Chapter 1

THUMP

Piper, phoebe and Paige looked at each other.

"Oh My God, What was that" Phoebe asked

"I don't know, I'll check""

Paige orbed up to the attic while phoebe and piper took the stairs.

Paige scanned the hard, wooden attic floor until she spotted a body.

Tears formed in her eyes.

The body was Leo's. His body looked cold and still. His skin milky- white and a darklighter arrow was imbedded in his broad chest.

She opened her mouth and tried to call for her two sisters but nothing came out.

Again she tried...

"PIPER, PHEOBE!"

Feet clattered up the stairs.

Paige couldn't stand the sight of Leo looking so lifeless; she walked over to the window. Somebody flamed in behind her. She spun around just in time to see a cloaked man

"You will pay for my father, the source of all evil" the cloaked man said

"Who are you" Paige asked

"I'm junior" Paige knew he was grinning by the tone of his demonic voice.

Paige spotted an engraved phoenix tattooed on 'juniors' wrist it sent a chill down Paige's spine.

The house shook in a small tremor

"Phoebe, Piper! ... What the..."

The house shook again but with stronger force just before the house fell in a collapsed heap someone forced Paige out of the window.

She orbed before her body met the ground, hearing a loud and disruptive Clatter behind her.

Paige was remembering what had happened a few minutes ago. She took a deep breath and turned around. The manor house, her home, was a heap, a heap of ugly rubble. She ran towards the house praying that somehow her sisters had survived the blast.

After digging in the rubble she saw her sisters. They looked unharmed, but she knew they were gone and not coming back.

She broke down onto the floor tears staining her cheeks, washing away the dirt on her face. After what seemed like hours looking at her beloved sister's bodies, Paige decided she would do something; she would not let them die this way. Paige saw a glow out of the corner of her eye. She saw the book of shadows not knowing how it survived, she picked it up with a new determination and orbed out.