Goro: Prince of the Shokan

Final Chapter - The Rage of Goro

I had been lying on the stone floor of my lair in a puddle of water, and a pool of blood for quite sometime, broken and bruised, defeated by the shaolin monk Liu Kang. I was nearly conscious, listening to the dripping of water coming from a leak in the ceiling as I thought about my failure. Kung Lao, the monk I defeated in my first tournament win, was right when he said someday another would come and succeed and defeat me. This enraged me but and I tried to sit up but I was far to weak. As much as I hated to accept it, Liu Kang was right too in saying I had been blinded by over-confidence. I... I had forgotten why I had fought. I enjoyed the praise, the glory, and all the things that came with being champion. I never thought I could lose, I forgot all about my people, why I was fighting, and all the hardships they went through, all the wars and fighting. My pride blinded my senses and ability to fight. I no longer had the will to fight, a motivation. Many oni began to gather around me, no doubt planning on ways of how they would move me to where ever they preferred to eat. I had deserved to die after the way I lost, no, even that was to good for me, I forgot about my people, I deserved to have my soul consumed by Shao Kahn. My people...now that I have lost they would lose so much. NO! I would not let my mind be haunted by the words of such a pathetic human. It was his fault, all his, he is responsible for the fall of the Shokan race, he is alone, he will pay with his life.

I quickly jumped to my feet. "This is not over Kang!" I roared. The roar was full of rage. The sound of it shook the weak ceiling of my lair and without a doubt could be heard all over the island.

About 6 of the 20 Oni dragging me through the dungeons immediately fled in fair. One lunged after me and I broke his jaw and left him for dead. I took two others and swung them around like weapons as I smashed them into three others before realizing their bones had been broken and they were no longer efficient as weapons. I took a boulder from the ground and brought it down onto the skull of another two Oni and launched it the skull of another instantly breaking his neck. I took the other four by the heads and held them apart and squatting each of their heads individually with each one of my fists. " Im afraid you won't be getting your meals today." I laughed. The final Oni attempted to make a break for it but I leapt after him landing on top of him with both feet, squashing him into a fantastic display of blood and guts.

Then I sprang upwards and jumped through the ceiling and landed on the other side of a room that Liu Kang and Shang Tsung were fighting in. They both paused and starred at me in awe. I ran towards their direction. A bewildered man with a metal face plate was in my way, I swatted him into the far wall. A blonde haired woman in military attire tired to get me from behind, but she didn't seem to know that nothing surprised Goro as I spun around smacking her in the face instantly putting her to the floor. I didn't have time for this nonsense. I roared once more to warn anyone to not get in my path. " You idiot!" Shang Tsung screamed as he blocked one of Liu Kang's blows.

"If you interfere I will be disqualified and Shao Kahn will punish you and your race." I didn't care however, Liu Kang would die by my hand, and I was smart enough to know that now that it was known I couldn't beat Liu Kang, Shao Kahn would have me killed regardless. A blue ninja rolled to the side as I slammed my fist into the floor he was previously standing on. He froze my arm and attempted to attack but I still had 3 arms left to defend myself. I proceeded to do just that as I blocked all of his punches and I brought his head down on my knee and threw him through a pillar support.

" Disssscontinue your attemptss to interupt the fight!" came the familiar voice of fellow Outworld warrior, Reptile, as he lashed his tongue at me. I caught it with my fist and swung him around and into the yellow Shirai-Ryu ninja knocking him down and then releasing Reptile to let him fly through another pillar support. The ninjas blank eyes widened as I approached and he suddenly burst into flame, nowhere to be found.

