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Regaining Phaith

Phaith walked through a cool and empty P3. Her slow steps accentuated the deep echoing loneliness she felt in her heart. She'd almost killed two guys that she deeply loved, each with their own unique attractiveness. Phaith smiled at the thought of the two of them fighting over her, but the small comfort led back to the pain.

Phaith stumbled to the wall and leaned her back against, desperately fighting to keep her emotions in check. She was Phaith, trained dark priestess by the darkest dark priestess who ever lived, Zarlena. She was not supposed to feel these kinds of emotions, only anger and hate. But all the same, Phaith couldn't fight the feelings anymore and slid down to the floor and began crying.

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"Where is she!" Phoebe yelled frantically, swinging the scrying crystal over the map. In her hand she held one of the scarves of Phaiths' that Paige had brought back from her apartment.

Suddenly, the crystal leapt to the point of P3. "She's at the club!" Phoebe said, jumping out of her chair and running into the living room to find her sister's coming downstairs with the boys and Leo.

"She's at P3!" Phoebe yelled. "Let's go!"

"We're coming too," Wyatt said.

"No, you're not," Piper said, grabbing Paige's hand and Phoebe's and orbing out.

"We're coming whether you like it or not!" Chris yelled orbing out himself, and being followed closely by Wyatt and Leo.

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Phaith was disturbed from her petty crying by a chill going down her spine. Her powers of empathy and demonic training told her it was a very strong upper level demon, and that it was a male at that.

She looked up to see a red demon with horns protruding shortly from his head looking around the club. Phaith ducked under the closest table to avoid a confrontation, but unfortunately, he saw her movement.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are," he called sweetly to her. His voice was smooth and elegant, even though his appearance was grotesque. Phaith held her silence.

"I said come out," he said, with a little more force this time, and against her will it seemed, Phaith came and stood in front of him. "That's better," he whispered. "Now, you are going to serve me or else."

"Or else what?" Phaith asked, looking him dead in the eyes.

His eyes flashed with hatred and rage. He punched her and sent her flying back into the table she was under. Her body was in such pain from landing on and breaking the table that she could hardly move. The demon moved over to stand at her feet and created a fireball in his hand. "Or I'll vanquish you. No, on second thought I'll let my minions vanquish you." At the end of his words, three other demons shimmered in beside him. He smirked at Phaith. "So what's it going to be?" he asked, stepping back a step. "Come be my slave, or be vanquished?"

"This," Phaith said, grabbing a broken piece of wood and flinging it into the closest minion. She shimmered behind the remaining three demons and spinning heel kicked them, knocking them to the floor. The three got up and got ready to cast their fireballs when a fourth demon flamed in behind her and threw his fireball.

"Fireball!" Paige yelled, snatching and redirecting it back to vanquish the demon.

"The Charmed Ones!" one of the demons yelled, and threw his fireball at them. The others followed suit, but Piper brought up her hands and froze everyone in the room.

Phaith turned to look at them. "What are you doing here?" she asked, trying desperately to control her emotions. "And why am I not frozen?"

Piper and Paige looked at Phoebe and retreated a step. Phoebe swallowed hard, and walked over to Phaith. "I'm your mother Phaith," she said, placing her hands on Phaith's shoulders.

"That can't be," Phaith said, moving away from Phoebe. "Zarlena was my mother!"

"No, she wasn't," Phoebe said. "She stole you from the Seer's womb, after she stole you from mine."

"But it can't be," Phaith said, staring at the floor in bewilderment.

"It is," Chris said, orbing in next to her. "Wyatt and I saw the same vision that told us who you truly are."

"That just can't be true," Phaith said, moving from Chris.

"It's true Phaith," Wyatt said, orbing beside her and Chris. "We wouldn't lie to you. You are our cousin."

Phaith looked up at the concerned faces staring at her. Behind them she noticed the demons had unfrozen and one had thrown an athame at Wyatt. "Look out!" she yelled, pushing Wyatt out of the way and taking the athame in the stomach.

"No!" Phoebe yelled, rushing to Phaith's unconscious body, while Chris and Wyatt turned to face the demons. "Now we end this," Chris said darkly, his eyes narrowing at the demons.

"You said it little brother," Wyatt's said as he held a forcefield in his hand.

The demons hesitated only for a moment before attacking again, this time together. Two fireballs flew at the boys, when Chris forced them harmlessly into a wall with one hand, and used the other to force the demon back. Unfortunately for the demon, his torso flew through the leg of an upturned chair and he was vanquished.

Wyatt threw the forcefield he had in his hand and vanquished one of the other demons. The last demon watched them carefully and smiled. "Clearly you will win with magic," he said. "But I doubt you will in physical combat." He waved his hand in front of them, and two swords shimmered into the ground in front of them. One also appeared in his hand. "To the death," he said, taking a defensive position.

"How about I just blow you up right now?" Piper said, bringing her hand up.

"No," Wyatt said, putting his hand up, "He's ours to finish." Chris pulled the sword easily out of the ground, while Wyatt pulled a chunk of the floor up with it. "Let's go," Wyatt said.

The three moved in a blur of steel and color. Their graceful battle took a lot out of them, Wyatt and Chris both had cuts on their arms and legs, but the demon looked worse than they; having only narrowly avoided being vanquished several times.

Each of them stood in a triangle formation, heaving and sweating from the effort. Chris looked at Wyatt and nodded his head and they attack him together, forcing the demon to parry blow after blow. But, Chris ducked under his last parry and plunged his sword into the demon's stomach and Wyatt finished him off by beheading him.

The two dropped their swords and hurried back over to Phaith, who was being healed by Leo. "She won't wake up for a little bit," Leo said. "But, she will live."

"Take her back to the house will you Leo," Phoebe asked. "We'll follow you."

Leo nodded his head and orbed Phaith and himself out of the club. Piper stopped the boys before they orbed out. "Even after you were told to stay in the house, you still came," Piper said.

The boys looked at each other and nodded their heads. "Well, I'm glad," Piper said, smiling and hugging her boys. "I'm so proud of you two. You worked together to vanquish a strong demon. How about we celebrate by going out to dinner tonight?"

Chris and Wyatt stared at their mother in disbelief. "You're serious about this?" Chris asked.

"Absolutely," Piper said. "But first, let's go check on Phaith." She took her sons' hands and they orbed out, while Paige and Phoebe orbed out together.

A/N: Y'all know the drill, Review please! And it's close to the end of the story, one more twist I have planned.