Hey there, fellow internet nerds! Dis be Zeta Warrior!

Well I was sitting in the living room, watching My Little Pony (Yes I'm a f***ing brony. Deal with it!) Anyways, I was watching an episode of My Little Pony when suddenly, this popped into my head.

"TEST YOUR MIGHT"

"FINISH HIM!"

"FLAWLESS VICTORY!"

"FATALITY!"

Immediately my mind was flooded with all the memories of me playing Mortal Kombat games as a kid and even as I got older. In fact, I'm such a geek that I have the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection on my Xbox 360.

So, how can I resist doing a fanfic of the game, specifically Mortal Kombat 9.

Just so you know, the story will be altered A LOT. Cuz let's face the facts…the MK9 story was bullshit. I mean, the general plot was pretty good: warriors unite and fight to change a grim future. And the gameplay? Awesome as hell. The controls are a bit on the stiff side, but that's small potatoes to me. The execution of the story was where they dropped the ball. I mean DAMN! At the end of the story, the only heroes alive were Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, and Raiden. Everybody else, dead. Sub-zero? Dead. Kitana? Dead. Jax? Dead. Smoke? Dead. Kung-Lao? Dead. Liu-Kang? Yep, dead. EVEN LIU-KANG GOT AXED! And the ending was kinda bittersweet in my opinion.

Now I know this is Mortal Kombat, and you can't have Mortal Kombat without gruesome deaths. I get it. But, I still think they went a wee bit overboared with the death count.

Now with my MK ranting outta the way. ON TO THE STORY!

Oh that's right. Mortal Kombat is owned by NetherRealm Studios.

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"Ugh…fuck me sideways and back…What happened?" groaned one 17-year-old teen as he wakes up with a splitting headache. His hair was bleach-white and his eyes as green as the deep rainforest of the Amazon. His clothes consist of a crimson long-sleeve shirt, black pants, a pair of black Nikes sneakers, and a white scarf around his neck. His name is Krow At least that is what he told himself. Honestly, he doesn't remember his real name, nor most of his past. It's all a blur to him. The only clues he has are his strange powers and abilities, his given name 'Krow', and a spirit that lives within him. We'll get to that last one soon.

Slowly he stood up, albeit a bit shakily. As his blurry vision started clearing up, he took in his surroundings. The first thing he noticed was that it was nighttime with the full moon being out Looking around he saw that he was surrounded by trees, so he must be in a forest. Also he noticed many rocky mountains in the distance. "Eh…where am I?" he asked himself. Deciding that standing around won't get him anywhere, he started wandering around. But then he found himself even MORE lost. Soon enough, though, he heard voices, "Finally, people. Maybe they can tell me where this is." With that in mind, he followed the sound of the voices until he reached what looked like the entrance of some Chinese/Japanese dojo? Curious, Krow went to the door and tried to open it. Keyword being "tried" as the door appeared to be locked. "Huh…that's a problem…" he muttered. He spotted a tall tree nearby and walked over to it. Krow crouched down and jumped all the way up and landed on a tree limb. "Alright then, let's have a look at what's going on…" he whispered as he began watching what transpired on the other side of the wall.

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Within the walls, numerous people were there. In the middle of it all was a large arena. Apparently, this was some sort of martial arts tournament. One fighter in particular was wearing blue-and-white with a cape and a straw hat. He was none other than Raiden, God of Thunder. Right now though, he had a hand on his head as multiple visions flooded his mind. The visions stopped quickly, but they still had the earthrealm guardian concerned.

"Lord Raiden? Is something the matter?" asked a young man in his 20s wearing the clothes of a shaolin monk, only black and red, and a red headband. This was Liu-Kang, martial artist representing the Shaolin.

Raiden shook his head a bit, "Strange visions…" he then heard a crack and looked down at his amulet. Sure enough, his amulet had small cracks in it.

"Your amulet." Liu-Kang said, a bit concerned.

The god of thunder placed the amulet back on his shirt, "Pay it no heed, Liu-Kang. The tournament starts." He replied, though he himself was concerned as well.

Across the arena stood four figures: a dark-skinned woman dressed in a green, and a bit revealing, ninja outfit, another woman in an indigo and equally revealing ninja outfit and a silver tiara (A/N: Is that a tiara Kitana's wearing on her head? Im not actually sure), some sort of demon with teeth that could shred a human limb in seconds, and in the middle and standing front of the throne, is an old man with shoulder-length gray hair, beard and moustache, pearly white eyes, and wearing clothes that made him look like an aged sorcerer.

