Desperate Measures Chapter V
Piper, Phoebe, Cole, Zira, and Axen were all seated in the living room just fifteen minutes after Piper had vanquished Leandra.
"So, now the two of you are going to explain just who you are, before we vanquish your sorry asses next." Piper said with a sly smile.
Zira and Axen nodded.
"We're Warlocks known as Andricans." Axen said. "The name comes because we follow the lead of a powerful Warlock named Andrica."
"She is our superior." Zira said. "She is leading a revolt against The Source."
"But why?" Phoebe wondered. "Isn't all evil loyal to The Source?"
"Hardly." Cole chimed in. "Only the stupid ones are blindly loyal. The rest are always plotting a way to take power for themselves."
"Power is the root of evil." Piper said, agreeing. "I'm proof of that."
"Andrica and her followers, who like I said are known as Andricans, beleive that The Source puts too much faith in Demons." Zira said. "We are all Warlocks who beleive that we should be the ones running the show, so to speak, rather than the often-incompetent demons."
Cole made a snorting sound.
"Yes, we know you used to be the demon Belthazor, and we apologize but that's what we beleive." Axen stated.
"It's alright." Cole said. "I'm not Belthazor anymore, so it's fine."
Fucking ungrateful bastards. Cole thought.
"Anyway.....Andrica realized that we have a common enemy, and sent us to come recruit you two newly-turned Warlocks to our group." Zira said. "So, what do you say, are you willing to join our side?"
"The only side we are on is our own." Piper said. "I have no plan in serving some evil Warlock. My only goal is to kill The Source."
"And what do you expect to do afterwards?" Axen said. "You saw what you did back there. You healed yourself, instantly, without even knowing it. You two may well be the strongest Warlocks of all time, so what do you expect to do once you vanquish The Source? Go back to your normal lives? Not a chance. As you said, Piper, power is the root of evil. You can't let all that power go to waste."
Piper stood up quite suddenly.
"I don't plan on having it go to waste, and that's why I'm not joining your shitty little team." she said angrily. "Now, I'd thank you for saving Cole if I gave a shit, but I don't, so take your asses back to Andrica and tell her you failed, because I'm not joining, and neither is Phoebe."
Piper blinked out.
"I guess you'd better go." Phoebe said. "I do appreciate you saving Cole, and I thank you, but it's too premature for the two of us to take sides."
"It's alright." Zira said. "Just please do us one favor."
"What would that be?" Phoebe asked them.
"Make The Source's death as slow and painful as possiable." Zira said.
"I'll see what I can do." Phoebe said with a slight laugh. "Thanks for your help.
Zira and Axen nodded as they blinked out. Phoebe turned back and kissed Cole.
"Things are winding now, Phoebe." Cole said. "Soon all of this will be over. The Source will be dead."
Phoebe broke their embrace.
"Yes, but like what Axen said, then what?" Phoebe asked him. "Some new evil person will just end up taking over, and in the meantime it's not like we'll be able to get back to normal lives."
"What if I find a way to turn you back?" Cole asked her.
Phoebe turned away from him.
"I'm not sure if I want to go back." Phoebe said. "I don't want to deal with everything that comes with being good again, and that's not just the evil talking."
Cole gave a slight nod.
It's definitley a lot harder to be good, than it is to be bad. Cole thought. Maybe I did the wrong thing. Either way, Piper and Phoebe's lives are never going to just go back to normal, whether I turn them good again or not.
Meanwhile, Piper blinked back into an empty P3. She had closed it down before going to turn evil, knowing that she would no longer have the desire to run a club. The chairs were all turned over on the tables, the bar was empty, and no music played. Now, however, Piper was just trying to use the abandoned club to have some time to think by herself. This didn't last long, however, as the front door to the club opened.
"Who's there?" Piper called up.
Moments later, Leo walked down the stairs.
"How did you get in here?" Piper asked him.
"You gave me a key, remember?" Leo replied. "I figured you'd come here."
"Let's start call you fucking Sherlock Homes." Piper muttered.
She pulled down a chair at one of the tables and sat down, thinking.
"You know, I heard that." Leo said.
"I'll let you know as soon as I give a shit." Piper replied.
Leo walked over and pulled down the chair opposite to Piper's, as she gave him a look that could have killed.
"Do you ever get tired of cursing and being overly sarcastic?"
