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Chapter 11. – Days of Our Charmed Lives, Part IV – Finale

Benny's Report, Day 110– around 7.00 (p.m.)

Benny was pacing nervously around down in the sewers under the Halliwell Manor. He hadn't heard anything from his agents in several hours and the worry was slowly killing him. He jumped when his mobile suddenly rang (with a very silent tone so that anyone who was in the manor above him wouldn't be able to hear). It wasn't anyone of his agents unfortunately; it was a bicycle courier who wondered where he was supposed to deliver the papers he had for Benny.

Benny met the courier behind the garage outside the manor. It was a good place – Benny could turn visible without any other humans seeing him and it was safe from the cat that used to come to the Halliwell garden. Kalla Bong and cats don't mix very well… but that's another story for another time. Benny paid the bicycle courier and went back to the sewers with his long awaited reports. The courier took the money without even a blink and cycled away.

You might find a little bit weird that the bicycle courier didn't react to Benny – who was a slightly glowing creature with green skin, no legs, one eye and half the size of a human (not to mention the gun belt with the banana!). Bicycle couriers never seem notice such strange details about their clients when they deliver something. This is a well-known fact among The Underworld and this is why demons always use them to send notes and packages.

No one really knows why bicycle couriers are extra tolerant towards society's weirder, more paranormal beings – some speculate it is because of the stress of racing from one address to another, some think it is because of all the fumes in the traffic that makes the poor couriers think they are hallucinating, others have a theory about bicycling producing a hormone that makes people indifferent. The main opinion however is that the giant and probably uncomfortable sock that the bicycle couriers always put into their (too) small spandex pants, is somehow magically preventing them from forming any conscious thoughts. The demon society has always been big on conspiracy theories involving magic socks.

Benny sat down and started to read…

Phoebe had been breaking speed limits and committed several other traffic violations while driving home to Prescott Street from Emilio's place. Emilio her beautiful, sexy and slightly stupid ex-lover who turned out to be a murderous, nasty and slightly stupid Ripper Demon that wanted to kill her in order to kidnap her beloved nephews. Phoebe shook her head while thinking of him; he wasn't the first to underestimate her and now he was just a puddle of green goo on the hall carpet in his apartment. Men! They will never learn…

She didn't need have to have Powers of Premonition to figure out that the rest of her family was in grave danger. If Emilio was a Ripper Demon trying to kill her then her sisters probably were under some kind of attack as well.

Piper was still lying on the attic floor weeping for her sons when Phoebe found her. She was injured and in a state of shock so it took a while before Phoebe could get the full story out of her sister.

Apparently Piper had been duped by a Ripper Demon, just like Phoebe – a woman/demon had gained Piper's full trust and friendship, by pretending to be a witch in jeopardy. She had kidnapped Wyatt and Chris while they were doing a spell together.

The more Piper told Phoebe the more she seemed to come back to her senses. She also became more agitated and angry. After a while Piper was limping impatiently around in the attic, holding her injured shoulder while she was cursing her own stupidity: "I can't believe that she could trick me so easily… that bitch! How could I be so stupid! She took my sons Phoebe! She took Wyatt and Chris!"

"And we will get them back. Listen, you were just trying to help someone who you thought was your friend. That's not a bad thing in itself. She tricked you, it's not your fault." Phoebe tried comfort her sister with her best advice columnist psychology but Piper was too mad to listen.

"Well, those fault is it? I should have seen this coming; I should have been more suspicious! And if you guys were at home a little bit more this wouldn't have happen you know! Where are my family when I need them!"

"Well, Paige is probably also under some kind of attack just like you and me. We really need to find her quick. And Leo… Leo is doing the best he can wherever he is right now… " Phoebe paused a little bit trying to find a good way to say the question but gave up. "Where is he by the way?"

"I have been calling him for the last half hour. No answer. Hopeless!" Piper put her arms up in the air but then realized how much that kind of movement hurt her broken collarbone. "Ow!"

