Chapter 7: From Good, to Bad, to Downright Evil

"Give him back!" Piper yelled. Chris was tied with chains to an old, dead tree.

"I'd rather keep him," Detrok said. "He's far more valuable to me than he ever could be to you." Piper tried blowing up the chains. They were immune to it, just like Detrok was. Paige slowly started grabbing the vanquishing potion out of her pocket. Piper continued trying to blow both Detrok and the chains up. Paige threw the potion. Detrok was too quick though. He threw an energy ball and destroyed the potion in midair.

"Explain to me why we didn't bring more potions," Piper said.

"Foolish witches," he said to them, "the power of evil is much greater than good."

"We need to go and get more potions!" Paige yelled to her sisters.

"No," Piper said stubbornly. "I won't leave without Chris. Not this time." Detrok threw an energy ball at her, but she blew it up.

"Piper," Phoebe said. "Let's go now!" Piper obeyed. They orbed back to the manor.

"You did it again," Paige said. "That same ring appeared in your eye. I think you have a new power."

"Huh?" Piper asked. She was still in a daze after the hypnosis.

"Well, it sure isn't that hard to control," Phoebe said. "That's a good thing. You wouldn't believe how long it took til I could levitate right."

"I'm going to go get started on the potions," Paige said. "We're going to need plenty more of them."

"I'm going to try to find a way to break those chains around Chris," Phoebe said.

"Uh," Piper said.

"I wonder where Leo is," Paige said as she started to make a batch of potions.

"Chris, the power of evil will give you unlimited power. If you stay with your pathetic witch powers, what do you get? A little telekinesis? With darkness, you can have that times ten and more. And you won't have the pestering Elders giving you orders all the time, telling you when you can and can't use your powers. With evil, you can have all the personal gain you want." Chris' face revealed that he was seriously thinking about it in his head.

"I won't," he said. Detrok knew though that he wanted it.

"You would have the power to save the ones you love," he said. "Your family…your mom."

"I can save my mom without the use of evil."

"Are you sure about that?" Detrok asked. He waved his hand. A woman in a red cloak appeared. "Show him." Her eyes started to glow red. She projected the manor and the Charmed Ones, only about 10 years older. There were demons surrounding them.

"Look out, Paige!" Phoebe yelled. A fireball hit her and she erupted into flames. "Paige!" Phoebe yelled. She got hit by one herself. Piper tried to fight off the other demons attacking her but she couldn't. A fireball hit her and like her sisters, she became fire.

Chris' eyes had tears streaming down his face. He had seen this before. He was 13 years old when it had happened. He and Wyatt had tried to fight the demons off, but Paige orbed them away. He had hoped that it would be different next time. That his mom and his aunts would still be alive. But no matter what he did, he couldn't stop the inevitable. Unless he did as Detrok proposed.

"Okay," Chris said. "I'm listening."

"How many potions do you have so far?" Phoebe asked.

"Well, each batch fills about 10 vials," Paige said. "I've made two batches already, so I'd say about twenty."

"That should be more than enough."

"You never know," Paige said. "How are you doing with those chains."

"Not so good," she said. "It appears that they are not only immune to Piper's exploding power, but they are impenetrable to all good magic."

"We'll have to worry about that later then," Paige said. "Let's get Piper and get going." They walked downstairs. Leo and Juklin were sitting on the couch watching Star Wars.

"This is amazing," Juklin muttered. Paige rolled her eyes.

"Where's Piper?" Phoebe asked.

"She's in the kitchen," Leo said. Paige and Phoebe proceeded to the kitchen. Piper was there as Leo had said.

"Ready this time?" Piper asked.

"Sure are," Paige said. "Got twenty potions." They were about to orb, but they saw a shimmer.

"Wait," Phoebe said. Detrok appeared. Then they saw black orbs. "What's that?"

"Who do you think?" Detrok asked. Chris' body formed through the black orbs.

"No," Piper said.

"Kill them," Detrok ordered. "Kill them now."