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Chapter 2

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Gwyn, unpatiently knocked on the manor's door.

Slowly the manor door opened, and there stood a girl Gwyn had never seen before.

"I'm sorry, But I think I have the wrong house… Sorry for the interruption." Gwyn said, as she began to walk down the steps, thinking of what to do next.

"That's alright!" Paiged assured. " I'm not sure, but maybe if you tell me the name of the people you are looking for, perhaps I can help you."

"Well , I'm looking for the Halliwell residence. Do you happen to know where their house might be?" Gwyn asked.

Paige looking at this young girl in curiosity, answered. "This is the Halliwell residence. Please, come in. My name is Paige. Let me go get my sisters. Be right back !"

"Ah! So, your Paige, I've heard some about you." Gwyn mentioned as she preceded into the manor hallway, and sat on the couch. "Yeah, I am. Who might you be....." Paiged asked.



"My name is..."

"GWYN!" Piper interrupted coming from the kitchen, "how have you been, hun?" Piper all excited, and happy to see her favorite cousin.



Piper studied her face and knew something had to be wrong.



But, as soon as Gwyn was about to say something, Pheobe ran down the stairs in a rush. "Gwyn!"



"You guys, I have bad news. Mom's been badly hurt!" Gwyn announced.

"How, what happened?" a worried Piper asked.

" When we were talking down stairs today, we heard a loud crash. My mom told me to stay down stairs and wait for her to come back, but if at anytime I were to hear anything out of the ordinary, I was to call out for someone named Amara. 'Amara', who I later found out was something called a Whitelighter, rescued me from a hideous creature who had nearly killed my mother and myself. She orbed me to this creepy, secluded room.

When we got there, she told me that I was a witch. Can you believe that? I mean, Seriously, who the hell does she think she is? ." Piper nodded, and Gwyn continued.

"Before we had left the room, I asked her where my mother might be and how she was doing, but the only thing she told me was that she knew nothing at the moment. I mean, she feeds me all this crap, and she can't even tell me how my own mother is." Gwyn said, looking at the floor and trying not to cry.

Pheobe, Piper, and Paige looked at Gwyn, but Piper looked the most worried.

"Well, Gwyn, Amara's right. You are a witch." Gwyn looked confused.

"What do you mean? This hast to be some sick practical joke, right?" Gwyn looked around and shouted, "This isn't funny, knock it the fuck off..."

"Gwyn!" Pheobe shouted, "We're serious. Your a witch."

"Gwyn, go over to that lamp, over ther in the far right corner. Lift it up, and drop it." Piper directed.

Gwyn walked over to the lamp, lifted it, and droped. As Piper motioned her hands, the lamp froze. Gwyn looked at the lamp, looked ath the three sisters, and became feak in the knees and almost fell on to the couch.

"Your serious. Wow! this is really weird, you don't even know." Gwyn commented, as she 'stared off in to space'.

"It's true, and I do know how you feel. It was only a coupple of months ago that I first found out I was a witch. You hate it at first, but then you come to terms, but it never stops being weird."

"I'm a witch, Wow!" Gwyn kept repeating.

Out of no where, a blue light formed into the manor hallway. Piper looked over and smiled. "LEO!"

Leo just smirked and gave Piper a good, long hug. After, he proceeded in to the living room.

"Gwyn. Am I right?" Leo questioned.

Assureing him, she replied " Yes, my name is Gwyn. Who are you?"

Leo continued to sit in an over stuffed chair direct next to Gwyn. "My name is Leo. I happen to be Piper's husband and these girl's Whitelighter. I assume you know what a whitelighter is, right?" Leo asked.

Still dazed and confused, she replied, "Yeah, yeah I do. Their kind of like a healer. Am I right?"

"Good.." Leo replied.

Gwyn squwirmed a little, trying to get some comfort on her acky muscles.

Pheobe noticed her pain and couldn't help but interrupt. "Gwyn, are you hurt?"

"Yeah, wow, I must have forgotten, I don't how that's possible." she said, almost as if she were speaking to herself. She looked up at Pheobe as she placed her right hand over the painful area and began to rub. " I guess I had forgotten about my pain till just now." Piper looked concerned and asked. "What happened exactly Gwyn?"

