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Princess Pinky: Thanks! Glad you liked it! Glad you liked the title play on words! Sam is gonna sort of get a subplot near the end, I already have it planned! Amber, well, she may or may not appear, but at this very moment in time I have no plans to bring her little family in, though ya never know…
Money makes me smile: Thanks! Glad you liked it! Paige and Kyle must fight, because….uh…they must lol! Ceaser -rolls eyes- Piper's not becoming a demon, but her powers are sort of the basis of her subplot!
Siamese: Thanks! Glad you liked it! Cole and Cassie will be having some father/daughter moments, and he'll be struggling to handle her without Phoebe around! Thanks for the age info!
Loz: Thanks! Glad ya liked it! Yeah, it's a shame Cole never got to become a father in the show, though, ya never know, he might come back and father Phoebe's kid, 3rd time lucky, lol!
The-Cheese-Fairy: Thanks! Glad you liked it! Karis does rock! No fluff today lol! As I said to Pinky, no plans for Amber and Glenn yet!
Moonfirefairy: Thanks! Glad you liked it!
I would like to dedicate this chapter to Princess Pinky who always compliments me on my chapter titles etc. The title for this is the play on the saying 'once in a blue moon'.
Once In A Green Moon:
The light shining down from the moon was dimmed by passing clouds, as a teenage girl ran from a one-eyed, wrinkly-skinned, demon.
"Are you sure he's here?" Piper asked, as Paige orbed them in,
"the crystal landed on Golden Gate Park!" the youngest claimed,
"okay, you go right, I'll go left," the middle charmed one instructed, heading off in her chosen direction. Paige began walking along her route when she heard a scream coming from ahead. She sped up into a run and got there to find the demon they were after attacking a young brunette. The demon saw Paige and threw a fire ball towards her. The charmed one stretched out her hand to deflect it, only for a cloud of orbs to release from her hand and carry it back into the demon; vanquishing him.
"Where's the demon?" Piper asked, running up behind her and spotting the wounded girl,
"vanquished," Paige replied, gazing at her hand,
"but how? I have the potion!" Piper stated,
"I…uh…deflected his fire ball," she said, partially lying. As Piper, Paige and the girl made their way out of the secluded area they had been in, a dark glow returned the demon,
"Mother Nature will fall, and I shall rise," he chuckled, looking up as a green light glittered across the moon.
Meanwhile, Prue was sitting in her conservatory babysitting the kids while her sisters were demon hunting and the husbands were working.
"Auntie Prue, I think my mommy forgot the potion!" Karis said, walking in with a bottle in her hands,
"sweetie, where did you find that?" Prue asked, worried,
"in mommy's bag," she replied,
"well, can I take it?" Prue asked. Karis was about to give it to her when the young girl noticed the label,
"vodka?" she read, damn I wish she couldn't read Prue thought,
"I saw a bottle called this in Uncle Cole's bad drink cupboard!" Karis said,
"yeah…uh…urm…mommy must have been a bit thirsty," Prue said, through gritted teeth and a fake smile,
"and broke into Uncle Cole's bad drink cupboard?" Karis suggested,
"that's…uh…soda in a bad drink bottle," Prue lied,
"soda? can I have some?" Karis asked,
"no!" Prue quickly replied, grabbing the bottle and throwing it in the trash. Karis stuck out her tongue at her aunt and orbed out,
"I'm telling mommy," she said, before completely disappearing.
"Gracie, Patsy, your in charge! I'll be right back!" Prue told them, tapping into her baby's powers and dissolving into red orbs. Grace and Patsy looked at each other before turning to their younger relatives,
"you're our slaves!" Patsy told them,
"I don't think that's what my mommy said," Grace interjected, Patsy shrugged.
"Charley, go get me a cookie!" she ordered,
"nope," her younger sister replied,
"Aunt Prue said we're boss!" Patsy exclaimed, Charley finally gave in and walked into the kitchen, walking back out again a minute or two later with a hand full of crumbs,
"cookie," she giggled, blowing the crumbs at her sister. Patsy screamed and chilling mist poured from her mouth as she did so; flying straight towards Charley. Suddenly, the frost froze in the air and the girls all turned to see Piper and Paige standing there, their innocent standing behind them.
"What in god's name is going on here?" Piper shrieked, all of the girls pointed to each other,
"I don't wanna know," she decided,
"where's your Auntie Prue?" Paige asked,
"after Karis," Grace replied,
"what?" Paige said,
"vodka potion," Patsy told her,
"vodka potion?" Piper repeated, then Paige spotted her bottle from her handbag in the trash,
"I'm gonna go find them," she said, orbing out before Piper could object.
"Okay, girls, this is Nicole, be nice," Piper said; introducing the girl they had saved, and then going through to the kitchen,
"you think she's a demon?" Grace whispered to Patrice,
"she looks like one," she replied, not managing to whisper very quietly.
