I AM SO SORRY THAT THIS HAS TAKEN ALMOST THREE YEARS TO BE POSTED. I HAVE GONE THROUGH CERTAIN HEALTH ISSUES, MY GRANDMOTHER'S DEATH, AND HAVE JUST STARTED WRITING FANFICTION AGAIN. I HOPE YOU DO ENJOY THIS!!!
The Halliwells think that the Underworld has had a lack of communication with each other. This forces a lack of hierarchy in the Underworld. There is no common goal right now, except for hurting Good, and no one seems to know what to do. Victoria, on the other hand, found this the exact time to go after the Charmed Ones.
All of them were now in the attic. They were discussing what to do about the demon. Obviously, it worried them that there were demons in Unlived Joy. The Elders were the ones that set up that place. How would Victoria know of it? Victoria knowing about this plane forced Andy and Prue's daughter out of their home. The Elders had transported them, much in the same way as they transported Prue, to the Halliwell manor.
"How do we know that Andy and Shannen are truly who they say they are?" Paige questioned. "Along with that matter, how do we truly know the she is actually Prue?" She faced her sisters who had a look of disgrace.
"Why would you think that, Paige?" Piper yelled in frustration. "We haven't seen them in over 20 years, with the exception of Shannen, how would you know?" Piper crossed her arms with extreme anger. She definitely did not want to be dealing with her youngest sister right now. Phoebe walked over to Piper and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Piper, honey, calm down," Phoebe said quietly. That made Piper even angrier. She threw her hands down.
"Calm down, Phoebe? Paige just said, out of the blue, that those people are impersonating our sister!"
"She didn't necessarily say that they were impersonating them, just that she wasn't sure that they were them," Phoebe tried to explain. Prue walked over to her two sisters. Paige tensed up and Prue noticed.
"Listen, Paige," Prue started to say. "How would you even know that I might not be Prue? You didn't grow up with me, Piper, and Phoebe. You don't know me." Piper and Phoebe wrapped their arms around their older sister. Prue embraced them and kissed the top of each one's head. Prue looked back at Paige. "Plus, Coop said that he only felt love from me when Piper fainted."
"I'm always skeptical," Paige said. "I am overly cautious. I'm sorry if I offended you." Paige looked down at the floor.
"We appreciate your caution, Paige," Phoebe spoke up. "But sometimes you have to go with good faith." She smiled at her oldest sister. Prue reciprocated the smile. Piper was the one the let go of her older sister first.
"Listen, Paige," Piper sounded apologetic. "I am sorry that I overreacted. You just don't know what I went through when Prue died." This apology forced Paige's gaze to connect with Piper's eyes.
"But the thing is, I do know what you went through, Piper," Paige countered. "I was there when you turned into a Fury, I was there when Leo orbed us to the mausoleum, and I was there when you finally expressed your rage." She just looked back and forth from Phoebe to Prue to Piper for any response. Finally, Prue spoke up.
"Piper turned into a Fury?" Prue's eyebrows arched a little bit. She then made a little joke to lighten the mood. "Was it anything like when she turned into a Wendigo?" This forced a huge amount of laughter out of all four sisters. When Piper and Phoebe smiled a bit at Paige, Paige knew she was forgiven. To change the topic back to the present, Paige asked a very important question.
"Would you guys want me to go and ask the Elders about more information on Victoria?"
"I think that would be good," Prue nodded. Paige returned the nod and orbed out.
Paige had to blink a couple of times before she could see anything. When she spotted the two large, golden doors, she knew she was in the right place. Once she spotted an Elder, she walked straight over to him. Since he was in a conversation with a Whitelighter, she knew she could interrupt. Normally, when a Charmed One had a concern that needed the Elders' input, they were allowed to interrupt their conversation, but never when it was between Elders.
"Excuse me," Paige interjected. "Zeroun, we have a problem." Zeroun excused himself from the conversation he was having with the Whitelighter and focused on Paige.
"What is it, Paige?"
"I have a couple of concerns…" She waited for Zeroun say something, and she didn't have to wait long.
"You are worried that Prudence, Andrew, and Shannen are not who they say they are, aren't you?"
"Do you have telepathy?"
"Empathy, mostly, but I know you, Paige. You are one of the most skeptical witches I know, which makes you a very smart witch."
"Well, are they telling me the truth?"
"Yes, Paige, they are who they say they are."
"That makes me feel so much better," Paige said with a huge side of relief. She gave Zeroun a small smile.
"What's the problem, Paige?"
