Chapter Two

What Was Lost Shall Now Be Found

"You tortured a demon!" Piper shouted at Paige as she retold her story of how she had got the message.

"Well, it worked!" Paige replied flopping down on a couch in the conservatory. Piper and Phoebe, who held The Book of Shadows, fallowed suit. "Right before he died he said that Venar was trying to stop The Power of Four from being forged. Ever heard of it?"

"The Power of Four?" Phoebe said "Nope, but maybe the book has something." With that she started to flip through the pages of the large book. The Book of Shadows was the family heirloom that had been passed down from one Warren witch to the next, starting with Melinda Warren and ending with The Charmed Ones.

Phoebe was the one who had found The Book of Shadows in the attic of Halliwell Manor the same night she moved back in with Prue and Piper eight years ago. It was on that night that the three sisters received their powers, which they used to fight demons and warlocks and save innocents. For three years Prue, Piper and Phoebe protected the innocent, but then something when horribly wrong. Prue was killed by a demon. It was then that Piper and Phoebe learned of the existence of their half-sister, Paige, and with her help they'll able to become the Charmed Ones again.

"Do you think we have another sister, this one being half demon?" Paige said jokingly, but this was not a humor time, it was a work time.

"Ok, there's nothing in here about any Power of Four!" Phoebe declared slamming The Book of Shadows shut.

Suddenly the book opened by itself and landed on the page with the spell to conjure a spirit.

"Thanks Grams!" Phoebe shouted looking skyward. Grams, the sister's deceased grandmother, would sometimes flip to a spell or entry in the book that the girls need. "She must know what this Power of Four is."

"CANDLES CIRCLE!" Paige shouted waving a hand. Five white candles orbed in to a circle in front of the couch and Piper lit them.

Then the three sisters chanted the spell:

"Hear these words,

Hear my cry,

Spirit from the other side.

Come to me, I summon thee,

Cross now the great divide."

There was a swirl of white lights and then a young women, about thirty five, with glossy black hair that was a little beyond her shoulders in the circle of candles. She had Snow White-pale skin, full lips, fine cheekbones and ice blue eyes.

"Oh my god!" Phoebe gasped.

PLOP!

Piper fell back in to the coach.

Paige was speechless.

Just then Leo walked down the stairs carrying Chris' empty bottle.

"Prue!" he shouted and dropped the bottle when he saw the women.

For a long moment nobody said anything, no words could describe their feelings.

"Hi," Prue's translucent spirit said. She wore the same outfit she wore the day she had died, tight black pants, a black halter top and black leather-like jacket.

"Prue, is it really you?" Piper stammered.

"Yes Piper," Prue replied stepping out of the circle of candles. She ran over and embraced her beloved sisters who she hadn't been able to talk to for five long years. For what seemed like hours Prue, Piper, and Phoebe hugged.

"Prue, this is…" Phoebe began.

"Paige Mathews," Prue finished her sister's sentence. "Our half-sister. Mom and Sam's daughter." Then when Phoebe gave her the 'How'd you know?' look she added: "What you think we don't get the news up there?"

"Um… hi Prue," Paige said and held out her hand.

Prue shook it. "Nice to finally meet you." Then she turned back to Piper and Phoebe. "The Power of Three, restored."

But I'm part of the Power of Three! Paige thought.

"Are you here to stay or will you…" Piper said with tears in her eyes.

To answer Prue walked over to The Book of Shadows and flipped the pages to the spell Piper had tried to use four years earlier.

Piper looked at the spell and then read it a loud:

"In this night and in this hour,
I call upon the ancient power,
Bring back my sister,
Bring back the Power of Three."

There was a swirl of white light and Prue became less and less translucent until the point where she looked the way she had before she died, beautiful and powerful.

Just then a demon shimmered in by Leo.

"Demon!" Leo shouted just as the demon through an energy ball at him.

"ENERGY B…" Paige shouted by was cut off by a flick of Prue's wrist. The energy ball flew back and smashed in to the demon, which was through to the floor.

Piper waved her hands and…

BOOM!

The demon burst in to flames, screamed in pain and then shimmered away.

"It's good to be back." Prue said smiling.