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Authors Note: The next two chapters will have some things from "Sword and the City" in it.


Chapter 8

Phoebe was worried. In the last three days Piper had locked herself up in her bedroom and had just came out to dinner. Phoebe understood that she was upset. As Paige had told her about Wyatt she had been shocked too. Still she didn't know what to think about it. On one side she agreed with Paige that Wyatt just couldn't be evil, but on the other side she really had started to like Chris and even to trust him.

She sighed and look over to the sink where the dishes were still lying in the water. Suddenly the water began to bubble. Phoebe frowned and walked over suspicious. As she was almost there she could hear a voice "Help me." Then before Phoebe could make another step the head of a woman appeared out of the sink, followed by the upper part of her body. Surprised Phoebe took a step back.

"Who are you? What do you want?"she asked the woman.

"I need your help. Please go to the lake in the Harding park. There I'll explain everything else" the woman answered and dispappeared as quickly as she had come.

Phoebe was too stunned about what had just happened that she didn't notice Paige entering the kitchen.

"Okay. We really have to do something to get Piper out of her room. We should… Phoebe are you alright?" she asked concerned as she finally saw the impression on Phoebes face.

"Yeah I just saw a woman appear out of the sink that's all. And now we have to go to the Harding park. Come on" Phoebe answered walking out of the kitchen.

"Wait! What are you talking about?" Paige shouted after her and followed.

"I was sitting at the kitchen counter as a woman appeared out of the sink. She said she needed our help and that we should go to the Harding park where she'll tell us what's going on." Phoebe explained while walking upstairs.

"But why are we then going upstairs. Shouldn't we go to the park?"

As they arrived at Pipers room Phoebe turned to face her sister "Yeah but I think we should take Piper with us."

Paige looked at her not sure about this "I don't know. Are you sure this is a good idea?"

Phoebe nodded heavily "Yes. As you said we need to get her out of her room. And this is a good opportunity to do it."

"Okay maybe you're right" Paige agreed and then they went into Pipers room to tell her about this strange woman.


A hour later the Charmed Ones arrived at the lake in the Harding Park. It had took Phoebe and Paige a half hour to persuade Piper to come with them. Finally Piper had been giving in and called Leo to watch over Wyatt. Now they waited for the woman who had contacted Phoebe.

"And what now?" Piper asked a bit anoyed as nothing happened. She wanted to go home to her son and not waiting for some mysterious woman to appear.

"I don't know" Phoebe answered uncertain. "Maybe… look!" she exlaimed as she saw a figure rise out of the lake. It was the same woman who had appeared in the kitchen of the manor. As her body was completely visible she stepped out of the lake a sword in her hand. She turned towards Piper as a man, who looked like a knight, appeared a few metres away. "Take it. Don't ever give it to him" she said nodding in the direction of the man.

Piper wanted to take the sword as the man threw a knife in the back of the woman. She gasped in pain and dropped the sword while the sisters went over to the knight to attack him. But before Piper could even think of blow him up he shimmered away.

"Take the sword…" The sisters turned around to the woman from the lake who had just spoke. Her whole body glowed white and then she turned into water and vanished.

"Why should we take this stupid sword?" Piper asked confused.

"Oh my god" Paige said suddenly as she saw that the sword was now in a stone.

Phoebe and Piper quickly realized too what that mean. "This must be a joke" Piper responded not knowing what to say else.


Chris was desperate. He shouldn't have tell Piper the truth about Wyatt. Now she was locking herself up in her room and didn't want to come out. He had known that she would react like this. Well, in fact Chris didn't have thought that she would believe him but he was glad that she did. If she wouldn't, Chris knew it would be nearly impossible for him to protect Wyatt.

"Chris!"

Surprised to hear Piper calling him he immediately orbed into the manor. There he saw Phoebe and Paige sitting in the sun room, while Piper was pacing the floor in front of them.

"What happened?" he asked, knowing that something's going on.

"That happened" Piper responded pointing at something behind Chris' back. He turned around and saw a familiar sword looking out of a big stone. "Oh no."

"What?" Phoebe asked curious.

"This is Excalibur" Chris answered still staring at the sword. He hated it. In the future it will be the weapon Wyatt would use to destroy almost the whole city. Once he had also attacked Chris with it and Chris had just narrow escaped.

"We know that already. A hour ago we met the lady of the lake. And this knight attacked her" Paige said, pointing on a page of the book of shadows where the man from the lake was discribed. "Before she died she said we should take the sword."

Chris nodded. "Yeah well, you better prepare yourself for a few visitors."

"Vistiors?" Piper repeated confused.

Chris was about to answer as suddenly a dozen of magical creatures appeared in the sun room. They all turned to the sword and stared at it for a moment. Then a satyr stepped forward and grabbed the sword.

"Hey!" Piper shouted and wanted to stop him but Chris grabbed her shoulder to hold her back. "Don't worry. None of them will be able to pull it out."

As if to proof what Chris had said the satyr stopped pulling at the sword, realizing that it didn't work. The Charmed Ones and Chris watched with a little smile on their faces as a tiny fairy tried to pull out the sword. Of course she wasn't able to do it.

Suddenly the doorbell rang. "More visitors?" Piper asked sarcastically and went to open the door. A few seconds later she came back with Lindsay. Piper didn't seemed to be very happy about the new visitor but Chris' face lit up cleary at the sight of her. "Hi" he greeted her smiling.

