Dealing With Death

Chapter 21: A Birthday to Remember

Wyatt was getting ready for tonight. He knew he was going to the restaurant with Chris and Melinda, it was part of their birthday present for him, but what they did not know was that the whole family was going to be there, and they had a surprise party at P3 for him afterwards.

He took a last look in his mirror, to check he looked presentable – hey you never knew who would be at the restaurant – and started to leave the room.

"Ok, we'll be there in a few minutes, ok Pru," Wyatt saw his younger sister leaving her room on her cell phone, "Well, however long it's going to take Wyatt to get ready, you know what he's like," the Twice Blessed rolled his eyes, not letting on he was behind her yet, "Anyway, sweetie, I'll see you in a bit. Bye."

"You'll see Pru in a bit?" Wyatt questioned, as Melinda hung up her call, putting her cell phone in her bag.

"Wyatt, stop listening in to my conversations," Melinda dodge the question. "Chris! Where are you?"

"Downstairs, c'mon." Both the siblings could hear the middle child calling to them. Wyatt decided not to question anymore, wondering whether Pru was coming for the meal too. Not that he minded, Pru had been over at the manor a lot lately.

Once he got down the stairs, he could see his brother writing in a notepad.

"What you doing?"

"Nothing." Chris looked up to see his brother and sister, so shut the notepad and put it on the coffee table.

"You sure?"

The teenage boy knew that Wyatt was suspicious enough, after everything with Bianca that morning, so had to answer him.

"I didn't want to have to tell you until tomorrow morning," the 19-year-old sighed, "It's just information I got of Bianca and from the Underworld about the new demon in town."

"There's a new demon in town?" Melinda looked between her two brothers, but neither of them answered her.

"Ok, well I'll check it tomorrow then," Wyatt agreed with his brother, but only because he was hungry, "And we'll see what we can do."

The three siblings left the manor, in their usual orbing way, and made it to the office at the restaurant.

As they stepped out of the office, Wyatt could see his Aunt Paige with his two uncles and six cousins.

"You two set this up."

"Of course we did." Melinda simply stated as she walked over to Pru and hugged her.

The night was going well, there had been no problems with anything until he desert when Bianca had got Chris' attention. Paige was the only other person to notice her, and was not happy about Chris going off to speak to her, but she could not say anything. Instead she engaged into conversation with her husband and eldest nephew, trying not to rouse suspicion.

"What are you doing here?" Chris asked, as he dragged the Phoenix to the office, keeping her out of sight of her family. He had seen Paige's face and knew she had seen who he was going to. He just had to hope that she did not say anything to anybody at the table.

"I was down in the Underworld, there's something you should know." Bianca's eyes flashed with fear and worry at the Witch-Elder, which caused Chris some concern.

"What is it?" He asked for an explanation.

"There's a plan to attack tonight at P3. They know you guys can't do anything because of the exposure risk. Possessor demons are going to take over innocents. Don't go, Chris, please."

"We have to go. If they're planning on attacking we're going to have to stop them."

"It's dangerous, Chris, you could get yourself killed."

The witch-Elder just laughed at the 24-year-old, and brushed a piece of hair behind her ear.

"I can start an earthquake, get everybody under cover so we can take on the demons," Chris explained, "We face demons every day, God Bianca, I went to the past to save my sister from the Vampires, never thinking of what may have happened while we were in the past. I've been down to the Underworld to get information at least once a week, and anyway, what are you so worried about my for?" That was when he saw Bianca's face light up.

"I don't want to lose you, Chris."

"Why? Because I'm the best you ever had?" But Chris knew deep down what she was talking about, "Look, I'd better get in there. If you're that worried, swing by P3 and help us when the demons attack, that is if you're really on my side."

And with that, Chris walked back to the table, leaving the Phoenix with the choice.

"You took your time." Wyatt laughed, as the 19-year-old sat down.

