Wyatt and Bianca appeared in a swirl of dark orbs. As they reformed, the assassin looked closely at her surroundings. They were in a very nice, high class apartment, somewhere in the upper part of the city, she guessed. It was large, the living room area that they were in, and it was adorned with nice leather furniture.

"This is where you are to stay until further notice." said Wyatt breaking the silence.

"Who'd you kill to get this place?" she asked, not expecting an answer.

"Chris might ask you how you ended up with an apartment like this, and I want you to tell him that its cloaked and that my magic won't be able to sense anything while anyone's inside." he instructed her.

"Sure, now when are you leaving?" Bianca asked with an annoyed look on her face.

Wyatt scowled at her before opening his hand and conjuring a sheet of paper. He handed it to her before saying, "This will tell you everything you need to know about Chris."

Bianca read over the paper. It had a list of all Chris' favorite bars, his friends, places he'd be last seen in, and all kinds of information on what he liked and didn't. She couldn't believe that she was actually going through with this. It was so cruel, but killing someone was even more cruel and she could never bring herself to do that again. That was a place she didn't want be ever again in her life. Looking at the paper again, she saw a picture of the man she had to pretend to love. He looked like the kind of person she would go for if she were a normal girl, but she wasnt' and she had to fall in love with him to save her own ass.

"Anything else I should know?" she questioned.

"I have a trap waiting for him right now, and afterwards he'll be depressed. I'd go checking some of his bars later...lets just say he'll be drinking away his pain." said Wyatt with a grin before disappearing in a stream of white light.

(Scene changes to meeting hall)

Chris walked back into the meeting hall with a scrying crystal in his hand. He walked over to the large map of San Francisco, encased in glass, on its own podium in one of the corners of the room. They were going to scry for the Beast and hopefully save his life.

"Okay, I need something that belongs to your dady so I can scry for him." said Chris not looking up from the large map in front of him.

Aiden reached into his pocket and pulled out a large red ring. He handed it to Kendal, who was closer to Chris, and she placed it in Chris' outstretched palm. Chris took the magical jewel and slid it on the string that held the scrying crystal. Standing over the map, he let the items dangle over the map, waiting for the spell to indicate the location of the imprisoned man.

Minutes went by and the crystal stayed in the same circular pattern, not hitting the surface of the glass over the map.

"I don't think your spell is going to work." huffed Aiden impatiently.

"Give it time." mumbled Chris concentrating on the spell.

"I don't have time!" shouted Aiden and his brow changed, revealing a little of his demonic side.

Chris dropped the crystal and turned to face the rogue demon. "We're trying to help you, and we're doing the best that we can. This spell is our only hope of finding your father, and if you don't let me concentrate then he's probably going to die. So, I suggest you shut up and let me finish." he snapped angrily.

Kendal took a step forward, coming in between the two men. She brushed a strand of hair out of her face before looking at each of them with a reminding glare. "We don't have much time, lets finish the spell." she said breaking up the momentary arguement.

Aiden stepped back and his demonic visage changed back to his human appearance. He took a few deep breaths, trying to control his inner demon.

Chris redirected his concentration to the scrying spell, dangling the crystal over the map once more. This time however it dropped; the Beast was at a building in the slums of the city.

"Found him." announced Chris without any change in the tone of his voice.

"Lets go then." said Kendal as she grabbed onto Chris' arm. They orbed out and Aiden shimmered after them.

(Scene changes to rundown street)

The trio rematerialized outside the large building, moments later. The windows were boarded up, the grass was long, and the tar pathway was cracked. The true slums of SF, as was most of the city these days.

"You should probably call Kyle, just in case we need some healing." suggested Kendal as she rolled up her sleeves in anticipation for the fight ahead.

Chris pondered the thought for a moment. He knew that his uncle would want to be there to help him, but he also knew how much it pained him to be in the same room as Wyatt. His uncle felt like he had failed aunt Paige by not stopping Wyatt, though Chris knew that wasn't true. In the end though, Kendal was right, if either of them were hurt they needed his healing touch. There was no garuntee that they could reach another whitelighter.

"Uncle Kyle!" said Chris though not too loud, not wanting to give away their presence to the demons inside the house.

The whitelighter appeared seconds later, and shot Chris a questioning look as he saw the new person standing next to Kendal. "What do you need?"

"This is Aiden, his father was captured by some of Wyatt's assassins and his mother, who's a Manticore was vanquished also." explained Kendal quickly, being the fast talker that she is.

"Okay, and you want me to stick around to help. Got it." said Kyle.

"Kendal, I need to shapeshift into something that can get you in there unnoticed and call for me when its okay for us to go in." Chris said to her having no doubt in her capability.

"Good luck." Aiden wished her.

Kendal nodded before her shape started to shift. Her thin slender body started to shrink into that of a small field mouse. Once the splitsecond transformation was complete she disappeared into the grass and found a hole that led her into the house.

"So, you're half Manticore." said Kyle wanting a little more information on their newest ally.

