A flaming warrior

Chapter 64 Katrina

"Fine, then fight me, and we will see," Katrina said, powering up. "Rachel, would you mind fighting her and beating her? I want to see if she's still evil or not," Christian asked me. "We were all evil; why am I the only one who has to prove myself?" Katrina asked. "Because we already did; I still sense evil in your heart, like a conflict between evil and good in you," Christian said. "But she was separated from me," Katrina said. "Yes, but something is still off with you," Christian said. We all went into the training room as I got ready to fight Katrina. "Would you like a special location?" Cubie asked. "My grave," Katrina said, standing up. "I know what she means," Lilly said as the room turned into the location where Katrina died. "Thank you," Katrina said, pulling out her sword. "Roku, Yorisue, make sure I don't kill her," I told them. "We will stop you no matter what," Roku said.

Katrina powered up even more, looking at me with anger before charging at me, trying to kill me. "I said fight me, not dodge me!" Katrina said, trying to hit me. "You're trying to kill me, asshole!" I said, grabbing her face and blowing her up, but she wasn't phased and kicked me hard in the chest, sending me back. "For you to be a better version of me, you suck," Katrina said, walking toward me with her sword dragging on the ground, catching on fire. "RACHEL!" Roku yelled out my name as my katana flew back into my hand just in time to clash with Katrina, whose whole body turned black with orange glowing accents. "KATRINA!" Christian yelled out. "She's trying to push Rachel past her limits, it seems like," Chloe said, not seeming worried for my life. "He... help!" I looked at everyone for help, but everyone just stood there as Katrina was pushing against me more and more, getting closer to me. "I AM A VILLAIN! I AM EVIL! SO FUCKING WHAT?! I WANT TO CHANGE, AND YOU WILL USE MY POWER TO DO SO! YOU WILL BE THE HERO TO DEFEAT HER, AND YOU WILL NOT LOSE AND FAIL LIKE I DID!!" Katrina grabbed my face, and my whole body was engulfed in what felt like Bahamut energy, but it mixed with dark, light, and eclipse energy, making it chaotic. My body started hurting badly, and my mind was slowly going blank with so much anger and hate in me. But I heard your cry. For some reason, Eva brought you downstairs, and all the noise scared you, but your cry woke something in me as well. Once I was freed, my energy was different again. I was fire, Bahamut, eclipse, light, dark, and Phoenix. All that hate was now out of me, and Katrina was standing there, shocked.

"You and I were made as a symbol of Chloe's hate, but somehow, you're not dealing with it like I do. The whole point of us was to represent someone who had hate like Chloe. I hate everything, even myself; I hate everyone, even my maker. Why aren't you the same? This makes no sense at all," Katrina said as black armor started covering her body. She flew straight at me with so much anger, but that made it so much easier to read her. "Tell me how you're not consumed by hate?" she said, sending out slashes at me. "You were hurt, failed, lost your cockiness, and still... YOU'RE STILL HAPPY!" Katrina roared, sending out lightning and fire everywhere. She didn't stop until she heard your cry. "Is that why? You have a child and husband... is that why?" she asked. "I have no hate or anger unless someone close to me messes with me. I don't let hate and anger control me like you do. That is why you're a failure. Do you now get it?" I asked her, holding my katana to her head. "And you can fix all of this if you stop acting like this," I said to her, picking her up, but she playfully shoved me a little. "I've been mean for so long; I don't know how to be good. All I know is destroy, create, and ruin," Katrina said as her armor fell to the floor and she threw her sword to Jacqueline's feet. "It's now hers. I don't need it anymore. I killed Bahamut for it, so it's tainted by sin. Well, anyone else?" Katrina asked, defeated. "You should help me with animal care. I had more animals delivered, and they need to be attended to," Leona said happily. "Did we close the door right?" Leona asked, worried. "Why are there five piglets on me?" Samantha said over the comms. "Ah shit," Leona said. "Come on, let's go get them," Katrina said, giggling as she and Leona went to get the piglets.

