A/N1: Storm here. So now Chase is back and the sisters have been introduced. Onwards then...do you have a favourite sister yet? I'm with the psycho ;)
A/N2: Dude, who the hell are these crazy girls? They're crazy! Crazy authors…Crazy people…See the correlation here?
Chase was in shock. The last thing he remembered was fighting Caleb and now he was lying in the middle of a forest with two weird girls staring at him. He wasn't sure what was happening, but he intended to find out. He jumped to his feet swiftly and turned to the girls. The blonde one was openly leering at him while the brunette looked rather embarrassed.
"Will someone tell me what the hell is going on?" he demanded when neither of them said anything. "I mean, who the hell are you?" He glanced down at himself briefly then flinched in alarm when he noticed he had no clothes on. Suddenly the girl's expressions made sense. "Why am I naked?"
"Well, we're not complaining," the fair haired one replied, looking him up and down with a smirk. "Nice abs you got there." The other rolled her eyes and passed him a pair of jeans from her bag. He took them hurriedly and pulled them on, cheeks flushing slightly red.
"I'm Riley and this pervert is Katherine," she informed him with a small, encouraging smile. Chase glanced between them nervously, unsure if he could trust them or not.
"Where are we?" he asked warily.
"In Glaze wood, just outside the grounds of Spencer Academy," Riley answered helpfully. Chase immediately pegged her as the 'nice' sister, particularly when Katherine decided to added her own response.
"That's in Ipswich, just in case you're an idiot."
"Thanks," Chase replied sarcastically, giving the blonde an annoyed look. She just grinned at him with a dark gleam in her eyes.
"So, do you want help killing the sons of Ipswich then?" she asked, raising her eyebrows in a mocking manner. Chase shook his head in disbelief. Was this girl actually for real?
"Killing them?" he repeated. "It didn't work the first time and it's definitely not gonna work the second. In all honesty I might as well not bother."
"Aw shame," Katherine replied, sounding disappointed. "There was me thinking you were going to be at least a little bit fun and it turns out you're just a pretty face."
"Hey, who said we were going to kill the sons of Ipswich in the first place?" Riley snapped, glaring at her sister. Katherine turned to her briefly with a chuckle.
"I did. After all, we both know I'm in charge. My power is stronger than yours; water beats fire hands down," Katherine told her smugly. Chase's eyes widened as Riley growled deep in her throat, clenching her fists.
"We never agreed to that," she hissed at the blonde, ignoring the boy with them. The candle flames suddenly rose up to an unnatural height, their orange glow increasing dangerously as the fire flickered in the dark.
"I'm sorry sister. I didn't know you had to agree on anything. I was under the impression you were just my little minion in all this," the elder girl retorted in a sardonically sweet tone.
"You bitch!" Riley seethed, anger flashing in her crystal eyes. Chase frowned in confusion. Their arguing didn't truly sound like the trivial bickering of sisters but enemies on the verge of war. It didn't seem right.
"Now, now," Katherine scolded and, as suddenly as they seemed like enemies they seemed like bickering siblings again. "Watch your language. There's a potential sex slave present."
"You did not just call me a sex slave," Chase interrupted, pissed off at her presumption and the uncertainty he was currently feeling.
"No, I called you a potential sex slave," the blonde corrected coolly "Riley needs to loosen up a bit. Maybe you can help her out?" Chase briefly looked the raven haired girl up and down, recognising the teasing for what it was in an instant, and grinned deciding to play along.
"I actually might take you up on that one."
"Excuse me?" Riley said incredulously, glaring at the warlock before rounding on her sister "Do you constantly have to undermine and embarrass me?"
"I was under the impression that that was an older sister's job." There was a short, tense moment of silence following Katherine's retort and Chase studied each of them in turn throughout it. Katherine seemed like a bigger danger than her sister at the moment but Riley seemed to have a more volatile personality. As soon as he had judged it Riley snarled, finally responding to her sister's cold words.
