One month had passed since the Ultimate Battle and things were going great. The Ask Phoebe column had made record sales for the Bay Mirror, Piper not only got around to helping out with the club more, but also started planning about how to turn it into the restaurant she dreamed of owning, Paige on the other hand, still had charges to deal with, but she spent most of her days with Henry.
Int. Phoebe's Condo
(Phoebe laid comfortably over her white leather sofa, with her laptop, working on yet another answer to a letter asking about love.)
Phoebe: Coop!
(Coop ran down the hall to Phoebe.)
Coop: What is it Phoebe?
Phoebe: Is there any magical reason why I keep getting these letters about love? Why do these questions about love keep coming back to me, the only unmarried Charmed One?
Coop: Phoebe, what's wrong? This isn't like you?"
Phoebe: It's just that I keep having these dreams about all my past loves, dreams that are so real, that they almost feel like...
Coop: Premonitions.
Phoebe: Yeah. I thought we took care of the block within my heart when we went back in time?
Coop: Well, consciously yes. But, remnants of all those loves that didn't turn out happy may still have a negative influence over you subconscious.
Phoebe: Well, anyway, I have to get going,"
(Phoebe grabbed her laptop and begins to head out the door until she is stricken by a premonition.)
(Premonition: She sees the Seer from four years ago standing next to Christy, being coroneted as the queen of the underworld. She also saw herself and her sisters trapped in a dark circle being destroyed by Christy. As the premonition ended Phoebe runs out the door to work.)
Int. Manor-Kitchen
Piper: So... Paige, when you plan on moving out?
Paige: How subtle. Like I said before, Henry want's to wait until we have enough money to afford a decent house, especially since he want's to have a baby.
Leo: Are you sure you're ready for that?
Paige: I have been a witch, a whitelighter, a social worker, Headmistress of magic school, and an aunt. I think I'll be fine
Piper: Well don't forget the regular pregnancy inconveniences, plus uncontrolled magic from the womb, chance of exposure, strange doctor checkups, and of course the possible threat of demons as well
Paige: Whatever. Piper, you forgot to tell me about the girl you hired the other day. What's she like?
Piper: Her name is Shara Vincent. She's about 19. She works really hard because her parents couldn't afford to send her to college. I just get a feeling that I can trust her
As their conversation finally got going, Elder Sondra orbed into their kitchen.
Sondra: You have been summoned.
Piper: By who?
Sondra: By the Tribunal.
( The sisters looked at each other eerily, remembering that the last time they visited the Tribunal, Darryl was nearly killed and Phoebe was stripped of her active powers.)
Sondra: Do not look so troubled. Although I do not know what they wish to talk to you about, I believe it has to do with your recent victory in the Ultimate Battle.
Piper: I don't buy it. There's more to it. Paige, give Phoebe a call.
Paige: I'm on it.
Int. Underworld
(In this part of the underworld, there was a dark altar. By the altar stood a dark priest, Christy, or rather her spirit, and a hooded stranger.)
Hooded Stranger: Is everything ready?
Dark Priest: I'm afraid not. The resurrection spell requires a piece of flesh from a living relative to work.
Christy: Will a strand of hair work?
Dark Priest: It's a little sketchy, but it should work.
Christy: Who's going to get the hair.
Hooded Stranger: You, of course.
Christy: How come you can't do it. I'm only a ghost.
Hooded Stranger: I cannot risk the sisters finding out that I am alive again so soon. you must retrieve the hair from Billie. After being a ghost for a month you should be able to coporealize yourself at will.
Christy: Very well.
Int. Bay Mirror
( Phoebe walked through the doors of the Bay Mirror watching everyone so hard at work, she headed straight for her office until she was stopped by none other than Elise.)
Elise: Phoebe! I was meaning to talk to you.
Phoebe: (giggling) About what?
Elise: It's just that within the last month most of the letter responses you've written about have been about love.
Phoebe: Is that a problem?
Elise: no, but all of them are controversial. You start talking about how love is so powerful and epic, yet take a turn and speak about how difficult and how painful it can be. Your ideas seem to shift. That's the problem.
Phoebe: Sorry. I'll work on it.
Elise: That's good to hear.
(Phoebe continued to walk into her office and as she entered, her phone began to ring. Phoebe went over to pick it up and it was none other than Paige.)
Phoebe: What?
Paige(on the phone): I'm serious. I think it's important
Phoebe: No, no no. There is no way on earth that I am going to...
(Before she could finished her sentence, Phoebe vanished in spiraling white lights and reappeared next to her sisters in the ever familiar room of the tribunal. In two years the lace had not changed.)
Tribunal Elder: I take it you know why you've have been summoned here?
Piper: Afraid not.
Tribunal Elder: You three have been chosen to embrace new magical destinies.
Piper: No, no, no! We have been busting our butts for the past eight years and now after our Charmed destiny is over, you give us another one!
Tribunal Demon: Who said anything about your destiny as the Charmed One's being over?
Paige: What? We won the Ultimate Battle!
Tribunal Elder: No, you won a ultimate battle. Eons ago, prophets from all across the world prophecized that there would be seven great battles between good and evil would decide the fate of good and evil. That battle was the second.
Phoebe: Then what was the first?
