Desperate Measures Chapter VI
(Author's Note: This is the final chapter of Desperate Measures! Thanks guys for your support and sorry for the LONG wait-time between Chapters 5 and 6, I had a bunch of things that needed my attention after coming back from my vacation. Anyway, here is the final chapter, and expect a sequel to Desperate Measures soon! Enjoy!)
Phoebe and Cole walked into the kitchen, moments after Piper had killed Leo.
"Piper....you..." Cole began to say.
"I killed Leo." Piper said in a cold voice.
"But why?" Cole asked her.
"To forfill the prophecies." Piper replied.
"What prophecies?" Phoebe asked her.
"When a Charmed One completley embraces darkness, she will become invinciable, unkillable, and an eternal lifeform." Piper repiled. "That's why I can heal myself without even trying. I killed Leo in order to prevent him from bringing my heart to the surface. And you should do the same to Cole, Phoebe. Kill him, let go of your heart, and completly embrace darkness to become invinciable."
"No!" Phoebe immeaditley yelled.
Piper was shocked.
"Phoebe.....are you not, evil?" Piper asked her. "Don't you desire this power?"
"Yes." Phoebe responded. "But my love for Cole transcends the boundaries of good and evil. You should know that by now. I will not, nor will I ever, kill Cole."
Piper sighed.
"It's too bad, sis." Piper said. "Immortality is a wonderful thing."
Piper walked past Phoebe and Cole, exiting the kitchen.
"She's out of control." Cole said.
"I agree with you." Phoebe said. "If we're not careful, that bitch may kill us both."
Cole nodded in agreement.
"Anyway....let's go out now!" Phoebe exclaimed.
"What?" Cole asked her. "After all that's happened?"
"Yeah." Phoebe said. "I need to get my mind off of it. C'mon, please, we're already all dressed!"
"Fine." Cole said with a sigh.
Phoebe made an excited smile as she grabbed Cole's right arm and blinked out with him.
Meanwhile, The Source and the Seer walked to a small room inside the large cave of the Underworld. Laying on a long, marble slate was Paige, dressed in a black gown and with glowing black eyes.
"She is ready to be called upon." the Seer said.
"Everything has gone according to plan." The Source said. "Paige's destiny, as the half-sister of Piper and Phoebe, was to ressurect the Power of Three by reuniting with her sisters. However, I saw two alternate futures, and I chose to change the path of destiny by capturing Paige and preventing her from meeting Piper and Phoebe. This set the second future into gear....and now, this future is beginning to manifest itself."
"Paige has been completley possesed by darkness." the Seer said. "Her body and spirit has been infused with that of the Dark Spirit of Lightning, Larios. This Paige is completley under our command, and powerful enough to eliminate Piper and Phoebe."
"Piper may think she's immortal, but she's not." The Source said with a smile. "At least, not yet. She hasn't been evil long enough yet. She cannot be killed through conventional methods....but Paige here has enough power to eliminate her."
The Seer nodded in agreement.
"Whether she will or not will determain the course this future takes, but whichever course it takes, it will be benefical for evil." The Source said.
Again, the Seer nodded in agreement.
"Open the entrance to the Underworld." The Source said. "Once it's open, they'll be able to blink here at any time, from anywhere."
The Seer nodded.
Phoebe and Cole were in the middle of a slow dance at a local club.
"I hate slow dances." Phoebe muttered.
She raised one hand, and suddenly the music changed to something faster.
"Now THIS is more like it!" Phoebe said, and began dancing in front of Cole in a very suggestive nature.
"Phoebe...." Cole began to say, but his attraction won out over his common sense as he watched her dance.
"Enjoying yourselves?"
Phoebe and Cole turned around to spot Piper.
"Yes, and you would too if you hadn't shattered your husband into a million pieces." Phoebe replied.
Piper shrugged, then raised her hand in the air, and swayed it towards a good-looking man dancing with a girl. The man quickly shoved the girl down and walked over to Piper, and the two began dancing.
"Well, that was kinda cool, I gotta admit it." Phoebe laughed.
Cole laughed with her and they got back to dancing.
A few moments later, however, both Phoebe and Piper stopped.
"Phoebe....do you feel that?" Piper asked her sister.
"Yes...." Phoebe said. "I felt it."
"Felt what?" Cole asked them, puzzeled.
"The Underworld entrance is open." Piper said. "We can blink there now."
"Let's go." Phoebe said.
