ACT 1
After Forever Charmed, seems like the remaining Halliwell sisters are doing fine. Piper, Phoebe and Paige, The Power of Three have defeated the Ultimate Power the Triads molded, Christy with Billie as well as their three spirit brainwashers. Demon fighting was put to rest a while but not the totality of it, not even sooner, they will still be needed to protect the innocents.
Piper and Leo with their children, and another favor was given to them by the Elders. Leo regain back his healing powers but not his orbing abilities. It was necessary for his wife and The Charmed Ones as well
As for Phoebe she found true love, but not Coop. he was just a messenger to revive her love. As what was said to her before, don't confuse the message to the messenger. Well in this point Phoebe was rewarded by the elders of what she deserves. They brought Cole back for her, Paige did have a problem earlier so is Phoebe. But the moment she saw him again, her love that Coop revive was now fully brought to full existence, she still loves him and so is Cole. The former demon is now change, his Belthazor persona is gone now, but he still have the powers he had from the wasteland. Well for once the elders have one particular reason why he gave him another chance for Phoebe and for the Charmed Ones.
Paige still doing her duties as half-whitelighter looking over her charges one is Billie, while keeping her responsible intact as a wife for Henry Mitchell, they are now looking forward to having a child. The Elders gave her an easy task to balance her natural and supernatural life. She is now the Charmed Ones official Whitelighter.
PHOEBE'S APARTMENT (7:30 pm)
She just arrive home earlier, and change her corporate dress. After which she went in the kitchen to heat some foods in the microwave. The door went open and she came to see who it was.
"Hi" Cole greeted her and gave her a kiss, she hug him and kiss him again.
Cole laid his things by the couch and sat as he sigh
"Rough day huh,..forget the courtroom drama a while" she said as she sat beside him and lay her head by his face.
"I got another kind of room, with no judges and juries" she added erotically
"That sounds good, but I'm starving a little, what do we have in the table?" he ask
"A steak, roast meat and hash potatoes match with some sodas" Phoebe
"That sounds really nice" Cole said. The two of them went for their dinner.
PAIGE"S APARTMENT
Henry is already arrive he came from work a little early tonight, he brought a box of pizza to share with his wife. He walks to their living room
"Paige, Paige, I'm home" he calls, no one answers. He walks by the hall to their room, neither she's there.
Henry went back to the couch, blue lights became visible and his wife orbs in.
"Sorry, I was just in haze, I wont orb next time here Ok" she said
"Woh!.. It's fine did you work overtime? He ask
"I was already here by six and I cleaned the place and fix some stuffs, but you know they" she point up wards "called just to inform us of something" she nods assuring him there's no problem.
Henry wipes his chin "Are there any demon emergencies for you three again?"
"No" she said grouching "Just a briefing for us whitelighters, besides we already talked about this, didn't we"
"yeah, yeah, Ok, I'm just protective of you" He walk to her and grab Paige by her waist and kissed her. Then they broke out
"You don't have to, you know me well" she said and smiles as they kissed again
THE MANOR
Piper sitting by the couch in the living room while holding little Chris and little Wyatt sitting beside her, Leo have arrived from magic school. Piper stood up and went to him, she gave Leo a kiss.
"How's those crazy stuffs out there"
"Kid's play most of the time and just plain lectures" Leo told her
"Who would have thought a doctor would be a teacher"
"I got back my healing powers, so I'm still able to help injured clients"
"Hmm,.. Paige have already taken your place, so you better be full-time with me now" Piper informed him.
Little Wyatt and Chris playing their action figures and smiles up to their parents
Piper with Leo's hands on her shoulders looks at their children happily.
SAN FRANCISCO STREET (past midnight)
Billie is chasing a certain demon who recently attacked her. She happens to trace him and immediately she made some vanquishing potions. The alley is dark, smokes from the road cars filters the place. She went through the inner part of it, for a moment Billie looks around while holding a vial on her left hand. From behind her left just meters away a demon blurred in and threw a fireball in an instant, she dodges and threw the vial. The demon was hit causing him wounded, but not vanquished. Billie used her TK to hurl him away through the wall. The demon had a bad fall while grabbing his wounded left arm.
Billie quickly approach him, and holding another vial by her right, motioning for another throw, but she asked him first
"Why did you attack me yesterday? What do you want?"
"Just like the others, to kill the likes of you bitch" he said with rage while his wound hurts.
"My mind tells me your hiding some thing from me, becoz you stole my diary with the Charmed Ones information"
The demon grins fiendishly, mockingly looks at Billie. The blonde lady is already pissed off.
"Alright then guess I'll just burn you to dust" before she threw the vial another demon shimmered from behind in a distance.
He waved his hand, just as Billie turns to look at him, but it's too late for the blonde witch, as a transparent projectile slashed right through her left thigh and got her off balance, while the fallen demon gave her a nasty kick, pushing her away. The two demons shimmered out. She was unable to throw the vial and to use her powers.
