Chapter 8
September (Demon school, pre-school drop out)
It was early September, and also the first day of school. Wyatt was getting himself dressed like a big boy and Piper was getting Chris dressed. Leo was getting ready for his first day of teaching at magic school. Henry, Phoebe and Paige were also getting ready for work. Since Billie was still in college, Piper and Coop were the only ones home to take care of the five babies.
"Ok bye boys, I love you, be good for your teachers" Piper said giving the boys a hug and kiss.
"Bye mommy, we love you too" the boys said as they took Billie's hands.
"Thanks for offering to drop them off on your way to school Billie" Piper thanked
"No problem, call me if you need me to pick them up" Billie said as she left the house with the boys.
"Hold the door" Phoebe said coming down the stairs, followed by Paige and Henry
The working adults left and Leo orbed to magic school. Coop came downstairs and informed Piper the babies were up. Piper went into the twin's room and picked them up, and brought them into the kitchen, where she placed them in their high chairs and then prepared their meals. Coop beamed to the fourth floor and told Melinda to orb into her high chair. He then beamed into Prue's room, picked her up, went to Henry's room, picked him up and beamed to the kitchen where he placed P.J. in her high chair and got bottle from the fridge and fed Henry on his lap.
"Ok I know I know, you're all hungry, I'm doing this as fast as I can" Piper told four crying babies
Piper rushed around pouring cheerios into bowls and pulling four bottles out of the cabinet. She quickly poured milk into the bottles and spilled some everywhere. Ignoring the mess, Piper put the lids on the bottles, and gave the bowls of cheerios to the girls. As they stopped crying and ate, Piper cleaned up the spilled milk on the counters but forgot about the floor. She then picked up the bottles and she started walking, she slipped on the milk and fell down in the puddle.
"You ok?" Coop asked trying his hardest to not laugh.
"Just great" Piper sarcastically said getting up
"I just bought these jeans" she then added.
Piper gave the bottles to the babies as Coop left the kitchen with baby Henry. Piper was mopping up the puddle of milk when Chris orbed in un-noticed.
"Hi mommy" Chris said startling Piper.
"Chris Halliwell, why are you not at pre-school?"
"I had to go potty"
"Chris there are potty's at pre-school"
"I know"
"So why did you come home to go potty?"
"This is where my favourite potty is"
"You have a favourite potty?" Piper asked her son.
Chris nodded and ran out of the kitchen. Piper then looked over at the babies and found Melinda covered in cheerios. Piper rolled her eyes at the celling, sighed and went to pick up Melinda.
"What did you do?" Piper asked her daughter as she picked her up.
"Hey Piper, Chris is here" Coop said as he came back into the kitchen holding Henry.
"I know, he wants to go potty on his favourite potty, don't ask, you stay here with them, I'm going to go clean up baby cheerio" Piper said as she left the kitchen carrying Melinda.
Piper brought Melinda into the bathroom, placed her in the tub and turned on the water. She tested it with her hand to keep it at a good temperature. Piper then took a face cloth and washed off the cereal. Since it was her bath day anyways, Piper gently rubbed Melinda's skin with soap and carefully shampooed her, starting to get long, hair to avoid shampoo getting in her eyes. After rinsing her off, Piper wrapped Melinda in a towel and took her from the tub.
In Melinda's room after putting a diaper on her, Piper dressed Melinda in a cute jean dress with a rose design with a white long sleeve shirt underneath, since it was a cold day.
"Mama" Melinda said
"Yeah that's right, I'm your mommy" Piper said.
"Hi Wyatt" Melinda said
"Wyatt?" Piper said confused
"Hi Melinda" Wyatt said from behind Piper.
"Wyatt, why are you not at kindergarten?" Piper asked her son
"Kindergarten is boring" Wyatt answered
"That doesn't mean you can just orb home, I'm not going to let you drop out of school at age five because you think it's boring, orb back now" Piper sternly told him.
Wyatt shook his head as Chris came into the room.
"Chris, why are you still here, how long does it take you to go potty?" Piper asked
"I'm done going potty silly" Chris said
"Then why are you still here?"
"I'm hungry"
"Chris you just ate breakfast, and I packed you a lunch" Piper reminded him.
"Ok I want both of you to orb back to school now and stay there until someone's picks you up" Piper ordered.
Wyatt whispered something in Chris's ear and after waving the boys both orbed out. At Phoebe's office, Phoebe and Elise were talking.
"Ok, I'm almost done, I just need to… what are you doing here?" Phoebe said
"I'm sorry?" Elise said confused
"Not you them, what you two doing here, what happened to school?" Phoebe asked Wyatt and Chris who had just orbed in.
"School's boring" Wyatt answered
"You're lying" Phoebe busted them.
