Charmed Fanfic. (Currently title less, any suggestions?)

 (Spoilers for "The courtship of Wyatt's father" and Piper knows who Chris is at this point and she knows she's pregnant)

Disclaimer: I own nothing but these two shiny pennies; Charmed is a TV show in the WB and sometimes on TNT, I have nothing to do with them. Armaiti and the Eyries as described in this fanfic however are mine. (Hopefully my Ash fangirls aren't trying to kill me too much for starting this and not epilogue-ing that right now)

I'm looking for a beta reader for this, so if you're interested email me with subject heading "beta reader" thanks, and please give me reviews, good and bad. J )

 (As entered in by the first teacher of the Magical school, and edited since)

Ancient Creatures of light: The founders thrived on order. Life was order. Good was order. They knew too much power even among those who should be good could get used for selfish or evil reasons.

Even Elders fall. So they created the Eyries, creatures of justice who would thrive on making sure that the ultimate rules were obeyed by even the most powerful. Their purpose was to reveal treachery of an Elder to the rest. They existed in the twilight of time, flowing with it seeing everything white lighters did. They were ancient and their magic was of a hidden passed on sort. Each new Eyrie takes on the memories of its predecessor. They fear not death, only failing in their assignment. 13th century AD They are sometimes called Dragons by my students as much as I've tried to rid them of the habit.

17th century AD Eyries or Dragons are creatures of fantasy created by a white lighter after the founding to scare Elders into doing what they wanted. Or an Elder to make his white lighters think that they themselves are accountable to others. But this is rubbish since we all know that to be an Elder is to be perfect good and would have no need of such vigilantes.

(At the end of the episode)

 An Eyrie, Armaiti , allowed her consciousness to flow, letting her older self speak to her present one.

Elder Gideon was not where I expected him.

 He has become more and more elusive.

 He is hiding something.

"Ah, but in a way, you did."

He talks to a dark lighter... why?

Gideon: "Leo's gone, isn't he? Perhaps not in the manner I'd originally intended, but gone nonetheless."

Who is Leo?

Another Elder a new one, with a child of his own.

He plots against another Elder? Did this Leo do wrongly?

 Dark lighter guy 554 "But wasn't he your friend, too?"

 Gideon: "Yes, he was. We all have to make sacrifices for the Greater Good." Lieutenant Dark lighter: "I'm evil, what do I care about the Greater Good?"

Gideon: "Because Leo's son is just as much a threat to your kind as he is to mine. We made a mistake in allowing the child to be born, allowing such a…concentration of power to be brought into this world in one being. But, now, with Leo out of the way, and the Charmed Ones unaware, I'm one step closer to correcting that mistake. For good."

Search his heart the older counseled, for it is by the motives that we decide crimes,

- Fear, anger, jealousy, revenge. These are not the proper feelings of an Elder.  Elders should not consort with dark lighters or with any evil creature or have them do their bidding. They should not plot against each other. They should not manipulate to harm others. His purpose is to kill an innocent child. One or more… I'm sensing more. He wants to break up a family. Elders should not do evil.

The laws that really matter, the spirit of the laws is thrice broken!

And his mistakes may bring worse in the future.

A fatherless boy may turn down the wrong path.

Than you must act young one.

 "Then I must exist in the mortal realm again."

There was a kind of relief in it, to become solid.

They're safer now that I'm gone. Piper can move on. I can't be selfish in this. Leo reminded himself when the temptation to go back down, to even look at his wife. He wasn't helping her by clinging onto the past.

Other white lighters and Elders wandered about on their business. Robed and making noises no humans did. There was suddenly a lot of bustle. People running away.  Gideon was running and making a lot of noise.

"A dragon is attacking!" 

Leo saw an explosion that nearly blasted his old mentor.

"Gideon!" The creature stopped at his voice as if confused. She looked at him for a moment.   Long silver hair, angular face, bright violet eyes, supernatural. Gideon took that moment to shoot energy at the creature who cried out in pain, but instead of vanishing turned into a helix cal swirl of silver and violet energy that shot infinitely upward and downward.

"What was that?" Leo asked in concern

"A dragon I think. Beware, its next form will come after you too," Gideon said loudly "I heard it say that it wanted to kill all the Elders especially you Leo, certainly you saw the way it looked at you!" Several other Elders gathered around murmuring.

"What were you thinking luring that thing up here!" Noor complained.

"I had to get it away from the children," Gideon said smoothly.

"You don't honestly think that that thing was a dragon, an Eyrie or whatever. They don't exist." Another one of Gideon's former pupils argued.

"That's what it called itself. It's an Elder hunter. It's dead but, it will be reborn to look just as it does now." Gideon explained, and since he was the keeper of the magical school and the knowledge kept there, everyone seemed to accept that as fact.

