a/n: ok guys I'm sorry, I got REALLY busy with school with the end of the semester and all...and then all this personal stuff came up, and then well I lost interest, I'm not gonna lie. But then last night I was reading this story by Pink-Charmed-One, (check it out if you haven't its good, can't remember the title but....I'm sure they're all good if there's more then one) and I was like 'hey I should finish my story' and well this time I actually wanted to so...here it is! This is gonna be the last chapter so thanks to all the readers who stuck with me from the beginning and especially thanks to those of you who sent me spells but I could only choose one and I tweeked it a bit too. So Goldstranger thanks for the assist with the spell even though it isn't completely yours it still helped out!
Chapter 29
"You saw it?" Piper asked in disbelief.
"Uh yeah and we gotta go...now." Phoebe replied as she grabbed some potions to use.
"Where are they?" Paige asked.
"Um, I think it was in the Underworld."
"You think?" Piper shouted.
"I can't be sure! Anyways Paige can orb us right to them!"
"She's right." Paige replied holding out her hand, "Ready to kick some Elder ass...whoa that just doesn't sound right..."
Phoebe smiled and took one of Paige's outstretched hands. Piper took the other and they disappeared. Leo disappeared after them as well leaving Chris, Wyatt, and Izzy in the attic. Chris was about to follow as well but Wyatt held him back.
"No, Chris." He said.
"We HAVE to help them!" Chris protested.
"No, he's right Chris. We can't do anything, it's up to them now."
He looked away, frustrated and ready to cry. "For the last year of my life I have done everything I could to save you! And now you want me to just let it all go?"
"Chris, we can't do anything anymore. It's not just about Wyatt's future anymore, it's about all of our futures. Wyatt's right, if we interfere now, it could make things even worse then they already are."
"So what? You're just gonna give up Izzy?" he asked in disbelief.
She sighed and looked down, "I'm trusting my mom and my aunts to save us. Our very existence is in jeopardy Chris. I'm not willing to interfere and destroy that."
"She's smart Chris. If we interfere now, we all could die." Wyatt said.
"Leo?" Paige asked looking over at him.
He shook his head, "I can't sense him or Wyatt anywhere."
"Ok Pheebs it's all on you now, where are they?" Paige said looking over at her.
Phoebe sighed as she closed her eyes concentrating. She knew they were close and then she knew where Gideon had Wyatt. Opening her eyes she said, "This way," and walked off in the direction she had sensed the desperation Gideon could not control. Piper, Paige, and Leo followed her.
Gideon raised the athame above his head as he looked down at little Wyatt, regretting the move that he was about to make, wishing he didn't have to, but believing it was for the best. Wyatt stared up at him and blinked his eyes, the athame in Gideon's hands disappeared and reappeared again across the room. Gideon sighed, "I knew you would do that, but it won't save you. I have to do this, for the greater good."
"Really for whose greater good? Yours?"
Gideon turned and saw the Charmed Ones and Leo standing behind him. "Leo, Piper, this has to be done!"
"Like hell it does!" Piper said attempting to explode him. Gideon stepped back only slightly hurt. "Leo, get Wyatt out of here!" she shouted. Leo moved toward Wyatt but Gideon blocked his path.
"Your duty is not to protect him Leo, it's to protect everything and everyone!"
"No, I think my first priority is to my son. Get away from him." Leo replied pure hatred in his voice. Gideon didn't move. Paige threw one of the bottled potions but it had no effect.
"Your son is too powerful for our own good! He cannot live!"
"Ok ya know what? Screw you! I never really much liked you Elders to begin with, first I can't have a relationship with Leo, then I can't marry him and now my son can't live because he's too powerful! If you know anything, ANYTHING, about me Gideon then you know I won't take this crap. Get the HELL away from my son before I make you!"
