Author's notes: Hello everyone... I won't bore you with introductions; I would just like to thank those of you reading the story and special thanks to VampirePrincess86 and lizardmomma for sticking with the story this far!
Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed or any of its original characters. I do, however, own this story line and any characters you're not familiar with.
P.S. Words in Italics are either thoughts, dreams or premonitions.
Previously:
Voices in Jo's head (later known to be Jericho):And if it wasn't for the lame potion that you did, she would've still been alive, right?
Jo: Yes! I'm the freakin' reason my sister is dead.
Jo (falling on her knee, sobbing): It should've been me! It should've been me.
Wyatt: Oh I know I guess my mom's words got to you then! You're finally accepting the fact that you're the reason she is dead!
Jo: This hurts me even more than it hurts you Piper, because I watched it happen and couldn't do anything about it!
Jo: All you need to know that this is one battle you need to win! We can't afford it happening like last time if we want to save Wyatt. We have to change the results, we have to vanquish Mass.
Jericho: All the better reason to move quicker. We vanquish Barbas, go back to the manor where your sisters will be waiting for any demons we might bring on our tails.
Mass: It's time, that we end the Charmed Ones, time that we put this humiliation to an end...They weakened us and vanquished our leaders time and time again. But I say it is time for REVENGE!
Piper: Are you sure about this potion?
Paige: Yes, it's the strongest I've ever made.
Jo and Jericho whipped around to find a dozen demon standing at the entrance of the cave. Jo turned around to look for other exits but dozens of demons stood in front of everyone. In a matter of seconds, about a hundred demons were standing in the cave.
Jo: This is really bad...
Dozens of dark creatures appeared behind the demon, and dozens more appeared behind the sisters. Demon 2: That's where you're wrong! We're more than one, and you'll have to move if you don't want to die quickly.
Mass: Don't underestimate the Charmed Ones, we'll go when they're already down. When they really don't stand a chance.
Underworld: Cave where Barbas was trapped. Jo was throwing kicks and punches towards the demons that were too close to her, while opting to use her powers for those a bit further. While Jo was sending orb beams vanquishing or at least crippling a couple of demons at a time, Jericho was using his pacing powers, he would travel to each passing second making him look everywhere at once and sometimes even invisible. Jericho had reverted to his demonic form instead of his human for super strength as well as thorn throwing and clawing.
Jericho's plan depended on one thing, not getting seriously injured, because if he got hurt all the 'copies' of him would get hurt as well which would throw his entire attacking plan down the drain. And since Jo had fought on Jericho's side before, she knew his plan by heart and made it her mission to make sure nothing harmed him, because Jericho was hurting and vanquishing a lot more demons than she was.
Jo threw her arm out sending a dozen demons flying with telekinesis, and Jericho hammered them with high voltage energy balls -he was after all an upper leveled demon. Jo didn't even ponder on Jericho's help, but moved on to the next group, whom she assaulted with beams of orbs that were liking a million small knives thrown together.
However, to Jo's and Jericho's dismay, even though they killed at least 50 demons so far, it seemed that the number of demons was increasing instead of the opposite.
Jo (while fist fighting with an upper leveled demon): What are we going to do? They're too many.
One version of Jericho: I dunno but we gotta keep fighting! We can't bring them back to the manor.
Jo kicked the demon in the face causing him to stagger, while a version of Jericho snapped the demon's neck, vanquishing him, then moving on to the next one without sparing Jo a look.
Meanwhile at the Manor, the sisters and Billie were facing a similar fight, except that with the power of three plus the ultimate power present, anyone not upper leveled was vanquished instantly.
Piper was flicking her wrists left and right, blowing up demons here, and freezing them there. She stood square in front of Paige as to not let any demon get to her pregnant baby sister. Paige from behind Piper was orbing back the energy balls, fireballs, arrows back at their senders and at other demons.
Paige: Phoebe to your left!
Phoebe chose to dive into action and engage with the upper leveled demon in physical fights. Yes, they were bigger, stronger and faster, but Phoebe had her fair share of fighting to know how to hit them where it hurts. Aided with an athame and a couple of potions, Phoebe was slashing the demon's throats, stabbing them, and throwing vanquishing potions to finish them off.
Piper: Billie behind you!
Billie, on the other hand, relied merely on her powers. She used her projection powers to make copies of the Charmed Ones, tricking the demons in thinking they're fighting the Charmed Ones, who in fact fought back. She also projected fire on the demons that got close to her, efficiently vanquishing them.
Phoebe: This is starting to get ridiculous.
Piper: Starting? It got ridiculous when all these demons decided to appear in my attic.
Billie: Where the hell are Jo and Jericho?
Paige: I'm thinking if this is any indication on how the underworld chose to act today, they're stuck in the underworld with a couple of hundred demons.
Phoebe: Yeah, but... Piper WATCH OUT!
Paige was quick to react and orbed the energy ball that was about to hit Piper back to the demon who sent it.
Jo and Jericho were still engaged in fighting the army of demons, but they were both starting to get tired. Jo had a couple of burn wounds on her body, while Jericho suffered from stab wounds.
Jericho: I don't know how much longer I can keep this up.
Instead of replying, Jo chose to take out her exhaustion and frustration on the demons. Jericho laughed as he vanquished 5 demons with one huge energy ball. An arrow hit his leg causing him to grunt in pain, but he immediately pulled it out and threw it back with super speed into the darklighter's chest, vanquishing him.
