And Magic Merged Our Paths, Pt 1


Written by: "Rush Howley".

Based on Charmed by: Constance M. Burge & Brad Kern.

Based on "Little Box of Horrors" written by: Cameron Litvack

Season 1, Episode 01

Disclaimer: "Charmed", "The Charmed Ones" and other related entities are owned by CONSTANCE M. BURGE, AARON SPELLING Television Inc (A Paramount / Viacom Co.) All Rights Reserved. This history was made without their permission, approval, authorization or endorsement, only for entertainment proposes. No copyright infringements intended.


[Scene: Sean's House. Living Room. There are four people and a demon throwing fireballs randomly. One of the guys is covering everyone except the attacker with a light-blue forcefield.

Vlad: I don't know how much I can resist…

Sean: Don't worry; I'll get out attacking him.

(A blonde, tall girl hold Sean's arm. Her face exposes her panic.)

Sean: What… uh, Katherine, right?

Kat: Don't go. I mean… holy god is a demon! Stay with us.

Sean: I know how to use my powers, don't worry.

(The demon is still throwing fireballs at the forcefield. The shield starts to get weaker.)

Mathew: Well, let's give him the box!!

Demon: I support the kid's idea. He has a brilliant future… in his other life.

Vlad (sweating): Damn…

(Three fireballs hit the forcefield and breaks it. Vlad blacks out. The demon smiles. Kat screams. Sean gives Mathew a box.)

Sean: Don't let him have it.

Mathew: Dude…

Sean: I'm going to be okay…

(The demon throws him a fireball. Sean raises his palm and a short white ray came out. It hits the fireball disappearing.)

Mathew: What the…

Sean: Stay away!

(The demon extends his palm too and a wave of wind throws Mathew and Kat to the wall. Mathew let the box fall. Sean throws another ray but the demon shimmers out before he could get hit. He shimmers in front of the box and the guys.)

Demon: Pandora's Box…

(Mathew jumps to cover the Box. The demon kicks his back. Sean throws him a ray but the demon picks the box up. The ray hits the Box that slowly opens itself. A white light covers the screen.)

BACK IN TIME.

[Scene: The same day – Morning. High School. Kat is cleaning his locker. A guy gets close.

Guy: Hey…

Kat: Oh, hi Merrick.

Merrick How are you doing?

Kat: The locker is doing better than me. I don't know why but it smelt like a flower shower.

Merrick That supposed to be a good thing, don't you think?

Kat: No, I'm allergic.

Merrick Oh…

(Kat closes the locker.)

Kat: So, what are we doing tonight?

Merrick In Wednesday? You always want to party.

Kat: That's my modus vivendi.

Merrick Well, this senior guy invited me and my friends to his flat tonight.

Kat: Ok, 9pm…

Merrick: I mean… it's not a club party. Is more like "drinking beer and watch movies" party…

Kat: Great (she looks at her watch.) Oh, I'm late, see you… (She runs.)

Merrick Later…

Kat: AT 9PM!

Merrick But…

[Cut to Scene: Sean's House. The front door is knocked. A bathroom shower is heard.

Voice: Coming.

(Inside the house, a guy is buttoning his shirt. He opens the door. There is a couple outside.)

Sean: May I help you?

Lady: Don't you recognize me? I'm your cousin! Hello.

Sean: … uh?

Man: Oh, excuse my Si… Simone. That's her name. I'm her husband.

Simone: That's right.

Man: We are in a rush today. Can we come in?

Sean: Um… sure, I don't think we are family. Do you sell something?

(Sean walks to the kitchen leaving the couple grumbling. He came back with two glasses of water.)

Simone: Water? I mean you could at least ask us what do we…

(The man gives her a sight.)

Simone: Sorry.

Man: Excuse her again; she's really… really annoying sometimes.

Sean: Uh-uh.

Simone: Anyway, cousin, we need your help.

Sean: I don't really know you. It's pretty scary to have a pair of strangers in my home but whatever I can do to help you…

Man: We need the Box.

Sean: A box?

Simone: Pandora's Box…

Sean: I think… you need to go.

Simone: Come on, we know you are a demon.

Sean: Uh?

Man: Paige!

Simone: Jar!

(A jar decorating the place that was at the corner orbs out and then in to hit Sean's head. He falls to the floor. The couple covers with bright lights and reveals their identities: Phoebe and Paige – The Charmed Ones. Phoebe's cell phone rings.)

Phoebe: It's Piper, hello?

Paige: Don't move, buddy.

(Sean charges an electric white bolt in his hand. Paige was distracted seeing Phoebe. He throws it to her but orbs out. She orbs in.)