"How did you know that?" Chris asked
"My power know what you're felling remember" Phoebe reminded them.
"See, I told you we should have went to Auntie Paige" Chris told his brother
"Do I have to tell you again, Auntie Paige would have orbed us back to school Auntie Phoebe is the fun one" Wyatt explained sounding as though he's told Chris a thousand times.
"Why? Because I let you break the rules sometimes" Phoebe said.
The boys shook their heads and Elise put her hand on her mouth to prevent her from laughing. Phoebe sent them to school and sighed.
"I can't believe it, my 5 and 3 year old nephews are taking advantage of me, I thought they would at least be teens when this happened" Phoebe stated.
"It sounds to me, like they're just testing their limits because you're all living together now" Elise said.
Meanwhile Paige gets an unexpected visit at her office.
"You got a minute?" Billie asked at the doorway of Paige's office.
"Yeah sure Billie, have a seat" Paige answered.
Billie closed the office door, which meant it was a demon talk, and sat down on the chair in front of Paige.
"So what is it, warlock, demon, wizard, fairy-tale, ghost or magic creature" Paige asked
"It's Emma, the little witch we've been training, she's exposing magic all over Sans Francisco."
Paige turned on a little TV in her office and sure enough the news was focused on little 11 year old Emma using her ice power to turn people to ice. Paige took Billie's hand and orbed them to Emma. Paige spotted Emma and grabbed her arm, when Emma looked up at Paige her eyes flashed red then changed back to their natural colour after a split second. Paige orbed the three of them to the manor.
"Piper, Coop we have a huge problem" Paige called out as she tried to restrain Emma.
"Whoa, her eyes are not supposed to flash red" Piper said.
"Piper we have to talk about your kids" Phoebe said storming into the house.
"What did they do?" Piper asked.
"One of my students conjured up a dinosaur, how do I get rid of it?" Leo asked after orbing in.
"Piper I can use a hand with the babies" Coop said as he tried keeping a hold on the twins and Henry
"Guys Darryl's coming, and he's not happy" Henry said as Darryl came in.
"No more school" the boys said after they orbed in too.
Then when P.J. beamed down crying and Melinda orbed down crying Piper froze the room. Although, Paige, Phoebe, Billie P.J., the boys and Melinda didn't freeze, both Henry's, the twins, Darryl, Coop, Leo and Emma did.
"Ok, that's better, boys school now, Phoebe whatever it is they did to you, I'm sorry feel free to punish them, Emma froze, which means she not good anymore, which means we have a bigger problem to deal with" Piper instructed.
Piper unfroze Leo and Coop and adult Henry.
"Ok Leo, you go tell that student to Un conjure the dyno, didn't Wyatt teach you anything with the dragon, Coop, you and Billie and Henry go deal with those babies, Paige, you and I will solve Emma"
Piper unfroze Darryl.
"Darryl whatever it is we have a huge problem with our little friend Emma, so I'll call you" Piper said
"Don't bother, I came about her, I see you're handling it" Darryl said about Emma and left.
In the attic, Emma was been tied down on a chair and was trying to wiggle herself loose. Paige and Piper were looking through the book of shadows.
"There is nothing in here on witches with flashing red eyes" Piper said as she slammed the book shut frustrated.
"Maybe instead of thinking of her as a witch, we should think of her as a child, as in a demon child" Paige suggested
"Well I've run into some before, as far as I know good witches don't turn into demon children, but it's worth a try" Piper said opening the book again.
Piper flipped through the book until she came across the child demons page. The sister's read the paragraph.
"OK well it says here, demotic children can use their powers to make children, either magical or not into a demotic brat. They are not turned into demotic children, they are turned into powerless children who behave demonically bad. When they are in a demotic action their eyes flash red for a split second. These children will go as far as killing with human weapon" Paige read.
"It gets worse, if the child kills he or she will be rewarded with demotic powers given to them by the demotic child, who is their leader" Piper read.
"So in other words, demotic children are making an army of kids by turning them into extremely misbehaving brats, then rewarding them with demotic powers after their first kill, the question is who dose the army target?" Paige said.
"Since they're demons, I'm going to assume good witches. It sounds to me like before the first kill is considered training, and the first kill marks the completion of their training. They then become part of the army after receiving demotic powers" Piper stated.
"Is there a cure?" Paige asked
"Yeah a simple potion, won't take ling to make" Piper replied.
"To turn all the children back, we need to vanquish the leader, which means we have to find out where she finds her victims" Paige said
"I'll work on it" Piper stated.
Piper and Paige quickly whip up the cure potion and gave it to Emma after telling her it was power juice to double her power. Emma gulped it up and her eyes flashed green for a second. She looked around and then looked at the ropes around here.
