Disclaimer: I don't own charmed

A/N: Sorry this took so long, but I had a major writers block! (and a LOT of school work). Anyway, just to warn you, there's a little bit of swearing in this towards the end, so if you don't like the f word, just look away at the end or something, ok! Enjoy…

Chapter 8

The group continued down the various tunnels in silence. The Charmed ones and Leo were feeling slightly awkward and self-conscious, because they now knew that Chris could read their minds whenever he wanted to. They really hoped that he wouldn't.

Every now and then, they would pause for a minute, whilst Chris went through the walls on either side of them, trying to find the way that would take them to the demon.

They were going down the corridor that – according to Chris would lead them to the demon ,when suddenly all the torches down the walls were suddenly extinguished by a powerful gust of wind.

"That, is never a good sign," Paige said, nervously.

"Yeah, if we were in a horror movie, I'd be about to ask 'Hello? Is there anyone there' – and then get horribly murdered… so lets not ask that," Phoebe babbled.

"Good idea Phoebe, maybe if we don't say anything then whatever it is will conveniently forget we're here," Chris said sarcastically, "Now shh, I'm trying to listen."

With that, everyone fell silent, and Chris cocked his head to one side, listening intently. He then made a ball of fire in his hand – illuminating his face - showing that his eyes had widened considerably.

"I really hope that no one here has a phobia of snakes," was all he said.

"What! Why?" Piper asked.

"Because there's a whole lot of them on their way here, and there's no way to escape them and still get to the demon." Chris explained.

They all quickly processed this information, and Leo asked, "Can't you just walk through the walls to the demon, and take us with you? Like you did before?"

"No," Chris sighed, "he's got some sort of barrier around the walls of his cavern, so I can't get through them. This is the only way to get there. I've checked."

"Ok, so we have a load of snakes to kill," Piper stated grimly. Her sisters nodded in agreement. "Phoebe, You should levitate you and Paige up to the ceiling 'til this is over, coz at the moment, in this place, neither of you have powers that are much use for killing snakes."

Neither Phoebe nor Paige were particularly happy about this, but they grudgingly agreed with the plan. It was then that they could suddenly all hear the hissing and slithering of the quickly approaching reptiles.

"Here they come," Chris muttered, completely igniting one hand in fire while simultaneously covering the other in ice.

Several hundred snakes rounded the corner and quickly reached the group. Piper began blowing them up left, right and centre. Leo shot bolts of lightening at them. Chris sent alternate streams of fire and ice at them. Fortunately, most of their attacks were able to destroy more than one snake at a time, or they would have had no chance. They were only just avoiding being bitten by the snake's poisoned fangs as it was. Meanwhile Phoebe and Paige were hovering close to the ceiling yelling warnings to their family on the ground when one of them was about to be struck by a snake.

However, in one of these instances, they weren't quick enough in yelling, and Chris was bitten as several snakes latched themselves to his ankle. He kicked them off and fried them, whilst freezing a number of others were about to attack Piper. Between the three of them, they managed to finish off the rest off the snakes. Immediately, as they got down from the ceiling, Paige and Phoebe clamoured about Chris, checking that he was ok.

Confused Leo asked, "Err, Phoebe, Paige. Chris is fine. What are you doing?"

"No, Chris isn't fine! He got bitten by several snakes!" Phoebe exclaimed.

But when Leo went to heal him, Chris waved him off. "I'm fine. I don't need healing."

"Chris, you should let Leo heal you, those snakes were probably poisonous." Piper said.

"Most probably," Chris nodded in agreement, "But I'm fine, when I was a bit younger my family managed to make me immune to virtually all poisons, because wy—people kept trying to assassinate me by poisoning me."

The others looked at each other with astonishment – they wouldn't have thought that such a feat was possible.

"Handy!" was all Paige could say.

"You were about to say Wyatt weren't you?" Leo asked quietly, "Wyatt was the one who kept trying to poison you?"

It was more a statement than a question anyway, but Chris faltered, not sure what to say.

"It's ok to tell us Chris, we already know that he did far worse to you," Piper said sadly.

"Yes, it was him." Chris mumbled, before carrying on in a louder voice, "But that's what I came to change. To save him from turning. He's not supposed to be evil."

Then there was a moment of silence which Phoebe broke by urging: "Come on then, are we gonna get this demon or what!" And they walked away from the remnants of the snakes, and towards the demon.

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"DAMN!" The demon yelled, "Why does that worthless boy keep ruining my plans? Who the hell IS he!" Staring into the pool that showed the group in the tunnels he muttered, "I really need to get rid of him – and quickly – I thought the elder or the charmed ones would my biggest problem… but no! I had to get them when they had their troublesome whitelighter with them!"

"I would say I'm sorry to be such a pain in your ass… but that would be a lie," came a cold voice from behind him. The demon whirled around to see Chris with Leo and the Charmed Ones behind him, and they all looked very pissed off. But the demon's eyes were both on Chris, he looked into the whitelighter's blazing emerald eyes and knew that he had to do something, and fast, or he wasn't even going to be a footnote in history.

Trying to think of something to do to get out of the situation, he said the voiced the only thought that would come to mind, "Oh fuck."

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A/N: Please review and I'll update again soon! I've got maybe, two chapters left… maybe three, it depends… anyway, better go before I really start babbling! bye!