Chapter Twenty-Two – Fallen Angel, Part One

Piper and Chris walked downstairs, and Piper walked towards the kitchen, which Chris followed. Leo and Derek were waiting down by the landing, and Leo confronted.

"Get away from me." Chris said looking at his father in the Eye.

"Chris, please." Leo responded.

"No, I don't care what you have to say."

"Christopher, he's your father." Piper replied.

"And that's suppose to make everything right again?" Chris shot at his mother, then he moved his gaze to his father. "You move or I move you. It's simple."

Leo looked at his son for a moment, he sighed and stepped aside. Chris walked on, passing his mother, and into the kitchen. He went to the drawer and grabbed a towel, and put under the water faucet and turned on the water.

"Chris, please don't blame Leo for what he did. You have to let him explain his side." Piper said walking in .

"How about, he can just leave." Chris said getting the towel wet. "Wyatt and I were just fine."

"Wyatt isn't here anymore." Piper stated.

Chris turned off the water and used all his anger to wring out the towel of the excess water. He then began to clean his wounds on his face, of all the blood on his forehead. He winced at the pain. He looked at the blood on his towel, and then suddenly remembered the blood on the sword that Nora stabbed into Wyatt. Chris remembered Wyatt's facial expression as the sword sliced through his body like a hot knife in butter.

"Christopher, let me help you with that." Piper said walking over. As she walked to her son, she saw that he was frozen, his eyes were like glass, filled with fear and sadness. His chin began to tremble and a tear fell from his eye. "Chris, give this too me." Piper said taking his towel.

"No." Chris backing away. "This is not right, it wasn't suppose to be like this."

"Christopher please, I know this hard."

"Why aren't you effected by any of this? Or Dad! Don't you care?"

"I care." Piper replied very calmly.

"Then what? You're standing there like nothing happened."

"Wyatt isn't dead." Piper said loudly.

Chris stepped back, he was at a loss for words. "What are you talking about?"

"When someone dies there spirit goes through heaven, Wyatt's didn't. So he's not dead."

"We weren't on the same plane, we in between worlds, I can't explain it. But its just it was this one, the under world, or heaven, it was different."

"All nine planes of existence are connected through heaven and hell. And only demons go straight to hell; and Wyatt wasn't a demon. I am telling you he isn't dead."

"I wish I could speak with him." Leo said pacing in the solarium.

"Give him time sir, he's in mourning."

"I know that Derek, thank you for the news flash!" Leo snapped.

"My apologies."

"I am sorry, Derek." Leo replied. "Here, take a few hours and relax. If I am right about what's going on you're going to need it."
"Yes, sir." Derek said, then he then orbed from the Manor.

"Place him on the alter." Nora said, standing in her human form, she looked at everyone as they stood in their once human form.

"I hate this look." Said Collier, a tall blonde man, "Are you sure this is necessary?"

"Yes, we have to be in his element. The Dark Lord won't become the true Dark Lord until he makes his first kill." Nora replied.

"So why do we have to be – human!" Luke, a young boy asked.

"Cause his element, his comfort zone is people. And we were all people once. Until he makes his first kill then we can change." Nora replied.

"Who will his first kill be?" Patali, an Indian looking woman asked.

"Its of his choice." Nora replied. "Now we have to begin the ceremony."

Nora directed all of the Fallen Angels, around the alter where Wyatt laid. Twenty six of them made a perfect circle around the alter, and then they joined in hands. Nora then began to chant.

"Lux deo speramus, lux mina nue tio llea." She opened her eyes. "We call upon all magical forces far a wide, the powers of the underworld, the powers of heaven. Unite us here, and come to him." She opened her eyes. The Fallen Angels looked up, and directly above Wyatt a ball of red light began to take shape. It was a ball of raging fire, and it was growing bigger.

"Yes." Nora said watching with delight.

Chris walked from the kitchen, wiping the occasional tear from his eyes. He walked at full speed towards his father. He stopped in front his father who sitting down.

