Chapter one
The start of 2020
Prudence Halliwell, a forty nine year old witch and charmed one, lived in the Halliwell manor with her three younger sisters, three brothers in law, her husband, her four children, and the children of her sisters, as well as the family dog Belle, an eight year old English Springier spaniel, and P.J.'s two year old black cat Trixie.
It was New years eve and Prue was out walking Belle to keep her out of trouble, her four year old daughter Passion was tagging along. Her white-lighter husband Andy was decorating the manor with their nine year old daughter Payton, seven year old son Preston, and five year old daughter Paris.
Prue's younger sister Piper Halliwell, a forty six year old witch and charmed one, was cooking the meal for the party with the help of her almost seventeen year old son Wyatt and her almost thirteen year old daughter Melinda. Her white-lighter husband Leo Wyatt, who was retired from being a white-lighter, was cleaning up the manor and had forced his fifteen year old son Chris to help. Their youngest daughter, four year old Aria, was playing with her cousin's cat Trixie.
Prue and Piper's younger sister Phoebe Halliwell, a forty four year old witch and charmed one, was fighting with her four year old daughter Penny about wearing what she had picked out instead of what the child wanted to wear: pajamas. Her cupid husband Coop Halliwell was placing crystals around the manor to keep out the evil supernatural during the party. Helping him was their daughters twelve year old Prue Johnna (more commonly known as P.J.), ten year old Parker, and six year old Patty.
Prue, Piper, and Phoebe's younger half sister Paige Matthews, a forty two year old white-lighter witch and charmed one, was bathing her four year old daughter Mackenzie who had decided to turn the back yard into a mud slide. Her mortal husband Henry Mitchell was doing the final load of laundry he had been to tired to do the night before. Their twelve year old daughter Tamora was in a heated argument with her eleven year old brother by adoption Henry junior. Tamora's identical twin sister Katalina (more commonly known as Kat) was trying to break it up.
At noon P.J. went to the attic and placed three white candles in a circle, this was how they summoned ghosts. The first ghost to appear was Penny Halliwell, more commonly known as Grams, she was the maternal grandmother of Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige. The next ghost was Gram's daughter Patty. Grams and grandma Patty changed into human form and stepped out of the circle to hug the tween. P.J. lead them down to the living room where the rest of the younger kids ran for hugs, and the others waited patiently to greet them.
For a few hours the family spent time catching up with Grams and grandma Patty who were only summoned on new years, Christmas, and to preform weddings and Wiccaning though it had been years since there had been a wedding and four years since there had been a Wiccaning. At three the other guests started to arrive. It started with Sam Wilder orbing in, he was the white-lighter father of Paige, he only came around once or twice a year. Next was Victor Bennett, the mortal father of Prue, Piper, and Phoebe, he came around at least three times a month and for every birthday. Mortal Elise Rothman then arrived with her almost thirteen year old niece Alyssa who was best friends with Melinda and good friends with Tamora since two months ago, Elise was also Phoebe's boss. The families' close mortal friends the Morris family, which was inspector Darryl his wife Sheila and their boys: newly turned twenty one year old Mikey, and almost eighteen year old Darryl Junior. Finally the families' close witch friends the Jerkins family arrived, they were Billie her older sister Christy her husband Austin and their two children: seven year old Ginny, and four year old Austin. Everyone who had been invited new about magic.
Elise Rothman was in charge of the local newspaper and had been Phoebe's boss for years, Phoebe wrote the advice column for the news paper. Mortal Alyssa had been best friends with Melinda since they were four, and had been enemies with Tamora since they were four until two months ago when the bonded over a show called Candy cane girls. Darryl had been a good friend of the family since before almost seventeen year old Wyatt was born and as an inspector helped them out of legal messes when they were caught vanquishing demons, and Darryl Junior had been friends with Wyatt since they were quite young. The family had a complicated history with Billie and her sister but were now good friends with them, and Ginny was best friends with Preston (on most days) and Jamie was friends with Passion Aria Penny and Mackenzie, in-fact he shared a birthday and birth year with them.
