Warren and Portia entered the gym at Magic School. It was completely decked out for Halloween, but more accurate than a mortal high school would be.
"Did that seem weird to you, back at the Manor?" Portia asked Warren as they walked over to some friends.
"What do you mean? Everything seemed fine I guess, other than Hope and your sister were a little brusque than usual, but Mel was normal" he answered.
"Yea that's what I mean. Mel sounded normal but I could defiantly feel the anger coming off of her. And Parker and Hope were just being snippy, something they don't usually do. It just felt funny that's all, but if you think it was fine then I guess I shouldn't worry right?" Portia asked.
"Normally I would say listen to your instincts, but in this case I think that Mel is just rubbing off on the rest of the girls in your family. I mean they are all pretty independent, but Mel just has more attitude than the rest, maybe they are just picking up on it more" Warren explained.
"You're probably right. Let's go dance" she said as she grabbed Warren and pulled him on the dance floor.
Hope, Faith, and Parker we're at their friend Megan's house. Megan wasn't exactly a close friend of the twin's but she always wanted a reason to throw a party, and saying it was a birthday party allowed her to make it less superficial. As long as she was throwing the party, the girls' decided to go along with it and just let her do what she wanted.
"Whoa nice set up here Megan" Hope said as she walked into the large house. Megan had gotten her parents to agree to have the party at their beach house, since Megan's apartment would be too small.
"Yea well the beach house wasn't being used this weekend so I thought it would be a good place for it. Make your self comfortable; there are people all over right now. Grab something to drink in the kitchen" Megan said as she closed the door. "Where did you guys end up parking?" she asked.
The three half-witches looked at each other and then Parker spoke up "Oh we had to park way down the street, you can't even see the car from here."
Megan seemed to be satisfied with that answer and pranced off in her ballerina costume. The girls grabbed some sodas from the kitchen, avoiding the alcohol after Wyatt's threat, and scattered about the house, talking to different friends they knew from school.
Wyatt, Chris, Blake and Bianca walked into the frat house. Chris saw some people he knew from some of his classes and walked over with Bianca to talk to them. Wyatt and Blake had graduated from the same college a few years ago, and were surprised to see some of the people they knew from their time on the campus.
"Super seniors" Blake said to Wyatt with a grin.
"No doubt. I have heard of six years of college, but I don't think it was just for an undergraduate degree" Wyatt replied with the same grin.
"Oh well, let's go be social. Who knows maybe they are smarter since they have been in college longer" Blake said as he motioned with his hand towards some people.
"Wyatt, Blake what are you two doing here?" a guy dressed as a giant chicken asked.
"Hey Marco, Wyatt and I came with Chris, he was like tutoring the frat President or something and he invited him, told him to bring friends along too. I guess it just isn't a party without us" Blake said with a grin as he gave Marco a high five.
"Nice zombie costume dude. What are you supposed to be Halliwell?" Marco asked.
"I'm a wizard; don't ask it was my sister's idea. She made the costume too" Wyatt said, with a little self consciousness slipping into his voice.
"Right on buddy. Your sister is she the one with the really long dark brown hair. I remember seeing you with a bunch of different girls. They would always come get you from class saying there was a family emergency or something like that right?" Marco asked.
"Um yea, our family has those sometimes. The other girls were my cousins, I have a big family. But yea Mel is the one with long dark hair" Wyatt supplied trying to get off the subject of family emergencies.
"Totally dude, well grab a beer, and I will see you around" Marco said as he strutted through the crowd in his chicken costume.
Chris and Bianca were talking to a couple of guys that Chris had helped out in class.
"I'm telling you, without this kid I wouldn't have passed that course, although I can't even tell you what it was about now" a guy dressed as Elvis said to Bianca.
"Wasn't it something about supernatural stuff, like ghosts and things" said another guy dressed as a cowboy.
"No dude not ghosts it was like witches and stuff I thought" Elvis guy said.
"It was called 'Exploring the Supernatural' and it was actually about all that stuff: ghosts, witches, demons everything" Chris helped fill in the blanks.
