After seeing the last ever charmed episode on Thursday this idea came to me so I wanted to see what type of response it got. It's set about 19 years after the defeat of the Triad.
Comments are greatly appreciated, and does anyone know if Phoebe and Paige's children (apart from Henry Jr) had been given specific names, cause I can't remember.
Hope you enjoy this!
Chapter
One
A fire ball flew through the air and hit its target straight on. The target was a 37 year-old woman who burst into flames with a scream and all that was left was a pile of ashes. The male demon looked around at its surroundings in the suburban home, the wrecked furniture and the pile of ash by what used to be the dining room table. He smiled cruelly to himself before shimmering out.
Slowly and cautiously a trio of children crept out from their hiding place upstairs. The two youngest had a strong familial resemblance to the woman who had moments ago been incinerated, but the oldest had nothing in common with any of them. The youngest was a 4 year-old girl, she had long, chestnut brown wavy hair and big hazel eyes. She was sucking her thumb and holding on to a tattered brown bear, looking around in fear. Her brother was about 9-years old and he had dark brown hair that was in need of a cut, because he had to shove it out of his face. His brown eyes clearly showed the intelligence that this young boy held.
"Sebastiana, what are we going to do now?" The young boy asked the oldest girl.
She looked to be at least 19-years-old, with long straight black hair and vibrant green eyes that for the briefest moment showed the pain she felt from this loss, before she buried it deep and her eyes became emotionless once more. She was quite tall at 5"6 and she bent down to pick the young girl up.
"We are going to pack up as much stuff as we can and then we have to leave," Sebastiana replied.
"Bastiana, where's Mommy?" The little girl, Fleuretta, asked as she took her thumb out of her mouth and peered up at the girl who was holding her firmly against her hip.
"Your Mommy's gone now Fleur, and you, me and Finley are gonna have to go," Sebastiana tried to explain to the little girl.
"I don't wanna go!" Fleuretta started to wail.
"I'll start packing," Finley said solemnly as he looked on at his crying sister and Sebastiana who was trying to calm her slightly.
"Thanks Fin," Sebastiana nodded towards the young boy as she continued to try and calm Fleur.
"Fleur, remember what your Mommy told you, about if the bad men came and she had to go?" Sebastiana asked the little girl whose eyes still held unshed tears, but she had stopped crying and was now hiccupping slightly.
"Mommy tolded us to be bwave and to listen to you," Fleur whispered.
"And you have to trust me Fleur, because I'm going to make sure nothing happens to you or Finley," Sebastiana said as she kissed the top of the young girls head, "Now I need you to start packing some things from your room. I'm going to go to my room and pack my things then I'll come in to help you and Finley,"
Sebastiana put Fleur down, who immediately went running to her room, teddy bear still clutched firmly in her little hand. Sebastiana meanwhile walked to her room and took out a duffel bag that was stuffed at the bottom of her closet and began filling it with clothes and other personal things from her room, like the photo of her and her mother. She then moved her bed to the side and lifted up the loose floorboard that was underneath. There she picked up the athemae that her mother had given to her before she was killed and tucked it securely into the waistband of her jeans she was wearing. Also contained underneath the floorboard was a large sum of money, to be used in a circumstance such as this and an address in San Francisco that Fran, the woman that had just died, had given to Sebastiana and said that if anything should happen she should head there.
Once she had finished packing, Sebastiana headed towards Fleur's bedroom to help her pack everything she would need, and then the two girls headed to Finley's room to help him. Within half an hour everything was packed and the trio were getting ready to leave the house.
"Wait," Finley shouted as he quickly ran back in the house and came back out adding something to the bag he was carrying.
"What was that?" Sebastiana asked.
"Just the photo of all of us last Christmas," Finley replied.
"Where we goin?" Fleur asked from he position in Sebastiana's arms.
"We're going to San Fransisco," Sebastiana replied as she led the two children down the street to the nearest station, constantly keeping a lookout for anybody or anything suspicious.
Two weeks later- San Fransisco
"Wyatt maybe we got the wrong location," a 20-year-old Chris suggested to Wyatt as the two made their way around an abandoned building each holding onto a couple of vials.
"We didn't there was definitely a demon here," Wyatt assured as he looked around and spotted scorch marks on the opposite wall, "See scorch marks, definitely a demon here."
"So what happened to the demon, genius?" Chris asked his older brother.
"You're just about to find out," A female voice virtually growled into Wyatt's ear as she forced his hands behind his back, causing him to drop his vials and held an athemae against his neck.
Wyatt orbed out from the position he was in and orbed next to Chris so that they were both facing the black haired stranger.
