Chapter 3: Day Two
"Energy Ball!" Paige yelled. She vanquished a demon with his own energy ball. Piper blew up the last one.
"Now what?" Darryl asked. "That's what, five out of ten thousand. Demons have taken over. Four of us can't take them on."
"We have to at least try," Piper said. "If we go down, we're going down kicking and screaming." Paige's cell phone suddenly started to ring.
"Hello?" she answered.
"Paige!" Annie yelled. "What the hell is going on?"
"What do you mean?" Paige asked.
"Demons have taken over New York," she replied. "Jordan was killed. We need help."
"I'm…so sorry," Paige said. "But demons have taken over San Francisco too and we need to stay here and fight."
"What's left to fight for," Annie said, hanging up after that.
"Who was it?" Piper asked.
"Annie," Paige said. "Jordan was killed."
"Oh no," Piper said. "Poor David. But we've got our own problems here."
"That's what I told her," Paige said. "We should go back to Victor's. We need Phoebe's help." Paige orbed Darryl and Piper there. Once there, they found Victor, worried as hell.
"Where were you guys?" he asked.
"Fighting for the city," Piper said. "Where's Phoebe?" she asked noticing that Phoebe wasn't there.
"She left right after Paige did," Leo said.
"Where did she go?"
"I wouldn't know, I haven't left the apartment," Leo said.
"I wouldn't either on a count that I was FROZEN!" Victor said.
"Yeah, sorry about that," Piper said. "But we better go find her now." They were heading for the door when Leo stopped them.
"Oh no you don't," Leo said. "If you're going to find her, you're going to do it the right way. Scrying." Piper walked over to get a map. Paige orbed to get a crystal. She came back a few minutes later with one. Piper started to scry for her sister.
"Got her," she said a moment later. "Now if it's okay with you, I'm going to go get her now."
"Fine," Leo said. "But be careful."
"Paige, orb them to Magic School so they're safe," Piper said.
"Magic School isn't so safe anymore," Paige said.
"What?" Leo asked surprised. "How?"
"Demons took it over, much like they've taken over the city," Paige said.
"Fine," Piper said. "Just orb me to Phoebe. Darryl, protect these guys." Piper and Paige orbed. They got there to find Phoebe walking up an alleyway. .
"Phoebe!" Paige yelled to her. Phoebe turned around.
"It's about time," she said. "There are demons galore after me." A demon smoked in. "See?" It aimed an energy ball at her and Piper blew it up.
"Yeah," Piper said. "They're after us too."
"What do we do?" Phoebe asked. "They've taken over and we are three witches. Even if we took out all the demons and sent them back to the Underworld, we still would be up against Rindo, who we couldn't stop before with eight witches."
"I know it seems hard, Phoebe," Piper said. "But we have to keep fighting."
"We should probably fight it at the main source," Paige said. "The manor."
"I agree," Phoebe said. "Let's orb then." They orbed to the outside of the manor.
"I had a very bad experience here earlier," Piper said. "But there's three of us now so hopefully things go a little better."
"I wouldn't count on it," Paige said.
"Well," Phoebe said. "Let's do it." Piper blasted down the door like she had done a few hours ago and they stepped inside. There seemed to be more demons in there this time. Piper tried blowing one up. It just got sent back into a wall.
"Uh oh," Piper said. "Upper-level demons. We need potions to stop them."
"And that's something we really don't have access to right now," Phoebe said. A fireball was thrown at them. Paige orbed them out right before it hit them. They reformed in a witch shop.
"We can use some of these to make potions," Paige said.
"We don't have the recipes though," Phoebe pointed out.
"It's okay," Piper said. "I remember some of them. We'll just have to hope we don't run into any demons that I can't remember the potion to."
"That's a reassuring thought," Paige said sarcastically. Piper started to make the potions. It took them well into the morning. By the time she was done, it was 11:15 a.m.
"For that demon we met on our way in," Piper said. "His potion needs to set untouched for an hour until the potion's color turns to blood red."
"Good, I can use another hour of sleep," Phoebe said from the counter she was laying on.
"Me too," Paige said from the floor. She sat up anyways. "I feel sick."
"Well get over it," Piper said. "We're going to be having a fun day of being thrown into walls, being hit by energy balls, and maybe a few car throws." Paige groaned at hearing this.
"I'm going to get some aspirin," she said, orbing to the nearest Walmart. She came back a few minutes later with aspirin and some food.
"Thank you, thank you," Phoebe said getting up. "I'm starving." Phoebe opened a bag of chips and started eating. Her and Paige sat around eating for an hour, waiting for the potion to be ready. Piper just sat there staring at it. "Come on Piper, eat something."
"No," Piper said. "This is no time for eating."
"You need to gain your strength up," Paige said. "Otherwise your powers won't work so well."
"Eat, Piper," Phoebe commanded her. "I don't care if your hungry or not. You need to be strong for today." Piper reluctantly ate a pop tart to make her sisters shut up. They reminded her of herself, always trying to make them eat breakfast.
"Happy now, moms?" she asked.
"Yes we are," Paige said. "Now that we're rested and eaten up, we should get going. It looks like the potion is ready." Piper looked and noticed that she was right.
"Alright, Paige," Piper said. "Orb away." Paige orbed them to the manor. The door was up again and Piper had to re-blow it down.
"I'm getting sick of putting a new door on my house," Rindo said once they were in.
"Don't you mean our house?" Paige asked. Since Piper knew which potion went to which, she threw the potions. About six demons around Rindo were vanquished.
"How many are left?" Phoebe asked.
"I have seven left," Piper said. "I don't see any of them though." Piper gave the potions to Phoebe. "I need my hands open." She started blowing demons up. Paige was orbing things into them. Phoebe started using her new hypnosing power to control a demon. She made it distract Rindo while Piper and Paige were fighting.
"You stupid witches!" Rindo yelled at the top of his lungs. He vanquished the demon that Phoebe had control over.
"Why do demons always address us as witches?" Piper asked. "We have names."
"I'm getting sick and tired of having to deal with you three," he said. He started making weird hand gestures and the sisters had the feel that they were about to be hit with something big.
"Can't we talk this out," Phoebe asked. They were suddenly shimmered away.
"What the hell?" Rindo said. The sisters were gone. They reappeared in an old abandoned factory.
"Where are we?" Piper asked. There were demons all around them.
"You're with us now," one of them said. Piper held her hands up to blow them up. "Stop!" She put her hands down.
"And why shouldn't I kill you?" Piper asked.
"We want your help and we want to help you."
"Help us with what?" Paige asked.
"We don't like the way the world has become. We want our place back in the Underworld."
"Why wouldn't you like being able to take over the world?" Piper asked.
"It's not the way things are meant to be," a female demon said. "Things weren't supposed to end this way."
"What do you mean?" Phoebe asked.
"Rindo has changed the timeline. That is the reason that the Cleaners aren't interfering. They think that this is how it's supposed to be," the first demon said. "I am Xantlo. This is Demiter," he said introducing the female. "We wish to have your aid in stopping him and putting demons back where they belong. The day may come one day where we take over. But this is not that day."
"We need to talk this over," Piper said, pulling her sisters away from them. "What do you think, Phoebe? Are they telling the truth?"
"Yes," Phoebe said. "They're telling the truth all right. They are completely against what's going on. The only problem with them is, they have no idea what they're going to do to stop them."
"Maybe with out help they'll find a way," Paige said. They walked back over to them.
"Okay," Piper said. "You have our attention."