An island in the middle of the lake. It's not that big, it's not that small. It used to be a gathering place for Water Spirits, but is now apparently empty. A converted summerhouse sits on the shoreline.

::Piper jumps onto the shore and immediately forgets the ducks. The sun glints on the summerhouse windows and she runs up to it, looking inside. Her hand slips around the doorhandle and she pushes it. Luckily it opens and she goes inside. After looking around she goes to sit on a wicker chair, and eats some more strawberries::

:: Prieto shimmers in shortly after Piper, but too late to see that the little brat..ehm..girl, entered the summerhouse ::

"Damnit. Where is that thing now?"

(Why am I here again? Oh yeah. Little kid walking on water. NOT what you see everyday. Now...stop thinking. Go seaching...)

:: She walks around for a while before entering the summerhouse, where she finds Piper eating strawberries ::

"Hey there little one. Are you lost?"

::Piper holds the strawberries protectively on her lap and narrows her eyes at Prieto::

"No. I'm eating strawberries. Bye bye now."

::She picks up another strawberry and begins biting it::

:: Prieto smiles as Piper begins to eat her strawberries again ::

(I have to find out how she did, or does, her little 'water-trick')

"Can't I have one strawberry? Just a tiny one?"

::Piper sighs dramatically and selects the tiniest strawberry. She holds it out to Prieto and sighs loudly again::

"Fine. But only because Grams said I have to share my things with people who don't have anything because that's what nice girls do and I'm a nice girl so I'm giving you one of my strawberries even though they're my favourite food in the whole world."

::She takes a huge breath after her speech and then takes a huge bite out of the fruit in her hand::

(I've never been good with kids...wait. I am a kid. Damn. )

"Thank you..."

:: Prieto takes the strawberry from Piper and eats it all in one single bite ::

"So...you live with your 'grams'? What about your mom?"

(Can she walk on water too? or is her power just to live with a brat like you?)

"Mommy lives there to. She works in a food shop and smells of burgers and nice stuff."

::Piper gets up and walks outside, singing to herself::

::Rain starts pounding down on the whole lake area.::

:: After looking at the rain hitting the windows, Prieto decides that Piper shouldn't be playing outside in suck torrent rain.
She hurries outside and catches up with Piper ::

(Fuck! This isn't a heavy downpurr, this is like Niagra falls. Stupid Weather gods...)

"Hey, you should get inside. Your momma wouldn't want you sick..."

(But hell, it wouldn't surprise me if she did...)

::Piper runs back inside the summerhouse and shivers a little.::

"It's getting cold, I'm cold, I want to go home."

:: Prieto breathes slowly, and tries not to make herself kill the little girl ::

"Okay...Okay, I am gonna freak right out"

:: She runs back to the summerhouse and looks at Piper ::

"Look, I think you should call your mother, "grams" or siblings if you have any, so they can come and pick you up."

(Or did they maroon you on this osland to get rid of you? No...wait..I saw her little jesus trick...)

"Or can I have that honour to follow you home?"

:: She mumbles sarcasticly to herself ::

::Piper stares at Prieto.::

"Why do you wanna come home with me? You're a big girl, you shouldn't want to be friends with a little girl like me."

:: Prieto looks at Piper and nods slowly ::

"Well. I kind of know how it is to be treated unfairly by older people, and.."

:: She takes off her jacket and gives it to the little cold brat...girl... ::

"...I dont think it's good for you to be alone on an island like this. So could you tell me where we can find your momma? She is probably worried..."

(Hey stupid? She walked on water. She might be a witch. She...reminds me of that girl from Born in the 4th of July. Pah me. Pah my goodness.)

::Piper drops Prieto's jacket onto the muddy floor and stomps on it.::

"I'm bored. This is boring. I don't like you, you're too old to be my friend and you must be weird because all the kids your age would never be friends with me."

::She exits the summerhouse and stands on the shore of the island, looking back towards the forest.::

::Paige orbs in with Vince, Phoebe and Petunius beside Piper.::

::Phoebe smiles kindly at Piper before her face contorts into a look of horror.::

"Oh my god! Piper???"

:: Prieto picks up her jacket and shakes it...not that it helps...::

(Must...resist...to kill...child...)

:: She steps outside and sees Phoebe and co. ::

(Is this island a sacret place for freaks?)

::Overhearing Prieto's thoughts, Phoebe turns and glares at the demon.::

"Hey! You watch your mouth, kid!"

(Well her thought-voice wasn't very loud... I think the spell is wearing off now that we've found...)

::Well folks, since Piper has been located, the thought-hearing spell is now fini!::

:: Prieto is surprised by Phoebe's sudden yelling ::

"I believe I did..miss..."

:: She looks curiously at Phoebe. Not having an idea why she said what she said she just smiles weakly ::

"Um. How did you get over here?"

(Pah me and my innocence. Pah me for being me, and pah pah's for pah'ing my thoughts randomly...)

"We swam."

::Paige turns her attention to Phoebe, and more oddly, the small child in front of them.::

"You're meaning to tell me that this, is our sister?"

::Feeling threatened by the sudden appearance of all these "grown-ups", Piper steps back, startled. She looks from face to face, not quite knowing what to do. So she throws her remaining strawberry. At Vince.::

::Petunius does not really acknowledge the dramatic difference in Piper. Instead his thoughts wander back to the incident in the forest between Phoebe, Andrea and Cole.::

(That guy...he definitely was not there for kinky forest sex. I saw the look on his face. How did he get there anyway? He sure as hell wasn't there when we first arrived, we'd have heard his thoughts if he was.)