"Athemae," Wyatt called holding his hand out.
The athemae the girl was holding then orbed into his hand. Wyatt turned it over in his hand and looked at it carefully.
"So what's a pretty thing like you doing with something like this?" Wyatt asked curiously.
Just as the stranger was about to answer, her eyes widened slightly at something she saw appear behind Wyatt and Chris.
"Duck," she shouted at them.
The two brothers managed to orb out the way in time to avoid being hit by an energy ball, which was unfortunately heading straight for the teenager. However by the time the energy ball reached the stranger a cat was standing in place of the teenager so that the energy ball just passed over the cat and hit the wall behind. The cat then shifted back into the black haired, green eyed teenager. Before the demon had a chance to throw another energy ball Chris had thrown one of his vials at the demon causing him to burn in a fiery vanquish. Unfortunately the teenager had been standing too close to the demon and had been knocked back slightly as the demon was vanquished, hitting her head on the floor as she went down. She groggily lifted her head, moaned and then proceeded to fall back into unconsciousness.
Wyatt and Chris gingerly approached the stranger.
"What the hell was that?" Chris asked as he turned towards his older brother who had bent down to look at the girl.
Wyatt didn't get a chance to answer because the next thing he knew two kids had come barrelling out of a bedroom somewhere and were standing by the fallen girl. The boy who could be no older than 9 had picked up the athemae off the floor, where Wyatt had dropped it when the demon attacked, and was holding it in front of him trying to be scary (not that it could be scary). The young girl had dropped next to the older one and turned to the boys with a threatening glare in her eyes.
"Back off!" The boy shouted, his hair continuously falling in front of his eyes.
"Hey, calm down. We're not here to hurt you," Chris said gently, trying to calm the young boy down.
"You hurt Bastiana!" The young girl countered angrily.
"It wasn't us, it was the demon!" Wyatt said to try and defend him and Chris.
This made the boy waver ever so slightly, as he contemplated this new bit of information.
"What were you guys doing here anyway?" Chris asked as he tried to get the boy to trust them.
"The bad man took our mommy, so Bastiana said we had to come here," the little girl replied, her anger dissipating slightly.
"You can trust us okay, we just want to help you guys and your sister," Chris said gently.
"She's not our sister," the boy interrupted.
"What?" Wyatt asked.
"I said she's not our sister. My mom took her in when she was about Fleur's age, she's always been there," the boy explained.
"Okay, so what's your name?" Chris asked.
"I'm Finley," the boy replied, still holding the athemae in front of him.
"Well Finley if you just let us get to your friend, then we can help her and you guys can come back with us," Wyatt suggested.
"We're not allowed to go anywhere 'cept the place where Mom said we had to go," the boy explained.
"Where's that?" Chris asked.
The young girl carefully reached into the older girl's back pocket of her jeans and pulled out the piece of paper she knew was in there. She then handed it to the boy who slowly passed it to the two men. Wyatt and Chris looked at the address on the piece of paper and smiled.
"This is our address, we live there," Chris told the boy.
"Really? You're not just lying to get us to come with you?" the boy asked as he looked at the Wyatt and Chris cautiously.
"I promise you we're telling the truth," Chris said, "Just hand me the athemae, and we can come help your friend."
Finley looked from the men to the two girls and back before he slowly handed the athemae into Chris' outstretched palm.
Wyatt and Chris then slowly walked to the oldest girl and Wyatt bent down beside her.
"What's her name?" Wyatt asked.
"Sebastiana, and my sister's Fleuretta, but we just call her Fleur," Finley explained.
"Finley, why don't you go with Chris and bring all your stuff here, and then we can take you back to our place," Wyatt explained as he checked the unconscious Sebastiana, "We'll heal her when we back, I think it would be safer."
"Safer for whom?" Chris asked with a smile on his face before he followed Finley to collect all the kids' things.
Fleur just stared at Wyatt the whole time Finley was in the other room with Chris.
"You don't have to be scared of me, I won't hurt you," Wyatt told Fleur gently.
Fleur proceeded to put her thumb in her mouth and suck on it as she continued to stare at Wyatt.
Chris came back into the room with Finley, having packed everything into the two bags that the children had brought.
"How are we going to get to your place?" Finley asked as he stood next to Seabastiana.
"We're going to orb," Chris explained as he took hold of Finley's hand.
"What?" Finley asked confused.
"Just hold on tight," Chris explained as he bent down to take hold of Fleur's hand.
The three then orbed out in a swirl of blue lights, leaving Wyatt to pick up Sebastiana and orb out after them.
