-1Something Wicca this way comes...again.

Introduction

Set in the year 2030. The sisters had passed away a few months earlier. Piper had a daughter named Melinda, Phoebe had a daughter named Meredith and Paige had a daughter named Rose; these three cousins descended from the power of three.

Welcome to the attic.

Melinda, the eldest of three cousins, was clearing out the attic that she and her cousins had inherited. It was silent, nobody was in the house and she was just thinking of how the manor had been filled with voices only a year earlier.

The front door slammed and a voice echoed from down in the hall, "Melinda?". Meredith stomped up the second lot of stairs, the old floorboards creaking and creating a boom of noise.

"Meredith , I thought you'd decided to move away" Melinda spoke in a puzzled tone.

"Yeah well" Meredith went on, "I couldn't just leave you here on your own could I. So um, what you doin' up here?"

"Discovering what the hell it was about this room that mum liked so much she practically spent her whole life here!"

Meredith didn't seem amused "Maybe she went up here to get away from Rose. You know, I was glad she moved away at first but now I'm kinda missing her, even after what she did"

"What she did was unforgivable, spreading those stupid roomers around...I can't believe people were so lame as to believe them" Melinda stood up, brushed the dust off her hands and headed out of the room.

"But what if those roomers were true?" Meredith suddenly replied.

Melinda's voice rose, "That's ridiculous! Totally insane, you are meant to be the clever one of the family. No, for the last time we are not witches. We do not have magical powers. And our parents didn't have magical powers."

Meredith's expression had totally changed from sweet and innocent to annoyed and angry as she blurted out "Wicca is a real religion.". Melinda's face had turned bright red by this stage, and in an effort to cool her down, Meredith added "Just stating the facts".

After Melinda had gone, Meredith strangely felt the urge to find some kind of proof that Rose was at least partly right, maybe her mum and aunts practiced Wicca?

She started searching the attic, she'd always known there was something magical, something mystical about the attic of the Halliwell manor. She was just about to give up when she saw something faintly glowing below her. She couldn't understand it, a patch of the floorboard seemed to be producing a glowing shape, three interlocking arcs inside a circle. She took a step backwards. She didn't truly believe that her mum and aunts had real powers.

Ten minutes had gone by in which Meredith had done nothing but stare at the floorboard in complete shock. She eventually decided to lift the floorboard up after a deep contemplation . Her head told her to get away, escape the old, creaky cobwebbed attic, but in her heart she knew she had to find out what was underneath the floorboard so she slowly crouched down and heaved it up. She found an old green book covered in dust. She swept the dust from the front cover revealing the triquatre symbol and the inscription "Book Of Shadows". As she opened the first page a letter fell out of the book making her jump. Meredith opened up the folded letter and read its contents:

To all of my children,

I tried to protect you from this by binding your powers

but if you have found this book, I guess it was just meant to be.

On the first page of the Book Of Shadows you will find an incantation to receive your powers.

when I first found out about my powers, I didn't know what to expect,

but they grew over time and I learnt how to control them.

At first I was worried they came from an evil source

but as I found out, they are purely good.

Use them for good, protect innocents but be careful of demons .

Use the book to protect yourselves.

Not only are you powerful witches, but the chosen three,

descended from the power of three.

Your powers are a gift, use them wisely.

remember, the power of three will set you free.

All my love,

Piper xxx

Meredith was stunned. It just sounded so stupid to her. "powers" and "the power of three" it sounded like something from a cheesy movie. A very cheesy movie! Yet the letter was written in Piper's handwriting. she knew Piper wouldn't make anything like this up. So either the letter wasn't from Piper or... they were... witches. She shuddered as the realisation dawned upon her. She knew she had to read the incantation to see what happened but something about this gave her a slight feeling of unease. Pictures of witches and stereotypical hags flashed through her mind, laughs and evil cackles booming in her ears. Something about this book was special, she was drawn to it and it felt some how familiar. It felt right.

It was now or never Meredith thought. She opened her mouth to start the incantation and read the same words as her mother, Phoebe had done all those years earlier:

Hear now the words of the witches
The secrets we hid in the night
The oldest of gods are invoked here
The great work of magic is sought
In the night and in this hour
I call upon the ancient power
Bring your powers to we sisters three
We want the power
Give us the power.

Meredith looked up for some sign that the spell had worked, but nothing happened.

"What the hell do you think you're are doing?" Melinda shouted as she walked into the room. She found Meredith leaning over the Book Of Shadows. "Give me that book!" she screamed as she snatched it away from her cousin. As she drifted through the pages she suddenly stopped, her face turning white. "This is a book of witchcraft! please do not tell me you read one of these... these spells" Her face remained staring into the Book of Shadows, waiting for Meredith to give her an answer.

" Well...you see what happened is...I saw this symbol thing glowing and then..." .But before she could finish her sentence Melinda had slammed the book shut and interrupted, a steam of anger building up in her eyes.

"I know exactly what you are trying to do. You put this book here, didn't you. You're just making all this up so I'll give Rose another chance. But I won't. This won't work and I'm not going to get angry about you or this ridiculous, fake book when I know it's nothing more than a cheap trick.

"I swear...I found it!" Meredith said in a calm voice. Something about that tone of voice made Melinda stop. She knew that this wasn't the voice of a liar. She knew her cousin wasn't a liar. "OK… talking hypothetically here, if I believed you, you found this book here.. but this is not a real book and it certainly does not contain real spells that will really work and give us real powers!" Melinda stated in her 'I'm always right' tone of voice. "Rose must have put it there!" she concluded.

"No, she didn't...I mean I know what I saw, and I definitely saw this book glowing. And anyway I found this letter in Piper's writing explaining it all , she said that had these powers, the power of three, and..." before Meredith could finish, Melinda had walked out of the room in one of her moods. Meredith followed her. "I know it sound unbelievable, even to me it's unbelievable, but look, you know your own mums writing! Rose could not fake this! ".

Melinda looked up as swept the letter from Meredith's hands. She took a moment to read it and then stared back up at Meredith in silence. "This doesn't prove anything at all" she mumbled as she folded the letter back up and shoved it back into Meredith's hands.

"It proves everything" Meredith replied, "It explains why our mum's were always up here in this damn attic, and who all those strange looking visitors were… Rose was right Mel, Rose was right! Just think about it! Our parents were witches!"

"OK" Melinda argued, "if you were right, and they were...witches. Why are we not witches too? and why did they not tell us..." before she could finish, Meredith decided to butt in for once, Melinda was always the one that got first say and always thought she was right just because she was the eldest. Indeed, she was almost always right but this time Meredith new she wasn't.

"We are witches but mum, aunt Piper and aunt Phoebe bound our powers to protect us from the demons..." She stopped herself. Hearing herself use the word 'demons' without using it sarcastically sounded strange to her, almost if it wasn't her. Almost as if she was a different person now.