"That's strange. Honey, we really do need to fix that arm of yours… Leo!"

Somewhere else: Leo in another dimension fighting with a giant double-headed octopus unable to hear the calls of his charges.

No Leo.

"This is the final straw: I want a divorce!"

"You don't mean that Piper."

"Ok, I didn't mean that but I am going to castrate him with a blunt ice skate if he doesn't show up within three seconds. LEO!"

Still no Leo.

"You didn't mean that either Piper… or did you?"

Piper turned to Phoebe with despair in her eyes. "Oh Phoebe, what am I going to do! What has she done to my sons!"

Phoebe had no answer for that. She looked at her big sister who was shaking with emotion and pain. Phoebe realized that it was time for her to step up and be strong for her sister. She had to take the lead: "We are going to get them back Piper, I promise! Ok, do you have something that belongs to The Ripper Demon? Something that we can use when we scry for her."

Piper looked around and her eyes fell on Justin and Emilia – Esmeralda's son and daughter, who had been playing quietly in a corner of the attic the whole time. "Well, I have her kids… "

"She left her kids here? What kind of mother does that? I know she's a demon but seriously… " They walked over to the two kids. Justin was taking apart an ancient Barbie doll while Emilia had fallen asleep on Prue's old beanbag. Justin gave them a bright smile and held up the Barbie doll for them to see. "Awww! Look at them! They are adorable!" Phoebe picked up Justin who gave her a wet kiss. She probably could convince Sheila to look after them while she and Piper did their magic rescue.

Piper didn't say anything. With a determined face she cut off a strand of Justin's hair and one from Emilia's dark locks. "This should do it."

Piper started to make some pretty powerful vanquishing potions while Phoebe made Sheila come and look after the kids. Darryl was at some conference in Quantico and Phoebe had a feeling that Sheila wasn't going to tell him about her helping The Charmed Ones. They weren't so great in his book anymore. Phoebe had put a Cloaking Spell on the kids for safety measure so that Sheila wouldn't be in any danger while babysitting.

Finally Piper said the potions were ready and they went to get their sons. Phoebe was a little bothered about the fact that they didn't have any kind of plan.'

Paige had a hard time not falling asleep while Jenny and her sister Esmeralda was preparing for The Double Burger Triple Dimension Jump Spell. For Jenny's part it meant eating a Double Whopper Menu. Esmeralda on the other hand was running around reading incantations, burning a lot of incense and banging on a little drum.

"Seriously Jenny, we should be grilling a goat according to this spell. I don't think some junk food is going to make the cut for The Double Burger Triple Dimension Spell."

"C'mon it says any kind of meat in the book you have and a Double Whopper has that. Now, if it was a Big Mac we should have been a little bit more worried because I always suspected that they don't have any meat or food-like properties in them at all…"

"Sometimes I wish that you could take magic a little bit more seriously Jenny."

"Sometimes I think you should be grateful that I'm not a vegetarian… "

Their petty little argument never reached further because in that moment the door to the apartment flew open.

"Where are my kids bitch!" Piper raised her hands to explode the people in front of her. She planned to explode the blonde woman who stood beside Esmeralda, eating a hamburger and after that she would explode limb after limb on her ex-friend until she told her the whereabouts of Wyatt and Chris. Unfortunately nothing happened. She raised her hands and tried again. Still nothing.

Phoebe looked uneasily at Piper. Why didn't she just explode the Ripper Demons in front of them? Before she could ask her sister what the hell was going on she heard Paige screaming in the background.

"Lookout!"

The blonde Ripper Demon had moved incredibly fast and pushed a surprised Phoebe down on the floor. Before she could react the other Ripper Demon threw a vial of potion that exploded in a puff of blue smoke at her feet. Phoebe started to cough. When the smoke cleared and she tried to move she realized that she had been trapped in some kind of force field. It was impossible to break through. "Piper, help me!"

"Not so fast. Piper, if you want to see your kids ever again, you stay right there and don't move a muscle." Esmeralda's voice was calm and menacing - everyone in the room could hear her crystal clear.

