"Bad Moon Rising"
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Piper, Phoebe and Prue were out that night getting buying some groceries while Daisuke was left home alone, but Leo would come whenever she called, so the girl wasn't worried.
The girl had enjoyed her time living with the Halliwells, cooking with Piper was very enjoyable while shopping with Phoebe felt like an endless torture to the tomboy.
At the moment she was sitting in the living room, flipping through the pages of the Book of Shadows, trying to find an entry on the Golden Radiance since that was what Leo had said she was, but she couldn't find anything.
Growing frustrated, the girl closed the Book as Kit, the Siamese cat, hopped up onto the couch beside her, meowing and the girl smiled at the cat as she scratched her head.
"Guess it's just you and me for now, Kit. What do ya wanna do?" the girl asked.
Kit purred she as was scratched, then went tensed as she seemed to have sensed something.
Just then, she yowled and ran off to the stairs making Daisuke shoot up and followed the cat.
"Hey, what's wrong?" she called.
There was then a banging at the door that made the girl look at it in fright as she saw the shadow of a large hulking body at the door while two blood red eyes glowed from behind it.
"L-Leo?" Daisuke called as she backed up.
The door was then broken open as a large black animal charged into the house, snarling as its eyes landed on the girl.
"Leo!" Daisuke screamed as she started to run upstairs.
Howling, the wolf ran after her just as Leo orbed into the room, turning to see the beast pounce on the girl making her scream as the wolf bit into her arm, tears flowing down her face at the pain.
"Daisuke!" Leo yelled making the wolf look back at him and growled in warning.
Eyes flashing golden, Daisuke's barrier appeared sending the wolf down the stairs while Leo orbed over to Daisuke as the wolf shook off the shock.
"We need to get out of here." Leo said as he picked the girl up and orbed to Phoebe's room.
"What do we do?" Daisuke asked.
"I'm gonna get the girls. Stay in here and barricade the doors." Leo advised, then orbed out.
Hearing the pounding footsteps, Daisuke quickly went to the dresser and pushed it to the door with all her might, blocking the door just as the sound of the wolf running her way grew louder.
Backing up from the door, Daisuke looked around for an escape route, but couldn't find any and held her bleeding her close to her as it stung a bit from the attack.
Yelling came from behind the door as something was slammed into a wall and then the wolf howled as the sound of glass shattering was heard.
"Daisuke, honey, open the door. The wolf is gone now." Came Phoebe's voice as she knocked on the door.
Sighing in relief, the girl pushed the dresser away from the door and unlocked it, Phoebe quickly swinging the door open and rushed inside, enveloping Daisuke into a hug.
"Oh, honey, are you okay?" she cooed.
Prue and Piper looked in while Leo stood behind them, his eyes on the girls arm and at how much blood was spilling from it.
"Oh my God, your arm." Prue said making Phoebe pull back to see the girl's arm was bleeding.
"We have to get her to a hospital." Piper said.
"Or I could just heal it." Leo suggested.
Daisuke gave a sharp whistle that made everyone jump as they looked at her.
"Can't we just clean it and patch it up? I'm sure it'll be fine in a few days. It doesn't even hurt." Daisuke insisted.
She didn't want social services to find out she was attacked by a wild animal or else they would take her away from the sisters since she was still an orphan.
That and she hated hospitals.
"Sure, we can do that. Come on, let's go." Prue said holding out her hand.
Daisuke walked over and took the raven's hand.
"Leo, go find out more about that wolf. I don't think it was an ordinary one." Prue said.
"Got it." Leo nodded as he orbed off.
"I guess we'll just check the Book then." Phoebe sighed.
"It's in the living room. I was looking at it before the wolf attacked." Daisuke told them.
"All righty then. Let's get to work." Piper said as she started to march downstairs.
Piper had been worried that Daisuke would have been dead before they got back and that terrified her to no ends and she was wondering if her sisters felt the same way.
Looking back at Phoebe, who kissed Daisuke's cheek, before running after Piper and Prue who held the girl's hand firmly and in a gentle hold, she saw that her sisters cared for Daisuke just as much as she did.
They were all becoming attached to her.
