Dark Ones (Quest for the Gremoir Part 5) Please Re

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Author: Kowa97

Dark Charmed: Quest for the Gremoir Part 5

Act 1

Price was getting discouraged. The Charmed Ones were still alive and she didn’t understand how the sisters always managed to get themselves out of trouble. She and Skole had had thrown everything they could think of at the sisters. What could possibly be left to try?

But, where Price saw only failure, Skole saw a great deal of success. The Charmed Ones still didn’t know that they didn’t vanquish him. That meant he still had the element of surprise. They had retrieved the Gremoir so it was only a matter of time before he truly could be coronated as the Source, which was his plan all along. The Best Part was that after everything they had done, they still trusted Price.

Now is time for the final part of their master plan. Skole and Price sit at the Alter with the Gremoir in front of them. They turn to the page on crossing to multiple dimensions and read the spell aloud.

“A doorway for travel is what I seek
To move between worlds of the unknown
Dimension to dimension I wish to leap
Give me a key that is mine to keep.”<br>
Right on cue a doorway appears against the wall in the alter room. The key to that door also appears in the center of the altar. Price retrieves the key and walks to the door. Placing the key in the lock, she turns the doorknob and opens the dimensional gateway. She steps through and into a whole new world.

This was a world quite different from what they are used to. In this world, green means stop red means go. Computers are rejected in this technologically backwards society. It is a society just still trying to recover from the nuclear holocaust brought about by the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. In this world, demons and witches were exposed a long time ago. Skole is a former Darklighter turned Whitelighter. And the Charmed Ones are evil.

In this world, The Dark Ones terrorize the people. They cause havoc everywhere they go. For three years the Dark Ones consisted of Prue, Piper, and Phoebe. Then one day the demon hunter Shax became the first force of good to enter the manner in almost 100 years. He caught the Dark Ones by surprise and almost managed to kill one of them.

Piper had been upstairs reading from “Calling the Spirits”, a Book of Shadows type magical book from which the sisters draw enormous strength. Phoebe and Prue were both downstairs arguing about the best way of killing a particular doctor that does enormous good throughout San Francisco. It was then that Shax entered the manner with the force of a tornado. Catching them off guard, Shax was able to hit them with anti gravity balls which immediately made them shoot up towards the ceiling. Prue managed to dip forward and went through the ceiling back first; but as Phoebe shot towards the ceiling, she used her power of levitation to stop herself before she hit. That’s when astral Prue appeared behind Shax and flung him to the bottom of the stairs with just a flick of her wrist. As Shax cashed through the bottom of the railing, Piper walked out and saw Shax lying there,

“Oh you’re in big trouble buster, we just had that fixed” said Piper as she rounded the corner and blew Shax up. They later learned that Pipers power was not enough to kill Shax by itself.

A couple weeks later, they met Paige when Shax tried to kill her. The Dark One’s found and vanquished Shax before he got to Paige. Then, just for fun, they decided that they would finish what Shax started. They turned towards Paige and tried to kill her. However, their magic could not overpower Paige’s. That had never happened before so the sisters decided to look into it a little deeper and realized she was their sister. The sisters learned that Paige was a result of their mothers’ relationship with her Darklighter. She was the true completion to the Dark Charm circle.

Their powers were basically the same as the Charmed One’s powers. Prue had the power of Telekinesis and Astral Projection. Piper could speed up and freeze molecules as she saw fit. Phoebe had the Power of Premonitions, and levitation, along with lightning strikes. Paige could Orb, call for objects, and throw orb projectiles.

All in all, they were a very deadly Quartet. The four sisters were in the Attic reading from their book when a door suddenly appeared in front of them. The door opened and they saw their goodie-two-shoes cousin Price walk through it accompanied by the famous former Darklighter Skole. The Dark Ones had been waiting for this day for years. They were about to collect the Sources bounty on Skoles’ head. Killing their cousin in the process was just a bonus.

Immediately after they saw the door appear with Price and Skole walking out of it, Paige jumped to her feet and threw an Orb ball at each of them. Quickly, Skole jumps in front of Price and catches the Orbs with his bare hands. He then throws it to the ground which creates a force field around the two visitors.

“Stop, Now! I warn you. Any magic you use against this shield will bounce back,” warned Skole.

The sisters don’t listen. Phoebe sends a lightning bolt towards the shield and it immediately bounces right back at her. She manages to just narrowly avoid being electrocuted as she leaps out of the bolts intended path.

