The title for this is a play on the saying 'pain the town red'. I must say I made a mistake last chapter I said "she, Cole and Paige regained consciousness", instead of "she, Asendea and Paige regained consciousness", but I've fixed that now!
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Peanut2lb: Glad you liked it! Yes, but opening the wall for just a moment will collide the worlds, it's like in 'apocalypse not', Piper and Phoebe chose the 'five strangers' over 'one sibling', but Prue isn't looking at how it will effect the world, she's saving 'one husband' rather than 'five strangers'! Well as I said in 'Simply Charmed' Piper can kick box too, not just Phoebe, and Prue can clearly fight, many examples of that in season 3 and her best (though probably over the top) fight was with Vinceres, when she was super strong as an uncontrollable empath! By the way, you're latest chapters have been awesome, I hope you update as soon as you have again!
Princess Pinky: Glad you liked it! Asendea is in this chapter lots! Paige orbed the potion to her, rather than far away, because if she destroyed it herself she'd know it was definitely destroyed!
Money makes me smile: Glad you liked it! Prue knows she has Grace, but as far as she's concerned she's helping Grace too!
The-Cheese-Fairy: Glad you liked it! Thanks, your imagination is incredible too! It's not gonna be so easy for Prue/Andy!
Fanmania: Glad you liked it! Glad you liked the chapter title!
Paint The Town Dead:
Prue gaped at the glowing wall in amazement, she shivered slightly as a spirit walked through her,
"we're screwed," Paige stated, orbing out and back in again beside Phoebe and Asendea,
"can you sense Piper?" Asendea asked,
"I can if I want to, why?" Paige replied,
"because we need to find her and get out, some of these ghosts aren't so nice," she explained.
"Paige, go get Piper," Phoebe ordered, seeing a ghost stalk towards them with an energy ball in her palm,
"plasma balls aren't as explosive as energy balls, but just as killable," Asendea told them, as Phoebe levitated up to dodge one,
"I'll be back in a sec," Paige said, orbing out. Prue glanced back at her sister and Asendea before running into the wall, disappearing from sight,
"I'll follow her," Asendea said, becoming a cloud of golden lights and following Prue into the wall, leaving Phoebe alone.
"Where's Asendea?" Piper asked, as Paige orbed them in,
"she went after Prue," Phoebe replied,
"one of us needs to stay here and stall some of the ghosts, we need to keep them away from the city, the world, for as long as we can," Paige stated,
"I will," Piper offered,
"okay, lets go, we've got some demons to vanquish and a wall to close," Phoebe said, taking Paige's hand,
"demons to vanquish?" Paige repeated,
"Logan and Divinity," the angelic seer replied, as Paige orbed them out. Two ghosts advanced on Piper, both with plasma balls,
"here's some not so friendly ghosts," the charmed one said, blowing up the plasma balls.
Meanwhile, at Magic School, Gabrielle was sitting by herself in one of the classrooms when she heard footsteps behind her,
"how did you get in here?" she questioned, jumping up off the desk she had been sitting on.
"Don't worry, I haven't hurt your kids," Divinity replied,
"how did you get in here?" Gabrielle repeated her question,
"with one of these," the fallen Elder replied, holding up a small bag of glowing blue tablets,
"I've never seen you at the market before," Gabrielle said,
"I've never been to the market before," Divinity stated.
"Then how did you get hold of them?" the fashion columnist asked,
"Borx had a load," Divinity replied,
"okay," Gabrielle said, "now what is it that you want?"
"to make you an offer, I will give you what you need to find out who the father of your daughter is, and don't even deny that you don't want to know because I can sense how much you do," Divinity began, "if, you kill Prudence; the eldest." Gabrielle pondered the offer before holding out her hand for Divinity to shake, as the woman did,
"I'll do it," she agreed, though feeling slightly nervous that she was going to have to go up against a vengeful super witch.
At the manor, Paige, Phoebe and Cole were sitting in the attic,
"okay, so Leo's powerless and at Magic School, Kyle's at Magic School just in case Prue goes there, and the kids have to stay out this to be safe, that leaves just us three," Paige said,
"first we should go after Divinity," Phoebe told them,
"I think we should go after Logan," Cole said,
"why?" the seer asked,
"because he's right behind you," he replied, staring passed the two sisters to where Logan stood in the doorway.
