"No. No, no, no, absolutely not! How can you even ask me such a question Wyatt? You should have known the answer to that already," yelled Piper Halliwell as she stormed about the Manor, a certain Wyatt Halliwell holding up a black ball of wriggling fur as he followed her.
"But mom, he's got nowhere to go! C.J. and I can take care of it! Really mom!" he shouted back, on the verge of tears at the thought of getting rid of the small puppy.
"Wyatt, for the last time, no!" she stressed once more.
"I'm asking dad!" he yelled, orbing himself out of the Manor, puppy in his arms.
"What's the shouting all about?" griped Cole as he trudged down the stairs.
"The two eldest Halliwell children want to keep a puppy they just saved." Piper muttered into her cup of freshly made coffee.
"Why not?" Cole asked shrugging as he bit into a bagel he picked up.
"Why not? Cole you know why not! With all the people in this house, and demons inviting themselves in all times of the day, there is no way we can watch over some puppy!" she scoffed, nearly spilling her coffee.
Cole chewed slowly on his bagel, waving it around as he continued talking with his mouth full, "Doesn't having a pet teach responsibility to human children?"
"Excuse me? Human children?" she questioned, raising a brow.
Cole smiled sheepishly and swallowed the rest of the bagel, "I obviously was taught responsibility differently. And I obviously didn't have any pets growing up, or any 'human' ones at least."
"See, there's that word again. Human."
"That's what you guys are." He responded, unsure as to why she was so defensive to the simple word.
"You too, genius." She snipped, pouring the rest of the coffee down the sink.
"Uh, half and I know. It has been the reason for many problems in my life."
"Anyway, no to the og-day, mmkay?" she gave him a sickly sweet smile before brushing past him and out of the kitchen.
"Could have said that in English you know," he muttered.
"Well, your mom said no Wy-"
"Dad! Come on!" protested the blonde child, who was still holding tightly to the excitable puppy.
"Uncle Leo, why can't we have him?" C.J. questioned, giving Leo his best 'Pretty Please?' look.
Leo looked about flustered, unused to having two young boys question him with such big eyes. He finally grabbed Cole by his shoulder, the latter man heading up the stairs with a look of annoyance on his face, as he said, "Ask Cole."
Cole turned around in time to see Leo orbing out with a satisfied grin, and two young boys holding a black, fuzzy puppy with big, wide eyes.
Cole sighed and started to rub the nape of his neck as he shook his head, "I'm all for it guys, but Piper said no."
"Damn it." Muttered C.J. as he shook his head angrily and shimmered out, "Come on Wy."
Wyatt gave Cole a disgusted look and orbed after his cousin, clutching the puppy close to his chest. Cole gaped at the spot where they stood, eyebrows furrowed together.
"Cole!" a voice drifted down the stairs.
Cole sighed and shook his head roughly, "Yes?"
"Your turn!" she shouted back.
Cole muttered something about children and wives as he made his way up the stairs. When he reached the second floor and headed straight for his room, knowing full well that she wanted him to change Selena.
Meanwhile, the two close cousins had orbed and shimmered back downstairs. They placed the puppy on the floor and began to play with it, laughing as the puppy yipped and scurried on the hard wood floor, it's paws unable to find purchase.
"Look at him go, C.J.!" Wyatt laughed, watching the puppy slide back over to them, it's tongue lolling out the side of his mouth.
C.J. chuckled, picking up the puppy to cuddle it. The sound of Leo's tinkling orbs filled the air as he orbed in beside the boys. He looked at them with a sigh, shaking his head at the sight. They shrugged and took off.
"Where's the dog!" a deep voice boomed behind Leo.
Leo whirled around in time to see an energy ball miss his shoulder by inches. The demon, a large ugly man wearing a black, tattered robe sauntered closer to Leo with a menacing grin.
"Dog! Where is he?" he demanded, creating another fireball in his hand.
"I don't know where your dog is-" Leo began, cut off as the demon roared in anger and flung him to the side.
"Dad!" Wyatt shouted, running in the foyer with C.J. by his side.
"That's my dog!" the demon roared, pointing at the puppy in C.J.'s arms.
"Excuse me? Demons have pets now?" scoffed C.J.
"You are holding Cerberus's spawn! I demand you to give me the animal before I slaughter you two young children!" he threatened, stepping closer to the boys.
"Bite me." C.J. retorted letting out a yelp of pain with the puppy clamped his razor sharp teeth into his hand.
The puppy leapt to the ground and bounded towards the demon, who scooped it up in one large hand. Wyatt tried running after it, but was flung to the side easily.
The demon shimmered out just as Cole, Phoebe and Piper came running downstairs. Cole ran over to Leo and Wyatt, easily healing their minor wounds quickly.
"What happened?" demanded Piper, hands on her hips.
"Some demon stole our puppy, claiming it was the spawn of Cherubus or something like that." Wyatt explained, standing up slowly with the help of Cole.
"Cerberus?" Cole asked, stepping back with a confused expression.
"Yeah, that was it." Chirped C.J. as he gave Wyatt a once over to make sure he was really okay.
"What is he talking about, Cole?" Phoebe asked as she placed a hand on his chest, looking at the children with an odd expression.
