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Chapter Two
It had been about two hours since the unexpected arrival of Sebastiana, Finley and Fleuretta. Sebastiana had managed to get Fleur settled for her nap and Finley was in the kitchen with Piper, helping her bake some cookies. Piper had said the others would be coming over in a little while so Sebastiana was taking the time to have a look around the manor on her own. She came across a masculine bedroom and was going to walk past when she saw the most beautiful sword that was hanging up on the wall. She quietly stepped into the room and was about to pick up the sword and take a look at it, when a voice spoke behind her.
"I wouldn't touch that if I were you," Wyatt said as he walked into his bedroom to stand next to Sebastiana as she admired the sword, "that's-"
"Excalibur, I know" Sebastiana finished, "But the question is what are you doing with it?"
"It's mine," Wyatt replied proudly.
"You're the new King Arthur? You've got to be kidding me!" Sebastiana remarked incredulously.
"What's the surprise with that?"
"I have my doubts, especially since I almost managed to slit your throat."
"But you didn't."
"I bet you I could beat you in a fight any day."
"Really you do?"
"Yes, I do."
"Well how about today? I'm sure we could use the basement for a few minutes, because that's how long it would take for me to beat you."
"You're on."
"Hold on," Wyatt said as he grabbed hold of Sebastiana and orbed into the basement.
The basement was quite empty and Sebastiana remembered that Piper had said that Wyatt, Chris and their cousins used it to practice their magic (the kind that could be a little explosive). Sebastiana turned to Wyatt.
"One condition, no magic or powers," Sebastiana said holding her hand out to Wyatt.
"Deal," Wyatt replied as he took Sebastiana's hand and shook it.
Both Sebastiana and Wyatt felt a tiny spark of electricity at the contact and pilled away as if burned.
Sebastiana made the first move as she made to punch Wyatt in the face, but he saw it coming and ducked out the way. Wyatt then turned and tried to kick Sebastiana's feet from underneath her, but she flipped backwards just before his leg would have connected with both of hers. The next few minutes continued with a struggle between the two, each trying to get an advantage over the other.
Meanwhile Phoebe, Coop and their family had just arrived and were speaking to Leo in the hall.
"Hi Auntie Piper," the oldest of Phoebe and Coop's three daughters said as Piper walked in to the hall, with Finley trailing shyly behind her.
"Hello Rachel," Piper replied as she greeted Phoebe and her family.
Phoebe and Coop had three daughters; Rachel was the oldest at 18 years old, Rhiannon was the middle child and was 16 years old and Rebecca was the youngest at 10-years old. All three had their father's eyes, but everything else about them screamed 'Halliwell'. Rachel and Rhiannon had dark brown almost black hair, whilst Rebecca's hair was a slightly lighter shade. Rebecca and Rhiannon's hair was wavy and Rachel's was curly. All three had their hair cut differently, Rachel's was cut short so that her curls framed her face nicely and gave her that more mature look, Rhiannon's hair was feathered and about shoulder length, whilst Rebecca's hair was very long and was 3 inches above her waist.
A few seconds later and Paige and her family arrived in a flurry of blue lights. Paige was holding onto Henry's hand, whilst the children all orbed in separately. Henry Junior was the oldest of the Mitchell children and always took it upon himself to protect his twin sisters Sarah and Amy, even though they didn't want his protection. At 19 years old he was quite good looking and everyone said he was almost the spitting image of his father when he was younger. The twins were 17 years old and looked more like their mother than father. Both had brown eyes and straight light brown hair that both had cut to about 2 inches below shoulder length.
Melinda and Chris came downstairs to say hello to their Aunties, Uncles and cousins.
"Auntie Piper where's Wyatt?" Henry Junior asked his aunt.
"I think he's down in the basement," Melinda replied to her cousin's question.
Rachel and Rhiannon disappeared with a pink glow, so they could go and see their cousin, whilst Henry orbed.
Just before the cousins had made their way to the basement, Sebastiana had finally gotten an advantage over Wyatt. She had managed to get in a good kick that sent him to the ground. As soon as he was down Sebastiana pounced onto him, keeping him down flat on his back. She pinned him down by trapping his legs with her own and holding his wrists above his head whilst she was virtually lying on top of him.
"I win," she whispered in his ear.
"Are we interrupting anything?" Rachel asked as she appeared in the basement with her cousins only to see the position that Wyatt and the strange new girl were in.
"Nope. Just me proving a point," Sebastiana replied as she got up off of Wyatt.
"And you are?" Henry asked.
"Oh sorry guys, this is Sebastiana. Sebastiana this is Henry, Rachel and Rhiannon, my cousins," Wyatt explained as he got up from the floor.
