Chapter One
Prudence Grace Halliwell looked at her class with a smile.
'Okay, who of you wonderful magic kids have finished their homework?"
The kids in the age of eleven to twelve all raised their hands.
Prue smiled again, 'And I suppose none have you cheated?'
'No miss Halliwell,' the kids said.
'Not even little Jamie Mitchell?'
Jamie Mitchell turned red, he looked at his favorite teacher with a nerves grin.
Prue walked towards the kid, 'Jamie… I know you got the skills. Come on you're a charmed grandkid, just like me. I'll give you another assignment and please make it on your own this time.'
Jamie nodded, 'Okay miss Halliwell.'
'Jeez Prue, I always thought you would be a stern teacher,' a voice said.
Prue looked to the door and to her surprise she saw the one person she would trust her life to. Matthew Halliwell was young man with dark hair and the brown eyes of his deceased grandmother Piper.
His younger sister Prue also had dark hair, but she unlike many of her relatives she had striking icy blue eyes. When she was younger they were just as brown as those of her brother, but as she grew older her eyes changed as well. And now at the age of 25 she resembled her great-aunt Prudence Halliwell the first in more ways than one.
'What are you doing here?' Prue asked happily as she hugged her only brother.
'Just in the neighborhood,' he grinned.
Prue raised her eyebrow, 'Just in the neighborhood? We haven't heard of you in weeks.'
'I've been busy,' Matt said.
'With what?'
'Something I can't discuss with fifteen kids in the room.'
'O,' Prue looked at her class, 'I've got a class to finish. Why won't you wait in my room.'
'Sure,' Matt looked over his shoulder, nodded and left.
'Uhm miss Halliwell… who did he nod at?' Jamie asked with a weird look.
'Don't know. My brother always had his weird things,' Prue smiled, 'Okay class let's continue.'
Matt looked the study of his younger sister with great interest. This room was formerly owned by his grandfather Leo Wyatt. But after he died and Prue got a job in teaching she got the room from the current headmaster. Matt wasn't very fond of the current head of Magic School, he always assumed that his father Wyatt or uncle Chris would become the next head. But no, the Elders decided to sent one of their own kind. The current head was a Elder named Zander, a cocky young Elder who acted as he owned the world. That was presumably the reason the Elders sent him in the first place.
Fortunately for Prue Zander seemed to like her and as a gift gave her the office that once belonged to her grandfather.
'So Matthew Halliwell, are you going to tell me why you're suddenly back?' Prue leaned against the door.
'Class over?' Matt smiled.
'Yeah, give the kids a good grade and let them finish early once a week, they are bound to listen.'
'The kids really seem to like you.'
'Well I will be guiding them the next few years and I just love kids.'
'How's Jamie doing?'
'He's a little cheater, just like someone else I know.'
'I didn't cheat Prue,' Matt snapped, but his eyes twinkled with amusement, 'I just stumbled on the answers once in a while.'
'In granddads drawer?'
Matt shrugged and grinned, 'Does it really matter? I know how to use my powers and I'm a respected whitelighter, like our dad before me.'
'Okay, and now you really changed the subject. I thought you were supposed be in Cairo. Didn't you had 15 witches to guide over there?'
'I did,' Matt's grin disappeared and he got a serious look on his handsome face, 'But around a month ago, I got a visit.'
'A visit?' Prue asked, 'From who?'
Matt looked around him and said quietly, 'You can come out now.'
Out of nowhere someone shimmered in the office. With a long dirty coat and a face that apparently hadn't been washed in weeks, the man looked at Prue with a look that could not betray his thoughts.
From the minute Prue walked through the room Cole Turner thought he saw a ghost. For a minute he thought the Prudence Halliwell he knew was back from the dead. But after he came over his first shock, he also saw a difference. And boy that difference had something attractive.
'Cole Turner!,' Prue looked at her brother with disbelief, 'You got a visit from our grandparents greatest enemy!'
'In my defense, there were enemy's much more evil then me,' Cole remarked.
'Go to hell,' Prue glared at him disgusted, then raised her hand en used her power to throw him across the room.
'Prue!,' Matt scolded as Cole smashed against a grandfather clock, 'Do you even know how many times that clock was repaired!'
'Well I thought it was ugly anyway,' Prue hissed 'never wanted it here in the first place.'
'She doesn't just look like her from the outside,' Cole muttered as he stood up, 'What is it with you Halliwells, always attacking the first demon you see without a explanation.'
'I attacked him to,' Matt explained.
'Couldn't you just vanquish him?' Prue said with a voice of sarcasm.
'O I tried, but I'm glad I didn't,' Matt replied, 'You see Cole is good now.'
Prue brought her hand to her head, 'O Matt… demons can't be trusted.'
'Well this demon can,' Cole intertwined, 'How else could I enter Magic School.'
'He's right Prue. The force of good is protecting Magic School. Only someone with a good honest heart can enter.'
'See, honest heart,' Cole said while pointing at himself.
'Please, Cole has several pages dedicated to him the Book of Shadows!'
'Really,' Cole smiled proud, 'I knew they liked me.'
'Don't get so overjoyed,' Prue snapped, 'Listen I've read the pages like a hundredth times and asked my grandmother about you.'
'Who Piper?.. did she told you that I was responsible in restoring Phoebe's faith in love and that I brought her, I mean Piper, and Leo back together.'
'Noooo,' Prue hissed, 'She told me you're a poltergeist! A demon of the lowest kind and some other things I can't remember right now. But I know you're a bad ass.'
Cole folded his arms and looked at Matt, 'Matthew, why won't you tell your sister what I told you.'
Matt nodded, 'Of course. Prue, Cole came to me with important information.'
'What kind of information?'
'The underworld has a Queen again,' Cole said.