A/N: Ok, so I forgot that not everyone is a total Charmed freak like me. There has been some confusion over a couple of things I mentioned in the last chapter. Hopefully, this explanation with cover all the confusion.

Swapping Powers- This comes from the first season when Leo is dying and he and Piper swap powers so that she can heal him. Phoebe & Prue's powers also swap. This is what I'm talking about that Cole wants to do. He wants to give his demonic powers to Phyra so that she will be able to shimmer instead of orbing. Since good powers can't escape the force field, but evil can, an evil power is needed to escape the force field.

Queen of the Vampires- This comes from season 4's episode 'Bite Me'. The Queen of the Vampires wants to defeat Cole to become the Source of All Evil. She has one of her minions turn Paige into a vampire, hoping that Paige will infect her sisters, giving her the Power of Three in her collective.

Hopefully that clears up any confusion there was in the last chapter.

Thanks so much for everyone who reviewed! 7 Reviews for one chapter! I feel so loved. : ) I think almost everyone mentioned the Lego's comment too, I'm glad you all liked it so much.

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"Before we do this, there's something I don't get." Cole admitted as Chris flipped to the power switching spell in the Book of Shadows.

"What's that?" Wyatt asked distractedly.

"How can the Queen be still around? I killed her myself."

Chris and Wyatt both stopped what they were doing to stare at Cole blankly.

"What?" Cole asked at their incredulous expression.

Chris started to laugh. "You, of all people, have to ask that? How many times did mom and the sisters vanquish you? You're still standing here."

"Well, that was different. That was fate, destiny. But the Queen of the Vampires, she was only destined to die." Cole defended, feeling a slight heat creep up his neck.

"Apparently not. Or maybe she got reincarnated. Or maybe you never really killed her after all. Vampires are supposed to be immortal; maybe you just hurt her, or sent her to a different plane. Either way, it really doesn't matter. This time, she messed with the wrong witches at the wrong time. We just lost one cousin. We're not losing another one." Wyatt's voice was hard and unbending. "Let's just hurry and get your powers swapped so that we can get this over with."

Ready, Phy? Wyatt asked.

As I'll ever be I guess. Are you sure this isn't a trick to get back at me for my spell?

I'm sure, Phy. He's for real. Besides, switching with you was my idea anyway, not Cole's. Wyatt reassured.

Okay then, let's do this. I'm sick of being here.

"Okay, on three, Cole & Phy, you both start to read the spell. 1, 2, 3…"

"What's mine is yours
What's yours is mine
Let our powers cross the line
I offer up my gift to share
Switch our powers through the air."

Chris' mouth opened, mouthing the words, but it was Phyra's voice coming out in unison with Cole's. A golden light came out of Chris at the same time a dark red light came out of Cole. The golden light settled into Cole's body, as the red one hit Chris'.

"Everyone okay?" Wyatt asked Cole and Phyra at the same time.

"One way to find out." Cole tried to shimmer, but instead disappeared in a flurry of orbs. He instantly came back in. "Jesus Christ… I'll never get used to that feeling." He shuddered.

Phy, Baby, we're going to go and get Mom, Aunt Paige & Aunt Phoebe, and we'll be there for you in a few minutes. Whatever you do, don't show you have a demonic power right now. That could ruin everything! Chris warned her as he grabbed the bag of stakes. Wyatt orbed downstairs to collect the Charmed Ones as Phyra answered her cousin.

Okay, Chris. These powers though…they're really strong. You need to hurry. The evil…it's seductive, Chris. Like I've got all this power now, and this almost insatiable urge to use it.

Don't do it, Phyra! We'll be there in a few seconds. Hold off that long. Chris ordered harshly.

"Okay, we're ready. Let's go kill this bitch for good this time!" Piper yelled. She still hadn't forgiven the Queen for trying to turn Paige the last time.

They disappeared with Wyatt and Chris in a wash of blue orbs. Cole remained in the attic, watching as the orbs vanished. "Good luck" he said softly into the air.

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As the orbs touched down into the vampire's lair, Chris immediately sensed for Phyra. They're holding her down the hall and to the left. She's still okay. He sent the thought telepathically to them all as they crept down the stone hallway silently. Chris was in the lead, holding a sharpened stake in each hand. Wyatt took up the last position, as they unconsciously protected their aunts and mother.

