Title: A Halliwell Christmas

Summery: On Christmas Eve Chris goes after a demon against the wills of the sisters. The demon is stronger than Chris thought and Chris finds himself in a situation he may not survive.

Disclaimer: Yet again, I do not own a thing.

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. That was how it may be for normal houses, but this is the Halliwell Manor. The sisters had enjoyed the day off and planned on enjoying another break tomorrow. But that wasn't Chris' style. He planned on heading out on a demon hunt tonight. He didn't think this demon was responsible for turning Wyatt but he knew it was responsible for the death of four witches and counting. This demon planned on becoming the next source tomorrow which Chris wasn't letting happen. A new source would mean an organized underworld and he wouldn't be able to make deals and there would be even more attacks. Chris grabbed three potion bottles and was about to leave when Paige called. Chris sighed and orbed into the kitchen where she was.

"Where have you been?" Paige asked.

"Sorry if I can't relax because there's a demon to vanquish, which I should be vanquishing now by the way." Chris replied.

"You better hurry home." Piper commented taking cookies out of the oven. Chris just rolled his eyes.

"I'm serious mister! If you don't hurry you're so grounded." Piper joked.

"I'm a little old for that Mom." Chris replied smiling. He walked over and hugged her.

"I'll be careful." He said ending the embrace and orbed out.

Chris orbed onto an abandoned fairground. The rides and game stands were deserted and covered in snow. Chris shivered, not being used to the cold temperature. He looked around cautiously. The place had a creepy vibe to it. Then fairground music started to play but it sounded distorted, like the player was broken. Chris heard chilling whispers all around him. He slowly walked around, looking for the demon. As he continued to walk around some of the rides started. Chris was rather unfazed by it and kept relatively calm. Then out of nowhere a ball of ice surrounded by flames came flying at him. Chris TKed it away and saw the demon run into the fun house.

"It always has to be the fun house." Chris quipped as he followed pursuit. When he entered he stopped running as he found himself in a maze of mirrors. He slowly walked forward. Another flaming ball of ice came towards him but hit a mirror shattering it. Chris kept going, avoiding the glass that got shattered each time one of the unique fire balls hit a mirror. Finally Chris had enough games and orbed out of the funhouse and by a ferris wheel that had several game booths by it. Once again the search would be on. But Chris decided to stay where he was and let the demon find him. A light flickered off followed by the rest until it was dark. The only light came from the moon and stars. Chris closed his eyes and tried to remain focused. He would not be the demon's fifth victim.

Piper ran into the kitchen and grabbed a cookie tray out of the oven. She swatted the smoke away from them.

"Those were my favorite kind too!" She pouted. Paige walked in looking at the cookies.

"I could have done that." she commented. Piper just glared at her then got ingredients to remake the batch.

"Mmmm, the smell of burnt cookies." Phoebe said walking in. She sat by Paige and they both watched Piper work. Piper finally broke the silence saying,

"I wonder where Chris is."

Chris finally spotted the demon. He TKed it into one of the game stands causing it to break. The demon got up and levitated in front of Chris. Chris looked up at the demon that was taller than him. It wore a dark blue robe and had light blue skin. Chris stared into its icy blue eyes silently challenging it. The demon read his body language correctly and the fight was on. The demon waved his hand and an icy wind sent Chris flying back. Chris quickly got back onto his feet.

"I won't be your fifth victim Cryik." he boldly stated. He threw a potion at Cryik who caught it and turned it to ice. It squeezed it's fist and shattered the potion. It growled at Chris furiously and threw one of it's fiery ice balls at Chris. He TKed it back and hit the demon. The demon kept throwing it's fireballs at Chris and he kept TKing them away. Eventually one of them hit Chris hard in the side. To Chris, the temperature dropped drastically as he fell to his knees tightly holding his side.

"You won't be orbing away now." Cryik stated. Chris weakly tossed another potion. Cryik wasn't expecting it and got hit. It screamed as it abrupt in flames and was vanquished, leaving nothing behind but ashes. Chris tried to orb but found he couldn't. He figured it was because he was too weak. Chris continued to hold his side as he lay in the snow. Chris felt exosted but tried not to close his eyes. The snow was coming down fast and covering Chris. He sighed, not being able to uncover himself. Chris lay awake for quite some time before his eyes finally closed. He tried but couldn't open them again. He felt his body go numb from the cold. He was almost completely covered in snow. He figured he'd die on Christmas.

"Merry Christmas." he thought as he slowly lost track of his thoughts. He was reluctantly giving in to the darkness that seemed to claim.

"Piper, lets go to bed. It's three in the morning." Phoebe whined as she hung the last Christmas decoration she had.

"Okay." Piper reluctantly agreed and headed for her bed.

"You better come back, Chris." Paige muttered as she fell asleep.

TBC

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