Chapter 6

Prophecy Girl

The Tantrix demons grabbed Eve by the arms and dragged her out of the cavern, kicking the crystal cage shut behind them and separating the newly bonded sisters.

"Kara! I promise you I'll be back!"

She elbowed the Tantrix demon on her left hand side in the face and took advantage of the confusion to shimmer out.

"No! You can't leave me" she yelled and them more quietly and with far less hope "No". She slumped against the damp wall of the cavern.

"What?" The older Tantrix demon demanded sarcastically "You had hope? About her? You thought you'd bonded? That she was good now? After four days that she would lose everything to save you? You're so pathetic, you're almost human!"

"Hey! Excuse me demonic chick but I am human!"

Then she turned her attention to the crowd of Tantrix demons gathered at the mouth of the cavern.

Kara tried to back away but, found that she was trying to scooch into solid rock.

They advanced, breaking the perimeter of the crystal, but the solid line of bodies blocked any hope of escape.

"What do you want?" she demanded again, ashamed at how shrill she sounded, that she couldn't keep the fear out of her voice.

"We have some medicine we want you to take." said the older demon smoothly.

"Medicine? No"

"Hold her!"

"Why?" asked a lower demon "She's no threat"

"I know" the elder demon smirked "It's just more fun this way."

The demons surged forward and pinned Kara to the cavern wall, someone grabbed her hair and ripped her head back, another forced her mouth open and held it there, while a third, poured a bottle of potion, black and acrid, down her throat making her choke. In her current helpless position she felt like she was drowning.

After, they left quickly, leaving her in a stunned heap on the floor, only the older demon stayed. When she was back in control of her voice Kara demanded of the demon "Why?"

"Because we need the prophecy to swing our way and right now dosing you with that potion and keeping you away from your darling Charmed son is the only way to stop you from breaking the cycle forever."

"The cycle..."

Piper leaped away from the shimmer in her living room.

"Demon!"

Eve stepped towards her.

"It's me!"

"And you're the evil one?"

"That would be me yes"

"Then I stand by my original assessment. DEMON!"

"I don't care about your assessment. I care about my sister! Now fetch your family, particularly your boy and saddle up, or whatever it is you good guys do and help me to start making things right, before the cycle starts to roll round again."

"The cycle... then that must mean..."

"...That you're pregnant, yes, congratulations, it's twins, by the way, girls, naturally, not that it'll matter to you, seeing as you won't be around to see them. You're a walking incubator, they're born, you die and we raise them evil."

"But Chris and I aren't evil. It's not innate."

"It wasn't innate in Eve, and she wasn't evil, not to begin with, but put a person through enough, brutalize them enough, and they become evil, then, add a little magic to that and they become demonic."

"So, you're going to pour that potion down my throat once a day for the next nine months?"

"No, we're going to pour that potion down your throat three times a day for the next seven months. Ish. Then we're going to kill you so I'd enjoy the potion if I were you. Your nest dose is in eight hours princess, get some sleep."

"And if I refuse to sleep?" She knew it was childish but she was totally out of ideas.

"Then you aren't going to get much sleep are you. You can be as obnoxious as you like, but we're not going to kill you for a while yet and there's no other way you're going to leave."

"My sister, my fiancé, the Charmed One's, they will come."

The she demon laughed and walked away. Kara glared at the retreating back until she was well gone, before collapsing into a corner of the cavern, all the defiance drained out of her, wrapping her arms around her knees, hugging her face into the blue denim of her jeans and sobbed her heart out.