As they reached the room where Phyra was being held, a skinny vampire popped up in front of Chris. He breathed in deeply. "Mmm… I smell power!" The vampire opened his jaw only to let out a scream as Chris plunged his stake into its heart. It shriveled and burst into flames.

They ran into the room as dozens of vampires attacked them. Phyra was tied to a rock column in the center of the room, with two vampire guards. "Chains!" Paige called, and the chains wrapped around Phyra landed in Paige's hand. She threw them at a nearby vampire, sending him falling backwards. Phyra gasped as she realized she was free. Chris and Wyatt were busy hurling stakes like spears into the nearby vampires, sending them all up in columns of flames.

"Go find the Queen, hurry!" Chris yelled to Piper.

"The Queen is here, you insolent puppy." A regal looking vampire in a black silken cloak appeared as the air in front of Chris shimmered and swayed. She looked at Paige. "I see you've returned. Tell me, did you miss us?" She knocked Wyatt out with a flick of her wrist. The hybrid vampire werewolf appeared behind Chris. As he'd done earlier with Phyra, he paralyzed him with a mere touch on his shoulder.

"About as much as I miss high school." Paige snapped back. She looked at Piper and Phoebe quickly… "now."

"Queen of the endless night

Let us shower you with eternal light.

Let it boil, let it burn

Never more your powers churn."

The Queen instantly started to burn. Phoebe grabbed a stake that was at her feet. She plunged it directly into the Queen's chest. She shrugged, and looked at her sisters, "just in case."

Another dozen vampires shimmered in, pissed off and ready for revenge. The Charmed Ones had killed their Queen. Now they would kill the Charmed Ones. The hybrid screamed in rage and immediately attacked his nearest target: Phyra.

She let loose with a scream of anger, fear and power. She called up a fire ball, and hurled it at the hybrid. She followed it up with an energy ball direct to the chest. She flamed out and quickly back in behind the hybrid, stabbing him with Chris' stake. The hybrid burst into flames, and Chris was immediately released from his paralyzed state.

He looked around and saw the vampires reforming again. He grabbed Wyatt, and picked him up awkwardly. "Phy! Come on, shimmer us all out of here. Quick!"

Phyra's eyes were black with rage and power. She nodded slightly, quickly gathering her mom and aunts, and grabbing Chris' hand. She shimmered out of the vampire's lair with the sound of their mournful screams echoing through the air.

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Piper raised a hand to her forehead and looked at Phyra. "You shimmered. How did you shimmer? How did she shimmer?" she asked frantically.

"We swapped her powers with Cole's." Chris answered quickly as he knelt down beside Wyatt. He raised his hands over Wyatt's head and healed the gash that was slowly oozing blood from where the Queen had knocked him out on the stone.

"YOU DID WHAT?" Paige screamed.

"We swapped her powers with Cole's. Aunt Paige, it was the only way we could have gotten out of there. The force field would have repelled anything else." Chris explained, wincing at the tone of his aunt's voice.

"You had no right to do that, Chris. You know how dangerous switching powers can be. The last time we tried that, innocents got your mom and Phoebe's powers! Innocents, Chris! That spell is far too dangerous. Phyra is my daughter. You had no right to try and screw with her powers." Paige was pacing, still keeping an eye on her silent daughter.

Cole spoke for the first time. "We had to do it, you know. It was the only way that you guys would have gotten out of there alive."

"Oh, really? So big tough, bad-ass demon that you are, you couldn't go instead. You couldn't go and do it, instead of risking my baby's life?" Paige whirled on him, poking him in the chest with one finger.

"I didn't want to leave the other girls alone. The last time we did that, a herd of demons attacked them. At least with Phyra's powers, I had some chance of helping them fight them off if another set of demons came in. Look, Paisley is too pregnant to be fighting demons. Patience doesn't have any active defensive powers, and Peyton was upset over Phyra getting taken to start with. I thought I was helping. I'm sorry if you're pissed about it. But look, no harm was done. We'll just swap our powers back and that'll be the end of it." Cole argued back.

"Well, then let's just do it, ok? Then I can yell at you more later." Paige snapped.

