I held her tightly as we lay in our quarters… The second time I've left her, and she has gotten hurt… And to make this attack worst, was that Sub-Zero was behind this… And what hurt most, was the fact that my sweet Saia, who wasn't geared to fight him, than again, I doubt she figured she would be violated by him.

"I'm sorry…" She apologized to me.

"You are not to blame." I stared into her sad brown eyes. "If any thing, I am to blame." I hold her as tightly as I could. "I left you once again, I failed in protecting you." I felt the fires of hell burning through my veins at the thought of Sub-Zero near her… Touching her, hurting her… "I am the one who is to blame, I am the reason you have been through so much hell…" She pushed herself away from me, I don't blame her, after all, she wouldn't have gone through this, had I just put those foolish fears behind, and allowed her to join me.

"Where I will go, is the true hell, and what I will face, will be true demons." She whispers.

"What?" I look at her, remembering her saying that once before.

"Nothing….."

I know she is hiding something from me, but she refuses to say anything else, she only takes my hands and kisses me softly.. With that kiss, my mind is turned to the fact that Sub Zero was near her…. And the fire seems to grow.

"Saia…. Why are you so afraid to tell me?"

"That's my own torture I will face…"

"Saia…"

"You're leaving again." She interrupts me. "You'll leave me alone once again…"

"No, I swear…"

"Just like you promised to protect me…."

With that said she turned around and closed her eyes….

It wasn't until she fell asleep that I finally left the room, I needed to blow off the rage that had grown in me, once the gravity of the situation had finally set in. I hope that when we begin this tournament I can personally kill Sub Zero…. I hope that Saia can watch me disembowel him, I hope that while he feels the fires I spew at him will seem like heaven after Reptile gets through him.

"Scorpion…" I hear Reptile from behind me. "We have no signs of Sub-Zero here… But word is he may be working for the sorcerer Quan Chi."

I feel myself slipping into a deeper depth of hatred at that name…

"Very well." I look back at him. "Than I suppose we have to make our move soon."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, if you thought Shang Tsung was bad, Quan Chi is much worst, and if he already has Sub-Zero, Than he must have others… And if this was only the work of Sub-Zero, than I don't want to wait for the others to come into play, let alone what the could do to your people…"

Reptile gave a slow nod to me. "Very well, than lets be on our way."

I look back to Saia and my quarters. "I will not leave her again." I say looking at him. "When she awakes, than we will go."

"Scorpion, are you not afraid that she will slow you down?"

"I trained her myself, She can fight, and if anything, she is an extra hand."

"I see your point. Okay, then I will wait for you both."

I turned, walking back into our quarters, to see her sitting up, Worry plaguing her eyes.

"What's wrong." I walk close to her. Seeing tears escaping from those brown eyes.

"I could feel him…" She whispers. " I could feel him near me…" She tries not to cry out. "He's going to come back from me, I know it… "

"No…" I grab her. "I would rather die, than to have him near you."

"He…" She looked away from me. "He called me 'Your attachment'" She pulled her knees to her chest. "He said he was going to break you, by using me… and when he kills you… I'll be his pet…" She looked at me. "Am I you're pet? Is, is that how you see me?"

"No." I answer feeling the flames burning my flesh. "You are the only person in this life that I will ever love." I took her hand in mine. "You taught me love… I never thought I'd ever experience that…"

"Then why do you refuse to show me your true face?" She whispered. "I love you, I would take a thousand of his beating, and all the torture he could unleash to me, just for you, so why won't you show me your face?"

"Because, you seem to be the only person in my life that I care for… Before it was only death, and carnage, I would kill just for the sake of it. But then I met you, you made me feel emotions, something I hadn't felt in years… I refuse to show my face because I don't want you to fear me, the demon that I truly am." I stroke her cheek softly "I am a demon… My face is that of hell itself…" I lower my head. "I refuse to show you it because you taught me fear… I'm, I'm afraid when you see what I am, you will run in terror."

She only shook her head. "I was afraid… I was afraid he'd kill me… What he put me through was hell… But…" She leaned her head on my shoulders and whispered. "That was hell… I'm weak, When I'm not with you, I'm weak…" I hear her crying. "But where he will take, that would be a true hell, because I will not be with you, and the demons I will face will be torture because I do not have you by my side… Alone, I am weak, but with you, I believe I have a chance." She looked up at me. "Sub-Zero knows about this… And he is using it against us… But if I have you… Maybe I can make it."

The thoughts of him violating her again, if he wanted to play this way, then he was surely in for the most gruesome death "He's going to pay for what he had done, and plans to do with you…" I say stoking her cheeks softly. "You will be at my side as we both take his last breath from him, and you will never endure that hell again…"