Deadly Alliance Pt. 1
"This is the same cloak Anomaly used years ago to take down Onaga. Treat it with care." Kitana grabs the dark purple cloak and wraps it around her neck. She places hoodie portion over her head and plays around with the caped portion.
"So does this make me your replacement now?" Kitana joked.
"The only thing that'll keep you from getting spotted is the fact that you aren't Mileena. However, once you remove the cloak, everyone will see you. Are you sure you don't want to just gain an audience with Kotal K'etz as Princess Kitana?" the woman asked.
"The time to Parley ended the moment he entered my bedroom. The fool even stole the fake Kamidogu dagger. Based on the story Mileena told me, you'd believe it was the real thing."
"When do you think he'll figure it out?"
"Around the time people figure out that you were the one who lied about the Kamidogu being daggers that Tasted the blood of the One Being." Kitana responded. The woman laughed.
"As for situation X…"
"Hopefully we won't need to use that. If we can get him to surrender the throne, we can take care of everything else." Kitana stated.
*Hours later at the Castle*
Kitana begins traveling down the halls of the Castle. None of the guards noticed her under the cloak. No one stopped her. No one saw her. No one questioned her. No one cared about her. She kept her head down to keep them from seeing her face—even though no one was looking at her face. Thoughts of regret raced through Kitana's mind as she began to feel she might be biting off more than she could chew. She finally reached the Throne Room doors. However, she noticed that there was no handle. She looked around the area to see if anyone was watching.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath as she slowly walked towards the locked doors. She ended up on the other side of the doors. Before her was the council of Outworld. K'etz looked her way, along with Nitara, Daegon, the Ambassador, the Representative, and 4 other Osh'Tekk Guards. Kitana wastes no time using her dagger to kill off the two Osh'Tekk guarding the entrance. The council members rise from their seats as they prepare to take her on. Kitana removes her cloak and reveals herself to them all.
"I'd suggest you all leave if you value your lives." Kitana declared. "Well, except you false emperor." She points her bloody dagger towards K'etz. His eyes were trained on the blood dripping from it. Kotal laughed—much harder than anyone's every heard him laugh before. Everyone turned their attention to him.
"You've grown quite bold over the past few weeks, Mileena. After everything you've seen, you still dare to challenge me for the throne?" K'etz mocked.
"You were warned Mileena. We allowed you to live. I told you to find a new hobby."
"Killing loud mouth cowards IS my new hobby, Nitara." Kitana joked. Nitara smiled.
"How did your security miss her, Kotal K'etz?" Daegon questioned. K'etz ignored him.
"It matters not. She' not strong enough to take us on."
"Do not use your blood code in this building, emperor!" Nitara shouted.
"I do as I please!" Kotal shouted as he pulled Kahn's Warhammer from beneath the table.
Kotal uses all his strength to throw the hammer at Kitana. As the hammer slams into her chest, another figure wrapped in the cloak rushes towards Kotal. The Figure shoves her dagger into Kotal's abdomen. The rest of the council looks over to the Kitana's body and notices a decayed skeleton in her place.
"I'm pulling out." Daegon stated as he opened a portal. When the others realized what happened, they ran out of the room.
"Cowards! What are you all afraid of?" Kotal questioned.
Nitara claws at Kitana's abdomen. Kitana flinches in pain as she grabs ahold of her wound. Kotal follows up with a kick to the chest. Kitana's body and blood soar across the room and into the wall near the double doors. Kotal walks towards his hammer and pulls it from the chest of the decayed corpse. Kitana struggles to stand up as she holds her knife out in defense. Her arm shakes as she tries to keep it leveled. Kotal laughs as his tattoos glowed blue.
As he raises his hammer above Kitana, she rotates the knife as it transforms into a fan. With the last bit of her strength, she rotates her body along with the fan and causing a gust of wind to distract both Kotal and Nitara. Kitana uses the chance to run out of the room.
"Wind? Since when has Mileena been able to produce wind?" he hollered. As the wind began to settle, the two of them noticed that she was gone.
"How useless you are, emperor. You allowed her to get away." Nitara responded.
