Alrighty peeps, I'm back in action and ready to go. I'm hoping this chapter will be a little longer than the last one, but we'll see how it works out…

SK- Okay, well I hope you enjoy my other stories first. I'm glad you liked Cole's Revenge, I was very proud of it. Happy Reading!

Susan- You'll see…

s.halliwell- Well you see, it's more of a, 'I'm not doing what you tell me' thing, than it is a 'I'm just done all together'. If you can get what I mean. This chapter will sort of explain it.

Fanmania- Thanks!

The-Cheese-Fairy- Haha! Don't worry, I wouldn't do that to you… I really don't want to write P/C crap anyways unless someone requests it. I couldn't resist having Piper blow up the Elders, it was too great.

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"Guess what I found out," Cole said, shimmering in. He found the girls on the couch, tending to their children who were all fast asleep.

"I doesn't matter," Phoebe said dryly.

"Why not?" Cole asked, very confused.

"Because we quit. We're not stopping the apocalypse. We don't care," Paige replied. Cole stared at them in disbelief.

"You're joking right?" he asked.

"Nope," Prue said.

"Okay, I don't know what happened while you guys were 'Up There', but I think we need to talk about this," Cole said.

"There's nothing to talk about," Piper said uninterestedly. Cole stopped and stared at them. Then he shook his head.

"I never thought I'd see the day when the Charmed Ones left the world hang out to dry," he said sadly before shimmering out. Phoebe looked at the spot where he once was, guilt and disappointment in her heart.

"Don't worry, Pheebs. He'll come to his senses," Piper assured her. She looked down at Parker and continued to rock him so that he wouldn't wake up, her sisters doing the same.

"We have to make them come to their senses," Cole said, pacing back and forth. They were in the attic talking about what was up with the sisters.

"We've tried. Nothing's working. It's like they've lost all hope," Leo said.

"This isn't like Paige. It's not like any of them to just give up like this," Frisco said.

"It's the kids. They've come closer than they ever have to having a normal life and they don't want to chance giving that up," Andy explained.

"Well they won't have a choice if this damn apocalypse comes, and believe me: it will," Cole said, becoming frustrated.

"What did you find out?" Leo asked.

"A league of demons called the Bringers della Morte. It'sItalian for the Bringers of Death. They want to activate what they call 'Catena della Malvagità' or 'Chain of Evil'. Little did we know, there are Nexuses all over the world just like the very one in the basement of this house. At a certain time, they're going to place demons at every Nexus on the face of this earth and activate it so that they can take the Shadows and turn them to the side of evil. If they succeed, the power of the Shadows will penetrate into the earth, turning everything above and below the surface so evil that it rips the souls straight from their bodies. It's a very painful and deadly process that none of us want to go through and it will destroy everything. If left untreated, it will spread to the heavens where it will destroy the Elders as well, leaving this entire existence a barren wasteland with no chance of life until the world itself is destroyed," Cole explained. The other husbands tried to process this information, though it wasn't working too well for them. Only one thought stuck out in Frisco's mind.

"We better do something," he said.

"How? The sisters refuse to give a damn what happens," Andy said.

"Well maybe they will once they realize what will happen to them if they don't get off their stubborn asses and do something about it," Frisco said.

"And if they don't?" Cole asked.

"Then we will. We're damn powerful on our own, plus I know a few good witches who would be willing to lend a hand in the cause of saving the world. We can do this if they won't," Frisco said. Leo took a deep breath.

"He's right. If we don't do something, this world is screwed. We're the only chance we've got."

The sisters looked up to see the familiar blue and white lights, signaling the arrival of Leo, Andy, Frisco, and Cole. They all looked resolute as though they had made up their mind about something.

"You guys aren't going to try to convince us to save the world or something, are you?" Paige asked.

"Yes, honey, we are," Frisco replied. Paige sighed.

