A/N: So did ya guess what was the similarity on the fight between Kenshi & Baraka? Look . . . Baraka, has claws like Wolverine from X-MEN right? And Kenshi . . . well he has telekinetic powers like Jean Grey from X-MEN! So its kinda like X-men don't ya think? Thank you SO much for reviewing I hope you guys like this chapter as u did the last one!

CHAPTER VII

Over on the other side of the docks, we find the few chosen fighters; Kung Lao, Johnny Cage, Jackson Briggs and Sonya Blade waiting for their ship to approach. Jax was talking to his fellow agent Kenshi via radio. His reports were positive accept the fact that he was injured while trying to capture the Red Dragon member Baraka. He has boarded the same ship that these warriors were soon to climb.

"I'm a celebrity!" Johnny kept on going on and on at Kung Lao, "Even Raiden can't just leave me here waiting like this! I don't belong in this wet, stinky dock!" he said. His bodyguard just shook his head in embarrassment.

"Well if you weren't supposed to be here then why the HELL DID YOU GET ON MY WAY?!" Sonya Blade, the OIA agent, screamed at the actor's face. It resulted him to just mock her with his face.

Slowly around the corner, a large- huge ship swam it self into place. The ship had sails, which stood over 40 feet long. It was made of old wood . . . and seemed as if the ship wasn't used for many centuries. On one end, the front head was designed like the head of a dragon . . . The Nether Ship had arrived.

Johnny's bodyguard, Nein Lee, had his eyes wide open to see such an old and scary structure, but to the rest of the group it was no mystery, they had boarded this ship more than once.

"Whoa . . . dude . . ." Was all Lee's brain could let him to speak . . . his mouth almost open.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, been here done that." Johnny blurted out at his Bodyguard.

The ship came to a sudden stop, a small bridge steeply descended from it.

"Well . . . ladies first?" Jax noted forward at his partner. The general of the OIA, Sonya, just shook her head in annoyance and started to go in, followed by the monk Kung Lao. He had no fear in it at all, Raiden told him that once boarding the Nether ship; a certain person will guide them . . . a person who was not on their side.

Johnny Cage started to walk into the wooden bridge when he noticed that he stepped on a slimy, goo like substance.

"What?" Jax said, he never liked the actor.

"I think I stepped on something! Damn! And these are new shoes!" Cage cried in agony,

"Y'know something Cage? I never really liked your movies." The major of the OIA spoke and before forwarding, purposely pushed Johnny with his shoulders. "What the . . .?" was all he said. Cage proceeded in, his luggage being dragged by his bodyguard.

Once inside, the five went on about their things, each looking around the dark 'ghost ship'. The night only caused the ship to look even darker. With the only light from three lanterns hanging from the walls, it seemed like they were in some kind of horror movie.

"Dude . . . this is SO . . ." Lee muffled his eyes not believing that such an ancient ship still exists to this day.

"Okay . . . um . . . I think I have to ask you to leave now?" His boss, Johnny Cage, alerted.

"Why?"

"Well because you're job was to protect me 'till I boarded the ship! So I boarded the ship! Now BEAT IT! Scram! Get outta here!"

"No WAY am I leaving now! Not after seeing this! Dude! This boat must be a thousand years old! Damn I never seen such an old . . . boat, like this one!"

Jax smiled from about a feet away, "Looks like Mr. Johnny Cage is being annoyed for the first time in history!" he laughed.

"Now look here!" Cage pointed out at the major, forgetting his conversation with his guard.

"Guys wait." Kung Lao stopped everyone, getting the attention.

A man-- a slave, with his face masked by the hood on his cloak. Emerged from a dark stairwell, walking towards the five chosen warriors. He had a plate on his hand on which contained a paper, a scroll.

Kung Lao took the scroll from the slave as he bowed his head and left to the dark stairs from which he just came.

"What's it say?" Sonya Blade asked, curious of what their agenda would have to be.

"The time when you set foot on this ancient ship, was also the time you've put your lives in great risk. This boat will lead you to a tournament held for centuries. It's secrets you've grown to know in strange fatalities. The journey there will be a long one, a guide will test you whom you thought was ' no one'. Be brave and always look after your soul, for the threat these evils possess, will try to steal it, and you will be theirs to endure."

Kung Lao announced the message out loud. The words, which were written, on it, caused the entire room to quite down, shivering into the silence of the night.

All five of the humans that were standing on the boat now had a concerned look on their faces, were they going to fight in Mortal Kombat once again? Did they just set foot on a boat that could be the end of them?

"I don't know about you guys but all Raiden said to me was that there's gonna be a meeting here! He didn't say I had to fight in Mortal Kombat again!" Cage squealed hysterically, which followed his bodyguard's question "Who's Raiden?"

"He is God of Thunder and protector of Realm of Earth." Answered Kung Lao. He never really disliked the guard . . . he reminded him of someone . . . but who it was, wasn't the right time to think about it.

"Gods, souls, evils? That's it!" Nein Lee, the youngest member on the room shouted, "I'm not staying in this ship for another lousy minute!" with that, the teenager began to walk the other way that would lead towards the docks once again. The heavy luggage he was carrying for Johnny Cage was dropped on the floor.

"What ever happened to 'dude! I'm not leaving till your leaving' thing?" Cage mentioned, smiling at his bodyguard.

"Yeah well SCREW whatever I said!" Yelled the Chinese 18-year-old, but as he turned, a fog of dust emerged from the whistle as the ship began to castoff into the ocean. They were already 10 feet away from the nearest platform of the city.

"I can still jump." Lee cried out, hopeless and scared about the note and of this new location.

"That's it," Sonya informed to the rest of the group, "We're stuck here for good . . . again." This made Johnny's bodyguard even more scared than before, all he wanted was to make some extra cash by guarding a celebrity! And now, they said that his soul was at risk!

"Man, keep it cool. Nothing's gonna happen! Believe me! I've been here before." The bald-headed major said, putting one of his heavy metal arms on Nein's shoulder.

"Oh really? Than could you explain why the steel-hands? 'Steel-hands'?" The feared teenager spat out, he was getting a bit annoyed by the rest of the group. Lee simply jumped out of Jax' reach and walked towards Kung Lao, the monk said: "Would you relax? If this boat will lead us back to Mortal Kombat . . . then there must be more fighters on board."

"I don't think that's the case, if more people are supposed to be here . . . where are they? This is the only place the Nether ship stops! And I don't see any more people boarding AND for the fact that: WE HAVE ALREADY CASTEDOFF!" Johnny Cage screamed again at Kung, he, like his guard, just couldn't digest the fact that they were going to have to fight in kombat once again.

"There has to be more fighters . . . there just has to be!" Kung Lao left after saying these words, he left to follow the hooded-slave who gave him the scroll a few minutes ago.

"Well, that guy seems determined." The special forces major Jackson Briggs, laughed. His huge metal arms, crossed onto one another.

TBC

A/N: ok guys I know this is short but . . . I guess I was in a hurry to submit this chapter! Y'know, I'm updating like in a routine thing – its like: if I submit a chapter on Friday, I'll take Saturday off (sorta) and submit the next chapter on Sunday! Get it? so I was a bit b-z tonite n cudnt write a long chapter! Hope u don't mind! C'yaz n plz, let me know what ya think abt it! any ideas?