Chapter Three: When Billie Killed Christy …
SPOILER Do Not Read the Synopsis if You Haven't Read Chapter 2
Synopsis:
The enemy's identity revealed still leaves Billie unbelieving – forcing Christy to tell her tale and bring some needed proof as to how she is not dead when her sister witnessed her burning at the flames of her own fireball.
Billie gasped as she backed off again, shaking her head, repeating, "No, no, no" first to herself then louder and louder until she reached shouting point. Her back hit the cave's wall and it revived the stiff pain from earlier. "Ow!" she let out faintly.
Suddenly remembering who was standing before her in that cave, she looked up at her thought-dead sister and raised her hands, bringing two fingers to each of her temples, she closed her eyes. "You're an illusion, Christy's dead," she convinced herself. "Show me who you are and be vanquished," she summoned all her strength to mix her words and her projection power yet when she felt no power boost cross through her, the usual sign of her power working, she opened her eyes and still there Christy stood, unchanging, undead.
Christy let out a yelp of laughter at her sister's vain attempts to get rid of her, a cold, joyless laugh filled with loath. Next moment though, she was no longer laughing, only smiling a contemptuous smile and her eyes, staring at Billie, showed but evil pleasure.
"That power of yours won't work any longer, sis," she said in her usual voice, the one Billie had known for months now. "See, Dumain knew we had lost you to the bitches so he suggested that I astral there with him while I myself stayed somewhere safe and wiped up a spell to bind your projection … I obviously was too late for when I took a glance at what you were doing, you had already appeared in Magic School and vanquished my Masters –"
Billie shook her head, refusing to believe any of it, sending tears all over the place. "No," she repeated yet again. "I saw the flames burning you to death. I saw you ending up into ashes."
"Yeah, I guess I have Phoebe to thank for that – before I kill her, that is," she laughed her evil laugh again. "She taught me the trick, without knowing it though, I think." Christy grinned.
Earlier that night, in the "Altar Room" of Magic School, the Charmed Ones had just vanquished the Triad's Spirits and Dumain; before them, Christy and Billie were arguing. "How could you?" was accusing the eldest of the Jenkinses.
What none of them saw though was another Christy, her head looking over the doorway at her astral self, saying the same things her illusion said.
But seeing she couldn't reason with her baby sister, Christy started a chant, having parted her half-soul from her astral one's:
"Make them see what cannot be
Flames that leap to make them flee."
And back in the middle of the room, the false Christy hurled up her huge fireball and threw it at the Charmed Ones, only for Billie to telekinetically repel it back towards her, killing her at first sight but only faking her death indeed.
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