New Dawning, Part III
"This failure is unspeakable!" The Source shouted.
Phoebe, Cole, and Aerox were now before The Source in his chambers, who was furious with them for allowing Phoebe to bring her innocent to the Underworld, unharmed, and then allowing the Fallen Angel Kailos to kill the innocent, allowing his freedom back to the surface.
"Cole, Aerox, you must work together with the remaining Charmed Ones to stop Kailos." The Source said. "This is important, as Kailos will destroy us all if he is not vanquished!"
"How will we convince them to work with us, my liege?" Aerox asked him. "They think Cole killed their sister."
"Make them realize the importance." The Source said. "The vanquishing spell for a Fallen Angel requires two great sources of good, and two great sources of evil, so the two of you will be neccesary."
Cole and Aerox nodded, kneeled, and then shimmered out.
"As for you...." The Source began to say. "Phoebe, you are being reassigned to another young child I want dead. A future great Healer. Kill him, or I will reverse Tempest's altering of time! Understood?"
Phoebe kneeled before him.
"Understood, my liege." Phoebe said, despite the sickening feeling that came over her.
She stood up and shimmered out as well.
"Stop, demon!" shouted a red-headed young woman.
A man dressed in black, running down an alley, turned around as the young woman raised her right hand, and a knife came out of it. She was obviously a witch. The demon was stabbed in the shoulder, but tossed an energy ball at her, knocking her down.
Suddenly, Kailos apperaed between the two of them in a brilliant white light.
"Who are you?" the witch asked him.
"Your destiny." Kailos repiled, and he raised both hands, one facing the demon, one facing the witch.
The hands glew that same white light, and two beams of light energy came out, one in each direction. One hit the witch, and one hit the demon, and they were both vanquished upon contact, exploding in a blue fire. The blue fire then flew into each hand.
"Energy." Kailos said, then dissapered in another white flash.
Prue and Piper, still grieving, were each sitting in the living room, staring blankly into space, when Cole and Aerox shimmered in. Instinctivley, Piper raised her hands to blow him up, but Cole made a gesture with his right hand immeaditley before she did, and the Amulet of Mer'Kai was no longer around her neck. Thus, her own powers weren't enough to kill Cole, who's particles quickly re-assembled.
"Your powers alone aren't enough to destroy me, Piper." Cole said. "And, that's my amulet. I gave it to you to vanquish Shrafts with. Nothing more."
Cole stuffed the amulet into his pocket.
"So, why'd you come here then?" Prue asked him. "Thinking we were going to thank you after you killed our sister?"
"No." Cole said. "I came here because the four of us have to work together."
"I don't even know who he is, and I don't work with evil." Prue said.
"Would all of you please SHUT UP!" Aerox said. "This is much bigger than good and evil! A Fallen Angel has escaped the Underworld! He's slowly killing both Witches and Demons, and absorbing their life energies! If he kills too many of them, he will be unstoppable!"
"So why should we trust you, then?" Piper asked them.
"Because the vanquishing spell, in your Book of Shadows, requries two great forces of good, and two great forces of evil, to say it together, since Fallen Angels are a threat to both good and evil." Cole said. "Go check if you don't believe me."
Prue made a gesture to Piper, and she went up to the attic to check.
"Don't make any moves until she gets back." Prue said. "And after this is over, we will find a way to vanquish you."
"Go ahead and try." Cole said. "Without the amulet, Piper's powers can't do it, and the only vanquishing spell is a Power of Three spell. And the Power of Three is dead."
In an angry rage, Prue raised one of her arms and sent Cole flying into the wall.
"Prue! Stop!" Piper yelled as she ran down the stairs. "He's telling the truth. We need him and Aerox to vanquish the Fallen Angel."
"You'll have to grab onto each of us, and we'll take you to Kailos." Aerox said.
"Ah, so it's that creep." Piper said.
"Great, we have to grab onto....demons." Prue said.
"Phoebe had no problem doing it." Aerox said, to which Cole slammed his elbow into Aerox's chest.
Why would Cole be defending Phoebe's honor if he killed her? Prue thought. I mean, wouldn't that mean he doesn't love her anymore? Something doesn't quite add up here.....
"Well, are you coming?" Cole asked Prue.
Piper had already, reluctantly, grabbed onto Aerox's hand.
"Yeah." Prue said, and she did the same with Cole.
Cole and Aerox shimmered out with Prue and Piper.
Meanwhile, Phoebe shimmered into a super market, behind one of the aisles. Two people standing there, one male, one female, saw her shimmer in, and stood there in shock.
