The elders were having their daily meeting when one of theirs came running in. "we have a problem".
-What's going on?
-"Darius", he hesitated, "he's alive and about to take control of the underworld"
-"that can be, he's supposed to be dead, we haven't heard anything about him in over five years. If it were true we would have heard something sooner." One of the elders responded.
-"I assure you that it's true, a whitelighter came to me and positively identified him" he the continued on a more sombre tone: "He killed his charged, which makes me believe that maybe the 4 other witches that were killed in the last few days were also his victims"
-"If he is back, and killing witches, it can only mean one thing"
-"He wants more powers" One of the other elders finished for him.
-"We need to do something before he accumulates too much powers and becomes unstoppable."
-"We need the Charmed Ones", the leader said, "they're the only one strong enough to take him on"
-The elders all contemplated this option, neither of them wanted to be the one to ask the girls to come out of retirement.
-Suddenly, one of the Elder spoke: "It won't be enough. Even if we do convince them to fight him, there not strong enough, particularly against him, he knows them too well. He will see them coming from afar and kill them before they have a chance to react".
-The rest of the group, remained silent, thinking about what had just been said.
-"They are going to need help on that one. We can't just blindly send them against him that would be suicide" argued one elder.
-"Well we can't tell them the truth about him either" argued another, while all the others look at their leader.
Finally, the elder spoke: "We have to. We need her, they need her, she's the only one that can tell them what they need to know and help to vanquish him, she's the only one to have ever escaped him. There is no other way"
-"She will never do it, not after everything that happened", argued one elder.
-Another continued saying : "There is no way she is going to help us, if there is one thing that she hates more than us, its them"
-"We don't have a choice. Maybe if they were the one asking for her help instead of us the chances of her saying no would be smaller" One of the other claimed.
-"You have got to be kidding she hates them it would only make matter worst, and by the way, have any of you even thought about how we are going to get them there in the first place?"
-The leader then spoke again: "We need to tell them the truth, that will get them there. About her, I truly believe that when facing the possible consequences of her refusal, she is going to have no other choice but to help them, to help us"
-"You know that they are not going to take this well right, they are going to be very angry", another noted.
-The leader answered again: "I know, but there is no other way. I just hope that they can get over their hatred for us long enough to do this".
-He contemplated what he had just decided for a couple seconds then gave his orders: "Call the whitelighters and tell them to get the three of them as well as Billy here as fast as possible"
-"Sir, why the girl, this has nothing to do with her" A young elder spoke. The elder responded: "Because Paige is going to need her through his, as well as Piper and Phoebe. Now go on call the whitelighters".