March 24th 2005. Day 4

Remember way, way back when Piper broke out of her cell, and rendered Gabby and Mary unconscious? If you don't, then read back to chapter 2. I would also just want to thank kk241289 for staying with this story! So this chapter and many more after it, is dedicated to you! 

Piper runs into the lift and punches the number '9' on the keypad thing, as the walls start to close in the lift. Gabby wakes up and glares at Piper, as she smirks back at her and wiggles her fingers saying goodbye. The doors close and Piper goes up to the highest level in the witch prison. She looks around and then to the top right hand corner to see a camera pointing directly at her. Piper sighs angrily and cocks her head to one side.

"Oh crap" she says finally reaching the top floor. 'Perhaps they don't know that I'm...' before Piper can finish thinking to her self, the doors open wide and in front of her stand a hoard of mangle demons with weapons ready to stop Piper. She looks worried and concerned as she bites her lip, "...Here" she finishes off talking instead of thinking. On small dwarf mangle demon, swings her two by four wrapped with barbed wire at Piper, but she quickly hops back while also sucking in her stomach avoiding the attack.

Piper quickly slams her hand down on 'G' on the key pad, as the doors slowly start to close. "Stop her!" yells a mangle and five mangles pull out bow and arrows, and aim them at Piper. The mangle from before gets ready to enter the elevator, but Piper spins around quickly and kicks her in the stomach hard. Flying backwards, she knocks into loads of other mangles and they fall to the floor shouting and cursing.

An arrow is then fired as it flies towards Piper, as the doors close. With a small gap left, the arrow manages to slide through it and hit Piper hard in the right shoulder. Screaming with pain, Piper clutches it with pain falling to the floor, hitting her back on the rock hard wall, and then sliding to the ground.

She looks up to the camera which is still glued on her, she looks in anger up at it. "I bet you like this don't you? Love seeing me get hurt? Well my sisters will come down here and kill you, and if you kill me they will definitely make sure that your death is slow and painful!" yells Piper. Piper reaches the ground floor as the doors open, where about ten mangle demons stand. In front of the bunch is Gabby snarling at Piper, "That was a neat trick you pulled there, but not good enough. Take her away!" shouts Gabby, as loads of mangles push past her and grab Piper by the arms lifting her up.

Screaming with pain, she is hit in the face by Gabby and then carried away down the hall. "The execution now begins" laughs Gabby watching Piper being carried around the corner.

March 23rd 2005. Day: 3. One day before

It's the next morning in San Francisco, as Paige has slept in the attic keeping the mangle demon busy. Phoebe walks into the room where Paige is laid out on the couch. Phoebe crosses her arms laughing to her self, and then notices the mangle demon start to flicker his eyes open. "Paige!" yells Phoebe, and Paige opens up her eyes quickly nearly falling off the couch. "Look who's up" says Phoebe.

Paige looks at her watch '11:15am' "So sleeping beauty awakens" yawns Paige. Standing up, she and Phoebe walk in front of the mangle as he stops looking around at where he is, and then at the sisters. "Where's our sister?" asks Phoebe impatiently, "What?" asks the demon. "Don't play dumb, your clan of demons have kidnapped our sister. From what we have read, you're a set of demons that steal witches, imprison them and then kill them. What we don't know is how you were able to take Piper and where you took her" says Phoebe.

"I won't tell you a thing" says the mangle demon. Phoebe raises her eyebrows and causally walks over to another crystal, picks it up and bounces it in her hand. Pouting her lips, she glides over towards the mangle demon as he looks at her confused. "You sure about that?" she asks with a tone that means if he says no something bad will happen. "What's that?" he asks looking at the crystal, "This?" asks Phoebe looking at the crystal. "This does this" says Phoebe slamming the crystal on the cage.

Electric strikes around inside the cage, hitting the demon. Not killing him, it shocks him with extreme pain. Screaming with pain he falls to the floor. Phoebe takes away the crystal as the demon screams a little bit more. "If you want to fill that again, then keep lying to us, or don't tell us what we need to know. Or you can tell us what we know, and we will let you go" says Paige. Phoebe looks at her confused, "We will?" asks Phoebe. Paige gives her a 'Pretend' look and Phoebe opens her mouth and nods her head.