"Funny, you and mom always told us it was good manors to stand when someone of importance walked into the room. Stand!" Chris demanded. Leo stood. "Good."

"Alright, Christopher that's enough." Piper said.
"No, its just the beginning." Chris snapped at his mother but still looking at his father. "You." He directed at his father now. "You're back from your mission, why?"

"Because its now I have to be here."

"Why?"

"I trained Derek, that was the first part of it."

"Derek was the guy who attacked me?"

"Yes."

"What is he? And what do you mean you trained him?"

Leo then began to sit down.

"Did I say you could sit down?" Chris asked.

"Christopher!" Piper snapped.
"Not now mother." Chris replied. "And you, stand." He snapped at his father.

"Yes, my lord." Leo replied, standing up.

Chris felt a chill going down his back. "Answer my question."

"Alright." Leo said still standing. "That night I left, before I came to the manor to say good bye the Elders had summoned me."

"Leo." Jevan said as Leo orbed into the Chamber. "We're glad you came, we have grave news for you."

"What is it?" Leo asked.
"Leo." Paige said as he orbed in.
"Paige." Leo said, "How are you."

"Not now Leo." Jevan replied. "This isn't the time."
"What's wrong?" Leo asked

"The Fallen Angels are back." Nora said, "We don't know how, but they are."

"The Fallen Angels!" Leo stated in shock. "How?"

"We don't know our selves quite frankly, but we know if they reach full strength; they will be unstoppable." Jevan said.

"The apocalypse." Said Trinity, a black elder. She continued, "They are more powerful then ever. Since the attack on your wife and the charmed ones, the Fallen Angels have take the Underworld."

"And now they want Heaven." Nora continued.

"This is impossible. We -" Leo began.

"Trapped them several years ago? Yes we know." Jevan said. "But they have gotten out, and they got out right before the attack that killed your wife."

"So what do you need me to do?" Leo asked.

"There is witch, but this witch isn't like any other witch." Trinity said.

"He has the powers over the elements." Said Lois, a young girl, with blonde locks.

"The elements?" Leo asked.

"Yes." Nora replied.

"His name is Derek." Jevan began, "His parents are mortal, there is no magic in there line whatsoever. He is just beginning to come into his powers, he is your sons age and confused about who he is."

"So give him a white lighter." Leo said.

"Its not that easy." Lois said, "He is the most powerful witch since your son."

"Maybe even more powerful then Wyatt." Trinity said.

"Fire, Earth, Air, and Water." Nora said. "This last week he conjured a tornado in his science class, injuring everyone."

"Last week he was so angry that when he went to the beach he conjured a wave so large it took out a part of the pier." Lois said. "His is not a power for use to lose."

"Okay he's powerful yes. But what do you want me to do?" Leo asked.

"You and Trinity, will train him." Jevan said. "You will teach him magic and how to control his powers, and trinity will teach him how to fight."

"What? I can't do this." Leo said.
"Yes you can Leo, the world depends on it." Nora stated.

"We have seen the future, without him the days of life on earth are numbered."

"But I have my sons at home. I can't." Leo said. "What about Paige?"
"I can't." Paige finally said.
Leo then moved his gaze back over to her.

"My place is here Leo I am sorry." Paige said.

Leo gave Paige a disappointed look. "So you're telling me to leave my children." Leo asked her, and then moved his gaze to the council. "Abandon my children, leave them all alone?"

"Yes, we are." Nora asked.

"I wont do it."

"If you don't." Lois asked, "Everything you know, everything you hold dear will perish in the war."

"What war?" Leo asked her.

"The Fallen Angels have conjured so much power that we believe an army is coming, and army the world has never seen." Lois replied. "And if you don't do this your children will die."

Leo looked at the council, and then the little girl.

"Lois, you have the power to see into the future for years, and you didn't tell me this why?"

"Leo," Nora said. "Please, you will see your children again I promise."

"When?"

"After one of them dies." Jevan said vaguely.

"What!" Leo yelled.

"In two months one of your children will die." Nora said.
"Don't fight this, we must do this, for the greater good." Trinity.

