Chapter 4: Back from the Dead

Hear these words, hear our cry
Spirits from the other side
Come to us, we summon thee
Cross now the great divide.

The shimmering of white lights started flowing around. The shape of Prue was starting to become visible. Piper and Phoebe were on the verge of tears. Paige was anxious to meet her long-lost sister. "Long time no see," Prue said once she became flesh and bones. Piper and Phoebe gave her a long hug, tears streaming down their faces. Paige awkwardly walked over to her.

"Hi, I'm Paige," she said.

"Yeah, I know," Prue said, with a hint of coldness. Paige's smile turned to a puzzled look. "We better get started."

"What exactly are we supposed to do?" Phoebe asked.

"Well I'm thinking that a Power of Three plus one spell should work. You should get working on writing that." Prue walked over to the Book. "Wow, it's been such a long time since I've seen this old thing." She started flipping through the pages, with old memories popping into her head. "Piper, we're gonna need potions and lots of them." Piper got out ingredients to start making potions. Paige stood around awkwardly.

"Well, what can I do?" she asked. Prue looked her over for a minute.

"Go help, Piper with the potions." Paige walked over to where Piper was sitting.

"I don't think she likes me very much," she told her.

"Who? Prue? Of course she likes you, you're her sister. What reason does she have for not liking you? She just met you."

"That's it. I think she's stuck in the days of you three without me."

"Paige, don't be ridiculous. Hand me some of the mandake root."

"It appears that the witches have brought their dead sister back to help them." Darcon said, observing the sister's every move. "I don't see what help it'll do. I'm too powerful for any of them. Even the mighty Prue."

One of his demons spoke up, "I wouldn't underestimate them, especially now that they have four of them. They are strong witches."

"Do you underestimate me?" Darcon asked. Before giving the demon time to answer, he threw a fireball at him. "If any of you question my power, you'll feel the full extent of it. Is that understood?"

"Yes, Darcon."

"Now let's send Prue a welcome home gift."

"I'm telling you, Piper, she doesn't want me here," Paige kept insisting.

"Listen Paige, I just think you're jealous that we have another sister that Phoebe and I love and cherish. If you can't understand that, maybe you should just go."

"Fine, I will." And with that Paige orbed away as a dozen demons shimmered in.

"Where the hell did she go?" Prue asked, flinging a demon across the room.

"She's having issues," Piper told her.

"This is not the time for issues," Phoebe said. "Eek," she yelled running from a demon energy ball.

"You know, Phoebe, before I died, you were a lot more aggressive." She astral projected herself across the room and used an athemae on a demon. "We really need Paige right now."

Paige had orbed to her old apartment. I guess since they don't want me around anymore, she was thinking, I might as well fix up my old apartment.

"Paige!" she heard her sisters calling her name. She knew they must be in trouble to be really wanting her help.They are my sisters, no matter what they think of me. I've got to help them. She orbed back to the attic to find demons-galore. An energy ball was tossed her way. She ducked as it passed over her head. "To the Underworld!" she yelled, using her advancement of her powers to orb the demons away.

"Some of the things about being a witch, I sure do not miss," Prue told her sisters. "You weren't that bad, Paige." This was the first positive thing Prue had said to her since she came back.

"You weren't so bad yourself," she said back. They both smiled at one another. Prue held her arms open, and Paige gave her a hug. Piper and Phoebe smiled at this.

"I told you so," Piper mouthed to Paige.

"I know we didn't get off to a good start, but I was just a little fussy about the imposing demon threat. Just ask Phoebe, I was just the same to her. Don't take it personal."

"I shouldn't have left so suddenly like that."

"So, I've heard that I have a few nephews," Prue said. "Where are they."

"I'll go get them," Paige said. They all went downstairs and Paige orbed back with the three boys. Leo's eyes widened with shock as he saw Prue.

"Prue?" he asked.

"I've missed you too, Leo," she said. She gave him a hug.Then she walked over to the boys. She picked up Chris and gave him a little kiss on the cheek. "He's so cute." Then she put him in the play pin and picked up Wyatt. "Aren't you a big man. You're going to grow up big and handsome, just like your father." Leo had a chuckle at that. "I can't believe what I've been missing all these years."

She, Piper, and Phoebe sat on the couch and started talking about old times. Paige couldn't help but feel left out so she made an excuse to leave. "I'm gonna go look in the Book for ways to protect the house."

"Paige, take them back to magic school, quick," Piper said. "I hate to break this reunion up, but I don't want them hurt."

"Yeah sure. Come on guys." Leo got up and picked Wyatt up while Paige picked up Chris. She orbed them to Magic School.

"Well, I think it's time for us to continue working on a way to stop Darcon," Prue finally said after several minutes of talking with her sisters. "Phoebe, how far are you on that spell?"

"I have a line done in it…," she said. She got out her notepad and started writing again.

"Piper, we can go make more potions, since its obvious that there are a lot more demons to come."

"The witches are stronger than I imagined. We'll just have to hit them with a better plan."

"Like what?" asked a demon.

"Would you let me finish? It appears one of the sisters is all alone right now, let's pay her a visit."

Phoebe was having a bad case of writer's block at the worse possible time. She couldn't think of rhyming words at the moment. She was concentrating so hard, she didn't notice that a shimmering demon had appeared behind her. Piper walked into the room.

"Phoebe!" she yelled. The demon quickly seized her and shimmered back to Darcon.