Three Delivery Another Dimension Chapter 4, a three delivery fanfic

Three Delivery "Another Dimension" 4
By Crystalquirt

Sue, Sid and Tobey disappeared from the bookstore thanks to a spell conjured by Kong Li. He used a recipe to separate them to get them out of his way while he finds the most powerful Black Liquid recipe. They are lost in a magical dimension where they experience their worst fears.

Nana has figured out where they are and will go after Kong Li to get the recipe he used to get them back. Once she finds them, they still have to get the Black Liquid recipe back from Kong Li!

Violence, more violence, possibly disturbing and scary situations [suicide], mild expletive.

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FROM PART 3
Sid turned around as far at the chains would let him by pushing with his toes on the ground but he still count see the source of the light. He turned his head as far as he could to look back and blinked to focus. There was a thin female figure walking toward him.

The light seemed to be coming along with her. As she got closer he recognized her. It was Sue! He was excited at first and started to call to her, but stopped. He watched quietly some more, trying to figure out if she was a ghost, an angel or his imagination.

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Part 4
The brightly lit expanse had proved to be endless, at least as far at Tobey could tell. Exhausted from sobbing and running and being frightened out of his mind, he let himself drop to the floor on his butt before he threw himself back, legs wide apart, arms spread out to his sides not caring that the floor was freezing cold!

Eyes red and swollen, blood from the wound over his ear mixed with sweat and ran down the side of his face all the way down to his neck he looked bad. He had a tremendous headache and was breathing through his mouth trying to catch his breath.

Tobey's thinking was becoming very irrational as he thought about his situation. He decided it was completely hopeless! And he felt extra bad since he was losing his family because they were disappointed and very angry with him. It was very hard to not take it very personally. It's my fault, kept repeating in his thoughts. Sue and Sid would have each other, and Nana, but now he would be alone, again.

Nana hated him, she wasn't just mad at him. He was sure this wasn't going to pass. He looked down at his clothes, probably the last clothes he would own that he liked and got to pick out himself. His phone was still there too, for now, but he didn't have anyone to call except people who hated him. His thoughts were becoming more emotional, and less rational.

Then he started really fantasizing. Maybe I could get a job in a grocery store – now THAT would be the place for me! All that food! But they would never hire a homeless kid with a 'past'. Tobey took a deep breath and realized how hungry and tired he was. Maybe I can stow away on a ship, don't they need help on ships? Maybe I'm thinking of a pirate movie.

Tobey thoughtfully put his hand up to the cut on his head and found it had swollen up where Nana kicked him. I thought she loved me, Sue and Sid too. They all told me they did. Sid said I was like a brother to him. Tobey's lip quivered, "I love them – now they think I'm worthless. I just wanna die."

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The wharf was very quiet at this time of night where Nana was. She hadn't found Kong Li yet. Very worried about Sue, Sid and Tobey she stopped out on a pier. Thinking Kong Li couldn't sneak up on her out here, she set up her 'seeing' portal recipe on a bench near where the boats tied up to unload. She had a very bad feeling about Tobey so she checked in on him first.

Through the mirror, she could see he had made no progress; he was still lying on the white floor flat on his back. The angle of the mirror showed Tobey's face clearly. At least he wasn't crying anymore and he was moving around a little. He had his hand to his head like it hurt and she could see blood.

Nana worried that he was injured seriously. That would explain why he was still just lying there. She found herself talking to him even though she knew he couldn't hear her. "Tobey! Get up and find Sue and Sid!" she kept watching him - hoping he would get up. He didn't make a move to get up, his lip quivered like he was going to start crying again. Nana read his lips when he spoke out loud and learned that he thought he was worthless and wanted to die.

Nana yelled at the mirror "Tobey no! Don't say that! You aren't worthless! Please get up and find Sid and Sue.

Even more afraid now that he wasn't going to make it, she watched him lying on the floor looking at his hands. She thought about going to him, but if she did that none of them could return. Nana quickly changed pictures behind the mirror and saw Sue was still sitting with what she thought was Sid's body! "Come on you kids – figure this out."

The cloaked figure with the pale blue eyes had found Nana before she could find him. Now he had the 'another dimension' recipe and the 'black liquid' recipe in several vials. Not worried about being able to defeat his strongest enemy now he walked toward Nana out on the dock, while she was occupied with what she saw in the mirror.

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Tobey winced as his finger touched a really tender place on his head and he brought his other hand up. Both hands in front of his face, he looked at the blood that came from his head. Slowly, thoughtfully his hands went around his own throat and squeezed.