She smiled back at him. "Hi. Er… do I disturb something?" she asked frowning as she saw the many people standing there around a stone.

"Actually yes. Maybe you can come again in a few days" Piper answered coldly. Lindsay knew that Piper was the one who would be very hard to get to trust her. But she had to try.

"Maybe I can help. I mean I still own Chris a favour for saving my life" she offered.

"No thanks. I think you better leave now."

Lindsay looked disappointed and Chris quickly turned to Piper "Don't be so mean to her. She just wants to help."

"But we don't need her help. And you better go up there and ask the elders what they know about the sword." Piper responded still refusing to accept Lindsays help.

"Why don't you ask Leo? He's an elder too" Chris snapped but regreted it immediately as he saw the hurt impression on Pipers face. "I'm sorry. But you really don't need to be so mean to her. She's really nice and just offered her help."

Lindsay looked at him surprised. A strange feeling spread within her as she heard Chris defending her. "It's okay. If you want me to leave I'll go" she said still smiling slightly.

Piper sighed. She didn't know what to think about her. Then she looked at Chris and realized that he really seemed to like her. "No you can stay. You're not a mortal right?" Piper asked remembering the lie Lindsay had told them the day she had come to check on Chris.

"No I'm a witch too. I'm sorry I lied to you but I was a bit anxious at this time and didn't know what to say" she apologized hoping that this lie would work.

"What about the murders you were under suspicion?" Phoebe asked curious.

Chris looked at her also with curiousity. As he had met her three days ago he had totally forgot to ask her about this.

"The guys I killed were all demons" she answered composed.

"But that's not possible. They would have vanished after you killed them if they were really demons."

Lindsay shook her head. "No. Not demon students. As long as they're not fully demons their bodies remain on earth after they die."

"Is that true?" Phoebe asked looking at Chris with a big frown on her face.

He nodded "Yeah. I also met some of them in the future."

"Future?" Lindsay asked confused.

Chris looked at her and searched for the right words. He didn't had wanted to tell her about the fact that he comes from another time. At least not now. He wanted to say something to explain the whole situation as the knight from the lake shimmered in behind Piper.

"Piper! Behind you!" Chris shouted but it was too late. The knight grabbed her around the waist and wanted to shimmer out. Piper who felt it reached out for the sword and pulled it easily out of the stone. Paige and Phoebe gasped in surprise.

"No!" Chris screamed and wanted to threw the knight away with his telekineses but the knight quickly shimmered out, taking Piper and the sword with him.


Chris looked in disbelief at the place where Piper had been standing a few seconds before. If he hadn't been to distracted by Lindsays presence he would have been able to warn them that this was going to happen. Luckily he knew exactly what would happen next – or let's say sadly.

"Damn it. What was this? Why could Piper take the sword?" Phoebe asked still surprised about the fact that Piper had been able to pull out the sword from the stone. In the book of shadows stood that the only person who would be able to handle Excalibur was the Chosen One – the next King Arthur. Or in that case Queen Arthur.

"That's not important now. We have to find her quickly. This knight will take her to Mordaunt and he'll train her how to use Excalibur" Chris answered in a concerned tone.

"Why would the knight take her to someone who shows her how to use Excalibur?" Paige asked confused.

"Because if she use the sword she'll turn evil. She's not the right Master of the sword. She can't handle it."

"But she pulled it out of the stone" Lindsay threw in. "That would mean the sword belongs to her."

Chris shook his head "No. She could pull it out because she's from the same blood as the Chosen One."

"But who's then the Chosen One?" Phoebe asked curious.

Chris hesitated a second then he answered "Wyatt."


As Piper opened her eyes she saw a huge round table that was standing in the middle of a dark cave. The sword was lying on it in front of the biggest chair. Piper looked around searching for the knight. But he didn't seemed to be around. She stood up from the ground and walked over to Excalibur. If the knight came back he would porbably use the sword against her and that wouldn't be very good.

She arrived by the sword and picked it up. An immense power went through her whole body. It felt really great – as she could do everything she wanted. Suddenly a man dressed completely in grey appeared on the other side of the table. He looked at her with a grin on his face.

"So you are the Chosen One" he said and started walking over to her.

Piper didn't respond. She didn't know what to do. If she vaquished him then she would probably loose her only chance to get outta here. But if he attacked her, she wouldn't have another choice.

"I'm glad you're here now. I think we better start train immediately. The earlier you can handle Excalibur the earlier we can rule the world." The man stopped in front of her.

"Who are you?" Piper finally asked.

"Oh I forgot. I'm Mordaunt. And I'm here to teach you how to handle the sword."

"To rule the world?"

Mordaunt nodded "Yes. It's your destiny. And I'll help you."

"I don't need your help because I'm not going to rule the world!" Piper exclaimed.

He just smirked at her. "We will see." Then he conjured a sword in his hand and quickly attacked Piper. She gasped surprised and blocked his sword with Excalibur. "Not bad" he said still this evil smirk on his face. Piper started to get angry. That with the power that comes from Excalibur made her attack Mordaunt back. They began fighting against each other seriously and Piper couldn't deny that she felt really good by doing this.

TBC…