The Spirit of the Ninja
Part 1
A story based on Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance

Characters:
Mortal Kombat characters
Tyler/Tai a.k.a. Lucifer
Josie a.k.a. Tiger
Travis
Brandon a.k.a. Zuzuflabem a.k.a. self-proclaimed God
Sara
Ethral
Alkhil

Prologue:

The Thunder God Raiden watches over Earthrealm with an ever watchful eye. It has been 10 years since the Deadly Alliance was defeated, Raiden had been travelling Earthrealm, keeping an eye out for strong fighters to help in the next Mortal Kombat, which is being held later that year. Raiden has not yet found any warriors with the capability to fight in Mortal Kombat, however, he may not be looking hard enough, for there is a new breed of fighters about to make themselves known.

Story:

Tyler walks down a city street with his best friend Travis. "Hey, Travis, wanna go check out the arcade?" "Nah, not today, we got stuff to do remember!" Travis says, slightly agitated. "Wooh! Sorry! Geez, I was just wondering!" Tyler laughs slightly, Travis glares at Tyler and then walks faster, then quickly turns a corner. "HEY! WAIT UP!" Tyler calls after Travis and runs after him. After Tyler catches up, he realises that Travis seems to be heading towards somewhere they haven't been to before. "Um, Travis, where are you going?" Travis responds quickly, "Just shut up! We have to finish getting ready for the city tournament!" Tyler crosses his arms and looks around at the dark alley. Tyler says sarcastically, "Wow, this is a great place!" He then gets serious and looks at Travis sternly. "Why here?" Travis looks over his shoulder at Tyler. "Because we don't want people getting a look at our fighting styles, remember?" "Um..." Tyler scratches his head, looking absent minded. "Yeah, I do... at least, I think I do." Travis laughs, then says. "I can't believe you have forgotten how long it took you just to translate the name of the styles into Japanese!" Tyler glares at Travis. "SHUT UP!" Suddenly a shadow moves in front of the opening to the alley. "Well if it isn't shrimpster and toothpick!" Tyler and Travis look at each other and both say in unison. "Aw crap." The person standing at the opening to the alley is none other then Tyler's older sister, Josie. "Nice to see you bro." Then Brandon, Josie's friend, walks up to the opening next to Josie. "Hey." Tyler and Travis then say in unison. "Double crap!" Brandon laughs and says. "Are you two ready for the city tournament tomorrow?" Tyler nearly screams. "IT'S TOMORROW!" Travis runs off quickly and yells. "I'll see you all tomorrow!" Tyler turns towards Travis, looking very angry. "GET BACK HERE TRAVIS!" Brandon laughs and then walks off, leaving Josie and Tyler alone. "So, Tai, lets go home, supper should be ready by now." Josie turns and starts walking off. Tyler looks dumbfounded as he follows Josie home.

The next day is the day of the city tournament, somehow the Thunder God Raiden finds out about the city tournament and decides to inspect the fighters at the tournament. Disguised as a journalist he travels to the tournament and waits for the tournament to begin.

Tyler's alarm clock goes off, the clock reads 3:00 pm. Tyler looks up at the clock and suddenly he realises something. 'THE TOURNAMENT STARTED 48 MINUTES AGO!" He jumps out of bed, he then goes into his closet and gets out his fighting costume, it looks like Scorpions() only the yellow on the outfit is grey on Tyler's. He run downstairs and out the door. "I can't believe I set the clock wrong!" Once Tyler arrives at the tournament he sees Josie, Josie is wearing her battle outfit(), which she made herself."Hey, Josie! Why didn't you wake me up!?" Josie looks at Tyler, grinning. "I already made it to the semi-finals!" Tyler smiles. "Good job... now answer the question!" Josie laughs. "You were snoring so loudly it would have killed me to enter your room!" Tyler laughs then realises what Josie said and stops. "HEY!"

Raiden watches from the sidelines, he already had decided on bringing Josie and Brandon with him to Mortal Kombat. Raiden suddenly senses something wrong. "I know your there." Raiden says quietly, but by then it was too late. By the time he said it a vampire pounced on his back, knocking him to the ground. "Hello Raiden." The vampire said, by the voice it was obviously a female.