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“You act so hastily. Aren’t you even curious how we, being forces of good, were not only able to enter your manor, but your alter room? That place you call your sanctuary as well”, asked Skole? “You should have tried to catch at least one of us for some answers. But fortunately for you, this is your lucky day. We are not the Skole and Price that you know. We are from another dimension, a dimension where we chose the path of evil and you are called the Charmed Ones. As the Charmed Ones, you are fighters of evil and protectors of the innocent.”

“We have a proposition for you. As are you, in our world, the Charmed Ones are very resilient. They have been fighting evil for four years now and they are still there, vanquishing some of the most powerful demons our world has ever seen. Lately, Demons have been apprehensive to go up against them because of their track record of vanquishing upper level demons. But where they failed you will succeed”, continued Price.

“Why would upper level demons be apprehensive to go up against three witches? Exactly how powerful were these demons that they vanquished, “asked Piper?

“They have vanquished four different Sources”, answered Price.

“If these witches are so powerful that they can vanquish four different sources, What makes you think that we will triumph where obviously, so many more have failed.” Asked Prue?

“For starters,” replied Skole, “you. In our world your battle with Shax took place just as it did here, but with a very different outcome. When all was said and done, their Prue was dead. Then, while trying to find a magical way to bring Prue back to them, Piper mistakenly found Paige and realized that she was their sister.”<br>
“Then, with the newly reformed charmed circle, the sisters were able to vanquish the Source on three separate occasions,” finished Price.

“Wait, wait, wait. They’re lying. They’re trying to save their pitiful lives, “interrupted Phoebe. “They said that these Charmed Ones have vanquished four Sources, but they only vanquished the source on three separate occasions. Where’s number four. Not to mention, alternate dimensions, come on, you’re not really buying into this are you”<br>
“What’s so hard about believing that there are alternate dimensions, “asked Price? “You four are Warlocks. You know for a fact Witches exist. Not to mention, wizards, genies, demons, Whitelighters, and Darklighters. If I’m right, you have visited the past and the future. In popular culture, everything that I have just mentioned either doesn’t exist or is impossible, but you know them to be a reality.”<br>
“And as far as vanquishing four Sources in the span of three occasions, that requires a bit of history,” she continued. “Phoebe was dating a half demon-half human named Balthazar. Balthazar turned on us and started helping to protect the Charmed Ones because of his love for Phoebe. Through the course of events, Balthazar was vanquished leaving behind his human side, Cole. Then came the day they vanquished the Source for the first time. Cole tried to save Phoebe and ended up absorbing the essence of the Source. That was enough to turn Cole evil again.”<br>
Skole continues “As time went on Cole was coroneted as the new Source, married Phoebe in a dark ceremony, and impregnated her. Then Phoebe made a conscious decision to rule in the underworld as Queen.”<br>

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“What came next was the decision Phoebe feared. Her sisters were going up against her husband and only one side was going to live. She had to decide if she was going to help kill Cole or help kill her sisters. She decided to back her sisters and she helped vanquish Cole.”<br>
Continuing with the history lesson, Price said, “Two Sources down, two to go. Cole may have been dead, but his heir, the Sources heir, was still growing inside Phoebe. That fetus had powers almost immediately after conception and his power quickly grew to be the most powerful anyone has ever seen.”<br>
“However, Phoebe, being the mother, was committed to raising the baby to be a force of good. However, the Seer, the Sources personal servant, had different plans, she used magic to steal the baby from Phoebe’s womb and place it into her own. And with the Source’s heir growing inside of her now, The Seer was coroneted as the new Source. Then the Charmed Ones vanquished her almost immediately after the coronation ceremony by making her tap into the fetus’s powers. The power was too much for her and it ended up destroying everyone at the ceremony, except the Charmed Ones of course,” finished Skole.

That’s all fine and dandy, but you still haven’t answered my question,” Prue pointed out. “How are we supposed to defeat them when nobody else could?”<br>
“Because you share the same powers,” answered Price. Theoretically, your powers will be equal to theirs, but with one big difference. You have Prue to tip the scales in your favor. Not only do you have an extra power they don’t have, they will be hesitant to hurt the sister that they lost and was returned to them.”<br>
“That makes sense, but what’s in it for us?” asks Paige.

“The Charmed Ones have caused such a shake among Demons and Warlocks that there is a general consensus that whoever finally defeats the Charmed Ones should also be the one to take over leadership of the underworld. The Dark Circle can be the Source of all evil. Now, I ask you. What better prize is there?” asks Skole as the Dark Ones just look at each other and smile.

