Chapter 3

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After hearing the scream, everyone rushed to the source where it came from and ended in an alley near the P3. They arrived at the alley and ran in, they then turned a corner and gasped in surprise at what they saw.

There was a creature there standing at nine feet tall over a woman, who had probably screamed earlier unconcious on the cold alley pavement floor. The creature had grey scaley skin, a tail of a reptile, five fingered clawed hands and feet, bat like wings, a face like a bird with horns coming out of its forehead and white fur like hair on its head. It stood up on its hind legs but its body was crouching a bit like an animal.

The creature was about to attack the woman and quickly with instinct Chris immediately launched out a large energy orb at the creature. The energy ball went flying through the alley and hit the creature throwing it off balance a bit away from the woman.

"We'll distract it Leo, you go get her." said Piper and Leo nodded and orbbed.

The creature turned and faced the group and quickly Aaron looked around the alley and saw a group of metal garbage cans at the side. With the use of his wind power, he quickly pointed his right hand at the garbage cans and swung his arm towards the beast. A burst of wind blew through the alley and lifted the garbage cans off the ground and sent them flying through the air. The creature was smart enough to smack them away except for one that hit it in the face.

During that time Leo had orbbed in and grabbed the unconcious woman on the ground and orbbed away again. Once Leo was gone, the creature had recovered from Aaron's attack and was standing again, flexed it wings and roared. Then it got on all four and ran forward like galloping towards the group and when it got near, it leaped forward at them. Quickly Matthew threw his hands out and using his powers of reversing, the creature stopped in midair and it went backwards and thrown against a far wall.

Without much planning, Bryan using his control over water focused his powers and all the water pipes in the alley near the creature started to shake and rattle. Then all the pipes bursted open and water started to spray everywhere but mainly at the creature. Before it could totally get up again, Aaron quickly lowered the temperature of the air around the beast and the water started to become ice. In a matter of minutes the creature was totally incased in ice and the water coming from the pipes was calming down.

Everyone turned to where Leo was, not so far aways behind them with his hands above the woman healing her. The claw like slash wounds on her face, arms and body was healing and seconds later they were totally gone.

Then a cracking sound was heard and everyone turned back facing the frozen creature and the ice started to crack. The head part totally cracked all over and exploded and shattered pieces of ice flew everywhere and the creature's head was free. Before the rest of the ice would break, Piper quickly threw her hands forward and the creature's ice caged body exploded but only the ice exploded off freeing it. Before it could take flight and get away, Piper threw her hands out again and the creature exploded into nothing.

"Well that take cares of that thing." whewed Piper.

"Yes but what in god's name was that?!" asked Bryan.

"That was a gargoyle." said Matthew.

"And how can you be sure?" asked Aaron.

"In the Book of Shadows, it gave characteristic description of gargoyles and that thing, matched the description." explained Chris.

"But didn't we need a spell or potion to get rid of it?" questioned Piper.

"The book says even a gargoyle is a magical creature, its quite vunerable to almost everything and can be easily be destroyed." answering Matthew.

"Okay, that take cares of the gargoyle problem attacking we have." stated Piper.

"Um guys, she's waking up." shouted Leo to the other to get their attention.

Everyone sprinted to where Leo was, to see how the woman was doing. The woman stirred and her eyes started to open, she blinked a couple of times before she was totally awake. She looked around and saw the group around her, staring at her. She was confused for a minute before remember what happened and shot up into a sitting position.

"Where is it?! Where's the monster?!" screamed panicking.

"Excuse me miss, but I think you had too much to drink. There is no such thing as monsters." Piper soothed, trying to calm her down.

"What do you mean?! Its right there, didn't you see it?!" she said pointing to where the gargoyle was but found nothing.

"There was nothing there when we arrived, I'm sure you were hullucinating." said Chris.

"Yeah, how much did you drink tonight?" asked Bryan.

"Hullucinating? But was so real." stated the woman as she was helped onto her feet.

"I assure you it was your mind playing tricks on you, when anyone's been drinking." said Aaron.

"Just to be on the safe side why don't we take you home, miss." offered Piper.

"Are you sure? I don't want to be a problem."

"No, its quite alright. Since I'm taking her home there won't be enough space...." started Piper talking to the teens.

"Don't worry about it, we can walk." said Aaron.

"Are you sure? It is kind of late." stated Leo.

"We will go with Aaron and Bryan, four of us together won't be a problem." added Matthew.

"Alright, be careful." and Piper, Leo and the woman got into Piper's car.

"Well see you guys at home and don't stay out too late." called out Piper as she drove away and the four teens waved good-bye.

"So what do we do now?" asked Chris as he faced the other three.

"As we said, we walk home." answered Aaron.

"Why don't we just teleport?" suggested Bryan.

"Because I just want to take my time. So are you guys coming or not." said Aaron as he was already walking away from the other three.

"Alright, hey! Wait up!" and Matthew dashed after him.