"Emma?" Paige asked
"Paige, what's going on, why am I tied up?" Emma asked.
"Long story, what's the last thing you remember" Piper asked
"Um, mom dropping me off at school this morning" Emma replied.
Paige orbed away the ropes and orbed Emma home. She was then summoned to the elders.
"So what did they want?" Piper asked when Paige returned.
"They told me to keep an eye on Emma at every moment until this demon child is vanquished since she's a witch, tell the others for me, I got to orb" Paige said and orbed out.
As piper joined the family in the living room and gave them Paige's message and told them the situation, the boys orbed home again.
"What are you doing here?" Piper asked frustrated.
"School's done mommy" Chris informed her.
Piper checked her watch, she had been supposed to pick them up twenty minutes ago.
"Sorry, boys are you hungry?" Piper apologised.
The boys nodded so Phoebe took them into the kitchen for a snack. Piper sat down on the couch and Melinda orbed onto her lap.
"Ok Melinda honey, you can't just orb on my lap whenever you want" Piper told her
"Piper, she's one" Henry reminded her.
"Well how do you think mortal babies do it, they know how to ask" Piper told him.
For the next week, the boys kept orbing home several times during school hours with some ridicules excuses. Piper finally had enough and decided to cast a spell on them, so they could tell her what was on their minds, by re-writing the hearing thoughts spell which would last until midnight.
"As flame light's shadow, and truth ends fear, unleash locked thoughts to my open ear, may the smoke in this candle, into everywhere creep, bringing innermost voices to their mouths in speech."
"Chris honey, why don't you want to go to pre-school?" Piper asked.
"I miss you mommy, you're always busy with the babies, we never play together" Chris shared.
Piper hugged him feeling guilty.
"Ok your turn Wyatt, why don't you want to go to school?" Piper asked.
"Bad kid, looks like a normal girl, but her eyes turn red when she looks at other kids, I think she's a demon" Wyatt explained.
"That's it, you're so smart, guys get in here" Piper called.
Everyone entered the living room except the babies who were napping or playing in the play pen and Paige who was watching over Emma.
"I think Wyatt found our demon, it all fits, Wyatt not wanting to go to school, children being turned, what better place to turn children then at a school filled with them. Plus demotic children look like normal children so they can fit in there" Piper realized.
"Poor Wyatt, he's terrified" Phoebe said feeling his emotions.
"I have a plan" Piper stated.
"When I drop off Wyatt at school tomorrow, I'll have him point out the demotic child, I'll freeze her then blow her up, it's not a power of three thing" Piper explained.
"Yeah that works" the other's agreed.
"I'll go tell Paige" Leo said
"Leo before you orb out, we need to talk about Chris" Piper said.
"Chris has been orbing out of pre-school because he feels left out at home, because we're always buys with the babies. I'm thinking we could pull him out of pre-school and we each take turns spending the day with him. Then we'll enroll him in kindergarten next September and hope he stays" Piper said.
"You know what Piper that may be why he's been acting up lately" Phoebe stated.
"You're probably right Phoebe, ok we'll do it, it's only pre-school, be we have to make sure he knows he won't be get away with this once he starts kindergarten" Leo agreed.
The next morning, Chris and Melinda tagged along with Piper and Wyatt to Wyatt's school. Instead of dropping him off at the kindergarten fenced in play area as usual, Piper brought them to the school playground, so Wyatt could spot the demon.
"There" Wyatt said pointing to a girl about 12 years old with brown hair tied in braids.
Piper watched her look around. When the girl spotted her victim and started talking to him, her eyes turned red and stayed red. Piper snuck up behind her and blew her up without freezing her. Piper looked around and saw many kid's eyes flash green then turn back to their natural colour, this meant it was all over.
Piper then brought her kids to the fenced in play area where Wyatt's teacher spotted them, smiled and approached them.
"Good morning Wyatt, are you ready for a fun day?" Wyatt's teacher asked him.
"Yeah" Wyatt answered.
"Is this your brother?" teacher asked
"Yeah, this is Chris" Wyatt introduced.
"Dropping off your big brother, how sweet, how old are you Chris?" teacher asked.
"Three" Chris said holding up three fingers.
"He'll be starting kindergarten next September" Piper informed her.
"Cool, and is this your sister?" teacher asked the boys.
"Yes, Melinda" Chris answered.
"Ok Wyatt, are you ready to come join your friends?" Teacher asked.
Wyatt nodded so Piper gave him a hug and kiss. After hugging Chris and hugging Melinda, Wyatt entered the play area after his teacher opened the gate. His teacher closed the gate and walked away, and Piper watched Wyatt run to his friends. Piper smiled and walked to the car with Chris and Melinda.