Disclaimer: Sorry that I forgot about this… but as you might already know Mortal Kombat and it's characters do not belong to me… otherwise the MK universe would be quite different… and many of the kombatants would be cross dressing… um yea. Oh and I don't own my friends characters… only my little Eclipse…
The day had started relatively the same as they always do. Blinding light shining in her face; rolling out of bed only to land on the hard floor; stumbling through the hallway into the bathroom. Once she had regained her balance Eclipse looked at her reflection in the vanity mirror. Long crimson hair, matted from sleep framed her face and reached the tip of her elbows; jade colored eyes stared back at her. Eclipse's face fell where she realized what time it was. She needed to get ready… now, so she stripped herself of her silky pajamas and fell into the shower. Her last thought was how the warm water felt like summer rain.
Springtime in Earthrealm was a beautiful sight to behold. Flowers blooming; baby animals frolicking with their parents, yes a beautiful sight indeed, well as long as you are not the one who has to see the protection of this realm. This was the case for the Thunder God, Lord Raiden. It is his responsibility to ensure the safety of this realm and its inhabitants. It was almost time for the next Mortal Kombat tournament to begin. Time for Earth's guardian to find participants to defend Earthrealm from Shao Kahn's grasp. Lui Kang was first on his list. He had won the last tournament; he could certainly help with this one.
She was late; Eclipse was mentally cursing herself for sleeping in.
"It is too early to be awake!" she said as she looked at her time turner.
Eclipse took off at full speed down the hallway, only to come to a stop in front of large stone doors.
'Elaborate as ever… it's not like anyone comes to see them anymore…' she thought as she pushed them apart and felt a cool breeze encircle her, swirling her crimson hair about.
'Daddy must have been summoned too.'
The Elder Gods always choose difficult places to find for their "meetings". This time it was a sunken temple in the vast realm of Heaven, the room was lit with torches… for that ancient feel.
"How appropriate," said the Wind God from behind her. "My daughter still refuses to wear the attire of a Goddess."
This caused her to snicker, "Is it my fault that you can barely walk in those stupid dresses? Why don't you try wearing them for a week!"
This in turn caused him to laugh, but his response was cut short by a slightly annoyed feminine voice,
"Eclipse, as your mother I believe that you have made enough Gods cross-dress for a lifetime."
"I'm just going to assume that is a command from the other Elder God as well…"
There were several coughs from the third throne.
"Why do I always walk in on conversations like this every time there is a meeting?" asked the stained voice of the Thunder God.
"It's just because you always show up late…" replied Eclipse happily.
"Right…moving on, we have some good news. Considering that we have just banished our current Fire God to the Netherrealm we have found someone to replace him," having said that the Elder Goddess motioned to the now opening stone doors. As the doors open completely the small figure of a woman stepped into view.
When she came into the light her chocolate colored hair covered up most of her face, but as she looked up her hazel eyes came into view.
"This is Alaria, she is to accompany you, so that you can show her the ropes of being a Goddess," said the Earth God as he faced Eclipse.
"Are you sure about this Bokku?" asked the now shocked Elder Goddess. "Why didn't you tell me that you made this decision earlier!"
"Personally Michiru, I think that Eclipse is the best person for the job."
The Elder Goddess had just called for a secret emergency meeting for the "mature" Gods. Raiden, was just standing there shaking his head, while Fujin was attempting to calm his wife down a failing miserably.
On the other side of the room sat the Storm Goddess and her new subordinate. It was obvious what was being said, well at least to everyone other than Michiru.
"Training a Goddess… sounds like fun," said Ara as she tried keyword there tried to relieve their boredom.
"Tell me about it…Hey I know, how about we start you're training early?" replied Eclipse.
"Um… what exactly is my training?" Ara asked nervously.
"Follow me and I will show you, let's start in Earthrealm and work our way through the other realms, have you ever been to Earthrealm?"
…Silence followed.
"I'm going to take that as a no… well considering that Raiden governs that realm we can use him as a escort!" exclaimed Eclipse as she grabbed Ara's arm and dragged her off to find Raiden, who was heading out the doors.
"Rai-chan!
Wait up!"
That was all that the Thunder God heard before he was
forced to the stone floor.
"What is it Eclipse? I'm not going anywhere…now will you get off of me?"
"Only if you promise to take us with to Earthrealm" Eclipse replied as she motioned to Ara. "We have to start her training somewhere!"
"Do I have a choice in the matter?"
"Do you ever?"
Neither Raiden nor Ara like the way Eclipse's mouth curled up into a devious smile. Nor the way things were going, but neither had a real choice anyway.
"Why do I have a really bad feeling about this?"
"Eclipse, come here…"… there was only silence. "Eclipse? Where did you go!" … there was still no response. Michiru whipped around and frantically began searching for her daughter. Bokku just shook his head and sat back in his throne. However, Fujin began explaining the Eclipse was traveling to Earthrealm with Ara and Raiden. But she didn't seem to think that they were in safe hands.
"What are you trying to say about Raiden?"
