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The four sisters were gathered in the living room.
"This is nice, all of us together." Piper said.
"I agree." Prue said.
"I have an announcement." Melinda stated. "I know the timing is bad with the battle coming and everything and it wasn't planned but nonetheless, I'm still excited... I'm pregnant."
"That"s wonderful!" Piper exclaimed. The sisters hugged Melinda happily.
"Thanks. I can't say I'm not nervous though. I don't know when this battle is coming and I'd rather not be pregnant when we're fighting it. What if something goes wrong. I'm sure I'm not invincible like Piper was when you were pregnant with the twins."
"Maybe the baby doesn't have a force field but maybe she can heal you." Piper said.
"She?" Melinda questioned.
"Probability, it's most likely a girl being a Halliwell and all." Piper said.
"You had two boys." Melinda pointed out.
"Yeah, that's was a shocker but seriously, it's a possibility, the healing I mean." Piper said.
"But what if I can't heal. My baby is only a quarter whitelighter. It's dangerous and it scares me." Melinda said.
"I totally understand how you feel. I felt the same way at first." Piper said.
Melinda picked up a safety pin and stuck her hand with it to see if she would heal. The sisters didn't expect her to do that but they waited and nothing happened, Melinda didn't heal.
"Well now we know, I can't heal so what do we do to protect my baby while we fight whatever we're up against?"
"You're afraid and fear makes us weak. They're going to play on our fears as your grandmother said... I don't know, maybe we can make you invincible." Phoebe said.
"How the hell can we do that?" Piper questioned.
"Yeah how?" Prue asked.
"A potion. I don't know, I'm just guessing." Phoebe said.
"We need to figure out something because all we need is for me to go flying into a wall or something which we do so well." Melinda said.
"Maybe a potion will work. I think if we try a spell it might backfire like they can do so well. You know like us turning into children a few months ago." Piper looked at Phoebe.
"The spell backfired, yes but it worked out great. We had family time, I got Coop. All's well that ends well." Phoebe said.
"I'll see what kind of potion I can come up with." Piper said.
"Thanks... Announcement number two, after the battle, Jim and I are moving out too."
"Oh no. Because of me?" Prue asked.
"No because we're adding one more to the family and like Phoebe said, it's crowded as it is. It'll be a lot more space with just the six of you living here but don't worry. I love being near you guys. I'm only moving next door. Jim and I already looked into buying."
"That's not so bad." Piper said.
"Yeah. Well, I'm going to need mommy advice from my big sister."
"See you're making me look bad. I'm moving across town." Phoebe said.
"Across town?" The other three sisters echoed.
"Why?" Prue asked.
"Piper said we should branch out. It's not like we'd have to deal with demons all the time after this battle." Phoebe said.
"I said branch out, not far." Piper said.
"I'm not leaving the country." Phoebe said.
"We're supposed to stick together. This is the first time we've all been together. It took most of our lives just for you, Prue and I to get close then we lost Prue and found Melinda. Now we're all together and you're ready to break us up." Piper said.
"You and Prue were always close. I was always the bad ass little sister that messed things up."
"Well you're not anymore." Prue said.
"I'm not trying to break us up. I don't want to. I love that we're all together. Y'all know that... I was afraid of being alone but every since I read that incantation, it's always been three of us together all the time and now I just need something of my own."
"I get it. I was an only child my entire life. That completely makes sense to me. Sometimes I just want to be on my own but I do enjoy having you all to share things with." Melinda said.
"We'll still see each other all the time." Phoebe said.
Prue and Piper looked at each other.
"It's up to you. Things are changing. We have to accept that." Piper said.
"Piper." Phoebe said thinking Piper was upset.
"No. I'm serious. I'm not angry. It's the truth." Piper said.
"Piper." Prue said wondering how she could go along with it.
"Well it is true, Prue. I'm going to see what I can do for you Melinda." Piper said.
"I'll come with." Melinda said and followed Piper to the kitchen.
"So Prue, what are your powers like these days?" Phoebe asked.
"The same, telekinesis, astral projection. For some reason they gave me my powers back with this body too."
"Piper said that when we went to 2009, your power had some serious kick to it."
"Well, it's 2005 and I was dead for four years so I don't have that much of a kick right now."
"I imagine you might be a little rusty and we need you to be ready for this battle. Your power is important but all of our powers have evolved. We're all really powerful but we're not all great physical fighters, however, you were and I need to know that you still are so you want to train with me?"
"Why not?" Prue said and the two of them went down to the basement.
"Remember when you were afraid to come down here?" Prue asked.
"Don't remind me... Ok. You ready?"
