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Meeting the Source

Peter saw the Charmed Ones orb in. Yes, he thought. The clue I left Piper helped them find me. I knew there was a reason she was oldest.

The Source turned and said, "Welcome Charmed Ones." He began laughing as he pulled his hood back, and let them see his face.

"Barbas," Phoebe gasped. "You're the Source?"

"In the flesh," Barbas said, with his usual casual wave. "Now, that you're all here, let us begin!" At that point, demon priests began to throw energyballs, fireballs, and a couple of Darklighters shot arrows. Peter cast a spell that the Charmed Ones almost didn't hear all that he had said, "Halliwell matrons, the Charmed Ones protect, Against all demons, their attacks deflect!" And as each type of attack hit the Charmed Ones, it didn't harm them. The arrows ricocheted harmlessly off of Paige to land on the floor, and the energy and fireballs turned to smoke when they touched any of them.

Barbas moved quickly over to Peter, and knocked him out with the hilt of a long serrated knife. He turned his attention back to the Piper, Paige, and Phoebe who were taking advantage of their chance and destroying a lot of demons. "Forces of evil, rally to me. Restrain the powers of the Charmed Ones three," he spoke.

Suddenly, all of the filled with darkness, and when the light was restored, Piper, Phoebe and Paige were all being forcibly held by demons. Barbas checked to make sure they wouldn't break free soon, and turned back to his alter. "Now, to gain my powers," he said gleefully.

Geldor flamed out, and when he returned he was holding a limp body. "Peter," Paige gasped.

"Yes little Paige," Barbas said, turning around. "You see, before I can steal all of your powers, I have to restore him to his true body first. It was I who had imprisoned him in that cat body."

"Why?" Phoebe asked. "Of all the things that the mighty Demon of Fear could come up with that was it? Imprison someone in a cat body?"

"Oh I did more than that Phoebe," Barbas said, turning his full attention to the Charmed Ones, as the priests set Peter's body next to the Peter's current body. "I locked his tongue so he couldn't talk to you, and then I bound his powers, so he couldn't help you." Barbas smiled as he let them think on that. Think on the fact that they had a powerful witch in their house all the time and he couldn't help them in any way.

"Then how could he do magic for the past few days?" Piper asked.

"Because I've been vanquished so many times that some of my magic has been weakened, but not for long," he said, turning back to the bodies, his evil grin back in place. "What I did, now undo. Return this witch to his body true," Barbas said, casting his reversing spell on Peter.

A ghost-like form that looked exactly like Peter climbed out of the cat body, and floated for a while. Barbas guided him back down to his regular body with his hand, and then spoke again. "Seal now the soul, so it will not flee. Keep it here, so I may take it for me."

Peter sat up. "Barbas," he said with contempt.

"Ah, ah, ah," Barbas warned. "I just did you a huge favor. And this time, you won't escape from me," Barbas added as an afternote as Peter tried to move off of the alter, only to be pushed back down into a laying position by Geldor. "You don't want me chasing you again," he threatened.

"Enough," Barbas said. "Give me the knife."

"What's the knife for?" Peter asked, watching Geldor hand the knife to Barbas.

"I'm going to use your blood and a spell from the Grimwar here to steal all the powers of your bloodline, the Halliwell blood line that has all the Charmed Ones' powers in it." Barbas began his deep laugh as he sliced a gash in one of Peter's fingers, causing him to gasp in pain. Even as the wound began to close from Peter's healing powers, the blood dripping from his finger hit a page on the Grimwar as Barbas began chanting. "Powers of darkness, in this twilight hour. Hear my offer, and request for power. Take the blood of Halliwell core, and grant me the powers of all four."

Barbas kept chanting and as he chanted, the blood from Peter began to bubble on the page, and wailing voices began to circle around Barbas. Soon, it stopped and Barbas closed his eyes and breathed deep. "Let's test my new powers," he said, turning to look at one of the priests. Moving his hands as Piper did he tried to blow him up, but ended up sending a fireball at him and vanquishing him that way. "What?" he yelled. "What happened?"

But, Peter was already moving. "These demons are done, their fate is doom," he started, moving off of the altar, and stabbing one of the priests with the knife that sliced his finger. "Let fires their bodies now consume," Paige, Piper, and Phoebe finished. All of the priests began bursting into flame, and they were all able to gather together and support Peter inbetween them. "We can't leave yet," he huffed, as he was still tired from losing blood.

"Kill them Geldor!" Barbas yelled, wheeling around on them. "I don't care about their powers anymore!"

Peter's spell was quicker than Geldor's energy blast though. "Crystals surround these dark ones two, so the Charmed Ones may their souls undo!" Instantly, crystals were conjured all around them, just as Geldor's blast slammed into Peter, launching him into the wall. "Source vanquish," he muttered as he slid down the wall into unconsciousness.

Piper grabbed her sister's hands and began the spell to vanquish the Source, and as they finished together, in loud unison, "Erase these demons from time and space!" the crystal cages exploded in multiple colored flames. When the room cleared, the three of them hurried over to Peter, and Paige orbed them all back to the manor.

A/N: I'll explain why Barbas' spell didn't work in the next chapter, which may take a while to write. Go ahead and guess why though. I'll mention who got close or right on of why the spell didn't work. Please review anyway though. It feels nice when people do that.