Author's Note – Thank you once again, Ligia Elena and Laurie Lu, for your reviews on my last chapter. I also would like to thank Mediatorsk for her patience, feedback and help with my English – tusen tack vännen.
I'm sorry for updating after such a long time but hopefully there is still someone out there that wants to read this story.
Chapter 12. – Days of Our Charmed Lives, Part V – Finale Finale
Benny's Report, Day 110– around 10.00 (p.m.)
Benny sat by his little IKEA-lamp under the Halliwell manor and continued to read the report from his agents. It was a though day if you were a Charmed One. The two remaining Ripper Demons – Jenny and Esmeralda, had the Halliwell sisters at their mercy. They had initially planned to kidnap Piper's two sons but something had gone wrong with The Ripper Demon's transportation spell and the two young boys were now stuck in The Mouyawan Dimension.
In an attempt to get the kids back, Jenny and Esmeralda had convinced the oldest Halliwell to participate in a Double Burger Triple Dimension Jump Spell to locate her sons in the foreign dimension. Benny didn't like the situation at all - he never liked the thought of little ones – demon, Kalla Bong or human, being in any kind of danger.
Benny had to admit that using the spell was an inventive solution to the problem but it was also very risky. His three agents – Björn, Agneta and Annifrid, who had followed The Charmed Ones to the Ripper Demons, could be exposed to the Dark Magic performed. Kalla Bongs were possibly the strongest catalysts in The Universe; if they got involved in magic or another dimension… who knew what kind of things would happen?
Piper had just agreed to participate in The Double Burger Triple Dimension Jump Spell to travel to another, unknown dimension and save her sons. She didn't know anything about the spell but as long as it could get her closer to Wyatt and Chris, she was ready to roll.
"Ok, this is going to hurt a little bit… " Jenny - Esmeralda's blonde sister or lover or whatever she was, expertly took Piper's hand in a firm grip, placed it over a green little bowl on the sofa table and made a deep cut with a pocket knife.
"Ow!" Piper and her sisters gasped almost simultaneously when the Ripper Demon sliced her with the knife. Piper's hand started to bleed into the bowl almost immediately.
After that Jenny shoved a half-eaten hamburger in Piper's mouth. "Now take a bite."
Piper took a bite. She hadn't eaten fast food for so long and as a chef she was disgusted.
Jenny gave her a wink. "I don't know which is worse; having your hand cut open or eating that terrible burger."
Piper's hand hurt an awfully lot but she tried her best not show any of the pain she was feeling. The little bowl under her hand was quickly filling up. Jenny was lighting a ring of candles around them and when she was done she started to roll a joint.
"I never really had the patience for all this magic kind of mumbo jumbo so I always needed a little help to get into the mood. You know what I mean?"
Esmeralda came out of Jenny's bedroom and made a disgusted face when she saw her sister light up the joint with one of the candles. "I wish you could stop that every time we are doing a spell. To master the Dark Arts you need to have a clear mind."
Jenny shrugged and spoke with the spliff hanging from the corner of her mouth: "Well, you say tomato and I say… "
"Never mind. I think I found it, the thing that can solve The Dual Transporter Synchronicity Problem."
Jenny saw what Esmeralda was holding in her hands and laughed. "Brilliant!"
Esmeralda was holding a pair of handcuffs. Phoebe started to blush; she recognized those very well - she and Emilio had used them frequently.
Piper eyed the two Ripper Demons suspiciously, she didn't like The Double Burger Triple Dimension Jump Spell so far and things were getting more and more bizarre. Before she could react Esmeralda had cuffed her herself to Piper's left wrist. "Hey! What are you doing?"
Esmeralda gave her a mocking smile: "Did you think I would let you go into that dimension all alone so that you could get away with your two precious sons? Think again."
Jenny walked behind the two of them and cut off strands of their long hair. She twined the two locks together so they became a thin little rope. Afterwards she dipped it into the bowl of Piper's blood and painted a big 'X' on the floor in front Piper with it. She held up the little rope. "This will be a cord between our realm and The Mouyawan Dimension. After you have found your boys, you will climb back to our world on this rope. Do you understand?"
Piper gave her a disbelieving look. The little rope made out of Piper and Esmeralda's hair twined together was super thin and barely longer than a hand. Jenny left it floating unnaturally in the air, above the 'X'.
Jenny continued to explain: "It's much bigger in the other dimension. It will be like a big rope that you can climb on."
"Ah." Piper felt a little relieved.
The bowl under Piper's hand was now filled to the brim with blood. Jenny took one of Esmeralda's colorful scarves that were lying on the sofa and made it into a bandage for Piper's hand. "Sorry for hurting your hand before Pepper, but it is essential for The Double Burger Triple Dimension Jump Spell. Though I must say that you have been a good sport about it so far."
"For the last time my name is Piper and can we please just get on with it."
Jenny smiled. "Of course. To complete the spell all you need to do is to drink it up." She gave Piper the bowl of blood.
