Chapter 4: Robert

"Where do you keep the mandrake root?" Piper asked Annie.

"Well, unless you don't know how to spell, it's in alphabetical order," Annie answered.

"Don't worry about her," Charles told Piper once they were a ways away from Annie. "She's not always so…"

"Bitchy?" Piper finished for him. He smiled.

"Yeah. Usually she's nice and sweet. I don't know what's gotten into her. Sorry for the mean things she's said."

"So, tell me more about yourself," David said to Paige. "Have a boyfriend?" They were sitting in the living room. Paige smiled at him.

"No, I don't," she answered.

"Do you want one?" he asked.

"I don't know if I've met the right guy yet," she said.

"Are you sure you haven't?" He leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. She moved her face and positioned it on her lips.

"Ahem," Jordan said. David stopped kissing her and blushed. "We're supposed to be working on stopping Rindo right now. Not making out on the couch." They stood up.

"You're right," Paige said. "We'll get right on it." Jordan rolled her eyes and went back to their witchcraft room. "You heard your sister," Paige said. "Let's go." Paige went back to the other room.

"Damn you, Jordan," David muttered under his breath. He followed Paige and got to work.

A few hours later, they had the four potions done that the Charmed Ones had used a few months earlier on Darcon and Phoebe and Jordan had written three spells.

"Now, here's the plan," Annie said. "Each of us will throw these potions, in order. It goes David, Jordan, me, and Charles. Green potion, yellow potion, red potion, blue potion. Then you three read each of the spells."

"Okay," Charles said. "I think we're ready." Annie, David, and Jordan grabbed onto Charles as he shimmered. Phoebe and Piper grabbed Paige as she orbed. They returned to the same spot. Once again, Rindo was gone.

"This better work," Annie said.

"If it doesn't, I don't know what will," Piper said. "We used these potions, without the spells, on a demon called Darcon, who also had the power of a very powerful amulet." Rindo shimmered in.

"Can't I get a moment of peace and quiet?" he asked. "I'm sick of getting rid of you guys and seeing you come back. Maybe I should just kill you off now." He sent his lightning bolts at them. Piper froze it. He waved his arm and several demons shimmered in. The demons formed energy balls and started throwing them.

"Annie, make an illusion to give us better cover," Charles said. She closed her eyes. The sisters didn't see anything happen, but they saw that the demons looked confused.

"It's just an illusion!" Rindo yelled. "Keep fighting!" David made a clone of himself. The two of them used the advantage to take out the nearest demon. Jordan put her hands to her head and started to concentrate. Suddenly, one of the demons started to throw energy balls at his fellow demons. Charles started using telekinesis to send energy balls into the demons.

"I feel a little unneeded," Phoebe whispered to her sisters. Piper held her hands up to blow a demon up, but right before she did so, it was vanquished by someone else.

"Well, this is ridiculous," Piper complained. "I want to at least blow up one demon."

"Damn you, demons!" Rindo yelled. He sent a ripple that destroyed all of them. "I'll do this myself." He seemed to see right through the illusion.

"Use the potions!" Annie commanded. David threw his, followed by Jordan and then Annie and Charles. "Spells!" The Charmed Ones used their spells. Rindo started being engulfed by flames. There was a massive explosion that sent the witches flying back into they stony walls. Once the smoke cleared they saw that Rindo was still standing there.

"I've told you once before," he said. "You can't kill me." Annie started swearing this time.

"Let's go," she said. "We can't stop him, we might as well save ourselves." They shimmered out. Paige orbed her sisters after them. Annie was sitting on a chair in the living room. "I'm done, I'm going to just hide for cover. I'm taking Amanda, and I'm going to the Magical Realm."

"First off, who's Amanda?" Paige asked.

"She's our daughter," Charles explained. "Rita!" The elf appeared in her red shine. She was holding a little baby girl.

"Oh, she's so cute," Phoebe said. Annie picked her up.

"I'm going now," she announced. She walked over to a wall. She started to say a spell and a door appeared on the wall.

"Oh come on, Annie," Jordan said. "We can stop him. We need to stop him. We're the world's only hope. We can't let Earth become the new Underworld."

"Robert!" Annie started to yell.

"Who's Robert?" Phoebe asked.

"Our whitelighter," David said. In a mass of orbs, appeared a middle-aged man.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"We can't stop Rindo," Annie said.

"The Elders feared that it would come to this," he said. "You've let him become too strong, now he's unstoppable."

"We didn't just let him become too strong," Annie said. "He did it all so fast." Robert then noticed the sisters.

"The Charmed Ones?" he asked.

"Um..yeah," Paige said.

"With the amazing powers of the Charmed Ones, you should be able to stop him."

"Come on for heaven's sake!" Annie yelled. "I'm sick of hearing about how great and powerful the Charmed Ones are. So far of what I've seen of them, they aren't that great. What have they done that's so great?"

"They've successfully fought evil for years," Robert said. This made Annie more angry.

"Charmed Ones, Charmed Ones, Charmed Ones!" She opened the door, and through it was a swirling mess of energy. She went through the door.

"Great," Robert said. "Charles, go after her. You're her husband." He went in through the door after her. "Now, we need to get ready for when they get back. What potions do you guys have?"

"We've tried our strongest potion combination on him," Piper said.

"That plus three spells," Phoebe said.

"Nothing's stopped him," Paige said.

"There's one thing you haven't tried yet," he said. "A Power of Seven spell. And if that doesn't work, I'm sure that we can summon someone for a Power of Eight spell." Piper sure hoped it came to that.