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Chapter seven

Leo, Piper and Paige orbed down into the underworld – it was eerily quiet… too quiet.

"What's the deal?" Piper hissed. "This place is normally covered with demons, where are they?"

"Like I would know?" Leo hissed back.

"Shh!" Paige snapped. "I can hear chanting."

There was a beat of silence before Piper began beating Leo on the arm. "Sense her! Sense her!" Leo did as he was told.

Piper and Paige waited impatiently for a response. "Leo, come on!" Paige snapped. A little too loudly perhaps; the chanting stopped abruptly and footsteps followed. Leo grabbed Paige and Piper by the arm and orbed out back into the manor.

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"Leo? What the Hell?" Paige snapped mid-materialization.

"Did you want to die? Because I could have left you down there for that."

Paige folded her arms over her chest and grunted.

Piper sighed and looked at Leo. "You didn't pick up on anything did you?"

Her husband looked her in the eyes with a solemn look. At this look, Piper thrust her hands out and blew up the grandfather clock, making Paige and Leo jump.

"Piper?" Paige asked.

"Tell me not to lose it, and you'll be next," she threatened, only half telling the truth.

Paige backed up and backed off. Piper started pacing back and forth in front of her husband and sister, Paige and Leo swore they could have seen the clogs ticking in her head.

"Cole would not kill her – there's no point behind it…"

"Do demons ever really need a point?" Paige dared to ask.

"No they don't, but Cole is not like any normal demon."

"How do you figure?" Paige spat.

"Because he's half human," Leo cut in.

"So what the Hell else would he want with a five year old?"

Piper's head snapped up in realization. "Of course… God we are so stupid, it was right in front of us all along!"

"What was?" Paige asked.

"Of course he doesn't want to kill her; he wants an heir… or an heiress rather."

"Heiress of what? What is there to take over?" Paige asked.

"The Underworld," Leo announced.

"But he isn't the Source anymore; we destroyed the Source."

"But Belthazor is second best after the Source," Piper realized.

"Come again?" Paige asked. "And do so slowly."

"He's not just Cole, half demon half human; he's Cole as in Belthazor half demon half human."

"So he is pretty much in charge of the underworld… pretty much the ruler of it because the Source doesn't exist –"

"And he is trying to either turn Prestyn completely evil –"

"Hence the chanting –"

"Or he wants her as she is, but wants her as his heiress so she can keep charge of the Underworld –"

"Should anything happen to Cole…" Paige finished.

Leo was getting dizzy from Piper and Paige finishing each other's sentences, but was glad to see that some sense was being made about why Prestyn was taken.

"She shouldn't turn evil though, right Paige? Because you finished the potion didn't you?" Piper asked.

Paige glared at her older sister. "You know that I haven't finished it yet!"

"How could you not have finished it?" Piper let out.

"I have been at that thing for five years and things are still missing from it and there are things in there that shouldn't be in there. A potion like that isn't easy to make!"

"It shouldn't be that hard, Paige! We did it for Cole!"

"No we did not! We made his powers dormant – we gave him a power stripping potion! This potion is one to rid her demonic side completely!"

"Great! So now we've no hope!" Piper threw her hands up in defeat.

"First of all, don't you dare pin this on me; second of all, even if the potion had been complete and she had taken it, it only takes the demonic side out of her body, it won't stop her from possibly turning evil."

"So what the hell kind of potion is it!" Piper yelled.

"Stop!" Leo yelled. Piper and Paige stared at him. "Such a potion doesn't exist for a start, if it did, don't you think I'd have made you three take it by now? We could have avoided Phoebe turning evil more than once! But it doesn't exist, and you two arguing over nothing is only gonna waste time when you should be out finding Prestyn!"

"We could have had Prestyn safe at home by now, but someone dragged us away!" Paige snapped.

"No we couldn't have because Leo couldn't pick up on her scent," Piper realized.

"That doesn't mean anything," Paige said.

"Paige, he can't pick anything up from here, which means she is either down in the underworld or…Just not." She led on. "We went down into the underworld and couldn't pick up on anything; face it, we're at the worst case scenario right now!"

"You just said, not more than five minutes ago, that he would not kill her!"

"That was five minutes ago!"

"You are driving me nuts! What you said before makes sense! Not this cockamamie nonsense you got going now!"

"So why can't we pick up on a scent?" No one could provide an answer. Silence filled the manor and it was an awkward one at that.

"Scrying," Paige chirped.

"What?"

"We can scry for her."

"If we can't pick up on her scent, Scrying wouldn't work either; it's the same thing," Leo spoke.

"So why not scry for him?"

"What would the point of that be? If she's –"

"To get revenge of course!"

"Of course," she echoed sarcastically.

"Besides, who's to say she's not still alive? You said that he wouldn't kill her, and even Cole said he wouldn't. What if we can't sense her because Cole doesn't want her to be found? What if we can't sense her because she's already evil and we can't sense evil?"

"Too many 'what ifs'."

"But providing hope."

Piper looked at Leo. "Go and check on the boys and Phoebe; try and see if big Phoebe is inside or try and see if something can jog little Phoebe about big Phoebe's future? Whatever is going to happen, we're going to need the power of three; not the power of two and a half…" Leo nodded his head and orbed out. Piper looked at Paige."So where do we start?"