Chapter 22: Rude Awakening

A/N: Thanks for all the reviews. I thought I needed to just clarify something. The Piper who is pregnant is future Piper. Past Piper was asleep/away the last few chapters. I warned you that time travel confuses me. To try to make it easier, The Piper from 2005 will just be Piper. The other one will be Past Piper. Thanks!

The demons had caught Paige and Piper in total unawareness. Still, they fought back fiercely. Piper was blowing up demons left and right. Paige was orbing the demon's fireballs back to them. All the demons were exactly the same. Hideous faces, jagged teeth, slate grey skin…Jorgen demons all. They were fighting furiously, Piper and Paige. The problem was that the Jorgen demons wouldn't back down. They were making a lot of noise. Leo, Past Piper, and Phoebe ran down the stairs, messy haired and sleepy eyed.

Just like that, they were all thrown into the battle. Phoebe engaged in hand to hand combat, with several of the demons at once. Her opponents were formidable, but she was much too quick for them. Past Piper joined her future counterpart in blowing up demons. Leo too joined the battle, throwing lightening bolts at the hideous creatures. Past Piper was surprised to see her husband using that sort of power. In truth, Leo had always possessed that power. He just rarely used it. Chris was still no where in sight.

After they fought for what seemed to them like several hours, they noticed something. The more demons they vanquished, the more appeared before them. None of their attacks were causing the demons to stay vanquished. "It not working", past Piper panted, blowing up a few more demons. Piper flicked her wrists, and suddenly, everyone except herself and her sisters were frozen in place. Past Piper, Phoebe, and Paige walked towards Piper. "What's the plan?" Phoebe asked.

Piper replied, "I think we should be able to vanquish them with a power of three spell, and I think I have the perfect one." She hurried over to the counter and picked up a pad and a pen. She scribbled down a spell. She was hurrying because there were only a few minutes until the demons unfreeze. Past Piper looked over her future selves shoulder and glanced at the spell. "Pretty good", she said approvingly.

The demons unfroze, and resumed in their attack. The three sisters of this time held hands, to add the power of three to the spell. Past Piper, Phoebe and Paige felt their power increase; they were stronger together than any one of them alone. Piper stood off to the side, feeling very much an outsider. The three took a deep breath and began the spell that was their only hope.

"We call upon the power of three,

To vanquish these evil entities.

They have plagued our lives for a long time.

Vanquished are they, with this rhyme!"

There was an enormous gust of wind. It represented the Charmed Ones' accumulated power, rushing towards the horde of demons. Then there was a flash, and a huge explosion. Piper shielded her eyes as the demon debris flew all over the room. All the exploding demons created a cloud of dark dust to envelop the sisters. When the cloud cleared, most of the demons were gone. There was only one left. He was the biggest, and the strongest of the lot.

He looked at them all, with a look of mocking on his face. It was as if he was taunting them to do something…vanquishing him like they had his minions. He looked directly at Piper and past Piper when he spoke. He spoke in a low, rumbling, mocking voice. It was a voice neither versions of Pipers would soon forget. "You may have destroyed my army, witches, but you shall never destroy me. I see all, and I know all. I will get you, and your children. Especially the two that were prophesized!" With a puff of smoke, the leader of the demons disappeared.

It was his last statement that chilled Piper to the bone. No stupid demon would hurt any of her children. She wouldn't let him. Her sisters and herself looked at her with sympathy, but they said nothing. Leo pulled her into a warm hug. It really did nothing to help. What she needed was someone who understood. Piper needed answers. There was only one person who could give them to her. "CHRIS!" She yelled, glancing upwards. Her youngest son appeared immediately in a swirl of blue-white lights.

"Mom, what is it, I was just checking some leads on who turns Wyatt, and…" suddenly, he stopped in his explanation. He noticed the mess in the entire main level of the Halliwell manor. Papers and various knickknacks were strewn all over the floor. Tables and chairs were overturned, and a thin layer of dust covered everything in sight. Predictably, the grandfather clock had been smashed to pieces. "What happened here?" Chris asked, looking around.

"Jorgen demons attacked. Hundreds of them", Leo replied abruptly. He still wouldn't apologize to Chris. Although he accepted that Chris was his son, he was too stubborn to admit he had done anything wrong. Chris' face fell. He began to shake. This as exactly what he feared. They were doing it much sooner then they had in their future. His mother told him what the demons had said. That just made him more worried. He knew exactly what the demon had meant. He wouldn't let anyone hurt his brother or his sister, no matter what it took.

Chris took a deep breath to calm his jagged nerves. The Jorgen demons were putting their plan into action, much sooner then they did in his time. He had to stop them. They could play a key factor in the turning of Wyatt. He had to do this to save his family. He turned to face his family. Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Past Piper and Leo were standing together on the other side of the room, patiently waiting for Chris' response. The witch-whitelighter from the future picked up an overturned chair from the floor and sat down. His family waited patiently for him to speak.

He took a deep breath and said, " I need to tell you about my little sister Patty."

They sat there in silence, and waited for Chris to speak. They knew he was going to finally tell them his story. The truth and nothing but the truth.

Up next… Chapter 23: Chris Talks … Chris tells his family about his sister and the destiny she has to fulfill.