Secrets Within

Chapter Eight: The Ultimate Evil

Piper groaned. "Why'd you have to stardust?"

"Stardusting's the only way you can get there." He said distractedly

"Where's Wyatt!" Piper said "Can you sense him?"

"I've never actually tried to sense him"

"Why not?"

"We both have telepathy."

"Oh, right. Does he have telepathy at the moment?"

"No... I'll have to try and sense him." his eyes defocused for a second. "Got him!" he orbed away, leaving Piper and the others alone. Leo rolled his eyes. Piper looked at her stomach. Leo looked at it too.

"Hello widdle Cwis" he cooed. "Take us to where-ever you are."

Piper belted him over the head. "Don't talk to the stomach" she said, when Leo looked at her, rubbing his head. Then, all of a sudden, Piper's body dissolved in orbs, leaving everyone else behind. Leo closed his eyes, for a moment, before he too orbed away. Everyone looked at the places where they'd evaporated.

"Lets go find Daddy!" giggled Harry.

Phoebe suddenly realised a few things. Chris was not there, so Harry would have a hundred demons there in seconds, Two, Wyatt wasn't there to tell Harry to make the demons go away, Three, the demons coming would show no mercy. And Four, they didn't have the power of three. Paige looked panicked. Suddenly, the first demon appeared, and looked around. It began to throw fireballs at them. Then more appeared, and more and more. There was no end to them. Harry worried not, he just moved among them. One threw a fireball at Penny, and suddenly, it disappeared. Harry looked angry. He shook his head. All the demons of that type were banished in a puff of smoke. Harry giggled, and all the demons were eyeing him. They didn't realise that the demons were still alive. They thought Harry had just vanquished them. There was a pause, and all of a sudden, the hundreds of demons shimmered out. Harry looked disappointed, but suddenly they all shimmered back in. Now they were holding various weapons, and all of them were going for the same target.

Harry.

Chris moved quickly, silently, in the underworld. He donned his invisibility cloak, and he flew. This made no sounds, and he was invisible to the naked eye. Only a satellite dish or something could pick up his movement now. And demons didn't use satellite dishes. Leo and Piper orbed in suddenly, and Chris stopped.

"Mum!" he whispered. "Dad!" "What are you doing?

"We're helping you"

Chris groaned. "Don't move. I'll make you invisible, and float you behind me. Stay silent." With a wave of his hand they were suspended in the air like him, and with a second wave, they disappeared from sight. While they had never actually seen him, they knew that it was him. They experienced the thrill of flight once more, but on a far lesser scale. Chris knew his way around the underworld. He'd been there quite often during Wyatt's reign. Usually, he was held by a demon or two, taken straight to Wyatt, and begged to join. He refused time and time again. He had no idea who had stolen Wyatt, but he knew where Wyatt would have been taken. The most obscure part of the underworld, the part that could not be orbed into. The only way to get in there was to get the blood of several high level demons, and smear it on each of the panels. It also needed the blood of a witch and a whitelighter. He had all. The witch, and the whitelighter, well, he could always cut himself. The demons? Easy. Wyatt had given him vials of blood, spelled to keep fresh. He'd given them to him because the demons were always complaining that he was cutting them to visit his brother. Wyatt didn't like complaints. He killed those who complained, and bottled their blood, giving it to Chris for a birthday present, though not much of one. Chris had kept it, just in case. Now he was glad he had. There was one other requirement. The person had to have demonic powers. Chris could, too, get past this barrier. Cole had seen to that when he'd married Phoebe, even though he was vanquished long before Chris's birth. So Chris headed straight for that chamber, it would be the only place where they'd put Wyatt.

Piper and Leo had never been in this area of the underworld. They looked around, it was like nothing they'd ever seen in the underworld before. It was better protected than the American White House, English Buckingham Palace, and Australian Parliament House, all put together. Demons were actually on patrol. They came to a door, and they stopped. Suddenly, without warning, Chris pulled off the invisibility cloak, and stopped them floating. He pulled out some vials, which had a thick red liquid in them. He screwed up his nose, and stuck a cotton bud in the vial, wetting it. Then he wiped it on a sensor pad. The blood of a former source. They went on, and came to another. The same process was repeated, this time the blood coming from a different vial. When they came to the tenth one, Chris pulled out a larger vial, coloured bluish red. Then he pulled out a pocket knife. He found the scar on his palm, and quickly cut across it, blood coming out. He mixed the blood with the stuff in the vial. It shimmered bright white. Chris wiped one last dab onto the pad, and it opened. There was a picture on the wall. It was a triquetra, with three faces in it. The Charmed Ones. Piper gasped, but Chris silenced her. Fire shot suddenly from his hands, and his pain was apparent as he moved closer, and burnt the picture, which turned into a portal. He stepped through, motioning for Piper and Leo to follow him. He hadn't said a single word. Now he did.

