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Wyatt stared at Chris after his announcement. "Chris, do you think…?" His voice trailed off, unable to speak the words he dreaded.

"Mom? I don't know. The timing is right. Whatever Future Wyatt was warning us about two months ago, it was supposed to happen today. And this demon attack…it makes sense." Chris shrugged helplessly.

"Chris, let's go hunting, ok? I don't want to have mom turn evil. That would suck."

"It sucks every time she turns evil, Wy. But if it happens, we'll just have to fix it. No one in this family has ever died evil, and I won't let mom be the first." Chris said firmly.

"So we go hunting then? Catch this Juklay unaware and get him before he can get Mom?" Wyatt looked into his brother's familiar green eyes.

"Sounds like a plan to me, bro."

"What exactly sounds like a plan?" Leo's voice interrupted their planning session.

"Dad! Um, we were just talking about Chris' birthday plans." Wyatt stumbled over the lie unconvincingly.

"Jesus, Wy! How many times do I have to tell you to let me do the lying? You're worse than Aunt Phoebe!" Chris cried out, exasperated.

"Well, it's not my fault! No one's perfect. At least I can balance my checkbook." Wyatt shot back.

"Oh Whatever! One time. One lousy subtraction error and you're going to nag me forever. At least I never conjured a dragon that destroyed half the city."

"I was a year old! Give it up, already! What do, you have an inferiority complex?" Wyatt teased.

"I don't have time for an inferiority complex. I'm too busy being Thrice-Blessed!"

"ENOUGH!" Leo yelled over both of them. "Quit fighting like you're twelve. Now, I want the truth. What is going on here? I've been around long enough I can recognize demon hunting talk when I hear it."

Chris and Wyatt looked at each other silently. "We think we know what's going to happen to Mom today." Chris answered slowly.

"What? How? We've been searching for two months to try and make this not happen. Now you're telling me that we have fourteen hours to find a demon and vanquish it or my wife is going to die?" Leo asked, aghast.

"No, dad. Juklay doesn't kill his victims. He mutates their personalities." Chris started to explain.

"Oh, God, like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. And just like Anna." Leo's face paled until all the color was gone.

"Anna? Dad, who's Anna?" Wyatt asked quietly.

"Anna Baker was my charge. She was one of the most promising young witches the elders had seen in a long time. She'd been my charge when I was still a white lighter, and since she was special, the elders and I decided to have me stay on as my only charge other than the Charmed Ones after I became an elder. Anna was amazing. She had TK, astral projection, invisibility and telepathy. She also had a black belt in tae kwan do and was a master kick boxer. In other words, she was one of the greatest powers of good there was. Then Juklay got to her." Leo's voice was sad, his eyes starting to grow watery. "He mutated her personality so far that she started killing the very innocents she'd spent her entire life protecting. She still had periods of lucidity, periods in which she deeply regretted her actions when she'd been insane. She worked for the first few days trying to find a cure on her own, but then one day during a period of insanity, she killed a little girl. The little girl was only ten years old, but because her mother had cut off Anna while driving, Anna killed them both. When she came to that time, she couldn't forgive herself. She drank a binding potion, and then plunged an athame into her chest. I came as soon as I felt her call me, but when I got there she refused to let me heal her. She said it was the only way to continue to protect the innocent was to kill the evil inside her. That was 10 years ago."

"Dad…I never knew you lost a charge." Chris said in shock.

"Well, son, it's not one of my best days as a white lighter. As a matter of fact, the only loss worse than Anna's was your Aunt Prue's. Other charges have died, but none that young, and none as tragic."

"Do you have any idea how we can vanquish Juklay, Dad?" Wyatt asked quietly.

"No. I wish I did. There's nothing on this earth that I would regret more than if Piper were to meet the same fate as Anna. I'll help you boys however I can to keep that from happening." Leo's voice was suddenly strong and powerful.

"Well, if you can go find out what the elders know, that would help. In the meantime, Chris and I will start some potions and spells to figure out a way to get rid of Juklay. Maybe we'll get lucky, and he won't get to full strength anyway." Wyatt reasoned.

Leo nodded and without another word, orbed 'Up There' to speak with the other elders about this new threat.

"Wy, I say we go after Juklay now. We can't wait. What if he attacks her before dad gets back? Obviously this thing is more powerful than we'd believed. I say we go now, catch him unaware and hopefully before he's at full power. Then we blast him and then we can go on with my party." Chris argued.

