Chapter 3

White-lighter training

Melinda woke up shortly after seven a.m. and she couldn't fall back asleep. She had been waiting all week for this day and it had finally come. It was her tenth birthday and she was excited to be double digits. She believed this would be the best year of her life, and that it meant she was a big kid.

Melinda sat up and yawned looking around her room. She then orbed herself into a kitchen chair at the table in the kitchen. As usual Piper was up making food, Prue was serving the babies their food. Patty and Paris were wide awake and chatting away. Passion was falling asleep in her high chair. Aria was crying out of grumpiness. Penny was giggling while she swung her legs. Mackenzie was pounding her high chair tray demanding she be fed.

At noon Melinda was dressed up and ready for her party. She got in the car with, Kat, Tamora, P.J. and Leo who drove them to the children's jungle gym. This is where Melinda had wanted her birthday party, and she wanted to celebrate it just with her friends.

When they arrived Alyssa was already there with her mother Rebecca. The girls ran to each other for a big hug, like they do every morning when they arrive at school. Tamora wasn't looking forward to spending the day with Alyssa but had promised Melinda she'd play nice.

The first thing they wanted to do was play in the ball pit, but decided they were too old. So they went straight to the trampoline part of the jungle gym where they showed off their moves. At one point Alyssa jumped up into their air and landed doing the splits.

Back at the house the children were being their usual selves. Chris was up in his room killing zombies on a video game. Wyatt and Parker were helping with the babies and little children. Henry was up in his room reading, this was an activity he really enjoyed lately. Payton was outside making snow angles by herself since the other kids had complained it was too cold. Preston was on time out for throwing a book of cookies at his dad after being told he couldn't have one. Patty and Paris who were the best of friends were colouring together, this was their favourite hobby.

Back at the jungle gym it was time for lunch, so the children were gathered around a table. Melinda was eating a hamburger and was allowed to have half a can of diet Pepsi. P.J. was eating a hot dog and had the other half of Melinda's Pepsi. The twins were both eating pizza and sharing a can of diet coke. Alyssa wasn't allowed to eat unhealthy since she would be having cake, so she had a sub and apple juice.

Once everyone was done Piper told one of the workers to bring out the cake. The worker did and everyone sang as he did so. The cake was placed in-front of Melinda who blew out the candle after making a wish. She was then allowed to help cut the cake.

Back at home things were a little chaotic. Preston was running around throwing a tantrum because he wasn't allowed to take Belle out for a walk by himself. Then the babies started fighting each other. First Passion bite Aria who bit her back. Passion attempted to hi Aria but got Penny instead and she pushed over Mackenzie. The four then started a war of pushing and biting. The moms gather up their babies while Andy put Preston in magic proof from which parker wasn't happy with since she wanted to play in there.

Henry Jr. came down from his room and picked up his baby sister from the play pen. Paige spotted this unusual act and pointed it out to Henry. They both watched for a minute then looked away so their son wouldn't notice and change his mind. Little Henry carried Kenzie carefully up to his room and sat with her on his bed.

"Gets lonely up here, mind keeping me company" Henry asked quietly.

"Ok" Mackenzie said in response.

Henry smiled and placed Kenzie on the floor since she was getting to heavy for him to hold. Kenzie laid herself on the ground and Henry knew what this meant, it meant she wanted to be tickled. As he tickled her she giggled in the cutest way possible, this made him giggling to.

"You and I we're going to be friends ok" Henry stated

"Ok" Kenzie agreed.

"Can you say Henry?"

"Henie"

"Close enough kid."

That night the only one who made a fuss going to bed was Preston. He wouldn't sleep in his room, his parent's room or even in his sister's room. He just did not want to go to bed. When he was in his "not going to happen" mood he was a challenge. He kept orbing all over the country or in different parts of the country. Andy orbing him back in wasn't helping since he would just orb back out.

Prue then decided to place him in the magic proof room which stopped him from using his powers to escape. However now he was screaming and throwing things. This woke up the babies and some of the younger kids. Putting the babies back to sleep was hard but eventually they fell asleep. By one in the morning Preston had passed out from exhaustion.

