AN: Sorry it's been so long. School has been crazy! Anyways, have fun!

Previously:

"…Rosemary can be very…" Paige couldn't finish. Mel accidentally put a large amount of rosemary in the potion and the entire room turned to ice, leaving Mel shocked.

"Oops?"

Chapter 4: Kidnapped and Melinda Warren

Mel stood there in shock. Everyone that could fix this was…frozen. 'Wait, I'll call Leo. He could probably fix this better than I can.' She called out and Leo materialized soon after.

"Hey, what's…" and stopped when he saw the problem.

"Technically, it wasn't my fault…ok, maybe it is. I put too much rosemary in the potion and it just…" she rambled on and on. He chuckled and put his hand up, motioning for her to stop.

"It's ok. You can fix it."

"ME! Fix it? Are you kidding me? I can't do anything but put up my bubble!" Mel was beginning to freak out.

"Yes, you. Just say a spell and they will unfreeze."

"What spell? I don't know any spells."

"Make one up. But be very careful of your wording. The wrong word could change the entire meaning of the spell." He warned.

"Great. Instead of unfreezing them, I could turn them into zoo animals." She began to pace around the room, contemplating the exact words she wanted to use to turn her family to normal.

"Here goes nothing:

Stuck inside a block of ice,

Fix this problem from my sight." (AN: Lame, but kinda the point!) Mel was grinning when she saw the ice melting away. But then, the actual people were melting away too.

"Leo…why are they disappearing!" she walked up to where her mother was and suddenly bumped into something.

"OW!"

"P…Piper?" Leo walked to where Mel stood. Indeed, there was an invisible object in front of him.

"Of course that's me! Why is everyone bumping into me?" Clearly, she didn't know that she was invisible.

"Honey, look at yourself." Everyone else realized there were non-visible.

"Leo, why am I invisible?" Now it was Piper's turn to panic.

"Piper. Stop panicking. It was a simple spell mishap. We can fix this." Leo tried to calm his wife down.

"Calm down! How the hell do you think I should calm down? I'm invisible for god's sake! Leo, how could you let this happen?"

"Piper. Like I said, a little mishap. Let's not place faults. I know there's something in the book that can reverse a spell like this." Leo tried not to put too much blame on Mel. This was her first spell after all. Piper wasn't helping much.

"Look, I'm sorry that I turned you invisible. I tried, honestly! I was just trying to fix the problem and it just went out of hand." Mel ran out of the attic.

"Great, look what you did, Piper." Paige was looking through the book with Phoebe, making sure not to bump into each other. Wyatt and Chris were sitting on the couch, trying not to intrude into this moment.

"Should we go or just sit here or go?" whispered Chris to his brother.

"Shut up." Wyatt hissed. He wanted to stay as far as way from the argument brewing a few feet away from him.

"Here!" We found a spell to reverse this." Phoebe exclaimed. All the invisible walked as carefully towards the ancient book, but proved non-physical contact fruitless.

"That was my foot!"

"Sorry." They all crowded around the Book of Shadows and chanted in unison.

"Guided spirits,
Hear our plea.
Annual this magic.
Let it be." With a little yellow glow, the witches became visible again. A sigh of relief came from them.

"Oh, god. We have to find Mel before someone else does. Leo, can you sense her?" Leo closed his eyes and sent his white-lighter radar out, hoping to find his daughter.

"I got her. She's at the club." Piper grabbed his hand and the couple orbed to P3.

The mysterious paced around his lair back and forth. 'I'll need someone who can break the sisters. Someone who I can trust that can take them down.' A grin crossed his face. He waved his hand and a human-like demon fired in (AN: doesn't anyone know what that's called?) This demon had white hair and an evil look.

"You summoned me?"

"I need your help…Barbas." And the mysterious demon and Barbas began to formulate their plan.

Leo and Piper materialized into the club, scanning over to find Mel sitting at the bar, holding a drink.

"That better be a coke." Piper joked.

