A/N. Thank you SO much everyone who reviewed.
Witch Way to the Wedding:
Prue, Phoebe and Paige ran past the Titans and demons, clambered up the rock mound and gazed down into the blood, trying to see Piper,
"what are we gonna do?" Phoebe asked, breathing heavily with tears streaming down her face, just like Prue and Paige were. Prue hesitated for a moment, before diving into the pool,
"Prue," Paige gasped, they gave a sigh of relief when Prue's head popped up,
"I can't find her," she told them, going back under.
"And you never will, your sister probably drowned, and that pool is designed to swallow the dead, call it an exchange, she goes in, and Hades comes out," Cronus said,
"Hades as in the god Hades?" Paige asked,
"the God of Evil, King of the Dead, and the first ever Source, if that's the Hades you're thinking of, then yes," Rhea replied. The eldest charmed one swam up to the surface again,
"she's not in here," she stated,
"as we told your sisters, she's somewhere else now," Rhea told her, the Titans laughed and disappeared, as did the demons and the Source. The sisters looked around at the rocky area around them, the Olympian Underworld was much worse than the other one, it was filled with gloomy shadows, lit up with flickering flames, and a strange humming sound danced through the air, not far from the blood pool was a pit of skeletons, weapons and ancient items.
"Paige, see if you can orb her here," Prue instructed, as she heaved herself out of the pool, the whitelighter-witch closed her eyes and concentrated, creating an image of Piper in her mind, suddenly, orbs materialised in the air, floating down to the ground and forming Piper. She lay unconscious, blood soaked her clothes and hair, it had smudged her makeup and mascara was all down her cheeks,
"we need Leo," Prue stated, checking Piper's pulse to discover it was extremely faint,
"I'll orb us," Paige said, orbing them all to the manor.
They orbed in in the foyer and Leo ran straight to his fiancée's side, releasing a warm, healing, glow over her body, then he blew the door of the cage with lightening, Prue called for Andy and he orbed out with the kids,
"wait, something's wrong, Cronus said that after Piper was sucked in Hades would be coming out," Phoebe said,
"I don't care, as long as we have her back," Prue said. Piper awoke and began coughing and spluttering, spitting blood onto the floor,
"remind to never swallow when I'm swimming in blood," Paige cringed, as they knelt down next to her,
"I'm so glad you're okay," Leo said, holding her in his arms. The middle charmed one let out a scream, black particles fluttered from her mouth, spinning in the air and becoming a tall, bald, man wearing a hooded, gold trimmed, black, robe.
"Hades," Prue murmured, he nodded and created a black energy ball in his palm,
"guys, I'm thinking we need to go now," Paige said, panic filled her voice,
"no, this is our house, he can go," Prue told her, spraying acid at the dark god,
"I don't think so," he laughed, hitting them with a ripple of black. Piper froze the ripple but Hades shot a fire ball at her, she was too slow to freeze this and it blasted her into the living room,
"first blood and now fire, not a good day to be Piper," Paige said, watching Leo heal his fiancé. Phoebe fired electricity from her hands, throwing Hades into the stair banister and making part of it break off, Paige ran and grabbed a part of the broken wood, poking it repeatedly into Hades' chest,
"Paige, he's a god not a vampire," Piper stated, Hades pushed Paige away from him with a telekinetic wave. Prue formed pyrokinetic spheres around each of her hands,
"am I supposed to be scared?" Hades asked, extinguishing them with what could only be described as a black icicle,
"okay, he's probably the most powerful thing we've ever fought," Piper said, failing to freeze the god.
"Yes I am, and you might just be the most powerful thing I've fought," Hades told them, flaming out,
"okay, is he gone?" Piper asked,
"no," Hades replied, flaming back in behind her and flaming out with her in his hold.
"Seriously, a bad day to be Piper," Paige said,
"we have to find her, they're probably in the Olympian Underworld," Leo stated, orbing out, Paige clutched Phoebe's and Prue's hands and orbed after him.
