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Part 15:"Prue's head to roll!"

'Murder my sister?! Is he nuts?' Both Prue and Piper thought as Fortunato gloatingly explained. "Right now the only thing keeping the crossbow bolt from Piper's heart is that ball in Prue's mouth. Once the cord behind her head is cut, as he is doing now," he gestures and his flunky pulls it away from the back of Prue's neck and snips the cord! Alerted, Prue bites down hard and tries to lock her jaws to keep the ball in her mouth! "Only Prue keeps the bolt from Piper's heart! And now I am putting the guillotine rope in your hands Piper. Hold on unless you want Prue's head to roll! " He does so and Piper grasps it, and holds on for dear life! "Now I cut the rope and," as he does Piper now feels the strain of holding up the guillotine as well as her feet hit the floor again and wonders, 'Why did he do that?' The demon explains, "Now for the murder your sister part! The neck piece of the guillotine is not down so Prue can save her neck by letting go of the ball and moving her head! Of course you will kill Piper that way!" Prue's eyes widen hatefully and she thinks, 'Never!' Turning to Piper he continued, " With your feet on the floor again you can now topple this lightweight wooden chair by falling onto your side. Of course since I cut the rope short enough that it won't reach the floor with you, doing so will murder Prue!" Piper stares at him with horror and panic in her eyes! "And so ladies in conclusion one of you needs to murder your sister and save your own life! If one of you don't do this you'll both die anyway! So do it to her before she does it to you!" As he concluded Fortunato thought, 'And of course doing so will corrupt the surviving witch, make her an evil warlock and a new and better looking minion for me!' He then blinked back to Buffy and Phoebe to begin their doom!

Even the forces of evil like vampires have morale. The forces fighting Leo and Cole in their heroic personas of the Captains America and Marvel had held up to now 75 percent losses. But they could only take so much. When the half demon, the infamous Belthazor, once a pillar of evil began to sing(and Leo joined in) "God bless America" the remaining vampires broke and ran like whipped dogs! The Darklighter had enough too and as he blinked away thought, 'I could tell others about this, but they would never believe me!'

Buffy and Phoebe had been struggling without any success when Fortunato blinked back in and said, "Sorry to keep you hanging girls!"

"MMMMMPH!!" Both Buffy and growled as best they could through their gags and Buffy thought, 'He needs to die for his jokes alone!'

Smirking the demon signalled for the filming to begin and the sandbags to be punctured! This was done and the two heroines slowly began to descend towards the shark tank!

Part 16:'Piper's killed me!'

Leo and Cole pursued the fleeing vampires through the mansion. They killed a few more before entering a room where the vampires had seemingly disappeared! Scanning the room Cole quickly spotted a bit of red cloth in a crack in the wall. Examining it he discovered it was a piece of the cape from the Supergirl costume. Prying the panel aside, the hidden stairs were revealed and the two men began running down them!

Sweat rolled down Prue's face and her jaw ached. She thought, 'Keep holding on! I can't kill Piper!' Piper was having trouble holding up the guillotine as well and thought, 'Ugh! Just lost a few more inches of this rope! I have to do something but what?'

Fortunato was peacefully minding his own business(Such business consisted of watching and recording Phoebe and Buffy slowly descending towards the shark tank, but hey he's a demon!) when he was rudely interrupted! Half a dozen vampires rushed in with fear in their eyes! Shaking his head sadly and feeling a headache coming on Fortunato said, 'You fools somehow bungled that simple murder the witches lovers task didn't you?"

Most of the vampires were afraid to speak but one managed to say, "They went all comic book hero on us, kicked our butts and will probably be coming down here soon!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!" The demon screamed and ordered "Everyone follow me to the stairs and I'll show you how to kill some would be heroes!"

Unobserved at last Buffy began her escape plan and thought, 'I hope Phoebe can figure out what to do!' With that she cried out "MMMMMMPH!!" to get Phoebe's attention and started swinging towards her!

"Mmph?" Phoebe responded with a question in her eyes but decided, 'Even if I don't know what the plan is I might as well swing towards her and try to help out!'

'Gotta hold on!' Prue thought as her jaws ached more and more, 'Piper won't let me down and I can't, Wait! What is she doing?' What Piper was doing was rocking the chair and then toppling it! As the chair began to fall to the right, Prue thought. 'Ohmigod! Piper's killed me!'