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Chapter 8. – Days of Our Charmed Lives, Part I – The Trio
Benny's Report, Day 109 – around 7.00 (a.m.)
Early that morning they finally came to see him. Just like Benny knew they would. The three demons that stood before him were young and very arrogant - which is typical for Ripper Demon families.
"Do you know who we are and who we work for?" The female leader of The Ripper Demon family loomed over him with a dangerous gleam in her pale blue eyes. Any other Underworld creature would be afraid in a situation like this. Ripper Demons were usually powerful and extremely cruel. Benny didn't let it show that he was nervous.
"Yes. I have known who you are for quite a while now. I also know that we work for the same employer – Mr. Ledin. " This was true, Benny had suspected them from the start when they had showed up.
The leader of The Ripper Family turned to her two siblings, a man and a woman who probably were twins, with a smile and made an approving nod towards Benny. "I told you he was good." She looked very different from the dark and exotic-looking twins with her blond hair and icy blue eyes – something about her made Benny suspect that she was the last one to be adopted into her family. Ripper Demon families always had a set number for how many (magical) people each family could contain and every family member had to fight, bully, manipulate and backstab the others in their family to not be replaced (killed) by someone more powerful. Grabbing the top position was a smart move to stay alive if you had more brainpower than magic powers.
"Pfff, he's just another ball! Can we just get this done and move on please!" The male Ripper Demon made a disgusted grimace. 'Ball' was the most common derogatory word for a Kalla Bong among demons. Racism had unfortunately always been very rampant in The Underworld. Benny sighed; he was used to demons calling him names but it always made him tired and unsure of why he was working for them.
One irritated look from the leader and the racist Ripper Demon immediately became silent. She turned back to Benny: "This is the deal – we attack today and we need your help to set the trap."
Benny started to sweat; he didn't like the sound of this. "How do you mean?"
"Well, it's simple. In order to catch the kids we need you to draw a pentagram around the Nexus in the basement and place these two in the pentagram." The leader of the trio nodded to her sister who gave Benny two small dolls that resembled Piper's sons.
"Are you serious?"
She looked Benny in his one eye and said: "Very serious."
"No. This is a very bad idea. I can't do this I'm Kalla Bong! Don't you know about The Curse? If you let me involve myself directly in your attack who knows what will happen?"
"Oh please! The Curse… what a pathetic excuse! No one believes in those old shitty lies anymore! Just do as you are told ball!"The male Ripper Demon would have struck Benny if his sisters hadn't held him back with some considerable force.
The leader crossed her arms and looked Benny in the eyes. "Look, I don't care if you are a Kalla Bong, a Warlock or a Woogeyman but you are going to put those dolls in the basement for us, in a nicely drawn pentagram containing the Nexus. It's the boss's order. Got it?"
Benny tried to plead with her: "This is not a good idea. Do you have any idea of what can happen if I do that?"
The leader Ripper Demon gave him a wicked smile. "Well, we just have to take our chances, won't we?"
Dear reader, you are probably wondering what Benny and The Ripper Demon Trio are talking about. Just take it easy and I will try to explain it as best as I can: Remember in chapter two ("The Curse of Kalla Bong – Chapter 2: Benny's First Report") of this strange and complicated story when I described Kalla Bong as catalysts?
So far Benny and his team of agents have only monitored the Halliwells. They haven't up until now involved themselves directly with any of the sisters. If they were to meddle magically in the lives of the Charmed Ones they could start an incredible chain of events that no one would be able to control. Well, 'that's life' you might say. Yes, life do consists of a series of events that we humans seldom seem to control – but usually none of these events ends with situations that will alter the balance of the whole Universe. Kalla Bongs have that power.
Have you ever heard of the "The Butterfly Effect"? It's Chaos Theory – that a large storm in New England may be caused by a butterfly wing flap in China. Kalla Bong are living and walking "Butterfly Effects" multiplied with a thousand. Whenever Kalla Bong directly involve themselves in magical matters strange things happen and no one can control the outcome– sometimes these events goes in the favor of evil and sometimes it goes in the favor of good. This is called The Curse of Kalla Bong in The Underworld.
"So are you going to help us or do I have to let my brother rip you apart?"
Benny closed his eyes for a moment, he knew he was defeated but inside he was boiling with anger. "Ok but I must warn you – anything can happen from the moment I put those dolls in that pentagram."
They laughed at his statement. "Just do as you are told and let us do the rest."
"May I ask you a question?"
"Sure why not?"
"Why now? Why not wait until Mr. Ledin, our mutual boss, returns and can give us some clear direction?"
The leader of the trio shrugged: "Because we are getting bored."
Benny sighed inwards; he hated that sort of impatient arrogance. Unfortunately it was very characteristic for most demons. "Another question: Why do you kidnap both of Piper's sons? You have only one unoccupied place within your family."
"That's not your business you smug fucking little ball!" The male Ripper Demon obviously had some kind of temper problem; once again the female Ripper Demons had to prevent their brother from striking Benny.
"You certainly are very inquisitive for a little 'ball', aren't you? I know we only have one place left to occupy. Our plan was to bring up the boys and let them fight for the place when they are grown up. Or we could just flip a coin over the matter. We haven't really thought about it that much yet." Something in the leader of the Ripper Demon Family's voice made Benny certain that one her siblings would die to make place for both of the Halliwell boys. He hoped it would be the male Ripper Demon that eventually would bite the dust.
He looked at the small dolls in his hand. "I will now go and do my part of your plan. You better go and do yours."
"Ok, let's rock'n roll!"
To be continued in "Chapter 9. – Days of Our Charmed Lives, Part II – Piper & Phoebe"…