Author's Note: Sorry, sorry, sorry for the late update. But now I also have an idea for the next chapter so I'll update sooner this time – I hope.

In this Chapter Chris is 11 and Wyatt is 13 years old.

People who has read my story "A destiny to fulfill" will already know the new characters:

Prue: She is Phoebe's and Cole's daughter (they are together again, just deal with it because they are meant to be together!). In this chapter she is 5 years old.

Colin and Alexandra: They are twins and Paige's and Richard's kids (again, just accept that they are together again). The twins are 2 years old.

Chapter 5: Don't mess with an overprotective brother

It was a warm day in the summer holidays and the whole family had decided to spend the afternoon at the beach with a picnic. Paige and Richard were cuddling their twins, while Phoebe and Cole tried unsuccessfully to stop Prue from shimmering back and forth between them. Fortunatly they were all alone on the beach and no one could see it, but still it was slightly annoying when it was going on for almost an hour already.

"Prue! Please, could you stop with the shimmering now?" Phoebe asked sweetly, but her daughter ignored her and shimmered out of her lap again only to appear a second later in her father's. Phoebe groaned a bit frustrated.

Piper couldn't help but had to smile. "Why aren't you just laughing about it?" she asked her sister teasingly. "I remember that you used to laugh when Wyatt and Chris kept orbing around the world."

"That was different" Phoebe sighed.

"Why? Because they are my kids?"

"Exactly!" Phoebe exclaimed. "Prue was never a bad kid, I bet Wyatt and Chris told her to do this."

"Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me" Cole mumbled, while he tried to hold Prue in his arms to keep her from shimmering away again.

"Hey, don't make our boys responsible for that" Leo said, trying to defend them. But when he looked over to the two he could see them grinning and he knew that it were them who talked Prue into this. "Magical kids" he then sighed.

Paige looked up and smiled "Alex and Colin are never making trouble."

"Not yet" Piper said grinning.

After a while Piper took out some cookies and immediately everyone gathered around her to get some. Everyone except from Chris. He had wanted to go over to his mom too, but then something in the water had caught his attention. It looked like a woman who was swimming, but Chris had the strange feeling that something was different with her. He walked closer and further and further away from his family. Then he stepped into the water to get a better look on her and finally he knew what was different with this woman, she was a mermaid.

Chris just stared at her. He had never seen a mermaid before. His mom had once told him that she and her sisters had met one and saved her from a skeletal being. He had always loved this story and now he was standing in front of a mermaid. She swam closer to him and smiled. Chris wanted to smile back, but suddenly the mermaid grabbed him roughly around the waist and pulled him to her. Chris remembered that his mom had told him that mermaids are good, but he didn't have impression with this one.

"Dad! Wyatt!" he yelled, just before the mermaid pulled him under water and swam away with him.

Leo and Wyatt looked at each other when they heard Chris calling for them. Wyatt immediately jumped to his feet and looked frantically around in search for his brother, but he couldn't see him. Leo concentrated to sense for his son, but failed. Scared he turned to his wife. "I can't sense Chris" he said while he still looked around in the hope that his younger son would jump out from behind a rock and laugh about his concerned face.

Piper looked at him surprised. When she finally noticed that Chris wasn't here she too began to panic slightly. "Why can't you sense him? What happened?" she asked, while everyone started to look around on the beach.

"I don't know. I..."

"I can't sense him either!" Wyatt interrupted his father, fear evident in his voice.

Piper stood up too and yelled "Chris!" She waited a few seconds before she once again called her son's name.

"Piper, I don't think he can hear you" Paige said, trying to stay calm. "If we can't sense him then he too can't sense us."

The whole family started to search the beach, but after a few minutes it was clear that Chris really wasn't there anymore. So they decided to go back to the manor and look into the book of shadows. Paige took the kids to magic school and Piper insisted that Wyatt should go too, but he refused stubbornly. He wouldn't just sit around in magic school when his brother had been kidnapped.

