Back to the Past
Chapter 11: Trying Not to Worry.
A/N: Ok the first half of this chapter isn't that great cause I kept re- wording and re-editing it but it still didn't seem to get across what I wanted it to so I'm apologising in advance. So forgive me and I'll try to get out the next chapter a.s.a. humanly p.
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"Wyatt honey are you ok?" asked Piper, running across the room to help her son up from the ground.
"I think so," he said, rubbing the back of his neck. "There was definitely some power behind that throw." He had been in the living room, had ended up in the conservatory, and had hit the ground with a thump. His entire body ached from the landing.
"Oh this is bad, this is really bad," said Piper as she paced about the living rom. "Where could he be? Oh God I hope he is alright."
"Piper! Relax," said Paige.
"Relax?" asked Piper. "Of all people Paige, you should not be telling me to relax," said Piper, turning round and glaring at Paige.
"Surely you are not going to blame me for this?" said Paige hopefully.
"Uh, lets review, shall we?" said Piper angrily, walking slowly towards Paige. "You wrote a spell to give Chris the memories of his other self which caused him to fall unconscious for five whole minutes, only to wake up, throw his brother across the room and orb out to God knows where!"
"Hey you checked that spell yourself," said Paige, backing away from her.
"Yes and I wanted it to be re-worded!"
"Oh here we go again," said Phoebe, putting her head in her hands.
"Well let's not forget whose idea this was in the first place little miss 'why don't we just summon his memories?'" said Paige, stopping and placing her hands on her hips.
"That is not the point!" said Piper.
"Oh I think it's exactly the point."
"He's my son, do you really think I would have mentioned the idea if I thought something like this was going to happen?" asked Piper angrily. She sighed and softened her tone. "My main priority is the welfare of my sons," she said, tears beginning to form in her eyes.
"I know Piper," said Paige, going over to her and putting a comforting arm around her shoulders. "I know you would never do anything to put Chris in danger, but neither would I. There was nothing wrong with the spell or even the idea, it was the memories."
"I guess the other Chris had a rougher life than even we could have imagined," said Phoebe.
"Yeah, it's just not like Chris to run away like that," said Wyatt, rolling his left shoulder back, trying to click it back into place. "I never saw such fear in his eyes before, not even when battling demons."
"Well I think that these are more like inner demons," said Phoebe.
Wyatt sighed and rubbed his forehead. "I'm going to go after him," he said.
"Wait!" said Paige, stopping him before he had the chance to orb out. "I don't really think you are someone he particularly wants to see right now. It's nothing personal, he's just scared and confused right now. Don't worry he'll come round, we just don't need him throwing you about anymore. Just tell me where he is and I'll go after him."
Wyatt closed his eyes and concentrated. "He's on top of the Golden Gate Bridge," he told them. "Paige, hurry, I can sense him, he's afraid."
"Sure thing, you guys finish try not to worry too much til I get back," she said looking a Piper in particular as she orbed out to find her nephew.
"We should probably call Leo, you might have a concussion, not to mention some bumps and bruises," Piper said to Wyatt, trying to get her mind off hermisssing son. "You hit that floor really hard. Also maybe he can help Chris get through this when Paige gets him back."
"Ok," said Wyatt quietly, hoping his brother would be ok and well . . . not hate him.
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Chris sat alone on the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, silent tears streaming down his face as he watched the cars below whizzing past. All the people who would never know what evil was out there, the future he had saved them from.
"Go away Paige," he said, as he felt her orb in behind him.
"Oh Chris," she said, sitting down beside her troubled nephew, putting an arm around him. "I'm so sorry."
"Me too, I over reacted back there it's just that everything that was put into my head . . ."
"Chris no one blames you," Paige assured him. "I mean we can't even imagine the things you must have seen."
"I didn't just see them," he said quietly.
"What do you mean?" Paige asked softly.
"I lived through them. I felt everything he felt, everything he went through. It was like it had all happened to me instead, it was awful, Paige," he said.
"Chris, I'm so sorry I didn't know that would happen."
"I felt his unbearable pain when he found his mother's dead body, only to find out that it was his brother had had her killed," he told her, the pain he had felt causing his voice to crack, the tears coming quicker as he continued.
"His sorrow and anger when he watched Wyatt kill Aunt Phoebe. I felt each energy ball Wyatt hit him with, each rib he cracked, each bone he broke when torturing him for information, and his determination not to give in. I felt his hatred towards Leo, the anger he had for the Elders and the over all sense of loss and grief that he was constantly battling against.
I felt his courage and his resolve to change the future for the better, his unconditional love for Bianca, and I felt his heart break in two as he watched his brother kill the only woman he had ever loved. I felt the knife slide in when Gideon stabbed him, and the overwhelming sense of fear, not for himself but for baby Wyatt. I felt everything Paige, like it was me there living through it all."
"In a way it was but Chris I had no idea," said Paige, who was crying herself now, pulling the distraught young man in front of her into a hug.
"I don't know how he coped, I can barely handle it," he admitted.
"Sweetie, the other Chris didn't get hit by all of the emotions at once, he got to work through them, one at a time. You got a lifetime's worth of very intense emotions within a matter of minutes, anyone would find it a shock to the system."
"It was just so awful Aunt Paige," he sobbed. He didn't have anyone. You died before he was born, mom died, Aunt Phoebe died, dad was never there and it was all because of Wyatt," he said, heatedly. "Ever ounce of pain and heartbreak that he ever suffered was somehow related to Wyatt who vowed to take away everything and everyone he ever loved until he joined him."
"But Chris you can't hold your brother responsible for that, it wasn't him who did all those things," said Paige, desperately trying to get through to him.
"Don't you think I know that?" asked Chris, wiping away the tears with the sleeve of his top. "I spent ages with Wyatt earlier trying to convince him of the same thing. But now I can't get the image of him doing all those horrible things out of my mind. My brain is telling me, that's not your brother but when I woke up and saw his eyes my senses screamed that it was him and I . . . I just had to get out of there."
"It's completely understandable," repeated Paige, trying to console him.
"Are they mad?" asked Chris after a few moments of silence.
"No sweetie, just concerned. Well Piper was mad, but not at you at me," she said smiling.
"You two are actually worse than me and Wyatt you know that?" asked Chris with a grin.
"Yeah, it's good to see you smile. Yay for happy emotions!" she said with a bit of a giggle.
"That was the other thing," said Chris solemn once again. "Before he went all crazy there were happy times, we got along really well. We were always standing up for each other and covering for each other," he said.
"What you mean the way brothers do?" asked Paige.
"Yeah, well before they become the ruler of evil and start killing off the rest of your family," said Chris.
"Christopher Halliwell, did you just make a joke about that?" asked Paige, clearly surprised.
"Absolutely not, I was deadly serious," said Chris, in a way that Paige wasn't sure whether or not he was being sarcastic.
"Chris, I hate to rush you but . . ."
"I know I have to go back now. Don't worry, I'm sort of getting to grips with these new memories and all the emotions that came with them. You know, once you get used to the initial shock of everything it's sort of bearable if you try not to think about it too much."
"Well I'm sorry," said Paige. "Cause we are going to need you to tell us the stuff we need to know about why evil Wyatt wants us dead."
"Oh yeah," said Chris, standing up. "In all of that I had kind of forgotten the reason I was given these memories."
Paige laughed and put an arm around him, "You really couldn't be more of a spacer if you tried."
"I know, your older self tells me all the time," he said as he orbed them back to the manor.
