Hello readers, welcome to the newest chapter of Crimson Demon of Outworld. Firstly, hallelujah Mortal Kombat 11 is coming. Secondly, sorry for the wait, I have no excuse. Now with that out of the way on with the story.
Cormac woke up the next day with a massive headache. After his victory over the monk Cormac, Reptile, and the Shokan warriors that came to act as security spent half the night drinking to celebrate Cormac's victory. Thankfully, Cormac wasn't fighting today, and with Reptile sulking busy worrying over his defeat at the hands of Johnny Cage, he was doing his favorite past time, training.
Cormac now stood in a small secluded clearing in the woods near the temple. In front of him were five practice dummies. Cormac closed his eyes and concentrated red energy began to surround him. Now the hard part. The energy then began to form into a sphere of energy surrounding his right hand. Cormac reeled his fist back and fired the ball of energy straight at the dummies. Unfortunately, after leaving his hand the energy began to dissipate without hitting a single dummy.
"Damn it." Cormac cursed, despite training for two years with Reptile to master whatever this red energy, he still had little understanding of it. He knew he could surround himself with the energy and turn it into armor for himself which he named Aura, besides that other attempts at molding and controlling this energy has failed.
Before Cormac could make another attempt a puddle of blood appeared in front of him. The puddle then grew in size before taking the form of a woman.
"Skarlet," Cormac said, surprised. "I thought you were back on Outworld."
"Shang Tsung ordered me to collect the blood spilled in the tournament," Skarlet explained. Cormac nodded in understanding, the more blood Skarlet absorbed, the stronger she became. "Are you training?" She asked, noticing the training dummies set up.
"Yes, but I have hit a wall."
"Well don't your people believe combat is the best form a training, maybe a spar will help," Skarlet suggested.
"Not a bad idea." Cormac agreed. The two then moved away from each other and shifted into their respective stances.
"Fight!" Cormac announced.
Cormac charged forward to deliver a knee to Skarlet's abdomen only for her to disappear in a puddle of blood. Before Cormac could even try to find her a sharp pain erupted from his back. Skarlet had teleported behind him and delivered a slash to his back using her short sword.
Cormac turned around to counter-attack only for Skarlet to retreat back and fire two daggers at him. Cormac quickly channeled his Aura blocking the knives with his forearms. When he dropped his arms Skarlet was in front of and delivered an uppercut to his chin. At this point, Cormac was beginning to get angry.
There was a likely chance that it wouldn't work, but he would have to try it. Cormac once again gathered the red energy into his hand and fired it. Sadly, once again it dissipated into nothing before it hit.
Skarlet gave him an amused look, it was clear she was trying very hard not to laugh. Throwing away that plan, Cormac went back to his usual option when dealing with an enemy, punch it. Cormac charged forward hoping to land a hit on Skarlet before she could throw more of her daggers.
Skarlet once again disappeared in a pool of blood acting on instinct, Cormac turned around and attempted to fire another blast of energy. This one was smaller and while most of his blast so far were slow, this one was fast as an arrow. The blast caught Skarlet as soon as she appeared in the air and hit her square in the stomach, sending her flying across the clearing.
"I did it? I did it!" Cormac exclaimed. Before he could celebrate anymore he realized something. "Skarlet!" He quickly ran over to his fallen friend. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," Skarlet said, looking up at Cormac. Were her eyes always that green? Cormac wondered they were like emeralds.
"Thanks, Skarlet I needed this," Cormac said, giving her a quick hug and making his way back to his quarters. As Skarlet watched him leave she let out a disappointed sigh.
Unbeknownst to the two Outworld warriors, their little match was observed by three figures in a tree.
"Was that enough to convince you, Sub-Zero?" One of the observers asked.
"Just because he has some strange abilities does not mean he is a member of that clan, Sektor." Sub-Zero replied.
"And what if he is, what would the Grandmaster say if he learned we discovered a surviving member of the Shirai Ryu and let him get away." The final observer said.
"Cyrax is right, we should take him now, while he is unaware," Sektor said.
"We do that we risk a war with the Shokan, you saw them they see him as one of their own." Sub-Zero replied.
"Not to mention angering Outworld by killing one of their warriors outside of the tournament," Cyrax added.
"Then we do it inside the ring, tomorrow, we'll take the boy and Scorpion out at the same time." Sektor suggested.
"Fine, " Sub-Zero agreed. "You and Cyrax will deal with them."
"Then by tomorrow the last of the Shirai Ryu will fall," Sektor smirked.
And that ends the newest chapter of The Crimson Demon of Outworld. Again, sorry for the wait. Until next time, follow, favorite, and review.
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