THE BLACK NINJA
Heavy breathing echoed in the dark cold night in the forest. One figure ran almost like a mad
animal. His expression in his face was
full of fear. He didn't know where he
was going but he kept on running, his lungs screamed for air, he knew his legs
were dying(?) but he carried on running.
Suddenly he tripped on to something and he fell from head-first to the
ground.
„OW!" He wanted to stay quiet but he couldn't let this comment
unsaid. He looked back. No one was there, not even a sound. He could
only hear his heavy breathing.
"Phew.." Realief came back to him.
I'm safe, I escaped and I'm safe…He came back to his feet. He stood
there for a moment, letting him calm
down, relaxing his tensed muscles. But that move, he realized, was wrong. But it was too late. A black gloved hand came out suddenly from
his back and covered his mouth. Before
he could think, bite that hand, or just move, another hand appeared from his
back, but this time with a shiny, sharp, thin, three-bladed knife. He wident his eyes.
The pain went away quickly.
Lucky for him the knife was very sharp that when it stabbed him in the
neck, he didn't feel the pain, and he died quickly.
A loud thud on the hard ground.
His body began to cool down, but instead it melted the thin ice under
his body with his blood.
The figure stood over the corpse.
Then it kneeled down and cleaned the blades with the dead's
clothes. Then it started to check the
no-longer living(?) human's pockets and clothes. Then it finally found a round golden medal from one of his
pockets. The figure checked the medal
and then shoved into it's sac. Then
walked away as if it was taking a peaceful walk. When the figure dissapeared into the darkness, the birds began to
sing while they watched the sun rise.
"Master…" A servant appeared into the throne room.
"What?" Answered the "master" in a unhappy mood. "What is it now?"
"Uh…the assasin that your highness sent, is back"
"Really?! It was about time she showed up! Does she have what I asked
her?"The grumpy, chubby man sat up.
"Uh…I guess so…" The servant muttered.
"Oh you useless thing, bring her in!"
"At once" And the servant scurried away.
"Uh…Mistress…?" The "uh" servant returned to the waiting room where the
assasin waited. She turned around to
face the servant.
"Uh…my master wants you be in his throne room…" She nodded slowly. "So I
came here to show you the way." She stared him without a word.
"Uh…uh…so, um please follow me" This time the servant said "uh"
twice. He was getting more uneasy. He turned and started to walk. But he couldn't scence or hear somebody
following him. He turned his head. This surprised him badly. She was right behind him, following. Relax.
He told himself. It's just
another wierd assasin.
"Uh…this way please" They turned to the corner then continued the long
beautiful corridor. This time, she was
walking beside him. The servant studied
her from the corner of his eyes.
She was young, and about 6 feet tall, slim but has a lithe, strong,
well-shaped body. Her hair is blonde
which is pony-tailed. Her face, she
wears a mask, which coveres her chin to her nose. Her beautiful blue-green eyes is the only thing that is visible
in her face(well, plus the forehead).
She wears an outfit which is opposite color of her skin, which is pale
white. She's covered in black. From her long hair-band that hangs down on
her bare shoulders, to her action thick-leathered boots. She wears a black tube-top, and it ends
benief her breast. She also wears a
black tight pants. And from both sides
of her hip, there hangs two, deadly three-bladed knifes, which the two blades
are short and in the middle, the third long blade sticks out.
Infront of the throne room's door, the servant stopped, and lifted a box
which was placed next to the huge door.
"Uh…my master has a rule that nobody cannot approch inside the throne
room with weapons…so, please leave your weapons here…" With that, her hands
reached the knifes and placed into the box.
The servant opened the door.
"Ah, the so-called Black Ninja, I've been waiting for you." The heavy, low voice echoed the room. She came closer.
"Do you have the stolen medal?"
She nodded. Then she reached for
the sac which is hanged from her belt.
And took out the medal.
"Well, what are you waiting
for? Give it to me now!" The boss shouted with annoyance in his
voice.
"First, the reward." For the
first time, the servant heard her talk.
"Urg…Lado, bring her the money."
The "uh" servant, Lado, hurried out.
"Well, thank you for returning this to me, assasin."
"I just did my job."
"What about the robber?"
"As you told me, I killed him." She responded in an emotionless voice.
"Now, I can give this to my daughter as a present for her wedding." He said in a satisfied tone. "Thank you."
"Uh…Your highness, the reward…" Lado came in.
"Yes? What about it?" Ask the tenor-toned fat man.
"Uh…I brougth it…"
After she collected her reward, she headed for her headquarters.
"Master…" She bowed with
respect.
"Ahh, my dear Callipso, how was your mission? I'm sure you have succeeded."
