This fanfiction was written by an DeviantArt member named ShadowStalker178. He gave me permission to post this. Give him full praise, thanks and credit to him. This guy worked very hard on this fanfiction so please don't be critical about it. Dyllan and Rooney are my Ocs but the canon Mortal Kombat characters and realms belong to their rightful owners.

Chapter 1

After the events of the last tournament, Kuai Liang who was known as Tundra began to have flashes in his mind of a woman and himself holding each other with each flash the words,

"I love you.."

Echo and the last flash of them kissing one another for the last time. With that, Kuai awoke gasping for his breath as he looked around confused on his where about. He noticed that it was cold. The winds brushing against his face as he would hear thunder in the distance. Rain began to fall upon his head. A voice echoes as if trying to guide him forward as the rain pores down. As Kuai Liang progressed, he noticed a rock formation ahead of him as he grabbed onto it climbing upward. His body began to ache for some unknown reason but something was helping him move upward. When Kuai finally climbed up, he collapsed onto what seemed to be a road. It was silent and cold. Kuai Liang grabbed onto a railing on the side of the road and pulled himself up as he could see a small town in the distance. He began limping slowly toward it.

In the town, a young teenage girl was wondering around. She seemed to be a light traveler and her eyes black like the darkness of the night. She was minding her own business when she noticed a mysterious man in the distance limping. There was no blood on him so she was confused and called out to him.

"E...Excuse me sir? Are you all right...?"

The man was Kuai Liang. He couldn't speak. All he could do was to look up at the young teenager. He would limp a little faster to try to get a good look of the young teen but collapses in front of her, passing out due to his injuries sustained from a unknown cause. The young teenager ran up to him and tried to check for a pulse. She looked at his armor, noticing a Lin Kuei clan emblem on his torso part of his armor.

"A Lin Kuei..? Out here? What would he be doing out here?"

The young teenager with most of her strength tried to pick up the man and carry him to her hideout in the town. The rain poured down onto both of them. She pulls her hood up with one of her free hands and tries to keep the Lin Kuei member close to herself. When they arrived at the hide out where it was sheltered from the rain. It was an abandoned building that had a secret opening in the back where the door's knob wasn't locked. She laid him down on the side of the building and opened the door, then turning around to pick the man up to carry him inside. She laid him down on her sleeping bag that she kept inside her baggage and removed his mask slowly to find out the man's Identity. On his face was a scar on one of his eyes as if someone sliced downward with a blade onto one of his eyes and his hair black. The younf teenager sat down beside the Lin Kuei warrior and looked down. She yawned and closed her eyes.

Kuai awoke to see a young teenager beside him sleeping against him. He was confused at first but when he saw the surroundings inside the building, he knew he was safe and nothing was going to harm him or this girl. Something was drawing him to this young teenager, as if he knew who she was but it was unknown to him in his mind. He took a blanket from his right. It was slightly wet due to the rain but he placed it overtop of the young teenager and stayed up watching to make sure nothing would harm her but in the distance a shadow figure appeared walking toward him. Kuai instantly got up quickly standing in his Shotokan stance. It was a figure of a woman but he could not see her face.

"Kuai Liang... There is not much time for this but you must protect that girl at all costs..."

Kuai was confused as he looked at the figure as he would yell at the figure confused.

"Who are you?! What are you!? Identify yourself! I heard your voice before it lingered in my mind... Please tell me who are you!"

The shadow figure faded slowly as if it was a hallucination

"All will be revealed in time.. Kuai Liang.. My love..."

"No wait! I need answers! Please, don't go!"

Kuai reached forward only to realize the figure was gone. He looked down at his hand and sighed softly to himself as the young teenager awoke. Kuai then turned his attention toward her.

"I thank you for the hospitality young one... What is your name...?"

The young teenager looked up yawning,

"I am Rooney.. Who are you...? Are you an assassin from the Lin Kuei?"

Kuai let out a soft sigh, turning his attention toward Rooney and kneeling before her.

"I am Kuai Liang... or better known as Sub Zero and yes I am from the Lin Kuei.. but why did you help me..?"

Rooney looked at Kuai pondering about the name of "Kuai Liang".

"I did it because... if I didn't, you would have been left outside in the cold wet rain and hypothermia would have set in..."

"You seem to have been doing well in taking care of yourself, Rooney" Kuai said looking at her and the baggage she was carrying, noticing on the side a rifle with a few ammo boxes and a handgun with 5 clips.

