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Chapter 19
Bravery, thy name is woman
Episode 9.19
Phoebe awoke on the hard dirt floor of the underworld and was surrounded by demons. The last thing she remembered was fighting at Alda and now she was in the underworld.
"Paige!" she yelled as she was clearly outnumbered as the demons generated fireballs. She tried to use her power persuasion but instead generated her own fireball. She panicked and put it out on her hand. "What is going on?"
"You're evil and helpless," one of the demons replied.
"I am not evil," she said as she felt a hand touch hers. "Prue?"
"You triggered your chaosain power Phoebe and now you're in a coma," Prue replied.
"Oh god, what do I do?"
"Fight," Prue replied as a few demons tossed the fireballs they were holding.
Back at Alda everyone was around Phoebe whom was lying next to Prue unconscious.
"Will she be ok?" Piper asks as she held her hand.
"Prue is with her, so she should be fine," Paige replied.
"We have 24 hours right?" Coop asks.
"Yeah," Piper replied.
"Where is Kara?" Leo asks.
"I don't know I think she is trying to figure out where the rest of Alda is," Piper replied.
Kara and Ileru was talking in the main hall.
"Do you think it will work?" Kara asks.
"Technically you will be an Edom because you have led all of Alda," he replied.
"It is the only option," she said as Seth came in.
"It seems so," he replied.
"They are wondering where you are at," Seth said.
"How is she?" Kara asks.
"Coma," he replied.
Back in Phoebe's mind, she and Prue were on the ground dodging fireballs.
"Phoebe you need to fight your trigger," Prue said.
"Well you tell me what it is and I will fight it," Phoebe said as she tried to use her empathy power to send a fireball back but instead formed her own. "Dammit!"
"You still think your evil," Prue said as she sent a fireball back to a demon.
"No I don't," she said and put out her fireball.
"Then what is it?" Prue asks while sending demons to the wall.
"I don't know," Phoebe replied as she tried to punch a demon but her fist just went right through him and he backhanded her.
"Phoebe we need to find a safe place," Prue said and grabbed her and then orbed to another part of the cave. Once they were there she healed her and helped her stand.
"Why the hell did that happen?" Phoebe asks.
"You always felt helpless because you did not have an active power for such a long time," Prue replied.
"I don't feel helpless Prue."
"When I was alive you told me about dreams that when you would fight, your hands would just go through them or hit them so soft that it did nothing, even if you had a gun the bullet would just go a few inches and drop," Prue said.
"Ok so I feel helpless sometimes but that doesn't mean I run," Phoebe said.
"I know sweetie but we need to fight it," Prue said as demons shimmered in around them.
"How?"
"That I can't help you with," Prue replied as they faced the demons and one of them looked like Cole.
"Cole," Phoebe said through her teeth.
"Its him after he tried to turn you, you felt helpless when it came to fighting evil, I remember you had those dreams after you found out what he was," Prue said.
"God will he ever go away?" Phoebe said as he walked towards her.
"You need to fight him," Prue replied as she sent some demons to the wall.
Kara was walking down the hallway when Piper found her.
"Kara wait," Piper said and ran up to her.
"How is Phoebe?" Kara asks but showed little emotion.
"You're Aunt Phoebe and she is ok right now," Piper replied getting frustrated with her future daughter.
"Good, I need to go look for Jade," Kara said and started walking away.
"Wait we need to talk," Piper said and grabbed her arm.
"Piper I have a lot on my plate right now," Kara said and pulled her arm away.
"Mom I am your mother," Piper said and got in front of her. Kara grabbed Piper's arm and pulled her to a large window that showed the outside of Alda. There was an army gathering in the distance.
"We have a problem that is much larger than our bonding issues," Kara said and released her arm.
"Oh god," Piper said and put her hand to her stomach.
"I need to find Jade and Mirth or we will die soon, do you understand me," Kara said very strongly.
"Then let me help," Piper said while trying not to take it personally.
"No it's too risky, you need to stay here," Kara said as Seth came up to them.
"They're in the safe houses," Seth said and Kara nodded.
"Make sure the defenses are up, I don't know why they have not attacked yet but there must be a reason," Kara said.
"Hay we have been looking for your and what the hell is that?" Paige asks as she came in.
"An Army," Piper replied.
