Chapter two: Ishrok the invincible.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters here, apart from the demon Ishrok.

Phoebe's bedroom, Phoebe and Cole are there, evening.

Phoebe: So what do you think you need to do before you are more ready to strip your powers.

Cole: I think I would just feel lost, I want to find out more about my human self and ancestry.

Phoebe: That could be interesting, I'm sure you'll be able to find loads and I can help.

Cole: thanks Pheebs.

Phoebe: That's okay, I would like to find more about my future father in law anyway. You never know what we might find out. Maybe we could try to summon him like we summon mum and grams.

Cole: I've tried it doesn't work. I think he would be too much for you anyway, would probably scare you out of marrying me. (He laughed.)

Phoebe: Not if I scare him away for good first, with my personality of an entrepreneur.

Cole: I'm going to start researching tomorrow morning. Do you want to help?

Phoebe: Sure, honey.

Cole: Then we better get to sleep so we can get up bright and early.

Phoebe: Urgh I hate bright and early.

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Next morning.

Kitchen, Piper is alone eating breakfast. Cole walks in.

Piper: Hey, good morning. You're up early.

Cole: Are you always up at this time?

Piper: Pretty much.

Cole: Maybe you could help me wake Phoebe up?

Piper: Are you kidding, at this time of the morning you would have a higher chance of convincing the entire underworld that hell is like the arctic.

(Leo orbs in)

Leo: Hi, Piper (Kisses her) Hi Cole.

Piper: Hi sweetie.

Cole: Hi Leo.

Piper: Leo, go help Cole wake Phoebe up.

Leo: Is that my punishment for leaving you alone last night. He jokes.

Cole: Come on how hard can it get?

Leo: You forget that she can levitate.

Cole: What does that have to do with anything?

Leo: Once when I tried to wake her, she levitated in her sleep and kicked me in the head.

(Cole bursts out laughing.)

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Phoebe's bedroom, Leo and Cole have been trying to wake Phoebe and have been failing miserably. Cole comes in with some water and pours it all over her face. She wakes up with a scream.

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It's afternoon, Phoebe and Cole have been to many libraries, and reference places doing research. They are now on the floor of the solarium, with books and pieces of paper surrounding them and the computer on with a site about genealogy.

Piper: So have you found anything.

Cole: There is lots of useful stuff but it's only a start. I feel there's something deeper, something important I should know about.

Paige: Do you mean supernatural?

Cole: I know it sounds stupid, but I just have this feeling.

Phoebe: I don't think it sounds stupid at all.

Paige: You are probably just thinking there is something supernatural because you want to believe it.

Piper: Maybe if you researched a little into your mother's side as well you might find something that connects to your father's side.

Cole: That's a great idea thanks Piper. Phoebe: Don't you think it might bring back bad memories, are you sure you can handle them?

Cole: If it helps to stop this feeling that keeps nagging at me then yes.

A large dark blue demon with dark green zebra stripes in its face and forearms, and two ram-like forest green horns shimmers into the middle of the room.

Piper instantly raises her hands and attempts to blow it up, for a moment it appears to be expanding but then returns to normal (Well as normal as demons get.) Phoebe seeing Piper not being able to use her power levitates to kick the demon in the chest and face but just before she is about to make contact the demon catches her ankle firmly and twists her to the ground.

Phoebe yelps in pain as she hears her ankle crack and her back slam to the ground. She feels something fiery hot and realises there is an energy ball millimetres from her arm.

Paige: Energy ball, she calls.

Phoebe can see the demon hovering over her and the energy balls Cole is throwing being withered into nothing by some kind of force field surrounding it.

Phoebe: Freeze, freeze. She screams at Piper.

Piper: I'm trying.

Piper again attempts again to freeze the demon and for a few seconds the demon appears to move in slow motion. But these seconds are all Phoebe needs to escape from under it. The demon then breaks the freeze and its attention is turned to Piper.

Demon: Your powers of temporal stasis would have to be a hundred times stronger to withstand me. You are a puny witch.

The demon throws a small energy ball at Piper and she falls to the floor but is still conscious.

Demon: It's been a pleasure meeting all of you. I have a feeling we are going to have quite an interesting relationship in the next few months. You see I like to play a few games with my victims before I destroy them. Expect to be seeing some of my minions soon.

Then it shimmered out.

Paige: Leo!! Leo!!

(He orbed in, and immediately healed Piper and Phoebe.)

Phoebe: Our powers were almost useless on it.

Piper: It could have easily killed us if it wanted to.

Leo: Cole do you have any idea what that demon was?

Cole: It was an upper level demon, most say it is impossible to defeat it. It's called Ishrok.