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Disclaimer: See Chapter One
Date; November 1, 2032
Chapter Six: And the Damage is Done
"Okay, how do we know where Dad is?" Halliwell asked as she sat in the living room, staring at the wall. Her chocolate brown eyes glossy, her eyes puffed and red from crying.
"I don't know sweetie." Pru said soothingly, as she held her niece in a hug.
"I want my daddy to come home safe." she said sadly.
"I know you do, we all do; and we will bring daddy home for you."
"Why can't we just use a spell to track him? We are all witches, there must be a thing we can do!" she exclaimed as she stood up, and faced her aunt.
"Your uncle and I tried, but nothing worked. We were hoping you and the twins could try something."
"Something! Something! What is this something then?" she screamed angrily at her aunt, who jumped at the anger in her niece's words. For a nine year old, she was persuasive, and determined.
"Halli, calm down. We will get your dad back. I promise." she said, as she too stood up and walked away to the kitchen.
Warren and Melinda sat at the table having a snack of cookies and milk. Pru was able to tell they were depressed, and scared.
"I know we might have to hurt daddy, but don't be afraid. Nothing will happen to either of you." she said to her kids, hoping that her words will help.
"Pru, this book is useless. We've tried the Belthazar summoning spell, I've tried sensing him, but nothing. I don't even know if he is god damn alive. We know Cole is connected but we don't know how, all we know is what you saw." Sander said stressfully as he slammed the Book of Shadows and threw it on the counter by the sink.
"Sander, you need to calm down. We'll find him." Pru said, when the house shook.
'What the hell?" Sander said, as he looked around.
'It came from the living room." Warren said, who was now standing.
"Halli." Sander and Pru said in unison as the two ran as fast as they could to the living room.
The room was once again a mess, but empty. The debris from the fight was still there. Sander had instrumented a board as a window.
"Where is Halli!" Pru screamed at Sander.
"I don't know, you don't think a demon got her?" he said nervously.
"Don't think like that. Sense her damnit."
Sander closed his eyes and concentrated. Images flashed in his mind. He could see their next door neighbor getting high in his room, Pru's boss in a compromising situation with someone who wasn't his wife, a student of his making a cheat sheet for some math test, a demon torturing a woman in Ireland, a warlock receiving powers from a witch in Africa, a mortal being made a whitelighter, then one image stood above all rest. Halliwell was in the Underworld, safe and sound. In the background Greg could be seen. He was bleeding, and near death. Sander's eyes popped open.
"I found her."
"Oh my God, where?" Pru's voice raced.
"Underworld." he said in one breath, as he sat down to regain his composure.
"Let's go. We have the potions, and we all have powers." Melinda said, taking the initiative.
"You two are to stay here." Pru ordered her children.
"Mom, that is not fair. We have powers, we can protect ourselves. At least let us go and get Halli home." Melinda said, her brown hair blowing in the wind which was coming in through the broken window.
"Fine, you two are to get Halli, then you are shimmering your butts home." Pru ordered.
"Okay, Warren and Mely hold onto me." Sander said, as the two hugged him, and he placed his hand on Pru. Pru closed her eyes, and concentrated on the Underworld and Halliwell, and in a swirl of lights, they were gone.
There was a swirl of blue and white lights, and the four witches appeared in the Underworld. The appearance of the Underworld still looked the same as it did ten years ago when they came here to save Cole. Now they were here to kill him. Oh the irony.
"Stay close." Sander told the kids, as they progressed forward.
"Where is Halli?" Melinda asked about her best friend.
"Down that passage." Sander said, as his senses tickled with her fear.
"Let's go." Pru said as she started running, everyone following suit.
"Demon!" Melinda screamed as a demon shimmered in front of the group.
"Witches." he snarled as he shot an energy ball at Warren, who shimmered out, and back in behind Melinda.
"Energy Ball!" Melinda screamed as the ball was enveloped in a swirl of orbs, and appeared in her hand, where she sent it flying back at the demon, missing him.
"See that is why witches shouldn't use energy balls." the demon snarled, as he shot another one.
Sander stepped forth, and swung his right arm forward. It was as if an invisible wall appeared in the ball's path. The energy balls stopped and flew back into the demon. Killing him.
"Wow, you have a lot of strength." Warren marveled at his uncle.
"Yeah, well I wasn't always. Eleven years ago, I would have been lucky If was able to move a warlock five feet. However, back then I used my eyes." Sander said, as he sensed for more demons.