The next day during breakfast the babies were at it again. Mackenzie decided her dad was taking too long to bring her food. So she decided to orb steal Passion's toast. Passion got frustrated and orb stole it back. Mackenzie then orb stole Penny's toast, so Penny orb stole Passion's. Aria thought this was funny so she orb stole all their toast. Mad at this Kenzie orb stole the milk from Preston's cereal and orb dumped it all over Aria. Arai began to cry and Preston threw his plastic bowl across the room engaged.

"Preston pick that up now" Andy ordered

"Not until you punish Mackenzie"

"She's only a baby Preston she doesn't know any better"

"Then you can pick up the bowl" Preston screamed.

It didn't end there, Preston was not having a good day. Shortly before lunch Preston was suspended from Kindergarten for the day. His teacher told Andy Preston had treed cutting off a girls pony tail, dumped paint on a student and coloured all over the story time books, which Andy and Prue would now have to pay for.

"That's it young man I have had enough, you will spend the day in the magic proof room. This attitude and behaviour will not be tolerated anymore, every time you do something wrong your powers will be taken away for four days since you are four years old" Andy declared and dragged Preston into the magic proof room.

"Was I too hash" Andy asked

"No he needs to learn he cannot act like this" Prue stated and kissed her husband.

That day during their white-lighter class Wyatt, Chris and Melinda were pulled out by the Elders. Leo was too so he had Paige cover for him since he was the teacher. In the magic school office the Elders and Piper greeted Leo and the kids.

"It is time for your three eldest children to become White-lighters" Elder Roman stated.

"Are you sure, they haven't completed their training yet" Leo stated.

"They have high grades in your class and they are old enough as well" Elder West said.

"For now they will have a test run, we'll give them three children to look after from the magic realm" Elder Kathrine explained.

"Wait magic realm witches are way more powerful than mortal realm witches" Piper pointed out.

"Your kids are some of the most powerful, they'll mange as long as they work together" Elder West explained.

A moment later three witches walked into the office, two male and one female. The oldest boy was Alex, the girl was Grace and the youngest boy was Michael. These three siblings were the magic realm witches Wyatt, Chris and Melinda would be looking after. Alex was eight, Grace was six, and Michael was four. They looked innocent, but where they?

The following morning it was two a.m. when Alex, Grace and Michael called for Wyatt, Chris and Melinda. Wyatt and his siblings arrived in a dark alley in the mortal realm. There was a fire ball hurdled towards Grace, Chris orbed it away. None of them seemed to have an active power. Wyatt quickly took care of the demon by stabbing him with a piece of glass he found on the ground near his foot.

"Do any of you have an active power" Wyatt asked his charges.

"No" Michael stated.

"What the hell is wrong with you, going after a demon with no active powers at your age, don't you three know anything" Chris shouted.

"Chris come on, they're just little kids" Melinda stated.

"No excuses Patty's three and she knows this."

Chris orbed home irritated and couldn't wait to go back to sleep. Wyatt and Melinda brought their charges home safe and sound. Their parents had been so worried and couldn't stop thanking Wyatt and Melinda.

That afternoon Wyatt, Chris and Melinda brought their charged to the manor. They thought it would be best to teach their charges some of the basics about being a witch in the magic realm. Wyatt made sure that Chris played nice.

"Why do we have to worry about getting hurt if we have white-lighters?" Alex asked.

"Because one day we might not get there in time to heal you" Melinda explained.

"And demons can kill you in an instant" Chris added.

Wyatt, Chris and Melinda were only going to be the white-lighters of these three for a week, and what a crazy week it was. Alex, Grace and Michael had a love of going after demons. Wyatt lost count on how many times they had to save them. One good thing that came out of this experience was that Chris learned to be a little nicer. Finally at the end of the week it was time for Wyatt, Chris and Melinda to meet with Elder Roman.

"Well over the week you've had some trouble. However never failed to save your charges, and you even taught them a few things" Elder Roman stated.

"Does this mean we passed" Melinda asked.

"Yes, but it may be awhile before you each get your first charges."

"We already have charges" Wyatt pointed out.

"They were your test, magic realm witches don't need white-lighters. Demons only exist in the mortal realm since they were banished from the magic realm thousands of years ago" Elder Roman explained.

Wyatt, Chris and Melinda were very proud of themselves. Piper, Leo and the rest of the family were proud of them too. Chris wasn't looking forward to being a white-lighter, but the other two were.

PS there's a lot going on in my life right now so i won't be to write a lot please remain patient with me