This chapter basically finishes up 'Witch Wars.' That means the next chapter covers the finale of season 6. I'm not sure how many updates it will take for that, seeing as it took several just for this episode. I'll let you know when I'm getting close to the last update though. Lots of demons die in this chapter, but most are just unnamed. Thanks for all the comments. I do not own Charmed.
Wyatt and Chris stepped into the demonic bar only to be met with almost a dozen demons. "Why can't anything ever be easy?" Chris thought to his brother.
Wyatt shrugged his shoulders and replied. "You go left and I'll go right."
"Yeah, ok." Chris replied. He didn't see any of the current enemies they were looking for, but there were sure enough demons to keep them distracted in the meantime. It wasn't surprising though, as it was one of the more popular demonic bars in the Underworld. They were probably all customers.
The demons approached both brothers and they each readied themselves for the attack. Wyatt sent out energy balls at a few demons and Chris used his telekinesis to whip a couple of demons away from him. A fireball came towards him, but he just sent it right back, vanquishing one demon.
Wyatt sent out a wave of energy taking out a few more of the demons, even a few tables too. "Behind you." He said as he turned to his brother. A demon was about to unleash an energy ball at Chris. "I'm always saving your ass."
Chris turned just in time to see the demon being killed by his own energy ball. He faced Wyatt and saw a dark lighter letting free an arrow. Wyatt turned as Chris waved a hand at the arrow with his arm. The dark lighter was killed by his own poison. "You were saying?" Chris asked mentally.
Paige orbed in with Phoebe. They were on the other side of the bar. They both caught a quick glimpse of a flat screen TV on the wall next to them. "Welcome back to our exciting episode of Witch Wars." A woman with streaked blonde and black hair said.
"Do you see the brute demon?" Phoebe asked Paige.
A demon lunged at them. "No." Paige replied. She orbed out, forming behind the demon. As he approached Phoebe she reached for his shoulder, pulling him back. Using the athame they had managed to wrangle from one of the demons earlier, she stabbed him. The demon's powers were sucked into the athame and he was vanquished almost immediately.
Phoebe karate kicked another demon, forcing him back into a table. She was surprised when she saw a bowl of bar peanuts flying in all direction. Somehow Phoebe had pictured a bowl of bugs or something, not peanuts of all things.
Gideon stood outside of the attic door listening as Piper tried to get the crystal to work. "This damn thing." She said as she slammed it against a table. "What, it worked." She sounded almost excited. A video emitted from the crystal showing the scenes unfolding at the bar. A woman was speaking about the action that was taking place.
Then, out of nowhere, a man's voice spoke. "It seems one of the Halliwells got the Ronyx crystal to work. She is watching our show as we speak." He said.
Obviously, there was a camera in the attic, which was just as suspected. There were probably more through out the house as well. From behind her, Piper heard a creek on the old floor boards. "Leo?" She wondered out loud as she turned to face whomever it was and Gideon stood before her. She reacted quickly, not caring about consequences. Her hands went out and Gideon burst into pieces.
Corr and Clea spoke together off camera, as the scene in the bar played for their viewers. "It seems these demons are too pathetic to take on the Charmed Ones." Corr said. "We'll have to do it ourselves."
Clea reached to a table, grabbing an athame. "We aren't strong enough to take them on either." She held out the athame to her lover.
He took it. "Yes, but we have their every move being filmed. The eldest sister is alone in the manor and she won't be for much longer." He shimmered out.
Piper was in disbelief over Gideon's death. Why would he just walk in on her? It didn't make sense. Just to be safe, she checked in on little Wyatt, watching as he slept peacefully. The crystals around his room were still in place. As she turned to head back down the hallway, she was met by an athame to the stomach, penetrating both her and the baby. Her powers shifted from her body into the cold blade of the athame. She slumped against the floor as Corr shimmered out with his prize.
Phoebe dodged another demon in the bar and spotted the brute demon. "Wyatt, over there." She said. They were short on potions to destroy the brute demon, but both Wyatt and Chris had insisted they would be able to vanquish it.
Wyatt moved a little closer to the demon, his feet holding him firmly to the floor. He raised his hands out palm first. A wave of energy blasted at the brute demon, vanquishing it and destroying nearly half of the bar.
Phoebe and Paige stood in awe as they watched Wyatt destroy the demon. Only one more demon remained in the bar though and he was aimed at Chris. A chair was hurled at him. His arm went out to send it away with his powers, but the chair struck him firmly and caused him to screech in pain.
Wyatt didn't understand why his brother didn't use his powers and as the demon tried to hurl something at Chris again, he reacted himself and defended his brother. In a few moments, the demon had regretted what he had done. Wyatt forced the chair back at the demon and Paige used the athame again, stealing the demons power and vanquishing it.
"Why weren't you using your powers?" Wyatt asked.
"I tried." He argued. Then he went into a panic. "Mom, something must be wrong with Mom."
