Chapter Three: The Warren Line
"So what's the plan?" Eric asked eagerly; they had watched the hooded demon leave a half hour ago, and now they were figuring away to escape from the cage. Chris ran his hand through his hair and looked at his cousins.
"Okay, I'm going to try and orb someone, it might not work, but I guess I can give it a shot." He held his hand out of the cage. "Wyatt!" he cried, but nothing had happened.
"Well that was very ingenious of you." Eric said as he slumped against the bars and crossed his arms.
"Eric leave him alone, at least he tried." Laura smiled at her older cousin while scolded at her other.
"Well I'm just saying, there's no way of telling how we're going to get out of here. I mean Chris can't even call someone to free us from this stupid cave."
"Paige!" Piper called as she paced the great hall for the millionth time.
"Hey would stop please, your giving me a migraine. Jeez all this hostility is such an overload." Phoebe said as she slumped in her chair. "Wait, why are you calling for Paige, isn't she here?"
"No, she and Billie orbed to the manor to grab some herbs that they don't have here, and besides if the hostility is killing you now, just wait until she gets here." Phoebe glared at her sister. Piper just grinned and began pacing again.
A moment later a swirl of blue lights appeared, but it wasn't Paige. "Wyatt what's wrong?" Piper said as she stopped pacing and looked at her son with concern.
"Did one of you try calling me?"
"No. Why?" Phoebe said as she stood from her chair.
"I could have sworn I heard someone or something trying to call to or for me." The girls looked at each other.
"Uh honey can you try and remember the voice you heard." Piper said as she walked over to her son and placed a hand in his shoulder.
"Uh, it kind of sounded like Chris?"
"What?" both Piper and Phoebe said, but were interrupted when another swirl of blue lights appeared. Paige and Billie stood in front of them holding boxes of supplies.
"Hey guys, sorry a couple of demons attacked us, but we got some information you should hear." Paige said with a smile, but that smile quickly faded when she looked between her sisters and her nephew. "What? What happened?"
"Wyatt thinks he heard his brother." Piper said, still with a look of confusion.
"What?" Billie said as her heart dropped, "Did they send a message?"
"No, I just felt something trying to bring me near it." He answered her with a sad look on his face. He knew that Billie was worried about Eric, heck they all were worried.
Phoebe walked over to her nephew and placed her arms around his shoulders. "Hey buddy it's okay. We're all going to get thr—." She was cut off as she was swept into a vision.
She saw Chris, Laura and Eric sitting in a cage. Then she saw them lying unconscious on the floor. She saw a hooded figure holding a vial of a black liquid. He drank the liquid and became younger; then the vision was swept to a young girl being kidnapped by a demon with a tattoo on above his eye. She came back to reality. "Oh no." she gasped. She didn't realize that she had fallen to the ground, but luckily Wyatt had caught her before she did, tears began to roll down her eyes.
"What, what did you see?" she heard Piper ask. She looked around and saw the look on her family's faces.
"I saw…I saw a hooded demon, um he drank some sort of potion and then I saw the kids, they were locked in a cage, but then the vision shown them lying on the floor not…. not moving." She barely could speak the last word. She fell into Wyatt's arms and began to cry.
"So what are we suppose to do now?" Eric asked.
"I don't know, I mean we've tried everything we could think of but it seems like nothing is going to work."
"Well maybe not everything."
"What are you talking about Laura?" Chris said as he eyed his cousin.
"I mean what if we add our powers together, you know say a spell or something."
"Yeah but how do suppose we do that, we can't cast anything, we've tried already." Eric piped in.
"Thank you captain obvious" Laura said coldly, "I meant why not try to use your projection to project Chris's telepathy."
"Wait, Laura that sounds like it might actually work."
"What!" Eric looked at Chris with a puzzled look and then rolled his eyes.
"Come on, let's give it a try." Chris grabbed Eric by the shoulder and placed him against the back of the cage, and then he grabbed his hand and placed it in his. Eric rolled his eyes once more and they both closed their eyes and began to concentrate.
"So as soon as they attacked, I set the trap and trapped one of the unconscious ones. As soon as we got rid of the others and Paige surrounded the house with crystals I began torturing him." Billie said as she stood with both hands on the back of Paige's chair.
"So what did you do to get him to talk?" Phoebe asked as she looked up from the floor. She was still a little drained from the vision.
"Well he tried to escape, but when I caste the truth spell it was easy as pie from there." Billie said with a small smile.
"So what did he say?" Piper said as she stopped pacing the room and looked at Paige and Billie.
"Well, he told us that there was a demon recruiting others to take out a powerful being. He said that the leader wanted the second child from the next generation for this potion he was using for immortality from this other being that was trying to kill them. He was actually pretty informative, I think he was actually second in command." Paige finished while pondering the thought.
