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Divine Destruction:
It had been two days since the Unholy Prophet had warned Divinity about Prue's unborn, and the fallen elder had dismissed his words completely and was gathering some of her best demons in order to attack the Halliwell family.
"The Prophet was right, you'll fail, the Prophet is always right," the Oracle teased, from where she lay with her crystal seeing ball and black gunk demon,
"be quiet!" Divinity snapped, forming an energy ball and holding it towards her threateningly.
"Mistress, there's a newcomer claiming to be an old friend of yours," Ash, one of the demons, said, Divinity nodded for them to bring the newcomer in,
"who are you?" she questioned, staring suspiciously at the slim, redhead in-front of her.
"An old friend, as I said," the demoness replied,
"I sense something familiar about you," the Oracle said, standing up and gliding over to face the woman,
"yeah, you're familiar too…as the bitch who sent some kind of mud goblin after my niece!" she spat, pulling a potion from behind her back and throwing it forward, watching as it smashed at the Oracle's feet and blew her up into nothing.
"Charmed one," Divinity hissed, as the 'demon' changed into Paige,
"aren't you a clever little demon," the brunette said, sarcastically clapping her hands,
"looks like my wendigos are hungry," Divinity grinned, "and you just became their home delivery."
"I'm not in the mood to feed an overgrown dog," Paige stated, orbing out and back in again behind Divinity, pulling an athame from her belt and swiping it across the back of the demoness's neck, slicing of some skin and orbing out with it.
"That stupid witch," Divinity growled,
"I don't understand mistress," one of the lesser demons mumbled,
"I'm upper level you fool, which means they need my flesh to vanquish me!" Divinity screeched, the demon bowed his head in fear.
At the Halliwell-Wyatt manor, the sisters, Cole and Kyle were gathered in the attic,
"just drop it in," Piper instructed to Paige, setting the spoon she had been stirring the potion with on the side and taking a step back. Paige looked at the skin in disgust and hesitated to pick it up,
"stop being so squeamish," Kyle said, reaching over and picking up the flesh. The others fought back giggles as he dropped it in and created a pop, before he was knocked down by the mini explosion,
"you did that on purpose," he moaned,
"no sweetie, I didn't," Paige grinned, helping him up.
"Okay, this just needs to cool and then it's done," Piper stated, giving the mixture another stir,
"I'll go get some more potions from the attic," Paige said,
"what for?" Prue asked,
"to distract and destroy," she replied, heading out of the kitchen and upstairs.
Meanwhile, Gabrielle sat on the floor of her apartment, surrounded by books like she had been for a very long time, in fact, ever since her daughters turned monstrous and fought. Megra and Katrina, however, had no memory of their transformations and thought their mother was insane, and, strangely, the two sisters had become quite close.
"The She-Devil and Icy-Flamer were long term enemies, before ultimately destroying each other, though, the Unholy Prophet foresaw them being reincarnated and a reunion to cause chaos, and he also said that in order for their feud to end, one must die," the fashion columnist read.
"God I hope this is wrong," she sighed, running her hands through her brown-red hair, before jumping up after hearing a crash from in Megra's bedroom. She tried to open the door but found that it was locked, so she turned to force in order to get in and blasted it with blue energy, flinging it off it's hinges to reveal the Icy-Flamer and She-Devil battling with weapons. The Icy-Flamer swung her sword; which had an ice handle and flame for a blade, but the She-Devil fought back with her sharp, gold and black, pitchfork-looking, weapon,
"oh crap," Gabrielle muttered, cloning herself so that she held back one daughter and her double held the other, but this proved useless as they pulled away and continued to fight. Gabrielle felt a tingling sensation as her clone became part of her again,
"I need to stop this," she decided, running back into the sitting room and opening the weapons chest behind the sofa, she pulled out an axe and charged back into the bedroom. She tried to pluck up the courage to use the axe, but she couldn't, she couldn't bring herself to harm one of her daughters, no matter what they had become. The witch-demon thought quickly and made-up a spell:
"move them out and hide them away,
keep them apart and stop this…today."
A mixture of darkness and light ripped both the She-Devil and the Icy-Flamer from the room, leaving Gabrielle alone. She fell to her knees and sobbed into her hands, praying (unlike most demons, half or not) that her daughters were going to be okay.