End of Act 1

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Act 2

“Phoebe, we are here to search for Paige’s birthday present, not to search for shoes for you,” said Piper.

“If we are going to continue to fight demons, we need the proper footwear,” answers Phoebe.

“Oh that’s right. How stupid of me. I must have just missed the memo saying that the proper demon fighting footwear is a six inch Stiletto heel.”<br>
“I’ll have you know, that heel can be used as a weapon.”<br>
Piper just glares at Phoebe.

“You’re right, you’re right. I need to focus. Hey, how about in here? They have nice cloths,” suggests Phoebe.

“Prue,” says Piper in shock.

“Ya, I know she shopped here when she was alive, but there’s no reason to boycott a store with such great outfits just because she died,” said Phoebe.

Piper grabs Phoebe and pulls her in close. “No, Prue,” Piper says pointing into a crowd.

Phoebe looks at the crowd now crossing the street and sees nothing. Then she looks at Piper, confused.

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Back at the manor, Paige sits at the table looking in the Book of Shadows when she hears Piper and Phoebe come back arguing.

“Piper, Prue has been dead for almost two years now. I mean we have even communed with her spirit. Isn’t it possible that you saw someone that looked like Prue, and with the anniversary of her death coming up, your mind tricked you into thinking that it was her.”<br>
“Don’t give me that Phoebe. I know it was her and she was alive. Just like mom was at my wedding. Now it happened with mom. You were there. You saw it. Why couldn’t it happen with Prue?”<br>
“Yah, after being dead for two years, Prue is going to all of a sudden come back to life, for no reason. And what is the first thing she does after her resurrection? Does she visit her sisters? No, she goes shopping. Come on now Piper. Look at the logic. What’s more likely a scenario?”<br>
Paige walks into the foyer and says, “Hey guys. What’s going on?”<br>
“Nothing, we were out shopping for your birthday present when Piper stops dead in her tracks and swears she just saw Prue.”<br>
“Really, where were you?” Paige asks with a smirk.

“Never mind,” Piper says quickly. Where’s Leo? Leo! Leo!”<br>
Leo orbs into the manors foyer and immediately Piper says, “Leo, quick question honey. How exactly is it possible that I just saw Prue walking around in a crowd?”<br>
Confused, Leo says, “It’s not.”<br>
“Really, that’s good to know because I just saw her a half hour ago. Leo, I know it sounds crazy, but could you just go ask the Elders if they know anything about the dead coming back to life or if shape shifters can assume the likeness of the deceased and anything else you can think of? I’m going to go talk to Prue and find out what is going on here.”<br>
Piper leaves the foyer and heads upstairs to the attic. After she enters the room, she walks over to their supply chest and lights nine candles. She then places them in a big circle in front of the Book of Shadows. She turns to the page that has the Calling a Lost Spirit spell. With the spell in front of her, she reads aloud;

“Hear my words, hear my cry.
Spirit from the other side,
Come to me, I summon thee.
Cross now the great divide”<br>
Immediately, a white light appears in front of her and from the center walks Prue. She is wearing the same type of white robe that Grams and Patty have always worn when appearing to the sisters.

“Piper, what’s wrong?” asks Prue curiously.

“I’ll tell you what’s wrong. Phoebe and I were shopping for Paige’s birthday when I happened to see you walking in a crowd downtown.” answers Piper.

“What do you mean you saw me walking in a crowd? I’ve been dead almost a two years now. I don’t have a body anymore. You couldn’t possibly have seen me.”<br>
“I know. There must have been a demon or something posing as you.”<br>
“A demon posing as me to do some shopping. Piper, listen to yourself. Why would a demon pose as me and then go shopping.”<br>

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“I don’t know Prue. Maybe I am crazy. I know it couldn’t have been you, But I am absolutely positive it was.”<br>
“Piper, I don’t think you are crazy. But isn’t it possible that you saw someone that looked like me and your head is telling you that it was me, because you want me to be alive. Listen, why don’t you go sleep it off. I’m sure you already have Leo looking into it. So just let him do his job and stop stressing yourself out, ok?”<br>
“Thanks Prue. I’ll talk to you later,” Piper says while picking up the candle closest to her. She blows the flame out and Prue disappears.

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“Did they see you,” Price asks the evil Prue.

