Okay guys: new story, new start. I hope you like this one as much as you liked the Army of Witches series. I'd like to thank Prince Halliwell for assisting me on this (by assisting I mean he wrote the chapter and I revised it a little to fit the way I wanted it). So then, let's get started, shall we?

Okay, so everyone knows about the Charmed Ones, right? Well if you don't, I'll take you through a crash course (and I do mean crash course) history lesson. It all started with our ancestor, back in the something hundreds, named Melinda Warren. She was a witch. No, not black hats and flying broomsticks witch (Aunt Phoebe started that tradition, but that's for another day), the regular old spices and herbs and blowing up warlocks witch. Melinda had three powers. One: she could move things with her mind. Two: she could freeze things in their tracks. Three: she could receive premonitions. She was the start of the Halliwell (my family) line. Now, Melinda was cool (believe me, I met her) but I kind of blame her for the life we have to lead, my family and I.

You see, my mom, Prudence "Prue" Halliwell is a Charmed One. The Charmed Ones are three (well it was supposed to be three, but then grandma had Aunt Paige and messed things up a little) witches that are destined to be the most powerful witches in the world. They have to fight demons and all that crap every day. Mom has the telekinesis power and the ability to astral project, Aunt Piper can freeze and blow things up, Aunt Phoebe can get premonitions and levitate, plus she's a telepath, and Aunt Paige can orb and do all kinds of other orby things. But the only reason any of that was important was so that you could understand the most important thing here: me.

Patience Marie Halliwell: daughter of Prudence Halliwell and Andrew Trudeau, captain of the cheerleading squad, and one of the most popular girls in school. Yep, that's me. I have the ability to shoot water out of my hands, control water, control the animals in the water, and all kinds of other stuff that I have to work on with Aunt Paige in our "Power Training Lessons". My cousins have other powers similar to mine, that control the elements. We're what the Elders call the "Archers". We're destined to lead powerful armies in the final battle. The thing is, no one knows who we're fighting against. But I guess we'll have to wait and see when we get there. So now that we're done with all that, we can get onto the good stuff. Let's start with school today…

I was sitting in third period, daydreaming about my awesome boyfriend, Kyle Dunn (captain of the football team, of course!) when all of the sudden, this jerk off Steven Cardone (my ex-boyfriend) comes over and dumps water on me! Can you believe it? Of all the things! Anyways, my face turns bright red as the rest of the class starts laughing.

"I always knew you'd look good wet!" Steven laughed. I raised my hand, ready to blast him with more water than the Atlantic Ocean could hold, but my cousin Parker (the peacemaker of the family) came over to calm me down.

"He's just jealous because he can't have you back," Parker whispered. I took a deep breath and stormed out of the classroom and to the bathroom to look at the damage that Steven had done.

"I'm gonna kill him," I muttered. If only there was some way… and then it hit me. A spell! Mom and my aunts had always warned me against personal gain, but the hell with it. This would be worth it. I quickly thought up a little rhyme. It wasn't the best spell in the world (Aunt Phoebe was always the spell writer in the family, although there was that time when Aunt Piper wrote that really good fearless spell), but it would work.

"Make me invisible. That's all I ask. Make me invisible, so I can kick Steven's ass," I recited. I watched as my reflection quickly disappeared. "Awesome!" I exclaimed, running into a very confused person on my way out of the bathroom. I quietly walked back into my third period class and up to Steven. I tapped him on his shoulder. He turned around.

"What?" he snapped at Parker, who was sitting behind him. Parker raised his eyebrow.

"I didn't say anything," he said.

"Very funny. Don't do it again," Steven ordered. That jack ass! Without thinking, I lifted up one of Parker's books and smacked Steven in the back of the head. He yelled.

"Mr. Cardone! What is the commotion about?" our teacher asked.

"This idiot just hit me with one of his books!" Steven yelled.

"No I didn't!" Parker said, his eyes wide. Being the teacher's pet that he is, the teacher believed him.

"Go stand in the hall, Mr. Cardone," the teacher ordered. Steven got up and stormed out of the classroom, with me on his tail. As soon as he was out there and standing against the wall, I walked up to him. I took one good look at him and decided I couldn't take it. I pulled back and punched him as hard as I could. He yelled, very confused. I hit him again, and a third time, and a fourth until finally he was knocked out cold. Then I calmed down and realized what I had done.

"Shit!" I said, backing away. I had to get home, but I had no way of doing so. Dammit, why did I have to be the only one without a magical form of transportation? "Percy," I said, running to the history room. I ran over to my cousin, Persephone's, desk. She was doodling on her papers, not paying attention to the teacher, Ms. Neitz. I knew I couldn't talk to her, so I grabbed her pencil from her and wrote a note on her paper.

"Come to the bathroom with me, Patience," she read aloud. She looked around. "Patience?" she asked. I wrote 'yes' on her paper.

"Is there a problem, Percy?" Ms. Neitz asked. Percy's head snapped up.

"Um, I need to use the restroom," she said. Ms. Neitz rolled her eyes and waved her hand for her to go. Percy got up and went to the bathroom and I followed her out. "Okay, what's up?" she asked.

"I need to get home," I told her.

"Why can't I see you?" she asked.

"Because I did a spell to make me invisible so that I could kick Steven's ass. I ended up beating him up really bad and I need to get home. Can you take me there?" I asked.

"You wasted a personal gain spell on him? Never mind, grab on, I'll take you home," she said. I gratefully took hold of her arm and waited as we orbed out. We orbed into the famed Halliwell manor, where Aunt Piper, Uncle Leo, and Parker live. But we weren't there for any of them; we were there for the Book of Shadows. Percy brought the book over the couch and sat down… on top of me.