The charmed ones appeared in the underworld out of Paige's whitelighter orbs,
"I've been waiting for you to get here," Divinity hissed, materialising in the flurry of her own darklighter orbs.
"We've been waiting to get here too," Prue said, her hands behind her back, clutching the vanquishing potion, just like her sisters were,
"so, this is it, any last words?" Divinity asked, forming an energy ball and stepping towards them,
"just one…" Piper replied,
"boo!" a voice screeched. Divinity shot around to see Cole, giving the charmed ones the chance to throw their potions,
"damnit!" Divinity growled, realising their plan and orbing out just as the potions shattered against the ground. She orbed back in next to Cole and instantly knocked him down with a solid blow to the jaw, before firing lightening at Piper and blasting her from where she stood in-between her fellow charmed ones.
"Phoebe!" Prue hollered, hearing her sister's call, the angelic seer flashed in with a potion in each hand, throwing them in unison and creating a circle of fire around Divinity,
"that won't stop me!" she spat, orbing out from the centre of the flames.
"Why hasn't she orbed back in?" Paige asked, from where she was knelt down beside Piper's wounded form,
"because she's coming up with an evil plot," Phoebe replied, helping up her husband,
"I've already got an evil plot," Divinity's voice said, as an arrow flew from the shadows, stabbing into Paige's lower left stomach,
"oh god," Prue murmured, running over to the two hurt charmed ones.
"Paige, we need to get you home," Piper weakly stated, struggling to hold herself up,
"we need to get you home too," Paige said, her voice a mere whisper as she fought back the pain.
"Prue, take them back, me and Cole can handle this," Phoebe told her eldest sister, the raven haired witch nodded and tossed the second-to-youngest a vanquishing potion, then she placed her hands on her sisters and concentrated in order to smoke out, though dissolved into red orbs instead.
"Think you can take me?" Divinity smirked,
"no," Cole replied, morphing into Belthazar, "but I can now." He marched forward and swiping his hand towards her, unfortunately missing and receiving an energy ball to the chest from her,
"just me and you now," Divinity said,
"I've fought my fare share of bitches, I'm pretty sure I can manage against you," Phoebe stated. Divinity clapped her hands and a faction of eight or nine demons shimmered in behind her,
"so, can you manage against me now, bitch?" the demonatrix-elder asked,
"actually, y'know, I'm pretty sure I'll just end up fighting them and you'll orb out mid-battle," Phoebe replied.
"Whatever, at least I'm not walking dead," Divinity insulted,
"if I wanted an argument I'd go to my father's ex, so can we just get on with the fight?" Phoebe said, "and, by the way, I may have died, but I'm not walking dead, and very much alive." The fallen elder rolled her eyes and sighed, before clicking her fingers and ordering her demons to attack Phoebe; who fought them off with electric bolts and vanquished most of them, leaving only the three most powerful.
"See this!" the first of them; a one-eyed, leathery skinned, being, roared, launching a fire ball from his palm and throwing through the air like a rag doll,
"we need to get out of here," Cole said, crawling over to her limp and hardly conscious body. He threw the potion meant to vanquish Divinity, which caused a pop and a flash as it smashed against the one-eyed demon's shoulder, creating a burn, then Cole held Phoebe in his arms and shimmered out.
They shimmered into the Halliwell-Wyatt manor, to see Prue flipping through the book of shadows while Paige lay on the sofa and Piper was slouched against it,
"why haven't you called Leo to heal them?" Cole asked, resting Phoebe down next to Piper.
"Because of this," Prue replied, flicking her hands at a crystal which lay on the floor, without even looking at it, and making it lift into the air, releasing a red beam which formed the image of Leo, Andy, and other Elders/warlighters/whitelighters trying to break through a dark forcefield.
