Piper screamed while Prue slammed the book closed. Prue, Piper, and Phoebe all stared at the book in complete shock.

"Where did you get this book!" Piper demanded.

"At a normal bookstore! It just fell into the isle!"

"Are you sure it didn't jump?" Phoebe screamed as the book flew open.

Yes I jumped. Whoop-de-do! Can we get onto business here?

Prue slapped the book closed and threw it into the fire place. They all sighed in relief; that was until they noticed that the book wasn't burning. Before their eyes the book flipped open.

You girls aren't very smart are you? The title on the cover says': Power

of the elements. That means that no element can hurt me. So can we please stop this?

"Get it out of the fireplace!" Phoebe screamed while Prue grabbed the poker and worked the book out of the fire and onto the floor. Phoebe grabbed it and threw it out the back window as hard as she could. She slammed the window closed and locked it.

"Ok, we are never going to speak of that ever again, do I make my self clear?" Prue said while sinking onto the floor.

"Agreed." Her sisters said while joining her.

KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

Their heads snapped to the attics brown wood door. They looked at each other in disbelief.

"There's no way, I tossed it!" Phoebe said while Piper got to her feet.

"This can't be happening. Books don't talk, they don't survive fire, and they diffidently don't knock!" Piper pulled open the door and saw the book flying in the air, like the wind was carrying it.

"What the hell!" Phoebe said while her sisters backed away from the door.

Ladies, will you please...

"What the Hell's going on here!" Phoebe demanded while the book entered the room.

If I told you then I would have to kill you...

"Ahhhhhhhh!"

Sigh... Can't they take a joke?

"You're not that funny!" Piper said while clinging onto Prue. She got the distinct feeling that the book was glaring at her.

Really? The last Charmed Ones found that one hilarious.

Prue glared at the book and locked the door. The Book floated over to the table sat its self down.

Now then, I am Elder White. You were incorrect in thinking that I was the author of this book. I am in fact I was a white lighter that has been reincarnated as a book.

"Ok that's pretty odd." Phoebe said while crossing her arms.

I'm a talking book and you think the explanation is odd? Do me a favor and don't speak for the next 5 minutes.

I am the Guardian of the Four, like the cover said. And I have been picked to guide you: The Charmed Ones. You may be asking yourselves 'why am I so honored?' So I will tell you. I am the best in my field, and you are the most powerful witches to come along in the next one hundred years.

"Well that's impossible, we're not witches." Prue said while walking closer to the book.

I'm sorry, I should have been more specific; I want all three of you not to speak for 5 minutes. Now then: of course you're witches, why do you think you were so interested in magic lately? That bond gives you power over everything that your element has to offer. These Elementals don't come along very often and when they do they usually need my help.

Any questions?

"Well since we are talking to a book the question is 'how can that be?' and explain this elemental thing." Prue demanded as the book answered:

If you had to pick between earth, fire, water, and wind, which one would you choose?

"Water." Piper said easily.

"Fire." Prue said without really thinking about it.

"Earth." Phoebe said with a smile.

See what I mean.

You three have the elements that you just named as your favorite, and the fourth sister will have wind.

"Wait a minute, now I know you have the wrong people. There's only three of us and there are four elements. Unless we have a sister that we don't know about, we can't be these elemental Charmed Ones." Prue sat down while her sisters just smiled.

You mean you didn't know? Your mother gave the fourth child up for adoption. Her name is Paige Mathews. If you find her then the circle will be complete.

"That sounded ominous." Prue muttered with an annoyed expression.

No, what sounds ominous is this; when there is good there is evil

And for that I am truly, truly sorry because it will be you that has to fight it.

"What!" Piper said in surprise. (The book talks and is also British)

"Great, we find one book and suddenly become super heroes." Phoebe said angrily while sitting next to her sister.

Not superheroes, those people are usually thrown into a crime by chance.

You chose this path before you were born. You knew that to balance your power you have to take on the responsibility with it. And if you think that you can't do this, or that someone has made a mistake, then you're wrong.

You are the Charmed Ones!

"We don't know how to control these elements yet alone be the Charmed Ones! We don't even know how to be witches!" Piper said. As the book just smiled.

That is where I come in.

Since I am a reincarnated book the entire wealth of knowledge is at your disposal. Minus my charming wit. I have anything you want to know about being a witch; I even have other authors. I can also show you where someone is.

"Do you have Silver Ravenwolf?" Prue asked in a smile. That had been the author she was looking for at the store.

Ah, a great choice. Silver has some amazing books for beginners.

Her books are…beautiful.

The book shivered which made Prue, Piper, and Phoebe a bit grossed out.

"How exactly does a book read another book?" Piper asked cautiously.

Oh, with pleasure.

"Yuck, that's what I thought." Piper said while trying to shake off the feeling of disgust.

Like I said, the information is not narrated by me. And just because I have a healthy
appetite for what is currently my dating pool has nothing to do with your learning.
If I'm willing to read as many books as I can to help you learn that's my business.

"So besides being totally freaked out, can you bring up Silver's Teen Witch?" Prue asked as the book flipped its pages.

Of course. Just one of my many talents.

The book soon came to a stop and Prue began to read.

I hope you know that this won't teach you anything, this is just a random book from an author you like

" Then how do we learn to control our elements?" Phoebe asked while the book listed some spells.

Phoebe, I want you to look outside the window and tell me what you see.

"Alright... There's allot of dead grass." She said as the book began to speak.

Repeat after me: As green as when the earth began make this a greener land.

"Alright... As green as when the earth began make this a greener land." She stared at the grass as it did nothing. She turned around and glared at the book.

"Nothing happened." She growled.

Look again

Phoebe turned back around and saw the grass growing quickly and more nicely. It was green and new. "Oh my God..." She said as the book began to close.

You see, you are witches! And soon you'll be able to do that without a spell
But please, be careful

If you lose control of your emotions then you could seriously injure some one

"Um, Mr. White. I have a question. How many witches are in San Francisco?" Phoebe asked while Prue and Phoebe laughed.

"Piper, I don't think that's a thing he can just look up in his magical pages." Phoebe said while Prue patted her little sisters shoulder.

There's exactly 808,976 people in this city and only 1,809 witches

Piper smiled happily as as Prue and Phoebe stood there in a pout. Oh how they hate being wrong. "How did you know that?" Prue asked as the book sighed.

I thought that we already established that I can do anything

"Yeah, well ya can't walk." Phoebe said with a cocky smile.

Haha, very funny. I'll remember that when you'r about to be attacked by a demon and you come begging for a spell

"Whoa, wait a minute! What do you mean Demon?" Prue said while freaking out.

Well you can't save the world without vanquishing any demons, not to mention vampires, ware wolves...

"Enough!" Prue said while turning around and walking toward the door.

Where do you think your going? We haven't even tested your powers yet

"And we're not going to!" She snapped while turning around and glaring at the book. "If you haven't noticed: we're just teenager and we have school, home work, studding..."

"And boys!" Piper said with a smile.

"Not to mention Karate." Phoebe said while pointing to her karate trophies.

Sigh... This is going to be a long day...

TO BE CONTINUED