"Ouch!" I yelled.

"Sorry! I can't see you," she said.

"You're a damn white-lighter, you couldn't sense me?" I asked. She shook her head.

"Nope. It's like you've fallen off the radar or something," she said.

"Uh oh, personal gain," I assumed. Percy nodded.

"Let's just hope we can get you back before anything else bad happens," she said. As we searched through the book, I explained the events leading up to that point. Percy just listened and kept searching. Finally, she looked up. "I can't find anything," she said sadly.

"I figured. I wrote the spell myself," I said.

"Well, see if you can reverse it," Percy said.

"I can't write spells very well. The one that got me like this sucked. You do one," I said. Percy sighed.

"Let the object of objection become the scene as I cause the unseen to be seen," she said. I lifted my hand up, but it was still invisible.

"Why isn't it working?" I asked, becoming a little panicked.

"I don't know. It must be the personal gain blockage. Maybe we should talk to your mom or my mom, or Uncle Leo. He'll know what to do," Percy suggested.

"No way! He'll tell my mom and she'll kill me!" I said.

"Well there has to be someone who can help. Grandpa!" she said.

"Grandpa? How can he help?" I asked.

"Not your grandpa, mine! Sam is a white-lighter, he'll know what to do and he won't tell anyone," Percy said.

"Cool, let's go!" I said. I grabbed onto her and we orbed out. We reappeared in an alley next to his apartment.

"Are you still here?" Percy asked.

"Of course I am!" I said. She didn't hear me though.

"Patience? Are you here?" she asked again.

"I'm right here doofus," I said.

"Patience, this isn't funny," Percy said.

"I'm thinking the same thing," I said. I tried to tap her shoulder, but my hand passed straight through it. "Oh hell!" I said. Not only was I invisible, I was fading away. I sprinted down the alley, leaving Percy to stand there, confused and worried. I ran as fast as my legs would carry me back to Prescott Street and into the manor, where I found Aunt Piper home early from P4. I figured I'd give it one last try, so I closed my eyes and focused my mind (just like Aunt Paige had taught me to do in our lessons) and picked up a pencil, quickly scrawling a note down on a piece of paper.

"Whoa! What the hell? Who's there?" Aunt Piper asked. I rolled my eyes. Why couldn't she just read the note? "I need help. I'm invisible and I'm fading away. Please get me back, Patience," Aunt Piper read. "Patience?" I wrote 'yes' on the paper like I had done for Percy. "How did you get like this?" she asked. 'Spell'. "Okay, well we'll get you back before your parents find out." I silently thanked her. She called for Uncle Leo. He orbed down instantly.

"What's up, honey?" he asked.

"Patience is in trouble. She used a spell to turn herself invisible and it backfired. She's fading away," Aunt Piper explained.

"I can't sense her," Leo said.

"Didn't you hear what I just said? She's fading away. We can't see her, hear her, feel her, or sense her!" Piper said.

"Well do you have any idea where she is?" Leo asked.

"She should be right next to you," Piper said. I wasn't, I was actually beside her, but I quickly moved around to get beside Leo. He put his hands out and emitted a golden glow from them. And just like that, I was visible again.

"Hello Patience," Leo said with a grin.

"Please don't tell mom!" I said immediately.

"We won't. But you will," Piper said.

"No! Aunt Piper, please," I pleaded.

"No buts, you have to tell her. And I hope you've learned not to use magic for personal gain," Leo said. I sighed.

"Yes, Uncle Leo," I said, hanging my head. Just then, Percy orbed in.

"Aunt Piper! Uncle Leo! Thank god! Something bad happened to… Patience?" she asked upon seeing me. I smiled.

"In the flesh, finally," I said. Percy grinned.

"Well, if we hurry up, we can still make 5th period," she said. I nodded and grabbed onto her.

"Thanks guys," I said and we orbed out. That night, I had to explain why I had missed two classes to my parents. It didn't go so well.

"I can't believe you would do something like that! Not only did you use magic for personal gain and risk exposing it, but you could have gotten killed!" my mom said, going on one of her rants.

"I'm sorry, Mom! I was just so mad. I wanted to get back at him," I said.

"I understand that, but vendettas should never cost you your life," she said.

"I know. I'm really sorry and after today, I'll never do again," I said.

"You're right, you won't. You're grounded for a week. No magic, except for during your lessons with Paige. You will come home, do your homework, go to Magic School, and that's it," Dad said.

"What? Mom," I pleaded.

"I'm sorry, honey, but your dad is right. You need to be punished for this," my mom said. She and Dad walked out of the room, leaving me to sit on my bed with tears rolling down my face. A few minutes later, my cousins orbed and shimmered in.

"We could sense that you were a little stressed," Percy said.

"Yeah man, if you want, I can beat that asshole up tomorrow," Preston offered. I smiled.

"Thanks, but I think he's learned his lesson. As have I," I said.

"How bad is it?" Parker asked.

"A week. No magic except for with Aunt Paige, no friends, no nothing," I said.

"Well it's a good thing that your cousins are your best friends," Percy said with a grin. I smiled and nodded. They all sat on the bed with me.

"Don't worry. I'm sure I'll have a reason to use magic for personal gain soon enough and everyone will forget about your little screw up," Preston said. I laughed.

"Oh I'm sure," I said.

"You did beat Steven up pretty bad. We found him in the hallway. He looked like shit," Parker said.

"What can I say? I have no patience," I said with a grin. We laughed. If there was one thing I could say, it was that my cousins could always make me feel better when I needed them too, and I had never been so grateful to have them as I did then.

Well, there ya go guys! The first chapter. What do ya think? Was it good? This is a nice change, going from the Army of Witches to this. I like it. Well, review and tell me what you think. TTFN

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