"Ohhhh yea we will let you go as long as you tell us what we need to know" says Phoebe. "I can't and I won't" yells the demon. Phoebe and Paige look at each other as Phoebe shrugs her shoulders. "Well alright" she says and slams the crystal on the cage yet again. Electric blasts around the cage, striking the demon causing him to scream in pain some more. "Stop!!!!!" he shouts in pain, "Tell us what we need to know!" screams Paige as the noise from the lighting is too loud.

"No!" he yells as Paige looks over to another two crystals like Phoebe is holding. "Crystals!" shouts Paige holding her two hands in front of her, and the crystals orb into her hands. She then places both crystals on the cage and more lighting blasts around the cage fast and furious. The mangle demons screams with pain the sisters have never heard before, as Leo walks in worried and concerned.

"Girls no!" yells Leo but is voice is not heard. Suddenly the lighting proves too much as it explodes the cage and a huge like energy beam is sent flying out in all directions. Screaming with pain, Phoebe and Paige are sent hurtling backwards crashing into the walls. Paige slams hard as a huge crack appears and she falls on the floor, while Phoebe sits the attic sink near the door, breaking it and falling to the floor. As soon as both sisters hit their destinations, their screaming stopped as did the demon that now lies in a pile of ash.

The energy beam was so loud and strong, that it destroyed all the windows in the attic, and smashed all the glass that was in there too. Luckily Leo ducked out of the way of the beam and manages to stand up quickly looking at the damage and both sisters bleeding on the floor. Leo runs between them and not knowing who to save, he knows if he takes time on one sister the other will die. So standing between them, he raises out his arms by the side of him pointing towards the two girls.

Light shines on them, as yellow and blue sparkling lights go over towards each girl and heals them just in time before they pass on to the other side. A few seconds later they open their eyes gasping for breath as Leo lowers his arms. Paige is helped up by Leo as she sees the pile of ashes from where the demon was. "Oh no" she says frustrated and a little upset.

Phoebe then walks up to them disappointed, "Now what do we do? Our only hope of finding Piper is now ashes" says Phoebe. "The situation as well" chimes in Paige. "I guess the underworld is always an option?" suggests Phoebe, "I can go down there and ask for information" she says. "Alright but I should go to, I mean who knows what's down there ready to fight you" says Paige.

Phoebe nods her head smiling, "I know babe but I should do it my self. I wont even go down there my self, I'll just make my astral self do it" smiles Phoebe. "You can do that?" she asks. "Yea remember way back then at the end of your first time as a witch" reminds Phoebe, Paige smiles and nods her head "Yea of cause" "You sure about this?" asks Leo worried for his charges life.

She nods her head and smiles, "Very much so" replies Phoebe. "Now what makes you think they will even tell you? They hate us and if they have our sister kidnapped then they would want her to stay there" says Paige; "I know but I've got to try something" says Phoebe. Suddenly a knock at the door arrives followed by the door bell as Paige walks towards the attic door. "I'll get it, and Phoebe don't try anything without me alright" says Paige. "Will do babe" replies Phoebe, as Paige walks out and down towards the front door.

She walks up to the door and opens it, to get the shock of her life. Gasping with surprise she steps back, trying to adjust to who is standing in front of her. "Richard?" she says replaying the name in her head. Richard stands directly in front of her smiling, "Yea it's me" he says, "I think I can help you with a problem you've got" he says. Paige stops- her heart pounding like mad as she looks at Richard.

Some time later in the sitting room, Paige and Phoebe are seated on the couch. Richard stands in front of them. "I was walking around when I saw a car driving down the road, when suddenly this weird looking demon was on top, and punched through the top and then after both hands went through, the demon broke the neck of the man. From what I saw he looked like the health inspector that used to visit Piper a lot" says Richard.