"Why are you here? You don't want me to turn you into a banana next time do you?" Piper could see her tear streaked face.

"Oh, honey. It's ok. I know you didn't mean it. We all have our mishaps." Piper remembered the time when Paige tried to turn Daryl invincible and he became super strong and ruined everything he touched. Piper heard a small "yeah, right." And smiled.

"It's true. One time, Daryl needed help with a standoff at the bank and Paige cast an invisibility spell to make him immune to bullets and anything that could come his way. In the end, Daryl saved the day and put a criminal in jail."

"So? I don't see anything wrong with that." At the most, it made her feel worse.

"You see, the spell backfired. Yes, Daryl saved the day. But he also tore everything in his path. He became not only invincible, but he was also super strong. He couldn't even turn a doorknob without pulling it out." Piper was relieved when she heard Mel laugh.

"Really?" Mel couldn't believe a former Charmed One could pull something like that.

"Yeah. And there's more stories like that. Let's go home and tell stories. There's pizza." Mel got up and grabbed Leo's hand, Piper following shortly.

Bianca arrived at the underworld and walked quietly to the lair. She heard voices talking. 'Must be another incompetent minion of his.' She snickered. But she instantly paled when she saw his companion. 'He's not supposed to be here! He's supposed to be dead!' She gasped when Barbas turned his head to face her.

"Ah…Bianca. How are you? It's been forever since we've last talked." He smirked.

"Shut up! Aren't you supposed to be dead? The Charmed Ones vanquished you!" She was blaring with anger.

"I brought him back. He was the Charmed One's greatest foe. He will be of great assistance to me."

"He killed my mother! To think we could've worked together before. But now…" She was about to walk up and punch him for killing the only thing she had in her life. Her mom.

"Hey, it's every demon for himself. Now, since it's been so long, let's see if your greatest fear has changed." Barbas held his hand up to his face, reading Bianca's greatest fear. "Ah…having the Halliwells discover that you're really evil and vanquish you." He discovered. "Hmmm…we wouldn't want the Charmed Ones who you really are and from recent news, especially from a certain Chris…" Bianca charged up to him and hit him square in the jaw. Barbas fell back.

"If you tell the Halliwells anything, I swear you won't make it out alive and this time, all make sure you stay dead!" and she shimmered out.

"Feisty." Barbas shook his head and returned to talk with the mysterious man.

"You see, there's this new Charmed One. Her name is Melinda…"

"And there was a hole in him for the rest of the afternoon?" Phoebe nodded as everyone laughed. Phoebe had just told the story of the protection spell backfire. (AN: the one with Arthur and his cousin being half demon, etc.) Everyone continued to laugh as Mel got up and put away her plate in the sink.

"I think I'm gonna head up. I'm kind of tired and I've got school tomorrow." (AN: the days may not match up too well. I'm sorry). She continued to walk up the stairs when a gentle hand reached her arm.

"Don't take today too seriously. I know you're going to make a wonderful Charmed One." Piper smiled and released her arm. Mel smiled and walked up.

Dream

"I'm sorry that I did that!" Mel curled up and sat in a corner.

"I can't believe you put us all in a block of ice!" Evil Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Wyatt, and Chris all surrounded her, haunting her. "You could have killed us all!"

"STOP! I didn't mean to! Even you said that everyone makes mistakes!" Mel now had tears streaming down her face.

"But they are that dangerous! I can't believe you messed up a spell like that." Chris walked up and slapped her face.

"I can't believe I have a daughter like you. I'm ashamed." Piper spat. Mel crumbled and sobbed.

"You're a disgrace as a sister." Wyatt walked away in rage.

"You don't deserve to be a Charmed One." Paige finished as she and everyone else walked away and faded.

End Dream

"I'm…sorry…" Mel mumbled in her dreams. A tear was forming and she was tossing and turning. A dark figure was standing in her corner.

"Seems like everything is according to plan." And the demon shimmered away.

