Chapter 9- Do or die- Kane.

I grabbed whatever the hell I could before we went head on into the hell that will become. My hands took hold of a large ridged rock, almost resembling a club. Taker took hold of some Rocks of his own; Sara found old swords that had a good battle in them left. She tossed one to Dave as Cena looked about finding mini daggers. Rob went in unarmed, he's really good at martial arts, perhaps that was the only weapon he needed. Shannon, the girl walked without a weapon, yet kept her claws out as she tried hard to summon her bravery. Where mine was coming from. I don't know, all I knew is no one else could help us now. I could see the looks on the creature's faces from here. There were the ogres that attacked us the last time, Tarkatan by the hordes, creatures I have never heard or lay eyes on before stood before us. All catching us in sight as they started to run towards us in an attack formation, God I hope we're ready for this.

Perhaps it was that Shokan heart I ate, but I ran at them! When in sight I swung like hell, bashing in heads, breaking bones and forcing blood out… if you can call it that. Tankatans swarmed me. Too many to count or to hold off, they cut deep and hard into my arms, I couldn't hold the club anymore. My ears cringed at the sound of an angry dragon, Shannon had seen me get hurt and attacked them. Her claws were forced into their back as she ripped them off me, the Tankatans came off and went after her instead. I could only watch as the creatures attacked one by one. Shannon was able to fight them off with great ease. Her tail wrapped around one of their necks, snapping it. She was like something possessed!

Taker and Sara held their own as they watched one another's backs. Batista fought along side with Rob and Cena, I went at it alone. Something was telling me to.

I soon realized that once the Tankatans were killed, the ogres attacked. One ran right at me, and I couldn't move out of the way, yet I heard someone scream. "GET DOWN!" I ducked. Just as I did I was in the shadow of the creature's foot, it just about came down on me! Looking up though it was frozen in ice, yet something came from the middle of its body, a creak… that gave way to Scorpion! He stood next to me as I got off the ground.

"What changed your mind?" I asked him.

His eyes turned to Sara and Taker. "They are just as I was with my wife. We fought along side one another… What man of honor would I be if I allowed them to die the same death when I could prevent it!" he shot back to me. Scorpion's eyes then turned to one of the pillars of rock. He bowed to it. I looked up and saw the reason, someone dresses just as he was, yet in blue and more elaborate armor was perched on the top.

"Sub-Zero I assume?" I called out to him. He came down from the rock and looked me in the eyes.

"Dragon of fire. Interesting form you have" The small talk came to a stop when the others got in trouble. I saw the monsters over whelm Sara and Taker, Dave, John and Rob got separated and were surrounded.

My God something within me snapped. I felt my hands become ablaze with fire, as I yelled out. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" The Ogres saw my anger… my eyes were shut as I focused on my rage. The heat grew in my grasp as it spread up my arms. My body felt as if it were on fire, that's when I felt so weak, I passed out.

It didn't take me long to recover, I opened my eyes seeing everyone looking down at me. "Holy human torch!" John said.

"Uh?" I asked.

"Nothing, come on let's go" Taker stated suddenly. He helped me to my feet as I looked about, the creatures and Ogres were either fired by fire, or were piles of ice. "Where's Scorpion? And Sub-Zero?" I asked.

"They left when we had a clear path. They said they were working together to hunt down Qain Chi" Shannon explained. "Come on, we better go before any other creatures see his" We stood before the portal, and went through all at the same time. It brought us to the middle of the temple of light, surrounded by the monks. "Wow" were the first words out of my mouth. Rayden soon appeared afterwards.

"You made it!" he grinned.

"You bastard!" Taker hissed. "Did you know you set us right into a trap!"

Rayden looked to him oddly. "Didn't you know that? Did you not hear what John Cena said in the temple before you left about Liu Kang?" he shot back.

We all turned to Cena. "When Liu went at us and Shannon here… I said that wasn't very monk like"

"Exactly! Why didn't you listen?" Rayden asked us.

"So you knew?" I demanded.

He smiled and nodded. "You let a sorcerer nearly destroy us all for the sake of what?" Batista demanded.

"I didn't let him… I warned him if he dared destroy any of you, I would hunt him down like a rat" The Thunder god replied.

This was ridiculous.

"I'm sick and tired of this already, all in favor of going home?" I asked aloud. All our hands went up.

"Ok, ok. You're going back. But look at it this way, you now know what you're capable of"

"Yeah, next time I'm gonna see if I am capable of kicking your ass!" Cena shot back. In a bolt of lighting we all were returned to the hotel room. Oddly enough the same place and time when Rayden first picked us up… can he really do that?

I was standing in the lobby, holding my pale for ice… this was weird. John came out of his room looking at me oddly. "How long were we gone for?" he asked me in a confused manner.

I couldn't answer him. "Uh… I don't know" was the only thing I could think of. I decided to forget about the ice and go back to my hotel room. Something wasn't right about this, and it ate away at me greatly. One I feel as if I am being watched now. Two, Shokan hearts don't taste like chicken and they have a funny after taste. Three… What was I really sent there for? And why didn't this Qain Chi guy finish us off when he had the power to then and there in Outworld?

Perhaps it would be a matter of time before I find out… or perhaps I don't really wish to know the answers to my questions…

In the back of my mind, I knew this was just the beginning and what had been happening to me was being watched… very carefully. I felt a chill go though me. It wasn't a good feeling. For now I'll keep this to myself, if I tell the others I know they would just be worried. It wouldn't be long now before all is revealed, and the truth comes out…