Chapter One: 2016

Halliwell Manor. 2016

Piper Halliwell was tucking in her youngest child when she heard a crashing noise coming from the attic. She quickly ran up the stairs to see what or who had caused the noise. When she burst through the door she saw two demons trying to steal her ancestral Book of Shadows. She threw her hands up and blew the first demon up, and then she turned to blow the second one up when she heard a piercing scream coming from downstairs. She quickly blew the demon up and ran downstairs.

When she reached her daughters room she saw a demon was trying to grab her daughters, Penny and Melinda, but he couldn't get to them, because her eldest child, Wyatt had his force field up. The demon kept trying to penetrate the force field with his fireballs, but they kept bouncing off and flying back towards him. As soon as he realized he couldn't do that he began to shimmer away.

"Oh no you don't." Piper said throwing her hands up, but instead of blowing him up the blast sent him flying into a bookshelf. She raised her hands up again, but this time the demon shimmered out in time. "Dammit!" she said as she threw her hands in the air. Then she looked at her children and gave a sigh of relief. "Are you guys alright?"

Her daughters ran towards her and she held them tightly. Then she looked up at her son and gave him a grateful smile. "Come here buddy." She said as she held her arm open for him. He padded his was over and embraced his mother. Then before she could stand she was tackled from behind as her other daughter came to hug her. "Hey-y, where'd you come from?"

"Mommy, is the mean man gone?" Penny said as she looked at her mother with red-rimmed eyes.

"Yes, baby, he is. Okay you guys are not sleeping alone tonight, come on your all coming to sleep with me and daddy." She stood and began to walk towards her bedroom with the kids in tow. As she opened her door a cloud of smoke appeared in front of her and by gut reaction she threw her hands up but stopped her when she saw her husband. "God Leo you scared the crap out of me, wait are you just now getting home?"

"Yeah sorry, the Elders had an emergency meeting for the staff and I guess it ran a little longer than expected." He said as he shrugged his shoulders.

"You think. Anyways we need to…."

"DADDY!" she heard her daughter's scream as they tackled their father.

"Hey what are you guys doing up?" he said as he laughed and began to tickle Penny, who began to giggle. Piper couldn't help but to smile.

"A mean man attacked us, but Wyatt put his force field up and then mommy blew him up or rather back." Melinda said as she looked at her daddy with a sad smile.

"What! Are you okay? Did anyone get hurt?" he said panically looking back and forth between his wife and kids.

"No we're fine, but we need to talk, now." She said as she folded her arms across her chest.

"Uh sure, why don't you guys go lay in mommy and daddy's bed, 'kay."

"Kay." The girls said in unison as they all ran and began jumping on the bed.

Piper walked into the hall with Leo on her trail. He closed the door, but left it ajar just in case. Before Piper could say anything Leo wrapped his arms around her she fell onto his chest and softly began to cry. "Shh, it's okay, everyone's alright."

"Leo how can this keep happening, I mean one minute everything's fine and then the next I'm vanquishing more demons. I can't keep doing this, and I definitely can't let the kids go through it either."

"I know, but for now let's just be happy that they're alright." He kissed the top of her head as then began to retreat for their room for the night when they saw their son Wyatt running towards them. "Hey buddy slow down."

The look on his face scared Piper even though she didn't know what was happening. "Wyatt what's wrong?"

"It's Chris. He's not here, I tried sensing him, but I can't find him anywhere."

A hooded demon stood over the unconscious boy's body and smiled. I'm almost complete with my mission and soon I'll have every power I need to take out the Warren Line. " Roland, here NOW!"

A demon shimmered in with a little girl lying in hid arms. He set the girl in the cage and walked over to his master. "Yes master."

"Have you heard word form Alistair yet?"

"He hasn't reported in yet, but we have the third child being kidnapped as we speak."

"Good, good. Well find Alistair and make sure the third and fourth child make it here." With a wave of his hand he sent the demon on his way, then he turned on his heels and walked towards the cage. The little girl had woken up and now was crying. "Shh, it's okay little one no one's going to hurt you…yet."

Phoebe Halliwell was sent flying into the wall behind her. "Ugh, can you please try and not send me flying into the wall next time?"

"Sorry, I guess I got a little bit excited." Cassie Halliwell said as she walked over and helped her mother to her feet. "You okay?"

"Yeah, but it's a good thing you're getting control over your powers, but I think that's enough for tonight."

"But I was just getting started"

"Ah, I said that was enough, now go brush your teeth and I'll be in your room in five minutes, 'kay."

"Yeah, but we better work on it tomorrow" Phoebe laughed and kissed her daughter on the head.

