The door to the manor swung open and Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige ran inside dripping wet.
"Some storm." Paige muttered putting her jacket on the coat rack.
The sisters had just came back from Gram's funeral and were spending their first night in the manor alone. The past week they had been staying at a friend of their Grams but they decided that they had to come back to the manor sooner or later.
Paige went upstairs and Piper, Prue and Phoebe went and sat in the living room.
They sat there quietly and Piper decided she had to do something to take her mind off things. "I'm going to go make dinner, what do you all want?"
"I'm not hungry." Both Prue and Phoebe said in quietly.
Piper sighed, "ok well I'm gonna go see what Paige wants."
When neither of her sisters seemed to acknowledge what she said Piper turned and quickly headed up the stairs.
She found Paige sat on her bed with an Ouija board sat on her lap.
"Hey, it's our old Ouiji board, where did you find it?" Piper sat next to Paige and looked down at it.
"It was in Grams room." Paige answered her. She then looked down at the writing on it.
It read,
To my three beautiful girls,
May this give you the
Light to find the shadows.
The power of three will
set you free.
Love,
Mom.
Piper looked down at Paige and saw that she was reading the inscription. She also saw the sadness in Paige's eyes and realised that she must feel so left out.
Their mom had died when Paige was only one month old and there were hardly any pictures or things that Paige had to remember mom by.
"She loved you Paigey, I don't remember that much about her but I do remember that she loved you so much. Her little angel." Piper put an arm around Paige and kissed her forehead.
Paige smiled and set the Ouiji board on her bedside table. As soon as she put the board down the pointer slid across the board and to the letter A.
Both Piper and Paige jumped back in shock. "What the…"
The pointer then moved to the letter T and then slid back a little and then to the letter T again.
Piper grabbed Paige's shoulders and tried to pull her out the room but Paige seemed to be rooted to the floor.
The pointer then went it I and then to C.
"Attic." Paige wasn't sure weather to be scared or amazed.
A sudden crash of thunder made Piper scream and she dragged Paige out of the room and down the stairs.
"Piper? Paige what's going on?" Prue and Phoebe were stood at the bottom of the steps looking up at them worried.
"This house is haunted!" Piper began to babble, "me and Paige were upstairs with the Ouiji boars and then it moved and said attic and I am so getting out of here!"
Phoebe watched her sisters with slight amusement as Prue tried to calm an almost hysterical Piper down and Paige tried to pry herself out of Piper's grasp.
She then looked up the stairs and began to walk up them. "Where are you going?" Prue asked her.
"Attic." Phoebe answered simply.
"But the Attic's locked. It's always been locked and we don't know where the key is!" Prue explained.
Phoebe ignored her and carried on up the staircase. Another crash of thunder made her jump but she kept going until she reached the attic.
When she reached the door Phoebe reached out for the handle and turned it. As Prue had said, it was locked.
She sighed and turned around when she suddenly felt a weird feeling in the pit of her stomach. The attic door then swung open.
Weird. Phoebe carefully stepped into the attic and the first thing she noticed was a chest in the middle of the room behind a book stand.
Slowly she walked over to it and pushed the lid to the chest off. The only thing inside was a large old book with a strange three cornered shape on the cover.
Phoebe lifted it out and looked down at it. She opened the book and the first page read the book of shadows.
Downstairs Prue had calmed Piper down and the two of them and Paige were sat around the dinning room table under the chandelier.
"I guess it was pretty stupid of me to freak out like that." Piper said with a small smile.
"Happens to the best of us." Prue put a hand on Piper's then looked across the table to Paige. "You ok?"
Paige nodded, "Yeah it's just…well it would have been kinda nice if it had actually been Grams trying to tell us something you know?"
Both Piper and Prue nodded and the two of them walked over to Paige and pulled her into a hug.
"We're gonna be ok." Prue said soothingly.
Back in the attic Phoebe had discovered that the book of shadows was in fact a spell book. She looked down at the page entitled 'To call a witch's powers'.
She took a deep breath and began to recite the spell,
'Hear now the words
Of the witches,
The secrets we hid
On this night.
The oldest of gods
are invoked here,
The great work of
Magic is sought,
In this night and
In this hour,
I call upon the
Ancient power.
Bring your powers
To we sisters four!
We want the power!
Give us the power!'
As she finished the last line a gust of wind went through the attic and all around her.
Downstairs as the other three hugged blue orbs began to swirl down from the chandelier.
"What the…" Piper began but stopped when the orbs quickly disappeared.
"What the hell!" Paige jumped out from under the chandelier and looked up confused.