"Ye-" Phoebe swung before Prue had a chance to finish the word. "Hey!"
"You said you were ready."
"I am." Prue swung. They went back and forth, swinging, blocking, jumping, flipping... An astral projection here, a levitation there...
Piper and Melinda peeped down into the basement.
"What are they doing?" Melinda asked.
"Training." Piper replied.
"Should we be?"
"Let them stick to what they do best and we'll stick to what we do best."
"What's that?"
"Blowing things up and calling for things to use against the bad guy. You know, you could get really creative with that."
Piper and Melinda went back into the kitchen.
"How'd you learn to train so hard?" Prue asked.
"Cole was good for more than just breaking my heart. Anyway, you still got it sister."
"I'm a little rusty but yeah I still got it." Phoebe and Prue headed back upstairs.
Phoebe had a premonition of a brunette woman about their age being attacked by a demon in an alleyway. Phoebe told her sisters what she saw after the vision ended.
"They're always in an alleyway. When will they learn?" Piper said.
"How did you get a premonition? You didn't touch anything." Prue asked.
"I don't always have to and these days they aren't just a vision, it's like I'm projected into them. Like I said, our powers have grown a lot."
"So what alley is it? The one with the mattress?" Piper asked.
"There was a mattress. How did you know?" Phoebe asked.
"There's always a mattress. Come on, we've done this a hundred times. When and where?" Piper asked.
Piper, Phoebe and Melinda went to save the woman. They thought it best if Prue didn't help just so that the underworld wouldn't start to talk. They want whoever they have to battle to be surprised when they see four of them instead three. They stopped the demon and brought the woman back to the manor.
"What's your name?" Phoebe asked.
"Persia... Persia Wolf. Thank you all so much for saving me. I've been under attack so often lately. I'm afraid to go home. I'm really afraid for my life."
"This is the safest place for you." Phoebe said.
"Good witches like me always dream of meeting the almighty Charmed Ones. Many dream, I actually get to meet you."
"... Take away the magic, we're just like anyone else." Phoebe said.
"Excuse me." Melinda ran off to throw up.
"Is she alright?" Persia asked.
"Yeah." Piper said.
"Why do you think the demons are hunting you?" Phoebe asked.
"I'm a witch, what other reason do they really need? I'm good and they want to get me out of the way."
"Mel's going to rest for a while." Prue said as she walked into the room.
"Who's this?" Persia asked.
"This is Melinda's sister-in-law, Fia." Piper said.
"Oh. Nice to meet you. Are you a witch too?" Persia asked.
"No. Just a mere mortal. No powers over here." Prue said.
"Please stay until we stop whoever is after you." Phoebe said.
"Yes. Thank you. I appreciate this." Persia said.
Persia ended up staying a few nights on the couch across from Prue. Every night she would get up in the middle of the morning around the same time and come back about a half hour later.
The sisters found some time alone in the kitchen.
"I don't trust her. She wakes up in the middle of the night every night, same time and comes back a half hour later. What is she doing?" Prue informed.
"I guess she is a bit suspicious. She's too nice." Piper said.
"Really Piper?" Phoebe thought Piper was being ridiculous.
"Nobody is that nice. She's freakishly nice, I've got something to hide so I'm trying to fool you with my niceness nice." Piper said.
"She's an innocent." Phoebe said.
"What if she's setting us up?" Piper asked.
"For what? Why?" Phoebe asked.
"I don't know." Piper said.
"What do you think Mel?" Phoebe asked.
"I don't know. She's just a woman as far as I can tell." Melinda said. "... But she has been here a few days nothing has tried to attack her yet."
"Hi!" Persia exclaimed as she walked in the kitchen.
A couple days went by, Persia was still there. Everyone was being a bit more cautious of her.
Melinda was at her antique shop when she started to see color around everyone.
"Man, this is weird. Do I need my eyes checked?" Melinda wondered.
"What's wrong?" Andrea asked.
"I'm seeing color around people. It's strange."
"You mean like their aura or do you need your eyes checked?"
Melinda looked at Andrea thinking that maybe she had a point, auras, maybe that's what it is.
"You might be right. It fits right in with the rest of my powers, right?"
When Melinda went home she found her sisters in the living room.
"I think I can see people's auras. I've been seeing color around them all day."
"You think that's a new power?" Phoebe asked.
"Maybe it's one of the baby's power since it's showing up now." Piper suggested.
"Maybe." Melinda said. Persia walked in the room. "Hi... Uh sisters I have to show you something in the kitchen. We'll be right back." The sisters went in the kitchen.
"What's going on?" Prue asked.