(In the morning…)
The sisters were in the kitchen, Prue holding some papers in her hands that she and the others looked over.
"So, should we buy a cake or make one?" Phoebe asked.
"Making one is better. I just wish I knew what her favorite flavour is." Piper said as she was pulling out the ingredients for a potion.
Footsteps were then heard as the sisters looked over to see a certain mahogany haired girl walking into the room, her left arm wrapped in gauze.
"Hey people. What's up?" Daisuke greeted.
"Hi honey!" Phoebe chirped cheerfully.
"How was your night?" Piper asked.
"Oh, great. If I didn't have weird dreams." Daisuke said sitting down at the island.
"Dreams? What dreams?" Prue asked.
"I was running through a forest, the moon above was full and there were wolves all around me." Daisuke explained.
"That does sound weird." Phoebe commented.
Prue flipped through the Book, checking for the wolf.
"Hopefully you're not turning into a-"
"Werewolf?" Piper cut Prue off.
"Well, it's possible isn't it? You had dreams about killing before you became a wendigo." Prue reminded.
"A wendi-what?" Daisuke asked.
"Basically a werewolf, only bigger, meaner and eats people's hearts." Phoebe said making the girl gag in disgust.
"So you think since I've been bitten by a werewolf that I'm gonna turn into one?" Daisuke asked.
"It's possible, but don't worry. As long as we kill the werewolf that bit you, you won't be a werewolf for the rest of your life." Prue assured.
"What makes you say that?" Piper asked.
"Well, that's how it worked with the wendigo and in the movies." Prue said.
Piper nodded at this, though she wasn't sure that it would work.
"Anyway, aren't you excited for tomorrow?" Phoebe asked the girl.
"Why would I be?" Daisuke asked.
"Oh, come on, don't be coy. It's a very special day tomorrow." Phoebe sang.
Daisuke looked confused as she saw the slight excitement in the sisters' brown and green eyes though the girl was completely confused over this.
"October 27?" Daisuke asked.
"Oh, come on. Tomorrow is your birthday." Prue smiled.
This information stunned Daisuke.
"It is?" she asked clueless.
"Wait, you don't know when your birthday is?" Piper asked.
"No, my parents never celebrated it. Jun would always tell me when it was. She started doing this when I was five and took me out to play soccer, then go for ice cream. My parents must've been more worried about celebrating the day the 'demon' was born and just forgot about it." Daisuke said, pain reflecting in her eyes.
"Hey, you are not a demon. You're good and pure and innocent. Never let anyone tell you otherwise." Prue scolded taking Daisuke's hand.
The girl smiled at her as she looked into the jade eyes that were warm and caring, reminding her so much of her sister.
"So…you never had a real birthday before?" Phoebe asked sounding shocked.
"No birthday, no friends. I never even met my aunts, uncles or grandparents." Daisuke said.
"Well, it's their loss and our luck." Prue smiled.
Leo then orbed in making the girls look at him expectantly.
"All right, they think that it is a werewolf. It may have come into the city because it was able to sniff out your powers." He explained.
"Wait, it smelled our powers?" Phoebe asked making sure she heard right.
"What would it have done if it found us?" Piper asked.
"I'm not sure. Werewolves are usually peaceful. They only attack when they are threatened. It doesn't make any sense as to why this one would come here and attack." Leo said.
"Great, so we're sitting ducks waiting for a not so pacifist wild animal to come back and maul us." Prue quipped.
Daisuke moaned in discomfort as she touched her arm, a strange feeling going through it, but it wasn't painful.
"You okay?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah, my arm just feels weird. I'm sure it's nothing." The girl waved off her concern.
"Still, maybe I should heal it." Leo insisted.
"No, I'm not some fragile ornament. I don't need healing…unless I'm about to die." She said holding her hand up to stop him.
"If you're sure. But you have to tell us if the pain gets worse." Leo said.
Nodding at this, Daisuke watched as Prue found the page on werewolves, only there wasn't that demonic black wolf with the blood red eyes on the page.
It was a white and gray wolf with silver colored eyes looking both threatening and beautiful while the image of a man and woman wearing fur skins as clothing was on the other side of the writing.