Must be some kind of stupid survival instinct keeping me from squeezing tight enough, even if I did I would pass out, I would let go before I finished myself off. He knew from the start that it wouldn't work, self-choking wasn't an option, but he was wishing it was. His hands fell out to his sides again. Now there was more blood around his neck and on his hands.

Starving would work, it would take longer – but if I'm on the streets again, I may not have a choice about it. He refused to ever do again what he did in the past just for a meal or a roof over his head. I will starve to death before I will hurt anyone else, or let them hurt me. Tobey wished he had a weapon of some kind. That would make it easier, he thought.

Thoughtfully, he brought his hand to his hip, and slipped it into his pocket. His fingers came out with his pocket knife. He pried open the blade and seeing it scared him a little, considering what he was thinking of doing with it. Would it really be 'easy?'

It would probably hurt a lot and the more he looked at it, he thought the blade wasn't really long enough to do much damage to his guts. His emotions were so raw he wasn't thinking clearly at all.

As he turned the knife over and over in his bloody hand, tears ran down his temples into his hair. He really looked like he had been in a train wreck.

Mean hateful thoughts played out in his mind - he was attacking himself. I probably wouldn't have the nerve to do it anyway. I'm a worthless a waste of air. Is that what Nana said? He couldn't remember for sure, her words all ran together after a while.

Tobey lifted the hand holding the knife and through teary eyes, stared at it and then at his wrist. He picked up his other arm so he could see it too. Lying on the floor, flat on his back he raised both arms up so he could see without picking his head up. He laid the knife blade against his skin and looked at it. They won't miss me, and this way no one will have to even feed me.

It stung like hell as he turned the edge into his skin and dragged down his wrist. Tobey gritted his teeth, changed hands and repeated the motion, cutting his other wrist. Blood dripped on his cheek.

Tobey sighed and let his arms fall back out to his sides. The knife slid away from him across the floor. Now it's done – soon Nana won't even have to waste cab fare to take me back to the orphanage. I'm not worth the gas it would take in a car.

Blood slowly pooled around his hands and then his arms. It was warm at first, but then Tobey realized how nasty his own blood felt as it got cold and sticky quickly, on that cold floor. The time when he saved everyone by learning the ways of the Nian played through his thoughts. How proud they all seemed to be of him then.

Tobey thought about when he jumped on the runaway school bus and saved the driver and all those kids – but nobody saw him do that. It probably wouldn't have made any difference anyway. Nana told him he could never be a superhero, and was sorry she wasted any time training him. He closed his teary eyes and waited for the end to come.

After he had been there for a while without moving except his chest as he took shallow breaths, he heard footsteps again. At first he thought it was Nana coming back to take him to the orphanage – she said – 'like garbage'. That memory was all it took to make him utter a small sound of agony as more tears ran down his temples and into his hair.

He smiled. Well fine, I won't live long enough for her to take me back. He didn't look up until he realized there was more than one person walking toward him. There were four feet making noise on the cold, shiny white floor.

Tobey moved only his head as he looked past down his belly button in the direction of the noise. Just moving his head made him dizzy and he realized how weak he was. He focused on the source of the noise long enough to recognize his 'friends'.

Wearing their usual clothes, Sid and Sue were walking toward him. Then they started running toward him. Anger rose and made his face feel hot. He wiped tears away with the back of his hands. Mostly he just smeared the blood from his hands with his tears. He was a little surprised he could still move at all.

Tobey quickly stood up to face the two siblings he once thought were his friends. Before he died he planned to 'kick' their butts for what they did to him.

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The restaurant, even in the storeroom had never been this quiet before. Sue sat with Sid for a long time before she got up to find something to cover his body with. She also really needed to find Tobey, and find out where Barney went.

After a while, she gave up trying to find either of them and grabbed a blanket before she went back to the storeroom. She couldn't find Barney either, not that she wanted to it just would have been good to know where he was and keep her eye on him.

Tears flowed freely again when she started to cover Sid up. She just couldn't bear to do it yet; it was so . . . final. She stayed next to him for a little while longer and tried to call Nana on Tobey's phone. No answer, then she tried to call 911 again, and even 911 didn't answer. Sue put the phone down and touched Sid's hair once more before she would finally pull the blanket over his head.

In a flash of bright light, Sid's body disappeared. Sue fell back on her butt with the blanket still in her hands. "No. Sid? . . . What's g . . . bodies, people don't just vanish." Sue sat there and thought for a while.

"Maybe Tobey didn't leave and just vanished the same way." Sue started to call Tobey, but remembered she had his phone. Tobey would never leave his phone, or leave at all during such a crisis.

