Yahoo! Yeehaw! ::Jumps up and down like crazy (quite appropriate actually, ask any of my friends).:: The action is now starting! It usually takes me forever to get to an action scene but not in this story! I hope you like it. This is just the beginning of this fight scene btw.

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Chapter 7

Chimera strode down the street, muttering grumpily under her breath a long string of choice words about certain powerful, supposedly good entities, as she pulled her cell phone out and dialed the number of her new home.

It rang a couple of times before it was answered.

"Hello?"

"Are you up yet?" she asked not wasting her currently short temper on pleasantries.

"I take it that the job didn't work out and that the Elders had something to do with it?" Cole asked.

"Give the man a prize! Now are you up or not?" she snapped.

Cole just barely restrained a chuckle knowing that that would get him a body part handed to him. "Yes, I'm up."

"Great!" she said with mock enthusiasm. "THEY want you to go and see what you can find out down THERE about a new big power."

"And you don't like it." A small smile spread across his face.

"Nooooooo.........I just don't like the way that they use you. It just isn't fair!" She glanced behind her then did a double take. There was a sinister looking guy following her. "Oh crap!"

"What?" Cole was instantly alert.

Chimera took a quick assessment of the area..and confirmed her suspicions, there were several other similar looking men following her from different directions in the dusk light.

"First get your ass over to the alley about a block north of P3 and give me a hand! I have a mob of demons on my tail!" She flipped the phone closed as she turned into the alley.

And looked up to see a familiar tall, dark haired figure, but not the one she wanted to see. This one had straight black hair that fell into his dark-brown-almost-black eyes.

She swallowed and took a couple of steps back from him.

She glanced over her shoulder and saw that the demons that had been following her now blocked the entrance to the alley. She rotated her body so that none of the demons were behind her. She slowly backed up to the wall. The demons surrounded her in a semi circle.

Chimera kept her eyes moving, watching all of them.

Then the dark haired demon stepped through the circle to stand in front her, smirking. "You didn't actually think you could get away from us, now did you?"

Chimera smiled at him sourly. "No, of course not! Why would I ever want to do that?"

He moved impossibly fast and suddenly his hand was around her throat. He leaned his head down so that his mouth was right by her ear. "I would have orbed or run out of her when I had the chance if I was you," he breathed in her ear.

"Run from you?" she scoffed. Her insides quivered, but not from fear.

He laughed lightly in her ear then leaned back. He took out an athame and gently caressed her face with it. Chimera stood unflinchingly.

"A rather stupid sentiment."

He took the athame blade and pulled on the silver chain around her neck until the silver pendant was pulled out from under her shirt and sparkled against the emerald fabric. Then he began to caress her face with the blade again. "You sincerely think that this little symbol is going to protect you?"

"Actually I use it more as a warning, the rest I do myself," she told him flippantly.

"You know, you are rather audacious for someone in your position. I could easily kill you."

"I don't think that is going to be happening," a new voice said.

They all looked toward the entrance of the alley. There stood the Charmed Ones.

"Let go of her before we start vanquishing your sorry asses," Paige continued for Phoebe.

"This doesn't concern you witches," the demon said. "It is between Miss Rush and us."

"When something concerns an innocent and demons it always concerns us." Piper got ready to start freezing and exploding.

The demon let out a snort at the term "innocent."

"It's ok guys," Chimera spoke up. "He's right. This is just between me and them. I can handle it; you REALLY don't want to get involved."

Piper looked at the large group of demons. "You can handle THIS?"

"Yes. It's no problem."

Phoebe looked at her like she was crazy. "Riiiiight."

Paige nodded, an equally skeptical look on her face.

Just then a new figure corprealized in the alley; Chimera looked on him with grateful, if not slightly annoyed, recognition, while Piper, Phoebe and Paige stared at him in shock.

"Took you long enough!" Chimera declared.

"Well it's kind of hard to get over her when I am fighting off a bunch of demons half way here!" Cole told her, doing his best to ignore the looks the sisters were giving him.

"Well if it isn't the whitelighteresque demon," the demon said mockingly.

Cole rolled his eyes. "Look, why don't we get on with playing our usual game of you-piss-us-off-we-piss-you-off-then-we-all-go-home-and-brood?"

"I'm sorry to disappoint you Cole, but those are not our orders." The demon smirked.

Cole sighed, annoyed. "Then what ARE your orders Infernio?"

"Tsk, tsk. Now that would be telling!" Infernio gave him an enigmatic smile.

"Yeah, well I don't take orders, I make my OWN decisions. And I had decided that I am going to do this - " Lightening fast, Cole threw an energy ball at one of the other demons, killing him.

Taking advantage of the distraction Chimera kicked Infernio away from her.

As the demons began to attack Cole and Chimera Piper, Phoebe and Paige stood and watched for a few moments.

"Do you think we should help them?" Paige asked her sisters.

"Well I don't know about you two, but I want some answers and I want them ASAP." Phoebe kept watching the fight.

"And of course the fastest way to get those answers is for this fight to be over and the fastest way for that to happen is to help," Piper sighed. She rolled her sleeves up.

"Ok let's go kick some demon ass," Paige muttered.

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