Disclaimer and general WARNING: I do not own the Biker Mice (although I wish I did). The spells in this story I created and do not know if they will work so don’t use them. Also I do not make any profit from this story, and it is written purely for my enjoyment and others.

By Lady FoxFire

March 2000

When Throttle and Modo pulled into the Last Change they find Vinnie sitting on the floor wrapped up in a blanket staring wild eyed at the wall as Charlie holds him and stokes his head.

Charlie looks up at the guys, her face wet with tears. "What happened? What’s wrong with him?" she chocks out.

"I don’t know. He was fine until he tried to leap that hill. And when we meet that woman he freaked." Throttle said as he looked down at Vinnie with concern.

"Woman? What woman? Where?" asks Charlie.

Throttle and Modo tells her about the woman they found and how Vinnie freaked. As they tell their story they notice the color runs from Charlie’s face and her breathing becoming short and rugged.

"Charlie ma’am?!? What is it? What’s wrong?" asked a concerned Modo

"No it can be. No it can’t" Charlie whispered

"Charlie?"

Charlie turns to Vinnie and starts to shake him. "Vinnie snap out of it." Getting no where she slaps him in frustrations.

"Charlie?!? Charlie I don’t want to go back out there" Vinnie mumbles to Charlie. "I don’t want to see that THING EVER AGAIN!!!!

Charlie puts her hands on Vinnie face and gently forces him to look her in the eye. "Vinnie did you see? What happened?"

Vinnie stand up and pull the blanket tighter around him as he moves over to the window. Looking out of the window he starts to tell what happened on the road.

"Everything was fine. I was about to beat my old record on the highest jump when everything changed. I got … cold. So very cold." Vinnie pulls the blanket around him tighter. "Then the balance of the bike changed. Like there was someone else on the bike, someone behind me on my bike. And then suddenly it felt like red-hot knives were being rammed into my side. And then I saw a face. That …. face."

"Vinnie let me see your sides" Charlie examine Vinnie’s sides and find five long welts on get side as if someone had cruelly scratch the mouse.

"Hell Vinnie! How did you do that?" asked Throttle.

Charlie put her hands on Vinnie’s chest and lowers her forehead onto hi chest. "I’m so sorry Vinnie. So sorry. It’s all my fault." Charlie said quietly as tear ran down her face.

"Sweetheart what’s wrong? What’s your fault." Vinnie asks as his arms encircled Charlie in a protective embrace

At that moment, Charlie’s mom walks through the door carrying groceries for tonight‘s dinner. "Hey everyone!" Diana sung out. Noticing all the concerned face and her daughter tear stained face she asks, "what’s wrong? What’s happened"

Charlie replied as she wipes away her tears "Rebecca’s back!"

The blood drained from Diana's face. "No! No! That impossible! She dead! She’s gone forever! She can’t come back! Not again!" she screamed as the groceries slipped out of her hands and onto the floor. "She can’t be back! What proof do you have?" She asks Charlie angrily

"She attacked Vinnie and the guys all saw her" Charlie answered her mother nervously.

The mice looked at each other questionly. What in the world were these two females talking about?

Charlie then picked up the groceries and quickly escaped to the kitchen. Diana just stood there hugging her self say "no! No! Not again! I don’t want to loose my daughter"

Modo goes over to comfort Diana as Vinnie escapes to the kitchen to talk to Charlie about what she said.

**Kitchen of the Last Chance garage**

The groceries that Diana brought are sitting on the table. But there is no sign of Charlie. "Charlie?!?" Vinnie asks as he hears the faint sounds of crying. Vinnie finally her curled up in a ball with her head resting on her knees as she tried to cry softly so no one could hear her. "Charlie!?! What’s wrong sweetheart?" Vinnie asks as he raises her tear stained face to him.

"It’s… all… my…. fault!" Charlie sobbed out.

"What your fault sweetheart?"

"Everything! Your attacked. Just everything!"

"Sweetheart it not your fault whatever it is"

"But it is Vinnie. It all my fault. Just cause I lo…"

"Because you love me?"