Leo bit his tongue and looked at the council and then looked at Paige.

"You're going to let one my children die? One your nephews!" Leo yelled at her.

"Leo please." Paige said.

"No, look I am going, but none of my children will die." With that Leo orbed out.

"What just happened here?" Nora asked.

"I don't know." Trinity asked.

"It is in effect," Lois said, she looked up. "The coarse of events have already changed."

"And that's what happened." Leo asked.

"And you expect me to believe that?" Chris said.

"Chris, he told you what he knows." Piper replied. "Give it a rest."

"Well Wyatt is dead." Chris said as tears formed in his eyes. "He is dead, and all because you didn't warn me."

"Chris," Leo said, "I am sorry."
Chris then slapped his father across the face.

"You killed him!" Chris yelled.
"Christopher." Piper yelled, she ran forward and pulled him back.

"You didn't warn us, you should have told us! And You killed him! YOU KILLED WYATT!" Chris then collapsed to the floor, on his knees.

Piper looked up at Leo, who looked helpless himself.

Derek orbed into his house, just outside of the city of San Francisco. He looked around, and sat on his bed. This use to be his room, his house; he remembered too well the night Leo and Trinity came to get him. And his parents found out how much of freak he truly was.

"What the hell did you?" Derek's mother yelled.
"I – don't." Derek said looking at his hands. He looked up and the entire front end of the house was blow away, as if it was ripped away by a tornado.

"Step away Marie." Said Derek's father, "that isn't our son."
Derek looked at his parents and then ran upstairs to his room. Slamming the door behind him.

"Richard, what are you doing?" Marie asked her husband.
"I am calling the police, an intruder is our house."

"That's our son!" Marie said with tears coming to her eyes.

"No its not."

Derek then paced in his room, he was shaking How did he do that? First his father is saying how he should be getting better grades for college, and before Derek could eat his steak he hears a train outside his house, and the entire front end of the house is ripped from the structure. He then hears sirens from outside his house.

"Oh my god." Derek said looking at his window. As he turns around to run out his bedroom, he watches as Trinity orbs in front of him. He screams in terror.

"No, please don't be scared." Trinity said, "I am not here to hurt you."

Then behind him, Leo orbs in. He screams even louder, and falls onto his bed.

"Please don't be afraid, we're good people." Leo said. "My name is Leo, and this is Trinity, and we're from what you would call heaven."

"Heav-He-Heaven?" He said.

"Yes," Trinity said, "And we've come to help you, but you must come we don't have much time."

"No," Derek, "MOM, DAD!"

"He's calling for us." Marie said.

"No Marie." Richard replied, "That isn't our son, how many times do I have to tell you that. He's something else." He opened a drawer in there kitchen and pulled out a gun.

"Please, leave me alone!" Derek said. The sirens were so loud Derek knew that they were close to the house.

"Please, we can help you." Trinity said, "Let us help you please."

"No, my family is here."

"Your parents don't see you as your son. The cops are coming, and they will arrest you." Leo said.

"No they won't, they love me. DAD!" Derek yelled.

"Derek, please." Trinity said.

The cops came running up to the house, and saw Richard and Marie standing in the kitchen.

"What the hell happened here?" Asked a tall white cop.

"A boy tried to attack us. He's up stairs!" Richard said.

"Stay here." Said a white female cop. The Cops approached the stairs with guns drawn. Richard and Marie watched them walk upstairs, and more cop cars arrive out front, along with their neighbors coming out of their houses.

"Please Derek, let us help you." Leo said.
"They're coming." Trinity said, looking at the door. "Police men. We have to get him out of here."

"Good, they'll arrest you guys!"

"No Derek you don't understand, you will be arrested and taken away."

"No! HELP ME!" Derek yelled. Suddenly the door was kicked open, the two cops had guns drawn. They saw Derek on his bed, and Leo and Trinity standing in their elder robes.

"Take him Leo!" Trinity said, "I'll follow."

Leo grabbed Derek's arm and orbed away.

