Chapter 8

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Once everyone was on the other side of the mirror, the eight magic people looked around their surrounds to find out where they were. They were in some sort of dim wet cave with blood red color minerals all around them giving the cave a hell like atomsphere.

"This place is kind of homely, for a demon. It just need some furnishings and home sweet home." joked Paige.

"We're not here for home decorating tips. We're here to save my son from the future!" exclaimed Piper trying to get her sister to focus on their mission.

"Alright, stop argueing. Lets get out of here so we can start looking for the Soulseekers already." stated Phoebe and she started walking towards the mouth of the cave.

Once she got there she stepped outside, not moments later the others were right behind her and just after taking a few steps a sandstorm came out of nowhere and stopped them in their tracks.

"Where did this sandstorm come from?!" shouted Michelle over the loud blowing wind.

"Nothing can ever be easy can it?!" shouted Piper.

"Damn it! I can't see a thing!" yelled John in frustration.

"Wait, let me try something!" shouted Aaron and he started to close his eyes.

Once his eyes were closed, he started to focus and a few moments later he was lifted into the air like Phoebe being able to do levitation. His body then moved into a fetal position and moments later he quickly straighten his our his arms and legs stretched out and he yelled out.

"HA!" and immediately the sandstorm started to calm down until it was blowing a breeze.

After the sandstorm was totally gone Aaron started to float back down and land back onto the sandy ground and the group was able to look around the environment they were in.

The sky was totally covered with dark black clouds, like a rain storm was approaching but the temperature was quite warm. The land itself was barren wasteland with nothing but sand covered ground and dead trees scattered around.

Not so far aways from the group was a fortress of some sort made of raw natural looking formed stones with a dark feeling radiating from it walls.

"So where we're going to start looking?" asked Bryan.

"Maybe trying the dark creepy castle for starters." said Phoebe giving him a look.

"Whoa, I wonder if the Beast from Beauty and the Beast lives there." said Paige in a surprised look.

"Well lets get going people." called Piper as she started towards the fortress with the others following.

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Fifteen minutes of walking the group arrived at the front gates of the fortress.

"So, any ideas of getting inside?" Phoebe asked everyone as she looked at the pair of stone doors in front of them.

"Here let me." offered John and elemental of Earth took a couple of steps forward and looked right at the doors. Then he lifted his right foot up and stomped the ground with it focusing his powers at the same time. Then the ground beneath them started to shake like a earthquake and rock rubble started to break up from the ground from John's right foot towards the two stone doors. As the trail of rubble hit the doors, they immediately broke apart at the hinges and dropped to the ground.

"Ever thought of being a building demolisher?" asked Paige.

"Paige...." started Piper.

"You know, this is just too easy. I mean don't they even have guards at the door." putted Phoebe.

"Why would they need guards if they're the only ones in this dimension." stated Bryan.

Moments later two figure came rushing out of the doorway. They were tall and their backs were slouched like a hunchback. They were wearing dark raggy hooded robes and covering their faces were some sort of black mask. The mask covers their entire face with only eye holes and small slit for the mouth. Their hands were covered with some black slime like goo dripping as they stood there and they had bird like claw fingernails.

"Who are you people. How dare you enter the santuary of the Soulseekers." spoke one of the demons.

"Well at least this is the right place." said Paige.

"Answer now!" shouted the demon.

"Oh put a cork in it!" exclaimed Piper as she threw her hands out trying to explode the demon. Instead of blowing up her powers just threw the demon back a bit in a stun.

Then both of the demons attacked the same time but before they got even a few steps forward they were stopped. Michelle had threw her right hand forward with the palm up and a gigantic stream of fire came flying out engulfing one of the demons and incinerate them into nothing. While Bryan with a flick of his right hand upwards and a column of water submerged the demon and with a bit of control he changed the pressure of the water and crushed the demon into nothing.

"Just great! Our powers don't even won't a bit on them." exclaimed Piper.

"Thats why we needed the elements to help." stated Chris.

"I wonder how many more of them are there." questioned Paige.