The adults were gathered around the living room talking about boring adult stuff. Wyatt and Chris were with Darryl junior sitting on the floor against the wall connecting the living room and kitchen, they were playing on their cell phones. There was music on so of course Melinda was dancing with Alyssa P.J. and Tamora. Kat was reading comic books in the kitchen at the table with Henry Junior. Parker and Payton were talking about how cool it would be if everyone lived outside...(that is what you call kid logic.) Preston and Ginny were chasing the little kids around the house pretending they were the tickle monsters. Belle and Trixie were playing around by pouncing on each other.
So the typical dynamic of the children's relationship were as followed. Wyatt and Chris were very close, Wyatt got along with all the children but didn't spend much time with them except for with his sisters, and Chris didn't spend time with any of the other kids. Melinda was closest with the twins and P.J., she did play with the other kids but not often. Tamora didn't like any of the other kids but Kat had recently bonded with her younger brother. P.J. was close with Parker but didn't spend much time with her other sisters or with her younger cousins. Parker got along well with P.J. and sometimes played with the little kids. Payton did not get along with her brother Preston most of the time but often played with the other kids. Preston pretty much didn't get along with any of the kids in his family. Patty and Paris were very close but had their fights, neither seemed interested in playing with the youngest. Passion got along with Penny but usually fought with Aria and Mackenzie. Aria and Mackenzie had a love hate relationship every few minutes.
Skip past supper and the next few hours that followed. It was almost midnight and time for the count down. This was the first year all of the children had managed to stay awake. No one wanted to believe 2019 was already over, it had gone by so fast. They had to accept it, it was time to say hello to 2020 in 10 seconds.
"9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...HAPPY NEW YEARS!" Everyone shouted.
That was the end of the celebration and the guests went home or returned to the spirit realm. Wyatt and Chris headed to their rooms. Tamora, Kat, P.J., and Melinda went to the room they shared, Henry Junior went the room he had to himself, and Parker and Payton went to the room they shared. Patty and Paris shared a room, Preston had his own room, and Passion shared a room with the other four year olds.
On the third of January the fourth birthday for Passion, Aria, Penny, and Mackenzie didn't seem all that bright. It had turned out all of the usual guests had to work, and their parents didn't have enough money to throw a party that would involve other four year olds and their parents. They would have to make do with they could do, and that was the individual families spending the day together out of the manor doing things that didn't involve money.
Prue and Andy took their three daughters and son to the park since all of them were still at the age where they enjoyed this. They walked around the play ground watching Passion climb and go down slides. Payton, Preston, and Paris made up a game but it soon ended in Payton fighting with her brother over rules and cheating.
Piper and Leo took their four kids mountain climbing on an actual mountain. Wyatt and Chris did this without fear or doubt. Melinda was a little nervous and hesitant to do it but knew if anything bad happened she could just orb back to the manor even if she was falling in mid air. Aria was strapped onto her father since she might be too young to to think about using her powers if something were to go wrong.
Phoebe and Coop took their four kids to paint poetry though this did cost money. P.J. loved this since she was really into art, she was painting a horse. Parker was trying to neatly paint a tea pot but the paint just got everywhere. Patty and Penny didn't care about neatness and in the middle started using their hands to paint their cup and plate.
Paige and Henry took their kids the jungle gym that was having a "free day" for birthday kids under eleven and up to five siblings. Tamora and Kat went wild swinging on vines and pushing each other down tunnel slides. Henry stuck to playing with Mackenzie which only happened once in awhile, they were playing on the lower parts of the jungle themed play structure.
When evening came along Piper brought the entire family to her restaurant called The Halliwells, where Wyatt and Chris worked after school, and let them eat for free. She had even had her cooks make a birthday cake with all four of the birthdays kids names and faces on it. They really loved this surprise. So it didn't matter that they didn't have a party, they had been happy just doing fun things with their family.
The sixth of January was the start of exams for Wyatt and Chris. Wyatt was having his English exam with his friend Dakota Sanders, who had known since pre-school and she was also Chris's girlfriend of eleven months. Chris had his English exams but it was a different class than his brother and didn't have any friends in it since all of his friends were Wyatt's grade eleven friends, he was in grade ten.