"Hmm why would you know so much about that stuff" Bianca said with a completely serious face. Although she knew the answer she thought it would be better to play dumb.
"That's what we always asked him, but all he ever told us was that he just picked it all up from the lectures. Why did we even take that course?" the cowboy asked Elvis.
"We thought that it would be easy. Ghosts go through things and haunt you. It was supposed to be like ghost busters" Elvis answered. "But instead it was a lot of reading and creating theories. Then all the essays we would have to write explaining our theories that was not what we were expecting."
"Well hey you got through it that's all that matters" Chris said. "We should probably go back to Wyatt and Blake, otherwise no telling what those two can get into" Chris said as he walked away with Bianca.
"You took a course in the supernatural?" she asked as they walked away. "Did you not get enough knowledge about it growing up?"
"Hey I thought that it would be an easy class for me, it was all left up to theories, so I basically just had to state what I knew about demons" he answered.
"What kind of demons?" Bianca asked.
"That's just it, I could create a theory about there being different kinds of demons and then I just got to write about why I thought there were different ones. I mean I couldn't come out and say that I know for a fact that there are different ones, but I just had to say that it was possible" he told her.
"Nice work Chris, you are like super smart and in grad school and stuff, and you took a class on the supernatural" Bianca said as she rolled her eyes.
"Hey that class helped me get my job at the museum as the mystical relic's specialist. I couldn't exactly tell them that I was a witch and could look up things in my family's Book of Shadows" he said as they found Wyatt and Blake playing fooze ball.
"Hey guys, what did you find" Chris said as Wyatt scored on Blake.
"That Wyatt has some mad fooze ball skills" Blake said. "I think he is cheating though."
"How would I cheat?" Wyatt asked.
In a hushed tone Blake responded "Well you can move things with your mind you know, how do I know you aren't moving the ball around and keeping me from scoring."
"Wow Blake paranoid much" Bianca said with a smile.
Across town at the Delta Phi house Mel, Peyton and H.J. walked into the party. A girl dressed basically in lingerie and cat ears on came up to them.
"Oh my gosh Mel you came! Who are your friends?" The cat lady said as she eyed H.J. up and down.
"Hi Gwen. These are my cousins Peyton and H.J."
"H.J. huh, what does that stand for?" Gwen asked with flirty eyes.
"Henry Junior. I'm named after my dad." Henry said looking into Gwen's eyes.
"Well come in, mingle have fun. We are going to try a séance tonight too, we have an Ouija board and everything" Gwen said as she pulled H.J. away from his cousins.
"Don't you think that might be problematic?" Peyton whispered into Mel's ear.
"What? The séance. Possibly, but maybe we can conveniently be absent during that. I really wouldn't want to risk exposure tonight" Mel said.
"Well that too, but I was mostly talking about that tramp heading off with our cousin" Peyton replied.
"Geez Pey, you're almost as bad as the guys with this over protective thing" Mel said with a smile.
"Hey if they want to interrupt me every time I'm talking with a guy, or scare guys off before a date, then I can play that game too" Peyton stated.
"Come on, there are some total hotties over there, and I think they need to get to know us" Mel said as she pulled Peyton toward the guys.
Back at Megan's house Hope was chatting with a couple of guys. She was defiantly the more flirtatious of the twins. Hope could get any guy wrapped around her finger within knowing him for five minutes. Faith was the girl that all the guys wanted to be friends with. She was an athlete and kind of a tom-boy, but at certain times, like Halloween, she could be girly like the rest of them. While Hope was in one corner convincing the guys she needed another soda, Faith was in the other corner talking about the football game that was on last night. Both surrounded by friends and guys, and both completely forgetting about Parker. Parker was kind of shy, especially around new people. And although she slightly knew Megan, she didn't really know many people other than Hope and Faith. She decided she should try and make the best of the situation and walked up to some people.
"Hi, I'm Parker. I think your costume is really cool. How did you come up with it?" Parker asked a girl wearing a belly dancer costume.
"It's from Morocco. My dad got it for me when we went there on vacation" The girl answered in a snotty tone. "What are you supposed to be anyway?"