Next day

"Pass the eggs, please." Paige gestured towards the plate of eggs in front of Mel. Mel got up and slammed the plate in front of the half white-lighter. Mel then walked out of the kitchen and continued to get ready for school.

"What's up with her?" Paige mumbled, spooning eggs onto her plate and taking a bite.

"I don't know. I'll go talk to her." Piper got up and walked up the stairs to Mel and Chris' room. She walked in to find Mel putting books into her backpack.

"What was with that attitude with Paige?" she sat down on her bed and stared at Mel. Mel turned around to face her.

"Well I'm sorry if I was a little aggressive with Paige. I don't know what's been with me. I had this weird dream. But I guess it was just my subconscious. Anyways, I don't want to worry anyone. Tell Paige that I'm sorry. Gotta run, bye!" and Mel ran out of the door, and out of the house for school. Mel leaned against the outside of the door. 'Whew. That was close. I don't even know why I snapped at Paige like that.' Mel decided to disregard it and continue on her journey to school. Barbas stood from the shadow of a tree.

'Almost there. Almost and then you'll be ready.' He disappeared.

School

Mel shut her locker with a bang and turned to head for her math class. She turned and nearly ran into Chris.

"Whoa. Hey, what's up?" she was puzzled by the annoyed expression on his face.

"What do you mean, 'what's up? I thought you'd still be in that crappy mood you were in this morning." He crossed his arm and Mel sighed.

"I already talked to Piper about this. I apologized to Paige…or at least told Piper to do it for me. What's your bug deal?" She now officially wanted him to back off.

"That doesn't explain your behavior to Paige. What's with Piper? You know, it wouldn't hurt to call her 'mom' once." He was literally fuming. People were starting to notice.

"Not here, okay? And who are you to tell me what to do or not to do? You're not my mother!"

"Piper is and you should act like it."

"Piper was a stranger to me until last week. I haven't known her for about 14 years of my life. I would hardly consider someone like that my mother." She turned on her heel and walked away leaving a shocked Chris. 'What's gotten into her. She normally doesn't act like this. Oh, well.' And he continued onto his first period.

'I can't believe that Chris Halliwell. Why can't he just leave me alone! He had no right to talk to me like that! He just doesn't understand having to move and adjust to being someone that you never knew you could be! I hate this!' Mel mentally screamed. But then so did the rest of the class. Mel raised her glaze, almost gasping herself. In front of the class. All the papers on the teacher's desk were burning. It was like someone had come in and set everything on fire. 'Shoot! Did I do that?' Mel panicked. How would she explain this one? She did the first thing that she could think of in this situation. She threw the new freezing potion that Paige had made and threw it in the classroom, causing the room to be momentarily frozen in time and the smoke too.

"Chris!" She cried, not too loud, trying not to concern the neighboring classrooms. Soon enough, Chris orbed into the still class.

"What happened here?" He surveyed the room and his eyes set on the fire. "Did you do that?" he pointed to the red and orangish mass of color. She nodded.

"I didn't mean to, I mean I was really mad at you and suddenly everyone started screaming and I saw that so I threw the potion and called you and here we are."

"Ok. Dad always said that our powers are tied to our emotions so your anger must have triggered your powers. Wow. I never knew you could do that." He explained.

"What do we do now?" She didn't want the class to unfreeze to find the fire still going.

"We're going to have to put it out, manually. Quick. Look around to see if there are any water bottles around." Chris walked around and picked up a few full bottles of water.

"Wait. If I started the fire, then shouldn't I be able to put it out?" Mel wondered, trying to think of non-angry thoughts, to calm the fire. She pictured the moment that she and Nick had began dating. All the fun that they had shared and all the fun that she had experienced in Seattle. Chris smiled when he began to notice the fire diminishing.

"Whatever you're thinking of, don't stop. It's working." Mel continued to reminisce of the best times in her former home. Her cool birthday parties, all her BBQs that her parents always threw on the Forth of July. She kept thinking happy thoughts until the fire was completely out. She sighed a breath of relief. She noticed Chris sitting down and walked up to him.