"Chris!" said Piper running towards her son and pulling him into a hug. "I'm so glad you are ok."
"I'm fine mom, really, don't worry," he said, tightening the embrace. "I'm sorry for putting you through that."
"It's ok, it must have been a very difficult thing to deal with," she said, finally letting go of him.
"You have no idea," he said running his finger through his hair and sitting down on the couch.
"Hey Chris are you ok?" asked Leo, coming into the room with a newly healed Wyatt close behind.
"I wish people would stop asking me that," he said.
"Now you know how I felt," said Wyatt who had stopped in the conservatory, and was now standing there, peeking his head around into the living room.
"Wyatt, you can come in, I'm not going to start throwing you across the room again," said Chris.
"Oh," said Wyatt sheepishly, stepping around the corner, his whole body coming into view. "I knew that."
After a few moments of uncomfortable silence between them, Chris began to speak, "Look Wyatt, I'm sorry about before, it was just I was seeing all these things and when I woke up and you were the first thing I saw, my instincts just took over and . . ."
"Chris," interrupted Wyatt. "It's ok, really I understand, dad healed me and I'm fine now, so really we are cool."
"Thanks."
"Chris, honey, I hate to press you, especially once you have just calmed down but . . ." started Piper.
"He felt restricted and threatened," said Chris quietly.
"Huh?"
"In the other world Wyatt had mom killed because he thought she was holding him back, that without her restrictions he would be more powerful. Then he killed Aunt Phoebe because she refused to join him so if she wasn't on his side he viewed her as a threat," he said with a blank expression on his face, trying not to cry again at the images in his head of him mom's dead body and Wyatt killing Phoebe.
"Thanks, we really needed to know that," said Piper, rubbing his back soothingly.
"Where is Phoebe?" asked Paige looking around for her sister.
"Finishing the potion for the power of six spell," said Wyatt. "We are almost ready to go on that front. Pheebs!"
"Ok, ok I'm here," said Phoebe coming in to the room. "Oh Chris, I'm glad you're back," she said giving him a hug.
"We all are," said Leo.
"So what is the verdict on why evil Wyatt plans on killing us?" asked Phoebe.
"He must know we are not going to join him," said Paige. "So he wants to have us taken out of the picture so he won't have a rebellion that has a chance of working on his hands like he does in that world."
"So what are we going to do about it?" asked Phoebe.
"Well when our future selves get there they could put up a bit of a fight, then pretend to give in and then send get him when his guard is down," suggested Piper.
"That might not work, that Wyatt has more powers which include telepathy and empathy, he'll know what you are about to do before you do," said Chris.
"Then we'll make whip up a batch of empathy potion and maybe one to block telepathy or a spell or something," said Phoebe, heading for the kitchen.
"No!" yelled Chris. "We don't have time for that! We have to get them back now before Dermairon takes them to him! Maybe that's why Wyatt and me aren't there to stop him in the premonition, maybe he took them before we had a chance to rescue them! We are running out of time, we can do that when we get back with our Charmed Ones safe and sound!"
"Ok, no need to shout," said Paige.
"Sorry, I'm a bit of an emotional wreck right now," said Chris, trying to calm down.
"We noticed."
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"Ok, everyone got their potions?" asked Piper.
"Check!"
"Spells?"
"Check!"
"Baby Chris and Wyatt dropped off at Sheila's just in case?"
"Check!"
Then I think we are good to go," she said. "Are you two sure you can pull this of, you know without dying?" she asked her sons.
"I don't that whole 'not dying' party might be a deal breaker," said Chris.
"Good to see you are back to your good old self," said Piper. She turned and hit him on the arm, "But don't joke about that, I don't want to have to deal with loosing another son."
"Don't worry, you won't," he said. "We are well prepared."
"But what about Dermairon?" asked Phoebe. "Your powers don't work on him."
"We can throw things at him plus we got enough lessons from you to kick a little ass the old fashioned way," Wyatt informed her.
"I taught you guys martial arts?" she asked.
"Yeah, you three were kind of obsessive about us knowing how to defend ourselves if there was an attack and we couldn't get in touch with you guys," said Chris.
"Monday nights we have an hour with Aunt Phoebe in the basement doing self defence," said Wyatt.
"An hour of potions with mom on Wednesdays," said Chris.
"And Sunday afternoons just wouldn't be the same without an hour of spell structure and battle plans with Aunt Paige," finished off Wyatt.
"Funny, I always thought I would want you to have lives away from magic," said Piper.
"You come round," said Wyatt.
"Huh, I'll just have to have a little conversation with my future self about that."
"Well we have to get her back first, so let's move out already," said Chris.
"Are you sure that your powers will work ok?" Leo asked Chris. "I mean after all your powers . . ."
"Come from my emotions," finished Chris. "I know, I know, you've told us enough times. "I'll be fine."
"Be careful," said Piper, giving her sons one last hug before they all orbed down.
"Always," Wyatt assured. "Well, I am anyway," he added playfully digging his brother.
"Don't worry about us, it'll only distract you too much," said Chris. "Just focus on getting your future selves free and saying the vanquishing spell."
"Are you sure you don't want me to come with all of you in case one of you get hurt?" asked Leo, who despite his son's reassurances was not entirely happy with them all going down to battle powerful demons without a healer.
"We'll be fine Dad," said Chris. "If someone is hurt I'm sure one of us can orb them up to you."
"Look, Chris I know you have issues with me but I think this is . . ."
"Dad, this is not about what issues I may or may not have with you. I doubt that Dermairon hasn't replaced his guards by now and with the large amount of this family that has whitelighter blood I have a sneaking suspicion that there will be darklighters among them and it's kind of hard to heal us when you yourself are dying."
"Oh," said Leo. "I guess you are right. Just be careful, all of you," he said looking about at his family who were preparing to or into the underworld. "I'd prefer it if I didn't have to do any healing at all."
"Sure thing."
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"I'm beginning to get a little worried," said Ft. Phoebe.
"We've been held captive by demons for three days and you're only beginning to get worried now?" asked Ft. Paige. "You're nuts lady."
"Will you two zip it?" asked Ft. Piper. "Erech and Dermairon are in the tunnel and I'm trying to make out what they are saying."
The Charmed Ones were silent and leaned forwards, listening intently to what was being said.
"We have to go now," said Erech. "The boys will be coming back for them soon and Lord Wyatt has established control and wants us to bring them back."
"You really think they could stop us?"
"They have before, you know they have."
"Don't remind me," said Dermairon. "But this time is different. I have an entire legion of darklighters outside this cave. I strengthened the enchantments on the cave so no-one can materialise inside it so this tunnel is the only way in or out. Plus, just in case they somehow manage to get past them I have called for reinforcements."
"When are these reinforcements getting here?" asked Erech.
"They should be here any minute," said Dermairon. "Let's get ready to greet them, shall we?"
They both walked to the end of the tunnel to where there was about fifty darklighters situated, guarding it's entrance. Three figures shimmered in and immediately the darklighters raised their crossbows and aimed at them.
"At ease," said Dermairon. "They are on our side."
The darklighters moved away from the entrance, creating a path to Dermairon and Erech, who they walked towards.
"Greetings cousins," said Dermairon. "You are just on time."
"A chance to see the downfall of the Charmed Ones was reason enough to be punctual," said the first, a demon that was over six feet tall with broad shoulders and black eyes.
