A week had passed since the last attack, the girls went about life as normally as possible. Sunday morning approached quickly and the girls had plans to go to the mall and have a sister day.
Penny woke up early as usual; she grabbed her blanket and headed to Prue's room.
She opened the door and the bed had been slept in but Prue was not there. She checked her bathroom and headed down the hall to Piper's room and found the same result. They must be downstairs already.
She did not seem too concerned but she knew better than to wake up Phoebe or Paige so she headed downstairs to see what was for breakfast.
There was an unusual quiet in the Halliwell home that morning, something Penny was not used to. Since they had moved in years ago it seemed like there was always something happening, always someone talking or running through the house, at least it always seemed like there was a T.V. going in one of the rooms.
Five girls did not add up to this kind of silence.
She went into the kitchen and looked around; Prue and Piper were nowhere to be found. "Prue?" the teenager called out into the house. Complete silence.
The manor was quite large, Penny started to walk around to their usual morning spots to see if she could find anyone.
20 minutes later and there was still no luck finding any of her sisters. She found it odd and eventually went into Paige's messy room to find that she was gone too.
Maybe they went to get breakfast she thought. It seemed odd that there was no note and usually Piper cooked breakfast but she tried not to think too hard about it.
She cracked the door open to Phoebe's room and sighed a bit of relief to find that Phoebe was fast asleep in her bed. Ok, so they didn't leave me alone, Penny went into Prue's room to watch morning cartoons until Phoebe woke up.
Over an hour later Phoebe came into Prue's room where she could hear the T.V. "Morning sister," she looked around the room and raised her eyebrow.
"Where's Prue?" she asked. Penny shrugged, "I don't know," she answered.
Phoebe looked confused, that was an unusual answer. "What do you mean you don't know? Is she downstairs?" Phoebe started to head towards the stairs.
Penny jumped off the bed and followed her. "No, I don't know where anyone else is, you're the only one here with me," Penny responded.
Phoebe stopped in her tracks; she had a dream last night that her sisters were taken. Shake it off, it wasn't real, Phoebe shake it off. She couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong.
"Prue, Piper!" Phoebe called out.
Penny looked around, "they're not here, I looked everywhere, maybe they went to get food," Penny started to sound frantic as she stared at Phoebe's face.
"Ok, let's just see if they answer their phones, it's ok P, relax," Phoebe tried to stay as calm as possible.
She rang Prue first, usually she was the most prompt and answered right away, but it went to voicemail.
She rang Paige second, Paige had her phone usually because she was always playing games on it, she knew she didn't have it when a ring tone started playing nearby. Penny ran off into Paige's room and came back with her phone. Phoebe took a deep breath and saw the concern in Penny's eyes.
"It's ok, we will try Piper," Phoebe hung up and tried Piper's cell and it went straight to voicemail.
Phoebe stopped for a second trying not to panic in front of Penny.
"Penny, you call the club and Prue's office to see if they're there and I'm going to call for Leo ok?" Penny looked at her with her eyes full of confusion, "It's going to be fine, just call the offices," Phoebe handed her the phone and took off to the attic.
Piper groaned and sat up. The ground was cold and wet and she could feel a heavy pounding in her head. Wherever she was it was dark and she could not see anything in front of her.
She felt a body beside her and heard a familiar moan when she hit it. "Paige?" She called out into the darkness.
Paige moaned again and it echoed for what seemed like miles.
"Paige, wake up!" Piper pulled at her sister who sat up and felt for Piper in the darkness. "Paige, are you ok?" Piper asked. That was Piper for you, always concerned about others.
"I think I have a cut or something sore on my forehead, but I'm ok, Piper where are we?" Paige asked. "I don't know," Piper answered.
A few moments later they heard another groan that did not sound as close as Paige. "That's Prue," Piper whispered. She could tell by the tone, "Prue, where are you?" She could hear what sounded like a chain rattle in the distance.
"Piper, is that you? What's going on?" Prue was close by, that made Piper feel a little bit better.
"I don't know, are Phoebe and Penny near you? Paige is here by me." Prue moved around a bit feeling if anything was around her, there was nothing. "Penny? Phoebe?" She called out. No response.
The silence made Piper's heart flutter with nerves. She was scared.
Paige had moved away from her and she could not feel her anymore. "Paige, don't move away," She knew Paige was not the touchy type and when she felt for her hand she could feel it tensing up as she grabbed it.
She tried to remain calm as she stared off into the darkness wondering what could possibly be happening.
Phoebe paced the attic waiting for Leo.
She called him again and he finally orbed in. "Leo, I don't know where any of my sisters are except for Penny. I may be overreacting but I had this dream last night that they were taken and maybe it was a premonition, can you sense them?" Phoebe was talking one hundred miles a minute and Leo just stared at her taking in all the information He had just heard.
"Well can you?" She asked after a few seconds of silence. Leo nodded and closed his eyes to sense the girls.
Phoebe waited as he stood there concentrating. He opened his eyes and Phoebe could tell by the look on his face that it was not good news.
"I don't sense them, when did you hear from them last?" He asked.
Phoebe closed her eyes, "last night before bed, I said goodnight to Paige and went into my room. I never heard another peep from any of them," she answered.
"Ok, let's not panic, I will go talk to the elders and see if they know anything," Phoebe nodded.
She kept a brave face as Leo orbed out.
She turned to see Penny standing in the door way of the attic with the phone, "No answer," she said handing Phoebe the phone. "Let's go grab breakfast downstairs, Leo is checking with the elders now," Phoebe led Penny to the attic door.
She took one last look around the room, where are you guys? She turned slowly and headed down the stairs.