Phoebe, Paige, and Wyatt prayed that Chris was wrong, but when they orbed to the manor and saw Leo's hands hovering over her, they filled with worry. "What happened?" Paige asked.
"I think it was one of the demons from earlier." Leo answered.
"Had to be the shapeshifter than." Chris replied. "We got the brute demon and the dark lighter."
"No, I think we got the shapeshifter." Wyatt said.
"There were a lot of demons at that bar. He could have been one of them." Phoebe added in.
Piper coughed a few times as her eyes fluttered open. "How many times is someone going to try and kill me and my baby in less than a months time, geez?" She said. "Oh man, and he took my powers." She wasn't certain her powers were gone, but she had the same feeling she did the number of other times her powers had been stolen; a feeling of emptiness, like something was missing inside of her.
"What, who?" Leo asked as he helped Piper to her feet.
"Some demon, I don't know." She answered. "Maybe he has to do with that demonic game show."
"Witch Wars." Paige said.
"What's that?" Leo asked.
"Duh, it's the game show. They had it playing at the demonic bar." She replied back.
"You were at a demonic bar?" Leo questioned. He was sure out of the loop. He had gone to the Elders to ask help in finding Gideon and they had kept him a little longer than he had planned.
"Don't worry, we're all fine." Wyatt replied.
"Um hello, I was just stabbed." Piper interjected.
"You weren't at the bar." Wyatt shot back.
"Ok, what about me?" Chris asked. "I lost my powers."
"Oh no." Piper said. She put a hand to her belly. "That demon must have taken both of our powers."
"That would mean he would have had to stab mini me too though right? Wouldn't I have felt something?" He asked back.
"That's a good point." Phoebe said.
"But how else do you explain his powers?" Paige asked.
"I don't know about anyone else, but this is all a bit to confusing for me." Wyatt said. "Why don't we find where this show is being filmed and see about getting the athame that has whatever power? If they haven't extracted the power yet, we can just use a spell to reverse the magic from it."
"And if they have extracted her power?" Chris asked.
"We vanquish the demon and hope it releases the power." Wyatt said, though he didn't seem confident in his answer.
"Just how is it you propose we find this place?" Leo said. "We don't have all night to search the Underworld."
"I have an idea." Phoebe said. "We still have that...nevermind...Paige, can you get the crystal we got from the demon. Come to me when I call you and we can work on my idea. I have to get something else first."
Paige gave Phoebe a funny glance, wondering why she was speaking so strangely. "Ok. Whatever you say." She was about to walk off.
"Wait, something good happened tonight too. At least, I think it did." Piper said.
"What?" Chris asked.
"I think I killed Gideon." She answered.
"Wait... how, when?" Paige gasped.
"He was just in the attic and I reacted." Piper explained.
"You reacted how?" Leo asked with worry.
"He was blown to pieces." She replied.
"Piper?" Leo nearly shouted in anger. "How could you..."
"He was after our son. What was I supposed to do?" She half shouted. "I wasn't worried about any kind of consequences because clearly, he's off the wagon."
Leo wasn't sure if he was happy about Gideon being dead or not. He knew the man was after his family and wanted him punished for trying to kill his son, but the Elders had said they wanted to punish him themselves. When he talked to them earlier they mentioned something about recycling Gideon's soul. Did he really deserve that though? Leo was just having mixed feelings about Gideon, since for so long, the Elder had been a mentor and friend to him.
"Are you sure you vanquished him?" Chris asked, not ready to fully believe that the Elder was gone. It all seemed to easy, to quick.
"Yeah. I mean, it looked like him." Piper replied.
"Can we talk about this later? We have powers to retrieve." Phoebe said.
A short while later, Phoebe stood in the back yard with her nephews. The moon was high in the night sky, but clouds kept it hidden from sight. A breeze rustled in the trees. Chris was holding a flashlight over a map that was laid out on a patio table. "Paige." Phoebe called out.
Paige orbed in with the crystal in hand. "Yeah, here's the crystal." She said.
Phoebe took the crystal, holding in hand as she dangled their scrying crystal over the map. "If they aren't in the mortal world, I have a little spell that I might try to take us to them, where ever they are." She explained.
"Why are we doing this outside though?" Paige asked.
"Because they have cameras all over our house, they'd see us scrying and know we were trying to find them." She continued to explain.
"Wouldn't it be logical for us to try and find them though?" Wyatt asked. "I'm sure they expect that."
"I don't care what they expect. We're going to get Piper's powers back, yours too Chris." Phoebe replied. She set down the scrying crystal. "They aren't in the mortal world. I need everyone to join hands."
"Why?" Chris asked.
"Just do it, not you though. You don't have any powers, you're useless." She instructed. So, she, Paige, and Wyatt joined hands. Phoebe stood at the end with the crystal in her free hand. She had a paper on the table with a spell written out on it. "Crystal from those we seek to find, take us there through space and time." The three of them were each engulfed in a golden light as they were swept from the yard and taken to the Underworld.
