Chapter 3
March (Just their luck)
Melinda could barely stand still as Piper tried to dress her. It was Melinda's third birthday and her party was starting soon. It was a princess theme, so Melinda was being dressed as her favorite princess, snow white. Piper was already dressed as Rapunzel, although she didn't have long hair.
Once she was done, Melinda orbed herself and Piper down to the living room. The boys both wanted to be dressed as prince charming, and Baby Henry was also dressed up like prince charming. The twins were both dressed as Ariel, P.J. was dressed up as Cinderella and Parker was dressed up as Aurora.
Melinda's friends arrived with their parents and sat down on the floor in the living room when Piper told them to.
"Hello dear princesses and princes, I am Princess Piper, and these are my sisters, Princess Paige, Princess Phoebe, and Princess Prue."
"That's right, and today we are going to have fun, the first thing we are going to do is dance" Phoebe explained.
Prue turned on the CD player and the children got up and started dancing. Some of the adults joined in while the others just watched and smiled at their child or children. Melinda was jumping while shaking her bottom, this made Phoebe giggle. Wyatt and Chris stopped Melinda, took her hands, and showed her how to dance properly. Although they couldn't dance properly either.
After a few minutes, Piper turned the CD player off.
"Wasn't that fun, ok now we are going to play duck, duck goose, so get in a circle" Prue told the kids.
"OK Melinda you can go first since you're the birthday princess" Piper said.
Melinda got up and walked around the circle of children while touching their heads and saying duck. Finally she reached her friend Cassie and said goose. Cassie got up and chased Melinda who made it back to her spot before getting caught. So Cassie walked around the circle of children while touching their heads and saying duck. When Cassie touched a little boys head she said "Goose." The little boy got up and chased Cassie, he got her right before she got to her spot.
After a few rounds of that game, the children were allowed free time to play what they wanted. At three it was snack time.
"Ok, I have special cookies and chocolate milk waiting for all of you in the kitchen" Paige said which caught the children's attention.
The sisters lead the children and adults into the kitchen and served the cookies and chocolate milk. The children ate at the table while the adults ate in the living room. After their meal, the adults wiped the children's faces then brought them back into the living room.
"Ok it's time to play musical chairs" Paige announced.
The game started and one by one the children were eliminated. Chris only lasted two rounds, Melinda lasted 5 rounds, and Wyatt lasted 3 rounds. The twins tried to cheat by Tamora sitting on Kat's lap. This got them both eliminated for cheating. P.J. was the first one out, since she looked around for her chair and sat on it, the problem was her chair was against the wall because it had been removed, which meant the chair wasn't in the game anymore.
After a few rounds of this game, it was supper time. Piper served Melinda's favorite meal, Mac and cheese. Melinda clapped as Piper came towards her with a bowl of Mac and cheese. After eating, Piper and Leo came into the kitchen singing while holding the cake.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Melinda, happy birthday to you."
After cake it was time for presents. Piper and Leo got her a Dora outfit with a Dora doll. Prue and Andy got her an I spy for preschool game. Phoebe and Coop got her a magic Doll house of the manor like the one she had once. Paige and Henry got her a Toy stroller. Wyatt and Chris got her play food.
To finish off the party, one of the kid's parents took a picture of Melinda with her friends, brothers, cousins, parents, aunts and uncles. Then the guests left and the children were put to bed.
On Saint Patty's day, the family was watching cartoons on TV, when a leprechaun appeared.
"Excuse me, sorry to bother you mates, but my brother was captured by an evil wizard, we need your help" the leprechaun explained.
"Do you know who the wizard is and why he took your brother" Phoebe asked.
"Afraid not" the leprechaun replied.
"Ok, Book of shadows" Paige said which orbed the book of shadows to her.
The leprechaun looked through the book with Paige and stopped her when he found the wizard.
"He's called double cursed, he curses twins using a leprechauns luck" Paige read.
"How dose using luck curse twins" Piper asked confused.
"When one twin has good luck, the other has bad luck" Paige read.
Just then while the twins were colouring, P.J. knocked some book off the shelf, they hit Kat but didn't hit Tamora, who was sitting closer to where the books were.
"Well it looks like he cursed the girls" Piper said.
"How do we stop him" Phoebe asked.
"We vanquish him, it will undo all the curses he's done to twins" Paige replied.
"Why only do it to twins" Phoebe wondered.