Tribunal Elder: The battle three years ago when you faced off against the Titans. You three have no choice but to accept this new destiny. However, before these matters continue any further, you must overcome adversity.
(As he said that, he waved his hands, the sisters vanished in a stream of white lights like before.)
Int. Golden Gate Bridge
(Paige appeared in white lights standing right next to Elder Sondra atop the Golden Gate Bridge.)
Paige: Sondra? What are you doing here? Perhaps a better question, what am I doing here?
Sondra:To conquer your adversity of course.
Paige: What adversity?
Sondra: Adversity of Identity. You never knew your real parents as a child and you're adoptive parents died when you were at a young age. Even when you grew older, you realized that your mother died many years ago and your father wasn't around very much. You never truly had a family until you met your sisters. but even then, you always felt as if you were in the shadow of Prue, knowing that you could never replace her, never be as close to htem as they were.
Paige: Nor can she replace me. I am my own person. Like me she was born a witch, we share the same blood, the blood that dates back to Melinda Warren. Sometimes I don't know why I was brought here, to a family where I feel lesser, but the fact that I am here is reason enough. The fact that destiny chose me to stand here now, as a Charmed One, I know that the connection me and my sisters have may never be as strong as the connection between themselves, but the comparison doesn't matter.
Sondra: And what of how you feel about Henry? And his desire to have a baby?
Paige: What does that have to do with this?
Sondra: Do you want a baby because it's both what you wish, or simply a way for you to try and understand where you came from, a child who is doubly magical?
Paige: No, I want a child not for my own sake, but for Henry's. I married him because I love him and he, no we, want a child because of that love, to give it life.
Sondra: It seems your heart speaks the truth. You may go.
(With that, Paige vanished once again in white lights.)
Int. Halliwell Manor
(Piper appeared in the conservatory of the manor in white lights and standing beside her was none other than Patty.)
Patty: You are here to over your adversity. The adversity of loss.
Piper: Loss?
Patty: Yes, loss. You have suffered much in the passing years. As a child you lost me. Not long after you became an adult, your Grams died. You nearly lost Leo, the love of your life, whom without, you might not have had the strength to do all the good you were destined to do. but perhaps the greatest loss was that of Prue.
(Piper stood there with warm tears brushing down her face as the memories of all the losses they had suffered came flashing back.)
Patty: But you learned that Death is not evil, but rather a part of life. The reason that you can keep going is that good never dies. The flesh is weak, but the spirit is strong. There is no demon, warlock, or witch that possesses the power to crush the spirit. Do you know why? Because love and hope burn in every soul, they are two things that never die. Piper, do you understand.
Piper: I must live on for my family. I know that I must embrace all that I am because death is only an equalizer, not a destroyer.
(After those words, Piper vanished in a stream of white lights.)
Int. Phoebe's Apartment
(Phoebe appeared in a whirl of white lights and standing next to her was none other than her beloved Coop.)
Coop: I am here to help you conquer your adversity.
Phoebe: What would that be?
Coop: The adversity of love.Your heart is plagued with the pain of heartbreak. From the vanquishing of Cole, to the revelation given to Dex, your life has been filled with love loss. Yet there have been times in your life when you were ready to give up on love. Do you feel that way now?
Phoebe: No, not anymore. I have been given proof that things will work out. Every thing in my life has pieced together to form who I am now. Besides everything I have went through will make it mean so much more when things do work out.
Coop: Congratulations Phoebe, your heart is fully healed
(She then disappeared in a whirl of white lights and reappeared next to her sisters before the Tribunal.)
Piper: Well, are we done here?
Tribunal Elder: Not quite. Paige, you were born the sister with the purest heart, born half-whitelighter, and now with the gift of healing. As such, you have been elevated to a Protector.
Paige: Protector?
Tribunal Elder: Whitelighters are gifted with powers to allow them to protect witches and whitelighters, but protectors must protect many various members of the magical community, and as such they possess powers greater than whitelighters in order to protect better.
(A golden light flashed over Paige as she felt power flowing through her veins.)
Tribunal Elder: Phoebe, you were gifted with both the gift of premonition and the gift of empathy. Gifts unique to seers and empaths. But developing both of these powers further elevated your destiny past what even the elders foresaw. As such your destiny as an Empathic Seer has begun.
Phoebe: Empathic Seer? And how do you expect me to fulfill this destiny without my power of Empathy?
Tribunal Elder: Phoebe: for coming to terms with your love past. We return your gift of empathy, and for putting things into perspective and restoring balance to your life, the power of levitation is restored as well. As an Empathic Seer, you will receive premonitions of people, both mortal and magical who are bogged down with so much emotional discharge that their destiny cannot be fulfilled. You must heal their souls and restore emotional balance.
(Phoebe smiled and golden light passed over her as she felt her powers returned.)
Tribunal Elder: And Piper. You are the most grounded Charmed One. The most caring. As such you will become a Timekeeper. Through time there are points where destined events do not occur and rifts are created. You will be given the power to move through and manipulate time. You must use this power to keep time flowing uninterrupted. You three are dismissed.
The sisters vanished in white lights and reappeared in white lights.
Piper: I guess that whether we like it or not...
Phoebe: we are, will, and will always be...
Paige: Charmed.