“I think Piper did. She was looking a little crazy while Phoebe just looked confused.”<br>
“Great,” interrupts Skole. “We will give them a couple days to fret about it and then you will make another appearance. In the meantime, stay here in this house, out of site. When Piper starts to seem like her self again, you will show up a second time and really put her in a frazzled state.”<br>

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Act 3

When Piper wakes up, she looks at the clock and it says 10:30 A.M. She didn’t know how she got back to her room. After she had talked to Prue the previous afternoon, she had decided to go to P3 and drown her sorrows. With her head pounding, she got out of bed and went downstairs to the kitchen. When she walked into the kitchen, she flinched at the sight of the morning light. “Paige, the window, shut the shade. Quickly.”<br>
Paige turns around and sees Piper standing there. She wasn’t looking so hot and, having been in that position many times herself before smartening up and quitting drinking; she realized that Piper was hung over. “You, go sit down at the Dining Room table while I make you my famous hangover remedy.”<br>
“What’s in it?” Piper asks.

“Believe me, you don’t want to know.” Paige answers as she leads Piper to the Dining Room table by the hand.

Piper sits down and Paige goes back into the Kitchen. About a minute later, the blender turns on and the noise sends a sharp pain through Pipers temples. “Paige!!! Turn that off!!!”<br>
The blender turns off and Paige sticks her head around the corner and says, “Oh, sorry honey.”<br>She goes to try to pull her head back into the kitchen when she gets hit lightly in the forehead by a piece of bread. “Ok, I deserved that” says Paige as she goes back to making her hang over remedy.

A couple minute later, Paige walks into the Dining Room carrying coffee and the home remedy and gives it to Piper.

“Where’s Phoebe?” asks Piper.

“Oh. She went down to the paper to catch up on her advice column,” answered Paige.

“How did I get home last night, I didn’t drive did I?”<br>
“Honey, we both know you would never drive drunk. Leo orbed you home last night before the club opened.”<br>
“Where is Leo? Did he find anything out?” asks Piper, suddenly, very alert.

“I don’t know. I didn’t get to talk to him. He was called out early by one of his other charges. You don’t still think you saw Prue, do you?”<br>
“I don’t know what to think anymore,” answered Piper. “Every fiber in my being tells me that it was Prue, but I talked to her when I got home. I know it couldn’t have possibly been her. But I know that it was her and no, my mind was not playing tricks on me.

Paige just sits back and silently watches as Piper picks up her hangover remedy and tastes it. Immediately, Piper cringes at the taste and Paige gives a little laugh and says, “Now you know why I quit drinking.”<br>
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In her office, Phoebe is putting the finishing touches on her article for the following day’s paper. When she is finished, she gets up and grabs her purse. It was now 12:23 and Phoebe was hungry. She walked out of her office and said she was going to lunch. She exits the building and walks to her BMW Mini Cooper and drives to her favorite deli down the street. She pulls into the parking lot and goes inside and picks up her order. As she walks out the door, she sees a convertible stopped at the light, then after seeing the driver of that car, she drops her sandwich in shock and says out loud, “Prue.”<br>
Evil Prue uses her power of telekinesis to turn the traffic light green and drives off. She watches in her side view mirror as Phoebe runs back to her Mini Cooper and fumbles with the lock. Seeing Phoebe finally get into the car, she quickly turns a corner and pulls into a parking lot and around the building. She parks the car and gets out. Watching Phoebe drive by at high speed, she smiles, and gets back into the stolen convertible to head back to their hideout.

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Act 4

Phoebe enters the Manor and calls out, “LEO!!!”<br>
Paige walks into the room and says, “Quiet, Piper fought a couple of her own demons last night and her head is still feeling the effects of it today. She still thinks she saw Prue last night.”<br>
“I think she may be right,” replied Phoebe.

“What do you mean you think she was right?” asks Paige bewilderedly. “Just yesterday you were telling her she was seeing things.”<br>
“That was before I saw her driving a convertible downtown. I know it was her. Our eyes connected for a good five seconds before she drove away. I got in my car and tried to follow her, but she must have pulled off the road or something because when I got around the corner she was already gone,” explained Phoebe

Worried, Paige asks, “Is it possible you were mistaking?”

“No, it was defiantly Prue. I’d stake my life on it,” answers Phoebe.

“That’s what I’m worried about. Too often, we are staking our lives on this kind of thing.”<br>
Leo orbs in and looks at Phoebe, “What’s up?”<br>
“I think Piper was right about seeing Prue,” says Phoebe.