Piper gave Phoebe a desperate look. It was then Phoebe understood that they were trapped. She saw Paige standing across the room in a force field similar to her own, bleeding from a nasty gash in the forehead. They were all three at The Ripper Demons's mercy.

The blond Ripper Demon turned her icy stare towards Phoebe: "Where is Emilio? Where is our brother!"

"He is dead. I vanquished him."

The room filled with shocked silence. Piper and Paige looked surprised at her. Neither of them had been able to overcome their demons but she, the one without active powers, had successfully taken her Ripper Demon down. Phoebe nervously tried to read the reactions of her ex-lover's sisters. She hoped they would respect the rules of the game and give her a quick death.

"He tried to kill me so I killed him. Sorry."

"He's really dead?" Esmeralda's emotional voice cut through the tension-filled room like a knife. Phoebe took a closer look at the dark woman and realized that she probably must have been Emilio's twin sister. The resemblance was quite striking. Shit!

Phoebe swallowed before she could answer. "Yes."

For an agonizing minute nothing happened and Phoebe could almost see her whole life flash before her eyes. Suddenly there was a loud clasp of two hands quickly coming together and all three of The Charmed Ones jumped a little as if they had been struck. But no one had been hit; the two female Ripper Demons had just done a high five.

"YES!" The blonde demon hugged the dark one.

"Finally!" The dark demon kissed the blonde one in a not very platonic way.

After the passionate kiss the blonde demon turned to Phoebe and gave her a warm smile. "You just made our job much easier!"

Phoebe, who just moment ago thought that she would be slowly tortured to death, was absolutely outraged: "He was your brother!"

Esmeralda, who had started to guide Piper to take a seat in the sofa, grinned happily: "Twin brother to be exact. But he was a pain in the ass."

Piper refused to sit down. Instead she rather rudely swatted Esmeralda's helping hand away. "Enough with the chit chat. Where are my sons?"

The blonde demon suddenly looked serious. "Well, Pepper… "

"Piper!"

"Sorry. Piper, we have a little bit of a problem… "

"What! What problem? There is a problem with my sons?" Piper's voice started to get panicky.

"Calm down, Pepp… Piper. Nothing serious. Just something a little unfortunate that we didn't plan to happen."

"Just tell me what happened!"

Esmeralda butted in: "What Jenny is trying to explain is that something went wrong with the Mouyawan Spell… "

"You did the spell wrong!"

"Yes... No... It was supposed to take your sons to a safe place on the East Coast - in case any of you survived and started to look for the boys. The Mouyawan Spell is a trans-dimensional jump spell that can be used as a transporter. It shifts you swiftly through The Mouyawan Dimension for a hundred of a second before it transports you back to this world and a location of choice. It also works as power dampener which was ideal for this kind of assignment."

"So what went wrong?" Piper dreaded the answer.

Esmeralda scratched her head with her uninjured hand. "I don't know! It should have been good but it misfired. They are still in The Mouyawan Dimension and I don't know really where they are… "

"You have lost my sons in another dimension!" Piper looked like she was about to explode.

Esmeralda, who never been able to take criticism very well, got mad quickly. "Calm down!"

Piper started to go slowly towards Esmeralda who was ready for a fight. "Don't ask me to calm down!"

Jenny suddenly interfered. "Ok, ok let's not loose our heads ladies! We need your help Pepp… Piper. With your blood we can easily get to the other dimension without The Urn of Moth and track the kids down. Are you in?"

"Just tell me what to do."

"Ok, this is going to hurt a little bit… "

Benny put the report down. He breathed out slowly. He didn't like the idea of the little boys alone in The Mouyawan Dimension. Unlike any of The Ripper Demons or The Charmed Ones he actually had some knowledge about that particular dimension, and it was a pretty weird place.

To be continued in "Chapter 12. – Days of Our Charmed Lives, Part IV – Finale Finale"…