"Wyatt" he spat. Standing in the room was a man with shoulder length blonde hair. He had blue eyes. Also in the room, at the back, was Wyatt. He stood there in his overalls, looking confused.

"Chris" spat the man back.

A fire burned in both men's eyes.

"I see you brought Mum." Said Wyatt, sounding as if mum was a dirty word. "Make it easy for me. I won't have to kill her later, and you won't exist." Piper watched the exchange in silence. Leo stood in the background. Wyatt looked around. "How'd you get in Chris? One of your little demon friends help you?"

"Actually, no, you and Mum did." He said with narrowed eyes

Wyatt looked confused. "How?" he asked

Chris took a deep breath. "You taught me karate!" he exclaimed. "And Mum paid you!" suddenly, without warning, Chris kicked Wyatt hard in the face. Little Wyatt looked confused.

"Chris!" he said, running over to him.

"Go to mum" said Chris, pushing him out of the way. "Wyatt. You were the one that taught me to use my magic for good, yet you didn't yourself. Can't you remember the old side of yourself?"

"I was feeble. You were changing too much by coming to this time, so I thought I'd visit you. Now I can raise myself, and get rid of that whining Harry."

"Harry? What's he got t do with this?" he asked.

"Oh, well, when I kill Rosie, in this time, he'll just die, won't he? Then I'll be rid of you and your sickly sweet family, brother."

"You're no brother of mine. You're a monster!"

"And now I've set my minions on Harry, I have Rosie here, if you'd like to watch her die. Then I'll kill mum for you. Such a great day for me."

Wyatt waved his hand , and a girl appeared who Piper didn't recognise. She had flaming red hair, wavy, and shiny. Her eyes were great sapphires, huge, bright and beautiful. Her figure was one to die for, and she was just a bit shorter than Chris. Wyatt conjured an athame, and held it at the woman's heart. He twisted it slowly, and blood seeped through the white linen dress the woman was wearing, staining it red.

"Leave Rosie alone!" Chris shouted

"Chris, you have to learn to be patient." The woman stared at Chris, her wide orbs filling with tears. Chris narrowed his eyes. He flicked his hand, and the athame turned around to face Wyatt. Now he was the one being held hostage. Rosie leapt to the side, grabbing Piper's hand, and squeezing it. "I'm Rosie" she whispered.

Chris and Wyatt continued arguing for a while. "You know what?" said Chris. "I'm sick and tired of this." He froze time, and grabbed the athame, about to plunge it into Wyatt's heart.

"Stop!" cried Piper. "He's your brother."

"No he's not. He is" he said, jerking his head toward Little Wyatt. Little Wyatt frowned. He orbed to Chris. He looked at Chris. Little Wyatt shook his head, and reached for the athame. Chris lowered the athame, and walked out of the room, placing a spell on him, just before he left.

"From the future, my brother come,

He wanted to kill my wife and my mum,

So for this he cannot groove,

He's lost ability to move." He said, and Wyatt stood frozen, and unmoving.

They all left the room, and when they were out of the area, Chris grabbed Rosie's hand, and orbed out. Leo, Piper, and Wyatt left behind. After about three minutes Wyatt grabbed his parent's hands, and they all orbed out of hell, and straight into an even worse hell.

Chris and Rosie appeared, and as their vision cleared, Penny started screaming at them, "Chris! Harry!" she wept. "The demons!" Chris was alert, and his eyes scanned the room quickly. They stopped when they reached his son.

Harry was lying on the floor, blood pouring from his wounds. And his face was white. Chris didn't waste time walking, or orbing. Shimmering was far quicker. So he did. It was a power he didn't much like using, but he did, when speed was necessary.

He leaned over Harry, holding his hands over the wounds, a gold light glowing from his palms. Some of the wounds healed over, but not all of them. Chris shouted. "Come on! Please! Someone! Help me! You can't let Harry, no, no, please!" No, it wasn't working. Leo and Piper and Wyatt orbed in, seeing all this. Leo ran over to Chris, and tried to help him, but it wasn't working. He could heal anyone, anyone else who came to him, no matter what it was that ailed them, anyone but not his son. Him and Leo struggled for a while, before, Chris orbed away, Leo and Harry with him.

