Chapter 5: Day Four

"She's dead?" Leo exclaimed. "That's horrible. You can't stop the demons without the power of three."

"First dad, now Paige," Phoebe said. "It's more than horrible." She covered her eyes with her hands. "What can we do now? What's left to fight for?"

"Wait just a minute," Darryl said. "What did you tell me before when I said that? Paige wouldn't want you to give up. You need to keep going."

"He's right," Piper said. "I'm going to go vanquish some demons." She grabbed some potions and walked towards the door.

"Wait for me," Phoebe said, standing up. "We may not have the power of three, but at least we can have the power of two." Piper and Phoebe exited the store and walked into the street. The storm was getting more and more worse as the hours passed. They had been walking around for hours, vanquishing lower level demons. Phoebe was getting restless. "What are we doing, Piper?"

"Vanquishing demons," Piper answered, stating the obvious.

"We can't destroy all demons with just us two," Phoebe said. "We couldn't even do it with Paige." Piper looked at her sister.

"What do you want us to do?" she asked. "Sit around and wait to be killed?"

"No," Phoebe said. "Take out the creator of all this. Kill Rindo."

"Newsflash, Phoebe," Piper said, waving her arms. "We couldn't kill him before when we had six more witches' help."

"We can try," Phoebe said. Piper knew Phoebe was just trying to help, but she couldn't help herself.

"Are you stupid?" she spurted out. "We can't stop him!" Phoebe started watering up.

"Fine. If that's how you feel, you can go by yourself and vanquish meaningless demons." She started walking the opposite direction. "But I'm going to fight for a better world." Piper groaned in frustration and continued in the direction she was going.

Piper knew deep down inside that it was wrong of her to let Phoebe go by herself. She knew Phoebe was right, that they should be trying to stop the evil at it's source. She just wanted revenge for Paige's death. She needed it.

"All alone?" a voice called out to Phoebe. She looked around, but didn't see anyone. "Can't you see me?"

"Come on you coward," Phoebe said. "A big, scary demon like you needs to cower behind his invisibility?" A demon right in front of her suddenly became visible.

"What did you call me?" he asked, trying to intimidate her. He hit her, with enough force to knock her into a wall. She slowly got up, but by the time she did, she was kicked in the stomach. She tried to make eye contact to activate her powers, but he didn't look at her. "I've heard about you, witch," he said. "I know all about your powers."

"I have more than just that," she said, levitating herself to his head level and kicking him. He let out a yell of pain as he fell to the ground. "What do you think of that?" She looked around for a weapon she could use on him. She picked up a large two by four. He got up and wiped the blood from his smiling mouth.

"You know, that hurt," he said.

"Good," Phoebe said, striking at him with her board. He grabbed it as it was swung at him and threw it into a wall. He looked at her and gave her an evil smile. She used this moment to use her hypnosing power. "Throw an energy ball at yourself." He did so and was then vanquished. She let out a small breath of relief.

"My turn," another voice said. Another demon became visible.

"How many of you are there?" Phoebe asked.

"Enough," he said. Phoebe got a little angry.

"Let me rephrase that," she said, getting an orange glow around her iris. "How many of you are there?"

"There are six more," he said in a trance.

"Kill them," she said. Several demons became visible to defend themselves. The demon that was under Phoebe's control was instantly vanquished before being able to form an energy ball. The six demons had Phoebe surrounded. They each had an energy ball formed in their hands.

"Still feeling lucky," one asked.

"A little," she answered. They prepared to throw them. Phoebe ducked. The energy balls passed over her and hit the demons opposite of it. Each of the six erupted into flames. "That was easier than I thought," she said out loud. She continued on her path to the manor.

"What are you doing, Leo?" Darryl asked. Leo was standing next to a bunch of potion ingredients and mixing some.

"I'm making all the potions I can remember," he said. "I'm going to help the sisters. I can't sit back and watch them die. I'm sick of sitting here when we could be out helping."

"No," Darryl said. "We need to be staying here, watching over your kids and protecting them." Leo stopped mixing the potion he was working on and rested his head on his hands.

"I can't let them lose their mother either," Leo said.

"She can protect herself. She has Phoebe with her." Darryl set his hand on Leo's shoulder "It's going to be okay."

"Will it, Darryl?" Leo asked. "Will it?" He got back to mixing the potion. Darryl walked over to the door to keep watch for demons.

Phoebe arrived to the manor and saw that inside, demons were trashing it. The place had become a mess. Not the home she had remembered. Not the house that held all her memories. Phoebe heard the sound of shoes clunking against the pavement. She turned to see that Piper was walking towards her.

"I couldn't let you do this alone," she said.

"Piper," Phoebe said, giving her a small hug.

"Well," Piper said. "I'm here. Now what's your plan?"

"I don't have one," Phoebe said.

"That's alright I guess," Piper said. "I like it better when we go in blindly fighting.