Chapter 2: A Charmed Arrival

Synopsis: Harm arrives in Malaysia, only to pick up a reluctant half-brother. In the hotel room, he also saw something 'unusual' about him. While Sergei's getting along very well with his newly found brother. Meanwhile, Piper, Paige and Phoebe tried almost every magical way to track down their lost brother. When Paige suggested that they try her ex-workplace's worldwide database, a demon attacks.

Guest Star: NONE

Featured music: Jolin Tsai's Shou Ai Ni (Say I love you)

"Here we are, Malaysia." Harm said as he glances out the plane's window. "I hope it really does uphold what it said in the brochure, 'Malaysia, Truly Asia.' A tired Sergei said, yawning. "Can we rest up in a hotel after this?" continued Sergei. "Sure, besides, we've got to follow protocols, procedures and other crap to arrange the transfer, thank goodness I'm a lawyer." Harm said as he sat back on his seat. "Yeah, thanks to you too that I've got my citizenship." Sergei grinned, "What's his name again?" he asked. "Peter. Peter Ng Ee Wuen. A 15 year old teenager." Harm said with a smile. "How could this be possible? Dad died almost 20 years ago. How can anyone carry his child anymore?" asked a surprised Sergei. "Beats me. At first, I don't believe it myself....but when the DNA results came out......." He suddenly paused. The plane has landed and the air stewardess has directed them off the plane, before they could think about anything, they are greeted by the magnificent architecture of Kuala Lumpur International Airport. "Woah...." Was the first word that came out of Harm's mouth after they've gotten off the plane. As they passed the Customs, Sergei said, before yawning , "I've checked us in the Hyatt Regency Hotel.". "Good, well, did you book a room for Peter?" asked Harm as he pushed the trolley towards the check-out gate. "Yes, dear brother. I did. I've made reservations for a single deluxe for him and a double deluxe for us." He said, rubbing his eyes. "Good. Why don't you make your way to the hotel first and just check in for us and call my cell for the room numbers while I'll go and pick him up, kay?" Harm said, trying desperately to hide the dark rings forming below his eye. "Sure, whatever..." Sergei said before taking his backpack, swung it around his shoulders and hailed a taxi. Harm let out a sigh as he hailed a taxi himself and said to the taxi driver, "To the Kuala Lumpur Social Service Center, please,."

"Told you it wouldn't work." Paige said as she closed the door of Piper's SUV. "Well, at lease we tried." Piper said as she turned on the ignition. They had just come out of the hospital Patty said she donated her ovum to and got the "we won't reveal the donor's nor the receiver's information" policy answer. "Now what do we do?" Piper groaned as she drove into a junction. Paige got an idea which made her smile and said, "Head to my workplace." "Your workplace? Paige, you don't work anymore." Piper replied. "No! I mean my ex-workplace. Every social service center headquarters has a global searching system which keep records of adopted child, abuse and stuff." Paige said enthusiastically. Suddenly, Piper's SUV swerved into the junction which was heading for the South Bay Social Services.

"Come on, Peter. Let's go!" Harm shouted as the signed the last of the transfer documents. "I heard ya." Ee Wuen groaned as he stuffed his laptop into his backpack, put on his cap and picked up his luggage. Harm smiled as Ee Wuen glanced at him but as only greeted by Ee Wuen's frown. He sighed and followed Ee Wuen to the taxi waiting outside the building.

