Chapter 6: Day Five

"Leo, we got company," Darryl said. There was a demon with an axe coming towards them.

"Is he an upper or lower-level demon?" Leo asked.

"How do you expect me to know?" Darryl asked. Leo ran over and looked.

"He's a lower-level demon," Leo said. "He'll be able to be killed with a shot of your shotgun. Darryl ran behind a store shelf and waited. Once the demon reached the door, he crashed through with his axe. Darryl jumped out of his hiding place and shot him. The demon blew up in flames.

"Uh oh," Leo said, suddenly realizing something.

"What?" Darryl asked.

"The gunshot will attract demons," Leo said. "Then more and more will come." Just as Leo had said, a demon shimmered in.

Piper blasted the manor door down once more and she and Phoebe stepped in. There were more demons there than the other times they had been there. Rindo stepped in from the adjacent room.

"I've been expecting you," he said. He then noticed that there were only two of them. "Where is your sister?"

"None of your business," Piper said.

"She's dead," the demon next to Rindo said. "Killed by a fireball."

"Really?" Rindo asked. He let out a laugh. "I wanted to be the one to kill you three." He let out another laugh. "Oh well. Do it," he said to the demon next to him.

"Do what?" Phoebe asked. The demon nodded his head and held his arms out. Two blue streams came out of his palms. The sisters fell down unconscious. Rindo and the rest of the demons left the room, leaving the sisters sprawled across the floor.

"What do we do, Leo?" Darryl asked. "We can't fight them forever."

We're going to have to," Leo said. "At least until we can make it out of here."

"How do you suppose we do that?"

"I don't know yet," Leo said.

"We'll run out of weapons soon," Darryl said. "I don't have infinite ammo and you don't have that many potions left."

"Just keep shooting, Darryl," Leo said. A demon shimmered in. Leo threw a potion at it and vanquished it. Darryl shot one as it entered the store.

"I'm almost out, Leo," Darryl said. Outside, Darryl could see a lot of demons walking towards them.

"Piper, what happened?" Phoebe asked. They were sitting in the manor with no demons. Across from them was Prue.

"Prue?" Piper exclaimed.

"Yeah…" Prue said. "What are you talking about, Phoebe?"

"Um, nothing," Phoebe answered.

"Phoebe," Piper said. "Can I speak with you in the attic?"

"The attic?" Prue asked. "Why would you want to go to the attic? The door had been jammed for years, you'll never get in."

"Oh, we'll find a way," Piper said. She and Phoebe ran up the stairs and to the attic.

"What's going on?" Phoebe asked.

"That's what I'm here to find out." Piper walked over to the Book and started flipping through the pages. "Ah ha!"

"What?"

"This is the demon that used his magic on us," Piper said. "Chinj, also known as the memory demon. Has the power to send beings into slumbers filled with memories." Before Phoebe could say anything, they were flashed into another memory.

"I'm out of bullets!" Darryl yelled. He ran to the back of the store.

"Use these," Leo said, handing him a few potions. There were only ten or so left. Darryl threw one at the nearest demon. It erupted into flames.

"These won't last long," Darryl said. "And there's no back door out of here. How will we get out?"

"I don't know," Leo said. "Just throw potions." Darryl threw another one, vanquishing another demon. Several more demons were outside and waiting to get in.

"Piper," Leo said to her. She was kneeling next to him. He was lying in a bed. He was sweating quite a bit.

"Leo," Piper said to him. Even though she knew that she had saved him, she felt sad and had a tear fall down her cheek. He closed his eyes as he was passing on. "I love you." She held her hands over him and started to heal him. Phoebe suddenly walked into the room.

"Piper!" she exclaimed. "What do we do?" Before Piper could say anything, they passed on to another memory.

Phoebe was tied on a stake, about to be burned for her crime. Piper was sitting next to Prue watching. Phoebe watched Prue as she started to cry.

"No," Piper said.

