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Chapter 1

A demon had attacked the night before. So, typically, Chris was the one doing the research while Leo checked with the elders to see if they knew of anything and the sisters were busy with their personal lives.

I don't believe them! Chris fumed as he flipped through the book of shadows. He had been working on the demon for the last 4 hours solidly, and had still come up with nothing. The sisters had each gone to their respective workplaces, and they had said that they would go, make their excuses and leave. Yeah, where have I heard that one before, Chris thought. And Leo, gone to 'check' with the elders, how long does it take? They're probably all meditating to try and make the problem go away!

He heard a car pull up outside, and then someone opening the front door. But he knew without going to look that it was Piper. He had known her for long enough to know how her footsteps and even how her breathing sounded. Even from the attic, he could hear her muttering about the state of the place and all the mess that the demon had made last night, and he couldn't help smiling to himself. His mother would never change, he decided. His smile faltered however, when he heard her retching in the bathroom. None of the rest of the family knew yet, and he was pretending like he didn't know, but Piper was pregnant, and the only reason that he knew was that he was the baby! He would have thought about it more, but he decided that it was too weird.

A short time later, once Paige and Phoebe had also arrived home, they were all in the attic. And, to Chris's annoyance, they were complaining at him for not having found anything on the demon yet!

Chris was just starting to have trouble controlling his temper (which usually he was very good at), when Leo orbed in.

"Hey, we might have a lead on the demon."

"What, the elders actually knew something for once?" Chris said sarcastically.

Leo just looked at him before continuing.

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What none of them realised was that their entire conversation was being watched by the very demon that they were trying to find out about. In his lair, the demon looked into the magic pool, watching them argue.

"And now they are all distracted I should have no problem in trapping them in my little maze of fun!" he chuckled evilly.

Sure enough, when he waved his hand over the pool, the Charmed ones, Chris and Leo were all instantly transported to a part of the dark gloomy maze that was his lair.

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The group looked around them at the dark corridor they seemed to be in, lit only by burning torches in brackets on the walls.

"Where are we?" Paige asked hesitantly.

"I have no idea, but if I had to guess I'd say that we're in a demon's lair," Phoebe answered.

"Oh, not good," Piper said, "I am so happy that I left Wyatt at magic school."

"Oh really?" A loud disembodied voice boomed, "Soon you'll be wishing that you had stayed at magic school too."

"Who are you?" Phoebe shouted.

"You don't need to know, all you need to know is that now you're all in my maze and that I'm going have great fun in showing your worst secrets and memories. I can sense that at least one of you has more than your fair share of them. Enjoy!" And with that the voice stopped and the group seemed to be alone again.

"What do we do now?" Leo asked.

"You are gonna orb us out of here," Piper said, "come on, let's go."

Leo tried to comply, but soon sighed and said, "Damn it, I can't orb."

"Paige?" Piper asked.

"No I can't either"

"Chris, what about you?" Phoebe asked.

"No, it's no good. None of us are gonna be able to orb out. I'd say our best chance of getting out of here is by vanquishing the demon."

"Yeah, but there's one problem, we don't know where the demon is, remember?" Paige pointed out.

"I know that, but didn't the demon say that this was his maze? Well, wouldn't he be in here somewhere?" Chris reasoned.

"Yeah, but where? He could be anywhere, and who knows how big this maze is." Piper said.

They all thought about this, before Leo said, "Probably our best bet is in the centre of the maze." The others agreed.

"Ok, so all we gotta do is find he middle of a maze that is god knows how big, in the dark. Great." Chris grumbled.

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They'd been walking for what felt like hours before the disembodied voice started up again. "I think it's time to liven things up a bit isn't it? Let's start with you Paige."

"What do you mean by that?" Paige asked a little nervously.

Suddenly, they weren't in the maze anymore, but on a random street in the city.

"No, no, no," Paige said, looking around at their surroundings "This is when my adopted parents died."

After the scene had finished, they were back in the maze.

The disembodied voice decided that it was necessary to review the memory. "Hmmm, well it clearly isn't the most traumatic memory than any of you have, someone here has way worse ones than that."

Chris held his breath, really hoping that the demon wouldn't turn on him next.

"But still," the demon continued, sounding almost jovial, "That was well worth watching. How was it for you Paige?"

Paige took a deep breath, bit back her tears and said calmly, "Go to hell."

"Oh, no now you've gone and made me angry," the demon said, not sounding so in the least. "And you really won't like what happens when I'm angry."

Abruptly, the whole cavern started shaking and dust started to drop from the ceiling and walls, before they caved in too…

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A/N: hey guys – sorry about the cliffhanger, Thank you everyone so much for your reviews! All are welcome, and any ideas that you have on where I might go with this story please make suggestions! I have almost done the next chapter but after that... Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter, I wrote it fairly quickly and I'm not completely happy with it… But anyway (-note to self, stop babbling!). Please review!