Chapter Twenty – Church of the Damned

The hollow grounds of the Church, lay silent, still, and a white haze hovered above the ground. The starless sky, the tombstones that went off into ether direction for as far as the eye can see. In the graveyard there were statues of angels, demons, and even people. On four corners around the church were four angels, all bowing on one knee, with a sword in their arms. They all pointed to the church, and the sound of cracking earth was all around them.

In white swirling lights, three beings appeared, many years it has been since the Fallen Angels had taken this land has there holding ground and realm to claim rightfully theirs. The three beings looking around in the darkness, they were two witches and a phoenix.

"Where are we?" Chris asked. Looking around.

"I have no idea." Wyatt replied.

"Massive, graveyard." Bianca said looking around.

The three of them looked to the rolling hills around the church, the haze settled around the tombstones, memorials, and mausoleums all around here.

"There are no stars, nor moon." Chris said looking up, and then he looked around, "But yet we can still see things? How is this possible."

"I don't think now is the time to get into the laws of physics Chris." Bianca said.
"Agreed." Wyatt began, "But with everything here, I think that Church up on that hill, is where we're suppose to go, it's the only possible building around here."

"Yep." Chris replied back.

The three of them walked slowly, but surely through the massive graveyard, looking around the three of them looked at the stones of the graves, but one thing was very different about these tombstones.

"There are no names, or dates; just stones. How odd." Wyatt noticed.

"I don't want to know okay. Lets just get this over with and go home." Chris said.

As the three of them continued to walk, the silence around them was broken by the sound of breaking earth and up rooting.

"What was that!" Bianca said turning around looking into the haze, but as they watched the haze was growing in height and it was becoming more hard to the look into it. The three of them watched as the thousands of graves in the distance were swallowed into the haze, the stones around them began to vanish into the haze as well.

"We have to move before we loose sight of the church." Wyatt said, and with that the three of them turned around and ran for the church. The haze was growing faster then they could.

"Keep running!" Wyatt yelled as they ran up the step hill and to the Church, nearly there, Chris turned, and stopped in horror.

"WYATT!" he yelled. Wyatt and Bianca stopped and looked at what Chris was seeing. The three them watched as a hill running parallel to the one where the Church was built began to come out of the Haze and raise in height. Tombstones were coming out of the ground, and something at the top of the hill was visible but none of them could tell what it was. Lighting then cracked through the sky, and loudest thunder all of them had ever heard blasted from the heavens. Then another crack of lighting, was so intense that it blinded the three of them, and then the earth shook knocking them all to the ground.

"We got to get out of here." Chris said. He helped Bianca up, and Wyatt stood on his own, brushing themselves off.

"Oh my god." Bianca said with horror. The three of them then looked to the hill, and something massive and large had fully come out of the hill and along with a line of figures along the top of the hill and going down ether side for miles.

"What are those things?" Bianca asked

"What else, Zombies." Chris said.

"This is a graveyard." Wyatt said, "Come on we have to get out of there." The three of them then ran, but the haze was so thick going down the hill looked like something of suicide. The church was only a few meters away.

"Come on, we'll take shelter in the church." Wyatt said, "What's left of it anyways."

The three of them ran, but Bianca was pulled to the ground, she screamed.

"BIANCA!" Chris yelled after her.

"CHRIS!" She screamed. Chris grabbed her hand and pulled. Chris saw two people from the earth, rotting and full of death; Zombies.

"Oh god." He moaned. Wyatt came up behind Chris, and threw two potions at each Zombie, they were vanquished instantly. Chris and Wyatt pulled Bianca up and ran into the Church.

"This place isn't going to give us much shelter, its Bearly standing!" Wyatt said.

"Please let this work." Chris said, "Destroyed and rumbled, down and crumbled, restore this church – and let us preach."

"Preach?" Wyatt said. But suddenly around them, the half crumbled dark church began to rebuild itself. Stones were replied. The Archangel windows were fully restored, the pews in the church and the two large, very thick, wooden doors. The three of them watched as the magic rebuilt the ceiling, and it had a dome top, with a opening in it, big enough for a person.