"Thanks for helping me out. I couldn't have done it without you." He smiled in reply.

"No problem. It was you that put that fire out."

"So what do we do now? How do I explain the fire and how it suddenly go out?" Chris called Leo down.

"Dad, can you sprinkle some of that memory dust onto everyone in the room? We had a little accident and need to cover it up." Leo reached into his pocket and produced a little pouch. He took some power out of the pouch and sprinkled some of it onto the classroom. The room unfroze (after Chris returned to his classroom and Leo left) and everyone looked around at each other in confusion.

"Where was I?" asked the biology teacher, Mr. Mac.

"You were explaining DNA transcription, sir." Mel sat down and inwardly grinned. 'Nice work, Mel, nice work.'

"How is she now, Barbas?" asked the figure.

"She is slowly turning. Soon she will feel so much hatred at the Halliwells that she will have no where to turn but to us." Barbas bowed his head.

"Very good. I'm glad that I have you to work with me. Frankly, I was becoming very impatient with Bianca."

"Oh, you can trust me more than Bianca. You never really know who she's working with. I am completely yours."

evil laughter

"Let's see who can favor the master better." Bianca snickered from behind a rock. She shimmered out to have another 'chat' with Mel.

Mel was walking home alone. Chris was hanging out with his friends and Mel decided that she was going to go home and brush up on her potion knowledge. She was walking when she noticed Bianca walking towards her.

"Hello. What brings you here?" Mel, at first, didn't trust Bianca. But after hearing Chris' story, she was beginning to trust her more and more.

"Oh, not much. I was just wondering if we could have a little chat. At my apartment."

"Sure." And the two girls walked away.

When they reached the apartment, Bianca grabbed her keys and unlocked the door. Mel walked inside and sat down on the couch.

"So what do you want to talk about?" Mel was nervous that she was alone with a demon. Or an ex-demon. She never could get the story straight.

"Nothing. Just wanted some girl chat. Care for a drink?" Bianca headed towards the kitchen.

"Sure. Water, please." Bianca entered the kitchen and poured a glass of water. She opened her drawer and took out a potion. 'This should knock you out long enough.' She snickered and poured the potion into the glass. She went back outside and handed the water to Mel. Mel took a sip and set the glass down onto the coffee table.

"How's school been?" Bianca waited in anticipation, for the potion to take effect. Soon enough, Mel began to sway back and forth until she drooped over into unconsciousness. 'Perfect.' Bianca carried Mel into a prepared room and strapped her onto the table. Bianca then summoned a demonic priest.

"You ask of my presence?"

"Yes. I have a job for you. One that grant you a great reward from my master." The priest nodded and began to chant in a foreign tongue.

"This will require a longer time than I expected. She is a very powerful witch. Some like the power of a charmed one, perhaps?" He stopped his hands to face Bianca.

"She is the sole daughter of a former charmed one, yes. And keep working."

"You have no charms to protect this place from the witches searching?" He did not want witches to vanquish him.

"Not unless you hurry up. The faster we turn her, the less time the witches have to find her and turn her back. Now hurry. I have some business to attend to." And Bianca shimmered out.

"Hey, mom! I'm home!" Chris shouted when he entered the manor. His mother walked up to him.

"Have you seen Mel?" Piper asked in a worried tone.

"No, she was supposed to come back right after school. You don't know where she is?" Chris was becoming worried too. It was his responsibility to look after her.

"Do you think…" Piper always feared the most. Especially when her only daughter was involved.

"No. We can't think like that. Leo!" Chris hollered. Leo was their number one source for finding missing family members. Piper decided this was a family emergency and called Wyatt over too. When Leo and Wyatt arrived, Leo tried to search using his white-lighter radar.

"I think I have a lead on her, but it's very faint." He whispered. They had to reach her and fast.

