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Peanut2lb: Glad you liked it! In my opinion it would be wrong for Piper to have a baby with someone other than Leo! Glad you liked Piper's line about the baby not orbing and she'll eat whatever! I need a way for Phoebe and Cole to meet so I decided to make them meet through Andy, instead of Daryl like in the show!
The-Cheese-Fairy: Glad you liked it! Laugh all you want, I was laughing while I was writing the chapter! lol. Who said it's gonna be all four sisters?
Princess Pinky: Glad you liked it! Piper's gonna hold off the fact that the baby's not Dan's for awhile! I have no plans for Phoebe to have a baby, not yet! But eventually I want all four sisters to be parents!
The title for this chapter is a play on 'Dungeons and Dragons'.
Dungeons and Darklighters:
Prue paced her bedroom, Andy hadn't return home from work and there was a harpy after them, she feared it might have got him,
"I'm home," his voice called from downstairs,
"thank god," she said, jogging from her room.
"I thought the harpy had gotten you," she told him, wrapping her arms around him and planting a kiss on his cheek,
"well she hasn't, I'm here, are you okay? Is Grace okay?" he asked,
"yeah, I'm fine, and so's Grace, she's upstairs asleep," Prue replied.
"Harpy!" Phoebe yelled from the kitchen, Prue ran in and released used telekinesis to lift the harpy into her air,
"talk about bad manicure," she said, looking at the large talons on the demon's hands. The harpy fired an energy blast at Phoebe, forcing her backwards and knocking her over,
"we need Piper," the youngest charmed one said, as soon as she had finished speaking, Piper orbed in,
"good baby," she said. The middle sister tried to blow the harpy up, but instead it was covered with blossoming flowers,
"uh oh," Piper said, the harpy laughed and took the opportunity to strike Piper with an energy blast, throwing her over the table. Prue was the last one standing and when the harpy went to fire a laser of blue at her she deflected it with her power, causing the harpy to explode.
"Are you guys okay?" she asked her sisters as she helped them up,
"yeah, but what's wrong with my powers? flowers aren't exactly gonna vanquish a demon," Piper said,
"well we could ask Leo, but that would mean telling him you're expecting his child," Phoebe replied, Piper glared at her younger sister.
"Well whitelighters are pacifist, and your baby is half whitelighter, so maybe she's too pacifist to be vanquishing demons?" Phoebe said,
"or maybe all magical babies do it? I mean Grace was conjuring harmless things, until the Barbas attack," Prue said,
"I just hope it doesn't happen when the Source attacks, I don't wanna lose my baby, or my own life for that matter," Piper said, before heading up to bed.
In the underworld,
"are you sure?" the Source asked,
"I am positive, the middle sister is expecting a child who will be half whitelighter, and even more powerful than her elder cousin," the Seer replied,
"we must send the darklighters at once," he told her.
"Wait," she said, "wait for them to call for the father, he's their whitelighter, and then the darklighters can kill the baby and him, leaving no one to heal the sisters' wounds, they'll be even more vulnerable," the Source liked her plan and grinned,
"it's perfect."
The following morning, Phoebe skipped down the stairs,
"I'm pretty sure I had a premonition in my sleep last night, I saw Cole proposing to me," she said,
"that's called a dream," Piper told her,
"no, this was different, it felt different," Phoebe said. They were getting their breakfast when eight month old Grace crawled into the kitchen with a big smile on her face,
"does mommy know you're in here," Piper asked in a babyish voice, picking her niece up.
"Grace? Where are you?" Prue shouted from the living room, Grace giggled in Piper's arms,
"stop crawling away from mommy," the eldest sister said, Piper passed Grace to her mother.
"Is Andy at work again? I thought today was his day off?" Phoebe asked,
"it's supposed to be, but Darryl called him in, something about a robbery," Prue replied, "anyway, what do you guys have planned for today?"
"I'm gonna try and get another premonition of me and Cole," Phoebe told her, "and then I'm gonna check have a look through the book, maybe try out some new spells and potions,"
"Phoebe why don't you have a break from magic for a day, it's like you're becoming obsessed," Prue said, but Phoebe shook her head, "what are you doing Piper?"
"I'm gonna call Leo, tell him he's gonna be a father," Piper replied.