"Let's not forget their progeny as well," said the second, who was shorter than his brother but had the same strange, black eyes . . . well eye for there was a large cut down through his right eye.
"Trust me, it's hard to forget them," said Erech. "Just don't underestimate them, they are slippery and will not be an easy kill."
"For you perhaps," said the third, a female demon with long blonde hair and red eyes.
"Ah Marenta, you always were ready for the kill," said Dermairon. "I will enjoy watching you rip them apart."
"Not as much as I will doing it," she said with an evil grin.
"So what exactly do you need us to do?" asked the first.
"We need you to keep them distracted while we open the portal and get the Charmed Ones through and to him. I hope you don't have a problem with that Kamil," said Dermairon.
"What about me? There are only two of them after all," asked the second demon.
"Yahned, you guard the Charmed Ones and make sure the half breeds don't get anywhere near them. We need to get them back to their time so he can have his way with them without the interruptions that Chris and Wyatt Halliwell are bound to provide. He would prefer if these two were left alive for him, for obvious reasons but after all, accidents do happen."
"Why do you need so much time to open a portal?" asked Marenta. "I thought you could do it instantly."
"Time portals going forwards requires a greater concentration of magic, plus the power that I am bringing through with me makes it harder to sustain. I also have to do it in such a way that they will not get their powers back upon returning to their time. This way I am also assures that I will get to where I am going," explained Dermairon. "Something which is easier done with the Charmed One's sons dead."
"What is our story then?" asked Kamil. "When we have to go to him and tell him that we killed them."
"Self-defence. It was us or them and we did what we had to do," said Erech. "Understand?"
"Yes cousin. Let's get ready," said Marenta leading the way into the cave.
"This can't be good," said Ft. Paige.
"Lord Wyatt?" asked Ft. Piper. "Is that Wyatt's evil self from other Chris' world?"
"I'm guessing so," said Ft. Phoebe. "I hope they have figured that out."
"I'm sure they have, they are clever enough, plus with our past selves crazy way of thinking it would have been hard not to figure it out," said Paige.
"I hope they get here soon, before they bring us through the portal to evil Wyatt, cause if that happens and the three demons are left here for them, they will be outnumbered," said Piper.
"Yes cause that so rarely happens to them that they just won't be able to handle it," said Paige, rolling her eyes.
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"Oh shit," said Chris as he ducked an incoming arrow.
They had barely materialised when the arrows started coming at them.
"Crossbow!" called Pt. Paige with her arms out ready. As soon as one appeared in her hands, she positioned herself behind a large boulder to partially shield her from arrows and began firing at the darklighters.
Wyatt and Pt. Piper were side by side with Pt. Piper blowing up as many darklighters as she could as fast as she could with Wyatt freezing all the arrows coming their way before they hit them and having a few darklighters erupt in flames with a few blinks every now and again.
Pt. Phoebe, meanwhile was taking on a couple of the darklighters hand to hand. When they started to surround her, she levitated a few feet in the air and put her leg out and spun round, sending them flying in various directions.
She landed on the ground again, fists at the ready. She punched one darklighter who approached her before spinning around and kicking another across the cave, turning round just in time as another came at her. She elbowed him in the stomach, causing him to double over in pain. He loosened his grip on his crossbow, so she grabbed it of him and hit him over the head with it. She turned round once more and joined her sister in shooting at the darklighters.
Chris wasn't entirely sure what the hell he was doing, he couldn't make up his mind on one plan of attack. He had started off using his telekinesis to send the darklighters flying across the cave, knocking them into each other, causing them to topple over and calling for the arrows that got anywhere near him. But then, one darklighter had orbed in behind him in an attempt to catch him of guard and he had ended up in a fist fight with him. "Of for God's sake, this is getting me nowhere," he said while ducking another punch, a few minutes into the fight. He flicked his hand and re- directed one arrow that was coming his way so that it hit the darklighter instead causing him to disappear in flames.
"Now why didn't I think if that before?" he asked no-one in particular. "Much more energy efficient."
The darklighters' numbers were decreasing rapidly, until soon there were few left. Another few shots with the crossbows, a little more exploding and spontaneously combusting darklighters and a couple of more redirected arrows later, the fight was over. The only darklighters left in the cave where the ones that had been knocked unconscious by being slammed up against the wall by either Phoebe or Chris, but Piper and Wyatt soon saw to that as they walked around the cave, blowing them up.
"Everyone ok?" asked Piper, dusting off her hands.
"Oh, yeah, just peachy," said Paige.
"Oh, Chris," said Piper rushing over to him. "You are bleeding," she said, wiping at the blood on his forehead.
Chris put his hand to his head and then saw that there was in fact blood on his fingers. "Huh, so I am," he said studying the blood on his fingers.
"Spacer," coughed Paige, causing him to break out in a grin.
"Don't worry mom," he said seeing her anxious expression. "It's just a little cut." After inspecting his forehead for a little while longer she backed off, finally satisfied that he wouldn't die from the little scrape.
"Well now that the easy bit is over," said Wyatt.
"Are you kidding me?" asked Phoebe.
"No, I hardly broke a sweat!" said Wyatt. "Plus the fact that we basically have no powers that work against Dermairon. I mean I can throw a couple of energy balls at him but they do so little damage that I doubt it will distract him for any acceptable period of time."
"Erech shouldn't be too much bother though, he falls unconscious really easy," said Chris. "I'll take care of him and then will help you out with Dermairon until you guys get our Charmed Ones free and say the vanquishing spell."
"Chris we were the ones that came up with the plan, we do remember it effectively," Piper reminded him.
"Sorry, habit," he admitted. "But the brightside is that we will probably catch them by surprise, I don't think they will have expected you here as well, cause if you die so do ours so please keeps the acts of bravery to a minimum ok?"
"Like you are one to talk," mumbled Paige.
"Ok, let's go," said Piper, leading them all into the tunnel that the darklighters had been protecting and into the cave.
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"The fighting stopped," noticed Erech.
"Which means that one way or another the time to do this is now. Don't worry, if they walk into this cave right now, we will still have the upper hand," said Dermairon. "They will not have expected that we had more guards inside the cave as well."
"Ok, positions everyone," ordered Marenta.
Dermairon and Erech both went over to one wall of the cave and drew a protective circle around them and began drawing on the cave wall and chanting. Marenta and Kamil both spread out in the cave, preparing to fight while Yahned headed over to the chained Charmed Ones.
Ft. Piper held her breath, and all of the sisters joined hands, praying that they would see both Chris and Wyatt enter the cave in a half decent condition. They could hear footsteps getting closer but that did not ease their worry for it could well be the darklighters coming to tell them that they had killed Wyatt and Chris.
Yahned, the demon with the cut down his left eye was standing in front of them, blocking their view.
Suddenly Erech, Marenta and Yahned were frozen still. "What the hell?" asked Kamil looking around.
"Wyatt?" called out Ft. Piper, hopefully.
"Not quite," said her past self, coming into view. "Ok guys go, go, go before the freeze wears of these three," she yelled back into the tunnel.
The Ft. Charmed Ones breathed a sigh of relief when they saw their past selves plus Chris and Wyatt enter the cave.
"Oh, that's just great," said Chris, looking around. "More demons."
"Too many for you," sneered Dermairon. "Even with these Charmed Ones, which was an unexpected move I will admit."
"Hey, we just took on fifty or so darklighters and won, what makes you think that we can't handle you?" asked Pt. Paige.
Dermairon just laughed and went back to drawing on the wall.
