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Masked
Chapter 5: Underworld
Julie paced around in one of the many caves of the Underworld, the clacking of her heels the only sound that resonated through the empty space. The only other person there was Gazana, a tall, brunette demon who had moved up the ranks and replaced Kaia. Julie, with a strange smile on her face, thought about why Kaia had reached that level anyway. Julie had reached it because of her smart thinking and ruthlessness. But Kaia? Julie had helped her move to this kind of position. Julie helped her because she wasn't a threat, but now Julie had killed her and a threat was there. That threat was named: Gazana.
Julie glared at Gazana for a moment before continuing to pace. Gazana was a tall brunette with multiple powers and a cunning and vindictiveness that hadn't been seen for a long time. The only thing that Julie had over her was her numbers of powers. Julie had quite a few, the daughter of a powerful demon and a seductress.
Gazana glanced up, her cold green eyes locking with Julie's watery blue ones. You want something? Gazana shook her right hand out, drying her nail polish. Gazana, deciding that waiting it to dry would take too long, fired a small fire ball at her hand, instantly drying the polish.
Julie replied with her teeth clenched. Gazana smirked at her and then returned to looking at her nails, admiring the blood red color.
Julie had been bothered the last two days that she still didn't know for whom she was working and that the stupid Halliwell witch was back with her family. It wasn't any stupid Halliwell witch either, it was the middle one -Phoebe. Julie hated her with a vengeance. She had gotten Cole. Julie was the one that deserved him, not that stupid witch.
Julie had known Cole for longer than he remembered... she thought. Julie was under a different name then and her hair was a different color. Julie went under the name Ayana then and only worked as a seductress. She and Cole had only been together for a short time - talking and such. Julie, however, wanted something more. When the Seer went looking for a ingenious seductress to lure the new Source Julie went for the job and got it, easily. Cole was right when he said that demons couldn't love, but they certainly could lust. Julie smiled at the thought of that stupid Phoebe Halliwell dying at her hand.
The seductress had been watching Cole ever since she met him. She was thrilled when she thought that he would be the one to devastate the side of good and annihilate the Charmed Ones, she felt entirely desolate when she found out that he had fallen in love with the witch, and she had been carefully plotting and planning ever since. What really annoyed her though was how the idiotic witch couldn't decide if she wanted to marry him or not. That's when she decided to move in. She had hired someone else to pretend to be her, Kaia, and pretended to be Phoebe beautifully for months - and no one was the wiser.
Julie thought back to those months ago. She had hired a lower level demon by the name of Baranxes to kidnap the Halliwell and a while later was approached by the hooded man for who she worked for now. He offered her power - and Cole - in exchange for the witch and control of her future. It had worked fine and well until a lousy little demon, who had been guarding the witch, was scared by Cole and gave her back to him.
She scowled at the thought. Thinking of your little Belthazor-welthazor? Gazana teased, her lips drooping down into a little pout.
Julie fired an energy ball near her. she whispered.
Gazana summoned a huge fire ball in her hand, the red and orange ball swirling and just hovering above her palm. Don't speak to me, she closed her hand, the ball dissipating in a whirl of smoke.
Girls, girls, a cloaked figure reprimanded, coming out of the shadows.
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A black haired man walked through the caves of the Underworld. The tall and wiry man looked to be easy pickings in this world of vicious demons and unrelenting evil. However, he went through the caves untouched. Demons, upon seeing him, quickly hid or shimmered away. His appearance obviously hiding something. He sang a little song to himself that went like this:
I'm going to get you
Like you got me
Soon the light of day
You just won't see
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The black haired man came to the side of the cloaked figure a frown on his face. Are you causing trouble? He looked at the two demons.
Gazana shrugged, leaning against the wall, her interest in her nails again. Julie, however, openly glared at Gazana. Her arms were crossed over her chest and she looked furious... and slightly nervous.
I don't need you, you know that. So stop, the black haired man said. Suddenly his interest was caught by the red jewel that Julie wore around her neck. Tear dropped shaped he knew that he had seen it many years ago... on her.
What's that? He approached her, prepared to seize it off her neck.
She played with the stone, letting the thin gold cord it was on run through her fingers. Phoebe Halliwell's powers. She smiled. They're mine now. She should really have learned to control them.
We can strike now! the cloaked figure bellowed at once. They are two weak to defeat me.
We can get her now, but the other two? We have to wait until we are prepared. The middle one always had the weakest powers... He looked grim and added bitterly, In this lifetime.
What about her demon boyfriend? Gazana glanced up. How do we finish him off?
The black haired man laughed. He's only a demon... a half-demon!
He's more powerful than that, Gazana replied, stepping out of the alcove she was leaning in to face the black haired man.
the man swiftly turned his back to her, thinking the situation over.
We kill her and make them watch... all of them, the cloaked figure suggested.
That's the problem. That's why the Charmed Ones win. They vanquish a demon quickly and nothing more. The demons that come after them always want to torture, with good reason, but the stupid family members always swoop in at the last second. He paced around. We need to get them all at the same time... and be prepared. Otherwise it'll all be for naught.
And we'll all be dead, Gazana said with a cold, empty laugh.
I won't be, the black haired man replied, his voice quiet and deadly and his eyes steely cold. I've already done that.
