Oh muse, where fore art thou? As you can probably tell my muse is still missing, on the plus side I've found a muse which has inspired me to start a Charmed site. It won't be started until June due to many circumstances (mainly school, curse it anyway) but in the meantime I have a Charmed board where we can talk about Charmed. The URL is charmednexus/proboards19.com, no www. I hope to see many of you there.

Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed or any of the characters associated with it. I only own the 4 and anyone else I decide to create, like Alterrac.

Charmed, The Legend of the 4

Chapter 10:An Unexpected Arrival

By P3Lover

Just less than eight months had passed since Leo had left the warning with the Elders to translate and frankly everyone was getting impatient, because after all there is only so much training one can do before one gets driven up the wall. Well needless to say the Manor was filled with tension and anxiety. There had been no more attacks from the 4. Piper was almost full term and they were expecting the baby in about two week's time. The girls had a larder filled with various potions Piper thought might come in handy when fighting the 4. Prue, after being hit by one too many bolts of lightning from Phoebe, was full of static and her hair was flying all around her head and being attracted to any electrical appliance that she got too close to. Paige's room was like a mad house with odds and ends that she'd called for. And Phoebe spent most of her time in the attic trying to get a premonition from anything she had remembered seeing in her earlier premonition (Ch. 6), but when she did get one it was no different than before.

"Phoebe stop searching for premonitions and come her now, I want to kill you!" Prue yelled.

"What for?" Phoebe said coming down the stairs from the attic.

"All those bolts you hit me with accidentally, have charged me so much that I can't even turn on the TV without the remote fizzling and my hair sticking to the screen. Not to mention my hair dryer!" Prue said.

"On the plus side you look more like a traditional witch with your hair flying around like that." Phoebe said smiling.

"Well I'm glad to see you can find a funny side to this problem. I don't want to go into the shower in case all this electricity will shock me to death." Prue said.

"You do realise that you are in fact already dead." Phoebe said raising an eyebrow.

"You do raise a very valid point. I think I'll take that shower now." Prue said leaving Phoebe to her premonition search.

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"They really didn't want anyone to translate this did they."

"Yes, with all these different languages it's a wonder they ever bothered to write it."

"Anyway there is only one more language to translate this into and then we can translate it into English then."

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"Piper!" Prue shouted.

"What is it?" Piper said coming into the living room. "Oh no. Phoebe, Paige!"

Paige orbed in with Phoebe as Prue sent the demon flying into the hall. Piper tried to blow it up but it barely tickled it.

"Let me guess another demon who wants to prove their allegiance to the 4?" Paige said.

"Actually for a change it's a Fury looking for revenge at the loss of her sister who attacked here yesterday." Prue said.

"Oh, it's a welcome change then. Should we kick her ass the way we kicked her sister's?" Phoebe asked.

"Why not?" Piper said and threw her hands into the air disappearing.

The fury seemed confused by this at first but gave it no more thought after that. She threw herself at Paige who orbed out and the fury went crashing into the mantelpiece.

"No, I just cleaned that up from the last attack." Piper's voice could be heard headed for the fury.

The fury growled before being lifted up and thrown across the room yet again. Then Phoebe proceeded to send bolt after bolt of electricity through her. Piper once again tried to blow her up but this time it worked and the fury disappeared with a scream.

"Are you sure you should be lifting up demons in your condition Piper? I mean you've only got a couple of weeks before my niece is born and I don't want anything to happen to her. Isn't that right baby, Aunt Phoebe can't wait to meet you."

"Could you please stop talking to my belly, it makes me feel weird. Not to mention the fact that every time you do she starts moving about." Piper said moving away from Phoebe.

"That's just because she wants to meet me as much as I want to meet her. Anyway I've got to go into work now, Elise really wants me to catch up on all that work I missed. Bye bye baby, Aunt Phoebe will miss you." Phoebe said grabbing her bag and keys and headed out the door.

"Speaking of work, do you need me to check in on the club today?" Paige asked.

"Not really, why, is there something you wanted to do?" Piper asked.

"Well, it's just that I told Glen I'd meet him in the park for a picnic." Paige said.

"You two are really together again then?"

"Yeah, and I don't want to spoil it this time. I'm afraid that leaves you here, because Prue can't exactly answer the door if someone calls." Paige said.

"I can still open it with my powers, it might freak out the mailman but its fun to see that look on his face." Prue said.

"Prue Halliwell, I'm ashamed of you. Using your powers to scare the mailman, as if he doesn't already think this house is weird we don't need you messing with the doors." Piper said. "All that said I wish I could've seen it too."

The three sisters shared a laugh before Paige had to leave for her picnic with Glen.