PHOEBE"S OFFICE (Next Day)
The third Halliwell, busy doing her paper works, answering questions and giving advices on her avid subscribers, at times she smile at her co-workers from his transparent door. Her mobile phone rang,
"Hello,..what? don't you know what time it is?" she looks t her watch
"Billie it's only 10:30 in the morning, and most people are busy on their day jobs, so sweetie, cut into the chase you got my two minutes"
Billie on the other line "I cant bother Piper and Paige so I think I called you it's about something like our old stuffs before"
"Well, I'll just return your call a little later, Cole and I will be out for lunch, then maybe you could drop by afterwards OK" Phoebe said
"OK, I think I have to bother Paige anyway, bye" She hang up
Phoebe resumed her work.
THE MANOR
The grating sound of the blender from the kitchen, echoes around, the second Halliwell is preparing for a fruit shake, and at her oven she pulled out a hot tray of brownies she baked earlier. She's all calm, Wyatt is attending preschool and Chris is with Leo at work in Magic School.
She went by the counter and preparing the food, as she dials to P3 about the business stuffs there. Minutes after, she hangs-up.
"This day of my life is really great, at last no demon fighting every other weekends, and I'm worry free of the supernatural, thanks" she told her self.
"Phoebe and Cole in good shape, Paige and Henry at the start of blooming family, my sisters are all doing fine" she told herself again as she mixes some ingredients in the saucer.
Then the word sisters struck her, she mentioned Phoebe and Paige, yet another sister came to her senses, after all this years, she still misses her. She never forgot, "I will never forget you, how I wish so bad to see you again" she thought. She began to sob a little, as her mixing hand just slowly circles the saucer and she stops.
"Prue" she whispered.
She looks up "Grams, even mom have visited us occasionally, why not Prue"
She continued what she's doing and her back wrist wipe a string of tears that suddenly leaks out in her eye.
Seconds later, Paige walk into the kitchen, Piper's still carried by the moment and turns around
"Prue!..ah..Paige, Hi! Sorry" she said as she winks her eyes
Paige just smiles "Piper, are you crying?"
"No, just a dust caught my eye" she said regaining her self back
"Your not a good kind of liar like Phoebe" as the youngest sister walks to her.
Paige hug her from behind resting her head on Piper's left shoulder. She then stood up beside her.
"You miss her don't you?" she ask. Piper just stares at her
"Prue, I mean, you just called me hers then me" Paige told her face confused
"I'm sorry, sweetie it's just that you know, it's because, it's because" Piper just jokes around.
"Though I never met her personally, something tells me she's a great sister to have"
The second Halliwell was relieved at what her youngest sister said. "She really is one great sister, and I know if she ever knew about you, she'll be so happy"
Paige gave her a warm smile "Piper, I know how much you and Phoebe really love her"
"Oh, Paige, and we really missed her"
"And I wanna meet her, if just ever given a chance the four of us"
Piper nods happily "yeah the four of us" They gave each other a sisterly embrace.
UNDERWORLD
The demon that Billie wounded, is now healed, he was cured by a fellow demon who saved him from death.
"You did a great job" said the demonic savior known as Ezalb
"Ezalb, we can use several informations written on what I took from the little witch"
"Impressive, I've been reading a lot, yet it's nothing more than just a diary, and this old trick has been done for all I know, but, but…..but.., something the witch wrote is overwhelming"
"What is it?" his subordinate ask
THE MANOR (8 pm)
Paige was called by the elders after a short chat with Piper earlier, Meanwhile Phoebe drop by to talk to her sister, regarding Billies little problem.
At the living room, where Piper sits, Phoebe stands behind the couch
"Billie phoned me earlier this morning"
"Hmm and what does she want? ask Piper
"She's changed, Piper, it's all in the past I don't hold grudges"
"And I'm not too, just being secured for all of us"
"Come on, I think she needs a few little assistance"
The door opened and Billie came in to the sisters, Piper suddenly turned to her and grins then looks to Phoebe.
Phoebe answers her puzzled expression "I told her to talk it here with us" She then looks to Billie "Some things need to be patch up"
"Let's cut to the chase, what's it with you?" the second Charmed One asked
"Not just about me, it's all of us, I fought a demon just last night, but he escape before I vanquish him. He's already attacked me at my place the other day and worst he stole my notes about you and some brief facts" Billie telling them
Phoebe looks at Piper disappointingly and Piper chuckles. They both look back to Billie.
The blonde told them "I can't blame you for suspecting me, but please guys, I'm telling the truth, believe it or not I'm on your side and I got nothing against you.
"I believe you Billie, Piper she's not lying I can feel it, she's also worried" says Phoebe
"OK, so we're in for another demon encounter just a couple months after Leo returned, that's Great.. news" Piper said sarcastically
In the middle of the discussion Paige orb in and when she saw everyone
"Well, looks like all the cast are here, great I have some important updates"
"WHAT!" Piper and Phoebe said in chorus
"I just found something" Paige added
"We're all ears" Piper told her
"All right" then Paige clap her hands
"As I was saying, we were all informed about this Lost Magic, which most of the ones up there are in search of, before evil gets its grip on it."