It was also the day Piper and Leo had a parent teacher conference with Melinda's seventh grade teacher Mr. Harrison. At Westcott elementary school each teacher met with their student's parents right before second semester to let them know how their child had done first semester, even though they also met them in October at the open house. This day it was the older grades meaning eighth and seventh grade. Mr. Harrison said Melinda had done well and their was nothing to worry about.
After Piper and Leo met with Mr. Harrison Phoebe and Coop had to since P.J. was in his class. He told them P.J. was doing well and was a moddle above average student. They were very proud of their daughter and she was proud of herself as well.
Paige and Henry had to met with Mr. Harrison after Phoebe and Coop because their twins Tamora and Kat were in his class. He told them Tamora had been acting up and refusing to do some assignments and had been in trouble for two pranks. Kat had been on good behavior but did share blame with Tamora for the second prank.
The seventh of January was the second day of Exams. Wyatt had his math exam with his close friend Austin who he had known since grade school. Meanwhile Chris had his Math exam and wasn't happy about having to take it, though he was good at math. It was also the day the elementary school middle grades, meaning grades six five and four, had parent teacher meetings.
Paige and Henry had a meeting with their son's sixth grade teacher Mr. Quinton. They were told what they already knew. Henry junior was a well behaved child and an above average student. However he needed to work on coming out of his comfort zone and practice participating in class discussions.
Phoebe and Coop had a meeting with their daughter Parker's fifth grade teacher Mrs. Cascade. They were informed Parker was a bright student who didn't always put her best effort into her work. They were told Parker often complained about the working being to hard but refused any help offered. Parker had also been sent to the office for disrupting class, she had also been bickering with another student constantly.
Prue and Andy had a meeting with Payton's fourth grade teacher Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Jones told them Payton was smart but often asked for help without attempting to do the work on her own. She also still threw tantrums during gym when they were not going outside. Other than that Payton was rather well behaved.
The eighth of January was the third day of Exams. Wyatt had his parenting exam with his close friend Kennedy who he had known since pre-school. Meanwhile Chris had his French exam, his parents had forced him to go take it. It was also the day the elementary school had parent teacher meetings for the lower grades, meaning grades three two and one.
Prue and Andy had a meeting with Preston's second grade teacher Mr. Andrews and were nervous. They were told Preston was often sent to the office for disrupting class and refusing to do his work. Preston was also known to pick fights with other students and not just Ginny (who by the way was a little smart angel.)
Phoebe and Coop had a meeting with Patty's first grade teacher Mrs. Cannon. Mrs. Cannon told them Patty was very smart and had a good heart. However she had to be told constantly to keep conversation for recess and she talked way too much during class discussions. They had already known their daughter was talkative.
The ninth of January was the fourth and last day of Exams. Wyatt had his History exam with his good friend Carter who he had known since early elementary school. Meanwhile Chris had his Cooking exam, he wasn't happy since it was just questions and no actual cooking. It was also the day the elementary school had parent teacher meetings with the parents of the kindergartners.
Prue and Andy had a meeting with Paris's senior kindergarten teacher Mrs. Hudson. Mrs. Hudson said Paris was doing well with her school work and behaved most of the time. However the five year old often put her nose where it didn't belong which caused fights with the other kids. When walking in the hall she often disrupted other classes yelling "HI" to her older cousins and siblings.
The eleventh of January it was a chilly Saturday afternoon. Wyatt was in his room at his desk helping Melinda with her homework, he often did this. Chris had been in his room playing video games when he felt his charge call him. He knocked on his brother's door and told them Miranda, their only charge, needed them. Together they orbed to the top of a volcano where Miranda was inside holding onto the top by two fingers. Wyatt and Chris helped her out and healed her wounds as Melinda went around looking for whatever had done this to her, but whoever or whatever it had been was long gone.
"I was just in my room drawing when it shimmered in and grabbed me" Miranda explained.
"Ok I'll stay nearby in case it comes back, it sounds like a demon, you two head home" Wyatt instructed and orbed Miranda to her house.
At home Prue came into the living room and plopped herself onto the couch where her three sisters were sitting. All of the children were either out with Victor for the day or on a play date with Billie's kids. It just so happened Prue had come across a situations needing the charmed ones.
"All week one of each kind of species has been going missing" Prue informed them.
"Any tracks or reason" Piper asked.