"I know, Piper," Prue said to her. "But it's what has to happen. We can't stop it." Prue grabbed her hand and held it tightly. Phoebe let out a scream of pain as she was burned.

Flash

Piper and Phoebe were standing on the dock. Prue was on the other side watching Sam as he was being killed by the same demon that had killed mom for trying to protect her.

"Prue!" Piper yelled. Prue used her powers to flip the switch to electrocute the demon. It was killed, but before drowning Sam.

"Sam," Prue said to Sam, holding him. "Don't die on me. Please don't."

"Patty?" he called out. The sisters looked to where he was looking, but saw no one.

Flash

"Your wish?" the genie asked Piper.

"What?" Piper asked, confused.

"What are you gonna wish for?" the genie repeated.

"Oh yeah that," Piper said. She thought for a moment about Dan. "I wish Dan would move on with his life and forget about me."

"Granted."

Flash

Phoebe was walking down the sidewalk away from the university. She felt a familiar tap on her shoulder. She swung around to kick the person behind her, but her foot was caught in midair.

"Cole," Phoebe said.

"Help me, Phoebe," Cole said. Phoebe knew this wasn't what he had said so many years ago.

"What?" Phoebe asked surprised.

"I said, 'Hi, how's it going," he said. Phoebe looked at him suspiciously. "Nice calf."

Flash

Phoebe was standing across from Piper in the kitchen while Prue was putting oven mitts over her hands. Piper had just blown up a flowerpot.

"Try the teapot," Prue said.

"Never mind that," Piper said. "Phoebe, let's get to the Book." She threw off the oven mitts and started walking away.

"Piper, are you sure that's safe?" Prue called after her.

"We need to get to the Book before the next memory switch," Piper said.

"Are we changing the past with all of what we're doing?" Phoebe asked.

"We shouldn't be," Piper said. "We're just remembering things, so it's not like we're actually going back to that real time."

Flash

"We're out," Darryl said. "That was the last of them."

"We need to make a run for it," Leo said.

"Run for where?" Darryl asked. "There's nowhere left…" He was suddenly hit with an energy ball.

"Darryl!" Leo yelled. He kneeled down next to him. He felt for a pulse, but there was no pulse to feel. Leo was about to get up and run for the door, but he was suddenly orbed out yet he hadn't been the one who orbed himself.

A tornado of wind twists through the front floor and knock Piper and Prue to the floor. There was a clap of thunder and Shax appeared.

"Dear God," Dr. Griffiths said.

"No!" Prue yelled.. She got of the floor and pushed Dr. Griffiths out of the way. She was hit with an energy ball and goes crashing through a wall. Piper gets up and she too is hit with an energy ball and thrown through a wall. Shax turned to Dr. Griffiths.

"What are you?" Dr. Griffiths asked.

"The end," Shax said, throwing an energy ball at him, forcing him through a window. Shax looks around and turns back into the wind and leaves the manor, pulling the door shut and smashing the glass on it.

Flash

"Alright," Piper said, sternly. "This is enough." They were at Prue's funeral. Everyone turned to look at her. "Leo, no time to explain, but orb me and Phoebe to the attic quickly."

"What?" he asked.

"Do it!" she screamed. He grabbed onto them an orbed them to the attic like instructed.

"Hurry, Piper," Phoebe said. "It could happen anytime now."

"What's going on?" Leo asked. "How could you ask me to orb in front of all those people?"

"No time to explain," Phoebe said. Piper was quickly going through the pages of the Book.

"Found it!" she exclaimed.

Demon with the power of memory,

Pasts revealed and futures unseen,

Vanquish now and bring us back,

Back to our bodies and into whack

Chinj was standing next to Rindo when he suddenly started to feel pain throughout his body. He was about to become vanquished.

"No!" he yelled as he went up in flames and vanquished.

"The sisters!" Rindo yelled. "Get to them now!" Demons scrambled to where they had left the witches. Piper and Phoebe were now standing up wide awake.

"Miss us?" Phoebe asked.

"You've just brought your death closer," Rindo said. "Now, kill them."