Escape from the Emperor
25 years later….. In the outskirts of the living forest 3 young warriors are running for their lives from the emperor's palace. A skilled warrior named Drolak, his sister Michlle, and their friend Daeri, trying to escape the emperors general, and a handful of his warriors they defeated earlier. "Keep running. We can't let them catch up" Yelled Drolak. "Relax, we finished the last of them off. We can take a break, we've been running and fighting for a while now". Replied Daeri. "Alright we'll take a short break, but then we don't stop until we find Saileem." said Drolak. As they exit the living forest they take a rest in one of the ruins. "Daeri, do you really think we lost them?" asked Michlle. Before Daeri could reply a voice came from the shadows of the ruins. "Not quite" said a figure. Shortly after the figure emerged from the shadows, cracked his neck, looked at the 3 warriors and said "I see you had no trouble defeating my grunts, but I'm not one of the emperors grunts, did you really think you could escaped me?" He could sense the fear, and surprise of they 2 of the runaways, but he could tell the Drolak was ready to fight no matter the result. All the warriors knew he was the strongest of the emperors generals, all because of his abilities, no ones been able read what he would do. The general looked at the 3 of them, then teleported behind them, in that same minute he let out a fire blast from his hands. All 3 of them noticed, and jumped out of the way. When the blast hit the ground, the warrior had already teleported back to his original position, and sent a second blast at Drolak. Daeri saw the blast heading for him, and Daeri pushed him out of the blasts way. In doing so Daeri was hit by blast, and went straight to the ground. Michlle, and Drolak went to his aid, they both noticed he was burned severely. Michlle picks him up and puts his arm over her shoulder, and tells Drolak to do the same, but he has his eyes set on the general. He says" Go on without me, Ill finish him off", so Michlle starts to carry Daeri off. They get 10 feet when Drolak attacks the general, but he wasn't a match for the general, he was picked up and thrown near his sister, and Daeri. Just as he landed he looked up at the general, and saw him pull a spear from his behind his waist. Before he could warn the other 2, a cry was yelled. "Come here!" and the spear was thrown, and landed in Daeris back. "SHIIIT!!" yelled Daeri, and then with a forceful tug of the rope attached to the spear Daeri was pulled from Michlles arms, and into the generals hands. He lifted Daeri by his neck, and said "Don't worry, I'm saving all 3 of you for the emperor to kill, who should be here soon." Daeri tried to fight back, and his arms glowed blue around them, and ended up damaging the general's arm. The general was furious and hit Daeri in the face, and then tightened his grid, and his other hand burst in flame he lifted his other hand to Daeris face, and said "Maybe I'll kill you after all." When Drolak saw what was happening he couldn't control him self, he put his arm up, aimed at the general, and sent a flying shard at him making a direct hit to his wrist. When hit the general dropped Daeri, he checked his wrist to see the damage; he saw a small blade like shard in his arm. When he looked back up at Drolak he noticed a razor sharp blade covered in blood coming out of each arm. Drolak looked him in the eye and said "I am your opponent, not Daeri." He had a smirk on his face and said "Now a real fight can begin." He picks Daeri back up and threw him into Michlle. The general's fists burst into flames, then he teleported behind Drolaks position, and hit him with his flaming fists. Drolak countered the attack by swinging one of his blades at the general, by doing so he slashed the general's face across his left cheek. After noticing he was wounded by the young warrior he pulled a sword of his own out, and went straight for Drolaks heart. Using one blade to block the sword and the other to block a flaming fist, Drolak decided to bash his skull against the generals sending them both stumbling backwards. They regained their balance seconds after, for a minute they just stared at each other waiting for the other to make a move. Finally Drolak let out a tarkatan growl, and charged after the general, but because he was reckless in the attempt he was easily overthrown by the general. While the fight was progressing Michlle was aiding Daeri as best she could, when she lifted him up a shadow appeared where they were. She saw fear in Daeris eyes, and when she turned around to see who it was she had the same frozen fear in her eyes… the emperor of Outworld. The general had his foot on Drolaks neck, and his blades retracted from injuries, but when he saw his emperor, then kicked Drolak with the other 2 runaways, got on one knee, and bowed before the emperor, and told the 3 to do the same. "I see you've found our runaways, all accounted for, but from the looks of your face they gave you a bit of trouble. But none of that matters, good work Shujinko." said the emperor. "Thank you master" replied Shujinko. He made the 3 runaways kneel to the emperor when they wouldn't the first time. Shujinko picked Daeri up, and presented him to the emperor, he stood up as soon as he was in the emperor's presence. "You were told to bow before me, now do it." said the emperor angrily. Daeri looked him in the eyes spit in his face and said "Fuck you." Without hesitation the emperor kicked Daeri in his knee forcing him down, grabbed him by his head, and twisted forcefully until his neck snapped, then twisted it back the other way to make sure he was dead. Both Drolak, and Michlle froze at the sight of the friend being killed right in front of them. They both had pure rage in their eyes and were ready to attack. Just as they moved to get up the emperor looked at the, and said "If either of you bring your blades out a far worse fate will fall upon you." Then he placed his hand over Daeris body, and begun to use his most famous technique. They had only heard of this technique done before, but never actually seen it, in a split second they saw Daeris soul become part of the emperor. "As for the 2 of you, I'm surprised you got as far as you did, and defeated all of Shujinkos grunts. It's a shame I have to kill you now, both of you would of made a great addition to my army like your parents did. If you followed in their footsteps you could of becomes generals like they were." said Emperor Shang Tsung. "You forget, we did turn out like our mom & dad. We're rebelling just like they did and like they thought us to do." said Michlle. "Well seeing as the 2 of you are strong enough to make due for yourselves, I'm willing to give you 1 last chance. Join me, and I will make you both generals of the outworld army" said Shang Tsung. Michlle looked at her almost unconscious brother, and said "As Daeri said before "Fuck you"" "You ungrateful little shit. You could have had everything you wanted, power, wealth, slaves, and you throw it all away." So he grabbed her head and, Drolak tried to get up and stop him, but Shujinko hit him in his diaphragm causing him to lose all breath. When Shang Tsung began to twist her neck he began to glow green around his body. He started to levitate, and was tossed over and hit a collium of the ruins. Shukinko looked in the shadows where he was standing before and yelled "Show yourself!" Out walked a red ninja with a green glow around his body, and glowing green eyes.