Charmed. Cole and Phoebe Guardian series. To know Phoebe is too...

Charmed. To know Phoebe is to... Chapter 13

Part 2:Phoebe being Phoebe

Chapter 13

Phoebe woke early to the sound of Piper yelling about a magic emergency and the need to call the baby sitter. Piper had heard on the TV of a problem at a children's park nearby The report said last evening in a nearby park, in sight of their parents 2 children had been approached by a strange man with an odd shaped head and in front of witnesses seemed to disappear, and there had been another sighting at a nearby park, the previous night of a similar man shortly before 3 other children disappeared. The report warned not to leave children unsupervised in the area.

Paige was also up and the girl's waited only long enough to look at the report, then as the park was only about 10 minutes away drove there, rather than risk being noticed orbing in daylight hours. The area where the children had been last seen was cordoned off. Piper would have liked to freeze it but it was a wide-open space and she could not isolate the scene, so she distracted the policeman guarding it by throwing a pretend hysterical tantrum while Paige orbed Phoebe.

"No one acts out hysteria better than Piper" Paige observed as she saw the policeman's bewilderment and confusion.

"The place reeked of demonic activity and Phoebe had a flashing premonition of the demon, another one of the almost human kind. A little like a grimloch but the head was misshapen and red. It had a very unusual stripped crescent shaped marking on its face and it's eyed were a curious orange slit and looked evil incarnate on the red odd face. In her premonition, she saw the demons catch the children and shimmer away.

She nodded to Paige and the two quickly orbed out. Phoebe went back to where Piper in a high shrill voice was telling two very uncomfortable policemen, that San Francisco was a hotbed of evil, not safe for decent people. Phoebe barely containing her smile told the policeman not untruthfully that her sister was always inclined to exaggerate every situation and led her away from the policeman.

Piper hissing in Phoebe's ear "I do not exaggerate EVERY situation"

They drove back to the house and got out the Book of shadows. They found the demon after a fair amount of work and it as not good. The demon as one of the grimloch type who preyed on innocent child creatures, it was called a Moloch and it traded children to use the power of their innocence to protect demon communities from enemies. Molochs stole children, sold their innocence to other demons and then completed the deal by sacrificing them for the other demons.

The girls all looked at each other. That meant the children were still alive if they had not been sold. There was a vanquishing spell and the book said the demons usually did their dealing in local cemeteries. The girls scryed for the demons and the children but nothing. Paige orbed them to local cemeteries and they scryed again but nothing. If the children were still alive, there was only one place they could be. Phoebe put her hand on the demon image in the Book of Shadows, and she had another vision this time of one killing a child with an athame, in the underworld. She fell out of the premonition, gasping in revulsion. Breaking all laws of good and evil, all laws of demon rule, the Molochs had openly taken the stolen innocents to the underworld.

""We need to get to them fast. Down below fast. Piper said.

Paige shook her head. "You know what Cole said Tempus had done to protect the underworld from orbing."

"That's probably why the Molochs took the children there" Piper snapped.

"I can try" Paige said determined.

"And do what "Phoebe said, "get yourself injured without Leo around to heal you"

Piper looked at Phoebe and Phoebe had no doubts "He won't be happy, twice in one week after all, this time" she said.