"It was probably lightening or something…" Prue tried to think of an explanation but nothing came to mind. "We better check on Phoebe."
The three ran upstairs and found her in the attic.
"Phoebe, how did you get in here? The door was meant to be locked." Prue looked around at all the boxes and junk that was lying around.
"it just opened and look what I found!" Phoebe showed them the book and the spell she had read.
"You tried to call your powers?" Piper asked sceptically.
"No she tried to call our powers." Paige read the spell in her head then looked up at her big sisters. "we're the sisters four."
"Whatever." Prue shook her head and began to walk out of the attic. "I'm too tired for this."
Piper nodded and followed Prue, "Yeah, you two should get some sleep too."
Phoebe and Paige looked at each other and Phoebe shrugged. "it's probably nothing."
Paige shook her head and told Phoebe about what happened downstairs.
"I dunno Paigey. Lets just go to bed." Phoebe put an arm around Paige and they both left the attic leaving the book on the stand.
Piper woke up to the phone ringing and groaned. She hurried downstairs and answered it. "Hello."
"Hey Piper, it's Glen. Is Paige there?"
Piper yawned and looked at the clock. It was eleven already. "Um I think she's still asleep do you want me to wake her up?"
"No it's ok. Can you remind her that we were gonna meet at the park this afternoon?"
"Yup I'll make sure she remembers."
"Ok thanks. Bye."
As Piper hung up she turned around and knocked a vase off the table.
She quickly threw up her hands in horror and to her amazement it stopped in mid-air.
Piper wasn't sure if she was imagining it or not but she quickly took the opportunity to pull it out of the air and set it back on the table. As she did this what Paige had said ran through her mind. She tried to call our powers. We're the sisters four.
Piper shook her head and quickly ran upstairs and into the attic. Maybe it was true. Maybe they were witches.
Phoebe woke up and went downstairs. No one seemed to be up so she grabbed her bike and went for a ride. Thankfully it was Saturday but she knew that Prue would make them go to school on Monday.
Phoebe didn't know what they were gonna do. All four of them had to go to school and they had to find some way to make money. They were screwed and Phoebe knew it.
As she cycled along she saw Jeremy standing at the corner of the road and smiled when she saw him. "Hey"
"Hey. You ok?" He asked with a sympathetic smile.
Phoebe nodded, "as good as I can be. Do you wanna hang out today?"
Prue sat on the sofa looking at a picture of mom in her hands. "What am I gonna do mom?"
"Prue?"
Prue jumped as Paige's voce came from behind her. She quickly wiped a tear that had been making it's way down her cheek away and turned to Paige. "What's up?"
Paige sat down next to Prue. "You ok?"
Prue nodded and put the picture of mom on the table beside her. "So what are you up to today?"
"Nothing. Wanna hang out and do some sister stuff?" Paige asked hopefully.
Prue smiled. "Sure but can we have breakfast first? I'm starved."
Later Prue and Paige had found Piper in the attic reading the book of shadows.
"Don't tell me your gonna take that seriously are you?" Prue said disbelievingly as she and Paige sat either side of Piper.
"Guys this morning I knocked over a vase but before it hit the floor I threw my hands up and it just stopped. It didn't move and it was so weird. After that I decided to read up and find out what's going on and well." Piper took a deep breath. "I think we're the charmed ones."
"The what?" Paige looked up at Prue who raised an eyebrow.
"The charmed ones."
"The Charmed ones." Piper confirmed. "One of our ancestors, Melinda Warren was burned at the stake for being a witch. It is said that she had the power to move things with her mind. Freeze things, or at least make them move so slow they appear to be frozen. She also had the power of premonition."
Prue rolled her eyes, "Piper, think about what your saying. It's mad!"
Piper ignored Prue and turned to Paige. "before she dies she predicted that each generation of Warren witches would grow stronger and stronger until the charmed ones are born. Four sisters who will each posses one of the powers she had except one who she called the twice blessed girl."
"Twice blessed by what exactly?" Paige's heart was racing. If this was true it would be so cool!
Piper shrugged. "Dunno, but it's gotta be good."
"This is stupid and where is Phoebe? It's almost seven and I haven't seen her all day!" Prue glanced out the window but saw nothing.
"Prue!" Piper put the book of shadows on the stand and looked her sister in the eyes. "We're witches!"
Paige suddenly noticed that Piper had her watch on. "Hey that's my watch!"
To her, and her sisters surprise, blue orbs surrounded the watch and it appeared in Paige's hand.
"Oh my god!" Prue muttered.
"SEE!" Piper pointed at Paige but then frowned. "But that didn't look like telekinesis or whatever you call it. Maybe you're the twice blessed girl!"