"That's it just lost magic, and what kind of magic is that?" Phoebe ask
"No one knows and honestly I don't know, but that's what I or we have to find out"
"Maybe it's connected to the demon that I fought last night" Billie told them
"I guess it could be" quipped Paige
Billie told Paige what she told Piper and Phoebe earlier. Piper took the Book of Shadows to find some clues about the demon, as well as the Lost Magic that Paige was talking about. After minutes of searching they found none.
Billie tried to scry for the warlock who stole her diary, but the crystal just spins until she gave up, coz she can't trace him.
ELDERS HAVEN
Elder Sandra and Odin discussing with other Elder councils regarding the search of this Lost Magic, they are in a rut in search of it. One thing that they are eager to recover is the missing scroll, which was believed to have the missing prophecy from an ancient witch. That's why they personally search for it.
Odin said "she's still untraceable; we can't find any sign of her"
"This operation should remain concealed until a certain time; we can't risk evil knowing about it." Said another elder
"Continue the search" ordered by the elder in the middle.
THE MANOR (10 am)
The doorbell rang, Piper coming down from the stairs "Wait up!" she shouts, then she walk through the hall way and reaching the knob as she opened the door. A guy in coat, about her age standing before her.
"Can I help you?' she ask
The guy smiles and said to her "I'm looking for Ms. Prudence Halliwell, is she here?
Piper was shock of what she heard, she was stopped a while and was unable to answer. She even thought to herself if she can answer the truth of what happened to her eldest sister. A hint of suspicion came across her mind, what if this guy is a demon in disguise planning something against them by using the name of Prue.
After scrutinizing "Uhmmm, you Know I think you got the wrong address, and I'm really sorry, I'm way too busy, I have to run some errands." She nods and slowly closes the door.
The Guy walk off, Piper went to the living room sneaking behind the window curtain.
The next thing then, She was on the phone with Phoebe and she told her about the incident earlier.
"Ok..wait there, I'm in by passed two, after I've finished some stuffs here, we'll talk it all personally" Phoebe told her sister.
MAGIC SCHOOL
Billie dropped by and Leo greeted her, both knew about the Lost Magic story. Billie went to the library to search some related things about it.
"Found anything" Leo asked comfortably
"Some thing are just out of the place and I'm a little crazy these days" as she flips from pages to pages and looking from one book to another.
"You see, I think I've heard that before back in my previous job" He affirms. Billie gave him a look
As Leo continued "But none of them up there ever found lots about it, I mean it could be just kinda….."
Billie cuts in "but what if it's not, no one knows if this Lost Magic is good or evil, what if demons are on it as well, I'm just worried, after what happened to me recently" She continued "Besides there's no smoke without a fire"
Leo answered her "Let's just hope for the good" He looks at hi watch "Ah, I'm gonna leave you a while, still have some work to do"
"Thanks, Leo" She smiles as Piper's husband walks away. Billie went back to her reading and research.
THE MANOR
Phoebe walks in from the kitchen with a cup of coffee went to Piper pacing at the sun room "So why would someone a particular guy asking for our long dead sister after all these years?" the empathy witch lay on the couch and sips her hot drink.
Piper looks at her and pause from her action "You asked me? I don't know, that's why I called you, to talk this about" she slaps her forehead.
"I mean this doesn't make much of a sense, Prue is been dead for five years, some of her friends and co-workers even went to the funeral that day,….. and up to now I still miss her" there was a sad tone on her last line, she looks to Piper and she can feel another moment of returning ache from losing a sister. Phoebe also feels the same.
"Did you recognize the guy from some where, any similar details from the past that could be related to him, or" Phoebe sips her coffee again.
Piper turns her head side wards "No, I don't know him completely, as far as my memories are still intact I never seen him and not once in my…our whole life" Piper looks really worried.
Phoebe laid her cup on the table and stands with her right hand on her waist "We have to find out who that guy is and what he's up too, or if his a demon or something"
"I've already think of that and maybe they're trying to set us up in the name of our sister" Piper sighs. Phoebe was struck of something into her head.
"But,… Hey Piper, it's been five years isn't it?" she look to her second big sister. "and we didn't even get to see her even just for once" Piper replied.
Phoebe looks to Piper seriously "Have you ever think any reason why Prue was unable to be with us even in her spiritual form unlike grams and mom, other than what we've been told about the reason that we can't handle the separation from our sister and we can't move on but it's been half a decade we've move on and all we want is to see our sister again at least occasionally" Piper was so eager to understand what Phoebe means.