"Greetings kombatants! My name is Shang Tsung." The sorcerer, now known as Shang Tsung announced. "Tonight as well as the following days, each of you will fight. Some of you came by chance, while the rest of you volunteered to partake in this tournament. Regardless, you all partake in the most important Mortal Kombat in history. After nine wins for Outworld, this tenth tournament shall ultimately decide the fate of Earthrealm. Should you defeat all of your opponents, only one challenge will remain: me. Now the first challenger…" he suddenly paused, then grinned, "It would seem that a new fighter wishes to join us." He said, snapping his fingers. The crowd was confused by what he meant until an orange portal appeared on the arena.

The next thing they knew a white-haired teen fell from the portal and on the ground hard. "Oooww! Damnit!" He cried shaking his head from the slight dizziness, "As if I wasn't in enough pain!" he shouted. That was when he looked around him and saw all eyes were on him. "…Uh…hehe…Hey guys. Sorry for dropping in like this. I'm a bit lost and was wondering if any of you could help me out, but I see you're all busy so I'm just gonna be on my way now." He said sheepishly as he turned to walk away.

"You there! Stop!" Shang Tsung called out.

The teen did so and looked at the old man, "Er, yes?"

"Tell me. What is your name?"

"Krow."

"I see. In that case. Our first challenger will be Krow!" Shang Tsung announced, "And his opponent…Baraka!"

The demon next to Shang Tsung jump all the way down to the arena and landed on his feet.

"Wait a minute! Challenger? Opponent?" Krow said, seeing the razor-toothed monster glare at him with bloodlust. And then, through the monster's arms came two long blades! Krow gulped, "Um…any chance you're gonna let me go?" he asked.

Baraka answered by sprinting at the teen and swinging his arm blades him.

Krow yelped and ducked at the last second, narrowly dodging those blades and instinctively spun around and delivered a half-moon kick to Baraka's head causing him to stumble backwards. The white-haired teen jumped back a good distance from the demon and sighed, "Shit…I suppose there's no backing out…" he muttered.

Baraka growled, "My blades shall taste your flesh!" and charged at Krow again, dragging his arm blades along the ground, causing a trail of sparks. Once in close distance came at him with a cross slash. The teen dodged again, but the attack managed to leave a cross-shape tear in his red shirt.

Krow groaned, "Aww come on! Why'd ya have to do that! I really liked this shirt!"

The majority of the crowd looked at him like he was nuts. He's in a battle that could likely kill him and he's worried about his shirt?

Back at the arena, Krow sighed, "No point in wearing this anymore…" he said and removed his long-sleeved shirt, revealing a different set of clothing. Now he wears a white long-sleeved muscle shirt, a black ninja vest over it with the picture of a red crow's head on the back, and black steel arm guards. He still had his scarf on. "No more going on the defensive…" he muttered and to the surprise of everyone, he vanished in a swirl of what looked like black feathers.

Baraka went wide-eyed and wondered where he went, until another swirl of black feathers appeared right in front of him and then a fist slammed right into his gut, knocking the wind out of the tarkatan, followed by a jaw-shattering elbow strike, sending him flying back and hitting the ground. He growled as he struggled to get up. How could a child do this much damage to a tarkatan warrior? With only two strikes no less. The very idea infuriated him. He got up and scraped his blades together, causing sparks to fly. No seriously, sparks actually flew from the blades at the young white-head.

Krow saw the sparks coming at him and dodged every one of them, only for Baraka to come rushing at him while he was dodging the projectiles with a flurry of swings of his arm blades. "Shit…" he cursed, caught a bit off guard from the assault, resulting in a cut on his left cheek and one on his arm. However, Krow recovered swiftly and he ducked under a horizontal slash from Baraka trying to decapitate him. This made the teen smile, "You're open." He said as he cocked his left fist back and the fist was coated in dark energy, "Shadow Bullet!" He shouted as his fist instantly collided with Baraka's stomach at a speed akin to a bullet, sending him crashing right into a wall.

Witnessing this, Shang Tsung gave his announcement, "Congratulations, Krow! You have beaten Baraka. Now for your second match…Reptile!"

As soon as those words were said, a figure appeared from thin air on a rooftop. He was, for the lack of better term, a lizardman. He was wearing a black assassin chest plate, a shoulder guard on his right shoulder, green pants, arm guards and leg guards. Also he was wearing a mask with only his yellow eyes shown. Reptile leapt from the roof and landed on the arena across from Raven.

"Okay, Reptile is it? Well I've never fought anybody like you. This should be fun!" He said, excitedly before clashing with the reptilian assassin.

As they closed the distance to each other, Reptile fired a stream of green liquid from his mouth at Krow, who moved his head to the side to avoid getting hit. But the liquid grazed his right cheek, burning it, causing him to yelp in pain. This gave Reptile an opening and he planted a solid kick to his chest, knocking him backwards onto his back.

