Chapter 6: Almost Rescued
Charles shimmered Piper, Annie, and Prue to the Underworld. There were cells aligned along the wall of Rindo's lair. Phoebe, Paige, David, and Jordan were in them, unconscious. Rindo was no where in sight.
"It's got to be a trap," Annie said.
"Well then let's get them and go," Prue said. They heard a shimmer behind them. They turned around and faced Rindo. Prue waved her hand to throw him back, but them remembered she didn't have that power any more. Charles did it for her and Rindo was knocked back into a wall.
"I'll go get them out," Annie said. She ran over to the cells and grabbed onto the bars of the door. She used her phasing power to make it walk-through-able. "Wake up, David!" she yelled. He did and went through the door. "You have Piper's powers now, so use that to blast open the other cell door."
"Um… you trust me to do that when I have no idea how to use her powers?" he asked.
"You have to," she insisted. "There's no other way." He aimed his hands at the door. He closed his eyes and did the flicking motion that Piper always did. The door perfectly blasted off. "Good job. Now do it to the other two." Paige walked out of her cage.
"No, no," she said. "We don't need you blowing someone up." She gave him a quick smile. "Doors!" She orbed the doors off the cells. Phoebe and Jordan stepped out.
"Thanks," Phoebe said. "We should probably be helping them now." Charles, Piper, and Prue were trying to stall Rindo. He suddenly released a few electric bolts that pushed them back. He stepped forward.
"The spell!" Prue yelled out.
Come together across the country,
Seven witches fighting jointly,
We summon all the power and might,
Stop Rindo now and end this night
He grasped his stomach after they said the spell, but afterwards, stood up straight and let out a maniacal laugh.
"We need to switch our powers back first!" Charles yelled.
"We need the potion to do that," Annie said. Rindo smiled and used a strong wind to push them into the cells. Doors suddenly appeared on the cells and locked shut. There were two witches in each. Charles and Prue occupied the first cell. Piper was with Annie in the one next to them. Phoebe and Jordan next to them. Paige and David next to them. Rindo walked up to them.
"You witches have been a pain in my butt for long enough," he said standing in front of all the cells. He held his hands up in front of them. They felt the energy being drained from them. Piper held her hands to blow the cell door off, but her powers were gone. "Looking for this, witch?" He used her exploding power and blew her against the wall. "Now I have work to do, so I'll leave you all to die slowly in these cells."
"Can you orb, Paige?" Phoebe asked. She tried, but nothing happened.
"Nope, his power takes whitelighter powers too," Paige answered. Hours passed and nothing happened. Every now and then, someone proposed a plan, but none of them worked.
"Is it just me," Prue said. "Or do you guys feel like your weakening by the minute?"
"I feel that way too," Annie said. "I think there's something he did to us that's really killing us."
"We have to get our powers back before we're dead," Charles said.
"How are we supposed to get out of these prisons?" Jordan asked.
"Phoebe," Someone whispered.
"Huh, what?" Phoebe asked.
"What?" Jordan asked.
"Didn't someone whisper my name?" Phoebe asked.
"No…" Jordan said slowly.
"I'm sure I heard someone whisper my name," Phoebe said.
"Phoebe," the voice whispered again.
"There! I just heard it again. Doesn't anyone hear it?"
"No," Jordan answered.
"Great," Piper said. "Now we're going insane too."
"No, Piper," Phoebe said. "I hear someone whispering my name. And it sounds a lot like…" She heard the whisper again. "Cole."
"Who's Cole?" Jordan asked.
"What!" Piper yelled. "No way! He's dead. He's not coming back."
"I hear him," Phoebe said. "He's calling my name." Suddenly, her cell door opened. "And it looks like he just let us out."
"Well, good for him," Piper said. "How does that help us? He hasn't let us out and we have no powers to use anyways."
"I have an idea," Phoebe said. "I'll just wait til he comes back."
"He might not even come back til we're dead," Annie said.
"He'll come back," Phoebe said. "No demon would give up the chance to watch two powerful groups of witches die slowly and painfully." She hid and waited for Rindo to come back. As the minutes went by, she felt her body grow weaker and closer to death.
A/N: I know that sometimes my writing about witches being captured or taken gets a little old, but sometimes you just need something to fill a story up. That was needed here. I'm sort of running out of things to write and I don't want to 'just vanquish' Rindo. He's much too powerful for that. Also, the Cole whispering was a foreshadowing for my next fic, so it's not just some oddly placed Cole/Phoebe bonding.