Phoebe holds her hands "What if there's some secret we don't know about our sister?" Piper draw a face of awe and disbelief and told the younger witch "We all knew Prue until the last day of her life" Both sisters hold still
SAN FRANCISCO (by the city)
It's past eight o'clock. Cole just came out from his office and headed to a nearest grocery store to buy some goods for him and Phoebe. He went to frozen goods section and grab a pack of ham, sausages and cheese. Afterwards he walks through the other aisle and took some cereals along with fresh milk. He smiles, Phoebe loves cereals for breakfast, then he walks by the far left and bought something for him self, it's a bottle of Jack Daniels, he hardly drinks but for some occasion he needs to have fun. After he paid everything in the counter he walks just meters away from the entrance when suddenly he sense something, he still does have a power to sense auras of his former kind, but what he felt is a bit different.
He stares around everybody from the cashier to the customers on the line, to the people by the entrance, as his eyes went to a monitor mirror by the upper part. What he saw shock him, there was a figure in black but he hardly see it's face as it's hair we're all around covering it's head and pass to it's shoulders, it was standing next to counter right behind him. When he looks back it was gone, all that he sees were just plain customers, he scans his surroundings but no sign of what he saw. This started to alarm him, as he walks out to get into his car, then dialed his phone and called Phoebe.
On the road "Phoebe, hello……." Cole ask
Phoebe on the other line, "Hi! I'm glad you called, everything Ok?"
"I should ask you the same"
"I'm fine, I'm at the manor, had a short chat with Piper here"
"Any problem over there?" ask his husband
"Nothing, hey, something tells me you feel worried, am I"
"No, not really, just checking you out, mind if I pick you up there and we go home together"
"Oh, thanks, that's really great idea,………..bye Love you" She hang up.
Cole laid his phone by the passenger seat, and drives to the manor. His a little tense, unsure of what he saw in the grocery store, but he feels it involves the Charmed Ones, that's why his worried especially for Phoebe. He thought to himself that is he already doing his duty too early.
BILLIE'S PLACE
Sounds of cracking tables, and books on the shelves ware in a hasty mess, two warlocks are wrecking her place, redecorating it in disorder. A fireball crosses the air the blonde witch duck quickly and uses her TK to flip the thrower; she ran behind the wall and ducked again just as an atheme hit it. Lucky for her she had one remaining potion and threw to the other coming at her. Just in time for the just flip warlock to get up and shimmered out. Billie stood up as she got one down, the warlock blurred in behind her, just as she turned around for an attack the demon wave his hands, both were thrown a back on opposite directions, Billie got a single kick while earning a wound on her upper right chest. The demon still stood up ready for the kill, when blue orb lights became visible and suddenly Billie heard a voice "ATHEME" the dagger hit the demon through his heart as he burned out in a fiery way.
Paige quickly went to her fallen charge and healed her wound "I'm always at the right timing"
"Thank God, you came and heard my call, we never would really get off of these" said an exasperated Billie. Paige assisted her to stood up and sat her by one of the bruised couch "We better drop by at the manor, you stick around over there, you can't be alone" the half witch suggested to her.
UNDERWORLD
A number of demons gathered before Ezalb, ready to hear from him, the warlock addresses them "Just keep doing, what it is right now, I like the progress"
One of the crowd complained "But we'll end up dying and our buddies as well"
"Sacrifices are part of our horizon, you should be thankful that all of you will make it worthy for the Lord of all evil, whose on it's way now that will surely slay the Charmed Ones for good" The complainant barely gets the message and delivered a look of disgust, Ezalb saw him but didn't made a motion, Ezalb eyes lit in fiery red and the minor demon burned out. Others were aback in fear. "As I say unto all of you" he smiles "I hate complainants, if you ever do not agree, let me know so I can do something about it" For a few moments the demons went head down before him and all shimmered out.
"Very, soon, very soon"
THE MANOR (Night)
At the living room, Piper and Phoebe were in deep thoughts, about the guy who just came in looking for Prue, Paige and Billie were already with them just moments earlier, and Billie told them about her encounter.
"Here they are again, on another season for Halliwell hunting, oh..god" Piper said motioning her hands in the air in front of her. "I never really expected they will come after us too soon" she added.
"For the record, The Source, The Seer, Zankou, The Triads and".. looks to Billie then to Paige "were all gone…and now another heir of darkness is on the loose trying to take us out of their picture" said Phoebe
Piper cuts "and when someone comes looking for Prue, I can't help but think"
The half witch stares around "This could just be a trick or a trap for all we know" Billie still pacing and looks at the sisters until she found her sit by the couch beside Phoebe "I've did some research in magic school about this Lost Magic thing but none were so informative, but I came across a certain subject about this special container which goes back to the fifteenth century" The Halliwells are curious.
"I got a little fascinated about it, and from what was written for the references there was just none" she continued
"Oh… great, you just had us hanging at the climax, nice story but bad comedy" Piper smirks
"Well, that's all there is"
The front door rang "I'll get it" Phoebe exclaimed "That must be Cole" she went and open the door. It was Cole and he gave the witch a kiss, he looks a bit worried, Phoebe tug him in and closed the door, she puts her hand on both his cheeks then they went to join Piper, Paige and Billie. Leo have just arrive from the stairs after which he just led his sons for an early sleep then joined his wife and the rest. "Hi Cole" he said, The D.A. nods and greeted everyone.
