The Legacy Continues:

Travel in Time

Princess of the night

Chapter One

Brakum

For all of time the world had remained calm, protected, and ignorant. Only few knew of the dangers that were present. These few were the ones who knew about the magical world. Demons threatened the lives of innocent people everyday, all around the world. Witches fought the demons and spent their most of their lives protecting the people of the world. Though, some witches went their entire lives without ever even seeing a demon let alone fighting one. The magical would had all been awaiting the arrival of three very special witches for centuries. They had been waiting for The Charmed Ones. Three witches with great power. They would posses the Power of Three, a power that could vanquish almost any demon.

In the 20th century, there had been born three daughters to a powerful family of witches. For their own protection when they were young, their powers had been bound and their destiny kept a secret from them. They were raised by their grandmother after their mother died and their father had left. When their grandmother died, their powers were released and their destiny revealed. or three years they battled the demons that continually threatened them or the innocent people around them. After three years of being witches, the oldest sister was killed by a demon. The power of three was destroyed with her, until a family secret came to light.

After their parents had divorced, their mother had fallen for her whiteliter Sam. The two had a child, another sister, who they gave up at birth because it was forbidden for witches and whiteliters to be together. The three remaining sisters reunited and the power of Three was Reborn, along with The Charmed Ones.

The destiny of The Charmed Ones was thought by many to be a glamorous, exciting one. However, the sister didn't find it so exciting. Continually they had to stop their lives to fight demons and now, when demons attacked them, their family was put in danger. The youngest sister had recently married. The oldest sister had fought and gained the ability to marry her whiteliter years ago, and now had two sons. The three had been through so much, they had been witches for nearly nine years now, and there had been sacrifices to make and rewards to cherish. Sometimes they felt lucky to see the next sunrise.

Piper Halliwell sat on the window seat in her bedroom. She sighed, being the oldest of The Charmed Ones she had to stay strong, but her current situation was difficult. She glanced back at the empty bed in the room and felt sadness consume her heart. Her husband, Leo, was not there. He hadn't been there for so long now. Somehow, Leo had gotten caught in the screwed up destiny that Piper and her sisters shared. The only way to save his life had been to freeze him in a crystallized structure. When Piper thought about it, he was dead inside the crystal, but if they completed their destiny they could get him back and unfreeze him. Piper, however, had no idea what was going to happen, so she just had to go on without Leo for now and get him back as soon as she could.

At the sound of crying, Piper looked over at the baby monitor on the bedside table. She pushed her long, dark brown hair back as she got up and went to the room that her sons, Wyatt and Chris, shared. Chris had been the one crying. The two-year-old stood in his crib and waited for his mother to come and get him. "Ok, here I am." Piper lifted her son over the side of the crib and turned to see four-year-old Wyatt sitting up, his feet dangling over his bed. "Morning sweetie." She smiled at him.

"Mornin." Wyatt replied with a sleepy smile.

"Common, let's go get some breakfast." Piper pushed some blond hair out of Wyatt's eyes as he made his way to the door.

"Breakfast sounds good." Came the voice of Billy as she came down the stairs from the attic. The college student was tired, she had been up all night looking into some demon information and Piper hadn't had the heart to wake her when she fell asleep in front of The Book of Shadows.

"You'll have to have breakfast on the go today. You've gotta get to class." Piper reminded her. Billy moaned at the statement and accompanied Piper and her kids down to the kitchen. Piper was glad that Billy was around to keep her company, but she still missed her sisters. Ever since Billy had befriended the sisters she had become like part of the family. Piper's sisters however had been around less and less. The middle sister, Phoebe, had recently gotten her own penthouse and was enjoying the convenience of living in downtown San Francisco where she worked. Piper's other sister (half-sister actually), Paige, had left two weeks ago right after her weeding with Henry. Paige and her new husband were expected to be home sometime this weekend. They had decided that as soon as they got home they would live at Halliwell manor until they found a house of their own.