Paige: You think you are clever, don't you? I said don't move. (She grabs a potion from her pocket. Phoebe holds her hand.) Hey.

Phoebe: He's not a demon, Paige.

Paige: What? He just threw me an electric bolt.

Phoebe: Piper talked with the Elders, he is not related.

Paige: What?

Sean: Wait… You said Pandora's Box? Are you the former Guardians of the Box?

Paige: See, he knows too much to "not being related". Are you perhaps half-demon at least?

Sean: No…

Paige: Oh, I almost vanquish an innocent then. Here, grab my hand.

(Paige helps him stand up. She heals his wounds of the jar's glass.)

Sean: Thanks, I guess.

Phoebe: What do you know about Pandora's Box?

Sean: I just know that long time ago my stepmother told me that I was going to protect that Box.

Paige: Did she tell you that?

Sean: She told me a lot of things. Of course I didn't believe her until three years ago when I develop…

Phoebe: Your powers…

Paige: Cliché…

Sean: I spent these three years a lot of time training myself. I didn't know why but having these powers gave me the confidence I didn't have, but that didn't block my normal life.

Phoebe: Was she a prophet? Didn't she tell you about premonitions or stuff like that?

Sean: A lot, mostly about demon tales. But she didn't tell me a more horrific history than the first one.

Paige: May we hear it?

Sean: I vaguely remember it. It was about a girl.

[Scene: High School (different one). A girl is running from two clearly upper-level demons.

Sean V.O: …named Hope. She was going to be the Guardian of Pandora's Box: a container that has evil spirits and evil of mankind.

(Hope turns around and releases an energy blast. The demons aren't affected.)

Sean V.O: A time will come when the evil from the Box is, by any cost, going to be released. But Hope never lost it… never lost hope.

(Hope hugs the Box and a bright crimson light comes from her body. She explodes in lights, vanquishing the demons.)

[Scene: Back to Sean's house.

Sean: Her will to survive and protect her heritage was so strong that she purifies her body to protect the Box forever.

Phoebe: I see. Your stepmother surely was a powerful prophet.

Sean: Yes…

Paige: We are talking about the Hope girl we met, right? But where is the Box now?

Phoebe: It moved on, of course. And if I remember correctly, another girl was meant to born to protect it.

Paige: That clashes with her stepmother's first history. Isn't he supposed to be the new protector?

Phoebe: Yeah, but premonitions can be tricky sometimes. I can say it for sure.

Paige: Well, we can scry her.

Phoebe: That's right. Let's go to the manor.

Sean: Um… guys.

Paige: Yeah?

Sean: Can I go with you guys?

Phoebe: Why do you want to?

Sean: I expended a lot of time believing in my stepmother and believing in her histories… especially the Box one, because that was the only one that involucrate me. I just… I just want to see her, and see the Box.

Paige: You can defend yourself, I think is okay, but don't separate.

Phoebe: Right, orb us.

(Paige touches Phoebe and Sean. They orb out.)

[Scene: Night. Inside a department, there is a bunch of guys seeing "Kill Bill". A door bell sounds.

Merrick I'll go!

(He goes over the door and opens it. Katrina is outside.)

Merrick Kat...

Guy 2: Wow, look guys, a beauty. Come in!

Kat: See Merrick, they are waiting for me.

Merrick Don't you understand that THAT was not an invitation?

Kat: Why are you always trying to protect me? Besides (more girls come from an elevator) I came with my own party. Come on girls, come in!

(The girls go into the house and the boys start screaming. One of them goes over a room.)

Guy 3: Mathew, come here, where are you going?

(Kat was putting a CD in a stereo but she notices Mathew. She left the CD to follow him.)

[Scene: Department. Bedroom. Kat opens the door. The guy took a book and starts to read.

Kat: Hey, may I come in?

Mathew: Uh… sure. (He hides the book.)

Kat: You read?

Mathew: No, um... just a little.

Kat: It's okay. I read too. I mean, I'm a Harry Potter fan.

Mathew: Sure you are.

Kat: Although I only read them because I don't want to go to the movies and get all confused because the screenwriters are not that good, but they're okay, you know what I mean?. I love the special effects and the hotties… I'm talking a lot, right? Sorry. Don't you like them?

Mathew: The hotties? Not interested.

Kat: The movies…

Mathew: I'm fine with them.

(Kat sits in his bedroom.)

Kat: You're more introverted than I thought. Don't offend, but you look happier before we arrive.

Mathew: I'm not that good meeting new people.

Kat: Well, let new people know you instead. So, do you live alone?

