What a disaster breakfast was eh? Now Jerrod has been brought down off his high horse a little, can Liu Kang get through to him? Probably not, but that damn well isn't going to stop him from trying. I know that my updates have been growing fewer and farther in between and I apologize. School is a pain in the ass, home is a pain in the ass, and trying to get a job is a prison quality pain in the ass. I think I'm going to try and finish up this story and my Mass Effect story before moving on to other franchises. But if I grow impatient, and I do easily, I might just go ahead with it anyway.

Mileena skipped through the halls of the palace lost in her childish thoughts. She still had something of a high going after the electrical shock that she, and everyone else at the table, received as a result of Rain's foolish lack of an understanding of his own two elements.

"Those two idiots will probably kill each other if one so much as sneezes in the other's direction." She said to no one in particular, but a servant girl walking by stopped and unwisely addressed her.

"Did you say something milady?" The young woman asked.

Mileena stopped and turn her gaze upon the woman. The woman had what Earthrealmers would call Asian features. She also had a slim figure with modest but appreciable curves. The dress she wore wasn't pretty, but it did hug her cleavage nicely, and was split at the sides so that her lean legs showed. Mileena didn't really have a preference for male or female, but this serving girl seemed to be a diamond in the ruff among the palace hands. This gave her a deliciously entertaining idea. She took a few sexy struts towards the woman.

"Yeah, I did. What's your name?" Mileena now stood very close to her.

The woman showed more courage than most unarmed people did when conversing with Mileena.

"Alice. My name is Alice, milady."

"Hmmm, Alice." Mileena's hand ran lightly through Alice's light brown hair and resting on her cheek.

"Your much prettier than any of the other servants here. I want you to do something for me."

"Wha, wh, what would that be milady?" Alice stuttered, but she didn't know if it was from fear or the touch of Mileena's hand. Probably both.

"My sister, Kitana. Her boyfriend, Liu Kang, he isn't the best when it comes to women. I want you to try and seduce him."

Alice's eyes widened,

"Milady, I couldn't do that! He is already in a relationship with the princess, and I'm no comparison to Kitana."

"Come on, it'll be just for fun. I like to watch him get all flustered, and Kitana will be more than a little peeved with him."

"Surely princess Kitana wouldn't appreciate me,"

"Don't worry. Kitana is too much of a goody two shoes. She won't do anything to you."

"Even still, why would he be interested in me when he has Kitana?"

"He's a man. No amount of disciplined training or happy relationships will change that. His cock will run wherever it wants to, dragging him along behind it. Like an over sized dog being walked by a child. Besides, how could he resist you? I'm barely able to do it myself..." Mileena's hand slid down Alice's cheek, across her full lips, down her slender neck, and rested in the groove between her breasts.

"I, I, I ca..." Alice was cut off when Mileena wrapped her arm around her waist and pulled her so close that the two women were pressed against each other, tightly.

Keeping her one arm around Alice's waist, Mileena let her other hand move from the space between her breasts to actually resting over top of her left one.

"Surely, you don't intend to disobey your princess." Mileena said softly in her ear.

Alice was at a cross roads. Try to muscle in on one princess's man, or say no to the psychotic, murderous princess.

"I will try to do as you ask, milady."

Mileena giggled in her usual childish tone, abandoning the seductive, sultry voice.

"Good! Because I didn't want to use this."

Mileena brought up the hand that had been wrapped around very close to Alice's ass and showed her the sais that had somehow appeared without her noticing.

"Cleaning the blood off these things is really boring." With that, Mileena released Alice and skipped away.

Alice stood there for another minute, feeling sick and going a little pale.

Rain had stomped off angrily from the dining hall after the breakfast fiasco. Everyone practically dived out of his way. Those who didn't received a harsh brush against the shoulder. He mumbled to himself angrily.

"Damn monk, thinks he can speak to me that way. I'm a goddamn prince. Hell, I'm a goddamn god! And Kitana! How could she settle for that miserable whelp when she was engaged to me? I should be with her right now, she should have my children, I should be the one bending her over and," He stopped when he was getting looks from servants who had just finished cleaning the bathrooms.

In anger, he caused the dirty toilet water in their buckets to splash all over them. This lightened his mood, but it darkened again when he came to this realization.