A middle-aged man turned towards her.
His clothes were also "black".
"Yes master. And this is the
reward." She handed over to him.
"Good, good. I am very proud of
you. You have at least done over 50
missions and you never failed them." He
praised her as best as he could. I
want her…
"…Yes…I think I will go back to my training and wait until someone hires
me." She quickly bowed again and went
out of the room in a fast pace.
"Brrr! Man! He gives me goosebumps!"
Callipso told herself when she was out of the room. Then she heaved a sigh. She knew that her master, Sung-Hee, liked
her. She didn't like him at all. He was just disgusting. Everytime he looked at her, she got
goosebumps.
She stopped. Somebody was
there. But something told her that this
was not dangerous.
"WAAAAA!" Someone jumped from
her behind.
"Wow! Hey, Soma! What the heck
are you doing?You fool!" Laughing, she shoved him off of her.
"Naa, I was just training and, and I heared this noise, and I thought it
was something like a robber or a…, a Lin Kuei ninja! Or , or-"
"The Lin Kueis are disbanded!"
She smiled at her silly friend.
Soma was one of her comrades, and a very skilled Black ninja. He also wears the same thing except for the
top is like a tucked up T-shirt. His
eyes were brown.
They found themselves walking together in the dark corridors of the
dungeon(their headquarters).
"Did you worked on any mission?" Callipso asked.
"Yea. I had to track down and
kill this baddy."
"Well, what kind of things did he do?"
"He raped, killed and lynched a lot of people." Soma told her.
"And did you kill him?"
"Yup. He deserves that right!"
He told her with rage."I can't stand people like that!"
Under her mask, she smiled. How
artless he is. Just like a small child.
"What about you? What kind of mission did you do?" He asked her back in
his normal temper.
"I had to bring this medal from the robber."
"UUU~ intresting and-"
~BOING~
They stopped walking.
"The bell-" They said at the same time.
This ~BOING~ bell was a sign to tell all the warriors to come to
the meeting room.
"I wish the bell's sound was alittle better than that…" Soma muttered.
"Ahh, my comrades, the reason I called you here is that I wanted to give
you a warning to you all." Sung-Hee
said to the gathered ninjas. He
somethimes eyed Callipso."The others are here.
Our enemies. We still don't know
who they are yet, but some of them are inside this castle. I have freed some
dogs. Watch your back."
Then everybody went by their business.
Soma left to have a shower and sleep.
Callipso also decided to do the same.
From here to her private room was about 5 minutes. It was a huge dungeon. There was no windows, only candles litting
up the corridors.
She stopped. She thought she
heard a sound. She got tense. She remembered the talk of Sung-Hee in the
meeting room. She hestitated first,
but she decided to check it out.
It wasn't that far. She stood
infront of him. They stared each
other. Not saying a word, they just
stared. He was caught by one of Sung-Hee's traps(?). His arms and legs were spread out and bounded against the
wall. She studied him. He was wearing this blue outfit and the
design of the clothes…she saw it somewhere…anyway, she decided to think that
later. He has brown cold eyes
and brown hair, with a scratch on his right eye. She guess that he got that on a battle. Unlike her, he did not wear any mask. His face, she thought he was pretty attractive. His body was well-muscled, but not
over-muscled. And she realized that he
was about 7 feet tall.
She suddenly remembered what she was thinking about.
"You are a Lin Kuei warrior."
She changed her voice in her famous emotionless voice.
"No. Not any more." He answered. He was also tensed.
"So you were. What are you doing
here?"
"I came here on a mission."
"What
kind of mission?" Her voice was almost like a whisper.
"This Sung-Hee, must be stopped."
This intreseted her.
"Stop him? You mean kill him? Why?"
He didn't say nothing. Not far
from here, she heard the dogs bark. Not
does cute dogs, these dogs were special.
Dogs with two heads.
Callipso hated them.
She made a move that she,
herself did not believe it.
She went closer to him and unsheathed her knife. A look of horror came out from his
face. Ignoring that, she freed himself
from the trap and sheathed her knife where it belonged.
The ex-Lin Kuei warrior looked into her face with a confusing look.
"The ugly two-headed dogs are on their way to find you now. You should not underestimate them, for they
are fast and strong and has good nose.
If you want to live, you should leave immediately." She looked back
straight into his eyes.
They stared each other again. Another sound again somewhere in this
spooky corridor.
"Please, leave now. If you do
not know where is the exit, there is a secret exit over there."
He hestitated for a second, but then said, "Thank you." And left without
a sound
When she finished taking shower, she lied down on her bed. She felt pretty relaxed in her
nightrobe. Although she felt strange
without her mask.
