Shang Tsung, The sorcerer, the fiend, He has brought my worst enemy to fight with us in this tournament… He has to keep reminding me that I cannot kill him… And I guess I will not… Unless we battle each other… Then, I won't be so nice. I will annihilate him… What would be left of him may be a tiny speck of flesh…
"You will both fight in this tournament…" Shang Tsung stared at us, giving a slight smirk. "But not with each other." he gave a low chuckle as he walked towards the boat. "I'll expect you two to play nice. I have other plans for you both… But…" He turned to face us. "You will have to obey my every command…"
I look at the Blue ninja, only imagining the horrific things I could do to him… How I could easily rip his heart out, twisting his neck in three full circles before pulling it clean off his body. But my attention was taken from the many ways I could decapitate him when Shang Tsung spoke these words…
"I require full control…"
I stared at him… Full Control? What did that mean? He had my soul, wasn't that control enough?
"If you give me full control, then I will give you what you want most…" He smirked.
"And how do you know what we want most?" Sub Zero asked.
"I already have your souls… And all the things that are attached to them." He stared at me dead in the eyes. "Scorpion…"
How? How did he know? "Very well…." I agree thinking that maybe, just maybe this would finally numb me from what has been ailing me these long, long years.
"And you Sub Zero?"
He said nothing, he only bowed his head.
"Very well…" Shang Tsung smirked.
Before I could blink my eyes… I saw nothing…
What are you doing?
That voice… I hear it whispering in my ear.
Scorpion Sensei?
"I'm doing what must be done…" I whisper to myself.
You taught me, that… That honor was more important than winning…
"Honor didn't keep you alive."
I feel warmth intertwining with my fingers… just as she used to do… I look up, and see her… This ghost standing in front of me…
"You're dead…" I whisper seeing her beautiful eyes staring back at me. "I saw you in pieces…."
She only shook her head, Her hand traveled up to my mask… stroking the material softly. "When you gave him your soul… You gave him part of me…"
I stare at her, finally wrapping my arms around her… This is why I still remembered her… She became apart of me… And this is what made me weak…
"Scorpion Sensei…" She whispered.
"You are dead…"
"No…"
I feel those soft warm lips press against the material that covers my mouth… Before I knew it, she backed away from me… "Saia…"
"He has me… And you can only get me back when he comes…."
"Who?"
When she backed away further. "You must die, and free your soul…"
"What?"
The darkness suddenly disappeared, and I was in my realm… In my pit… Standing across from a pathetic mortal…
From the looks of it all, we were fighting…. And it looked like I was winning…. That was when I got too full of myself…
I was going to show this mortal what horror actually was. My true form… The horror I refused to show Saia… Taking away my face, I showed him the true me.. The demon of the Nether realm. Gathering up every fiber of energy I felt the fire inside of me building up… This is going to be easy… But once I opened my mouth to release the fire…
Darkness surrounded me. Not again…. Soon there was nothing… No new body, no afterlife, not even a sign from the gods… Just darkness.. Shit, I was a plot to get rid of me… He used my weakness for his own sick pleasure…. If I ever leave this realm of nothing, I will destroy him myself.
Soon, I start choking…. How can I choke in nothing? A jolt hits me… Than another… Soon I find myself jumping up … Looking around I do not recognize my settings, which makes me uneasy… It's hot, and humid… When I try to survey where I am, hear someone approaching… Soon a man walks in… He wore green attire, the same as Sub Zero and myself.
"I see you're awake…" He speaks in a low voice. "You're very lucky…"
"Who the hell are you, and where the hell am I?"
"I am Reptile… servant of the great emperor Shao Kahn…"
I look at him, Shao Kahn? The Shao Kahn? The ruler of all worlds?
"He asked that I care for you until you awoke… And when you were awake, to take you to see him."
I stand up. "Very well…"