“That’s not possible.” replies Leo. “According to the Elders, it’s not a shape shifting demon and Prue is present and accounted for in heaven.”<br>
“Leo, if I have learned one thing since we got our powers, it’s that anything is possible,” Phoebe explains. “Go up there and tell the Elders that it’s time to put in some overtime on this one. You saw how this is affecting Piper and I am going out of my mind trying to come up with an explanation too. The only thing I can tell for certain is that I have a bad feeling like this is going to be one hell of a battle.”<br>
Leo orbs out and Phoebe goes upstairs to talk to Piper. She enters Pipers bedroom and sees that she is sleeping off what is left over from her previous night’s extra-curricular activities. Phoebe wakes Piper up and tells her about what she just saw.

“So you don’t think that I’m crazy anymore,” asks Piper.

“Honey, I never thought that you were crazy. I just thought that your mind was playing tricks on you,” explains Phoebe.

“And now you don’t think that anymore?” asks Piper.

“Prue and I looked at each other for a good five seconds before she drove away. I could see plain as day that it was Prue, but I do know one thing for certain. That wasn’t Prue. The person I saw was 100% evil. I could feel her hate, and bitterness. I know she is evil and we are going to be going up against her very soon.”<br>
“I don’t know if I can. I mean we would have to vanquish Prue. I mean regardless of whether it is our Prue or not. She looks exactly like her, and I don’t think I could bring myself to use my powers against her,” informs Piper. “Anyways, just because you get a feeling doesn’t mean she is evil.”<br>
“No this is different. This is like nothing I have ever felt before. Do you remember when Prue became an empath. She could feel what other people were feeling. That’s only way I can think to describe it. Like right now, from you, I am feeling confusion, doubt, and relief, relief that you aren’t going crazy. But it actually feels like an I told you so.”<br>
“You need to be an empath to tell that I want to say I told you so,” said Piper sarcastically.

“Piper, I can feel it. If we flinch when going up against her, we will not walk away from this one. We are going to have it find a way to get beyond the demons Physical look and see it for what it is, pure evil.”<br>

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Act 5

“Well done Prue. You now have two of the three sisters bewildered, questioning what they saw. Now is the time for the next part of my plan. We will see what kind of willingness the sisters have to use their powers against you,” explained Skole.

“Are you insane? I can’t go up against them myself. I have to have backup from my own sisters,” argued evil Prue.

“You will be backed up by your sisters,” says Price. “They will remain hidden while you attack an innocent in front of the Charmed Ones. We will then see if they are willing to attack you. If they do, your sisters will come out of hiding and help you fight them. However, if they do not attack, your sisters are to do nothing and keep out of sight.”<br>
“If we have them in our sights and have the element of surprise, why can’t we just take them out there,” asks Phoebe?

Skole Replies, “They are resourceful beyond anyone you have ever gone up against before. They have a way of coming out on top in this type of situation. We will need a flawless plan along with the element of surprise to defeat the Charmed Ones.”<br>
“Then why don’t I just send my astral-self to attack the innocent,” suggests evil Prue. “This way, I am out of harms way, my sisters won’t have to interfere and we will retain the element of surprise when we do go up against the Charmed Ones. Plus, a little bonus, if they attack my astral-self, we will get to see first hand how they fight.”<br>
“Good thinking,” replies Price. “We’ll try playing it like that.”<br>
“Alright,” says Skole, “here’s what we will do...”<br>
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At P3, the band No Doubt is playing the song “Don’t Speak”, one of the songs that made them famous. The club is booming with business and the sisters are all sitting at their usual table when, in the crowd, they see Prue. She is flirting with a guy she is dancing with and not being very discreet about it. Then she takes the man by the hand and walks him to the back door. The sisters follow them out into the ally and see her use her power of telekinesis to throw the man against the wall.

The sisters can see that the man is knocked out and they watch as Prue walks up to the man and pulls a knife from under her dress. She approaches the unconscious innocent when Paige says, “KNIFE”!!! Instantly, the knife orbs out of Prue’s hand and into Paige’s.

Prue turns around, sees the Charmed Ones, and says, “Piper, Phoebe. Nice to see you again. Too bad there’s no time to chat.” She uses her power of telekinesis to send them flying backwards into some garbage cans. The three of them just sit up a bit and look at Prue, dumbfounded. They watch as she just walks away very nonchalantly.

Back at the manor, the sisters are looking in the Book of Shadow’s for anything that might be of use when Leo orbs in. “I have some news. The Elders know why you think you have been seeing Prue.”<br>
“And,” says Piper after a second, “Are you going to tell us or do we just wait until Prue tries to kill us again?”<br>
“You fought her already, when?”<br>
“Leo, will you please focus,” Piper snaps. “What did the Elders say about Prue?”<br>
“It’s not Prue you two saw. Well, at least it’s not our Prue,” informed Leo.

