Are the Charmed Ones ready to meet the REAL ultimate power? Just when they thought the demon fighting was over and life was back to the way it should be. Something new pops up...as usual. Of all the evil they've fought. This power is by far the scariest. Is this power here to help or to destroy them?

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This story starts off where the show left off. With the Charmed Ones & Billie having destroyed the Triad and Christy. Coop and Phoebe never fell in love but he is still trying to help Phoebe find love. Leo is back but still mortal...for now.

This is the 1st time I have ever attempted to write a fan fic. So please read and review. All comments will be welcomed even if their not good. It just lets me know I need to work on things. Thanx!

Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed or any of its characters blah blah blah. Some of the characters in this ficcie are mine. So Aaron Spelling back off!

We start 6am in the Halliwell manor on the block of Prescott & Pine on a friday morning. October 13th to be more precise. Leo and the boys are still asleep while Billie and Piper are getting breakfast together in the kitchen talking over coffee

"I can't believe we've been 4 whole months demon free. I don't have to vanquish over my toast" the two women share a laugh. Billie knows exactly how Piper feels. She too was overjoyed that instead of an energy ball waking her up from bed it was her alarm clocks annoying ring.

"Woman say it again! Just not to much. We don't wanna jinx it" Billie said with a smile n her bright blue eyes still looking heavy. She hadn't slept very well in the last few nights. She wanted to tell Piper about it but she didn't wanna worry her over a few sleepless nights. So she kept it to herself.

Piper had noticed Billie's sluggishness. She was very observant. That and she hadn't slept well either herself. But of course being the mother of two toddlers she had to perk up and take care of her men. Not to mention Leo, the love of her life was finally home to stay with her n the boys.

Piper looked up from her coffee to see Billie staring down into hers. Almost like she was hipnotized by it. Or gonna pass out in it.

"Hey, you okay?" Piper asked

Before Billie could answer her the table, the ground beneath their feet, the cabinets started to shake

EARTHQUAAAAKE! Leo jumps out of bed and heads to his sons room. Not even noticing his wife isn't next to him. Piper n Billie are down in the kitchen attempting to make their way upstairs to the boys. Barely able to keep their footing with the violent shaking of their home. Glass from picture frames, vases, chairs anything and everything that was in the house Piper & Billie are now jumping over and ducking from hitting them.

Leo quickly grabbed the boys from their beds and held them close as they sat in a doorway screaming the top of their lungs, waiting for the terror they've never known to stop.

Piper somehow makes it upstairs to her men with Billie close behind. "when is it gonna stop!" she yells "I don't kno dey don't usually last this long!" Piper answers

The lights go out in the violent shaking stops.

With the boys still crying Piper takes Chris off of Leo's hands. Reluctantly he lets her have him. "Their ok just a little shaken up" Leo says looking his sons lovingly answering the question before it could leave the girls mouths.

As they head downstairs and take a look around to see what used be the livingroom, is now a wreck. Piper is almost use to a site like this seeing that demons were always attacking destroying it anyway. "since when do earthquakes last damn near 5 minutes?" she ask to no one in particular "I don't know but I'm gonna go check the breaker box" leo says still shaken and scared out of his wits. As he enters the kitchen he sees what looks like smoke coming from beneath the basement door. He grabs the fire extinguisher from under the sink and test the door for heat. Nothing. In fact the door is cool...almost ice cold. A touch of the doorknob freezes his hand. He recoils his hand in confusion. Finally opening the door he notices that what he thinks is smoke is nothing more than steam coming from a huge gaping hole in the basement floor.

He sets down the extinguisher and moves closer to the hole. Feeling a swirl of hot & cold as he moves closer...thinking Hot steam from the ground, ice cold door? What the hell is going on? moving closer to the hole he could see that it had to go on for miles. Checking his theory he kicked a loose stone into the hole waiting to hear it hit...nothing. "Piper!"

She turns her head as she hears he husband calling her. "Piper get down here!" he shouts again. "Honey, what's the matter" then she sees for herself as she gets halfway down the basement steps. "Oooh"

"Yeah" he says as his eyebrows raised in her direction. "What the hell is that? Did the quake do that?" she says in her oh-so-piper way

"For our sake I hope so. Notice anything?" of course Leo being Leo could never just come right out and say what was what.

"What do mean? There's a huge hole in our basement floor! How could I NOT notice that Leo?" she says pointing and looking the floor "and what do you mean ,for our sake?"

"Piper that hole is in the same place as the Nexus was! An earthquake does NOT put an endless hole in a floor like that"

"Who says its endless?" she picks up a stone n drops it in. Like Leo she hears nothing "Ooook, so its a little deep. Lets not fly off the handle here. We destroyed the Nexus...remember? Just leave it alone and turn the power back on. Lets get back to the boys and Billie"

"Has she called Paige and Phoebe yet?"

"I don't know Leo we're in the basement looking down a hole. Now lets get back to our family and make sure everyone is ok"

"Ok, just let me make sure everything is ok down here"

"Leo"

"I'm talkn about the power." He flashes that smile Piper loves so much and fell in love with. He kisses his wife lovingly "I'll be up in a few"

"Ok, don't be long your sons have been away from their father long enough" she says while smiling and stroking his cheek before she turns and heads back upstairs to begin the rigorous task of cleaning up the mess. As soon as Piper get to the top of the stairs she turns to look Leo who's already turned back to the new open space in the house. Worry and fear spread across her face. She knew in her heart and soul Leo maybe right. Even though she silently begged for it not to be.