"They're trapped," Cole stated,
"and we're dead unless we can find someone to heal those three," Prue added, glancing at her sisters,
"Patrice," Cole said,
"what?" she asked,
"Patrice, she can heal, she's at Magic School, I can go get her," Cole suggested,
"I don't know, I don't think Piper would like her daughter seeing them like this," she replied,
"Divinity got Piper pretty bad, so unless Patrice heals her, she won't be alive to not want her daughter seeing things," he said,
"true," she nodded, "unless…"
"Unless what?" he asked,
"unless I can tap into my baby's powers or invulnerability, whatever you wanna call it, and try to heal them myself?" Prue said,
"it's worth a try," he agreed. She walked over to her sisters and held her hands out towards them, surprisingly releasing red sparks into them. Their bodies began to shake like they were fitting or something,
"Prue, stop, you're hurting them!" Cole exclaimed,
"go to hell," she boomed, turning to face him with her eyes now charcoal black,
"two can play at that game," he spat, changing into Belthazar and grabbing her by the shoulders, being thrown off her by dark energy. The sparks stopped as Prue's eyes rolled back to normal and her head lowered in weakness,
"ow, what happened?" Piper groaned,
"you healed them," Cole said to Prue,
"you did?" Paige asked,
"I…I was hurting you," Prue replied,
"looks like your baby has a twisted way of healing," Cole commented,
"looks like," Phoebe nodded.
"We can't let Divinity win, we're gonna need a new plan," Piper said,
"she's ruined all of our other ones, what makes you think this new one will work?" Paige asked,
"do I feel doubt coming from you?" Phoebe asked, turning to her half-whitelighter sister,
"I'm just saying, maybe we're not meant to defeat Divinity," the witchlighter replied,
"you don't think that," Kyle said, walking in and putting his arms around her waist in comfort,
"don't I?" she said.
"Paige, out of all of us you love magic the most, are you going to give up on it now, all because of some big bad, I mean, it's not like we've ever given up before, we've never run, and I don't know about you guys, but I'm not about to start now," Piper said,
"me either," Prue nodded,
"ditto," Phoebe agreed,
"you in?" Cole asked, as Kyle joined them,
"I'm in," she said,
"I'm so proud of you," Kyle whispered in her ear, as he pressed a kiss to his wife's lips.
"So, what's our new plan?" Phoebe asked,
"I say we let her come to us," Paige replied,
"fight on our own turf," Piper continued,
"well, then lets get ready," Prue said, picking up the book of shadows of the pedestal and holding it under her arm.
Back in the underworld, Divinity and her three best demons; one of whom having seriously harmed Phoebe earlier,
"I think this time we'll go to them, rather then them go to us," the one-eyed demon snarled,
"good idea Sarkumel," Divinity said, "well then, lets get ready, we've got a fight to win."
In the basement, Piper was getting in some last minute practice, for her kickboxing, with the punch bag which hung from the ceiling.
"God I hope your okay," she sighed, holding the gold heart locket Leo had given her for Valentines Day, which contained a picture of them together on their wedding day,
"I'm sure he is," Phoebe said, from the top of the stairs,
"I wish I shared your confidence," Piper told her,
"come; sit with me," Phoebe instructed, sitting on the third-to-bottom step and patting the space next to her. Piper nodded and walked over, taking a seat next to her younger sister,
"do you think Paige was right?" the molecular witch asked,
"what do you mean honey?"
"do you think that we're not meant to defeat Divinity?"
"I don't know what to think, I can't think, I have all your thoughts and emotions blurring my mind,"
"sorry,"
"don't apologise, it's understandable; your husband and brother-in-law are trapped in heaven, your struggling to defeat a demon, and you haven't spent more than four hours with your daughters for a few days; it's completely understandable."
"Guys, we've found something," Prue called down from the kitchen,
"okay, we'll be up in a minute," Phoebe shouted back,
"you alright?" she asked,
"I'm alright," Piper replied,
"good," Phoebe said, standing up and heading up the stairs, Piper following her behind.
Not much later,
"are you sure this'll work?" Piper asked,
"as sure as I can be," Paige replied, from where she stood at the pedestal in the attic, tracing her finger across the spell written in her mother's handwriting.
"So it just appeared?" Phoebe asked, gazing at the page,
"yep, the pages turned by themselves, I walked over, and saw this being magically inscribed," Prue explained, running her hand across the side of the page, like she was stroking it.
