Halliwell Destinies
Chapter 16
Pierce slammed into the wall with a loud crash. The wall she had just been thrown against, by a rather nasty looking demon that she recognized, had been smashed into pieces by her flying body. She struggled to push herself back off the floor and pull the best energy ball she could muster to send flying its way.
"Pierce, duck!" Cole shouted from behind her.
She threw herself on the floor as a huge fireball whizzed right over her head and at one of the demons large red heads. It let out a startled cry and writhed in pain for a moment before something began to sprout from where the head had been. Three identical heads replaced it.
"What in the hell!" Pierce cried.
The monster barred its yellow teeth and shimmered out of the room. Pierce pushed herself off of the ground and turned to look at Cole who was utterly stunned. He shrugged at Piper and Paige orbed into the room.
"What happened here?" Piper cried throwing up her hands.
"Well, we have gotten a new revelation on the demon hunting front. You know the demon that killed the girl? Well his three heads are a little complicated." Pierce said looking at Cole.
"How true." Cole said as Phoebe waltzed through the front door.
"Wait," She said stopping and surveying the area. "Did you stay home today?"
"I came home on my lunch break and good thing I did, come to find Pierce here trying to take on mister three heads all by herself." Cole said straightening out his shirt.
"Why do you always do that?" Paige asked looking Pierce up and down noticing all of the blood but no scars or marks just a slight redness where there should have been scratches.
Leo orbed in moments later with Chris they both looked as if there was something that needed attention right that moment. They looked around, stunned but not surprised.
"The elders just warned us this might happen. What you encountered wasn't your ordinary demon." Leo said looking around the house.
"Then what was it your almightyness?" Pierce quipped.
"A hydra. Well a demon in the process of being transformed into a hydra." Chris answered wrapping one arm around Pierce.
"Hydra? As in Greek myths?" Pierce asked looking at Chris.
"One in the same." Leo answered.
"But," Chris said kissing Pierce on the cheek then standing next to Leo. "It is a bit more complicated then that."
"What do you mean?" Piper asked cocking an eyebrow.
"I mean that a very serious time turning upper level demon names Jenius has just gone back in time and released the Titans when the world is vulnerable. They are all unaware of what is to come and in this process Jenius decided to kill off all of the Gods with his power to create, make and ultimately break time." Leo said looking at the girls.
"This means exactly what? And I mean exactly Leo Wyatt." Piper said putting her hand on her hip.
"It means that the only way to save the world from being ruled by evil hateful titans is to go back in time and take your places as goddesses and well save the world." Leo summed it up nicely.
"What do you mean? Four girls against how many titans?" Paige said incredulously.
"Around 19, to be exact. But you won't be alone. You will have us, me and Chris already agreed and well we are sure Cole would help." Leo said looking at Cole.
"So what, 7 on 19?" Pierce paused. "I don't like those odds."
"Well, what else can we do?" Leo said looking down at her.
"Okay well all we have to do is find more people to help us." Pierce said pacing.
"Like who?" Chris asked looking at her.
"I've got one." Pierce said stopping in her tracks and orbing.
Pierce looked around at the circle of people. Herself, Phoebe, Paige, Piper, Leo, Cole, Chris, Richard and a reluctant Nate stood quietly the candles lit behind them. They chanted softly as one as a cloud of smoke enveloped the room. Pierce tightened her grip on Chris's hand as she chanted louder. A white light blinded the group of people and the whole room began to spin. Pierce fell to the ground as the room spun. She rolled onto her back moments later to see fluffy white clouds in a crystal blue sky.
"Uh…" Pierce said looking up at the sky.
"Pierce?" She heard Chris say.
Pierce looked up to see Chris in the sexiest thing he had ever worn. Just a plain light blue sheet around his waist clipped on by a lightening bolt she also noticed a large trident in his right hand. Pierce smiled at him and he smiled right back as he hoisted her up off the ground. She noticed that her hair was now about a foot longer then normal and curly at the ends. She wore a white tunic that strapped over one of her shoulders. It was a short dress it only went down to her knees. She looked around to see Piper, Phoebe and Paige dressed in similar outfits.
