Liu Kang had just fended off Noob Saibot from killing Edric, Emira and Luz Noceda. Now that he had some allies from this realm to work with, he needed to figure out how to get out of this place.
"What is this place I ended up in?" Liu Kang asked.
"This is the boiling isles an isle in the Demonrealm, though not any of the demons that have shown up," Emira answered.
"Those demons are from the Netherrealm," Liu Kang commented.
"The Netherrealm sounds scary," Luz said.
"Can't say it isn't, so who are you three I didn't get your names," Liu Kang asked.
"I'm Emira and this is my twin brother Edric."
"And I'm Luz Noceda, I'm not from around here, though, I am from the human world."
"What you're an Earthrealmer Luz, where you also transported here recently?" Liu Kang asked.
"Yes, I guess I am if you're talking about Earth. But No, I have been here for a few months now," Luz answered.
"How did you get here then?" Liu Kang asked.
"I came in through a portal and have been here training with Eda the Owl Lady to become a witch," Luz answered.
"There it's a portal to get back to Earthrealm hear that's good where is it?" Liu Kang asked.
"Uhhh small problem I recently destroyed it to save Eda and stop Emperor Belos from entering Earth," Luz answered.
"Where is it now?" Liu Kang asked while looking frantic thinking this could be his only way of getting back home.
"The pieces of it would be somewhere in the Emperor's castle," Luz replied.
"That's where I am going next then and I will need your help to find it Luz," Liu Kang commented.
"As I said the portal is shattered into pieces It's not possible to rebuild," Luz replied.
"I know some people with excellent magical abilities they could rebuild the portal," Liu Kang replied.
"I still don't think it will work, also Emperor Belos and his coven guard the place and Belos is very powerful. Last time I encountered him we barely escaped alive."
"I can take him have beaten Shao Kahn twice," Liu Kang replied.
Liu Kang and Luz Noceda kept arguing like this for a few minutes while Edric and Emira were watching in the distance slightly amused. The two had their worries as well, as Emira would later comment.
"I hope Mittens is doing okay with all of these demons all over the place."
"She will be fine Em Mittens is a skilled witch and took on Grometheus the Fear Bringer," Edric commented trying to reassure Emira.
"These creatures are unlike anything she has dealt with before, though, and one of them nearly killed us," Emira responded.
"That is a good point now I'm worried as well," Edric said.
Before they could think further several demons knocked down the school doors, making a noise extremely loud, "We're under attack," Liu Kang said.
Several Netherrealm demons came rushing in at the same time soon they were surrounded on both sides of the hallway. Liu Kang knowing they each had to fight one side said to Edric and Emira, "Me and Luz will take on the ones on the right side, you two will handle the left."
"Got it," Edric and Emira responded.
Edric and Emira quickly went to the left demons and started getting ready to battle. Several of the demons started by quickly, charging at them, but Edric and Emira used their illusion powers to disguise themselves. The Netherrealm demons were not very smart, so they had no idea what was happening until Edric and Emira created a hammer with their powers and knock several of them to the ground.
The remaining demons were surprised by this, but not deterred they kept charging at Edric and Emira trying to take them down. Edric and Emira kept fighting summoning various weapons, including a club and a sword with their illusion magic to fight them off. Eventually, they were able to fend off all the demons, but Liu Kang and Luz were still fighting their demons.
So Edric and Emira stepped in to help fend them off using their illusion to disguise Liu Kang and Luz while they kept shooting their projectiles at the demon until they were all either knocked to the ground or killed. Liu Kang, Luz and Edric and Emira then quickly ran out of Hexside. They kept running after noticing how many demons there were until eventually ending up in the marketplace.
"I think we lost them," Emira said.
"That's some impressive magic how did you do it, I didn't hear you chanting any words like a sorcerer usually does," Liu Kang asked.
"The magic comes from a bile sac in our heart, which we activate by drawing these magic circles," Emira responded while drawing a circle to show Liu Kang.
"Though since I am not a witch I need to draw the magic from the isles using my glyphs," Luz commented.
"That's interesting," Liu Kang commented.
"Wait a second you said you're a human or Earthrealmer as you put it Liu Kang how are you able to do your fire magic," Luz asked.
"This is a different type of magic than what you seem to have in this place, I gained to use by Chi to summon these fire attacks," Liu Kang answered while lighting his hand on fire.
"That's so cool," Luz said while looking in awe after discovering this.
"I forgot how ignorant some other Earthrealmers were about magic, I thought that would have gone away after Shao Kahn and Shinnok's invasions," Liu Kang commented.
"The Shaolin what exactly is that," Emira asked.
"The Shaolin Monks of the White Lotus Society we train to fight in the Mortal Kombat tournaments for the fate of Earthrealm," Lu Kang responded while Luz was looking still amazed to discover this.
"Mortal Kombat tournaments that sounds fun," Edric commented.
"Trust me child they're not fun the tournaments are a matter of life and death. You fight for your realms survival as if a realm wins ten consecutive tournaments they are allowed to invade and merge with yours," Liu Kang replied which Edric looked scared to hear.