"I just thought I'd do my bit to help," a voice said,
"mom?" Prue said,
"hello my girls," Patty Halliwell said, appearing from golden lights. She smiled as she turned corporeal, her long blue dress resting just off her shoulders and reaching down to the floor, while her wavy hair blew around slightly in the magical breeze which accompanied her arrival.
"I'm so glad you're here," Piper said, as they gathered in a five-way hug,
"me too," she whispered,
"thanks for the spell by the way," Paige told her, returning to the book of shadows,
"as I said; just doing my bit to help," Patty said, joining her youngest.
"No grams?" Phoebe asked,
"she's busy, y'know, with all the heavenly gossip," Patty replied, giving her daughters a reason to smile,
"are you staying for long?" Paige asked, with a hopeful look,
"I'm sorry girls, but I can't, I'm forbidden from getting involved in this fight," she said, turning Paige's hopeful look to an expression of dismay.
"According to your grandmother's calculations; also known as her precognitive friend, I have at least ten minutes with you before Divinity arrives," Patty told them,
"good, cos I think my baby's taking a shine to you already," Prue said, as a butterfly fluttered up from her hand and flew around Patty,
"what a sweet little child," the deceased witch beamed,
"not always," Cole stated, when he and Kyle walked in.
"Cole, Kyle, how pleasant to see you both," Patty said, though she would probably have much preferred to see Leo and Andy; as they're more angelic than the sons-in-law who were currently present; who were leaning over to more demonic.
"Nice to see you to Mrs Halliwell," Cole nodded,
"yeah," Kyle agreed,
"thanks," Patty smiled, before turning her attention back to her daughters,
"Prudence, I've been watching and you haven't talked much about the ceremony, it's only two days away," she said,
"mom, I've been trying to survive against Divinity, not to mention with this uber-baby, so my wedding plans have been put on hold slightly, anyway, it's not like we're not already married," Prue said.
"Yes, but that's the whole point of the ceremony; renewing your wedding vows, and I didn't bring it up to moan to you about it, I mentioned it to give me the opportunity to tell you that I've sorted it all out," Patty informed her,
"what do you mean?" Prue asked,
"gentlemen, if you could just leave for a moment please?" Patty asked,
"sure," Cole replied,
"of course," Kyle said, walking out.
"Mom, what are you talking about?" Prue continued to question,
"this," she replied, opening the wardrobe in the corner and taking out a dress; it was white, with a laced neckline and straps, it also flowed to the floor and had a small trail at the back.
"It's beautiful," Prue gaped,
"it is," Patty nodded, "though I'm not sure who if it'll look better on you than it did on me," she joked,
"that was yours?" Paige asked,
"yes Paige," she replied,
"mom I love it, thank you so much," Prue said, fingering the fabric gently,
"so you don't mind it being god knows how many years old?" Patty asked,
"that makes it even more special and beautiful," the eldest charmed one replied, hugging her mother after she hung the dress back up in the wardrobe.
"Looks like she's come early," Patty said, as dark orbs became to form in the air,
"good luck my girls, I love you all," she told them, while disappearing into golden-white lights.
"Lets end this," Prue said, turning around to face Divinity and her three demons,
"I'll take Popeye," Phoebe said, squaring up to the demon who had formerly harmed her,
"I'll take J.LO," Paige said, stepping towards the one who looked like a wrinkly, demonic, Jennifer Lopez,
"and I'll take Britney," Piper said, glaring at the peroxide blonde opposite her, most likely to be a demonatrix,
"leaving me with the big gun," Prue stated,
"bang, bang," Divinity quipped,
"not funny," Prue said, appearing face to face with Divinity in about half a second,
"looks like super kid has super speed, kinda like an unborn Clark Kent," Divinity commented,
"a superman reference, I didn't know they had TV in the underworld," Prue said, forcing a fist of mighty strength into Divinity's stomach and pushing her away,
"not only do they have TV, they have cable," Divinity lied, playing along with the argument and then throwing an energy ball.
"So, who did your hair?" Piper asked, grabbing her enemy's neck, "cos they need shootin'," she said, forming a destructive icicle in her hand and stabbing it into the demonatrix's stomach, watching her explode.