"That pathetic monk has to go. To a watery grave." Rain smiled to himself beneath his mask because of what he saw as an incredibly clever pun.

"I can't do it myself, unfortunately. Kitana and Jerrod won't accept me after that. Fortunately, someone who can kill him owes me a favor." The demi god chuckled to himself as he left the palace and made his way to the living forest.

Liu Kang and Kitana left along with Jade to let the servants clean the dining hall. Liu Kang was urging the the women to keep up with his pace because he had lost control of his bladder when Rain's lighting struck him. Now his servant's garbs were wet with his urine. He thanked Raiden and Fujin that he been spared the humiliation of soiling himself.

"Please ladies, can we leave the chit chat until after I'm not swimming in my own pants?" He pleaded.

"In case you've forgotten Liu, they aren't your pants. Those were clawed off your behind by Garfield. At the rate your going, you'll have exhausted the palace's entire supply of pants by the end of this stay. We'll need to start giving you the guards chain mail greaves." Jade said, now picking up the pace for Liu Kang's sake.

"Those would be more helpful when I feed Rain my knee." He and Jade laughed. Kitana wasn't as impressed.

"I really wish you wouldn't fight with him so much."

"Me? Don't blame me for this. He's the one who was running his mouth off whenever me and you were brought up." Liu replied back a little more harshly than he intended.

"Don't give me any attitude just because you can't swallow your pride. I swear you two were five minutes away from whipping out your dicks and comparing sizes." Kitana replied back.

"I bet you would like that wouldn't you? After those years of being engaged, you can't help but wonder what it would be like with him."

Oh no, Jade thought too herself.

"You've got some fucking nerve saying something like that! I've never given you shit for hanging out with that hussy Sonya Blade, or gotten mad that you had your hands all over Mileena yesterday." Kitana said while planting her hand on her tantalizing hip and tilting to the side in the universal pissed of woman pose.

"Hey, hey, don't bring Sonya into this. She's a good friend, and Johnny's girl, even if she doesn't know it. And you can't hold that thing with Mileena against me. I thought she was you!"

Oh shit, Jade thought to herself.

"You know what? Go and see her, cause you aren't getting into a bed with me anytime soon. But don't worry, I'm sure you won't be able to tell the difference!" With that, she stomped off down the hall.

"What did I just do?" Liu Kang asked Jade.

"My friend, you flat out told your girlfriend that you can't tell the difference between her and her sister, and accused her of being interested in someone else. You are now in the Edenian doghouse."

"How is that different from the Earthrealm doghouse?" Liu Kanh asked dreading the answer.

"Well. for one thing, Garfield stays there." Jade smirked at the look he got when remembering the monstrous tiger-like creature.

"So, I'm screwed then?"

"Screwed like a prison bitch, for now at least. I wouldn't worry about it though, I've known Kitana long enough to her temper flares up very fast, but subsides just as quickly. She'll come around eventually. But I do know how you can make that happen quicker."

"Really? How? Roses, chocolates, a puppy?" Liu asked hopefully. Jade just chuckled.

"Try and talk to her father without making a complete fool of yourself."

Liu let out a sigh of frustration.

"I've tried, by Raiden's thunderbolts I've tried. No matter what, I can't get through to him. Rain keeps interfering, and Ermac, er, I mean Jerrod just doesn't seem comfortable whenever I talk to him." Liu finished with a slump of his shoulders.

Jade crossed her arms under her large breasts and contemplated for a few moments. Then a small smile, almost mischievous, formed from her lips.

"Then you'll just have to get him when he is comfortable."

"When is that?"

"Jerrod is supposed to be traveling to a small city in the mountains to see about getting a trade route running again."

"So?" He asked expectantly.

Jade rolled her emerald colored eyes.

"So, why not try to get to know him when he is comfortable?"

"Oh, yeah great idea, well actually no. Why would he be interested in me or what I think in the first place? Why should I pretend to care about something for someone who probably doesn't care about me. Maybe he just isn't worth it."

"Is Kitana worth it?"

Liu Kang choked on his breath at the question. Once again, Jade had disarmed him with her charisma. He sighed.

"When do we leave?"

Jade smiled again.

"Right now."

