A/N: This is it; what you've all been waiting for. The final chapter of "Sacrifices"!!. This is where it all comes down to one thing: The final battle between good and evil, Wyatt and the Charmed Ones. The end outcome will not be what you expect it to be! So, please, review! I'd love to get your feedback! [ Also, thanks to everyone who has been reviewing! I appreciate it so much!!!!! ]

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"This would be so much easier if we knew where in the Underworld Wyatt was," Paige complained.
She and her sister's and Chris had been wondering the Underworld for ten minutes now. They had lost fifteen talking to Leo, which left them only 35 minutes to find Wyatt and Melinda, grab the Book and Melinda, and get out of there. And a couple of minutes to spare in case they had to fight off any demons, warlocks, or Wyatt himself. They didn't have much time left.
"I'd say, let's split up because it's faster," Phoebe replied, "but we're stronger together and without our powers, we're really vulnerable, especially alone."
"Last time I came down here, his chamber was at the very end of a long tunnel,' Chris explained.
"Chris, we've gone down a lot of long tunnels," Piper reminded him.
Chris shrugged. "Nothing down here looks familiar, now. It's like everything was rearranged."
"Great," Piper grumbled. "So, while we're walking aimlessly, wasting precious time, Melinda is becoming more and more evil and Wyatt is becoming stronger. I think this is the worst day of my life."
No one spoke after that. They continued to walk. No demons, warlocks, or other nasties were attacking, which was good and bad. Good because they weren't wasting time getting their asses kicked by demons. Bad because it meant something seriously evil was brewing.
"Wait a sec," Chris said suddenly, stopping and looking around. He spotted a familiar looking tunnel and pointed. "That way."
"Let's hurry. We only have twenty minutes to do everything we need to do," Phoebe reminded them, as she, Piper, Paige, and Chris ran down the tunnel at high speed.
At the end of the tunnel, they walked cautiously into a dimly lit chamber. There was a thrown to the left, up against the wall. Two candleholders sat on either side of the throne. On the right, there was a candleholder in each corner of the room and a wooden door.
"Okay, we're here. So where's Wyatt?" Paige whispered, clutching her share of potion bottles tightly in her sweaty hand.
"Hiding? Maybe he isn't going to attack us. If he waits until the twenty minutes is up, Melinda is his. Maybe he's waiting for that," Phoebe said.
Piper glared at Phoebe and prayed her sister was wrong. Her body was tense and alert as her eyes swept around the room, looking for any sign of movement in the shadows.
"Such dumb witches, coming down here with no powers but those of your Whitelighter."
Piper, Phoebe, Paige, and Chris all turned to see who was speaking, although they already knew.
Wyatt closed the wooden door he had come through and walked casually up to his guests. He was grinning. "So good of you to come, though, and just in time for the festivities."
"What the hell are you babbling about?" Chris demanded.
"You see, when I turned Melinda evil, I gave her false memories of her life," Wyatt began, looking straight at Piper. "I told her that her mother was a good witch who had abandoned her at birth. This angered her. She also believed that I took her in and, though she doesn't know that I really am blood related to her, she sees me as a brother. A few minutes before you arrived, I told her that the good witch mother who abandoned her was a Charmed One. Was you," he told Piper, smirking. "She's very angry. She has killed before, you know, and I think she is eager to do so again."
Piper clenched her fists angrily. "You bastard!" She hissed.
Wyatt laughed. "What are you going to do, mother? Slap me to death?" This made him laugh harder.
"Phoebe, throw the stun potion!" Piper ordered.
Phoebe nodded and threw the blue colored potion at Wyatt, directed at his feet. Wyatt threw his hand up and the vile exploded almost seconds after leaving Phoebe's hands.
Piper narrowed her eyes and threw one of her potions, aimed at Wyatt's chest. The bottle contained a vanquishing potion, one similar to the potion used to vanquish Cole. This time, Wyatt waved his hand at the bottle and, using his telekinesis, sent it flying into the wall.
"Is that the best you have?" Wyatt asked, laughing.
Now it was Paige's turn. She threw a yellow colored potion at Wyatt. Inside the bottle was a sleeping potion. Wyatt shook his head, shimmering out of the way seconds before the potion landed where he had been standing. He shimmered back in, smirking at the sister's.
"For witches, you're pretty pathetic!" he snarled gleefully, sending a fireball Chris's way.
Chris orbed out, just barely escaping the fireball, which hit the wall instead. Right away, before Chris had orbed back in, Wyatt threw two energyballs, one at Phoebe and one at Paige. Paige pushed Phoebe to the side and ducked out of the way.
Wyatt laughed. "Pretty good, I must admit. But how long do you suppose you can hold this game up?" he asked. "You don't have much time before Melinda is mine forever!"
Piper helped Phoebe and Paige to their feet. "Spell, quick!" she shouted.
Phoebe pulled out a piece of paper from her jeans and unfolded it. The sister's began to chant:

'By the Power of Three,
That which we wish to be,
We banish him with this spell,
Take him to hell!'

