Chapter 10
October (Birthdays and a Halloween of animals.)
It was October, and also Chris's fifth birthday. Since Prue's birthday was three days before Halloween, she was celebrating on the same day as Chris. Prue's aging process had been caught up by the Elders, so it was like she had never died. This meant she was celebrating her 39th birthday. The funny thing was if her aging had been stopped, she would have only be celebrating her 31st birthday, which would had made her the youngest of her sisters instead of the oldest.
It was a magic free party, Chris had some new friends from kindergarten coming, Darryl and his family, and Billie and Elise were coming for Prue. Victor was obviously coming for both of them. Andy had even been given the day off, so he could celebrate with Prue. Chris greeted all his friends as they came in.
"Hi Zack, hi Elliott, hi Becky, hi Zoey, hi Walker, Hi Tommy, Hi Lily."
"Happy birthday sweet heart" Victor said and hugged his daughter.
"Happy birthday" Billie told Prue.
"Hi Billie" Chris said as Billie entered the living room.
"Hi buddy, happy birthday" Billie said and hugged Chris.
"I'm five now" Chris told her.
"Yeah I know, you're a big boy now" Billie said.
Chris nodded and went back to playing with his friends.
"Hey Chris come with me, I found chocolate cake" Lily told him.
Chris and Lily snuck into the kitchen and was about to eat the cake, which was on the table, when an arm stopped their arms.
"Not so fast you two, this cake is for after supper" Piper said and let go of their arms.
The kids walked away and Piper put the cake in the fridge. Back in the living room, Billie and Prue were talking.
"So are you and Andy going to get an ultra sound to find out the gender of your baby" Billie asked.
"Not sure yet, Andy wants too, but I don't see the point since it will probably be a girl" Prue replied.
"Have you thought of any names" Billie asked.
"A few, we want to continue the P legacy" Andy answered.
"Have you decided who will be her middle name" Billie asked.
"We were thinking of Angle instead of someone close to us" Prue said.
"Hey Chris look at the camera, say hi" Leo said.
"Hi dad" Chris said.
"So what's going on today" Leo asked.
"My birthday party, I'm five now" Chris replied.
"Who else's party is this?"
"Auntie Prue" Chris answered.
After a great meal of homemade shepherd's pie, it was time for the cake. Piper and Leo came into the kitchen holding the cake that had a 5 shaped candle and a 39 shaped candle.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Chris and Prue, happy birthday to you."
Piper and Leo placed the cake in front of Prue and Chris and they blew out there candles. Prue was happy to finally be celebrating a birthday again.
It was the night before Halloween, everyone had a costume except Wyatt. He knew he wanted to be a tiger, but he hadn't found a good costume. He was out of time, so he decided to turn to magic.
The adults were going out that night, Billie was going to babysit. So when the parents left after Billie arrived, Wyatt snuck out of bed. After making sure Chris was fast asleep, Wyatt orbed to the attic.
In the attic, Wyatt opened the book of shadows and flipped through the pages. He came across an animal spell. Wyatt casted the spell but nothing happened. Wyatt looked for another spell, but was unable to find another one, so he went back to bed.
When the adults got home, they were so tired that they went straight to bed. They didn't notice animal sounds coming from the kid's rooms.
The next morning, a scream came from Phoebe and Coop's room. The other adults rushed in and found Phoebe holding a cute puppy, with her mouth wide open. Coop looked like he was going to faint.
"Phoebe, why is there a puppy in my house" Piper asked.
"This is not a puppy, it's Parker" Phoebe said.
"Ok Phoebe, I think you should go back to bed" Prue said.
"I'm not crazy, this puppy was in Parker's crib and her collar says Parker" Phoebe stated.
Paige giggled then orbed out to check on baby Henry. A few seconds later Paige orbed back holding a small brown rabbit.
"Ok Phoebe's not crazy" Paige said.
Leo checked the collar around the rabbit's neck. Sure enough Henry was written on it. Suddenly a pig orbed in, Piper checked the collar around the pig's neck.
"It's Chris" piper informed the others.
The adults checked on the other children. Melinda was a chicken, P.J. was a pony, and the twins were both cats. Everyone met up in the living room facing a kangaroo.
"I'm guessing this is Billie" adult Henry said.
"Yeah it's her" Coop said checking the collar.
"I think I found someone who knows what happened" Leo said pushing a still human Wyatt in front of him.
"I needed a tiger costume, so I did a spell from the book" Wyatt explained.
"The book? You mean the book of shadows, oh WYATT" Piper said.