" WELL, I didn't mention that I went up there to check on my mom after I heard the scream, thinking she might need my help. When I got up there, this creature saw me and I ran. When I was down stairs it seemed to be that this thing appeared out of nowhere right in front of me and it had thrown me against the wall. I think I must have blocked the whole thing out of my mind."

" Gwyn, let me have a look." Leo suggested. Gwyn was reluctant, but Piper glared an assuring galer that Gwyn let him look. Gwyn stood up and leo lifted her shirt. He noticed had a huge black bruse on her back.He placed placed his hands on the wounded girl and in seconds, the bruse slowly dissapeared.

"Thankyou, Leo!" Gwyn said. Gwyn felt and looked a whole lot better.

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While Leo was healing Gwyn, Pheobe went up into the attic and brought down the book of shadows into the living room, and started flipping through the pages like a maniac. Hoping to find this demon as fast as possible so they could vanquish the bastard.

"Whoa there girl...you'll probably kill someone going that fast !" Piper replied, sarcastically.

Pheobe smiled at Piper's smartalick remark.

"Piper, what is that?"

"Well, it's a Book of shadows. A book of shadows is like a Witch's scrapbook almost. You can put anything you want in it, manly spells and postion recipies'."

Pheobe paused before she looked up at Gwyn from the book of shadows.

"Gwyn!" Pheobe shouted, "is this the demon? It has dark blue skin, Black patches, and Huge large fangs, Right?"

She then looked down at the book of shadows once again, just to get one more good glance at the demon.

"Yes, Yes, that's the asshole."

"Well, here he is. Not much on the ugly thing, but all it says is:

'Luchious.' Once mortal; devoted his life to the dark side, trading his soul for great Powers and wealth.

Persuaded by the deomn......" Pheobe paused.

"By whom?" Piper and Leo demanded.

"By the powerful Belthazar. To live as a demon forever under Belthazar's rule."

Phoebe stared at Piper in confusion. She immediately looked towards the stairs and noticed Cole staring at them, hoping not to be noticed.

"So, what are my favorite witches doing today on this lovely evening?" Cole remarked sarcastically.

"Nothing, just looking for a specific demon; maybe you can help. Cole !?!" Pheobe said sounding angry and quite serious.

Looking down at the book of shadows noticing the heading, "Ah, so I guess you found out about Luchious, huh ?" Trying to sound cutesy.

"Yes Cole, I did. Why didn't you mention him to us before?"

Pheobe demanded an answer, but she knew she wasn't going to get one from Cole, anyway.

"So. Who's this?" Cole asked, turning to Gwyn. Hoping to change the subject successfully.

Pheobe sighed, but allowed him to change subject at the moment.

"This is the girl's cousin, Gwyn." Leo announced as Pheobe couldn't help but give Cole an angry glare.

"Hi.... Cole, right?" Unsure whether to be nice to him or ignore him all together, but instead Gwyn just nodded her head hello.

What do you know about Luchious Cole?" Piper demanded answers.

"He's nothing more then a follower. The only powers he has are blinking, and fire ball.

"That's it?" Paige replied.

"Pheobe, I cam up her to tell you that I'm going to be gone for a little while." Cole sprunge on his new wife.

"Where are you going?"

"A little out of town working, I'll be back early tomorrow morning." Cole leaned over to kiss Pheobe on the forehead, as he left the manor."

"Love you!" Bang! the sound of the door slamming rang throught Pheobe's ears.

Leo looked up at the cealing as Piper looked at him, and knew what her dear hubby was going to say next.

"Oh, no your not, they can't take you now..." Piper whined.

"I have to, I have other people to take care of...I'll be back soon, I promise!" Leo smiled and leamed over to give Piper a sweet, simple kiss.

"I love you!"

And off Leo went.



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Crash!!!

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"Great timing!" Paige sarcastically remarked.

"Oh god, not now." Pheobe pleaded. The girls looked at one another and hoped it was just their cat knocking over a couple of boxes from in the attic.

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I know, stopped in a weird spot. I did so because I need to think of more interesting things to write about, so this story doesn't get dull really quickly. Put please, review and tell me what you think about my first Charmed Fan fiction. Criticize me, so I can fix any lame or useless areas, but don't be too harsh. Thanks!