Charmed Kitsune
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Naruto x Phoebe x Prue x Piper x ?
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Story Start
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It was a typical morning at 1329 Prescott Street. In the breakfast kitchen Piper was up making the morning repast, while her two of her sisters were upstairs in their bedroom about their usual routine.
She had just poured a cup of tea for herself when Phoebe walked in. "Morning, Pheebs," she greeted before offering her the kettle.
Phoebe took the kettle, poured herself her coffee and set the device down on the kitchen table. "Have you seen Prue this morning?" she asked her sister.
Piper paused in her preparations. "Come to think of it, no I haven't," she replied, silently concerned. "Is she still in her room?"
"No, I already checked and her bed is made. She didn't leave early for work, did she?"
"Not that I'm aware of," Piper answered slowly, as she started to look for evidence that their elder sister was safe.
Fortunately, there were objects to hand. An empty coffee cup, a souvenir from Bucklands Auction house, resided in the sink, and the paper had been divided into its different sections. Two usual signs that Prue had passed her morning at the manor though exiting for work slightly earlier than usual.
Phoebe studied the paper at the table, searching for some clue, as their normally considerate sister had neglected to leave them a note. Nothing resembling their sister's handwriting seemed to be on the newspaper.
Piper decided to change the subject. "Are you going to be available this week? Prue and I were talking, and we were thinking we should start training Paige as soon as possible, possibly tomorrow."
"That soon? I mean sure, but shouldn't we give her more time to adjust?" Phoebe answered.
"I wish we had that luxury but we're a bigger target now than ever, especially Paige."
Speaking of whom, Paige Mathews sat at her desk, which was littered with different texts all referring to witchcraft, spinning on round in her seat as she read a page to herself silently, "Throughout history, witches have been misunderstood, persecuted and destroyed. The public hanging, drowning and burning of women suspected of witchcraft is a far more recent chapter of our history than most people realize."
"Paige." Mr. Cowan called as he came to stand in front of her desk.
Paige froze, threw the book down and whirled her seat round to face her computer and her boss, "Yeah?"
"What's the hold-up on the O'Brian application?" he asked leaning against her cubicle.
Paige stared blankly for a second then answered cheerily, "Well, at the moment, the only hold-up is my boss who's standing over me, distracting me from my work." She replied with a nod and then a wide grin.
Mr. Cowan smiled back, "Nice teeth." But remained unconvinced and simply said, "Have it on my desk by noon." then walked away.
Paige nodded the turned in her seat looking panicked, "Lila." Paige rasped and the woman across from her looked over, "What's the O'Brian application?" she asked in a hushed whisper.
"Adam O'Brian?" Lila asked, "The foster kid we're trying to get into the boarding school?"
Paige's eye widened as realization struck, "Oh, my god."
"The scholarship application is due like, today." Lila pointed out.
"I'm so lame." Paige shook her head in disappointment in herself. "Aw, Billy! I thought I told you to throw anything from creditors in the trash." She joked as the mail boy placed envelopes on her desk.
"Hi, pizza face." a man sneered as he walked towards Billy who's face fell at the name, "Look, I understand how difficult it is to tear yourself away from the….cleavage in this section." He commented staring not so subtly at Paige's chest who glared at him, "But, I'm gonna need my mail sometime today, okay?"
"No problem." Billy replied before scurrying away.
Paige glared as the asshole walked over to a printer, "Nice rug." She muttered darkly then gasped in shock as his wig disappeared from his head and reappeared in her hand.
"What the hell?" he cried looking around while the whole office erupted into fits of laughter. Paige bit her lip then threw the wig in her trash can and quickly exited the room. Later that day Paige dropped by the mansion. Profusely apologizing for dropping by without a call, mainly due to the fact she had a hard time being around people.
"Well from the sound of things, if he know what's good for him he won't do that again." Phoebe joked. Her good mood not missed by her two other sisters.
"That's what sisters are for," Prue added. "There are just some people you can't maintain a working relationship with when balancing your other life. " recalling upon her own experiences as she went off in search of something to her right.
Piper followed Prue as she walked to the table next to Phoebe and stood beside her little sister who was staring at Prue in confusion.
"What are you doing?" Phoebe asked turning to Prue who had lifted up a large laminated map of San Francisco and a crystal.
"Just going to scry and make sure there aren't any demons nearby."