" Oh no you don't!" said the movie star who wore sunglasses. He slid along the ground with one foot in the air leaving a green shadow image of himself trailing behind as he kicked into my stomach. Unfortuneatly his effort was meaningless. I quickly recovered and went on the offensive knocking him around. He let me approach. I was embarrased to say that I had fallen for his trick. He quickly did the splits, lowering himself down to below my waist, and delievered a powerful punch to my groin. I kneeled over in much pain as he smacked me in the jaw. He was obviously very proud of himself as he tried to finish me with another shadow kick. This made me only more furious as I caught his foot, lifted him with lower arms and pounded him in the face multiple times with my fists, then grabbing his head, smashing it into the ground, spinning him around me, and flinging him into the distance right into another support pillar. This caused a portion of the ceiling to crumble and fall near all my pursuers forcing them to dive out of the way, leaving the way for me clear. I ran towards the battle of Kang and Tsung.

Both Liu Kang and Shang Tsung stared at me in fear as I charged towards them. Both of them were preparing to stop me. I had my fist oustretched and just as it was to collide with Kang a bright flash of light blinded me and stopped me in my tracks. When I could see again I realized that Raiden had appeared out of no where and was holding my fist with one his hands. Raiden waved his finger at me , " I am sure you knew that the tournament rules did not allow me to attack you, the champion, the elder god would not see it," his fist charged with electricty , " But as you know, you are no longer champion."

The next thing I knew I crashed through the wall of Shang Tsung's throne room and ended up outside on the bridge suspended above the pit. Which was a pit full of spikes, and where Tsung would execute his prisoners by having them tossed out. Raiden flew out through the hole of the wall and landed near me. He was about to finish me when something caught his eye. I turned to see what it was. It was a small army composed of Tarkata warriors and Shang Tsung's guards, they were all climbing up over the rocks over the beach and heading towards the palace. " I have an errand to run Goro, bye," Raiden teleported away.

I managed to get to my feet as I saw Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage, and Kano crawl out of the wall towards me. The girl fired some kind of ring projectile at me hitting me square in the chest, and Kano threw a knife at me impaling me in the leg. I quickly ripped it out of my leg and tossed it over the side as I sidestepped Cages projectile and returned fired with one of my own. Sonya quickly jumped backwards, Kano jumped forwards, and Cage jumped to the left, hanging on the side of the bridge. The other end of the bridge blew up as my fireball made impact. Pieces of stone flew and the spikes that were on the supports burst into several directions like shrapnel. Kano tried to perform his canonball attack on me but I picked up a pillar and batted him backwards. Cage, angry with the outcome of our previous bout attacked me with much rage. He punched me across the face multiple times and delievered a roundhouse kick followed by a knee to the gut. I returned to uppercut him with both my arms and he flew high and over the side, but he quickly grabbed the edge. He pulled himself up. We parried each others attacks.

At that moment a loud rumbling noise could be heard. Cage, Sonya, Kano and I all paused to see what it was. It was as I feared, I was too late, Kang had defeated Shang Tsung and the island was falling apart. I knew Shang Tsung didn't have a chance. In an amazing show of destruction, an entire tower on castle toppled falling into the pit. The impact knocked us all off of balace and Sonya and Kano instantly fell off the bridge. The bridge itself began to crumble as I fell over the side, hanging on for my life. Cage attempted to stomp my only hand holding on to the ledge but he too fell over the side.

My fingers began to slip. I ...had... tried my best. Life as my people would knew it, would end. The Centaurs would rule and we would die. I laughed, Shang Tsungs defeat would mark the eventual downfall of Shao Kahn. No Shokan would survive Shao Kahns wrath. Verox, Baros, and Karakas would all die. My wives ... would all be killed. Kintaro, my teacher, my mentor, my friend ... dead. The reign of the great King Gorbak ... finished. My son... doomed. All hopes for our noble race to live on to the future ... I would no longer be known as a hero in Kuaton, only a coward, one who was greedy and selfish, who forgot about his people. I had learned my lesson I would accept the consequences. I let go of my grasp on the edge and fell...my last thoughts were of Shokan children screaming and monuments being torn down, as I fell into the darkness... and to my death.

THE END

Authors note: Because of lack of popularity I will not be continuing Goro: The Prince of Pain and this is the last chapter. I hope those who did read it however enjoyed it as much as I did writing it. Thank you for reading.