Chapter 4
Warning: Strong Language, strong images are shown. Not for the young ones.
Adirare: to lose
"You Bastard! Leave Piper alone," Paige hollers sobbing uncontrollably.
Raum turned back to look at the youngest and thought how important this "Piper" must be to her.
"My liege we must do it now. It's close to midnight." Raum snapped out of his train of thought, looking back at Piper's corpse.
"Let's begin," Damaris nodded, her eyes gleaming with delight.
Raum grabbed Damaris's left hand with his right and then his left hand grabbed onto Piper's. Damaris then grabbed Piper's other hand. Together Damaris and Raum chanted.
"Quit touching her! LEAVE HER ALONE SO HELP ME GOD I'll," Paige attempts to yell further but her voice is straining.
Phoebe meantime watches silently notices a raven and a dove landing straight in front of her on an opposite tree. She notices them peering down looking directly at Piper.
At the end of Raum and Damaris's chant, a vivid white light emerges straight out of Piper's body, producing a magnificent crystal silhouette.
The crystal is so intense that shadows no longer gather. They simply disappear as the light Piper's soul gives off touches everything else.
"Damn her, she's trying to purify us. We have to wait until she gives up," Raum stated beyond angry. Even in death she won't yield.
"My liege what are we waiting, it's midnight. We are safe," Damaris waits for Raum to do something but he doesn't.
"Damn it, Just grab the bitch's soul and let's go," says Damaris irritated as she still sees Raum not budging.
So Damaris instead reaches out for it, though not even getting close to the actual crystal, her hand starts to sizzle. Screaming in pain Damaris quickly brings her hand back.
"That bitch, her fucking light did this."
"You fool; this is why I told you to wait. She has to give up at some point soon," Raum said.
Phoebe and Paige watch in awe what their older sister did. Both of them were feeling bittersweet at the same time.
They watch in pure amazement at how Piper's brilliant soul can illuminate the sky above them, making it seem as if it were day.
Paige snapping out of it yells with her strained voice, cursing Raum and Damaris out. Fed up Raum looks back and snaps his fingers. Paige falls asleep.
As Raum is distracted by Paige a raven swoops in back of him. Raum turns in time to see the raven coming back but he is frozen still. So is Damaris.
Midnight is almost over with...
The raven then circles Raum three times in the air. Then it leaves Raum and heads towards the source of the diminishing light, Piper's soul.
The raven with its beak captures the crystal and flies off into the darkness.
The shadows return, everything once again is pitch black. Everything except the dove which now has a faint golden, white glow around its body.
The dove flies by Raum. It circles Raum's body three times just like the raven did afterward the dove slowly flies downward and lands on Piper's body.
The dove lands on her torso careful to respect the dead, it moves upward cautiously. As the dove moves upward some of Piper's blood gets on its feathers.
Carefully the dove moves to Piper's face and ever so gently with its head pushes some of Piper's hair out of the way of her eyes.
The dove stops moving.
Nothing in the woods can be heard. Silence makes its presence shown.
In a rapid white flash the dove and Piper are gone.
Moments later the still frozen Raum bursts into flames. Damaris comes out of her frozen spell confused and hurt that her lover is dead. She looks at Paige then at Phoebe for a brief moment, not understanding what happened she blinks out clutching her wounded hand.
The black energy coils disappear causing both remaining Charmed ones to fall heavily onto the ground.
Paige than stirs up looking out to where Piper should be, startled that her body isn't there. Paige questioningly looks at Phoebe. It seems a lifetime but Phoebe tells her about the birds.
Paige finally has her breakdown; she crumples to a ball pounding her fist into the ground. Screaming up in the air, calling for Piper. She demands out loud at the top of her lungs to have her sister back.
No one answers.
Phoebe gathers her sister in her arms trying to calm her... It proves useless.