" he continued chuckling while Rowland patted his friend on the back, "You do good for an Upper Level Demon, Champ."

Outside, Morgan was focused on figuring out where the hell she saw the demon before while Craig and Brad were going at it. Sitting on the ground, Morgan had her hands on her head as she thought about it. "So familiar... where did I see him before?"

"You're trying to kill us, Brad! Don't you just stand back and wonder how the hell we think about the way you go about shit?!" Brad grimaced at his brother, reminding him they were doing this for their father and Uncle. Craig groaned, demanding to know how Brad even know their cousins were really behind the murders.

"They're our cousins, Bradley! Aren't we suppose to, I dunno, love them?! Support them? Nooo, of course not, we're just suppose to be jealous and steal The Power of Three from them. Earth to Bradley, what if I don't even want to be in The Power of Three?!" Bradley growled, telling his brother they deserved the Power of Three way more over their cousins.

"Would you listen to yourself?! We were never even around the family back in High School! We were always off skipping and hanging around our grandmother! Dude, you need to grow the fuck up and ask yourself when to stop!"

Brad was about to defend himself when Morgan stepped up in support of Craig. She admitted that they've been pretty horrible to not only their cousins, but to their parents and grandparents as well. "Look, I know you think they don't deserve to be the Power of Three, but Brad c'mon. Is this really worth it? I don't want to be a jealous bitch... I already have to live with the guilt that I was never around the Manor through the years." Craig nodded, and actually blamed Brad for that.

"It's my fault?! What the hell do you mean, it's my fault?! I was looking out for us! I was the one looking out for you!" Craig just sighed and waved Brad off. He began to walk away with Morgan in tow and told Brad that this is why they could never be the Power of Three. They fought way too much to even be able to contain their bond and powers.

As they were walking, Morgan took the opportunity to ask Craig if he remembered the demon they were talking to in the bar. Shrugging, he admitted he did kinda look familiar, but couldn't place him anywhere. Brad was calling for his siblings, asking if they could all talk about this. When he didn't get an answer, he groaned out in frustration and ran after his brother and sister. This was going to be a very very long journey...

Stepping out from the corner of the alleyway, someone had heard everything the siblings were talking about. With a smirk on their face, they chuckled to themselves before walking off. "Oh, you guys are in so much trouble." Laughing, the person walked off, but stopped when they saw the demonic bar. "Hmm, weigh of options: Go in and get attacked, or just walk off and find someplace else... Naaah!" Chuckling to themselves, the person ran off into the city.

Thanks for reading! Please leave a review and tell me what you think. I've noticed I don't really type these kind of messages and I kinda miss it lol. So, what do you think of The Demon's name introduction? Every time I do this, I try not to name the demons, but sometimes it annoys me having to write out The Demon or Zedai's Partner all the time, so I gave him a name! :) By the way, speaking of Zedai, what do you think of him? I've always wanted to see a demon that acted like Zedai and I had to make him for this fic. hehe. What do you think of his "I'm not cut out for this demon stuff" act? Hmm, so much to tell, so much to share. I cannot wait til Chapter 14 is out, ahhh! Also, Chapter 20 is almost upon us, yay! Can't wait to see what you guys think of the future chapters of Destinies Toll Is Ending! Until then, have a great day and a great rest of the week!