"13. 12 normal ones and one leader." said Aaron.

"And how do you know that?!" asked Phoebe.

"Actually I don't know.....The fact just came up in my head. I must have remembered from a past life or something."

"So there are 12 of them and one leader. We got rid of two and we still have 10 more to deal with." calculated John.

The group started to walk inside and when they were in, there were two stairways going into different directions.

"So what do we do now?" asked Bryan.

"Looks like we're splitting up." said Michelle.

"Alright then Phoebe, Chris, Aaron, Bryan you guys go that way and the rest of us will go the other way. And we just keep going until we meet up with each other again." stated Piper and the two groups went in their own direction.

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Phoebe's group got the the top of the stairway and into a hall, the walls were like a cave and torches were stuck to each side. When they reach the end of the hallway they ended up in another room which had another hallway. At that time two more Soulseekers just turned into the room they were in.

"Who are you!" shouted one of the demons.

In a quick reflex Aaron quickly swinged his left arm at them and a hurricane like wind blew through the room and send the two demons flying through the air and slammed against a wall. Then Bryan left hand grabbed Aaron's right then swinging their arms together in a full circle and thrusted their joined palms at the two demons. A bolt of lightning came flying out of their palms striking the two Soulseekers in the chest which surged through their entire body and they exploded into dust.

"How did you guys do that? I thought you can only control Wind and Water." asked Phoebe confusingly.

"No idea, it just came with instinct." replied Bryan.

"Remember the Book of Shadows saying that together Wind and Water created storms to bring life. That is just one of the other powers that have when they join together, the power of storms." explained Chris.

After the quick talk they continued their way.

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Like Phoebe's group, Piper's group when they reached the top of the stairs they too headed down a hallway and into a room.

Just like with Phoebe's group, two demons walked around the corner of the hall that was connected to the room they were in.

"Oh look its another welcoming commitee." putted Paige.

"Not for long." said John as he got in front of them.

The element of Earth stomped his right foot on the ground and the earth beneath him started to crack open right up to the demons feet. The two demons then toppled because of the small caused earthquake and both of them plunged right into the opened earth. And immediately after they were gone John quickly used his power to close up the ground again crushing the two demon's bodies to death.

"Well that takes care of those two, let go." stated John.

And the group continued on their way.

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After going through a series of hallways, Phoebe's group came to a hallway with a room at the end with three demons, some what guarding a door.

"There's three of them." Chris standing with the group at the other end of the hall.

"Come on let get rid of them, so we can keep going." commented Bryan and started to walk towards the three Soulseekers and the rest followed.

The three demons saw them and walked towards them.

"Who are you and how did you get here!" demanded one of them.

"Take a break." and Bryan as he walked, launched a blast of water at the demon throwing him back.

The other two saw this and rushed forward to attack but Bryan quickly threw both his hands forward and water blasted out of them. Both demons were hit with the water assault and Aaron quickly used his powers with Bryan's, dropping the temperature of the air around the demons turning them into blocks of ice. The demon that was thrown back started to get up but Bryan launched a water attack on him as well and with Aaron, he became a block of ice too.

Now standing in the room were three demon popsicles and with a power combo, Aaron and Bryan blast two of the ice demons into pieces with lightning. The last one Chris decide to have a go with it and form a quite large energy orb in his hands and launched it at the last frozen demon. The energy orb was powerful enough that when it hit the demon shattered into pieces.

After that the group opened the door and walked through.

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Exactly like Phoebe's group, Piper's came to a hallway with three demons in a room guarding a door at the other end.

"Another bunch of creepy slimes to get rid of." said Michelle.

And the group walk towards the three demons. Hearing footsteps walking down the hall, the demons turned and saw the group and started to heads towards them.

"What are you doing here!" demanded one of the Soulseekers.

"To do some gardening." said John as he raised his right hand up and vines started to grow and wrapped itself around one of the Soulseeker's feet.

Seeing one of the demons were trapped, Michelle quickly threw a hot large flame at him burning him into ashes. The other two saw this in surprise and the two elements quickly joined hands like what Aaron and Bryan did. They pointed their palms towards the ground and hot piping magma shot out of the ground beneath the two Soulseekers melting them away.