"Gods! I come to bring you Hades, ruler of the underworld." Said a small man with a limp.
Cole or better known as Hades stepped forward with a sly grin on his face and winked at the group. He was wearing a black sheet around his waist and a long deep blue cloak. So who were the rest of them?
"Man, that fits you." Pierce said with a laugh.
"So do we all know who we are because I know who I am." Pierce said looking around at them.
"Apollo." Nate said. "God of music, of the archer and of healing."
"Then that makes me Artemis doesn't it? How ironic." Pierce said looking at the silver arrow clip on her tunic that Nate also had. "I am the goddess of the hunt and of all wild things."
"I'm Athena." Paige said looking around at herself. "Goddess of war."
"And I'm Ares. God of war." Richard said looking at Paige.
"I'm just taken a stab in the dark but, Chris, Cole and Leo might just be the three brothers who divided the earth." Pierce said with a smile.
"I'm Poseidon. Ruler of the sea." Chris said smiling at Pierce.
"And I know I'm Hades." Cole said leaning against a pillar.
"And I'm Zeus." Leo said nodding.
"Whoa, so when I called you almighty I wasn't lying!" Pierce quipped.
"So I know I'm confused." Piper said looking at herself.
Piper was wearing a light gauzy white tunic that was held at the shoulder by a flower. She was standing in a circle of flowers and grass where it didn't grow on any other part of the mountain.
"Demeter, goddess of all growing things." Leo said walking to her.
"Zeus!" They heard a woman's voice bellow.
"Hera?" Leo said looking around.
"Well apparently we still have the same memory as some of these gods." Pierce said to them as a very tall woman dressed in a purple tunic with layers of cloaks about her stormed in.
"Zeus! Are you having an affair with mother earth now! Demeter! You should know better!" Hera screamed.
"Whoa, talk about your rage." Pierce whispered crossing the gap at where Hera stood infront of Piper and stood in the way.
"Artemis this will be the last time you stand in my way." She cried and thrust her hand out getting Pierce right in the face.
Pierce went wild with rage pulling an arrow out of the air and her bow in the same way and preparing to strike when Leo held up his hand to keep the incident from happening.
"Don't start with me I will kick your ass." Pierce hissed.
"Artemis." Chris said taking her hand and guiding her out of the scene.
"Don't call me that." Pierce said gripping the bow and the arrow tighter.
"Poseidon I may just have to inform your wife of your adultery with Artemis wont I? Virgin goddess." Hera scoffed.
"No one said that we had to deal with this stuff too." Phoebe said, she was clearly Aphrodite.
Cole was clearly getting pissed. He flipped his hand in Hera's direction, which made her instantly disappear and leave Cole with a triumphant smile on his face.
"Now that she's gone what's next?" Nate asked Leo.
"Well, we have got to figure out where the Titans are going to strike." Pierce said looking around. "And then we find them, kill them and go home."
"Well how do we know where they are going to attack next?" Phoebe said gripping the side of a large silver table. She instantly went into a precognitive trance the instant her fingers touched the silver.
"Aphrodite?" Cole said then looked around. "I mean Phoebe."
"Athens." She said as soon as she opened her eyes again.
"Well, Athens it is." Leo said and all of them were instantly in a town with people moving around busily.
The whole place was filled with people in sandals and large stone pillars. As they walked towards where Phoebe said they would strike people stopped in the street and bowed down on the ground it made Cole laugh. Pierce sudden felt the need to whistle. Instantly she and Nate had a large canister of silver arrows strapped to their backs and a bow in each hand she winked at him.
"Look." Phoebe said pointing to the large stone monument to Zeus. It was on fire.
"Oh bring it on!" Pierce yelled and she took off with Nate right behind her.
They came to the entrance of the monument and saw 20 or so people and monsters dressed in tunics and black robes. Pierce pulled an arrow out and had in her bow in under a second. She released the arrow and shot it straight into a woman's heart she fell down instantly and writhed in pain. A large man she knew as Cronus looked down at the woman then at Pierce and strided across the room in a few steps.
"Cronus! Long time no see!" Pierce said ducking as he made an attempt to grab her by the neck.
"Artemis!" Cronus growled. "You kill Rhea because you want me. I know this!"