Impatiently and scared he started to pace around the attic, while his mom and Phoebe looked through the book and his father tried to sense for Chris. A few minutes later Paige orbed back to them, telling them that Cole and Richard stayed with the kids. Then they began to discuss what could have happened and what they should do. Wyatt had to surpress a groan. How could they stay so calm, while Chris had to endure god knows what? He had to find his brother. "Mom, I think I go to magic school too" he said quickly, knowing that his parents would freak out if he would just disappear without saying something.

Piper turned to tell her son that he should just go, but Wyatt had already orbed away. Piper was slightly reliefed that she didn't have to worry about his safity too right now, but this feeling only lasted for a moment. In the next she realized that Wyatt would never just leave to sit back, when his little brother was in trouble. Scared she yelled up to the ceiling "Wyatt Matthew Halliwell! You get back here, right now!"

"Why are you calling him back? He should be safe in magic school" Phoebe asked confused.

"Because he didn't go to magic school, he went after Chris" Leo answered instead of his wife, also knowing about Wyatt's protectivness when it came to his younger brother.

"But he doesn't even know where to look" Phoebe insisted.

Leo tried to sense for Wyatt, but he couldn't. "I guess he's in the underworld" he then sighed, preparing himself for Piper's reaction.

"What!" she immediately shrieked like expected.

Before she could freak out anymore Paige quickly spoke "I could ask Cole if he goes down with me to the underworld. We can search for Wyatt there and you keep on searching for Chris."

Piper seemed to calm down – at least a bit – and nodded. "Go" she said before she turned her attention back to the book. The bad thing was that she didn't know for what she should look.

Screams filled the dark cave when the demon vanished in flames and Wyatt sighed heavily. He had already asked three demons if they knew something about Chris, but none had given him an answer. Either they really didn't know anything or they just refused to give him informations, but Wyatt knew one thing for sure, he had to find Chris. Determind he orbed away to another part of the underworld. A few metres away from him he could see a warlock.

"Hey you!" he yelled to get the warlock's attention.

The man immediately turned around to him and began to grin when he saw the, in his opinion, innocent child standing a few feet away from him. "Can I help you?" he asked mockingly.

"Maybe" Wyatt simply replied. He then waved his hand and sent the warlock crashing into the next wall. Before he could fell back to the ground Wyatt used once again his telekineses powers to hold the man against the wall. "What do you know about my brother?" he asked while he approached the warlock, who had a stunned expression on his face.

"Your brother? How the hell should I know anything about him?" he yelled, not liking the fact that he was threatened by a kid.

"Okay, let's make this quick, shall we?" Wyatt asked and continued, not expecting an answer. "I'm the son of a Charmed one and an elder. Better known as the twice blessed child." Wyatt never liked all the titles the magical world had given him, but he defiantly liked the scared look that came over each demon when they heard with whom they were dealing. "And now you better tell me what you know about my brother or else I have to vanquish your sorry ass." His mother had teached him not to speak like this, but under this circumstances he didn't really care about his language.

"I don't know anything about your damn brother" the warlock exclaimed now in fear.

"Watch you tongue!" Wyatt hissed angrily. "I give you a last chance. He had been kidnapped today on the beach in San Francisco. Do you know something or not?"

The warlock seemed to be struggling with himself for a few seconds but then he decided that he could at least try to save his life. "I've heard about this skeletal being who wants revenge on the Charmed Ones. Maybe you should look after them."

A skeletal being? That was bad. Wyatt knew that they were strong. But now he also knew why they had kidnapped Chris. Revenge. Taken through his baby brother. Furiously Wyatt flicked his hands and let the warlock explode. For a moment he didn't know what to do. Should he go back to the manor and tell his parents? They would be angry if they knew that he had been in the underworld on his own, but somehow he figured that they already knew it anyway. Quickly he orbed back to attic where he immediately spotted his mother over the book, trying to summon Chris with the blood to blood spell.

"Mom?" he said, wincing a little when he saw the indeed angry face from her.

She immediately started to scold him. "Wyatt! What the hell were you thinking! Not only..."

"Piper, just let it go now" Leo told her and turned to his son. "Did you find out something?"

Piper seemed to want to yell a bit more, but then the fear for her baby boy took over. She too listened carefully to what Wyatt told her and became more terrified by each word. Before her son had even finished, she went over to the book and started to search for the entry about skeletal beings. "A little help here please!" she yelled up to the ceiling, after a few seconds.

