Chapter 3: Continent of Fire (2/3)
"Move, Jin! Move!" Jaden yelled to his friend.
As soon as the group of Onis from the Netherrelm appeared, their master told them to run. They did without excitation. The two of them ran like crazy without looking back. Kung Jin then looked back. Only to see, two of them running after them. "Ahh! They're coming after us!" Kung Jin cried as he tried to run faster.
"Then keep running!" Jaden cried in return.
The two friends just kept running and running until they arrived back at the house. Jaden knew that Bo' Rai Cho had weapons in his home, which was something that he was in need right now. "Jin, get on the roof and try to shoot them with your arrows. I'm going to try to find a weapon on the inside." Jaden told him.
"I don't think arrows are going to work." He argued.
"Jin, just do it!" Jaden yelled.
"Alright, alright." Kung Jin then did a wall run on the wall and climbed to the top of the roof of Bo' Rai Cho's home. He prepared his bow to shoot at the approaching Oni as Jaden ran inside to look for weapons.
The moment that Jaden entered the house, he noticed something. The boy that came to warn them about the monsters was nowhere to be found. Which Jaden was confused. Unfortunately, he had no time to think about it as he had to find a weapon to defend himself against the Onis. Luckly, Bo' Rai Cho has quite the arsenal inside the shack on the back of the house.
"Jaden! Would you hurry up!" He heard Kung Jin yelling as he search it.
Kung Jin was trying his best to keep to two Oni away but his arrows were having little to no effect on them. Suddenly, Jin was out of arrows and the Onis charged at him. "Dammit!" He yelled as the Oni jumped towards him.
But right before the Oni landed on him. Jaden showed up and pierced him with a Naginata.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" The Oni growl as it got pieced with the blade. Jaden then pushed the blade forward on the Oni's chest. Jaden then pulled the blade off it's chest, and the Oni fell off the roof into the ground.
Kung Jin breathed in relief as he sees the Oni fall. "Dammit."
"It's not over yet." Jaden reminded him as he sees the other Oni approach. He prepared the Naginata for an attack.
"What are they doing here?" Bo' Rai Cho asked himself as he took a sip from his bottle. It didn't took long for Bo' Rai Cho to dispatch of the group of Onis that attacked the town. Bo' Rai Cho needed to contact Raiden. But first he needs to check on the city for survivors. Bo' Rai Cho wasn't much worried about Jaden Kang and Kung Jin as he believed that they could handle those Onis that chased after them.
He walked towards the gates of the village in order to check the situation there. "Oh no." Bo' Rai Cho spoke as he saw several corpses on the street. He walked a bit more to check for survivors.
Unfortunately, he couldn't find any. No man, woman or child alive All that he managed to find were corpses. Even after searching the whole city for it.
Bo' Rai Cho only had one thought on his mind. "Why?" He knew that those Onis didn't just appeared there.
"H-Help..." Bo' Rai Cho heard someone say.
"Man." That was all that Jaden Kang could say.
Him and Kung Jin were sitting on the ground panting after their fight with the Oni. The other one was more difficult to take down than the other one. As the moment that Jaden prepared to attack, it grew winds out of nowhere and started to fly around, making it difficult for Jaden to attack him. Him and Jin had to evade it's attacks for a while. Luckily, Kung Jin got himself some more arrows and managed to hit one of the Oni's winds. Jaden then finished it off by piecing it's head with the Naginata.
"I see that the two of you are quite skilled." The two boys heard someone saying to them. The quickly got up and prepared themselves. They turn they're gaze to see who it was. When they turned around, they were suprised, it was obviously another Oni but this one was different. He looked like a man ,he wields an iron club mounted on his right arm, has a sword lodged into his left shoulder and wears a mask.
"Who are you?" Kung Jin asked.
"My name... is Drahmin." He replied.
"Drahmin? The warlord?" Jaden asked.
"Oh, it's been long time, since I was called that."
"Jaden, what the hell are you talking about?" Kung Jin asked.
"I read about him once." Jaden explained. "He was a cruel human warlord in Outworld. For his crimes, he died and was exiled to the Netherrealm where his body and soul were to be tortured for all eternity."
"As the years dragged on, I fell further and further into insanity until my humanity was lost altogether. I eventually accepted my fate and submitted to the power of the Netherrealm, re-emerging from the depths of the Netherrealm as Drahmin: the Oni Tormentor." Drahmin completed the story.
"Yeah, right. What exactly does
the Oni Tormentor wants with us?" Kung Jin asked.
"Your souls." He answered.
"Well, come and try to get it then." Kung Jin replied as he aimed his bow at him.
As the two friends prepared for battle. But they heard very loud sounds coming from the back of the house and heavy tremors shaking the ground. Then, they widened their wyes in horror. When a massive, lumbering three-eyed Oni carrying a massive chained orb comes from behind the house.
"Allow me to introduce my partner, Moloch." Drahmin spoke and Moloch just made a small growl.
Jaden and Kung Jin just stood still for a bit. Until Jaden threw the Naginata at Moloch, who just broke it in two using the orb on his hand. "Run!" Jaden yelled at Kung Jin, who happily complied. But the moment that the two did, Moloch let a very loud roar and started to chase after the two.
The two friends entered the house to try to get to the shack to grab more weapons. But Moloch quickly got inside by destroying the main door. He then attempts to swing the orb on the boys, but they quickly jump out of the way and the orb crashes into a wall instead, but the impact causes part of the house to collapse. Moloch tries to swing again at Jaden's direction, who in response, rolls out of the way, causing the orbs to hit the floor instead. But the impact was so great that caused a small tremors on the ground. Then he widely swing the orb at Kung Jin, who jumped over the orb.
Jaden Kang got up a decided to throw a fire ball on Moloch's face. "HEY!" He yelled to get his attention.
When Moloch turned his head, Jaden launched a fire ball that landed right on his face. Which Jaden was sure that he got one of his eyes.
"Come on!" He yelled to Kung Jin.
Kung Jin then ran pass Moloch, who started to swing his arms widely in an attempt to hit them. He and Jaden run through the back door of the house to make their way to the shack.
Jaden looks back and sees Drahmin approaching before Moloch pass through one of the wall of the house.
Unfortunately for the two boys. The moment they got close to the shack, Moloch swings the orb on his hand straight on the shack, destroying completely.
"Oh no." That's all that Jaden said as he sees the broken down shack with all the weapons buried underneath it. He turns around just to see Moloch approaching.