"We will need everyone including Leo and Henry to fight," Kara said.
"You mean your father," Piper said.
"There are towers that have artillery on them. Ileru will show them how to use it while I go and get the others," Kara said ignoring what Piper said.
"What happened to Kara Smith?" Piper asks referring to the other Kara she knew.
"She has no place here now I need to go and you guys need to get ready," Kara said.
"Phoebe is still in a coma Kara," Paige said.
"Irrelevant, they will attack regardless so get ready," Kara said and used her tablet to create an arch to walk through.
"Give her time," Seth said to Piper as they both walked through.
"We don't have it," Piper said as they disappeared from view.
Phoebe was trying to punch and kick Cole but it was just passing through him.
"Fuck, this is not working Prue," Phoebe said as she started backing away.
"Maybe it's not physical Phoebe, maybe it's emotional," Prue said as she used her power to push demons back and half the ground with it.
"Phoebe you have never stopped loving me," Cole said with a smile.
"Oh yes I have," she replied.
"Then why can't you beat me?" he asks confidently.
Phoebe went to her knees as she was already exhausted and tried to use her powers but she would just great a fireball.
"Sweetie its ok if you do, but you need to let him go," Prue said as she bent down next to her.
Ileru, Piper and Paige walked back into the room where Phoebe and Prue were. They had their kids with them.
"Guys we have a huge problem," Paige said as she handed Trinity to Henry.
"What?" Phoenix asks.
"We are about to be under attack," Piper replied.
"Henry and Leo you need to come with me," Ileru said.
"Why?" Henry asks.
"Because we need you to man the artillery, but do not fire unless they start to attack," Ileru replied.
"Bladeking," Phoenix said through her teeth.
"And the king of Punt along with a few elders from what we can tell," Ileru said.
"We should just leave," Coop said.
"Kara will not abandon her home even if it cost her life," Ileru said.
"Then we will stay but the kids need a safe place to go," Leo said.
"There is none, but they can stay with you in the tower," Ileru said.
"Wait what about the safe houses?" Piper asks.
"They will be found if they take this place," Ileru replied.
"Why haven't they attacked, we are pretty much defenseless right now?" Coop asks.
"Don't know maybe they think we are all here," Ileru replied.
"We need a plan," Phoenix said.
"We need a miracle," Piper said.
Kara found the safe house that was hiding the Alda members that did not choose the other side. She walked through the arch and over 2000 people were sitting but went to their feet the moment they saw her.
"This is Alda to hide in the darkness while the light is threatened?" Kara asks as she stood before them.
"We are not cowards," a Jade member said.
"Then prove me wrong and fight with me," Kara said.
"We are outnumbered," a Mirth member said and Kara smiled.
"And what a better victory awaits us, who wants to hear legends of giants who destroyed the small. But of the so called inferior who defeated the leviathans that is what legends are made of, that is what great victories are spoken of, that is what you will hand down to your next generation. For even if we lose are names will still echo like thunder in the present and future. With every strike of our swords we will send then to the afterlife and their names forgotten, with every strike we even the numbers, with every strike they will fall one by one," Kara said as the others began to rise.
"We will need help," a Jade member said.
"The Crimson Prince," Kara said.
"It takes a powerful Edom's to awaken him," a Mirth member said.
"Something we are short of," a Jade member said.
"If we are to fight the impossible, then maybe the impossible can be done." Now who of you is ready to sound like thunder?" Kara asks and everyone chanted.
"Oseeth!"
They all pulled out their tablets and walked through the arches ready for war.
"He will not like to be awoken by you," Seth said.
"It will be a disposition he will need to grow used to," she said and walked through the arch.
Phoebe was still on her knees when she looked up and into Cole's eyes.
"Fine your right I still love you, are you happy!" she said and he smiled.
"Then just give into it and join me," he said while stretching out his hand.
"No I am not evil Cole and I will never be with you," she said and got to her feet. She slapped his hand away and this time felt contact. Her body straightened her posture strengthened.
"Now you can fight," Prue said as she stood next to her. Cole's smile dissipated as Phoebe lowered her brow. She used her empathy power to send him flying to the back wall as the other demons backup.
"I am not helpless!" she said and as he tried to get up she did it again. "I am not afraid!"