"I thought I'd help save your energy by coming to you, because god knows you're gonna need it," he laughed,
"you're a demon, how do you know what god knows," Paige said, raising her hand; ready to orb-deflect an attack.
"Demon's have gods too," Logan replied, firing an energy bullet which bounced of Paige's defensive orbs and straight back at him, throwing him through the doorway and down a few of the stairs,
"do we know how we're gonna vanquish him?" the witchlighter asked,
"maybe Belthazar's got a shot," Cole suggested, morphing into his demon form.
"Stand back," he instructed, Phoebe nodded and pulled Paige down behind the couch,
"are we just gonna watch?" the youngest asked,
"pretty much," Phoebe replied, as Logan re-entered the room.
"Well, well, well, looks like Belthazar's come out to play, this ought to be fun," the demon smirked, both of them launched energy balls at the same time, causing a small explosion from the colliding powers.
"You might as well just give up now," Belthazar said, charging up another energy ball to throw,
"I think that's what you should do," Logan said, also creating another energy ball, Paige snorted a laugh,
"Paige, what's so funny?" Phoebe asked, quite surprised at how her sister was reacting,
"a threat from demon to demon is kind of pathetic," the Halliwell-Brody commented, with another small laugh, Phoebe smiled at how her sister could make jokes at times like these and nodded. As the second set of energy balls hit each other they released a shockwave which spread through the room and smashed the windows which weren't already smashed,
"Piper will flip when she sees what you're doing to her attic," Paige told Belthazar, who glanced at her with a glare before turning back to Logan. Belthazar held his hands a reasonable distance apart and chuckled wickedly as a large energy ball began to generate between them,
"I told you to give up," he said to Logan, before releasing the energy ball and watching as it turned him to a pile of ash.
"Okay Cole, it's time to come back," Phoebe stated, Belthazar nodded and morphed back into Cole as the two women got up from behind the couch and walked over to the empty window frames,
"there's dead men walking all over the city, there must have been too much for Piper," Cole said,
"do you think she's okay?" Phoebe asked,
"she's fine, in pain but fine, I'll go get her," Paige replied, orbing out.
"If we close the wall, will they all go back?" Phoebe asked her husband,
"I have no idea," he replied, looking out at the many ghosts which slowly glided down the street.
In the afterlife, Asendea was chasing Prue through realm of dying plants and ruined beauty,
"Prudence, don't you see, you're being selfish, the dead are terrorising the mortal world and the nature in the afterlife is withering away," the goddess said, as she finally caught up with Prue and grabbed her wrist.
"Leave me alone!" Prue yelled, releasing a swarm of black from her mouth which wrapped around Asendea and carried her through the air and back through the wall, then the rogue charmed one continued to make her way through the afterlife.
Asendea looked up at the Barrier of the Living Dead as it began to turn a darker shade of blue,
"I need to end this, I need to stop her vengeance," she said, vanishing in white lights.
The Goddess of Life reappeared in Mount Olympus and ran over to Magnolia; the most recent Angel of Life,
"you're coming with me," she stated,
"what for?" Magnolia asked,
"to bring back the dead," Asendea replied, taking hold of the angel's arm and leading her away.
Not much later,
"I don't see why you couldn't have just done this," Magnolia said, walking over to the marble slab on which Andy's deceased body lay,
"because it'll be good practice for you, now revive him as much as you can and I'll do the rest," Asendea told her student. Magnolia scrunched her eye nervously and held her shaking hands above Andy's body, preparing to release her healing power, but before she could do anything a dark blast through her across the misty chamber.
"Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, he's mine," Windom, the latest Angel of Death, said, as he gradually waltzed from the shadows,
"not anymore," Asendea hissed, stepping out with her eyes glowing,
"I had a feeling you'd be here," a voice said, as Maroias, the God of Death, walked up next to Windom.
"If you don't let us resurrect him then the mortal world is ruined," Asendea began,
"we're neautral, as are you supposedly, if the mortal world is in trouble we should not interfere," Maroias interrupted,
"you didn't let me finish, not only is the mortal world ruined but so the afterlife, the barrier has been opened, I'm surprised you didn't sense it," Asendea said.
