Author's Note:  Sorry again for the long wait and uber-sorry that the chapter is a little on the short side. I promise to make the next one nice and fat. J 

Disclaimer: I own nothing….well I do own a few things *riffles through purse and pulls out a piece of gum and two pennies* but none of the Charmed Characters except my own creations being: Priscilla, Brennan, Petra, and Pandora. Most of the characters will probably be in the sequel instead of this installment. Please don't steal them. They like it here with me. :)

Chapter Fifteen

"Wait, wait, wait….How is it talking about you? And why is it in your mother's? Shouldn't you have your own?"

Priscilla shook her head, "The scrolls talk about the Charmed Ones and their lines. That means all of their offspring as well. As you discovered the scrolls alone are pretty vague and don't give very much information. It was discovered in my future that if the Charmed Ones were to place all of the scrolls together in order, each holding their own piece, the papers would merge together and give a very precise and complete record. Unfortunately, when this was found out, there was no longer a Power of Three."

"You mean we were all dead?" Paige asked, taken aback.

"Not all at once but at the time that we came back from, yes. You are all gone."

"Wow." Piper said softly. She reached out and took Chris' other hand cautiously. "I'm sorry."

"Mom, it wasn't your fault. You don't have to apologize."

A smile spread across her face, "You just called me 'Mom', you realize that?"

He smiled back awkwardly, "Yeah."

Priscilla looked down at her lap, "The fragment says that something will cause a power to be born that is greater than any other. This has to happen or all is lost. Well, that something is the union between two of the Charmed Children."

"The Charmed Children?" Paige asked in confusion.

Chris' expression had darkened. "Any child born to a Charmed One but in this case, Wyatt and Risa."

"What about you? You're a 'Charmed Child'. What made you think it was talking about Wyatt?" Piper questioned.

"Wyatt's the one with all the power. His birth was foretold. Me? I can't even heal." A deep bitterness entered his voice and Priscilla looked at him in concern.

"Chris. That wasn't your fault. There was nothing you could do and the two people who could have did nothing. It was not your fault. You saved my life." 

"What are you guys talking about? What wasn't his fault?" Piper's eyes darted between her son and niece.

Chris refused to look at her so Priscilla answered. "When I was four, mom died and I went to live with Dad in Hong Kong for three years. I came home to visit often but not enough. Aunt Piper was the only sister still alive and she had Wyatt and Chris to look after so she thought it might be safer for me with Dad. Leo did all he could to help but truth be told, he wasn't around much. Since the loss of the Power of Three when Aunt Paige died, the balance was tilted toward evil. He was out there trying to eliminate threats and keep us all safe but he just was never there for Aunt Piper or Wyatt and Chris. The day I turned seven, I came back to San Francisco. I wasn't in the manor for more than two hours when a demon attacked. He seemed to know exactly what we would do and what to do to stop us."

"How?" Paige interrupted.

"Wyatt. He was only ten at the time but he had already started to turn without anyone realizing it. He never meant for anyone to get hurt. Right then anyway. He just wanted it to look like they had spirited him away in the attack so he could begin his plans without interference. He was only ten…..Things didn't go as planned. The demon shimmered in and grabbed me. Piper couldn't blow him up so she offered to let him leave if he let me go. Wyatt was going to sneak away while you were distracted but the demon couldn't ignore the chance to kill the last of the Charmed Ones and their line. He moved to kill me but Chris threw him across the room. Piper moved toward me as he flew but as he passed by her he threw his dagger. It hit her in the side and punctured a lung. Wyatt just stood there. He didn't do anything. We called for Leo but he never came. You died."

"My vision." Phoebe murmured.

"What?" Piper frowned, still in shock.

"I had a vision right after Risa showed up about the day you died. Its how I found out about Chris."

"So, what happened after that?"

Chris finally spoke up, "We can't tell you. Not now at least. We may have already said too much."

"This is getting really old, you realize that right?"

"Yeah." They chorused, bowing their heads.

Paige chuckled, "You guys sound so guilty."

"Do you guys have a way to call that demon evil thingy so we can be rid of him?" Jason asked.

"Nope."

A dark chuckle came from behind them, "Were you talking about me?"

They froze, fortunately, for if they had turned around they would all be dead.

"Don't look him in the eye." Piper whispered.

Mirrors were everywhere and Chris located the demon without trouble. An idea suddenly popped into his head.

"Paige, call the binding crystals around him when I say."

She nodded.

He orbed, landing behind the demon. Lightning fast he slipped a dagger from his belt and reached around his head, plunging it in Balor's single eye.

He screamed and threw Chris into the wall. 

"Now!" He yelled.

Paige orbed the crystals around the demon and everyone let out a sigh.

"Wow. That was surprisingly easy."

"Care to tell me why we didn't kill him?"

Priscilla helped Chris to his feet as he nodded, "He can tell us what Charnaurus is up to and lead us to where he is."

Phoebe smacked her forehead, "Why didn't we think of that?"

Chris opened his mouth and she shook her head, "Never mind. Forget I said that."

Priscilla scrutinized the demon, "Ya know, he really doesn't have very good luck with that eye. First the potion and now the dagger. Gotta suck for him."

Chris gave her a funny look, "What, are you empathizing with demons now?"

"No, I just find it ironic that his one source of power keeps getting messed up. Shouldn't we take the dagger out though? The screaming is going to be a bit of a distraction during interrogation."

Paige orbed it out and handed it back to Chris. "Where did you get that anyway?"

He ignored her question and walked to the edge of the wall created by the crystals.

"Why didn't you attack us when you first came in."

Balor growled at him.

Chris' eyes narrowed, "If you tell us, instead of slowly picking out every little particle of what once was your eye, we'll do it all at once."

Leo made a face and Paige mouthed silently, 'yuck...'

The demon winced and managed to hiss out, "I wanted to hear where you put the third scroll. My master needs it desperately."

"Why does Charnaurus want it so badly? What is he planning?"

"I do not pretend to know all that my master pla-" He began but thought better of it when Paige motioned menacingly with a spoon she had grabbed from the kitchen.

"He meant to kill the fathers of the Charmed Children to keep them from being born."

"But Wyatt's already a toddler. Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? After all, he's the one all the scrolls talk about. Plus, we know he goes evil in the future. Having the rest of Charmed Children around obviously doesn't make much of a difference."

Balor's face screwed up into a smile, "Can it be that you truly do not know?"

Everyone glanced at each other. "Know what?"

He chuckled.

All hell broke loose.