Hey, I'm thinking of discontinuing this story because I can't really get inspired and nobody seems particularly interested in it. If you don't want me to take it down tell me while you have the chance, although there won't be many more chapters anyway. Hope you enjoy chapter 7.

Charmed, The Legend of the 4

Chapter 7:Surprises of Both Kinds

By P3Lover

"It can't be true."

"Well, it is."

"Are you sure, I thought you weren't able to."

"Well, obviously I am."

"Let me take another look."

"It has hardly changed in the past minute."

"Just let me look anyway."

"Should we tell the others?"

"I don't see any reason not to, I mean they are your sisters."

"I suppose you're right. We'll tell them tonight then."

* * *

"Then we strike tonight."

"Yes, the Charmed Ones won't know what hit them."

"And we've got them outnumbered four to three."

"Outnumbered or not they wouldn't stand a chance against the four most powerful demons to ever walk through Hell."

* * *

Back at the manor however, the Charmed Ones were having no luck whatsoever in finding the warning that Phoebe saw in her premonition.

"Damn it, Leo, you couldn't be more specific." Prue said.

"I probably don't or didn't know you were all going to die and that Phoebe was going to see it all happening." Leo said.

"Never mind. It's not your fault anyway." Prue said.

"This is hopeless. We've gone through the book hundreds of times and we haven't found anything. We tried to get magical assistance from up there and that didn't work either." Piper said.

"Maybe we're looking in the wrong book. It doesn't seem very likely that any of our ancestors could have faced the 4 and lived to write a warning in the book." Paige said.

"She's probably right. You could try checking the Grimoire (is it Gri- or Gre-), after all it is a book of evil." Cole said.

"That would make more sense, but how are we going to get it? Didn't the Elders hide it away somewhere?" Piper said.

A.N. That part of the show stays the same in the story.

"Yeah, so they would know where it is and they could give it to us." Paige said.

"Well, I don't know how willing they would be to do that but I'll see what they say." Leo said and orbed out.

"In the meantime keep checking the book in case there is something that we missed before." Piper said.

"It's doubtful but we'll keep looking. What are you going to do?" Paige said.

"Going to make some potions, if Phoebe's premonition was true then I want to be able to stop my death." Piper replied.

"But if my premonition was a couple of weeks from now then isn't it a little early for potion brewing." Phoebe asked.

"These potions need about two to three weeks to ferment for them to be at their full power." Piper shouted from the kitchen.

* * *

Later that evening Leo finally orbed into the living room of the manor.

"Well, where's the book?" Prue asked.

"In the Himalayas protected by a Cerberus." Leo told them.

"You mean Cerberus the three-headed dog that guards Hades." Piper exclaimed.

"No, although it does have three heads. To get the Grimoire you have to get past him. That's why I cam back here, I'll need your help to get past the Cerberus." Leo explained.

"How dangerous is this thing? Does it have any weaknesses?" Prue asked.

"Very dangerous but it has no weaknesses, so you'll just have to distract it with attacks while I sneak past it to get the book." Leo said.

"What are we waiting for then, let's go get it." Paige said.

Piper and Prue grabbed on to Leo and Phoebe grabbed on to Paige and they all orbed out of the manor.

* * *

Somewhere in the Himalayas a load of little blue orbs just appeared and materialized into five people.

"Now that we're here where is this three-headed dog?" Paige asked.

"Just around this bend, better get ready now because it is really deadly and ferocious." Leo advised.

They walked around the bend. Leo wasn't kidding, in front of them was a giant dog with three snarling heads snapping at the air in all directions.

"Attack it before it notices you." Leo said.

Phoebe threw her hands out at the beast and two bolts of lightning shot out of her palms and at the beast. The attack did little more than aggravate the huge dog and one of the heads snapped at Phoebe. Piper threw out her hands at the head freezing it mid-snap, Phoebe quickly ran away from the head before it became mobile again.

"Go now Leo, I'll try and confuse it." Prue said.

Prue began to concentrate and suddenly another Prue appeared on the beast's right. She whistled to it and it turned to look at her. Then Prue disappeared and reappeared on the other side. Prue continued doing this for a couple of minutes until the beast dog was utterly confused. Leo ran quickly past the confused beast. Phoebe sent more bolts of lightning at the dog and Piper blew up some stones near its feet causing it to jump around a bit. This lasted for a long time. Suddenly out of nowhere four figures appeared in front of the four witches (five if you count astral Prue).

"Your time has come Charmed Ones. We are the 4. I am Draiken the most powerful of us. Bow before my fiery power. These are Themor, Lineas and Cremali." Draiken said.

"Yeah, we know who you are and what you can do, but why are you here now? You aren't supposed to attack for a couple more weeks." Paige said referring to Phoebe's vision.

"Okay, since that's settled I suppose we should kick your butts now." Prue said and waved her hand at Draiken throwing him back against the other three demons. "I thought my powers weren't going to work, oh well."

Phoebe changed her attack from the Cerberus to the four demons that were now the bigger threat. With nobody attacking the dog he started to snap at the 4 but Draiken threw out his hand at it and it burst into flames and disappeared.

"Why couldn't we do that?" Piper asked before freezing the four demons.

"Leo better hurry up in there we can't fight these guys without any information on them. We can only slow their attack and hold them off." Phoebe said and threw another bolt of electricity at Lineas.

Prue jerked her hand upwards and the four powerful demons went skyward. But they weren't immune to gravity so they came crashing back down onto the mountain. When they fell down it ended Piper's freeze and they began to use their own powers on the witches. Themor made the ground below them shake furiously knocking them over sending Phoebe's bolt of lightning into the sky. Instead of getting back up Prue astral projected behind the demons and sent them flying off the mountain's side.

"Good thinking Prue. Paige orb in to see what's taking Leo so long." Piper said.

"Okay, you better hope you don't get hurt before I return." Paige said in changed into a cluster of blue orbs and flew off into the cave after Leo.

"That was a sneaky shot." Draiken said materializing in front of the original Charmed Ones.

"Don't worry there'll be loads more like it." Piper said and froze them again.

Phoebe quickly ended the freeze by sending hundreds of volts of electricity through them. A split second after the freeze ended Prue sent them flying back against the mountain's side. Paige's orbs could be seen reappearing just at the cave entrance.

"He found the book, he said he'd bring it straight back to the manor. I said we'd meet him back there once we've finished here." Paige informed them.

"He might be waiting a while, there's no way we can finish anything, just weaken them." Phoebe said.

"They haven't appeared to be that powerful so far, except for destroying the Cerberus." Prue said.

Prue threw the demons off the side of the mountain again, but they returned shortly afterwards. Piper then froze them and Phoebe shocked them. This happened over and over again until,

"Enough is enough. This is getting tedious. We will leave now Charmed Ones but be warned we will return, soon." Draiken said and he and his fellow demons disappeared in a blaze of fire.

"Now that they're gone lets return to the manor." Piper said and Paige orbed them all home.

* * *

Back at the manor Leo and Cole were searching through the Grimoire for some information on the 4 when Paige orbed in with her sisters.

"So I'm guessing they gave up." Leo said not looking up.

"Yeah, but they said they'd be back soon so we can't relax yet. Did you find anything?" Prue asked.

"Nothing on the 4 but there's loads of information we could've used ages ago." Leo said.

"We'll have to keep looking." Paige said.

"Before we do that, we've got some news for all of you!"

To be continued…

Aren't I evil leaving it right there. Whose news do you think it is? All the possibilities. You'll have to leave reviews asking for the story to continue if you want to find out. Until then stay Charmed.