CHAPTER 9
" Everyone ready?" Piper looked at the large family, and with a nod of all their heads she knew that it was time. She handed the slip of paper to Brian, as he began to say the rhyme. He could feel the power searching for her, and he could feel it latch on to her. Then he felt him and the large body of people being moved to where she was.
" Where are we?" Patience asked in a hushed voice. Cole put his arm around her.
" We are in her lair." Patience tensed a little bit. She had only been in the underworld a couple of times. Her dad was very protective, and didn't allow her to go down, but Wyatt and Chris and her had chased some demons down here before.
" Where are they?" Chris asked looking from wall to wall.
" Maybe you messed up on the spell." Wyatt answered with a quick grin. Chris stared at him.
" I highly doubt that. Your just jealous, because I am better at spells then you are." Chris said with a smug look on his face.
" Yeah, well you are jus-" Wyatt started but got interrupted.
" Boys...boys, do you really think right now is the best time to be arguing?" Leo asked. Wyatt and Chris looked at him for a second then both turned around to start arguing again. Leo shook his head and looked at Piper who was already on her way of taking care of the situation.
" Shutup, do you want every demon in the underworld knowing that we are down here?" Piper looked at them with " the look" that all mothers allover the world have down so well.
" Well it doesn't matter, because you could just freeze them all." Wyatt said smiling.
" Suckup." Chris said inbetween fake coughs. Wyatt turned and gave him a drop dead look.
" Honestly Chris, if I wouldn't have seen it with my own eyes I never would have believed that you come back from the future to save your brother." Piper looked at him, usually the whole guilt thing works on Chris. Luckily it did this time too.
" Sorry mom." he said looking down at the ground.
" Yeah, sorry mom." Wyatt doing the same thing. There was no mistaking that these two boys were definantly brothers.
" Good, now come on. They have to be somewhere around here." She said motioning the group to follow her.
" Yeah, unless Chris messed up on the spell." Wyatt said under his breath. Leo turned around and gave him a 'knock it off' look. Wyatt did a boyish grin, and walked to follow Piper.
The group came to a narrow hallway and at the end of it they could hear talking. They very quietly snuck up, and what they found was exactly what they were looking for.
Phoebe recognized it before, she had seen this exact place,exact scene in her premonition." My brother?" she heard Fayre's confused voice, and realized that the demon was about to throw the knives.
" Piper freeze them!" Piper with no hesitation froze the knives in midair, but niether Fayre nor the demon froze.
" Why didn't they freeze?" Chris asked looking at Piper, but she wasn't paying attention. She was too busy paying attention to the very big hooded demon who they were now going to have to fight, and knowing that one of their most defensive powers didn't work.
The demon started to laugh. " Do you really think you can freeze me witch? I am much to powerful for your wimpy freezing power."
" Excuse me? Did you just call me wimpy?" She looked at Leo. " Did he just call me wimpy?"
" Piper." Leo said in an anxious voice.
" You have no idea who are you dealing with." the hooded voice said, in a less humurous voice this time.
" Oh, I have a pretty good idea, and you clearly don't have any idea who are you messing with." Phoebe said with determination in her voice. She has come across many demons in her life, and they didn't intimdate her, but there was something about this demon that made her unsure of herself. He almost seemed familiar.
The demon laughed again. " Oh but I do. I know of the Charmed One's power from personal experience. I have been vanquished by your power. You took away most treasured possession, and now it is time to take away yours." The demon looked back at children, to throw anew set of knives,but he wasn't quick enough.
Wyatt knew that he was the most powerful thing ever, but he didn't use his power very often. He only tapped into a little bit of it when he was fighting demons, and that was usually more than enough, but he had a feeling that he was going to need much more. " No!" he yelled. He raised his hands as extreme amount of power went towards the hooded figure. When it hit him he went flying across the cave and hit the wall with a loud thunk.
" No!" Fayre screamed running over to him. She leaned down next to him. " Master? Master?" The hooded figure stood up, and pushed her away.
" No! He will regret doing that to me!" he bellowed. He turned around and put his hood down. It revealed a face uglier than hell. With warrior markings all over it, and half of it was deformed. It was the same face as theSource.In fact, it was the Source.
" I thought you were dead!" Paige screamed out. The source started laughing.
" Oh, how little do you know. I will admit that your power did vanquish me, but I found my way back. With not as much power. You witches weakened me, and it has been my goal since I have been back to do to you, what you did to me, and I knew I needed her to do it." He looked at Fayre. Fayre's eyes went wide, and she stared at him.