Wyatt laughed when nothing happened. "You call that a spell? You call yourselves witches? I'm surprised evil hasn't taken over sooner!"
"You won't win, Wyatt!" Piper shouted angrily, still clutching two bottles of potion.
"Even if you do defeat me, mother, you still won't be able to save Melinda. In fifteen minutes, my magic becomes permanent. By the time this battle is over, you'll be too late to reverse my hold on her!" Wyatt explained triumphantly.
Melinda shimmered into the room beside Wyatt. She scanned the room. When she spotted Piper, her expression turned bitter and angry. She held out her hand, forming a fireball in it, and threw it right at Piper, who yelped and hit the dirt. She started to stand when another fireball came whizzing by her, grazing her cheek. Piper hissed in pain, throwing her hand up and over the burn.
"Piper!" Phoebe and Paige cried.
Melinda turned her attention on them. She blinked at Paige, sending the youngest Halliwell backwards and flying into the stone wall, hard. Paige gasped and fell to the ground, flat on her stomach and unconscious.
"Paige!" Phoebe cried. She took her eyes off Melinda to see if Paige was okay.
Big mistake.
Next thing she knew, Phoebe was doubled over in pain; Melinda had hit her with an energy ball. Phoebe cringed, gasping, before collapsing onto all fours, trying not to pass out.
Chris rushed Wyatt, anger glinting in his eyes. Melinda spotted him. Her eyes widened as she watched Chris try to attack the only person that ( as far as she knew ) cared about her. She spotted a lone dagger, lying on the ground. She focused on it, then waved her hand at it, then in Chris's direction. The dagger flew off the ground at Chris, wedging itself into his stomach. Chris screamed in pain, falling to the ground.
Wyatt smirked. "Good Melinda." He waved his hand at Chris, yawning like he was bored, and watched as Chris was flung into the wall. He screamed, landing beside Paige. He glared angrily at Wyatt before passing out.
Phoebe forced herself to her feet, running to Piper. "Piper, we have to get out of here!" she hissed.
"No! Melinda! He still has her, and the Book!" Piper protested.
"Chris and Paige will die if we don't get out of here, Piper!" Phoebe snapped.
"But Melinda!" Piper insisted, running forward. Phoebe tried to grab her sister's hand, but was thrown back by another energyball, courtesy of Wyatt. This time, Phoebe collapsed to the ground and didn't get up.
Piper stopped dead in her tracks, eyes wide. She was the last one standing. She was powerless and out of ideas. And unless, miraculously, Leo appeared, she was stuck down here!
"Two minutes mother!" Wyatt informed the defeated witch, grinning.
As if Leo had heard Piper's thought's, he appeared beside her. He saw the fallen Phoebe, Paige, and Chris. He gulped, grabbing Piper's arm. "Time to go," he told her firmly.
"No! We can't go yet!" Piper cried, trying to tug away from Leo, but he pulled her backward towards her injured family.
"One minute, mother," Wyatt said, grinning with joy. He had finally done it! He had defeated the infamous Charmed Ones.
Leo linked Phoebe and Paige's hands, then linked Chris's hand to Paige's. He knelt down, brining Piper with him.
Piper starred at Wyatt and Melinda, unable to believe that she had lost! She had lost her daughter, the Book of Shadows, her powers, and the battle.
"Thirty seconds," Wyatt announced.
Piper spotted something out of the corner of her eye. On the floor, near the throne, lay the Book of Shadows. Determined to get at least that back, she tugged free of Leo and ran for it. She heard Wyatt growl in outrage, heard him walking towards her. She heard a loud thump and a struggle and knew Leo was holding Wyatt back. Piper reached the throne and grabbed the Book of Shadows up, then ran towards Melinda, praying she got to her in time.
Wyatt cried out in outrage, throwing Leo off him. Leo orbed out before he hit the wall, orbing back in beside Piper, who was inches away from Melinda. But Wyatt had launched a fireball at Piper, so Leo grabbed her hand and orbed to over to her sisters.
Melinda ran to Wyatt and clung to him. "Three . . . two . . . one," Wyatt said, smirking at Piper's stunned expression and teary eyes. "You're too late."
Piper watched as Wyatt shimmered out of the room with Melinda. She continued to stare at the spot as Leo orbed her and the others out of the Underworld. It still wasn't hitting Piper, that Melinda was evil, for good. That Wyatt had won.
That Melinda was gone. For good.

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THE END!