Hello hello!! I am back and have finally finished another story. I know, it took me long enough! This story pained my very existance and I was considering scrapping it all together, but after talking with my Fiction Pal, Dreamer, my writers block was removed and I managed to finish this story. This story is about all nine cousins and their friends Bianca, Warren and Blake. If it starts slow I'm very sorry but stick with it, I garantee the end is completely worth it! I will say that I am not entirely sure if I have the end of the story completed or not, I might need to get a second opinion if it should end where it is and then make a sequal or wrap everything up and lead into the next story. Who knows? So anyway I am sorry I haven't had a story up for a while and hope that you all enjoy the begining of The Power of Family!!!!
I do not own Charmed or it's characters I only own what you are not familiar with.
A young girl was walking down a dark alley away from a restaurant. Her stilettos were clicking along the pavement, her pace causing the pleats in her skirt to swish back and forth. She was a cute girl standing about 5'5 with medium length chocolate colored hair, and eyes to match. She thought she heard something behind her and quickly turned around. She scanned the alley looking for the source of the noise but saw nothing. She quickened her pace down the alley, and upon hearing the noise again she broke out into a run. Suddenly the air rippled in front of her, causing her to stop.
"Prepare to die witch" the demon said as a fire ball formed in his hand.
The girl started to back away, but never turned her back towards the demon. When the demon released the fire ball, the girl tapped into his emotions to gain control of his power and channeled the fire ball back at the demon. The demon was surprised by the maneuver, but managed to shimmer out before being hit with his fire ball. The girl saw her opportunity and ran further down the alley. The demon shimmered in behind her and grabbed her.
"Not today witch" he said as he held an atheme to her throat. Before the demon could do anything, the atheme disappeared from his hands in a pink heart and he went up in flames, leaving the girl unharmed.
"You ok Portia" a voice said from the darkness.
"Just peachy, almost didn't make it down this far. Clearly he didn't expect me to have an active power" Portia replied to the darkness.
A girl with shoulder length red hair and eyes the same color as Portia's, walked out from her hiding place to double check that her sister truly was alright. As she stepped forward she put away the atheme that she stole from the demon.
"I guess we should head back to the attic to check in with the others" Peyton said as she and her sister hearted out of the dark alley.
Across town three girls were hanging out in a coffee shop. One girl had bobbed hair the color of the coffee she was drinking. Her dark brown eyes were flirtatiously looking at a young man across the room. Next to her were two girls who looked identical. They both had sandy brown hair just past their shoulders, and matching brown eyes. They were engulfed in a conversation about a girl's magazine, paying little attention to the other girl with them. The cute boy from across the room got up and walked over to the ignored girl.
"Hi, I'm Jake, want to take a walk while these two continue their discussion?" He asked the dark haired girl.
"I would love to" the dark haired girl said standing up and the two left the coffee shop.
Once they were out the door the other two girls stood up and followed them at a safe distance.
"So do I get to know your name?" Jake asked.
"That depends" the dark haired girl asked walking slightly ahead of Jake.
"On what?" Jake asked as he conjured an atheme.
The dark haired girl waited, using her intuition to know when he would strike.
"On how interesting I find you" she said.
"Oh, I'm like nothing you've ever seen before" Jake said as he thrust the atheme forward.
The girl could sense the motion and levitated in the air, to the surprise of Jake. The young girl completed a back flip and landed behind the warlock.
"You're a witch" Jake said whipping around. He lifted his hand to strike again.
"Atheme" came a voice from the dark. In a flurry of orbs the ceremonial knife disappeared from his hands, and then landed in his gut. The warlock known as Jake burst into flames.
"Nice work sis" Faith's voice came from the darkness as the two approached their cousin.
"No problem, you alright Parker?" Hope asked.
"Yea, I'm fine. Not even a scratch" Parker replied with a smile.
"Well, shall we head back to the manor to see if everybody else is alright" Faith asked.
The three nodded. Hope and Faith disappeared in two columns of orbs, while Parker vanished in a heart.
In a pool hall in down town San Francisco, three young men were playing pool. One was about 6'2 with blonde hair and piercing blue eyes, the other two had brown hair. The one with the darkest brown hair had jade green eyes and was about 6'1, and the one with the lighter brown hair had eyes like golden honey and was the shortest standing about 6'0. Although they were shooting a decent game of pool, they kept looking over at the next table where a young lady about 5'8, with long dark brown hair and a haunting pair of eyes was playing against two other men. She was wearing extremely low black leather pants, and a turquoise colored corset cinched top that showed off a lot of cleavage and bared her midriff.
