Sorry. this chapter is shorter than usual but I didn't really have any great ideas of what Cole and Leo should be doing right now so please read and if you have any suggestions as to what they should be doing please tell me. Thanks and review!
Meanwhile, back at the Halliwell manor in the present, Leo and Cole were wondering where the sisters had gone. They didn't even think for a second that somehow Piper, Phoebe, and Paige had gone into the future. They thought that the blue light and the occasional tremors were just a distraction so that some demon could come and kidnap them.
"Cole, where are the sisters?
"How am I supposed to know? I was too busy trying not to get blinded by the light. All I heard was the wind that came in here and Piper and Phoebe asking us to help them."
"Do you think that it was demonic?" asked Leo who was getting very concerned at the fact that they weren't here.
"Probably. Here, I'll check the house and you try sensing them or uh... doing whatever you normally do to see where they are."
"Ok," said Leo. Then he closed his eyes and went into deep concentration trying to find the sisters while Cole checked the house. After a few moments Leo opened his eyes and said, "I can't sense them anywhere."
"Well, looks like they're not downstairs," said Cole walking back into the dining room. "I'll go check upstairs." Then leaving Leo, who was staring at the floor, in the dining room, Cole went upstairs to check if they were there. After a few minutes, he came back down and said, "Nope, not up there either."
"I guess that leaves one more place to check where they are," said Leo. "Well since you know your way around down there, let's go."
"Are you sure about this?" Cole asked.
"Dead sure."
"Ok then, let's go." Then Cole shimmered away as Leo orbed down and all was quiet in the Halliwell Manor.
Down in the underworld, things would have been going about normally except for the fact that hundreds of demons were walking in the same direction to go somewhere. Then Cole shimmered in and Leo orbed down and both of them went and hid behind a big boulder to avoid being seen by the hundreds of demons walking past them into a big stone room, which was lighted by twelve candles.
"Ok," said Cole looking from behind the boulder at all the demons in the room. "I'm guessing that this is the meeting held each year by the Source."
"What exactly do they do at these meetings?" asked Leo.
"Just talk. But the Charmed Ones are usually always the most important thing talked about. If we hear anyone say anything about their disappearance, then we go question the guy."
"But what if the 'guy' doesn't know anything about how they disappeared?"
"Then... I'll kill him. Can't risk them knowing that I'm still alive, can we?"
"No," said Leo, "But what do we do after you uh...kill the guy?"
"We'll think about it then," said Cole giving Leo a look that told him to shut up. So they listened for what seemed like hours and finally after listeneing to many demons ramble on and on about how to kill the Charmed Ones and not hearing anything being said about their disappearance, Cole and Leo gave up.
"Nothing," said Leo bitterly. "They know nothing."
"What are you suggesting we do then?"
"Ask the Elders maybe?"
"I'm all for that but I can't go up there right?"
"Well if I tell the Elders that you were there when it happened maybe they'll let you come up. And if they don't, then you'll have to wait somewhere until I get back."
"Ok then let's get back to the house and you can go up there and ask them if I can come up there and help you. But let's wait for all the demons to leave so that we don't attract any attention." Then Leo and Cole waited for the demons to leave and after a long time they finally went back to the manor and Leo orbed up to the Elders. Surprisingly enough, the Elders let Cole come up even though they knew that he was a demon.
"How'd you make them let me come here?" asked Cole curiously starring at all the white surrounding him.
"I told them that you were there when they disappeared and that Phoebe trusts you with her life."
"I'll bet they weren't too happy about the last part."
"No, they weren't but they thought about it and decided that they need all the help they can get if they can't find the sisters."
"Oh," said Cole. After looking around at the place he was in again, he turned to Leo and said, "Is everything always so...white up here? I mean, the place isn't bad, but I might go insane if I had to look at white all the time."
"Unfortunately it's always white but as you can see," said Leo gestering to a few Elders looking at the ground and muttering something, "the Elders rarely ever notice it because they're always meditating and watching over the world and making sure that everything is ok."
"Oh, I see," said Cole. Then looking at the white walls then at the Elders in the room, Cole muttered to himself, "Well, this place could kill me for sure."
"What?" asked Leo.
"Nothing, let's just go ask the Elders if they've found Piper, Phoebe, and Paige yet."
Then Leo went into a room and Cole heard a voice that said, "Ask the demon to come in."
"Cole."
"Coming." Then he went through golden doors into the room where the voice came from and the doors shut behind him.