"That's our family symbol," protested Wyatt, when he realised he was drawing the triquetra.
"Not much good when you and your family are dead, is it?" asked Kamil, walking towards him.
"Ok, so apparently I'm taking this one," said Wyatt, gesturing with his hands in an attempt to blow him up. "Of course it's the one who's immune to my powers."
Suddenly the freeze wore off, Marenta and Yahned began walking towards them, and Erech continued chanting.
"Ok, Chris, you take her and I'll deal with lefty over here," said Pt. Phoebe.
"Sure thing," said Chris. He gestured with his arm and sent Marenta flying backwards but she began rolling about in the air and landed on her feet, facing him, fists at the ready. She grinned when she saw the shocked expression on his face and her red eyes glowed and sent a fire bolt at him.
Chris orbed out just in time to avoid it. "Wow, that was cool. Is it wrong that I am incredibly turned on right now?"
"Christopher Perry Victor Halliwell stop hitting on the demon and vanquish her already!" yelled both Ft. Piper and Pt. Piper at the same time. They both turned round and smiled at each other.
Pt. Phoebe, Piper and Paige all headed for their future selves and Pt. Phoebe did a roundhouse kick that sent Yahned who was guarding them across the cave and away from their future selves.
"Here," said Pt. Phoebe, throwing Pt. Paige one of her potions. Get my future self free while I deal with this one," she said as Yahned got up and she began attacking him again.
Pt. Piper and Pt. Paige rushed to their counterparts and threw the potions on the chains.
"What are you doing here?" asked Ft. Piper. "You're kind of jeopardising our existence."
"We need the power of six to vanquish Dermairon," explained Pt. Paige, as she got out Chris' spell.
"Ok, but these chains are protected by a lot of magic, you are probably going to need a spell as well," said Ft. Paige.
"What like this one?" asked Pt. Paige, waving the spell in her hand for them to see.
"Hurry," said Ft. Phoebe.
"Break the bonds that hold them here,
Break the bonds and make them freer.
Break the bonds, break this spell,
Release the hold on this Halliwell," they chanted.
Immediately the locks began to sizzle and smoke before breaking in two. "That sounds like a Chris Halliwell original to me," said Ft. Phoebe getting up.
"Then you'd be right," said Pt. Piper, helping her other self to her feet.
"Yeah, but I'm not a Halliwell, technically," said Ft. Paige, rubbing her wrists.
"In name only, you have Halliwell blood," yelled Chris from across the cave where he could be seen kicking Marenta in the stomach and into the cave wall.
"That boy has an answer for everything," said Ft. Piper, smiling.
"Here, drink these," said Pt. Phoebe. "They are to give you your powers back."
"And before you say anything, yes we have the spell as well," said Pt. Piper, when she saw her future self going to speak.
"Uh, a little help here?" asked Pt. Phoebe when Yahned conjured an athame and had her backed into a corner. Pt. Piper ran closer to her and froze Yahned just as he was about to stab her.
"Cutting it a little close weren't we?" asked Pt. Phoebe, side stepping away from the demon, taking the athame out of his hand. She stabbed him with it as Piper flicked one hand unfreezing him.
"Well now he won't be cutting anything," said Pt. Piper as he erupted flames and left nothing but a little pile of ashes.
Dermairon noticed that one of his cousin's had been vanquished. "Erech, go help the last two, I can finish this. I just need another few minutes. Make sure they don't get their powers back!" he ordered.
Wyatt threw another energy ball at Kamil, which hit him in the middle, causing him to stumble backwards. Seizing the opportunity, Wyatt ran towards him and kicked him hard in the stomach which made him hit the ground. Wyatt leaned over the demon and took out an athame.
Suddenly the demon brought his leg up and round and threw Wyatt off him and across the cave where he landed on a rock. "Ouch," said Wyatt. Kamil walked over to him and a fireball formed in his hands.
"No!" yelled Ft. Piper as she ran towards Kamil and her son, she kicked the demon with all her might off Wyatt.
Kamil turned round and glared at Ft. Piper.
"Quick," said Ft. Paige, "We need to read the spell, we need to get our powers back now, especially Piper."
"Powers of we witches rise," they started.
Erech made a run for Wyatt who was just getting up and hit him back to the floor. "If that's the way you want to play it," said Wyatt, getting up and throwing an energy ball at him which Erech ducked and avoided.
"Come to us through space and time."
Chris ducked Marenta's punch before grabbing her and using his telekinesis to help him throw her over his head. He looked around quickly, using his telekinesis to hold her down, and saw that Wyatt's athame was on the ground. He made a gesture with his other hand and it came flying across the room to him.
"Come to us who call you near."
"Sorry," he said. "You're hot and all but it just wouldn't have worked out for us."
"You are deluded boy," she said with a look of distaste.
He stabbed her with the athame. "Yeah, well you're dead," he told the pile of ashes. "Nobody's perfect." He turned round just in time to see an fireball form in Kamil's hand and fly towards his mother.
"Come to us and settle here."
The bright white lights went through Ft. Piper as she hit the ground.
"Mom! No!" yelled Chris running towards her.
Wyatt, turned round to see what had happened. Seeing his distraction Erech, formed an energy ball and hit Wyatt with it. He went flying across the room and hit the ground out cold.
Ft. Paige gestured towards Kamil. "Demon," she said and he disappeared in orbs only to appear again, slumped up against the wall unconscious.
Pt. Piper, Paige and Phoebe and Ft. Paige and Phoebe rushed over to where Chris was kneeling beside his mother. "Mom, you have to wake up," he begged, tears beginning to cloud his vision. "Please, mom I need you," he whispered, echoes of the memories locked up in his head. He couldn't live through this again, he couldn't loose his mother again and survive.
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A/N: Dum, dum, dum. How confusing was that last bit with all the charmed ones running around? I hope you didn't get as confused as me, I gave myself a little headache. Anyway that chapter was longer than the last one as well, it's becoming pretty bad.
Thanks again to everyone who reviewed! I love you guys! Lol.
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Rafiki: Good, good, threats scare me. (Runs and hides behind sofa) I'm trying to update whenever I can so I don't think it is too long between updates. Is it? I'm glad you like Chris' sarcasm cause I don't think I could write him any other way!
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Wyatt, has no issues with battles or demons but does tend to panic in situations where his family aren't there to back him up. He has always had them to help him so when he feels like he is on his own it scares him a little. (why he panicked when the girls were originally kidnapped.) this is sort of like Piper who is usually calm going into a battle but when something happens to her sisters or even the book, she tends to panic. Plus Wyatt upon finding out about his evil self was more shocked than panicked.
As for Piper, hmm, I supposed she could have been a little more cautious but I think she knew it had to be done, plus it was her idea! Besides they were only joking about his brain exploding! She freaks out in this chapter though if it was any help to you?
God that was almost as long as the chapter, lol. Thanks for the review though and I will defiantly be more careful in future! It's reviews like that that keep me on my toes! Hope you like this chapter, big action sequences and all that! if you spot any slips though let me know!
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Chapter 11: Trying Not to Worry.
A/N: Ok the first half of this chapter isn't that great cause I kept re- wording and re-editing it but it still didn't seem to get across what I wanted it to so I'm apologising in advance. So forgive me and I'll try to get out the next chapter a.s.a. humanly p.
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"Wyatt honey are you ok?" asked Piper, running across the room to help her son up from the ground.