"You did not chase after her."
"I have her scent. Had I run like the others, you'd be finished right now. That hammer has no effect on the daughters of Shao Kahn." Nitara explained. Kotal yells and tossed the hammer towards Nitara. She nonchalantly moves out of the way as the hammer flies out of the window.
"I am the Emperor! I should not be treated like an outcast!"
"You are NOT my emperor, Kotal K'etz." Nitara responded as she pointed her index finger towards him. "Our contract was plain and simple. We help you overthrow Mileena and you reveal the location of the orb. YOU LIED!"
"You did not kill her like you were supposed to! YOU ARE THE ONE WHO LIED NITARA!" he shouted. Nitara shakes her head and floats into air. "Where are you going?" Kotal asked.
"I'm going to take care of her myself you paydasız babwn. After that I'm going to kill you and make a deal with your son instead. Mileena was right about him…and about you." Nitara stated. She soars through the double doors and follows behind Kitana. Kotal's uses the Hammer and destroys the double doors.
"Fine. I'll just kill two birds with one stone. There is still another who will gladly join my side."
As Kitana continues to tred along the hallway, her wound slowly begins to heal. However, it doesn't stop the effects of drinking from Sindel's Sacred Vile. She once vowed to never drink from it again as the chances of survival are normally next to none. Luck struck her twice, but her mother wasn't so lucky. Neither was Onaga.
Kitana entered a door that led to Shang Tsung's secret basement. She is suddenly headbutted in the back by Nitara, knocking her down the stairs of the basement. As she picks herself up from the ground, she looks up to Nitara who descends to the ground.
"If it isn't the traitor." Kitana stated in a scratchy voice.
"You don't have to play pretend with me, Kitana. I know the scent of your blood." Nitara confirmed. Kitana chuckled.
"I should've known you'd catch on." Kitana stated as she removed her face mask. "So this confirms that the spell was still active even though I used my fans and stood before you. That's why no one remembers Eva."
"Everyone in that room thought you were Eva because of the cloak. It seems that's why no one remembered you." Nitara added. "Where have you been? Why did you return?"
"There was business I needed to deal with in Earthrealm 15 years ago and business in Seido some months back. Now I've returned, and everyone's forgotten who rules this realm."
"You still desire to rule Outworld? What of Edenia?"
"Open your eyes, Nitara. This IS Edenia now." Kitana stated as she spread her arms wide.
"Have you become this far gone? This is not Edenia. This is not the realm any of us desired."
"Nitara, do you know about the Earthrealm term known as 'the standard of living?'"
"The…standard of living?"
"There was a time when people would use pagers, but now they have cellphones. They recently debuted something called an iPhone. Also, when they wanted to see their friends, they had to go outside of their homes as we do. But now they can physically see one another from wherever they want whenever they want. Taking long walks may have been normal in the past, but nowadays it's an archaic style of living."
"What is your point?"
"Maybe your realm had a higher standard of living than the current state of Outworld, but you were already centuries old before Shao Kahn stole your realm. I was still an infant when Shao Kahn took mine, so as far as I know Outworld has the best standard of living in all the realms. The restrictions of Seido, the pollution & discrimination of Earthrealm, those are things that don't exist in Outworld."
Nitara covers right eye beneath her hand. She begins to laugh hysterically. Kitana smiles. As she begins to calm down, she readies her claws. Kitana grabs ahold of her bladed fans as she prepared to defend herself. Nitara proceeds to slash her own artery in her left wrist. Kitana flinches slightly as Nitara laughed in agony. She falls to her knees and proceeds to faceplant on the ground. Kitana snickers as she stares at Nitara's dead body.
"Of course, you'd commit Hara Kiri. You've never been a patient woman. I would've easily given you Vaeternus." Kitana starts to walk pass Nitara's body. She feels something grab her ankle, causing her to fall onto her right shoulder. She looks to her feet and draws her eyes towards Nitara's. Red sparks flashed around Nitara's wrist as it began to heal.
End of Chapter 10
(Upcoming—The Deadly Alliance Pt. 2)