"Ladies first." said John as he held open the door for the girls.

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Both groups some what end up in the same room at the same time and they joined up together again.

"Hey guys, how did you do?" asked Paige as she walked over to the other group.

"We got rid of 5 of them, how about you guys?" asked Aaron.

"Same with us." replied Michelle.

"So that makes 12, leaving only the leader. So do you think this is it?" asked Phoebe as she pointed toward the two large pairs of doors behind them.

"Only one way to find out." and Aaron stood in front of the others and thrust both his hands forward and a wind so forceful pushed the doors opened and they slammed loudly against the walls.

The group walked forward and into the room. The room was like a main throne room, it was quite large with stone pillars on each side. On the walls were torches and the floors had fire filled pots. At the end of the room was a platform which steps were needed to get up to and on the platform was a throne made for a demon. On the throne sitting was the demon leader of the Soulseekers.

He looks like the others except spiked horns coming out of his shoulders, arms and legs. Two long curved horns also were on his forehead making him looking like the devil. When the doors to his throne room burst open he look towards the door to see who dares to disturb him and saw the group.

He stood up and looked at the group of people carefully and studied each one until his eyes landed onto Chris.

"You! How dare you, so you dare betray me! Christopher Arthus Perry." shouted the demon leader, narrowing his eyes at him.

"We're here to save Wyatt, where is he!" demanded Chris.

"Hmm, worried about you lover. Why don't you see for yourself." smirked the demon and pointed towards the side of the room.

Everyone look to the side and saw a horrible sight. Hanging there on some sort of pole was a figure, wrapped in chains and clothes torn and he was bleeding and was covered with bruises.

"You soul stealing bastard!" shouted the teen whitelighter as he ran towards his love.

"Oh no you don't!" and the demon let out a stream of pitch black flaming fire from his left hand at the moving teen.

Quickly Michelle got in front of the attack and fired her own flame to counter the demon's attack and both attacks started to push against each other.

"So I see you got powerful magic users to help you. But that will not be enough to defeat me!" laughed out the demon.

"We'll see about that. You guys go save Wyatt, we will take care of him." said Aaron and the three sisters went after Chris.

"Let see how good you really are." and the demon launched another black flame out at the four teens.

Immediately Bryan countered the demon's other flame with a blasting stream of water and the two opposite elements went against each other.

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When Chris got close to his abused boyfriend he slammed right into a invisible barrier of some sort and landed on his back. The sisters got up to him and help the fallen teen up.

"Are you alright?" asked Piper.

"I'm fine but we have to get Wyatt." replied Chris as he turn back towards the invisible barrier.

"There is some sort of barrier here, we can't get through." stated Phoebe as her hands started to feel the wall in front of them.

"You will never get through that barrier of mine, except if you defeat me but that is highly unlikely." cackled the demon as he continued with his attack.

"Then I will just have to try!" stated Chris and he quickly formed energy orbs in his two hands and launched them at the barrier which did nothing. He kept on launching energy orbs from each hand at the same spot hoping it will weaken it but it didn't. And after a lot of energy throwing Chris was getting tired and exhausted and fell to his knees breathing hardly.

Piper tried to use her blowing up power on the wall but it didn't work as well.

"Damn it! We have to get through this wall. Paige can you try orbing Wyatt to you?" asked Piper.

"I could only orb objects, I never orbed people before." replied Paige.

"Well then there is a first time for everything. We need you to try doing it now."

"But what if when I and if I could orb him, he loses a limb or leg!" exclaimed the youngest sister.

"Just concentrate and believe you can do it."

Paige just looked at Piper and nodded and faced the limp Wyatt and held out her arms and concentrated.

"Wyatt! Wyatt! Wyatt!" after a few trys nothing happened.

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"I told them they could get through unless I was defeated." stated the demon seeing the witches attempts.

After a few minutes both sides stopped their attacks.