"Demon!" Charlotte yelled, levi-orbing into the air and flying towards Nicole,
"uh oh," Patsy said,
"freeze her!" Grace stated,
"my mommy will kill me!" Patsy argued,
"Charley's gonna kill the demon girl if you don't!" Grace said, Patsy obeyed and released ice from her hands; encasing Charley.
"Oops," she murmured, as the Charley-ice sculpture fell to the floor and shattered, "now my mommy's definitely gonna kill me," she added,
"what's going on in here? I heard a smash…." Piper began, walking in and pausing when she saw the ice shards that remained of her daughter.
"You want me to heal her?" Patsy asked,
"you can't! she's destroyed!" Piper sobbed, dropping to her knees and picking up a cracked piece of ice; otherwise known as her youngest daughter's head,
"I can! I did it when we smashed Kit!" Patsy stated,
"you smashed Kit?" Piper asked, Patsy nodded and then moved closer to her sister. Warm, golden, light began to release from her hands and bathe the ice; gradually putting it back together and unfreezing it,
"thank god you're okay!" Piper exclaimed, throwing her arms around Charlotte as the returned with a gasp.
"And you, missy," Piper said, looking directly at Patrice, "you aren't to use your powers until I say so," she commanded, Patrice nodded and began to change into orbs,
"what did I just say?" Piper snapped,
"sorry mommy," Patsy said, turning around and sitting down next to Cassie.
"Mommy," Cassie repeated, "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" she began to yell,
"uh oh," Piper murmured, as the house began to shake and two ripples formed in the air; one becoming the demon they had previously faced, and the other becoming someone very familiar. Dressed in a red leather bra and black leather pants tucked into stiletto red boots, the familiar person glared at the family with crimson eyes, before her raven hair blew around as she disappeared in a swirl of wind and dark lights.
"Phoebe…" Piper whispered, only for a flash to follow the exit and for her to shake off the tingling feeling that had overcome her. The demon turned to Nicole and formed a fire ball,
"I don't think so mister," Piper said, piercing his chest with a destructive icicle,
"okay, why didn't he explode?" she asked nobody in particular, beginning to panic,
"because I can only be destroyed by Mother Nature," he replied, with a devilish grin,
"are you Daddy Earth?" Patsy asked, after tugging on his trouser leg to get his attention,
"oh good god," Piper sighed, throwing out her hands and freezing the demon.
"We don't play nice with the nasty guys," she told her daughter,
"I was only asking," Patsy argued,
"you're turning into Karis," Piper muttered, "now come here." Patrice nodded and ran over to her mother; followed by the other kids,
"Nicole? are you okay?" Piper asked,
"urm…I'm not sure," the teen replied, as her eyes were lit up with a green glow,
"Mother Nature," the demon growled, launching a fire ball. Before Piper could use her powers, the green light spread from Nicole's eyes to all over her body, and a crack spread through the ground,
"not today," the demon snarled, shimmering out.
"Leo!" Piper yelled,
"hey, what's up?" he asked, orbing in,
"explain this," she said, glancing at Nicole,
"Mother Nature," he whispered,
"yeah, the demon told us that, can you explain it?" Piper questioned.
"Yeah, but can you freeze her first?" he said,
"I was gonna anyway, if she gets any brighter I'll be blind," the brunette said, freezing Nicole,
"right, every three thousands years, there is a green moon, and on the day of the green moon Mother Nature is replaced, but, of course, that's a pretty big transition of power, and there isn't a demon alive that wouldn't want to intercept it. So, it looks like, your innocent is becoming the new Mother Nature, meaning the present one is about to die, so that must be why the demons I after her. If he can kill her at the same time the current Mother Nature dies, then he will be able to receive her powers," he informed her.
"So, we have to get to the current Mother Nature before she dies, so the demon doesn't get her powers," Piper stated,
"yes," he agreed, "but first you need to find the demon in the book."
In Golden Gate Park, Karis was stubbornly sitting on a swing while Paige and Prue talked on a bench,
"why did you have vodka Paige?" Prue asked,
"it wasn't mine, I took it from a student at Magic School!" Paige replied,
"oh, I'm sorry I…assumed," the eldest said,
"it's okay," the whitelighter-witch said, "now I just need to sort her out," she said, looking over at Karis,
"she's your daughter, of course she's stubborn," Prue smirked, Paige playfully slapped her sister on the arm before standing up and walking over to Karis.
Not much later, Piper had explained everything to her sisters and Paige had orbed them to the cavern in which Mother Nature lived.
"Mother Nature? hello?" Prue called out,
"you're not going to get my power, demons," a new voice hissed, "my successor will," and then a tall woman with olive skin and long, pearly white, curls appeared behind them. She was clad in a long sleeved, silk, white gown which had a green, leaf-style, pattern sewn into it,
"no, we're not demons, we're the charmed ones!" Piper exclaimed, but Mother Nature didn't listen and threw them backwards with a kinetic green blast.
