Piper made her way over to Paige. "Paige we have to get this just right."
"Piper I know, and we will."

Piper didn't want to say another word, she had lost one sister she couldn't stand the thought of losing another.
"Ok I got it. Are you ready." Paige's words filled her mind, but deep inside she wasn't sure what she thought.

Piper held on to Wyatt a bit longer before kissing him and placing him back in his playpen. "Love you." She spoke softly as she ran her hand over the top of his head. Looking up at Paige. "Lets do it."

She heard the murmurs as he stepped closer to the dais. She could feel the power drawing around her but she couldn't stop it, as the hands on her were to tight. All she could do was watch.

She held her gaze fearing what was to happen, when she saw the sparkle of light to her one side. She turned her head quickly to see her sisters.

"Piper!" her voice echoed out as demons from all sides turned towards her.

He spun to face them seeing who had interrupted his destiny.

"KILL THEM!"

Phoebe was caught in a loop of her own reality as she watched helplessly to the fireballs and energy balls that surrounded her sisters. She fought to get way to help, but she felt something slam into her as she watched Piper fall and then nothing.

At first all Piper saw was darkness as her and Paige orbed into the location they found Phoebe at. But soon that darkness took on the soft glow of torchlight's and demons. Lots and lots of demons.

"Paige?"
"You were the one that wrote the spell not me." Paige said in her own defense as she took in the situation they were in.

Piper quickly spun around when she heard Phoebe cry out her name, but what she saw took her back. "COLE?!" the look of confusion and shock clearly on her face, as she blow up the first demon that now approached her and Paige.

Paige orbed in her first energy ball and turned to Piper when she heard her speak again. "What? Where?" but as she saw him her blood turned cold. How was this possible? She had seen Phoebe throw the potion and vanquish him in another lifetime. "COLE!?"

Piper thrust her left hand out again taking out another demon as she saw Phoebe near the altar, near him. She wasn't even going to try and figure out how Cole was even there. All she knew now was they needed to get Phoebe back and vanquish him. Again.

"Piper we need to get to Phoebe." Paige's voice was panicked as he saw her older sister on her knees next to what she perceived as Cole. And her oldest sister blowing up any demon that managed to come near them.

"I know that Paige, but we seem to have a few obstacles at the moment!" Piper took a quick glance towards Phoebe and locked eyes. Her fear reaching out to Piper. But it was that one moment of lost concentration, if only for a second, that a demon needed as he struck out at her with his fist sending her crashing to the ground.

Paige reached out for another energy ball and sent it sailing back towards its owner. "Piper we can't keep doing this."
"No you can't Paige."

His voice was the same. The same icy cold that sent shivers down her spine when she knew he was evil and was about to marry Phoebe, and even after he married her. But she knew this wasn't possible.

"Go to hell where you should have stayed!" Her voice gaining some confidence. They had defeated him once they could do it again. They just needed to get to Phoebe.

"Paige you can't win. Look around you. Piper is down, hurt. Phoebe is, well she has things on her mind not to mention she is a bit tied up at the moment." He moved closer to her as she fought back the best she could. She knew Piper was down for she hadn't seen any demons blow up in the last few minutes. She just hoped it was temporary.
"Paige stay away from him. He isn't who you think he is." Phoebe's voice carried over the noise as she fought to reach her sisters. She fought against the same hands that had forced her into the great hall to start with. Avellino's grip was strong and one she had been fighting ever since she woke, but she was still weak. Who ever it was that had healed her had only healed her enough to survive, to witness the Coronation. Not enough to fight.

He turned towards her and watched as she fought against the hands that held her. He felt inside where some of his inner strength came from, his stubbornness continuing a fight he was destined to lose. But that was his key as he won anyway. Over the past two years he had fought for his place. Young and growing quickly. An order by the Soul Collector. To increase his growth till a certain point and then reduce it to normal.

Piper looked up and saw Phoebe fight and Paige doing everything she could to hold off the demons. She heard words spoken and phrases reiterated. But nothing made her think then Phoebe saying 'he was not who she thought it was." if it wasn't Cole who was it? She ran her hand over the back of her head and blinked her sight back into focus.