"A mangle demon" says Phoebe, Paige looks at her and then back at Richard. "Then what happened?" she asks. "Next thing a giant blue swirling portal opened up and the car along with Gabby and the health inspector went through it. The portal disappeared and they were no where insight" replies Richard.

"Wait this makes no sense" says Phoebe trying to get the jest of this, "Piper said that she lost her club. The only person that could do that is the health inspector" says Phoebe confused. Leo then suddenly orbs into the room and walks towards the girls. "We have more bad news" says Leo, "The mangle demons prison witches in their world and plan on killing them in front of a huge crowd, of other mangle demons" says Leo worried.

"Then why doesn't Piper just blow them up?" asks Paige, "Piper can't because they stole her powers" replies Leo. "How?" asks Phoebe, "By getting Piper to sign them over. It's the only way a witch can enter the prison, because any witch power on the demons will kill them. So making Piper not have any powers makes it that little bit easier for them" says Leo. "But yesterday I levitated and kicked them...I was using my power, a witch power at that" says Phoebe.

"Powers like Piper's, or Prue's telekinesis, or deflection. Really you were just using your body" says Leo. "Ok now why would Piper sign over her powers? I know she was angry and upset with us, but isn't that going a little overboard?" asks Paige getting more confused. "Unless she was tricked" says Phoebe finally fitting the puzzle pieces together. "How?" Paige asks puzzled. "Think about it, a mangle demon kills the health inspector, and then pretends to be one its self. Telling Piper that she lost her club, made Piper sign the thing, which granted the mangles with her powers" says Phoebe.

"Oh my god" says Paige, "Right we know why and how it happened, but thing is how do we get there?" asks Leo. "Ok well I hope I helped" says Richard, Paige looks up at him and smiles gracefully. "You did, thank you so much" she says. "I better go then; my friend has these bad boils on him and turning green. The doctors don't know what's wrong with him, but me and my brother and trying to help him out" says Richard walking away.

Leo, Phoebe and Paige quickly look at one another shocked. "Richard wait!" yells Paige running towards Richard blocking his path. "What?" he asks as Phoebe and Leo join him. "He's a mangle demon" says Paige, "Come again?" asks Richard. "Mangle demon, the clan of demons that kidnapped Piper, the one that killed that health inspector" informs Phoebe. "You must of known" says Leo, "I really didn't, I mean the demon that appeared on that car I didn't really see its face" says Richard feeling guilty.

"But you must of found something weird about this person" says Phoebe. "He had a pretty convincing story" says Richard, "Oh my god Richard we have to get there now" says Leo. "Yea Leo can you orb us there?" asks Paige, "Sure. Everyone hold on" says Leo, "I'm so sorry I never knew" sighs Richard. "With all your demon research and stuff, I though you would have known that it was a demon" says Phoebe. "When I was in the magic's, I never come across them, noun of my family did. I stopped using magic ages ago as you know, and threw all my demon books out the window and stuff I'm so sorry" says Richard upset.

"It's alright don't worry. Leo lets go" says Paige and Leo nods his head. With everyone holding tight, Leo orbs away up towards Richard's place.

Later that day

Piper still lays motionless on the floor. Slowly opening her eyes, she looks around cold and scared. Figuring what is going on she slowly gets up, upset and worried for her life. What did I do to deserve this? thinks Piper to her self. She stands in a small little room, only lit with two torches hanging on the wall. She wears a long grey, ripped gown provided to her by some demons. The air is cold, and the floor is freezing. She's bare foot and finds it hard to stay in one place. In the corner of the room, is a small hammock with no pillow or bed sheets. With her arms folded, she slowly walks over to the hammock and sits down on it...

To be continued...

If you remember from the very first paragraph in chapter 1, that bit with Piper is from there. So now you know how she got there to that bit, so because you know what happens after that no more updates of that. Now that Leo, Phoebe and Paige know everything, will the mangle demon at Richard's come clean? How will the group save Piper, and if they do will they save her in time?

Find out in the next chapter!