“Honey, what exactly do you mean she is Prue, but not our Prue,” asked Piper confused.

“The Prue you saw was from another dimension,” explained Leo. “A doorway to another dimension has been opened and from what the Elders say, the doorway is right here in San Francisco. They’re trying to narrow it’s location down right now.”<br>
“They can do that,” asks Paige.

“Normally, no, it’s not possible. But a trans-dimensional doorway is a really big thing in the Space-Time Continuum. It leaves a signal that the Elders can focus in on to find its exact location. It’s kind of like a super-natural Lo-Jack.”<br>
“If this is such a big thing, what sort of demon has enough power to open the doorway,” asks Phoebe?

“That’s the problem. Not even the Source himself would have enough power to open a trans-dimensional gateway. The only possibility is the Gremoir. The Gremoir is the only book that contains a spell for traveling through multiple dimensions. Skole would have to have been the one to read it. Only the most powerful upper level demons have enough power to pull this off. Even then he would have had to somehow magnify the Gremoirs’ power then draw off of that power to open the doorway.”<br>
“So Skole is even more powerful than we imagined,” says Phoebe

Leo looks up at the ceiling and says, “The Elders are calling. They might have found the Gateway.”<br>
Leo orbs out and Piper says, “If there is a Prue here from another dimension, she is obviously here with Skole and Price, but what do you think are the chances that she came here alone?”<br>
“Slim to none,” answers Phoebe.

“Right, if there is another Prue out there in an alternate dimension, it stands to reason that there are alternates of all of us. The only thing is, if Shax didn’t kill Prue in their world, did I die instead, and did they even find out about Paige?”<br>
“I don’t think that whatever demon opened the doorway would have gone to this much trouble if there weren’t at least three of us in that world. He wouldn’t want that worlds Charmed Ones to be outnumbered by us. No, I think we are going to go up against four for the same reason that he wouldn’t just send two. He wants something else to tip the scales in his favor,” suggests Phoebe.

A little nervous, Paige asks, “If we do have to go up against all four of the evil Charmed Ones, how can we win? You said our Prue’s power was telekinesis; obviously, the other Prue has that power too. If we have to go up against all four of them, how can we win? All of our powers would be the same but they would have Prue to finish us off.”<br>
Piper answers, “Our power lies in the Power of Three, not the power of four. Being evil, they may have forgotten that. That is an advantage to us. And I think we should try to lure them here. This is where we’re strongest.”<br>
“I can have Cole here to help us fight too,” suggests Pheobe.

“Thanks hon. But like I just said to Paige, our power lies in The Power of Three. And lets be realistic, Cole is innately evil. If he sees evil Phoebe he may just see the best of both worlds, a way to have you without suppressing his evil side. He might just turn against us and join forces with them. I don’t think he would even consider that an option, but with his past, we do have to consider it.”<br>
Just then, Leo orbs back into the manors Attic. “The Elders found the doorway,” he informs them.

“Great, where is it,” says Paige anxiously.

“At, Prices’ Manor. It’s about three blocks away. As much as I hate to say it, it might not be a bad idea to call Cole after all,”

“Well, we know that he wouldn’t have a problem with Paige, and he does have some pretty powerful powers. He might be able to take care of Skole for us,” reasons Piper. “Phoebe, give him a call and see if he’ll do it. But listen, I know Price is out to destroy us, but she is still our cousin. Make sure he doesn’t harm her. Maybe we can still save her. But he has to understand that he is to take care of Skole at Prices house. I have a bad feeling that this battle has to be Charmed Ones against Charmed Ones or there will be no walking away from this one.”<br>
Phoebe does as she is asked and calls Cole and asks him to meet her and her sisters at the manner. “I’ll be right there,” informs Cole as he hangs up the phone. A second later, having shimmered, he is at the manner face to face with the Charmed Ones. “What’s happening, how can I help?”<br>
End of Act 5

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Here is the rest of The Quest for the Gremoir

Act 6

Back at Prices’ Manor, Skole is starting to explain the final part of the plan to the Dark Ones. Suddenly, Cole shimmers into the room and says, “I hope I’m not interrupting anything.”

He looks at Skole and raises his hand. Instantly, Skole is engulfed in a raging flame. Skole is in excruciating pain, but he is still alive. Evil Piper goes to blow Cole up and he waves his hand in the direction of Skole, deflecting her power. Skole explodes in an agonizing scream.