"Yeah, but I was raised by my father. I'm not evil." said Aiden knowing that the whitelighter was skeptical of him.

"How did a human protect you against a clan of Manticores?" he asked.

"You'll see soon enough." Aiden replied as he wormed his way out of explaining the story again.

Chris heard the familiar jingle of Kendal calling for him. "Okay, lets go." he said as he orbed into the house, knowing they would follow him.

(Scene changes to inside of house)

Reappearing, Chris saw Kendal changing back into herself. They were in a small hallway with various holes in the wall and paint peelings on the tattered rug. This place was a sight for sore eyes to say the least.

"They're inside the room right ahead of us. There's a small group of demons guarding him, but nothing we can't handle on our own." Kendal assured them.

"Okay, Kyle you get Derek while we fend off the demons." ordered Chris devising a plan.

"I'll take the right side of the room." offered Aiden as his face changed once again, preparing himself fort the fight.

"And I can take the left, Kendal you stay between us." said Chris with a nod of his head. He didn't want her to get hurt, he'd never forgive himself.

Kendal nodded her agreement and stood between the two men, waiting for their sign to enter the room. Chris waved his hand violently and the door flew off the hinges with a telekinetic force, disturbing the demons in the large dining hall. They had all been sitting around resting, and obviously hadn't been expecting an attack.

"Knock knock." said Chris before flicking his wrist and exploding the demon nearest him.

The various demons around the room stood up, ready for a battle, and faced them snarling. There were more of the fiends in the room then Chris had expected, but his blasting had worked fine and hopefully it would continue to. That would give them more of an advantage against the demons.

Out of the corner of his eye, Chris saw a high voltage energy ball appear. With one motion of his hand, the magical attack flew back at his creator, vanquishing him. Looking over, he saw Kendal shoot a large blast of multi-colored light at a demon. It flew backwards, stunned by the dazzling light and fell to the floor. On her right Aiden was hurling fireballs like a semi-automatic magical machine gun, not hitting all of his targets, but most of them.

Kyle orbed out and reappeared behind who he assumed to be Derek Peterson. He looked nothing like a human being. His face was large and distorted, his back had a large hump on it, and his hands were the size of what one would compare to a caveman's club. That must've been what Aiden had meant earlier when they were outside of the house.

As the whitelighter reached forward to grab the Beast's hand, a large crystal cage appeared and repelled him back a few feet. Approaching carefully, Kyle kicked one of the crystals out of the way and the cage disappeared. The Beast was unconcious, and Kyle knew he would have to orb him out, he was much to heavy to carry, but was interrupted as someone orbed in next to him.

"Uncle Kyle, long time no see!" exclaimed Wyatt with false happiness.

Kyle just looked at his nephew in disgust. It hurt him to see Wyatt like this.

"I'm sorry, but I can't let you leave with him. It was nice talking to you, well not really, but anyways I'm busy." said the Source before backhanding his uncle back with superstrength through a window.

Chris watched as his uncle flew out the window. He started to flick his wrist in retaliation against his brother, but Wyatt interrupted him halfway though the attack.

"Now now, Chris. If anyone makes another move, I'll kill Derek here." said Wyatt indicating the large Beast who was now hovering in the air, concious now.

Chris let his hands fall to his side, not wanting the man to be harmed. He didn't know how to get out of this one. Wyatt had Aiden's father, and he knew that he wouldn't leave without him. But, he also didn't want to lose anyone in the process of saving one life. "Let us have Derek and we'll leave."

Wyatt raised his eyebrow in surprise. "Now, really Chris, did you really expect me to agree with that?" he asked chuckling contently.

"WE SAID LET HIM GO!" shouted Aiden as his inner demon took over because of the anger he was feeling.

Wyatt's demeanor changed as he was angered by the outburst. "Remember this as the day that you caused your father's death." he shot back as he threw an energy ball at Derek.

The man cried out in pain as he fell back from the impact. Once he hit the floor his appearance changed to a middle aged man, as he passed on.

"NO!" cried Aiden as he dropped to his knees. His palms became surrounded in fire as he drew them back, ready to attack.

Kendal knelt down and pulled his arms behind his back. She didn't want him to get harmed. Knowing the pain that he felt, she vowed to help him get through this.

Chris looked to the ground. This was too much. How could he have let this happen. He was truly stupid to think that Wyatt wouldn't know what they were up to. The whole reason they had investigated the Manticore lair was because he had second guessed them, and now an innocent man was dead because of his stupidity. The guilt was unbearable, adding to the constant void in his heart, fusing with the other deaths he felt responsible for.

"What's the matter Chris? Cat got your tongue?" asked Wyatt loving every moment.

"Get out." said Chris quietly.

"You're the one trespassing little brother." said Wyatt though he did plan on leaving. "Let this be a reminder of what happens when you anger the Twice Blessed Source." he said before disappearing in dark orbs.

"Chris, we should get back to the hidden homes." said Kendal embracing the crying demi-human.

"Go get Kyle." he replied without any emotion. Chris stared into space as she left the room, listening the mournful cries of the man next to him.