"'Werewolves are humans who were blessed by the moon to transform. They turn whenever they want during the night, but as humans still have enhanced strength, smell and hearing. Werewolves will not attack a human unless it is to protect their pack and only hunt in groups for better protection.'" Prue read.
"But this one was alone. Was he rogue?" Piper asked.
"It's possible. He could've been sick or he became corrupted with his power." Leo suggested.
"'The way to kill a werewolf is with silver, fire or decapitation.' Well, that makes it easy. If that wolf comes back, we'll shoot him and then shove it in the fireplace." Prue said.
"But werewolves transform back into their human forms when they die." Leo added in.
"Why doesn't the Book say that then?" Phoebe asked.
"I'm not sure." Leo shrugged.
Daisuke was silent as she stared down at the image of the wolf, taking in its beautiful form and wondered why it was so different from that monster that attacked her.
Phoebe noticed the trance Daisuke was in and reached out to touch her face, gasping when a premonition hit her.
She saw Daisuke lying on the floor of the attic, thrashing around as she cried out, kicking at the floor and created a hole in it, then turned on her side as she transformed into a beautiful golden eyed wolf with silvery white fur that howled.
Pulling her hand away, Phoebe saw that everyone was staring at her curiously.
"Pheebs, what did you see?" Prue asked.
"I saw Daisuke…turning into a wolf." Phoebe whispered, but it was loud enough for them to hear.
Everyone was worried about this, Daisuke sitting back in her seat as she chewed at her lower lip.
"Okay, we need to find this wolf and fast. Leo, get up there and see if they know anything about where the werewolf could be hiding out." Prue ordered.
"Got it. I'll be back soon." Leo said.
He then orbed off.
"Anyone notice that by the time he gets back, we're already dealing with danger and find things out without him?" Daisuke asked.
"Yeah, that does happen." Phoebe nodded.
"All right, I have to go to work. We'll deal with the wolf later. See ya." Prue said and then kissed Daisuke on the forehead before running out.
"So what do we do now?" Phoebe asked.
"I guess we just go on with our day until the wolf attacks again. We really don't have any leads on him. Darryl might be a useful source." Piper suggested.
"I'll go ask about animal attacks. Bye, love you." Phoebe said kissing Daisuke's head and then waved at Piper.
"Not that I'm complaining, but why is everyone kissing me?" the girl asked.
"We're just all getting really attached to you. Now, come help me cook." Piper said.
"Hai, Piper one-san!" Daisuke chirped as she eagerly jumped up to help out.
Piper smiled softly at the girl as she came to her side and helped her take out some eggs, cheese and vegetables to make omelets.
(Later on…)
Daisuke was lying down on the couch, watching TV when Kit came into the room.
"Hey kitty." She smiled.
Kit hissed at her and then ran off as if she sensed danger.
This confused Daisuke, but then she remembered Phoebe's premonition and her arm started to throb in a way that aggravated her and she started scratching at it.
"Kami, this is annoying." She growled as her eyes flashed an amber color.
Pulling her gauze off, she looked her arm over to see the fang marks had scared over quickly and there were silvery white hairs growing making her gasp out a shuddering breath.
The door was then thrown open and in came Phoebe and Prue who looked worried.
"What's with the faces?" Daisuke asked.
"Darryl said that there have been multiple attacks. Animals carcasses were found all over the place, some being pets." Phoebe said.
"Not only that, but a woman was mauled to death. We need to find that thing and kill it now." Prue said.
They then went towards the kitchen, calling out for Piper while Daisuke followed them in to see the middle sister was with Leo, holding a shot gun and placing bullets inside.
"That for our wolfy friend?" Prue asked.
"Yep. Best way to kill the guy." Piper said as she closed the gun, the sound being very loud to Daisuke who jumped back at the sound.
"We need to hurry. That woman who was attacked was a witch. This werewolf is killing witches for a reason and we need to stop him." Leo insisted.
There was a certain scent in the air that made the mahogany haired girl sniff at it and narrowed her eyes at the blond male.
"You're scared." Daisuke spoke up making everyone look at her.
"How would you know?" Phoebe asked.
