The potion was being made, Cole's cut was being attended to, and everyone was just talking when Leo orbed in.
"Well?" Piper asked.
"Oh, um, I've been at the library." Leo told her.
"You're kidding right?" Piper asked.
"No, they've got extensive volumes of-" Leo looked at Piper's face and stopped. "Nevermind. I was just doing some, er, personal research. Anyway, Borv and Bamandra just-" Leo's tone turned solemn, "killed a witch."
"What?" Prue asked. She couldn't believe it.
"They did it so that Bamandra could gain premonition, which he did." Leo told her.
"Who are they going after next?" Prue asked.
"Yeah, we've got to protect them." Phoebe added.
"They're well...going after you." Leo told them.
"Us?" Prue asked. "Us? Good. It'll give us the chance to vanquish them."
"It won't be that easy. Not anymore. They've seen an alchemist. They've done so much in such a short amount of time...you've got to beat them now or it's all over." Leo said seriously.
"Then we will. They can't be allowed to get away with it. What do we have to do?" Prue asked.
"You've got to use the Power Of Three spell and you've got to add an ingredient to that potion." Leo told her.
"What ingredient?" Prue asked.
"It doesn't have a name." Leo replied.
"Wow, no name. That must be a big ingredient if no one has named it." Phoebe said.
"Or a small one that no one bothered to name." Piper muttered.
"Well, it hasn't been named because, well, I can't tell you, but you've got to get it fast." Leo said.
"Okay, how do we get it?" Prue asked.
"One of you has to orb "up there" with me to get it." Leo told them.
"Whoa. One of us gets to go "up there"?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah, but no one can know you're up there." Leo said.
"I wanna go!" All the girls said in unison.
"I'm the oldest." Prue said.
"I could freeze anyone who saw." Piper said.
"I had a premonition of who was going...and it was me." Phoebe said.
The girls started an argument and Cole and Leo just stood and watched them argue. High-pitched sounds came from the three of them and Leo and Cole couldn't even tell what they were saying.
"I'm going to solve this the easy way." Leo said. He closed his eyes then just reached into for the girls. The moment he felt an arm, he orbed out.
When they got "up there" Leo opened his eyes.
"I guess you won Prue." Leo said.
"I guess so. So, where is the ingredient?" Prue asked.
"It's around here. Come on." Leo said and started to walk down a long hallway. Prue followed him looking back.
"See anyone?" Leo asked in a hushed voice.
"No." Prue whispered back.
"Come on." Leo said and they turned down another hallway.
Just as they were turning a corner, Leo pushed Prue back.
"Leo! Hi!" Prue heard a voice yell.
"James! Hello." Leo said.
"Sorry I can't say more, but I'm being called." The voice said then Prue heard the orbing noise.
"Come on." Leo said and grabbed Prue by the arm. They slinked around a few more hallways then came to a golden door.
"Whoa, is this it?" Prue asked and touched the door. Leo just nodded and nodded his head, signaling Prue to go in.
"Be right back." Prue said and slinked into the room.
Prue turned and saw that the room was just like everything else, vividly white. There was a small gold podium in the middle of the room. A gold light seemed to come from out of nowhere and shined down on a small golden bowl.
There were at least a hundred tiny golden leaves inside the bowl. Prue picked one up and left the room.
"Got it?" Leo asked. Prue just held up the gold leaf. Leo smiled and orbed out with Prue.
When they got back to the kitchen, Piper and Phoebe were sitting down. When they noticed they were back, they jumped up and greeted them.
"What does it look like?" Phoebe asked.
Prue held up the gold leaf.
"That is one expensive looking ingredient." Piper said. Then she looked at Leo and pointed at the leaf and said, "How much is that worth?"
"Never you mind. Just put it in the potion." Leo said.
Prue took the leaf over to the potion and dropped it in. It bubbled for a few seconds then a gold smoke came from the potion, then just disappeared into the air.
"I was expecting a bigger reaction." Phoebe said.
"Well, I'm happy with that one." Prue said. Then she turned to Leo and asked, "What do we do now?"
"All we can do now is wait. They're coming for you." Leo said.
Prue handed Phoebe and Piper each a bottle of the potion and picked up her own.