She saw a demon trying to get an upper hand on Paige from behind and reached out with her own power blowing him up before he could reach her sister.

A primal cry rang out as yet another demon exploded as Piper regained her own senses and started her way towards the one sister who was in not in a position to defend herself. That was until she saw her.

Paige did what she could to defeat the demons approaching as she retrieved one energy ball only to duck another. They were starting a planned attack, more then the usual everyone for themselves. She knew it wouldn't be long before one of them was hit by a well placed fireball or energy ball.

He wanted to laugh at their efforts. He knew it was all in vein. Two witches against an army of demons and warlocks: his army.

He raised his arms summoning all the strength and power of the underworld. Calling on it to guide and protect him against the power of the witches. It was then he felt everything around him shift; everything around him change.

Avellino watched as his new Source took his rightful place, but still tried to defeat the witches. He held tight to that which had brought life to him. Through her struggles he held fast. He would not let her defeat him as she had his father.

She waited her time. Watching as her own sisters fought against each demon. No one side getting the upper hand. No one side starting down the path of victory.

Piper grabbed at Paige's hand and pulled her close to her. Knowing what would soon happen. With each demon they vanquished they were one more step closer to Phoebe. She kept her eye on her younger sister hoping that nothing would happen to her. She had lost too much in the past three years. Another sister was not something she could handle. Prues death was about all she could take for the next ten or more years.

"Piper what are you..." Paige started as her sister pulled her arm
"We need to get to Phoebe. The power of three spell should take out all these demons like they did with the Seer." Piper blow up another demon as the two of them tried to reach their fallen sister. Even from a few feet away that could see the struggle on Phoebes face, not one on the outside as she tried to break free from the demon but one on the inside.

Paige held one eye on Phoebe and the other on the continuing battle but she noticed something, "Piper something is different. They are backing off."
"No they just found other things to fight."

Paige took her eyes off where she was going and what was happening around her. "Are those." Her sentence unfinished as she felt Piper continued to pull her forward.
"Souls. Collected by the Soul Collector I would guess. They seem a little pissed off at the fact they were not allowed to move on to where they wanted to."

"Piper, when will you realize you can not stop me. You couldn't before. You only delayed the inevitable."
"We vanquished your sorry ass more times then I care to count. This time we WILL make it stick." Paige shot out as her and Piper stood in front of the one person between them and Phoebe.
"You guys. No. You can't." Phoebe voice was weak. Her struggle with Avellino haven gotten the better of her. She wasn't strong enough yet.

He turned back towards and Phoebe with one eye keeping the other on the sisters. "You should listen to your sister Paige. She may have betrayed me, but she speaks the truth. You can't vanquish me and neither can she."
"Phoebe has vanquished you once, she can do it again." Paige shot back knowing they had to do something.
"Maybe. If I was Cole." He looked at Piper, "But Piper, could you vanquish Wyatt?"

The look of confusion was all over her face and she tipped her head trying to get at what he was thinking.

"No? Yes, you see that is why Phoebe can't vanquish me. It is easier to vanquish a demon that you love. But do you believe she can vanquish her own son?"

Silence engulfed them, as even the battle behind them seemed far away. Demons taking back the souls that were freed.

"Thats not possible?" Piper asked more confused then ever. "We saw you die."
"Because he isn't Piper. He's probably some shapeshifting loser that wants all the power of the Source." Paige snipped at the demon before her
"Oh I assure you, I am who I claim to be 'Auntie' Paige. I only wish I had succeeded in killing you the many times I tried."
"Ok hang on. This isn't possible." Piper was trying to understand what was happening.

Somewhere inside as she looked at his eyes she knew he was speaking the truth. He had Phoebes eyes. That deep brown that swallowed you. Only his had evil in them. The same evil she had seen only twice in her little sister. Once when she was possessed by the Woogey, and when she was pregnant with her son. "Ok so what? You want to vanquish us? Turn us evil?What?"
"I want revenge on my Mother for betraying my Father. They want revenge on her for killing their leader." His hand motioned to the demons standing behind them. "You two. Well, once I kill her the power of there will no longer be a threat. I might just let you live knowing you could do nothing to save her. Living in the guilt that you let her die."