"HELP!" one of them started screaming.
"Shut it." Phoebe said, and released a stream of fire from her right hand, making her explode, and then did the same to the man.
Suddenly, Phoebe pulled her right hand back, ashamed and apalled at what she just did, without even thinking about it.
It's the demon inside of me. Phoebe realized. The demonic instincts are taking control. That's how I can complete this mission. Let the demon take control.
Phoebe shut her eyes, and after a deep breath, turned the corner to see the little boy picking out a cereal box as his mother bended down to watch. Phoebe squinted her eyes, trying to find the strength inside her to do this. She suddenly released another stream of fire that caught the boy sending him down to the floor and exploding.
"No!" the mother shouted, and cried, mixing her tears with the ashes left of her child.
With tear-filled eyes, she turned back to Phoebe.
"How could you do this to my son?" she said, and went back to crying into his ashes.
Phoebe tried despeartley to work through her conflicting emotions. With a tear in one eye, she looked down at her right hand, where the fire was still there.
"The same way that I could do THIS!" Phoebe screamed, and a stream of fire caught the mother as well, delivering to her a similar fate.
Again, another tear fell as Phoebe looked down at the fire in her right hand, finally allowing it to extinguish. Phoebe dropped to her knees, and shimmered out as she was in the middle of crying. She shimmered into a large cave in the Underworld, still on her knees and still crying.
"How....could I...." Phoebe said between sobs.
"Because evil is what you are now."
Phoebe turned around to see the Seer standing behind her.
"Go away!" Phoebe cried. "I don't want to talk to you right now!"
The Seer bended down to put her face close to Phoebe's.
"But you must." the Seer said. "I am the only one who understands you."
"You.....you do?" Phoebe said, again between sobs.
"Yes." the Seer said. "Those demonic instincts....you must give yourself to them, and stop worrying about consequences. You are evil now Phoebe, and evil does not grieve for its victims, nor does it worry about the concsequences."
The Seer gave Phoebe a hand, and Phoebe took it, as she was helped back up.
"Thank you." Phoebe said, wiping away the last of her tears.
Meanwhile, Cole and Aerox shimmered into an alley with Prue and Piper, as Kailos had a demon cornered.
"Your power will now be mine." Kailos said.
"I don't forsee that happening, I'm afriad."
Kailos turned around to the source of the voice, and saw that Aerox had stepped into the front of the group, and he was the one who challenged him. Aerox grinned, and then raised his right hand. In a flash, several small red shots of energy, almost like bullets, went towards Kailos. Kailos calmly raised his right hand, which glowed white, causing the shots to discintegrate before getting any closer. Aerox, however, had already shimmered out before this, and shimmered in behind Kailos. Using his other power, a knife appeared in his left hand, which he used to stab Kailos in the back, then shimmered out again. As Kailos held the wound in pain, Aerox joined Prue, Piper, and Cole.
"He's a powerful demon, hope we don't have to fight him." Piper said.
"Misguided hope." Cole replied.
Aerox shimmered in with them, and together they read the vanquishing spell. At the end of it, Kailos glowed with white energy, and as he screamed in pain, exploded in an even brighter white light, vanquished.
"Well, ladies, it was a pleasure working with you." Aerox said. "Next time, it will be a pleasure killing you."
He shimmered out as Piper made a false laugh.
"As for you." Piper said as she turned back around, but Cole had already shimmered out.
"So how the hell are we supposed to get home?" Prue said angrily.
"Excellent work." The Source said. "For all three of you."
"Thank you, my liege." Phoebe replied.
Phoebe, Cole, and Aerox now stood before The Source once again, and kneeled down for him.
"Phoebe, your mission was completed with remarkable percision." The Source said.
"Well, I do have strong demonic blood running down my veins." Phoebe said, and she kissed Cole on the cheek.
"The three of you are dismissed, but be prepared as I will surely call upon you again." The Source said.
Phoebe, Cole, and Aerox all kneeled for him again, and then shimmered out. Right after, the Seer appeared.
"All is going as planned, my liege." the Seer said. "Phoebe is on the path to true darkness, and she will eventually be ready to kill her sisters."
"Good." The Source said. "See to it that nothing gets in her way."
Next Part: Chance Encounters
Prue and Piper have to protect an innocent from a powerful demonic Knight. Meanwhile, Phoebe is assigned to kill a strong witch, and runs into Leo, as the witch is his charge. Will Phoebe end up having to kill Leo?
