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Chapter 29

The Sinners of Uther

Prue went to talk to Piper as Mel and the others were getting ready to leave. She sat down on the ground and crossed her legs while looking up at her sister. She has seen her laugh, cry and all the emotions in-between but this was a mind at chaos. She loves her children, she would die for them but what Mel did hit her hard and the fact she said she wanted the memory of her stricken forever was like saying you are dead to me.

"Piper be patient with her," Prue said as Piper looked up from the ground and her dark brown eyes met Prue's blue ones.

"I have been Prue, why does everyone think that I am in the wrong, do you think its ok how she behaves?"

"Its different for me, I have known her longer then you, Piper I have been guiding her since she was a child," Prue said.

"Yeah still trying to understand that whole thing," Piper said as the whole fact that Prue knew her in the dark future was still hard to comprehend.

"What do you know about the Sinners of Uther?" Prue asks.

"Prue I don't know anything about this place and to be honest I don't care," Piper replied and stood up as Leo came up to check on her. "And don't you start," Piper said while pointing to him as she wiped her face to clean away the tears.

"They are slave traders Piper, Mel has no idea what she will find that is why she was not overjoyed to find out she was with them," Prue said and Piper put her hands on her hips while closing her eyes tight.

"What is her name?" Leo asks as they had no idea what their grandchild was called.

"Vela, she was named after the constellation Argo Navis, it was divided into three constellations. It represented the Argo, the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts," Prue replied.

"The sail," Piper said as the tears flowed again.

"Yeah, Piper she does love you but she has been so hurt and not just emotionally but physically over the years and I still think the imprisonment did something to her and the others," Prue said as Leo put his arm around Piper. She leaned into him as Prue stood up.

Back down at camp Mel was getting her Titanius ready as Jack came up to her. "You know we will not be welcomed by them with open arms," he said.

"I don't want open arms Jack, I want them to bleed out from them," She said and got on her Titanius.

"Mel you need to give Piper back the suit, what if Max finds a way in?" he asks and she looked up on the hill and gave a slight nod. Terminator teleported to her and without saying a word the little guy smiled and hovered up to where Piper was. The others got on their Titanius and awaited Mel's order.

"Hell five, our blades have been absent of color, lets go brighten them," she said and gave a kick to her Titanius and it rushed forward as it too was ready for the fight.

"With crimson," Jack said through his teeth and did the same.

Phoebe and Coop looked at each other as did Paige and Henry. They wanted to give them a head start and then begin to follow them.

"We should tell Piper and Leo what we are doing," Paige said and headed up the hill.

"Are you ready for this?" Coop asks Phoebe.

"You know despite everyone's believe that we are fluffy, we have seen our share of death and war," Phoebe replied and went to get her Titanius ready.

"I haven't," Coop whispered and went to his.

Up on the hill Terminator hovered up to Piper and stretched out its hand. It then opened it to revile a small patch of black fabric. Piper remembered the first time she saw it, but this time she was not so quick to take it.

"Piper you may need it if Max attacks while they are gone," Leo said as the more power she had the better. She took in a deep breath and took the piece. This time it was not painful but she could feel the electricity move through her body.

"Fine if I am going to use this thing, then its time to see what it can do not to mention I really need to blow off some steam," Piper said and Terminator smiled.

"That's my girl," Prue said as she could see the fire return to her sisters eyes.

"Hay we are going to follow them," Paige said as she saw that Piper was wearing the outfit again," looks like someone forgives you."

"I should go with you," Piper said and started heading down.

"No you should stay here, we need some power to stay behind in case there is an attack," Leo said.

"Its ok we want let anything happen to her," Paige said.

"Paige I would worry about everything that gets in her way," Piper said and headed down the hill as Paige gave a small smile.

The Titanius move 20 times faster than any horse living and the clan was not that far from them. branches from trees would bend and even brake as they gallop down the dirt road. Paige and the others kept their distends but Mel made no attempts to cover her tracks as her mind was not concern of what may be behind her, but what was waiting for her.

"These things are fast," Paige yelled next to Phoebe.

"Their faster than my car," Phoebe said as the acceleration was intense, but can also come to an abrupt stop. Her Titanius slid on the dirt as its large hoofs dug in and she almost went toppling over. Once she could see everything clearly and not a blur rushing by, something dark came into few. All she could really make out was his eyes that were pure white with no pupil. The rest of him was like a black mist.

"We don't have time for this, just go past it," Paige said as she had no idea what it was or even cared at the moment. The Titanius did not move as the man stretched out his arms and said something in Latin. Their rides were not likening what was happening and did their best to get them off. "Fine you want to fight then we fight," Paige said and got off as the others did the same.

"Paige we have no idea what it is," Henry said as he got his power ready.

"Its in our way and clearly wanting hurt us, that's all I need to know," she said and looked for something to orb at him.

From behind the tress ghostly fingers began to emerge. Henry did not wait and used his power on one of them, but it just went straight through it.

"Necromancer," Phoebe said as they are the only ones who can control ghost.

"What Grams necromancer," Paige asks as they were getting closer.

"Definitely not," Coop added and generated his bow.

