SP chapter 12

Chione tried to scream but Star covered her mouth.
"Nu uh", she waged her finger and tapped her nose, "Don't want any of your pesky friends coming running."
Chione tried to make an armour but Mithria and September cuffed her hands, sealing her magic.
"You were always the favourite, the prettiest, most talented. Just because you were born first. But now father has turned to me to take charge and we're going to make your life a living hell." Star smiled. She took the dress out of the wardrobe and Chione's eyes widened in alarm.
"Don't!" she cried then September and Mithria covered her mouth again. Star lit the dress on fire and all Chione could do was watch it burn into ashes as a single tear fell.
"Whoops, were you going to wear that? oh well." Star laughed. Father told us you have a little boyfriend. I'll make sure I burn him in front of you too."
Chione's heart sunk. If she even touched him...
"Time to go" Star smiled. Her sisters hauled her out the window into a black van. Star drove and Mithria an September sat in the back with her. 'sorry' Mithria mouthed to her. Chione gave a weak smiled and nodded but went back to staring at the floor. It was morning before they reached their parent's old house on the water's edge, the other end of the country from Draco's villa. They dragged her in by her arms and Star walked in front like she was some sort of Goddess. Chione hissed.
"No point in hissing sister, you will only bring yourself more pain." Star said. Chione knew she was right but she still didn't want Star to be able to control her. Chione stayed silent but glared at the back of her sister's head instead. They took her down to the basement which was shrouded in darkness and the smell of blood lingered in the air. The three pairs of chains still nailed into the wall, stained red.
"Remember what happened here Chione? oh wait, just because you were born first, Mithria, September and I had to live In poverty whilst you shone in the full glow or our parents, pampered little princess. When we were down here starving, we heard you playing music with father and singing with mother...over those 6 years before their death, my hatred for you grew stronger." Star snarled.
"I came down with food whenever I could! if I did come down all the time I would have been sitting next to you and none of us would have had any food! is that what you wanted?! Chione screamed.
"Enough!," September shouted, "Chione we've heard that story hundreds of times throughout the years and we still don't believe you tried to help us."
Star and September shackled her wrists and ankles to the wall, Mithria stayed far back.
"Mithria, go get salt and a knife from the kitchen" September said.
Mithria nodded and went upstairs. She hated this. She had always believed Chione was only trying to help and she didn't want to hurt her, but nothing could stop September and Star now. She took a kitchen knife and a bag of salt and handed them over then went back upstairs and to the garden. The screaming started. Mithria walked further away where her sister's screams could not be heard as clearly and sat in silence.

September cut along Chione's arm slowly, a trickle of blood running onto the metal. Star grabbed some salt and rubbed it onto the wound. Chione thrashed and kicked and screamed but nothing would happen. September and Star smiled then repeated the process over and over for hours.

Skulduggery drove Tanith and Valkyrie to Chione's apartment early the next morning. Valkyrie quickly ran up to the door and knocked. She jumped up and down with her hands in her pockets, both with excitement and cold. She knocked again. She frowned at the door and turned round.
"She's not answering, Tanith, go to the back windows." Valkyrie chittered.
Tanith got out of the car, went round the back and looked through the windows. When she came to the bedroom window, it was open. She gasped and quickly climbed through to open the door for Valkyrie. They walked back into the bedroom along with Skulduggery. Skulduggery bent down over the pile of ash.
"It's silk." he said
"The dress we got Chione yesterday..." Tanith said sadly.
"It must have been Star...they found her." Valkyrie said. Skulduggery nodded in agreement.
"Let's go back to the sanctuary and inform the rest." He said.
They ran back to the car and drove to the sanctuary. During that time, Valkyrie called Anton, Dexter and Saracen to meet them there. They rushed to the conference room where Ravel and Ghastly were already sitting. They looked up from their work.
"We need to borrow this room." Skulduggery said.
"Why?" Ravel huffed, "I thought you were getting Chione."
"Because Chione has been taken by her sisters."
Ravel and Ghastly stared at them then Ghastly got up.
"We're not doing anything important anyway." He said.
"Actually we are, special sanctuary stuff." Ravel said.
"Which we can do elsewhere." Ghastly strained. Ravel sighed and got up.
"Thank you" Skulduggery said
 Ghastly and Ravel left and the three of them sat and waited for the rest to come. Twenty minutes later, Dexter, Anton and Saracen were sitting round the table too.
"What is it?" Anton asked.
"Something about Chione?" Saracen added
Dexter turned pale.
"Her sisters took her" Valkyrie said.
"Someone should have been guarding her...we knew this was a high possibility that they would come after her and no one bothered keeping her safe?" Dexter said, frustrated.
Everyone stared at him, he sank back into his chair, with his head in his hands. They stayed silent for a while.
"We knew this might happen, true but we thought she was safe where she was as only us three knew where her apartment was..." Tanith said finally.
"They must have been watching you all day" Anton said.
"Do you know where they took her?" Saracen said
"No, we have no idea." Valkyrie sulked.
Dexter looked up. "Then we better get started."