Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Charmed Characters. The only ones I do are the ones that I made up. Which is Kalachi, Inubusies, and Scales. Hope you enjoy.

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Piper, Phoebe and Prue are up in the attic checking the Book Of Shadows to see if they can find what kind of demon attacked Prue. Phoebe is flipping through the book, while Prue and Piper lean in so they can see the pictures of demons on the pages. So far they had found nothing. "So, what does this demon look like?" Asked Phoebe as she was flipping the old looking pages. It was hard for Prue to see the pictures because phoebe was flipping the pages a bit too fast. Then she spotted it, the picture of the short, skinny demon that had attacked her. Phoebe had past the page Prue needed. "Wait, Phoebs. Go back a couple of pages," Said Prue. Phoebe nodded and did as Prue asked. "Here, that's him," Phoebe and Piper looked at the page. It had a picture of a demon with purple-bluish skin. His skin had the texture of snakeskin, and he's wearing a long black robe with his arms crossed in his long robe sleeves. "Crili demon," Read Piper. "It says here that Crili demons are low level demons that kill people for the pigments in humans skin so they can go into the real world and blend in with us. Their powers are energy balls, Telekinesis shimmering, and---" "Sheer ugliness," Cut in Phoebe. She had taken a closer look at the picture while Piper was reading off the demons' powers. "---and Telepathity." Continued Piper. She smiled at Phoebe's comment. Phoebe groaned."Eh, if looks could kill," Prue and Piper laughed. Prue took a closer look at the demon's picture. "You've got that right Phoebs," Laughed Prue. The doorbell rung. Ding Dong. "I'll get it," "Ok, we'll see if we can find anything else," Said Piper. Prue nodded her head and went down stairs to answer the door. She opened the door half way and saw Andy standing there. He is holding a minella envelope in both of his hands. Andy looked up when the door opened. "Andy, Hi. What brings you here?" Asked Prue. She opens the door all the way and steps aside to let Andy in. "We've got a Problem Prue..." Said Andy as he came inside. Prue closed the door. "One that you and your sisters might be able to help with," He held out the minella envelope to Prue. She took the envelope and started to untie the red string that was wrapped around a small paper knob. Andy knows that the girls are witches, and is the only one outside the family that knows about the "Big secret." He found out when Prue had to use her powers to save him from some Grimlocks a couple of months ago. Now when Andy thinks there's something supernatural or unexplainable with homicide crime scenes he goes to the girls to see if they could help. When Prue was done un-tying the red string on the envelope, she open the flap and took the three pictures. It was pictures of the man who was slashed and killed. It showed the deep, claw marks embedded in his chest. "The victim was killed by whatever made those deep gash marks," continued Andy as he pointed to one of the three pictures. Prue slightly gasped as she saw the horrid sight, her eyes narrowed a bit at the pictures. She looked up at Andy. "We'll get right on it," Said Prue. As if on queue, Phoebe and Piper came down the stairs. Prue looked towards the stairs when she heard her sisters coming down them. "Did you find anything else?" Asked Prue. Phoebe shook her head. "Nope, only what we found already," Said Phoebe. "Well, I have to get back to the station," Said Andy. "Call us if you hear anything?" Asked Prue. Andy nodded, opened the front door and left, closing the door behind him. Phoebe and Piper went over to Prue. Piper saw the pictures in Prue's hands and winced at the sight of them. She looked away the second she saw them. "Ooh," Said Piper a bit grossed out. "What happened?" Asked Phoebe as she saw the pictures. Phoebe held out her hand and Prue gave her the three photos. "Another homicide," Said Prue. "They found this man in an ally, dead with those deep slashes," Phoebe went through all three photos. "They look like talon slashes to me," said Piper as she stood next to Phoebe and looked at the pictures too. Phoebe nodded. "Mmm hmm." Agreed Phoebe. "The police think that it was made by some kind of weapon," said Prue. "By the looks of it, this demon either has three talon fingers or three talons with five fingers." Said Phoebe. Prue and Piper give her a look. "What? At least it's something to go on. Maybe it was the demon that attacked Prue." "Maybe, but the picture or the description in the book doesn't say anything about the demon having sharp three talons." Responded Piper. "True, but at least it's something." Said Phoebe. Prue nodded, agreeing with her.

The next morning at the police station, Andy is sitting at his desk looking through some files, leaning back in his chair. Darryl walked over to Andy with another minella folder in hand and dropped it on his desk. Andy looked up to see who it was when the folder hit his desk. "There was another murder early this morning," Said Darryl. "Another one?" asked Andy as he sat up in his chair and picked up the folder. There were a lot of homicides they had delt with that had happened back to back, but mostly they were giving the "freaky cases" as their captain and everyone else in the station referred to the unexplainable homicides. Andy opened the folder and took out the information. "This time it was a 23 year old female. She has the same marks as the other two victims." Continued Darryl. Andy looked at the information and pictures, and then put it back in the folder. Two more murders in the same night by the same person or thing that killed the other victim. He shakes his head. I hope Prue and her sisters are having more luck then we are.

Prue sat at the kitchen table reading the newspaper while Phoebe was doing research on her laptop. She was looking to see if there was any info on the golden snake and scorpion necklaces on the web, but she was getting nowhere. There was nothing she could find. Mostly when the girls couldn't find anything in their Book of Shadows, they would search the web to see if there was anything on there they could find. But right now, the results were not good. Phoebe sighed as she looked at the computer screen. Piper walked into the kitchen and went over to Phoebe. "Did you find anything?" Asked Piper. "Nope. Nothing, nadda, Zilch." Responded Phoebe. Piper sighed. Were never gonna find any information on these things. Thought Piper. "Whatever these necklaces are, they must be very powerful. Cause they never wanted to be found. There has got to be something somewhere and I will find it." Said Phoebe with confidence. Piper admired her younger sister's confidence. She smiled. That's Phoebe, The positive one. Phoebe looked up at her. "Did you find anything on demons with talons?" Asked Phoebe. "Yeah, it pretty much narrows it to almost every demon in the book," Sighed Piper. The phone rung and Prue answered it. "Hello?" "Hey Prue, it's me." Responded Andy. "Hi Andy. What's up?" "There was another murder early this morning," "Another one?" "Yeah. It seems like whatever this thing is, it likes to kill during the night and early hours." Continued Andy. Prue nods her head. "Ok. Thanks for the heads up." "No Problem. Oh, and Prue, please be careful." Prue smiles. "Don't worry Andy, we will. Bye." "Bye." Prue hangs up the phone. Andy took a deep breath and also hung up the phone . He then laid back in his chair. Even though he and Prue had broken up not so long ago, he still cares about the sisters very much so.

"Who was that?" Asked Piper. "Andy," Replied Prue. "There was another murder." "Another one?" Prue nodded. "We have to find out what is doing this and fast." Dropped in Phoebe "Maybe whoever is doing this is connected to those necklaces somehow?" Prue started thinking when Phoebe mentioned the necklaces. She whispered to herself. "Necklaces, necklaces." Then it hit her. "Those Canopics." She yelled out loud. Piper and Phoebe looked at each other and looked back at Prue like she was a psycho on the loose. "Canopics?" questioned Phoebe. "Prue what on earth are you talking about?" asked Piper. "The necklaces, they came in two different Canopics when they were sent to my office. Those were the items Claire wanted me to apprise." Said Prue. "So you're saying that those canopics might be a key to help figure out what those necklaces are?" asked Phoebe. "Yeah. It's worth a shot." Said Prue. "I'll be back soon." "ok." Said Piper and Phoebe. Prue grabbed her coat and purse. She took out her keys and drove to Bucklands to get the canopics.