A/N: I'm very proud to announce that The Rise of the Power of Four has now reached its 50th chapter! I would like to thank all the readers who have continued reading this long. A little heads up, this chapter is written a bit differently. It starts out present day and goes three days back. In part of this there is an explanation of what has happened to the eldest Charmed Ones during those three weeks. It may be a little confusing but all the non dialogue part is summary. Apologies for the long author's note! Last chapter there were four reviews!

WiccaWhiteWitchCharmedFan: Thank you for the long review. I'm glad you enjoyed my twist on the episode. Please enjoy this chapter.

CaramelDip18: Yeah she is. For a long time the weight of the world was on her shoulders, in her mind, only because she refused to tell her sisters out of fear. You'll see more of the older sisters in this chapter and later chapters.

Aviva426: Thanks!

MissyCole23: Thanks, school has been over for me for a little while. So I have some time to focus on fanfiction.

Chapter 50

"You can't do this! I have every right to be here! I have every right to be a witch!"

"You're half- whitelighter! You should have never been! The only thing that keeps you alive is your Charmed One status!"

"You don't get to talk to her like that!" Phoebe said bursting into the room.

"You are novices."

"Yeah, well we just defeated a demon that you wouldn't have been able to!" Prue shot back, "Besides if you weren't so busy 'up there' this wouldn't have happened!"

Three Days Ago

Prue looked at the date on the calendar just as she had done for the last week. Paige, she thought, would be home a week ago. She recalled the words Paige had said three weeks ago. They had hurt but she was sure Paige would return home and apologize, like always. That wasn't the case. Instead she greeted them with silence.

"Though you may think you are none of you are invincible. Even the immortal are not invincible. Yes you have powers and yes you fight demons and protect innocents but that doesn't mean you can't die!" None of the students were really paying attention. Paige was passing notes with Hadley.

"Even powerful witches can die. You can try to prepare yourself against a demon but you'll never know if this demon will be your last."

"Miss Halliwell, do you have something to share?"

"No," Paige said coolly.

"How about you… enlighten the class about why my lesson is so important."

"No, I will not enlighten the class about anything. You're telling us that we'll die fighting these demons. Not everyone dies because of a demon!" She stood up and grabbed her books.

"Miss. Halliwell there are still twenty minutes left of class," he said. Every student all now alert and were watching the scene unfold.

"I'm not going to stay in a class where students are told that they will die because of a demon!" She stormed out of the classroom. On her walk back to her room she passed Headmaster Gideon.

"Miss Halliwell, what are you doing out of class?" he asked.

"What we're learning in that class is worthless. Excuse me," she said passing him.

"Actually, come with me. To my office," he said and Paige sighed following him.


For the remaining Charmed Ones they had spent most of the three weeks waiting for Paige to return home. They had fought several demons, most of which left injured. Even though she didn't want to admit it, Prue Halliwell knew they all needed Paige. She had established herself as head witch. Even though she was head witch, she still couldn't talk Paige into coming back.

Leo was the only communication between the three eldest and the youngest. He returned with short notes such as; Leave me alone, I'm studying, and you can handle it without me I'm sure. The worse of all the messages was the most recent; you can't save everyone, not even if you love them. The first part seemed like a message to another witch while the other half was Paige mourning for her father. Piper recognized this first and said they had to send Leo to bring her home.

"We can't force her to partake in this witch stuff," she said, "And we can't force her to act like our sister but we can act like her sister. We chose not to speak to her this entire time because she was in a pissy mood and we don't want to see her hurt by demons. If we don't do something soon getting hurt by demons won't seem as painful as what we're doing to her. We're trying to talk to her but not hard enough." Leo tried to bring her home but Paige refused. When returning to the Manor with this info Piper was angry with Leo. She was angrier with Prue.

"I can't force her to do anything Piper. That much is obvious. The only reason she hasn't returned is because she's mad at me. Before I said we should have included her, but I don't know anymore. I get that we need her for this Charmed stuff but we don't need her for every demon we fight. She's still in school; she has the rest of this year and all of next year. She can stay mad at me; I can deal with an angry sister. Her education is important; I think that if I can actually sit down at talk to her, she'll realize it." The Charmed Ones didn't have time though. The bond between them was weakening when it should be getting stronger. As a sister Prue could deal with Paige being angry but as witches The Charmed Ones needed Paige.

"Prue, we need Paige back, otherwise we're all doomed," Phoebe said. Several days passed and it was Phoebe who saw Paige return.


"Do you know what's going on with your older sisters Paige?"

"They're fighting demons," she replied shrugging, "I know this. Leo has told me this."

"They're not winning Paige. In the fight against good versus evil, we're losing."

"It wouldn't be much different anyway. Prue refuses to call me when there is a demon problem, so it makes no difference!"

"Sometimes Paige, Charmed duties come before family duties. Make up with your sisters as a witch first besides making up with Prue would be very beneficial to your strength as a team." Paige had a disgusted look on her face.

"They're my sisters before they are witches Headmaster. Yes, we're the Charmed Ones but if we're not sisters… we're not anything. You seem to forget that if the bond is broken… so are the Charmed Ones." She stood up and slammed the door orbing to her room.

"Hey, where were you? Fighting demons?" Hadley asked.

"I wish- no Gideon's office. There is something wrong with every Elder. He wanted me to make up to my sisters as a witch, it'd be good for us as a group! I can't believe him."

"He wants Good to win Paige. You not being with your sisters as a Charmed One means that we're down a powerful Good witch, evil has an upper hand."

