Charmed - The Sisters Three
It all began in 1692, when Melinda Warren was burned at the stake. Before she died she claimed that there would be three sisters, and that these three sisters would be the most powerful witches that the world has ever known. They were destined to become, "The Charmed Ones"!
Many generations later, the three sisters are born Prue, Piper, and Phoebe. When they were young, they knew that they had powers, but Grams cast a spell to make them forget that they ever had powers, for their own safety. Many things happened from then on. Their father left when they were young, and their mother, Patty, had a forbidden relationship with her whitelighter Sam. However, Patty was killed whilst battling a powerful water demon, and the the sisters Grams died after falling down the stairs, following a heart attack.
Six months after the death of their grandmother, Prue, Piper and Phoebe’s lives would never be the same again. They were to discover that they are "The Charmed Ones". This is their story:
After the death her Grandmother, Phoebe Halliwell moved to New York in search of her father Victor, who left the family when Phoebe was only young. Phoebe studied at a college in New York, but soon dropped out, went broke and couldn’t pay the rent for her apartment, so she moved back into The Manor with her two older sisters, Prue and Piper. Prue, the responsible and driven oldest, is constantly annoyed by Phoebes return to San Fransisco, and her free-spirited personality. Piper, the nice, creative, earthy sister tries to keep the peace between her two opposite sisters.
The weirdness begins one night when the sisters are playing with an old spirit-board that keeps directing them to the attic. Phoebe finally decides to go up and have a look. In the attic, she discovers an ancient book of witchcraft called The Book of Shadows. It describes three witches who will be the strongest in a long line of good witches. It says that if the three women get together during a full moon and recite a certain incantation, they will each receive a supernatural power. The Halliwell sisters slowly realise that it’s them that the book is referring to, so, with a full moon above them, they recite the spell. They become The Charmed Ones, and each is given a power. Prue has telekinesis (the power to move things with her mind), Piper gets temporal stasis (the power to freeze time), and Phoebe receives clairvoyance (she has visions of the past and future). Together they have the Power of Three. The Book of Shadows also mentions that good witches are a target for evil, such as demons and warlocks, who take on the form of everyday people. Phoebe is usually the easiest to target because of her somewhat gullible nature.
After three years of being a witch, the eldest sister Prue was killed by a ferocious demon named Shax, whilst trying to save an innocent. Piper and Phoebe were distraught, but they soon discovered that they had another sister, Paige. Paige was the child of Patty, and her whitelighter Sam, but they had to give her up because relationships between witches and whitelighters were forbidden. However, after Paige found her sisters, she received her powers, the power to orb, and the power of telekinetic orbing, the ability to move things with her mind, although in a different way than Prue could.