Eric was running out of breath. He had circled the outer courtyard perhaps three times now. Thankfully he wasn't wearing his helmet today, though this peeved his partner because he was out of uniform. Still, the cumbersome helmet allowed him to take in deeper breaths of air, and improved his vision. However, his full suit of armor covering the rest of his body hindered him, and the woman running from him was beggining to leave him in the dust.

"Come on Eric! I know you can run faster than that! Get the damn lead out!" Mileena yelled behind her as she effortlessly vaulted over a fence with Eric's longsword still in her hands.

Eric thought about just letting her leave with it, but if she hurt herself or somebody else with his weapon then he would be in deep trouble. Not to mention that a guard having his sword stolen was damn embarrassing. Also, Mileena wasn't going to leave him alone until she had her fun. Gathering as much energy as he could, he followed her as she ran towards the palace entrance.

Jade and Liu Kang took a few minutes to gather some supplies for the trip through the mountains. After they got some packs full of food and water, and some heavier clothing, they went out to the palace entrance to make their exit. A single guard was standing near the gate. From the sound of his voice, he was the older of the two Liu Kang had seen when first arriving.

"Greetings General Jade." He gave her a stoic salute. Jade chuckled at his formalities.

"Come now Bryant, this isn't boot camp, and you've been a part of the army longer than I have."

"Old habits die hard ma'am. May I ask where the two of you are going?"

"We are going to take the mountain pass to that isolated city King Jerrod left to."

"I see. Good, the weather is supposed to be erratic up there."

Jade nodded to him and with Liu Kang she moved to step through the gate. Before they could, Mileena came bolting through it and then hugged the wall in the corner. Before anyone could ask her what she was doing, she stuck her foot out just as Eric came barreling around the corner. He tripped over Mileena's outstretched foot, flew through the air, and into Jade. Both of them lay on the ground dazed and confused. Liu looked more surprised than anything, Bryant wore a look of absolute horror underneath his helmet, and Mileena could have torn her veil because of how widely she was grinning. Jade, still underneath the larger man, recovered first. She looked at the young man on top of her and noticed his face was lying very close to her ( barely covered) boobs. Then Eric recovered from the blow, looked down at the beautiful, half naked woman beneath him, and nearly fainted.

"Oh my god, a thousand pardons General Jade! Let me fix your top," He then began adjusting her top which was really little more than a bra. He was also still straddling her. Liu Kang heard Bryant make a sickened gasp.

Eric finally realized what he was doing and all the color drained from his face. He got up awkwardly and offered his hand to Jade, then took it back, then offered it again. He wasn't sure if he had touched her enough already. Too everyone's surprise, she accepted his hand and pulled herself up.

"I'm so sorry Jade, I mean General Jade. My intentions weren't like that in anyway, I not interested in you like that." Eric said with sweat forming on his brow.

Despite the annoying tussle, Jade let a thin mischievous smirk show.

"And why not exactly? Do you not find me attractive?" She said with clearly mock hurt.

Eric's pale face now turned cherry red.

"Not at all. Your are very sexy, your outfit, complexion, green eyes, legs, and," Erics eyes now began drifting towards her breasts. Bryant decided that was quite enough.

"Eric, come on we have to do that, thing." He said as he walked inside.

"What thing?" Eric replied.

"Just, Get Over Here!" Bryant said in a hushed but irritated voice. (In the Netherrealm, Scorpion was in the middle of his fiery back flip when he lost his focus and landed face first on the hard, charred ground. He got up and felt a tooth fall from his mouth. He roared in rage and pillars of fire burst from the ground and incinerated everything withing a fifteen feet radius.)

Rain had been walking through the living forest for about two and a half hours now. The forest had a plethora of sights and smells, but he kept walking until he found just the right one. Melted flesh. He looked around and saw nothing but hungry trees and ferns. Perfect.

"I know your here, its not like you can really go anywhere else. I have a problem, and you still owe me a favor for not ratting you out when Shao Kahn was destroyed. You'll like this, I'm sure." He waited for a reply, but none came.

"Liu Kang, you remember him? He is going out with Kitana, and trying to win over Jerrod. He has been doing rather poorly, but now I want him completely removed from the situation. Do this and were even." Rain turned and left the way he came. His reply was a long hiss.

This wasn't that funny, I know. I wanted to things up for future chapters. Please review.