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Chapter 15 – The Demon of Mercilessness

There was a loud racket at the front door of the Manor, the clank of keys could be heard and the door swung open to reveal a very ticked off Phoebe.

"Hey Pheebs!" Paige called cheerily from the living room.

"Hey yourself. Why won't this damn door let go of my keys!?" Phoebe muttered.

Paige walked over to the door and swiftly pulled the keys out.

"Oh sure. Paige the super witch pulls them out. I'm telling ya, that door hates me."

"What's up Pheebs, you don't look so hot." Paige asked as they walked to the kitchen.

"You won't believe who decided to pay me a visit today!"

"At this point Pheebs, I don't think there's anything we won't believe." Piper turned from the stove, grinning at her sister's annoyance.

Paige gave her sister a look. "Don't tease, Piper! Who was it Phoebe?"

"Cole. Yeah, he just shimmered in all la-de-da with the door half open in my office!" Phoebe sat down in a chair at the breakfast table and put her head in her hands.

"Cole? Well, what did he want?" Piper sat next to Phoebe, looking concerned.

"He said he wanted to warn me about something, but he just acted like a complete jerk."

"Then what?"

"Then, he just left. Shimmering, I might add."

"That's it? He didn't do or say anything? He just left?" Paige frowned.

"That's it."

"No wonder you're so pissed off. Just shrug it off sweetie, no use stressing over asses like Cole." Paige patted her sister's shoulder.

"Meanwhile, dinner's ready if you guys are hungry." Piper offered.

They had dinner, and Phoebe cooled off from her earlier anger with Cole. Leo dropped by to let Piper know he wouldn't get home until late that night and left, and they all got cleaned up and ready for bed.

Now, the little family was upstairs in the attic, Paige was giving them the spell to go back to Faeryland, and they were discussing if they should bring anything along, if they even could.

Then, a low humming noise invaded their ears, and the air around them began to smell bitter, and metallic, like rust and blood. Something appeared with a loud 'crack!' It was big, whatever it was. Its skin looked a filmy, dark red, almost transparent. Its arms and legs were short and stocky, and it had virtually no neck. The nose on its face was as flat as a board, and it had a fleshy grate instead of lips. But what was the most shocking about it were its eyes. They were deep, wide holes. They were a deep mesmerizing black, and in them, were tiny brilliant white pinpricks.

It bellowed, and began a slow advance at its victims.

"Whoa, whoa!" Piper's eyes grew wide in surprise, and she raised her hands to freeze the demon.

It froze. Then, slowly, as if moving through something thick and gooey, it unfroze.

"Freeze it again! Freeze it again!" Paige shouted in panic.

"I'm trying to!" Piper yelled back.

She waved again, and its arm blew off.

The monster sluggishly turned its head to face his stump of an arm, and slowly, bit by bit, the arm began to regenerate.

"Oh-oh! My God! It did not just do that!" Phoebe gasped.

"Quick! Look through the Book while I distract it!" Piper pushed her sisters lightly toward the Book of Shadows.

"Wait! How're you gonna do that?" Paige asked.

Piper blew off its other arm, and then a leg.

"Find it!" Piper yelled.

"Carreau!! It's a demon of mercilessness!" Phoebe called out.

"And the vanquish??" Piper called in a panic. Carreau was healing at an incredible rate now.

"Uhh, it doesn't list one!!" Phoebe squeaked back.

"Power of Three!" Paige yelled out.

They all called out in unison, "The Power of Three will set us free, the Power of Three will set us free, THE POWER OF THREE WILL SET US FREE!"

The demon stood up straight after their chant, cracked its neck, and clenched and unclenched its hands, cracking them as it did so. Then, he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Oh damn, it wasn't even affected by our Power of Three spell." Paige's face was paper white, and her hands clutched the pages of the Book of Shadows.

"Um, ok, that was really strange… maybe it wasn't here for us?" Phoebe said uncertainly, "I guess that's what Cole was going to warn me about. Before he turned into the jerk he always is." She scowled.

"Probably, but I know you know it was here for us. It'll be back, and you know it. But for right now, let's just go back to Faeryland." Piper put an arm around her sister, and they went downstairs to their beds – might as well be comfortable – and they all said the spell.

"Take me back To this fairytale dream Don't wake me up 'Till the light beams In this eternal place Let me fall in penetrating sleep" A/N- Sorry it took so long for me to update! I've been busy with practice and school. And if this looks funny, I'm sorry, I've been trying to fix it for half an hour, and I just want to go to sleep. Review me!