"Not bad but its time to end this." and the demon shot a black ball of fire at the four teens and Michelle quickly launched out her own ball of fire and cancelled it out. Right after the cancelation the demon launched out another at Aaron.

Aaron quickly moved out of the way and dodged the attack and swinged his arm towards the demon and a wind cyclone came flying out at him. Seeing the cyclone flying towards him the demon fire a flame at the cyclone and it somehow swallows it creating now a black fire cyclone. The Soulseeker's leader quickly jumped out of the way and the cyclone hit the steps that lead to the platform.

John then stomped the ground and rubble bursted from the ground in a trail towards the demon which the demon dodges again and his throne got hit and it toppled over.

"Enough playing around!" and the demon stood before them and with both hands fired an intense force of black flaming fire at the four elements.

Quickly Michelle and Bryan stood close to one another and both launched out their own elemental attacks and countered the flames, pushing against them. The demon increased his power and the black fire started to over power fire and water elements. Earth and Wind joined in and stood beside their soulmates and let out their own elements power, Aaron with a sideways wind cyclone and John with a blast of green leaves. The two added elemental attacks equalled up the battle between the elemental teens and the demon.

Seeing the equal in power the leader demon used all his power in his attack which again started to over power the other four. Seeing the only way to defeat the Soulseeker is joining their powers together in a team attack. The teens quickly stopped their attacks and joined hands with their respective partners. From Michelle's and John's joined palms shot out hot lava and from Aaron's and Bryan came lightning. The two new elemental attacks combined themselves together in a large stream of lava with lightning swirling around the outside like a spiral.

The attack cuts right through the Soulseeker's black fire, engulfing his arms and hitting him in the chest and his entire body was covered with lava and lightning. He started to scream in agony as he started to melt away and being electricuted at the same time.

"Arghhhhhhhhhh! You....haven't.....seen.....the last......of meeeeee!" he gasped in breath and his body was totally gone leaving a pile of lava with electricity flowed over it. Eventually the puddle seeped into thin air and was gone.

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Once the last of the Soulseekers were gone the energy barrier surrounding Wyatt was gone and the group sprinted towards him.

"How do we free him, we need a key." quired Michelle seeing a padlock attached to the chains binding Wyatt to the pole.

"I got idea but I'm not sure it will work or not." said Paige and she held out her hands, "chains and lock!"

And the chains and lock orbed into her hands seeing that the magic on the chains and lock were gone when the leader of the Soulseekers was defeated and Paige dropped them on the floor because they were quite heavy.

Once the chains were gone, Wyatt fell forward and right into Chris's arms and Chris held his boyfriend back a bit.

"Wyatt, Wyatt! Are you okay!? It me, Chris!" coaxed the teen.

Wyatt slowly came to and lifted his head up and looked around him.

"Hey mom, Aunt Phoebe, Aunt Paige." Wyatt smiled faintly as he looked at each of his family members.

"Hey Wyatt." said Piper as she knelt down beside her future son and smiled at him.

He had the exact same features as baby Wyatt with the same hair and eye color. By the looks of it he was at least a inch shorter than Chris and a body build similar to Chris as well.

When his eyes settled on Chris he grinned, "Hey Chris." and he went unconcious right after. His body went limp against Chris's and his head dropped against Chris's right shoulder.

Chris started to panic when Wyatt went limp. He quickly turned Wyatt over onto his back with his body settled against his trying to get his love to wake up.

"Wyatt! Wyatt!"

Michelle went over and knelt down and checked Wyatt over since she did work in a medicine herbal shop, she could be a healer in training.

"Don't worry he just unconcious but we have to get him back and heal him just in case." stated the fire elemental.

"Alright lets get out of here. Even with the Soulseekers gone I still feel uneasy of this place." putted Paige as she shivered.

Everyone agreed and they placed Wyatt onto Chris's back and he started to carry his finally safe boyfriend out of there. But as they were walking, they didn't see the sinister smile across Wyatt's face.

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Another chapter done and last chapter to go! Then of course, if I get enough good reviews like about near 30 or so then I will start a sequal. So read and review!