"Yes"

Vinnie pulls Charlie up to a stand position and pulls her toward him. "Charlie! Charlie! Don’t you know? I loved you since the first time I laid eyes on you."

Vinnie moves to kiss Charlie. At the same time a butcher knife rises up in to the air and stabs Vinnie in the thigh.

Vinnie’s screams of pain brings everyone run into the kitchen. There they come to face a scene no of them have ever dreamed of. All the kitchen knives have rinsed into the air, aiming for Charlie and Vinnie.

"OUT!" screams Throttle as he pulls the two of them out of the kitchen.

Modo slams the door shut just before the knives could get anyone. Each of the knives slammed into the door all the way up to their handles. Everyone backs away from the door as they watched in horror as some of the knives twisted in the door trying to get them. While others ripped themselves of the door to suddenly to appear in other places in the door as if they were trying to find a weakness in the door so they could through so they could thrust themselves into Vinnie’s and Charlie’s flesh.

Modo quickly examined the knife in Vinnie’s leg. "This is going to hurt." as he pulled the knife out of his leg. Vinnie moaned a little as the knife was pulled out of his leg. Modo the bandaged the leg as best as he could. "It looks like it just went through the meat of the thigh and didn’t hit anything vital"

"Well it hurts like hell!" Vinnie says between clench teeth.

Diana paced back and forth in front of the door as she hugged herself.

"Why can’t you leave us alone" Diana suddenly screamed at the door. "We didn’t do anything to you! Just leave us alone!"

"Never! Never! Never!" a chilling female voice echoed around the room. "Not until I have my revenge. You will never escape me!" Black blood started to oozes from the cuts in the door

"We’re not defeated yet, you old bitch" Charlie shouts at the door.

"Yes you are! You can’t escape this building" the voice said as a black fog began to cover the windows and doors.

Throttle went to try to open the door through the black fog but quickly pulled his hand back. "No good. Reach through the fogs, is like reaching into a barrel of broken glass"

Everyone started to look for another way out but shortly came up empty.

"If we can find away out, maybe then we could find a safe place or someone… Yes! Of course! Why didn’t I think of that before" Charlie said as she raced up the stairs to her bedroom.

Everyone looked at each other questionly as they could hear Charlie throwing this around in a mad search for something.

"Found it!" Charlie screamed with joy as she flew down the stairs.

"Found what Charlie ma’am" Modo asked as everyone crowded around to see what Charlie was so excited about.

"This what we need to escape this trap." Charlie said as she gently placed an object wrapped in silver velvet cloth onto the table. She carefully unwrapped the object.

"Charlie girl. I, umm, think you need to sit down and let us handle this" Throttle said as he stare down at the large amethyst crystals Charlie unwrapped.

"Ye of so little faith." Charlie said as she picks up the crystals. She turns the crystal around so the crystal sparking in the light. "This is how we are getting out of here."

"Charlene it’s a ROCK. It can’t help us get out of here." Diana told Charlie with concern for daughter in her voice.

"But yes it can. This was given to me by a very good friend. She said that I’d need it someday. I guess she was right." Charlie said as she stood up and moved in from of the door. "Now if this works we won’t have much time, so be prepare to move."

"Charlie?" Vinnie said as he touched her shoulder

"Trust me." as Charlie gazed into Vinnie’s eyes.

Charlie raises the crystal to eye level and started to chant:

Lady Bright

Hear our plead

Help us our time of need

Grant us safety in Your arms

From every evil that’s allowed

Keep us safe and well and sound

As I will, so mote it be!

The crystal started to glow with a warm pulsing light that grow stronger every second. Suddenly an unearthly scream came from the kitchen, the black fog disappeared and the crystal shattered.

Charlie raced over to the bikes and climbed on behind Vinnie "GO!!" she screamed. The bikes shot out of the last change garage faster than ever before.

"Where to" throttle shouted to Charlie

"Oak Trail. My friend lives there. She can help us." Charlie replied.

The bikes sped through the deserted Chicago streets toward their only hope of safety.

To Be Continued