Prue shook her head. "No, this can't be happening."
Paige looked down at the watch confusion settling on her face. "What's happened to me?"
Prue rushed out of the attic and downstairs.
"Prue!" Piper called to her sister. She chased out after Prue and Paige after snapping out of her little trance of amazement ran out after them.
Phoebe smiled as Jeremy wrapped an arm around her and led her into the park.
"I've got something to show you." He told her looking up into the starry sky. The bright moon shone down on them. "Full moon, magic is at it's strongest."
Phoebe took his hand and was suddenly thrown into what she could only describe as it was like watching a black and white telly but in your head.
Jeremy walked her over to the swings then kissed her. As she kissed him back he plunged an Athem into her stomach. Phoebe bent over in pain and then fell to the floor. All Jeremy did was laugh.
Phoebe jumped back away from him.
"Phoebe what's wrong?" Jeremy reached out for her but Phoebe stepped back.
"I, uh don't feel well. I'm gonna go home." She turned to hurry away but Jeremy stopped her.
"But I've got something to show you. You don't wanna miss this."
Phoebe tried to calm herself down but what she had seen in her premonition had really scared her. "No I better go home…."
Jeremy then grabbed her wrist and took an athem out of his pocket. "I want your power witch!" Jeremy's voice seemed deeper and a lot more evil.
Phoebe screamed and dodged the knife as it ripped through the air. She then kicked Jeremy as hard as she could in the stomach and broke into a run not stopping till she reached the manor.
"Prue, Piper, Paige!" She called out locking the door behind her,
"Pheebs, what's up?" Paige asked rushing down the stairs.
"It's Jeremy! He's…. he's…. I dunno what he is but I think we're witches and I think he wants my power!" Phoebe felt tears rolling down her cheeks and Paige ran over to her and they hugged.
"He's a warlock." They both looked up to see Piper coming out of the kitchen followed by a frustrated looking Prue.
"Prue, you must have the power to move things with your mind." Paige looked at Prue. "Try and move something."
Prue was about to say something when Jeremy just appeared behind Paige.
"PAIGE!" Phoebe screamed.
Paige turned just as Jeremy went to stab her with the Athem. Paige screamed and disappeared in a swirl of blue orbs. She then reappeared next to Prue.
"What the…"
"RUN!" Prue ordered Phoebe and Paige. Both girls quickly ran upstairs into the attic.
Prue concentrated on Jeremy and sent him flying into the living room.
"Wow." She muttered.
Piper threw her hands up and he froze.
"Come on, there might be a spell in the book to get rid of him." Prue grabbed Piper's hand and they ran upstairs.
When they got there Paige and Phoebe held up the Ouiji board.
"The incantation might help us." Phoebe said quickly. They could hear that Jeremy had unfrozen and was cursing with rage.
Prue, Piper and Phoebe stood together and were about to start chanting when they realised that Paige was looking at the floor.
"Paige come on!" Prue demanded.
Paige shook her head, "I'm not part of the power of three. It was for you three."
"Paige, you're a charmed one I'm not sure what the power of three is but I know we need you to help us." Piper took Paige's hand. "we're in this together."
The attic door suddenly burst open and Jeremy came in looking more that angry. "Stupid witches! Your so dead!"
"Say it now!" Prue yelled as Jeremy lunged for them.
'The power of three
Will set you free.
The power of three
Will set you free.
The power of three
Will set you free!'
As they chanted some kind of force field appeared around them stopping Jeremy from getting to them. The next thing the four sisters knew Jeremy started to scream in pain and he erupted in flames before disappearing.
The force field died away and the four stood in shocked silence.
The next morning Paige woke up early and went outside to get the paper when she saw Glen running down the street.
"Oh my god Paige! I'm so sorry I didn't show up or call yesterday!"
"Huh?" Paige raised an eyebrow at her best friend then her eyes widened. "Oh crap! I completely forgot!"
"You did? Well that's ok then." Glen sighed. "My dad grounded me and wouldn't't let me near the phone."
Paige smiled weakly and sat on the step. Glen sat down beside her. "So what did you do yesterday."
"Oh nothing." Paige said with a mischievous grin at Glen.
"Hey there you two." They turned to see Prue, Piper and Phoebe stood at the door.
"Hey!" Glen gave a small wave.
"Do you wanna join us for pancakes?" Piper asked Glen kindly.
Glen nodded and walked into the house. Paige followed and everyone went inside except Prue who looked out at the people in the street.
They were all getting on with there lives with no idea about the magical things that went on around them.
Prue smiled and shut the door using her power.