OC Survivor

A/N: Warning: Long flashback is long…

Sokal 2 -Survivor Finale

(Flashback)

Keiti looked around the lodge for any clue as to what she should do next. She had come after receiving a message from a mysterious ball of light.

"The tools it so carefully crafted were used against it and failed. Light filled its black heart yet it still traps those in the dark. He is making a mistake. Go to the Lodge on the mountain. Find another way."

She had reached the lodge finding glowing yellow paint that led to a room containing a vintage typewriter and several books. Keiti looked around confused as to what she was to do next.

'What am I suppose to do here?' Keiti thought to herself. She looked around hoping that the glowing yellow paint that had served as her guide would aid her once again. The room was clean nothing out of place. All that was in the lodge's room was a table, a chair, the typewriter, and the book of poetry. Keiti opened one of the books. The poems were very deep in meaning and well written but that is not why she had opened the book. She skimmed through the pages looking for something; nothing just a book of poetry.

She put the book away and turned toward the typewriter and the page within it. She read the paper. There was yellow paint highlighting some of the words and letters. The page was a clue. She read on. The page was part of a story; somewhere toward the middle of the story or middle of a chapter. She wasn't sure but it was incomplete. The story looked like a mystery or horror story. It told of a man trapped by a dark presence trying to find something lost.

Keiti took out a piece of paper and began to write out the words and letters highlighted by the yellow paint. She wrote it out. She had her message; it was the rest of the page. It didn't make much sense to Keiti, most likely the only person it would make sense to is the story's writer. Regardless she had found something. Loud bangs began to echo through the lodge. Furniture was being tossed downstairs. The cabin began to shake like there was an earthquake happening. Keiti grabbed the page out of the typewriter and stuffed it in a book. To keep it separate from the other pages placed in the book she made sure it was the top page.

She walked outside the room. It was dark but not dark enough for her to still see. She began trying to enter the other rooms in order to find a light. Only one was open and in it an old oil lamp. She was able to light the lamp and began to walk down stairs. The noise had quieted down. Keiti wasn't concerned about what had gone on. A light passed her leaving a trail of yellow glowing paint on the walls. She still didn't know what this light was but it was helpful. She walked down stairs; Roy was there.

Keiti reached the bottom of the stairs and looked again at her work. Maybe she should put the message she had written on the page itself. It couldn't hurt. She sat having to ignore Roy in order to concentrate on making sure the message was in line with what had already been written.

"Hey, are you all there? What's going on?" Roy said a bit annoyed by Keiti's unresponsiveness.

Roy probably wanted to know everything that was going on in detail, but this was Keiti's burden. "Stay." She replied as a blinding light filled the room. That mysterious light that had saved Keiti from the darkness of the cabin had returned.

"I'm sorry for having dragged you into this but you're our best hope. Only those who I've appeared before are able to see the markings." the light spoke to Keiti once again.

"Our? Ok I need some answers. First off who or what are you? Did you write those poems? And what did you mean by 'find another way'?" Keiti replied

"One question at a time please. My name is Tomas Zane and well I hope I'm still human. Yes I wrote those poems, why were you reading them? Wait don't answer that. Lets be to the point. The dark presence, the Taken; they've been defeated before. The darkness can be controlled by a typewriter that is in the attic of the cabin. I tried to make the darkness consume itself but it was in vain. The one who followed me 30 years later filled the dark presence with light burning it from the inside out. This failed as well. That paper, the one you have, is the only way to free us. The one using the typewriter now seems immune to its evil. Stop the darkness first, deal with that one later. The darkness can't be allowed to escape this place."

"This should defeat it this time? What about those taken by the darkness? The Taken what happens to them with the darkness destroyed? And why do they say the weird things they say? Wait you've been stuck in the darkness for over 30 years?" She asked

"Longer than 30 years unfortunately. As for the Taken; they are trapped like me. They remember things, facts mostly, and respond to others by saying them. It's their way of calling out for help. Well… um... That's not exactly. What it is that you are fighting is the shadows of those taken by the darkness. It doesn't matter if you destroy them. The true them is safe, er, as safe as you can get while consumed by darkness... The one who currently is using the typewriter is writing their own story. The page you have is for mine. The magic will kick in the moment that you add it to my story. Don't bother trying to change the one in progress."

"You didn't answer my question.", Keiti said, "Will this put an end to the darkness?"

Zane took a long pause at this.

"I want to believe so. At minimum it should allow for the latest victims to escape. I honestly don't know if it is even possible to defeat it. The only thing that seems to work is to play its game. Let's not linger on this subject any longer. Come let's get this over with. I will protect you from the darkness as best I can just put the paper into my story."

Keiti nodded. It was time to go to the cabin. Within a single bright burst of light they left the cabin lodge.

(End Flashback)

"Buttermilk does not contain any butter!" A Taken yelled as it and the other Taken charged Shao Kahn and Sokal.

Sokal had no problem slicing through the Taken but Shao Kahn was having trouble. Kahn was ill prepared to fight the darkness. He knew of their weakness to light but due to his pride never thought he would have to fight it. Even then he was to prideful to believe he would lose to it. In the end without using light to burn away the darkness the Taken are invincible. Thankfully for Kahn he has a magical armor of his own. It protected him from the hatchets and axes the Taken used but unlike the armor of the Taken it would not last forever.

"The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply." Another Yelled.