"That's good Phoebe keep doing it.
Back at Alda Kara entered the room where Phoebe was and Chris walked over to her.
"Hi Kara," he said and smiled at her.
"Hay Chris do you remember the red Dragon?" she asks.
"Yes the one on top of this place," he replied.
"Its time to wake him," Kara said.
"Kara if he does not like you then he will kill you," Ileru said.
"I want let him Kara," Chris said as Wyatt stood beside her.
"Neither will I," Wyatt chimed in.
"None of us will," Piper said.
"Well I should be perfectly safe," Kara said and smiled at Chris.
They walked into the hallway as Coop stayed behind as Ileru took Leo and Henry with the babies to the tower as the rest of Alda was already on the top of the building. They took an elevator up to the top and stepped out to see the Crimson Prince frozen in time. "Chris I need you to stay back ok," Kara said and walked up to the dragon.
"Ok," he said and stood next to Piper with Wyatt.
"Be ready," Paige said.
"We are," Piper said as Kara put her hand on the red rubies and her Alda power kicked in. A green light came through the cracks, starting from the ten foot in diameter feet and went up to its massive legs. Kara backup as the light shot out from each crack until it reached the head and the red rubies exploded outward in all directions causing everyone to cover their faces to avoid being cut. It stretched out its wings and looked around to take in its surroundings and then focused on Kara.
"Who has awoken me?" he bellowed.
"I," Kara replied.
"You, you are no Edom you are not even pure Alda, I will eat you for breakfast and use your bones to pick my teeth," he said and showed his teeth that were taller than her. Piper readied her hands but the Dragon was the height of a 20 story building and her power would not even come close to stopping it. Kara put up her hand to stop anyone from helping.
"You will do no such thing and you are right I am not pure Alda," Kara said and began her transformation as 50 silver spikes grew out of her back as she changed into a dragon that was twice his size. Everyone had to backup to make room as the stone floor of the roof was beginning to crack under the pressure. The Crimson Prince brought his wings in and lowered his head as Kara towered over him. "I am evolution!" she said and showed her teeth.
"What do you wish from me?" he asks while keeping his head down.
"Gather the others and your hunger will be satisfied, war is coming," she said and looked out over the building and to the Army in the far distance. He smiled and stretched out his wings and took flight but hovered for a moment.
"Blood shell spill," he said and flew away up into the clouds as Kara changed back and her metal spikes that made up her wings went back in.
"Wyatt I will need you to use that imagination of yours soon," Kara said and he nodded.
"What others?" Paige asks.
"There are five that only he can awake," Kara replied as she looked out over the building.
"Can I help?" Chris asks.
"No honey and I think Wyatt should be with his dad," Piper said.
"He will be but he and Chris can conjure and they don't need to be on the battlefield for that," Kara said.
After Ileru shows Leo and Henry how the fire the huge cannons and got the babies situated, he went back downstairs to talk to Coop.
"Is your team ready?" Ileru asks.
"Yes," Coop replied.
"Good we will need them soon.
"I won't leave her," he said.
"She is not alone Coop and we need the rest of you," Ileru said.
Coop lowered his head and then kissed Phoebe on the hand before hearted out.
Miles away Bladeking was eyeing the building in the distance and saw something leave its rooftop.
"How?" Farwolf asks.
"Kara," Bladeking replied.
"She is not pure Alda," he said.
"She does not need to be by the way when we start this, Phoenix is mine," Bladeking said.
"Why haven't we?" Farwolf asks.
"Did you notice the cannons and trust me Phoenix is ready for anything even when outnumbered," he replied as the king of Punt walked up.
"The shadow-dells are here and ready," he said.
"Then so are we," Bladeking said.
Phoebe was using everything she had to fight not just Cole but the demons that were trying to protect him. Prue was also using her powers to help but left Cole for her.
"Phoebe stop you love me," he said as blood was coming out of his nose.
"Then its time to let you go," she said as she rose in the air using her levitation and all the demons grabbed their throats and started choking as their feet left the ground.
"That's my girl," Prue said.
The demons exploded in the air and she focused all her energy on Cole, but this time she was going to beat him to death as her rage was building. She lowered herself and then rushed him. She landed one punch after another, hitting all the spots on the body that would weaken anyone. His ribs, his manhood, his throat.