“That ought to be enough to get rid of him for good this time. You don’t have to worry; I’m not after you three. I was just trying to find him. Thanks for all your help Price. I would have never found him without you,” says Cole as he shimmers out.

With this new revelation, the Dark Ones look at Price, and Prue says, “You played us for fools!!!” as she flings her hand towards Price. With that, Price goes flying towards a window. She smashes through it and hits the ground with a vengeance.

The Dark Ones walk to the shattered remains of the window and look at Price. She is conscience and slowly trying to get to her feet. “Wait, wait. You can’t buy into what he said. That was Cole.”<br>
Phoebe walks up to Price and says, “I don’t care who that was. We were always going to kill you. Only now, we have a reason.” With that, Evil Phoebe raises her hand and sends a lightning bolt deep into Prices’ chest. Price kneels there for a moment as the electricity runs through her body, stopping her heart in the process. Then she falls forward to the ground, her eyes opened, with a blank look on her lifeless face.

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When Cole orbed out of the room, he kept his promise. He didn’t return to the manor. Instead, he orbed to the next room and watched the Dark Ones finish Price off. He had promised he would not kill Price. He would let her live, come whatever may be.

But his promise was just that. He promised that he himself would not kill Price, but knowing the nature of evil as he did, he knew she would find another demon to hook up with and go after the sisters again at her first opportunity. He wouldn’t allow that to happen. That was why he said what he said to make the Dark Ones turn against Price. But he had to make sure that they did indeed turn against her, so he watched to make sure.

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Back at the manor, the sisters are ready for anything. They know that their alternate selves are coming, but they didn’t know if they would enter through the front, back or through the window. They decide that, strategically, the best position for them to be would be the attic. In the attic, they would have the Book of Shadows close by and there would only be one way to enter, through the door. But they would be ready for anything.

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The Dark Ones had recognized Cole from their own world, so they knew the Charmed Ones were ready for them. They anticipated that the Charmed Ones would want to limit the number of entrances by holding up in the attic. Therefore, they take each others hands and Evil Paige orbs them into the attic, just in front of the window. Phoebe notices that their backs are turned and raises her hand to throw a lightning bolt…<br>
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Suddenly, the Charmed Ones orb out of the way as the bolt flies past and hits the attic door. They had realized that the only surprise entrances would be to orb in behind them or come in through the window. Therefore they took the precaution to put a mirror off to the side, a simple but effective solution. The sisters saw the Dark Ones coming and reacted.

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They reappear off to the side of the room and look at their other selves. Cautiously, they walk out to the center of the room and face the Dark Ones. They spread out and watch as their adversaries do the same. They just stare at each other as if in an old west gunfight.

Evil Piper steps forward in a challenge to Charmed Piper. Paige and Phoebe close in on Piper and Piper says, “No, don’t. This is between me and her.”<br>
Paige and Phoebe step back as Piper readies herself. She and Evil Piper are staring each other down, then, in a flash, they both throw their arms toward each other in an attempt to blow the other one up. The powers apparently meet in the air because there is a huge explosion between the two Pipers, its force sending all seven women flying backwards.

Paige sits up and says, “Let’s not do that again.”<br>
In the time it takes her to say that, evil Paige forms an orb ball and throws it at her good counterpart. Instinctively, Paige orbs out of the way, and reappears in the same spot. She sees that Evil Paige is forming another Orb ball and calls for it while flinging her arm. The orb ball appears in mid-air, heading directly for evil Paige.

She jumps out of the way at the last second. Seeing this, evil Prue, uses her power and sends Paige flying towards where her counterpart just was. Paige can’t get right up, but Evil Paige is already on her feet again. She grabs Paige by the back of her cloths, and with all her strength, throws her out the window.

Paige crashes through the window and is quickly falling to the ground when she orbs back into the attic next to evil Paige and says, “That’s the second time I’ve been thrown out that window,” and gives her a roundhouse punch.

While the two Paiges are going at it, Phoebe is trying to deal with evil Phoebe. Evil Phoebe sends a lightning bolt flying as Phoebe jumps into the air. She uses her power of levitation for a assist, and flies towards evil Phoebe with a flying kick.

Having just flung Paige towards the window, evil Prue turns her attention to Phoebe who is levitating in the air. Thrusting her arm forward, she sends Phoebe off target and into a wall.

Meanwhile, the two Pipers are going at it. Evil Piper attempts to blow Piper up again, but this time, Piper attempts to freeze evil Piper. Instead of a big explosion between them, this time, the powers meet in mid-air and explode with less force, leaving a small crystal behind. Seeing this as an opportunity, Piper is able to freeze evil Prue before she can use her magic.