"If she is going to improve herself, then I'll be happy. One step closer to being free," Chloe said, looking at Katrina's armor. "You really don't want to be here, even if we make this world better, do you?" Eva asked, sadly. "It's your world, not mine. I'd rather be in my world since it's mine. It doesn't feel the same. I know that's rude, but it's how I feel," Chloe said. "Makes sense; we would be the same in her and Jacqueline's world. And hell, imagine how they all would be if a bunch of manga characters just showed up and lived alongside them. It'd be terrifying. Though hopefully, we're popular enough to have plushies made of us," Tyler said, thinking of it. "Can I be a chubby singing plushie?" Eva asked Chloe. "I'm... sadly not that popular and broke, so it will take a lot more time to make plushies. And I need to learn myself, but I promise you'll all get plushies," Chloe said, laughing nervously. "YAY!" Eva was extremely happy. While we were all happy, we heard someone tumbling down the stairs and looked to see what was going on. We saw Leona and Katrina on top of each other while the piglets were walking out the door. "Y'all okay?" Chloe asked. "No," Katrina said, annoyed. "Come on, let's close the pen and hope they didn't go somewhere else," Katrina said, holding her arm. "Well, while they're doing that, I'm going to fix up this armor and sword for you," Jacqueline said, going upstairs.

"Is there anything else that needs to be done? If not, I'm going to train," Christian said. "I'll join you," Chris said as the two started training. "Shouldn't you try with your new powers? Can't believe she killed Bahamut, but I'm more surprised she gave it to you," Eva said, surprised. "Nah, I'll be fine. Also, why did you bring her down here?" I asked. "I don't know, just felt like I needed to bring little Samantha down here. I was honestly going to sneak away and go to the beach," Eva told me. "The beach? Shouldn't you rest?" I asked her. "Nah, it's going to be me, little Samantha, and a big puppy. Though, looking at him, he's very tired and snoring. So just us two unless you plan to join. You're free to," Eva said, going upstairs. I didn't want to go, but she had you, so I chose to just in case.

Once we made it to the beach, I immediately got a chair to relax, which felt easy to do. For some reason, I was more relaxed than any other day despite everything. I even went to sleep until you woke me up by smacking the hell out of me.

"We have word coming in from the pixie base of movement happening on the land again including monsters, a base, and two targets that need to be either killed or captured. They seem idle for now, but tomorrow they need to be dealt with. Dr. Kaelen, anything else we need to know?" Dad asked. "So far, no. And Lyra has been out with the Pixies and hasn't found more darkness spreading in the land, but it's the fact they are doing something here despite you defeating the Noxbrairs. They still have plans here," Dr. Kaelen told us. "Do you think each landing they go to, they're collecting something? Let's be honest, I feel like Vyrexa is less aggressive now. She was showing up and getting in front of us and stuff, but now she's hidden. Then we have Ashley's husband who hasn't shown up. The world two Chris hasn't done anything yet and hasn't even started his plans, which brings up another question: why aren't they all attacking at once? It's almost like they are waiting," Eva said, thinking. "Whatever it is, we have to destroy everything they have set up," Katrina said. "I'm getting something new. Seems like a wolf den is also here too. Seems to be two of them," Dr. Kaelen told us. Sashi sighed over the comms before throwing something heavy. "This pixie country is huge, and it's all spread out so smartly. From how Sashi reacted, I say let's start with the wolf den first, then just north from here, past what looks like a city, is being picked up for monster energy. Before any of that, please stop by the base; I have some gear that will help you all," Dr. Kaelen said before ending the call.

"More things to do. Hey, why not split up tomorrow after we go to the base? One group can check out the den while the other checks out what's happening near the city?" Eva asked me. "Sure," I said to her, relaxing again. "Good. I'll take the lead on this one," Eva said confidently. "Please don't mess up," I told her. "I won't, I promise," she said, smiling.

The next day, we were all ready to start doing what we always do and flew out to the pixie base to meet Dr. Kaelen. "Ah, you all made it. I could have teleported, but flying works. Here, wear these masks before you fight any monsters. A lot of pixie dust can choke you up and knock you out, so please be careful. Honestly, I'm surprised the noxbrairs weren't using their dust on you to knock you all out. Oh, before I forget, who's going out to investigate the monsters?" Dr. Kaelen asked. "Me! I'll be leading," Eva said. "Here, I need you to use this scanner; the information you scan will help us out a lot," Dr. Kaelen said as he got distracted by his computer. "He gets easily distracted by science. Please be careful with that scanner; it's hard to make these nowadays. Well, good ones, I mean," Lyra said. "Well, me, Chris, Samantha, and Leona will join up with Sashi to go after those dens. Eva, Tyler, Miriam, Chloe, and Jacqueline, you all investigate and make sure Eva's scanner doesn't break, please," I said as we split up.