From Leo's POV. lol the dragons like to play, apparently.

P.S. Thanks to Joleca for the review, I REALLY wanna see the episode "death takes a halliwell" but I haven't seen it yet... Cole will appear shortly! Sooner than you think... insert evil laugh

Please, Please, PLEEEASE R&R!

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"Leeeoo!!!!"

Leo groaned. He looked at the elder he had been talking with. He smiled and said "go. They need you. We can talk about this new power later,"

Leo nodded and orbed out.

He orbed back into the Halliwell Manor.

"You called?" he asked, folding both hands in front of his lap and wearing a benign but annoyed expression.

"Yes, we did. Paige thinks she found a new demon," said Piper, smiling at him.

She walked over to him and leaned her back against his chest so he could wrap his arms around her, which he did.

"New demon? Are you sure it's not the Avatars again?" he asked. The elders had only recently found out about the Avatars.

"Pretty sure. The thing is, we're not sure what kind of demon this is. Paige was the one who saw it, she says they shimmered into the cafe outside and there was fire..." Pheobe trailed off.

"They?" asked Leo, staring at Paige.

"She," she corrected him.

"She? Well, what kinda demon do you think it was? Did you check the book of shadows?" asked Leo.

"We did, but the closest thing we could find were dragon demons. We just don't see how it could match up. They don't shimmer, and not with fire," said Piper.

"Well, I'll check with the elders, see what they think," said Leo. With that, he orbed out, not taking Piper with him.

"Dragon demons?" said the elders, when Leo told them.

"Yeah, only... Paige said it shimmered with fire right in the middle of a crowded cafe," added Leo.

"Hmmm. Shimmering fire. You said the girl smiled up at her with pointy teeth?" asked the elder.

Leo nodded.

The elder beckoned to his fellow elders. They all formed a hudle and began clicking in an aggitated way. Leo only caught a few words.

"Leo. The others and I do not think this demon is the only one, nor is it a dragon demon. You must keep your eyes out for these beings and alert us the moment you get wind of a second one. This is not the first time we have heard of these fire shimmering demons. Once before, far back in time, they were a menace to our kind, feeding off our magic and almost destroying us completely. Approach with caution, Leo. And advise the Charmed ones to do the same," said the elder sternly.

Leo nodded and orbed back down.

"Pheobe, do you think you could contact Cole?" he asked the blonde, who was lounging in a chair, reading a book. She looked up at the mention of her old boyfiend's name.

"Cole? Why?" she asked, instantly on alert.

"The elders say it wasn't a dragon demon, there are... more than one of them. They say it's happened in the distant past and these things almost wiped us out. " he told her.

She got up immediately and grabbed her coat.

"I'll head to the masoleum," she said, grabbing the keys to the SUV. She headed out the door without delay, and Paige walked in.

"Where's Pheobe going? Did the elders tell you about the dragon demon?" she asked.

"Um, yeah, they said that it wasn't a dragon demon, they don't know what it is, but they took it very seriously. Back in time, they said these things came in big numbers and almost wiped all of us out, feeding off of our magic. You guys have to be very careful," he explained.

"Well, if it's not a dragon demon, then what is it?" asked Paige, looking skeptical.

Leo sighed.

"I dunno, but if I were you, I'd go back to the cafe and see if you can find anything she may have left behind," said Leo. He wasn't sure if Paige would find anything, but if the elders took the news this seriously, then why shouldn't he be worried? Better safe than sorry.

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Leo helped Piper look after Wyatt and baby Chris while they both waited for Paige to return with what she may or may not find at the cafe where the so called "demon" had appeared.

"How long did she say she'd be gone?" asked Piper, gently prying Chris's pacifier from Wyatt's mouth and returning it to its owner. Wyatt lookd up at his mother as if she had done him a personal wrong, promptly forgave her, and continued playing with his legos.

"She didn't, she just said she was going to the masoleum to see if we could get some help from Cole," replied Leo, watching his sons play and loving them beyond compare.

"Hmm. She's been gone an awful long time," mused Piper, leaning against Leo's shoulder and watching their sons with him.

Meanwhile, with Pheobe and Cole...

"Cole, what is that?" asked Pheobe. They were walking across the cemetary and Pheobe pointed to a tombstone about 20 yards away where she had just seen a single tongue of flame.

Cole gently grabbed her upper arm, just to make sure, and looked to where she pointed. His eyesight was quite a bit better than a normal human's, because of his demon blood, and he saw a young boy dressed in blue dart behind a gravestone and peer out at them both.