"Wait!" Cole stated. "Are you sure you're ready? No telling what The Source has waiting for you."
"Cole....aren't you forgetting something?" Piper asked him. "I'm unkillable! Now c'mon, let's get down there and vanquish his sorry ass!"
Phoebe snorted at the Cole reference, before grabbing onto Cole's arm.
"You're bringing him with you?" Piper said questionably. "He's just a human."
"I stand by Phoebe, always." Cole said. "I'm coming."
"Whatever." Piper said with a roll of her eyes.
Piper and Phoebe both blinked out, Cole going along with Phoebe.
The three appeared in the large, cavenerous throne room of the Underworld. Seated on a platform well above them was The Source and the Seer.
"Glad to see you've arrived safely." The Source said.
"You shouldn't be." Phoebe spat.
"We've come to take revenge for our sister's death." Piper said. "So we're going to be vanquishing you now."
"Confident, are we?" The Source asked them with an evil grin. "Well, don't count me out just yet. I still have Paige."
"Who's Paige?" Cole asked him questionably.
"Their half-sister." The Source said with an evil smile. "Well, at least she was before I merged her with Larios, the Dark Spirit of Lightning."
Cole gulped.
"He's powerful." Cole said.
"What do you mean our half-sister?" Piper called up to him.
"A product of your mother's love affair with a Whitelighter." the Seer replied.
"She was supposed to reunite with you at Prue's funeral, and bring back the Power of Three." The Source said. "Unfortunatley for you, I saw this future and decided it did not meet my liking. So I kidnapped Paige and alterted it. Now, she will be the one who eliminates both of you."
Piper laguhed.
"I'm immortal, you know that." Piper told him. "Paige won't have a chance against me."
"You're not immortal just yet." The Source replied. "That takes a while to fully evolve into true immortality, my dear girl. You may be unkillable by conventional methods, but Paige is still very much capable of killing you. Now, Seer, summon her."
"Paige! Awaken, for I summen thee to eliminate the enemies of The Source!" the Seer yelled.
Two black lightning bolts came from the roof of the cave, and in their wake, Paige manifested herself.
"Maybe we can talk this over with her." Phoebe said. "If she's really our half-sister, maybe we can still reach her."
"No, you can't." Cole told her. "She's no longer your half-sister, she's been completley taken over by Larios' spirit. She is just a body for Larios to manifest itself inside of."
"Then we kill her." Piper said simply.
She waved one hand and froze Paige solid in a block of ice. Before they could do anything else to her, however, Paige's body erupted with elecrticity from all over, shattering the glass and sending Piper, Phoebe, and Cole flying back into the nearest wall.
"It isn't going to be that easy, my dear Charmed Ones." The Source said.
Piper growled, and stood.
"The two of you back off." Piper said. "The bitch is mine."
"Piper, you need my...." Phoebe began to say.
"Shut the fuck up." Piper said angrily. "Listen to me. You haven't completley embraced darkness, and he's a fucking human. I'm the strongest out of the three of us, immortal or not. So listen to me and back up. I have a plan."
Piper walked back in front of Paige, who growled at her.
"A regular freezing may not work, but a more powerful, concentrated freeze beam will." Piper said.
She began forming the icy energy in her hands, and fired it towards Paige. Paige responded by letting loose with a similar beam of electricity, and the two beams collided, pushing aganist each other.
"They're both very powerful." the Seer commented. "I'm not sure if one of them can defeat the other."
Suddenly, a fireball was flung into Paige. It didn't do much damage, but took away from her concentration and her electric beam lost its power. Piper's ice beam hit Paige, and frooze her solid.
"Thanks for your help." Piper said to Phoebe, who ran to her side. "Now, take care of her before she breaks out!"
"Piper....I didn't throw that fireball." Phoebe said. "I followed your instructions and didn't interfere."
"Then.....there's only one other person who could have done it." Piper said, and looked up at The Source.
Phoebe walked over to Paige and with a Roundhouse Kick, shattered her body into a million pieces. The pieces glowed with dark energy and reformed into Paige's body, only the electric spirit of Larios left her and slowly withered away into nothing. Paige floated there, unconcious, before she dissapered.
"Paige will be returned to her normal life with no memory of these events." the Seer said.
"Not caring." Piper replied.
Piper blinked in right in front of the Seer and The Source.
"You die now." Piper told them.
"Wait." The Source said. "Some form of gratitude is neccesary, is it not? I mean, I did help you defeat your possesed sister."