That’s all it takes. Evil Piper goes to blow Piper up when Paige, who was able to stun evil Paige with the shot to her jaw, saw what was about to happen. Paige tries to tackle evil Piper, but she sees her coming out of the corner of her eye and for the most part, is able to get out of the way.

That opens up a couple seconds that allows Piper to see the ice crystal sitting there in mid air. Acting on instinct, Piper grabs the crystal and then attempts to blow evil Piper up when something strange happens. Instead of blowing her up, a blue cloud emerges from the crystal and hits evil Piper with a direct hit. When the cloud settles, she notices that evil Piper is frozen. Not just her molecules, her whole body. She has turned four shades of blue and has icicles hanging off of her.

While trying to register what had just happened, Prue unfreezes and flings Piper across the room. “What have you done to my sister,” she asks dumbfounded

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While this is happening, evil Paige gets up and forms another orb ball.
Paige sees this and calls for the Dark Lighter’s bow and arrow the sisters always keep handy. “BOW AND ARROW!!!”

The Darklighter bow and arrow appear in Paige’s hands. Quickly she aims and fires, orbing out of the way a second after the arrow leaves the bow. Evil Paige is able to send the orb ball towards Paige, but she can’t avoid the arrow. It hits evil Paige in her stomach just below her ribcage at about the same time that evil Prue sends Piper flying.

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At the same time Phoebe is battling evil Phoebe. Evil Phoebe had just given Phoebe a roundhouse kick sending her backwards. Phoebe stands back up to see evil Phoebe is ready to throw another lightning bolt.

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Prue turns and sees that another of her sisters has been bested by the Charmed Ones. She flings her arm and sends Paige flying. Paige hits her head and is knocked unconscious. Then with a quick turn, Prue sends Piper flying again, this time down the stairs. She the looks and sees Phoebe getting up with her back turned and sends her flying too.

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Evil Phoebe releases the lightning bolt at the same time that Prue sends Phoebe flying. That opens up a direct shot at Prue. Before she can pull it back, evil Phoebe releases the bolt and it flies straight for Prue, hitting her square in the chest. Prue flies backwards and out the window where she falls to her demise.

Registering what just happened, evil Phoebe looks and sees one sister with an arrow sticking out of her. Another is an ice cube. She had just sent number three flying out the window herself. She was alone now.

Getting back up, Phoebe says, “You should have gone back through the gateway when you had the chance.”<br>
“We couldn’t. When your boyfriend killed Skole, the doorway shut. But what are you going to do now. It is just you and me, and I happen to know that you don’t have my lightning bolt power.”<br>
“Try me, you won’t be disappointed,” antagonizes Phoebe.

Evil Phoebe raises her hand and sends a lightning bolt directly at Phoebe’s heart. Charmed Phoebe raises her hand and sends out a bolt of her own.

“What!!! What’s going on!!! You don’t have that power!!!” says evil Phoebe in shock.

“I guess that today I do,” says Charmed Phoebe and her bolt overpowers evil Phoebes bolt. When Phoebe’s bolt gets to evil Phoebe, there is a bright blue light and when it extinguishes, evil Phoebe is on the floor, defeated.

End of Act 6

Act 7

After the battle, the sisters went to Prices house and retrieved the Gremoir. Evil Phoebe had not been lying about the gateway being closed. There wasn’t even a sign of where it had been. They informed the Police about discovering Price’s body and had to answer some questions for the detectives.

But all that was over and done with now. They were back at P3, back at their usual table and Phoebe was explaining about how she had defeated evil Phoebe.

“But there is just one thing I don’t get,” says Paige. “Evil Phoebe was right about one thing. You don’t have that power. How did you manage to use something you don’t have?”<br>
“Easy. I remembered how you were able to tap into to Sorceresses power when we fought your past life. I did the same thing, but I used my empathy power. I figured, if I can tap into her feelings, why not her powers. Plus, I had this in my hand too.” Phoebe opens her hand to reveal the crystal that was formed between the explosions of the two Pipers powers. “This thing seems to magnify our powers. Who knows maybe they will be the next powers we get and this crystal allowed us to tap into them. But whatever happened, I know this crystal saved my life.

“Mine too. But not before Paige saved it,” informs Piper.

“But, like what Piper said earlier. We had one big advantage,” Paige points out.

Then, in unison, the sisters say, “The Power of Three” and hug.


The End
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