"My ass I would kill her for you!" Pierce hissed as she came up with an uppercut and getting him right in the face.
Cronus grabbed her by the arm and lifted her off of the ground as and arrow whizzed by Pierces head and straight into Cronus's arm. He released and Pierce who rolled backwards and pushed herself up. Nate ran to her aid.
"Oh! Damn!" Pierce turned to see a man and a woman join Leo's side Themis and Prometheus.
"Artemis! Apollo! Do not fight them alone!" Cole yelled.
"Oceanus!" Chris yelled as a man completely clad in blue came forward.
Pierce landed on the ground as she was attacked by what could only be called an energy ball. She squirmed for a minute as Nate came to her aid and put his hand on her stomach where she had been hit. It healed instantly. She could have waited it out and let it fix itself but she didn't feel like waiting.
Pierce turned to see Piper throw her hands up in the air and immediately explode a Cyclops that was coming right for Phoebe. Paige lifted up her trident and thrusted it into the stomach of a monster Pierce wasn't aware of.
"I thought we were invincible!" Pierce cried as another Cyclops charged her way.
"The time change messed that all up!" Leo shouted.
"Good to know!" Pierce yelled back.
Pierce pulled another arrow out and shot it straight at Cronus hitting him right in the stomach. He instantly vanished along with the other Titans, besides the two Titans that had joined Leo's side. Pierce turned to see all of them scattered out in what were probably smaller battles between each other.
"I didn't know that you got a thing for Cronus." Chris said to Pierce with a smile.
"Funny, really, I'm laughing." Pierce rolled her eyes as the whole group formed a circle. They were about to start delegating when six very gorgeous men came their way.
"Whoa, talk about hot!" Phoebe said with a sly grin.
"Tell me about it." Pierce said winking at her.
"Lord Zeus we come to serve you." A very attractive man with rippling muscles said to Leo.
"Why don't you serve me?" Paige said with a smile. All four girls laughed.
"Heracles. My son, how are you?" Leo said and looked around confused as if he didn't know who had said that.
"I am fine, father. We come to serve you." Heracles said.
"Oh, oh! Hercules, like in the Disney movie?" Pierce said to Nate.
"Artemis grow up." Nate said rolling his eyes.
"Whoa? Artemis? Totally not my name NATE." Pierce hissed.
"Wait a sec." Piper said looking at the six men. "These guys are all Heroes but they are from different ages."
Pierce placed her hands on her hips arrogantly and stared around. What next? She thought.
"Follow their trail, apparently we can all orb here. I mean those of us that could before. Just follow their shimmer or whatever trail you would call that." Leo said grabbing hands of the people closest to him and orbing.
Pierce grabbed Piper and Phoebe's hands and told Nate to orb Cole and Richard. They orbed right into a huge lagoon. Pierce splashed into the water with Phoebe and Piper who came up from the water coughing. She spotted Chris standing on the dry land and looking quite refreshed but he had a smile on his face as the three girls pulled themselves out of the water and up onto the shore.
"No laughing." Pierce said holding up her hand.
"Just let me take care of that." Leo said waving his hand and they were instantly dry.
"Okay lets get this show on the road I don't have all day here." Piper said as the group formed a circle.
"You said they came here Leo." Pierce said narrowing her eyes.
"They are." Leo said looking around.
"I got em." Pierce said quietly she took two steps back then sent her hand out and grabbed something invisible.
The moment she touched the person it regrouped right infront of her showing that she had her hand on its neck. She knew it wasn't Cronus or possible anyone strong for she wouldn't have found them so easily.
"Where are the rest of them?" Pierce yelled.
"Die witch!" The man yelled at her face as an arrow came out of nowhere and stabbed Pierce right in the back.
Pierce screamed and fell painfully to the ground as people appeared all over the place encircling the group of people. Pierce writhed in pain on the floor as the whole area went into turmoil. She felt around on her back and painfully ripped the arrow out of her back and rolled over pulling an arrow out and her bow and sending an arrow spiraling in Cronus's direction. She slumped back down the ground the moment it left her bow because the pain was so intense it was sending her into convulsions. Then everything went black.
