Summary:Changed future. Chris gets kidnapped when he is four and grows up without ever finding out about his family or heritage whilst in the underworld. What happens when he meets his family years down the line?

Disclaimer:I do not own any of the characters; just borrowing them for the time being as they would not leave me alone to write other stories. So I decided to go with the flow.
Also the name of the story comes from the episode 'The Power of the Three Blondes' where the evil witches comment that they are 'charmed and dangerous'.

Warning:This story is rated 'M' for chapter 3 which will have unpleasant things happening to our beloved character Chris. Other than that chapter this is a pretty mild story.

Inspiration:Inspiration for this story suddenly came to me; I had read a story with similar beginning years ago. I would love to remember who it was by so I can give them proper credit but apart from Chris being kidnapped at a young age there is nothing similar. I don't know if that author ever finished their story and how it ended but suddenly I wanted to know what would have happened if I wrote one myself.

The demon Coltac attacked the Halliwell manor. He made it look like he was attacking the Twice Blessed and the Charmed Ones however his target was the little boy that was about four years of age.

Coltac was a slaver.

He scavenged the world looking for prime slaves that he could sell to the powerful and rich who looked for magical slaves. Sometimes his customers were demons sometimes not. His sources had noticed the youngest son of the Halliwell Matriarch and reported back that he was not as powerful as the rest of the family… however he was powerful enough to sell for a very high price.

Age was important when you were grabbing magical slaves or any other type of slave for that matter. He had learned through trial and error that you needed to pick them up around 4 or 5 so their mental development would almost be complete. First of all he did not want to waste years raising a slave. Additionally, people did not want a slave who couldn't button their shirt, weren't toilet trained or who couldn't develop the ability to read if that is what their master wished. These things related to brain development as well as their magical abilities, so he allowed his targets to be raised by their families until they were ready for him. He also did not want slaves that had developed a full personality or ones that were going to remember their past— that was not good for business.

His plan went without a hitch, he lost seven lower demons (which was well worth it) to the Charmed Ones who were downstairs or in the attic trying to fend off the attack and trying to protect the Twice Blessed as the demons made it look like they were trying to kidnap him. While the attack was happening he was able to shimmer into the room he sensed the young boy was in and captured him whilst no one was able to notice him. Afterwards, he destroyed the room by throwing fireball after fireball making it look like he had killed whoever was in room instead of grabbing them.

He had done this many times before, he knew it would work. He then shimmered to some of the highest paid witches that were around in the underworld. They were capable of hiding anything and they were ready and waiting for him as per usual. He had them put the boy under so many hiding spells that the boy's own mother would not have felt him if she stood next to him. Then he shimmered all around the world to magical strongholds that covered his shimming trail so nobody would be able to follow him if they picked up his trail. He was in his own lair in the underworld before the attack on the Halliwell manor had finished.

He threw the frightened boy into a dark cell, a box really, that was two meters in length, width and a meter in height. The cell let no sound, heat or light through. In one corner there was a small hole in the ground that the child would be able to figure out what it was for from the smell alone. There was also another flap on the side where the door was so that the child could be fed. However the food would be delivered to a little compartment that the child had to push the flap to get. The flap would give the child a great shock of pain every time he touched it but if he wished to be fed he would have to bare the pain and reach for the food.

Coltac promptly forgot about his new acquisition and went to check on the other slaves he had in training… after all he had learned that it took a child about a month in darkness to forget about all that they had once been.

Edited: July 12th, 2010.