What's Come Over Katie? Part 4
By The Sencho
It was a quiet, summer morning all across town. Most families were just now getting up, fixing breakfast, and getting ready to greet the day, go to church, and do other, Sunday activities. These same people don't seem to notice the eleven balls of light floating across the city, seeking targets from among their drowsy numbers. Also going unnoticed by this sleepy town is a young girl, and her cat, fighting for their lives.
All these sleepy, Sunday morning activities didn't matter one bit to Katie. Right now she had her best friend Sarah trying to kill her, thus ruining her morning.
"Tiger! Some help here!" Katie yelled as she grabbed Sarah's two upper arms. She couldn't stop Sarah landing a solid blow with her lower arms.
"Coming!" Tiger jumped onto Sarah and wrapped his arms around her lower two. "Katie, you've got to kill her. She's an Akkadian now."
"I can't kill her, she's my..." Katie cut off as Sarah sent her flying across the room. With her other two arms free, Sarah lifted Tiger over her head and promptly threw him threw the gaping hole in the kitchen's outer wall. Free of her grapplers, Sarah lunged across the room at Katie.
Katie shook off the effects of the throw only to see a nine-foot tall, four-armed Amazon jumping towards her. Before she could react, Sarah had begun strangling her with her upper arms while her lower arms delivered a series of rapid blows to her stomach. Katie gasped for air, completely off balance from the onslaught.
Her vision blurred from the lack of oxygen, yet she found herself drawn to the red symbol in the middle of Sarah's chest. The symbol burned with a hatred that she could feel and that hatred grew with each moment as she came closer to death. As her vision blurred further, Katie also felt a growing pressure in her eyes. In a heartbeat the pressure built to bursting, and the world vanished in a flash of white.
As the world came back into view, Katie still had Sarah strangling the life from her. She tried to remove Sarah's hands from around her neck, but the continual body blows were sapping her strength. Try as she might, she couldn't pull Sarah's steely hands from her throat, and could feel herself losing.
"Get off her!" Tiger grabbed Sarah by the shoulders and threw her across the room. "You okay?"
"Yeah I think so. But I'll be sore later."
"Katie, I'll hold her down and you kill her. If I kill her, the power will just go possess someone else. Only you can banish the spirit."
"But I can't kill her. She's my best friend." Katie shouted at Tiger, tears in her eyes.
"Not anymore, she gave herself to the Akkadians, she's one with them now. And the only outcome here is her death or yours."
"'One with them?' That's not what I saw."
"What you saw? Part of your new eyesight?" Tiger's curiosity getting the best of him.
"Yeah. Something happened when she was strangling me. I think something else manifested itself. I see her surrounded in an aura I know to be hers and it's trapped by an aura coming from that symbol. She didn't join, she was taken."
"Impossible, Akkadians always take willing subjects. That's what Tyvria told me."
"Yeah, well, I'm telling you what I saw."
"Well, anyway, we should finish her..." Tiger stopped mid-sentence as Sarah pulled herself up. "She's tougher than I thought."
Tiger lunged at Sarah and toppled her onto her back while Katie watched on, seemingly lost in thought. He needed every ounce of his strength to hold back the unholy power Sarah possessed. Sarah strained against him and slowly began to lift him off of her.
"Katie!" yelled Tiger, "I'd rather not die today."
Coming around and with tears in her eyes, Katie balls up her fist and throws a punch at Sarah with all her might. The blow sends Sarah and Tiger both flying into, and through the inner wall on the kitchen and crashing onto the dining room table. After a moment, as if to make up it's mind, the table shatters, sending the fine, wooden splinters in all directions.
Katie rushes through the debris to find Sarah stunned. Tiger moves to keep her pinned yet allow Katie to deliver the deathblow. Instead, Katie crouched down and maneuvered one of her nipples into Sarah's open mouth.
"What are you doing!?"
"It's okay Tiger, I have an idea."
"What, you want maker her more powerful!?"
"I'm not going to kill my friend, even if she is possessed." Katie looked into Tiger's eyes and saw nothing but concern for her looking back. "It'll be okay, Tyvria gave me this power, and I'll use it as I think best."
"I'll always obey you Katie, but I think powering her up is a mistake."
With that, Katie squeezed her upper left breast and watched as a few beads of milk fell into Sarah's open mouth. Greedily, Sarah latched on and began suckling, as if she'd gone days across a desert with no water. Katie giggled a bit at the power of the suction and the feeling of her milk being pulled from her. She didn't know if this is how mothers felt when nursing, but she could definitely get used to this sensation.
Katie and Tiger both noticed the symbol on Sarah growing brighter the more she suckled. Before either could react the whole room dissolved with a flash into a sea of crimson.
High in the mountains, a small chalet nestled deep in the woods lies along the shore of a crystal clear lake. Two women and a man sat on the dock enjoying the new morning. A thin, summer mist clung to the lake surface, obscuring where the man's fishing line entered the water. The two women, both with dark, frizzy hair, rail thin bodies, and pale complexions, were of different ages, and the younger one looking a lot like the older one. Steam rose from their cups filled with hot chocolate.
"I wonder how Katie's doing?" asked the older woman. "You know, we've never left her alone this long before."
"It's okay dear. She's 16, more than old enough to stay at home for a few weeks. Besides, what's the worst trouble she can get into? A party?" The man chuckled to himself as he reeled in his line.
"Yea, a party. You've heard the trouble kids get into these days. Sheesh, Ron, you'd never realize she's your daughter with that attitude."
"It's okay mom," the younger girl interjected, "It's Katie, she's the biggest stick-in-the-mud at school. The worst she'll do is shop for two weeks."
"Lisa's got a point dear. And since we have the credit cards, Katie can't do that much damage."
"Still. I'm a mother, and my baby is just going through so many changes, I want to protect her."
"Don't worry Elle, Katie has a good, level head on her shoulders. Nothing weird would happen around her. I guarantee it." Ron lay his rod down, "Anyone else want some more hot chocolate?"
"Katie? Are you okay?" came Tiger's voice.
"Yeah, if I'm hearing you I at least know this wasn't a dream. I could use some aspirin."
"Katie, uh...there have been more changes."
"Oh, wonderful." She opened her eyes now quite comfortable with her range of vision. Looking herself over, she noticed that now, like Tiger and Sarah, she had four arms. These new arms emerged right below her existing arms and looked as powerfully muscled as the rest of her.
Looking down at Sarah, who was slowly stirring, Katie noticed that the red symbol had vanished. Yet Sarah remained in the hulking, Amazonian body.
"Well Tiger, I told you there was a way other than killing her. And it worked flawlessly. That Akkadian is gone." Her proud smile diminished as Tiger pointed to her chest. Looking in the mirror, she could see the Akkadian symbol on her chest.
"Okay, maybe just one flaw."
Tiger and Katie both turned as Sarah came to. She rubbed her head with one hand while propping herself up with the other three.
"Katie, I think you owe me an explanation."