"I'm a sock hop girl. You know from like the 1950's" Parker said starting to think this wasn't a good idea.
"Yea that costume looks like it's from the 1950's. No wonder you were sitting by yourself" the snotty girl said as she turned to away from Parker.
Parker left feeling really hurt, and angry. She was angry at that bitch who thought she could talk to her like that, but mostly she was angry with her cousins who just ditched her for some guys. Parker didn't notice Andras watching through the window and at that moment he decided to add a little more rage to Parker's growing emotions.
"I'm leaving" Parker said as she walked by Faith.
"What why?" Faith said as she jumped over the back of the couch and followed Parker as they walked past Hope who proceeded to follow the two.
"Because I don't know anybody and you two decided that boys were more important that hanging out with me. I never matter when it comes to guys" Parker continued ranting as the three witches headed out the door.
"Parker, come on Faith and I don't always ditch you for guys. We never actually go places like this. Why are you so mad right now?" Hope asked as they proceeded down the street.
"Maybe if you guys ever listened to me you would know why I'm so mad right now" Parker said as she looked around and then hearted out.
"What was that about?" Faith asked her sister.
"I don't know, but I think we should go get Wyatt he can talk to anyone" Hope answered. The twins looked around and then orbed to the Sigma Gamma Gamma house. The twins entered the frat house and started looking for their cousin.
"Hey princess, what's your name?" asked a guy dressed in a shirt covered in Barbie dolls that said 'chick magnet' on it.
"I'm Faith, what's your name?" Faith asked, temporarily forgetting why she was there.
"Keith. I haven't seen you around campus before, are you from San Francisco?" Keith asked.
"Yea, born and raised, I just don't go to this school" Faith said. Faith and Keith continued talking about various things. Leaving Hope to go find Wyatt. She spied Wyatt across the room and ducked and bobbed through the people to get over to him.
"Wyatt, hi." Hope said.
"Hope? What are you doing here?" Wyatt asked a little aggravated that his younger cousin was at a frat party.
"Faith and I came looking for you, Parker got mad at us for like no reason at all and then she left us. We were hoping that you could talk to her, and at least figure out why she is so mad at us." Hope explained.
"Wait what? Parker got mad; she doesn't get mad about anything. And if you and Faith are here, where is Faith?" Wyatt asked scanning the room. He found Faith and saw her talking to a guy, a guy he knew since high school, Keith Locke, the guy who had beaten up Chris after he had taken Keith's spot on the football team. Keith was not a nice guy and there he was talking to Wyatt's younger cousin. Wyatt was pissed. He charged through the room over to Faith and Keith.
"Oh hi Wyatt, Hope and I were looking for you" Faith said with a shaky voice.
"Why are you talking to him? Do you know this is the guy that beat Chris up in high school?" Wyatt said to Faith. "And you dude, this girl is like six years younger than you, what not manly enough to find a girl your own age, you have to go after the young and naïve?" Wyatt said in a hiss. Andras had followed the twins to the party and could feel the anger coming off the oldest Halliwell witch. He took advantage of the over protective cousin, and the anger coming from the young lady he was yelling at.
"Wyatt let's go" Blake said as he and Chris pushed him out the door followed by Bianca and the twins. Unbeknownst to them, they were being followed by the demon of rage.
"Damn it Wyatt what the hell is your problem" Faith said as she stepped in front of her oldest cousin.
"You shouldn't be talking to a tool like Keith Locke, that guy is nothing but trouble" Wyatt yelled back as he walked around Faith.
"I can take care of myself you know Wyatt. I have one over protective big brother already I don't need another one" Faith said.
"Guys what's the deal here you don't need to fight about this" Blake chimed in.
"Stay out of it Blake" Wyatt said.
"Wyatt, man what's going on?" Chris said as he tried to calm his brother down.
"Nothing Chris this is between me and Faith right now so you all just stay out of it" Wyatt yelled at his younger brother as the group kept walking away from the frat house.
"Wyatt why do you have to try and control everything don't you realize that we are all adults, even Portia who is only 19, but yet she is still an adult. Maybe you need to learn to mind your own business" Faith said as she orbed out.
