"Thank you so much Mark. I promise there'll be a big fat check in this for you!" Piper smiled as she talked on the phone.

Phoebe, Paige, Cole and Leo all walked down stairs, crowding into the kitchen. Leo walked beside Piper, and stayed by her side. The remaining sisters stood on the opposite side of the kitchen's island with Cole and stared at the couple.

It wasn't enough that they'd managed to break the cardinal rule of white-lighters and witches falling in love. Oh no. Somewhere along the way, Piper had left them behind. She'd gone some place far away, so far that she was going to embrace a destiny that didn't include the power of three. It was almost too much to take in, let along believe. It wasn't like Phoebe had a choice though. She hated to admit it to herself, but she was jealous. Piper had been blessed in ways she couldn't even imagine. She had Leo, a man who absolutely adored her, who would walk till the ends of the Earth to protect her. She had two wonderful kids, whose destiny was going to shape their world, and the lives of everyone. Now she had this; this destiny as someone who, all by herself, could be capable of more good, and more change than the three of them could have ever hoped to accomplish.

Standing there in the kitchen, looking at them side by side Phoebe couldn't help but see a twinkle, or light that was in there, brewing. It was power, their power – their goodness. The middle sister wanted to believe that she saw that spark of light in their eyes because she now knew the truth. Looking back on it however, she realized that perhaps it had been there all along, and she had been unable to see it because she didn't want to. She didn't want to see that her sister, whom she loved and cherished, was rising above their limited means. Piper had the chance to be something great, tremendous, and spectacular. Together with Leo, she could – no – she would accomplish so many great things. Maybe they would even win the war against evil after all. Phoebe just wished that she'd been given some measure of that. It wasn't her fate though.

"Piper." Phoebe spoke with awe in her voice.

The older sister looked at her funny. "What's wrong? You look weird."

"She's fine; she's just a little – overwhelmed." Paige covered, badly.

Piper looked at Phoebe oddly. "Overwhelmed by what?"

The sisters each gave one another a look. Finally Phoebe pushed Paige up front, making the little sister spill the beans, and let the cannon loose.

Clearing her throat, Paige said. "We know about Leo."

"You do?" She looked stressed.

Phoebe nodded. "Why didn't you tell us? Honey, where you afraid that we wouldn't understand?"

"No, its' just that I promised Leo I wouldn't tell anyone." She explained sheepishly.

Paige seemed offended. "Why?"

"Well." Piper seemed to be a little confused, as if the answer should be obvious. "I didn't think you guys knowing about the murder would be – well, I was just trying to protect Leo. That's all."

The girls were stunned. This had not exactly been the news they were looking for.

Phoebe was shocked. "Wow, what?"

"Leo, how did this happen?" Paige asked.

Piper looked frantically to Leo and then to her sisters. "What's going on? Did I just do what I think I did?"

Leo took Piper's hands in his. "Their talking about Elder's being Gods, and what that means for everyone now that you... well now that you're changing."

She looked at her ex-husband, and then to their interlocked hands. "Oops."

Phoebe snorted a strained laugh. "You – you – you killed an Elder?"

Leo nodded. "I was tricked." He explained eagerly.

"Cause that makes it better..." Paige scorned.

Piper slammed her fists on the counter and leaned her weight against her arms. She was furious, more so than she thought she should be. "How can you say that? How can any of you judge? You've all done things your ashamed of; we've all been tricked by evil before. Leo is no different."

Paige shook her head. "I think this is different."

"No its not!" She screamed, and a few glasses sitting in the sink exploded. "You think it's ok to treat people with such, such callus? Would you treat me that way? Because anything you do to Leo – it affects me, more than you both know."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Phoebe asked, in an almost condescending tone.

Piper grimaced at her sisters. "Exactly what you think." She answered, storming upstairs.

The Hallowed wolf stepped through the portal and took a long, deep breath. It was back, and ready for action. It staggered through the deep caves of the underworld until he came upon a larger opened area. Daniel was waiting for him. He watched the human kneel down before him, praising his return.

"I knew you would come back." The human repeated over and over.

The Demonic God spoke. "It's time."

Daniel stood with great excitement. He gathered his composure together and lit the candles that surrounded them in a circle. All of the demonic aids stood around them, and began to chant.

"Oh Holy One, take this host and bring forth into it the power of your Divine touch. Let you Godly rights be brought back, let your truest of forms be known onto this lowly man!"

