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JIN

Once I noticed Dad had been gone for about an hour, I began to worry. Until he came back, that is. He told me he had encountered Sonya Blade up in the mountains. I suggested we go and try to break the spell over her, but Dad refused. He reckoned Sonya would be gone by the time we got back to the temple. He asked how Asuka was going. I told him she was doing fine, even though she hasn't woken up yet

"Where is everyone else?" asked Dad

"Well, you did turn your back on Raiden," I replied

"Because I was worried about you and Raiden wouldn't let me go and find you"

"We could try and find them"

"But we can't leave Asuka here"

"Leave me where?"

Dad and I spun around to see Asuka standing behind us, looking better than ever

"Honey, you okay?" asked Dad

"Yeah, Dad, I'm fine, thanks, though I feel a little light-headed"

She looked down at her unmarked waist and smiled

"Wow, I wonder what happened to me earlier"

"You look fine," said Dad

Yoshimitsu and Julia came out into the room

"So, now that Asuka is awake, what do we do now?" asked Julia

"Leave this place and look for the others," said Dad, "Though we could and try to take on Onaga ourselves, but I don't think that will work"

"So our main priority is to find the others," I said

"But where can we find them?" asked Asuka

"Wait, didn't Queen Sindel said she wished to free her daughter?" asked Yoshimitsu

"Yeah, but what has that got to do with this?" I asked

"That's in Edenia. I think she might be with several others and would be heading there. We could go to Edenia and help her there"

"But there's only one portal," said Julia

"True, but it could take us somewhere else," said Yoshimitsu, "We could go back and get to Edenia through the portal"

"But this portal is connected to OutWorld and nowhere else," said Dad

"Unless we want it to go somewhere else"

It was the only plan we had, so we all left the house and headed back to the portal

"Now what?" I asked

"Allow me," offered Yoshimitsu

He walked right up to the portal and knelt before it. I could hear him muttering something, but when he stepped back, the portal hadn't changed

"Er, what did you just do?" asked Julia

"Hopefully, I diverted the current path from OutWorld to Edenia, which will revert back in a few minutes, so we must go"

"What happens if we end up somewhere other than Edenia?" asked Dad

"We'll have to wait and see"

We all went through the portal and came out into a large city. I could see a castle in the distance and pointed it out to Dad

"Think that's Sindel's castle?"

"Looks like it"

"Let's go," said Yoshimitsu

We headed towards the castle and arrived at the courtyard, where we found fallen Tarkatans everywhere, all leading into the castle. We found several with burns on their bodies and others with deep impaling wounds. Cautiously, Dad and Yoshimitsu opened the castle doors and we went inside, only to find more Tarkatan bodies

"What the hell happened here?" asked Dad

"Three people came through, followed by a fourth," said Yoshimitsu, "And if I'm not mistaken, it was Heihachi, Jade and King"

"So Raiden came in from behind," said Dad

We continued on until we came into the throne room and were greeted with a shock. Raiden, Heihachi, Jade and King were there, along with Hwoarang, Lili, Steve, Christie and Sindel. A young woman wearing blue was standing next to Sindel. I assumed her to be Kitana

"Jin, Julia, Asuka, hey!" cried Christie

The three of us were surrounded by the four of them, talking about where we went and what had happened in the last couple of days since arriving here. Apparently, they had arrived at the castle to find Jade, Heihachi and King battling against the Tarkatans, so they helped out. When they came into the throne room, a ninja and a ghost were battling against Kitana, Johnny Cage, Kung Lao, Sonya and Jax, before breaking the spells held over them. It turns out the ghost was that of Liu Kang, who had been murdered by the Deadly Alliance. He left with Ermac the ninja to deal with other matters, while Kung Lao, Johnny Cage, Sonya and Jax were out patrolling around Edenia

"So, now we're all here, except for a few others," said Dad, "What's next?"

"We go to OutWorld and track down Onaga," answered Sindel

"But we just got here," said Dad, "I wanted to see what Edenia was like first"

"Maybe after this battle," said Sindel, "If we survive"

"Oh that's just great"

"Come on, let's go," said Raiden

We left the castle and headed back to the portal. And one by one, we all went through back to OutWorld

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