Chapter 8: The Finale
"Let's try to weaken him," Paige finally suggested after an hour of looking through books at the Magic School. Her sisters were sitting around the room, all looking through their own stack of books.
"What do you mean?" Phoebe asked.
"Well, what is a demon without his minion? We need to take out his minion demons. With them gone, he would be more vulnerable and maybe he'd stop trying to attack us so much."
"That's a good idea," Prue said. "Phoebe, keep looking through the books for spells we could use on him. But keep an eye out for Darcon, Phoebe. Piper, Paige, come with me."
"The witches will be planning something soon," Darcon said to one of his generals.
"Then we should strike them now," he suggested.
"Send in a few disposable demons," Darcon ordered. "We need to keep on them." The demon bowed his head and shimmered away.
Piper got a knapsack full of potions and met her sisters in the living room. "So what," she asked, "do we wait for them to attack or do we go after them?" Before an answer was given, six demons shimmered into the manor. Piper blew one up. Prue sent one into a cabinet.
"Lamp!" Paige orbed a lamb into a demon's head. After a few minutes, all the demons were vanquished. "Whew," Paige said, wiping her forehead.
"Let's get this over with," Prue said.
"Where exactly are we going for all these demons?" Paige asked.
"Really," Piper joined in. "It's not like they're all going to be sitting together in one big place."
"Well then I guess we'll have to hunt them down," Prue said. "Let's go." Paige grabbed them and orbed to the Underworld, without a clue where in the Underworld she was orbing.
"Well, we're here," Paige said. "Now what?"
"Let's find one of his generals," Prue said.
"How do you propose we do that?" Piper asked. Prue wasn't sure.
"I've got an idea," Paige said. "Grab onto me, and we'll go to his lair." She orbed them to the lair, and they hid just outside of it. "We need a distraction, something to get Darcon out of there."
"I'll do it," Piper said. "Just orb me out when he comes after me." She walked through the rocky entrance. She used her exploding power on him, but with his higher level demonic powers, it only pushed him back a bit.
"What are you doing here?" he yelled at her. "You know you can't kill me! Especially just one of you." He formed an energy ball in his hand and threw it at her. Piper got a little nervous, but Paige was right on time, and Piper orbed back to the manor. Darcon arrived not long after. He threw an energy ball at her, but she jumped out of the way to dodge it. She ran up the stairs. "Why are you running witch?" he yelled after her. "You wanted me, here I am!"
Paige and Prue walked into his lair. They stared looking through his things. They were looking for any clue of who his followers were. Just when they were about to give up, a demon shimmered in.
"The demons were sent and destroyed, just like I said would happen," he said before he looked around to see if Darcon were there. He saw the witches and formed an energy ball in his hand. "What are you doing here?" he demanded.
"Looking for you," Paige said. She grabbed onto him and orbed him and Prue to the manor's attic.
When they got there, they heard Piper screaming. Paige put a crystal force field around the demon and orbed to aide Piper. Prue guarded the demon.
"Piper, Prue went to his lair to get it!" she yelled to her, so that Darcon could hear.
"Get what?" he yelled at them.
"Never you mind," Piper said. He couldn't risk them gaining an advantage so he went back to his lair. "Close one," she said. "But he'll know we misled him and that one of his demons is missing soon, so we better hurry." They went back up to the attic. Paige orbed to get Phoebe.
"I won't tell you anything!" the demon yelled. "Once Darcon finds me missing, he's gonna come straight to you guys."
"Tell us now or we'll kill you," Prue threatened.
"Oh yeah," the demon said mockingly, "he'd kill me too."
"I give up," Prue said.
"Let me have a crack at it," Piper said, walking across the room. "Either you tell me what I want to know, or I will blow off each little limb and make you suffer."
"And you don't think Darcon will make me suffer?" the demon asked. With that, Piper moved the crystals and blew off one of his fingers. She moved the crystals back in place. The demon started yelling and screaming.
"Now do you want me to do that with each of your fingers?" Piper asked. Paige and Phoebe orbed in.
"Has he said anything?" Paige asked.
"Give him time, or a few fingers or two," Piper answered.
"Okay, okay," the demon finally said. "I'll tell you what you want to know."
"Now we're getting somewhere."
"I'm getting sick of waiting here," a demon said. Around him were about a hundred more demons. "I need action." A swirling mess of blue orbs suddenly appeared making all the demons spring to action. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige all appeared. The demons threw energy balls, but Prue sent them straight back at them, destroying about fifty demons.