Immediately the pages started to turn on their own and revealed the site they had searched. "Leo, go and get Paige" she instructed while Phoebe tried unsuccessfully to stop Wyatt from pacing. She swore that he became more and more like the Chris who had come back from the future to save him. The pacing, the overprotectivness, his determination to help his brother – everything reminded her of her neurotic whitelighter. A small smile escaped her lips, but then she quickly concentrated on what Piper told her.

"And then we'll vanquish him" her older sister just finished.

Phoebe looked at her sheepishly, before she asked "And what do we do before we vanquish him?"

Piper glared at her and then started to explain her plan again

"I guess they will be here soon" the skeletal being named Necronia said while she looked at the child which she had chained to a grid.

"They won't fall for your stupid trap" Chris responded cockily.

Necronia laughed. "They will. After all they won't let me kill their son" she said before she ordered the two electric eels in the water to attack. Immediately they swam to the grid and started to send bolts of electricity through the grid and Chris.

Chris tried unsuccessfully to surpress a scream. The pain was too strong and he didn't know how much longer he could endure this. Why wasn't his brother here already? he asked himself, but in the next moment he was glad that he wasn't. Chris wouldn't want it that Wyatt put himself into danger just because he had been so stupid to take a look at this mermaid. She had been threatened by the skeletal being and so she had agreed to catch him and bring him here. Finally the electricity stopped flowing and Chris gasped relieved. That hurt like hell.

Necronia laughed at his pained and exhausted expression. "This is really fun" she said and wanted to order her eels another attack when a voice stopped her.

"Leave him alone or you won't live long enough to regret this!"

Piper didn't know when her older son had started to become this good at making threats, but she didn't have the time to think about it now. Seeing her baby boy chained to the grid like she had been years ago sent a huge amount of fury through her. She wanted to flick her hands to blow this damn demon to pieces, but she knew that it wouldn't have much affect. So she reluctantly turned to Wyatt, making sure that he knew what he was doing, before she and her sisters disappeared in blue orbs.

Chris' eyes widened in horror when he saw this. Why did his mom and his aunts leave his brother alone to fight the demon? Are they crazy? "Wyatt, get outta here!" he yelled in panic.

"Not without you, lil' brother" Wyatt replied before he sent an electric bolt at the skeletal being.

Necronia ducked and the power missed her. She laughed and asked "Is that all you have?"

Wyatt grinned. "Nope." With that he used his telekineses to throw the demon away. His power didn't work as good as it had on the warlock, but it was enough to make the demon falter. Wyatt didn't waste any time and let out another lightning bolt, hitting Necronia into the chest. "Now!" Wyatt yelled suddenly.

Chris turned to look at his left side where his mom and aunts were standing. They immediately started to say the vanquishing spell.

"Tide of evil washed ashore

To bring its darkness evermore."

Necronia managed it to break away from the lightning bolt and wanted to attack Wyatt, but then Chris used his own telekineses to make the demon stumble. Wyatt looked gratefully up at him, just when their father orbed into the room and took Chris' arm. Without hesitating he orbed them out of the cave.

"With all our strength we fight this fate.

Make this evil obliterate!"

The sisters finished the spell and made sure that Wyatt had orbed away already before they too left, before the explosion they knew that would come, could reach them.

When they arrived at the attic they could see Leo healing Chris who was lying on the couch, while Wyatt watched anxiously. Piper immediately rushed over to them and in the second Chris was fully healed she wrapped her arms around him, hugging him tight.

"Mom! A little air wouldn't be bad" Chris whined.

Reluctantly Piper released him. "Don't scare me like this ever again" she warned relieved.

"I promise" Chris said, knowing that he may couldn't keep this promise. Growing up in this family he had been kidnapped a few times already and he knew that it could happen again. But right now he didn't want to worry about that. He was just glad that it was over now.

"And if you can't stay out of trouble I just have to save you each time until you learn it" Wyatt said and sat beside his little brother.

"Oh I feel so special" Chris said sarcastically, but he made sure that Wyatt got the massage that he really did. Chris felt really special by having a brother like him. What he didn't know was that Wyatt felt the same way about him.