"Wait here," he whispered. He left her where she was, something he didn't like doing, and he hid behind a large stone cross on a pedestal. He shimmered, reappearing behind the blue-clad boy in hiding.

Being as silent as he could, he grabbed the boy by the shoulder, and before he could escape or even react, Cole shimmered, grabbed Pheobe, and shimmered again to the Halliwell Manor.

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"Let me go, please!" came a cry from the foyer. Piper and Leo, taken by surprise, jumped and hurried into the foyer.

Cole stood there with Pheobe, nd he held a young boy dressed in blue by the arm. He showed no signs of wanting to let go.

"Cole! What are you doing?" cried Piper in that calm way she had of doing.

"We found him in the cemetary, hiding behind a stone, spying on us. He's one of those demons Paige saw, I'm sure of it," he replied scathingly.

"Who are you? What kind of demon are you?" Piper demanded.

"Demon?" said the boy. He immediately stopped struggling, and upon seeing that he was in no immediate danger, he wrenched free from Cole's grip. Cole still glared at him. This "boy" didn't smell right. He wasn't human, of tht Cole was sure. And he was no demon. What on earth was he?

Cole grasped Pheobe's hand, and she squeezed it very briefly before letting go.

"You won't kill me?" said the boy, his unnaturally light blue eyes darting from one person to the next. Cole suddenly caught the unmistakable smell of sulfur and smoke. He knew that smell. It smelled like fire.

"Don't even think of shimmering," he warned, glaring at the boy. The boy jumped and stared up at him. Suddenly, his eyes narrowed and he gave an inhuman growl.

"Demon," he muttered. It was not a question.

"Half demon. What are you?" demanded Cole.

The boy refused to answer. Instead, his pupils contracted and he made a high pitched screeching noise. Cole covered his ears and total mayhem took the room. All he saw was a flash of bright blue and a tongue of flame, and the boy had vanished, snatched by another, bright green flash of light.

Pheobe, Piper, Leo and Cole all stared at the spot where the boy had been. All that remained was a slight scorch mark and a single, large green feather.

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Leo's POV

Leo picked up the feather and examined it. It burned him, but he refused ot drop it. He smelled it. It reeked of sulfur and fire.

"I have to take this up to the elders, they have to see it," he said, and before anyone could protest, he orbed out.

"We sw the whole thing, let us see the feather," said the nearest elder at once. Leo obediantly handed it over and waited as the elders examined it from every angle.

"This is no bird feather," one clicked.

"No... hand me the solution," said another.

They dropped the large green feather into a pot of liquid and there was a BANKG anda tremendous cloud of green smoke. They all looked on as the smoky shape took form above the pot. Even from a distnace, Leo thought there was no mistaking that shape.

It was the shape of a dragon.

"Leo, you must get the girls out of the manor for the time being. This is far more serious than we feared. Take them to magic school and tell them to stay there," said one elder sternly. Leo nodded and orbed back to the manor.

Leo appeared in the foyer to complete confusion. The two girls were lounging about, reading and playing with Wyatt and Cole was sitting on the floor staring at the scorch mark on the floor.

"What are you guys doing? C'mon, I need to getchyou outta here," said Leo. (A/N: If "getchyou" isn't a word, I am officially making it one)

"What are you talking about, why?" asked Pheobe.

Leo stared, not believeing his ears.

"I'm serious, the elders analyzed that feather. It belongs to a dragon. A real dragon, as in fire breathing, dragon?" Leo attempted to rouse Piper off the couch but she shined at him and pulled away.

"I'm playing with the child," she said. Leo then tried Pheobe. Her reaction was similar.

"Leo, lemme read!" she insisted.

Leo turned to Cole.

"Cole?" he said, at a loss for an explanation, throwing up his hands.

Cole looked up, his finger on his lower lip in a thoughtful pose.

"They don't remember. I already tried, they've been put under some sort of spell," he said softly. Leo looked around at the girls again.

"Do you guys even remember what just happened? That boy dressed in blue?" Leo tried jumping their memories.

"Boy in blue? Leo what are you talking about?" asked Pheobe.

"Are you seeing the creature heads again? " asked Piper, truly concerned.

Leo threw up his hands once more, fed up.

The dragon had apparently called for help, and in shimmering, they had apparently erased all memory from the girl's minds.

They had gotren away, and Leo was left with two witches who had no memory of the incident and a half demon who was helpless to convince them.

The dragons had won this round, thought Leo. They wouldn't win the second.