The electric energy streamed from his hands and slammed into the one that gave him life. "You betrayed us all Mother."

Her cry was piercing as the pain shivered through her. Avellino had let her go, knowing she could not escape his power.

"STOP THIS!"
"I will not Piper. And you two are not strong enough to defeat me." He released Phoebe only to enjoy the writhing of pain as she curled up into a little ball.
"Are you sure about that?" Paige said with confidence. She nudged at Piper and cast her eyes towards the entrance to the great hall.
"Prue." Piper almost whispered.
"She can't help you any more then Phoebe can. She was the one who gave me life in the end. I gave to her what I was to Phoebe. Only she excepted it for what it was."

Prue made her way up the long aisle stopping just short of reaching her sisters. She looked down at Phoebe and bent down beside her.

"You could have had it all Phoebe, but you let him down. You could have had more power then you could ever imagine,but you had to go and find that inner good inside you. I don't know how. You always were the one more in tune with the dark side." She ran her hand along the side of Phoebes face brushing back a strand of hair. "Good bye Phoebe."

Getting up she stepped closer to her sisters as once again the cry from Phoebe shrilled through the dark walls. The energy consuming her.

Phoebe took one last look up at her sisters and could see the back of Prue. She saw the fear in Pipers eyes, a fear that matched Paige's. "I l..lo..ve you." She managed to weakly get out, before closing her eyes.
"Prue what are you doing?" Piper looked at her sister confused and anger. How could she just let their sister die like that?
"What I should have done a long time ago."

He released her once again not wanting yet to kill her, but he knew the next time he would end it. For now he wanted to savour her pain. He watched as the one who had raised him to who he was now stepped towards her sisters. He really wasn't sure what to expect. He hadn't yet decided what to do with them. Let them live with her death or kill them. He knew he really should kill them. Even as two, the magic in them was strong. Though he doubted strong enough to vanquish him once he was Coronated.

"Prue she is your baby sister. You can't just let her die!" Pipers words where harsh and filled with anger. Anger at Prue for leaving Phoebe and anger at the whole situation.
"Can't I? She left him. She vanquished his Father and let the Seer take her from her."
"Ok I don't think 'let' the Seer take him is very accurate, I was there. She took him, Phoebe didn't have a choice and as soon as hell child was out of her, she became herself again." Paige put in.
"Silence! Enough."
"Oh what? Was it the hell child remark?" Paige almost snickered as she could see the flames in his eyes grow brighter.
"Ok Paige, pissing him off isn't helping." Piper gripped Paige's hand tighter letting her know to cool it.

Piper looked past Prue and down at the floor to Phoebe, her eyes closed as if she was sleeping. Yet Piper could still see the pain on her sisters' face.

"Prue help her. Help us." Piper lifted her eyes to meet Prues blue ones. Always the care and love to be seen in them but this time to Piper they were blank.

The tiny words floated into her mind. Somewhere in the back they were registered. Deep back. Prue reached out and placed her hand on top of Pipers, that was holding onto Paige's. "The power of three." her voice weak and quiet, but Piper felt inside the magic she had lost years ago spark again.
"The Power of Three will set us Free." She started and could hear Paige beside her start as well. Three voices quiet at first but growing with each new chant.

Piper reached out with her free hand and blow him up though knowing he would once again be whole as his Father had done many times. She pulled her sisters quickly towards Phoebe. Putting themselves between her and him when he re-materialized. Their chant never once breaking.

Demons disappeared, some seeing the destruction being caused, shimmered out or left the great hall for safer passages. Others weren't as lucky as the magic in the three sisters penetrated into their very souls as they burst into flames, exploded or the ground opening up around them swallowing them whole as their cries rang out.

"The Power of Three will set us Free." One last time as they looked around the large room to nothing but themselves and Phoebe.

Piper quickly let go of Paige and Prue and bent down towards her sister praying that he hadn't killed her. "Phoebe sweetie?" her voice quiet, as she reached shakily for a pulse. "Paige orb us out of here, we gotta get her back to Leo." Paige bent down and placed a hand on both Piper and Phoebe.

Piper looked up at Prue and reached out with her free hand taking her with them, as the white and blue orbs surrounded them all leaving the hall empty until he reappeared moments later.