"I'm not finished talking to you yet Faith Piper Matthews-Mitchell you get your ass back here right now!" Wyatt yelled and as he yelled, he slightly caused the ground around the young witches and half-demon to shake.
"Wyatt you have to chill out ok, we are out in the open and don't really want to accidentally expose magic ok" Bianca said trying to help Chris out.
"Forget this" Wyatt said as he orbed out.
"What the hell just happened? First Parker, now Faith and Wyatt?" Hope asked.
"Wait what happened with Parker?" Chris asked concerned.
Hope told the story about Parker getting angry with them at the party and that they had wanted Wyatt to talk to her since he could put anybody in a better mood.
"That seems odd; maybe we should go get Mel, Peyton and H.J. I don't think we need Portia, at least not yet." Chris stated as the group orbed, and shimmered out.
The group got to the sorority across town and started looking for the other members of their family. Hope, Chris, Blake, and Bianca spread out looking for the other three witches. Bianca found Mel, and Peyton talking to some guys.
"Hey Mel, Peyton, we kind of need your help with something" Bianca started explaining as Blake walked up to the group of girls. Seeing that Mel had been talking to some guys Blake suddenly felt himself getting jealous.
"Dude that is your two best friends' little sister, you can't think about her like that" he told himself.
"Wait what happened to Wyatt and Faith? And Parker got mad at someone?" Mel responded.
"That doesn't sound like Parker, she got hit hard with the cupid genes, she's a lover not a fighter" Peyton supplied. Although Parker and Portia also studied martial arts with Peyton and Mel, Parker always thought that fighting was barbaric and should only be used for fighting demons. She thought similarly about verbal fighting.
"Yea well, believe it, and then Wyatt going off on Faith like that and how those two got into it, something just seems off about the whole thing" Blake said.
"Well H.J. is around here somewhere, let's grab him and go find those guys" Peyton said.
Across the room Hope spotted her brother as she was moving toward him she saw a girl dressed like a slutty cat lean in and start making out with H.J. Hope was disgusted; she had never seen her brother kiss a girl before. She suddenly felt how her brother and cousins could be over protective of her as her protective side kicked in. She got livid at the cheap trash that was currently attached to her brother's face. Andras had kept following the magical group and once again saw a golden opportunity. Walking past a half-full water bottle Hope picked it up and started walking toward the two. Once she got up to them she dumped the water all over the slutty cat girl. Gwen got up and glared at Hope.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Gwen yelled at Hope.
"Yea, that guy you're sucking face with is my brother, and I know for a fact that he can do a whole lot better than some chick who thinks that lingerie and cat ears make a costume" Hope said.
Gwen stomped away to go dry off. Hope turned back toward her brother. If looks could kill Hope would have been dead ten times over.
"Thanks Hope. It always looks good to have your baby sister scare a girl away" H.J. said as he felt his anger growing.
"Yea well paybacks a bitch isn't it, you would have done the same thing if you saw me making out with a guy at a party" Hope answered back as she grabbed H.J.'s wrist and pulled him toward the door.
Upon hearing the gasps from the crowd, Bianca, Mel, Peyton, and Blake had turned around to witness the water dumping stunt and then grabbed Chris as they followed Hope pulling H.J. toward the door. The group was once again walking outside away from yet another party. Hope and H.J were a few steps ahead of the rest of the gang. Nobody noticed the same demon that had been following them earlier was there once again feeding their rage, and absorbing the effects from it.
"You had no right to do that Hope, just like you have no right to come in my room uninvited, or tell me how to do my chores. Maybe you should just mind you own damn business" H.J. yelled.
"Yea well you have no right to criticize who I date, or how late I stay out at night. And if I didn't tell you how to do your chores, you would do it sloppy. You need all the help you can get H.J" Hope replied with a yell.
"Not from you I don't. Face it Hope, you're the family screw up. At least I've never been arrested" H.J. roared.
"Whoa Henry, that was a long time ago. Hope messed up, but we all make mistakes. Besides shoplifting isn't the worst thing she could have gotten arrested for" Mel chimed in, in an attempt to diffuse the situation.