Paige was staring at the computer screen, looking at the 'Searching...' tab for over three minutes now. She found out that staring at the screen is far better than to listen to Piper's conversation with Leo over little Wyatt's little 'orbing' flu. "Leo, just take him to the doctor!" Piper said through the phone. "If that's the case, then just make him comfortable until I get home okay?" she continued. Suddenly, Paige shouted, "Got it!". Almost immediately, Piper said "Okay, Leo. I gotta go, call ya later!" and hung up and rushed towards the screen with Paige browsing through the page with a shocked expression on her face. "Is that what I think it is?" Piper asked. "If you are talking about the 'Transferred to' bar, yes" Paige said. "Oh my god..." Piper said covering her mouth. "Come on, we gotta tell Pheobe about this." Paige said as she clicked on the 'Print' button. Just as Piper took the printed paper and stuffed it into her handbag, Q'hal shimmered in and started to throw energy balls at Piper. "Piper, watch out!!" Paige shouted. Piper gasps as she dunked from the energy ball. "Piper, blow him up!!!" Paige shouted as she orbed another energy ball out of her path. Without hesitation, Piper threw her hands up and blew Q'hal into a billion pieces. "Are you alright?" Paige said as she helped Piper up. "Yeah, we better find this Peter Ng Ee Wuen FAST before the entire legion of the underworld comes after us." Piper said.

"Goodnight!" Ee Wuen sighed as he slammed the hotel room door shut. He just couldn't believe that his parents are actually dead. His eyes begun to pool tears as he remembered the his 13th birthday.... "NO!" he suddenly said. "I must move on..." he whispered. It's true that he's been depressed about his parent's death but moving on with his life is the best way to honor his parents memories. But so much had happened since then, even with the fortune that his parents left him, he couldn't inherit any of it until he's 18. That's why he gave in to the idea to move to the US with his 'brothers'. Why would he wanted to leave? He's happy here in Malaysia, his friends are all here. Why would he give this all up? Ee Wuen sighed as he threw his bags aside and jumped directly to the bed. Then, something happened. Just when Harm came knocking on the door, he had accidentally blew up the coffee mug on the bar. He was startled but was certain it had just slipped to the ground. He got up and head towards the door. "What is your problem?" he said as he opened the door and saw Harm. "Can I come in?" Harm said coolly. Ee Wuen pulled an annoyed face before he swinged the door wide open. "Thanks."he continued. Then he saw the broken mug on the floor and asked, "What happened here?". "None of your business" Ee Wuen replied coldly as he sat down on the bed. Harm couldn't take it anymore, irritated, he said, "Why are you being so resilient? Do you think you are the only one who have issues here?". Ee Wuen said nothing, he just stared right onto Harm's eyes. Harm finally saw the resemblance between them, Ee Wuen had inherited his father's jet black hair and his 'does not open-up easily' attitude. Then, he sat down beside him and said, "I'm sorry. I'm just trying to say that... I know what you are going through....". Abruptly, Ee Wuen stood up and shouted, "NO! YOU DON"T! You think you are so smart to understand me, but you don't even know what I feel and you'll never understand the bond that my parents and I share.." His voice was shaking from anger, he could have punched Harm. With that, he threw his hands up and without realizing it, he blew up the water glass beside the table. Ee Wuen gasps as both he and Harm looked at the direction of the glass. "Di....did you do that?" Harm stammered. "It's.......it's..... just some spontaneous combustion" Ee Wuen quickly said. What was happening to him? Then, he grabbed his backpack and ran out of the room. "Peter, wait! Peter!" Harm got up, but too late.