They had been waiting for half an hour and Phoebe started to get impatient.
"Come on. I can't stand this!" Phoebe said and gave an irritated sigh.
"You won't have to wait much longer." Leo told her.
"I better not. I am gonna vanquish them just for making me wait." Phoebe said.
"Just sit down and relax." Prue said. Phoebe just sighed and sat down on the couch.
Fifteen minutes later, the whole house started to shake.
"I hate when this happens!" Phoebe yelled as she held onto the couch.
"It's them!" Leo yelled.
After a few minutes, the shaking stopped and the house was eerily calm.
"What's going on?" Prue asked quietly.
"I don't know, but get you're potion ready." Leo said looking around.
All of a sudden a demon jumped through the window and dove on Cole.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Cole screamed and struggled with the demon.
Prue threw the demon off him and noticed that it had vampire fangs. Prue looked at Leo with a questioning look.
"I told you, they've done a lot. It's Borv." Leo told her.
"Witches will be sacrificed." Borv hissed.
"Quiet!" Prue yelled and kicked Borv in the face.
"Witch!" Borv yelled and held his face.
"And proud of it." Prue told him. She held up the bottle and without a word, threw it down on Borv. He erupted in flames and screams of pain.
"What about Bamandra?" Piper asked.
"He's got to be close. They never travel without each other. Bamandra always sends Borv in first, just in case. He's got the leader position since he's a few years older...that's the only reason Borv listened...Bamandra's got to be close." Leo said.
"So, do we go into the yard and search for him?" Phoebe asked.
"No, he's waiting for Borv. Although Borv is vanquished, so he'll come in to find Borv...he hates it when Borv has all his fun." Leo said.
"Since when are you the demon expert?" Piper asked.
"I'm not. They are." Leo said pointing up.
"They know a little too much if you ask me." Prue mumbled.
"Do you hear that?" Cole asked and looked at the window.
"Yeah, go see what it is." Leo said.
"Yeah right. Why don't you sunshine?" Cole asked.
"Stop it, it's not funny." Leo told him.
"Says you." Cole mumbled.
"Would somebody just please look out the window?" Phoebe said loudly.
"I'll do it." Prue said. She started to go to the window, but Leo grabbed her arm and shook his head.
"What? Is he coming?" Prue asked.
"Yes, I can sense him. He's right outside." Leo told her.
"So, why isn't he coming in to get us?" Piper asked.
"I don't know, but I have a feeling that it isn't good." Leo said. Cole took Phoebe's vanquishing potion and went over to the window.
"Do you know anything about what he's up to?" Prue asked.
"No, but I have a feeling that he's waiting for you to go to the window so he can do something." Leo told her. Cole rejoined the group, without Phoebe's potion.
"Where were you?" Leo asked.
"I was vanquishing Bamandra." Cole replied.
Leo's eyes widened. "What??"
"All you have to do is throw that little bottle thingy right?" Cole asked.
"Well, yeah, but-but..." Leo said. He just took a deep breath.
"I thought you said we needed the Power Of Three." Piper said and pointed a finger at Leo.
"Uh...well, that's what they told me so-" Leo's eyes widened again. "That wasn't him."
"What?" Phoebe asked.
"It wasn't Bamandra. He probably got some low-level demon shape-shifter to come and confuse you. He's still out there. That's the only explanation." Leo told them.
"Very astute whitelighter." A voice came from behind them. They all whirled around and looked at...Bamandra.
"Those were two very useful demons that you destroyed." Bamandra told them. "I'll have to destroy the two of you that destroyed them." Bamandra formed two energyballs and threw them at Prue and Cole. Cole ducked and Prue sent the energyball back at Bamandra.
The girls all stood in a line and said together, "The Power of Three will set us free."
"Piper, the potion." Prue said.
Piper picked up her potion, which was also the last of it, and threw it Bamandra. He burst into flames and just like his brother and was vanquished.
"I was expecting bigger." Phoebe said.
Prue gave her a tiny slap upside the head.
"I'm better now...I promise, but still...I would've liked bigger." Phoebe said.
Prue just lifted her hand a little as a warning and Phoebe just put her hands up and said, "All right, all right. Now what do we do?"