This was perfect. He could get the others to kill off the creature that would try to save them from him. He'd blame the Eyrie for Leo's death, and for his son's. Even better- he'd get the witches to do it, the ones she'd seek.

"What should we do?"

"Tell all the white lighters to tell their charges about this evil look out for and destroy it."

Leo thought it was a little weird that this creature suddenly attacked, why now? It hadn't looked evil. He wasn't the only one to have suspicions, Noor who had never personally liked Gideon, or his methods didn't trust his information.

            Even so it was done. Chris and all the others with witch charges were warned and given a description at the next meeting.

"The Elders thought that this Eyrie is out to kill them, Leo and… Wyatt."  

"Why?" Paige asked "Why is it after Wyatt?"

"Why is everyone after Wyatt? Magical child- goes with the territory." Phoebe said

"What is an Eyrie anyways?" Piper asked.

"I think this calls for the Book of Shadows." Paige said.

They looked through the book.

"Eyrie… it doesn't say anything about killing children, and they're even listed under white lighters, like unkillable fighting whitelighters."

"That's not possible; they told me that they killed this one." Chris said.

The sisters looked at him oddly.

"If they killed it, WHY are we still looking it up?" Piper asked annoyed, closing the B.o.S.

"Because as I've been told, when they die, they're immediately reborn and continue with whatever mission their predecessor had." Chris explained.

"So… we can't kill it. Not really. Great!" Paige said sarcastically.

"Why do our ancestors consider them to be a type of white lighter?" Phoebe asked confused.

Chris shrugged "I'm only passing on what I was told."

Paige opened up the book again, "Look, here it says that Eyries orb, that's white lighter like."

"But they are motivated by pursuing justice and bringing to light secrets. Some are known for time travel, although if they are reborn looking exactly alike how could anyone ever tell?" Phoebe read adding her own comments to the text.

"Well whatever it is, we're got to be careful," Piper said thinking of her son.

"And find a way to banish it before it can do any damage." Paige finished.

"Speak of the..." Phoebe said looking behind her sisters.

A girl orbed down.  She walked towards them, her tanned skin stark contrast to her silver hair. She wore a gray robe type dress that covered most of her body. Purple pants were visible through the slits in the dress.

"Piper!" Phoebe said urgently

"hmm?" Piper said and turned away, and catching sight of the girl.

"Warning I bring" the Eyrie said as if it had been centuries since she had spoken to a human being.

Piper waved her hands to freeze or explode the girl in reflex.

The Eyrie gaped at her and crossed her hands in front of her face. Deflecting the attack to either side of her shattering the wooden walls – which rematerialized as if rewinding.

" Why do you attack me when I come not for you but of your cause?" the Eyrie asked.

"Like Hell am I going to let you get to my son!" Piper yelled.

"Sons." Aramati emphasized the plural. (Their names change slightly when they die)

Paige was going to throw a lamp at the girl when Chris recognized the face.

"Ara?"

"Wait- you know her? Why am I not surprised." Paige said annoyed, only pausing with the orbed lamp.

"She's not evil. She's how I got the spell to get here." Chris said waving his hands about.

"Great, things always get complicated around here don't they?" Phoebe said deadpan.

The Eyries eyes seemed to focus as if remembering  human language. "I know you, you're that one witch/light kid."

"What are you doing here?" Chris asked.

Piper was inching towards the door, to keep the girl from running away. Or getting to Wyatt.

"I had to warn you, before things happen." Ara looked up "He may be watching."

"Who? The Elders?" Paige said playing along. "Those people who are always-"

"Listen to me! I was watching you, and the dark lighter that attacked you when you went all pssst. And so I wandered to find out who sent them." Ara was looking urgent, frantic even.

"Whatever you don't let anyone know who Chris really is."

"Who doesn't know at this point?" Paige said sarcastically.

"And don't let anyone know you're pregnant. Don't let Wyatt go to the magical school, don't trust Gideon. Or Leo and Wyatt and lots of other people you know and care about are going to die."

"Is that a threat?" Phoebe asked.

"Why shouldn't we trust Gideon?" Piper asked. "He's an Elder!"

"He wants me dead. Because I know-He's the one who sent the dark lighters to kill Leo!"

"That is the only reason you're allowed to be here. A mission" Chris said only slightly surprised. After being raised with a never there Elder father there wasn't much about Elders that would surprise him.

The girls however were very surprised. "WHAT?!"

"I gotta go before he tracks me down-"And without further explanation Aramati orbed out, in purple and silver light.

Chapter two anyone?

I wrote this because I don't like the idea of Leo being so tricked to stay away from Piper forever.

Hugs and Sparkles.,

-Spirit of Eowyn