Disclaimer: I do not own the Charmed ones, or any of the original characters out of Charmed. I own all characters not in The original Charmed.
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The Royal Charmed One
Chapter 1
Paige Matthews sat at her desk, deep in thought. It was a dark, cloudy day and a sever storm warning had just been issued. 'I hope she's ok.' Paige thought, staring at an old, tattered photo of a young girl. That's when the first lightning bolt struck, hitting the building across the street from the temp. agency where Paige worked, setting it on fire.
"Oh, my God!" Paige exclaimed, standing to get a better look over her small cublical's walls. People every where were screaming.
"Call 911!" Rebecca (the lady who worked in the cubical across from Paige) screamed, reaching for the phone.
20 000 miles away, a girl awoke, screaming.
Patience woke with a start. The dream she'd had was the same one she'd been having for the past week and a half. It was always the same. The big storm, the lightning bolt, and all the terror.
As Patience sat up, she noticed her bedroom was bathed in an unnaturally white glow. 'Full moon ... eerie.' She mused, opening her curtains and lying back on her pillows. Midnight (her cat) jumped up on the bed and curled up on Patience's cheast, purring.
Patience was a 14 year old girl, small for her age. She had chocolate brown curly hair with matching eyes and milky white skin. Patience lived in a small town called Wollongong, a two hour drive from Sydney, in Australia. They had a fairly big house, to accomadate for all of Patience's siblings. Patience was the oldest. She had a younger sister called Tori (10), a younger brother called Max (2), a not so younger sister called Louise (12) and a not so younger brother called Harry (12). On top of that, they also had a cat (Simba) and two dogs (Trick and Treat).
The most exciting thig Patience had ever been told was that she was adopted. Ok, so mabey that's not the most exciting thing she'd ever been told, but it was most certinally the one thing she had grown up being sure of. And it made a good story. Apparently her biological mother was only 14 when she gave birth to her, and the story goes that angels had come down from the hevans and told her mum to call her something starting with 'P'. Ptience didn't really belive that, but she liked the story. The rest of her family were blond (all exept Louise, who was also adopted with red hair). That made the fact that Patience was adopted even more obvious. Patience didn't care though. She loved her family and didn't mind if she ever saw her birth mother.
A distant sound shook Patience from her thoughts. She sighed. She needed a drink. Patience hated getting up in the middle of the night. It was so eerie. Everything looked so different at night. Patience moved a now sleeping Simba aside and slipped queitly into her slippers, carful not to wake Louise, who was sleeping n the only other bed in the room.
As Patience opened her bedroom door, she noticed that the full moon had made the hall way lighter than usual. Patience crept sighlently down the dimly lit hall way and entered the kitchen, shutting the door and turning on the light. She walked over to the fridge and grabbed the open carton of milk, not bothering with a glass. As she drank, Patience glanced at the microwave clock. It read 3:30 am. Patience sighed and wiped her mouth as she put the milk back in the fridge. Patience was at the Kitchen door and was about to switch off the light when she relized she'd forgotten to close the fridge door. Patience spun around and glared at the door, as if it was its' fault for not reminding her to close it.
What happened next made her scream.
The frigde door had slammed shut all by itself! "What the hell was that?" Patience shireked, freaking out. "I'm dreaming," She told herself "I must be dreaming."
Paige ran down the stairs with the rest of her work mates. Ever since the first Lightning bolt had struck, it had been chaos. People every where were screaming. 911 had roped the building off, and were now evactuating everyone from nearby buildings, incase the building on fire collapsed.
As soon as Paige was outside, she found a dark ally and orbed back to the manor, not relizing that a dark shape behind the dumpster was watching her every move.
Patience crawled into bed, her mind still concucting excuses for what had just happened. A groan from the other end of the rook made her jump. It was just Louise, Tossing her pillow of the bed, hitting Simba. Once Patience made sure Louise was still asleep, and the Simba was alright, she pulled the blankets up over her head. As she did so, a scary thought hit her. 'Full moon, bad dreams, and flying fridge doors. All this on Friday the 13th. And the day only started 3 hours and 45 minutes ago.'
As soon as Paige felt her feet touch down on the solid ground of the Manor, she called out "Piper! Pheobe!" Paige had an urgent tone in her voice, so she knew her sisters would come quickly.
Piper came from the Kitchen, a mug of steaming hot tea in hand, while Pheobe came from the attic, a small bottle filled with green liquid in her hand. "What is it, sweetie?" Piper asked, her smile sliding from her face when she saw how upset her sister was.
"There .. There was another lightning strike." Paige explained, not sure how to continue. "The building just across from mine, people every where were screaming."
"Oh, my God, thats awful." Pheobe said, climbing down the rest of the stairs and hugging her little sister.
"I agree." Piper included, setting her mug of tea down so she too could comfort her sister.
"The strange thing is, I felt someone watching me, even before the strike." This was the first time Paige had thought about this. 'Probably a demon.' She thought to herself, as Pheobe pulled back from her hug to study her sisters face. 'But that dosen't explain the girls scream I heard while I was running down the stairs.'
"Porbably a demon." Piper said, breaking the silance.
"I don't think so." Paige replied, glad her sisters were taking her seriously. " I could almost hear her thoughts ..."
" Wait a minute." Pheobe interupted," Her thoughts? Like as in a connection kinda hearing, or as in a new power kinda hearing?"
"Ummm a connection kinda hearing ... why?" Paige was a little taken aback by the effect this was having on her sisters.
"Because, lately, I've been haveing very strange perminissions were it felt like I ws connected to a young 14-year-oldish girl."
Patience awoke feeling like she hadn't had any sleep. She detangled herself from her blankets and groaned. It was day light, and sunlight sreamed in through the window Patience had pulled the curtains back off only hours before hand. It was 7:30am and Louise's radio had just turned itself on, like it was programmed to do. The more Patience thought about last nights events, the more convinced she was that it was a dream.
"Pati, wake up! It's Saterday!" Louise shook Patience awake, her eager face practically shinning in the early morning sun.
Saterday. Patience was about to ask her little sister what the big deal was when she remembered. Patience let out a groan as she let Louise pull her out of bed.
"You promised!" Louise pouted, seeing the look on Patience's face.
"You look like Max." Patience countered, refuring to her two-year-old brother, smiling at her sisters stubbornness. Patience had promised to take Louise and Tori to the movies.
That didn't mean she had to like it.
Pheobe was running late. Again. 'Elise is gunna shoot me.' She thought as she grabbed one of Pipers freashly baked, apple muffins. As Pheobe dashed for the frount door, Paige met her at the bottem of the stairs.
"Pheebs, whats the rush?" Paige said, suprised at her sisters liveliness this early in the morning. Pheobe grapped her sister to move her out of the way when she gasped. Pheobes knees buckled, and a vision appeared in her 'inner eye'. In her vision, Pheobe saw the young girl from all her other premonitions, sleeping peacefully. A demon stood over her, sneering. The demon spat, and fire erupted all around them. A girl out of Pheobes line of sight screamed, waking the sleeping one. With a final sneer, the demon shimmered out, and Pheobe was brought back to her body, making her collapse into Paige's arms.
"Pheobe!" Paige screamed, holding her ister in her arms, "Piper, help!"