"13 ball, side pocket" the girl said as she lined up her shot. She drew the cue back and struck the white cue ball. The 13 ball went into the side pocket as she said. "Well, well, looks like you boys need to brush up on your skills" she said as she walked around the table to her next shot. "8 ball, off the back rail into the top left corner pocket" the girl said with a seductive smile. She took her shot, and the 8 ball did exactly what she said would happen. "Sorry boys, looks like I win again" the girl said as she took money off the table and headed for the exit, swaying her hips as she left. The two men she was playing against walked over to a table with three other men, and then followed the girl out of the hall. The three younger men who had been watching her, waited as the five angry men went after the girl, and then they followed the group out. The girl walked to the side of the building as two of the men came in front of her and cut her off. Behind her the other three made sure she couldn't back up.
"You cheated" a man wearing a black button up shirt said.
"Maybe you just suck at pool" the girl responded.
The other man, wearing a red t-shirt stepped forward and grabbed the girl's arm. "Maybe you need to learn some manners" he said as he pulled out a switch blade.
"Huh, that's new" the girl said as she looked at the knife and then hit the man hard with a left hook.
"You bitch" the man said as he staggered back and then powered up a fire ball. The other demons with him all did the same.
"Um, I think you mean witch" the girl said as she orbed out of the ring. She reappeared behind the demons standing next to the three young gentlemen from inside.
The five demons released their fire balls. The boy with the dark brown hair sent two back at the demons with a wave of his hand.
At the same time the boy with the lighter brown hair put his hand out and said "Fireballs" two more fireballs disappeared in orbs and went back towards their owners. Only one demon was left standing.
The tall blonde hair boy put his hand up and an energy ball appeared. He threw it at the remaining demon, who immediately went up into flames.
"Whoo hoo, score one for the… do we get a cool name with this prophecy, or are we just still witches?" the girl asked the three boys.
"Cool name, what do you mean a cool name?" H.J. asked.
"You know like The Charmed Ones" Mel retorted.
"I think that one is taken Mel" Chris replied with a smile.
"I know but that is why I am asking, we can't just call ourselves the power of 3x3, that just gets too long" Mel quipped.
"Well, maybe the others will know what to call us, let's get back to the manor" Wyatt told the group. "And for future reference, you're not wearing that outfit ever again" Wyatt said pointing a finger at Mel.
"Oh come on Wy, this was an undercover mission, it was a necessary bullet that I had to take for the group" she replied with a smile.
"Yea, I'm sure it was painful" her brother retorted.
"Ok, so back to the Manor" H.J. said as he orbed out, followed by Wyatt, Chris and Mel.
Back at the Manor the nine cousins discussed the vanquishes.
"Nobody was hurt right" Wyatt asked. He often felt it was his responsibility to look after his younger cousins.
"No Wyatt, we were all fine. But I don't think that we should rule out always having a white lighter in every group next time we have to split up" Peyton replied.
"Oh Peyton, it was just fine" Portia said to her sister.
"I wonder what's been going on. It just seems like there have been more and more demons above ground in the past few weeks" H.J. said.
"Well maybe if we just stopped randomly scrying for evil we wouldn't find so many" Hope suggested.
"Guys, I know it sucks, but we can't just abandon our duty. Like it or not, we're protectors of the innocent and vanquishing demons is what we do" Chris said encouragingly.
"Yea, we know Chris; it's just sometimes it takes us away from our lives. I mean, we're supposed to be young and carefree. Sometimes it just means we can't be" Faith piped up.
"Ok guys. That's enough demons for the night. Faith is right, we are young and carefree and deserve to have some fun" Mel said to her cousins.
"Yea, I'm supposed to meet up with Warren for movie night so I think I will go and be young and carefree with a bowl of buttery popcorn" Portia said as she hearted out of the attic.
Hope turned to her sister and Parker "Come on, I know a container of ice cream with our names on it" she said grabbing them and orbing out.
"Well… P3?" Peyton suggested as she turned to her cousins.
In unison H.J. Mel, Wyatt, and Chris said "P3" and they all disappeared in orbs and hearts.
Well that's the first chapter and we have many more to go! Please review I love hearing from you all whether it be good or bad. Thanks for reading will hopefully post soon!!