Fearing for her own life as well as the lives of her family, Piper watched on as Soren stepped through the doorframe. Just moments before Chris stepped in front of his mother as her protector while she held a firm and protective grip on his arm. The Halliwells watched on helplessly as Soren took in the surroundings and the contents of the attic.
Not saying a single word he continued explored the attic but making sure he was between the witches and the door, knowing they were no threat to him as long as he kept their powers under control. He came across the potion table and glanced into the bowl and inspected the liquid.
"So this is the potion that is to vanquish me?" He asked looking in the direction of the Halliwells as his eyes came across the Book of Shadows. "And that must be the famous Book of Shadows of the Charmed Ones." Soren stated as he quickly closed the distance between them. "I never had pleasure of seeing the Book in the future, Wyatt had always kept it well protected." Soren continued as he reached to touch the Book. The Book glowed a warning as Soren quickly retracted his hand. He turned away and walked to the other side of the attic.
"Why is he playing games?" Paige whispered in confusion, "I mean, I like the idea of living and all but he should've killed us by now. What does he want?"
"I don't know but we need to get out of here." Phoebe replied looking in Soren's direction hoping he couldn't hear them.
"How?" Paige returned.
"Leo?" Chris suggested.
"No, once he gets here Soren will counter his powers too. We can't risk that." Piper quickly replied.
"What is this?!" Soren exclaimed as his eyes fell upon an item he recognized as his own. The Halliwells quickly stopped their scheming conversation and watched as Soren picked up an athame off one of the tables.
"I believe this is mine." Soren stated as he held the blade into the air.
Chris quickly recognized the knife and feelings of pain and loss quickly filled his inner being. Tears formed and threatened to fall as he remembered his lost love and how the blade that Soren currently held in his had took the life of his fiancée.
"That's belongs to you? You son of a bitch! You killed her!" Chris screamed as he quickly lunged towards the demon.
However, Soren was too quick for the emotional Chris that was charging him and he was able to counter Chris's attack, throwing him back towards his family.
"Chris!" Piper screamed in fear as she ran to her son's side. She examined his body and found he wasn't hurt at all, at least not physical wounds. She looked into his eyes saw immense pain and suffering behind them. Eyes that were fixed on the demon standing before him. The Halliwells once again watched helplessly as Soren held the blade high.
"Potentia Domicilium Intra, Adesdum Ipse" Soren chanted as the blade of the athame glowed an eerie blue.
"Paige, the potion!" Phoebe yelled.
Without thinking, Paige quickly ran to the potion table and grabbed one of the vials that held the vanquishing potion. "Good bye." Paige sarcastically stated before she threw the vial. The potion vial hit Soren in the chest and with a scream of pain their enemy violently exploded.
Before Chris could protest the sudden action, he watched as his only friend burst into flames.
As the flames of the vanquish finally faded, Piper let out a breathe of relief as their enemy was finally vanquished. But she soon realized that she had vanquished a friend and tears began to form.
"Oh my god, what have I done?" Paige said softly as she realized her action.
But a few short seconds later, a cloud of dust began to form in the area that Soren once occupied. The witches watched on in confusion as the dust began to collect at a faster rate until it all merged together and once again Soren was a threat to their lives.
"How is that possible?" Paige asked in confusion but also relief, as Jessie was not truly vanquished.
"That potion would have worked Charmed Ones." Soren laughed, "But, with the power of a Phoenix, I am now stronger than before!" Soren stated loudly.
"Oh my god, he…he took her powers." Chris said softly as the thoughts of his lover's powers being used against them. "No! I won't let you do this!" Chris exclaimed as he got to his feet.
Just as he gained his footing, Soren suddenly threw the athame in his direction. Chris didn't have the chance to move as the blade pierced his chest and was knocked to the floor. At first he felt little pain and then the pain began to grow and spread throughout his chest. He felt his breath shortening, his blood rushing out of his body, his vision began to blur, and he fought to keep his eyes open. His mother was at his sides in seconds with tears in her eyes. She didn't even have the chance to cry out his name as she saw her son being hit with the athame.
Tears quickly filled her eyes as she search for lost words.
"Chris! Chris, you're gonna be ok! We're going to get your dad to heal you, just hold on." As she cried out her words, tears streamed down her face. "Leo!" Piper cried out to her husband.
"I…I…I…love…you…Mom." Chris slowly gasped out those words as he felt the light within leaving him. He couldn't hold on any longer.
"Chris…Chris you hang on!" Piper urged. "LEO!" Piper screamed out, "Please Leo hurry! Chris needs you!" Piper continued crying out as she saw her son's life weakening. "No Chris you hang on!" Piper continued as lights collected beside her.
"Leo heal him!" Piper cried out as she watched in horror as Chris's eyes folded over.
Leo quickly pulled the athame from his son's chest and held his healing hands over the wound. He held his hands over Chris a little longer until he realized he couldn't be healed and tears began to form in his eyes. Piper saw these tears and she didn't want to say it but she knew deep down what these tears meant.