Jericho: Idiot!
Jo let out a faint scream as a fireball hit her in the leg, leaving her incapable of standing on that leg. She took a deep breath, wiped the back of her hand against her face, wiping the sweat away and dove back into the battle.
Jericho: JO WATCH OUT!
Jo looked behind her, wanting to know what could possibly be worse when she saw a couple of darklighters aiming at her.
Jo (as she started running): Shit, shit, shit, shit!
Jo skidded behind a rock as a couple of darklighter arrows whizzed by her.
Jo: SHIT!
Jo looked at the scratches on her arm and could feel the darklighter poison already spreading, although in low amounts. Jo ignored the pain, stood up and started throwing lightening bolts at the darklighters.
The real Jericho looked at Jo and figured she could handle herself for now and dove back into the battle. He sent a red wave out of his hand towards a group of warlocks, crippling them all with pain and fear. When they exploded, the red wave absorbed their essence and came back to him, restoring his strength a little.
(Back at the manor, things weren't looking any different than before, almost all the lower leveled demons were vanquished, and the couple of upper leveled that were left needed a little more than the flicking of the wrist to get rid of.)
Demon 1 (to Billie): Look at Blondie Barbie doll over here trying to take out all those big bad guys.
Billie: Oh, I didn't know you were a natural blond!
The demon charged towards Billie angrily, but she just smiled making him angrier. Right before he was about to ram her, he was stopped magically by a force that lifted him off his feet and into the air.
Demon 1: What did you do?
Billie: Me? Nothing, I'm just a Barbie doll!
Billie's hands which were clasped in front of her started moving apart and with that the upper leveled demon started to scream as he felt his insides chattering. Billie's hands turned into angry fists and the demon exploded.
Demon 2 (crying for his lost brother): RAZE!
He looked at Billie who was fighting another demon and charged towards her with an athame in his hand. Billie turned around just in time for the athame to meet her stomach. A faint cry of pain escaped Billie's throat as the demon thrusts in the athame a little bit more and twists it.
Phoebe noticed Billie injured and instantaneously threw a potion at the demon who was torturing her. The demon was engulfed in flames but died with a smile on his face. Phoebe ran to Billie's side and tapped into Paige's powers and started healing her. Phoebe was almost done when a demon knocked her out from behind.
Piper: PHOEBE!
Piper was in a tough position, demons were advancing on her fallen sister and Billie and they were out of her shooting range. The logical thing to do would be go help them, but if she left Paige, something could happen to her or the baby.
Paige: Piper GO! I can handle this!
Piper reluctantly left Paige's side and ran towards her sister and Billie, blowing up the demons that were getting near them in the process. Half way through the run, she heard a buzzing flaming sound behind her and that's when she saw an unknown demon and Mass holding up what looked like a darklighter's crossbow aimed towards Paige who was focused on other demons and haven't seen him.
Piper: PAIGE WATCH OUT!
But because of all the exploding sounds, Paige didn't hear the warning. Piper reversed her direction and started running back towards Paige. Piper threw the special potion that she kept in her pocket -just in case Mass himself attacked- towards Mass and the unknown demon. Piper cringed involuntarily as the potion hit the ground but only vanquished Lester, and only made smoke arise around Mass, not even injure him.
Mass laughed evilly as he pulled the trigger, releasing the arrow. Paige heard the unmistakable sound of the arrow and potion vial breaking, but as she commanded the arrow to orb away, the arrow kept on going in her direction.
Having no time to orb out, Paige gasped in shock as all her senses registered pain.
(Underworld. Jo and Jericho were more exhausted than ever. Their energy was depleted, and they could barely stand up. Jericho was down to only his original 'copy', he was too weak to try and 'pace'. Jo was done being wonder woman and wanted to curl up in a corner and die.)
Jericho: On the bright side, there's only a group of demons and a herd of darklighters left.
Jo (panting because of feeling very dizzy): That's... the bright side?
Jericho: I got the demons, you get the darklighters!
Jericho lunged towards the demons before Jo could tell him that was a bad idea considering the least darklighter hit could affect her badly.
Jo: Here goes nothing!
Jericho already finished off have the clan of demons when Jo took a deep breath and resorted to her last energy source. Jo sent a wave of orbs at a crowd of darklighters and watched for a second as they flames started to engulf them. She then turned around to go help Jericho who was on his knees in pain. She didn't notice that all the darklighters she just attacked exploded, except for one, who took advantage of her obliviousness and shot a perfectly aimed arrow at her back.
Jo gasped as she felt the tip of the arrow puncture her skin, and the arrow embedding itself in her back. Jericho noticed the dangerous injury and reacted by throwing an energy ball at the darklighter before he can shoot again.
Jericho screamed angrily and threw his hands to the side vanquishing every single last demon left. Jericho skidded to Jo's side and tears swelled in his eyes as realization hit him.
Jericho: No, no, no, no!
T.B.C
Author's notes: I know, I know, a very mean double cliffhanger. I wasn't planning on writing this with a cliffhanger, but it kinda wrote itself like that.
I would love to hear what you guys think of this! I think 2 or 3 chapters are left for the story, last chance for suggestions!
Thanks for reading...