Tyler looked at the tournament board. "It looks like your up against Brandon in the semi-finals." Josie just smiles and says. "Exactly, it will be too easy. You better hurry you have been bumped up to the semi-finals against Travis, good luck!" Josie hugs Tyler then shoves Tyler into the ring, Travis is already standing at the other side, wearing his battle outfit (). "You ready Tai?" Travis calls over. "Whenever you are!" Tyler enters the stance for Banpaia Moui(Vampire Fury) and Travis enters the stance for Doragon Moui(Dragon Fury).

The female vampire is still sitting on Raiden's back, watching Tyler and Travis' match. "Hm, I could probably... nevermind, it wouldn't be worth it, that Travis guy seems too weak, but the other one..." Raiden manages to look up and sees his attacker. The vampire is beautiful, she has red eyes and seems to have a sort of evil surrounding her, her outfit was mainly black.() Raiden immediately recognised her. "Sara." Sara looks down at Raiden and smiles coldly. "I'm touched that you remembered me, after all this time." Raiden just looks at her. "Why are you here?" Sara responds quickly. "Somewhat of the same thing as you, but unlike you, I have found what I was looking for. Good bye Raiden." With that, Sara dissappears.

In the end, Tyler won the match. After that Josie and Tyler had their match and Josie ended up winning. After the tournament ended, Josie, Brandon, Tyler, and Travis were confronted by Raiden. "You four have been chosen to defend Earthrealm in the tournament of Mortal Kombat...." All four just stared at Raiden in disbelief. "The boat leaves tonight, so you have to be at the docks by tonight or you will not be able to compete. Now I must go gather the other warriors, good luck to you all." After Raiden finished speaking he disappeared followed by a crash of thunder.

Later that night, all four of them arrive at the dock, not aware that they were being watched by Sara. The boat arrived shortly after. Once they were on the ship they were confronted by Ethral, who closely resembled Sub-Zero (). "Welcome to my ship." Ethral looks over the four carefully. "So, you four were selected by Raiden himself, that must be a great honour. We should be arriving shortly, I'll be in the first match so that you know what you will be up against." Tyler only half-listens, instead he watches Sara intently, he did not know what or who Sara was but was transfixed by her beauty. After Ethral finished talking he returned to the ships bridge. Travis, Brandon, and Josie made their way to the side railing and enjoyed the view. Tyler, on the other hand, walked over to Sara. "Hello, my name is Tyler, my friends call me Tai. What's your name?" Sara smiles coldly. "I am Sara." Sara, turns towards Tyler. "Let's get some privacy shall we?" Tyler agrees eagerly. "Whatever you say!" Sara leads Tyler to an area isolated from the others and turns towards him. "So, you were chosen by Raiden?" Tyler nods, his gaze transfixed on Sara. Sara moves closer to Tyler. "Hm, you must be quite the fighter." Tyler just shrugs. "Well, you could be much stronger you know?" Tyler finally regains his senses. "What!? How, if you know how then just do it!" Sara smiles coldly when she hears this. "I'm so glad." Sara then tilts Tyler's head to the side and bites down on Tyler's neck. Tyler's eyes widen as Sara's fangs cut into his neck, then seems to relax as he becomes something more then just a human.

The next day, Ethral did just as he said the night before. He fought with an unknown warrior and beat the other fighter to a pulp, after he was done beating on the fighter a voice seemed to come from nowhere. "FINISH HIM!" Ethral then drew his sword and threw it in the air, the sword ended up cutting the fighter in two and then Ethral held his hands in the air and a blue glow formed in his hands, he then brought his hands forward and a blast of Kori strikes the fighter's two halves, freezing them, he then walked up to the halves, reached into the half-heads and ripped out the half-skulls. Everyone gasped when they saw this. Then they all gathered for a feast and everyone was sent to bed.

Later that night, Tyler went to Ethral's room. "Ethral... I-I n-n-need your h-help!" Tyler says, acting scared. Ethral got up and followed Tyler outside. "What is it Tyler? What's wrong?" Tyler responded quickly. "It's j-just o-o-over h-here." Just then a blur sweeps by, when the blur is gone Tyler has also disappeared. "Tyler!? Tyler, where are you!?" Then Sara and Tyler both strike Ethral from behind...
To be Continued...