A couple of weeks after Melinda came into her whitelighter powers, she started coming into her witch powers. Melinda managed to conjour a couple of potion bottles above her mother's soup, which caused the soup to start growing vines. Melinda giggled at the spectacle but her mother freaked out since the vines over took the kitchen. Piper ended up having to call Wyatt and Chris to help with the vines and the mess that they had caused. While Piper was proud that her daughter was coming into her powers, she had to talk to Melinda about how dangerous and deadly they can be if she weren't careful with them. As Melinda grew older, she had learned to control her powers to the point where they were almost as powerful as Wyatt's were but still deadly. Melinda really didn't deal with much deomns in her early years since her parents and brothers' especailly were so over protective of her. It wasn't until one saturday afternoon when she was 16 years old and home alone, that a demon had attacked. She was walking downstairs to start dinner. But she barelly made it to the landing of the stairs when the demon hit her right shoulder and left hip with a couple of fireballs. She flew back and hit the wall which caused her to pass out. The demon assumed that he had killed Melinda and shimmered out. Shortly after the demon shimmered out, her brothers' had sensed that she was in trouble. They orbed in only to find the manor a mess and Mel out cold on the landing. Chris and Wyatt managed to heal her. Melinda woke up wondering what awas going on. At which point, Chris told her that she was attacked but no one knew who it was. Chris gave Wyatt the "over protective of Mel" look that Wyatt knew all to well. Mel tried to protest againgst the idea of one of her brothers' having to stay with her, claiming that she can protect herself. But Wyatt stepped in agreeing with Chris but her understood that she was worried that she might vanquish one of them of she were to be stuck with them all the time. You see, Melinda had a date that night with Trevor but didn't want either one of them to know about him yet, let alonee know she was going out.