The mind of hers fell deep and nauseous. Hardening with a tense heavy blow from before. It took several blinks until her eyes could properly see. She felt fresh blood glaze across her mouth and cheek, tasting the iron bitterness that had entered onto her tongue.
Kalliste slowly and slowly awoke from her painful unconsciousness, her head swelled with a heavy rock inside. All she could hear was a brawl happening around her, punches thrown, knives slashing, and grunting. One particular being with whips fought against the blood possessed beings. It seems that all the 5 souls were awakened; fighting against this unknown challenger.
Havik stood up as he reattaches an arm that was once torn from his body. All of a sudden, all 5 turned souls attack the fighter with the whips; punching, kicking and slamming him into defeat. Tiring him out relentlessly.
Havik begins to speak, standing over the tired man. "Fortunately, Hanzo's not here to witness the passion of his apprentice."
"I've got the whole realms waiting to explode into chaos, so let's make this simple. —Sacrifice your blood to the kamidogu and become an agent of chaos. Or..."
"Be reunited with Hanzo." A burst of bright light was blasted towards the man. The power overwhelmed the boy. Havik continued his speech.
Meanwhile, Kalliste reaches over to Kollector's unconscious body. She roughly pushes him, attempting to wake him as she intensely looks behind her.
"Kollector. Wake up!" Kalliste continues to nudge him. And slowly, he briefly moves. A sudden tug dragged Kalliste away from Kollector. Stopping her from doing anything. As she looks up it was Kotal and Mileena. Suddenly, Mileena brutally stomps Kalliste on her stomach, resting her heel against it.
With Mileena's crimson eyes, she glared at Kalliste with a smirk.
"There you are, my unfaithful servant. Still disobeying me?" Mileena said sardonically.
She looks over to Kollector who still seems unawakened. Mileena scoffs.
"Should've scorched her soul while I had the chance." Said Kotal. He too was possessed, and still a true enemy.
With Mileena's heel pressed against Kal's stomach, she peered in a brood. "Best that I end your ser-"
A sudden gunshot blasted through their ears, a noise that gained attention elsewhere.
"That was just the warning shot," Said one of the newcomers. The mercenary cowboy.
With Mileena distracted, Kalliste shuffled away from her heel and began to kick her. It was obvious that Mileena was controlled by this blood code and so Kalliste wanted to worm her out and not kill her. But it all seemed to be difficult considered her blood was bound by the agent of chaos.
By the source of the gunshot. Familiar intruders came in. Ferra and Torr, Reptile, Erron Black, And one unknown soul; an insect
Shots were fired and all the blood bound agents began to fight with the newcomers. Kalliste was entirely unsure if this meant good news. A sudden piercing bullet scorched the side of Mileena's head, to her anger, she focused onto the attacker with anguish and soon left Kalliste alone. While others fought violently to the death.
Kalliste nudged Kollector once more and finally, he awoke. With his blood-orange eyes opening up to Kal, she abruptly hugged him with contentment. Perhaps she was being overly enthusiastic while being in the whole of a brutal riot.
"What... has happened? Kollector weakly says as he tries to mend his headache with his hand. Kalliste tried to make themselves less visible as she drifts into the shadows.
"...I'm entirely unsure. But we're in the middle of a violent brawl. The Empress is controlled by something. All of them are." Kalliste turns behind her as she dimly observes the others.
"Maybe we can-"
Kal's words stopped as she was pushed into the ground. By the sudden attack, Kollector scowls bitterly at the attacker, beginning to fight back. Aethereal being in a straw hat appeared in front of her. Raiden, she remembered. He too was possessed. That fiery red color buried itself into his eyes and head. He stood in her way.
"You deserve death by a Thunder God's wraith!" He exclaimed. Kalliste worriedly stared at him. Because of this blood code parasitically injecting his mind, Kalliste hesitated to fight with him. Especially since he was a god, but for once if she had to die fighting, she would accept death.
A familiar Shokan was being pinned by the blood bound women. Kintaro, she remembered him from the very beginning. As he was bounded and grasped.—
His head was torn off his body.