All five appeared in the Halliwell manor just moments later. Both Fleur and Finley looked a little dizzy, having not orbed before and so Chris had them sit down on a chair whilst Wyatt carefully lay Sebastiana down on the sofa.
"Mom? Dad?" Chris shouted into the house.
"It's just me Chris, Mom and Dad went out," A female voice shouted down from upstairs.
Coming downstairs was a 17 year-old girl with fairly long straight brown/blonde hair and brown eyes. She was about 5"4 and was wearing jeans and a lilac tank top.
"Do you know when they'll be back Mel?" Chris asked his sister.
"Not long, they only went to the grocery store," Melinda Halliwell replied, "Why what's up?"
"We kinda brought some guys back with us," Chris explained as he showed Melinda the room where Sebastiana, Finley and Fleur were.
As the two walked into the lounge they saw that Wyatt was healing Sebastiana. Sebastiana seemed to recover quite quickly and promptly punched Wyatt in the face causing him to stumble backwards.
"Hey, what was that for?" Wyatt asked as he rubbed his jaw.
Sebastiana didn't get a chance to answer because the front door opened and Piper and Leo came walking in carrying brown paper bags.
"Where the hell are we?" Sebastiana growled as she looked at her surroundings.
Piper and Leo turned to look at the new people in the manor.
"Um does one of you guys want to explain what's going on?" Leo asked as he put down the bags he was carrying.
"Yes, please explain," Sebastiana asked sarcastically.
Chris rubbed the back of his neck as he thought about how they would begin explaining this.
"Well you see Wyatt and I were scrying for a demon and we went downtown to this building, but there was no demon. Then she," Chris said pointing at Sebastiana, "threatened Wyatt with an athemae and then a demon really did appear. We vanquished the demon but she must've been too close and she got knocked out. Then the two kids came running out and we found out that they were actually on their way here, so we orbed back here and Wyatt healed the girl and then she punched him."
"Is that everything?" Piper asked as she stepped into the room, trying to go over all the information they had been given.
Chris took a moment to think over everything before he nodded.
"So why exactly were you heading here?" Piper asked as she sat down.
"Fran, had given me this address and said that if anything happened to her then I should bring Finley and Fleur here," Sebastiana explained as she motioned to the two children who were watching this exchange with interest.
"Who's Fran?" Leo asked.
"She took me in when my mom was killed by demons 15 years ago. She was Fin's and Fleur's Mom," Sebastiana explained.
"So who are you?" Melinda asked, as she was getting a little bit confused.
"I'm Sebastiana," Sebastiana said.
"So why are demons after you?" Piper asked confused.
"Because we're Shifters," Sebastiana answered.
"You're what?" Wyatt asked.
"Shifters," Sebastiana repeated.
"Ok what the hell's a Shifter?" Chris asked.
"They have the power of shape shifting, and were always fighting on the side of good. When I first became a whitelighter the Shifters had almost all been killed by demons. The few that were left went into hiding," Leo explained, "But I don't understand why they would be targeting them again."
"It's because the demons are getting more powerful and the number of Shifters is starting to increase, because even if only one of your parents is a Shifter then you will be a Shifter. Something about the gene being dominant, so now the demons are targeting us before the numbers can become a threat," Sebastiana explained.
"Well you can definitely stay here, until everything is sorted," Piper explained, the mother in her coming through.
Piper then proceeded to show Sebastiana and the other two children around the manor; whilst Wyatt, Chris and Melinda went to sort out the rooms they would be staying in. Sebastiana would be sharing with Melinda, and Fleur and Finley would be sharing the spare room. Leo had gone to phone Phoebe, Paige and Billie because he thought that this would be something that they should know about. Fleur was very scared about this new place, and there were so many people. Fleur gave a death grip on Sebastiana's hand so Sebastiana picked her up and held her.
"My sisters will probably be around later with their families as well as a friend of ours, so they'll probably want to meet you," Piper explained as she showed them upstars.
Sebastiana just nodded, already wondering how long they would have to stay here. As soon as the other two were asleep later she was going to have to talk to Piper, she wanted to vanquish as many demons as she could so that they could be safe.
Wyatt meanwhile was thinking about Sebastiana, he would never have thought that she would've punched him that hard. She packed one hell of a punch, he remembered as he rubbed his jaw again. He was looking forward to talking to her later, he wanted to find out a bit more about her.
Underworld
"Diego has not returned, he must have been vanquished just like Aristaeus before him. If we don't kill these Shifters now they will be our downfall," A tall dark demon shouted to the crowd of demons below him.
The crowd cheered below him chanting "Kill the Shifters. Kill the Shifters." The demon smiled cruelly. He would not let the prophecy come true.
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