The arena, were the fallen spectre once lay was still covered in his blood and fire burns as he departed to the warmth of Hell. Most of the blood had made its way towards the centre when Scorpion was regenerating after his lost, but now, most was brunt and dried up.

Suddenly, the blood began to bubble. Heat and steam started rasing from the small puddle of blood and amazingly… the small puddle began to increase it size. The blood began to flow from an unseen source and the boiling heat increased. Once increasing its size by nearly triple, it began to mould itself.

The blood slowly formed itself into a human like shell, containing nothing inside. The blood then acted like skin, forming detail and lines and soon changing colour, from blood red to a warm peach.

The naked body appeared fine and well develop, with board shoulders, a six-pack, reasonable amount of muscles and strong legs and arms. The body's hands were left covering its face as though it had fallen down and began crying (its not alive). From a burst of flames that appeared in front of the newly made body, Scorpion appeared and stood over his new body.

The blood had mirrored Scorpion form and made his body look exactly like him, just without the clothes on. Scorpion gave a brief examination before lying down and falling into position his body was. At first nothing happen, he knew straight away a part of him was out of line. He raised his spirit like head from the body's neck and peered around, soon finding his hand wasn't completely inside.

Making the final adjustment, the body burst into flames and covered the naked body with his ninja outfit. The spectre had reclaimed a new body and was ready to continue his mission to caught Quan Chi… but first, he meant to take a detour and find his foe that slaughtered his body before hand.

"Ah!" The spectre sighed, his feet gaining ground as he stood up. "This is much better!" The spectre examined his body and clothes and pause, turning his glare down to a pair of footprints in the grass. Scorpion bent down and examine the print. The print was somewhat fresh, but that's all he needed to know. Scorpion looked up and followed the path the footprints left him.

"Drahin!"

The spectre moved swiftly through the tree branches, using little effort while not disturbing the branch or creating a sound. Scorpion had master every, and all arts of ninja, which he thought made him a true ninja master, expect what he had to teach could not be learnt… not in a single life anyway.

Soon, Scorpion came to the end of the forest and the end of his surprise attack. He stood upon a branch that overlooked an open field with deer and cattle at the far reaches before the other forest began.

"Drahin…" Scorpion whispered, crouching down on the branch. Scorpion glare soon found his target; the Netherealm Oni Drahin was sitting amongst the tall grass eating at a deer he had just killed, amongst the other corpses the Oni had already feasted on. Scorpion had planned to battle Drahin with a surprise attack within the forest, but he knew the forest wasn't going to give him or Drahin the advantage.

Scorpion leaped from the branch he was stationed on, executing a mid-air flip before landing. He now stood about 4 yards away from the Oni and already the smell of both the Oni and corpses around him were affecting him.

"Drahin! You rotting corpse!" The Oni paused and slowly turned to face the spectre that he had battled earlier. Drahin's mask was stained with blood and flesh around the mouthpieces. "Disgusting" Scorpion knew if he had his soul, he would feel sick at the moment.

"SO…" The Oni growled, having a slight echo in his voice. The Oni's had his legs crossed but was able to stand up without using his arms. The Oni spun around and stared at the spectre, while wiping clean his mask with his fleshy arm. "The wandering Ghost…still alive?"

Scorpion didn't answer but grunted as a reply.

"I'll never get tried of killing your spectre ass!" Drahin snarled, posing in his Oni fighting Style, removing his mask and revealing his rotten face. "This is going to be another short battle isn't it? Hardly worth the trouble!"

Drahin gave his battle roar, birds near by fleeing away, and charged the lone spectre. Scorpion smiled from under his mask and quickly grabbed his ninja sword, swinging above his head then brought it down for the slash as Drahin was in reach.

Drahin was known for his reflexes, but Scorpion had seen Drahin's skill and used that to his advantage. Drahin was able to dodge but was left with a scar down his chest. The spectre sword burned at the Oni's flesh. The Oni dismissed the pain and went for a surprise attack from behind. Drahin jumped at his foe with his clawed hand held high as he closed the distance between him and Scorpion.

"FOOL!!" Scorpion shouted as Drahin approached him in midair. Scorpion didn't turn around but thrust his blade into Drahin as he landed; the blades tip just poking out of Drahin's back.

Drahin gave a short roar before sliding off the sword's tip. The Spectre grunted and cleaned the Oni's blood off the ninja sword on the tall grass. Scorpion could hear the Oni's pain as it tried to cover its wound with flesh from the many corpses; it made him happy.

"Damn Oni! Can never grasp the aspect of being beaten" Scorpion mumbled as he placed his sword back in its sheath. The spectre spun around and stared at the Oni crawling on the ground. The Oni stopped as soon as his hidden eyes meet the spectre's fiery glow. "Pitiful creature!"

"SHUT UP!" Drahin snapped. "You're more pitiful then me! Your already dead!"

"Don't state the facts!" Scorpion crossed his arms and frowned. "Everyone knows that! Its what gives me the advantages! Don't you know that?" Drahin didn't admit anything to anyone. "Your scared"

"NO!" Drahin's answered didn't even draw any truth to the spectre, scorpion could cleverly see the Oni's shaking body.

"I see…" Scorpion unfolded his arms and walked towards the fallen Oni. Drahin quickly sprang back, he was afraid; an enemy that never died was always unbeatable as Drahin thought. Scorpion could see Drahin quick reflex, knowing full well that Drahin was also a natural runner, the Oni would get away from him in a heartbeat.

"Oh no!" Scorpion shouted, scaring the Oni. "Not this time!" Scorpion grabbed his sword and jumped towards Drahin, his sword down his back. Drahin started to sweat at the lack of ideas coming to him.

"SURPRISE!" Scorpion was still slightly in mid-air and was about to slash and seal his victory over Drahin, knowing full well it would only count as a draw.

Suddenly, Scorpion received Drahin's metal claw into his stomach, causing the spectre to drop his ninja sword. Everything seemed to slow down at that moment, even as Drahin's face drew close to his, it almost took hours.

"Count this as a break in our continuos battle…" Drahin muttered as he leapt passed, now everything began to speed up. Scorpion hit the ground, holding his stomach and tried to stay awake--- he was just able to hear the hard feet of Drahin as he made his escape. "We'll finish this later! You can count on that!"

Scorpion face hit the ground, but didn't pass out.

"That bastard!" Scorpion thought, holding off his unconscious. "When I get out of thi…this…" the spectre growled as he's eyes grew heavy and his body lost all energy to stay awake. "B-Bastard!" the last words that came from Scorpion's mouth before allowing his body to give out.