A splinter of blood and gore drifted across the air. Another woman yelled his name in wretchedness, utterly galling from his gruesome demise. A blonde woman held his head out like a trophy, a grin across her face.
Then there was a loud thunderous roar, red lightning filled the atmosphere, striking against Kalliste to which she felt deeply. A painful shock hurled into her chest.
Suddenly, they all fell stiff. No longer did anyone moved or fought. Perhaps it has vanished. This intense blood code was finally gone from their heads. A red smoke drifted away from them; no longer possessing those reddening eyes.
The Thunder God; Raiden no longer strikes her with his lightning. Kalliste fell weak and bloodied. But finally the fight ended. Kollector made his way to Kalliste who was poorly bruised. He hesitated once more; the type of caring behavior he lacked for most of his life was sullied.
"Kalliste." He called out. For once he heeded, striding his way to her side unknowingly.
Meanwhile, as Mileena finally came to her senses. She approached Ermac who was still resting unconscious the whole time. Mileena awakens him.
"Time to go. If we make haste, we can beat Kotal back to Z'unkahrah." As Ermac awoke, his eyes appearing with slight annoyance. "The throne of Outworld is undefended!"
Ermac breaks through his chains and gathers his thoughts.
"We are sorry, Mileena...But we cannot come with you." Ermac says.
"If you're injured, give me your hand.—" As Mileena's hand extends forward, but Ermac hastily swats it away.
"You are not crazy, Mileena. But you are too impetuous to lead. Outworld needs proven leadership."
Mileena furrows in anger by his response. "Don't say it! Don't you dare say it!"
"Outworld needs Kotal Kahn," Ermac says. And with that, Mileena's temper rises. She finds herself to be alone, but as she looks around her surroundings. She spots Kalliste and Kollector, two familiar souls that took a slight ease on her heart. She annoyingly walks over to them.
"Where were you Kalliste?! Ermac has now left his Empress for that pretender!—-" Mileena stops herself from bringing to much volume onto herself.
"Let us leave at once."
In the shadows, they all quickly hurried their way out of the fortress. Into the night of the island, many bodies were piled across their path as they reached the shoreline.
They all reached the closest boat when suddenly, a multitude of stabbing insects overwhelmed them. In the swarm, what emerged was a figure of a woman dressed in black.
"D'vorah." Mileena bitterly said. Snarling at the threat.
The insect unnervingly grinned at the empress.
"This one will not allow you to escape. Kotal Kahn will have you." Sudden ovipositors appeared from their back, gradually walking towards Mileena. Before Mileena could throw a hit, one of its ovipositors managed to hit her in the clavicle. Kalliste immediately reacted, slicing it off. But with such a violent attack on this D'vorah character, she rashly scowled as a multitude of droning bugs appeared vigorously from its stomach, stunning Kalliste as she attempted to swat it away. With Kalliste troubled, D'vorah glared once more at Mileena who was imperceptibly distracted by her bloodied injury on her clavicle. The insect grasped Mileena, instantly covering her with a glutinous substance, like a spider's web.
Finally, as the droning insects flooding the air of where Kalliste was distraught, Kalliste immediately stepped forward to which D'vorah held Mileena captive. But what stopped Kalliste was a sharp ovipositor directly at the inch of her skin, the surface slowly waiting to break. She took a deep breath, making sure she didn't move. A scornful expression was paved all over the insect's face. Those beady blackened eyes.
"Move an inch and you will be eviscerated." Kalliste gazed harshly at the insectoid, pressing its venom onto the empress. Nothing but silence between them. Kal felt a tug on her wrist, apparently from Kollector's grip, hauling her to abdicate. She snarled in distress by this infuriating situation, lacking motives.
The insect sensed empty actions and continued to beam nimbly, and with that, those blank responses gave an implication that Kalliste couldn't do anything anymore.
The insect and Mileena had vanished into thin air, all but the swarming insects were left. The empress was gone, her fate was left unknown.