Jade had taken Kitana back to the Edenian Palace, the azure-clad woman had gone completely unconsciousness. Jade felt happy for her friend, as Mileena's soul would no longer be plaguing her. The green-clad woman liked to see her friends happy, especially Kitana. The azure-clad woman was Jade's best and first friend.

The bodyguard lay her friend's unconscious body gently on her bed and locked the door so that the Princess could sleep soundly. Jade watched over her friend to make sure she would be safe.

As the Edenian Princess remained in her unconscious state, she began to drift into a dream, a rather horrific one at that.

The azure-clad woman awoke in what appeared to be some kind of torture room, chained to a wall. She was completely vulnerable and would be unable to escape from her current position anytime soon.

"This room seems familiar…" she trailed. The Princess of Edenia remembered that she had been in this room, in the almost exact same vulnerable state as she was before, when that abomination fused her soul with Kitana's. The azure-clad woman began to cry, having lost all hope. She could see Mileena standing near her, staring her sister down as she cackled manically.

"Sister! How could you! Why did you remove my soul from yours? Where you beginning to think you had a chance against me?" The half-Tarkatan said. She ripped off her mask, baring her horrid teeth. The Princess wasn't scared. She was angry.

Kitana then had the sudden idea to teleport Mileena and fight the psycho bitch herself. Doing exactly what her idea told her, the Princess pounced on Mileena from behind and postured up, landing several punches on the clone's face.

"Mileena, I'm always going to have a chance over you. I'll always win against you, no matter what you do. Let us not forget that I WAS the one who KILLED YOU! Has your brain started to fog up now that you're dead? Or is it just that you're so stupid, like you've always been?"

The clone vividly remembered when her waist was cut in half by the Princess, and her face split in half by the azure-clad woman's fans. She felt embarrassed that she was killed by her mortal enemy, but Kitana thought of it as some kind of honourable memory.

"Stop it…" the clone whimpered.

The Princess continued on as though she hadn't heard what Mileena said, "I will always be better than you, Mileena." She stabbed the clone, "Why else would you think Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn favoured me and always chose me over you?" Another stab, "You'll never be loved Mileena, because you're just a damned clone." Another stab. "An impostor of me that'll never get far!" Another stab. "Your creation was a mistake. I can prove that to you right here, right now." Another stab.

Mileena was gasping for air, coughing profusely from Kitana's stabs. "Sister, please, have mercy…"

The Princess held Mileena up by the throat, "You think I'll have mercy after what you've done to me? After you took control of me and possessed me? Made my life hell and left me without control of my decisions? Think again 'Sister'."

The Princess brought Mileena into the main area of the torture room, where the torture machines were based. Kitana snickered as she saw a grinder in the room. "Perfect."

Mileena knew what she meant, "No, Kitana, stop it! Please don't kill me! I'll leave you alone forever! Please!"

Kitana's heart felt tinges of sorrow for her clone, but her mind told her to continue on with what she was doing. "Quiet, child. It's time for you to go back to Hell, where you belong." The Princess then threw the clone into the grinder.

"Screw you, you dumb slut! I'll see you there!"

As Kitana saw Mileena's body get crushed to pieces in the grinder, and a loud scream echoed throughout the room, she felt remorse. Waves of compassion for her clone washed over her, and the Princess felt extremely guilty for her actions. She wanted to resurrect Mileena somehow and apologise to her for everything, but knew that she probably couldn't.

"You probably will, Mileena. You probably will."

Kitana then realised that whilst Mileena's soul had left her body, her personality hadn't. The Blue Butcher would be returning to her, and there was nothing she could do about it.

Snapping her eyes open from the dream, Kitana began to sweat and cry profusely from what she had seen. Jade was at her side in an instant, and placed a hand on her shoulder protectively.

"Princess, what is wrong?"

"Mileena…she hasn't completely left my body. Whilst her soul has, her personality hasn't. What do I do, Jade? Mileena will probably never leave me alone!"

Jade sighed. She hated how Mileena was so persistent, and how it effected people. "What happened in your dream?"

"I woke up in a torture room, chained to a wall. Mileena appeared and starting talking to me about the soul ritual with Nightwolf. Then I teleported behind her and started attacking her and insulting her…I had had enough of Mileena's antics at that point. I then threw her into a grinder, and killed her again. She said that she'd see me in hell, and I told her that she probably would."

The Princess broke down again after explaining this to Jade, who hugged her tightly. She was glad that Mileena had gotten what she had deserved. "You'll be fine, Kitana. I'll be with you. We can get through this together."

Kitana whispered a 'thank you' before drifting back to sleep.

Outworld

Tanya and Reiko had finished their lusty playtime, and were ready to get back into business with the Dragon King's warriors at their command. They had previously negotiated about making Edenia their first stop.

Having put their clothes back on, they teleported themselves and their warriors to Edenia. Directly in front of the Palace, Reiko and Tanya would have their newly resurrected warriors do most of the work for them.

"What should we do, Tanya?"

She thought for a moment, "We should have our new warriors destroy the Palace. From then, we'll go onto killing the Earthrealm warriors. Sound like a plan?"

The Outworld male nodded, "Definitely. Let's go."

Lin Kuei Temple

With everything organised in their new base, Kuai Liang could start making preparations of the tournament he would have to recruit a new Lin Kuei warrior.

He imagined to himself what they'd be like. Would they be a boy or a girl? Would they be skilled or have no skills at all? Kuai Liang knew that was a rather stupid thought, as they would need to have skills in order to win the tournament and go onto be his student. Well, not just his student, but also that of Bi-Han, Cyrax, Smoke, and Sareena. The demoness had been officially made a member of the Lin Kuei since their relocation.

He returned to his thoughts. Would they have any powers; if so, what? Would they be a Cryomancer, an Enenra, or a demon? Would they have any similarities in any way to their clanmates? The Grandmaster's thought about his would-be student.

The Grandmaster wondered how he would inform people of the tournament. It would be a bit weird if he had his Lin Kuei go out into the world and tell people of the tournament, so he scrapped that idea. Kuai Liang came up with other ideas, but they were either irrelevant or useless. The Cryomancer concluded that he would write a flyer about the tournament and have his Lin Kuei post it on every building in Edenia and Earthrealm there was.

Quickly typing the details of the tournament on his computer, Kuai Liang read it constantly to make sure it was correct. Satisfied with it, the Grandmaster printed out over one hundred copies of the flyer, and called the cyberninjas over to his office.

Handing out at least one hundred copies to each of them, Kuai Liang spoke, "I want you to put these on every building in Earthrealm and Edenia. We need as much competitors as we can. Off you go."

The cyberninjas left the Temple and started off in Edenia, and then worked their way to Earthrealm.

-Yes, I am aware that it is probably not likely of Kuai Liang and/or the Lin Kuei to have a computer. But it's my story, and for this, him/they do. Besides, he's the Grandmaster, so I think it'd be logical to give him lots of benefits. Thanks for reading!