Kahn swung his hammer sending a blow that would kill a normal man. The blow's force was taken completely by the Taken. He couldn't harm them. He resorted to using his magic forming spears to impale the Taken. They worked but even then he was not as effective as Sokal. It seemed as though Sokal's energy sword was the perfect tool to use to defeat the Taken.

Hundreds of crows hovered over them. They dive bombed Sokal and Kahn. Sokal dodged them while cutting away at the Taken. Kahn however was bombarded. The contestants taken over by the darkness were focused on defeating him. Chill's ice froze Kahn's feet, Kyoten's black blade cut him. Kahn's armor was the only thing protecting him from being beheaded by John. The taken were bad enough as they were but with the addition of the contestants they were a force to be reckoned with.

Kahn's armor shattered as a knife hit him. The Taken charged him. Kahn fought back using his spear. Saibot appeared from a portal in the ground grabbing him and pulling him into the portal. Kahn had been defeated. Sokal looked on as Kahn fell to the darkness refusing to lift a finger to help him. The fighting continued and all too soon Sokal found himself having to fend off a Taken Shao Kahn.

The light faded but the cabin's interior was still illuminated. Keiti was in the cabin's den. It would have been easier on her if she had time to transform into her mermaid form before coming here. The darkness was all around her, Zane was nowhere in sight. The attic she needed to get there. She moved through the cabin reaching the door to the attic. It wouldn't budge. Something was stopping her from entering the cabin's attic. She hit the door again and again. The darkness was stopping her. She needed light.

"Yellow Star voice" she murmured trying not to get a mouthful of water. The light from her transformation into a Sailor Senshi broke the darkness. She entered into the attic glad for having reached somewhere dry where she could breathe.

Jrek stood up from his desk. He turned one of his arms into an array of blades. He would have made his arm into a firearm but a stray shot would be disastrous. Most Irks would be terrified by Jrek's location; water exposure is deadly to Irken kind. Despite this it didn't remotely concern Jrek. The last place anyone would look for an Irk would be at the bottom of a body of water.

"Keiti just in time I just wrote the tragic end to Shao Kahn. I thought the classic hubris end for someone like him was fitting." Jrek said turning to face Keiti.

Keiti got up; she had to put an end to the darkness. Jrek wasn't going to make this easy.

"You know you've lost right? 'All the contestants would fight. In the end the darkness will live on, I stand alone victorious.' I typed it already. You know what this means. It is going to happen and there is really nothing you can do about it." Jrek said

This wasn't going to be your standard 'beat the bad guy and it's over' type thing. Defeating Jrek is pointless and there was no guarantee that the paper will do anything. Best case scenario the Taken are freed but the darkness still stands and waits to take over new victims. As for Jrek and his story who knows. This wasn't exactly one the villain could lose or the heroes could win.

"Stop and think will you? I know you know about the darkness and this typewriter, don't play dumb. I'm the only person with a mind strong enough to control it." Jrek said looking down at Keiti.

"I'm not here for you. There's a story that was already in the typewriter right? I have a page for it." Keiti said upset that there was no way to really bring justice to all of this.

"That crap-tastic thing? Here I thought you came to stop me. Seems you're smarter than you look." Jrek replied the blades still ready to be used should she trying to catch him of guard. Jrek picked up the typewriter with his one free hand. Keiti looked through the books that covered the desk. Jrek's stare constantly on her every action. She located Zane's story and placed the page within it. The darkness entered the room and engulfed everything.

Like blinking one's eyes both Keiti and Jrek were back in the forest. It was day time. There was no sign that anything had happened. The landscape as it was from the first day; the lake hadn't expanded the cabin still sat on the island on the lake. It was as though she had undone the past events. John, Kyoten and the others stood around in a semi-circle. Shao Kahn standing in front of them, Noob Saibot was to his side. Jrek still held the typewriter in his hands. He gave a gesture letting Keiti know that nothing was done to his memory.

"You will never defeat me!" Sokal said falling to the floor. He still thought he was in battle.

"Wait what?" Roy said shaking his head.

The others were disoriented and confused. It seems as though only Jrek and Keiti knew what had transpired.

Kahn looked around, confused like the others who had been taken by the darkness. "I don't know what exactly just happened. I will have a talk with my sorcerers later. Kontestants rejoice as I have no wish to stay here or look at any of you any longer. I am calling a tie among all realms! This means that I will not invade your worlds, for now that is. There is no victor to any of this be gone from my sight!" Kahn said waving his hand sending all the contestants except for Jrek and Keiti back to their respective realms.

Green light engulfed the competitors as they disappeared. Kahn looked at Keiti and Jrek before shaking his head. He, Noob Saibot, and Chill then departed to their own realm.

The page that Keiti had to complete worked. The question was how well. Keiti could sense that the town's people had returned. The fate of Zane was still a question. Keiti turned looking at Jrek in disgust before leaving. Jrek really couldn't be blamed for anything despite his involvement. This left Keiti with a bitter taste but nothing more could be done. In the end even though Kahn had declared it a draw Jrek still won.

"I stand alone victorious." Jrek said having a new weapon to add to his arsenal. A weapon able to bend reality as Jrek saw.

End

A/N: I hope you enjoyed the story! I had a bit of fun trying to make it work. Sorry but sometimes a perfect happy ending can't happen. Thanks to the Taken you can't say you didn't learn anything from reading this. "Most people who read the word 'yawning' will yawn!"

Special thanks to:

Marsreikosan16 for Keiti Takahashi

Zoids Fanatic for John Hanks, Sokal 'Eayterain, and Roy Hawk

Xelias0 for Kyoten Damatsuki

Invader Jrek for Jrek