Upstairs Rebecca decided she wanted to go find Wyatt too, just like her sisters, so she disappeared in a glow of pink. Unfortunately for her this power was new to her and she still hadn't gotten the hang of it.
Wyatt, his cousins and Sebastiana made their way up to the stairs of the basement into the kitchen.
Fleuretta had woke up from her nap and looked around the strange room. She was scared. Her Mommy was gone and she was in this new place with these strange people and she was scared. She wanted Sebastiana, but she was too scared to take a step outside the room. She could hear lots of people downstairs and she got scared, she didn't remember there being lots of people before. Then all of a sudden in the corner of the room this girl just appeared, in a glow of pink. Fleuretta did the only thing she could think of she screamed at the top of her lungs.
Sebastiana had just climbed the steps from the basement into the kitchen when she heard the scream. She instantly shifted into a large dog and barreled through the kitchen, into the hall, knocking Paige over in the process and up stairs to the room where Fleuretta was. Once in the room she shifted back and saw Fleuretta on the bed crying and screaming her heart out, and a young girl about 10-years old trying to get her to calm down. Unfortunately for the young girl this was only making Fleur shout even louder. Fleur saw Sebastiana and for a moment the crying stopped.
"Bastiana!" Fleur shouted fearfully.
Sebastiana walked over to the bed and picked Fleur up, bouncing her gently and whispering soothingly to her. She could tell at first glance that this girl was not a threat. First of all she looked quite similar to the other girls that she had seen downstairs in the basement. She was watching Fleur guiltily.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare her. It's just I've only had this power a little while and I can't control it properly yet," the young girl apologized.
"It's okay," Sebastiana replied.
Everyone else appeared at that moment in an assortment of blue lights and pink glows.
"Don't let the bad men take me!" Fleur screamed when she saw the blue lights and pink glows, "I promise I'll be good! Please don't let them take me like they took Mommy! Please!"
This started Fleur's crying fit all over again. This time it was ten times as strong and everyone was looking at her with a mixture of sympathy and guilt for having scared her. She was clinging on desperately to Sebastiana's neck, and Sebastiana figured she was going to need a crow bar to get Fleur off of her.
"Shhh. Fleur it's okay. These people aren't going to hurt you okay," Sebastiana told Fleur gently as she lightly stroked her back trying to calm her down.
"Yeah, these are the good guys. They won't hurt you," Finley affirmed as he let go of Chris' hand and walked up to Fleur.
"This is Piper's family," Sebastiana tried to explain.
"Everybody?" Fleur asked incredulously as she stopped crying, long enough to observe the large mass of people in front of her.
"Everybody," Sebastiana exaggerated as she looked at Fleur and made a shocked sort of expression herself.
Everyone proceeded to apologize to a still nervous Fleur and one by one they introduced themselves to Sebastiana, Fleur and Finley.
"Why don't we go downstairs, where it will be easier to talk," Piper suggested and everyone agreed, opting to take the stairs this time.
"Hello, are you guys in here?" A heavily pregnant Billie Jackson asked as she stepped into the Halliwell manor.
"We're just coming down now Billie," Phoebe shouted as everyone slowly began coming down the stairs.
Rebecca ran straight to Billie and hugged her.
"Where's Uncle Dalton and Jemima Auntie Billie?" Rebecca asked Billie.
"Their just coming in from the car sweetie, they'll be here in a sec," Billie replied to her goddaughter.
"Come in and sit down Billie," Piper said as she led everyone into the sitting room.
After the adults and older children were seated, with Finley and Fleur sitting on Sebastiana's lap, a tall dark haired man walked in with a 4 year old blonde haired girl. Dalton Jackson was 2 years Billie's senior and the pair had been married for 6 years. He had hazel eyes and was 6"2. They had met a few years after Christie's death and Billie had been shocked to find out that Dalton was a half-witch, when she told him her secret. Jemima Jenkins (who was either called JJ or Jem) was the Jackson's first child and was definitely a 'Daddy's girl'. She had straight long blonde hair, like her mother, and gorgeous hazel eyes like her father. Dalton headed over to his wife and gave her a kiss, before he picked up Jemima and waited for someone to talk.
"Why don't you kids go and play or talk somewhere?" Leo suggested, because this whole thing would be easier to sort out if there were less children around.
"When you say kids, who do you mean?" Melinda asked her father, hoping this would be one time when she would get to be included in the more grown up running of the house.
"Anyone 18 or older can stay. So that means you have to go Mel," Piper answered.
Melinda, Rhiannon, Rebecca, Sarah and Amy grudgingly left the sitting room.
"You too Finley," Sebastiana said as she looked down at the young boy, "and take Fleur with you."
"I don't wanna go!" Fleur shouted as she gripped tightly onto Sebastiana's neck.
Dalton whispered something into Jemima's ear before he set her down gently on the floor. Jemima slowly walked over to Sebastiana and looked at Fleur.
