Prue looked at Phoebe who in turn looked over at Piper. Fianlly they all burst into conversation at once.
"So what are we going to do-" Phoebe began to ask.
"How the hell did this happen!" Prue exclaimed.
"Why are they here?" Piper wondered.
After a moment the stopped and Piper said softly. "Okay. One at a time."
"Yes mother," Phoebe joked.
"This is not time for joking!" Piper cried angirly.
"Calm down! Will you?" Phoebe yelled.
"Quit yelling!" Prue cautioned. "Look thos girls are our future daughters we should be out there getting to know them."
"No," Piper corrected. "We should be out there finding out why they are here."
"They might not know that any better than we do!" Prue protested.
"But they probably know more than we do," Piper pointed out.

*

Bri looked at her cousins and pointed into the kitchen where their future parents were gesturning wildly and wearing pained expressions. "I don't think it's going to well in there."
Ebony shook her head sadly. "I know. It doesn't look to good does it?" She said as she put her fingers to her temples as her head started to pound. After a moment she squeezed her dark eyes tight as wave after wave of pain shot through her head until she felt nautious and she began to fall backwards.
Biancae and Bri looked at each other and quickly dove toward her. Biancae caught her just before she hit the floor.
Bri asked frantically. "Is she okay?"
Biancae looked down at Ebony and said softly, "We can only wait it out like always."
Bri knelt down next to Biancae and they sat holding each other, watching as their sister writhed and moaned on the ground fighting a silent battle that no one else could help her fight.
At that moment Prue, Piper, and Phoebe walked back into the room and found them that way.
Bri and Biancae looked up. Biancae's amber eyes lighter than usual from her excessive crying, Bri's huge, luxirous velvet and ivory eyes were made liquid from her tears and her lips quivered.
"Oh my god!" Phoebe cried. "What happened! Someone do something!"
"No!" Bri said hoarsly. "Stop. She'll be okay. It always seems a little bit worse every time it happens but she always gets control."
"Control?" Cole asked as he shimmered in.
"Nevermind that," Biancae said with a glare at her younger cousin. Then looking at the three women who were their future mothers she said with a little cough. "Umm, Ebony suffers from epilepsy but it always blows over."
Phoebe looked at her future daughter who was still posesed by calming spasms. Finally she smiled and knelt by the sexy blond. As the spasms faded and Ebony opened her exotic, long, tilted eyes Phoebe noticed for the first time how mysterious they were, how inscrutible and utterly sad they seemed to be. She smiled gently down at the young women and asked. "Are you okay?"
Ebony nodded. "Yah. But I think I need some asprin."
"I'll get some!" Prue volenteered brightly. She bounced out of the living room and back into the kitchen where she dug a bottle of asprin out of the cupboard and began to fill a tall crytal glass with cold water from the tap. As she did there seemed to be a strange humming in the air and she had the strangest feeling that she was being watched.
With a shudder she hurried out of the room, not turning to look back. Just as she reached the kitchen door a cold hand grabbed her shoulder and she dropped the glass she held with a small shriek. She turned around and found herself looking into the face of a women with no nose. ONly two small slits like a snake. Her cap of glossless black curls seemed to absorb the light and her lithe body was nude and covered in tattoos patterned like a snake. Her eyes were long lidless with cat like pupils. They glowed a bright yellow and on her forehead there was a jagged black scar in the shape of a crooked cross.
Before Prue could do anything though the creature suddenly let out an agonized wail and combusted into a small pile of dust.

*

"And it just combusted?" Piper asked in disbelief.
Prue contined to stare out at the darkened sky and said with a nod. "Yes. I didn't do anything. That thing just let a wail like a banshee," Prue looked over at Phoebe. "No offense Phoeb's," she said to her sister who had once been turned into a banshee and almost become one for life.
Phoebe grimaced. "S'ok."
"Anyway," Prue said as she let the curtain drop. "It let out this awful wail and then just combusted and turned into a little pile of dust."
"Do you know what kind of demon it was?" Leo asked.
"No," Prue said with a shake of her head. "But it was weird. Its body was covered with a tatoos of snake scales and it two little slits for a nose. Long, yellow eyes with slitted pupils and short black hair. When she screamed I swear her toung came out of her mouth for a moment. I'm telling you it had a forked toung."
"Gross," Phoebe said, making a face of disgust.
"Oh! Yah," Prie said her eyes lighting up as she remembered something. "It had a black scar on its forehead. Kind of like a jagged black cross."
"Black cross?" Ebony asked.
Prue nodded. "Do you know what they are?"
"It sounds like a Viper." Ebony said with a sigh.
"Is that bad?" Phoebe asked.
Cole spoke up at the moment. "Yes. It is very bad. They work for the Blood Sisters and they are as evil and sneaky as a snake."
"Thus the name Vipers." Ebony said sarcastically.
"But that still doesn't explain how it just combusted," Bri said in confusion.
"Maybe we have a friend," Prue said hopefully.
Piper looked up at Leo and then over at Brett. "Do you two know anything about a friend?" she asked.
Leo and Brett shook their heads in unison. "Nope. We didn't send anyone. We wouldn't have known to send anyone. We know very little about these Vipers."