Billie enters kitchen holding a phone in her hand

"I called Phoebe and Paige. They said that they didn't feel an earthquake. I have them on the phone Paige wants to talk to you. I gotta get sum juices for the boys and change Chris"

She hands the phone to Piper

"Thanx hun"

"Piper what's going on?" Paige asks

"Paige are seriously trying to tell me you didn't feel that? It had to have lasted a good 5 minutes the house is a wreck and my husband is in the basement hovering over a hole halfway to china!"

"Piper calm down. Let me get dressed I'll orb over and grab Phoebe and we'll be there in a few... Phoebe are you there?"

"Yeh, I'm trying to figure out where a hole in the basement came from"

" Well lets just say the earthquake left us more than just some broken dishes. We'll talk when you get here."

Piper hangs up the sametime Leo closes the basement door behind him.

"You okay?"

"Yeh I'm GREAT. That was Paige and Phoebe. They said they didn't feel a thing"

"Really? That's not possible"

"Yeh I kno, but their on their way over here in a bit"

She leans over and lays her head on Leo's chest

"Leo I'm starting to actually worry about that hole... I think... I think you maybe right. The mother in me wants you to be so wrong, but the witch in me knows better. What are we gonna do? We just started to get our lives back together and now this pops up out or the basement" Leo laughs a bit the way Piper said her last sentence. She looks up him and pokes him in the chest. "Its not funny Leo"

"I'm sorry. Come on lets go get the boys and get this mess cleaned up"

They exit the kitchen and start their cleaning in the front area.

After about 20 mins Paige orbed in with Phoebe

And before they could fully materlize they both got to talking to Piper and company the same time.

"Shhhh" Piper hushed the two. "We just got the boys back down"

"Leo will you keep an eye on the boys? I'm gonna show my very loud sisters our new home improvments" she said this with a weird look on her face. Then turned to Billie "Billie you come to"

"Right behind you" Billie said while putting the broom down and racing behind the sisters.

They walked thru the kitchen and down to the basement. Where Piper pointed to the excessivly large hole in the ground.

"Oh my?" Phoebe said with a look of disbelief on her face. Just as Paige blurted out,

"What the hell is that!"

"Welcome to my nightmare" Piper said

"Don't tell me this has been here since you two came down here earlier" Billie also with a look of confusion on her face said.

With arms folded n shaking her head Piper answered "Yup"

"Why didn't you guys tell me?" Billie feeling a little left out since she had been the last to know said.

They all circled the hole and took a look inside.

"I wanted to wait until we were all here to tell everyone...there's more. Leo thinks that its some kinda evil left over from the Nexus or something. Part of me thinks so too...the holes in the same spot the Nexus was"

"Well it damn sure is" Paige said, while Phoebe being the 3rd but certainly wasn't gonna be the last to drop a rock in the hole. Paige dropped one also.

The ground beneath them started shaking again. They quickly backed off from the hole while still staring it. Rocks and dust flew everywhere. Blowing all four of the girls back onto their asses. Just as quick as the shaking started it stopped

"Ooh, what the hell was that!" Phoebe yelled as she attempted to pick herself up.

"I told you there was an earthquake here"

Leo rushed to the basement door and down the stairs to help his wife and sisters up. Billie had already made her way on her feet and back to the hole. "Uh guys? I think you should see this" the hole had filled up with water in the short time they had been knocked down. Phoebe was the 1st of the straglers back to the hole. The water started to bubble. Not in a boiling matter but as if something from the bottom was coming to the top "There's something in there." Phoebe said almost afraid. Just as Piper, Paige, and Leo got to the hole the object which looked like a cocoon had risen to the surface and started to move. This time they backed up not wanting to be knocked down and possibly attacked by whatever was attempting to free itself from its resting place. After all this was the resting place of the Nexus. A few fingers broke free, then a hand, another one soon followed.

"Leo get the boys out of the house Piper yelled" Leo knowing not to argue with his wife a time like this complied and ran to get his children out of the manor as fast as his mortal body would move. At the same time he worried about the 4 witches he left in the basement alone with whatever was being born.

The sisters where ready. Especially Piper. She wanted to blast the hole and this thing coming out. But she couldn't. She had her hands the ready but juss couldn't do it. The cocoon bubbled as it sank back down into the water.

Piper lunged at it grabbing it. Not knowing why she did but she pulled at it yelling for someone to help her. They did as their big sister said and all began pulling one of the arms that freed itself. The water was cold and icy. After exhausting themselves they noticed they halfway pulled a naked body out of the water. Phoebe moved foreward and touched the body pulling it fully out of the hole. It was warm even though the water was as colder than she ever felt in her entire life.

A premonition hit her. She saw the person that lay before them, herself, and her sisters standing beside this person defending her from what looked like demons.

"You juss had a premonition didn't you?" Paige asked

"Yeh I did" before she could finish all three of the others answered, "So did I" they turned and looked at each other in disbelief.

"Wait a minute" Billie chimed in, "I thought Phoebe was the only one with the power of premonition"

"I am. I think it was her" she said looking back at the naked body laying on the cold concrete floor. Piper ran and grabbed a blanket from the storage area and placed it on the body. Then checked for a pulse. "She's alive but who is she? Paige get the crystals...FAST"

Instead of Paige using the stairs to get the crystals she orbed them to her from the attic. She quickly placed the crystals around the body. When she placed the last one the hole began to fill itself in and disappeared. "Well at least one of our problems is gone" Paige said still looking down from where she once was and where the body lay.

"What do we do now?" Billie asked

"I don't know but we better figure it out soon before she wakes up" Phoebe answered

Piper just looked at the body then said, "you think its a demon?"

Paige held her head and said, "I don't know. Is it just me or does anyone else feel weird?"

exhales ok I have soooo much more I wanna put down for you guys, but I wanna get your take on this 1st. Like I said this is my 1st ficcie ever. And I'm nervous and really anxious to get your take on it.