"Bianca, I'm afraid I have a problem." The dark priest informed the impatient Phoenix.

"What is it now, and why aren't you working! The witches are probably looking for her." She couldn't afford to miss this opportunity to become someone in the underworld.

"That was exactly my problem. I was working on her and I felt a white-lighter's radar come over. Her father must be looking."

"What are we going to do?" she panicked. This chance was too valuable to loose and her master would probably have her head for going against his will.

"The witches are probably on their way." The dark priest went back into the room and continued to do all the work he could before he was going to be vanquished.

'What am I going to do?' Bianca pondered and then thought of the perfect idea. She went and got out a chair and rope…

"C'mon! We've got to go save Mel." Piper urged her husband. Leo held on to Piper's hand that held on to Chris' and Wyatt on his other side since only Leo knew the location of Mel's whereabouts. They all orbed to Mel's location.

When they materialized again, Chris took in his surroundings and fell speechless. Piper noticed this and took concern.

"Chris, honey, do you know where we are?" He nodded.

"Bianca's." everyone turned to face him. Wyatt clenched his fists. He never did like her. And to kidnap his little sister, he was going to make sure she paid. Leo decided to snoop around, looking for Mel. He heard muffling from a room and motioned everyone towards him. They all gathered and slowly turned the knob. In the bedroom was Bianca tied with rope and had duct tape over her mouth. Chris ran over to her and quickly untied her. Bianca threw her arms around her and cried.

"Oh, thank god you're here!" she faked a sob. 'Ha. You thought I was going to give in. Not. So. Fast. I may have to give sweet little Mel up, but at least I'll be alive to keep trying.

"But I sensed for Mel." Leo was confused on when they found Bianca.

"She's here. A dark priest kidnapped her and took her here, thinking I was still evil and could keep you from trying to find her. Follow me." Bianca led the group to her secret room. "When he found out that I was about to tell you about her, he tied me up and wouldn't let me out. Thank god that you came to my rescue." She opened the door to find the dark priest working his magic on Mel.

"Bianca, what are you doing here with them?" He stopped his hands and faced her.

"They saved me and now they're going to vanquish you. Quick!" She motioned towards Wyatt, who released an energy wave, killing the priest instantly. Piper ran up to Mel and tried to wake her up. She shook her shoulders, but Mel didn't wake up. Leo walked up and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Let's take her home. We can do more there." She nodded and Leo orbed Mel home, and Wyatt orbed Piper home.

After they arrived, Piper contacted Phoebe and Paige to help out. They all spent the entire afternoon searching for a way to wake Mel up. Phoebe was looking through the Book of Shadows, Leo, Chris, and Wyatt were looking through books from magic school, Piper and Paige were thinking of ways they could help. Just when they thought nothing could get worse, Mel woke up. But it wasn't a normal waking. Her eyes opened, to red pupils and a dark aura. Piper tried to get near her, but Mel shot her into a wall. Everyone was shocked. Wyatt, thinking his powers could overpower that of hers, walked up to her and raised his shield from her blast. She took blast through his shield and stood up.

"I'm outta here." She shimmered away.

"Was that me or did that girl just shimmer?" Paige, dumbfounded.

"She couldn't even master orbing!" Phoebe helped Piper up.

"And we lost her again! God knows where she is now!" Just then, a strong gust of wind came and little yellow orbs appeared. They formed a woman in her mid-twenties, wearing a white robe. She, like most Halliwell women, had long brown hair. She had a frown across her face.

"You must find her, immediately, before evil does." The woman warned.

"And you are…?" Paige questioned, nearing the mysterious newcomer.

"Melinda Warren." She answered, in a proud voice.

"THE Melinda Warren? The one who started the Halliwell line?" Phoebe was amazed that their old ancestor was here, in the manor.

"Yes. And there is little time. We must hurry and find Melinda. Before he does."

End Chapter 4

AN: thanks for being so patient with me! Sorry it's been sooo long. Please review!