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Destiny Awaits

Chapter 3

Lying in front of them was the form of a young girl. She as covered in blood and bruises and cuts were visible on her face. The three demons were nowhere in sight. Phoebe ran over to the unconscious girl and put her fingers on the girl's neck.

"She still has a pulse, but its faint." Piper ran up to Phoebe and waved her hands at the chains that tied her hand to the wall

"Its not working Phoebe"

"Paige, try and orb her out" Phoebe yelled across the cave. Paige closed her eyes and concentrated. She opened her eyes again, but Irene was still there.

"Why doesn't it work?" Paige yelled.

"Because good magic is useless here, because there's a shield." A cold, high-pitched voice answered.

All of them spun around and came face to face with the three of the most powerful demons in the underworld.

"Ooh, busted." Phoebe muttered softly.

Rabunon threw an energy ball at Piper, knocking her down. Both Paige and Leo rushed up to her while Phoebe kicked Flowberon in the stomach. Piper stood up.

"Ouch, that hurt mister " Piper exclaimed.

"No one messes with the pregnant woman and gets away with it." She found the potion and threw it at Rabunon.

Rabunon burst into flames, screaming.

"I underestimated you three. This is not the end of it!" Flowberon and Julebenon shimmered out.

Cole walks over to Irene and waves his hand. The shield disappeared. Piper approached Irene and blew up the chains that bound her hands to the wall.

"Let's go first, I'll heal her at the manor." Leo suggested as Cole disappeared. The rest of them orbed out.

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Leo gently lowered Irene onto the couch and healed her. Irene opened her eyes and slowly sat up.

"Are you alright?" Piper asked as she handed her a glass of water.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Irene answered with a sigh. Phoebe ran upstairs and returned moments later with the pendant. She bent down and said with a smile to the little girl.

"This is yours" Phoebe dropped the silver pendant into small-outstretched hand.

Immediately, she felt images float through her head. When she re-opened her eyes, she saw all of them staring at her.

"What happened? What did you see?" Phoebe asked concerned.

"Um. I saw a girl. getting chased by one of those ugly men and then a skeleton,"

"Uh, huh, that helps a lot." Piper aid as Paige elbowed her and gave her a 'look'

"Ok, can you remember what she looked like?" Phoebe asked, ignoring both Piper and Paige.

"Um. she was short and."

"Ok, Paige, you stay here with Irene while Phoebe and I will go and scry for that .er. girl." Piper said uncertainly and dragged Phoebe out of the room.

" What about Irene, when are we going to talk to her about witches and evil beings and oh, all those lovely demons?" Paige whispered.

"We'll her tell later," Piper whispered back.

"I'll go check with the elders." Leo orbed out.

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"I still can't figure out why Cole was following us, I mean, apart from what he said about protecting me." Phoebe sighed and dangled the crystal above the map.

"Well, he doesn't wanna give up on you. It's pretty obvious." Piper sat down and closed her eyes. Exhausted.

"Got her, lets go."

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Downstairs, Paige was talking to Mitchell. "Look, I really can't talk right now ok?" I'll call you tonight" "Ok, bye bye"

Paige hung up the phone and turned to see Julebenon standing behind her with a smug smile on his face. Before Paige could react she was thrown into the wall by an energy ball. She slid onto the ground unconscious just as Irene walked in from the kitchen with a glass of water. The glass dropped and shattered on the ground. She wanted to scream, but she couldn't. Julebenon spun around when he heard a glass shatter. He fired an energy ball at Irene that sent her flying out the window. Irene hit the ground and was out cold. Julebenon muttered something under his breath and transformed himself into black smoke, he glided over towards Paige.

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Hearing the commotion downstairs, Phoebe and Piper dropped everything they were holding and rushed downstairs.

"Paige, Irene?" Phoebe asked concerned as she rushed down the last flight of stairs.

"Oh god, Paige? Paige honey wake up" Piper worriedly demanded. She dropped down beside her unconscious sister and felt for a pulse.

"She still has a pulse," Piper said. Phoebe breathed a sigh of relief before she noticed the broken glass. She ran outside and inspected Irene.

"She's fine, she's just out cold." Phoebe picked Irene up and carried her inside.

"Leo!"

Leo orbs in " What's wrong? I can't stay long."

"Heal her" Piper commanded him, pointing at Irene. He sighed and healed her. Leo was getting ready to leave, but Piper stopped him.

"What about Paige?"

"She'll be fine, and don't call me again unless it's absolutely necessary." Leo orbed out. Piper and Phoebe led Irene into the kitchen after they moved Paige onto the couch.

"What happened?" Piper asked handing her a glass of water.

"That scary man in the dark cave came along." Irene answered, taking a sip of water.

"And." Piper prompted her.

"I don't know, I came in from the kitchen and saw throw some kind of lightning stuff at Paige and she collapsed." Irene recalled.

"What happened after that?" Phoebe asked.

"He threw me out the window and then everything went black."

"You'll be ok sweetie." Phoebe reassured her.

"That window? It's gonna to cost us" Piper sighed.

"Let's not worry about that yet. Phoebe paused as if deep in thought " Hey where did the demon go?"

Piper opened her mouth to reply, but was interrupted by a thump from the living room followed by a loud " Ow."

They rushed into the room and saw Paige lying flat on her stomach. Phoebe ran over and offered her a hand, but as soon as they touched, she was hit by a premonition.

~~~~~~ Paige standing in front of a hooded figure. The figure talked and Paige nodded.

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Phoebe came out of her premonition with a gasp and stumbled back.

"Whoa. sit down," Piper instructed as she helped Phoebe sit down on the couch.

"What did you see?" Piper asked, as she gave a hand and pulled Paige off the ground onto the couch. She then seated herself comfortable and waited patiently for her sister to reply.

"I don't know. it was all a blur, everything was moving so fast. I think I saw Paige talking to someone and then that was it."

"Don't worry, we'll figure it out, besides, it doesn't seem too strange, right now, we need to figure out a way to get rid of those pesky demons, they're really getting on my nerves." Piper stated irritated.

"Oh, ok well I'll go make that potion up in the attic, you guys make up a spell." Paige finished and hurried out of the living room.

"Paige, we've already got the potion and the spell remember?"

"We did? Oh yes, silly me, must've been that bump on the head." She laughed nervously. " Well, I'll go check the book of shadows anyway." She turned and kept walking.

"Paige" Phoebe called

"Yeah" Paige answered, not bothering to turn around.

"Paige" Phoebe called a little more firmly.

"Yeah" Paige replied.

"Paige" Phoebe yelled louder this time.

"What?" Paige spun around annoyed.

"The attic is that way, where are you going?" Phoebe asked confused.

"Oh yes, of course its that way" with that she climbed up the flight of stairs.

Phoebe turned towards Piper who had followed them into this room and said.

"Is it just me? Or has Paige been a little off since she woke up?"

"It's probably that bump on the head, come on, I sent Irene to watch cartoons, lets go before she disappears again."

Phoebe had a nagging feeling that something wasn't right but she shook it off and followed Piper into the living room.
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