"I messed up, what about you Mel. It's not like you never did anything illegal. What about the time that you conjured fake IDs for you and Peyton then I had to orb you two home and tell your moms that you guys were sick after you two got drunk that night. You're not perfect Mel, so stay out of this" Hope said.
"You did what?!" Chris bellowed at Mel.
"I can't believe you would bring that up after all these years, we were 17 Hope, and it didn't get us arrested. Maybe that's why you never return my clothes after you borrow them, your kleptomania kicking in again" Peyton started in on her cousin.
Andras recognized that a new opportunity was presenting itself. He hadn't thought that it would be so easy to turn the Charmed children against each other. There had been rumors he had heard about from the other side. That the power of three was going to be multiplied by three, creating something stronger. These nine witches were going to swing the fight of good and evil permanently toward the side of good. He realized that he could prevent that from ever happening. They had barely begun to take over the fight, if they were vanquished now; they would never have the chance to fulfill their destiny.
"This is too perfect" Andras thought to himself. "If I destroy the power of 3x3, then I could absorb enough power to cross the veil permanently, and if I do stop the Charmed brats from swinging the gauntlet in good's favor, then I could become the next source" he added with glee.
"Take a chill pill Chris we were young and stupid ok, it's not like you never used magic to do stupid things" Mel said as she could feel herself getting mad.
"Mel how could you use magic like that there is something called personal gain. Don't you know anything" Chris said as he threw his hands in the air.
"Oh come on Peyton, I am still waiting for you to give me back my red leather mini skirt that you borrowed like two years ago and H.J. you have messed up too, remember the times you got caught cheating in school, I may have been arrested, but I was never suspended" Hope continued ranting at her brother.
"How can you even compare getting suspended to getting arrested" H.J. shouted back. "You are only doing that because that's all you have on me also it's a good thing Peyton kept that skirt because you shouldn't be dressing like a two bit hooker anyway"
"Guys really this is getting out of hand, you are getting angry over nothing" Blake said trying to calm the witches.
"Shut up" all five said at once.
"I'm not stupid like you think I am Chris. Just because I had a social life in high school and didn't keep my face in a book doesn't mean I don't know anything" Mel said to her brother.
"Well you must not have absorbed anything because you clearly don't know how to use magic responsibly" Chris responded back, his voice getting louder.
"You're just jealous because as a white lighter you have to constantly be concerned about personal gain, and as only a witch my white lighters are supposed to tell me where to draw the line" Mel retorted.
"I remember there was a time that you wished you were part white lighter Mel" Chris remarked.
"Yea but now I have all the powers with out any of the duties. If anything you're jealous of me Chris, I have more power than you" Mel said back, trying to raise her voice louder than Chris'.
"Oh yea, you're so perfect H.J. you are the perfect, witch, the perfect white lighter, the perfect son. But you're only perfect because you're spineless. Mom and Dad walk all over you. Why do you think you ended up studying music production instead of becoming a professional musician like you always wanted? Because mom and dad thought that you needed a real degree so you could get a real job. If I'm the screw up, then you're the disappointment. Also if you think I ever dress like a cheap whore remember what you were sucking face with tonight" Hope said
"I'm not a disappointment, and you had no right to do that, just stay out of my life" H.J. said as he orbed away.
"And you Miss Priss" Hope said turning back to Peyton "Get off your high horse and realize that the earth doesn't revolve around you. You think that because you can see the future, you understand everything that is going on, well understand this bitch" Hope said as she made a vulgar hand gesture and orb away.
"Yea, orb away it's not like you can handle the truth anyway" Peyton said as she disappeared into a heart.
"Blake something is really wrong here, they don't fight like this…ever" Bianca said.
"You think I care about power Mel. Power corrupts, I know this because I remember a different timeline where our brother was the source of all evil" Chris yelled at his baby sister.
"Yes of course who could forget, Super Chris to the rescue. He went back in time to save his family and died in the process, but not before giving himself a little power boost by making dad an Elder before he was conceived. That's why you don't care about power Chris, because if you ever want more you can just go back in time and get it" Mel shouted back.