Chris and Bryan looked at each other, shrugged with a sigh and followed their boyfriends.

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The next day.....

Everyone was doing their normal kind of things. Phoebe, John and Michelle were at work and Paige went out with Dan.

Around mid morning the front door bell of the Halliwell manor rang and Matthew went to it and opened it up revealling Aaron and Bryan, who said that they will help him and Chris clean up the extra suppose bedroom.

"Hey guys, you're here early. I thought you would want to sleep in since we got home so late, last night." said Matthew.

"Yeah well we did promise you guys, so we thought we would be here early." replied Aaron.

"Come on in then." and Matthew moved aside and let his two friends in.

The two elemental teens walked in and Matthew closed the door behind them and followed them as they walk. They walked into the living room and Chris was holding Wyatt sitting on the couch with the t.v. turned on.

"Hey Chris." greeted the wind teen.

"Hey guys, how're you doing."

"We're fine." replied the water teen.

Aaron walked over to where Chris is and sat down beside him, holding a finger out at Wyatt he started to wriggle it.

"Hey there, Wyatt." Aaron played with the baby tickling his chin.

"So where is Leo?" asked Bryan not seeing the whitelighter around.

"He had to go to one of his charges this morning and mom is in the kitchen." explained Matthew.

"So when do we start?" asked Aaron.

"Eager are we?" said a new voice who was Piper.

"Good morning Piper, how you're doing this morning?" greeted Aaron.

"Oh I'm fine, thanks for asking."

"What about the woman last night?" asked Bryan remembering the gargoyle attack.

"Well she was convinced that her mind was playing tricks on her, so we don't have to worry about her."

"Oh, good."

"If she did go to the police or press, who would believe her." added Chris.

"Except for Lt. Morris." added Matthew.

"So did you guys tell him about last night?" asked Bryan.

"Phoebe did when she went to work this morning." replied Piper.

"We told John and Michelle about last night and John show us the picture of the gargoyle that was missing from the museum and what you know? Its the same one." said Aaron.

"Really?"

"Yeah, after what happened, John decided to take warnings in ancient languages seriously now."

"Okay, so now back to the first question. When do we start?" Bryan asked.

"Alright, how about now. Follow me." Piper walked over to Chris took Wyatt into her arms and start to head upstairs with everyone else following.

Once upstairs Piper head down the hall towards the end and came up to a door and she waited for the others. Once everyone was there she opened the door.

"Well here it is."

Everyone looked in and looked around the place which looks like a storage room the size of the other bedrooms with windows. The room was filled with all sorts of things, from boxes and furniture of all sorts.

"There you go. The furniture you could move out into the hall until I figure out where to put them and the boxes in the living room. Well I'll leave you guys to do this, while I prepare for lunch." and Piper walked down the hall and back downstairs.

"Well lets go." and everyone rolled up their sleeves and walked into the storage/bedroom and started to move things out.

It took awhile but the four teens managed to move everything out, taking them a good hour or so. Once everything was gone from the room, with a bucket of water, mops, cleaning cloths and washing liquid, the teens started to wash the room clean. It took them another hour or so to wash up the room and now it looks like brand new.

They ate lunch after and then they clean up some of the furniture and decide to use them in Matthew's and Chris's new bedroom. There were a dresser, end tables with drawers, a desk dresser with mirror and other things. The things that were left they moved them to the basement and attic.

Piper then show them where there was a queen size mattress with frame and the group started to set it up. By the time they were done the room looked like any other bedroom in the house, livable and comfortable. Piper soon brought in bed covers along with curtains and pillows and comforter. Aaron and Bryan put up the curtains while Chris and Matthew fixed up the bed.

Around three they were done and they look at the amazing transformed room before them.

"Finally done!" shouted Matthew as he stretched and fell back onto the queen size bed.

"Whoo, that was tiring." said Bryan as he leaned against one of the walls.

"You said it." replied Aaron as he sat on the desk.

Then Chris walked in with his and Matthew's bag of clothes which were brought before and started to put them in the dresser.

"Well we better get going. I want to get a bath, I feel dirty." stated Aaron.

"Yeah, I think we would too." added Matthew.

"See you guys tonight." finished Aaron.

And with a wave goodbye the two elemental teens disappear. Once they were gone Matthew got up and helped Chris put away their clothes.

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Later that night....

It was around seven and everyone was doing something or other. Dan and Paige was out on a date, John and Phoebe had to work late and Leo, Piper, Bryan are down at the club.

The front door of Halliwell manor rang again and this time Chris went to open the door and it was Aaron and Michelle holding two DVD boxes.

"Hey guys, come in." greeted Chris.

They came into the living room where they just saw Matthew put down the telephone.

"I just ordered pizza for dinner, I hope you guys don't mind." said Matthew when he saw the two elementals.

"No, pizza fine. So where's Wyatt?" asked Michelle.

"Mom just fed him awhile ago and he up in the nursery asleep."

"So what kind of movies are we watching tonight?" asked Chris curiously.