"What? Why would they want the second child, I mean wouldn't the first be the most powerful?" Phoebe said as she rubbed her temple.
"Yeah, that's exactly what we thought, but he told us that in order for the potion to work the first child would kind of be too much power and would kill any being possessing that much power."
"And also that the second were the most vulnerable" Billie chimed in. piper began to pace again.
Who in the hell would be that powerful to scare so many demons, I mean besides the source— Piper stopped as soon as she thought that. "Wait what if someone conjured the source again, or worse became the new source."
"Well it would kind of make sense if all these demons are desperate to kidnap our kids just so they could have enough power to destroy whoever the Powerful Being is." Paige added to Piper's thoughts. As they were about to discuss it further Wyatt came running into the great hall. "What the hell?" Paige said as she jumped from her chair.
"Sorry, but I think you guys need to hear what I have to say…Chris shut up I can't concentrate with you piping in every other second."
"Chris, what where?" Piper said as she ran over to her son. "Honey where's your brother?"
"Uh mom wants to know where you are." Wyatt said to himself.
"Uh Wyatt, why are you talking to yourself?" Paige asked.
"I'm not, and he says they're in a cave in the underworld, but that they are stuck in a magically sealed cage. Oh and he says that Laura came up with the idea to have Eric project Chris's telepathy to talk to us…wait was that you that tried to call for me earlier?" he asked himself. "Yeah man that was weird, because I was swept up in a swirl of orbs, but didn't go anywhere…. yeah, yeah."
"WYATT!" Piper yelled.
"Sorry, um…he says that a hooded demon took their blood, they said his name is Castile and that he's standing right behind him…oh crap. Dude stop! Just get back when you can, because if they find out…. yeah, but…. no I'll tell them…okay bye. He gave me a spell that they put together, he thought if the power of three said it, that it might be strong enough to send you guys to them."
The girls all just stared at Wyatt with shock, confusion and happiness all in one.
"You clever little witch, I knew you would come up with something?" the hooded figure laughed at Chris. Chris just gave him a cold stare as the demon talked to him; he had both arms protectively in front of Eric and Laura. "Well too bad you won't be able to stop me now, because they won't be able to sense you if you're dead."
"You're the only one that's going to die." Chris said as he smiled at the demon.
"Oh is that so, well we'll have to see about that, no won't we." With a wave of his hand he removed the charm on the cage and opened it, at the same time he did, he was sent flying into the wall.
"See I told you." Chris smiled and broke his way out of the cage, with Eric and Laura behind him. They stood hand in hand as a swirl of white lights appeared. In front of the stood the Charmed Ones and Billie. "MOM!" the kids cried in unison as they ran and hugged their mothers.
"NO! YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSE TO BE HERE!" the demons voice echoed off the walls.
"Yeah, well sorry to burst your bubble." Piper said as she threw her hands up and blew the demon back. "Uh, I was afraid that was going to happen. Any ideas?" she said as she looked at her sisters.
"Yeah a spell." Phoebe said as she grabbed Piper and Paige's hands, "okay on the count of three. One…two…three." They all began to chant,
"Demons face who isn't revealed,
Leave us now and be unsealed.
As we chant these words of hate,
You will now obliterate."
The demons hood fell from his face as he began to cry out in pain. "NO! I COULD HAVE HELPED YOU! Don't you see now she's going to kill you all!" and with that he blew up, sending the kids and girls to fall backwards.
"Whoa!" Chris and Eric said as they looked at the scorch mark left from the explosion.
The next day, the sisters and Billie all sat around the dining room table. They had just finished breakfast and were sitting and drinking tea.
"So what does this mean?" Paige Mathews said as she placed her head in her hands.
"I don't know, and I really don't want to find out." Piper Halliwell said as she sipped her tea.
"Yeah well we need to figure something out, because whatever he was so afraid of is probably going to bite us in the ass if we don't figure out what the hell is going on." Paige said.
They all sat there pondering that thought. "Well all I know is whatever's coming, we can handle it, and we always have. So for now let's worry about the kids and try to have some resemblance of a normal life that we can okay." Phoebe looked at her sisters and prayed that would be able to get through this.
"One question though." Paige said as she looked at phoebe.
"What?" Phoebe answered as she looked at her sister with curiosity.
"What about that girl you saw in your vision?"
A woman in a dark green dress stood in the spot that Castile was killed. "So the Charmed Ones are what they seem to be, good because they're going to need all the power they have to fight me." She smiled to herself, but also felt remorse for Castile; she would have loved to have been the one that vanquished him instead of the charmed ones.
A group of demons shimmered in behind her; she turned to look at her first in command. "Have you received the package?"
"Yes your majesty, we have her right here." The demon said as he threw the girl down in front of the woman, she just smiled as she looked at the young girl.
"Excellent, now the fun can really begin." She grabbed the girl and shimmered away.