"Saw somebody I knew, got talking a little." Well, it was partly the truth, but he could see Paige's death glare. She did not like Bianca, but was it really just because she was a Phoenix? And how did Paige know who she was anyway, she had never explained that. He made a mental note to find out, and then joined in with the conversation at the table, whilst thinking about Bianca's warning.

"There's going to be an attack." Chris warned his Aunt Paige. They were at the back of the group as they walked into P3, so they could have a talk about Bianca. Paige wanted to stop her nephew from falling for her, she could see he was, but what if she was no danger to him.

"How do you know? Did Bianca tell you?"

"Yes. Look, demons will attack here. Possessors for definite."

Paige looked worried, it was not usual for a group of demons to attack at the club, demons too had the risk of exposure, but they did not seem to care if mortals saw what they were doing. They could kill any mortal without worrying about a conscience.

"When?"

"I don't know. But you need to keep an eye on the kids and Uncle Henry. Me and Wyatt will be able to take them."

"Chris, you are not taking on demons on your own." Paige warned her nephew as they walked over to the bar, earning strange looks from Henry, Coop and Wyatt. The three men knew that something was going on, but could not put their finger on it.

"So, what you two drinking?" Henry stopped their conversation, "Water darling?"

"Yes please." Paige smiled, grateful that her husband could still remember to this day that she would not touch alcohol, not after her addiction to it in her teens.

"Me too, please Uncle Henry." Chris smiled. He had the same reasons to stay away from alcohol as his Aunt Paige. He feared one drop and he would go back to what he was like after his mother's death.

"What are you two hiding?" Coop asked, this was the first time to P3 since his wife died, and needed conversation to stop him thinking about it.

"Nothing," Paige lied, "What would we be hiding." Chris did not say a word, he could never tell a complete lie. Wyatt could always see through it at some point.

"Chris?" Wyatt asked, knowing he would get something out of him.

"I've been telling Paige about Bianca," Chris sighed, "You know that she helped us fight the demons this morning."

"You told her about the Phoenix?" Wyatt eyed his brother carefully, what would he have to tell Paige about the Phoenix?

"Yes, Wyatt," Chris sighed, "She's not all bad, and anyway Aunt Paige already knew about her."

Paige looked away from the conversation and decided to make sure her children were being good. They had managed to corner off part of the club for the youngsters, just for the party tonight, so they did not have to close the whole club off to the public, but knowing her twins they would be causing mischief somewhere, they always were. She would not be brought into the conversation of how she knew Bianca tonight, she could not do it to either of her nephews. They had both lived a happy life until eleven months ago, and she could not let them know about the other future unless she really had to.

The two Halliwell brothers watched as their aunt walked away from the conversation and then looked at each other confused. She was hiding something, and they would have to find out, but at the moment Chris had the thoughts of the demon attack. There were too many people here to cause an earthquake. He would have to organise for his uncles to get the out of the building…but then that would put his Uncle Henry in danger who had no powers to his name. He needed to think of a plan, and fast.

Wyatt looked towards his brother, as they all sat down in on of the VIP booths that was closed off for the party. He could see him in deep thought, and his eyes seemed to be searching the place. Was he looking for a girl? Was he waiting to see if Bianca was going to turn up?

"Chris?" Wyatt called, but his brother did not hear him, "Hey, earth calling to Chris. You in there?"

Chris' eyes shot up, as Wyatt waved his hand in front of his eyes, "Sorry, just thinking." Chris said, and went back to searching the crowd. Now he was searching for any possible demons, but could not find any.

Suddenly he saw a fireball flying through the air, towards the band on the stage, hitting the wall just above the drummer's head. Everybody in the room screamed, and turned to look at it, except for the witch-Elder and the eldest witchlighter, who were both looking to see who it belonged to. What did not make sense was that Bianca had mentioned Possessor Demons, they did not have the power of fireballs.

Wyatt looked around the room, he had not seen the fireball that had hit the wall, but had seen something was causing the commotion. He turned to his brother to find out what had happened, when he saw Chris' face pale as his green eyes searched in a panic around the crowds. As he looked at his aunt, he could see her doing the exact same thing. They knew what had hit the wall, and it was not something natural.