"I think so," he said, rubbing the back of his neck. "There was definitely some power behind that throw." He had been in the living room, had ended up in the conservatory, and had hit the ground with a thump. His entire body ached from the landing.
"Oh this is bad, this is really bad," said Piper as she paced about the living rom. "Where could he be? Oh God I hope he is alright."
"Piper! Relax," said Paige.
"Relax?" asked Piper. "Of all people Paige, you should not be telling me to relax," said Piper, turning round and glaring at Paige.
"Surely you are not going to blame me for this?" said Paige hopefully.
"Uh, lets review, shall we?" said Piper angrily, walking slowly towards Paige. "You wrote a spell to give Chris the memories of his other self which caused him to fall unconscious for five whole minutes, only to wake up, throw his brother across the room and orb out to God knows where!"
"Hey you checked that spell yourself," said Paige, backing away from her.
"Yes and I wanted it to be re-worded!"
"Oh here we go again," said Phoebe, putting her head in her hands.
"Well let's not forget whose idea this was in the first place little miss 'why don't we just summon his memories?'" said Paige, stopping and placing her hands on her hips.
"That is not the point!" said Piper.
"Oh I think it's exactly the point."
"He's my son, do you really think I would have mentioned the idea if I thought something like this was going to happen?" asked Piper angrily. She sighed and softened her tone. "My main priority is the welfare of my sons," she said, tears beginning to form in her eyes.
"I know Piper," said Paige, going over to her and putting a comforting arm around her shoulders. "I know you would never do anything to put Chris in danger, but neither would I. There was nothing wrong with the spell or even the idea, it was the memories."
"I guess the other Chris had a rougher life than even we could have imagined," said Phoebe.
"Yeah, it's just not like Chris to run away like that," said Wyatt, rolling his left shoulder back, trying to click it back into place. "I never saw such fear in his eyes before, not even when battling demons."
"Well I think that these are more like inner demons," said Phoebe.
Wyatt sighed and rubbed his forehead. "I'm going to go after him," he said.
"Wait!" said Paige, stopping him before he had the chance to orb out. "I don't really think you are someone he particularly wants to see right now. It's nothing personal, he's just scared and confused right now. Don't worry he'll come round, we just don't need him throwing you about anymore. Just tell me where he is and I'll go after him."
Wyatt closed his eyes and concentrated. "He's on top of the Golden Gate Bridge," he told them. "Paige, hurry, I can sense him, he's afraid."
"Sure thing, you guys finish try not to worry too much til I get back," she said looking a Piper in particular as she orbed out to find her nephew.
"We should probably call Leo, you might have a concussion, not to mention some bumps and bruises," Piper said to Wyatt, trying to get her mind off hermisssing son. "You hit that floor really hard. Also maybe he can help Chris get through this when Paige gets him back."
"Ok," said Wyatt quietly, hoping his brother would be ok and well . . . not hate him.
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Chris sat alone on the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, silent tears streaming down his face as he watched the cars below whizzing past. All the people who would never know what evil was out there, the future he had saved them from.
"Go away Paige," he said, as he felt her orb in behind him.
"Oh Chris," she said, sitting down beside her troubled nephew, putting an arm around him. "I'm so sorry."
"Me too, I over reacted back there it's just that everything that was put into my head . . ."
"Chris no one blames you," Paige assured him. "I mean we can't even imagine the things you must have seen."
"I didn't just see them," he said quietly.
"What do you mean?" Paige asked softly.
"I lived through them. I felt everything he felt, everything he went through. It was like it had all happened to me instead, it was awful, Paige," he said.
"Chris, I'm so sorry I didn't know that would happen."
"I felt his unbearable pain when he found his mother's dead body, only to find out that it was his brother had had her killed," he told her, the pain he had felt causing his voice to crack, the tears coming quicker as he continued.
"His sorrow and anger when he watched Wyatt kill Aunt Phoebe. I felt each energy ball Wyatt hit him with, each rib he cracked, each bone he broke when torturing him for information, and his determination not to give in. I felt his hatred towards Leo, the anger he had for the Elders and the over all sense of loss and grief that he was constantly battling against.
I felt his courage and his resolve to change the future for the better, his unconditional love for Bianca, and I felt his heart break in two as he watched his brother kill the only woman he had ever loved. I felt the knife slide in when Gideon stabbed him, and the overwhelming sense of fear, not for himself but for baby Wyatt. I felt everything Paige, like it was me there living through it all."
"In a way it was but Chris I had no idea," said Paige, who was crying herself now, pulling the distraught young man in front of her into a hug.
"I don't know how he coped, I can barely handle it," he admitted.
"Sweetie, the other Chris didn't get hit by all of the emotions at once, he got to work through them, one at a time. You got a lifetime's worth of very intense emotions within a matter of minutes, anyone would find it a shock to the system."
"It was just so awful Aunt Paige," he sobbed. He didn't have anyone. You died before he was born, mom died, Aunt Phoebe died, dad was never there and it was all because of Wyatt," he said, heatedly. "Ever ounce of pain and heartbreak that he ever suffered was somehow related to Wyatt who vowed to take away everything and everyone he ever loved until he joined him."
"But Chris you can't hold your brother responsible for that, it wasn't him who did all those things," said Paige, desperately trying to get through to him.
"Don't you think I know that?" asked Chris, wiping away the tears with the sleeve of his top. "I spent ages with Wyatt earlier trying to convince him of the same thing. But now I can't get the image of him doing all those horrible things out of my mind. My brain is telling me, that's not your brother but when I woke up and saw his eyes my senses screamed that it was him and I . . . I just had to get out of there."
"It's completely understandable," repeated Paige, trying to console him.
"Are they mad?" asked Chris after a few moments of silence.
"No sweetie, just concerned. Well Piper was mad, but not at you at me," she said smiling.
"You two are actually worse than me and Wyatt you know that?" asked Chris with a grin.
"Yeah, it's good to see you smile. Yay for happy emotions!" she said with a bit of a giggle.
"That was the other thing," said Chris solemn once again. "Before he went all crazy there were happy times, we got along really well. We were always standing up for each other and covering for each other," he said.
"What you mean the way brothers do?" asked Paige.
"Yeah, well before they become the ruler of evil and start killing off the rest of your family," said Chris.
"Christopher Halliwell, did you just make a joke about that?" asked Paige, clearly surprised.
"Absolutely not, I was deadly serious," said Chris, in a way that Paige wasn't sure whether or not he was being sarcastic.
"Chris, I hate to rush you but . . ."
"I know I have to go back now. Don't worry, I'm sort of getting to grips with these new memories and all the emotions that came with them. You know, once you get used to the initial shock of everything it's sort of bearable if you try not to think about it too much."
"Well I'm sorry," said Paige. "Cause we are going to need you to tell us the stuff we need to know about why evil Wyatt wants us dead."
"Oh yeah," said Chris, standing up. "In all of that I had kind of forgotten the reason I was given these memories."
Paige laughed and put an arm around him, "You really couldn't be more of a spacer if you tried."
"I know, your older self tells me all the time," he said as he orbed them back to the manor.
"Chris!" said Piper running towards her son and pulling him into a hug. "I'm so glad you are ok."
"I'm fine mom, really, don't worry," he said, tightening the embrace. "I'm sorry for putting you through that."
"It's ok, it must have been a very difficult thing to deal with," she said, finally letting go of him.
"You have no idea," he said running his finger through his hair and sitting down on the couch.