"…er…nothing…nothing at all…"
As the unlikely trio of deities stepped through the portal to Earthrealm there was a slight quake that was felt throughout the other realms, something weird was about to happen. They might not know it yet, but the three of them were about to change the history of Mortal Kombat… but whether it was for the better or the worst is anyone's guess. All that mattered was that Eclipse now had a reason to travel through all the realms, causing mass chaos wherever she went…and no one had any say in it anymore.
"So… this is Earthrealm?" questioned Ara as she regained her balance and stepped away from the portal.
"Yes." Replied the less then happy Thunder God.
"Wow, Raiden I didn't think that you could be monotone…" giggled the ever hyper Storm Goddess.
Raiden just shook his head and led them to the house of Bo' Rai Cho. Eclipse had stayed there many times when she decided to randomly show up in Earthrealm. Bo' Rai Cho was a very kind and sensible man from Outworld, he also aided Raiden in training Earthrealm warriors for Mortal Kombat, but he was a Master of Drunken Fist. He always had a stash of sake' hidden somewhere; which always made the visits more amusing. Eclipse wasn't to sure how Ara felt about a sake' party, but she knew one was about to ensue. Half way during their trip it started to rain, which made Eclipse earn slightly vicious glares from Ara.
'I guess that makes sense… but I can't control the weather all of the time…'
"You couldn't wait till we were inside could you?" spat Ara as she wrung out the water from her now sopping hair.
"Well, I didn't see any harm in it…besides it was just drizzling…"
"Coming from you that is an understatement."
Eclipse and Ara just continued to bicker about anything that moved while they waited for Bo' Rai Cho to finish his training with his new apprentice Shujinko.
As the sun began to set Eclipse had already searched the house completely… but had yet to find any sake'. She lay on the floor in the main hallway almost completely exhausted. This was a strange sight for the young Shujinko… walking into his master's house and finding a young girl passed out on the floor from lack of sake', usually it was from the indulgence of sake'. Not that Bo' Rai Cho was a pedophile but he has been known to drink with young women. Before Shujinko could make anything of the situation his Master entered and woke up the sleeping girl.
"…it was horrible…no sake'… pure un-adult rated evil…" nothing but incoherent rambles came from Eclipse as she slowly started to regain her senses.
Ara hadn't even tried to wake her up but thought it was amusing to whisper that she had found some sake' while Eclipse was still sleeping.
When the Storm Goddess finally woke up she had noticed that she was surrounded by sake bottles all around.
"I'm back in Heaven!" she squealed in delight.
Later Raiden returned to find everyone, even Shujinko happily drinking sake'. He eventually gave way to their requests and joined them. At that time Eclipse had decided that it was the perfect time to start a drinking contest. No one could refuse the challenge.
"A drinking contest?" asked Raiden nervously.
"Don't worry it will be fun!" That only added to his fear.
Unfortunately Shujinko had thought it was best to escape while he still had a chance. But everyone else was ready for the contest. Eclipse sat in the middle seat of the table, she was smirking as she pulled out more sake' bottles.
"Ready?" Eclipse asked as she raised her cup.
"Let's begin," replied Bo' Rai Cho.
The Contest began steadily, Ara was first to drop out, she felt tired and went to one of the spare bedrooms to lie down. Raiden drank very little during the contest, but slowly the liquor began to affect him. The sake' had put in a better mood; he was starting to feel lightheaded and more relaxed. However Bo' Rai Cho and Eclipse went all out in the competition. But who won the contest is still debatable, because they both fell unconscious around the same time.
Morning came and as the sun crept into the room, Eclipse began to stir.
"Wha happened…?" Eclipse thought out loud.
"You were in a drinking contest…" replied the Raiden as he sat beside her.
"Did I win?"
"I'm not sure…"
"Well, at least I'm not in a playboy bunny outfit again…"
This caught the Thunder God's attention…
'What kind of things does she do normally?'
After stretching Eclipse stood up and left for a bath in the hot spring.
A little while after breakfast the trio came to a decision; Ara was going to be introduced to Sub-Zero and the other Lin Kuei. They bid farewell to the Drunken Master and Shujinko, and took off toward the Lin Kuei camp.
"Hey, if the Lin Kuei are super secret ice shinobi how are we going to find them?" asked Ara.
"Easy, just look for a random fortress surrounded with snow and ice during spring…" replied Eclipse.
"If only Sub-Zero could hear you now…" said Raiden as he shook his head.
"You know if you keep shaking your head like that you will turn into a bobble head," giggled Eclipse as she hurried through the camps defenses.
'For shinobi they aren't very secretive… well at least they aren't as bad as Rain.'
The Lin Kuei warriors didn't seem to notice when three strangers walked through their training grounds, well at least they didn't seem to notice. Both Raiden and Eclipse were welcome into the lair by the grandmaster, Sub-Zero, but that didn't stop Eclipse from sneaking around like a shinobi. Soon Ara joined her on her escapade. Raiden just laughed at their unusual antics. This wasn't that first time that Eclipse had done this but it never got old. As they entered the grandmaster's study, they realized it was silent and empty…
"Well, this sucks…" said Eclipse as she raided Sub-Zero's desk looking for anything conspicuous.
A moment later a shinobi entered the study, claiming that he had heard voices.
"If are looking for the grandmaster he is training with his new apprentices in Outworld…"
