Fortunately Piper was also present at the mixer and she reacted before that nasty tongue was even a foot out of Darla's mouth and everyone in the room except herself, Prue and Cordelia froze as she snapped her hands at Darla.
"I'm guessing we found our demon." She said dryly. "How do we get her out of here so we can vanquish her? Since fire is recommended for this particular vanquish."
"Well," Prue said thoughtfully. "let's see if I can use my power to move her. I used it to lift you that time you fell in the sewers when we were hunting the Grimlocks and remember how much control Grams had when we were in the past?"
"Control, yeah." Piper nodded. "She thought we were warlocks and maneuvered us through like three rooms, opened the front door and threw us out of it without any problems. Give it a shot, we have no idea how long my freeze will last and some demons can fight through it."
"Seriously, three rooms and the front door?" Cordelia asked as she made her way through the crowd to them. "That is some serious control. But she also had her powers for like fifty years at that point and Prue's had hers for a year, but go ahead, give it a shot."
"Thanks for the vote of confidence, Cordelia." Prue glared at her baby sister.
"Consider it a challenge and you only have to get her like ten feet to the doors and Piper and I can hold them open. Once she's in the hall we can call Xander in here and he can set her on fire. Trust me, he barely has to breath and he can set things on fire. Which might explain the condition she's in, fire is a real easy spell for him to do." She moved toward the door of the ballroom with Piper following her. Once there they each held one of the doors and waited for Prue to move the succubus into the hall. Cordelia dug her cell phone out of her clutch purse and speed dialed Xander and let him know the situation.
"Way to go, Phoebe." Cordelia heard him say as she watched Prue concentrate on the frozen form of the succubus and managed to pick her up, that part was easy, the moving it so she didn't accidentally throw it through the wall across the hall, that was the hard part. "She turned the connection back on the succubus."
"It was your idea." Cordelia heard Phoebe's voice through the phone and then Xander's again
"We'll be right there." He told Cordelia. "Make sure no one is standing near her, I don't want anyone getting caught in the fire."
"Will do." Cordelia dropped her phone back in her purse as Prue's effort paid off and she safely moved the succubus into the hall and set her down. Cordelia and Piper shut the doors just as Xander and Phoebe appeared. She, along with Piper and Prue moved to the other end of the hall as Xander and Phoebe stopped at the other end and Xander raised his hand, fingers slightly bent.
"Incendiary!" He said in Latin and a ball of white yellow fire appeared in the palm of his hand, he pushed it toward the succubus who's tongue could clearly be seen and he and the four women watched it race down the hall and engulf the former witch turned demon. Unfortunately she also unfroze and started screaming, so Xander had to follow that up with his silencing spell. Which didn't affect the fire alarm when the fire set it off. Or do them any good when the sprinklers went off as well. Murphy was having himself a good old time as all five of them were drenched.
"Hey, I think my temperature is finally coming down." Phoebe grinned. Sometimes you just have to laugh and this was one of those times
"Fortunately for us she burned as fast as a vampire does." Xander said. "But we have one other problem, where's her egg sack?"
"Probably in the penthouse she's been using." Phoebe answered. "Which might be where she lives, or lived, rather. We can ask Andy to find it now that we know the succubus was Darla and she was the manager here."
"I wonder how long she's worked here." Cordelia pondered as she made her way toward them. "And how long it's been since she made her deal and became a succubus. Andy might be able to trace her history, not that any of that information will actually do us any good probably. And hey, nicely done, Prue."
"Thank you, well our work here is done."
"I still have to unfreeze the room back there." Piper reminded her. "Then we can go home and get out of these wet clothes before we all catch a cold."
"As if having a fever for the last now five days wasn't enough." Phoebe muttered. "That's the last thing I need." As Piper pulled open the door to the ballroom and snapped her hand at the people, who unfortunately were also drenched and she just stepped back and held the door open as the people started making their way out
"Just think what a funny story this will be to tell your kids." She said when she heard some of them complaining, which caused some of them to laugh as well. "I mean how many people can say they met their significant other at a dating service mixer where the fire alarm and sprinklers went off? You gotta admit, it makes a great story." She grinned herself as she made her way to her sisters and Xander. "No one say anything else, we've entertained Murphy enough tonight."
She didn't get any argument from anyone. Prue did get several odd looks for being dressed in baggy men's clothes, but it wasn't like they could tell anyone a spell had reversed when they'd destroyed a succubus.