"It seems like you have something to confess" Paige ask suspiciously
Phoebe gave her sister a negative stare, Cole motioned her wife it's just ok.
"Better watch your little attitude there" Phoebe warned her a little. Paige avoided her face.
"I think I sensed something when I was at the grocery, I saw it" Cole declared
"Saw what honey?" Phoebe ask
"Someone has been watching me and maybe even all of us, and I have no idea of the who, but I know it's not good" said Cole
"It could all connect to Billie's attackers and this some guy looking for Prue" Piper said
"PRUE!" Leo and Cole in surprise
Phoebe told the men of what Piper told her. Then all of them wondering trying to connect all clues they have for the moment, Piper sitting in the couch her hands crossed below her chin "What kind of trick would these maniacs pull off, as much as it hurt me til this time, she's….she's dead" Phoebe walk to her and hug her by the side. "Oh sweetie, we wont let anyone disrespect the memory of Prue" she promised her with a hard will.
Leo spoke "Whatever is out there it sure has a bigger scheme against The Charmed Ones, against all of us"
"We better start thinking this seriously" Cole added. Phoebe looks at him, "Cole, you wouldn't do what's supposed to be on my mind" Cole looks at her in the eyes "I still can help, and I wont let anything tear us apart again, I swear to god" as he walks to her wife who stood up to face him and they kissed as Phoebe slid her arms beneath his.
SOMEWHERE IN SAN FRANCISCO (Late night)
A guy in a corporate suit walks out a building, talking to his mobile phone, he looks around and behind, while on his way just beside the streets, he pass by a commercial buildings, then went to the nearest parking lot where his car is. The place around is quiet, most people were already at home, he could only see security persons by the far end. Moving inside the lot to get his auto, but it seems that something is following him behind while listening silently to his phone conversation.
"Well yeah……..Oh no…. not…………..but………. I'll try again…………..maybe tomorrow…………. What!……….. it's a bit awkward…………….we don't……………even know……………………….but…………………….how?...I'll talk to the other and see if I can pull something………………Ok……………don't worry………………….P…." the other line hangs up before he could finish the word"
He took out his keys and opened the door by the driver's seat, he enters his car lock the door, start his engine, but all of a sudden someone is in the backseat, he saw the figure in his rear view mirror, and he gave a steady look at it.
THE NEXT DAY
Passed nine in the morning, by a parking lot, Police officers, investigators, reporters and other crime scene crews busy doing their jobs, Darryl was there investigating the scene he goes to the car to check the victims body one of the investigators led him to it, Darryl gave a look, the sight of it almost turned his stomach upside down as he cough for moments then walks out. The detective told him "it was calculated that it occur passed one o'clock last night, one of the guards found it and called 911, when we arrive this all you got" Darryl "where's that witness now?"
"At custody, being interrogated" answered his fellow. Darryl gave a sigh "Never saw someone killed like this before and as far as what I've seen through it's horribly brutal, his face was peeled off his head as well as the skins of his hands"
The detective added to him "Not only that, inspector Morris, his wounds were deeply stab and it's all located on all of his major organs which will surely be impossible for someone to survive, case worst, the man had no identification things, no id's, credit cards, his wallet was only left with cash nothing else" They look to the car again, the body was now taken by medics on a stretcher for further autopsy.
Darryl nods to his fellow "OK, I'll catch with you later, I'll check out with something first, thanks" Darryl walks out from the crime zone and out the parking lot, he took his phone and called Paige.
PAIGE'S OFFICE
The half witch on her cubicle working on papers of orphans and donation stuffs. When her cell phone rang and it reads Darryl Morris "Hello, so what's the rush it's 9:20"
"I need to talk to you, there's been a murder last night and I don't believe it's kinda rank in the ordinary class" Darryl on the other line. Paige a bit stopped about it, this could be demon related she thought, then "OK, in thirty minutes, where are you? ..." She saw her boss coming, "I'll be a little late for a while ok" she whispered by the phone. As her lady boss came to her table she smiles up at her and the old lady handed her folder files and one particular folder atop, her boss said to her "Paige, I want you to work on this Ok" The half witch nods as her superior walks away, Paige opened the folder and gave a closer look to the profile inside, it was a young girl on the picture with brown hair, she ages eleven years old living east of San Francisco. "Huh.. Ok, I'll deal with you later" she said and looks around to see where she could sneak unseen.