"Not really." Piper replied with a slight grin.
There were a few moments of silence, which Piper finally broke.
"So why are you here?" Piper stated simply. "I told you before to stay away from me."
"And you actually expected me to listen?"
"Well.....no, not really." Piper admitted. "But it would have been easier if you did."
"Sorry, Piper, but I'm here to stay."
"That's unfortunate. You're just going to get hurt."
"I'm willing to risk it for you, Piper." Leo replied. "I love you."
Piper didn't reply.
"Did you hear me, Piper? I said, I love you."
Piper gave Leo an annoyed glare, and raised her right hand. Leo suddenly had duct tape over his mouth. Piper stood up.
"I'm not in the mood for you right now."
She walked off into the bathroom just as Leo pulled the duct tape off his mouth.
"Piper!" Leo called back. "C'mon, I know you don't really have to use the bathroom, you're just avoiding me!"
"Geez, you're a fucking genius." she yelled from the bathroom.
Leo couldn't help but laugh a little as he stood up. He walked towards the two bathrooms, and entered the female one.
"C'mon Piper." Leo said.
Piper suddenly leaped out of one of the stalls. She tried to punch Leo, and Leo caught her fist. She tried to punch him with her other fist, and Leo caught that one as well. Just as it seemed their struggle would get more violent, Piper reached up and kissed him. But in mid-kiss, she blinked out.
Leo sighed.
I'm not sure if that was sincere, or if she's toying with me. Leo thought. But I don't think she's toying with me....she said she doesn't want me to get hurt, so she must still have some love for me on some level.
Piper, however, quickly blinked back in, right in front of Leo.
"You're coming back to the manor with me." she said. "Buisness, not pleasure."
"Huh?" Leo asked her.
"I have something I want to show you."
Meanwhile, The Source and the Seer were making the final preperations for the final phase of their plan.
"Open an entrance to the Underworld in San Fransisco." The Source said. "Don't make it too close to the Manor or else they will suspect something."
"It shall be done." the Seer said.
"Have Paige ready as well." The Source told her. "She is integral to my plan, she must be ready in time."
"She will be ready." the Seer said.
The Source nodded in approval.
Back at the manor, Piper blinked in with Leo in the kitchen. She immeaditley walked over to one of the drawers, and began digging through it.
"So what is it you wanted to show me?" Leo asked her.
"You'll see." Piper said as she dug through the drawer.
Finally, she pulled out a long and sharp knife.
She can't know about it. Leo thought. How can she?
Piper walked over to Leo, and with a sly smile, sliced herself in the neck.
"Piper!" Leo yelled, but Piper only smiled.
She pulled the knife away, and Leo watched as the blood suddenly flowed back into her neck, and the wound quickly closed itself.
"I did nothing, and that wound closed itself." Piper said. "I'm invincable! Isn't this cool?"
Leo sighed.
"Wait a second...." Piper began to say. "Do you know something about this that I don't?"
"Yes." Leo admitted. "Ancient propheceies state that if a Charmed One fully embraces darkness, as you have now, you will be invinciable and be the knight that leads evil to total domination of all of reality."
"You knew this for how long?" Piper asked him.
"Just since this morning, when I was stripped of my powers." Leo replied.
"And this is why you wanted me to love you." Piper said. "So I had a buried heart, like Phoebe, and I was no longer invinciable, so the prophecies could not be forfilled."
"No!" Leo yelled. "I really do love you! I don't care about any prophecies, I just want us to be together!"
Piper smiled, a sly smile, as she waved one hand and froze Leo solid.
"I'm sorry Leo." Piper told him. "But immortality and invinciablitiy is worth more to me than love. And you being around is too much of a risk. My heart cannot show up, I must be completley dark and invinciable in order to defeat The Source. And since I still feel compassion for you, it's too easy for me to give in. I can't allow myself to do that."
Piper, dispite herself, laughed.
"If you had just stayed away, you wouldn't have had to die." Piper said. "I'm sorry this is how it has to be, I truely am- I really meant what I said. But this is just how it has to be."
Piper punched Leo in the head, shattering it, and then pushed the rest of his frozen body onto the ground and watched it shatter into a million pieces. Piper shivered.
"I feel so cold." Piper said.
She stood down at the remains of Leo, and she shivered again.
She had gone down the darkest path of all.
And now, there was no way she could ever come back.