"I can smell it. It's salty and I can taste it, it's tangy too." Daisuke said as she sniffed at the air.
Everyone grew more worried about this.
"You can smell and taste our feelings?" Phoebe asked.
"It's the wolf. She's going to transform at night fall. There is a full moon tonight." Leo said.
"Of course there is." Piper groaned.
"All right, time to go hunting. Daisuke, go lie down. We'll kill this guy and then you'll be back to normal." Prue said.
Nodding at this, Daisuke watched as the sisters and Leo walked out and she leaned against the counter watching them in worry.
She was more scared for them than she was for herself.
Walking upstairs, Daisuke went into the attic to see the Book was there and went over to it, flipping through the pages for any information on the werewolves, something they may have overlooked.
She was looking through the Book for an hour when the sun started to set, trying to find the information she needed.
"Kuso!" she swore slamming the Book shut.
"How am I supposed to get any information on how to help them when this thing has no information?" she ranted as she started to pace.
(With the sisters…)
Walking through the forest, the sisters and Leo looked around carefully for any sign of the werewolf, passing animal carcasses as they went.
"Well, at least we know we're on the right path." Prue said.
"Oh, poor bunny." Phoebe frowned at the torn carcass.
"Morn bunny later. We need to find that beast and kill it to save Daisuke." Piper said as she held the gun tightly.
"Was it a good idea to leave her alone?" Phoebe asked.
"I'm sure she'll be fine. The Golden Radiance will purify whatever taint from the bite, so even if she does become a wolf, she won't be a rabid animal. Hopefully." Leo sighed.
Prue, Piper and Phoebe all stopped as they gave him a look.
"Hopefully?" Prue snapped as the White Lighter shrugged helplessly.
"Damn it, I'm gonna kill that mutt if anything happens to Daisuke." Phoebe spoke through gritted teeth.
"Is that so?" a male voice spoke.
They stopped when a tall young man came walking out of the forest, his black hair had pieces of leaves if his hair while his bare chest had mud streaks all over it along with his arms, legs and face.
"Who are you?" Prue demanded.
He smirked at her as he stalked forward making them grow tense as his crystal blue eyes flashed blood red.
"My name is Gabriel. I'm the one who came to your house." He confessed.
"You're the werewolf." Phoebe realized as Piper held up the gun.
"Why did you come to the manor?" Leo asked.
"I heard about the Charmed Ones and wanted to come check them out. I'm an alpha and we crave strong mates." Gabriel answered.
"So you were gonna turn us into your mate? But you attacked Daisuke; she's only 11 years old." Phoebe said.
"And I'm supposed to care? She may be young, but I can wait 9 more years for her to mature. Her scent was so sweet and strong. It was obvious that she would grow up to be a looker too." Gabriel smirked.
"You son of a bitch." Piper growled.
All three sisters were appalled and disgusted by the fact that this man, though he may be in his twenties, would want to take their sweet little girl on as his mate.
He would taint her and hurt her.
"You're not gonna touch her." Prue glared.
"We'll see." Gabriel smirked.
Moonlight fell over them and before their eyes, Gabriel slowly transformed.
(Back at the manor…)
The moon then shone its light through the window making Daisuke look over, then gasp as her arm started to burn making her drop to the ground as her pulse picked up.
She whimpered in pain as she started to writhe on the floor, an intense burning going through her body making her kick her legs out and slam her arms onto the floor, trying to get it to stop.
A scream ripped through her as she felt her bones cracking as the new power went through her blood system, thrashing around when her legs kicked at the floorboard, kicking a hole in it.
Finally, the pain was over as the girl's human body turned into a wolf with pure white fur, the then wolf turning over onto her front, her long nails tapping against the wooden boards.
Whining as she felt disoriented, Daisuke pushed herself up and took stumbling steps forward, heading towards the mirror and yelped in shock at her beauty.
Stretching her body, she felt her power and gave a smile, her mouth opening and lips curling up as her tongue stuck out making her look like one of those dogs that were happy they were getting a treat.
Looking up at the moon, she knew that her friends were in danger and she now had the power to help them, so she ran off to the window, using her snout to push it up and then crawled out, walking across the roof and then jumped down on her paws, front first and then back landed seconds later.
