A Destiny To Fulfill

Summary: Set after "It's a bad bad world". Chris died, but he is sent back to fulfill his destiny to save Wyatt (Gideon wasn't the one who turned him in my story). Will he be able to make everything alright?


Chapter 4: The trap

As the Charmed Ones and Chris arrived in the underworld they could immediately hear the usual screams that filled this place. Attentively they looked around to see if any demons were in sight. Then the group walked carefully over to the cave were they have located Kivan. Everyone had a vial with a vanquishing potion and Phoebe had also a piece of paper where the spell that would give the demon the rest was written down.

They were surprised that no one was there as they entered the cave. "How can he be gone so quickly? We orbed directly here after Chris sensed him" Phoebe whispered, still looking around, as if the demon would jump out of somewhere in the next moment.

"I don't know" Piper answered. "Can you sense him Chris?"

Chris pulled out a piece of fabric from his jacket that was also a little remain of the fought with Kivan a few hours ago. He closed his eyes and concentrated hard for a few seconds. Then he opened them quickly as he once again located the demon in the cave. "He must be here."

The sisters looked around but there was no sign of the demon. The only thing that moved was a weird huge black ball that was flying in the air in the middle of the cave. It was spinning around its own axis and made a strange bubbling noise. Paige began to walk slowly towards it, but as Chris noticed what she was up to he grabbed her arm. "What do you think you're doing?"

"I'll go and see what this strange thing over there is" she answered defiant.

"You can't just go there, we don't know what it is. You'll might get hurt."

"But…"

"No he's right Paige" Piper cut her off. "I think we should better go back to the manor. This whole situation is freacking me out."

Phoebe nodded in agreement. "Yeah she's right."

"Okay, okay" Paige sighed and hold up her hands as if she would surrender. "Three against one, I'll shut up."

Chris saw her frustration and said smiling "You know you're my favourite aunt and I really don't want you get killed."

"Hey!" Phoebe exclaimed and smacked him playfully on his arm. "What about me?"

"I mean, one of my two favourite aunts" Chris corrected himself quickly.

They were too distracted by their conversation so they didn't noticed that the black ball stopped moving and shone for a few seconds, before it began to spin around again.

"I really don't want to interrupt your little chat" Piper said sarcastically. "But I prefer other places to talk. So can we please leave now?"

Immediately Chris grabbed his mothers hand. "Sure mom." He orbed away with her and soon Paige followed their orbs with Phoebe.


Leo couldn't stop to worry. He knew that everyone was right that he had to stop being so overprotective towards Chris, but none of them could understand how he was feeling, not even Paige who had seen Chris die too. Nothing compared to the feeling to see your son die in your own arms. He had felt so helpless like never before in his entire life. For what use were his healing powers if he hadn't even been able to save his own son?

The fact that Chris was back made him happier than anything else but still it couldn't ease the pain really. Leo was afraid that this was all just a dream and if he wake up his son would be gone again. But he wouldn't let this happen. Chris will stay here, no matter what, Leo tried to convince himself. A sad smile appeared on his face as he thought of how brave his son was and how proud he was of him.

But the smile vanished as quickly as it had come as Leo saw the sceptre that was now lying on the table in the living room. On the one end suddenly a black ball appeared out of nowhere and began to shone. Before Leo even had time to think of what to do, the ball disappeared again and it was like it had never happened. Leo looked confused down at the sceptre and for a second he asked himself if he might had just imagined this strange ball.

His thoughts were interrupted as the sisters and Chris orbed into the room. Chris immediately noticed the concerned look that his father gave Kivans sceptre. "What happened?"

Leo looked up at him. "I don't really know. I was sitting here and suddenly a black shining ball appeared on the end of the sceptre. But it vanished so quickly, I'm not even sure it happened for real." They exchanged worried looks as they heard what Leo told them.

"Well dad, you're not the only one who sees black balls" Chris said finally.

"What?" Leo asked even more confused.

Piper walked over to the couch and sat down. "As we were down in the underworld there was no sign of Kivan, but there was this weird huge black ball. It was flying in the air, but I didn't saw it shine" she explained and turned again to her sisters and Chris. "Did any of you?" They all shook their heads.

"I think I go and check the book if there stands something about it" Chris said and orbed away to the attic.

Leo looked wistfully after his son. Phoebe who could sense his worry, walked over to him and put a comforting hand on his arm. "Hey, he's fine Leo. He's not going anywhere and we won't let anything happen to him."

Leo nodded absently. He wasn't convinced by her words. But… maybe she was right. Chris could take care of himself, why should he worry? It wasn't like Chris was going to die in the second he let him out of his sight. Suddenly Leo could see how stupid his behaviour in the last month really had been. He chuckled slightly as he remembered how he had tried to stop Chris to go and vanquish demons. Why the hell had he wanted to keep his son away from kicking their ass?

"What's up Leo?" Paige asked as she noticed the amusement on his face.

"Oh nothing. I just realized how silly I was. I mean this whole overprotection about Chris, you guys had been right. He can do whatever he want."

Piper frowned and wanted to ask him why he had changed his mind so quickly but then she couldn't help but agreed with him. "Yeah see, we told you Leo."

He nodded and for the first time in a month he could smile without any sadness.


Upstairs in the attic Chris had just started to leaf through the book as he stopped again. Why should he even look after that ball? It hadn't hurt them, so it surely was no danger. He closed the book and walked down into his room to lay down a bit. In the last time he had been nearly up twenty hours each day to look after this threat to Wyatt and of course himself. But, for goddess sake! He was just twenty-three years old. He should go out and enjoy his life and not spend all his time with demonhunting.

Tomorrow, he promised himself, he would go to P3 and have a bit fun. He could take care of Kivan on an other day. It really wasn't that important. They had his sceptre so the demon couldn't cause so much problems that it couldn't wait for a few days. With a smile about the thought of tomorrow night in P3, Chris lay down on his bed and immediately fell into a deep sleep.


In his cave Kivan smirked satisfied. Hisplan worked perfectly. He had known that he had to leave his sceptre in the manor because it was the only thing that could double his magic. Literally. Every spell he cast in the presence of the black ball in his cave worked also through the sceptre.

Kivan had known that at least one of the Charmed Ones or their wightlighters would stay at the manor to look after the children he was after. But that hadn't changed anything. Now all of them were infected by his spell and soon they would forget about all their responsibilitys. Then he could go and get the boys of the oldest witch. And after he would finish his ritual there would be nothing that could stop him from ruling the world.

TBC… (Everyone is infected… what will happen? How can they now save Wyatt and baby Chris? Please review!)