Author's Note: Did anyone know that there is only two more chapters until the end????
The Lost Protector
This story is dedicated to Chichirui for she is the reason for most of my inspiration and without her these stories wouldn't be half as fun! So this one is for you my hyper active friend! Keep the hyperness alive!
Chapter 10: Final BattleKat looked up towards the hill where she suspected her friend would be. Willow had always loved flashy entrances. There, standing on top of it, tall and proud, wearing black boots, pants, and tank top and driving gloves was Willow. "Are you ready to fight, my dear Kat?" She called.
Kat went into a defensive posture and nodded. "Let's get this over with, Folken!" She yelled. "I want my friend back!"
An evil smirk lit up Willow's face and her eyes went pure black again. "My pleasure," she replied.
Willow jumped into the air and floated there for a second, defying gravity itself, and Kat sort of frowned. What was she doing? Ice shards black as any night suddenly appeared around her, frozen in air, then they came hurtling towards Kat. Barely having enough time to back flip out of the way, Kat landed in a crouching position as the shards became embedded themselves into the ground a foot away from her. She fired her counterattack: a well-aimed ball of energy.
The ball exploded next to Willow scattering the rest of her shards that she had conjured up; right into her. Kat winced inwardly as she saw the shards embed themselves into Willow's bare arms, neck and face. Willow didn't even flinch; simply snapped her fingers and the shards disappeared. Yet the cuts remained and slowly blood began to seep forward, dripping form the torn flesh and gliding down.
Willow paid them no attention. "Already one of us is bleeding. I find that... funny, in an ironic way," she said calmly.
Kat's eyes widened in shock as she was picked up off the ground; she floated in midair, threatening to drop, and she couldn't move a muscle. It was like an iron vice had suddenly appeared and wrapped its cold fingers around her. "Now it's your turn."
Suddenly Kat went flying upwards into the sky very fast. She kept flying up until she came to a jeering stop about fifty feet above ground, hanging in the air for only a few seconds, and then dropped. Kat may have been a Protector with powers but that couldn't stop her from falling fifty feet at a high speed and breaking her neck. Damn you Folken, she thought.
Quickly she created fake wings, her powers wrapping around her shoulder blades and muscles to form two long, elegant, black wings, and glided the rest of the way to the ground, which was only a few feet. Pulling out of the small dive, falling to the ground as she retracted the wings, Kat sort of rolled and slid back on the ground. She stopped rolling and sliding as her body came to a halt and she looked up. Willow was floating above her; more shards ready to spiral down to kill her.
Not thinking straight, adrenaline pumping through her veins, Kat got to her feet and started running. The shock from falling had worn off and she got a good start. They had to finish this plan… hopefully the others had seen her cue. She was stopped when rows of black shards suddenly were firmly implanted in the ground in front of her. Glancing back at Willow and growling, Kat ran around them and pumped her legs harder.
Shards started raining down all around her, barely missing her at times, and others being very close to actually getting her. Powerful pieces, they were very hard to pass and they blocked every way of escaping when it came around-apparently Willow wanted Kat to stay.
Finally, taking a chance, Kat turned and threw an energy jolt. The jolt flew through the black shards and towards Willow. Willow put her hand up to the racing bolt before it even came near her and it simply disappeared. "Kat, you can't beat me that easily. You're going to have to work for it," Willow yelled at her.
Kat ignored her comment and looked to where she was running. There was nowhere else to run, the black shards blocking all the slopes to run down, and all she had left was the slope that dropped off-a cliff. She was heading towards that now. Realizing what was happening, Kat stopped herself at the edge, which she had reached all too soon, and found herself flinging her arms in windmills trying not to fall over the edge of the cliff. Getting her balance back after a very terrifying moment, Kat turned back around to Willow.
She looked around wildly. There was no sign of Alex or Nicole. Silently cursing, Kat prepared as Willow approached. Willow smiled a sweet smile; or at least it would've been if her eyes hadn't been pure black. Those eyes were hopeless, pitch black as any night, giving light into her soul. Was their plan going to work? Where was Alex and Nicole? They should've seen the sign, Kat thought. Will it still work? "Now, Kitty Kat, say your good-byes," Willow hissed.
Suddenly all hope in Kat disappeared. They couldn't save Willow… and they were about to lose a Protector. Maybe all ready they had. Before Kat could say anything or even think, before she even had an idea of what to do to stop it, Willow put her hand against Kat's chest with a force so powerful it knocked the breath from her. Yet the real effect was almost immediate.
Kat felt the power flowing through Willow's veins, the primal energy that coursed through her veins as well, the pure evil to her heart as it all rushed into her. She could feel the force of the power rushing through her, setting her nerves on fire, making her head scream in pain as her mind reeled at what was happening. Her senses dimmed and her body became numb except for the small burning sensation that she could barely feel.
Kat fell to the ground screaming bloody murder. Willow's power jolt was killing her, slowly, by over flowing her body with so much power that her cells would simply pop out of existence. Pain and fear and blood began to spill from her, blood breaking the skin as it boiled and twisted inside its veins. It wasn't a good death even by Kat's standards.
Willow smiled as she watched Kat scream and whither in pain. It was almost as good as seeing Fanellia burn to the ground. "Now, you know what it feels to be me," she whispered to the screaming girl at her feet as she kept her hand in place, making her power flow into Kat.
A jerk in the back of Willow's mind alerted her to her "other-self" coming out. "Oh, so now you want to play?" She asked herself.
Another
jeer, harder and much more painful then the last, told her that her other
wanted out. "Tsk, tsk. You know the results of that," Willow told
the pathetic girl in her mind. The girl
didn't care and suddenly pain spread through Willow's head. Like a fire was lit inside of her head she
screamed in pain and grabbed her head already reeling with absent
thoughts. "No! You can't!"
She screamed, as she then fell to the ground, lifeless.
Author's Note: Oooh! Lifeless!! Review and you'll get the chapter very fast my friends!
~The Shadow That Takes Form as a Kat~
~~ShadowKat~~