"Stay out of my life Cole now and forever," she said while feeling bones crack and warm blood on her fist. He went to his knees and then collapsed on the dirt ground with his eyes wide open. Phoebe stumbled backwards as she looked at him. She was covered in blood, some of it her own but most of it his.
"Now its time to wake up," Prue said and was thankful this went a little smoother than Piper's. But she did not arrive until late when Piper was in a coma and she has not seen her since she died. Paige's should also go better at least she hoped. Phoebe closed her eyes and willed herself to wake up and when she opened them, she was in a hospital room with Prue whom also was awake.
"Thank god that is over," Phoebe said while rubbing her head.
"Where is everyone?" Prue asks as Piper and Paige came in.
"You ok?" Piper asks.
"Yeah what's going on?" Prue asks.
"Oh this and that," Paige replied.
"A war is about to start," Piper said.
"What?" Prue asks as she got to her feet.
"Where is Coop?" Phoebe asks.
"I don't know sweetie," Piper replied and helped Phoebe up.
"What about the kids?" Phoebe asks.
"They are with Leo and Henry in the artillery tower," Paige replied.
"Phoebe we don't have a lot of time so lets get you fixed up and ready," Piper said noticing the bruises and scratches on Phoebe's fist.
"I got it," Prue said and healed her.
Outside on the grounds the 2000 Alda members were standing behind Kara as they faced over 10,000 on the other side. A mixture of shadow-dells, time weavers and some of Punts army along with Bladeking's creations of metal and technology that were armed to the teeth. Phoenix was standing next to Kara as Piper and the others came to meet them.
"Oh my god," Phoebe said as she got a good look at what they were about to face.
"They are going to need more," Kara said and started laughing as the sisters looked at her oddly. The clouds above them darkened as the sound of hundreds of wings flapping was coming from behind them. Phoebe looked up and saw what looked like angels flying overhead and then hovering. Coop landed in front of them and his appearance changed from what she remembered. He now had wings and had some kind of tribal tattoo coming from his eyebrow and down his left side of his face. He was holding an ornate bow with Phoenix head arrows. He looked like a warrior and not the Cupid she remembered.
"Coop?" she asks and was very impressed.
"This is what we have been training for Phoebe we have always been warriors of the light," he said and smiled.
Kara pulled out a walkie-talkie," Wyatt when the others arrive, you will conjure the rest do you understand?" she asks.
"Yes," Wyatt replied.
"We await your orders," Coop said and took flight to be with the rest of his army.
Up in the tower Henry and Leo were looking through eyepieces as they sat on chairs that were attached to large cannons. They could see the entire field and were given instructions on how to fire them as Wyatt held Chris's hands.
"You ready little brother?" Wyatt asks.
"Yes, lets help Kara kick some butt," Chris said and smiled as Leo had his thumb over the firing mechanism. There were other people on the other towers and were given instructions to shoot anyone who went after the healers.
Back on the battlefield Kara turned to face her army.
"Paige and Piper stay in the back to heal since both of you can do it from a distance. Phoenix, Phoebe and Prue you will protect them at all cost, without healers we will not win," she said as the crimson prince landed behind her with the other five dragons.
"We are hungry," he said and smiled.
"Take out the large targets when I give the order," Kara said and they nodded as they hovered above them.
"I hope they don't drop one," Paige said and Piper giggled.
"Some may ask what we stand for. Is it for power is it for what is good. Is it for land? It is none of those things, it is everything. For a future not ruled by the ones who would take and never give. Ones who would want fire and chaos to be the norm, peace always has a price that few are willing to pay. It is easy to give into ones nature, but true enlightenment and human evolution is to not give into it. Without places of peace there is no human evolution, there is no growth, there is no enlightened, there is no balance. That is what we stand for so that one day these battles will not be done on a field with steel and blood but with discussion and compromise. So let them have us outnumbered and out powered, let them think highly of themselves, let them be unafraid. In that arrogance will be their downfall, but if blood and steel is all they know, then let us give them their fill and do it with joy!" Kara yelled as she changed into a dragon once again and shoots out flame from her mouth and onto the building. Once she finished the letters written in fire saying 'No mercy' appeared. Piper felt her hart swell as her pride for her daughter gathered in her chest.
To be continued…