"Scry?" Paige questioned.
"Supernatural LoJack." Phoebe quipped.
"In other words we use a crystal and a general map to search for a demon or another witch. It works better if you have something from the person you're searching for," Piper explained with detail.
"Well, why don't you just use that big book?" Paige asked walking towards the 'Book of Shadows', "I mean, it is a book of spells right?"
Phoebe grinned at Paige, "Oh, it's a lot more than that." She said cryptically, "It's kinda hard to explain." She added at Paige's questionable look.
"It's our family heritage, our guide and the link between us and the witches in our family." Prue chimed in.
"It looks so old." Paige mused in wonder.
"Yeah." Phoebe replied looking down too, "It has survived a lot." She chuckled placing one hand on its pages. "Fortunately it protects itself from evil." She added sounding thankful.
Paige frowned, "It protects itself? How?"
"Magic." Phoebe smirked.
Paige smiled, "May I?" she asked afraid to touch it without permission.
"Yeah." Phoebe nodded, "Technically, it's yours too." Paige smiled at that as Phoebe continued.
"It looks so thick. You guys think I can just take it back to my office." She shrugged.
Phoebe shook her head, "Oh no. No, no, no. No." she admonished quickly.
"It doesn't leave the house." Prue cut in. "There are many dangerous demons and warlocks that would not hesitate to attack you, even in broad daylight, Charmed one or not if it meant they could easily get their hands on the Book of Shadows." She said before the crystal finally stop, pinning to the mansion. "We got company!"
And as soon as the words left her lips the sound of an explosion down stairs drew their attention. "Girls, let's go!" Prue ordered and without so much as a thought Phoebe and Piper were already mentally readied for the attack. Prue turned and saw the startled look on Paige's face. She was clearly unsure what to do and Prue didn't blame her. "Just stay here Paige, we'll be right back."
Paige nodded, not wanting to argue. Magic or no magic, she was a social worker and not a professional demon hunter. While part of her felt ashamed for appearing weak, especially to her new sisters a bigger part of her was terrified at the prospect of fighting creatures that wanted her dead. It didn't take long for her sisters to vanquish these intruders.
Seeing as her lunch break wouldn't last long Paige excused herself to the bathroom. Though a part of her was still curious about the book, remember skimming one of the Paige's rights before the attack. Paige made a bee-line for the attack flicked through a few pages then stopped at the 'Instant Karma' spell, "This could solve a lot of problems." She ginned searching through her bag for post it notes and a pen. She then quickly copied spells she felt would be useful to her on post it notes.
"PAIGE?" Phoebe's voiced floated up from the stairs, "You alright up there?"
"Whoa." Phoebe chuckled when Paige almost ran into her on the stairs, "Where's the fire?"
"Oh, you know, work." Paige attempted to brush her hasty exit off nonchalantly, "Lunch break's over." She laughed, "Gotta go."
"But, we didn't even get to talk." Phoebe reminded her sadly.
"Oh, yeah. It's alright, don't worry." Paige assured her with a smile.
Phoebe watched her go with suspicion, "Bye." She called back, glancing up at the attic. Prue came walking down the stairs, in new clothes. The demon they fought were both rather grimy and explosive.
"Where'd Paige go?"
"She had to leave early. Work." Phoebe answered. "Piper?"
"She's in the bathroom." Prue answered. Seeing as Paige had excused herself to the bathroom earlier, all the rest of the sisters were forced to take turns with the other bathroom. "Anyway we need to find out a schedule. Today was definitely an example of a lucky break and things could have been worse if we were all down stairs."
Paige meanwhile found herself back at Social Bay Services. She was currently in the copy room, trying to make notes of the spells she copied down. She wanted a copy at home and a copy with her so she could memorize them. Currently she was bending over the copy machine when her jerk co-worker from before walked in the door and drank in the view of her ass in her denim skirt with a smirk on his face. He quickly fixed his wig before approaching her, "Nothing like a copy room with a view." He observed making sure he stayed behind her.
Paige shot up and glared at the wall opposite her defiantly ignoring the pig behind her.
"Hey, Clearasil." He greeted Billy as he too entered the copy room, "What's poppin'?" he laughed mockingly before leaving.
Paige glared at his retreating form then looked at Billy sympathetically, "Don't worry about him Billy. He's a jerk to everybody."
