The girls quickly orbed back to the attic and raced to the book of shadows, hoping to Id the demons.
"I found them!" Piper yelled out "They are called Gathians; apparently they drain magically born children's life energy. It says that they drain them on full moons, in a complex ritual that allows them to absorb the life energy and powers of the stolen children."
"Well the full moons tomorrow!" Phoebe said sounding worried.
"So that means there is still time" Piper responded, glancing at Paige to see how she was taking this. She looked like she was listening but not like she was comprehending.
"So we need to make a plan" Phoebe said jarring Pipers thoughts back to the issue at hand.
"Yes, there is a vanquish potion here, so Paige why don't you and Phoebe go work on that. I'm going to try and scry for the kids or see if I can find out where the ritual is held at" Piper said.
Paige nodded and headed downstairs. Phoebe started to follow her but turned around as Piper directed a final comment at her.
"Keep an eye on her, she's kinda out of it we don't want her to screw it up, because we are only gonna get one chance on this" Piper told her.
Phoebe nodded and headed down to the kitchen, where she saw that Paige had already laid out the ingredients. "So what's needed for this potion?" Phoebe asked, mainly to make conversation."
"Umm newts eyes, rosemary, seawater, pigs blood, crow feather, onions, cat whiskers, cow tongue, sage, salt, graveyard dirt, iron, and snake skin" Paige answered.
"Yuck" Phoebe said making a face "Glad I don't have to drink that"
Paige didn't answer but just went back to mixing the potion. Finally after stirring it for what seemed like hours she said "Pass me the salt will you"
Phoebe jumped, surprised to hear a voice after the long silence, but grabbed the salt and passed it over to Paige. "So how close are you to being done?" she asked.
"Well after adding the salt you stir rapidly for sixty seconds and then let it cool" Paige replied "So would you count for me?" Paige asked.
"Sure" Phoebe replied and started to count "1,2,3,4,5,6……… 57,58,59,60 Ok, all done, pour it into the vial and bring it to the attic, it can cool there, I want to see what Piper has found."
"Ok" Paige replied and poured the bright green liquid into the vial and followed Phoebe up the stairs.
"So what have you found?" Phoebe asked Piper.
"Actually I have good news and bad news. The good news it I found out a bit more about the ceremony. I found out that it has to be performed by a dark high priestess, in her dark chambers. The bad news is, well you remember how it was when Prue was taken by a dark priestess, no one can get a read on the places where they hold the ceremonies" Piper said sounding upset.
"Dammit" Phoebe cried "So that means what, what do we do?"
"I don't know, maybe you could get another premonition, like you did then" Piper said.
"Um no, I didn't get a premonition then, actually I had Cole go find out where she was being held" Phoebe replied.
"Dammit, well I guess that's out" Piper said.
"Go figure the one time I might actually want that demon around and he is not" Paige snapped.
"Well it's hardly his fault, we did vanquish him" Phoebe said, surprised at how quick she jumped to defend Cole.
"So that means what, what do we do?" Paige asked.
"Well, I'm sure we'll find something, I mean we were still new at the craft then, we know much more now" Piper said "Maybe we should go down to the underworld and see if you can sense them, I mean they are your children, and actually we should go now. Maybe the demons won't take the kids to the high priestess till the full moon, they might be somewhere else in the underworld till then.
"Brilliant!" Phoebe yelled "Lets grab a couple exploding potions and all purpose vanquish potions and the Gathian be gone potion and get down there."
"Ok, lets go" Paige said and all three girls ran down the stairs to grab potions.