Meanwhile, Andy paced the attic, he had heard the battle downstairs but couldn't leave the kids, Cole, Victor and Glenn were out getting some potion supplies for Penny, while she and Patty flipped through the book for more information on the Titans, none of them were aware of Hades' resurrection.
"Uncie Andy, can we look in da book?" Karis asked, from where she and Grace were playing with Patrice,
"no sweetie, you're too little, besides, you can't read," Andy replied, crouching down next to them,
"I can use magic!" she exclaimed,
"no, you're not going to cast a spell to make the book read itself to you," Andy told her firmly. Karis folded her arms and pulled a tongue at her uncle, then she destroyed Grace's doll with an electro-pyrokinetic bolt,
"dolly!" Grace wailed, conjuring a tennis ball and throwing it at Karis' head. The two girls were now screaming,
"Grace, just conjure another dolly, and Karis, don't be such a bully," Andy said, Grace did as her father had instructed and conjured a new doll, while Karis gave her cousin an apologetic hug, while all of this was going on Patrice was sitting there, giggling.
In the Olympian Underworld, Piper awoke to find herself chained to a wall,
"this witch, I want her power on my side," Hades told the Titans,
"without Meta I don't know if we will be able to retrieve it," Rhea said,
"I don't want you to kill her for it, I want her to join me, become evil, become my bride," Hades explained,
"she's already got a groom," a voice said from behind. They turned to see Leo,
"this should be interesting," Hades said, launching a black energy ball,
"it certainly should," Leo agreed, destroying the energy ball with a lightening bolt,
"is this a private party or can anyone join in?" Paige said, orbing in with Prue and Phoebe. Cronus threw flames at the sisters, but Paige protected them with her orb-deflection, next was Rhea's attack, she raised her hands and a white laser flew at the Halliwell trio,
"I got this one," Phoebe told Paige, empathically releasing a laser of her own to rebound Rhea's one.
"Can somebody please un-chain me?" Piper asked,
"just wait there," Prue replied, dodging some fire Cronus had thrown. Hades and Leo were still battling it out, dark energy and lightening shooting everywhere, one energy blasts even broke Piper's chains and freed her, she ran forward and leapt at Hades, forcing him to the ground.
"We need to send him back to wherever he came from," the middle sister stated, Prue nodded and flicked her hands at Hades, telekinetically floating him into the air and dropping him into the pool,
"no!" Cronus, Rhea and Demetrius yelled, at the same time. They were relieved when a non-corporeal being rose from the blood, it was Hades,
"urm, that only got rid of his body," Prue said, as she joined her sisters and Leo where they were standing,
"and I will get it back soon enough," Hades promised, flaming out.
"So he's gone for awhile, but we still have these guys and the Source to deal with," Phoebe said, pushing Demetrius into the blood with an electric spark,
"Phoebe, you don't know what come out now that he's gone in!" Paige exclaimed,
"nothing, it didn't kill him so he won't be swallowed and exchanged for something else," Phoebe assured her, but they got a massive shock when Cronus squinted at the pool, then it bubbled as flames flickered in and out of it,
"why did he just do that? why did he just kill his Titan friend?" Phoebe asked,
"so something else could come out, and I'm guessing something stronger," Paige replied.
"Actually, it's not stronger, just bigger," Rhea grinned, a giant lizard flew from the blood, it had hundreds of heads, some bigger than others, all of which were spitting flames,
"Typhoeus, don't kill them all at once, take your time," Cronus instructed, the scaly beast let out roars from it's many mouths.
"Uh oh," Phoebe mumbled,
"Leo, Paige, orb us outta here, drowning in blood and a fire ball was enough pain for me today, maybe I can be a monster's meal tomorrow," Piper said, panic clear in her tone, the group joined hands and disappeared into Leo's and Paige's orbs,
"the manor, that's where they'll have gone, Typhoeus, follow them, we, Cronus, have to make some more Titans if you get what I mean," Rhea said, giving her lover a seductive smile, while Typhoeus dissolved into the air.