"Um we can't fight ghost Phoebe," Paige said as they were getting surrounded.

"Then we fight him," Phoebe said and before she could do anything she felt a cold hand take hold of her arm and just as she made eye contact, it jerked her so hard that she never even felt her body leave the ground until she hit a tree.

"Phoebe!" Coop yelled and fired at the ghost that tossed her, but it just went start through. Paige ran to her and started healing her. Phoebe's head was bleeding and she was knocked out from the blow. Coop ran up to her just as Paige finished. Henry focuses his power on the necromancer, but the ghost seemed to be protect him and absorbs the power. Phoebe got up.

"We need to us the teleport to get back," Paige said.

"No we are not running, everything think here things we are whips or cowards, not anymore, I am not running," she bellowed and placed herself in front of them as even Paige liked the war cry. A ghost got close to her and out of habit she put her hands up. This time a shield metalized around them and somehow kept the ghost from coming any closer. The Necromancer lowered his arms as he analyzing the shield. Phoebe stretched out her hand and tamped into her power so she could tap into his. The ghost changed directions and started going after him.

"Empathy," he sneered and the fight was on for control as the ghost would change from going after him to them.

"Hit him with everything," Phoebe ordered and Henry raised his hands to let the power build. The tattoos on his body glowed and his palms turned bright red. Coop opened his hand and a new type of arrow appeared. The tips were black and larger then anything he has ever used. Paige was going to try something new, if she could orb anything then why not orb something big. She closed her eyes as everyone else got ready," Fire!" she yelled and they let lose. Henry's power hit him and this time no ghost could stop it. Coop's arrow also made it through and the black tip arrow turned into black vines that wrapped themselves around the Necromancer and tight like a python. Phoebe continued to tamp into his power while they heard something from above. It sounded like a jet going by and sure enough a missile was released.

"Oh my god," Phoebe said as this may be too close for comfort. Paige put both hands out and made the shield bigger as the misled hit the Necromancer. The explosion shook the ground as the huge fireball took out the forest around them a stadium size aftermath. The fire and shrapnel hit the shield and moved around it, like water around a cure in the river. "You called a jet fighter.

"Yeah what you think of that," Paige said a little impressed with herself as the fire and dust cleared.

"I think you have been around Mel too long," Henry said and smiled while looking at the huge hole left. "You think he is dead?"

"I don't feel him anymore and the ghost are gone," Phoebe replied as the Titanius came back up to them.

"How did they not die?" Coop asks.

"They can fade out into diffident dimension," Paige replied.

"Come on we have another battle to fight," Phoebe said as she got on her Titanius.

Piper along with her sons stood next to each other as Terminator prepare some targets for her to practice. Prue stood to the side.

"You can use the tech to strengthen your exploding power," Prue said and Piper closed her eyes thinking of the red circular object she created before when they first arrived. When she opened them, they could tell she was using the technology as her eyes flashed while circular lights moved around her pupil.

"That's hot," Leo said to Wyatt while smiling as his son cringed a little."Sorry," he said as the thought of him getting turned on by the event was a little to much for his son. Piper flicked her wrist aiming at one of the targets and even though they could not see her power enter the circle, there was a 1 second pause as the outer rings moved around the center one. Code could be seen for only a blink of an eye and when the power exited, it was 20 times more powerful. The air around the reddish hovering circle rippled and the target that looked like a person exploded, but not just it, the mountain side felt the force as chunks of rock and even boulders went flying in all directions. Piper switched from her exploding power to her freezing one and everything that was chunks of earth remained motionless, but she was not done. She teleported a gun to herself and then searched the database for ammo that would destroy the hovering material. This all happened within milliseconds and she fired. The bullet left the gun and then split itself into several smaller ones. They hit rock and evaporated in a flash of bluish light. The objects that were a threat to them were now gone from the universe or at least there's. Piper gave a small smile at what she just accomplished and now she could truly see the possibilities.

"My god I get it now," Piper said and looked at Wyatt," she was your counter that is why she is the way she is, two evolutions, one of magic and one of technology," she finished.

"But I'm not evil," Wyatt said as for a moment he could see Mel in Piper's eyes.

"I know honey its just I understand now, it was the universe balancing itself and you two paid the price," she said and walked over to him and placed her hand on his face gently."We will fix this, I promise, you will have a sister that will love you just as we do," she said and nodded while his eyes watered.

"We have a problem," Roland said as he walked up to them.

"When don't we," Chris said.

"There is a breach in the wall that separates us from the forsaken zone, Phoebe just sent us pictures and apparently they came across a Necromancer," he said and showed them the photograph.

"What does this mean?" Leo asks.

"The darkening is coming," Roland replied and the man who loved to fight actually showed fear in his eyes.

"Leo," Piper said.

"I know I will go tell Penny and Patty and check on the boys," Leo said and ran down the hill.

"Will the shield hold?" Prue asks.

"It isn't what's above the earth that scares me, it's what is beneath our feet deep and in slumber that does. There are things that can wake a lot of things up and have been blocked since the wall was created," he replied.

"Why would somebody do that?" Piper asks.