"Your eyes?" Warren asked interested.
"Yeah, but we will talk about that later, after we get out of here." Sander said.
"Okay, Sander, do you think you can astral-orb to them? You know you can't get hurt in your astral form." Pru suggested.
"Yeah." Sander said, as he closed his eyes, and felt a familiar pull. In a swirl of orbs, his astral self appeared next to his physical self.
"Be careful, you don't have your powers." Pru said, as he orbed out.
Sander orbed in next to Halli, who was sitting in the corner of the cave. Fear etched in her face. "Uncle Sander!" she screamed excitedly.
"Halli! Are you okay sweetheart?" he asked, as he ran to her side.
"I'm fine. The demons took daddy away from me."
"Do they know you are here?" Sander asked, "Or did you hide?"
"I hid. I tried to use my power, but they were too far away." she said, as tears filled her eyes.
"I know. Come on, I'm going to bring you home." he grabbed her hand, and they were both enveloped in orbs.
"Where are they?" Pru said outloud, as she paced.
"Right here." Sander said, as his astral from appeared. Halli stepped away, and Sander disappeared in a swirl of orbs, and his physical self awoke.
"Oh my goddess Halli!" Melinda screamed as she hugged her cousin.
"Are you alright?" Pru asked her niece.
"I'm fine. Daddy isn't though. He is bleeding really bad, and Uncle Cole took him. They didn't know I was watching."
"Okay, Warren take them home." Sander ordered.
"No. Remember what the book said? You need us to save Uncle Greg." Warren said with force to his uncle.
"Okay, arguing is not saving Greg." Pru said impatiently.
"Fine. Stay close to us." Sander said, as they progressed forward into the Underworld.
They had been walking for five minutes when they got to the spot where Sander saved Halli.
"Where did they take him, Halli?" Sander asked her, as Pru walked around trying to get a vision.
"Through there." she pointed to a large hole in the wall which was pitch black.
"Can never be anywhere with a lot of light can it?" Saner said sarcastically.
Pru placed her hand over a pool of crimson blood, careful not to touch it. She felt a twinge in her hand, then a surge through her body. Her eyes clamped shut, and she gasped. She was having one. A Premonition.
"Mommy, what did you see?" Melinda asked her mom, whose eyes just opened.
"I saw Greg, he was getting tortured. He was screaming for us." she said weakly as tears entered her eyes.
"Past or Future?"
"Past."
"We need to find him damnit!" Sander said really loudly, which probably wasn't a good thing. Four demons shimmered in.
"Witches, you must leave or the Source will kill you." one of the demons said, his eyes completely black like a void.
"Go to hell!" Sander screamed as he waved his hand sending the demon who spoke flying into the wall.
The other three demons both sent energy balls at the group. Warren and Pru instinctively orbed or shimmered out. An energy ball came whizzing at Halli, who put her hands. The ball froze mid air, while Sander sent it flying at a demon, electrocuting and killing him.
One of the two remaining balls came at Melinda, who smiled. She pointed her right index finger at the ball, and the ball was enveloped in orbs. It made its way towards her opened left hand, but instead she pointed her index finger at the third demon and the energy ball followed her direction and hit him. Vanquishing him into a pile of ash.
The final energy ball came whizzing at Warren and Pru, who just both reappeared.
"Mom!" Warren screamed as he knew the energy ball was directed at her. He shimmered out and then back in, in front of his mother...to protect her.
The blue ball of high voltage energy hit Warren in the back. Pru screamed when she saw her eight year old son's back make contact with the ball. Pru saw the scorch mark on her son's back, the smell of burnt flesh made her nauseous. She knelt down next to her son, and placed both her hands over his wound. A gold energy was emanated, healing her son.
"Next time you do that, give me fair warning." scolded Pru, as she helped her son up.
There were still two demons left to be vanquished.
Sander and the girls rejoined Pru and Warren. Sander was cut up pretty bad.
"What happened to you?" Pru asked, as they thought of a way to vanquish these demons.
"One demons wanted to get down and dirty." he snickered.
"First a whitelighter, now a demon. What is next? A warlock?" Pru joked.
"Funny." Sander said, as he flicked his hand, and both demons flew into a wall unconscious.
"Leave them. We need to get to Greg." he said, as they progressed forward once again.
They walked in a straight line for about twenty minutes, demon free before they entered a chamber. Sander and Pru instantly recognized it as the chamber of the Source.
