Love & War: Legacies
Chapter 46: Birth of a Spectre
In Earthrealm, a man and a young boy were bonfiring near the Sky Temple.
"I'm not even tired," said the boy. "We should be pushing for the temple."
"See that storm?" asked the man. "You don't want to get struck by lightning, do you? The clouds are getting close enough as it it is..."
Lightning struck the ground Raiden appears with a dagger in his hand.
"You should not have come
He grabbed the man by the throat.
"This isn't you, Raiden. It's those damn daggers!"
"The Kamidogu has opened my eyes to the Blood Code, Hanzo. Its secrets and its power! The demon roaming in Earthrealm is not here to destroy us, but to save us all!" It seems that Raiden is corrupted by the dagger.
"No, Takeda!"
But Takeda impaled Raiden from behind.
"Heed your master, or suffer the consequences." Raiden wasn't fazed by the impalement as he electricutes Takeda.
Few weeks ago in the Himalayas
"I don't want to die like that," said Takeda. "But I guess you know what that's like, possessed by some evil entity, unable to control your body. You pulled off some moves on Fox. All that hellfire, I wonder what I could do with that kind of power. Can you teach me?"
"It's not a style, it's my curse. A burden I've carried since the day everything changed. The last seconds of my life felt like hours. The massacre of my clan was an outrage, but it wasn't compared to what my eyes in those final moments... my family... frozen... as the village blazed around us, I pray that ice would thaw. I pray not to the Gods, but to the fire itself... for my loving wife, Kana, and my son, Jubei... I died, but my soul kept praying for fire until someone answered. The sorcerer Quan Chi. He never controlled me. I was never his revenant. I volunteered. My loss had become a fire within. The dark sorcerer stoked the flames with a promise of justice and vengeance. Hellfire consumed my heart, my name and my conscience to Quan Chi's was born. I found vengeance, but there was little justice to it. The fire remained no matter how many battles I fought. I kept fighting, even after my life was restored. I didn't deserve a second chance. After all the murders I've committed willfully, suicide sounded just, until a wise man saw my hellfire for what it was."
"Rage?"
And now...
"Chaos is coming to Earthrealm," says Raiden as he pulls the sword from his body. Hanzo took the sword.
"That's a lot of teleporting, Hanzo. How much fire do you have left?"
"ENOUGH FOR A LIFETIME!"