"Yeah, I know." Billy replied, "That's why his mail gets lost. Frequently."
Paige smiled at him then turned back to the copy machine, "Hey, is there something wrong with this copier?" she asked looking at it in confusion with a mixture of frustration.
"The copier? I don't think so." Billy replied, "I just ran off a whole bunch."
"Everything keeps coming up blank." Paige whined.
"Are you trying to copy a book?" He asked coming up behind her.
"No, it's nothing." Paige replied hastily while pulling away the notes with the spells she copied behind her back. "It's cool."
"Well, if you need me to do it for you, just say the word." He offered kindly.
"Thanks." Paige smiled, "Your sweet."
Paige turned back to the book with a thoughtful look on her face. She began shuffling through the notes until she came across the 'Vanishing' Spell.
'Let the object of objection, become but a dream. As I cause this scene to be unseen.' She chanted and watched as Billy swayed a little, "You okay Billy?" she asked.
"Yeah." He answered quickly, "I just, I got a little head rush." He assured then turned to face her and Paige gasped softly.
"Oh, my god. It worked." Paige smiled happily as Billy's face was completely cleared of spots. She lifted the book and headed for the door still gazing at Billy in amazement, "Oh, my god."
"Paige, is everything okay?" Billy asked nervously, feeling a little freaked out.
"It will be from now on." She told him confidently then stretched up to kiss his cheek.
Prue and Piper entered the living room to find Naruto and Phoebe waiting for them. "So any news?" Piper asked.
"Most of my connections as Tempest are moot. Fortunately there are a few races that are rather eager to curry favor with me. Like Vampires." He said Prue shot him a disbelieving looks.
"Vampires?" she couldn't help it. All the monsters that had literature and movies about them seemed more like they were different types of demons or at least that was what Prue had figured. Though to hear that there was an actual race of Vampires, she supposed that put an end to her theory.
"Yeah, we're going to need to build allies. We still don't know a thing about that demon that revealed my identity. I'm still looking into that. Anyway, how are things going with Paige?"
"Slow." Phoebe answered. "Though I think we don't have anything to worry about."
Back at Social Bay Services. "It's unbelievable." Lilian, said in wonder as she stared at Billy's face.
"Maybe it was the light from the copy machine?" Billy suggested with a smile.
"God this day is amazing!" Lila exclaimed, "I mean, you went and got cute."
"You think?" Billy cut in sounding hopeful,
"Totally. And then my car loan comes through, like, out of nowhere. My credit is worse than Paige's." she points out as the pass Paige's desk.
Paige smiled at her friends as they walked past, feeling very good about herself. "Sir, I am taking full responsibility for being late with the application. I'm simply asking for a deadline extension." She explained calmly down the phone.
"Well, I can't give you a deadline…."
"Well, I'm asking that you not punish Adam O'Brien, who's already had a tough enough life, for my mistake." She interrupted appealing to his better half.
"Someone has to straighten this thing out."
"Sir all I'm saying is…." Paige pushed her chair out from under the computer table to read one of the notes from the Book of Shadows on her lap, "These words will travel through the minds, of stubborn parties and unbind, the thoughts too rigid to be kind, a compromise they'll disentwine."
"How does six o'clock on Friday sound?"
Paige smiled triumphantly, "Six o'clock Friday is perfect." She replied cheerily, "Thank you so much." and hung up, "Victory!"
Lila and Billy turned to her, "You got the extension?" Lila asked.
"Yeah." Paige replied still smiling.
"Unbelievable." Lila replied shortly, "You're into all that witchy stuff right?" she asked Paige, taking a seat on the other side of the desk.
Paige stopped smiling and froze, "Excuse me?" she asked her voice higher than normal.
"Well, I'm just thinking that there must be somethin' in the stars today." Lila explained and Paige visibly relaxed a little, "I mean, Billy's face, my car and now this." Lila rambled on, "Is there a full moon or something?"
"I don't know." Paige replied with a painted on smile, "But whatever it is, I'm gonna call my student loan sharks and take full advantage of it." she chuckled.
"Oooh good. Me too." Lila replied and scurried away.
"You know Paige." The jerk employer from before slid up to her and Paige rolled her eyes, "As a lawyer, I could get those nasty creditors off your back so easily." He replied cockily and Paige shuddered as he leaned down close. "And if you can't afford to pay me, I could always just take it out in trade."