"You're the one who had her possesed in the first place." Piper said. "And I don't give a shit about Paige anyway. I care about Prue, who died because of you. That's what this has all been about, revenge!"
"And then what, Piper?" The Source asked her. "There's no way to reverse this now. So what do you do with your murderous desires? Do you go back to that puny little Earth and pretend they're not there? What if you lose it and snap, Piper? Is that any life to live, surpessing the true evil, your true self, all the time?"
"No." Piper admitted. "So when I kill you....I'll take your place! I'll rule the Underworld as the Queen of Evil!"
"Not likely." The Source said with a snorting sound. "You're not going to unite all of these factions simply by killing me. I can't even do that, and you will, a Charmed One? Most of the people down here still hate you and your sister, evil or not. You'd end up dead first."
"So....what exactly are you proposing?" Piper asked him.
"An alliance of convience." The Source said. "You and Phoebe become my main knights of evil. This will please the Warlock factions such as the Andricans, that I'm relying on two powerful Warlocks instead of Demons to do my main work. That will be one step closer towards uniting the factions. And then, maybe one day, you will be able to furfill the prophecies, and truely become the leaders of darkness."
"Interesting." Piper said.
Below, Phoebe and Cole have been listening in.
"Phoebe...." Cole began to say. "You're not considering this, are you?"
Phoebe turned away from him.
"I want to do this, Cole." Phoebe told him. "I want to feed my dark desires rather than surpressing them. But only with the condition that you are allowed to stay by my side."
Cole turned Phoebe around and kissed her deeply.
"I'm not going to stop you." Cole told her. "And I'll always be on your side, no matter what. Go do what you have to do."
Phoebe nodded and blinked up onto the platform.
"I'll do it." Phoebe told them. "On one condition...."
"Yes, you can keep your little boyfriend." The Source said with a decent amount of frusturation in his voice.
"You have my loyality and service as well." Piper told him.
"Good." The Source said. "Now is a new dawning.....a new dawning for evil!"
The Source laughed evilly.
"Whatever."
Piper and Phoebe each blinked out.
"Can we trust them?" the Seer asked him.
"Of course not." The Source replied. "But, we have no other choice. They are neccesary, as the prophecies have foretold."
The Seer nodded.
The End (For Now)
(Author's Note: This is the final chapter of Desperate Measures! Thanks guys for your support and sorry for the LONG wait-time between Chapters 5 and 6, I had a bunch of things that needed my attention after coming back from my vacation. Anyway, here is the final chapter, and expect a sequel to Desperate Measures soon! Enjoy!)
Phoebe and Cole walked into the kitchen, moments after Piper had killed Leo.
"Piper....you..." Cole began to say.
"I killed Leo." Piper said in a cold voice.
"But why?" Cole asked her.
"To forfill the prophecies." Piper replied.
"What prophecies?" Phoebe asked her.
"When a Charmed One completley embraces darkness, she will become invinciable, unkillable, and an eternal lifeform." Piper repiled. "That's why I can heal myself without even trying. I killed Leo in order to prevent him from bringing my heart to the surface. And you should do the same to Cole, Phoebe. Kill him, let go of your heart, and completly embrace darkness to become invinciable."
"No!" Phoebe immeaditley yelled.
Piper was shocked.
"Phoebe.....are you not, evil?" Piper asked her. "Don't you desire this power?"
"Yes." Phoebe responded. "But my love for Cole transcends the boundaries of good and evil. You should know that by now. I will not, nor will I ever, kill Cole."
Piper sighed.
"It's too bad, sis." Piper said. "Immortality is a wonderful thing."
Piper walked past Phoebe and Cole, exiting the kitchen.
"She's out of control." Cole said.
"I agree with you." Phoebe said. "If we're not careful, that bitch may kill us both."
Cole nodded in agreement.
"Anyway....let's go out now!" Phoebe exclaimed.
"What?" Cole asked her. "After all that's happened?"
"Yeah." Phoebe said. "I need to get my mind off of it. C'mon, please, we're already all dressed!"
"Fine." Cole said with a sigh.
Phoebe made an excited smile as she grabbed Cole's right arm and blinked out with him.
Meanwhile, The Source and the Seer walked to a small room inside the large cave of the Underworld. Laying on a long, marble slate was Paige, dressed in a black gown and with glowing black eyes.
"She is ready to be called upon." the Seer said.
