Truly Charmed (Part 3/3)

Chapter 39

ANNA'S POV

I was floating above my body, transparent and invisible.

No, no, no, no, NO!

I heard Wyatt's frantic voice in my head. I saw Chris beside my body, sobbing.

I'm...dead...I'm dead....

I kept repeating it in my head, thinking that the more I said it the less real it would be.

"I can't be dead!" I shouted.

My voice sounded like chimes and echoed into the nothing that was around me. I suddenly floated down to the floor. When I touched the floor, my transparent body disappeared and I looked normal. However I felt cold, alone and empty.

Melinda was on the staircase, crying her tearducts dry while Wyatt and Chris lingered over my body.

My head spun. I then had hundreds of little pictures in my head. Memories. Of Chris and I.

All of the emotions and memories came flooding back to me. I was then hit hard in the chest. With enlightenment.

I love Chris...I chose Chris...

Assessing everything in my mind, there was only one thing I could process.

"I remember,"

All of a sudden my surroundings were turning dull and grey. Wyatt, Chris and Melinda were fading away as I was being thrown into an empty world.

I then stood in the manor. However this manor was empty, grey and not a single movement flashed across my eyes. I was alone. I was alone in this dark and miserable place.

Looking at everything around me I figured out where I was.

The ghostly plane...

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CHRIS' POV

Jamie had orbed me to the underworld. I was in a dark layer, with black drapes and candles and chandeliers. There was a thick, stone table in the centre with lit candles, wine and food placed out.

The darklighter poison was desiccating my insides and I could feel that I was coming close to death. The thought of death slightly appealed to me. I could be with Anna, always and for eternity. Nobody to meddle with us or change what we have decided. However I couldn't do that. I couldn't leave my family behind. Wyatt, Melinda, Pandora, Henry, My parents and My Aunts and Uncles. I couldn't leave them. I need them and they need me.

I dropped to the floor as the searing pain of the darklighter poison flowed through my system. I shouted out for Jamie to help me but he just stood and watched as I slowly died.

"Jamie...please heal..me.. I'll do..whatever you..want," I spoke out as best as I could without screaming.

"Don't worry Chris," a woman's voice called out, "you'll be healed in good enough time. At the right time."

I then felt someone haul me upwards and drag me across the cold hard floor. All I remember before blacking out, is hearing the faint whispers of the woman's voice inside my head....

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ANNA'S POV

I walked around the empty manor trying to find any signs of life or other ghosts. I went upstairs and looked in the attic but nobody was up there. I went over to the book of shadows and flicked through the pages to see if there was any more information on the ghostly plane.

It didn't say anything that I didn't already seen before.

Well this is fantastic...

I quickly had a chill come over my body. It was like someone had walked right through me.

The shadows in the corner of the room began to stretch and then a figure emerged from them. It was a creature in a big black hooded cloak. It's eyes were white and black rimmed and its face was wrinkly and wasted. It's mouth looked like it had been sewn together.

It then charged at me.

I went to set off a bolt but nothing came off my hand. I went to set off an aneurysm but that didn't work either. I was powerless.

I then remembered that magic is useless in the ghostly plane.

The creature came at me with force. I took hold of the podium that the book was sitting on and flung it to the floor. The creature crashed and fell over it.

I then jumped over him and began running out of the attic screaming Wyatt's name..