Paige grimaced at the insinuation, "Or, I could just sue your ass for sexual harassment, and pay you with my big, fat punitive settlement." The retort rolled off her tongue instantaneously and she smirked a little, proud of herself.
"The way your dress?" he mused, "The judge would admire my restraint." He shot back.
Paige frowned, "That's it!" she spat pulling out the Book of Shadows once more and flipped through it until she found the 'Instant Karma' spell, "Perfect." Paige cried, "I'll just change "demon" to "dirtbag"." She decided decidedly. Though, soon afterwards the Witch-lighter soon learned that casting spells carelessly came with a price.
Just as Quartet was discussing their next step the phone went up. Phoebe hopped up from the couch and answered it. "Hello? Paige…whoa whoa whoa, calm down. What happened?" Phoebe clasped a hand over her face. "You didn't. Calm down. We'll be right there."
"What's wrong?" Piper spoke up, "Is Paige is okay."
She looked warily to the others. "Um….promise me you guys won't overreact." Phoebe pleaded with them.
Prue narrowed her eyes and Phoebe bite her lip, "Why would we be in danger of overreacting?" she asked suspiciously.
Phoebe took a breath, "I think, that uh….maybe…." She started choosing her words carefully, "Well, it might, might be uh….feasible that um…." Naruto, Prue and Piper watched a stuttering Phoebe closer and impatiently. Phoebe looked at her sisters one looking distressed while the other just looked impatient. "…Paige copied and cast some spells from the Book of Shadows."
"She did what!" Prue snapped and Phoebe jumped.
"Well this was rather unexpected," Naruto remarked disbelief was evident in his voice. "Look, we'll worry about the how and why later and just run damage control." He said as they all went downstairs.
"I don't understand how someone can be that stupid!" Prue cried in outrage as she slammed her car door shut. Phoebe jumped at the sound and sighed heavily and Piper hopped out and ran around the car.
"I don't understand how you haven't stopped ranting since we left the house." Phoebe shot back and Prue glared.
"Yeah Prue." Piper joined in falling into step on her other side, "Don't you breathe?"
Prue paused momentarily then sighed, "You're right. You're right. I'm sorry." She apologized with a nod.
Phoebe smiled, "Yes, Paige made a mistake."
"A mistake!" Prue exclaimed.
Naruto cut in, "Phoebe's right, she made a mistake. " Piper was about to argue when Naruto cut her off by arguing. "Just like you girls did when you first became witches and just like I did when I was a kid. Yes, what she did was careless but we were naïve to think that this wasn't a possibility. We need to come to her as friends and not adversaries."
Just as they arrived the front doors to the Social Services building flew open and a man came running out, "Hey. Get away from me. Hey." He cried out at the mass of women running out after him.
The quartet turned to the scene, "What the hell is going on?" Piper questioned. Phoebe shook her head and shrugged while Naruto and Prue watched with looks of disbelief.
"This is not funny!" he cried.
"Oh Donnie!" Lila gushed, "Give mama some sugar." And went in for just that and they all pulled him to the ground.
Just then Paige came running out of the building herself, cardigan pulled tightly around her clutching her purse to her chest.
Phoebe grabbed her sisters' arms and they started towards her. "PAIGE!" Prue yelled out and Paige froze.
"You are so…." Piper started as they stopped in front of her but trailed off as they saw what Paige had been trying to hide, "….busted?"
"Hello." Phoebe muttered pointing at Paige's enormous chest.
"You copy magical spells from our sacred book and the first thing you do is magical plastic surgery on yourself?" Piper continued staring expectantly.
"You think I did this on purpose?" Paige asked then shook her head, "My body was perfectly fine as it was thank you."
"I can't even believe what I'm seeing." Prue remarked as she face palmed.
"I mean it. Get AWAY FROM ME!" Donnie yelled desperately as the women continued to attack him.
Piper took a quick glance around the area and made sure no one was looking, then threw up her hands and sighed.
"We better hurry up. It won't be long until someone comes by."
"Alright Missy, what happened?" Prue addressed Paige.
"I don't know." She replied, "They just….grew."
"Oh right. And you had nothing to do with that." Piper said clearly not convinced.
"Did you cast any spells?" Phoebe asked, a knowing glint in her eyes.