"Hi," Jemima said shyly, "my name's Jemima. What's yours?"
"Fleur," Fleur whispered.
"That's a pwetty name. Do you wanna come play with me?" Jemima asked as everyone's eyes were on the young pair.
Fleur bit her lip as she thought about it. Her arms relaxed around Sebastiana's neck and she turned to look up at Sebastiana for approval.
"Sure go have fun," Sebastiana replied with a smile.
Fleur then climbed down off of Sebastiana's lap and followed Jemima out of the room, before they'd left the room the two were holding hands.
"Thanks," Sebastiana said sincerely to Dalton, "I didn't think she'd ever let go."
"Alright so now that all the younger ones are gone does anybody mind telling me what the hell is going on?" Paige asked the group.
"You're turn to explain this time, I explained it to Mom and Dad," Chris said as he looked at Wyatt.
"Fine," Wyatt said with a sigh, "do you guys want to know the short version or the long version?"
"Let's start with the short version and see if it makes sense," Phoebe suggested.
Wyatt then went on to account the tale of how he and Chris had been tracking a demon when they came across Sebastiana, then Finley and Fleur. Once he had finished his explanation Sebastiana explained how they got to be in the abandoned apartment in the first place and gave them the basic idea of what a Shifter was.
"So let me get this straight, you're not related to those two children, you were looked after by their mom," Billie queried.
"That's right. So now I'm looking after Finley and Fleur and trying to keep the demons from killing us," Sebastiana replied.
"And you say that they're killing Shifters because the number of Shifters is now increasing and the demons don't want them to form an alliance again with good witches etcetera?" Coop asked.
"Well that's the only reason I've got. It wouldn't just be random killings," Sebastiana answered.
"So are we just going to find those demons and kick their ass?" Henry Junior asked confidently.
Since the demons had resurfaced and started causing trouble a few years ago it had been the oldest of the new generation of Halliwells that had been fighting the demons. The Charmed Ones were too old to go chasing after demons, although they still helped out by giving advice and assisting in areas where needed, like potion making.
"You can't just go rushing in and kill all the demons," Rachel said "We'd have to have some sort of plan. We don't even know the name of the demon that attacked them."
"We could just look in the Book of Shadows," Chris suggested as he orbed it downstairs.
"If you have a look through this book, and see if you recognize the demon that attacked Finley and Fleur's mom," Wyatt told Sebastiana as he handed her the book.
"It's huge!" Sebastiana said in awe, "What the hell is in here?"
"Mostly information on demons, but there's also stuff about some magical creatures or items in general," Phoebe explained.
"Each time we come across something new, we add it to the book, which is why it's so big," Rachel explained.
"I don't know if I'll be able to recognize the demon I only caught a glimpse of him for a few seconds," Sebastiana said apologetically.
"Just have a look through and see if you can find anything," Piper told Sebastiana gently.
Sebastiana started flicking through the Book of Shadows, seeing if any of the demons looked similar.
"Hey, there's an entry on Shifters here," Sebastiana commented interestingly as she came across a page in the book that gave information on Shifters.
The book was passed around so that those who were interested could have a look. Then Sebastiana was passed the book back and she continued to flick through. She went from front to back but none of the demons look even vaguely familiar.
"Sorry," Sebastiana apologized as she carefully set the book on the table in the centre of the room.
"Hey don't worry," Paige replied, "It's quite likely that this demon is new and wouldn't have been written into the book yet."
"Now why don't we take a break for now, I'm sure the kids are getting up to all sorts of mischief," Leo suggested.
Everyone got up from their seats, although Billie needed a bit of help from her husband, and went in search of the children.
Underworld
"Have you found any more information on the prophecy Leander?" A dark skinned demon asked.
He was quite tall at 6"1, and had dark eyes that matched his dark aura. He was clearly a leader and looked very dangerous. He was talking to a lighter skinned demon that was about 2 inches shorter than him. The lighter skinned demon, Leander, had a nervous grimace on his features and his brown eyes only exaggerated the nervous appearance. It was obvious that the information he was about to give to his boss was not going to be welcomed.
"No more. It still mentions the Crylien Crystal, but we are no closer in determining who the Shifter in the prophecy is," Leander replied carefully, "But the numbers of Shifters being killed is increasing. We're losing less demons at the moment."
"For now that will be fine. Who knows if we're lucky we may have killed the Shifter that will be our downfall already. We need to keep up the killings though we can't risk any Shifters getting past," Sophocles responded.
"We shall," Leander replied with a nod.
"In the mean time you must find out more about this prophecy. Ask all the Seers and Oracles you can find, see if you can find out exactly who the threat is," Sophocles told Leander dangerously.
"Yes sir," Leander answered before he left his boss alone.