Gideon formed an energy ball in his hand, fully prepared to throw it at them but Leo was quicker. His energy ball threw Gideon back against the wall and Leo ran over to Wyatt. Phoebe took out Izzy's spell as Piper threw the potion and the girls read:
"One who claims to protect the innocent
intent on the destruction of our line
fires from the pit of hell shall take
this Guardian away from all Halliwells"
They looked up and there was an explosion like a normal vanquish but when the smoke cleared away, Gideon remained, badly wounded, but alive nonetheless. He looked over at Leo and Wyatt. "This isn't over, that child will not live to see another day!" he shouted as he weakly threw an energy ball at them. With a wave of his hand, Leo put up a small force field to deflect it. Leo had a looked of determination upon his face. He knew what he had to do, and regretted it, Gideon after all was at one time his mentor. He sighed as he formed a much more powerful energy ball, "Wyatt will live to see another day. You on the other hand won't Gideon." He threw it and Gideon disintegrated into a pile of ash.
The sisters and Leo looked at each other. Piper walked over to them and picked up Wyatt. "It's ok, you'll be ok now honey."
Back at the Manor, in the attic, Izzy, Chris, and Wyatt were anxiously awaiting the return of the Leo and the sisters. Hopefully they would be bringing back little Wyatt as well. Wyatt paced across the room while Chris stared out the window. Izzy sat on the couch. It was eerily quiet, except for the occasional squeak of the floor board as Wyatt passed over it.
Izzy looked around, finally her eyes stopped and she stared fixedly at the Book of Shadows. After several seconds she got up and crossed the room to where the book lay. Wyatt stopped pacing and Chris turned to look at her. "Now what?" Wyatt asked as she opened the book.
Izzy ignored him as she continued to flip the pages not even knowing what she was looking for. "Izzy?" Chris asked. She ignored him as well. Chris walked over to her and an agitated Wyatt did the same. As the three of the came together around the book white lights started twinkling from up above them, they curiously looked up and the pages of the book continued flipping alone finally coming to rest on the page containing the prophesy of the Charmed Ones. Isabelle's eyes traveled back to the book as the entry was continued by an unknown hand.
"One day there will be six cousins who will be even more powerful then the Charmed Ones before them. Individually they hold an unknown destiny, but together they will protect the innocent and save the world from the most powerful darkness known to man."
They looked at each other unsure of what was being written before them. And as they were beginning to contemplate those words, they disappeared.
Phoebe stared at the book, which still remained opened. She walked over to it frowning. Looking down she saw the new entry written in writing she hadn't seen in over three years. "Piper..."
"What?" she asked joining Phoebe at the book.
"Isn't that Prue's..."
"Oh my God!" Piper said as she read the newest part of the entry. "But she couldn't...."
Paige was very confused about what was going on. "Guys?" she was asking as a swirl of white and blue lights appeared in front of her. Prue Halliwell stood before them all, and solid at that. She smiled at seeing her sisters.
"Prue!" Piper shouted running around the book stand and throwing her arms around her. Phoebe did the same. Prue laughed and after several minutes she broke away. "Chris, Wyatt, and Izzy are gone, they disappeared after you saved Wyatt. The future they came from no longer exists, the Chris and Izzy you got to know no longer exist. But what's written in the book is a prophesy about them and their cousins." She turned looking at her youngest sister, "and I am going to be their whitelighter with someone else. I don't know who yet, but the Elders (here she looked at Leo) think that six is a little much to handle on my own."
"Wait Leo, you knew about this?" Piper asked.
Leo smiled, "I knew Prue was becoming a whitelighter but I didn't know she was going to be our children's."
"Oh that reminds me, Leo, you're wanted Up There...I think it's about Gideon."
"Whoa....no no no no, you can't be in trouble for what just happened." Piper said looking worried.
Leo sighed, "Piper, I just killed one of the most powerful Elders, there's bound to be repercusions...but I don't care. Whatever punishment they give me, won't harm my family. And from now on, screw the damn rules, I'm staying with my family." Leo stared at her determindly and yet with a look of longing etched in his face. "I love you Piper." He said as he orbed away.
"I sure hope so." Piper replied.
"Now we've got some catching up to do, and I have a sister I'd very much like to get to know, a nephew I'd like to meet, and what's this about Phoebe getting married?" Prue continued looking at each of her sister's in turn and smiling.
THE END
a/n: well there it is, again sorry for the wait, but yeah....I hoped you all liked it and if not then too bad for you. :D