"What's wrong, am I too near your left?" Phoebe asked, after swinging a blow to the demon's head and causing him to wobble about and blink lots in confusion, as if he was struggling to find her. She levitated a bit above the floor and released electricity into his head, feeling the heat as his brain fried and he collapsed, bursting into flame. Paige grabbed an athame from the table beside her and sliced it into the demon's stomach,
"your look-a-like once sang that love don't cost a thing, well, y'know what, vanquishing don't cost a thing either," she stated, as the creature erupted into black smoke.
"Four on one, not fair, your all ganging up on me," Divinity said, though she still sounded very cocky; the complete opposite of what she should sound like by what she was saying,
"got something up your sleeve Divvy?" Piper asked,
"got something up yours?" she questioned,
"got not sleeves to put something up," Prue stated, glancing at the sleeveless tops the four sisters were wearing.
"Lets just get on with it," Phoebe said,
"come on then ladies, give me your best shot," Divinity coaxed,
"you asked for it," Paige said, as crystals orbed in around Divinity and generated energy into a cage.
"What the…?" the darklighter/fallen elder/demonatrix asked,
"hell?" Prue said, "actually, more like heaven," and then Phoebe stood back and watched with a grin as her charmed sisters chanted:
"Penelope, Patricia, Melinda, Astrid,
Helena, Laura, Brianna and Grace,
Halliwell witches stand strong beside us,
Vanquish this evil from time and space."
Divinity screeched and shouted as the spell took effect and she finally exploded into an outstretch of flame, knocking the sisters of their feet,
"god, are you guys okay?" Cole asked, as he shimmered in with Kyle,
"Divinity knocked us out, well not actually Divinity, but some bleached bimbo who I guessed was working for Divinity," Kyle said, helping up his wife and Piper while Cole did the same for Phoebe and Prue.
"We're okay," Prue replied,
"but she's not," Paige said, staring at the remains of Divinity's vanquish; a scorch mark,
"she certainly isn't," Piper nodded,
"I love the smell of burnt Divinity in the morning," Paige grinned, walking over and standing on the scorch mark, while gaping out at the rising sun.
"Me too, smells a bit like burnt chicken," Prue said, as they all stood beside Paige,
"hormones," Paige, Phoebe and Piper giggled, rolling their eyes,
"what?" Prue exclaimed,
"burnt chicken and burnt demon don't smell like each other, trust me, I'm a cook," Piper said, as they all stood grinning at Prue like she was more stupid than pregnant.
The following morning, the family were gathered together for a breakfast that was fit for a king; obviously having been cooked by Piper.
"Mommy, Karis said dat baby will look like a monkey!" Grace moaned,
"babies do!" Karis screeched, pointing at Aurora,
"Karis! Don't call Rory a monkey!" Paige exclaimed, Karis pulled a tongue at her mother and was about to be told off when Phoebe returned from taking a phone call,
"what is it sweetie?" Piper asked, seeing the look of shock and sadness on her sister's face,
"Phoebe?"
"that was Elise, the paper's burnt down," she weakly replied. Everyone par Phoebe shared a shocked look.
To be continued…
Next chapter- While Kyle, Cole and Paige search for the cause of the fire, Phoebe goes straight to Gabrielle and gets a surprise.
'Feud After Fire' should be up soon.
I'd also like to recommend a few fics-
Life Of Magic, by The-Cheese-Fairy: This fic rocks! Cool characters; including cool kids! Full of comedy, drama and action! A fic to make you laugh and cry! It's kinda like an AU season 4+.
Secrets and Whitelighters, by money makes me smile: This fic also rocks! Wouldn't it be cool to be half witch and half elder? Wouldn't it be cool to be Paige Matthews's cousin? Well Jess Wilder is both! How cool is that?
Every Halliwell Counts (plus prequels), by Princess Pinky: Firstly, this fic is filled with awesome 'P' names! It's full of action, comedy and family troubles! Magical knowledge and human knowledge all in one!
Eternally Charmed (plus prequels), by Peanut2lb: This may not have been updated for awhile, but all the chapters are fantastic! It's so magical and romantic! Mega Prue and Andy love!
United As Three (plus prequel), by RJF: Charmed is fab, Mutant X is fab, but them together and you get double fab; which is exactly what this fic is, Charmed meets Mutant X. With awesome plot twists and great storylines, this fic is fantastic!