"You know how I said I see auras? Well Persia's is pure black. She's evil."
"Are you sure?" Phoebe asked. Melinda nodded. Phoebe suddenly just started walking back in the living room, the sisters followed. Phoebe sat next to Persia on the couch. "You've been here for days and you haven't told us anything about yourself." Phoebe said sweetly and touched Persia's hand, triggering a premonition. The look Phoebe had when the vision was over let Persia know that the jig was up.
"Well you were bound to find out sooner or later but apparently later. The good are always so gullible."
"We saved you from a demon." Phoebe said.
"Who do you think sent you the premonition to find me anyway? This isn't over and now I know all of your weaknesses but that wasn't hard, good people always have the same weaknesses." Persia said then Piper stung Persia's arm with her power before she shimmered out.
"What did you see in your premonition?" Prue asked.
"There's three of them, sisters I guess and they're planning to take us out."
"You think they're who we're supposed to battle?" Prue asked.
"Yep! And we let her sleep on our couch." Piper said irritated.
"Whatever they're planning, I know it's big." Melinda said.
"First things first, we need to make sure everyone we care about is safe." Piper started. "Our fears are our weaknesses. She said she knows are weakness. We've dealt with our issues, now we have to face them. She's going to try to hurt our family to get to us."
"What do we do?" Melinda asked.
"Get them all to magic school and I don't want to hear that it's only for magical beings because after all we've done, they could at least keep our family safe when we're trying to save the world for the billionth time." Piper said.
"I guess you aren't my little sister anymore. You're all take charge and what not." Prue said.
"I'm still your little sister. I'm just a big girl now." Piper replied. "We need to get everyone to safety, including Darryl, Andrea, dad, everyone. Who knows what they know about us?"
"Darryl's not going to be too happy about that." Phoebe said.
"He'll be even less happy if he gets killed or kidnapped or something. He's family, we have to protect him like he's been protecting us all these years. We need to move fast because now that we know they're going to attack, they're going to do it faster." Piper said.
They got everyone to magic school, though Darryl was reluctant, he went and took his family. Sheila was not at all happy about it but their kids were in for a good magical time. Coop and Sam were able to stick around of course.
"Now we can focus." Piper said.
"We need to know what they're planning exactly." Prue said.
"I have an idea." Melinda said. "My power, I can travel between planes. I can go to the ghostly plane which is parallel to this one and watch them without them knowing."
"I like it." The other three sisters said.
Melinda followed through on the plan and watched them.
"Our grandmother wanted us to be the next Charmed Ones and we will be. We'll lead the Warren legacy as the bad ass witches that we are and we will rule the underworld. They'll all have to answer to us and we can bring the underworld above." Persia said. "Pam, Phoenix, how does that sound?"
"We're evil geniuses." The youngest sister, Phoenix said.
"And to think, they actually thought they stopped us when they took out the Triad. Maybe they stopped us from taking the kid but there's time to turn all of them once the Charmed Ones are dead." Pamela, the middle sister said.
"We take out the Charmed Ones and everything they worked for, everything they sacrificed would have been for nothing because good will lose and evil will rule. Bye, bye Halliwell, hello Russell sisters."
Melinda went back home and back to the earthly plane.
"What did you find out?" Piper asked.
"It's bad. It's really bad." Melinda took a deep breath. "My grandmother, she said something about past lives, karma and consequences, haunting us in this life. Now I know what that means?"
"What does it mean?" Phoebe asked.
"You were right. They are sisters, Persia, Pam and Phoenix. Three P's, ring a bell?"
"So their family is a copycat." Prue said.
"No. They are family."
"What? We're the only family we have left." Phoebe said.
"No. Persia lied about her last name. It's not Wolf. It's Russell, as in Pearl Russell and Phyre Russell. They're our evil cousins. Because our evil past lives decided to make evil spawns. They're Phyre's granddaughters. Patricia and Phoebe let her go and she went and had a whole life with children, raised them evil so that they could follow through with her plan of the Warren witches being evil and helping evil prevail instead of stopping it. Our past lives created this problem and if we don't stop it the world won't be the world Chris went back to, it'll be closer to the world he came back to stop from happening in the first place."
Prue was a little bit lost about who Phyre was and Chris coming back. What?
"Another thing. They were working with the triad. They were helping them to try and kidnap Wyatt." Melinda informed.
"Really?" Piper was really heated then.
"I'm lost about a lot of this stuff." Prue admitted.
"We'll fill you in." Phoebe said.
"Now we need to know what their powers are." Piper said.
"We're fighting for everything. Our only option is to win." Phoebe said.
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