CHAPTER 15:
2003, somewhere in the underworld.
Chris looked at the parchment Josh had handed over to him. "Hmmm okay a map. Is that all you can give me? I mean hello you just said I have to vanquish someone who's very powerful. So powerful he will become the future master of the underworld. I think I do need a little more help than a map of the underworld." "Yes you do", Josh said. "You need hell of a lot of luck, because it isn't going to be easy."
He took the map from Chris and rolled it up. He turned around to put the rope around the parchment again and he slipped a little something in it before he gave it back to Chris. "So good luck", was all Josh said. He shimmered out, leaving a stunned Chris. 'Great', Chris thought as he saw Josh disappearing. He looked at his watch 'I have been here for over three hours and I am still not a step closer.'
2003, at the Halliwell Manor.
Chris sighed and orbed back to the manor. Even though it was still early he heard all the sisters were awake and Paige and Phoebe seemed to be busy with something. "What 's going on here?", he asked Paige who was making a potion and stood the most nearby. Paige looked up from her work and said: "Finally, there you are, we've been calling for you for almost half an hour now." "You did?", Chris asked.
Suddenly Piper walked into the kitchen "Christopher Perry, where the hell have you been?", she asked mad. Chris wanted to know first what they were doing but when he saw the look on Piper's face he knew he had to answer her, he had seen that look many times before. "I was vanquishing a demon that I know was going to attack you soon", he said as calm as possible. He didn't wait for a response as he added his own question: "Anyway, what are you all up to?"
"Don't you change the subject young man", Piper went on, but Paige interrupted her. "Same as you apparently", she said to Chris. "Phoebe had a premonition, we need to vanquish a demon. Isn't that great at six in the morning?" Just then Phoebe joined their conversation. "Yes I did, but it was so weird. All I had in my hands were Piper's car keys and I didn't see her in my premonition. Instead I saw the girl we already saved yesterday. Apparently she's still in trouble."
Chris remembered the continuous attacks on young witches the last week. None of them they could save and here he was thinking they saved the girl yesterday. "Did you see any of her harassers?", he asked. "Yes", Phoebe answered, "it was the same one as yesterday, only now there was only one left. I guess we already vanquished the others." "Alright, guess we only have one to vanquish then", he said. But he knew that wasn't true. He was positive they killed them all yesterday so where did this one came from?
"So it looks like you guys have everything under control, what did you need me for?" Chris asked as he looked at the sisters. "Well you were busy with the witches murders weren't you?", Phoebe said. "And you talked to that girl yesterday, the one you thought was the next target. Which I guess you were right about to." She looked surprised. "How did you know she was next anyway?" She shook her head before he could answer. "Never mind. I just thought you wanted to know what I saw. Besides you always want to make sure we are safe, so what better way to know when you come along, right?"
Chris shrugged "I guess". He thought about the girl and how scared she was when they told her they were witches. Something wasn't right in the picture. Until now the only ones attacked by those demons were witches, and Joey obviously wasn't, or she didn't know about it. "So what did you see exactly? I mean where is she attacked this time? Did you see anything familiar?" "No I didn't", Phoebe answered. "It wasn't at all like the place we were yesterday. In my premonition she was already captured. She sat in a cage in what looked like a lair somewhere in the underworld."
"She's already captured?", Chris shouted surprisingly mad. He heard it himself to and quickly added "Sorry I ehm am busy with a lot of things at the moment". He saw they didn't buy that. "Well isn't it logical you would say first, that she's already captured?", he tried to blame them for his sudden outburst. "I mean we are talking about nothing we can't discuss later on, I mean where I was is really not that important", he said while he looked mad at Piper now.
"You know Chris sometimes you can be such a…", Phoebe started but she got a deadly look form Piper and threw her hands in the air. "What is it with you people", she said while she walked to the kitchen table. She took a piece of paper from it and turned back to them. "Paige do you have potions for us all?" "Yep", Paige said as she handed them out. "Alright", Phoebe said "Like I said I don't know where the girl is exactly, but don't worry I wrote a spell to get there." They took each other hands as Phoebe read the words from the piece of paper:
"Guiding spirits,
Hear my plea,
Bring us to what I did see."
2003, somewhere in the underworld.
In a second they were there. Chris let go of the hands of Phoebe and Piper and walked to the middle of the room. He saw the demon looking at the girl in the cage and Chris waved his hand to throw the demon away. He flew through the air and fell down a few yards further. Chris quickly ran towards Joey and he heard the sisters following him.
'They will take care of the demon', he thought as he telekinetically opened the cage. He took Joey's hand, afraid she might ran away from them again. "Hey", he said. "We must stop meeting each other kid, because every time we do you're in trouble."