Prue narrowed her eyes ever so slightly, "One." She answered slowly. Phoebe gave her a firm look, "Five." She admitted.
"FIVE?" Prue cried in astonishment.
Phoebe sighed, "Okay, what did you do just before you turned into Betty Boop?" she asked.
Paige looked thoughtful for a second, "Well, I cast a spell on the slime ball I work with, so I could give him a taste of his own medicine."
"Uh-huh." Phoebe nodded then pointed to her right, "That the slime ball?" she asked and Paige nodded.
"And that's the backfire." Piper finished nodding at Paige's enhanced cup size.
Paige screwed up her face, "Backfire?"
"You misused magic to make him the object of ogling, and the spell backfired and did the same to you." Phoebe explained calmly.
"Look we'll solve this back at the manor." A sigh escaped her lips. "You're going to have to come with us Paige so we can figure out what spells were cast and fix this mess."
Paige, at least, had the common courtesy too look ashamed of herself as she shirked away under Prue's piercing gaze.
As much as Prue wanted to be angry, it would do no one any good.
"Guess we'll have to take mister popular here back to the mansion until we reverse the spell."
"Are my boobs gonna stay this way forever?" Paige asked in a whiney voice as she and Phoebe drove to the Manor in her car. The others took Prue's car to take Paige's coworker back to the manor and to begin coming up with countermeasures to the spell.
"It shouldn't take long. Especially with the spell."
"And the others?" Paige asked instead, "Prue and Piper didn't look too happy with me, even that Naruto guy didn't say much."
"Its just that we're in a very complicated situation right now. Naruto, our ally, was posing as a demon and his cover was recently blown. So we've been dealing with the result of an unknown demon exposing his identity to the Source of All Evil. Because of that we have to keep on our toes and that's why Prue and Piper weren't happy. Right now our lives are in danger and we can't afford to make mistakes. Not only that we also have to deal with the fact that several women of our line have a tendency to die young because they were cut off guard once. Like mom. Our legacy has been helping people and this spell casting you used is in contradiction of what we are. Our family legacy. We're in this together and if one of us draws attention to ourselves it puts all of us in danger. If one of us fall then we all fall. "
"I'm sorry," Paige apologized. "I just wanted to get back at Donnie." She stated. "I didn't realize how much danger I was putting everyone in."
"Yeah, and I understand the temptation Paige. I really do but we can't use our magic so recklessly. As witches we aid others, not go out of our way to condone and punish others." She stressed and Paige nodded.
"Right. Sorry." She apologized quickly and tried to change gear, "Urgh! My boobs are, in the way!" she cried frustrated. "Can you, put it into third for me?" she asked Phoebe sweetly.
"Alright. Ready? Here we go." Phoebe guided and pushed the gear stick, "Alright."
With that the two soon arrived to the mansion. The sisters gathered in the attic and began doing the counter spells.
"What word did you sub "demon" with?" she asked Paige, who mulled it over thoughtfully for a second.
"Dirtbag." She answered sheepishly. Piper laughed and Prue nudged her playfully, rolling her eyes.
"Dirtbag." Phoebe repeated slowly and went back to her writing. When she was done, Phoebe tore the page from the pad and scrunched it up rising to her feet and beckoning her sisters to do the same. "Okay….hand." Prue and Piper did as they were asked grabbing hold of Paige's also. "Guided spirits, hear our plea." Phoebe began lighting the paper on fire with the candle, "Annul this magic, and let it be." She finished.
Paige closed her eyes and added, "Please let it be." Phoebe dropped the now extinguished paper onto the table and turned to look at Paige, Piper doing the same and they all watched as Paige's chest shrunk back to its original size. One spell was down and there was four more to go.
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Chapter End
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This is first of the transition chapters that will detail Paige's transition into being a witch. The reason why there wasn't no big demon threat or plot is because I have something brewing. Something detailing Paige's status as the vulnerable one and other angles I wish to explore.
Like Paige having to live up to being a Halliwell, being seen as different, and detailing her relationship to the sisters, Naruto, her own identity and other things I have in mind. With that in mind the next chapter might be filler, but the Coven finally being formed is about to occur soon now that Paige has been added to the family.
I also didn't have some threat because the one episode fix and bond didn't come to mind for an overarching subplot that would last. With that said expect the next chapter soon.