Sue checked all over the restaurant and found there really was no one else there. There was also no garden! Out the back door, there was just brightly lit white space. She walked out a little ways on the bright white floor. The building, now behind her sparkled and quietly vanished, just like Tobey and Sid's body did!

Feeling self-conscious about being someplace strange in her torn pajama's she looked down at herself. Surprised to find that she had her regular clothes on, favorite shirt and black pants with studded belt, she thought was all of it just an illusion?

Next, she reasoned that Sid wasn't really dead! She was so happy for a moment, until she realized she had been through a terrible nightmare and Sid and Tobey were probably going though nightmares of their own.

"I have to find them fast!" Sue said to no one but herself. She started jogging in the direction she already faced since all directions looked exactly the same.

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Sid turned around in the chains by pushing with his toes on the cold ground but he still count see much at first. As his eyes got used to the unexpected light in the once, dark dungeon, he could see a thin female figure walking toward him.

Now the figure that had to be an angel was jogging toward him. Thinking it was an angel, he realized he must be dead and was a little sad, but relieved at the same time. His life had taken such an awful turn so suddenly. "I wonder why the angel isn't flying?" he mumbled.

Everyone he knew, his family and all of Chinatown were either dead or had their lives turned upside down, and it was all his fault. With Sue and Tobey dead, and doubting his ability to save Nana, death sounded ok. No sane person would ever want to live in a world ruled by Kong Li anyway.

Sid didn't realize it, but he had closed his eyes. He was watching Sue and Tobey's faces smiling at him in his imagination. His head fell forward with his chin on his chest and his arms and hands suspended over his head had gone numb a long time ago, except for the agonizing pain in his shoulder. Sid's bare feet were freezing and aching. Considering how bad I hurt, I must not be dead.

He could tell, even with his eyes closed that the room was getting brighter. He thought the angel must be very close now, but afraid to open his eyes he stayed still and waited.

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Sue ran faster when she saw another structure before her in the vast nothing. When she got to it she slowed to a walk as she approached, catching her breath and wondering how she was going to get in. There were no visible doors or windows. It was just white floor right up to a stone wall. Sue was amazed as she walked closer the walls dissolved, one before another as she walked forward.

Soon she started jogging again. This illusion was dissolving almost like the illusion of Wu's she was trapped in did once she realized something was not right. Something was still 'holding' this place together until she got very close. She reasoned that it was because Sid still believed it was real.

Finally the right wall dissolved and the light followed her into the space. Hanging in the middle of this room, now missing a wall was Sid hanging from chained hands. "Sid." She whispered, trying not to scare him.

Sid didn't seem to hear her. Sue walk up, carefully touched his face and she took her finger and gently wiped tears off of his cheek. The best thing was that he felt warm and alive. Excited, without a word she hugged him. Sid startled and moaned and she let go of him. He was full of bruises and cuts and he still hadn't opened his eyes. "Sid?" she whispered again.

Sid finally got up enough courage to open his eyes. "Mei Mei? Wow, this angel looks like my sister Sue." He smiled and closed his eyes again.

"Sid wake up – I'm not an angel! I'm alive and so are you! It's really me-Sue!" Sid opened his eyes and came around. He blinked in the bright light trying to get his eyes to adjust. When he really saw her, tears of joy ran down his face.

"MeiMei! I can't believe you're really here, they told me Kong Li killed you! KONG Li, himself told me he killed you!"

"Ya, I thought you died in my arms. What we've been experiencing – none of it is real- or rather, it's only as real as we make it!"

"No way. Then that means I didn't mortally wound Tobey! And Kong Li didn't finish him off either!"

"No, but we have to find him – fast!"

Sid saw Sue reach up toward the chains holding his hands and interrupted her.

"You can't release me-there is no lock, they welded the chains on my wrists – just like they did to Nana. MeiMei you'll have to find something that can cut the chains but first go get Nana! She has been . . ."

"Sid, it's alright, Nana wasn't ever here, remember? This is all an illusion, even the chains. They are still keeping you captive because you think they are!"

"What? The burns on my wrists and getting my butt kicked by those guards didn't feel like an illusion."

"Try to calm down, see things as they really are. As soon as I did, my illusion totally fell apart and disappeared. I suppose once you are depressed enough, the illusion will start to disappear on its own, but by then it might be too late. I don't really know how I kept it together long enough to figure it out. You have to try!"

"I trust you Sue - completely, but this just seems too . . . um, too simple!"