Chapter 16
Pierce slammed into the wall with a loud crash. The wall she had just been thrown against, by a rather nasty looking demon that she recognized, had been smashed into pieces by her flying body. She struggled to push herself back off the floor and pull the best energy ball she could muster to send flying its way.
"Pierce, duck!" Cole shouted from behind her.
She threw herself on the floor as a huge fireball whizzed right over her head and at one of the demons large red heads. It let out a startled cry and writhed in pain for a moment before something began to sprout from where the head had been. Three identical heads replaced it.
"What in the hell!" Pierce cried.
The monster barred its yellow teeth and shimmered out of the room. Pierce pushed herself off of the ground and turned to look at Cole who was utterly stunned. He shrugged at Piper and Paige orbed into the room.
"What happened here?" Piper cried throwing up her hands.
"Well, we have gotten a new revelation on the demon hunting front. You know the demon that killed the girl? Well his three heads are a little complicated." Pierce said looking at Cole.
"How true." Cole said as Phoebe waltzed through the front door.
"Wait," She said stopping and surveying the area. "Did you stay home today?"
"I came home on my lunch break and good thing I did, come to find Pierce here trying to take on mister three heads all by herself." Cole said straightening out his shirt.
"Why do you always do that?" Paige asked looking Pierce up and down noticing all of the blood but no scars or marks just a slight redness where there should have been scratches.
Leo orbed in moments later with Chris they both looked as if there was something that needed attention right that moment. They looked around, stunned but not surprised.
"The elders just warned us this might happen. What you encountered wasn't your ordinary demon." Leo said looking around the house.
"Then what was it your almightyness?" Pierce quipped.
"A hydra. Well a demon in the process of being transformed into a hydra." Chris answered wrapping one arm around Pierce.
"Hydra? As in Greek myths?" Pierce asked looking at Chris.
"One in the same." Leo answered.
"But," Chris said kissing Pierce on the cheek then standing next to Leo. "It is a bit more complicated then that."
"What do you mean?" Piper asked cocking an eyebrow.
"I mean that a very serious time turning upper level demon names Jenius has just gone back in time and released the Titans when the world is vulnerable. They are all unaware of what is to come and in this process Jenius decided to kill off all of the Gods with his power to create, make and ultimately break time." Leo said looking at the girls.
"This means exactly what? And I mean exactly Leo Wyatt." Piper said putting her hand on her hip.
"It means that the only way to save the world from being ruled by evil hateful titans is to go back in time and take your places as goddesses and well save the world." Leo summed it up nicely.
"What do you mean? Four girls against how many titans?" Paige said incredulously.
"Around 19, to be exact. But you won't be alone. You will have us, me and Chris already agreed and well we are sure Cole would help." Leo said looking at Cole.
"So what, 7 on 19?" Pierce paused. "I don't like those odds."
"Well, what else can we do?" Leo said looking down at her.
"Okay well all we have to do is find more people to help us." Pierce said pacing.
"Like who?" Chris asked looking at her.
"I've got one." Pierce said stopping in her tracks and orbing.
Pierce looked around at the circle of people. Herself, Phoebe, Paige, Piper, Leo, Cole, Chris, Richard and a reluctant Nate stood quietly the candles lit behind them. They chanted softly as one as a cloud of smoke enveloped the room. Pierce tightened her grip on Chris's hand as she chanted louder. A white light blinded the group of people and the whole room began to spin. Pierce fell to the ground as the room spun. She rolled onto her back moments later to see fluffy white clouds in a crystal blue sky.
"Uh…" Pierce said looking up at the sky.
"Pierce?" She heard Chris say.
Pierce looked up to see Chris in the sexiest thing he had ever worn. Just a plain light blue sheet around his waist clipped on by a lightening bolt she also noticed a large trident in his right hand. Pierce smiled at him and he smiled right back as he hoisted her up off the ground. She noticed that her hair was now about a foot longer then normal and curly at the ends. She wore a white tunic that strapped over one of her shoulders. It was a short dress it only went down to her knees. She looked around to see Piper, Phoebe and Paige dressed in similar outfits.