"Since you know of Andy and Shannen being here, do you know what demon is behind the attack in Unlived Joy?"
"No, but I am assuming you have the name of the demon, and I could tell you the rest."
"Well, her name is Victoria, and we know that to vanquish her minions, we have to vanquish her. But, do we need to know anything else?"
"What I do know beyond your knowledge of Victoria is that the spell in your Book of Shadows will not harm her."
"Prue re-wrote the spell, Zeroun."
"Excellent. Along with the spell, you need to make a potion. Ask your sister, Prue, to just think of what ingredients will go along with the spell to amplify it to make sure Victoria and her minions are gone."
"Thank you, Zeroun," Paige said as she orbed out. Zeroun nodded and he turned back to the other Whitelighter.
"Did I need to tell her anything else?"
"No, Zeroun," the Whitelighter responded. "My mom will figure out what the potion needs." The Whitelighter sighed and look straight into Zeroun. "Hopefully, they will use the entire family's magic to help get rid of Victoria before it is too late. I don't want to witness my aunt's death again." The Whitelighter stuck out their hand for Zeroun to shake.
"Hopefully your future is much better when you return. It seems like to fix major events in your family's life, one of you has to time travel."
"But you wouldn't think it would be me, huh?"
"No, Shannen, I didn't think it would be you." And with that, Shannen orbed back to her time.
"Are you sure that's what he said?" Phoebe asked Paige after she explained Zeroun's instructions. "You mean, he never told you what to actually put in the potion?" Her eyes were expanded as far as they could. Usually, the Elders told them what to put in potions, but to tell them to go with their instincts on the ingredients? Highly unusual for the Elders. Although, the Elders could be unusual at times. The whole family was summoned up to the attic to hear what the Elders had told Paige.
"Maybe this is another test?" Prue said. This forced Leo to turn to her.
"Don't you say that, Prue," Leo said. "The last time you started with that idea, you died." This confused almost everyone in the room.
"I don't remember her saying that," Phoebe spoke up.
"It was before time was reversed, Phoebe," Leo explained not just to her, but to everyone in the attic. Piper rolled her eyes, because she didn't remember that time was reversed. She was still kind of having trouble with the idea that time was reversed, which ultimately lead to her sister's death, but when she spotted her children, Piper smiled. If time wasn't reversed Piper thought, they wouldn't be here. All of us probably wouldn't be here. Like mom said, "When one door closes, another one opens."
"So, Aunt Prue," Wyatt said, trying to get things back on track. "Have you thought of anything that might go along with the new spell you wrote?" Unfortunately, Prue shook her head. When she looked over to her daughter who was still sleeping on the couch, ingredients just started flowing through her mind.
"Is there a pen and paper anywhere?" Prue asked to no one in particular.
"Pen," Charlotte said out-loud with her hand outstretched.
"Paper," Cassandra said with her hand outstretched. Their brother, Henry Jr., rolled his eyes because he thought his sisters were annoying that way. Everyone else chuckled when the twins looked at each other and winked. See, whenever something came in twos, Charlotte and Cassandra had to participate in it. They handed each of their respective items to their aunt so she could write whatever she wanted to write down.
Currently, children were getting the ingredients to the potion that Prue had written down. The children were the ones going up and down the stairs since they were younger and apparently, 'more in shape'. Shannen had recently woken up and was scared of the location she was at.
"Dad!" Shannen started to scream. "Where are you?" At the sound of Shannen's voice, Andy ran into the attic. He had momentarily gone to the bathroom and was on his way back.
"Shannen," Andy said soothingly. He sat down next to her, and she immediately moved as close as she could to her father.
"Where are we? Who are all of these people?" Shannen was a little flustered with the new surroundings.
"Honey, your mom is going to have to explain that," Andy responded. He pointed over to where Prue was standing. She was engrossed in making the potion with her sisters. A confused look came over her face.
"Who are those women with mom?" All of a sudden, nine kids walked into the attic discussing magic.
"Well, thyme is very important with curses, banishments, and spells along the like," Melinda said as she walked into the attic. Apparently, she was bringing in the thyme for the potion.
"True, but don't poplar seeds enhance the power of thyme?" Young Prue said.
"Ah, the cousin is wise, my dear sister," Wyatt responded. Chris rolled his eyes at his older brother, and lightly swatted him on the shoulder. Wyatt then mouthed 'what' to his brother. This just made Chris shake his head.
"But Wyatt," Patty countered on her cousin's behalf. "Mel is much better at spell casting and potion making."