Not much later, Piper was alone in her room and was calling for Leo,
"hey, I didn't think you'd be calling me, we haven't spoken since…y'know," he said, after orbing in,
"yeah, well that's what I kinda wanna talk to you about," she replied.
"What is it, did Dan find out?" Leo asked,
"no," Piper told him,
"then what is it? do you regret it?" he questioned,
"no, and I never will….Leo, you're gonna be a daddy," she said, he paused, "y'know you can say something."
"Oh my god, that's great, except for the fact that the baby's gonna think your fiancé is her dad," the whitelighter said,
"you don't need to worry about that, she hates Dan, keeps orbing me away from him at every chance, luckily he doesn't notice," she said,
"the baby can orb?" he smiled,
"yeah, she takes after her daddy a lot, she's even a pacifist," Piper told him.
"Now would be a perfect time to send the darklighters," the Seer said, the Source nodded and waved his hand at the air, a group of darklighters appeared out of black orbs,
"go after the middle charmed and her whitelighter," he ordered, the darklighters nodded and orbed out.
Piper and Leo were talking about the baby when dark orbs appeared in the air and formed darklighters,
"Leo watch out!" Piper exclaimed, she grabbed his arm and pulled him off the bed, out of the way of an arrow.
"The arrows are poisonous to the baby too, we need to get outta here," he told her, but the darklighters were too quick and used an anti-orb potion,
"you're not going anywhere," one of them said. Piper froze one and blew up another,
"so far so good, please don't mess with my powers right now baby," she said, freezing two more, Leo knocked one of the darklighters out and stole his crossbow, vanquishing him with one of his own arrows.
"Piper! Are you okay? We're coming in!" Phoebe said,
"we need to get leave, going up against the power of three is suicide," a darklighter said, and then they dissolved into black orbs with Piper and Leo, just as Phoebe and Prue opened the door,
"it may be suicide," a darklighter said, orbing back in behind the two sisters, "but it will gain us respect in the underworld," he took hold of their arms and orbed out. Then another darklighter orbed into Prue and Andy's room and left with Grace in his arms.
About an hour later, the sisters and Leo were chained to a wall in a dark, dank, dungeon,
"at least Grace is okay," Phoebe whispered in Prue's ear, Grace was sound asleep in her bassinet about a metre away from them,
"I know, but those two aren't," Prue said. They looked over at where Piper and Leo were, the darklighters were using them like dartboards, Piper had an arrow in her arm and Leo had one in stomach, plus one had grazed his leg.
"I've just realized, it's these chains which are stopping us from using our powers, but Grace doesn't have any chains on her, so if we can get her to conjure something everything will work out okay," Phoebe said, Prue nodded,
"Grace, conjure something, save mommy, your aunties and kinda uncle," she told her daughter, but Grace didn't take any notice,
"save your cousin," Prue added. This time Grace closed her eyes hard and a golden flare appeared behind the darklighters, becoming what could only be described as a wolf with scales and standing on two legs,
"I just love how my daughter can conjure monsters," Prue said with a fake smile, Phoebe gave a laugh. The creature grabbed two darklighters by their throats and squeezed them until their heads exploded, and then it vanquished the wrest with a barrage of destructive energy,
"ow, my arm," Piper moaned, as the monster freed them all from the chains and disappeared, she took a look at Leo and said, "we need a whitelighter to heal him." Prue removed the arrows with her power and they all got a shock when Piper self-healed,
"c'mon baby," she said, holding her hands over Leo's wound, but there was no healing glow, "no, you need to use your powers, you healed our wound so heal daddy's," Piper told her unborn child, tears drizzling down her cheeks. As one of the tears dropped onto her hands a golden glow released and healed Leo,
"you can't expect the baby to do it all by herself," he said, stroking her face, she leaned forward and their lips connected in a kiss,
"I can't do this," she said, pulling back and tapping into the baby's power to orb out, Prue scooped Grace out of her bassinet and Leo orbed them all out.
To be continued…
Next chapter- The sisters protect Kateline, a thermokinetic witch, from a demon. They also learn who Belthazar's human form is.
A/N. You might want to start getting tissues together for Sunday, when I'll post the twenty-seventh chapter, because there are some characters deaths!