To Be Continued.....
Piper, Phoebe, Cole, Zira, and Axen were all seated in the living room just fifteen minutes after Piper had vanquished Leandra.
"So, now the two of you are going to explain just who you are, before we vanquish your sorry asses next." Piper said with a sly smile.
Zira and Axen nodded.
"We're Warlocks known as Andricans." Axen said. "The name comes because we follow the lead of a powerful Warlock named Andrica."
"She is our superior." Zira said. "She is leading a revolt against The Source."
"But why?" Phoebe wondered. "Isn't all evil loyal to The Source?"
"Hardly." Cole chimed in. "Only the stupid ones are blindly loyal. The rest are always plotting a way to take power for themselves."
"Power is the root of evil." Piper said, agreeing. "I'm proof of that."
"Andrica and her followers, who like I said are known as Andricans, beleive that The Source puts too much faith in Demons." Zira said. "We are all Warlocks who beleive that we should be the ones running the show, so to speak, rather than the often-incompetent demons."
Cole made a snorting sound.
"Yes, we know you used to be the demon Belthazor, and we apologize but that's what we beleive." Axen stated.
"It's alright." Cole said. "I'm not Belthazor anymore, so it's fine."
Fucking ungrateful bastards. Cole thought.
"Anyway.....Andrica realized that we have a common enemy, and sent us to come recruit you two newly-turned Warlocks to our group." Zira said. "So, what do you say, are you willing to join our side?"
"The only side we are on is our own." Piper said. "I have no plan in serving some evil Warlock. My only goal is to kill The Source."
"And what do you expect to do afterwards?" Axen said. "You saw what you did back there. You healed yourself, instantly, without even knowing it. You two may well be the strongest Warlocks of all time, so what do you expect to do once you vanquish The Source? Go back to your normal lives? Not a chance. As you said, Piper, power is the root of evil. You can't let all that power go to waste."
Piper stood up quite suddenly.
"I don't plan on having it go to waste, and that's why I'm not joining your shitty little team." she said angrily. "Now, I'd thank you for saving Cole if I gave a shit, but I don't, so take your asses back to Andrica and tell her you failed, because I'm not joining, and neither is Phoebe."
Piper blinked out.
"I guess you'd better go." Phoebe said. "I do appreciate you saving Cole, and I thank you, but it's too premature for the two of us to take sides."
"It's alright." Zira said. "Just please do us one favor."
"What would that be?" Phoebe asked them.
"Make The Source's death as slow and painful as possiable." Zira said.
"I'll see what I can do." Phoebe said with a slight laugh. "Thanks for your help.
Zira and Axen nodded as they blinked out. Phoebe turned back and kissed Cole.
"Things are winding now, Phoebe." Cole said. "Soon all of this will be over. The Source will be dead."
Phoebe broke their embrace.
"Yes, but like what Axen said, then what?" Phoebe asked him. "Some new evil person will just end up taking over, and in the meantime it's not like we'll be able to get back to normal lives."
"What if I find a way to turn you back?" Cole asked her.
Phoebe turned away from him.
"I'm not sure if I want to go back." Phoebe said. "I don't want to deal with everything that comes with being good again, and that's not just the evil talking."
Cole gave a slight nod.
It's definitley a lot harder to be good, than it is to be bad. Cole thought. Maybe I did the wrong thing. Either way, Piper and Phoebe's lives are never going to just go back to normal, whether I turn them good again or not.
Meanwhile, Piper blinked back into an empty P3. She had closed it down before going to turn evil, knowing that she would no longer have the desire to run a club. The chairs were all turned over on the tables, the bar was empty, and no music played. Now, however, Piper was just trying to use the abandoned club to have some time to think by herself. This didn't last long, however, as the front door to the club opened.
"Who's there?" Piper called up.
Moments later, Leo walked down the stairs.
"How did you get in here?" Piper asked him.
"You gave me a key, remember?" Leo replied. "I figured you'd come here."
"Let's start call you fucking Sherlock Homes." Piper muttered.
She pulled down a chair at one of the tables and sat down, thinking.
"You know, I heard that." Leo said.
"I'll let you know as soon as I give a shit." Piper replied.
Leo walked over and pulled down the chair opposite to Piper's, as she gave him a look that could have killed.
"Do you ever get tired of cursing and being overly sarcastic?"
"Not really." Piper replied with a slight grin.
