Chapter 13
Michelle's POV
I saw Xiara slowly move her hand to grip her talisman tightly to her chest. I looked over to Serena, who also saw this action, and signaled me.
"Mom..." I said softly, kneeling down beside her.
"Don't call me that," Xiara said briskly, gripping her talisman even tighter. The room was quiet, with tension circling the air. I have to get that talisman... I couldn't help but reach over to Xiara, and pull her into a big hug.
"What are you doing?" Xiara demanded, trying to break the hug. "Let go of me!"
"Hug her back," Serena told her. "It's the least you could do. She is your daughter, you know."
"Fine," Xiara responded, rolling her eyes as she wrapped her arms around me, returning the hug. I slipped my arm past her's, and ripped the talisman from her neck.
"Hey! Give that back!" Xiara shrieked, lunging for me as I stood up. "I need that!" She tried to reach for her wand, until she realized that she didn't have it. "Hand over my wand right now!" she yelled, turning to Kiki, her eyes boring into Kiki's skull. I threw the talisman on the floor, shattering it into a thousand pieces. As the pieces scattered across the floor, a green mist emerged from the biggest shard.
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Emily's POV
Xiara stared at the broken talisman in pure terror. Kiki twirled the two wands through her paws, as she got into a fighting stance, with Serena pulling out her own wand.
"Avada Kedavra!" Serena and Kiki shouted simultaneously, Kiki pointing her's and Xiara's wands at Xiara, and Serena pointing her wand at the talisman shards. Xiara fell over again, unable to get up.
"Fate will always find you, no matter how far you run," Serena muttered. "Xiara, you're about to die, because fate was your downfall."
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Michelle's POV
"NO! NOOOOOOOO!" Xiara screamed, as a blast of green fire surrounded her. Lucy and Coco averted their eyes, as Xiara's pale body slowly decayed, turning her into a skeleton. Kiki zapped Xiara's skeleton with her wand, turning the skeleton to dust. Kiki snapped Xiara's wand in half, and tossed it next to Xiara's dust. We stood there, staring at the mess, and each other, in dead silence.
"Someone needs to call housekeeping," Anthony said, now entering the room.
"Anthony! Where have you been?" I asked.
"Patrolling the castle, along with the other knights who survived the fire," Anthony answered. "I guess Xiara was up here the whole time."
"Yeah, everything happened just now," Lucy told him. There was a momentary pause.
"So..." Coco said. "Where does this leave us?"