After, hearing that Luz had a thought Belos had mentioned to her about a mysterious day of unity. What if it involved the Mortal Kombat tournaments and Emperor Belos wanting to merge with Earthrealm. Luz for some reason had never thought of the idea of Belos wanting to merge the realms. Luz had to know if It was what she thought, so she asked Liu Kang.
"Is this realm currently in a tournament with Earthrealm?"
"As far as I know, no, I hadn't even heard of this realm until I was transported here, why are you asking?" Liu Kang asked.
"This may sound crazy, but I think the Emperor Belos may want to merge the Demonrealm with Earth just like the Shao Kahn and Shinnok you mentioned," Luz answered.
"By the Elder Gods not again, In that case, I need to get to Emperor Belos' castle even more than before," Liu Kang commented.
"You don't need to worry as I said the portal is destroyed," Luz said to Liu Kang still terrified about the idea of going back to the castle after what happened there last time.
While all this talking was happening Edric and Emira were watching in the distance both amused and scared at the same time. After Luz said to not worry somebody shouted from the distance, "You will not be going anywhere."
The four looked in the direction of the person to see it was a member of the Emperor's Coven. Luz saw the Emperor's Coven member and knowing what was about to happen instantly ran towards him. Once she got to him, she attempted to use her fire glyph on him, but the member used a psychic spell to knock her to the ground. Emira angry at this shouted "Luz."
"You will not get away with that," Edric said while he Emira and Liu Kang got ready to fight the Emperor's Coven member.
Liu Kang started by jumping up into the air near the coven member he tried to use the same psychic spell on Liu Kang. Liu Kang was ready for this however and shot a dragon's fire at him interrupting it. Edric and Emira quickly jumped in as well using their illusion spells to distract the coven member. While Liu Kang maneuvering around the coven member's attacks and shooting him with his fire projectiles.
Eventually, after taking the beating for a few minutes the coven member teleports far away from the action. Once the emperor's coven member is away, he draws a circle and summons a massive vortex to try and suck the three in. Liu Kang then shot a massive batch of fire like a flamethrower out of his hand continuously to stop the vortex. It was able to slow down the vortex long enough for Edric to summon an illusion of light to distract the coven member so the spell would disappear.
While the emperor's coven member was trying to regain his sight, the three ran up to him with Liu Kang jumping in the air to kick him to the ground. The emperor's coven member quickly teleported back to the ground and surprising Liu Kang by using his psychic spell to knock him aside. Edric and Emira then went into a witch's duel with the emperor's coven member.
They were losing the duel until Liu Kang ran back and launched his fireball at the emperor's coven member knocking him to the ground. By this point, the three were exhausted from all the fighting while Luz was knocked out as she hit her head. While the emperor's coven's member could get back up and while Liu Kang, Edric and Emira were looking at him. When out of nowhere a massive flamethrower like attack hit the emperor's coven member badly burning him and killing him in seconds until his body was ash. The three were confused, so they look up at who shot the flamethrower Edric and Emira didn't recognize him at first, but Liu Kang immediately did and said, "Sektor."
"Yes, it is I Liu Kang I have now formed a new clan of cyborg ninjas, the Tekunin," Sektor, said as his army of cyborgs appeared out of nowhere.
"Who is this guy Liu Kang?" Emira asked.
"Sektor a member of the Lin Kuei clan of assassins, one of the first to volunteer for the cyber initiative the reason he looks like that, last I heard he killed his father the Grandmaster and took over leadership of the Lin Kuei."
"I would be the leader if Sub-Zero had not claimed the dragon medallion before me, forcing me to start a new clan,"
"Sir should we take them down together?" one of the cyborgs asked.
"No, I will handle this on my own," Sektor, said before shooting his flamethrower at Liu Kang out of a device on his arm. Liu Kang countered by shooting his flamethrower like attack at Sektor causing the two to clash. But Sektor uses his other arm to fire a missile at Liu Kang knocking him unconscious.
Edric and Emira then stepped up to fight Sektor. Sektor was extremely strong, but he had vastly underestimated the two powers he first tried to launch his flamethrower, but the twins summoned some water with their illusion powers putting it out. Sektor then tried to launch his homing missiles, but the twins disguised themselves confusing its programming and hitting Sektor instead.
The blast badly weakened Sektor, so the twins used this opportunity to summon some electrical magic to blast Sektor with which caused his circuits to overload and shut him off. The rest of the cyborg ninjas knowing they couldn't stand up to the twins grabbed Sektor and quickly teleported away.
"Are you okay Liu Kang?" Emira said while running up to Liu Kang.
"Yeah I'm fine impressive job against Sektor by the way," Liu Kang said.
"Is Luz okay as well," Edric said.
"Yeah I'm fine, I just hit my head pretty badly, we should get to the Owl House," Luz said after she got off the ground. As she said that Liu Kang saw someone in the distance looking like they were hiding and trying to spy on them. Liu Kang tried to get a closer look and saw was someone who he did not expect it was, Shang Tsung.