Chapter 8: Chris' New Powers

"What?" Chris asked. "The only reason I took these powers was to save my family, not kill them."

"You will be saving them," Detrok said. "You will end their future sufferings. Do it, Chris. Kill them now."

"Don't, Chris," Piper said. "Don't listen to him."

"She doesn't love you, Chris. She never did. She never paid attention to you until now. The only child she cares about is Wyatt. That's all anyone ever cared about." With the mention of Wyatt's name, Chris started to feel his anger rise.

"That's not true," Piper said. "We all have loved you."

"That's what's not true, Chris. They could care less about you. You're better off dead to them." Chris felt the energy running through his body. Pumping through his veins. Phoebe's empathy started detecting it.

"Chris don't…" He sent out a blue sweeping light that pushed his aunts across the kitchen, knocking them unconscious.

"Good job," Detrok said approvingly. "Now finish them off."

"I don't think I can," Chris said to him.

"And just why not?"

"They are my family. I can't kill them."

"You must," Detrok said anxiously. "Think of the future."

"Without the Charmed Ones, there will be no future."

"You're thinking good. Think of the future of evil. Your future."

"What's going on?" Leo asked, as he walked into the kitchen.

"Kill Leo," Detrok told Chris.

"What?" Leo asked. "Let's not."

"He was never there for you. He was always there for someone else, like Wyatt." Once again, Chris felt the evil and anger flow. "Kill him so that it doesn't happen again."

"Chris, stop!" Leo said. "He's tricking you." Piper started to regain consciousness. Leo noticed her starting to wake up. He tried to keep Chris distracted. "You're right. I never was there for you. I never will be there either. You're scum. Compared to Wyatt, you're nothing." Chris was furious.

"I'll kill you!" Chris yelled at him.

"Do it," Leo said. "I don't think you will. You're a wimp. You'll never be strong, like Wyatt. He will always be better than you are." Piper grabbed the vanquishing potion. She threw it at Detrok.

"No!" Detrok yelled as he busted into flames. They were expecting to see Chris change back to normal, but he was still evil. Phoebe and Paige got up.

"Die!" Chris threw a blue wave at Leo. Leo was thrown through the kitchen door.

"Leo!" Piper yelled. Chris orbed away. "Where's he going?"

"Where's Wyatt?" Phoebe asked. Piper ran for the stairs. She got up to Wyatt's room and saw lighting bolts coming out of Chris' hands and they were trying to pierce through Wyatt's shield."

"Chris, please stop." He turned around and faced his mother. "If anyone should die for your future, it should be me. I'm the one who didn't pay attention to you as I should have. Please, leave Wyatt and the rest of them alone. This is between you and me."

Leo, Paige, and Phoebe arrived at the door way. Chris grabbed onto his mother and orbed away. Phoebe ran over to the crying Wyatt and picked him up. Paige went to get a crystal and a map. Leo just stood there, shocked.

Piper let out a scream of pain. Chris had her tied to a metallic fence and he was sending electric shocks through it.

"No one to help you now is there, mom?"

"Chris, stop this…" she said weakly. He sent another shock through the fence. "Killing me isn't going to help you at all in the future. In fact, if you kill me, you won't be around to see it."

"Who said I was going to kill you? Detrok thought I was stupid, but I'm not. I'm going to make the rest of your life hell. You will feel pain at every minute of the day. Once I rule the Underworld, I'll capture your sister's and let you watch their torturing until finally they are killed."

"What did I do that makes you this pissed?"

"What did you do?" Chris laughed maniacally. "I'll do better, I'll show you what you did." He waved his hands and they were gone in a blue flash. Just as they disappeared, Phoebe, Paige, and Leo orbed in.

"Where are they?" Paige asked.

"Piper was tortured here," Phoebe said. "She went through a lot of pain. We need to stop…" She touched the fence and had a premonition.

A demon was standing in front of Piper and Leo. Behind them, was Chris and Wyatt.

"We can't do that," Piper said.

"We won't do it," Leo said.

"You have no choice," the demon told them. "You made the deal, and now you suffer the consequences. Give me one of them."

"No," Piper said. She tried to blow him up, but he wouldn't.

"You know you can't kill me, you've already tried. Now give me one of them. Choose now, or you all die." Piper turned around and looked at both her sons.

"I'm sorry, Chris," she said.

"Now you know," Chris said to Piper.

"I gave you up to a demon? Why would I do that? I would never let that happen."

"They tortured me for five years before a group of witches saved me. They took me in and helped me with my powers. Something my mom should have done." Tears came to Chris' eyes. He dried them and turned to her. "Now you get what you did to me." They appeared back where they had been before, with Piper tied to the fence. Phoebe, Paige, and Leo looked at them surprised.

"Get out of here!" Piper called to them.

"Shut up!" he yelled at her. "What are you doing here?"

"We've come to get our sister back," Phoebe said.

"Then why don't you join her?" he said motioning his hand in a circular pattern. They ended up tied to the fence along side of her. "Now you all can suffer together."

"Good rescuing, sis," Piper said to Phoebe.

"We still have one last hope," Paige said. After that, Juklin shimmered in behind Chris. He started to chant something. Chris started to become transparent. He became a ghost again. A giant hole in the sky appeared. It started to suck him towards it.

"No!" he yelled. "You will pay for what you did!" Piper's eyes started to release tears. Chris was fully in the hole and it closed shut.

"I can't believe a demon takes away Chris in the future," Piper was saying. She had Chris in her arms. "I can't believe I just let it happen."

"It appeared like there really wasn't anything you could do," Phoebe said to her, trying to make her feel better.

"We won't let it happen this time though," Paige said. "We'll stop this demon." This demon from the future wasn't as far into the future as the premonition revealed. He would be coming soon. His demonic army would battle the Charmed Ones to the death.

Next fic in the series is The Holocaust. Summary: The Charmed Ones, Darryl, and Leo are sent back to the days of the Holocaust.