It meant she lost her youngest son and it broke her heart as tears fell from her eyes. Leo fell back and leaned against the wall as the death of his son took over as pain and suffering overwhelmed him.
"NO! Please Chris! NO!" Piper cried as she laid her head on his chest and she attempted to wrap her arms around his body. Phoebe and Paige could only watch as Leo and Piper cried their hearts out.
"CHRIS!!" Piper cried at the top of her lungs. "Don't leave me like this, not now….please come back!!"
"One down, three to go." Soren stated coldly as he watched the family before him.
"You son of a bitch!" Piper screamed in anger as turned towards him, she jumped to her feet and ran towards Soren fueled by anger and pain.
Soren quickly formed an energy ball and launched it towards an emotional helpless Piper in one swift motion. The deadly orb hit her in the chest and quickly brought her to the ground. Phoebe watched in horror as her sister's body fell to the ground motionless.
Leo, Paige, and Phoebe quickly rushed towards an injured Piper. Leo held his hands once again to a life threatening wound and attempted to heal and once again his heals weren't working. Leo knew why his heals didn't work as his hands fell and he wrapped his arms around the body of his wife and pulled her close. The combine feelings of losing both his wife and his son were to the extreme and looking up to the ceiling in anguish, Leo let out a heart-wrenching cry.
Phoebe too fell to her knees in pain, as another sister was lost to evil. She slowly crawled over to Piper's body and took hold of her hand as tears streamed down her face.
"Not again…please not again." Phoebe cried out as she held Piper's hand tightly.
Seconds later Phoebe felt as if she was having a premonition but it wasn't the same. The room seemed to brighten and it blinded her until she saw visions of moments where she was crying after Piper's death and then Chris's and it continued backwards until she was at the moment before the whole nightmare started in the attic. The moment before Soren attacked. Once again the blinding light faded out the vision.
As the light faded Phoebe found herself in a different spot in the attic, instead of her original position on her knees beside Piper's body near the Book, she was sitting on the couch with the pencil and notebook. She glanced down on the notebook and saw spells that she tried to write just before the attack. She looked around the room and saw Chris flipping through the Book, Paige making a potion, and Piper placing crystals around the attic.
Phoebe was confused, it was as if the whole attack never happened and it was all just a premonition, a dream. But it felt all too real to her. So real that Phoebe had to jump to her feet and run towards her eldest sister and embraced her in a tight hug. Piper just stood there confused of why her middle sister was hugging her so tightly.
"Love you too sis." Piper stated with sarcasm, "What's the matter?" Piper asked confused
"I thought I lost you." Phoebe replied as she cried on her shoulders.
"Lost me?" Piper asked confused, "Phoebe, what are you talking about?" Piper asked again as she pulled Phoebe off of her.
"Soren is about to come here and kill both you and Chris. I saw it in a vision, but I don't think it was a premonition. It was like I lived through it and somehow I was able to come back to this moment. It's like I'm supposed to change it." an emotional Phoebe rambled.
"Phoebe, what are you talking about?" Piper asked again in confusion, "And who is Soren?"
"Soren's the demon we're after." Phoebe replied.
"And how would you know that?" Paige asked.
"I told you I lived through this moment already, it's like déjà vu. In just a few minutes he is going to come here and kill us. And he will succeed, starting with you and Chris." Phoebe replied.
"He's not going to kill us, you've been here the whole time. You sure you weren't dreaming." Piper asked not knowing if Phoebe doesn't change something, she will die….
"Phoebe, I believe you." Chris finally spoke as he took in all that his aunt was saying. The Charmed Ones all turned to Chris for an explanation. "Your premonition powers are advancing again. In the future, you were able to jump back in time, it only happened every now and then. You were able to rewind the day and change what was meant to be changed to make everything right." Chris explained. "You were the one that inspired me to come to the past to save Wyatt." Chris added. (A/N: this power was borrowed from FOX's Tru Calling)
"Cool…when do I get a new power?" Paige asked.
"Not now." Piper scolded her youngest sister.
"We have to stop Soren before he gets to Jessie." Phoebe explained, "Paige, the potion works so grab it and head down stairs." Phoebe quickly instructed as she headed out the attic door and down to the living room.
"Whatever you say." Paige replied.
Once the Halliwells reached the bottom of the staircase, the shadows grew darker as Soren stepped out from the shadows. It was just as Phoebe predicted, but she changed a factor, instead of starting the attack in the attic, it now starts in the living room. 'The future has already been altered.' Phoebe thought.
"Piper freeze him!" Phoebe yelled and just as the words left her mouth, Piper flicked her wrists and temporarily froze the demon before he could do anything to counter her attack. But surprisingly enough he was fighting through the freeze, the Charmed Ones only had a small window of time to attack and vanquish the demon once and for all.
"Paige the potion!" Phoebe yelled once again. Paige pulled her arm back and threw the vial with all her might as it collided with a slow-moving Soren. As the vial broke and its' content released, his body violently exploded in flames just like before.
Phoebe cautiously stepped forward as if she was expecting him to regenerate like before…but it never happened because unlike before he doesn't have the regenerative power of the Phoenix.
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