"Ok, are we ready to go?" Piper asked her sisters and Harry, Ron, and Hermione. They nodded and linked together so Paige could orb them to the Underworld.
Piper glanced at Paige as they prepared to orb. Over the last few days she had been looking worse and worse, she was pale and looked fevered, if they didn't need her, Piper would have made her stay home.
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Paige had continued to fight the evil growing inside of her, before she had noticed it, it had made her stronger, but now that she was fighting it she was always tired.
Paige found that she knew the layout of the Underworld without even having to think about it so she had no trouble orbing them to the meeting place. In a strange way she felt like she was coming home. 'No', she pushed the thought away, this wasn't her home, her home was with her sisters fighting evil. She focused on that thought and pushed away the darkness building within her.
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"Get behind the cages." Piper hissed. They had just hidden themselves when Voldemort and several Death Eaters walked into the room. Piper waited until she was sure they were all in the room before freezing them.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked at the frozen Voldemort all thinking the same thing, it would be easy to kill Voldemort now while he was frozen but to do that they would be stopping to his level.
The sisters were entrapping the rest of the Death Eaters in a crystal cage and they walked over to Harry, Ron, and Hermione when they were finished.
"All right, let's go." Harry said and Paige once again orbed them away.
Paige orbed them to an open field that they had previously selected. She stood Voldemort up at one end of the field as Harry faced him from the other side, his wand grasped firmly in his hand. She then joined her sisters and Ron and Hermione on the sidelines.
Harry's face was set and he nodded to Piper, she regretfully unfroze the Dark Lord and stepped off the field.
Voldemort looked up, he was about to ask what happened when he saw Harry. 'It doesn't matter how this happened.' He thought to himself, now he had Harry and he was going to make him pay.
Voldemort pulled out his wand and grinned at Harry, "Begin?" It was more of statement then a question and Harry had no time to answer as Voldemort sent the torture spell at him.
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Phoebe glanced down at her watch, Harry and Voldemort had been firing blows at each other with out hitting anything for about twenty minutes. She noticed a tree stump a few feet away and started toward it planing to use it for a seat when she noticed Paige. Paige was leaning on a tree breathing heavily and sweat was forming on her brow.
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Paige tried to hold it back, that pool of darkness that was growing inside of her but it was so strong. She leaned on a tree for support, seeing the battle between Harry and Voldemort had triggered it somehow. As the outside battle raged between good and evil, it was all she could do not to collapse in exhaustion as she fought an inner battle against the evil invading her soul.
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Ron and Hermione stood alertly watching their best friend battle for his life, Piper stood next to them but hearing a noise behind her she turned and saw Phoebe supporting Paige. She rushed over and helped Phoebe sit Paige down on the ground.
"Paige honey," Piper said stroking her hair, "What's wrong?"
Paige knew they were around her, she had thought she could hold it off but she was wrong. She would have to tell them, they had to save themselves by killing her. Gasping she fought to tell them.
"The Source…in me…can't fight." Paige whispered, "Thought I could fight it… wanted to help Harry… you have to kill me." As Paige finished speaking she fell limp and unconscious in her sister's arms.
Phoebe looked at Piper, "What do we do?"
"Leo!" Piper yelled, nothing happened.
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Leo watched them from above, he wanted to go but the Elders wouldn't let him, they had said something about there being nothing he could do and he had to stay away.
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Down on the ground Harry's situation took a turn for the worse, as he dodged out of the way of a spell he tripped and one of the bottles of potions in his pocket broke. He tried to sit up but his movements were slow, the slow potion that was meant for Voldemort had turned on him. He gulped as Voldemort approached him.