Krow groaned as he stood back up, placing a hand on his burning cheek. ~Acid…This could be trouble…~ he thought, blocking a claw swipe from Reptile, followed by a leg sweep, tripping the scaly fighter. He raised his fist in the air, charging it with dark energy and bringing it down at Reptile.

Reptile, seeing the punch coming, rolled out of the way in time Raven's fist slammed into the ground, punching a hole into it. He then disappeared from sight.

Krow blinked and looked around, only to find himself getting hit in the face and the stomach, ending with an uppercut. The teen stumbled backwards, "Ugh! What else can he do…ACK!" he suddenly felt his neck being squeezed. "What…the…hell?" he choked.

Reptile reappeared in front of the white-haired teen, revealing that he was constricting his neck with his long tongue.

"Okay…that's rather disturbing…but…" Krow grabbed Reptile's tongue and yanked the surprised Saurian towards him. A black/crimson orb of energy gathered into his right palm and as soon as Reptile was close, he slammed the orb into his chest and the orb detonated, sending him fly across the arena and landing on the ground. The tongue unwrapping around his neck and back into the saurian's mouth. Krow panted as his neck was sore from constriction. "Phew…"

"Well done, young Krow. Now…Finish him!" Shang Tsung said.

"…excuse me?" He said, not sure he heard him right

"Kill him!"

Krow looked up at the aged sorcerer then back down at Reptile and walked towards him.

Reptile panted as he had sustained major damage from that last attack. He saw the teen walked towards him, no doubt to kill him. He shut his eyes, awaiting his inevitable death. However, several seconds passed and the death didn't come. He opened his eyes and saw Krow knelt down right in front of him, his hands glowing a midnight bluish color. He soon felt his pain lessening and his injuries disappear. This teen was…healing him? Why? When himself tried to kill him? This had Reptile confused.

As soon as Krow was done, he helped Reptile up, then walked out of the arena. "I kill for the sake of survival, not for the sake of amusement." He stated. As he left the arena, various comments were made about him (A/N: See if you can guess who says each line)

"I sense strong dark energy within that boy. Hard to believe that he isn't of Netherelam."

"He defeated Baraka and Reptile with relative ease. Clearly he is no normal child."

"He could've killed Reptile right there when he was down. Instead he spared him and even healed his injuries. An honorable warrior indeed."

Shang Tsung glared at Krow, "Very well." He stood up, "We shall continue the tournament tomorrow at dawn." He announced disappeared in flames. The rest of the fighters went their separate ways.

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We now find Krow walking along a stone bridge. Taking in the view, he saw a couple volcanoes in the distance. He looked down and noticed just how high he was, "Yeesh. I'd be a bloody smear from that height…" he muttered. He sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes. Once he reopened his eyes, he found himself in his mindscape, an open grassy valley surrounded by a large forest. The sky was crimson red with the full moon up.

"I swear Krow, you are such a softy." Came a feminine voice.

Krow sighed, ~Are we really gonna have this conversation again, Kurohane?~

A giant raven flew over him and landed in front of him. The raven's form then shrunk down and shifted into a more human form. Now, instead of a giant black bird, there is a dark-skinned woman who looks in her mid-20s standing 5'8" with black hair fashioned in a ponytail and piercing red eyes. He outfit consisted of a black t-shirt that hugged her well-endowed chest, black tight jeans, and sandals. Right now she had her arms crossed under her bust.

"Krow, you had a saw-toothed blade-swinging monster and an acid-yakking lizardman try to kill you! Yet you even went so far as to heal the lizard. Why?" she asked

"Two reasons. One, I didn't even want to be in this tournament in the first place. Two, I refer you to what I said back at the arena."

Kurohane sighed, "You've been like this ever since we first met here. You and your sense of honor. I'm surprised you lived to be this old."

"Aww, is somebody worried?"Krow teased.

She scoffed "I could give less of a shit about what happens to…Krow you got company." Kurohane warned as she just sensed a two presences nearby.

"Guess we'll have to cut our little chat short. See ya." Krow grinned as he disappeared from his mindscape. Back in reality, the teen opened eyes and saw…

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Aaand Chapter end! I know I know, "Why the fuck did you put a cliffhanger there?!" Well that's the fun part. You're gonna decide who comes to speak with him. Lemme clarify. I want you readers to put in your review, or PM, which side you want Krow to join. Outworld or Earthrealm? That will decide who it is that approaches him. Get it? Good.

In Krow's harem:

Mileena

Jade

Sheeva

Skarlet

Frost

Oh there is one more but she the "rule 63" girl I mentioned, so I'm gonna let you guys guess on that. ^_^

Alright readers, you know what to do. Send your reviews and I'll keep making chapters.

Til next time!