"Oh my god, there is Greg!" Sander said as he saw his older twin brother tied to a sacrifice table. He was topless, and there was a gash in his side. Crimson blood was spilling onto the table, and the stone, dirt floor.
Pru ran over and went to heal him, when she was met with a blast and thrown backwards into the wall. Sander was shocked, usually it was he who was thrown into walls.
A demon appeared. Not just any demon. It was the Source and Cole. They were holding hands.
"Nothing between you two since 1912 my ass." Sander smirked as he flung his arm and sent Cole flying into the wall like his wife.
"Free him!" Sander screamed at the Source.
"No." she said smirking.
"You know what Bitch. Free him or you will be vanquished." Melinda said threatening.
"Little witch, you should watch your mouth." the Source screamed at Melinda.
"Don't talk to by daughter like that Bitch." Pru said, as she stood up. Rage in her eyes.
'Make me, you little Whitelighter witch." She said as she sent an energy ball at Pru. Pru orbed out of the way and behind the Source in time to kick her in the back, sending her into the wall.
"I suggest you free my brother, or I will vanquish you." Pru said evilly.
"Witch, it takes the power of three to vanquish me."
"Well you know what, I will have to try." Pru said as she started chanting the spell.
The Source was enveloped in a gray smoke that caught fire, but the fire fizzed and died out.
The Source stood there laughing at Pru's false attempt.
"Go to hell." Sander smiled as he flicked his wrist sending the demoness backwards.
"Halli freeze her!" Pru whispered to her niece, who put up both her hands and the sound was heard. Time froze.
"Thank God that bitch froze, she was pissing me off." Pru said angrily.
"Get Greg." Sander said to Warren, who shimmered over to Greg and shimmered him free.
"I'm going to start healing him." Pru said, kneeling next to his bloodied body.
"And I'm gonna tie this bitch up." Sander said, as he used his magic to move the chains around the Source.
"Mind, unfreezing Cole only?" Pru asked Halli.
"But I've never done that before." she protested innocently.
"I know, but concentrate on just him unfreezing." Pru said, not understanding what she was asking her niece, she had no knowledge of temporal stasis.
"I'll try." she said. She thought to herself about only Uncle Cole unfreezing. She put both her hands up, and it happened.
"Prudence." Cole started only to be cut off by a blast of mental power from Sander.
"We're doing the talking." he threatened his brother-in-law.
"Why Cole?" Pru demanded to her soon to be ex-husband.
"I had to. I needed to kill Greg, so that the Charmed Ones won't have power anymore." he pleaded.
"So you decided to betray your family, kill your brother-in-law, just so we would have no power?" she pressed on angrily.
"Pru, understand. I love you –," he started.
"Don't say you love me, because if you did, you would have never done this to me. What about our children!" she screamed pointing to Melinda and Warren who were standing next to an unconscious Greg.
"Pru –,"
"What about the Curse that gypsy put on you?" Sander mentioned.
"I lied. I had to get close to you, have you bear a demon child, so he can become the Source. But I fell in love with you."
"Well, for one thing, Warren is not evil, and for the second thing, I don't love you anymore." She said furiously, as she threw the purple potion at Cole.
The vial shattered upon impact with his chest, and smoke instantly started to form. He started yelling in pain, as the potion seared his skin. He screamed out something, which was mumbled by Melinda and Warren's sobs. There was an explosion, and Cole was gone. Dead.
The freeze wore off, and the Source was alive again.
"You killed Belthazar." she said evilly.
"And now, we kill you." Greg said, as he stood up. His face was pure rage.
"Piper, Prudence, Phoebe, Patricia, Penelope Melinda " Greg started.
"Astrid, Helena, Laura and Grace." Sander stated with confidence.
"Halliwell witches stand strong beside us." Pru said, her eyes wet with tears.
"VANQUISH THIS EVIL FROM TIME AND SPACE!" the three Charmed Ones said as the Halliwell witches' spirits materialized around the Charmed three, and chanted the last line with them. The Source was enveloped in flames and screamed into an oblivion. The witches smiled as they caught a glimpse at their mother's spirit before it ascended back into the heavens.
"Let's go home." Pru said as she hugged her crying children, she too was crying. The tears stung her eyes as they came. Her heart ached, and she had a headache. Halli and Greg were hugging like it was their jobs, and Sander just stood there. He was hurting inside, and his eyes moist. Pru held onto all the witches, and they orbed home.
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