After she blew all the candles, moonlight came in from the only window
in her room. She stared up the
ceiling. All she was thinking was about
the mysterious ninja. Why was he here?
Why does he have to kill Sung-Hee?
Well, whether he kills him or not, that's not my problem… And she
sort of hoped that he escaped.
"Sub-Zero! You're back!" The mortal kombat champion happily greeted
him.
" What took you so long?" Rayden
asked him.
" I was…caught…in a trap…"
Emberassed, he turned red.
"A *trap*?" Sonya raised her
eyebrow. Kitana chuckled.
" Well, how did get out of that…trap?" Johnny Cage, (how come he's
here?He's supposed to be dead!) "alive" and well, asked him.
"One of the ninja there, helped me out."
" Helped you?" Liu Kang surprised. Sub-Zero nodded.
" Well, what was the dungeon like?" The thunder god asked him.
" It has a simple way, you won't get lost in it, but it really has alot
of traps. Also, there are dogs,
two-headed dogs roaming around the corridors of the castle."
"Woa, two-headed dogs seems hot(?)!" Jax commented.
"So, when are we going to make a move?" Kitana asked Rayden.
"We must stop him before he makes a contact with Quan Chi."
"Then we can go tonight!" Stryker expedited.
Back again to that hell hole? Sub-Zero mused.
In a big, great hall, Sung-Hee sat on his huge chair, like a king,
relaxed. He watched his pet
panther(which is black…) munching on his dinner. He listened the cracking sound of the bones, but he also noticed
there was another sound, like somebody sneaking up from his behind…
He flipped few meters away from his chair and landed facing who ever
that was. Well, there wasn't only one…
Liu Kang, Kitana at his side, Sonya, Johnny and Sub-Zero stood in front
of him.
"Welcome, strangers. If you
really want to visite this place, all you have to do is knock the door." Sung-Hee explained.
"What you're doing is wrong.
Stop it, and we will leave you."
Liu warned in a pathetic way…
"What are you, some kind of a hero?" Sung-Hee smiled cruely under his
mask.
"Sorry, but master Quan Chi doesn't like people like you who gets in his
way. I guess I should make him happy by
killing you."
"Oh yeah~?"Johnny stepped out." You think you can beat us that easily? I
don't think so!"
With that, the earth warriors got into their fighting pose. They
surrounded him in a semi-circle.
" Huh! Pathetic! I'll show you who we are!" Sung-Hee crossed his arms
arrogantly. Then three black figures suddenly jumped down from the high ceiling
in front of Sung-Hee. Then they glared
at the five warriors with their only visible eyes, which shone red.
Sub-Zero noticed one of the ninja, the female among that three. She also began to stare at him.
"Well, have fun!" With that, Sung-Hee slowly walked away. Liu began to run after him, but one of the
Black ninja stepped right in front on him.
" Sorry pal, but first you have to deal with us!" Then the ninja kicked
him in the solar plexus. That impulse
sent him flying 3 meters away. But he quickly got up.
Johnny also found a partner(?). The
other ninja came cartwheeling towards him.
Johnny raised an eyebrow.
Kitana was suddenly pushed forward and pushed down to the ground. Then
heard a growl. And she found herself
under the panther.
"Waa!" She paniced. When the bloody fangs were about to reach
her neck, the panther wined as he was kicked 2 meters away. But it slolwy got back to it's feet.
"Thanks.." Kitana looked at
Sonya.
Sub-Zero stared at Callipso.
Around them, the fighting had already begun. They hestitated.
Sub-Zero wasn't even in his fighting pose. Callipso's eyes turned back to blue-green. She couldn't decide. Attack him, or not…but if she doesn't, she
will betray them.
Suddenly she flipped in the air landing in front of him and
attacked. First she did a basic combo
to check how good was. He dogded every
attack of hers. Then she attacked much
faster. He also dogded these. He's quite skilled…Then she switched her
attack to a *wild* mode. She now
jumped, somersaulted in midair, kicked, and punched. And she could see that he had more difficulty defending
them. Some had hit him.
"Haaa!" Callipso gave her battle cry and did a flying-kick in all her
might, but surprisingly, he caught her leg with his hands. But then, she surprised him. With her
other leg, she kicked him in the side of his head.
The
hit was so hard it dizzied him. But he
had to ignore it. She gave him no
chance to recover. He dogded the attack
as hard as he could. But she was
drawing nearer and nearer, so he had to step back and back.
Finally, he found an opening to attack her. He kicked her in the stomach and let her sprawling away, and he
looked around. He realized that they
some how came to the balcony. He can
see the others fighting inside from the window.The moon shone brightly in the
dark blue sky.