::Realising that he needed to do some investigating right away, Petunius quickly reaches into his pocket and pretends to look at his vibrating pager. Get your minds out of the gutter, he's only pretending that it's vibrating. He looks at Phoebe, Paige, Vince and little Piper briefly before revealing his excuse.::

"Uh, sorry guys I've gotta take this. It's an emergency. I'm hoping that you won't need me to help take care of--"

::He gestures discreetly with his head at little Piper.::

"--the situation at hand."

::He then turns to Phoebe, quickly placing a kiss on her lips.::

"I'll call you later. We still haven't had that drink."

::He smiles apologetically at her, then nods at Vince and Paige before patting Piper on the head and walking off into the distance, hoping to find the forest.::

:: Prieto sighs as Paige "answers" her question ::

(I've just been on a fucking island with an annoying little midget, and what do I get? I get a rude comment from a vampire with dyed hair.)

:: The kid-demon looks at Piper and then at Phoebe and Paige ::

"Well. Now you...found your sister. Your welcome and dont worry, I wont make you pay for the jacket the kid jumped on..."

:: Not really knowing what to do with herself, Prieto just smiles at the bitches...witches...and heads for The Forest. The idium. ::

"Gotta wonder how those two jumped allllllll the way back to land, it being that we're on an island in a middle of a lake and whatnot."

::Paige shrugs.::

"Better get us home..."

::She grabs everyone and orbs them out to the manor.::

::The dragon, complete with Paz hanging from his jaws, begins its descent onto the island and lands with a shudder on the ground. Dropping Paz to the sandy ground, the dragon stares at him impassively.::

::Paz drops onto the floor, relieved to find himself unhurt. His heart still going second to none, he looks up at the dragon and smiles.::

"You, dude, are so sweet. I'd take you home if you weren't so enormous."

(It seems to like smoke, but I can only do heat...I wonder if it will react to that too?)

::He picks up a stray branch, looking around him.::

(Ok, I'm stuck on this island unless I get this dude to take me back. Or I could swim, but wetness is unpleasant. What if I freak him out with this?)

::He holds the small branch to his side and cautiously sends a laser toward it, setting it alight. He smiles and gestures to the branch, so the dragon can see.::

"I set things on fire. Still hate me?"

::The dragon narrows his eyes at Paz, rising to his challenge. He takes a deep breath and blows a huge jet of fire, incinerating a whole tree and more. He then looks at Paz menacingly and starts stamping his feet on the ground, getting ready to charge.::

::Paz jaw is at the verge of unhinging when the dragon ignites an entire tree. Turning his head to look at the dragon, he recognises the stange as that of attack. He shits himself, nearly...::

"Holy crap! Lions!"

::Hoping to distract the dragon he flicks his wrists concentrating on creating a large flash of light to the side of the dragons head, enough to hopefully attract it's attention.::

::Closing its eyes and looking away, the dragon is indeed intrigued and turns around to see where the light went.::

::Paz runs.::

(Ha ha! Dumbass!)

::After running around frantically for a while and seeing no obvious way to get off the island asside from swimming, Paz retreats to the cover of some foliage, hidden from view.::

"Bollocks. Swimming? In the lake? Ew..."

::The dragon turns back to find Paz gone. From his height, he spots the witch easily and proceeds to blow a shitload of fire right at Paz, with no time to run forwards, left or right...::

::Paz clamps his eyes shut as the fire engulfs him, using all his power to decrease the heat intensity of the flame. As he drains the heat the flame flickers out, dispersing due to the lack of heat. He glares up at the dragon from where we was attempting to hide.::

"HEY! Quit it!"

(Bastard thing!)

::He moves out from the trees, holding his hands out cautiously.::

"I'm not going to do anything... Stay calm..."

::The dragon starts to look around, wondering where Trix is, and then simply takes to the air and flies off.::

::Paz breathes a deep sigh of relief and his body goes limp. He crumples into the grass and sits for a while, staring over the water.::

"Great."

::Paz looks around after having been there for a while. He sighs and looks into the water.::

"Swim for it?"

(Remember what's in that water. I got attacked by a monster over there, remember?)

::Shaking his head, he breathes in deeply and dives headfirst into the water, quickly swimming to the edge of the lake.::

::Luke arrives in an orb cloud and examines the island. He glances at the architecture of the house before approaching the door. Luke considers entering though he changes his mind, feeling the detection orb in his pocket. He pulls his shirt off and places it on the ground to rest his head on it and he lies down to relax in the sun.::

::Luke sits up, picks up his shirt as he orbs to the pier.::

::Bruce shimmers in with Trix slung over his shoulder and slides her off, laying her on the ground. He looks down at her, cocking his head to the side.::

(Wonder what she did to be getting sold anyway.)

::He gets a handkerchief from his pocket and goes to the edge of the island, letting the material soak up some cool water before returning to her side and daubing at her forehead with it.::

"Wake up."

::He murmurs in a soft voice.::

::After a while, Trix blinks and wakes up. She stares at Bruce as he comes into focus. When she realises she has no idea who he is, or where she is, she sits up sharply and scrambles backwards and away from him.::

"Who are you?"