A loud crack of thunder could be heard as Mel brushed off Chris' trip to the future as a way to boost his powers. Chris hadn't developed any powers that were related to being an Elder… at least not that he knew of.
"That's weird I didn't think it was supposed to rain tonight" Blake said as he looked up to the sky searching for clouds.
"It's not" Bianca said as she watched Chris and Mel continue arguing.
"You think I went back in time to give myself more power. Damn it Mel, I'm not as self centered as you are. I went back in time to help others, not to help myself" Chris yelled back.
"I'm self centered. Well good to know what you really think about me Chris" Mel said as she orbed away.
"And stop using my powers" Chris yelled before he disappeared in a column of orbs.
Bianca and Blake stood looking at the spot where the two siblings had just been standing.
"We should go get Portia and Warren from magic school, maybe she can figure out what's wrong with her family" Bianca said as her and Blake shimmered out.
The two had been the only demons allowed into magic school since it had been reclaimed. Bianca was technically a witch so her powers didn't have any problem getting past the demon detectors in place, but because she was a Phoenix she did make some people uncomfortable. The Halliwell's had to go on record that they would be responsible if the Phoenix did anything to harm the purpose of Magic School. Blake had been brought up by his mortal father, who had taught him good morals. Blake didn't believe in what demons did, and as he hadn't been around them since he was a baby, the Halliwell's explained that it was in the Elders best interest to allow him in Magic School. He could learn to control his powers and fight for the greater good, rather than against it. In turn his powers had been granted access to get into the school.
Blake and Bianca walked into the decorated gym and looked around for Portia and Warren. They spotted the two sitting at a table talking with some other students.
"Portia we need your help. Something weird has happened with your sisters and cousins and they are all mad at each other over stupid little things" Bianca explained.
"I knew it wasn't just a bad feeling" Portia said.
"What? What wasn't a bad feeling?" Blake asked confused.
"Well after we did that ritual thing, I could feel Parker, and Hope getting snippy with Wyatt, I mean Mel was short with him too, but I just passed that off as Mel being Mel" Portia explained. "Anyway I have kind of been thinking about it all night. But if it's affecting everyone, why aren't I mad at them all?" she asked.
"Well everyone isn't mad at everyone else, but Wyatt is mad at Faith, Parker is mad at Hope and Faith, Hope and H.J. are mad at each other, and Mel and Chris are about ready to kill each other. And if you understand that, then you are really one powerful witch" Blake explained.
"Come on we should go to the Manor and try to put this all back together" Portia said as she hearted out followed by Warren orbing and Blake and Bianca shimmering.
"Wyatt, Chris, Mel, Peyton, Parker, H.J., Hope, Faith I need to talk to you" Portia said as she looked to the ceiling. The room was filled by orbs and hearts as the cousins all came into the attic.
"Alright what the hell happened tonight" Portia asked. She was suddenly bombarded by all her cousins and sisters talking at once, but more than that she was over come by rage, so much to the point that her empathy power was out of control and all she could feel was the rage.
"Shut up, all of you!" the young half-cupid shouted. "I can't believe you all. Here we are supposed to have a fun night and you all have to ruin it because you are too self absorbed to think that we need a night off."
"Oh like you need to relax anymore Portia. You have four classes and work part time at the restaurant, if anything you could use a little less relaxing in your life" Peyton snapped at her youngest sister.
"Just because I don't need to constantly be out of the house doesn't make me a bad person Peyton" Portia retorted back.
"Maybe if you weren't always home, I could stand to be there for more than five minutes" Peyton said back.
"You're 22 if you hate it so much why don't you move out" Parker chimed in.
"What just because she is 22 means she has to move out" Mel asked stepping toward Parker "Wyatt's almost 26 and we still have that slob to deal with."
"I'm only living here until I can save enough money to leave, newspapers don't exactly pay the big bucks. But at least I have a real career, unlike you Mel, do you really think that you're going to make it big in the fashion industry; you should have gone into a real profession. Thinking you're an artist, pitiful" Wyatt verbally slapped his sister across the face.