"She's right," Henry Jr. agreed. His sisters nodded in agreement.
"Why are you guys so competitive?" Penny asked her sisters and her cousins.
"'Cause we're Halliwells," everyone responded in unison. Laughter escaped everyone's mouth as they walked over to their mothers. They handed all of the ingredients they were carrying to adult Prue.
"So, Aunt Prue," Chris started to ask. "When do you think the potion will be ready?" When Prue turned her head to answer Chris, she spotted her daughter looking bewildered.
"After I talk to my daughter," Prue said. She immediately walked over to Shannen and Andy. Before she sat down, she turned to her sisters. "Make sure you create the potion just like I wrote it down. Pheebes, you are the potion master, you be in charge."
"Potion? What are you talking about, mom?" Shannen said. She grabbed onto her dad's hand in slight fear. Prue sat down on the other side of Shannen.
"Shannen, honey," Prue said as she brushed the fly-aways behind her daughter's ears. "You have nothing to be afraid of."
"But why were you talking about potions?"
"Because that is what our family was doing-"
"Prue, are you sure she is ready to hear about this?" Andy interjected.
"It's necessary, Andy," Prue said as she turned back to Shannen. Before she could finish her explanation, Shannen spoke up.
"Our family? I thought it was only the three of us."
"Where we are, it is just the three of us," Andy said.
"I never told you about my sisters because I wasn't allowed to see them myself," Prue explained further.
"Why weren't you allowed to see them?" Shannen was extremely curious, and she had the right to be.
"Because we got into a," Prue had to think how to explain it in more understandable way for her daughter. "A huge battle. This separated us for over 20 years."
"20 years with no communication?" Shannen was surprised. Since she saw the pained look on her mom's face, Shannen relaxed enough to let go of her father's hand.
"Yeah, but it was a necessary process for all of us to go through," Prue explained. "It was hard, until we were forced, well, were allowed, to come back by those that had something to do with us being split apart."
"Are those that split you apart bad people?"
"They aren't bad, Shannen," Andy actually started to explain so Prue could take a slight breather. "Most of the time they have good intentions. We might not agree with it all the time, but they do make important decisions that we should follow."
"I didn't know that you thought about them that way," Prue said with a slight smile.
"Well, it's true," Andy responded.
"So, they are, like, elders in a well-knit community?" Shannen tried to deduce from her parents' conversation and explanation.
"That's what they are known as," Prue said. "The Elders."
"The Elders?" Shannen questioned, which her mom nodded to. "The title makes it seem like they have powers or something…" Shannen trailed off when her parents looked at each other when she said 'powers'. She looked back and forth between them before saying choppily, "They have powers?"
"Yeah, they do," Andy said. This made anger flash across Shannen's face.
"So these 'Elders' that have powers separated you two, that don't have powers, from the rest of the family for twenty years?" Shannen stood up in extreme frustration. She breathed really hard through her teeth before looking at her parents. Her mom was looking down at her hands while her dad had an 'uh-oh' look on his face. "You two have powers?"
"I don't," Andy said. "Those that don't have powers are referred to as mortals."
"So does that make me a mortal?" Shannen asked.
"You seem to be taking all of this in really well, sweetie," Prue said. Normally, when she has told people about magic, they freak out and run away.
"Well, I have always had an interest in the subject," Shannen explained. "It is actually kinda cool that you have powers, mom."
"You know that question you asked?" Prue hesitantly asked.
"Which one, mom?"
"The one where you asked if you were a mortal?"
"You mean, I'm not? That I'm that I have powers? What does that make me, a witch?"
"Yep," Prue said while she stood up. "Which reminds me, I have to help the rest of the family with a potion we were making before you woke up…" She walked over to her sisters and helped to finish the potion. Shannen turned back to her dad.
"So, what are my powers then, dad?"
"Well, we don't know, sweetie."
"Why?"
"Because we bound them when you were born."
"Bound?"
"Make them unusable…"
"So you took my powers away from me when I didn't even know about them?"
"Bounding doesn't mean 'to take away', it means 'to disable'."
"Is it reversible?"
"Yes, of course."
"Well, dad?"
"Well what?"
"Reverse it!"
"I can't, I don't have powers," Andy explained. "Your mom, your aunts, your cousins, and one of your uncles does."
"My uncle?"
"Let your magical side of the family explain it," Andy said as he stood up. He gave his daughter a hug before he finished speaking. "I don't know everything." He looked at his wife's side of the family standing around the bowl containing very powerful ingredients. "I am going to go watch a football game with your uncles who don't have any powers. I'll be downstairs if you need me." He hugged her again and went downstairs.
