"How could you be so careless?!" Kabos shuddered under the terrifying anger of his boss. 

        "How was I supposed to know the girl was a Fairling?"

        "WHY WERE YOU THINKING ABOUT THE PLOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CASTLE?!" the man roared, his fist connecting with the side of Kabos's face and sending the boy sprawling to the ground. "There were countless people there! If the girl wasn't a Fairling, then you could bet your lucky stars that at least one of the guests was! Fairlings are getting more and more common, while also becoming more and more concealed! You idiotic boy, I can't believe our plan could be ruined by your stupidity!"

        "I'm sorry!" Kabos exclaimed, his eyes watering from the pain in his cheek. "I didn't know, I was being stupid!" he looked up at the screen where he could just make out Adriana's face through the lense of the necklace. The screen was also growing red, signaling that whoever was wearing it was becoming increasingly angry. "Wait...what's going on?"

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        Light shot out of Dawn's hands, fueled by the anger and sense of betrayal inside of her body. Adriana lept out of the way just in time, and the strike shattered the window behind her.

        "Are you serious?" Adriana cried, her eyes wide. She couldn't believe how sour this had gone, and the words that her sister had just spit out at her stung like needles all over her body. Dawn was breathing heavily, her body weaker from the use of power at night. She had just wanted to warn her sister, but this...this had become far worse than she could have imagined.

        How could Kabos have her so far under his spell already?

        "Don't you realize what you're saying?" Adriana screamed, "You're acting like the Dark one! I'm not the one shooting fatal strikes at you and trying to pull your self-esteem down! All I've ever done is look out for you! And you have the audacity to act like I'm the crazy one who just wants to be like you? I'm not the one with the confidence problems anymore, Dawn. You're trying too hard to keep being the perfect sister, when inside you're breaking! Kabos is the only thing that's keeping you going, and that's dangerous. What if he leaves you? What if he betrays you? That's their plan. He wants to break you! He's getting close so that he can hurt you when he knows it'll do the most damage! It's not me that you should be mad at! It's that stupid boyfriend of yours! You need to rebuild your relationships with people other than Kabos so that you can survive without him!" Adriana felt tears coming to her eyes. "Please," she whispered, "I don't want to lose you."

        "Well, consider me lost from your life." Dawn sneered, "Because I can't believe you. I can't believe you think that Kabos is all that matters to me, or even that he would think of betraying me. He's the only one who understands me, but I can go to other people. But I won't have to. Because Kabos loves me, and he's all I need!" her fingers automatically went to the necklace, seeking comfort. "He's the only one I need." she repeated softly.

        Adriana's eyes went to the necklace. She had never seen it before, and she remembered what Skylar had said was in Kabos's thoughts. Then he thought about how some necklace would make everything better. 

        "Dawn...where did you get that necklace?"

        "Kabos gave it to me." Dawn replied haughtily. "It's pretty, isn't it?"

        Adriana's eyes went wide and she felt her hands raising.

        Some necklace would make everything better.

        "Dawn..."

        "What are you doing?" Dawn asked warily, eyeing her sister's raised arms.

        "Don't. Move."

        Adriana felt power surge through her veins and a bright, blinding white light shot out of her fingers and hit the necklace right in the center. The sapphire shattered and the chain fell to the floor, completely destroyed.

        Dawn screeched with uncontrollable anger, tears streaming down her cheeks as she stared at the necklace, broken on the floor. A thin wisp of smoke trailed out of the broken pieces, and she turned to Adriana.

        "WHY---"

        "It's for your own good. That thing was cursed."

        "No, Adriana. You're the one who's cursed."

        Dawn turned away from her sister, hoping the latter would put her guard down. She heard Adriana start to speak, but Dawn whipped around before she could get more than two words out and shot a bright yellow light out of her fingers, not caring what happened to her sister now.

        But Adriana was ready for her. A deep blue light shot out of Adriana's hands and the two met in the middle of the room, creating an emerald green ball of energy that expanded slowly as each tried to overtake the other. Adriana could see the color draining out of Dawn's face as she battled to keep her conscienceness in the night. Adriana grinned wickedly; she didn't even feel a strain.

        The night won eventually, and Adriana felt a surge of satisfaction as she watched her sister blow backwards with the impact of the explosion when Adriana's power overtook Dawn's. Dawn got right back up on her feet and smirked at Adriana, her eyes wide and delusional with anger, terror, and indifference at whether or not Adriana lived after this.

        Dawn looked up and saw just a sliver of sun through the broken window behind her sister. 

        Ha. She still thinks she has the power. She thinks it's still night.

        Dawn mustered up all of the power she could and felt a blast shoot out of her, a multitude of colors, and watched as it took form into a massive, mishapen hand. She watched Adriana's expression turn from smugness to terror as it grabbed her by the throat and raised her high into the air. She wriggled against the suffocating power, but could feel the sunlight starting to come in through the window.

        Dawn had won.

        Adriana dropped to the floor, her eyes rolling back into her head, unconcious. Dawn sucked the power back into her body and gasped as she realized what she had just done.

        "Ad?!" she rushed over to her sister's unmoving body. "Ad, please wake up."

        But Adriana wouldn't move, her eyes still closed and her body cold.

        "Ad!" Dawn screamed, unable to process what she had done, "Wake up!" she shook her sister vigorously, tears blurring her vision. "Help!" she screamed, hoping someone would hear her. "We need help!" she sobbed, laying over her twin's body, terrified of how close she had come to turning Dark.

        But it wasn't the same Dark that Adriana was. It was real Dark...the kind that turned princesses into murderers.

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A/N: So I wrote a different ending to this chapter where Dawn was completely indifferent to her possibly killing Adriana, but then I re-wrote it since she's not actually Dark (yet...just kidding...maybe). 

Comment if you think Adriana's alive, and if you think Dawn's going to stay with Kabos!

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As always, thank you guys so much for all your support!! I'm so freaking close to 1k reads!!

-Katherine