"Everything has gone according to plan." The Source said. "Paige's destiny, as the half-sister of Piper and Phoebe, was to ressurect the Power of Three by reuniting with her sisters. However, I saw two alternate futures, and I chose to change the path of destiny by capturing Paige and preventing her from meeting Piper and Phoebe. This set the second future into gear....and now, this future is beginning to manifest itself."
"Paige has been completley possesed by darkness." the Seer said. "Her body and spirit has been infused with that of the Dark Spirit of Lightning, Larios. This Paige is completley under our command, and powerful enough to eliminate Piper and Phoebe."
"Piper may think she's immortal, but she's not." The Source said with a smile. "At least, not yet. She hasn't been evil long enough yet. She cannot be killed through conventional methods....but Paige here has enough power to eliminate her."
The Seer nodded in agreement.
"Whether she will or not will determain the course this future takes, but whichever course it takes, it will be benefical for evil." The Source said.
Again, the Seer nodded in agreement.
"Open the entrance to the Underworld." The Source said. "Once it's open, they'll be able to blink here at any time, from anywhere."
The Seer nodded.
Phoebe and Cole were in the middle of a slow dance at a local club.
"I hate slow dances." Phoebe muttered.
She raised one hand, and suddenly the music changed to something faster.
"Now THIS is more like it!" Phoebe said, and began dancing in front of Cole in a very suggestive nature.
"Phoebe...." Cole began to say, but his attraction won out over his common sense as he watched her dance.
"Enjoying yourselves?"
Phoebe and Cole turned around to spot Piper.
"Yes, and you would too if you hadn't shattered your husband into a million pieces." Phoebe replied.
Piper shrugged, then raised her hand in the air, and swayed it towards a good-looking man dancing with a girl. The man quickly shoved the girl down and walked over to Piper, and the two began dancing.
"Well, that was kinda cool, I gotta admit it." Phoebe laughed.
Cole laughed with her and they got back to dancing.
A few moments later, however, both Phoebe and Piper stopped.
"Phoebe....do you feel that?" Piper asked her sister.
"Yes...." Phoebe said. "I felt it."
"Felt what?" Cole asked them, puzzeled.
"The Underworld entrance is open." Piper said. "We can blink there now."
"Let's go." Phoebe said.
"Wait!" Cole stated. "Are you sure you're ready? No telling what The Source has waiting for you."
"Cole....aren't you forgetting something?" Piper asked him. "I'm unkillable! Now c'mon, let's get down there and vanquish his sorry ass!"
Phoebe snorted at the Cole reference, before grabbing onto Cole's arm.
"You're bringing him with you?" Piper said questionably. "He's just a human."
"I stand by Phoebe, always." Cole said. "I'm coming."
"Whatever." Piper said with a roll of her eyes.
Piper and Phoebe both blinked out, Cole going along with Phoebe.
The three appeared in the large, cavenerous throne room of the Underworld. Seated on a platform well above them was The Source and the Seer.
"Glad to see you've arrived safely." The Source said.
"You shouldn't be." Phoebe spat.
"We've come to take revenge for our sister's death." Piper said. "So we're going to be vanquishing you now."
"Confident, are we?" The Source asked them with an evil grin. "Well, don't count me out just yet. I still have Paige."
"Who's Paige?" Cole asked him questionably.
"Their half-sister." The Source said with an evil smile. "Well, at least she was before I merged her with Larios, the Dark Spirit of Lightning."
Cole gulped.
"He's powerful." Cole said.
"What do you mean our half-sister?" Piper called up to him.
"A product of your mother's love affair with a Whitelighter." the Seer replied.
"She was supposed to reunite with you at Prue's funeral, and bring back the Power of Three." The Source said. "Unfortunatley for you, I saw this future and decided it did not meet my liking. So I kidnapped Paige and alterted it. Now, she will be the one who eliminates both of you."
Piper laguhed.
"I'm immortal, you know that." Piper told him. "Paige won't have a chance against me."
"You're not immortal just yet." The Source replied. "That takes a while to fully evolve into true immortality, my dear girl. You may be unkillable by conventional methods, but Paige is still very much capable of killing you. Now, Seer, summon her."
"Paige! Awaken, for I summen thee to eliminate the enemies of The Source!" the Seer yelled.
Two black lightning bolts came from the roof of the cave, and in their wake, Paige manifested herself.
"Maybe we can talk this over with her." Phoebe said. "If she's really our half-sister, maybe we can still reach her."
