"He's right," Phoebe said, coming down from the attic, "I couldn't find anything in the Book of Shadows that was even remotely close."
"What did he mean he's on every page?" asked Paige. "What kind of cryptic mumbo jumbo is that?"
"I don't know," Piper said, "but he's not getting Wyatt. We didn't risk going to that demonic market place to loose out to some psycho with a god complex."
"Is Leo back yet?" Phoebe asked.
"No," said Paige. "I really don't know what could be taking him this long. It's been over an hour. As powerful as this thing is the Elders should have known right away what it was."
"He did intimate that he was extremely old," Piper said. "What was it he said? Mom and grams died fighting him? That doesn't make any sense. Mom died at a lake fighting a water demon. And grams died from a heart attack. She wasn't fighting anyone at the time."
"He also said that not even Melinda Warren could stand up against him," Phoebe said. "If he's that powerful, there should be an entry on him in the Book of Shadows. I don't understand why there isn't."
"None of this makes any sense," Paige said. "He's obviously evil. Wyatt activated his bubble without being told to. As soon as that thing bent down to pick him up, he turned it on. At least he can't get to Wyatt."
"Not yet," Piper said. "But he was right about another thing. Wyatt can't keep it up forever. Eventually he'll have to let it down and when he does, that whatever it is will get him. We have to find a way to stop it before that happens."
"How can we stop it when we don't even know what it is?" Phoebe asked. "Without some clue we can't make a potion or write a spell. And our powers don't seem to affect it. How do you fight something when you don't know what its weakness is?"
"We'll have to find a way," Piper said. "I'll die before I let it get to Wyatt."
"I think that's what it has in mind," Paige said. "The key is to stop it without having to die to do it."
"That may not be possible," said Leo, orbing into the nursery where the girls were gathered.
"What did you find out?" Piper asked. "What kind of demon is this?"
"That's why I was gone so long," Leo said. "It's not a demon. At least, not in the traditional sense of the word. At first the Elders were as much in the dark as you were. I told them what you told me about this thing and gave them the message. It had them stumped for a while. But one of them thinks he figured it out. The others agree with him."
"Well, spill it, brother-in-law," Phoebe said. "Whatever this thing is we need a defense against it and fast. It said it would be back and we need to be ready for it."
"That's just it," Leo said, "there's nothing you can do to it. It's evil."
"We know that, for crying out loud," Piper said. "It threatened to kill us and steal Wyatt. We know it's evil. We need to know what kind of creature it is and how to defeat it."
"No," Leo said, "you don't understand. It's not an evil entity. It is evil. Evil incarnate. No one is strong enough to destroy it. It's coming back to get you and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it."