"My guess is someone is building an army, but they haven't left any tracks"
"How many species so far" Phoebe asked.
"One fairy, one leprechaun, one witch, and one gnome" Prue shared.
"Ok Phoebe you and I will go talk with the others of those species and warn others, Prue you and Piper will snoop around see if you can find anything then hit the book of shadows" Paige stated, her sisters nodded in agreement.
"The guys and I will place the crystals around the manor and warn Billie as well Christy and Victor since he has most of the kids" Andy stated.
Phoebe and Paige arrived to the magic realm where the fairies lived. There were hundreds of fairies but only five talked with them, and only one had seen something. The fairy named Glitter stated she saw the missing fairy Pollen leave her house in the middle of the night and heard her scream, she had seen someone take her but it had been to dark to even tell what type of creature it was. After talking with the fairies they went to visit the leprechauns, they were a small population of only two hundred. "He took him in the night I saw him shimmer. You know we're already going extinct we can't afford to loose anyone else" one said. It turned out the witch that had gone missing had been Miranda, so Prue and Piper went to the volcano to search.
"No clues no traces but we know it's a demon and he is taking them in the night" Paige recalled when the four sisters met up at the manor.
"Except for Miranda, Wyatt said she was taken only two hours ago" Phoebe pointed out.
"Let's search the book of shadows for shimmering demons that kidnap other species" Prue suggested.
The four sisters headed up to the attic and opened the famous book of shadows. (The book written by each Halliwell who every lived since Melinda Warren, each generation added new spells, new creatures, new other magic related things they were the first to experience.) So far the sisters had only written a few things of their own. Prue flipped through the pages and stopped on one that caught her eye, she began reading it out loud. "The Elite team. An upper level demon almost as powerful as the source known as Mingola began capturing one of every magical species to form an unbeatable team. This team had good and bad creatures but in the end all would become evil and take on the boss of every species...the white-lighters, the elders... Though luckily I was able to stop it and trap Mingola in a spell that would only last sixty years."
"This is Gram's handwriting, have we ever come across anything else she's written" Phoebe asked.
"I don't remember, but we do know the spell has broken" Piper replied.
"We must stop it, does it say how to find him" Paige asked.
"No but that was because the power we need didn't exist back then. He stays invisible until he kidnaps" Prue read.
"So we can try to figure out whose next and catch him in the act, or we can have P.J. use her new power of insight vision to find him" Phoebe stated.
"Yea but it's your choice Pheebs, she's your daughter" Paige pointed out.
"I have confidence she is capable and ready" Phoebe replied.
Phoebe called her father and told him to send Chris and P.J. home, soon enough the children orbed/beamed to the manor in-front of the adults. Prue explained what was going to happen. First Chris would use his sensing power to find Mingola's location then once they were there P.J. would use her power to see him. P.J. would tell her mother and aunts where he was and they would say the vanquishing spell that had made up but didn't no for sure would work.
Chris sat on a chair in the attic and close his eyes to concentrate. It took longer than usual since he didn't know what Mingola looked like and had never met him. Eventually he was able to sense the demon had just arrived back at Miranda's house, which meant Miranda and Wyatt were in trouble. P.J. instantly beamed herself and the mothers to Miranda's house and shouted at Wyatt to activate his orb shield around his charge. P.J. looked around and spotted the demon by the door she quickly pointed in that direction and the mothers said the vanquishing spell. Mingola started to scream like he was on fire and finally burst into aches that magically disappeared. (This is what happened after all evil were vanquished.)
The next problem they only realized at that moment was they had no idea where the kidnapped creatures were. They all orbed/beamed home to get Chris's help again but Chris had already done this job. He was sitting in the living room with the missing fairy, leprechaun, and gnome. "We thank you once again" the leprechaun thanked as they got ready to return to their homes. "Just doing our job" Piper replied. "Also we love those visits from the sweet children and they are welcomed anytime" all the creatures agreed with the leprechaun. The mother's hadn't been aware their children had been to the magic realm visiting the creatures but they didn't mind it. It was important for the children to be in touch with the magical world as well as the human one.
It was Sunday morning when Andy and Paige were summoned by the Elders. They orbed "up stairs" and were greeted by the boss Elder. This meant they were either getting a new charge or were in trouble, these were the only times they dealt with the boss directly. They couldn't think of anything they would be in trouble for.