"No, you can't." Cole told her. "She's no longer your half-sister, she's been completley taken over by Larios' spirit. She is just a body for Larios to manifest itself inside of."
"Then we kill her." Piper said simply.
She waved one hand and froze Paige solid in a block of ice. Before they could do anything else to her, however, Paige's body erupted with elecrticity from all over, shattering the glass and sending Piper, Phoebe, and Cole flying back into the nearest wall.
"It isn't going to be that easy, my dear Charmed Ones." The Source said.
Piper growled, and stood.
"The two of you back off." Piper said. "The bitch is mine."
"Piper, you need my...." Phoebe began to say.
"Shut the fuck up." Piper said angrily. "Listen to me. You haven't completley embraced darkness, and he's a fucking human. I'm the strongest out of the three of us, immortal or not. So listen to me and back up. I have a plan."
Piper walked back in front of Paige, who growled at her.
"A regular freezing may not work, but a more powerful, concentrated freeze beam will." Piper said.
She began forming the icy energy in her hands, and fired it towards Paige. Paige responded by letting loose with a similar beam of electricity, and the two beams collided, pushing aganist each other.
"They're both very powerful." the Seer commented. "I'm not sure if one of them can defeat the other."
Suddenly, a fireball was flung into Paige. It didn't do much damage, but took away from her concentration and her electric beam lost its power. Piper's ice beam hit Paige, and frooze her solid.
"Thanks for your help." Piper said to Phoebe, who ran to her side. "Now, take care of her before she breaks out!"
"Piper....I didn't throw that fireball." Phoebe said. "I followed your instructions and didn't interfere."
"Then.....there's only one other person who could have done it." Piper said, and looked up at The Source.
Phoebe walked over to Paige and with a Roundhouse Kick, shattered her body into a million pieces. The pieces glowed with dark energy and reformed into Paige's body, only the electric spirit of Larios left her and slowly withered away into nothing. Paige floated there, unconcious, before she dissapered.
"Paige will be returned to her normal life with no memory of these events." the Seer said.
"Not caring." Piper replied.
Piper blinked in right in front of the Seer and The Source.
"You die now." Piper told them.
"Wait." The Source said. "Some form of gratitude is neccesary, is it not? I mean, I did help you defeat your possesed sister."
"You're the one who had her possesed in the first place." Piper said. "And I don't give a shit about Paige anyway. I care about Prue, who died because of you. That's what this has all been about, revenge!"
"And then what, Piper?" The Source asked her. "There's no way to reverse this now. So what do you do with your murderous desires? Do you go back to that puny little Earth and pretend they're not there? What if you lose it and snap, Piper? Is that any life to live, surpessing the true evil, your true self, all the time?"
"No." Piper admitted. "So when I kill you....I'll take your place! I'll rule the Underworld as the Queen of Evil!"
"Not likely." The Source said with a snorting sound. "You're not going to unite all of these factions simply by killing me. I can't even do that, and you will, a Charmed One? Most of the people down here still hate you and your sister, evil or not. You'd end up dead first."
"So....what exactly are you proposing?" Piper asked him.
"An alliance of convience." The Source said. "You and Phoebe become my main knights of evil. This will please the Warlock factions such as the Andricans, that I'm relying on two powerful Warlocks instead of Demons to do my main work. That will be one step closer towards uniting the factions. And then, maybe one day, you will be able to furfill the prophecies, and truely become the leaders of darkness."
"Interesting." Piper said.
Below, Phoebe and Cole have been listening in.
"Phoebe...." Cole began to say. "You're not considering this, are you?"
Phoebe turned away from him.
"I want to do this, Cole." Phoebe told him. "I want to feed my dark desires rather than surpressing them. But only with the condition that you are allowed to stay by my side."
Cole turned Phoebe around and kissed her deeply.
"I'm not going to stop you." Cole told her. "And I'll always be on your side, no matter what. Go do what you have to do."
Phoebe nodded and blinked up onto the platform.
"I'll do it." Phoebe told them. "On one condition...."
"Yes, you can keep your little boyfriend." The Source said with a decent amount of frusturation in his voice.
"You have my loyality and service as well." Piper told him.
"Good." The Source said. "Now is a new dawning.....a new dawning for evil!"
The Source laughed evilly.
"Whatever."
Piper and Phoebe each blinked out.
"Can we trust them?" the Seer asked him.
"Of course not." The Source replied. "But, we have no other choice. They are neccesary, as the prophecies have foretold."
The Seer nodded.
The End (For Now)