"This failure is unspeakable!" The Source shouted.
Phoebe, Cole, and Aerox were now before The Source in his chambers, who was furious with them for allowing Phoebe to bring her innocent to the Underworld, unharmed, and then allowing the Fallen Angel Kailos to kill the innocent, allowing his freedom back to the surface.
"Cole, Aerox, you must work together with the remaining Charmed Ones to stop Kailos." The Source said. "This is important, as Kailos will destroy us all if he is not vanquished!"
"How will we convince them to work with us, my liege?" Aerox asked him. "They think Cole killed their sister."
"Make them realize the importance." The Source said. "The vanquishing spell for a Fallen Angel requires two great sources of good, and two great sources of evil, so the two of you will be neccesary."
Cole and Aerox nodded, kneeled, and then shimmered out.
"As for you...." The Source began to say. "Phoebe, you are being reassigned to another young child I want dead. A future great Healer. Kill him, or I will reverse Tempest's altering of time! Understood?"
Phoebe kneeled before him.
"Understood, my liege." Phoebe said, despite the sickening feeling that came over her.
She stood up and shimmered out as well.
"Stop, demon!" shouted a red-headed young woman.
A man dressed in black, running down an alley, turned around as the young woman raised her right hand, and a knife came out of it. She was obviously a witch. The demon was stabbed in the shoulder, but tossed an energy ball at her, knocking her down.
Suddenly, Kailos apperaed between the two of them in a brilliant white light.
"Who are you?" the witch asked him.
"Your destiny." Kailos repiled, and he raised both hands, one facing the demon, one facing the witch.
The hands glew that same white light, and two beams of light energy came out, one in each direction. One hit the witch, and one hit the demon, and they were both vanquished upon contact, exploding in a blue fire. The blue fire then flew into each hand.
"Energy." Kailos said, then dissapered in another white flash.
Prue and Piper, still grieving, were each sitting in the living room, staring blankly into space, when Cole and Aerox shimmered in. Instinctivley, Piper raised her hands to blow him up, but Cole made a gesture with his right hand immeaditley before she did, and the Amulet of Mer'Kai was no longer around her neck. Thus, her own powers weren't enough to kill Cole, who's particles quickly re-assembled.
"Your powers alone aren't enough to destroy me, Piper." Cole said. "And, that's my amulet. I gave it to you to vanquish Shrafts with. Nothing more."
Cole stuffed the amulet into his pocket.
"So, why'd you come here then?" Prue asked him. "Thinking we were going to thank you after you killed our sister?"
"No." Cole said. "I came here because the four of us have to work together."
"I don't even know who he is, and I don't work with evil." Prue said.
"Would all of you please SHUT UP!" Aerox said. "This is much bigger than good and evil! A Fallen Angel has escaped the Underworld! He's slowly killing both Witches and Demons, and absorbing their life energies! If he kills too many of them, he will be unstoppable!"
"So why should we trust you, then?" Piper asked them.
"Because the vanquishing spell, in your Book of Shadows, requries two great forces of good, and two great forces of evil, to say it together, since Fallen Angels are a threat to both good and evil." Cole said. "Go check if you don't believe me."
Prue made a gesture to Piper, and she went up to the attic to check.
"Don't make any moves until she gets back." Prue said. "And after this is over, we will find a way to vanquish you."
"Go ahead and try." Cole said. "Without the amulet, Piper's powers can't do it, and the only vanquishing spell is a Power of Three spell. And the Power of Three is dead."
In an angry rage, Prue raised one of her arms and sent Cole flying into the wall.
"Prue! Stop!" Piper yelled as she ran down the stairs. "He's telling the truth. We need him and Aerox to vanquish the Fallen Angel."
"You'll have to grab onto each of us, and we'll take you to Kailos." Aerox said.
"Ah, so it's that creep." Piper said.
"Great, we have to grab onto....demons." Prue said.
"Phoebe had no problem doing it." Aerox said, to which Cole slammed his elbow into Aerox's chest.
Why would Cole be defending Phoebe's honor if he killed her? Prue thought. I mean, wouldn't that mean he doesn't love her anymore? Something doesn't quite add up here.....
"Well, are you coming?" Cole asked Prue.
Piper had already, reluctantly, grabbed onto Aerox's hand.
"Yeah." Prue said, and she did the same with Cole.
Cole and Aerox shimmered out with Prue and Piper.
Meanwhile, Phoebe shimmered into a super market, behind one of the aisles. Two people standing there, one male, one female, saw her shimmer in, and stood there in shock.