" But I thought." he turned and snarled at her, and with a wave of his hand sent her flying.
" You will speak when spoken too!" He bellowed. " I would have liked to have had both of you." he looked at Brian. " But Castil, the stupid sorceror, had you. Luckily, your poor little witch mother was much to weak from giving birth to two of you to defend herself. One of the most easiest killings." He started to laugh again, and Brian could feel his temper starting to rise.
" Don't talk about my father like that!" He yelled at the Source, taking a step forward away from the protection of the group. The Source stared at him, and took a step toward him. Brian had an idea, he just need the Source to get a little closer.
" OOOOO, you are such a poor fool. Just think of the power you could have had, if I could have raised you like your sister. You could be the next Source, the ruler of all the underworld." he sounded almost dissappointed.
"Never." Brian recognized his voice almost instantly, and turned to see his dad standing a few feet away from him.
" Well isn't this turning out to be a lovely runion. I have my two favorite betrayers, who fell in love with witches here with me the same day!" The source almost seemed to spit at the part with the witches. " Castil, old man. Let me ask you? How is your wife?" The Source asked laughing at his own joke.
Castil screamed and sent bolts of electricity towards him. It didn't even seem to effect him, with a wave of his hand Castil went flying across the room. Hitting the wall and sliding to the ground unconcious. That was it, Brian had enough. He raised his hands, and sprayed the Source with water.
" What are you doing, giving me a bath?" The Source said in a mocking voice. " I thought you were supposed to be a prodigny." Brian smiled his own devious smile.
" Oh, but I am" with that he sent bolts of lighting at him,the Source started to scream and shake. Brian was electricuting him, with about the power of 4 lightning storms.
" No!" Fayre jumped at the Source to knock him out of the current, but in return got stuck there. Brian only held it for a couple seconds before realizing what had happened. Fayre fell to the ground, unconscious. No, what have I done! Brian thought to himself before running over to her, and checking to see if she was still alive. He knew that he was using some pretty major power.
" What are we supposed to do now!" Paige yelled at Piper as the Source picked himself off the ground and started sending fireballs, and energyballs left and right. Piper froze some and blew up some. Paige was orbing them back at him, but it didn't seem to effect him.
" Alright plan C!" Piper yelled.
"We had a plan C?" Chris yelled back rolling out of the way of a energy ball. Something had happened, and demons started popping in all over the place.
" Yes, get the kids!" Piper yelled. Piper started blowing up the demons that were gaurding the children.
" Sadie and Peter." Paige called, hoping she could call the children to her, but it was no good. They were magically protected. She orbed a few fireballs away and started running towards the children, but got stopped with a hard kick to her gut which sent her flying in the wall.
" No!" Henry screamed as he saw the demon kick Paige in the gut. He ran over to her, she was conscious, but was still on the ground holding her stomache. " Paige, are you alright?" he said putting his hand on her stomache. She looked at him with pain in her eyes.
" Leo." She said through a labored breathe. He turned around to call him, but he was already on his way over.
" Is she alright?" He asked looking at Paige with concern. Henry shook his head.
" I don't think so. Can you fix it?" he asked in a frantic voice.
" I can try." He put his hands over her stomache and moved them up and down, untill he found the problem. As a white light came down from his hand. When he was done he looked at Paige, and she nodded her head that everything was ok. " That was a close one. Maybe-" Leo didn't get to finish his sentence before Paige was back on her feet.
" No, I'm ok now." Leo nodded his head, and watched as Paige and Henry went to go fight some demons.
Brian crawled over to his dad, dodging fireballs and such. When he got there he saw a puddle of blood. " Dad! Dad! Dad, wake up, please wake up." He could feel tears start to well up in his eyes. He laid his head down on his chest and started crying when he felt his dad move. He looked up at his face, as Castil's eyes fluttered open just for a second.
" Save her, for me." he managed to say through labored breathes. Then he took his last, as his head fell to the side, Brian could almost feel his life slip from him. He sat there for awhile, staring at his fathers body. He felt all these emotions running through him. The sadness and the anger.
" Is he gone?" Brian could barely hear Patience, she was so quiet. He turned around and nodded his head. " I'm so sorry." She sad looking at the ground. Brian also looking away say piles of ash everywhere, and he knew that she had protected them, so he could say good-bye. Now it was time for him to protect their family, and do his fathers last wish.