"Try Sid, I know you can do it!" She hugged him gently while he calmed and focused. She could feel him relaxing. She looked up and the chains were dissolving from his wrists. Once gone he landed flat on his feet and his arms fell painfully to his sides. He gritted his teeth for a moment but smiled at her.

They watched the rest of the walls and torture machines around them dissolve, including the chains on his ankles, everything! His black shirt and shoes appeared back on his body!

"See Sid, Nana was never here. This is all part of Kong Li's magic to keep us occupied while he finds and uses that recipe in the bookstore."

"But it was so real!"

"Ya, it was too real."

"Sue? Oh man, I wanted to die . . . and if I had the opportunity! – Tobey!"

"I thought for a moment that I wanted to die too! It must be part of the effect of where we are! Unless Tobey realized it was all fake, he's probably still in his nightmare!"

"Or worse! Mei Mei – what if his illusions made him think he wanted to die, he's all alone – you know how he can get!"

"Ya Sid, now that I'm thinking clearly, I know there is never a reason to wish for death! Things always change – we can change things!"

"Yes, I understand now too, it is clear, like there were clouds of darkness before and I couldn't see clearly."

"And Tobey is probably still suffering somewhere!"

Just as Sue's relief and joy had vanished, so did Sid's when he realized Tobey was still in trouble. Along with the building, and the other illusions around him, Sid's injuries all vanished too. He moved all the parts that had been injured to be sure, before they set out jogging again.

Sue wasn't too worried about the direction since she had found Sid ok, she hoped it would be the same for finding Tobey.

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Nana saw in the mirror that Sue had realized, and beat her nightmare. She watched her running off to find Sid and Tobey.

The sound of grass being stepped on behind her made her turn around just in time to see Kong Li swing his staff at her head. Nana grabbed her mirror, did a back flip over the bench and kicked it back at him. Sparks flew from the chains that secured it to ground when they broke. The bench flew in front of Kong Li and blocked him just long enough for Nana to get back and grab a handful of magic herbs from her bag.

Nana threw the herbs in front of him, they flashed and sent out a force like a strong wind and Kong Li was blown off his feet. Nana stood her ground against it.

"You rotten old woman!" Kong Li got up and charged her. "Watch it Kong Li, you are older than me!" She struck again. His cape flowed out behind him as he flew through the air off the palm off Nana's hand.

Their battle had taken them off the pier and back to shore. Nana was near Mr. Wang's crab stand. Kong Li took out a vial and threw it at the wall behind her as he attacked. His attack kept her from catching the vial.

When it broke against the wall, leaving a stain from the recipe on it he started chanting "Ku-Fio-Fu!"

Kong Li threw Mei Hua against the wall just under where the vortex phenomenon was forming.

She easy landed on her feet and charged him. The tentacles shot out of the vortex and wrapped around Nana's right arm. She still took Kong Li's feet out from under him with a kick and he fell. While he was down, she reached under his cloak and felt for anything that felt like a recipe. When she pulled her hand back, she was holding two recipes!

She had them both! Kong Li growled and grabbed her arms. The tentacles from the portal wrapped Kong Li's legs and another grabbed Nana around her waist. They wrestled for the recipes as the tentacles pulled them both closer to the orange vortex on the wall.

Nana took her hand off Kong Li just long enough to grab herbs out of her pocket. She mashed the dry mixture into the tentacles slimy flesh and the ones that held her, shriveled up like a slug with salt sprinkled on it. As Kong Li disappeared into the vortex Nana rolled away.

When she looked back in her hand she was horrified to find she only had one recipe left! Kong Li had managed to get back the other one, but which one! She sat down on the grass near the crab shack to read the recipe. The vortex had vanished after it swallowed Kong Li.

Now he was on the other side with her kids. She knew they were in no shape to be fighting him. Would he be stuck in a nightmare too or was he already aware of the full effect of the recipe he used to send them there?

Mei Hua focused back on reading the recipe she held. Thankfully it was for the vortex! She had little time to prepare, she hoped. The sooner she got Sue, Sid and Tobey back, the less chance there would be of them running into Kong Li.

Nana only had the picture of Sid, Sue and Tobey. The rest of her pictures went into the water when Kong Li attacked. It would still work as long as they have found each other! She set the mirror in front of her leaning on her herb bag and put the picture behind it. As the 'seeing portal' recipe ran down it, the other dimension came into focus.

They were together! Mei Hua was so relieved to see Tobey was still conscious when Sue and Sid got to him. But he was fighting them and there was a lot of blood! They weren't gonna have an easy job of convincing him it was all an illusion.

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Tobee continued . . .