CHAPTER TWELVE
Meanwhile, both male Titans had appeared and were throwing Paige and me around, wanting to know where was the Elder who created us. Suddenly your mother appeared, looking more like a goddess than I'd ever seen her, anger, sadness pouring from her. Well, they tried to use their powers on her and Piper told them that "It's not nice to piss off Mother Nature!" (Isn't that a great line??? I was so proud of her for coming up with that!), and after using an earthquake to open a huge hole and with a little nudge from Paige's trident, we did it! We actually vanquished the Titans! Almost as big of an accomplishment as vanquishing the Source of All Evil!
Leo came running downstairs, very proud of us, especially of Piper. He held an urn in his hands. He told us that now it was time to give back our powers. But Piper glared at him, pain and anger still rolling off her, and as the earth shook, she vanished.
Later, amidst rain and thunder and hail outside, inside, Leo used his powers to take back Paige's and my godly powers, and we gladly gave up being goddesses and just went back to being witches
I tried to scry for Piper, but couldn't. Paige thought that Piper was on a major power trip--after all, she destroyed the Titans, something even the Greek gods couldn't do. Chris hoped she didn't lose her humanity, and Leo said that if anyone could do that, it was Piper.
Just then there was a jingle--the Elders needed Leo and were calling, and Leo orbed out. Paige and I couldn't believe it--Leo had just bailed on us--something he'd never done before! Chris rolled his eyes, as if he didn't find it strange at all. He told us that Leo trusted us to find Piper and talk her down before she threw the whole world into chaos. We reminded him who Leo is--Piper's husband. Not any more, Chris insisted with another smirk. The Elders needed Leo to help restore order. He finally admitted that Leo wasn't an Elder yet, but he was on the path.
Well, I lost it. I told him that maybe being an Elder was a good thing in his world (and after all, hadn't he told us that in his world, all the Elders were dead?? How could that possibly be a good thing?), but in ours he's our brother-in-law, our Whitelighter and our friend, so Chris just better get his Whitelighterly-a$$ Up There and tell Leo to get back down here now!
Just then there was a huge crash. Piper's emotions were getting the worst of her, and the world was going nuts! Paige figured that as a goddess, she'd want to be somewhere up high where she could see the damage she was inflicting, and Paige orbed us to the highest hill looking over San Francisco.
Sure enough, there was Piper, sending out lightning bolt after lightning bolt after lightning bolt, while continuing to make the earth shake. When we tried to talk to her, she warned us to stay away, the look in her eyes warning us that if we didn't, the next lightning bolt would be aimed at us! We reminded her of her family--of Wyatt, who needed his mother, especially now that he had lost his father. But that was the wrong thing to say. With one final glare, Piper vanished!