Chapter 3

As the angry sisters stood around the seemingly amused demon he now folded his arms showing now sign of weakness. He then spoke wearing a slight smile "Well, well, well if it isn't the almighty charmed ones. How lovely to meet your acquaintance" he ended sounding rather disingenuous before speaking once more. Looking over to an unconscious Paige "Hey how's sleeping beauty doing over there?"

That was it Prue had, had enough "Cut the shit Zalil. We don't have time for your little games, so just make the potion for our sister and we might allow you to keep all of your limbs."

"Wow, the rumors about you are right, you do have a nasty attitude. Didn't your mother ever tell you that you attract more bees with honey?" Zalil snickered. Instantly Piper moved forward to throw the vanquishing potion at the not so forth coming demon before being stopped by Phoebe.

"PIPER, NO" she shouted. "If you kill him, you kill Paige too."

The now fuming Piper answered back "Then what the hell are we supposed to do? It's obvious that he's not willing to help"

"Actually, that was the whole point" Zalil now held the girl's attention.

"What are you talking about?" questioned Phoebe.

"Well I'm willing to help your sister if you do one thing for me."

"And that would be" the voice of the second youngest sister asked while her sisters looked on intrigued.

"I need you to take out a certain demon and his faction for me. The little bastard's been a thorn in my side for quite some time now and he's really starting to piss me off. So in exchange for his death I will make the potion to cure your sister, while you watch of course."

This demon had a lot of nerve. First he almost kills her sister now he comes in here demanding that they take care of his problems. Who the hell did he think he was? She could no longer hold her anger inside

"No, you're going to cure our sister now or I'm going to send you straight to hell only to resurrect you and do it all over again solely for my enjoyment." A very peeved Piper finished.

Looking at her with intensity the demon replied "I don't respond well to threats and if you want your sister to live then you might want to be a little nicer to me."

The girls looked at each other, not wanting to admit defeat, but also knowing that he was right. Since killing him wasn't an option the three women turned their attention back to the demon.

But before they could respond six uninvited guest made shimmered into the attic. Being the first to see the intruders Phoebe yelled to her sisters as her foot made contact with the face of a demon.

"Guys, watch out!" Prue turned around to come face to face with a demon with purple skin and black eyes, the state of shock that she was in allowed the demon enough time to knock her to the ground. Once she was on the floor he pulled out an athame and headed towards her, luckily Prue recovered in quickly enough to use her telekinesis to send the weapon into his chest instantly reducing him to a pile of ashes.

Piper was cornered by three while Phoebe was fending off two using her levitation and martial arts skills. Thinking fast Piper blew up one and froze the other two. But the freeze didn't last long, so she threw two potions in their directions. One went up in flames; the other how ever shimmered out of the way and was now standing behind her with a knife at her throat. Prue who now held the athame in her hand took care of one of the demons that were attacking Phoebe while Phoebe was able to take care of the other. That's when the girls noticed Piper's predicament.

The demon then used his powers to free the encaged Zalil.

"Now that we got that unpleasantness out of the way, I'm giving you 72 hours to kill the demon and his faction or your sister will die. You may also want to wish me well seeing as how if I die she will go right along with me" he said sounding amused once again. He then nodded to his follower to let Piper go. The woman then made her way to her sisters' side. Knowing that they had no other choice the sisters did the only thing they could, go along with what the demon wanted.

"So does the enemy of yours have a name?" Prue asked. At that moment Justin and Mike who had just arrived, stepped into the attic. Seeing the men the demon wore a look of disbelief as if he had just seen a ghost.

"Well, look who's here" he spoke.

Not liking the sound of that at all Phoebe asked "Who the hell are you talking to."

Looking at her with a slight smile the Zalil answered "One of the men that you have to kill" before shimmering out with his counter part.

The girls looked to the men stunned, shocked and dreading what was coming next.