"Hey Chris are you ok?" asked Leo, coming into the room with a newly healed Wyatt close behind.
"I wish people would stop asking me that," he said.
"Now you know how I felt," said Wyatt who had stopped in the conservatory, and was now standing there, peeking his head around into the living room.
"Wyatt, you can come in, I'm not going to start throwing you across the room again," said Chris.
"Oh," said Wyatt sheepishly, stepping around the corner, his whole body coming into view. "I knew that."
After a few moments of uncomfortable silence between them, Chris began to speak, "Look Wyatt, I'm sorry about before, it was just I was seeing all these things and when I woke up and you were the first thing I saw, my instincts just took over and . . ."
"Chris," interrupted Wyatt. "It's ok, really I understand, dad healed me and I'm fine now, so really we are cool."
"Thanks."
"Chris, honey, I hate to press you, especially once you have just calmed down but . . ." started Piper.
"He felt restricted and threatened," said Chris quietly.
"Huh?"
"In the other world Wyatt had mom killed because he thought she was holding him back, that without her restrictions he would be more powerful. Then he killed Aunt Phoebe because she refused to join him so if she wasn't on his side he viewed her as a threat," he said with a blank expression on his face, trying not to cry again at the images in his head of him mom's dead body and Wyatt killing Phoebe.
"Thanks, we really needed to know that," said Piper, rubbing his back soothingly.
"Where is Phoebe?" asked Paige looking around for her sister.
"Finishing the potion for the power of six spell," said Wyatt. "We are almost ready to go on that front. Pheebs!"
"Ok, ok I'm here," said Phoebe coming in to the room. "Oh Chris, I'm glad you're back," she said giving him a hug.
"We all are," said Leo.
"So what is the verdict on why evil Wyatt plans on killing us?" asked Phoebe.
"He must know we are not going to join him," said Paige. "So he wants to have us taken out of the picture so he won't have a rebellion that has a chance of working on his hands like he does in that world."
"So what are we going to do about it?" asked Phoebe.
"Well when our future selves get there they could put up a bit of a fight, then pretend to give in and then send get him when his guard is down," suggested Piper.
"That might not work, that Wyatt has more powers which include telepathy and empathy, he'll know what you are about to do before you do," said Chris.
"Then we'll make whip up a batch of empathy potion and maybe one to block telepathy or a spell or something," said Phoebe, heading for the kitchen.
"No!" yelled Chris. "We don't have time for that! We have to get them back now before Dermairon takes them to him! Maybe that's why Wyatt and me aren't there to stop him in the premonition, maybe he took them before we had a chance to rescue them! We are running out of time, we can do that when we get back with our Charmed Ones safe and sound!"
"Ok, no need to shout," said Paige.
"Sorry, I'm a bit of an emotional wreck right now," said Chris, trying to calm down.
"We noticed."
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"Ok, everyone got their potions?" asked Piper.
"Check!"
"Spells?"
"Check!"
"Baby Chris and Wyatt dropped off at Sheila's just in case?"
"Check!"
Then I think we are good to go," she said. "Are you two sure you can pull this of, you know without dying?" she asked her sons.
"I don't that whole 'not dying' party might be a deal breaker," said Chris.
"Good to see you are back to your good old self," said Piper. She turned and hit him on the arm, "But don't joke about that, I don't want to have to deal with loosing another son."
"Don't worry, you won't," he said. "We are well prepared."
"But what about Dermairon?" asked Phoebe. "Your powers don't work on him."
"We can throw things at him plus we got enough lessons from you to kick a little ass the old fashioned way," Wyatt informed her.
"I taught you guys martial arts?" she asked.
"Yeah, you three were kind of obsessive about us knowing how to defend ourselves if there was an attack and we couldn't get in touch with you guys," said Chris.
"Monday nights we have an hour with Aunt Phoebe in the basement doing self defence," said Wyatt.
"An hour of potions with mom on Wednesdays," said Chris.
"And Sunday afternoons just wouldn't be the same without an hour of spell structure and battle plans with Aunt Paige," finished off Wyatt.
"Funny, I always thought I would want you to have lives away from magic," said Piper.
"You come round," said Wyatt.
"Huh, I'll just have to have a little conversation with my future self about that."
"Well we have to get her back first, so let's move out already," said Chris.
"Are you sure that your powers will work ok?" Leo asked Chris. "I mean after all your powers . . ."
"Come from my emotions," finished Chris. "I know, I know, you've told us enough times. "I'll be fine."
"Be careful," said Piper, giving her sons one last hug before they all orbed down.
"Always," Wyatt assured. "Well, I am anyway," he added playfully digging his brother.
"Don't worry about us, it'll only distract you too much," said Chris. "Just focus on getting your future selves free and saying the vanquishing spell."
"Are you sure you don't want me to come with all of you in case one of you get hurt?" asked Leo, who despite his son's reassurances was not entirely happy with them all going down to battle powerful demons without a healer.
"We'll be fine Dad," said Chris. "If someone is hurt I'm sure one of us can orb them up to you."
"Look, Chris I know you have issues with me but I think this is . . ."
"Dad, this is not about what issues I may or may not have with you. I doubt that Dermairon hasn't replaced his guards by now and with the large amount of this family that has whitelighter blood I have a sneaking suspicion that there will be darklighters among them and it's kind of hard to heal us when you yourself are dying."
"Oh," said Leo. "I guess you are right. Just be careful, all of you," he said looking about at his family who were preparing to or into the underworld. "I'd prefer it if I didn't have to do any healing at all."
"Sure thing."
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"I'm beginning to get a little worried," said Ft. Phoebe.
"We've been held captive by demons for three days and you're only beginning to get worried now?" asked Ft. Paige. "You're nuts lady."
"Will you two zip it?" asked Ft. Piper. "Erech and Dermairon are in the tunnel and I'm trying to make out what they are saying."
The Charmed Ones were silent and leaned forwards, listening intently to what was being said.
"We have to go now," said Erech. "The boys will be coming back for them soon and Lord Wyatt has established control and wants us to bring them back."
"You really think they could stop us?"
"They have before, you know they have."
"Don't remind me," said Dermairon. "But this time is different. I have an entire legion of darklighters outside this cave. I strengthened the enchantments on the cave so no-one can materialise inside it so this tunnel is the only way in or out. Plus, just in case they somehow manage to get past them I have called for reinforcements."
"When are these reinforcements getting here?" asked Erech.
"They should be here any minute," said Dermairon. "Let's get ready to greet them, shall we?"
They both walked to the end of the tunnel to where there was about fifty darklighters situated, guarding it's entrance. Three figures shimmered in and immediately the darklighters raised their crossbows and aimed at them.
"At ease," said Dermairon. "They are on our side."
The darklighters moved away from the entrance, creating a path to Dermairon and Erech, who they walked towards.
"Greetings cousins," said Dermairon. "You are just on time."
"A chance to see the downfall of the Charmed Ones was reason enough to be punctual," said the first, a demon that was over six feet tall with broad shoulders and black eyes.
"Let's not forget their progeny as well," said the second, who was shorter than his brother but had the same strange, black eyes . . . well eye for there was a large cut down through his right eye.
"Trust me, it's hard to forget them," said Erech. "Just don't underestimate them, they are slippery and will not be an easy kill."
"For you perhaps," said the third, a female demon with long blonde hair and red eyes.
"Ah Marenta, you always were ready for the kill," said Dermairon. "I will enjoy watching you rip them apart."
