How Soon Is Now

Part One - Chapter Twenty-Five: The Mercury Demon

Nicola sighed as she and Amber walked through the magical realm village, they had heard this was where the demon had last been seen; the two were a little nervous since they didn’t know what they were going up against.

“What do we do?” Amber asked, unsure how to attract the attention of an upper level demon; Nicola shrugged since she was used to attracting lower level demons to their doom, the last thing that she wanted to do was end up getting killed.

“I don’t know,” Nicola murmured as a cold shiver shot down her spine, Amber looked at her worried but before she could ask what was going on the two were blasted into a wall.

Amber cursed as she turned to glare at the demon while Nicola froze as she realized that it was the murderer that she had seen in her vision; it made her wonder what was going on.

The demon approached them smirking as Nicola looked at Amber a little panicked, they would need the entire coven to take him on; the two quickly got to their feet wanting to be prepared for whatever happened next.

“You must be Nicola… you look so much like your mother,” the demon purred walking towards the two witches, his eyes locked on the blonde knowing that this was just too perfect.

Nicola stared at him wondering how the hell they would get a piece of the demon for their potion; it would be the only way to vanquish him and she had no interest in what he had to say.

“I’m sorry I’m being rude… I am Alec,” the demon introduced producing a fireball, he had been hired to do his job and he doubted the two witches had any ideas on how to defeat him.

Amber smirked as she made the fireball dissolve, she had always been good at that since she worked well with the element of fire; Alec chuckled amused before he threw the brunette to the side.

Nicola pulled an athame from her pocket as a plan formed in her mind, she hoped that it worked and she prayed Fernando would forgive her for what she was about to do.

Nicola sliced Alec’s arm as he made a grab for her, he hissed in pain before knocking the athame out of her hand; he wasn’t about to mess up this job and the man who had paid him was looking for a powerful witch.

Amber watched in horror as Alec shimmered away with Nicola, she sat there shocked wondering what she was going to do; there was no way that she would be able to follow them and it wasn’t going to end well.

Fernando was going to go mental when he learnt that Nicola had been taken by a demon, it was then that she looked at the athame that had been knocked out of Nicola’s hand; it was covered in the demon’s blood from when Nicola had sliced Alec’s arm.

Amber pushed herself to her feet just as Fernando orbed in looking concerned like he knew that something had happened; he had been with his charge in Australia when he had felt his soul-mate disappear.

“Where’s Nicola?” Fernando demanded, his eyes focused on Amber as she picked up the athame that was covered in blood; he frowned as she looked at him nervously, already sensing that something bad had happened.

Amber took a deep breath, the couple had been through so much and now this had happened; she could only pray that Nicola was okay wherever the demon had taken her.

“The demon took her,” Amber squeaked scared of what the whitelighter would do, the colour drained from Fernando’s face and he stared at her taking in what she had said; he couldn’t believe this was happening again to them.

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Fernando paced the kitchen of the coven house, he couldn’t believe that a demon had managed to take Nicola from him again; he glared at Ryan who flinched back, he should have protected her while Fernando was away.

“He was a mercury demon… it doesn’t make sense why he would take her,” Amber muttered annoyed while she helped Adrian complete the potion that would vanquish the demon that had taken Nicola.

They would have to cope without her for now until they learnt where the demon had taken her; it was going to be a while but they all hoped to have Nicola how soon.

“I can’t sense her,” Fernando muttered angrily while he tried to focus on Nicola but he couldn’t, something was blocking him from being able to find her.

Ryan sat quietly, he shouldn’t have let Nicola and Amber go after the demon on their own; Nicola was in danger now and there was nothing he could do to save her.

“Now we just have to find the demon,” Adrian said before someone chuckled behind them, Amber swallowed as Alec walked into the room looking amused; she wondered for a moment if he had a death wish.

“I don’t think it will be that hard,” Alec said before Fernando threw him to the floor with his telekinesis; the demon stared at him shocked as the whitelighter stalked towards him.

Fernando had seen the look on Amber’s face and it didn’t take much of a guess that this was the demon that had taken Nicola; he wanted to know where his girlfriend of four months was and he wasn’t going to take no for an answer.

“Where is she?” Fernando hissed making Alec smirked as he watched the whitelighter move towards him before he started to choke; Fernando watched him while the three witches stood frozen unsure what to do.

Alec stared at Fernando panicked, he had heard whispers of a whitelighter who had been given permission to return to his witch lover; he hadn’t thought it was true until now.

“I don’t have her…” Alec gasped when Fernando moved closer to him, the closer he got the more Alec seemed to choke; the demon panicked until Fernando was stood in front of him and he couldn’t breathe.

“Jedric wanted her… he paid me to give him the witch,” Alec confessed trying to find a way to bargain for his life; he realised he wasn’t leaving the manor alive, he was begging for his life and he knew it.

Fernando stared at him no compassion in his eyes as he stared at the demon, he wanted Nicola back and he didn’t care how it happened; he would destroy anyone that got in his way.

“Why did this Jedric want her?” Fernando snapped while the others looked at him scared, they had never seen Fernando like this before and they doubted that this would be the last time that they saw him like this.

Alec licked his lips, he couldn’t summon his powers and he knew it had something to do with the whitelighter that was ready to kill him; he realised that Jedric had known he would be killed when he had sent him on this mission.

“He wants to use her to bring back his dead lover… I swear, that’s all I know,” Alec begged as Fernando summoned the potion to destroy him, the mercury demon stared at him frightened, he had no idea what he was going to do.

Fernando dropped the potion on Alec causing him to screech in pain as he was sudden blown up; Fernando watched him without pity, he didn’t care what it would take he was going to get Nicola back from this Jedric.

The whitelighter didn’t care that some demon had lost his lover, Fernando wasn’t going to lose his soul-mate so soon after he had gotten her back.

The others watched as he orbed out of the room before they could stop him, Amber looked at Ryan panicked knowing that they had to do something before it was too late.

“Go after him…” Amber demanded looking at Ryan, Fernando wasn’t thinking straight right now and he was going to do something stupid to get Nicola back.

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Author's Note:

Inspired by Charmed 05x10: Y Tu Mummy También.