Phoebe gasped as she came out of the premonition. "Prue!" She screamed.
Piper ran into the hallway from the living room. She saw her sister nearly in tears. "Phoebe?"
"It's Prue. Cole... His brother. She's going to die Piper! It's all my fault!!" Phoebe leaned against the wall. "Piper I don't understand how Cole could do this! He'd never! He loves... loved me."
Piper watched and listened as her sister spilled her feelings out on the table.
******
Prue woke up chained onto a table wearing nothing but her underwear and a see though cloth. "What the hell?" She asked.
"So glad to see your awake" said a familiar face.
"COLE!" She tried to use her powers against him but they failed
"No actually not Cole." He snickered as he walked over to Prue. "Joel. And don't bother trying to use your powers. They won't work."
She looked at her body
"Comfortable?" He asked as he stroked her cheek.
"Oh god." Prue replied in a sarcastic tone. "Don't you have a life? What are you planning on doing?"
Joel grabbed a knife from a table on the side. "A little sacrifice!" he slid the edge of the blade lightly on Prue's stomach. Prue shivered as she pictured the cold sharp edge cutting through her. "Why me?"
"I've taken a liking to you Prue. After your sacrifice you'll become evil. It's as simple as that. Then together we will help make this world a scarier place."
"How original."
"Well. I'm going to prepare and you wait right here!" Joel put the knife back down on the table and left the room.
"Leo! Leo!" Prue screamed. But she knew wherever he was he wouldn't be able to hear her.
******
Phoebe sat in the passenger's seat of Pipers car hugging her jacket close to her. Her eyes were bloodshot from all the crying she had done. Piper sat in the driver's seat driving down the busy highway with the book of shadows on her lap.
"Piper. I'm not sure taking that out of the house was the greatest idea." She looked out the window for a second and then glanced at her sister. "I'm not even sure going to other witches for help is a great idea. We're the Charmed ones. The worlds most powerful witches. If we can't do it no one can!"
Piper grabbed her sister's ice-cold hand and held it. "We have to do something Pheebs. We tried tracking Prue and Cole-"
Phoebe cut her off. "Belthazar" She corrected her sister.
Piper quickly looked at her sister with a surprised look. She returned her sight to the road. "Phoebe. I'm sorry. I thought he changed too."
The next hour in the car was silent. Phoebe could hardly bare to look at Piper after what she had done to Prue. She blamed herself for it. And she was ready to give her life up for her sister.
******
Cole sat in the mausoleum. His face was expressionless. All he thought about was Phoebe and how he had hurt her. He knew it was because of his brother but after all he had done to her in the past would she believe it this time? Joel had a lot of power over Cole. He could make Cole do almost anything, which is why Cole wasn't with Phoebe right now comforting her.
Cole stood up and paced around for a minute. 'What's he doing here?' He thought. 'To vanquish the Charmed ones of course. But why was he in the attic? He's evil, which meant he couldn't have used it.' A thousand thoughts went through Cole's mind. But one thought remand there. Phoebe.
******
"Phoebe." Piper whispered and she gently shook her sister. She brushed her blonde hair back with her fingers and smiled a little. This was the first time in the last twenty four hours that Piper had seen her sister at peace. "I'll be back Pheebs"
Piper hopped out of the car and looked down the barren street. It was just like the movies one of those scary ghost towns. Piper knew it was known for it's witchcraft but where were all of the witches?
Leo orbed in next to Piper nearly making her scream.
"Leo! Don't do that!" She scolded him.
"Piper. I'm worried about Prue. They told me something about a new demon in town. Malthazar."
"Honey... you mean Belthazar. We already know about him. We are going to vanquish him!"
"No Piper. This demon looks identical to Cole. The other night he had brought a good witch into your attic to find a spell from the Book Shadows. He threatened to kill the witch's family if she didn't do as he said. She found the spell and teleported away from him."
Piper looked in the car at Phoebe. "So is Cole innocent?"
"I don't know."
"What was the spell for Leo?" Piper said.
"The witch told her whitelighter is was a spell to raise the demon that would bring about the destruction of the world. It called for a living Charmed sister as sacrifice."
"But why would this be in the book? It doesn't make sense." Piper opened the car door and sat on the seat.
"I remember that spell Piper!" Phoebe said as she sat straight up. "A few month ago while I was looking for a demon-vanquishing spell I came across a spell to raise this one demon, Gresha, and vanquish him. If the spell were to be said by evil then he would be vanquished forever but if it were to be said by his son then he would bring upon the end of the world."
"Either way..." Piper grabbed the book and opened it she flipped through the pages until she came to the spell. "We still need a sacrifice. Not just any... one of us. And it needs to be done under the full moon, which is tomorrow."
"So if we get Prue then we'll be fine!" Phoebe said brightly.
"Unless he kills her first." Leo pointed out.
"This still doesn't explain why Cole would hurt me!"
Piper read on. "The only way to stop the end of the world is re-sacrifice the sacrificed one to Gresha."
"What? English please?" Phoebe asked
"In other words" Leo butted in. "if he sacrificed Prue we would have to kill her again. She would be brought back to marry one of Gresha's sons."
"Cole! He is one of them! So Gresha isn't a He he's a She! Cole's mother is Gresha!"
Piper put her head on the steering wheel and sighed. "Now I'm confused."
"I had that one premonition of Cole being taken away by his mother. Someone must have sealed her up somewhere." Phoebe explained. "We need to get Cole."