Welcome back. Chapter 4 is in the record books now. And now the answer to my question in the last chapter. Huntsville is called the Rocket City because it is home to the Redstone Arsenal (home of Marshall Space Flight Center) where NASA designs and tests systems for rockets. Huntsville is also home to the Space and Rocket Center. It has full scale mock-ups of the Saturn V rocket and the Space Shuttle (The Pathfinder). It also is home to Space Camp and a real Saturn V rocket. Very cool place to visit. Anyway, On with the story!

Chapter 4

Sweet Home Alabama

Two hours later, the girls were ready to go to Alabama. "Are we orbing to Alabama?" Phoebe asked.

"Yeah, We can rent a car and get a map once we get there," Piper said. "Leo is watching the kids. And my new manager is taking over the club. I'd say we're ready to go."

"I can send my column in on my laptop," Phoebe said, refering to the advice column she wrote for the San Fransisco Bay Mirror.

"Okay, hold on to your luggage," Prue said as the girls gathered in a circle, making sure that they were touching the luggage.

Prue orbed them to a back alley next to the hotel.

"Whoa! It is hot out here!" Paige complained.

"You'll get used to it," Prue said. "Okay, into the traffic."

The four girls eased into the stream of people and walked into the hotel. They checked in and were sent to their rooms. Paige and Prue shared a room. Piper and Phoebe shared the other room.

"I'm going to go out to a gas station and pick up a map so that we can find a car rental place," Prue said. "I do know this place better than y'all after all."

"Y'all?" Piper repeated with a giggle.

Prue just shrugged and walked away.

Paige looked out the windows at the life sized replica of the Space Shuttle. "I want to see that shuttle. It looks so cool."

"They call it the Pathfinder,"a person said. "You obviously aren't from around here are you?"

"No, San Fransisco," Paige answered.

"Big city girl huh? I grew up in a small town in Mississippi. Been Southern all my life."

"Really," Paige said. "I can't imagine what country life is like."

"It ain't quite like what the movies say. Hope you enjoy your stay here."

"Thank you," Paige said as the person moved away.

"Come on City Girl," Piper said. "We can sight-see later. Let's just go upstairs and wait for Prue."

The three girls went up stairs to their rooms.

March wasn't having a good day. She kept having a feeling that something was off, but didn't know the source of that feeling. She brushed it off momentarily to enjoy a movie with her sisters. Her sisters had selected one of the Star Wars movies. May wouldn't tell her which one it was, but she suspected that it was The Empire Strikes Back. It was May's favorite.

No surprise, she was right. She sat down comfortably on the couch between her sisters and watched the movie. All through the movie, she still had the nagging sense that something was not right.

"I love this part!" May exclaimed as Princess Leia and Han Solo kissed for the first time just before being interrupted by Threepio.

"You are a hopeless romantic!" April exclaimed throwing popcorn at her.

"Hey, keep your popcorn to yourself Laser brains!"

"Okay! Enough you two. Just watch the movie," March replied, getting uncharacteristically agitated.

"What crawled up your butt and died?" April asked huffily.

"I don't know. Just a bad feeling. It's nothing," March said trying to drop the subject.

"I don't think so Missy. You're bad feelings are usually right," April said.

"I don't know," March said. "Just something isn't right. I can feel it."

May stopped the movie. "Let's take a walk. You can vent your frustrations while you walk."

March nodded. "Let's go."

Prue orbed some time later with a map in her hands and stuffing car keys in her pocket.

"Nice of you to orb in," Piper quipped throwing her big sister a look.

"What? It was quicker than walking. I parked the car out back then snuck into an elevator and orbed."

"You got the map so show us where to go," Phoebe said supressing a grin.

Prue unfolded the map. "Okay, the girls live outside Huntsville in this little town," she pointed to it on the map. "We are right here just a few miles away from UAH, the college that March goes to."

"Okay, let's scry for them and find them," Paige suggested. "Scrying crystal!"

It appeared in her hand. "You do it. You have a better connection to them than we do." She handed the crystal to Prue.

Prue took the crystal and circled it around the map. She cleared her mind searching for her charges. The crystal stopped on a point on the map, next to a small creek.

"Come on guys," Prue said taking Piper's hand. The four girls orbed to the creek.

Just in time to see a demon throwing a ball of flame at the girls!

Oh no! Evil cliffhangers, don't ya just hate them?Oh well, tune in for the next installment to see what happens next.