Rooney smiled slightly "I... well I have been taking care of myself for quite some time.. My mother left on some journey. She didn't tell me much all that it was to protect the realms.."

Kuai Liang was interested in these words from the young teenager and he looked at her questioning her about who her mother was.

"Do you have any idea where she exactly went...? and who was your mother...?"

Rooney looked down, sighing softly

"Her name was Dyllan. She taught me most of the things I know for survival, I hope that one day I ca-"

An explosion is heard outside as screams can be heard as a dragon flies above the skies. Kuai looked outside the window to see a portal of netherealm creatures and demons swarming the small town, and seeing tarkatan warriors siding with them. What is this? How could this be.

Rooney seemed a bit scared. She didn't know much about close quarters combat but she would do her best to hold her own. She grabbed her rifle and began loading rounds into the chamber of the rifle. Kuai held his hand up, leaning up against the wall where the doorway was.

"It is to dangerous to go out there in the streets. We need to find a way around. Come we must move quickly." Kuai looked at the worried young teenager and extended a hand. "You can come with me but know this I do not slow down. There is going to be only one speed and that is mine if you can't keep up don't try to keep pushing yourself"

Rooney looked at Kuai and pulled the bolt back of her rifle, placing the round directly into the chamber the safety off.

"I may look young but I can handle myself Kuai" she looked serious as Kuai smiled under his mask admiring her attitude toward the situation. As he opened the door, a Tarkatan was there as he kicked him to the ground and ran to the left heading toward the back pathway, trying to find a way out of the town as Rooney followed from behind shooting the Tarkatan in the skull point blank range and ran beside Kuai, keeping the same pace behind him as the tarkatan forces and netherealm forces converged.

Kuai looked to both his right and left, noticing a few tarkatan and demonic forces converging on their location as he would turn to Rooney and she nodded her head as the enemies ran toward them. Kuai leaped kicking off the wall and slamming his fist into the first demon's face sending it flying backwards. Rooney opened fire on the other side where there was three tarkatan's charging in. She missed the third shot and took out a hidden blade stabbing the tarkatan in the neck, kicking it to the floor. Kuai looked back and nodded as they would run quickly down a long path in the distance they would see the town's exit. Kuai stopped in the middle and looked back at Rooney.

"Stop.. Something is a miss here, something familiar..." Kuai would place his hand infront of Rooney as in the distance Sektor, the cyborg ninja appeared teleporting upward.

"You are ordered for immediate execution Kuai Liang, for your treachery..." Sektor said standing there aiming his flamethrowers directly at Rooney to get the attention of Kuai

"Rooney... run. This one is mine." Kuai Liang stood in front of Sektor the ninja cyborg in red.

"We are Lin Kuei! More stealthful than night! MORE DEADLY THAN THE DAWN!" Sektor quickly charged at Kuai, punching him a few times in the gut then in the face, sending Kuai backwards a bit. After taking the blows, Kuai Liang channels his energy into his hands and chants in his language, firing the blast of ice at Sektor freezing him where he stood. Kuai slide toward him on the ground, leaving a trail of Ice behind him and kicked Sektor directly under his chin that send him flying backwards.

Sektor, after falling to the ground with a loud thud of metal, he teleports quickly activating his stealth and begins to quickly attack Kuai Liang. Surprised by the attack, Kuai is helpless but he manages to block some of the attacks but is outmatched.

Rooney watched in fear as something was building deep inside her. She felt a cold breeze brush beside her. She looked down realizing that her hands had ice forming on them as she looked seeing Kuai almost being defeated. She ignored Kuai's instructions to stay out of the fight as she rushed in leaping into the air and slamming her fist into Sektor's visor with a cold burst, sending the cyborg ninja flying backwards and remaining still on the ground offline.

Kuai Got up looking at her a bit disapproved by her actions ,"What were you thinking! you could have gotten yourself killed!"

He looked at her arm to see cold mist coming off her, as her hand returned to normal. He stopped and nodded his head walking toward her.

Rooney was a bit upset by Kuai yelling at her at first but said silently

"I only did what I thought was right..."

Kuai placed a hand on Rooney's shoulder and looked outward the road leading for a few miles.

"Come on... We need to find out what's going on... We need to find the forces of light.. to help fight against this new threat" Kuai smiled under his mask at Rooney. As in the distance, he saw the figure he saw before but it was more presentable as the woman seemed to be smiling but then faded again without a trace.