"Very nice little bro!" Wyatt said. He walked over and locked the two doors. As Wyatt turned and walking over to Chris, Chris was petrified, and extremely pale, "Chris, what's wrong?"

Chris looked forward, a tear fell from his eye. "Chris?"

"Wyatt." Bianca said, "Look." She pointed to the altar. Then everything in Wyatt ran cold. At the top of the Church was once a beautiful woman, but now she was crucified, the up-side-down pentagram with a cross inside of it engraved on her breasts and stomach, and her head gashed in. He saw what his brother saw, his mother butchered on a cross. Wyatt's knees gave way and he fell on them, onto the stone floor. Chris walked forward, not knowing that he was moving.

"Mom, no." He said. "NO!" He screamed, he ran to the altar, going to get his mother down, but he was stopped at the step of the Alter, and thrown back by an invisible force field into a pew.
"Chris!" Bianca and Wyatt said. They both ran over to him, and he was on the ground crying.

"How can they do this!" Chris said. "Why!"

"They're evil sweetie, they don't know better!" Bianca implied.

"Well they should!"

"She was murdered." Wyatt said, not trying to look at Piper's body. Then Chris screamed.

"What's wrong!" Wyatt said.

"I don't know – Ahh!" Chris screamed, and then his body began to glow white and then he felt this pain on the bottom of his back. He lifted his shirt, "What is it!" He screamed.

Wyatt and Bianca both looked, and both horrified them, the mark that had taken Wyatt's powers, was now craved into Chris' skin.

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Chris screamed.

"Holy shit." Wyatt said.

"Not quite." Bianca said, as she turned around and punched Wyatt in the stomach, and kicked him in the face, and he was knocked down into the floor. Chris looked at her like he didn't know who she was.

"I've got you right where I want you." Bianca said to Chris, she lifted his body up and threw her fist into this Chest. Chris screamed draining his power from his body. In a matter of seconds the mark of the Fallen Angels was gone, and so were Chris' powers. Bianca dropped Chris to the floor.

"Witches, great in bed, but terrible boyfriends." She smiled. "Okay, its all clear." She yelled.

"Why?" Chris said.

"Because the Fallen Angels and the Phoenix's are going to rule this world, your world, and the underworld."

Chris looked over his brother, who was knocked out cold on the floor. Sounds of flapping wings occurred all around him, Chris turned and saw the entire Church was now filled with Fallen Angels.

Bianca went over to an elder, she had blonde hair, and shook her hands. As Bianca shook her hands, a white-bluish light went from her arm and into the elders. Nora. Nora then looked over and saw Chris and Wyatt.

"No powers?" Nora asked Bianca.

"No powers." Bianca replied.

"Excellent work, my daughter."

"Daughter?" Chris then summoned all of his energy and stood up. "Who are you!"

"Christopher, so glad to see you again." Nora replied, with a smile. And with that she transformed from her human self and into her true soul, a Fallen Angel. Her eyes transformed from blue into yellow cat eyes, her hair vanished and into a bald, brownish skin head with two giant horns appeared, wings came out from her back, and as they extended it looked like a leather material with veins going through it and horns on the end of the wings, her hands turn into long pointed sharp claws, and her legs turn into goats feet.

"I knew it." Chris replied.

"Well now Christopher," Nora said with her evil grin and yellow teeth. "Let me explain everything, I know you have many questions."

"I have questions alright, why!"

"Why, an easy answer, cause I hate good and all it stands for, free will and what not. Disgusting."

"Such a general answer you couldn't be more creative?" With that Chris was approached by Nora and strike down to the ground with her claws. Her nails silenced into Chris's face and leaving three cuts.

"General?" Nora shouted, she then turned to the church facing her following. "Sure you say we might be general, but all the underworld leaders are dead, the elders are dead, and you two which were the only two standing force in all of what was in the middle, are left defenseless and soon to be dead."

"The Elders are gone?" Chris asked.

"Yes, every single one of them, one elder put up an exceptionally good fight, and killed most of my army, but I recruited."

"You killed Paige didn't you!"