Cole gestured with his hand, "Cerberus was the entrance guard for Hades in the Underworld, he was a large three headed dog with a man made of snakes and a snake for a tail."
"Wasn't he defeated long ago?" Leo asked, brushing off his knees as he stood.
"He was, however this is the spawn. And if they're worried about losing their spawn, which they need in order to guard the gates of Hell…that means that Source must be doing something that needs guarded."
"Doesn't he always need to be guarded?" Piper asked.
"Well, no. He'd like to be of course. When Cerberus was killed, they stopped using dogs and other creatures to guard the gates, deeming them to risky. However, they were effective. So if the Source is willing to use one now-"
"Then he's got something big going on down there." Phoebe finished.
"Exactly." Cole grinned at Phoebe.
Piper moaned, causing everyone to turn towards her. She shrugged and muttered, "I guess I just became to relaxed is all."
They all nodded in agreement.
The Source paced wrathfully back and forth in his chambers, the demon was alive…as a white lighter?
"Seer!" he bellowed.
She appeared at his feet immediately, bowing.
"You call, my liege?"
"With all your power of seeing into the future, how did you now see that? He is a white lighter! He lived!"
The Seer stood and followed his continued pacing with her dark eyes. She sighed and responded, "It was a loophole I didn't foresee, and I apologize my liege. It happens."
"Bring Deinocyon to me now, we must use magic to speed his age process. I need him ready to serve me now." The Source demanded.
The Seer nodded and waved her hand, the small puppy appeared in a flash beside her. She picked it up and handed it to the Source. He eyed it carefully, nodded and proceeded to mutter a few Greek words.
In a few minutes, the cuddly puppy emerged from the shadows a large towering dog with three heads. It drooled on the dirt floor, causing a large mud puddle. It sat down and started to scratch itself.
"Seer? What is it doing?" the Source asked.
"Scratching itself, sir." She answered simply, watching the dog before adding, "You may have aged its body, but you didn't age its mind sir."
"Damn it!" he cursed, continuing his pacing.
The dog whimpered then flashed out of the Underworld with a lazy grin.
"Where did he go? Seer!"
"I'll find out, my liege." She rolled her eyes when she too flashed out.
"Holy shit! Mom, dad!" C.J. cursed loudly, having run into a large three-headed dog in the living room.
"Stop cursing…holy mother of God! Phoebe!"
"Cole! What's wrong?" Phoebe she asked, running towards the two males.
"What is that!" asked Wyatt as he joined them.
"It's our dog!" C.J. exclaimed.
"We need to get rid of him, now." Cole stated, backing away slowly as the large dog loomed over them.
One of the heads sniffed Cole, and then opened his mouth. Cole was about to orb out towards safety when a dog tongue lashed out and licked him. Phoebe scoffed then erupted into laughter when Cole fell down, soaking wet.
"What the hell was that?" he demanded, standing up with a disgusted look.
"He likes you dad." C.J. answered, shrugging.
"Well, I don't care. He needs to go, we are not keeping a huge, three-headed dog as a pet…" Cole eyed the dog as it watched him with all six large brown eyes.
"He's watching you…with six eyes…" Phoebe shuddered, "Weird."
C.J. and Wyatt laughed in sync while everyone else trudged into the room.
"What's that dad?" Ben asked, raising a hand to point to the dog.
"Awesome!" the twins shouted running towards the beast.
"John, Julian, no!" Phoebe shouted, catching them just in time.
"Cain, look it's a dog!" Ben shouted.
"Mom!" Peyton screamed, causing Leo and Piper to come running.
"What is it hone-whoa!" Piper screeched.
Cain muttered something to Melinda who giggled and started forward slowly. When she reached one of the large paws of massive dog, she levitated on top of one of its heads. Nearly all the adults screamed as the children erupted into bouts of laughter.
"Melinda get down now!" Piper shouted.
"Honey, listen to your Uncle Cole and get off, please." Cole pleaded as Leo shouted, "Melinda come here!"
"Melinda, you'll be grounded for a year!" Phoebe shouted.
Melinda finally sighed and leapt off, jumping into her father's outstretched arms.
"Don't do that again, ever." He chastised her quietly.
Benjamin walked over to the large dog and started to pet its large paw, all three of the dog's heads seemingly grinned at the family. Benjamin suddenly gasped, gripped in a premonition.
"Benji?" Cole called out worried as he and Phoebe darted forward.
"I saw someone bad hurting the dog! They were calling it training, and they kept calling the dog… Deinocyon."
"Deinocyon? That's a retarded name." Peyton scoffed whom Piper shushed.
"Actually, not really. Deino means 'fearfully great or terrible' and cyon means 'dog' so you get 'fearfully great or terrible dog.'" Cole explained, trying to wring out his shirt as he stood beside Phoebe and Ben.
"Why couldn't they name it Fluffy? Or Poodles?" Piper sighed and threw her hands up in the air.
"Training? They must be trying to age the dog so that he can prepare for training sooner…but they couldn't age his mind." Leo waved a hand at the large beast.
"What are we going to do with it? It's as big as a Tiger and we have no room for it anywhere in this crowded Manor."
"Basement?" offered Cole.
"Yeah, basement!" shouted John.
"Basement? Basement!" Julian joined.
"Basement, basement, basement!"
"Oh good God." Piper moaned.
TBC...
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