Lost In The World Part 4

Katrina woke up suddenly.  She noticed that the sun was nearly at it zenith.  Looking around, Katrina saw that she was lying face down in the grove of trees in front of her house.  It took a moment before the experience from the night before had revealed themselves in her memory.  Remembering the pain she felt in her head was a bittersweet memory because thoughts that were not her own flooded into her mind.  Disconnected images of children being slaughtered, their parents being killed, and various other scenes of death and evil acts against the innocent shone brightly in Katrina's mind's eye.  The person who committed these crimes was never fully in focus.  Nearly in tears, Katrina tried to force her emotions in check.  

Katrina didn't know whose thoughts they were or where they came from but she needed to find out the truth on what happened to the family of the little girl she helped not even a week ago.  She felt like she owed them that much.  Shaking her head all she could really decipher from the images of the person was small bits and pieces.  A luminous crimson red fabric, which seemed to be made out of silk, made a flowing dress.  A high pitched, yet welcoming, voice came from the person.  Thick, pitch black hair waved itself down the back of the dress, nearly to the person's hips.  

Based on what she remembered Katrina assumed this evil was in a shape of a woman.  Yet, what she remembered wasn't enough evidence to know who or what to look for.  

Sighing at the lack of information Katrina stood up and rushed into her house.  "There must be something in these books to find something useful," stated Katrina to the emptiness of the house.

Forgetting that her clothes were a mess, Katrina rushed directly to her library and started to go through them meticulously.  Being so involved with what she was doing, Katrina didn't realize that time flew by.  Before she knew it the sun had set and the waning moon was in full bloom in the chilly and cloudless sky.  

Not long into the night fog started to creep its way into the area around Katrina's house.  Katina was in the middle of reading through a book about ancient creatures and their magical abilities when she came across one in particular that caught her interest.  The creature was a very rare type of 'Soul Sucker'.  It liked to take on the form of a beautiful woman.  It gained the trust and admiration of the people around them and then suddenly and violently killed the person or people; feeding off of the soul when it left the body.  There was a reason why this particular type of soul sucker was feared by many people.  They were named "The Soul Destructors", for their ability to just kill people and warp their souls once it had left the body.  The species was named after the first documented case of their massacre; in the year 1345 AD an entire village was decimated by these creatures to purely feed and twist the souls of the dead.  Very few survived, the ones who did survive succumbed to insanity from the horror that they experienced.  

Limited other reports of these creatures survived to the 1800's.  Yet in each case people died unjustly and in such a chaotic way that it shook the very foundation of the people in the surrounding area.  

Katrina couldn't take anymore.  She stood up and stormed out of the room and outside.  This was just too much for her.  The thought of innocent people dying; children, women, young and old dying horribly made Katrina feel sick.  

Katrina leaned up against a tree that grew nearly 30 feet from her doorstep and looked up at the night sky.  The fog was light and the moon shown through, yet she couldn't see any of the stars.  Processing what she had just read.

"Goddess help me," stated Katrina said under her breath.  Not knowing what else to do than to pray to her various deities.  She prayed for several minutes before she concluded with a thanks prayer.

Gaining courage, Katrina decided that she should look for, and defeat, this entity that killed the young girl and her family.  

Turning towards the house Katrina saw a female in a crimson red dress standing at her doorway, staring at her in contempt.  

"So you are the one who looks to stop me.  I would have expected someone, 'more qualified',' stated the woman.  'You are nothing more than a small fly on the wind."

Walking defensively up to the woman Katrina asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm Leandrea.  I am the one who took away your precious little girl who came to you for help," stated Leandrea.  

"So you will be the one to die tonight," responded an angry Katrina.  Katrina stormed towards Leandrea.  Leandrea just happen to crossbar Katrina in the neck and sent her, painfully, down to the ground.  

Her head spinning for a moment, Katrina laid there for a moment to gather her wits.  Opening her eyes, Katrina looked up at the woman standing over her.  Katrina took a deep breath and started to chant a spell of binding over the woman.  

Before she could complete the spell the woman kicked Katrina in the side; sending her flying through the air, nearly a 100 feet away from the house.  Katrina hit a tree and fell down nearly 15 feet to the ground.  

"Don't try to ever try to stop me missy!  You cannot stop me.  I am too strong for you," yelled out Leandrea.

Taking a deep breath, since she lost her breath from hitting the tree, Katrina looked up towards her house.  What she saw shocked her.  There was nothing on the porch in front of her door.  Nothing, no one, nothing.  

Standing up, Katrina yelled to the wind, "I promise you that you will not harm another soul.  So long as I still draw breath.  I promise to hunt you and bind you so you can not harm another innocent person."