Rosie stared at the spot where her son, husband, and father in law had disappeared, shocked that this was happening.

Chris orbed Up There, and started to scream at the elders. "Do something, you imbeciles! Save my son!"

Several of the elders just stood there. "Chris, you knew from the start it was a danger for you to bring your son here. We cannot help you."

"He's f&ing dying, for Gods f&ing sakes! Heal him!" Chris screamed, not really with it. Several Whitelighters had heard him, and orbed up. In total there was about 300 Whitelighters and Elders, none of them doing anything to help Harry. "Somebody help me!" he said, sounding pitiful. Not one person moved, and only Leo was helping Chris heal Harry. Gideon was among them "Leo, stop helping him"

"No!" cried Leo. "Chris is my son, and Harry's my grandson! I have to help him!"

"Leo. You shouldn't have a family. Family is unimportant. You cannot, I repeat, cannot keep backing out on us all like this, just for your family."

"And you can talk!" Exclaimed Leo. "What happened to Lola? How'd you feel about that?"

Gideon and all the other elders looked surprised. "Well?" asked Leo, tears now in his eyes. "Please? You know how it feels, please, please help me?" Gideon looked as if he were about to crack, but he glanced up at the elders disproving faces.

"I cannot allow it!" he exclaimed at last

Leo looked at him, at the whole of the occupants of Up There, betrayal written all over his face. Chris, too looked at them, expression identical, if not worse, than Leo's.

"I'll never forgive you" Chris whispered, making them shiver, before he and Leo vanished, shimmering out. A voice echoed through Up There, Chris's voice. It said something that chilled them to the bone. "And I give up. My family gives up. You can't take our powers, and we'll never help you again. We will do things out way from now on." Gideon's face stayed hard, and many of the whitelighters looked scared. Without the Charmed One's or anyone from the Charmed One's bloodlines helping them, they would be history. Truth was, the Charmed Ones had helped them more than they themselves had realised.

Chris shimmered, all his power going into it. He arrived at the doorway to the secret vault. Quickly, he shot fire at it's door, and entered. Wyatt was still standing, frozen like he was a marble statue. Chris looked torn. Now the only person who could help him was his brother. Wyatt, the one who had turned his back on them so often, telling him hundreds of times not to trust the elders, that they were really the evil ones, with their stupid laws. He'd always said that the elders were the ones doing wrong, and Chris had just thought it was his warped sense of good and evil. But it turned out Wyatt was right. The elders were evil.

"I made a mistake and froze my brother,

I thought he'd killed my dearest mother,

But as it turns out he wasn't the one,

So now he can move again, and have some fun" said Chris, playing his life on the fact that he had actually had it wrong. Had Wyatt really meant for his mother to die? Had he really meant to be so evil, and turn everything to bad? Or was it just the demons, their influence. Maybe he'd meant to threaten the world, to wake up the elders, but somehow it had gotten out of control. And then he'd been sucked into it, head first. With no-one wanting to help him, no-one understanding, he'd gone with the flow, and then the flow went wrong.

As Wyatt sprang to life, he realised he had been frozen. He had been fully conscious, just unable to move, or use his powers. Now he saw his nephews mutilated body, and saw he sorrow in his brothers eyes. He himself realised what was happening. "Chris" he choked.

"Wyatt, help me! I know you an, please. I understand now. I know now that you were right. I'm sorry I didn't understand, oh please Wyatt, please, help me now! You have to help me heal Harry!"

"I'll help you Chris, I'm glad you see it. You helped me see my cause again. Now we will work together, and save your son!" he said, as if making a proclamation.

They both held their hands over Harry. His rasped breathing slowly became more normal, as they healed him, and a few of the wounds healed over again. But they could go no further.

Leo decided to say what he needed to now. "I think you are going to need your counterparts, to help you" he was exhausted, from using so much of his power, but getting no-where.

"But I'm not even born yet!" said Chris.

"Piper," Leo managed to utter before he fell to the floor in a dead faint.

Chris and Wyatt looked at each other. "Wyatt," Chris said. "Prepare to protect yourself, we're going up" Wyatt nodded, understanding his brother perfectly. If he went up, everyone was likely to attack him, but, he would have to protect himself, get little him, and Piper to all try and heal Harry at once, if he really wanted to save him.

"I've always got my shield" he smiled, the first smile in, what years? He hadn't smiled properly since he'd 'turned'