"HELP!" one of them started screaming.
"Shut it." Phoebe said, and released a stream of fire from her right hand, making her explode, and then did the same to the man.
Suddenly, Phoebe pulled her right hand back, ashamed and apalled at what she just did, without even thinking about it.
It's the demon inside of me. Phoebe realized. The demonic instincts are taking control. That's how I can complete this mission. Let the demon take control.
Phoebe shut her eyes, and after a deep breath, turned the corner to see the little boy picking out a cereal box as his mother bended down to watch. Phoebe squinted her eyes, trying to find the strength inside her to do this. She suddenly released another stream of fire that caught the boy sending him down to the floor and exploding.
"No!" the mother shouted, and cried, mixing her tears with the ashes left of her child.
With tear-filled eyes, she turned back to Phoebe.
"How could you do this to my son?" she said, and went back to crying into his ashes.
Phoebe tried despeartley to work through her conflicting emotions. With a tear in one eye, she looked down at her right hand, where the fire was still there.
"The same way that I could do THIS!" Phoebe screamed, and a stream of fire caught the mother as well, delivering to her a similar fate.
Again, another tear fell as Phoebe looked down at the fire in her right hand, finally allowing it to extinguish. Phoebe dropped to her knees, and shimmered out as she was in the middle of crying. She shimmered into a large cave in the Underworld, still on her knees and still crying.
"How....could I...." Phoebe said between sobs.
"Because evil is what you are now."
Phoebe turned around to see the Seer standing behind her.
"Go away!" Phoebe cried. "I don't want to talk to you right now!"
The Seer bended down to put her face close to Phoebe's.
"But you must." the Seer said. "I am the only one who understands you."
"You.....you do?" Phoebe said, again between sobs.
"Yes." the Seer said. "Those demonic instincts....you must give yourself to them, and stop worrying about consequences. You are evil now Phoebe, and evil does not grieve for its victims, nor does it worry about the concsequences."
The Seer gave Phoebe a hand, and Phoebe took it, as she was helped back up.
"Thank you." Phoebe said, wiping away the last of her tears.
Meanwhile, Cole and Aerox shimmered into an alley with Prue and Piper, as Kailos had a demon cornered.
"Your power will now be mine." Kailos said.
"I don't forsee that happening, I'm afriad."
Kailos turned around to the source of the voice, and saw that Aerox had stepped into the front of the group, and he was the one who challenged him. Aerox grinned, and then raised his right hand. In a flash, several small red shots of energy, almost like bullets, went towards Kailos. Kailos calmly raised his right hand, which glowed white, causing the shots to discintegrate before getting any closer. Aerox, however, had already shimmered out before this, and shimmered in behind Kailos. Using his other power, a knife appeared in his left hand, which he used to stab Kailos in the back, then shimmered out again. As Kailos held the wound in pain, Aerox joined Prue, Piper, and Cole.
"He's a powerful demon, hope we don't have to fight him." Piper said.
"Misguided hope." Cole replied.
Aerox shimmered in with them, and together they read the vanquishing spell. At the end of it, Kailos glowed with white energy, and as he screamed in pain, exploded in an even brighter white light, vanquished.
"Well, ladies, it was a pleasure working with you." Aerox said. "Next time, it will be a pleasure killing you."
He shimmered out as Piper made a false laugh.
"As for you." Piper said as she turned back around, but Cole had already shimmered out.
"So how the hell are we supposed to get home?" Prue said angrily.
"Excellent work." The Source said. "For all three of you."
"Thank you, my liege." Phoebe replied.
Phoebe, Cole, and Aerox now stood before The Source once again, and kneeled down for him.
"Phoebe, your mission was completed with remarkable percision." The Source said.
"Well, I do have strong demonic blood running down my veins." Phoebe said, and she kissed Cole on the cheek.
"The three of you are dismissed, but be prepared as I will surely call upon you again." The Source said.
Phoebe, Cole, and Aerox all kneeled for him again, and then shimmered out. Right after, the Seer appeared.
"All is going as planned, my liege." the Seer said. "Phoebe is on the path to true darkness, and she will eventually be ready to kill her sisters."
"Good." The Source said. "See to it that nothing gets in her way."
Next Part: Chance Encounters
Prue and Piper have to protect an innocent from a powerful demonic Knight. Meanwhile, Phoebe is assigned to kill a strong witch, and runs into Leo, as the witch is his charge. Will Phoebe end up having to kill Leo?