"Melinda, freeze all the mortals in the room." Chris called to his baby sister, who did as she was told. The whole room, except the family (well Henry froze) and around twenty human looking demons. Some of them must have been possessed.

"Ok, freeze anybody possessed." Chris called out again, and once again Melinda did as she was told, causing five of the demons to freeze, "Paige, get the younger ones and Henry out of here, and come back with potions to de-possess people."

Wyatt watched his brother taking control of the situation and then turned to see a fireball hurling towards his head. Suddenly the demonic weapon was sent back to the owner, vanquishing him.

"We can't leave them frozen," Melinda called out to her second brother, "And I don't know how long those five will stay frozen."

"Just get our back." Chris called out to his sister, cousin and cupid uncle, as he moved forward to stand in line with his brother.

"It's up to us two here." Chris stated and telekinetically threw some of the demons back, just as Bianca shimmered in.

"Need any help?"

"Please." Both Chris and Wyatt replied at the same time as the battle commenced. The Halliwell brothers and the Phoenix took on the demons, only helped out by Melinda and Pru if needed. Of course, Coop had just stayed there to get anybody out of the fight if it was needed. Luckily the possessor demons had not managed to unfreeze yet, so there were only about 15 demons to take on. Five each. They could easily manage that.

Chris tapped into his fire power and caused two demons to blow up from the inside. It was not the prettiest thing to see, but it was always a damn good vanquish. He then turned to two other demons firing Elder-bolts at them. As those two demons were vanquish, Chris was too slow to see the fireball hurling towards him. It hit him straight in the chest, sending him flying back into the wall.

Wyatt had seen his younger brother get hit, but was struggling with the demons around him.

"Paige! Troy!" He called up to the ceiling, hoping one of the whitelighters would hear him. He knew Paige was busy with getting the potions and calming the children down, but where was Troy. He threw another energy ball, vanquish his third demon, and quickly looked around to see Chris was still alive, but in a lot of pain. Coop was with him, ready to teleport them out. He turned back to the demons as one spit an acidic fluid from his mouth. He telekinetically sent it back to the owner, vanquishing him and then blew up his last demon, but it made the demon multiply.

"Crap!" Wyatt yelled as he tried blowing it up again, causing another demon to come out of his body. Realising that blowing up was no use, he threw an energy ball at the demon, that did the trick, so he threw three more to take care of his other two and Chris' last demon. Out of nowhere, and before anybody could do anything, a Darklighter arrow hit Wyatt in the chest, causing him to stumble backwards.

Bianca had seen the arrow, but it was too late to do anything, and anyway she did not have the power to do anything. She only had two demons left, but the room was starting to fill with Darklighters.

"Get them both out of here." Bianca called back to the two cupids in the room, well the cupid and witch-cupid, "I'll take care of these."

But Melinda had other ideas. She would stay with Bianca, and make sure Bianca would leave before she got herself killed. She was not sure who this girl was, but she was helping her brothers and that was all that mattered to her.

As everybody around the two girls teleported out of the club, Melinda threw an energy ball at one of the darklighters, luckily the poison from the arrows would not affect her, it would just bloody hurt.

"We need to get out of here, Bianca." Melinda found her and the Phoenix backed into a corner. The room unfroze as the demons and darklighters got closer to them. Bianca grabbed the 16-year-old's arm and shimmered them to the manor.

As soon as Pru saw Melinda appear with the mystery girl, she set the last crystal in place, protecting the house from any other demons.

"Where are they?" Melinda asked her in a panic.

"Chris is in the attic, he's fine, Paige healed him, but Wyatt…" Pru looked away from her cousin, "She couldn't heal him, Mel, he's in pain. In his room."

Melinda's world span as she heard her own aunt could not heal her brother. She could not lose Wyatt, not yet, not ever.

Hm...now could I really kill the Twice Blessed of...Am I that evil? hehehe...

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