I'm not killing her…. No matter how many times she screams for me to…
"How pathetic!" I shout at Quan Chi as he controls Saia. "Using her to challenge me, that's low even for you sorcerer!"
"How so Scorpion, I am merely using strategy to beat you. I know you would never harm your precious Saia."
He had me there; I wouldn't lay a single blow on her. "Saia, I know you can hear me." I shouted. "Saia please, please snap out of this!"
I watched her struggle once more, this time I can see tears in her eyes as she held the knife up… I looked over to Quan Chi, seeing a smile come across his face…. No, he wouldn't stoop so low…
She takes the knife and points it at herself. "SAIA!" I shout running towards her. I tackle her and both of us fall to the ground, me landing on top of her. "Saia, c'mon…. Saia, snap out of this!" I shake her…
She doesn't respond, she's still locked in his trance. Before I can do anymore, I feel myself being ripped from her. My body starts to burn, how, how can it be.
"Seems you counted someone out." Quan Chi smiled. "I told you, Smoke is one of the best."
My body burned as Smoke emerged from my body, this pain, this pain is nothing I've ever experienced before! I opened my eyes to see smoke standing above me.
"Ha-before I kill you." Smoke knelt down next to me. "I just want you to know that I will enjoy breaking that girl."
My body was is in so much pain, I cannot bear to live any longer… This is too much; being burned from the inside out is the worst hell I could imagine! I can feel my body melting from the inside, and soon, I feel my flesh burning to the point that I blacked out… I'm sorry Saia…. I failed you….
I see nothing, I feel nothing… I await… nothing…
"Scorpion…."
I open my eyes… at the voice that whispers my name…. I can see myself, well, a puddle of myself… I see Saia being taken by Noob… Then nothing but nothing...
It's over… I'm dead… Never thought this would happen to me, I mean, after all… I'm the demon of the nether realm…
Soon I see a bright light in front of me. I go towards it only to find myself standing on top of a pyramid. I see the Earth Realm God Raiden standing on top.
"What's all this?" I finally speak, not understanding what was going on.
"We are the Elder Gods…" I female spoke to me.
"We have been watching you Hanzo…." A male voice spoke.
"H…Hanzo?" I whisper, that name being foreign to me, only because no one had called me that in years.
The female voice continued to speak. "You are the reincarnation of Quan Chi's… You were never meant to have a soul… BE the perfect warrior, the perfect assassin…."
"Yet, somewhere you managed to gain a soul…" The male voice spoke. "In this, we were able to judge your place…"
The dragons swirled around creating a portal. I looked through it, to see my mortal life… My wife, my infant son, waiting for me… I reached my hand out before catching myself.
"What is this?" I asked looking at the gods.
"This is your life… We are returning it to you." The male spoke.
"And… If I go in, I'll have my family back?"
"Yes…" The female spoke.
I looked at my wife, who held my child. They both waited for me, they both wanted me back into their lives…
"You deserve this Scorpion…."
"But wait…" I look at them. "What of Quan Chi?"
"We are taking care of that… Raiden and his mortals are facing him." The male spoke
I smirk a bit at that. "I find this to be unfair…" I look away, thinking of Saia. "I started that fight… Wouldn't it be fair that I finish it?"
"What do you mean?" The female asked.
"I deserve nothing unless I kill Quan Chi myself…" I ball my fists. "I do not deserve anything until I put him and his followers into their eternal graves."
"Hanzo…."
"I don't mean to disrespect you… But Hanzo has been dead for many, many years." I look at the dragons who stared back at me. "And that you are showing me is my old life… I do not wish to return to it…"
The gods separated and came closer to me. "What do you mean?" The female asked me. "This is where you belong… "
I gave a small chuckle. "No..." I shook my head, with a small smile. "In my new life, I am scorpion, the demon of the nether realm… And my life, my soul, belongs to Saia… I wish to return, and destroy those who threaten my new life."
The female seemed to smile when she spoke these words. "You are correct… Hanzo died many years ago… Along with his family… Scorpion, you are not ready for death… And when the time comes… You will share it with the woman you've grown to love."
I went on one knee, bowing to the dragons.
"We will help you any way we can… Make sure Shinnok cannot return." The male spoke.
"I can guarantee it… Now, I need a new body, and maybe some help…" I looked at both of them.
"Reptile and Rain will be back in action the moment you return… And as for more help, we've already stated that Raiden and his mortals will be there… Now… awaken!" The female shouted as she lunged herself into me, the male soon followed. I felt my body grow stronger as I was surrounded by light… Soon the light turned to darkness. I opened my eyes to see the fiery pits in which I had died…
I felt new life coming into the puddle, and soon, I felt my body re forming… When my vision finally came… I saw Noob, and Smoke holding Saia near a fire pit…. This was pay back….