The girls well thought out plans all changed as they saw Dantalian hang the cage with Paige's children over that looked like an old fire pit. That alone they could have handled, but the fire that lit underneath the cage moments later, that the charmed ones couldn't sit back and watch. So all the plans went out the window as Paige charged in and tried to orb into the cage the get her children, and found herself bounding off a magical shield of some sort, which threw her back, and she landed hard. That led to both her sister rushing out to her rescue. And so the battle began, and not in the charmed one's favor.
"Dammit Paige, now what, you got us into this I hope you have plans to get us out" Piper snapped.
"Ya, and I hope these plans include immediate departure from this room, because we are kinda surrounded and I'm kinda getting the feeling that this was a trap" Phoebe said.
Paige looked upset and said "no, frankly I don't have a bloody clue as to getting out of here, now that we are here, there is a shield that won't let me orb out, and I'm not leaving without my kids."
Their little chat was interrupted by one of the demons shooting a fireball and hitting Piper square in the side, and she collapsed immediately. Paige screamed and orbed the next fireball back at the demon killing him. Phoebe knelt down to check on Piper and was relieved to the point of tears to see she was still alive, not doing great, but alive.
"Piper's alive!" Phoebe shouted to Paige, who looked so relived.
"So now what?" Paige asked as she orbed another fireball back. Another one went straight at Phoebe who quickly levitated to avoid it, but didn't quite manage and was clipped in the leg. When she returned to the ground her leg refused to hold her and she went down to her knees.
She turned to tell Paige that she was down and saw that her sister was in worse condition. She had an athame sticking out of her side and she was down on the floor bleeding at a fast rate. Phoebe bit her lip as despair and panic threatened to overwhelm her, and she sent out a little plea to the universe for help. She looked up as she saw Dantalian walking to her, with another athame in her hands, she knelt down to look Phoebe in the eyes and said coldly "I've waited a long time to pay you back for what you did to me you meddling little witch. And now, your time has finally come" Phoebe closed her eyes as she felt Dantalian put the athame against her throat. Her head jerked up as the athame fell into her lap and she herd Dantalian scream. She looked to see Dantalian going up in flames, screaming. And with a poof, there was nothing left of her. Phoebe stared at the empty space in shock, and finally looked up more to see what had caused Dantialina's demise, and almost fainted to see that there, standing before her, acting like he had every right to be there, was Cole, Cole Turner, the love of her life, her ex husband, the man her ruined her life and tried to kill her, the man who she thought she killed. Oddly her first thought was 'what is it with dead people coming back today'. But she quickly bounced back from that to snap out "What the hell are you doing here?"
"I'm always so amazed and touched at your gratitude when I save you. As to what I'm doing here, I don't know. I felt a call for help, I felt pain in my heart and it pulled me here. I should have known that it would be you." Cole took a step back as though wanting to escape, but looked down to see the condition of Paige and Piper and clearly decided that he couldn't just leave. "Alright, let's get you three home" Cole said.
"No" Phoebe said.
"No? Are you kidding me, Paige is out cold, Leo is not a white lighter anymore, you have no other way of getting home!" Cole sounded so irritated.
"That's not what I meant, I mean it's not just the three of us, look over there" Phoebe said and Cole did as she asked and looked surprised to see the children.
"Oh, well ya I guess I mean we can't leave them, even if they are Paige's children. He quickly shimmered into the cage and picked up the three unconscious children.
"How did you do that? When Paige tried to get in she was thrown back" Phoebe said.
"Ya, well the demon is dead now so the spell put on the cage is kinda null and void now. So let's see, how shall we do this. I can't possibly take all six of you at once. I guess, since the kids are the ones currently in my arms, I'll take them back to the manor and I'll be back for you in a minute" Cole said.
Phoebe hesitated, and finally, not knowing why she was trusting him with the children, she nodded, and Cole instantly shimmered off, leaving Phoebe to wait for his return.