AT A CITY HOTEL
One of the units on the 23rd floor, six demons formally dressed, are in a meeting, they were discussing so something related to last night's murder. The demon sitting on the loft stood up and looks the view outside the window then looks back inside "So tell me, what happened or better yet how?" A sub demon replied "we're clueless, no traces were found, unknown" and the other one added "I doubt it's the witches, they don't work like that". The demon who was asking earlier replied "Of course, it's not them; some one is playing games around here too" Out of thin air Cole shimmered in not far behind three demons as he blasted them and the three burned, the others run aside and counter attacks, Cole hid behind a wall. "Can't stop us you know that" the demon told him. "I don't know but I will" he replied. Then shoots another fireball and killed one, only two are left, the other one turned the couch upside down and hid there so is the master, and four fireballs blast Cole's direction as he duck and crawls forward from behind the table and chairs.
"You've been spying on me, don't you, I know you're up to something, so you better sing some lyrics now, so I wont be too ruthless to kill you" said the D.A.
The two demons look at each other and clueless of what just Cole said. "We may be up to something but we're not sneaking on you Belthazor, you're already useless, you're barking at a wrong tree, but anyway you came here and wants to die, we'll give it to you for free since we became acquainted before"
The two demons shimmered out nearer to Cole and shot a rain of fireballs, Phoebe's husband dodge after dodge and shimmers in and out while blasting his energy balls. He came to hit the bodyguard demon, the boss demon threw another shot Cole ducks and threw a vase and hit the demons leg he quickly shimmers by his side and hammered him with a wood from a broken chair. The now alone boss demon fell holding his aching legs, while feeling the hurt on his back, he crawl away to his attacker. But Cole electrocuted him, so he would be unable to escape; now the demon is weakling. Cole looks down at him "Maybe this is a good way for the two of us to talk, you mind if you share me something you've been talking about earlier"
The fallen foe stares at him wickedly then laughs while still hurting "You really are that crazy, I don't take orders to traitors like you" he said with a snarl. Cole motioned his hands in surrender and walks a few steps "OK, so if you wont talk" he looks around and saw the messy unit "this place is a messed I'll just clean up" and looks to the demon as well, Cole blasted him as he scorched to dust. Afterwards he shimmers out and quietly back to his office then sat on his chair and check on his papers.
CAFÉ BAR
Darryl was sitting at one of the tables outside this coffee shop, he ordered for two hot cups and two sandwiches as well, he was looking at couples on the other table, teens with their laptops must be surfing the web he thinks. He looks not far from his front and a white girl is on her way approaching him. "Hi Darryl, looks like we do have some serious business here" as she made her sit and saw the sandwich grab and took a bite "this must be mine, thanks". Darryl leaned forward and talks very calm "I just want you to help me out, a man was murdered last night, in a way unimaginable". The half witch listening and studying the inspectors words.
"Unimaginable, that sounds we…ird, can you elaborate further?" she ask
"What more is weird, when a guy dies his face peeled off his head, the skins on both his hands also were teared out, and unable to get a finger print and no id's and other identifications were found, they would only rely on blood samples, another thing is, he was stab on all major organs and it's not random, so I supposed something supernatural is behind it, are you three aware of anything on your league lately?"
"That was terrifying, I feel sorry" Paige felt sympathetic, she sighs "We hadn't come up with something yet, other than some guy yesterday knock at Piper's door and looking for Prue" Darryl was surprise to hear what she said and he had a face of disbelief "Why would someone go looking for Prue? and in five years now"
"That's what we wanna find out" she affirmed. "We're all a little confuse here, especially Piper, she's so worried and in my case I'm also worried, I mean Prue's my sister too, though we haven't met before"
Darryl was silenced for a moment, he also misses Prue they were also close as a family "I understand you all ladies". Paige suddenly was startled, some thing pops out her mind and she began to think. Darryl saw her asking what's wrong. Paige looks back to him "You say the victim was a guy, what if she was the one looking for our eldest sister yesterday, I gotta call Piper" She dialed her mobile phone, and spoke to her sister. "She's at P3 fixing some stocks that were deliver earlier, let's go maybe we'll find answers to our own questions at least" Both of them stood up headed to P3.
P3 (11:50 am)
Piper waiting outside, Paige told her they'll just pick her up. A car screeching the lane and stop in front of Piper, Paige at a seat beside the driver Darryl, Piper bent down before the door window "everyone's busy at work while the two of you are just goofing out!". Darryl looks at her and replied "I'm at my work, investigating, remember"
"Oh,uh, yeah I forgot, so Paige you are…"
"Hey! Darryl drag me into this, and I'm dragging you as well, we have a different WORK to do" she grinned and tug Piper's arm to get into the car.
MORGUE
Darryl along with Piper and Paige went to check out the body, the coroner permitted them and knew Darryl is an inspector and the two sisters are his assistants. One of the workers led them to a room, from the aluminum niche was a figure cloak in white cloth all over. The worker pulls the top cover down for them to see. Piper and Paige were disgust at what lies before them, the second witch turns around and almost threw up, Paige covered her mouth then her eyes, both of them can't believe this brutalize victim. Darryl feeling dizzy again, the worker left them a while, the three step meters aback the foul stench of the body.
Piper is catching her breath and sneezing "how can I identify that" she points to it.