Scoffing in victory, she took off like a blur into the night, picking up the scent of her friends.
(With the sisters…)
Prue tried to throw the black wolf back, but he was too fast and pounced on her, growling as he bared his fangs, slobber dripping.
Piper readied the gun to shoot him, but she didn't want to risk shooting Prue.
"Prue! Piper, shoot him!" Phoebe yelled.
Using her powers, Gabriel was flung off of Prue while Piper shot at him, only to miss by an inch, almost getting his tail.
"He's too fast." Piper yelled.
As Gabriel set his sights on Leo and ran at him, a streak of white tackled him down making everyone jump as they saw that it was a white wolf that was pushed off of the black wolf.
"What the hell?" Leo breathed.
"Oh my God, Daisuke." Phoebe gasped as Prue ran over to them.
"Daisuke? That's her?" Prue asked.
Gabriel looked the young wolf over, his red eyes drinking her in greedily as Daisuke snarled at him to warn him off, her hackles raised as she readied herself for an attack.
Growing cocky, Gabriel tackled her to the ground to try and mount her, but a golden barrier threw him off.
"She can still use her powers." Leo noticed.
The two wolves then ran at each other, both managing to scrap their fangs along the other's side as they started jumping around each other, trying to land painful blows.
"Piper, hurry, shoot him." Phoebe insisted.
"I don't want to hit Daisuke. They're too fast." Piper said, though she felt her heart in her throat when she saw the red staining the pure white fur.
"Come on Daisuke, get him! watch your back!" Prue encouraged.
Sending her barrier up to send Gabriel down, Daisuke quickly pounced at his neck, digging her fangs into his jugular as her claws scratched at his chest and underbelly making him yelp and growl in pain.
When he tried to attack her, the barrier came up to push his head back as she started tearing his throat out.
Finally, he stopped moving and it was done.
Letting him drop, Daisuke panted as she watched the wolf turn back to human form, dead with his throat torn out.
Then, she also transformed back to normal, only she was naked just like Gabriel was, blood staining her jaw.
Piper quickly dropped the gun as she ran over to the girl, shedding off her coat and kneeled down as she wrapped the coat around the girl.
"Oh, honey, are you all right?" she asked.
"I have blood in my mouth and skin stuck between my teeth. Not really." Daisuke gagged as she spat at the ground.
The others ran over, hugging the girl, the sisters smothering her lovingly.
(The next day…)
"So, are we in agreement?" Prue asked.
After last night, the sisters brought Daisuke back home, washed her up and then Leo tucked her into bed, letting her sleep off what she went through.
Realizing that they all loved the girl, they reconsidered the papers Prue had been looking over.
"Yes, for the love of God. Prue, we all agreed last night." Phoebe whined.
"Hey, I just want to make sure we're all in agreement. This is a big deal." Prue reminded.
"We know and we all agreed to do this. Now give us those papers so we can sign them." Piper said as she pulled the papers from her sister's hands.
Footsteps were then heard making them all perk up, Phoebe looking close to squealing when Daisuke walked in, freshly showered and in a blue sundress that the youngest sister had bought her.
"Morning, sweetie." Piper greeted.
"Ohayou minna-san!" Daisuke chirped.
"Translation?" Prue asked.
"Morning everyone." Daisuke chuckled softly as she sat at the counter.
"Right. We seriously need to learn Japanese." The oldest muttered.
"Anyway, we have something we need to discus with you." Piper said leaning on the counter.
"Um, before you do, can I say something first?" Daisuke asked.
"Sure, honey. What is it?" Phoebe asked.
Taking in a deep breath and then letting it out, Daisuke looked up at them determined.
"I decided that I want to keep my powers." She said.
Prue, Phoebe and Piper looked pleasantly surprised at this.
"What made you decide this?" Prue asked.
"Last night when you guys went off to hunt down Gabriel, I was scared…for you guys. That's why I quickly ran off to go help you. When I was fighting him, my powers kicked in subconsciously and I used them to fight him off. It made me realize that I want to help people. I have the power to help them and I want to use them to help others." Daisuke explained.
