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Just incase you guys forgot but Luke is mentioned in chapters 22, 23, and 24.
Chapter 37:
Paige was left numbed and her shock had not left her when finally all of Wyatt had been pushed back. But before the ripple could be completely closed Paige heard a scream that sent her chills to last her a life time.
"DADDY!" a little girl had screamed in an agonizing pain.
"HOPE!" Chris screamed running after the ripple but just before his finger tips could reach it the ripple closed drowning her scream.
"NO!" Chris let out a loud throat-ripping roar.
The earth continued to shake underneath their feet, it felt like waves and Paige knew that this was from all the unknown and raw power that had been displayed. She swallowed hard and what got her attention was that the demons had begun to attack.
Paige's body began to move by itself as she tried fighting a demon off her. From the shake of the earth she fell and she felt a sharp pain go through her right thigh. She groaned with pain as she inspected it slightly. A pipe from the floor had pierced her leg.
"Paige!" Phoebe screamed somewhere around her and that made Paige look at her sister's direction.
Phoebe had been able to vanquish two but three more had shimmered in to replace the fallen demons.
A demon kicked her sister around her middle and that sent her flying to the ground.
Paige looked to where was Chris, she saw him extend his hand to the general direction of the demons and through his hands a white light shot like a bomb. Paige shielded her eyes feeling the power hit her and she felt like she would passed out from the pain as it burned through her skin and went through every pore in her body. It left her disorientated but to her surprise was that she had not been affected. The power had gone around her. She had just been breezed by it.
The demons thrashed and kicked on the air, they screamed in pain but soon they were just dust. As those demons vanished more shimmered in replacing the fallen ones, but they experienced the same fate.
It was on the third batch of the demon back up when Luke launched himself at Chris. Paige watched as Chris turned just in time to avoid the contact and soon they began fighting. Paige struggled on the ground but Phoebe was fighting again.
"Oh my-my God!" Phoebe muttered when she reached her side.
"Help me pull my leg out!" Paige instructed but the demons were closing in and Phoebe couldn't help her.
Paige orbed herself few paces away and as soon as the pipe was out of her leg more pain and hot liquid ran down her leg tainting her jeans. Paige orbed a demon with large blades that was running her direction to the one behind her. They exploded but the explosion sent her flying to her stomach.
Out of no where a man about his mid twenties appeared in yellow lights, he had potions at hand and he began throwing them at the demons. She had seen a picture of him, it was Baldric Stapelfeldt.
"Chris!" Baldric yelled as Chris and Luke began to have a hand to hand combat mixing their power along. "Can you fight?" he asked her handing her a sword from one of the falling demons.
"Yes," Paige winced at her leg and Phoebe had appeared to her side.
The three witches looked around taking a stand.
"We need to retreat." Baldric voiced.
"We can't," Phoebe argued as she penetrated a demon with a staff. "The Book of Shadows is in the attic."
"I'll take the book and come back with back up!" Paige yelled over the chaos, but before she could orbed out the demons attacked in a strategic way making it impossible for her to escape, and for the three witches to separate their defensive position.
Paige screamed as an enemy slashed her back with his sword and before she was penetrated by the coming demon Baldric stopped it by the exact movement the demon portrayed. Chris had said that the Stapelfeldt family had the power to mimic other powers.
The two witches continued to push back the line trying to get to Phoebe who was loosing strength as she was being surrounded. Phoebe was too far from them and Paige saw with horror when a demon from behind stabbed her middle sister with his stab on her shoulder. Phoebe let go a loud scream and Paige saw that the others were gaining in on her.
Out of no where lighting bolt combusted the demons around and Leo in his golden robes stood next to Phoebe.
"Leo!" Paige cried, she was so relieved to see his face.
"Retreat!" Paige heard Luke call out to the demons and soon they all shimmered from the manor.
Baldric helped her before she fell as Chris didn't let Luke disappeared. Chris let out another wave of white light from his hands and it destroyed Luke's arm.