They orbed into the attic to hear loud thumping from outside, Prue and Pipe looked out of the window to see Typhoeus stomping down the street, heading straight towards the manor,
"I think we can safely say magic is exposed," Prue said,
"Leo, orb the kids out of here, and Glenn and dad, take them up there," Piper told him,
"what about you? you need to go somewhere safe too, for the sake of our baby," he said,
"Piper he's right, us three, Cole, Andy, Leo, mom and grams will be enough to defeat this thing," Phoebe said, Piper agreed.
Minutes later, the remainder of the family were standing outside the manor, looking up at Typhoeus,
"so what's the plan?" Leo asked,
"we fight," Prue replied, using her gift from Athena, two athames, to slash across Typhoeus' stomach, getting his attention. Penny threw a potion at the creature, making him feel dazed and stumble slightly, this lasted long enough for Cole to throw a few energy balls and Leo some lightening. The wounded beast licked his thousands of lips, before scooping Paige up into his large claws and holding her to his biggest mouth, which just happened to be on his biggest head, but, before he could swallow her whole, a he felt a painful twinge in his neck and looked to see Phoebe's had thrown her spear into it. He plucked the spear from his skin and they gasped as another head crept out of his wound, Typhoeus then threw Paige into the air and caught her in his mouth, her scream got quieter and quieter until it couldn't be heard anymore.
Though inside his body the whitelighter-witch was still screaming as she slid down his oesophagus and into his stomach,
"ewe, gross," she groaned, pulling something stringy and green from her hair, "at least I'm still alive," she said, trying to orb out with no success.
"Maybe I can use a spell?" she asked herself,
"that won't work," a voice told her,
"is there somebody there? cos if there isn't then I hit my head on the way down here and I'm hallucinating, which wouldn't be good," she said,
"I'm here," the voice replied, a man stepped out of she shadows.
"Hi, I'm Paige," she introduced herself,
"I'm Oscar," he said, shaking her hands, "and I know a spell won't work because I've been trying them none stop since I was swallowed, a hundred years ago, you don't age down here."
"Well at least I won't get wrinkles," Paige joked, trying to look on the bright side, "hey, maybe your spells didn't work because you didn't have enough power, but between the two of us we might be able to pull it off, I am a charmed one after all," she told him, he nodded.
Outside, Prue released pyrokinetic spheres, while Cole launched energy balls and Leo shot lightening, the combined power was enough to make Typhoeus let out a painful roar and collapse, dropping to the floor and bursting into flames, only to reveal Paige standing there unharmed, a man stood next to her.
"Oscar!" Paige exclaimed, as he fell to the ground, his hair turning grey and wrinkles forming on his face,
"what's happening?" Patty asked,
"his age is catching up with him," Paige replied, they could only watch as his skin rotted away and his bones crumbled to dust,
"at least we're safe, for now, and I'm sure the Elders will deal with the exposure," Leo said, waving his hand over Oscar's bone dust and making it turn into a bright light, which spiralled in the air before forming his ghost and floating into the sky.
Later on,
"you may now kiss the bride," Penny announced, Leo embraced Piper and they shared a passionate kiss, all of the guests began clapping. After the exposure had been taken care of Aphrodite had returned the sisters' to their original dresses, including making any traces of blood or dragon waste vanish from Piper and Paige, and then the wedding had took place in Mount Olympus, with the gods and angels also watching.
"This has been the best day of my life, well sort of," Piper grinned,
"me too," Leo said, planting another kiss on her lips.
To be continued…
A/N. Typhoeus was a real creature from Greek mythology, he's said to be buried under Mount Etna.
A/N. Next chapter will begin the Paige-centred-ness which will last for a while, but the others will still have their own parts to play.
Here's a little teaser of the next chapter- Glenn decides to go travelling, making Paige feel like he's abandoning her and Karis. Prue saves a man from a burning building.