"That's it!" she exclaimed and the flames of the candles suddenly jumped off their wicks, flying at the blonde girl with increased ferocity "Burn in hell!" Chase stared in shock at the fire as it shot towards the elder of the two girls he had only just met. Katherine didn't seem worried by the display, not bothering to move in any way. He expected the flames to burn her immediately on contact but they never even reached her. At the last moment a thick shield of clear water shot out of the earth in front of her protectively, extinguishing the fire in seconds.
"When will you learn Riley?" she asked as the water returned to the ground, studying her nails indifferently. "Water always wins."
"Shut up!" the dark haired girl shouted, more fire appearing in her hands and flying at the blonde. Chase watched the sisters in fascination as Katherine dodged it expertly, rolling to her left as Riley advanced with a dangerous look glowing in her eyes.
"Why do you have to be so annoying?" Katherine asked, ducking from another fiery blast with apparent ease. Riley gave her humourless smile, mocking her as the other girl had done just minutes previously.
"I was under the impression that that was a younger sister's job," she mimicked, closing in on her sibling.
"Well isn't that bitchy," the elder girl commented with an amused expression on her pale face. Riley just took a threatening step closer, clearly not sharing her sister's delight. Without warning Katherine dropped her defensive stance and kicked out at the other girl's stomach when she got close enough, winding her. Riley stumbled back with a groan but managed to keep her footing, although the fire she had been forming in her hands spluttered and died down a little.
"Son of a bitch!" she cursed, getting her breath back swiftly. An amused expression appeared on Katherine's face at her words.
"Bad comeback sis, one I'm female and two…we share the same mother," she retorted smoothly. Riley let out a shriek of rage and threw herself at the blonde, looking fully intent on killing her sister in the most painful way she possibly could. At this Chase felt a sliver of undiluted fury slice through him. He ground his teeth together to curb his anger upon realising exactly what they were fighting about. They both wanted control. They were fighting for dominance. Chase mentally hissed at the thought - he was in charge here. True, he didn't know them very well yet but they had brought him here against his will and so they would serve his purpose. No arguments. A second after his realisation Chase decided he was done watching their pathetic little punch-up and it was time for him to break it up with a controlling hand. Forcing his way between them, he grabbed hold of the front of Katherine's t-shirt and Riley's corset top and pushed them roughly away from each other with a low growl.
"Stop this!" he ordered furiously "Stop right now and listen to me! This is what we are going to do. We're going to go to Spencer College and you two are going to enrol there as new students. Then, we're going to kill the 'sons of Ipswich'. Together!" The two girls both stared at him in surprise, looking rather dazed. It was Riley who managed to get grip on herself first.
"I thought you said you didn't want to kill them," she snapped, face twisting into a grimace at his brutal plan. Chase scowled at her - an obvious warning to shut up.
"I changed my mind!" he hissed through gritted teeth. She blinked at him in confusion at his abrupt violence. "I'm in charge here," he continued threateningly.
"Are you now?" Katherine asked in a tone suggesting challenge as she suddenly found her own sense of reality. She tilted her head to one side as if studying him as she waited for his answer, her blonde hair spilling over one shoulder as she did so. Chase glared at her, eyes flashing black with a deadly combination of power and rage, Riley flinched when she saw the glowing orbs, looking slightly nervous, but her sister didn't move.
"Is that a problem?" Chase growled when it became clear that the blonde girl was not backing down. He challenged her with an insistent gaze, eyes not once returning to their normal magic-free colour. Their eyes locked for a long moment, blue meeting the poisonous black, and silence surrounded the three witches until Katherine laughed suddenly, looking delighted with both Chase and herself.
"Oh no," she replied backing down without any more protest. "That's fine. Absolutely fine. You be in charge." Chase frowned at her strange change in behaviour but let it slide, missing the curious look that Riley shot at the elder girl. Katherine was weird, he reasoned, but he wasn't exactly normal either so he couldn't really let it bother him too much without being hypocritical. He shrugged and offered them a small smirk but still kept his voice cool when he next spoke.
"Now that little problem's sorted," he said coldly. "Care to explain exactly who and what you girls are?" The two sisters grinned at him, their smiles identical even though they were, in appearance, complete opposites.
"Well, it's complicated…"
