"Honestly Gemma, You really can't believe I would actually pass over after what you did to me!" She screamed at us. I shook my head.

"I saw you. You left. You went to the Winterlands." I drabbled hopelessly. Felicity said nothing, I knew she was conflicted. Pippa was her best friend and she had never really gotten over her death. I knew that somewhere in her mind she was still hoping Pippa could go back to the way she used to be before she died.

"Pippa, we-" Felicity began.

"Don't start!" She snarled. "You left me here too, Fee! You are just as bad as Gemma here!"

Felicity winced. I was starting to panic.

"Pippa!" I cried "You had to pass over. No creature can stay here forever! It's unnatural and you know that! You've become corrupted."

"I have not." She argued, crossing her arms over her chest. I nearly lost my temper at her blind remark.

"You liar!" I screamed at her. "What do you call those goat heads in there then? Afternoon snacks?" Ah, bitter sarcasm. My main form of defense.

"Stop lashing out Gemma." Pippa replied calmly. Her razor-sharp teeth glinted in the sunlight. "You never liked me, admit it." Oh no. I thought. This again. I remembered our fight a few months ago, before she had supposedly passed over.

"You just hated me because your Gypsy boyfriend couldn't take his eyes off me." She purred.

My face turned crimson, with both anger and embarrassment.

"You leave Kartik out of this." I said through gritted teeth. Pippa let out a cruel laugh, she had me. She so had me, and she wasn't going to let go anytime soon.

"I remember him staring at me, that night when we were all at the lake..." She mused. I balled my hands into fists.

"Enough!" I yelled. Pippa wore an expression of mock surprise, which looked even more terrifying on her corrupted face.

"Such a temper." She said in a high-pitched voice.

"Pippa." I growled. "I think it's time we left." I grabbed Ann and Felicity's arm and began walk into the forest. I wanted to see if I could make the door reappear, and we were in enough danger already.

"You know." She called back at us. "You're lucky today Gemma. First those centaurs didn't kill you and now, my admirers are running late." I stopped in my tracks and turned around to face her.

"You mean YOU sent the centaurs after us?" I inquired. "But they came for us because we are in their debt. They want repayment for the weapons they gave us." Pippa let out another frightening giggle and shook her head so fiercely that one of the dead flowers fell right out of her hair.

"I've been...telling the creatures of the realms things...about you three. and I can't say they were very good things..." Felicity's eyes got wide.

"Pip, you didn't." She whispered. Pippa's smile never faltered.

"Oh I did." She taunted. "I've been telling them that you three are the lowest form of human beings that exist. I said you wanted to come to the realms and keep all the magic for yourselves, and live as queens. While they are simply nothing but beasts to do your bidding." My heart sank. We were as good as dead. I leant over to Fee and Ann and whispered in their ear.

"We have to run." I pleaded. "She's crazy, she wants to get us killed. Now when I say 'now' we all make for the river." I hissed hurriedly, praying that Pippa wasn't listening.

"You know, it's rude to keep secrets." She said in a bored voice, putting her hands on her hips.

"Now!" I screamed, and bolted toward the trees. sadly, my escape plans were short lived and we didn't make it out of the clearing. Instead, I ran head first into a person standing behind me. My head gave a sickening clunk as it bounced against the person's armor. The impact sent me to the ground, my head throbbing. I didn't even have to look to know the person I had ran into. The armor had said it all. It was Pippa's knight. I recognized him at once, even with my blurred vision. In his hand was a sack with various bloodstains on it. I felt sick.

"It's about time you got here!" She snarled at him grumpily. He gave her a heart-melting smile.

"A thousand apologies my lady." He said and dropped the bloodied sack at her feet. "You said you were hungry." A goat head peeked through the opening of the sack. My stomach churned.

I looked around for Felicity and Ann, but they were nowhere to be found. They must have made it into the woods.

"Where are the others?" The knight asked. Pippa simply shrugged.

"They should be here by now." She said.

Sure enough, we heard leaves fluttering and hoofs beating. I had no idea who "The Others" were but it didn't sound good.

Suddenly, two black steeds burst into the clearing, being ridden by those wraiths we saw all those months ago. I almost screamed in horror when I saw Ann and Felicity in front of the saddles. We had all been captured. Ann was crying again and Felicity was struggling in vain to get free.

"We found these two fleeing." On of the wraiths said. I sincerely wished we had been wearing the paint that kept them from seeing us on our last encounter.

"Good, good." Pippa said, picking up a goat head and sniffing it. I looked around at the wraiths and the knight. So these were the admirers Pippa had been referring to.

"Now bind their hands. I want to kill them myself." She growled.

Author's Note: Ahh, another cliffie. :P I hope you guys like it. Apologies to the Pippa fans for making her evil. I just couldn't resist ;)

Thanks for reading! I should be putting up the next chapter soon!