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Summary: Introduction of new characters, kids getting powers and deal for the new house.
Episode II Part 2: Mansion not dear!
"Christopher Victor Halliwell!" Piper burst out in anger, "What were you thinking? Do you think you can take out on real demons while being still in school? Not to mention, your average scores even with holographic test demons."
Wyatt had to explain their escape from training and confrontation with the horde of Xarax demons. He however thought that it was bad moment to tell them that they had gained new powers.
Chris looked at Leo with anger and frustration, 'You told her?'
Leo looked away, 'She forced me!'
Apparently Chris had barely passed the mid-terms at magic school. Now in senior year, they were learning how to face low level demons and malevolent creatures with holograms. Use of real demons was forbidden after the Noxon demon event 18 years back. However final year students like Wyatt were often given opportunities of field experience, on 'How to vanquish and subdue?' But even that required supervision of powerful witch and white-lighter teachers.
"It was wise to take Wyatt with you considering he has some experience, but Junior too? What were you thinking? He is 16!" Piper continued. "You have broken enough rules to get a good punishment. You are grounded for the rest of your holidays. And NO ORBING! You do that and I'll strip your powers permanently. No second thought on that. Do you understand?"
"Yes Mom." Looking down, Chris headed back to his room.
"And you two! Have you sold your brain? How did he manage to persuade you? Wyatt I'm very disappointed. You are a role model for all of your generation in this family. If you make such rash decisions, there won't be any future generation to continue. You too are grounded for this week." Piper finished her judgement.
"And Sam! You will be grounded for two wee..." Paige was going to say her decision but Wyatt interrupted her.
"No! Aunt Paige, do not punish him. I took him with us, he didn't want to go." Wyatt defended Samuel, however in truth Sam was as eager as Chris to go for real demons.
Junior Henry looked at Wyatt in relief and muttered, 'Thanks Big Bro!'
Everyone was heading back to Common room when Wyatt said, "There's one more thing you should know!"
Piper turned around, "What?"
"I think Chris, Junior and I have acquired new powers." Wyatt replied with excitement. The sisters and Leo looked surprised.
"That's impossible, I mean you were born with many powers but still it is too early for all the powers to manifest. You need experiences to gain new abilities like your Aunts did." Leo informed.
Wyatt said, "I don't know dad, but it was new power. I swear!" He then told them of the outcome of battle, how Chris manifested an invisible force field and how instead of his molecular combustion power, energy waves erupted from him.
He however was puzzled like his parents on how Sam sensed that Leo found out they were missing and how he knew that the sisters were going to call them with spell.
"May be his white-lighter sensing ability has advanced." Paige speculated.
"He is not a white-lighter yet Paige. Only white-lighters are given the power to sense their charges. Moreover they can only sense presence and feelings of their charges not what they are thinking," Leo corrected. Being an ex-white-lighter he had much more experience.
"I think their potential powers are surfacing after the reinstated bond as power of ten." Phoebe diverted everyone's attention to the topic of most priority.
"Power of ten?" Wyatt and Sam asked.
"Later! First, you have to get fresh and Wyatt you have to do some preparations." Piper commanded, confusing Wyatt and Sam further more. She continued, "I hope the girls are not as reckless as you boys are."
She had the impression that girls are more subtle than boys. She had no idea.
'What is going on? Did we miss something?' Wyatt and Sam looked at each other.
Piper sent Wyatt and Junior with Leo to fetch some materials for packaging. Phoebe, Paige, Coop and Henry went out to inquire about the estate owner of the mansion while Piper remained at home to prepare for shifting into a new house.
The Kids were still far from knowing that they were going to a new house.
Piper thought, "If boys have gained new powers because of the reconstitution of charmed powers, I wonder how they will manifest in our girls.
-x-
"Mandrake roots?" A grown up woman asked to Phoena.
"I got it!" Pearl replied.
"Wolfsbane, Myrrh Bark, Thyme, Toad Fla..." She continued.
"Aunt Billie! We got all the herbs, now let's get going before we get into trouble. Or uncle J will give us another assignment on boring 'History of magic' for dragging you into this mess." Pristine interrupted the grown up lady, Billie.
After vanquishing the triads, Billie was accepted as a close family friend. She remained close to Phoebe. She even helped the sisters by babysitting the young kids when they were out on Demon hunting. Many at times she would also accompany them to save innocents. Phoebe's daughters Pearl and Pristine were very close to her.
Apparently she and five Halliwell girls had come to collect some herbs required for potion making. All herbs were easily available at any decent herb store, save for few like Mandrake roots. It is a rare plant and scarce, but grows abundantly in the groves near seas and mostly in the Imp infested area.
The girls dragged Billie thinking of potential dangers, as they were a little careful as opposed to boys and many at times brought Billie to accompany them in trips like this. Their mothers had no idea that how sneaky the girls were and Billie kind of supported their stance, after all she was like that in the past.
Buzz.
"We need to get out. NOW!" Prudence came out shouting from inside of the grove along with Phoena and Pandora followed by a large swarm of Imps and Imp masters.
Billie looked at Pristine with a look like, 'You need to stop saying the word trouble'.
"Phoena freeze them. Dora, blast the Imp masters" Billie instructed the girls.
"They are too many, we tried that already." Pandora replied, blasting few Imp masters.
Pandora had inherited the charmed power of Molecular combustion like her cousin Wyatt and Aunt Piper. She however was a bit newbie compared to Wyatt. Her twin sister Phoena on the other hand got the Power of Molecular Immobilization and Inhibition.
