Charmed: The Brothers Path

Chapter 20.Chris. The Coat and the Belthazor

I open my eyes and see the cloudy sky, the rain had stopped when the fire started scaring everybody, my brother and I had been in there, we couldn't go out, but Andrew, who we found out is a demon, wanted us in there, anyway, he is dead now, we are safe, he had been trying to kill us all this time.

I lay in the branch of the top of a tree, I landed here when I tried to orb us out of there before the demon exploded. I go down, carefully putting my heands in the other branches so I don't fall. Wyatt is already down, checking himself for injueries but we are okay, Andrew didn't get to harm us any bad.

"It's over" I say, looking everywhere. Where should we go? Should we go meet the others? We should make another party to celebrate our victory. Was it our victory? We didn't do anything, probably dad-black-hoodie did. Wyatt stares at me.

"What? Aren't you happy?" I ask.

"I wish it was that easy, Chris" he takes my arm "Let's orb out of here"

"We should go meet the others, they will think we are dead" I suggest, if we leave without telling anyone, there will be a lot of questions we won't be able to answer, but if we meet the others, they will just ask how we got out of there and if we are okay.

"Exactly" he looks at me, expecting me to understand but not this time, this is the first time I don't get something inmediatly.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"We have to pretend we are dead, we have to do the same thing Kate did, run away, start a new life" he looks everywhere, probably making sure nobody knows we are fine.

"Why would we do that?"

"This isn't over. Andrew was just hired to kill us, we are still in danger"

"How can you know that?" I hear somebody screaming Wyatt's name, looking for us. Wyatt opens his mouth to answer, but gets interrupted.

"I did what you wanted me to" a man voice is saying somewhere else, somwhere in this same forest, somebody yelling, probably begging. Wyatt takes my arm, leading me behind a tree. Through all the trees I get to see a male, he is on the floor, talking to somebody in a coat, it was Cole, or Belthazor.

"It tool a lot of things to come to this reality and this is it? I hired that guy to kill them!" he yells, but the coat man answers with whispers "I don't know how they vanquished him, they needed potions! But maybe they died in the explotion!" the coat male gets closer to Belthazor "We still have the girl, she'll help!" the girl is probably just another demon they hired to kill us so we'll have to start searching this exact night, I don't care about what mom says "Please! No!" the coat man puts his hand up, producing a fireball, we have to save Belthazor, he knows who he is talking to. I don't think it twice, go closer to them and try to blow the coat male, I just make him flinch.

"What are you doing?!" Wyatt takes my arm, I turn to see his face.

"We have to help him!" But as soon as I turn back again, Belthazor is burning in flames.

"Run" Wyatt whispers in my ear and we both start running, avoiding rocks and obstacles in the way. We go behind a tree, looking everywhere for the coat, or a signal. We don't make a sound for a couple minutes, but suddenly we hear a cough. We hadn't notice, the black hoodie has been on the ground this last couple minutes. He wakes and stands up, looking everywhere, then he notices us and starts to run.

"Look" I whisper into Wyatt's ear, pointing at the hood. I try to follow him but Wyatt stops me.

"We have to go now, the coat man is still here, he could catch you if you go after the hood" he is right, we have to leave now, he already saw us so we can't fake our death now, we have to go meet the others.

"Hey, do you think it was dad like I do?" I ask Wyatt, expecting him to say yes or nod.

"I don't know Chris, it's possible" he starts walking right to the house and I follow him.

"If it was him we will know, you can't hide something like that for a lot of time" I add, ready for the interrogatory we will make to dad once we get home.

"Wyatt!" Daniel screams from the distance, they all must be worried, the last thing they saw was us getting back to the living room in the middle of the fire.

"We are okay!" Wyatt yells back.

We get to the house, the only thing that wasn't destroyed was the pool. but there are cystals on the floor, probably from the back door and the windows, parts of the roof of the second and third floors, a bed in the middle of the mess, and a few things that survived, like old lamps and a teddy bear. Daniel is coming right to us.

"What a party, huh?" Daniel says.

"Yeah" Wyatt and I answer, if he just knew that Andrew did all this, but we can't tell him that since he was a demon and he is gone.

"How did you get out?" he asks, staring at the destroyed house. He wasn't that sad at all, he seems to have all the money to fix this and more.

"We got to the second floor and jumped out of a window" Wyatt makes up, we both have to stick to that story so that nobody finds out we're lying.

"And where were you when it exploded" he asks, noticing we are totally fine.

"We went to the forest and then it exploded and something hit my head and I fainted" I add, making my words natural, believable.

"I called your parents, they are waiting for you" Daniel says ponting to a couple standind in the front garden, which was now visibly from the back one. Wyatt go meets them and I follow him.

"Mom, dad" Wyatt says letting a gasp out. Mom huges him and I hug dad.

"We have to talk" I whisper in his ear, letting him know something else happened apart from a fire, appart from an accident, we will find out exactly what is going on.