"I need you both to focus on a new charge. A mortal women is a month pregnant with a demon's baby and both could be in danger from the demon or others. You need to keep the mother safe as she will be a future white-lighter, and once the child is born give it to someone magical, we know this child will be able to be good and fit in just like any other magical child" Boss Elder gave the orders.
This felt like when Paige had been assigned to look after Henry junior's birth mother Kristina who had only been sixteen and was being targeted by a dark lighter. Paige ended up having to orb Henry out of the womb and right after Kristina died from being shot by the dark lighter's arrow. Paige and her husband Henry had adopted him since his biological father was a criminal. This time Paige knew she wouldn't be keeping the baby, the household wouldn't be able to handle another child, not with the sixteen children already living in the Halliwell manor.
Later that day the boss Cupid and the boss Elder arrived at the manor wanting to speak about the children. "This is a choice, for those of who take on your white-lighter lives have the option of becoming an immortal white-lighters after your first mortal death" boss Elder informed. "Same with you cupids, even you Parker if you do end up wanting this life after death" Boss cupid explained. "Of course you won't be allowed to make this decision until you are eighteen, and shortly before your death we will ask you again just to be sure" Boss Elder added. "Well that is something they have plenty of time to think about and it is a very serious decision, thank you for letting us know" Piper stated. Piper still wasn't a fan of the Elders due to everything they had put her and Leo through while their sons were toddlers and even before then.
It was the best of time of the day, bedtime, and since there was school tomorrow the kids all went to bed early. (Before they had been allowed to stay up as late as they wanted on the weekends, but that started causing issues such as kids being in grumpy bad moods the next day and children waking up the ones trying to sleep by making too much noise. So now on weekends they were all allowed to stay up until eleven, but on school nights they all, even the teens, went to bed at eight.) Piper and Leo were the only ones still awake, they had just finished watching a movie in their bedroom.
"I wanted to talk to you about something important" Leo stated turning the TV off.
"What is it" Piper always became worried when someone said they "needed to talk."
"I got all my white-lighter powers and immortality back to keep my family safe" Leo recalled, "I was thinking when all of our children are out on their own I could go back to being mortal. I could have my age caught up with yours and we could grow old together."
"You would do that?"
"I would rather spend a mortal life with those I love than spend an eternity alone after you're all gone."
"It is your choice, but I would love that" Piper stated and kissed his lips lovingly.
Tuesday, January fourteenth, it was almost supper time so Leo was going around telling all the children. It had been so quiet he didn't want to disturb the peace by shouting at them to gather at the table. He walked in on Melinda throwing her stuff animals and dolls into a cardboard box on her bed. "What are you doing sweetie?" "It's time to get rid of all my kid stuff, I'm almost thirteen you know" Melinda replied. Leo hadn't noticed Melinda had officially grown out of all of her childhood things.
It was getting close to bedtime and Tamora was doing something she never did, she was reading Mackenzie a bed time story. She actually seemed to be enjoying spending time with her little sister. Tamora had started bonding with her sister a few days ago because she was jealous Kat had bonded with Henry and spent more time with him than with her. Tamora finished reading the ugly ducking and Mackenzie hugged her, she liked this. The big sister kissed the little sister's forehead and tucked her into bed.
"I like it when you're nice to me" Mackenzie stated as Tamora was about to leave the room.
"Don't get attached kid, I'm not the sister you should like"
"That's not my opinion, good night Tamora."
Tamora had always known Kat was the likable twin, the one people should like and go to. She had always felt she would never be a nice or as patient as Kat. She knew deep down she was a good person, but she was always afraid to show it. Afraid it would make her look weak, make her loose her reputation. The truth was on the outside Tamora put on a touch I only care about me act, but on the inside had a good heart and really did care about her family and friends. It felt nice that Mackenzie, who had been called Tamora junior, could see it, maybe she could become close with the little impatient scribbler after all.
(Don't forget I have a wikkia page wiki/MyCharmedfanfictioncharacterinformation_Wikia hopefully this link works this time. All the main characters have had a major update. Also Kat and Tamora share a page since they are twins.