"What the hell?" The Male cop said. Trinity then pulled her robs off, and she had leather pants, a leather vest and high healed boots on. She then turned and kicked the gun from the male cop's grip. And She shot her hand at the female cop sending her flying back. The male cop tried to grab her arm, but Trinity twisted her arm and flipped over the bed, and throwing the cop into the wall. She then grabbed her robes and orbed away.

Derek opened his eyes and saw the sunset outside his window. The house had been abandoned and slowly he laid on his bed, and feel asleep.

The Fallen Angels watched as a ball of white rushing air shot into Wyatt. His body jerked, and then fell still.

"The final element." Nora said, as the Fallen Angels looked down at him. "Now all that is left to do is to bring him back to life, but instead of good; evil."

"And how are we going to do that?" Collier asked.

"Just watch." Nora then motioned for everyone to back away from the alter. They did so, and then Nora then walked to the top of the alter and placed her hands on Wyatt's chest. She felt the power following through her veins, that power that once belonged to Wyatt. She was conjuring his power to bring people back from the dead. She closed her eyes and watched as white light appeared between her hands and Wyatt's body. But then the power turned from white to black. A black light which looked more like smoke. It flowed down from his chest and onto the alter table top. She smiled, as more power was being conjured from her, and into Wyatt. She began to smile and she was then sucked into a vision, like one she sent to Christopher.

…People being burned on the streets, Entire cities lay in rumble and ash. Witches, Wizards, Fairies, the entire magical community laying dead all over the world, but then a being of great power, a warrior. He stands with them, he stands to destroy Nora. But then death, Her death.

She opened her eyes and gasped, and at the same time, Wyatt opened his eyes. He was gasping for breath as well. The Fallen Angels stood back in amazement.

"He was dead." Collier, "But now alive." Nora tore herself from Wyatt, and fell to the floor, she felt her life draining from her; her heart was racing. She then conjured her strength and pulled herself up.

Wyatt laid on the table, he looked above him, where was he? He sat up, and saw all the Fallen Angels around him in human form. He looked at them.

"You are elders." Wyatt Said, "Where am I?"

"You are in a Church." Nora said coming from behind him. "Don't worry you are save."

"Where is he?" Wyatt asked.
"Who?" Nora asked.

"My little brother, Christopher."

"Don't you remember what happened?" Nora asked.

"No, what happened?"

"Take my hand, and I will show you." Nora extended her hand.

Wyatt looked at her uneasily and then touched her hand. He had a premonition.

Wyatt was being held hostage on the stone floor of the Church with Bianca holding an athame at his neck. He watched as a tall warrior in black, buzzed hair cut, and a sword in his hand. Chris ran for Wyatt.

"Chris, no!" Wyatt yelled.

But it was too late, the man orbed, and turned and stabbed Chris through the chest. Chris then fell to the ground dead.

Wyatt pulled back his hands, and looked up at Nora.

"Your brother is dead, the witch known as Derek, killed him." Nora stated.

Wyatt's face grew furious and his blue eyes faded to black.
"He's dead."

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Chris was standing in the foyer, looking at a picture of him and Wyatt. It was only taken days before Piper's death. He felt his father walk over and put his arm around him. Chris slapped it away, and stepped away.

"What the hell do you want?" Chris asked.

"Christopher, please." Leo said

"No, looked can't I be alone?" Chris asked facing the big oak doors. He waited to hear something from Leo, but he didn't hear anything. He waited a few more seconds, nothing. He turned around.

"Dad?" He said, as he turned, Leo was gone. "Dad?" He said again. He looked into the family room, it was empty. But then as he turned his father appeared out of no where, but he had changed. Chris screamed. Leo had horns, his eyes were yellow cat like, his teeth were razor sharp and yellow, and then Chris felt a great pain in his stomach. He looked down and saw Leo had stabbed him with an athame. Leo shoved the athame further into Chris' stomach. Chris felt his limps go limb, he then fell to the floor.

"Down with the Halliwell's." Leo said, and with that he vanished into flames.

Chris laid dying on the foyer floor.

TO BE CONTINUED

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