"Well?" Piper asked.
"Oh, um, I've been at the library." Leo told her.
"You're kidding right?" Piper asked.
"No, they've got extensive volumes of-" Leo looked at Piper's face and stopped. "Nevermind. I was just doing some, er, personal research. Anyway, Borv and Bamandra just-" Leo's tone turned solemn, "killed a witch."
"What?" Prue asked. She couldn't believe it.
"They did it so that Bamandra could gain premonition, which he did." Leo told her.
"Who are they going after next?" Prue asked.
"Yeah, we've got to protect them." Phoebe added.
"They're well...going after you." Leo told them.
"Us?" Prue asked. "Us? Good. It'll give us the chance to vanquish them."
"It won't be that easy. Not anymore. They've seen an alchemist. They've done so much in such a short amount of time...you've got to beat them now or it's all over." Leo said seriously.
"Then we will. They can't be allowed to get away with it. What do we have to do?" Prue asked.
"You've got to use the Power Of Three spell and you've got to add an ingredient to that potion." Leo told her.
"What ingredient?" Prue asked.
"It doesn't have a name." Leo replied.
"Wow, no name. That must be a big ingredient if no one has named it." Phoebe said.
"Or a small one that no one bothered to name." Piper muttered.
"Well, it hasn't been named because, well, I can't tell you, but you've got to get it fast." Leo said.
"Okay, how do we get it?" Prue asked.
"One of you has to orb "up there" with me to get it." Leo told them.
"Whoa. One of us gets to go "up there"?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah, but no one can know you're up there." Leo said.
"I wanna go!" All the girls said in unison.
"I'm the oldest." Prue said.
"I could freeze anyone who saw." Piper said.
"I had a premonition of who was going...and it was me." Phoebe said.
The girls started an argument and Cole and Leo just stood and watched them argue. High-pitched sounds came from the three of them and Leo and Cole couldn't even tell what they were saying.
"I'm going to solve this the easy way." Leo said. He closed his eyes then just reached into for the girls. The moment he felt an arm, he orbed out.
When they got "up there" Leo opened his eyes.
"I guess you won Prue." Leo said.
"I guess so. So, where is the ingredient?" Prue asked.
"It's around here. Come on." Leo said and started to walk down a long hallway. Prue followed him looking back.
"See anyone?" Leo asked in a hushed voice.
"No." Prue whispered back.
"Come on." Leo said and they turned down another hallway.
Just as they were turning a corner, Leo pushed Prue back.
"Leo! Hi!" Prue heard a voice yell.
"James! Hello." Leo said.
"Sorry I can't say more, but I'm being called." The voice said then Prue heard the orbing noise.
"Come on." Leo said and grabbed Prue by the arm. They slinked around a few more hallways then came to a golden door.
"Whoa, is this it?" Prue asked and touched the door. Leo just nodded and nodded his head, signaling Prue to go in.
"Be right back." Prue said and slinked into the room.
Prue turned and saw that the room was just like everything else, vividly white. There was a small gold podium in the middle of the room. A gold light seemed to come from out of nowhere and shined down on a small golden bowl.
There were at least a hundred tiny golden leaves inside the bowl. Prue picked one up and left the room.
"Got it?" Leo asked. Prue just held up the gold leaf. Leo smiled and orbed out with Prue.
When they got back to the kitchen, Piper and Phoebe were sitting down. When they noticed they were back, they jumped up and greeted them.
"What does it look like?" Phoebe asked.
Prue held up the gold leaf.
"That is one expensive looking ingredient." Piper said. Then she looked at Leo and pointed at the leaf and said, "How much is that worth?"
"Never you mind. Just put it in the potion." Leo said.
Prue took the leaf over to the potion and dropped it in. It bubbled for a few seconds then a gold smoke came from the potion, then just disappeared into the air.
"I was expecting a bigger reaction." Phoebe said.
"Well, I'm happy with that one." Prue said. Then she turned to Leo and asked, "What do we do now?"
"All we can do now is wait. They're coming for you." Leo said.
Prue handed Phoebe and Piper each a bottle of the potion and picked up her own.
