Here is another chapter for you all. I feel I should warn people that I get really cheesy sometimes (if you haven't noticed it yet you will in this chapter), but I hope that the moments of cheesiness can be over looked and you still enjoy the story. On that note…enjoy!

A group of demons shimmered in and Piper started to blow them up, Wyatt was conjuring energy balls and throwing them at the demons and Chris was redirecting energy balls back at the demons. More demons kept shimmering into the attic. Mel was behind a table searching for some powers, when she found something weird.

"What's this?" She thought. "I haven't sensed this power before." Mel tapped into Chris' head and was engulfed in a red light, a second later she was behind the demons.

"Behind you" She said in a nonchalant voice. With that all the demons turned and started throwing fire balls at Mel. Piper screamed when she saw the fire balls hit Mel and then she disappeared. Wyatt held out his hands and sent an incineration wave at the remaining demons in the attic. Piper sank to the ground crying and Wyatt tried to calm her.

Suddenly Mel stood up from behind the table and ran to her mom.

"Mom, mom, I'm alright, it was just an astral projection. I'm fine really" Mel said trying to consol her mother.

Gaining her composure after a few minutes, Piper grabbed her daughter and pulled her into a hug and said "Don't you ever do that again. I never want to loose any of you!"

"Let's go downstairs and make some tea mom" Mel said. "Chris and Wyatt can fill us in down their."

While they were making the tea, Wyatt realized something.

"Mel how did you astral project?" he asked. I didn't know anyone in our family had that power, well other than Aunt Prue, but I didn't think you could use the powers of a dead person."

"It wasn't Aunt Prue's power that I used" Mel said. Then she turned to Chris. "Why didn't you tell us you got a new power, that's a pretty big deal."

"I just wanted to try and learn the power and have it mastered before I told you guys" Chris said lowering his eyes. He knew he was about to get a lecture.

"Chris, I can only use a power as much as you all can. If you can't control a certain power, I can't control that power. But you have had that power for a while, I was able to distract the demons long enough for Wyatt to vanquish all of them" Mel answered back. She didn't like Chris being so distant, it wasn't normal for him.

"I'm sorry Mellie, I just wanted this to be mine for a while, I mean I didn't even get to use it in a battle first, you did" Chris said.

Mel thought about this. Chris was right. She had used his power before him. She was just so excited to find a new power she didn't even think that it hadn't been used in battle yet. Then she got worried. She didn't think her actions through. What if Chris had just gotten that power and hadn't practiced it, Mel wouldn't have had any control over it; she could have jeopardized her family's safety, not to mention her own.

"I'm sorry Chris, I didn't think about that" She said looking down. "I just was excited to find a new power; I didn't think that you hadn't used it against demons yet."

"I've used it against demons" he replied averting his gaze. "Last night when you saw me vanquish that demon in the back room I had just gotten back into my body. I summoned the demon and then astral projected out of a hiding spot, when the demon threw the fire ball I projected back to my body and sent the fire ball back to the demon."

"Wait you vanquished a demon last night at the club?" Wyatt said. "You guys didn't say anything about that."

"I forgot about that completely, the club was so busy I didn't even think to mention it to you Wyatt" Mel said recalling the incident in her mind.

"Chris honey, why would you summon a demon?" Piper asked worried.

"Don't worry mom" he said. "I had been practicing my astral projection on my own, I decided I needed to try it out against a demon so I found a low-level demon and summoned him. I just wanted to know if I could do it before I tried it out against demons I didn't know anything about."

Piper looked at her son with a serious look. Then realized he was right. Chris thought his power through and wanted to learn it before he let his siblings know about it.

"O.K. I'm very proud of you Chris for receiving a new power but next time let us know. Now what did you boys find out in the underworld, and why were we attacked like that."

"Honestly mom, we didn't find out too much. My sources aren't there any more. We tried sneaking into some caves but nobody was really talking about a new power. Then we were in this one lair eaves dropping on this clan of Drone demons and Wyatt decided to trip while we were creeping around. We knew we couldn't take them all on by ourselves so we orbed back here where we knew we would have back up." Chris said. "We heard them talk about working with the dark lighters though. Something about how the demons would have better luck with the bounty they are after."

"Well that explains why the demons are working with the dark lighters. Now what would dark lighters be after? You know besides white lighters." Mel asked.

"I don't know but we better investigate this further, your dad should be home from magic school soon we can ask him what else a dark lighter would be after" Piper said.

"On the bright side the underworld isn't organizing" Wyatt said happily.

"Well we don't know that for sure yet" Chris replied.

"True so let's keep investigating that too. But let's start making diner and we'll worry about demons afterwards." Piper said getting up from the table.

After dinner, Piper and the kids sat at the dinner table with Leo and told him about the day's events.

"Do you have any idea what else dark lighters would be after?" Piper asked.

"It's possible they are trying to go after the Elders. Eliminating the Elders would leave white lighters vulnerable, and leave their charges helpless" he replied.

"Have dark lighters ever tried to go after the Elders before?" Wyatt asked.

"We faced off against that warlock Ames that one time. He tried to go after the Elders remember" Piper added.

"And there were the Titans" Chris chimed in.

"Yea but like you said he was a warlock not a dark lighter and Piper destroyed the Titans a long time ago. I can't recall any time a dark lighter attempted to kill the Elders, but a clan of them could possible try it. They could even succeed if they had help from demons to keep the Elders busy with distractions" Leo said.

"That's got to be what they are after" Chris said, "It makes sense and it would give evil a huge advantage if the Elders were destroyed."

"We should tell them" Mel said. "Let's go summon one of them now."

"Do you think they will believe us I mean after everything we have done?" Piper asked Leo.

"Well if they don't then we will have to try and defeat the dark lighters on our own without their help" he responded.

Upstairs Piper cast the summoning spell for the Elders and a moment later Odin appeared.

"What do you want" he replied irritated.

Leo spoke first. "Odin we think something is going on in the underworld. We have reason to believe that dark lighters are organizing and teaming up with demons to try to destroy the Elders."

"What would make you think that" Odin asked sounding more irritated.

Piper and Leo told him the theory they had created earlier. The kids all chimed in and filled in the blanks with their experiences from the past day.

"As you can see we are trying to save your butts" Mel stated bluntly. She didn't like the Elders; she had driven away three white lighters before they finally said her brothers could be her white lighters. Mel always wondered why the elders felt the need to add another whiter lighter into the mix of her already large extended mostly white lighter family.

"I'll mention something to the council, but other than that I can't do much, not without hard evidence that the dark lighters are really trying to eliminate us. We have to keep the cosmic balance in order" he said. "But we appreciate the concern for our safety and we will be more alert" Odin added. With that he left the attic to return to the Council of Elders.

"Do you think we should have said we were doing this for the greater good, not for the Elders?" Mel replied and glanced at her brothers with a smile. They smiled back and laughed about the comment slightly.

"So what is the plan of action?" Chris turned and asked his parents.

"We can't do much yet, we need more information" Leo said.

"But we can make some vanquishing potions for the dark lighters and search for other demons they may try to form an alliance with" Piper said.

"What about the two clans that attacked us last night?" Wyatt said. "Should we go after them?"

"It wouldn't be a bad idea but all three of you need to stay together, I'll stay here and get started on the dark lighter potions" Piper said. She knew if she said no the kids would just sneak out in the middle of the night anyway. This way at least she knew where they were.

"We need to have a game plan though guys if we are going to try and do this quickly and without much of a battle" Mel said.

The kids sat down at the table in the attic and started coming up with a plan.

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