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Redemption

Everyone orbed back into the manor. "What are we going to do?" Wyatt asked.

"Perhaps I can help with that," Phaith said, shimmering in.

"How dare you show your face here!" Piper seethed, her hands coming up to blow Phaith up.

"Vanquish me and lose Chris," Phaith said. Piper hesitated. "Good. Now, we don't have much time," Phaith said. "Chris'll be coming for the Book shortly, and he will kill you if you try to stop him."

"How do we stop him?" Wyatt asked, anger and confusion on his face.

"Defeat Zarlena," Phaith said. "Until he kills his first innocent he can be saved. After that he'll be strong enough to become the next Source."

Piper looked at Phoebe, who nodded. "She's being legit."

"Fine," Piper said. "But once this is done, I never want to see you near this house or family again."

"I can live with that," Phaith said. A look of panic suddenly hit her face. "He's here," she breathed.

Chris flamed in right next to Phaith. "What are you doing here?" he asked dangerously, eyeing her closely.

"I thought I could save you the trouble of coming at all," Phaith said, reaching up to stroke his cheek. "I was wrong. Forgive me?"

"How can I refuse such a woman?" he said, kissing her fiercly. "Now, to business." He turned to face his family, and Wyatt instinctly put up a forcefield around everyone. "Is this how you treat family?" he asked mockingly.

"You're not family anymore," Wyatt spat.

"I'm sorry you feel that way Wyatt," Chris said. "I was actually thinking about having Zarlena make you a demon as well. But oh well. Zarlena," he called to the room.

Zarlena shimmered in with more of her minions. "Chris," she replied, bowing her head.

"Nevermind about the ritual for Wyatt," Chris said, not taking his eyes off of Wyatt. "We're just going to kill him instead."

"Not if I can stop you," Piper said, moving her hands to blow up Zarlena.

Zarlena flew backward into her minions. Laughing she regained her ground. "You can't vanquish me without the Power of Three."

"We can fix that," Pier said grabbing her sisters' hands.

Chris snapped his fingers and all of Zarlena's minions threw their energy balls and shattered Wyatt's shield and knocked him against the wall and out.

"Wyatt!" Leo yelled. Leo bent down and started healing his son, when Zarlena swept her hand and sent Leo up the stairs and rendered him unconscious.

Piper began the spell "Prudence, Patricia, Penelope, Melinda . . ." when Zarlena cast her own spell: "Powers of the Underworld rise, Course across and darken the skies; Rally together and come to me, Protect me from the Power of Three." Just as the girls finished their spell, Zarlena finished hers and the room was filled with the conflicting powers. All of Zarlena's minions were vanquished in flames, and had Chris not protected her, Phaith would have been vanquished as well.

Paige seized the opportunity and yelled, "Crystals!" and orbed crystal cages around both Chris and Zarlena. Phaith stepped toward Chris. "I'm sorry Chris," she said, tears flowing down her cheeks. "This is for your own good."

"You halfling!" Zarlena yelled.

Phaith rounded on Zarlena. "What did you call me?" she asked.

"I called you a half demon," Zarlena said. "Which is what you are. Did you really think that you were full demon?" Zarlena laughed as Phaith's anger built up inside her.

"What are you talking about mother?" Phaith demanded.

"Don't you ever call me that again!" Zarlena hissed. "I stole you like I stole thousands of children before you. You just latched onto me as your mother, but I would never give birth to such a pathetic creature."

Phaith didn't wait for Zarlena to say anything more. She threw an energy ball and not only burst through the cage but blasted Zarlena into the corner of the room. Seeing that she hadn't vanquished her, Phaith threw another one this time succeeding.

Chris yelled in pain and grabbed his forehead as black flames erupted over his entire body. No sooner had they engulfed him then they left leaving Chris as he had been immediately before the ritual. Piper ran to her son and embraced him in a fierce hug as Phoebe and Paige turned to see where Phaith was. But, she was gone.

A/N: It's not the end. Guess what the next twist is. I dare ya!