Darryl told her "I was hoping they already knew the victims identity, but we're having a hard time checking on files"
"Did you found any evidence around, such as knives, daggers, finger prints or anythingr" Paige asking
"NO, none were found except the victims body, it was executed too perfect for an ordinary aggressor"
"So you mean a demon could be behind this? (gazes at the corpse) unfortunately I don't know if he was the one who came to the manor yesterday, even his hair, look was like cut" Piper said.
The Coroner walks in along with his assistant "Inspector Morris?" Darryl nods affirmatively. The forty something age coroner wipe his forehead of sweat "The results are already finish, I don't know how unbelievable it was"
"You don't have to worry, we've believe in almost everything" said the half witch as Piper gave her an elbow by her right.
The Coroner continued "Inspector Morris, it seems the victim was killed by an ordinary bread knife, unbelievable isn't it, but we're so accurate about it, the only thing is how the killer did the act, it's way too impossible"
"What, this sounds crazy" Darryl can't believe. He looks to Piper and Paige who were so anxious about this.
THE MANOR (afternoon)
At the attic Billie was checking the book of shadows, looking for anything, she's really stressed out for the past few days, she had demons on her tails and she's so worried that the diary they stole form her would be used against the sisters and her and she doesn't wanna break their trust anymore. After countless time of flipping the BOS she gave up and sat at the nearest couch. She looks around the attic, there were piles of boxes atop each at the corner of the wall in front of her, beside those was a shelve with old toys, it caught her attention. She went to it and checks the toys it gave a smile on her. When she turns to her left she saw a box in the middle with a paper whose corners are splayed atop. She pulled the whole box to check some stuff out of her curiosity. She's been in the manor before but she never cared about some stuffs in the attic other than the BOS and the potion making table.
She sat the box and the others into the floor and she sat by her thigh. She took out some stuffs out of it which is mostly magazines with lots of artistic pictures and others relating to photography. She saw and read some papers regarding artifacts and history, as she was checking she came across a picture frame lying backwards. Billie took it and turns it around, what she saw was a smiling woman with long dark hair and from the lower middle of the photo was a signature and she read it "Prue". She smiles at the photo, the lady was indeed beautiful, and she knew her based on Piper and Phoebe's stories. She knew she was the eldest Charmed One, regarded as the strongest, the super witch that demons feel threaten about, but sadly she died sacrificing her life for her sisters and for an innocent. As Piper always tells her sometimes that Prue is the most protective sister, she would risk her own safety just to protect her and Phoebe. Phoebe told her that at times she often bashes with Prue, but they had a smooth tight bond. Hearing those stories, Billie was overwhelmed, as she was staring at the picture, she was pulled by all the stories she heard regarding this long dead witch, She feels flattered that she has the same ability as hers. She started to looked up at the eldest Halliwell at the back of her mind. "Piper and Phoebe must have been really hurt when you left them, and I know and understand how it feels like" talking to the photo. And then she started to think of her own sister Christy, who unfortunately died in her own hands, she's still a little guilty about it, but she had no choice, The Triads and Dumain had her brainwashed and for that he wouldn't let any evil touch all those precious to her. Just as she was emoting, two demons shimmered in and another one. Billie saw them and used her TK to hurl the other while she dodge and rolled out against a fireball. Telekinetically throwing the other one, she checks her pocket for a moment, she had no potions, now she relies thoroughly on her TK and projection power, but she was unable to project an attack and continue hurling the two. A fireball comes striking at her she hurled it back and burned the owner. "One down, and two will be next" she said. She run again for cover, the demon shimmers out then shimmers in from the other side and blasted her, but the blast went back to his fellow demon who was burned to death.
"Two on one, not fair" a voice said, Billie looks out only to see Phoebe who was then running towards the other demon and gave him a kick then an uppercut. She levitated for a strong spin kick, the demon was push aback very tired, Phoebe looks around and saw an atheme by the table he quickly threw it and stab the demon as her burned to a fiery finale. Afterwards she went to assist Billie, asked her "are you all right?" The blonde girl was now ok and asks the third Halliwell "how'd you know I'm here?" Phoebe answers her "I was at the office, and all of a sudden a premonition got me and I saw you in trouble, so I figured it out"
"Thanks" Billie said. Phoebe saw all the scattered stuffs and boxes and she recognizes it as her elders sisters things, Billie saw her looking at it. She said "I was just hanging around and was curious about it, I was a little carried away by this, she took the frame and showed it to Phoebe. The third witch drew a smile on her face it's been quite long since she saw a picture of this eldest Halliwell, and seeing it again brought her some sort of déjà vu. She reached her hand for the frame, Billie handed it to her, Phoebe took it, she gasped she got premonition.
Premonition
A smoky place, then from the thick smoke a figure in shadows stood, from the smoke she saw a spray of blood
After that she opened her eyes, Billie was beside her "What did you saw?" Phoebe looks at the picture frame again and she then looks at Billie.