Nora grinned, "She turned her back, I offered her power but she denied. I offered her glory but she refused. I offered her a chance to be a part of something the world has never seen, and she threw back in my face. So she had to die!"

"No she didn't, you wanted her out of the way!"

"That too."

"My mother?" Chris said looking up at the alter, "How dare you!"

"One year ago Christopher, when you lost your mother and aunt, that wasn't my doing, but I did influence it. Do you remember demon that gave you your scars on your chest, his razor sharp teeth, his claws, remember him?"

Chris went cold.

"He was the leader of the Fallen Angels, but now he is not. He's dead, he was a weak leader and that's when I took over. That's when I planned it all, and then your father. How you hated him so, he took my offer and came up to council."

Chris was now shaking with fury.

"He left you that night, and you hated him, and you still hate him. In fact just the mention of him, makes you want to kill him more doesn't it?" She smiled with her ugly grin, "You want to make him feel the pain and agony that you went through, I know you do; cause I can feel it. Your father came up to us, and we gave him the mission, to train the Witch Warrior."

"Witch Warrior?"

"Yes," Nora said, "This warrior was to be taught by the best Warrior in the world, and the knowledge that Leo had. Few weeks ago, Leo and Witch Warrior left, and we never saw them again, not until yesterday, I believe."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because, I figured you should know before you die."

"I am not going to die, It wasn't in the vision."

"Vision?"

"Wyatt is going to die, I know that, but I am going to stop it."

"What vision," Nora laughed, "Enough stupid games, is there anything else you want to know before you die?"

"Yeah, how are you going to save yourself now?" Chris then wanted to orb, but nothing happened, he tried again, nothing. He tried and tried.

"Dear boy, are you having a fit? You can't orb we took all of your powers, but me on the other hand, I can orb." She smiled and orbed to behind Chris, and once she appeared, Chris was kicked in the stomach and thrown against the wall. She laughed, "This is going to be fun." Chris lifted his head and looked out the Arch Angel window, He saw hundreds of Zombies standing outside the Church.

"What is that?" He asked

"That's the army of the Damned, that is going to destroy your world. Everyone will become slaves and work till you die."

"Cliché don't you think?"

Nora then picked him up by his collar. "I don't care what you have to say boy, this world and the underworld, and heaven are already mine, and soon your world will be too." She opened her mouth and the razor sharp teeth were exposed, Chris then kicked her in the stomach and she was knocked down. Chris dropped to the floor and ran for Wyatt, but Bianca stopped him, and pulled the athame from her back, and over his neck.

"Don't try me Christopher, I'll kill you before it takes you time to think about it."

"Bianca, no." He said, "Please, let me go." For the first time in Chris' life he was pleading. "Please."

Nora got up, and her eyes were flaming red, and she was furious. "No One kicks me and walks away!" She extended her arms, and a long polished sword appeared. "Now you die."

"Not on my watch." Wyatt said, he then ran for it.

"Wyatt no!" Chris yelled, but it happened before Chris' eyes. Wyatt ran, and Nora orbed from her position to behind Wyatt and stabbed him through the back and chest.

"NO!" Chris yelled.

Nora smiled and laughed, "I know this isn't what your vision portrayed poor Christopher, but it will do. And yes, I know what happened in your vision cause I sent to you."

Bianca even felt a feeling of sorrow, as Wyatt looked down at the sword in his body and fell to the ground dead. Chris then felt a strength he had never felt before, he slammed the back of his dead into Bianca's and elbowed her in the ribs. She was knocked back, and Chris punched her in the face, knocking her down.

"Well you have spunk, I'll give you that." Nora replied.

Chris then went for his brother, to take his hand. "Take us back from once we came, return us now to save us from this long lost pain!" Chris said.

"Oh no you don't." Nora kicked Chris' hand away from Wyatt's and at that moment Chris felt the magic around, him. "NO WYATT!" he yelled.

Seconds later he materialized in the manor. "NO Wyatt, NO!"

"Christopher," Someone said, "I am so glad you made it." Chris turned and standing in the manor was Leo, his father.