"At least I didn't play it safe like you and Chris, I have a dream and I'm going after it. You two work at a newspaper, and a museum, snooze fest. And what do you mean save up enough money, you also work at P3, you don't have enough to get out yet?" Mel threw back.
"You may think that a museum is boring but at least it is more important to the world than clothes. My work can help further understand history, you're work can only carry people through until the next season" Chris said to his sister.
"Blah blah blah. Don't you three ever think about anything other than yourselves. Oh that's right you three are the important side of the family tree, being the children of the oldest Charmed One after all. Guess what, there are other things going on in the world beside you three" Faith said breaking up one of the fighting trios.
"Faith if anyone actually cared what you thought, we would have asked you" Mel said back.
"You have no right to talk to my sister that way" H.J. said "It's not like she is completely wrong in her thinking."
"Screw you H.J. it's not like you three had a hard life or anything. Oh boo hoo, we're the Matthews-Mitchell children, we get away with everything because our mom is a push over" Wyatt butted in.
"Just because our mom is way cooler that your mom ever was, and didn't threaten to blow us up just because we broke a lamp, doesn't make us bad people" Hope retorted back.
"No it just makes you spoiled brats" Chris said. "But you're at least not as spoiled as the three snots over there. But it's not their fault that their parents didn't believe in punishment."
"You're just mad because we didn't get in trouble half as much as you guys did. Our parents believe in the power of love, not spankings" Portia replied to Chris.
It wasn't long before the nine cousins were fighting about one thing or another. Andras had been watching from the window, one nice thing about being dead, you could float which made watching victims much easier.
"Yes, just a little more anger and that should take care of them" Andras said to himself.
"You know what forget you Wyatt" was all that Chris said before he sent a lamp flying at his brother with his telekinesis. Wyatt orbed out of the way which put Mel in the path of the flying lamp, she froze the lamp in mid air and then sent it back at Chris with his own power. Chris redirected the lamp with his TK and sent it towards H.J.
"Lamp" H.J. said and waved his hand causing the lamp to change direction once again and go toward his sister Faith. Faith used her power of deflection to send the lamp across the room toward Peyton. Peyton held out her hand and the lamp changed into a heart and flew back across the room toward Hope. Hope, copied her brother's movement and called for the lamp and sent it back across the room at Parker who levitated up out of the way of the lamp. But Portia was standing behind Parker and the lamp was now coming at her, she hearted out of the way and the lamp crashed against the wall.
Once the excitement was over, Peyton, Parker, and Portia hearted home and immediately went their separate ways to their rooms. H.J. and the twins orbed home and turned their backs toward each other and went to their rooms. Chris, Wyatt, and Mel all orbed to their rooms just so they wouldn't have to walk down the stairs together. Leaving Warren, Blake, and Bianca standing in the attic, stunned.
"Does anyone know what just happened?" Blake asked. "Because to me it seems like the four horse men of the apocalypse just rode through here."
"No the Charmed Ones took care of the last team long ago, there hasn't really been any demons around that are good enough to take those spots anyway" Warren said. "But for some reason I feel you were just being fanatical" he added as he realized what happened.
"Guys, something isn't right here, I mean when have you known them to fight. Like this I mean constantly and involving everyone. That doesn't happen" Bianca said getting more and more suspicious.
"I think you're right Bianca, and something about all this seems familiar, like I heard about it or read about it somewhere" Warren replied.
"Well let's look at the Book of Shadows, I mean it's what they would do right?" Blake asked.
"It's worth a shot" Bianca said as she began flipping through the thick tome.
Andras watched as the young witches used their powers on each other.
"That should do it" he said to himself. Andras flashed out and appeared in an alley. He waved his hand across the brick and created a portal. Andras reached into the misty portal and pulled out Vicus.
"What happened, who the hell are you?" Vicus asked.
"I am Andras, and I want you to help me vanquish the Charmed Ones children."
"How do you expect to do that" Vicus asked.
"With more demons from the past" Andras replied as he reached back into the portal.