At that same time Luke had created a symbol on the air and it hit Chris square on the chest. Chris coughed up blood and Luke came in closer to the young witchlighter but as he was close enough Chris got up and with a fist he hit Luke's chin sending the Upper level demon to the ground. As the demon hit the ground he shimmered.
"Dam it!" Chris cursed hurrying to where Luke had shimmered.
"Wait!" Leo called after Chris, "Don't go after him."
"What?" Chris asked, his eyes were fire of hate and Paige was reminded of Hope's scream.
Paige looked at Chris up and down. His glamour was down, and his scares showed, his clothes were torn and bloody. His left arm was hanging loosely on his side and Paige saw that the slice he had created was still there and blood was still dripping. His torso where Luke had hit him was bubbling strangely and she understood why, Luke had burned him like his future self had burned the side of Chris's face.
He was weak and to the point of dying from all the blood loss, from sheer exhaustion.
"Georgiana." Leo whispered to the wind and soon a whitelighter appeared next to the calling Elder.
"We need your healing abilities." He instructed and the whitelighter moved to Phoebe who was closest to the commanding Elder.
Leo walked over to Chris and he began healing the young man from the future. Chris was still standing and he stood still letting the magic of the Elder run over him. Paige was glad that Leo hadn't asked about the display of power Chris had just displayed. She was glad that no one had actually. Georgiana moved to her and Paige let the warm glow heal her body and restore it to its natural state.
"Thank you." Paige told the whitelighter.
Georgiana moved over to Baldric and Paige walked over to Chris. Paige saw that his body was healing but his eyes were set. He was looking straight into Leo's eyes until he was healed, or at least until she thought he was.
"I don't understand." Leo said with a frown.
"The consequences." Chris answered him, "Now I need to find Luke."
"Don't." Paige moved over to him. "You can't focus on revenge, I know that Luke was helping him but you can't take it out on Luke. It will consume your soul."
"Do you think I care about that?" Chris hissed turning his back on them.
"But…" Paige tried arguing but she shrink back as Chris let out a growl before he started kicking and punching what was left of the wall.
Paige felt her tears stream down her face. She was helpless, she watched as he broke to the cold wall. She felt Phoebe hug her from behind and Paige quickly grabbed on to her sister. Phoebe had heard it too, and she had seen the separation between father and daughter. She had seen Wyatt's cruelty and Chris's sacrifice.
"Stop!" Leo finally interfered and grabbed on to the slender man and Baldric joined the Elder. They struggled with him as Chris tried to get away from them.
They had him pinned to the ground as Chris yelled and the things around them began to shake again. "Calm down!" Leo ordered, "Chris you need to calm down!"
Chris's face was tear stained but he stopped struggling, and the witch and Elder finally let go. Chris sobbed, he was broken on the ground and Paige felt Phoebe's grip go tighter and Paige reassured her comfort on her sister as well.
Out of no where Chris began chocking on his tears and crimson blood from his mouth. He coughed out a huge chunk out as he shivered uncontrollably.
"What's wrong with him?" Phoebe and Paige ran to his side as Chris struggled to his feet again and wiping the blood from his chin carelessly with his hand.
"I couldn't heal him completely." Leo said a little coolly, "That is the consequences in using that power here in the past."
"You know what he is?" Paige asked surprised that Leo hadn't mentioned it before.
"We felt it a while back but we didn't believe it." Leo explained as his eyes were still fixed on Chris, "I came down to see if it really was true and he showed it. Chris confirmed that he's the Source of all Good."
Baldric gasped while Phoebe and Georgina looked freaked out but confused.
"Something's wrong." Chris whispered snapping Paige's attention to him.
"What's wrong?" Paige asked.
Chris looked dizzy for a second, then his eyes grew wide with horror, "It's mom! There's something wrong with mom!"
"Piper?" Phoebe gasped.
And Paige thought of the sister she had left behind in magic school.
"Wait what?" Leo asked looking between the sisters and his son from the future.
TBC.
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