As everything came back into focus, Piper felt the familiar feel of home and magic in the house. Paige sighed in relief. Piper at once went over to the Book of Shadows.
'I'll deal with the Book of Shadows.'
Paige stood where she was, looking at Phoebe.
'Um...Phoebe? Quick question.'
Paige pointed at to Book of Shadows.
'How are we going to get information on the Lord of the Rings out of there?'
Phoebe scratched her head. She apparently had never thought of that.
'I'm not sure, but maybe one of our ancestors got thrown into a story like us.'
Piper looked up from the book of shadows.
'Paige, go and buy a copy of the Lord of the Rings. A full copy. I need to brush up on my Middle Earth.'
Paige nodded
'I'm on it.'
She rushed out the door and ran down the stairs. Piper looked at Phoebe.
'Phoebe, you go surf the net and see if you can find something on there. Any thing will help right now. I'll keep looking in the book.'
'OK'
Phoebe walked out the attic and shut the door.
Piper began to page through the Book and her eyes fell upon a spell she'd cast a few years ago to call upon a lost soul from the other side. Could Grams or Mom possibly be able to help her? Piper walked across the room and grabbed twelve white candles. She placed them in a circle in front of the podium that held the Book of Shadows and lit them. She walked back to the Book, looked down at the spell and began to chant:
'Hear these words, hear my cry
Spirit from the other side
Come to me, I summon thee
Cross now the Great Divide'
A swirl of white lights filled the attic then came together as one big mass. And slowly she began to become visible.
First it was her feet. It slowly began to creep up her body and flowed down her arms. Last to come was her face. Piper stared at the women. Instead of Grams wearing her red dress or her Mom wearing her long white gown, she saw a woman wearing a black shirt, dark blue jeans and boots. Her black hair fell to her shoulders and she had piercing ice blue eyes.
'Prue', Piper squeaked.
Prue smiled. Piper began to walk towards her sister to hug her but Prue was only a ghost, not temporarily flesh and blood like when Grams came.
'Hey Piper. How are you? Long time no see.'
'I'm all right', replied Piper breathlessly, 'How about you?
Prue shrugged.
'What can I say about death? It's boring. No demons to kill, no pictures to take, no artifact to study. Just blah.'
Piper smiled.
'You were always one to need something to do or else you'd go insane.'
Prue grinned.
'So what is your problem?' asked Prue straightening her back.
'A demon threw us into a story called the Lord of the Rings, said Piper, 'Have you heard of it?'
Prue nodded.
'Yeah, I was able to see the Fellowship of the Ring before I died.'
'OK, well, a demon threw us into Middle Earth and we just got out of there. Now we want to kick the demons butt back to Hell where he belongs.'
'OK and you need my help why?' asked Prue.
'Has anyone up there had to deal with this kind of thing before?'
Pure stayed silent for a minute as if listening. Finally she answered
'No. No one has had to deal with this before. I'm sorry Piper but you're on your own for this one. How's the new sister?'
Suddenly, Phoebe crashed into the room, a mass of papers in her hands.
'Hey Piper, your not gonna believe this but...'
Phoebe looked up. The papers in her hands cascaded to the floor. Her eyes bulged out of her head as she stared at the woman who used to be her oldest sister.
'Oh my gosh!' Phoebe squeaked, 'Prue.'
'Hello Phoebe.'
Phoebe stepped forward, ignoring the pieces of paper on the floor.
'Oh gosh Prue it's great too see you again! I wish I could hug you!'
'It's wonderful to see Phoebe. So as I was asking...'
The front door slammed and Paige's voice echoed up the stairs.
'Hello?'
'Up here!' Piper called.
Paige quickly climbed up the stairs and entered the attic.
'Here's the book you wanted', she huffed, 'but we got...'
Paige stopped short and stared at Prue, a look of surprise and suspicion on her face
Who are you?
Prue shifted uncomfortably on her feet.
'I'm Prue, your older half sister.'
'Oh. Um, hello.
The surprise and suspicion disappeared from her face but she remained wary of Prue. Piper felt disturb that Paige didn't seem to trust her.
Prue, seeming to feel the tension, spoke up.
'Well, I'll let you guys get back to work', she said beginning to fade, 'Blessed be.'
Prue disappeared. Paige turned to Piper.
'We got a problem.'
Piper winced
'Do I want to know?'
Paige began to flip through the book.
'I was glancing at the book in the check out line and it turns out we're now a part of the Lord of the Rings story.'
'What!' Phoebe gasped.
Piper and Phoebe both walked over to Paige and glanced at the book.
"Gandalf rounded on the group."
"'What was that?'"
"Paige winced".
"'Sorry, that was me. I did it by accident,'"
"Gandalf stalked over and pushed Paige to the floor. Then he drew his sword and pointed it at her throat. Paige threw her hand out in front of her, her eyes burning."
'Oh boy', muttered Piper, 'That's not good.'
'It gets worst.'
Paige flipped a few pages and then stopped. Instead of words on the page, there was a grey mist on the page. Piper flipped the page and there was the mist.
'Uhoh', said Phoebe, 'This is not good.'
Suddenly in a flurry of blue lights three figures appeared. One was the figures was their whitelighter, Chris. The other two were Piper's son, Wyatt, and Piper's ex-husband and the girls former whitelighter, Leo.
Seven-year-old Wyatt ran to Piper and hugged her. Piper hugged him back then glanced at Leo and Chris. Leo looked concerned. Finally, Chris stepped forward.
'We got some serious problems happening.'