"Gods! I come to bring you Hades, ruler of the underworld." Said a small man with a limp.
Cole or better known as Hades stepped forward with a sly grin on his face and winked at the group. He was wearing a black sheet around his waist and a long deep blue cloak. So who were the rest of them?
"Man, that fits you." Pierce said with a laugh.
"So do we all know who we are because I know who I am." Pierce said looking around at them.
"Apollo." Nate said. "God of music, of the archer and of healing."
"Then that makes me Artemis doesn't it? How ironic." Pierce said looking at the silver arrow clip on her tunic that Nate also had. "I am the goddess of the hunt and of all wild things."
"I'm Athena." Paige said looking around at herself. "Goddess of war."
"And I'm Ares. God of war." Richard said looking at Paige.
"I'm just taken a stab in the dark but, Chris, Cole and Leo might just be the three brothers who divided the earth." Pierce said with a smile.
"I'm Poseidon. Ruler of the sea." Chris said smiling at Pierce.
"And I know I'm Hades." Cole said leaning against a pillar.
"And I'm Zeus." Leo said nodding.
"Whoa, so when I called you almighty I wasn't lying!" Pierce quipped.
"So I know I'm confused." Piper said looking at herself.
Piper was wearing a light gauzy white tunic that was held at the shoulder by a flower. She was standing in a circle of flowers and grass where it didn't grow on any other part of the mountain.
"Demeter, goddess of all growing things." Leo said walking to her.
"Zeus!" They heard a woman's voice bellow.
"Hera?" Leo said looking around.
"Well apparently we still have the same memory as some of these gods." Pierce said to them as a very tall woman dressed in a purple tunic with layers of cloaks about her stormed in.
"Zeus! Are you having an affair with mother earth now! Demeter! You should know better!" Hera screamed.
"Whoa, talk about your rage." Pierce whispered crossing the gap at where Hera stood infront of Piper and stood in the way.
"Artemis this will be the last time you stand in my way." She cried and thrust her hand out getting Pierce right in the face.
Pierce went wild with rage pulling an arrow out of the air and her bow in the same way and preparing to strike when Leo held up his hand to keep the incident from happening.
"Don't start with me I will kick your ass." Pierce hissed.
"Artemis." Chris said taking her hand and guiding her out of the scene.
"Don't call me that." Pierce said gripping the bow and the arrow tighter.
"Poseidon I may just have to inform your wife of your adultery with Artemis wont I? Virgin goddess." Hera scoffed.
"No one said that we had to deal with this stuff too." Phoebe said, she was clearly Aphrodite.
Cole was clearly getting pissed. He flipped his hand in Hera's direction, which made her instantly disappear and leave Cole with a triumphant smile on his face.
"Now that she's gone what's next?" Nate asked Leo.
"Well, we have got to figure out where the Titans are going to strike." Pierce said looking around. "And then we find them, kill them and go home."
"Well how do we know where they are going to attack next?" Phoebe said gripping the side of a large silver table. She instantly went into a precognitive trance the instant her fingers touched the silver.
"Aphrodite?" Cole said then looked around. "I mean Phoebe."
"Athens." She said as soon as she opened her eyes again.
"Well, Athens it is." Leo said and all of them were instantly in a town with people moving around busily.
The whole place was filled with people in sandals and large stone pillars. As they walked towards where Phoebe said they would strike people stopped in the street and bowed down on the ground it made Cole laugh. Pierce sudden felt the need to whistle. Instantly she and Nate had a large canister of silver arrows strapped to their backs and a bow in each hand she winked at him.
"Look." Phoebe said pointing to the large stone monument to Zeus. It was on fire.
"Oh bring it on!" Pierce yelled and she took off with Nate right behind her.
They came to the entrance of the monument and saw 20 or so people and monsters dressed in tunics and black robes. Pierce pulled an arrow out and had in her bow in under a second. She released the arrow and shot it straight into a woman's heart she fell down instantly and writhed in pain. A large man she knew as Cronus looked down at the woman then at Pierce and strided across the room in a few steps.
"Cronus! Long time no see!" Pierce said ducking as he made an attempt to grab her by the neck.
"Artemis!" Cronus growled. "You kill Rhea because you want me. I know this!"