Mathew: Yes, but my brother lives in the next department so… it's not real independence.

Kat: You have a brother? Why don't you live together?

Mathew: We both like our space, and he can afford two departments. I don't complaint at all.

Kat: (Smiles) I'd surely don't.

Mathew: I'm sorry; I didn't ask your name. You should think I'm…

Kat: Stop thinking too much, it's only a conversation. I'm Kat.

Mathew: I'm Mathew…

(They shake hands. The crowd from outside start screaming. The light goes off, but Mathew and Kat are both covered in white orbs and transported.)

[Scene: The Charmed One's Manor. They appear in an attic and separate, freaked out.

Kat: What…. Are…

Mathew: Oh my…

Piper: Finally! After 24 spells, it works.

Mathew: The spell? Who are you? Witches?

Phoebe: Yes…

Kat: Oh my god.

Sean: Don't be afraid. We're not demons.

Mathew: Demons?!!

Piper: That word… delicate to newcomers.

Sean: Oh...

Piper: See, I'm Piper, they're Phoebe and Paige, my sisters and he's…

Sean: Sean Myers.

Kat: Don't show scary to them, they're witches.

Mathew: I don't know, they're not all ugly and anger like I thought.

Paige: You want to see that kind of witches to believe us? OK…

(Paige raises her hand to glamour [shape shift, but Phoebe stop her.)

Phoebe: You're developing a bad addiction to aggressive magic, sis.

(Mathew sees that Kat is shaking a little.)

Mathew: Let her go.

Piper: We will, and we will let you go too, but we need to talk to her first.

Kat: What do you want from me?

Piper: Didn't you saw a weird box lately? Old-fashioned, maybe macabre…

Kat: No.

Piper: She's not the Guardian.

Paige: What about you guy? Anything?

Mathew: No way.

Sean: I think that we're only freaking them out. I'll ride you to your home.

Phoebe: When you get to your home, you're not going to remember anything, don't worry.

Kat: What the hell…

Paige: I can orb them back.

Phoebe: No, Paige. Your magic needs to rest. You need to rest. You're kind of an addict.

Paige: I'm not addict.

Sean: Let's go.

(Sean touches both of them by their back and goes out the attic. A twister of red sparkles appeared in front of the sisters. They turn around to see.)

Phoebe: What's that?

(The twister stops and one box is revealed.)

Piper: Pandora's box…

(Paige goes out to stop Sean, Mathew and Kat.)

Phoebe: I… don't get it. Why it appeared right here and right now?

Piper: Maybe they need to touch to close the circle of magic? Who knows...?

(Paige enters.)

Paige: They are gone.

Phoebe: They couldn't get too far. Let's go before a demon attack them.

(Leo walks in.)

Leo: We have our own demons to attack.

Piper: Great, Phoebe put the Box near the Book of Shadows. We are going to explain all of these to them tomorrow.

Phoebe: Got it.

[Cut to scene: Streets. Sean, Kat and Mathew are walking slowly.

Mathew: When I heard "ride" I thought "He got a car".

Sean: I didn't remember that I arrived… "orbing".

Kat: Are you guys serious? I mean… magic?

Mathew: And you were talking about Harry Potter…

Sean: It's something like that, though improbably works with wands and Phoenixes.

(They laugh. A demon starts to shimmer in behind them.)

Sean: Hey, you didn't tell me your name.

Kat: Katherine.

Mathew: Mathew...

(The demon takes Sean in his shoulders. The guys screamed and run. Sean kicks the demon and starts to run as well.)

Sean: Crap…

Kat: What's that?

Sean: Difficult to explain.

(They see a van on the other sidewalk.)

Sean: Let's borrow that van. Go, go!

(They run across the street and get in. The demon tries to create a fireball, but can't materialize it.)

[Scene: Inside the van. There is a guy sleeping in the front seat. Sean moves it to drive.

Mathew: Do you think this would get us troubles?

Kat: It's excitingly scary.

Mathew: God…

Sean: Shhh, don't wake the…

(The guy wakes up.)

Sean: Guy up.

Guy: Are you stealing my van?

Kat: No, no, no. See, a monster is chasing us and we need your van to escape. We have to do this fast because he can attack us anytime.

Guy: Cool, I was dreaming that stuff… sort of.

Mathew: I think he's high.

Guy: No' I'm not, just a little drunk. I'm Vlad, nice to meet you all.

Sean: Let's talk later.

(They leave the zone quickly. The demon shimmers out.)

[Scene: The Charmed One's Manor. Attic. At the side of the Book of Shadows, the Box glows intensely and disappears.

TO BE CONTINUED…