"Not as much as I will doing it," she said with an evil grin.
"So what exactly do you need us to do?" asked the first.
"We need you to keep them distracted while we open the portal and get the Charmed Ones through and to him. I hope you don't have a problem with that Kamil," said Dermairon.
"What about me? There are only two of them after all," asked the second demon.
"Yahned, you guard the Charmed Ones and make sure the half breeds don't get anywhere near them. We need to get them back to their time so he can have his way with them without the interruptions that Chris and Wyatt Halliwell are bound to provide. He would prefer if these two were left alive for him, for obvious reasons but after all, accidents do happen."
"Why do you need so much time to open a portal?" asked Marenta. "I thought you could do it instantly."
"Time portals going forwards requires a greater concentration of magic, plus the power that I am bringing through with me makes it harder to sustain. I also have to do it in such a way that they will not get their powers back upon returning to their time. This way I am also assures that I will get to where I am going," explained Dermairon. "Something which is easier done with the Charmed One's sons dead."
"What is our story then?" asked Kamil. "When we have to go to him and tell him that we killed them."
"Self-defence. It was us or them and we did what we had to do," said Erech. "Understand?"
"Yes cousin. Let's get ready," said Marenta leading the way into the cave.
"This can't be good," said Ft. Paige.
"Lord Wyatt?" asked Ft. Piper. "Is that Wyatt's evil self from other Chris' world?"
"I'm guessing so," said Ft. Phoebe. "I hope they have figured that out."
"I'm sure they have, they are clever enough, plus with our past selves crazy way of thinking it would have been hard not to figure it out," said Paige.
"I hope they get here soon, before they bring us through the portal to evil Wyatt, cause if that happens and the three demons are left here for them, they will be outnumbered," said Piper.
"Yes cause that so rarely happens to them that they just won't be able to handle it," said Paige, rolling her eyes.
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"Oh shit," said Chris as he ducked an incoming arrow.
They had barely materialised when the arrows started coming at them.
"Crossbow!" called Pt. Paige with her arms out ready. As soon as one appeared in her hands, she positioned herself behind a large boulder to partially shield her from arrows and began firing at the darklighters.
Wyatt and Pt. Piper were side by side with Pt. Piper blowing up as many darklighters as she could as fast as she could with Wyatt freezing all the arrows coming their way before they hit them and having a few darklighters erupt in flames with a few blinks every now and again.
Pt. Phoebe, meanwhile was taking on a couple of the darklighters hand to hand. When they started to surround her, she levitated a few feet in the air and put her leg out and spun round, sending them flying in various directions.
She landed on the ground again, fists at the ready. She punched one darklighter who approached her before spinning around and kicking another across the cave, turning round just in time as another came at her. She elbowed him in the stomach, causing him to double over in pain. He loosened his grip on his crossbow, so she grabbed it of him and hit him over the head with it. She turned round once more and joined her sister in shooting at the darklighters.
Chris wasn't entirely sure what the hell he was doing, he couldn't make up his mind on one plan of attack. He had started off using his telekinesis to send the darklighters flying across the cave, knocking them into each other, causing them to topple over and calling for the arrows that got anywhere near him. But then, one darklighter had orbed in behind him in an attempt to catch him of guard and he had ended up in a fist fight with him. "Of for God's sake, this is getting me nowhere," he said while ducking another punch, a few minutes into the fight. He flicked his hand and re- directed one arrow that was coming his way so that it hit the darklighter instead causing him to disappear in flames.
"Now why didn't I think if that before?" he asked no-one in particular. "Much more energy efficient."
The darklighters' numbers were decreasing rapidly, until soon there were few left. Another few shots with the crossbows, a little more exploding and spontaneously combusting darklighters and a couple of more redirected arrows later, the fight was over. The only darklighters left in the cave where the ones that had been knocked unconscious by being slammed up against the wall by either Phoebe or Chris, but Piper and Wyatt soon saw to that as they walked around the cave, blowing them up.
"Everyone ok?" asked Piper, dusting off her hands.
"Oh, yeah, just peachy," said Paige.
"Oh, Chris," said Piper rushing over to him. "You are bleeding," she said, wiping at the blood on his forehead.
Chris put his hand to his head and then saw that there was in fact blood on his fingers. "Huh, so I am," he said studying the blood on his fingers.
"Spacer," coughed Paige, causing him to break out in a grin.
"Don't worry mom," he said seeing her anxious expression. "It's just a little cut." After inspecting his forehead for a little while longer she backed off, finally satisfied that he wouldn't die from the little scrape.
"Well now that the easy bit is over," said Wyatt.
"Are you kidding me?" asked Phoebe.
"No, I hardly broke a sweat!" said Wyatt. "Plus the fact that we basically have no powers that work against Dermairon. I mean I can throw a couple of energy balls at him but they do so little damage that I doubt it will distract him for any acceptable period of time."
"Erech shouldn't be too much bother though, he falls unconscious really easy," said Chris. "I'll take care of him and then will help you out with Dermairon until you guys get our Charmed Ones free and say the vanquishing spell."
"Chris we were the ones that came up with the plan, we do remember it effectively," Piper reminded him.
"Sorry, habit," he admitted. "But the brightside is that we will probably catch them by surprise, I don't think they will have expected you here as well, cause if you die so do ours so please keeps the acts of bravery to a minimum ok?"
"Like you are one to talk," mumbled Paige.
"Ok, let's go," said Piper, leading them all into the tunnel that the darklighters had been protecting and into the cave.
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"The fighting stopped," noticed Erech.
"Which means that one way or another the time to do this is now. Don't worry, if they walk into this cave right now, we will still have the upper hand," said Dermairon. "They will not have expected that we had more guards inside the cave as well."
"Ok, positions everyone," ordered Marenta.
Dermairon and Erech both went over to one wall of the cave and drew a protective circle around them and began drawing on the cave wall and chanting. Marenta and Kamil both spread out in the cave, preparing to fight while Yahned headed over to the chained Charmed Ones.
Ft. Piper held her breath, and all of the sisters joined hands, praying that they would see both Chris and Wyatt enter the cave in a half decent condition. They could hear footsteps getting closer but that did not ease their worry for it could well be the darklighters coming to tell them that they had killed Wyatt and Chris.
Yahned, the demon with the cut down his left eye was standing in front of them, blocking their view.
Suddenly Erech, Marenta and Yahned were frozen still. "What the hell?" asked Kamil looking around.
"Wyatt?" called out Ft. Piper, hopefully.
"Not quite," said her past self, coming into view. "Ok guys go, go, go before the freeze wears of these three," she yelled back into the tunnel.
The Ft. Charmed Ones breathed a sigh of relief when they saw their past selves plus Chris and Wyatt enter the cave.
"Oh, that's just great," said Chris, looking around. "More demons."
"Too many for you," sneered Dermairon. "Even with these Charmed Ones, which was an unexpected move I will admit."
"Hey, we just took on fifty or so darklighters and won, what makes you think that we can't handle you?" asked Pt. Paige.
Dermairon just laughed and went back to drawing on the wall.
"That's our family symbol," protested Wyatt, when he realised he was drawing the triquetra.
"Not much good when you and your family are dead, is it?" asked Kamil, walking towards him.
"Ok, so apparently I'm taking this one," said Wyatt, gesturing with his hands in an attempt to blow him up. "Of course it's the one who's immune to my powers."
Suddenly the freeze wore off, Marenta and Yahned began walking towards them, and Erech continued chanting.