"My ass I would kill her for you!" Pierce hissed as she came up with an uppercut and getting him right in the face.
Cronus grabbed her by the arm and lifted her off of the ground as and arrow whizzed by Pierces head and straight into Cronus's arm. He released and Pierce who rolled backwards and pushed herself up. Nate ran to her aid.
"Oh! Damn!" Pierce turned to see a man and a woman join Leo's side Themis and Prometheus.
"Artemis! Apollo! Do not fight them alone!" Cole yelled.
"Oceanus!" Chris yelled as a man completely clad in blue came forward.
Pierce landed on the ground as she was attacked by what could only be called an energy ball. She squirmed for a minute as Nate came to her aid and put his hand on her stomach where she had been hit. It healed instantly. She could have waited it out and let it fix itself but she didn't feel like waiting.
Pierce turned to see Piper throw her hands up in the air and immediately explode a Cyclops that was coming right for Phoebe. Paige lifted up her trident and thrusted it into the stomach of a monster Pierce wasn't aware of.
"I thought we were invincible!" Pierce cried as another Cyclops charged her way.
"The time change messed that all up!" Leo shouted.
"Good to know!" Pierce yelled back.
Pierce pulled another arrow out and shot it straight at Cronus hitting him right in the stomach. He instantly vanished along with the other Titans, besides the two Titans that had joined Leo's side. Pierce turned to see all of them scattered out in what were probably smaller battles between each other.
"I didn't know that you got a thing for Cronus." Chris said to Pierce with a smile.
"Funny, really, I'm laughing." Pierce rolled her eyes as the whole group formed a circle. They were about to start delegating when six very gorgeous men came their way.
"Whoa, talk about hot!" Phoebe said with a sly grin.
"Tell me about it." Pierce said winking at her.
"Lord Zeus we come to serve you." A very attractive man with rippling muscles said to Leo.
"Why don't you serve me?" Paige said with a smile. All four girls laughed.
"Heracles. My son, how are you?" Leo said and looked around confused as if he didn't know who had said that.
"I am fine, father. We come to serve you." Heracles said.
"Oh, oh! Hercules, like in the Disney movie?" Pierce said to Nate.
"Artemis grow up." Nate said rolling his eyes.
"Whoa? Artemis? Totally not my name NATE." Pierce hissed.
"Wait a sec." Piper said looking at the six men. "These guys are all Heroes but they are from different ages."
Pierce placed her hands on her hips arrogantly and stared around. What next? She thought.
"Follow their trail, apparently we can all orb here. I mean those of us that could before. Just follow their shimmer or whatever trail you would call that." Leo said grabbing hands of the people closest to him and orbing.
Pierce grabbed Piper and Phoebe's hands and told Nate to orb Cole and Richard. They orbed right into a huge lagoon. Pierce splashed into the water with Phoebe and Piper who came up from the water coughing. She spotted Chris standing on the dry land and looking quite refreshed but he had a smile on his face as the three girls pulled themselves out of the water and up onto the shore.
"No laughing." Pierce said holding up her hand.
"Just let me take care of that." Leo said waving his hand and they were instantly dry.
"Okay lets get this show on the road I don't have all day here." Piper said as the group formed a circle.
"You said they came here Leo." Pierce said narrowing her eyes.
"They are." Leo said looking around.
"I got em." Pierce said quietly she took two steps back then sent her hand out and grabbed something invisible.
The moment she touched the person it regrouped right infront of her showing that she had her hand on its neck. She knew it wasn't Cronus or possible anyone strong for she wouldn't have found them so easily.
"Where are the rest of them?" Pierce yelled.
"Die witch!" The man yelled at her face as an arrow came out of nowhere and stabbed Pierce right in the back.
Pierce screamed and fell painfully to the ground as people appeared all over the place encircling the group of people. Pierce writhed in pain on the floor as the whole area went into turmoil. She felt around on her back and painfully ripped the arrow out of her back and rolled over pulling an arrow out and her bow and sending an arrow spiraling in Cronus's direction. She slumped back down the ground the moment it left her bow because the pain was so intense it was sending her into convulsions. Then everything went black.