Disclaimer: Don't own Charmed
Reminder: Demon cult are using Chris as a host for resurrecting the prince of darkness. The girls are trying to save him let's hope they do.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed my work and for all the support, I couldn't have kept going without your help ;P
Piper raced towards Paige who had just flicked the TV off, "Paige demons are trying to take over the world and are using Chris!" Her sister babbled quickly.
"Wait, what?" Paige asked.
"The sky! It's demons resurrecting a Prince of Darkness! They are going to use Chris as a host for the demon to possess!"
"Oh my god!" Paige gasped.
"Yeah, we need to find Phoebe. Gideon has students making vanquishing potions for the cult members but we need one for Mastiphal."
"Mastiphal?"
"Prince of Darkness."
"Oh." Paige walked over to some shelves and pulled some jars off, "This stuff should make a powerful enough combination, I'm hoping." She slammed the jars on a desk.
"Good, I'll got get Phoebe then." Before Piper swung round to go find her sister she heard Phoebe calling for her.
"PIPER! CHRIS IS IN TROUBLE!" She howled through the corridors.
"I know keep it down Phoebe!" Piper wove her hands to quieten her sister.
"Mastiphal is going to possess him soon, when Darkness falls which is at about 3pm, we have to break the circle the followers are chanting in."
"Great now we know," Piper turned to Paige, "Paige continue with the potion I need to go scry for Chris' location. Phoebe uh… relax and get the potions of the students as soon as possible. Ok?"
Paige turned and began snapping some sticks of burdock root. Phoebe watched as Piper jogged down the corridor.
"Taking control as the oldest sister should do!" Phoebe sighed.
Paige nodded tossing the roots into an old brass pot, burdock root, no eye of newt. Well not unless she was really desperate. Piper had nearly blown the attic up combining those. Paige wanted the same effect but just weaker, so it wouldn't blow her up too. Gideon smiled as most of his senior students were mixing potions. To them it wasn't like work and they actually enjoyed it. Some to get out of lessons and others to actually be able to work with the famous Charmed Ones. Most of them always giving Paige a quick glance before adding another ingredient.
"Umm Paige do you have a system going on here?" Phoebe watched the students throwing random ingredients in to pots.
"Of course!" Paige replied immediately. "From the left we have explosives and to the right we have stun potions and poisons." She smiled and added another burdock root and it gave a satisfactory popping sound.
"See, it's fine."
"Yeah but what if you blow the classroom up?" Phoebe asked concerned.
"Nobody can die on these grounds!"
"But they can get pretty badly hurt."
"Gideon is an elder and will heal them!"
Gideon paced towards them, "I must say you do have an answer for everything Paige!" He smiled.
Paige grinned pouting and tossing a powder into the concoction.
"That was?" Phoebe asked as the potion turned emerald green.
"Powdered cockroach from the Amazon rainforest."
"It has to be exotic with you doesn't it."
"Yup," Paige replied.
Phoebe glanced at the floor. "What's wrong?" Paige asked as she looked at Phoebe's suddenly glum face.
"It's just in my gut, I know, somewhere in the underworld these eccentric demons are torturing him…"
Paige's face turned grave, "We will save him. We are the Charmed ones, if we can't do it, who is going to pick up our slack?"
Phoebe smirked at this comment but still her face remained worried.
Chris finally could see where he was, it was an intertwining cave system which was dark and the floor was a black silt that got kicked up and the demons marched along it. The dank corridors were illuminating by torches that hung occasionally on the walls, the emitted an eerie red light that made the corridor seem darker to Chris. His captors had been talking about how perfect a host he was for the past hour or so, but when one demon informed them something had happened and the darkness was falling they left him alone and came back more distracted and started talking about Mastiphal. Apparently from what he could tell he was going to meet Mastiphal, he was a sacrifice or a host or something bizarre like that.
Piper raced into the classrooms, "It's happening!" She cried urgently.
"What?" Phoebe asked a table next to her now filled with violet potions.
"The Darkness it's early!"
"It's happening?" Phoebe asked now extremely worried.
"Yeah, there is a cave in the underworld underneath our house, that's where I found Chris,"
"Ok, let me just fill this bottle and we can go." Paige said quickly pouring drops into a vial.
"What about a spell?" Phoebe asked, "He is going to be a big demon we need a spell for him!"
"Oh here," Piper passed each sister a scrap of paper with a spell written on it. "I copied it out of the Book."
"I'm ready!" Paige said holding up Mastiphal's vanquishing potion proudly.
"Me too," Phoebe added, she had grabbed a student's satchel when collecting potions around the classroom.
"I guess I'm ready too." Piper grimaced.
Gideon swished in swinging his cloak everywhere. "Girls, be careful, this demon is in the same league as the Source, he is powerful. You might almost kill Chris."
"We are NOT killing my son!" Piper barked angrily.
Paige took her sisters hands and imagined a dark cave under the manor.
Chris was dragged onto the now completely insignia drawn in chalk on the floor. He was thrown into the middle and hastily gagged. The head demon pronounced they were under the Haliwell Manor and were drawing the magic from the nexus to perform this ceremony. Chris felt a dragging pain in his whole body, along with a sharp pang of fear, he was obviously going to get hurt again, and the fear of knowing frightened him more.
The head demon read from the Grimoire and began to chant something in a language that Chris didn't understand, ancient … something. The followers began to copy and the chant began to get louder. Chris felt his heart hammering in his ears, the chalk insignia around him began to glow and the ceiling above him began to vibrate slowly. The light on the insignia died. Was it over? No! Scarlet magic began to journey from the outside of the insignia at five points on the circle and started making their way towards the middle, towards him.
A blast of light emanated from the ceiling. Chris felt his body going numb.
The sisters reappeared in the Haliwell Manor basement, a large crack had appeared in the floor by the stairs. "The nexus?" Phoebe asked incredulously.
Then a grey figure formed before them, it was a large wild haired demon in warrior armour, everythi8ng about him was dark or black.
"Who's that?" Paige asked nervously.
"Mastiphal!" Phoebe cried. Then he melted away in thin air and the space where he had been glowed a violent red.
"PAIGE ORB!" Piper commanded.
"Follow the demon!" Phoebe explained, they orbed after him.
The grey figure reappeared in the circle where Chris lay. Chris squinted his eyes shut, he didn't want to know what was happening.
The grey figure was then sucked into his body as the followers chants began at the loudest sound. Chris felt like he was going to vomit. His body went into convulsions as he writhed and twisted on the floor. Then he stopped.
The sisters orbed in, they saw Chris lying on the floor, lifeless, the demons stood shaking their heads, like in Phoebe's premonition. Then Chris' body disappeared.
"CHRIS!" Piper screamed.
Phoebe didn't know what to say, he was gone. They had been too late. They were the Charmed ones and they couldn't save him.
Paige couldn't take her eyes away from he had lain. She couldn't accept he was gone.
Then the sisters heard a voice behind them,
"Don't you girls know it's rude to gate crash some one's resurrection!"