"I sensed something, but not once did I suspect someone had opened the barrier, who would do such a thing?" Maroias asked,
"this man's wife, in order to get him back," Asendea said, walking over to the marble slab and looking down at Andy, still clad in the clothes he had worn at death,
"we can fix that," Magnolia said, teleporting next to Asendea, "if we bring him back she'll close the gate and the ghosts will return."
"I'll let him go, but just this time, next time I'll close the gate myself," Maroias told them,
"what? you're giving in just like that?" Windom exclaimed,
"one day you'll learn boy, one day," Maroias said, patting the angel's shoulder and watching as Magnolia calmed herself before trying to heal Andy again.
Back in the afterlife, Prue fought back the happy tears as the finally found Andy,
"what have you done Prue?" he asked, looking around the destruction which was forming,
"it'll only go away once I get you home and close the barrier," she replied, longing to hug and kiss him, but couldn't for the obvious reason that he was a ghost.
"Hello Prue," Gabrielle said, walking towards them and stopping not far away,
"unless you want a permanent place here, get out of my face," Prue threatened,
"actually, that's what I'm here to give you," the fashion columnist said. Gabrielle gesturing wildly and an athame appeared in her hand, it was studded with black jewels, even the blade,
"is that the best you got?" Prue said, Gabrielle grinned and swiped at the air with the athame, causing it to suddenly grow in size and become more like a sword, a sharp point forming at the end of the gold handle to give it something extra.
"What the hell is that thing?" Prue questioned,
"what I'm gonna kill you with," Gabrielle replied, lunging at the witch and narrowly missing her shoulder with the weapon,
"you'll have to get close enough first," Prue stated, pushing Gabrielle away and forming a pyrokinetic sphere, which bounced off the sword like a tennis ball, hitting Prue in the chest and blasting her backwards,
"you can't win Prue, after all, the best bitch always wins," Gabrielle said, a dark smile plastered across her face as she walked towards the Halliwell. Andy felt helpless, her couldn't do anything to stop Gabrielle, even his powers were off due to the transition from life to death, he could only watch as Prue failed to protect herself and Gabrielle punctured her heart with the mystical blade.
"My job is done," Gabrielle whispered, throwing a potion to the ground and standing still while the power that released from it transported her from the afterlife.
Back in the chamber, Magnolia was very slowly managing to heal Andy when Windom's scroll appeared in his hand and made her jump, losing her concentration and therefore losing the healing she'd already done,
"great, now I have to start again," she groaned,
"patience," Asendea told her, as she walked over to Windom and Maroias.
"This is going to be interesting, very interesting," Windom said, waving his hand and making Prue's body appear on the marble slab next to the one on which Andy lay,
"Prudence," Asendea gasped, running over to her, "no, you cannot take her, the power of three will be eternally broken," she told Maroias and Windom.
"She's appeared on my list, I'm going to take her," Windom said,
"and we're not giving up both of them," Maroias added,
"therefore their family must decide who you shall give up," Asendea said, putting on a brave face and dematerialising in white lights.
She materialised in the attic where Piper, Paige, Phoebe, Cole and Leo were,
"Asendea, someone's stopped Prue, Leo's powers are back," Paige beamed,
"I don't think you're going to like the way Prue was stopped," Asendea said,
"what d'you mean?" Piper asked,
"Magnolia, the Angel of Life, had begun reviving Andy when Windom, the Angel of Death, told us that Prue was dead, he made her body appear and it looks like she's been stabbed, but the wound had that magical scent, someone murdered her, and the only demon strong enough to do that was the Source," Asendea replied, "I'm so sorry."
"She's dead, there's a new Source and he killed her, oh god she's really dead," Piper sobbed,
"where's Andy now?" Leo asked, while comforting his wife,
"Magnolia didn't finish healing him," Asendea told them,
"why not?" Paige asked,
"because you've got a choice, we can either bring back Andy, or Prue, death won't give up both," she replied, the family had no words to say, they had been given a choice, and whatever they decided they would still lose someone they loved, and so would the person who they chose to resurrect.
To be continued…
Next chapter- The heart aching decision must be made, bring back Prue, bring back Andy, or bring back neither and cause Grace to become an orphan? Phoebe has a premonition of Gabrielle killing Prue. And Gabrielle prepares to find out the true identity of Megra's father.
'Widow, Widower, Or Orphan?' should be up soon.