Prologue
'Alright so….here is my, very own, rewrite of Charmed: Season 4 and onwards, with all four sisters. I have NO IDEA WHY I am starting ANOTHER story but I couldn't help myself! This idea popped into my head and it just WOULD NOT leave, so I had no choice but to obey. I HAD to write it! I just hope that its good enough….
P.S….this is just like an intro or somethin' like that. Just to remind you all what happened at the end of Season 3 BUT do not worry for I have uploaded the next chapter for ya so please….read on.'
Previously On Charmed….
'O-o-okay Dr Griffiths, listen to me. This is anything but….' Prue trails off and freezes.
Piper turns to her older sister with a frown and asks, "What?" looking her up and down quizzically.
Prue squints her eyes, "Uh…I don't know. I just felt a chill, PHOEBE!" she yells up the stairs to her baby sister.
"ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT! I'M COMING!" Phoebe's faint voice yells back down from the attic.
Suddenly the doors to Halliwell Manor fly open as a tornado type wind comes bursting through it.
"PHOEBE!" Piper screams this time as the wind spins closer to her and Prue.
"PHOEBE!" Prue shouts again as the wind collides with her and Piper, knocking them both to the ground and winding them badly.
The tornado keeps on spinning until it transforms into the terrifying form of Shax, the Source's personal assassin. The grey skinned demon with long grey hair and rags for clothing stops directly in front of his next victim.
"Dear god!" Dr Griffiths breathes in horror as he stares up at the towering monster above him.
Prue looks up from the floor just in time to see Shax prepare to form an energy ball and kill Dr Griffiths.
She pushes herself up off the floor and runs at the doctor, "NO!"
Prue pushes him clear just in time but is struck with the energy ball instead.
"AH!" she screams out as it rams into her chest and throws her backwards. Prue gasps out a choked whimper as she crashes through the wall to the sun room, taking most of it down with her, and landing on top of all the rubble; bleeding and broken.
"PRUE!" Piper watches, horror struck as her sister's body hits the floor before scrambling desperately to her feet and running towards her, right into the path of Shax.
He forms another energy ball and strikes Piper with it.
"AH!" She cries out in pain as it strikes her on the left side, spinning her through what is left of the wall before she lands next to Prue amongst the rubble; bleeding and broken.
"What are you?" Dr Griffiths asks fearfully, his voice trembling as Shax slowly turns on him.
"The end." is the demons cold reply and then he conjures another energy ball in the palm of his hand.
Just as Shax is about the claim his third victim, Phoebes comes running down the stairs.
"Evil wind that blows, that which forms below. No longer may you dwell, death takes you with this spell." Phoebe chants the vanquishing spell as quickly as possible, watching in mild satisfaction as the energy ball shoots back into Shax, who groans in pain then turns back into the wind and flies out of the door again.
Breathing a quiet sigh of relief, Phoebe looks frantically around for her sisters' and her heart stops dead upon finding them lying amongst the rubble. Dying slowly.
"Oh no!" Phoebe breathes out, chest tightening as she races towards their bodies to crouch down between them, "Oh god!" she raises her head to the ceiling and calls for their healer, "LEO! LEO!"
"Hurry! It's bad!" Phoebe begs when he orbs in beside her.
Leo crouches too and lays his hands over Prue and Piper's bodies. A golden glow appears and he begins to heal them. Soon enough the glow disappears and Piper opens her eyes. Seconds later Prue begins to stir and she slowly opens her eyes too.
"I want you too use the magic-to-magic spell to send me down there." Phoebe informs her sisters' determinedly, handing Piper said spell, "I reworded it to make it work."
"Uh….Phoebe that's awfully dangerous." Piper points out slowly as she takes the paper, wary and uncertain, "If something goes wrong we won't be able to contact each other."
"I'll be safe. I'll be with Cole." Phoebe counters certainly, "And he'll bring me back so don't worry about that." She adds in turning to Prue for the first time.
Prue's eyes fill with distrust and concern as she calmly states, "You're banking a lot on that little potion of yours."
"No I'm not…." Phoebe corrects her with a small smile, "….I'm banking on Cole."
"Oh my god!" Piper gasps in shock as she stares wide eyed and open mouthed at the television screen.
"Oh!" Prue exclaims in surprise, dropping the phone in her hand as she does and eyes finding the reason for her sister's distress, she covers her mouth in disbelief.
They are watching themselves battle Shax on T.V. A news crew had caught them on camera fighting the demon.
"What are we gonna do?" Piper asks of her big sister helplessly but Prue just stands there with her hands over her mouth in shock.
Because the worst thing imaginable has happened: The Charmed Ones have been exposed.
"Well, once I'm down there you won't be able to contact me if you get into any kind of trouble." Leo informs Prue and Piper warily.
"Honey, what more trouble could we possibly get into?" Piper questions with a bitter smile, "Besides once time resets itself, then everything should be fine. So go and be careful." She tells him certainly, leaning up for a kiss.
"Yeah you too." Leo replies tightly and then orbs out.