"This might be easier than I thought," Paige said.
"Yeah, have demons gotten more wimpy since I've been dead?" Prue asked sarcastically.
"You won't be thinking that for long witch," a demon said throwing an energy ball at her. She used her powers and sent it back at him, making him erupt into flames. Piper was blowing up ten demons per second. Phoebe was throwing potions like a maniac. Phoebe was orbing energy balls into other demons.
It didn't take long until all the demons were cleared. More started to show up. They had heard news of their fellow demons being vanquished. They soon were vanquished. Another demon shimmered in and they turned around to vanquish it, but they soon noticed that it wasn't just any demon, it was Darcon.
"We have to get out of here!" Phoebe yelled. Darcon threw an energy ball at her. She fell down.
"Phoebe!" Piper yelled. Paige grabbed onto her sisters and orbed out.
"I think we took out a good number of demons," Paige said when they were back in the manor.
"I wouldn't be so sure there," Piper said. "The Book said that he had thousands of minion. We killedfive-hundred at the most."
"There has to be a faster way of killing demons," Prue said.
"There is…." Phoebe said weakly.
"What, dear?" Piper asked. Phoebe tried to answer but she didn't have the strength.
"I'm going to take her to the Elders to get her healed," Paige said. She orbed and a few minutes later, she orbed back. Phoebe was fully conscious and ready to go when she got back.
"I found a spell in a book shortly after you guys left," she said. "If we use it on a demon, all of the demons in it's bloodline will be destroyed. And I'm assuming all of these demons are of the same bloodline."
"Let's go upstairs and try it out," Piper said. They walked upstairs and found the demon just where they had left him. "Hi again," Piper said with a smile on her face. The demon glared at her.
Phoebe took out a piece of paper and together the sisters started to chant:
Demon and your family tree,
Vanquish now we say of thee,
Be destroyed with all who follow you,
Be gone and take your family too!
He went up in flames. "I wonder if it worked?" Piper asked.
"I think so," Paige said, "But to be sure, let's go to another one of those demon holes." They orbed to another one of Darcon's minion's lair. In it were almost a thousand demons.
"Think they're all related?" Piper asked.
"Most of them probably are," Prue said. They used the spell on another demon once again and hundreds of demons went up in flames.
"Cool," Piper said. "Let's do it again." They said it again and a lot more demons were vanquished.
"I think that was a major dent in his demonic army," Paige said she said as they got into the manor.
"I'd have to agree with you there," Phoebe said. "Now what? Just because his demons are vanquished, doesn't mean he is going to stop trying to kill us."
"That's right," Darcon said. The sisters turned around and tensed up. "I knew at least one of you had to be smart enough to know that. My demons are just a way to get my small jobs done that I could easily do myself."
Evil being with the power of a charm,
Already has he caused so much harm,
Strength from these four Halliwells,
Destroy this demon where he dwells
The sisters continued chanting this several times. It had not affect on Darcon. He threw an energy ball at them. Prue sent it away.
"Foolish witches, that's not going to help you. You've already tried it." Finally after saying it at least ten times, they stopped.
"That's not all we got," Paige said. She threw a vial at him with a green potion in it.
"Yeah," Phoebe said throwing a yellow potion after Paige.
"Been nice knowing you," Piper said, throwing a red potion after Phoebe.
"Told you we'd vanquish you sooner or later," Prue said, finishing the potion combination by throwing a blue one. After the potions were all thrown, the girls started to recite the spell. They said it three times until flames started to appear on Darcon. They said it one more time and he blew up sending a shockwave throughout the house. "Never underestimate the Power of Four."
"Do you have to go back?" Piper asked, with tears streaming down her face.
"Yes," Prue said. "I only came back to help you stop Darcon. Now my job is done and I have to go back to being dead." She gave Piper a long hug. "I love you, Piper." This made Piper cry even more. Prue went over to Phoebe. She gave her a hug and a pinch on the cheek. "I love you, Phoebe." Phoebe smiled.
"I love you too," Phoebe said, with a tears starting to fall. Prue walked up to Paige. Paige held her hand out.
"It was nice to meet you," she said.
"It was nice to meet you too," Prue said back, giving her a hug instead of shaking her hand. "I love you. I may not have known you long, but I love you." Tears started to stroll down Paige's face too.
"I love you too," she said. Piper gave Prue one last hug. Prue stepped back into the circle of candles and she disappeared in a scatter of white lights.
Next fic in the series is Chris has Risen. Summary: Chris' ghost has come back and only Leo can see him.