There were a few moments of silence, which Piper finally broke.
"So why are you here?" Piper stated simply. "I told you before to stay away from me."
"And you actually expected me to listen?"
"Well.....no, not really." Piper admitted. "But it would have been easier if you did."
"Sorry, Piper, but I'm here to stay."
"That's unfortunate. You're just going to get hurt."
"I'm willing to risk it for you, Piper." Leo replied. "I love you."
Piper didn't reply.
"Did you hear me, Piper? I said, I love you."
Piper gave Leo an annoyed glare, and raised her right hand. Leo suddenly had duct tape over his mouth. Piper stood up.
"I'm not in the mood for you right now."
She walked off into the bathroom just as Leo pulled the duct tape off his mouth.
"Piper!" Leo called back. "C'mon, I know you don't really have to use the bathroom, you're just avoiding me!"
"Geez, you're a fucking genius." she yelled from the bathroom.
Leo couldn't help but laugh a little as he stood up. He walked towards the two bathrooms, and entered the female one.
"C'mon Piper." Leo said.
Piper suddenly leaped out of one of the stalls. She tried to punch Leo, and Leo caught her fist. She tried to punch him with her other fist, and Leo caught that one as well. Just as it seemed their struggle would get more violent, Piper reached up and kissed him. But in mid-kiss, she blinked out.
Leo sighed.
I'm not sure if that was sincere, or if she's toying with me. Leo thought. But I don't think she's toying with me....she said she doesn't want me to get hurt, so she must still have some love for me on some level.
Piper, however, quickly blinked back in, right in front of Leo.
"You're coming back to the manor with me." she said. "Buisness, not pleasure."
"Huh?" Leo asked her.
"I have something I want to show you."
Meanwhile, The Source and the Seer were making the final preperations for the final phase of their plan.
"Open an entrance to the Underworld in San Fransisco." The Source said. "Don't make it too close to the Manor or else they will suspect something."
"It shall be done." the Seer said.
"Have Paige ready as well." The Source told her. "She is integral to my plan, she must be ready in time."
"She will be ready." the Seer said.
The Source nodded in approval.
Back at the manor, Piper blinked in with Leo in the kitchen. She immeaditley walked over to one of the drawers, and began digging through it.
"So what is it you wanted to show me?" Leo asked her.
"You'll see." Piper said as she dug through the drawer.
Finally, she pulled out a long and sharp knife.
She can't know about it. Leo thought. How can she?
Piper walked over to Leo, and with a sly smile, sliced herself in the neck.
"Piper!" Leo yelled, but Piper only smiled.
She pulled the knife away, and Leo watched as the blood suddenly flowed back into her neck, and the wound quickly closed itself.
"I did nothing, and that wound closed itself." Piper said. "I'm invincable! Isn't this cool?"
Leo sighed.
"Wait a second...." Piper began to say. "Do you know something about this that I don't?"
"Yes." Leo admitted. "Ancient propheceies state that if a Charmed One fully embraces darkness, as you have now, you will be invinciable and be the knight that leads evil to total domination of all of reality."
"You knew this for how long?" Piper asked him.
"Just since this morning, when I was stripped of my powers." Leo replied.
"And this is why you wanted me to love you." Piper said. "So I had a buried heart, like Phoebe, and I was no longer invinciable, so the prophecies could not be forfilled."
"No!" Leo yelled. "I really do love you! I don't care about any prophecies, I just want us to be together!"
Piper smiled, a sly smile, as she waved one hand and froze Leo solid.
"I'm sorry Leo." Piper told him. "But immortality and invinciablitiy is worth more to me than love. And you being around is too much of a risk. My heart cannot show up, I must be completley dark and invinciable in order to defeat The Source. And since I still feel compassion for you, it's too easy for me to give in. I can't allow myself to do that."
Piper, dispite herself, laughed.
"If you had just stayed away, you wouldn't have had to die." Piper said. "I'm sorry this is how it has to be, I truely am- I really meant what I said. But this is just how it has to be."
Piper punched Leo in the head, shattering it, and then pushed the rest of his frozen body onto the ground and watched it shatter into a million pieces. Piper shivered.
"I feel so cold." Piper said.
She stood down at the remains of Leo, and she shivered again.
She had gone down the darkest path of all.
And now, there was no way she could ever come back.
To Be Continued.....