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Later that night everyone was enjoying a quiet night, all except for Paige who still hadn't returned from her date with Glen. Piper was watching TV with Prue, who had fixed her static problem, when they heard a crash from upstairs. Prue rushed up to Paige's room where the noise had come from, Piper was too tired to get up, Phoebe was already there when Prue got there. When they opened the door they saw Paige and Glen slumped on the floor and Paige's dresser toppled over beside them.

"Paige, what happened? Are you two all right?" Phoebe asked.

Paige began to talk but all the words were muddled together and she kept giggling in between sentences.

"You haven't been drinking, have you?" Phoebe asked her.

"No!" Paige said a little too enthusiastically and she and Glen burst into another fit of giggles. "Well, maybe, it was only a couple of glasses of wine. But it was for a special occasion."

"Which is?" Prue asked.

"Glen proposed, and I said yes!" Paige said and kissed Glen.

"You did what?" Phoebe asked. "We better get you two sobered up, and then we can talk."

On their way down they noticed Piper wasn't on the couch watching the TV anymore. They went into the kitchen and began to brew an herbal 'hair of the dog'. Phoebe went to find Piper, she wasn't in the sun room. She then went back into the living room where she found Piper. She was on the floor puffing and panting.

"Piper what's happening? Is it the baby? Is there something wrong?" Phoebe said helping Piper back onto the couch.

"I think she's ready to come. Call the hospital and tell them we're coming." Piper said.

"I thought we agreed you were going to have a home birth." Phoebe asked.

"No, you, Prue and Paige decided that. I never agreed to anything and right now I want to be brought to the hospital!" Piper said right before having another contraction. "Anyway what happened upstairs?"

"Paige orbed in with Glen, but they were both drunk." Phoebe said.

"I thought Paige didn't drink." Piper said.

"She doesn't, normally. But it's a special occasion, Glen proposed to her and she said yes." Phoebe explained.

"She said yes? Why? Was she drinking when she said it?" Piper asked ignoring the contractions.

"I don't know, they're sobering up in the kitchen at the moment. I'll go get Prue to stay with you, then I'll call Leo to help us get you there. Is all your stuff ready?" Phoebe asked.

"It's all in a suitcase in my closet." Piper said.

Phoebe went into the kitchen and explained what was happening.

"Prue go stay with Piper and I'll call Leo." Phoebe said and Prue rushed off. "Leo! Leo!"

Leo orbed in.

"What is it?" Leo asked.

"Piper's gone into labour early, she's in the sitting room with Prue. Go call the hospital while I deal with these two." Phoebe said not letting Leo take it all in. "Don't just stand there, get going. Now what am I going to do with the two of you?"

Luckily the drink had helped sober Paige up and she called for Piper's suitcase and brought it to the car. Soon they were all ready and they drove as quickly as they could to the hospital.

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"This is taking hours. What's happening in there? Paige asked Leo.

"Piper's almost done, they're getting ready for the actual birth, so I'm going to go back in there, I don't want to miss a thing. I'll come back out when you can come and see her." Leo said and went back in to Piper.

Just as he did Phoebe came back from the café with a strange looking Prue. She had a scarf covering most of her face so that nobody would recognise her.

"What did Leo say?" Phoebe asked.

"That Piper's almost ready to give that big push, should only be a little while until we can see our niece." Paige said.

Minutes later they could all hear Piper screaming, it lasted for a minute then it was quiet again.

"Do you think that was it?" Prue asked.

"Leo said he'd come out when we could see Piper and the baby." Paige said.

Sure enough minute later the doctors and nurses left Piper's suite. A minute later Leo came out and ushered the girls inside. They rushed over to Piper, who looked the picture of motherhood.

"Oh, she's so beautiful." They all said together.

"She sure is. 8 pounds 6 ounces, the doctors say she's totally healthy and she'll be able to leave in a couple of days." Piper told them.

"And what about you? How are you feeling?" Prue asked.

"I'm fine, a little beat but otherwise fine." Piper said yawning.

"No magical occurrences or anything out of the ordinary during the birth?" Phoebe asked.

"Nothing strange at all. So far she hasn't shown any signs of being any way magical, but of course she did during the pregnancy as we can all remember." Piper said.

"Yeah, flowers and fireworks, switching yours and my powers protecting you from harm and healing you, who could forget." Leo said smiling at his daughter and wife.

"Now all we have to do is destroy the 4 and she can grow up in peace, or a least what normally qualifies for peace in our lives." Paige said.

To be continued…

(Shock) Piper's baby is a girl, I know, but I never did like the name they gave to the boy, Wyatt is okay for a surname but that's it (no offense to anyone called Wyatt). So wince it is a girl I'm going to need a name for her. Please feel free to submit your own ideas for names, and of course your thoughts on the baby being a girl. To clear up any confusion most of the events from season 5 leading up to Wyatt's birth still happened in this story with a few exceptions, the 4 were always lurking in the background and Cole wasn't constantly plaguing the girls as he isn't evil in this story.