The sisters all smiled proudly at the girl for her mature decision, then Prue cleared her throat as she swiped the papers back from Piper.
"That's great. Now we have something important to talk to you about. You're being adopted." She smiled.
"Oh." Daisuke said looking disappointed.
"By us." Piper added.
"Oh." Daisuke sounded more pleased by this.
"Wait, are you sure? I mean, are you guys ready to be parents and are ya sure I'm not gonna be too much trouble?" she asked.
"Honey, there is no way you could be more trouble than Phoebe was." Prue cooed.
"Hey!" Phoebe protested as the sisters laughed.
"Besides, we aren't adopting you as a daughter. You're gonna be our sister." Piper corrected.
"Oh. So how do we do this adoption thing?" Daisuke asked.
"Well, all of us just have to sign these papers and then Darryl will take these to the adoption agency. Here." Pure set the papers down.
Daisuke looked them over and found something that caught her attention.
"I can change my name?" she asked.
"Well, yeah. You are going to be our sister so you'll be Daisuke Halliwell." Phoebe said.
"Can't I change the Daisuke part? I mean, it's really a boy's name. I liked it when my sister called me Dai, but I want to change my name into something that's more, you know, feminine." She said.
"Okay, how about Daisy? It has Dai in it." Phoebe suggested.
Daisuke scrunched up her nose at this.
"I'll take that as a no." Phoebe muttered.
"Ooh, Diana. That's pretty. Or even Danielle." Prue suggested.
The girl licked her lips as she thought then over.
"What about Dana?" Piper asked.
This one brought a smile to the girl's lips.
"I love it. Daina Halliwell." She said and then wrote the name on the papers.
"Oh, um, there's no 'I' in Dana." Prue said.
"Well, now there is." The girl smiled smugly.
"She's definitely got the Halliwell attitude down." Piper said.
The four sisters laughed at that as Prue, Piper and Phoebe all signed the papers, accepting responsibility of Daina Halliwell into their lives.
"Okay, now that that's taken care of, we can get to more important matters." Piper said as she walked over to the counter.
Daina watched as Piper pulled a dish towel off of a pan and reveal a cake covered in white icing and blue candy roses.
Phoebe pulled a candle out of the counter and placed the 12 shaped candle in the cake while Prue grabbed the lighter from on top of the fridge and light the wick.
"Leo, it's time!" Piper called.
The White Lighter appeared with a smile on his face, holding a present in his hands.
As one, the four adults started singing 'Happy Birthday' to Daina making her blush bashfully as tears shined in her eyes from how touched she felt.
They finished singing as Piper set the cake down on the counter, Prue grabbing her camera as Daina took in a deep breath and blew the candle out, the raven snapping a picture of it.
Phoebe cheered as she, Leo and Piper clapped, Prue kissing Daina on top of her head.
"Happy birthday, honey." The raven said.
"So what did you wish for?" Leo asked.
"I think I have enough right now. Although do I do wish Jun could be here and she knew I was safe." Daina said.
"Don't worry, one day I'm sure you'll be able to see your sister again." Leo assured making the girl smile at him.
"All right, who's ready to get hyped up on sugar?" Phoebe clapped her hands.
"Me!" Daina cheered.
Piper then cut the cake, handing everyone a piece to eat and then after that, Daina was given presents which were simple gifts such as clothing while Leo gave her a brand new soccer ball, then went out to play with the girl.
Phoebe was watching the man and girl as they kicked the ball around, then saw that the necklace Daina was wearing was lying on the table top.
It was a locket that was in the shape of a heart with the letter 'D' engraved on it in cursive and it was gold.
Touching it, Phoebe gasped as a premonition hit her.
In it she saw two teenage girls, one looking 15 with magenta hair with big brown eyes while the other had mahogany hair with the same eyes as the other.
They were laughing as they linked their arms, walking down the street together while they each held a strange creature in their arms.
Coming out of her vision, Phoebe opened the locket to see a picture of a younger Daina on one side while the other was the magenta haired girl.
"Looks like you'll get your wish, Daina." Phoebe smiled as she closed the locket of the Motomiya sisters.
To be continued…