*

"Interfearing in human afairs, brother dear?" a voice asked, dropping like crystal from the sky as pastel pink lights swirled around and the scent of rose petals filled the room.
Ares turned around as his sister materielized in the middle of the cool marble room. She pursed her full, pastel pink lips and said sweetly. "Well? Aren't you going to answer my question?"
Ares grinned, showing his perfect white teeth and pecked his sister on the cheek. "I thought it would be fun. I've been bored lately."
Aphrodite shook her head and wagged a cream skinned, slender boned, tapering finger topped with perfect oval nails painted rose-petal pink, in her brothers face. "I've seen you watching that mortal witch!" she giggled, revealing the deep dimples in her cheeks. "Does someone have a crush?"
Ares shrugged his bronzed shoulders noncholantly. "I think she'd be great sport in bed," he said wickedly.
"So what's stoppin' ya?"
"I don't think she's the type that'll just jump into bed. Even with a studly god like myself."
Aphrodite put one hand on her hip. "Well then seduce her!" she said with disbelievingly. "Duh!"
"Yah? What do you want me to do? Dress as a mortal and accidentally bump into her?"
Aphrodite's eyes glinted with mischivous glee. "Not a bad idea! And just to make it more interesting I think I'll come alomg."

*

Prue looked everyone up and down. "If you guys plan on staying," she said gesturing toward the three girls and Brett. "We'll need another car. I don't think we'll all fir in mine."
"We can walk," Piper said.
"Sure," Ebony said. "Walking is all good."
Everyone nodded their agreement. "Yah," they said. "We can walk."
"We're going to have to carry any bags we get," Prue warned.
They all nodded. "Yah, but we didn't bring anything except what we were wearing and we need some clothes and other essentials," Bri said.
"Yah," Ebony agreed. "Like makeup!"
Biancae giggled. "Yah. Loads of eyeliner, mascera, and smoky colored eyeshadows for Ebony pastel lipsticks and sheer glitter for Bri."
Bri and Ebony put their hands on their hips and turned toward their sister and said with raised eyebrows. "Oh yah? Well it isn't like you don't wear makeup at all! You just wear light colors."
Everyone giggled and they all turned and walked toward the street.
A few hours later everyone sat down at an outdoor cafe`, glad to drop the bags that had loaded them down.
After they had ordered Prue leaned back in her chair and blew her hair out of her dusky blue eyes. "Jeesh! Its too hot today," she complained.
"Tell me about it," Phoebe said as she leaned back in her chair, greatful for the semi-cool shade of the umberlla above their table.
Phoebe squinted as she looked out over the busteling cafe` and the people who occupied it. Suddenly she shot straight up. "Whoa! Hottie at two o'clock!"
Cole looked over at Phoebe and said woundedly. "Don't I count as a hottie?"
Phoebe leaned over and kissed him, saying consolingly. "Not for me honey. For Prue."
Everyone, including Prue, turned to lookd dicreetly at the man and women who had walked in.
They sat at the table acrossed from them, making them easy to examine.
The guy was wearing black jeans that fit like a second skin and a plain black tee shirt that stretched acrossed his rippling muscles along with a pair of loose, untied, black Osarias. His shock of glossy black curls hung just to the nape of his neck, framing a face with symmetrical features and full chisled lips. She couldn't see his eyes though because they were covered with a pair of dark glasses.
His companion was a young women that would just make anyone fume with jealousy. Her, silky brilliant gold curls were pulled to the side and held with a sparkling ruby clip so that they fell over her left shoulder. Her huge, heavy lidded, sexy eyes were a clear cornflower blue framed in long, thick black lashes that contrasted sharply with her flawless skin the color of rich cream. She was dressed in a pair of skin tight white jeans that showed off her slender waist and richly curved hips. With it she wore a rose petal pink top with long, tight sheer sleeves. It clasped between her brests with a ruby pendant and left her midriff bare, revealing a sparkly rhinstone tatoo acrossed her lower belly that must have taken hours to apply. To finish off her look she wore a pair of strappy white, high heeled sandals.
Prue shrugged. "It looks like he's taken," she said carelessly.
"No he's not," Bri said quickly. "That's his sister."
Ebony kicked Bri under the table and glared at her.
But it was to late. The others had already turned to her questioningly. "How do you know?"
"Umm," Bri said. "Well. Have you ever seen two such good looking people? I mean they must be from the same family. It would be too big a coincidence if the two best looking people in the world just happened to find each other," she said slowly. "So they must be family. I just assume that she's his sister."
Ebony smiled wickedly. "Why don't you go over their and find out."
"Yah!" Phoebe said excitedly. "Go on Prue."
"I don't know," Prue said.
"Oh go on!" Phoebe said. "Go for it!"
"The worst that can happen is he'll blow you off," Piper said with a snort.
"Gee," Prue said with a grin. "Thanks for the vote of confidence Piper."
"Oh go on!" Piper said.
After a moment Prue finally got up and walked over to the table next to them. She smiled. "Hi," she said trying to mast her nervousness.
The two of them looked up. "Hello," the man said in a deep, smooth voice.
"Umm," Prue said nervously. "I thought I'd introduce myself since you look new. I mean my isters and I come here a lot and we've never seen you," she said with a smile. "My name is Prue. Prue Halliwell."
The man smiled and pulled his glasses off his face, revealing a pair of deep set, sultry black eyes frmaed in luxirent black eyelashes. "My name is Ares and this is my sister Aphrodite."
"Ares? Aphrodite?" Prue asked with interest. "Like the greek gods?"
Ares nodded. "Yah. Our parents were origonally from greece and they really loved the old myths about the gods and such."
"Wow," Prue said with delight. "That's great. Greece must be wonderful."
"It can get a little boring," Ares said with a smirk.

*

Aphrodite looked at her brother talking to Prue and decided to tkae things into her own hands. "You know Prue," she said sweetly. "It's nice to see a friendly face. My brother and I haven't been here for long and we don't really know anyone...." she let her words trail off.
Prue smiled and said kindly. "Well, if you'd like, we have room at our table for two more."
Aphrodite smiled. "Oh we'd love that. Thank you so much."
Ares shook his head and chuckled as they followed Prue to the next table, he leaned over and whispered. "You get right to the point don't you," he stated.
Aphrodite smiled. "Of course I do. Love is my forte remember?" she said as she chucked him under the chin with one slender finger.