Prudence, Pearl and Pristine were kind of Passive fighters. Prue had inherited the power of Astral Projection and Pearl got Empathy. Pristine had the power to levitate but her power came in handy to fight brute and big demons. She was kind of powerless against smaller and dangerous bugs like Imps.
They were fighting with Imp vanquishing potions. Pearl felt a big amount of rage coming from the swarm of Imp. It was so great that she felt like burning inside her head. She had not learned to control to block empathy at will.
She became frustrated, her rage grew. Suddenly the Imps and Imp masters near her started to have seizures and they fell onto ground, fainted. She looked at her sisters with confusion, 'What the hell just happened?'
They all looked back with, 'Don't ask us!'
Billie projected their decoys and signalled the girls to fight from hidings. The Imp are however clever creatures. They saw right through the decoys and attacked the girls.
The remaining Imp masters concentrated their attacks on Pristine and Prudence. Pristine was frightened. She suddenly levitated in mid air. Since the powers are associated with emotions, her fear made her to levitate, however at the moment this was not a bright thing. All Imps went for her. She wished very hard to come to ground, however instead her, the Imps around her fell to ground as if attracted by a large magnet. They were struggling very hard but couldn't move.
In the meantime other Imps attacked Pearl. She ran panicking. She had not yet understood the way she paralyzed the Imps earlier.
Prudence felt that if she had some active power she could have saved her sister. She guarded Pearl and lifted her hands in the air in a move to shield. Her will was so great that a gush of wind blew from an orb in front of her palm. The stream of air blew every remaining Imp from the area. The Imps who were fighting Phoena and Pandora fled in fear seeing Prudence sudden show of power.
"How did you do that?" Billie asked Prue.
"I don't know. Something fishy is going on. First Pearl, then Pristie and now me!" Prudence replied.
"May be our powers are growing?" Pristine replied coming down to the ground.
"We are too young to manifest new powers Pristie!" Pearl reminded her.
"Well whatever! We should better be out of here, before the Imps come again." Billie suggested.
"Before you do that, heal your wounds." Phoena said pointing to Pearl towards her forehead.
Being half cupid Pearl and Pristine had the powers to self-heal. They however, were far from healing others. In the whole Halliwell new generation only Wyatt had the powers to heal someone since his birth.
After all cover-up of battle was removed. Prue, Pearl, Pristine and Billie faded to the Manor. Pearl and Pristine were able to fade like their father, Coop. Phoena and Pandora followed them orbing in.
Prudence threw herself on the sofa complaining, "In the whole family, only I'm not able to move around with will. All of you can orb and fade around the world."
"I cannot orb too, nor does your father, nor your Aunt Phoebe." Piper came in smiling.
"Thank you very much mom, but that didn't helped!" Prudence replied.
"Oh come on! There's no big deal if you can't move at will. You are best at other things, like writing spells and making efficient potions." Billie tried to encourage her. She continued looking at Piper, "I should be get going, boys must be waiting and JD said he had only 4 hours off."
"You are managing your family so efficiently and even having time to teach mine. Thank you so much." Piper said.
Billie smiled, "No! I should be thanking you. You helped me from coming out of my misdeeds and my marriage too. This is the least I can do." She then left for her house.
"Bring the twins to us sometimes. Tell them I sent lots of love." Piper replied waving to Billie.
"Wow! That is some big pile of mandrake roots. Where did you get that from?" Piper asked the girls in surprise. The girls smiled at each other without replying back.
Phoena replied, "We harvested it."
Piper rolled her eyes, "Whatever, by the way you are all having your dinner here tonight."
"But Aunt Piper it's Wednesday today!" Pristine reminded. She remembered that they have family dinner only on Fridays.
Piper said back, "I know honey, but we need to tell you about something that happened today. Think of it as a family meeting."
"What happened? Did Chris do something? Did a demon attacked" Prudence asked in suspicion. To be blunt, family meeting occurred only when Chris causes them trouble with rebellious attitude and magic disasters and if there was a demon threat.
"Oh! Don't ask. A lot of thing happened. There's a dream, power of ten, Chris nearly getting killed by Xarax demons etc, etc," Piper told them and went to the kitchen.
The girls looked at each other with confusion, 'It would be better if we let her explain later.'
They then followed her to the kitchen to lend hand for dinner preparations.
-x-
It was 8 in the evening. Leo and the boys were back with big cartons, plastic sheets and ropes kept in the truck.
Phoebe, Paige, Coop and Henry were back too with all their findings.
The mansion was being sold at reasonable price which Halliwells were able to afford quite easily. Since they had already decided to buy the mansion, they finalised initial transactions.
"I and Henry will legalise the deal tomorrow." Leo said and ordered, "You guys start packing your stuffs."
Everyone affirmed.
Coop said with smile, "Now it's time for the kids to know whatever happened today."
They all went towards the dining room; Phoebe called the children from upstairs.
"Did you talk to Chris?" Leo asked Piper. She nodded in 'No'.
Leo said in concerned voice, "Honey, you know how he is? It is common at his age. We have changed his future and ours too. We must not be so hard on him. Besides, Wyatt is always with him at the times of danger. Give him a chance to prove himself."
"I know. It's just... I don't want to lose him again." Piper said with a little hint of tears in her eyes.
"I know sweetie. Me too! We are buying the mansion for that reason only. We both want to keep them safe." Leo said with similar face.
Piper looked at Leo, "Thank you for supporting me and my decision. I hope that mansion will keep the bond between us strong."
"Mention not dear! And don't worry so much. Everything will be fine." Leo replied
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Episode III: Kids' first demons.
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