"Well I thought we could watch Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. I know its not a martial arts movie but its has some great fight scene and some thing to do with magic and stuff." Aaron said as he held up the two DVD boxes.

"Lord of the Rings, huh?" stated Chris.

"Yeah, have you guys watched it before?" asked Michelle.

"We didn't have time to do things like watching movies on Saturday nights back in the future." stated Matthew.

"Well you guys will like it, come on." and they started to set things up.

Michelle went and set up the DVD player while the guys went into the kitchen to grab snacks. When Michelle was done she sat down on the sofa chair and the guys came out with bowls of junk food, chips, popcorn, soda drinks and other stuff.

"There is more drinks in the fridge." said Chris as he set the drinks down on the coffee table.

Then the front door bell rang again and Matthew got to answer it.

"That must be the pizza."

And he left the living room and after a few minutes he came back in holding two large pizza boxes. He set the pizzas down on the coffee table and opened them, then went over to where Chris was who was sitting on the couch and sat down beside him. So the arrangement was this, Chris and Matthew on the couch, Michelle on the sofa chair and Aaron on the love seat. Once everyone was settled in, Matthew grabbed the remote and started the movie.

During the start of the second movie, almost all the food was gone and everyone was watching intensively. Then suddenly a crying was heard sounding like Wyatt but it was very close to them. Looking around and trying to figure out where to sound coming from, Aaron saw a two way radio placed near them.

"Sounds like Wyatt's awake, I better go see." said Chris who about to get up but couldn't. He looked over next to him and saw that Matthew had fell asleep against him with his head on Chris's shoulder. He was about to wake his love up but Aaron stopped him.

"Why don't I go? Just let Matthew sleep." said Aaron and Chris nodded at him with a smile and thanks.

Aaron got up and disappeared in a whirl of wind upstairs to the nursery. Once he reappears in Wyatt's room, he went over to the crib and picked up the crying baby.

"Hey...What wrong?" said Aaron as he started to hold him.

He checked Wyatt's diaper and see it was dry, so he didn't need a diaper change.

"Well you don't need a diaper change, are you hungry? Come on lets get you a bottle." and Aaron teleported him and Wyatt down to the kitchen.

When he arrived, Aaron walked to the fridge where there were extra bottles made and took one out and started to heat it. When it was done warming up the wind teen tested the temperature before giving it to the baby. After he finished feeding Wyatt, he placed him against his shoulder and burped him. When he was done, Wyatt was starting to drift off to sleep again.

So Aaron teleported back up to the nursery and put Wyatt to bed. Once making sure Wyatt was okay he teleported back down to the living room to continue watching the movie. When he appeared back in the room, he sat down on the love seat again.

"So was everything okay?" asked Michelle once Aaron was back in his seat.

"Yeah he was just hungry." and the group went back to watching the movie.

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Somewhere else we come back to fortress where the keeper of fairy tales resides...

The new keeper now, once apprentice was keeping clean of everything and as well as being careful of the fairy tale objects. After the last fiasco with the wicked witch from Snow White he's been extra careful. Although careful as he maybe, he still wasn't able to predict what was going to happen next.

While he was cleaning the spindle from Sleeping Beauty he accidently prick his finger on it and the thread broke. Then a wicked laughter was heard throughout the fortress and out of the spindle flow out a spirit which became real. She was a bit younger than the wicked witch from Snow White and she was wearing a dark forest green almost black robe like dress with some sort of weird head dress.

"I'm finally free of that wretchet spindle!" said the woman.

"Wh-h-o are yo-u?" studdered the keeper.

"My you are rusty with your fairy tales, aren't you? And you call yourself a keeper." and she walked over to him.

"And I thought after meeting the queen from Snow White, you would know better. But I was wrong. I'm the evil fairy witch from Sleeping Beauty."

"What do you want." stated out the keeper.

"To finish what that poor excuse of a witch started, to be the most powerful witch of all."

Before the keeper could do anything, the new witch started a spell.

"Empty reflections

But through my amends,

Into the looking glass

To follow my commands."

Once said the keeper started to be pulled back into the magic mirror.

"Not againnnnn!" shouted the keeper as he was sucked into mirror once more.

"Now mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most powerful witch of all." asked the witch.

"As I said once again to the one before thee,

You are a powerful witch but in fact there are three,

More powerful then thee."

"Three?!" shouted the witch.

"They are known as the Charmed Ones as powerful as they be,

Their magic is great and powerful with the power of three."

And the mirror once again showed Piper, Paige and Phoebe in its reflection again.

"Well just see about that." said the witch with a determined face.

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Sorry I took so long for putting this chapter up but I was out of the city this week visiting some relatives and I just got back on Thursday night. Anyhow another chapter done and as before if you want me to continue than read and review! At the end there you see that what the next chapter is going to be. If it was a episode then it will be called 'Happily Ever After, Again?'. Anyways I hope the next chapter will be as good as the episode with the fairy tales. So until then, bye!