Piper stared at the bowl. There was a lot of blood in it. Her blood. You have to be some kind of idiotic, vampire loving Goth-freak to get off on drinking your own blood, or anyone else's blood for that matter. Otherwise it is just disgusting. She closed her eyes and thought of her two sons alone in another dimension, then she drank all of it. The world turned inside out, Piper felt herself fall.
Björn, the Kalla Bong agent assigned to Piper, watched with horror as she drank the bowl of blood. He and his colleagues were also in the room, invisible to The Charmed Ones and The Ripper Demons. They had been following every turn of events, every exchange between the two parts, trying to figure out what would happen next, how things would end.
While Piper drank her own blood, Jenny read from an old book. The air around them became warm and humid, like it does before a thunderstorm on a summer day - full of electricity and a sense of calm before the storm. Even the lights in the room felt different, more subdued and foreboding. Suddenly all the lamps and outlets in the room went off in a rain of sparkles. Some kind of dazzling light or a hole just above Piper and Esmeralda became visible. As the light engulfed the two women all the candles around them started to burn with a brighter flame. Strange voices filled the room; they sounded like a mix between whispers and a Russian man's choir. It had an ominous, apocalyptic feel to it. A wind stronger than the air from a jet engine came from the hole in the roof. The voices became louder.
A bigger copy of the little rope appeared hanging from the bright hole in the roof. "Grab it!" Jenny screamed, trying to make herself heard over the overwhelming sound from the wind and the voices. Piper seemed hardly aware of anything in the room anymore but Esmeralda gave Jenny a nod and grabbed the rope. Then the weirdest thing happened – Piper and Esmeralda fell upwards into the whole, into the strange light. As if gravity no longer mattered.
Björn didn't think, he threw himself after the two women before they vanished into The Mouyawan Dimension.
The wind, the humid atmosphere and the voices went away as soon as the two witches had disappeared through the hole in the roof. The hole itself closed. The only reminder of what had happened was the 'X' on the floor, written in blood and the little rope floating above it. An angry neighbor banging on the wall disrupted the aerie calm in the room. "Stop that noise immediately! I will not tolerate any loud or bad music!"
Everyone in the room was a little too dazed to find the angry neighbor's shouts particularly funny. No one said anything for half a minute.
"WOW!" Jenny took a long drag on her joint. "That was… that was so… wow! Just like a frigging Rammstein concert!"
"What will happen to them now?" Phoebe's quiet question got Jenny out of her amazement over the effects of the spell.
"Well, The Double Burger Triple Dimension Jump Spell will hopefully take Piper to the boys. Or close the boys… It's a very effective locating spell. They take the boys with them and they climb up on the rope back to our dimension." Jenny pointed at the little rope floating in the air.
"Ok." Phoebe became less worried. "That doesn't sound too complicated."
But then Jenny took one of the candles and set the rope on fire.
Falling from one dimension to another can't really be described in words. Having to experience a Double Burger Triple Dimension Jump Spell at the same time makes it even more confusing and overwhelming. Blood red patterns, not unlike huge veins started to cloud Piper's vision as soon as she had drunk all the blood. Whispers from her past and her future filled her head. She felt a pull towards the red patterns, the veins – they were pulsating, changing direction every second and all she could do was trying to follow. It was impossible - the whispers and the red wanting to explode in her head. Suddenly it felt like someone had ejected her out of herself and punched her in the stomach. Not much different from being born…
Piper and Esmeralda fell for half a second before they landed hard on a wet, muddy slope. They continued to fall, or rather roll down, for the rest of that second. It wasn't very pleasant since they were handcuffed to each other and injured from before. Their tumble down finally ended with a big splash in some kind of water. After they had disentangled rather painfully from each other and gotten over the worst of the shock, both Piper and Esmeralda started to look around. Thankfully the pond they landed in was shallow, the water only reached them to their waists. It was very dark but they seemed to be in a forest or a jungle.
"Over there!" Esmeralda pointed to the top of the hill from where they have fallen. Piper could see a thick rope hanging in the air, weirdly light from above by some kind of invisible spot. She realized that it was hers and Esmeralda's hair, twinned together. It was much bigger in this dimension – big enough to handle the weight of one or two persons, just as Jenny said it would be.
"Is that our rope? From the other side?"
"Yep, that's our rope all right, our ticket back home."
Piper watched the rope up on the hill and was thinking of how to get up on that slippery slope without problems. Suddenly the rope was on fire. It started to curl up before it disintegrated into the flames. The air was filled with the stench of burned hair. "It's supposed to do that?"
Esmeralda looked up and gasped. "No! NOOOOOOO!"
There was no longer a rope hanging there, just flames and smoke. Slowly it dawned on Piper what just had happened… the unthinkable - they had no longer a way out of The Mouyawan Dimension.
The mobile phone beside Benny suddenly started to beep. It was a text message from Annifrid: 'Björn gone into the other dimension with Piper and Esmeralda. They can't get back. '
Benny knew what that meant - everything he had feared… The Curse of Kalla Bong.
To be continued in "Chapter 13. – Days of Our Charmed Lives, Part VI – Finally Finale"…