Chapter 1

Mrs Ryan

The usual peaceful Wednesday air of the Halliwell Manor was broken by a huge body flying into the dining room. Paige was knocked to the ground.

"Oh my God, Paige!" Phoebe screamed as she ran to her sisters side, "Are you okay sweetie," she asked.

"I fine, you stay back, out of the way," her sister replied as she got on her feet and ran back to help her other sister in the hall.

Phoebe couldn't abide standing back; she longed to help her sisters but knew that she was of no use, just an inconvenience. Suddenly, she heard an explosion coming from the next room and ran through to see what it was.

"Great, I missed," Piper winced as she stood on a blanket of feathers that used to be the sofa,

"And the girl got away," Paige obviously stated. Piper threw her a look, "What?"

Unexpectedly, an amazing light entered the room and two men entered, dumbfounded at what they saw:

"What happened here?"

"Don't ask and help us clean up," Piper snapped back, "Not you," she retorted at Phoebe, "you sit down!"

"Oh my God, she kicked,"

an excited Phoebe screamed a short while later to the population of the Halliwell household. An assembly of relatives huddled into the dining room, which was awash with rich, vivid colours of burgundy and more and lumbered with glorious, although chipped and glued, antiques that reminded Phoebe of her extraordinary life, to establish what the noise was about. A display of white lights floated above this crowd and, rather than be fretful like any normal person would be at this unnatural sight, they simply smiled and laughed as though it was a normal view. For them, of course, it was.

For, you see, Phoebe is a witch and that little person inside her is a powerful offspring of one of the charmed ones. The Charmed Ones consist of Piper Halliwell, Phoebe Ryan, although formally Halliwell and Paige Matthews. They are a trio of extremely powerful sisters who are destined to fight demons and warlocks, saving innocent mortals from the harsh reality that is black magic. They all have their own individual powers, like every witch does. Piper can freeze and speed up time, Phoebe receives premonitions about the future and past and Paige can move things with her mind. Paige has not always been in on the action though because she is Piper and Phoebe's long lost sister. They had an older sister, Prue, who unfortunately died as a result of magic. Paige never met her and she has always regretted that.

The sisters have been building lives outside their bleak destiny. Piper has a husband, Leo, who is also the sisters' whitelighter (a person assigned to watch over witches) and has two beautiful sons with him, Whyte, 8 and Chris, 6. Paige is engaged to be married to a handsome lawyer, John, who knows about Paige's powers and thinks they're kinda 'cool'. As for Phoebe, well she is now known as Mrs Ryan. She is married to Adam, the principal of the local high school. She is blissfully happy, has a delightful 3 year old daughter, Cara and, as you know is pregnant with her extraordinary second child.

"Oh, she's gonna be a good one,"

Piper exclaimed excitedly as Adam, one of the men who came rushing in, softly rubbed his wife's belly. Phoebe was extremely happy and aware of how lucky she was to have such wonderful sisters and have such an amazing husband and daughter, when Cara came rushing into the room where everyone stood and tumbled her mother over;

"Mummy! I've missed you soo much!"

Phoebe, being a deserved protective parent, sent her daughter to stay with her Granny Ryan while trouble was about. You see, as Phoebe felt her baby kick, they were just after an intrusion from an interesting looking demon. It was a young girl and she looked no more than 16. Nonetheless, she was still dangerous and potentially harmful to her little girl. Phoebe kissed her soft forehead:

"Do you think it's safe for her to be back?" Phoebe questioned.

"Of course," Paige replied, "I think we sent her flying back home to nursery for the time being!"

"Well if you're sure," Phoebe looked hesitant, then she turned to Cara, "did you have a good time at Grannies?"

Cara nodded adorably. She had brown, wavy hair and gorgeous big brown eyes and was the image of her mother. Phoebe loved her so much and could not imagine her life without her.

"Okay, let's go upstairs and see if we can find out who freaky young girl is," Paige piped up. The rest of the sisters seemed to agree and with that, a bright light blinded Adam and Cara. When they could see properly everyone was gone;

"I hate it when they do that!" Adam exclaimed.

Piper closed the book in dismay, caught by the dust creeping from it and coughed slightly:

"Nothing in here," she distressed to proclaim. Her two sisters looked up at her and sighed:

"Yea, I've tried scrying and nothing!" Paige moaned.

"Who is this girl? She was powerful, I'll give her that. And what did she want with us?" Phoebe questioned and with those words came an aching pain in her stomach…where her baby lay. She cried out in pain.

"Phoebs, what's wrong?" Paige rushed over to her while Piper ran to get Adam.

Then, as suddenly as it started, it was gone,

"Nothing…nothing, it's over now… It's funny, you know, like the baby was trying to tell me something?"

"I still think you should get to a hospital or something or maybe I should call Leo…"

but Paige was interrupted by Adam rushing to his love's side, "what's wrong?" he questioned, worry printed all over his face.

"I fine," she replied over the worry, "It was just for a moment,"

"Still…I think you should lie down," and with a majority vote, Phoebe was forced to resign to her bed, not able to rest though, with worry and anguish on her mind.