She came up to her feet. Then
she dashed at her opponent and did a double-kick on his chest. He stepped backward about two-three steps
but he was on his balance again. He
blocked her powerful punches with his forearm then he shoved that hand away and
did a hard clip behind her ear.
That dizzied her badly. But she
didn't lose conscious. Instead, she
kicked him away and gained for balance.
When most of the diziness was gone, she went back to her attack…but she
stopped and took a posture of defense.
Sub-Zero was getting ready for something. With his hard training, it didn't take long, only seconds. He then threw it to the waiting warrior 5
meters away. The iceball shot out
between his hands toward her.
She didn't understand. What
the…ice? And in the last moment,
she moved.
The ice hit the wall where she stood in front, and froze. Wow…No time to lose, they both
knew. Sub-Zero dashed towards her. Now, it's my turn. She brought her
hand in front of her, aiming him. With
that, Sub-Zero was thrown against the other side of the wall. What the…
She dashed toward him.
When he came up to his feet, she was already attacking him. She kicked wildly. One, two, three, four…Just before he got dizzy again, he jumped
into the air, flipped and twised and landed behind her few meters away, and
dashed toward her…
She saw him flip and went behind her, she quickly turned around but it
was too late. He approached her with a
low-flying kick and hit she hard on the side of her ribs.
The pain strucked her, she lost her control. Then she saw the world go upsidedown, and everything went black.
Sub-Zero landed on the ground.
But then paniced. The kick hit
her and blew her over the handrail of the balcony…
He ran to it and looked down. A
bit of relief came to him. The ground
was about three meters down.
He jumped down and looked for the black figure. There she is… I must have broken her
ribs…He bitterly thought about it.
"HAAAI-YA!!" Liu kicked his opponent with all his might. The ninja was sent flying away and hit the
wall hard enough to lose conscious.
"And here comes mine!" Johnny banged his forehead to the other's. And that also lost conscious.
Sonya and Kitana already killed the beast with a knife and was
enjoying(?) watching the fight of Liu's and Johnny's.
"Well, that was one nice head-punch Johnny." Sonya admired him…
Suddenly, behind the door, barking of dogs echoed.
"The two-headed dogs!" Kitana shouted.
"No panic!" Someone else's voice come out.
"Jax! Stryker!" Liu said in surprised tone. " What are you doing here! I
thought you two decided to stay!"
"Well, Rayden said to help you guys," Stryker explained.
"So we activated a bomb," Jax continued.
" And we came to report to you guys because it's gonna destroy this
castle in about…" Stryker thought about it. "…About thirty seconds."
Stryker looked around, everybody was on their way to the balcony.
"Hey! Wait for ME!"
A BOMB!? Sung-Hee shocked. He was watching the whole fight from the
monitor room. Almost every room had
hidden cameras.
He stood up. He had to
live. He stormed out of the room and
headed for outside.
Above the ground, he could here Jax and Stryker talking.
Then he suddenly froze when he heard that the bomb was going to destroy
this place.
Rather not stay here…He decided and stood up. But he looked at the Black
warrior who lay unconsciously beneath him.
She once saved(?) his life. He
owed her. He quickly, but gently
carried her in his arms and hurried away.
It was a hard work carring her and running in the forest. He felt so strange. He had never so much as carried a woman in
his arms. It was new for him. He wasn't so sure if he was carring her all
right.
A loud BOOM echoed in the
peacefull forest. Sub-Zero looked back
and saw a fire mountain about 500 meters away.
The castle was gone. And it
turned into a pile of bricks.
Sung-Hee saw his house(?) blew up.
Rage started to fill him up. He
was red with rage. How DARE they do that to ME! He lost everything. His money, his castle, and his pet panther…
Those idiots will pay…
She felt herself rise. A bit of pain strucked her again. Then she felt warmth around her. Something was holding her tight, she guessed. But she did not have any strength to wake
up.
She was falling asleep when she heard a
loud sound, like an explosion, she carefree thought about it…
They safely escaped the castle.
They were few hundreds of meter away from the brickpile.
"Where's Subby?" Johnny looked around.
"Don't worry, I saw him go down the balcony." Sonya
told him.
"Oh, and he left us without knowing us? How cold he
is!" Johnny joked.
"Are you ok Kitana?" Liu asked softly.
Johnny copied him." Are you ok Sonya?"
"Ok now, enough of the flirting and let's go home." Jax crossed his arms
annoyingly.
"Oh, you're just jealous, Jax." Stryker told him.
"Oh, and I guess you have someone who likes you Stryker!"
"…"
Everybody laughed.
She opened her eyes…