Piper closes her eyes briefly as she watches her big sister: the strong and sure Halliwell sister that always knows what to do and how to fix things, fall apart in front of her. Fear climbs its way up her spine as she realises they've never been in this kind of trouble before.
"….our entire future, our entire destiny, could be wiped out just like that!" Prue exclaims with a snap of her fingers at the same time a loud bang is heard.
"AH!" Piper cries out sharply, jerking forwards; a look of utter confusion mixed with pain twisting her face.
Prue stares at her sister with fearful eyes, "What was that?" she asks Piper who looks down at her middle in reply.
Prue follows with her eyes and gasps at what she sees; blood stains Piper's lilac shirt, the colour spreading at an alarming rate as Piper's body shakes uncontrollably.
"Piper-Piper!" Prue jerks forward when her sister falls, catching her in her arms, "Piper." she breathes her name, heart constricting as it hammers painfully in her chest.
Prue raises her left hand up into her line of sight and her eyes widen as blood drips from it, "Oh!"
Prue looks down at her terrified little sister who lies helpless and bleeding on a hospital gurney as their innocent and his team of nurses move about on Piper's right side, working desperately to save her life.
"You hang in there. Don't you dare die on me." Prue mumbles out the warning through clenched teeth and watering eyes.
"Prue….I-I'm cold…." Piper gasps out and Prue's eyes snap to Dr Griffiths in desperation.
"….I can't-I can't-I can't, feel, my, legs."
Prue's knees start to buckle as she fights back her tears and fear and she drops down out of Piper's line of sight.
"Don't go!" Piper pleads broken and breathless and utterly petrified. She can feel her life slipping away.
Prue pushes herself back up to face her little sister.
"I lo-ve...you." Piper whispers one last time and then she jerks up and down before going limp on the gurney, her now vacant eyes staring up at nothing.
"Oh god!" Prue's horrified eyes stare at the green line on the beeping machine in disbelief.
Pipers' heart has stopped.
"Full arrest. Paddles!" Dr Griffiths shouts at the nurse.
Prue looks around desperately, watching as the doctors shock Piper; her body jerking up and down three times in a row as they frantically attempt to restart her heart.
Prue cries silently until they stop trying at all.
Dr Griffiths turns to the devastated sister with genuine sorrow in his eyes, "I'm sorry."
Prue looks back at her whitelighter with fire in her heartbroken eyes, "Can you make this right or not?" she demands from him, her voice void of everything but anger.
Leo nods slightly but continues to cry over his wife's now lifeless body.
"Go!" Prue orders sternly and grabs his jacket, roughly pulling him back and away from Piper, shoving him until he orbs out.
"O-o-okay Dr Griffiths, listen to me. This is anything but…." Prue trails off and freezes.
Piper turns to her older sister with a frown and asks, "What?" looking her up and down quizzically.
Prue squints her eyes, "Uh…I don't know. I just felt a chill, PHOEBE!" she yells up the stairs to her baby sister.
But Phoebe doesn't reply and Piper's frown deepens as Prue calls out again.
"PHOEBE ARE YOU THERE?"
But again there's no reply.
Suddenly the doors to Halliwell Manor fly open as a tornado type wind comes bursting through it.
"PHOEBE WHERE ARE YOU?" Prue exclaims in a panic as the wind collides with her and Piper, knocking them both to the ground and winding them badly.
The tornado keeps on spinning until it transforms into the terrifying form of Shax, the Source's personal assassin. The grey skinned demon with long grey hair and rags for clothing stops directly in front of his next victim.
"Dear god!" Dr Griffiths breathes in horror as he stares up at the towering monster above him.
Prue looks up from the floor just in time to see Shax prepare to form an energy ball and kill Dr Griffiths.
She pushes herself up off the floor and runs at the doctor, "NO!"
Prue pushes him clear just in time but is struck with the energy ball instead.
"AH!" she screams out as it rams into her chest and throws her backwards. Prue gasps out a choked whimper as she crashes through the wall to the sun room taking most of it down with her and landing on top of all the rubble; bleeding and broken.
"PRUE!" Piper watches, horror struck as her sister's body hits the floor before scrambling desperately to her feet and running toward her, right into the path of Shax.
He forms another energy ball and strikes Piper with it.
"AH!" She cries out in pain as it strikes her on the left side, spinning her through what is left of the wall before she lands next to Prue; bleeding and broken.
"What are you?" Dr Griffiths asks fearfully, his voice trembling as Shax slowly turns on him.
"The end." is the demons cold reply and then he conjures another energy ball in the palm of his hand. He releases it towards the doctor and it strikes his chest, hurtling him clear across the room and almost completely through the window into the back garden.
Shax surveys the damage he's caused, looking from the dying Halliwell sisters' to the already dead doctor and back before turning into the wind and leaving the Manor through the front doors. They slam closed behind him, shattering the glass windows.
'To be continued…I told ya'll it was a silly little filler chapter. Click that little button down to the right and read on.
Thanks very much for giving my story a shot. I really appreciate it! :-)
All my love….Rachel….xo'