"We know where your successor is!" Paige explained,
"and we need to get you to her otherwise a demon called Arodnap will kill you both and take your power," Prue stated. Mother Nature glared at them for a moment while she thought, and then walked over and helped them up,
"take me there," she instructed, they nodded and Paige orbed all four of them out.
Back at the Halliwell-Trudeau manor, Leo, Andy and Cole sat with the kids, while Kyle set up a protective crystal cage around Nicole in the dining room.
"Is she okay?" Andy asked, as Kyle entered the conservatory,
"she's coping," he replied, orbs filled the room as Paige, Piper, Prue and Mother Nature appeared.
"Nicole?" Prue said, Leo pointed through to the dining room,
"are you ready?" Paige asked Mother Nature,
"to die? I don't think so," the goddess-like being replied,
"I've got an idea, which doesn't include you dying," Piper informed her, heading through to the dining room with them following behind.
"So, what's your plan?" Prue questioned,
"if we use this spell, we might be able to pass the powers without anyone getting hurt," Piper replied, holding up the book of shadows and showing them that she was on the power switching page,
"thank you," Mother Nature said, taking the book and beginning the spell:
"What's mine is yours,
What's yours is mine,
Let our powers cross the line,
I offer up this gift to share,
Switch our powers through the air."
A cluster of green light began to transport from Mother Nature to Nicole, but suddenly orbs formed in-between them and accidentally intercepted it,
"Karis," Paige sighed, as the orbs formed her daughter. Suddenly, Karis began to grow and morph into someone else,
"what's happening?" Paige questioned,
"she was too young to home my power; therefore her future self has taken her place," Mother Nature replied. A twenty-something girl with strawberry blonde-brown hair stood in Karis's place,
"what am I doing here?" she asked, "mom?"
"hey Karis, lets just…uh…say your younger self kinda got in the way," Piper replied.
"Okay, so how do I get back to my time?" Adult Karis asked,
"well, just give us chance to reword this spell and we can get you there," Paige told her,
"mom, before I go, I want you to promise me something," Karis said,
"sure, what?" Paige said,
"promise me you'll stick to water?" Karis suggested, Paige nodded and looked away to focus on the spell. Piper glanced from Karis to Paige and then gave Prue a confused look, but the eldest just shrugged and joined her youngest sibling to look at the book.
"How 'bout this," Karis said, after taking a look for herself;
"What's hers is yours,
What's mine is mine,
Let her powers cross the line,
I offer up her gifts to share,
Switch her powers through the air."
Adult Karis gave a small wave as light departed from her body and she returned to her younger self. Nicole gave a small gasp as the powers of Mother Nature moulded into her,
"I'm mortal, I'm free," the previous Mother Nature stated.
"Yeah, so, do you have a name for yourself?" Piper asked,
"Dahlia, it always has been, everyone just calls me Mother Nature though," she happily replied, beginning to look at her appearance in the mirror, "could use an update," she said to herself.
"Arodnap's coming," Leo said, running in,
"how do you know?" Prue asked, he replied by pointing outside to where the moon was evolving into a luminous shade of green. Suddenly, Arodnap shimmered in and gestured towards Dahlia,
"powerless," he hissed, "I'll kill you anyway!" and, as soon as the moon completely transformed into a jade coloured glow, he killed her with a fire ball.
"Looks like she was meant to die on the day of the green moon whatever happened," Prue said,
"looks like," Arodnap agreed, forming another fire ball.
"Time for you to die," Nicole confidently stated, extending her hands and forming a hole in the floor beneath Arodnap; sucking him in, "from Earth to Hell," she whispered, before smiling at the Halliwells and vanishing in a green flash.
"Where'd she go?" Paige asked,
"where she belongs," Leo replied,
"okay, where'd he go?" Paige asked again,
"Hell, just like Nicole said," Piper replied, walking over to the scorch mark which remained where Dahlia had stood.
"It's so beautiful, I wish I hade my camera," Paige said, gazing up at the sky,
"me too," Andy said, as he, Cole and Kyle entered,
"Cole, there's something I need to tell you," Piper told him, pausing to think for a moment and discovering she had completely forgotten,
"Piper?" he said, as she stopped,
"uh, I can't remember, mustn't have been that important," she said, with a small smile, making her way over to also look out at the moon.
To be continued…
Next chapter- The charmed ones face an ancient Chinese demon.
'Oriental Magic' should be up soon.
PS. I was wondering if you could please check out my new fic 'A New Path'. It's a charmed/buffy/angel crossover, but you don't need to have watched buffy or angel as when the time comes for those characters to pop in, their backgrounds will be explained. I have two chapters written (one of them already having been posted) but am waiting to post the 2nd one just in case I happen to get anymore reviews :-(