Downstairs, from the front door, Piper and Paige came in chatting their voice echoes through the hallway, and up to the stairs where Phoebe and Billie are coming down to meet them.
"Something tells me you two want to tell what had just happened up there" Piper looking at Phoebe and Billie. Phoebe went to her sisters and show the picture frame to them. Piper and Paige was silence. "Billie run into our stocks up there and found…saw this, then she got some warlock visits, but don't worry it was already taken care of" Phoebe said.
"Now what's with Prue's picture?" Ask Paige. Phoebe held the frame tight "I just got a premonition when I hold this picture, and I saw two female figures in shadows covered with thick smoke, it seems they're fighting and a spray went out, must be blood, I don't know really"
"What does that has to do with Prue?" Ask the second big sister. Phoebe just chuckles. "and what's up with…uh…where'd you been"
"Darryl called me out and I tug Piper in, we went at the morgue" Paige sates
"At the morgue?" Phoebe was shock and so is Billie
Paige cleared it out "There was a murder last night, Darryl ask Piper and I to check the victims body, his suspecting some supernatural behind it, from what we saw, it's hard to say, he was mutilated, without a face and most of his skin, his stab on all major organs" Phoebe and Billie went an unexpressed face. Piper filled in "Paige thought that this guy could be the same guy who ask about Prue, but judging by his corpse, I can't say so and I'm gonna wait a call from Darryl about it"
"That was horrible!" exclaimed Billie "What kind of demon could do that?"
"I have no idea" Piper looks up "right now I'm still not feeling good about this and Phoebe's premonition that could be connected to Prue"
Moments after, they were checking the book of shadow, Phoebe searching the BOS of the supposed to be demon she saw in her premonition. Piper pacing endlessly, while Paige is on her phone talking to Henry minutes later she hangs up and ask "Have you found something?" Billie chuckles "No nothing in here is close as the description of Phoebe"
"A little lost (sigh) I didn't even got a clear picture of the place a thick smoke was all over it" she gave everybody a serious stare.
Billie took her turn on the BOS when she stumbles upon a page which she thinks could be related to the sisters' problems. "Hey I found something here, a demon called Mred who feeds on his hunger by mutilating his victims and stealing their identities for pleasure, and look there's a vanquishing potion and a vanquishing spell" Paige walks to her "That's good of you" Piper went to see the potion ingredients "Ok, let's start to work, before this demon could do another skin beating" Phoebe went at the other table memorizing the spell, Paige went to help Piper working on the potion and afterwards Billie scries.
SOMEWHERE A SHROUDED SHRINE
The place was only lighted by torch lights hanging on four pillars at the each corner and from the upper middle before a stone wall stands the demon Mred absorbing energy from one of his fallen victims, the three Halliwells orbs in. The burnt face demon whose fangs are salivating was so enrage seeing the witches.
"Ooohhh (disgusted) no wonder why you took skins, you're so, so uglier than the illustration" Paige said.
Mred hurled them with fireballs, Phoebe levitates to avoid it, Piper explodes some on mid-air, Paige orb them out and returns it to Mred, but the demon blurred out then blurred in, he raises his hands then a clay of skins from the ground rises and attacking the sisters. Piper, Phoebe and Paige ran separately while attacking off this stretching skins assaulting like snakes. Piper's left leg was caught she explodes it and the other ones. Paige have orb them out within the torch light and it burned. Phoebe goes one on with Mred, the demon fought her in combat. Phoebe was blown on her lips but she got back and did a kick on his chest and quickly followed up for a jump kick on his chin. "NOW! Throw it" she shouted. All the sisters threw their vials and Mred was badly injured, the potion is melting with his body. The Halliwell's all chanted
"Bodies to bones, skins and rust, Melt away to decay and dust"
The demon screams in agony and he exploded. "Let's all go" Piper said and they held to Paige then orb out.
BILLIE"S PLACE
The Halliwells just told her to stay at the manor and they'll take care of Mred, she was left but she also left and went to her place there she keeps carefully thinking another supernatural bothering that lies on her head.
PAIGE'S APARTMENT
She's by the dining table talking to Henry, sharing a late night drink, they look so happy after all days work. Henry stood up and carried her wife, Paige was surprise and gave Henry a kissed, together they went to their room and locked the door.
PHOEBE'S APARTMENT
She was on bed with Cole, her head lying on her chest, they just made love. Lying together on covers, Cole caresses her hair "How's the Charmed work?" Phoebe looks up "Nothing to worry about, we decrease another demon population" Her husband kissed her on the forehead and told her his so worried and she should always take care. They kissed again till they fall asleep.
THE MANOR
Piper and Leo, made sure that their boys were already asleep in their room, the couple walks out holding hands and went downstairs to the sun room, she sat next to the table and looking at a photo album of her eldest sister, she went teary eyed and Leo comforts her.
SOMEWHER UNKNOWN
A lady all dressed in black moving in so fast in the gloomy environment, her eyes went sharp as she fights her way out.