"No one from this realm would be that stupid, the forsaken zone does not care what side you're on," he replied.

"Cole," Prue said through her teeth.

Melinda and the others arrived at the front gate of the clan. The two guards pulled out their swords.

"What brings you here?" one asks.

"We are in the mood to paint," Mel replied and the men's throats were cut from behind by Jack as the gates opened and more guards were rushing over the bridge. Jack joined Mel as their rides disappeared into a dimension for protection.

"We can't blow up the bridge, we need it to cross," Jack said.

"I don't want to avoid them, I want to kill them all," she said and Jack smiled. They waited patiently as 500 men and women were now across and standing at the ready as the general stepped forward.

"Black star even you can't kill us all," he said.

"That's why I brought friends," she said as Trinity, prudence and Astra stood next to her.

"You're going to need more," he said as they could hear something coming that had a whistling sound to it.

"What the hell is that," Trinity said as she turned around and looked up. Mel could tell what it was do to the fact her eyesight was far more advanced. She turned her hand over and a long rod teleported to it, she then thrusted into the ground and a shield generated surrounding them as the missile made contact right in front of the Army. Bodies went flying along with parts as the 500 were reduced to 350 in a matter of seconds.

"Paige be careful you could have killed them," Phoebe said as they were a least a mile away but Phoebe Astra projected ahead to see what was going on.

"I knew Mel would know what was coming Phoebe," Paige said in her defense. Once the smoke and dust cleared the army rushed Mel and the others. She lowered the shield and decided to do some hand-to-hand combat for fun. A man tried to kill her with his sword but she moved out of the way and with one slick movement, broke his arm from the elbow, she then broke his leg from the knee down. Jack would slice arteries with a surgeon's precision. Trinity used her dagger and a gun to stab and shot anything that got close, she would fast orb from one to another. Astra was burning through people like butter with her power.

"Mel three o'clock," prudence said and Mel generated a gun and pointed to her side and fired without looking. The bullet made its target right between the eyes of a woman who was about to stab her.

"Let's go," Paige said and they ran to join the fight as their rides also went into hiding.

"Jack behind you," prudence said as she moved to avoid swords, it was like a dance and she moved with her eyes closed as things missed her by inches. Jack responded and tossed a dagger behind him, killing the man instantly as it hit him in the throat. Mel pulled out her favorite weapon, the whip and raised it over her head as the blades glittered awaiting to be drenched. Phoebe could see the flash of something shiny above the crowd as she ran up to them. Everything seemed to slow as the familiar sound of the whip taking action would be followed by screams. The blades sliced through flesh and bone as the edges were like a laser with the aid nano and biotechnology.

"Mom 12 o'clock," prudence said as she continued to do her dance avoiding an onslaught even causing the army to kill each other by just the right movement.

"Phoebe tapped into Astra's power and sent the line of orange fire to the man who was rushing her. Paige looked at the ground and saw the plethora of fallen swords.

"Swords," she said and they all orbed off the ground and hovered in the air for a moment as re-materialized.

"Send them," Phoebe said as she used her martial arts mixed with Astra's power. Paige turned her hand face down and the floating swords went right into the chest of the army that was attacking them. Mel was now face to face with the general.

"You were saying," she said and they began to fight, periodically she would be attacked from either side but her quick response was a bullet in the head so needless to say they stopped attacking her. The general was not devoid of magic and generated a whip of his own. It glowed a bluish color and made a sound like a electrical snake.

"I knew you were coming and had some help in preparing," he said and struck it her direction.

"Max," she said while diving out of the way. The end of the whip hit the ground and electrical sparks bounced off the dirt. Prudence could see the fight unfold.

"Mel don't let him hit you," she yelled as her vision was overwhelming with the others. She stopped her dance and started to fight as her mother killed a man that was about to stab her daughter. "Thanks," she said and they stood back to back.

"Anytime baby," Phoebe said and they moved in unison, dunking while one would punch and would use each others momentum to kick anyone that got close. The 350 were now down to 120. Henry and Coop were also using their powers to take out anyone who got close to their loved ones. Trinity was focusing on two men at once as a woman came up behind her and was about to stab her. Trinity heard a thud and when she turned an arrow was coming out of her chest. The woman fell to the ground as Coop nodded. She nodded back and continued to fight. Mel was shooting at the man while trying to avoid the whip but the bullets were bouncing off.

"Dammit," she said as Max must have gave him protection. There was only one way and it was going to have to be close. While diving she pulled out a small metal ball from her pocket and without him noticing through it low to the ground and let it roll behind him. She stood and he smiled as he felt he had a clear shot, he grunted as he used all his might to kill her. She waited for the last second and was gone in a flash as the whip made contact with dirt. Before he could react he felt the cold blade and the warming of his own blood run down his chest. Mel teleported behind him and sliced his throat open. The remaining army saw that their leader was down and began to lower their weapons.

"Where is my daughter?" Mel asks while blood dripped from her dagger. They said nothing and pointed over the bridge. "If you follow me I will kill you slowly, are we clear?" she said to the army and they nodded in understanding. The Titanius's reappeared as the first fight was now over and they got on to get Melinda's daughter.

To be continued...