"Well it says here, it can only be done with twins, because they are connected to each other in a way no one else is. Magical twins often develop the power of telepathy. Twins also know when their twin is in trouble even if they are far apart in distance" Paige said.
"Ók Paige and Melinda, you two go to the attic and scry for him, I'll teach the boys the spell" Piper said.
"Piper and I are training them how to be charmed ones, since they are now" Leo explained.
"What better way to teach them, then to have them practice vanquishes" Piper said.
After teaching them the spell and locating the wizard, Wyatt orbed himself, Chris and Piper to the wizards cave. They looked around but didn't find him. Chris used his sensing power but didn't sense him. However they did find some leprechauns locked up in a cage.
"Hi, don't be scared, we're charmed ones, I need you to tell us where the wizard went" Piper told the leprechauns.
"He left about 15 minutes ago, he either went to find a set of twins or another leprechaun" One of them said.
"Thank you, boys I want you to use your telekinesis to open the cages" Piper instructed.
The boys obeyed and opened the cages which freed the leprechauns. Wyatt then orbed them all back to their home. Piper and the boys waited around the wizard to return.
Back at the manor, whenever something good happened to Tamora, something bad happened to Kat. First they were eating ice cream, while Tamora's ice cream wasn't even dripping, Kat's ice cream was melting faster then she could lick. Second they were watching a children's show where the characters ask the children a question. While Tamora got every question right, Kat got every question wrong.
Then they were jumping on the bed, when they fell off Tamora landed on a soft pillow, while Kat landed on the hard wood floor. No matter what they did, Tamora always had the good luck and Kat always had the bad luck. Since they were only two years old, the poor girls had no idea what was going on.
Back at the cave, the wizard returned and before he managed to realize his leprechauns were gone, Wyatt and Chris took each other's hands and said the vanquishing spell. The wizard did the dramatic scream and was vanquished. Wyatt then orbed himself, brother and mother home.
"Piper the twins haven't been fixed, why are you back" Paige asked.
"What, we vanquished the wizard, they should be fine now" Piper said.
"Uh oh, you didn't by any chance release any leprechauns did you" Paige asked.
"Yeah, the boys set them free" Piper said.
"Oh Piper, if you release the leprechauns before vanquishing the wizard, the twins who were cursed with the leprechaun who was set frees luck, the curse can't be broken" Paige said.
"Oh no, that's not good, can the leprechaun undo it itself" Piper asked.
"No, the wizard has to use his own magic with the luck to make the curse work" Paige answered.
"What are we going to do" Piper asked.
"There's nothing we can do now" Paige said.
"I can do something, it won't reverse the curse, but it will allow the twins to choose when luck comes, in other words they won't get good luck or bad luck unless they choose to allow luck" Leo stated.
"They only exception is Saint Patty's day, on this day every year, the first twin up is the one with good luck" Leo added.
"Ok, that's the best we can do, it's better than nothing" Paige agreed.
Paige orbed in the twins and Leo told Paige the spell. Paige took her daughters hands and said the spell.
"For these twins luck will be forbidden, until they decide to allow luck to find them, they will decide when luck comes, and when luck will remain hidden."
"Ok that's that, you just need to teach them and remind them not to allow luck unless they are both willing to accept one of them getting bad luck" Leo said.
"One cool thing about this, is that they can exchange luck, if Kat has good luck she can give it to Tamora, of course that would mean Kat would get Tamora's bad luck in return" Leo added.
Once the twins could learn how, they could use this curse to their advantage, sometimes bad luck is needed just as much as good luck. It could also be very dangerous, depending on what the twins are doing.
The way the spell worked was with a locket. As long as the locket, which they would keep around their necks, was closed, luck would stay away from them. However if they opened the lockets, one twin would have good luck while the other had bad luck, they would have bad and good luck until their lockets were closed again.
Paige put the luck lockets around the twin's necks and told them never to take them off, and not to open them. Paige wanted them to be old enough to know what would happened if their lockets were opened, before letting them decide to open them on their own. The twins nodded then joined Melinda upstairs to play with the magic doll house.
That night after tucking in the girls and putting Henry Jr. in his crib, Paige and Henry prayed for the twins to live ok with the curse. Piper felt bad since it was her fault the twins curse couldn't be undone. Even though Paige told her not to blame herself since she didn't know it would happen.