"Listen, I don't know what happened 'Up There', but it's like you guys are new people. You're certainly not the same Halliwells that I've been watching over all this time. The Halliwells I know would be up in the attic right now, getting as much information on this new apocalypse as possible. Instead, you guys are just sitting here, letting a few demons discourage you. All of those demons you've vanquished, all of the ones that have tried to destroy you, they don't mean a damn thing now. These demons that you haven't even met yet have already destroyed you. You let them take away your strength, your will to fight, your hope, and everything that makes you the Charmed Ones; everything that makes you Halliwells. I know you want to make sure that your kids are okay, but if you don't do something, they won't be. This new thing is serious. It'll take some serious people to stop it. We can't make you get up and help us, but if you really don't care, then you can watch the world crumple to pieces all around you and then you can crumble with it. Whether you're helping or not, we're going to do something about it. We may die trying to fight this off, but at least we can die fighting and not sitting on our asses being stubborn. If you need us, we'll be in the Underworld looking up some demons," Leo said. With that, the four of them orbed out, leaving the sisters to sit there staring in disbelief at what he had just said to them.

"What the hell were we thinking?" Andy asked as they crept through the Underworld, dodging demons and hugging the cavern walls.

"Well you just answered your own question, didn't you?" Cole asked with a grin. Andy glared at him.

"Don't worry man, you got us if you get into trouble. Besides, you've been down here before," Frisco said.

"Yeah, but I would be ten times more useful and twenty times more confident if I had some power to defend myself with," Andy said.

"Sorry about your luck, but it just doesn't work that way," Cole said. "Ugh, this is useless. We'll have to try a new tactic." He changed into Belthazor and stepped out, walking over to a demon.

"Chi sono voi?" the demon asked in an Italian tongue, ready to strike with a fireball.

"Sto cercando il della Morte di Bringers. Desidero aiutarlo nella loro
ricerca del Nexuses. Credo che abbia informazioni sopra dove una è," Belthazor said. The demon nodded slowly and led him away, leaving Frisco, Andy, and Leo behind.

"I hope he knows what he's doing," Frisco said.

"He does," Leo assured him. They followed the two, keeping their distance so as not to be noticed by the other demon.

"Well look what we have here," a voice growled from behind them. They all turned to see a demon, who looked just like a human, holding a fireball in his hands with a smile on his face. Frisco instantly put his shield up and began fighting, but his powers didn't work as well in the Underworld and the shield faltered, leaving him open to a blow going straight for his head. Leo did his best to defend himself and Andy, but they too were soon unconscious. The demon grabbed them and shimmered away.

The demon led Belthazor through many familiar windy passageways around the Underworld before coming into a large opening. Belthazor saw many demons there, all of them exactly alike. The demon led him through the crowd and into another cave where a larger version of the other demons sat. The demon spoke in anItalian tongue to larger demon.

"You have some information for me?" the larger demon finally asked. Belthazor nodded.

"I can tell you where one of the Nexuses is," he said.

"What if I already know about this Nexus or what if you're lying?" the demon asked.

"Then I guess you'll have to kill me… if I don't kill you first," Belthazor said. He shot a fireball at the smaller demon standing next to him and then another at the larger demon before shimmering out quickly to the spot where the others were. He found that they weren't there. He looked around for them and tried calling for Leo, but to no avail. He changed back to Cole.

"Shit, they must have been captured," he said. "This will get them off of their asses," he said, shimmering back to the manor.

There we go, that chapter was a little bit longer. I actually like this chapter, it's one of the best I've written (in my opinion, though you may not agree so you'll have to let me know… HINT). Anyways, I hope you guys are all ready for some good old demonic action. It's actually kind of fun to be writing all of this demon stuff again after all of that fluffy crap in the last story. How did you guys like Frisco's "get off their stubborn asses"? I loved that part. By the way, that littleItalian exchange between Cole and the demon was basicallythe demon asking Cole who he was and Cole telling the demon that heknew where aNexus was and hewanted to see theBringersof Death. Okay, so anyways, till next time…

Luv Ya! (just thought I'd try something new…)

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