Shannen walked over to, what her dad had told her, was her family. They all stopped what they were doing when she got to the group.
"Can you reverse it, mom?" Shannen asked with great hope. Her mom looked really confused.
"Reverse what?" Prue asked her daughter. Since Phoebe had empathy, she knew what Shannen was asking. Phoebe walked over to her sister and whispered into her ear. Prue nodded, turned towards her daughter, and started chanting
Powers of the Witches Rise
Course Unseen across the Skies
Return her powers
In now and future hours.
Little swirls of white light entered Shannen. She sort of stood up straighter. "How can I help?"
All of the magical family members formed a circle in the middle of the attic. Phoebe had a premonition that Victoria was going to be attacking them any moment. Everyone had a vial filled with the potion so they could all participate in the big vanquish. Paige, Phoebe, adult Prue, and Piper were standing in that order while their children completed the circle.
After a couple of minutes of waiting, they saw demons shimmer into their circle.
"It's not her!" Chris shouted. A demon threw an energy ball at him, and Chris telekinetically flung it right back at him, vanquishing him on the spot. Once the first energy ball was fired, they kept coming in rapid succession from different demons. Every time a demon was vanquished by their energy ball, another one showed up.
"I thought you said only Victoria was going to show up, Phoebe!" Piper shouted over the noise.
"That's what my entire premonition showed me! It's not like it's on tape, I can't exactly rewind it!"
"I seem to remember you saying that before, Pheebes!" Prue shouted.
"Ha, ha, very funny!" Phoebe said sarcastically.
"Gosh, this is annoying!" Paige said as they kept vanquishing the ever increasing number of demons. All of a sudden, they stopped throwing energy balls. This confused the Halliwells greatly. Demons just don't stop throwing energy balls at good witches for no reason. But, there was a reason. A flame appeared within the circle that the demons made. After the flame disappeared, it revealed Victoria.
"See, Piper!" Phoebe said, pointing at Victoria. "My premonition was right!"
"This is not the time for joking, Phoebe," Piper responded.
"But it was, Piper!" Phoebe said. They both gave slight smiles as they turned back to the problem at hand.
"So," Victoria's venomous voice echoed throughout the attic. "They brought you back from the dead, right Prue?" She sauntered out of the circle of demons and towards Prue.
"My mom is not dead!" Shannen shouted. Every head turned towards her. Victoria motioned for demons to split to see directly towards Shannen.
"You're her daughter?" Victoria grumbled. She turned to face Prue again. "I didn't know corpses could conceive. Well, this will put you back into being a corpse." Victoria lifted her hand which had a fireball spinning in it. Piper, Phoebe, and Paige thought that she was going to throw it at Prue, so they stood in front of her. Victoria laughed, turned swiftly around, and threw it at Shannen.
"Noooooo!!!!!!!" Prue shouted. Before anyone could do anything, Victoria turned around laughing and wiping her hands.
"Now for-" Victoria was interrupted when she heard her own fireball hit the wall. She turned one hundred and eighty degrees to find a scorch mark on the wall. Everyone was surprised.
"Shannen, where are you?" Prue shouted. She felt a tap on her calf and looked down. Shannen was crouched behind her with a finger up to her lips to keep her quiet. Prue saw that Shannen mouthed 'I-have-a-plan'. Prue looked back up to stare at Victoria. "What did you do to my daughter?" Prue said. Victoria turned her head to look at Prue.
"She should be dead right now," Victoria said. When she turned to look back at the scorch mark, Victoria expected to be looking at the wall, but was looking right into the face of Shannen.
"Miss me?" Shannen said as she threw her vial at Victoria. It broke, making the bottom of Victoria's outfit start to smoke. Shannen held out her hands and yelled, "Vials!" At that moment, all the vials in the Halliwells' hands were engulfed in bright blue and white lights. Those blue and white lights traveled to Shannen's hands, but before they revealed the vials, Shannen threw the lights at Victoria. The moment that the lights hit Victoria, Victoria started screaming in pain. Shannen looked at her mother and nodded. Piper, Phoebe, Prue, and Paige started chanting.
When in the circle that is home,
Safety's gone and evil roams.
We call upon the witches powers,
To help us now and in future hours.
Cleanse our world of Victoria,
So we may live in Euphoria.