"I can't make up with them. They're all wrong! Prue, thinks hiding me in the dark is a good thing but when I do it, I'm attacked. She gets away with it because she's the oldest! She thinks she's the most powerful I bet!"

"Show her then. Show her that she isn't the most powerful," Melanie said, "Go see your sisters this weekend." Paige decided that's what she'd do and she headed to her next class.

Unfortunately things didn't go as planned; for anyone. It was Friday morning and Paige was in her potions class when she heard the first scream. The professor left the classroom and then hurried back in. Unlike in a normal high school the professor didn't lock the door when he saw the dead librarian on the ground. He ordered them to grab as many vials as they could.

"What's happening?" a student asked.

"There's a demon in the school," Paige said grabbing potions. The students heard several more screams and then they heard the roars of a demon. Paige was the first out of the classroom and she saw that this wasn't one demon they were dealing with.

"There's so many," she said as other students poured out of their classrooms.

"What do we do?"

"We fight. Hey!" a blue scaled demon turned its head to look at her. He snarled. Paige threw the potions which had no effect. He threw several energy balls and one witch froze them. Paige used her power and the demon was blasted off his feet. Students had been prepared for demon fighting but no one was prepared for this. No demons were supposed to be able to enter the school.

Paige looked around at the scene around her for a split second after killing a demon. Every magical being was fighting one another. She saw several students, known to have 'demon traits' pick the side of evil. She heard her roommates before she saw them.

"Paige, get your sisters! They can help." Of course, the Charmed Ones should be able to stop this chaos. Paige killed several demons on her way out. She stepped through a portal ending up in the Manor.

"Paige!" Phoebe cried hugging her, "I'm so glad you're back!" She didn't see the look on her sister's face or that she had several bruises and burns. Piper heard Phoebe's cry and ran to see if her baby sister was really back.

"I don't have time to explain. Demons are attacking Magic School. Where is Prue?"

"Right here." Paige looked up to see her eldest sister at the top of the stairs.

"We have to go now! There are so many demons, we're all fighting the best we can but there are too many of them. People are dying, you have to help." There wasn't any more talking as the sisters followed Paige into the demon infested Magic School. Just like Paige, her sisters weren't prepared for the chaos that was in front of them.

"Where do we start?"

"Freeze," Prue said. Piper froze the room and the witches remained unfrozen. Several demons though were immune to Piper's power. Paige used the moment and killed two of them. Prue flung her arm, throwing the demons into two torches that hanged on the wall, impaling them. The demons all unfroze and Paige looked around for her friends. They, like most of the other witches, were fighting two upper level demons.

"Please tell me you carry potions on you," Paige said shooting more orb- beams at demons.

"I have like three Paige," Phoebe said pulling them out of a jacket pocket.

"How strong are they?"

"I guess we'll find out," Prue said grabbing one and throwing it at a demon. He was barely scorched. He turned to the sisters and screamed. The demons stopped fighting the students and turned to hear what their leader had to say.

"Attack them," he growled.

"Grab my hands, hurry," Paige said to her sisters and orbed them out of the way.

"Paige! What the heck?" Piper asked as she looked around.

"We don't have a lot of time. Start looking through these books. We don't have our Book of Shadows but we have all of these. There has to be something in here about those demons." She pulled several books out and looked up.

"Those demons want to kill us and we need a plan. What have you been doing these past three weeks?"

"Getting our asses kicked because you and Prue are the most stubborn people ever," Phoebe said, "You both think you're right when really I think you are both wrong!"

"I found something!" Prue said, "He's an upper-level demon. Wants to become the next Source? Worked with the Triad… no known vanquishes except the Power of Four."

"What about his minions?" Paige asked looking at the book. She flipped a few pages.

"Nothing," she said, "Let's just hope that when he dies, they all do."

"If not?" Phoebe asked.

"We're screwed," Piper said. They heard the demon yell to continue the search for the Charmed Ones.

"Let's go," Prue said leaving the library, "Hey! Looking for us?" The demon snarled and several of his minions appeared behind the sisters. Instantly the sisters joined hands.

"Is is share time?" he laughed, "Let's all sing and dance. Not."

"I will end you," he chuckled.

"The Power of Four, forever more," the sisters chanted. The demon laughed. They chanted several more times and his laughter turned into screaming. He burst into flames and the sisters let go of each others' hands. Paige looked around to see his minions were dying too.

"We did it," Phoebe said.

"Staff and students please report to the Lunch Hall for an assembly." Paige looked for her roommates and was glad to see they were all right. Several other students were crying.

"Paige, who are they?" Prue asked referring to the people up with Gideon.

"They're Elders."

"What are they doing here?" Phoebe asked.

"We're shutting Magic School down," an Elder announced before Paige could answer her question. There was an uproar.

"Magic School is a place of safety. It was not today. Several students and staff died today. They will be greatly missed but this cannot happen again."

"You can't close Magic School! Yeah, what happened today was awful. But instead of closing it down why don't you try to figure out the problem? You only pick the easy solution!" One student yelled. Several others agreed.

"That is no way to speak to an Elder!" He roared.

"That is no way to speak to a person!" Paige yelled stepping forward. The Elder so angry yelled at her.

"You are but mere children! That's all you are! You don't understand anything!"

"I'm a Charmed One!" she yelled back. The entire lunch hall went quiet.

A/N: Cliffhanger, I know! If you want to know what happens next please review!