"Fine." Cole snapped back just as testily.

"Ok, Phy you just have to say the spell again with Cole, and things will all be back to normal." Chris touched her shoulder.

"You know, Chris. I don't think so. I'm keeping these powers. They're WAY cooler than my normal ones." Phyra said, eyes flashing.

"Phy…you can't do that. Remember what you said about the seductiveness of them? You can't let them come over you. They're evil powers. Don't let them turn you evil." Chris begged softly.

"I'm not evil, Chris. I'm…determined. I've gotta go. I've got a plan. There are a few people I need to go visit. I just realized for the first time, how beautiful revenge is." Phyra patted Chris' arm and shimmered away before anyone could say anything.

"That BRAT! Go get her! Right now! First she used a spell to stop me from using my powers, now she steals them!" Cole burst out angrily. Before he could control it, a stream of fire shot out from his palm.

Chris acted quickly, deflecting the fire telekinetically into the fireplace. "Okay, Cole. Calm down. The last thing we need now is a fire. We'll get your powers back. PEYTON!"

Peyton orbed in immediately. "What's wrong? Oh, God, where's Phy? You said you'd go get her Chris. What went wrong?"

"We did go get her. She's okay, except that she has Cole's powers and doesn't want to give them back. She said something about making some visits and revenge. Any ideas who'd she'd want revenge on?" Chris asked quickly. Wyatt was already at the map with a crystal, scrying for Phyra.

"Oh, no. She wouldn't…" Peyton trailed off nervously.

"She wouldn't what? What are you talking about Pey?" Chris pounced on her words like a tiger on fresh meat.

"I…Nothing. Just a stray thought. It was nothing though." Peyton wouldn't look him in the eyes.

"Peyton, Phyra has demonic powers. Those powers are going to take her over, and if we can't stop her, she'll do things that she's going to regret when we do get her powers swapped back. Tell me what you know." Chris commanded harshly.

"Chris, I can't. We promised that we'd never, ever tell about it. Never, ever." She started to cry.

"Pey, I get that you don't want to tell me. I understand you want to keep your secret. But I need to know, honey. Tell me what you know, so I can help Phyra." Chris' voice was gentle now. He was mentally bracing himself. It didn't take his empathy to know that what he was about to hear was going to be rough.

"I...Umm…a m…month ago, Phy, Patience and me were at Magic School. We were practicing with our p...powers. Me and Phy were throwing fire and water bombs at Patience and she'd see how fast she could put her shield up before anything hit her. We were the only ones around, so we knew it wasn't a big deal. But…but then these other k…kids came in. Before we knew what was going on, they surrounded us. They threw a potion at us, and it took Patience's shield down. One of them could manipulate time, and slowed it down so everything was sl…slow motion. They were really strong, Chris. They threw energy balls at us, and kept hitting us with them, over and over again. Every time we tried to fight back, they deflected our fire and water balls so easy because they were so slow. Even the weakest tele…kinetic could have moved them out of the w...way. We were getting really weak from the energy balls, and we couldn't orb. Pr…professor R...riley came out, and saw th...them. M...m…made them stop. He h…healed us all. Ph…Phy wouldn't let him call Mom or any…anyone. Said we…were…Ha…Halliwells, and should have b…been able to b...beat them." Peyton was crying, and couldn't say anymore.

Chris immediately pulled her into a tight hug. He closed his eyes against the rage that was building inside of him at the thought of three of his cousins being tormented that way.

"That's what they kept saying. Over and over again. 'I guess the Halliwells aren't so tough after all.' 'You're all too weak to fight alone…you always need the Charmed Ones to save you.' None of us wanted anyone to know, especially Phyra though. She said that she had the most active powers of the three of us, and should have been able to make them stop. Nothing we had was powerful enough. That potion cut our powers in half. We just didn't have the power after that." Patience spoke quietly from the doorway. "Professor Riley only agreed not to tell you after Phyra threatened him. She said you guys would blame him too, and that she'd make sure she told Chris and Wyatt that he was the one that taught the potions class that showed the students how to halve a power. And then you guys would go looking for him too."

Chris' voice was rusty with regret as he stared at his two cousins. "I need names. Phyra has all the power she could ever need now. And it's all demonic."