They had been waiting for half an hour and Phoebe started to get impatient.
"Come on. I can't stand this!" Phoebe said and gave an irritated sigh.
"You won't have to wait much longer." Leo told her.
"I better not. I am gonna vanquish them just for making me wait." Phoebe said.
"Just sit down and relax." Prue said. Phoebe just sighed and sat down on the couch.
Fifteen minutes later, the whole house started to shake.
"I hate when this happens!" Phoebe yelled as she held onto the couch.
"It's them!" Leo yelled.
After a few minutes, the shaking stopped and the house was eerily calm.
"What's going on?" Prue asked quietly.
"I don't know, but get you're potion ready." Leo said looking around.
All of a sudden a demon jumped through the window and dove on Cole.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Cole screamed and struggled with the demon.
Prue threw the demon off him and noticed that it had vampire fangs. Prue looked at Leo with a questioning look.
"I told you, they've done a lot. It's Borv." Leo told her.
"Witches will be sacrificed." Borv hissed.
"Quiet!" Prue yelled and kicked Borv in the face.
"Witch!" Borv yelled and held his face.
"And proud of it." Prue told him. She held up the bottle and without a word, threw it down on Borv. He erupted in flames and screams of pain.
"What about Bamandra?" Piper asked.
"He's got to be close. They never travel without each other. Bamandra always sends Borv in first, just in case. He's got the leader position since he's a few years older...that's the only reason Borv listened...Bamandra's got to be close." Leo said.
"So, do we go into the yard and search for him?" Phoebe asked.
"No, he's waiting for Borv. Although Borv is vanquished, so he'll come in to find Borv...he hates it when Borv has all his fun." Leo said.
"Since when are you the demon expert?" Piper asked.
"I'm not. They are." Leo said pointing up.
"They know a little too much if you ask me." Prue mumbled.
"Do you hear that?" Cole asked and looked at the window.
"Yeah, go see what it is." Leo said.
"Yeah right. Why don't you sunshine?" Cole asked.
"Stop it, it's not funny." Leo told him.
"Says you." Cole mumbled.
"Would somebody just please look out the window?" Phoebe said loudly.
"I'll do it." Prue said. She started to go to the window, but Leo grabbed her arm and shook his head.
"What? Is he coming?" Prue asked.
"Yes, I can sense him. He's right outside." Leo told her.
"So, why isn't he coming in to get us?" Piper asked.
"I don't know, but I have a feeling that it isn't good." Leo said. Cole took Phoebe's vanquishing potion and went over to the window.
"Do you know anything about what he's up to?" Prue asked.
"No, but I have a feeling that he's waiting for you to go to the window so he can do something." Leo told her. Cole rejoined the group, without Phoebe's potion.
"Where were you?" Leo asked.
"I was vanquishing Bamandra." Cole replied.
Leo's eyes widened. "What??"
"All you have to do is throw that little bottle thingy right?" Cole asked.
"Well, yeah, but-but..." Leo said. He just took a deep breath.
"I thought you said we needed the Power Of Three." Piper said and pointed a finger at Leo.
"Uh...well, that's what they told me so-" Leo's eyes widened again. "That wasn't him."
"What?" Phoebe asked.
"It wasn't Bamandra. He probably got some low-level demon shape-shifter to come and confuse you. He's still out there. That's the only explanation." Leo told them.
"Very astute whitelighter." A voice came from behind them. They all whirled around and looked at...Bamandra.
"Those were two very useful demons that you destroyed." Bamandra told them. "I'll have to destroy the two of you that destroyed them." Bamandra formed two energyballs and threw them at Prue and Cole. Cole ducked and Prue sent the energyball back at Bamandra.
The girls all stood in a line and said together, "The Power of Three will set us free."
"Piper, the potion." Prue said.
Piper picked up her potion, which was also the last of it, and threw it Bamandra. He burst into flames and just like his brother and was vanquished.
"I was expecting bigger." Phoebe said.
Prue gave her a tiny slap upside the head.
"I'm better now...I promise, but still...I would've liked bigger." Phoebe said.
Prue just lifted her hand a little as a warning and Phoebe just put her hands up and said, "All right, all right. Now what do we do?"