Wyatt nodded and Piper looked like she was going to blow.
"OK Piper calm down, he's only six" Leo said.
"Calm down! My son is a pig, my daughter is a chicken, the babysitter's a kangaroo, my house is full of animals, animals who are supposed to be human children, and you want me to calm down?" Piper shouted.
"We can fix this, Wyatt will show us what spell he used" Leo stated.
"Piper, maybe you should go find some demons to blow up, to let of some steam" Prue suggested.
Piper took Prue's suggestion, the guys kept an eye on the animals, everyone else went to the attic with Wyatt. Wyatt found the spell he had used in the book of shadows and showed Phoebe.
"I see what you did wrong, you were supposed to say the spell in front of a mirror, and since everyone but you are animals, I'm guessing you missed that step" Phoebe explained.
"Not to mention this spell is to turn into real animals, like if you need to search for something by smell, you could turn into a dog" Paige added.
"It's not going to be easy to reverse it, this potion will take a while, and the animals, I mean children need to drink it" Prue stated.
In the kitchen Prue and Phoebe began making the potion, meanwhile Paige went to the pet shop to buy food and a cage for Henry the rabbit, a stall for P.J. and a pen for the other animals except the kangaroo. Once she was back at home, Paige helped the guys collect the animals and put them in the cage, pen or stall.
Meanwhile Piper was blowing up garbage bins behind P3.
"The one day demons are useful is the day they aren't around" Piper mumbled as she blew up a garbage bin.
"Chris is a pig" garbage bin blew up.
"Melinda is a chicken" garbage bin blew up.
"Paige has twin cats" garbage bin blew up.
"Paige's son is a rabbit" garbage bin blew up.
"Phoebe's baby is a puppy" garbage bin blew up.
"P.J. is a horse for god's sake" Gate blew up.
Piper looked around, only the club was left. Piper just blew up the next thing she saw, which turned out to be Leo. After a second Leo orbed back.
"I see you still need some time" Leo said.
"No I'm fine, how is it going at home" piper asked as calmly as she could.
"Fine, Phoebe and Prue are almost done the potion" Leo informed.
"Hey Leo, Melin… no it was P.J., wait no it was… um…oh for god's sake, the kangaroo knocked the potion on the floor" Paige said after orbing to them.
"That would be Billie" Piper shouted then blew up Leo again.
Leo orbed back, then orbed to the manor with Paige, leaving Piper behind.
"Henry what happened, you were supposed to tie Billie outside" Leo stated.
"She punched me when I tried" Henry said and moved his hand to reveal his black eye.
"Leo put his hand in front of Henry's eye and healed it. Leo then met up with Prue and Phoebe in the kitchen.
"We can fix this, Paige go buy any missing ingredients, and someone tie up Billie" Leo instructed.
Phoebe wrestled with Billie the kangaroo and won. Outside Billie unsuccessfully tried to get loose by punching the ropes restraining her. Paige gathered the ingredients then orbed back to Prue. Piper stayed at P3 with no way to get home, because she had blown up her car when it wouldn't start, and everyone with white lighter or cupid blood was busy or an animal.
"It's almost four thirty, better call Darryl and tell him we can't make it to his party" Phoebe said as she picked up the phone.
"Hi Darryl its Phoebe, it doesn't look like we're going to be able to come to your party, we're having some animal problems here" Phoebe explained.
"Ok, if you can't make it, I'll see you at P.J.'s birthday party" Darryl said then hung up.
"Hey a pony party sounds good for a two year olds birthday" Phoebe randomly stated.
"Yeah, as long as the birthday girl isn't a pony" Prue pointed out.
By 8 the potion was ready. When the children and Billie were let loose, they made a run for it. The humans chased them all over the manor. Parker the puppy, Henry the rabbit and Melinda the chicken were easy to catch. The twin cats were sneaky but easily caught. However Chris the pig, P.J. the pony and Billie the kangaroo, proved to be a challenge.
While Leo, Prue, Coop and Andy chased the pig, pony and kangaroo, Phoebe, Paige adult Henry and Wyatt got the captured animals to drink the potion. After a minute Parker, baby Henry, the twins and Melinda were back to normal. After 20 minutes of being chased and then finally captured, Chris, P.J. and Billie turned back to normal.
After a nice human meal, the kids were tired and went straight to bed, as did the adults. Piper paid Billie for babysitting and went to bed with Leo after Billie headed home. Piper was sure she did not want a pet, at least until all the children were in college.