Trouble

"Yes, HIGH SCORE!" A young scruffy man called out. He slammed his fist onto the pinball machine happily, but he attracted the attention of the bouncers by the door, and two made their way towards him.

"Hey, mate, if your gonna cause trouble you may as well leave now," A large, beefy man stated in a deep voice as he towered over the noise maker.

"Hey, was I causing trouble?" The first man asked, lifting his hands in a mock surrender, "Hey babe was I causing trouble?" He asked, grabbing a slim, dark haired woman who was walking past him.

"I don't know and I don't care, you creep!" She stated, trying to pull her arm out of his grip, but his hold only tightened, all colour drained from her face in fear.

"Hey, man, just let go of her." The second coloured bouncer stated, stepping forward to grab the girl, but the scruffy man just pulled her towards him.

"But you think I was causing trouble, if your gonna kick me out for causing trouble then I may as well cause trouble mightn't I?" The drunken man argued, his hold still tightening on the woman's arm. She gave out a scream when she noticed that claws were growing out of his hands and digging into her skin, ripping through her leather jacket. "I think I should," The man's voice suddenly went deep and gravely, and he threw the woman away, causing her to fly over the bar and crash into the glasses and bottles. The club suddenly fell silent, and some people rushed to aid the injured woman.

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"So, explain to me again why Prue snuck to this club instead of P3?" Piper asked stiffly as she pulled up outside a popular club called Junk. She smiled at the fact that there seemed to be lots more people leaving than entering, always something she was the first to notice.

"I don't know, she just said something about needing to get out and this was where she needed to come…" Phoebe explained again.

"Yer and she just felt like not telling me…" Piper grumbled as she climbed out of her Jeep and slammed the door. Phoebe winced and jumped out of her own side.

"Oh, come on Piper, give her a break, you wouldn't have even cared if Darryl hadn't called!" Phoebe argued.

"Yer, exactly, cause you were hardly going to tell me were you? My own sister…" Piper continued, "And now I've had to leave Paige at P3 on her own—"

"She can take care of herself you know!" Phoebe interrupted.

"— Two days after she's well again, and don't you go blaming me if she gets ill again because I won't be the one cooking a month's supply of chicken soup." Piper finished as they reached the door.

"Tickets," The bouncer stated, but Piper was in no mood and just froze him and ushered Phoebe inside.

"Yer and you didn't even bother to tell me about all the other times she's come here. I mean, Phoebe, she's supposed to be dead—" Piper suddenly stopped talking and looked at the dance floor beneath the balcony they stood on. There was a mass fight going on.

Suddenly a man was thrown up towards where they stood, over 50 feet above the floor, and suddenly froze. Piper had been so surprised that she'd frozen the whole room. Then the man moved across the air and landed safely beside them. Phoebe bent down beside the man, checking his pulse, while Piper scanned the room for any sign of Prue. Quickly she found her, sitting on the bar, fighting of the millions of hands that had frozen around her. Once she'd finally got clear of the fists, she gave Piper a small smile.

Then there was a movement behind the eldest sister, who spun around and gave a round house kick to the intruder who was a red and black striped monster a leather jacket. Realising he was a demon who had somehow dodged her freeze, Piper tried to freeze him again as he caught Prue's foot in the midst of her kick. But, as Prue struggled, the demon still didn't freeze, so Piper tried exploding, but she misaimed and caught his arm, that split his hand from his arm, causing Prue to stumble but the demon seemed alright besides the fact he was minus one hand, which has still wrapped around Prue's ankle. At any other time it may have been comical but it only made Prue angry so she gave him an extra hard shove with her telekinesis and sent him crashing through the crowds of frozen people behind him. Then Prue used her powers to lift him and sent him crashing through the window.

"Quickly, think up a protection spell!" Prue called to Phoebe. Within minutes she had thought of one and a red ring appeared around the building. "Subtly…" Prue muttered as she ran towards them.

"Leo!" Piper called her husband, who appeared within seconds and orbed them out, no questions asked. But once they got back to the manor, they found Paige sitting quietly on the sofa dodging their eyes.

"What's wrong?" Phoebe asked as Prue sat quietly besides her sister. But no-one answered her. "What's wrong Leo?"

"Leo WHAT IS WRONG!" Piper demanded, causing her husband to wince. Suddenly Paige burst into tears.

"It's my entire fault!" She cried.

"It's okay Paige… come on…" Prue said encouragingly.

"They knew I was alone! They knew I couldn't call us guys for help!"

"It's okay, just tell us what happened?" Phoebe encouraged.

"They were all just dancing and then…"

"And then what Paige?" Piper added, kneeling beside her sister.

"I just…"

"Just started from the beginning…"

"It was all a blur…" Paige gasped through her tears.

"Paige, what happened at P3?" Piper asked.

Paige took a deep breath and then explained, "I was just chatting to this guy at the bar, and then there was all the commotion on the dance floor so I went over and…" Paige sniffed, "This guy was ch… changing… I knew he was a demon but I couldn't stop him without exposing magic so I told everyone to leave, but then he grabbed this woman… and… and…" Then she burst out crying again.

Leo stepped in, "By the time I got there the whole place was burnt down, over fifty dead, but the rest know how it happened. This demon used fireballs and whenever he missed someone it would just land and burn…"

Piper just froze, "P… P3 is… gone?" Her breathing quickened. Their main source of income was gone, what would happen? They'd have the papers around and…

"I'm so sorry Piper…" Paige apologised weakly and Piper cursed herself for leaving Paige alone at P3, why had Prue gone and ran off? So, now P3 was gone and there was a demon at Junk, great…

"Hang on; demons are attacking at Junk and P3?" Prue suddenly remembered, was there possibly a connection?