They finished, as a long stream of dark mist swept over them, eating them alive, before sweeping over Daniel and the Hallowed Wolf. The Demonic God was broken into what looked like dark black sand, and carried into the mist, which then shoved itself into Daniel. It fed itself into his eyes and nose, forcing its way into his body, his soul. It consumed him completely.

After the dark mist was all safely within its human host, Daniel – who was now alone in the room – rose up from the ground and began to shake ferociously. His eyes rolled back into his head, as his tongue hung from his mouth. His teeth shattered and gave way to longer, sharper fangs. His eyes returned to their positions, with a new yellow color, and shaped much like the eyes of a wolf. His skin morphed into a harder, leathery substance that acted almost like a shell. His muscles swelled, threatening to rip his flesh apart.

When the shaking stopped Daniel looked vaguely like his former self. He looked human enough, with only his skin and eye as mere hints of the wolf. It wasn't his looks that showed off the power within. It was something else, like a ripple of sound, or an invisible cloud of power that surrounded him. It seeped into everything that he touched, and saturated it with its evil – pure, undiluted evil. Daniel, or what was left of him took a step in his newly remade body, and smiled – his fangs gleamed in the candle light.

"Time to make my kingdom." He laughed to himself.

Paige rushed down the stairs, almost knocking Phoebe over in her hurry. She was waving a map in one hand and a crystal in the other. She was jumping around like a bunny again, but this time it was a scared, hunted bunny – not a happy, playful bunny.

"He's back! He's back!" She announced.

Piper joined the growing group in the sitting room, as Paige explained herself.

"I was scrying for evil when this happened." She showed the map to everyone.

In the center of the map, a burned hole could be seen where they had last marked Daniel's location – his cult building. Paige pointed at it, and then waited for some kind of response.

"Hello? Anyone have anything to share?" She asked.

Cole shrugged, willing to give it a try. "Um, you dropped a match?"

"Uh... no. I was scrying, and BOOM, the map went up in flames!!" She exclaimed.

Piper took the map. "I guess we know where to go then, don't we?" She took Paige's hand, as did Phoebe.

Leo grabbed her arm. "Wait, what if it's a trap?"

Piper nodded. "I know, it's a possibility – but, we don't have a choice." She admitted. "We either go now, or loose him again and risk not finding him until its too late." Piper looked to Paige. "Let's go."

Before they could orb, Phoebe fell to her knees in pain. She clutched her head and screamed. "No, no! No!" She bellowed.

Her sisters rushed to her side, Piper said. "What's wrong!?"

"It's the Hallowed Wolf. I can see... it's too strong, it hurts!" Phoebe answered, crying in pain.

Piper looked at Leo. "Try to help her." Turing to Paige, she continued. "We have to go now."

Paige nodded, grabbing her sister and orbing them out, just the two of them.

Piper blinked, and she was standing in the middle of the room where she's last seen Daniel. It was the place where all those people had been murdered. She could still hear the echoes of their pain ringing on the walls. Her boots clicked loudly as she walked around, looking for a clue.

"Something is wrong." Paige concluded, upon seeing no Daniel.

"I disagree, something is very right." A familiar voice answered.

The sisters looked up in terror as Daniel jumped from a ceiling beam to the floor beneath, unharmed, unfazed, not to mention oddly wolf-like. Piper put a protective arm out in front of Paige and began to cautiously back them away.

"Daniel?" Paige asked from behind Piper.

The former human shook his head. "Not anymore."

"It's the Hallowed Wolf." Piper said, knowingly.

The creature nodded. "You're very intelligent."

"I don't know too many guys with fangs quite like yours." Piper tried to joke, but it landed her with the gut feeling that this time, the Wolf God wasn't going to be as chatty.

The Hallowed Wolf stared at Piper, intrigued by her – then flashed a glare at Paige, who jumped at the eye contact. "Let's take this fight to the next level." He suggested, waving his hand, and letting Paige fly across the room – slamming her into a wall.

"Paige!" Piper cried, seeing her sister knocked unconscious. "You're gonna pay for that."

The Hallowed Wolf smiled. "I would hope so."

Feeling their conversation was done, the Hallowed Wolf began to snarl, then used his hands to motion a lighting-bolt to strike Piper. It hit the witch and sent her flying backwards – hitting the same wall Paige did. Strangely, Piper was undaunted; she dusted herself off, and motioned to blow the thing up. However, the Wolf God was only pushed back a few yards.

"Come now Charmed Protector and Mother of Magic, you must be able to do better than that!' It laughed.

She sneered at him. "I'm just getting warmed up!"