"Ok, Chris, you take her and I'll deal with lefty over here," said Pt. Phoebe.
"Sure thing," said Chris. He gestured with his arm and sent Marenta flying backwards but she began rolling about in the air and landed on her feet, facing him, fists at the ready. She grinned when she saw the shocked expression on his face and her red eyes glowed and sent a fire bolt at him.
Chris orbed out just in time to avoid it. "Wow, that was cool. Is it wrong that I am incredibly turned on right now?"
"Christopher Perry Victor Halliwell stop hitting on the demon and vanquish her already!" yelled both Ft. Piper and Pt. Piper at the same time. They both turned round and smiled at each other.
Pt. Phoebe, Piper and Paige all headed for their future selves and Pt. Phoebe did a roundhouse kick that sent Yahned who was guarding them across the cave and away from their future selves.
"Here," said Pt. Phoebe, throwing Pt. Paige one of her potions. Get my future self free while I deal with this one," she said as Yahned got up and she began attacking him again.
Pt. Piper and Pt. Paige rushed to their counterparts and threw the potions on the chains.
"What are you doing here?" asked Ft. Piper. "You're kind of jeopardising our existence."
"We need the power of six to vanquish Dermairon," explained Pt. Paige, as she got out Chris' spell.
"Ok, but these chains are protected by a lot of magic, you are probably going to need a spell as well," said Ft. Paige.
"What like this one?" asked Pt. Paige, waving the spell in her hand for them to see.
"Hurry," said Ft. Phoebe.
"Break the bonds that hold them here,
Break the bonds and make them freer.
Break the bonds, break this spell,
Release the hold on this Halliwell," they chanted.
Immediately the locks began to sizzle and smoke before breaking in two. "That sounds like a Chris Halliwell original to me," said Ft. Phoebe getting up.
"Then you'd be right," said Pt. Piper, helping her other self to her feet.
"Yeah, but I'm not a Halliwell, technically," said Ft. Paige, rubbing her wrists.
"In name only, you have Halliwell blood," yelled Chris from across the cave where he could be seen kicking Marenta in the stomach and into the cave wall.
"That boy has an answer for everything," said Ft. Piper, smiling.
"Here, drink these," said Pt. Phoebe. "They are to give you your powers back."
"And before you say anything, yes we have the spell as well," said Pt. Piper, when she saw her future self going to speak.
"Uh, a little help here?" asked Pt. Phoebe when Yahned conjured an athame and had her backed into a corner. Pt. Piper ran closer to her and froze Yahned just as he was about to stab her.
"Cutting it a little close weren't we?" asked Pt. Phoebe, side stepping away from the demon, taking the athame out of his hand. She stabbed him with it as Piper flicked one hand unfreezing him.
"Well now he won't be cutting anything," said Pt. Piper as he erupted flames and left nothing but a little pile of ashes.
Dermairon noticed that one of his cousin's had been vanquished. "Erech, go help the last two, I can finish this. I just need another few minutes. Make sure they don't get their powers back!" he ordered.
Wyatt threw another energy ball at Kamil, which hit him in the middle, causing him to stumble backwards. Seizing the opportunity, Wyatt ran towards him and kicked him hard in the stomach which made him hit the ground. Wyatt leaned over the demon and took out an athame.
Suddenly the demon brought his leg up and round and threw Wyatt off him and across the cave where he landed on a rock. "Ouch," said Wyatt. Kamil walked over to him and a fireball formed in his hands.
"No!" yelled Ft. Piper as she ran towards Kamil and her son, she kicked the demon with all her might off Wyatt.
Kamil turned round and glared at Ft. Piper.
"Quick," said Ft. Paige, "We need to read the spell, we need to get our powers back now, especially Piper."
"Powers of we witches rise," they started.
Erech made a run for Wyatt who was just getting up and hit him back to the floor. "If that's the way you want to play it," said Wyatt, getting up and throwing an energy ball at him which Erech ducked and avoided.
"Come to us through space and time."
Chris ducked Marenta's punch before grabbing her and using his telekinesis to help him throw her over his head. He looked around quickly, using his telekinesis to hold her down, and saw that Wyatt's athame was on the ground. He made a gesture with his other hand and it came flying across the room to him.
"Come to us who call you near."
"Sorry," he said. "You're hot and all but it just wouldn't have worked out for us."
"You are deluded boy," she said with a look of distaste.
He stabbed her with the athame. "Yeah, well you're dead," he told the pile of ashes. "Nobody's perfect." He turned round just in time to see an fireball form in Kamil's hand and fly towards his mother.
"Come to us and settle here."
The bright white lights went through Ft. Piper as she hit the ground.
"Mom! No!" yelled Chris running towards her.
Wyatt, turned round to see what had happened. Seeing his distraction Erech, formed an energy ball and hit Wyatt with it. He went flying across the room and hit the ground out cold.
Ft. Paige gestured towards Kamil. "Demon," she said and he disappeared in orbs only to appear again, slumped up against the wall unconscious.
Pt. Piper, Paige and Phoebe and Ft. Paige and Phoebe rushed over to where Chris was kneeling beside his mother. "Mom, you have to wake up," he begged, tears beginning to cloud his vision. "Please, mom I need you," he whispered, echoes of the memories locked up in his head. He couldn't live through this again, he couldn't loose his mother again and survive.
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A/N: Dum, dum, dum. How confusing was that last bit with all the charmed ones running around? I hope you didn't get as confused as me, I gave myself a little headache. Anyway that chapter was longer than the last one as well, it's becoming pretty bad.
Thanks again to everyone who reviewed! I love you guys! Lol.
Ashlee: thanks, this one was really long as well so I hope you liked it.
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Angel Black: I really wish I could tell you how many chapters were left, but I'm not sure myself. I keep getting all these new ideas so this story keeps growing. If I had kept to my originally plan the last chapter was to be chapter 10!!! I'd say five left at the very most though. Thanks for the review, glad you like my story!
Rafiki: Good, good, threats scare me. (Runs and hides behind sofa) I'm trying to update whenever I can so I don't think it is too long between updates. Is it? I'm glad you like Chris' sarcasm cause I don't think I could write him any other way!
Chris Perry: there I updated, now you don't have to wait and see what happens to Chris. Well you do sorta, but still . . . thanks for reviewing!
PsychoKitty3: You are right those are a lot of questions, I hope this chapter answered some of them for you. But for the others you will have to wait and see. Glad you like my story!
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Mo Dawg: Ok, definitely longest review I've ever got and I took no offence from it whatsoever. But don't question me on my characters, I did character files!!! (yes I am that sad.) Though reading over it I can definitely see that I should have explained things a bit more.
Wyatt, has no issues with battles or demons but does tend to panic in situations where his family aren't there to back him up. He has always had them to help him so when he feels like he is on his own it scares him a little. (why he panicked when the girls were originally kidnapped.) this is sort of like Piper who is usually calm going into a battle but when something happens to her sisters or even the book, she tends to panic. Plus Wyatt upon finding out about his evil self was more shocked than panicked.
As for Piper, hmm, I supposed she could have been a little more cautious but I think she knew it had to be done, plus it was her idea! Besides they were only joking about his brain exploding! She freaks out in this chapter though if it was any help to you?
God that was almost as long as the chapter, lol. Thanks for the review though and I will defiantly be more careful in future! It's reviews like that that keep me on my toes! Hope you like this chapter, big action sequences and all that! if you spot any slips though let me know!
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