"Leo! Get Wyatt outta here!!" Piper shouted as she jumped, dodging the energy ball thrown by Q'hal. Almost immediately Leo grabbed little Wyatt and orbed out. "Pheobe, the spell!!!" Paige shouted. Then, Pheobe grabbed a crumpled piece of paper and ran to Piper and Paige. Piper tried in vain as she blew Q'hal up but he kept returning to it's original state. Pheobe helped Piper up as three of them said in unison, "Demon hunter on the prowl, concealed with no restrains, condemned this scourge of death so fowl, erased its putrid taint.". Paige shut her eyes as Q'hal exploded into pieces. Then, all of them felt a gust of cold wind and Piper said, "Here it comes....". Pheobe threw the paper aside as she prepared herself for combat but as soon as Q'hal returned to it's original state, he shimmered out. "Guess he's gone for a recharge." Paige said as she dust off her brand new top. "What the hell does he want from us?" Piper said. "To kill us obviously!" Pheobe replied. "Hmm...seizing the opportunity when we are vulnerable... smart plan" Paige said. "So, what are we gonna do now?" Piper sighed. Pheobe's still looking at the separated Triquentra symbol on the Book of Shadows. "Well, besides arming us with protective and offensive spells and potions... there's nothing we can do except to wait..." Paige said as she placed her arm over Piper's shoulder. "We have to stick together at the time like this." Pheobe said, taking the Book of Shadows off it's podium. "Paige, can you orb us somewhere safe?" she continued. "I can, but the problem is where? Where ever we go they are bound to find us." Paige said. "Or a hotel at Los Angeles?" Piper suddenly said. "Los Angeles? Piper, are you crazy? Leaving the manor at this time?" Phoebe said . "Well, Paige said it herself. We just gotta arm ourselves with spells and potions and we'll be fine. Besides, just look at this place....it's a mess, I can't get a least bit of shuteye without my bed.". Piper was right, various demons had been attacking the sisters all day long and a very big majority of the manor has been reduced to debris and broken appliances. "And, we get to restore the power of three faster there when our brother arrives there.." Piper continued. "Piper, what are you.." Phoebe replied but was interrupted by Paige, "No, Piper's right. The longer we stay here, we'll be attracting more demons to attack us. Besides, our brother will soon be arriving there...". Both Paige and Piper were looking at Pheobe for her agreement, then she said, "So, what are we waiting for?"

Ee Wuen was listening to the latest Jolin Tsai's album on his laptop. He was trying hard to forget about the little 'explosion' incident earlier in his room. He didn't know what was happening to him. Ever since the death of his parents, strange things had started to happen around him. There was this one time after his parent's funeral, he was having a discussion with his family lawyer, Mr. Faris, he was told of the news that he must move to America and could not inherit any of the family property until he's 18 years old, he lost it. He started to rage around the room only to find the entire office had just stopped, it's just like time had just froze..... Now, it was all in the past. He refuse to accept anything without any sense of logic. He dismiss it as he had convinced himself about the 'unexplained' phenomena that happened around science. Trying hard to forget, he started to sing along with the song:-

"yi kai shi wo zhi gu zhao kan ni,

zhuang zuo bu jing yi xin que piao guo qu
huan qie xi ni mei fa xian wo duo zai jiao luo
mang zhao kuai le mang zhao gan dong
cong bi ci mo sheng dao shou hui shi wo men cong mei xiang guo
zhen ai dao xian zai bu gan qi dai"

Suddenly, he felt someone touching him from behind. He immediately took off his headphones and turned around. It was his other half-brother, Sergei. "Hey," he said. "You got a fantastic voice.." Sergei replied. "May I join you?" he asked. "Sure." Ee Wuen replied, taking off his earpiece and pushed the pause button on his laptop. "So, what's up?" he continued. "You got a very good voice." Sergei started. "Really?" Ee Wuen said, half-smiling. "Yup, you can be a great singer.". Ee Wuen suddenly felt his face burning. "You know, there is this one show in America that searches for great singing talent. I think it's called......err....what is it?" Sergei said while scratching his head . "American Idol." Ee Wuen answered, smiling. "Yeah! That's it, you can go and try out! They are having an audition near our apartment next". "Thanks, bro but.. no thanks." Ee Wuen interrupted. Sergei looked at Ee Wuen with a very surprised look and smiled.

p.s. I'm sorry to all the JAG fans out there but due to the plotline which I've created, Harm and Sergei or any other JAG characters would not be appearing from CHAPTER 3 onwards. They would only appear as cameos and guest stars only. I'm really truly sorry to all JAG fans out there as I'm one too.... Sorry!.

p.p.s. I would be fusing some contestants from The Amazing Race 3 to the story beginning from the next chapter onwards. So, please review to tell me how's my story!!

p.p.p.s. If you are curious about the Chinese songs I feature in my story, you can post it at the review page and I will sure attend to you.