Chapter 418 Miserable Bitch

I walked up to the Wood family's tall, dark blue manner, knocked on the door, and then stepped back to wait. It took only a few moments before the door was opened, and I was greeted by the small Trinity again.

"We have been expecting you with the return of Hilda. Mother Wood is in the sitting room waiting for you. I will guide you there now," Trinity said, and I nodded as I came inside, closing the door behind myself.

As I followed Trinity, I got a better look at her than I had the last time I came. She was still short, with a very slender build, but there was something about her that made me think of a wild animal. I had seen wolves before, and she reminded me of one with the way she gracefully moved around the room.

Once we arrived at our destination, Trinity opened the double doors for us and stepped away to allow me entrance into Mother Willow Wood's large sitting room. With the windows all along one side, I could see out over part of Torrain City in front of us, with many other shorter buildings following towards its tall center hub.

"So you are back? And now you have returned, Hilda? Does this mean that you have come to clean the house?" Willow asked me after Trinity was dismissed and the door was closed.

"Depends. I could be here to do that, or I could be just here to check on things and to make sure that you and Trinity are at the meeting tonight. This really depends on how you want to move forward-" I started to say, but then I felt a Negative Energy portal being open near the far corner of the city where Marie lived, right as Tallia opened a portal next to me.

"Galio! Xena just told me that another Blood Witch is coming to you right now!" Tallia called, and I nodded as the stench of boiling blood and burning iron hit my nose even from this distance. The scent was something that only I could smell, but this was many times stronger than Xena's smell.

"Watch from above, but do not engage. I will get her out of the city and then deal with her," I said as I opened a portal close to where the smell was coming from, and the smell that came through was so strong I could almost taste it.

"What is going on?!" Willow demanded, and I looked at her.

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"Someone is trying to destroy the city and kill the people in it, so you need to get them away from the northwest corner of the city with the Vine!" I said and then jumped through, but Tallia came out of another portal right beside me.

"Don't you dare leave me behind! You are going to need me to fight her, and Umbra will help you as well! She should help you control your negative side better!" Tallia said and touched the black heart gem she wore on her chest now, and it transformed into a cat blacker than night that burned with shadow.

​ "This one is different," I said, and Tallia nodded.

"Her name is Destructia, but like all the other Blood Witches besides Xena, she was brought here 500 years ago when Xena defected. Use me to create the gun, so you can fight safely in the city until you can get out!" Tallia said, reaching her hand to me, and I nodded. I knew who this bitch was, and she was pure evil.

During one of my past lives, Destria had been a cruel queen in a far-off country in a world I had been working through. She was known for her torture and execution of her own people with no pity or remorse. She had been infected easily early into my journey in that world, and by the time I had gotten to her, it had been the hardest fight of that life, and many people had died.

If I was going to save Torrain City, then I had to get Destructia out of the city.

I took my goddess's hand, and she became light and transformed into my golden assault rifle, but this time it had black and white cats stamped all over it. I looked down and shook my head with a smile, but then my head shot up as I heard a blood-curdling scream.

"GALIO! I know you are here! SHOW YOURSELF!" Destructia screamed out as I walked toward her scent. It was disgustingly potent, but this woman was no idiot, and this was going to be a deadly fight inside the city. I had to force her out.

I flipped on my Mana Runes and looked around the area, but I wasn't looking for Destructia. Blood Witches had no Mana, but I was making sure that everyone was gone. That wasn't the case, but my vision allowed me to remotely open portals under each of the people immediately to the other side of the city in front of Marney's bar. They would be piled up, but that was hardly my worry right now.

"I am coming, you miserable bitch," I called out as I walked around a corner to a courtyard that was surrounded by apartments.

The place might have been once green and alive, but now everything around this creature was dead. Destructia was in a black robe, but the hood was down to reveal the black cracks on her once beautiful face with red hair that literally burned with the fires of damnation.

"Ah, there you are. I have been waiting to meet you again, Cat God, and end you for what you did to me so long ago," Destructia said in a snarl as she raised her hand, which was now as black as coal with purple runes burning on it.

I didn't flinch from the gesture and lifted my gun, aiming it at the witch who stood still. "You really do not want to fight me, Destructia. I will be nicer this time around since we are in Torrain City, and I need to keep it safe," I said with a calmness that hid the anger I held for this infection.