Clea panicked when she saw two of the sisters and the stronger of the boys. Her lover had the power of one of the Charmed One though, possibly even the powers of the baby that was inside of her. "Freeze them." She said to Corr.
He put his hands out, wondering how to trigger his new found powers. "Her powers can't freeze good witches." Phoebe said. Her and Paige both ducked as the demon blew up a screen behind them.
"Damn it." Corr screamed in frustration. His hands went out again, but nothing happened.
"I wouldn't get too angry if I were you. Charmed powers don't work so well when we're all emotional." Phoebe said.
Corr couldn't even seem to get his own powers to work. So, Clea reacted to defend her lover. She sent out an energy ball at the sisters only for Paige to orb it back at her, vanquishing her quite quickly. Corr was in disbelief over her sudden death. He was so angered and hurt that his hands went out, unleashing various powers at once.
Phoebe was forced back by Corr's telekinesis. She crashed into the already broken screen behind her and wasn't injured that badly. A fireball was unleashed at Wyatt, but it seemed to explode in mid air. For an instant, Paige felt the shocks of little Chris' electrokinesis. It wasn't a long enough shock to do any damage to her though. It merely felt like a shock one might get from static electricity.
After barely affecting the sisters and Wyatt, Corr reached for the athame he had stabbed the Eldest Halliwell sister with. It was in the belt of his pants. He threw it at Paige, but she was quick to orb it back at him. It struck his chest, sucking all of his powers and any other powers he had inside of it. He was reduced to a pile of ash just as his lover Clea was.
Wyatt reached down for the athame. "We need to get these powers back to their owners." He said.
"Wait, what about the show" Paige asked.
"I think it's time we cancel this series." Phoebe replied. She reached for a chair and used it to start smashing various equipment, but Wyatt stopped her.
"Let me..." He put his hands out and a wave of energy nearly destroyed the whole film studio.
Phoebe and Paige took hands and orbed back to the manor with Wyatt following them. He took the athame to his mother. "Here are your powers." He said to her. She was sitting on the couch in her bedroom, starring out at the night sky. Leo was asleep on the rocker in Wyatt's bedroom. Chris had been cleaning up the kitchen and trying to figure out which ingredients they could salvage and what they would need to buy new.
"Gee, thanks." She replied, turning away from the window. "Can you get them out of there?"
"There's a spell in the book." He said. "At least there is in the future."
Piper got up and reached for the blade. "Ok, lets go check the book and maybe then I can get to rest. All of this demon activity just wears me out sometimes." She said.
Phoebe and Paige met them in the hall. "Did you get your powers back yet?" Paige asked.
"I'm going to do that right now." Piper replied. Her and Wyatt continued on their way to the attic. Piper browsed through the book, looking for any pages on athames. She had remembered seeing them before. Wyatt stood back, not sure of how the book would react to him. "I think I found it...solvo iam vox intus is vomica vesica (release now the powers within this cursed blade)."
The blade glowed for a moment as the powers were released to both Piper and Chris.
In the kitchen, Chris could feel his powers coming back. He orbed upstairs, assuming everyone was back home. He met Paige in the hall of the second floor. "Hey, when did you guys get back?" He asked. "And what's with the clothes?"
"We got back about fifteen minutes ago and these are called pajamas." She replied. A yawn escaped her. "I need to get to bed."
"Bed? No, we still have to go after Bellock and I'm not convinced that Gideon is really dead." Chris argued.
"We can't fight a demon if we don't have any energy, Chris." Paige said. "I get that we need to find him and eliminate him, but we need sleep too or he'll probably overpower us."
"Fine, but I'm waking you bright and early." Chris replied.
"Better not be earlier than seven. It's almost midnight now, so that doesn't leave us many hours for sleep." She argued.
"But..." He argued back.
"No, good night." She said sternly before walking to her room. She closed the door behind her.
Chris walked passed little Wyatt's room and saw his Dad snoring on the rocker in the corner. He smiled, knowing with confidence that his father was going to be there in the future, knowing that his father really did care about both of his boys. His feet carried him up to the attic, where he found his mother tucking the athame into an old trunk. "Did Wyatt leave already?" He asked her.
"Yeah, after he helped me get our powers back." She replied. "You do have your powers back right?"
"Yes." He said as he walked to the couch and pulled out his blankets. "Do you really think Gideon is dead?"
"Well, I blew up someone that sure looked like him." Piper walked over and helped him layout his blankets on the couch. "It was kind of an easy vanquish though, maybe it wasn't him. I'm just not sure."
"I'm not to convinced he's gone, not that easily. We still have to go after Bellock, though I guess it wouldn't hurt to get a good nights sleep." Chris replied.
"Ok, see you in the morning." Piper said, before she walked off to the comfort of her own bed.
So, Piper and Chris lost their powers and got them back. The demonic show has come to an end. A few of them think that Gideon is dead, though not everyone is convinced. Wyatt did use his powers quite a bit and I didn't mean for him to outshine everyone with them, but he is the twice blessed witch so I couldn't really help it. Anyways, feel free to comment. Thanks!