As she watched her daughter walk towards the bathroom a demon shimmered in and threw an energy ball at Phoebe. She dived to the floor and grabbed his foot. The demon fell to the ground and landed on top of the side table. Phoebe stood up quickly and grabbed a potion bottle that they were practicing with and threw it at the demon. He screamed and then burst into flames.

As Phoebe started to walk towards her daughters' room, her youngest daughters, Patty and Brianna came running from their room crying. "Hey babies, it's alright, tell mommy what happened." She said as she put her hands on Patty's shoulders.

"Mommy, daddy's hurt and they took Laura." Patty said as she hugged her mother and began to sob.

"What?" Was all she could say as she held her daughters?

"Grace Lee Mitchell, if you don't stop running from me you will not play with your ducky." Paige Matthews said as she orbed in front of her daughter, who decided to run naked through the house during bath time. Grace stopped and started to cry, but she ran to her mother and reached for her. "Thought so." She picked her up and began climbing the stairs towards the bathroom, when she heard a scream coming from the living room. "Honey why don't you go find your brother and stay there okay." Grace nodded and ran up the stairs to find her brother.

When Paige reached the living room she saw three demons, one wrestling with her husband Henry. "Hey!" she cried. The demon closest to her materialized a fireball in his hand and threw it at her. "Fireball!" she said as she threw her hand out. The fireball reached the demon and he burst into flames. She turned to the other demon, but he shimmered out before she could fight him. "Henry move."

"NO!" he cried as he pinned the demon against the wall and stabbed him with the umbrella lying on the floor. The demon screamed and burst into flames, joining his friend.

"Henry, are you okay?" Paige said as she walked over to her husband and hit him in the arm.

"Hey-y what was that for? And yeah I'm fine."

"That was for not listening when I said move."

"Sorry, but you know I'm always up for a fight." She couldn't help but to smile and embrace his hug. Suddenly they heard a crash coming upstairs. Paige looked at Henry and orbed away before he could move.

She appeared in her daughters' room where she saw a demon carrying her daughter Samantha in his arms. She was trying to wriggle free, but he held his hand over her head and her body went limp. "No." Paige said as she stared at the demon. "Samantha!" she cried as she held her arms out waiting for her daughter to materialize. The demon gave Paige a smirk, but then when he looked down in his arms, the girl had disappeared. She materialized in Paige's arms, once she had her, Paige orbed them both to where her other children were. She set Samantha on Henry Jr.'s bed and orbed back to the demon, which, was still standing there. He threw an energy ball at her, but she was quicker. "Energy ball!" she said as she redirected it back towards the demon, but instead of bursting into flames, he flew into the wall. Paige began to charge towards him, but he shimmered before she could do anything. "Damn, not you too"

"Come on mom, just ten more minutes." Evan and Eric Johnson said in unison as Billie Johnson turned off their TV.

"Sorry boys, but you have school in the morning and I'm not going to get hassled by Mrs. Hughes, because why you're late."

"Man this sucks!" Eric said as he plopped down on his bed.

"Yeah well life's not fair sometimes, so there." She tucked them both and kissed them on the head. "Night you two" She closed their door and walked towards her daughter Sarah's room. As she opened the door she noticed that the bed was empty, she threw the door open and saw that a demon was holding Sarah in his arms. "Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing?" she said as she sent the demon flying into the wall behind him while Sarah was held in midair. Billie hovered Sarah towards her and grabbed her daughter from midair. The demon shimmered away. "Hey are you okay?" she said as she held her daughter close to her chest. She nodded her head. "Okay let's find daddy okay."

They left the room and ran right into her husband Ethan. He had a sleeping Rachel in his arms. "Hey what was all the racket for?"

"Demon just tried grabbing Sarah."

"What! Is she okay?"

"Yeah, but I think I should surround the house with crystals for the night."

"Alright, I'll take the girls to bed." He said as he kissed his wife and headed towards the girls bedroom.

The hooded figure watched the witches through his potion. He had succeeded in capturing three of the four children, but the fourth one was most needed. He waved his hand over the cauldron and the images disappeared. He walked over to the cage where he saw the children still unconscious from the effects of the spell.

A demon shimmered in with his hand covering his side, he was bleeding pretty badly since he was nearly killed by the witch. "Sire, most of the demons have been killed and I still haven't heard word from Alistair, should we-." He was cut off by the sound of screaming demons. The hooded figure turned and started to walk towards the opening of the cave, but stopped when he sensed a dark force coming. "Damn, she's here." He turned to the injured demon, "grab the children and follow me, quickly!" he hissed as he flamed out.