"Yeah, I agree with you. Let's go. Mom is too important to leave to chance."

Wyatt and Chris orbed together to the Underworld.

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Together the brothers walked towards the Seer's pool.

"Welcome, Halliwells. It has been a long time since any of you have visited this pool. You are looking for Juklay, are you not?" The pretty demon smiled at Chris and Wyatt.

"You're the Seer. You tell us." Wyatt stared at her coldly.

The Seer laughed brightly. "I love you Halliwells. Always nothing but business. No one would ever know you are all good witches the way you talk to me."

"The information. Now!" Chris yelled.

"Testy, testy. I can't give you his whereabouts. He'll kill me if I do."

Wyatt grabbed her telekinetically by the throat. "Tell us what we want to know, or I'll kill you right now."

The Seer grabbed at her throat, and gasped out "okay" Wyatt released his grip on her, and the Seer rubbed her throat and spoke raspily. "Juklay lives in the Emotional Wastelands, in the mostly uninhabited part of the Underworld."

"Thank you." Chris said politely, as if Wyatt hadn't threatened to kill her. He tossed her a fifty dollar bill in payment. Together the brothers orbed out again.

The Seer stared at the money in her hand and again at the disappearing orbs. "I'll be seeing you soon" she murmured softly.

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Chris and Wyatt's orbed dropped down in the dark cave in the Emotional Wasteland.

"Damn, this place is creepy." Wyatt muttered under his breath.

"It's like the ghostly plane without the ghosts." Chris joked softly.

"Ahhh…visitors. Such a rare occurrence here on the Wastelands." A gravely voice echoed throughout the cave. A figure appeared directly in front of Chris and Wyatt, holding a raven on his shoulder.

"Juklay, I presume?" Chris asked coldly, sensing evil in their presence.

"I see my reputation precedes me. So nice of you to visit. However, I was planning on attending your party, Christopher. Twenty one years old… such a wonderful age. You're completely an adult now. And that's a very good thing, because you won't be needing your mommy anymore."

Chris yelled and shot elder bolts at Juklay. Juklay flickered out momentarily, the elder bolts harmlessly hitting the cave walls.

"You leave my family alone, or I swear on all that's holy, I will vanquish you." Chris yelled. Wyatt nodded his head in total agreement, bringing up an energy ball to hurl as soon as Juklay showed himself again.

"You might want to put that away, Wyatt." Juklay's voice rang through the cave.

Wyatt looked around him, allowing his sensing ability to try and located Juklay. "And why is that?" he asked angrily.

"Because…there's no way you'd use it. Not on your brother, that is." Juklay appeared behind Chris. Before Wyatt could react, he used his razor sharp finger tip to cut the skin on the back of Chris' neck, paralyzing Chris magically. His tongue, shaped eerily like a snakes' only instead of a fork, it had a point at the end, protruded towards the opening in Chris' neck. Wyatt brought up his hands, trying to blast Juklay, but he just continued to lower his head closer to Chris' neck. His tongue had just touched the opening in Chris's neck as Wyatt decided to retreat, and grabbed Chris' hand, orbing them both out of the cave and back to the manor.

Juklay chuckled evilly. "Too late, Wyatt. You are too late. He's already mine."

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Leo was waiting anxiously in the attic for them as Wyatt and Chris orbed back into the manor.

"Why didn't you two wait? Are you ok? Where's Juklay?" He fired questions off rapidly at them.

Chris didn't answer, just stared blankly. Wyatt cleared his throat. "Um, well, we thought we'd just go and vanquish him, then you know, mom would be safe."

"Well, did you?" Leo asked impatiently.

"Not…quite." Wyatt answered hesitantly.

"What does that mean, exactly? And what the hell is wrong with your brother?"

"Well, Dad, basically, it means that...HOLY SHIT!" Wyatt yelled as Chris flung him and Leo both telekinetically against the attic wall. They watched in silent horror as Chris' hair got a shade darker, and his eyes darkened to a stormy gray color. His clothes instantly changed too. His Levi's turned into black leather pants, his Nike's into black biker boots and his red t-shirt into a black one. He stared at Wyatt and Leo silently, and started to laugh.

He cracked his neck and grinned as he black orbed out.

Wyatt bit his lower lip as Leo slowly turned his head to stare at him. "Well, good news- Mom is safe. Bad news- it looks like Chris is evil."