After the four sisters finished chanting, Victoria emitted a piercing cry as a huge fire engulfed her. When the fire disappeared, the other demons were vanquished as well. There was no residue of any demon. If there wasn't a scorch mark on the wall, no one would've ever known that any demons had been in the house that day. Everyone started to smile until they heard footsteps coming up the stairs. They were prepared for more battles, but Andy burst through the door with Leo and Henry in tow.
"Is everything okay?" He said breathlessly. "I thought I heard you yelling, Prue."
"You did," Wyatt said.
"But nothing happened," Henry Jr. continued without his permission. Wyatt glared at his younger cousin.
"Well, that's not entirely true," Melinda interjected.
"Melinda's right," Penny said.
"We were fighting-" Chris started to explain, but was interrupted by Patty.
"You weren't doing anything," Patty said with a little attitude.
"She's right, you know," young Prue supported her younger sister's accusation.
"Shannen did almost everything," Cassandra went further into an explanation supporting Patty.
"Except for chanting the spell that Aunt Prue wrote," Charlotte finished Cassandra's sentence. They looked at each other and smiled. Everyone else sighed with a smile on their faces.
"So everything is okay?" Leo asked. "The demon is gone?"
"That's what it looks like to me," Henry Sr. said as he shrugged his shoulders. He walked over to his wife, and hugged her. "I'm glad everything went well." Paige looked into his eyes.
"Almost everything," Paige said with a hint of sadness.
"What's wrong, Paige?" Phoebe asked with concern.
"I thought you were an empath," Coop stated as he walked over to his own wife. Phoebe looked at him.
"Piper and Paige drank potions that allowed them to block their feelings from being read by me a long time ago."
"Why's that?"
"Cause it was really annoying to have someone tell you that you were annoyed with something before you even told them which made you even more annoyed," Piper ranted. People looked at her with immense surprise. "Well, it was." Paige nodded in agreement with Piper.
"So, why are you sad, Paige?" Phoebe asked again.
"I think I know why," Prue responded.
The thing that was bothering the Halliwell family the most at this point was that they knew they couldn't be the Power of Three with four sisters. This meant that something drastic had to happen. Everyone was sitting on different couches in the parlor thinking of what they could do to keep Shannen, Prue, and Andy in their world. During their time of thinking, an Elder orbed into the room.
"You know, I might be able to help," the Elder, who turned out to be Zeroun. The Halliwells didn't move one inch. They just looked at him.
"I didn't know Elders were up this late," Andy said. He looked at his watch which said it was 11:45 p.m.
"There is really no time, no clock, where Elders are," Leo was explaining. Since he used to be an Elder, along with his stint as a Whitelighter for over 60 years, he was quite knowledgeable on the subject. Andy nodded at Leo and looked back at the Elder.
"What can we do, Zeroun?" Paige asked.
"Well, all four of you have children, do you not?" Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige nodded. "And they all have powers, correct?" The four sisters were looking at each other. They were extremely confused by all of his questions. When Zeroun noticed Shannen's head lift off of her hands that she was resting on suddenly, he nodded at her and orbed out.
"Wait a minute!" Coop shouted.
"You didn't tell us what to do!" Wyatt reasoned.
"Because we already know what to do," Shannen said as she got off of the floor. She placed her hands, palms up, and spoke out loud, "Book of Shadows." It appeared after blue and white lights disappeared from her hands.
"Hold on a second," Prue said as she got off of the floor. Everyone else followed suit. "Since when do you have Whitelighter powers?" Shannen shrugged her shoulders. The only one who didn't get off of where he was sitting was Andy. All of their eyes turned towards him. He was looking fairly guilty at that moment.
"You're a Whitelighter?" Melinda asked.
"Since when?" Prue sounded more angry than necessary.
"Since he died," Leo answered. Leo answering that question surprised everyone. "I sorta recommended him to the Elders after he died." He shrugged his shoulders. Piper walked over to her husband and placed a hand on his chest. Leo wrapped his right arm around her.
"That was very nice of you," Piper said as Leo kissed her head.
"So, what are we supposed to do, Shannen?" Melinda said not wanting to see her parents making out. All Shannen did was look at her three cousins, Prue, Patty, and Penny, which explained everything to everyone.
"My daughters are going to be the new Charmed Ones," Phoebe said somewhat exacerbated. Shannen handed the Book over to her aunt.
"Does this mean that we are staying here?" Andy asked.
"That's if you want to…" Paige said with a huge grin on.
"Of course we're going to stay!" Prue said as she bounded over to her youngest sister. She enveloped Paige into a huge hug.
So, what does the Halliwell family do after Prue, Patty, and Penny become the new Charmed Ones?