Chapter 28: Old friend…

"Argh…Where am I?" Prue grumbled, when she woke up again after a long trip traveled to the underworld, as she realized someone had covered her eyes and tied her hands. "Ah, I see you have waked up. Sooner than I have expected." a strange voice appeared. Prue was afraid, she tried to use her astral projection power, but nothing happened. "Seems that my cage has done its work. You couldn't use your power of astral projection here anymore, don't worry." The voice sounded again.

"Who are you? And why did you capture me?" Prue yelled, worrying.

"Don't ask me. You'll discover yourself, sooner or later. Maybe I should give you a hint: You're weaker, weaker from the time I take you away from your soul mate, and at one point, you'll knock out unconscious. Then I'll take your soul forever! After that, I can easily take the others Charmed Ones, and finally, I'll be the most powerful demon ever!" the demon shouted, satisfied with his plan.

"Oh no you won't! My sisters will find you, and they will vanquish you in an instant!" Prue shouted back, tried not to believe the demon would win.

"Accept the truth, Charmed One. You have no way out of here. Enjoy your last minutes being alive!" the demon answered. Prue could here the sound of him shimmered away. 'Oh great. Now how do I escape?' she thought, just then a sharp pain came into her body, made her felt she couldn't move any part of her body anymore. 'It's nearly the end' she thought. "No, I must fight! I must live, for the Charmed Ones, for the world, for…" she suddenly stopped. A hot tear rolled down her face. She missed her husband so much. But he hit her terribly, and he went over night for no reason! But her sisters declined it! "What's all this about?" she said, still very small. In her last seconds she could keep her mind awake, she thought about Bane, again. She wished he could be there for her, comforted her, like he usually did. Prue haven't had to wait for long, because right after that, she went into her wonderful dream about Bane.

"You are mine now!" the demon appeared, as he came nearer to Prue, planned to start taking her soul, but suddenly a voice shouted.

"Leave her alone!"

Manor

"Are you all ready?" Piper asked, as she checked all the group's members.

"Ready when you are." Leo answered, as he kissed his wife.

"Whatever." Andy moaned, seems boring, but his heart was worry for Prue. He hoped they weren't too late for rescue her. The gang orbed/shimmered then to the underworld.

Underworld

"Nice trip! I'm having a headache!" Paige said, after all of them had arrived the underworld.

"Split up! We have to find Prue as soon as possible!" Piper commanded everybody, and they did what she just said. Except Andy. He just stood in one spot, closed his eyes. "Andy! What are you doing? Don't you care about your wife…charge…something?" Phoebe yelled to his face. Just then he opened his eyes, and pointed. "This way!" he shouted, and run.

"He's just sensed for Prue. Why didn't we think about it sooner?" said Leo, then all of them followed Andy. They came to a large place, where they can easily saw Prue in a cage in the middle of it. There was a figure stood behind her. It was the demon. But he wasn't alone. There was another person standing in front of the demon. The man looked familiar to the sisters, and the men, but Andy. He could recognize this guy almost anywhere since he was once told to find and arrest this guy when he was 'alive'.

"Brendan Rowe?" Andy asked, in great surprise. Brendan, who was still trying to attack the demon, answered quick, "Yeah, surprise?" Brendan replied, and suddenly the demon that they expected to be Aparter, shimmered away.

"Oh My God let's see how's Prue!" Piper said, breaking the silence, as the group ran to the unconscious oldest Charmed One. But Andy, who supposed to be the most worried, just stood there and stared at the warlock who was now holding Prue when the cage's opened.

"She's okay, at least for now." Brendan said, after checking Prue's pulse. Then just as remembered something, Piper asked. "Wait Brendan, I think you're a priest? What are you doing here?"

"I was. Not anymore. I heard about Prue being kidnapped and immediately came down here. So…what is that inspector guy doing here? I thought he's not supposed to, well you know."

"Andy? He's not an inspector anymore. He's a whitelighter and also Prue's husband now, and I'm not gonna go detail about it." Answered Phoebe, and she yelled to her oldest brother-in-law. "Hey Prince Andy! What are you waiting for? Come here and give your Sleeping Beauty a kiss!" she teased and was retorted back immediately. "I'm not her prince okay? Just a husband that she's dull at." Andy grumbled, as walked closer to his dearly wife. But unexpectedly, Aparter shimmered right behind him and before Piper could have a chance to freeze him, he threw an electric ball to Andy, made him fell down unconscious. Realizing what happened, Piper flicked her twist and froze the demon.

"Oh God Andy!" Right then everyone ran to Andy to see if he was ok, but Brendan. He was still holding Prue, and now he was stroking her hair. He knew that she's not his, or at least 'til then, but will be soon. Meanwhile, Piper had asked Leo to heal Andy, and told her other two sisters to read the spell to vanquish the demon.

We call you the Angel of Death
Take away who disturbs our rest
The demon that apart soul mates
Will be burned by the flame of hate

The three after chanted, expected to see Aparter being vanquished, but nothing happened. Or actually, the demon unfroze, made Piper flick her twist again. "No surprising. We must use the Power of Four instead, not only Three." She said.

"I agree. So we must have Andy waken up so that Prue could be able to join us. Leo, finished?" Phoebe replied, as turned to Leo.

"I don't understand, he must be healed by now!" Leo answered, in unpleasing voice.

"Maybe your healing isn't enough?" Brendan interrupted.

"Oh great! If we wanna kick this demon ass we must have Prue with us and if she wanna join she must have her true love's kiss aka Andy, and now he's unconscious too! Any ideas how to get them back?" Paige yelled, angrily.

"Calm down. Now we have to get back to the manor first. Leo, you'll take care the demon, Prue and Andy. Paige, orb us back to the manor. Wait a minute, where's Cole?" Piper asked, suspicious because of the absent of her younger brother-in-law.

"He told me he got to go. Don't worry, he can shimmer, isn't he?" Phoebe replied.

"So we don't need to worry about him. Ah, Brendan, you can go now. Prue's safe." Piper commanded. She was trying to be a leader, like Prue always did. She was wishing Prue was there and gave them commands, not her.

"I won't mind going with Prue." Brendan answered, as he stood up, carrying the oldest sister in his arms.

"Um…so you and Leo will go with Andy and Prue, okay? Let's go." Piper said one last time before the group orbed home.

Manor

"Hurry, get the stones before this guy unfreeze!" Piper shouted, immediately when they were just reached the manor. Paige and Phoebe did what she said, quickly created the crystal cage which had Aparter in it. Luckily, just right after that, it unfroze.

"Okay, let me summarize. If we wanna vanquish this thing we must have the Power of Four which means Prue must wakes up. But if we want it to be happened we must have Andy's kiss to do it! And now he's out of the game! We're doomed." Paige yelled, unpleased. The other ones remained silence. They were thinking a way out just until Brendan made his first word.

"Why do you always think that Andy is Prue's true love? What if it's somebody else? Like…me?" He said, very confidently. And it made everyone shocked.

"What did you say again please? You think you're Prue's true love? Are you crazy yet?" Phoebe shouted at Brendan's face, angrily. She's always believed that Prue and Andy are meant to each other, and now she was angry at his sentence.

"No, maybe he's right. True or not, just kiss her and everything will be cleared." Piper said, as she signed for Brendan to try to kiss Prue. He walked to Prue, and before he kissed her, he put something over her face while everyone didn't notice. The oldest one slowly opened her eyes…

A.N: Sorry soooo much for the delaying, but I had an exam on Dec (this month) so I had to spend my time 4 studying! Anyway, enjoy! And also Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too! Have lots of presents!