Mortal Kombat: Redemption
*DISCLAIMER: This story contains spoilers regarding the events of Mortal Kombat 2011. If you want to avoid spoilers, avert your eyes. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Chapter 1: Champion's Remorse
Liu Kang's eyes shot open. His skin was numb and his vision was blurry. He saw three figures surrounding him.
"Liu Kang. Liu Kang, are you okay?" He heard a familiar voice ask.
Liu Kang tried to answer, but he felt as though he were suffocating. "Can't… breathe…" He wheezed.
"Don't worry, it's a temporary effect, you'll be feeling better soon."
"God, Liu! We thought you were dead!" came another concerned voice. Liu Kang made these people out to be his mentor Raiden, and his acquaintance Sonya Blade. As his vision improved and he caught his breath, he made the other person out to be Johnny Cage. They were the only ones left.
There was something wrong. His vision didn't completely return to his left eye and feeling never completely returned to his skin. He jumped off the concrete ground and looked around him. He was back in his home; the Shaolin training ground. He stared at his reflection in the pool underneath the lei tai close by. He saw his horribly burned face looking blankly back at him. Instantly it hit him; the cause of this misery was none other than his savior! His focus shot back to Raiden, but he said nothing.
"Liu Kang… I'm sorry." But Liu Kang didn't want to hear it. He started walking off. "Liu Kang… There was nothing else I could do!"
"Liu Kang, wait!" Said Sonya. But Liu Kang was beyond compromise.
"Let him go. Today we have suffered such traumatic loss, and my ignorance is to blame. He needs time to recuperate, just as we all do."
As Liu Kang traveled on into the night, he couldn't clear his mind. His scars were a brutal reminder of his woe; he lost so many; his best friend Kung Lao met his demise as Raiden falsely believed him to be the one destined to fight Shao Kahn. He lost Jax and Nightwolf; both could have been saved. He lost Kitana; a victim of her own flesh and blood. If only he had been there, perhaps they all would have lived. But his mentor Raiden, he had him preoccupied on a hopeless quest. But one thing above all stuck with him. Raiden was right despite his foolishness. If Liu Kang would have defeated Shao Kahn, then Shao Kahn would have certainly ended all things. Liu Kang deserved death for his lack of cooperation, yet he was spared. Even with this knowledge, Liu Kang could not bring himself to turn around and forgive Raiden. He felt nothing but hate for the thunder god.
Author's Note: Wow! Thank you all so much for the reviews! I plan to write more chapters once I play through the whole story mode so I don't mess up (I only saw a few parts so far) I was shocked at the deaths of all those awesome characters, and I want to find a cool, creative way to bring each one of them back, not just the normal "They're alive again like it never happened" scenario.