Billy had run out of the house for her class quickly. After Piper got her sons their breakfasts and all cleaned up and dressed the three sat in the conservatory. Piper watched as her sons played with their toys. Chris hurried over to her, holding out a teddy bear. The boys played well together and piper only had to yell at Wyatt once for orbing away one of Chris' toys. Chris hadn't come into his powers yet, and Piper was glad of that. One magical child was enough to deal with at once.

Of course, Wyatt had never been a normal child, not even for being the son of a Charmed One. Wyatt was the twice-blessed child. He was the first born male in the Halliwell family for centuries, and bestowed with power greater than any other being. They had traveled a long road to keep him safe. Someone that they thought had been their ally had tried to kill him. But, with the help of someone that they all become very close to they saved him and saved the future. Chris, Piper's second son, had come from twenty-five years in the future to help save Wyatt. In Chris' time, Wyatt was a powerful source of evil that ruled over the world. They had prevented this future from becoming a reality more than once though.

Piper froze when she heard something thud upstairs. She got slowly to her feet and looked toward the stairs. Wyatt had stopped playing and was gazing at the ceiling. "Wyatt, you stay here with Chris. Mommy will be right back and if you see any demons you take your brother and orb somewhere safe. Ok?" Piper walked out of the room.

Suddenly, blue lights appeared next to her in the room. Piper yelled and jumped back. "Paige!" Piper glared at her youngest sister and her new brother-in-law as they orbed in.

"Oh, hi Piper." Paige smiled guiltily, "sorry. Did we scare you?"

"Yeah!" Piper yelled, "I thought there was a demon in the house and then you pop up and scare the crap outa me!"

"There's a demon in the house?" Paige looked around cautiously.

"I heard something upstairs, I'm on my way up to check it out. Can you stay with the boys a minute?"

"Oh…" Paige bit her lip, "That was probably our luggage. I orbed it our room a minute ago."

"Great! That's some way to come home after two weeks, scare me for no reason at all!" Piper sighed. "So, how was the honeymoon?"

"Amazing." Henry replied as he went over to play with Wyatt and Chris.

Paige smiled at her husband before turning back to Piper, "Greece is so beautiful. Our hotel room had a gorgeous view of the ocean. It…" There was a loud thud as the front door burst open. Piper screamed as she spun around to see who had just crashed through the door.

"I can't do this anymore! It's not working! I can't spend the rest of my life worrying about thei, but I can't help it! " Phoebe Halliwell slammed the door closed behind her, "I'm never gonna find true love! I'm never gonna have that little girl from my vision!"

"Phoebe!" Piper had her hand over her heart, "What is it with you two? Is everyone trying to give me a heart attack?"

"oh, piper, I'm sorry sweaty!" Phoebe hurried over to her big sister, "Paige! You're home!" she hugged her quickly, "how was Greece?"

"Uh… it was beautiful." Paige nodded, "I was just saying to Piper that the scenery really made me want to start painting again."

"I don't think there will be time for that." The sisters turned at once to see a tall figure standing in the front entrance of the house. He had on long black robes. His hair was white and thin. His face was skeletal and pale, and his body was slightly hunched forward as though age had worn him down.

"Demon!" Phoebe yelled.

"Henry stay in there with the boys!" Paige ordered. Henry grabbed Wyatt and put him next to his brother and crouched in front of them, guarding them from anything that might come their way and praying that if there was to much danger that Wyatt would orb the three of them away.

The demon, however, did not react. The Charmed Ones looked at him for a moment before Piper reached out her hands to blow him up. The blast his him, but he seemed unaffected.

"Who are you?" Piper demanded

"My name is Brakum. I am here to make our goals much easier to accomplish. The switch is the best way to option the advantage we need."

"What the hell are you talkin about, and who's this 'we' you keep mentioning?" Piper raised her eyebrow ang looked around. The demons only reply was to raise both of his hands toward the sisters.

"What's he doing?" Paige asked nervously.

"I don't know, but I don't like it." Phoebe replied.

Suddenly, a vortex burst open directly behind Piper, Phoebe, and Paige, and in the blink of an eye it was gone again. But so were the sisters. Henry hurried to see what had happened. The demon was gone, and Henry was alone with Wyatt and Chris, but only for a moment.

"What happened?"

Henry spun toward the stairs to see who had raised the question.