Ever since sacrificing himself to repair Liu Kang's soul (from the events that left the earth realm champion previously undead) Nightwolf's spirit was now adhered to reside in a purgatory. For some this would be a place of agony and boredom but for Nightwolf the silent wasteland offered a chance to focus his knowledge and animal spirit (Or spirits.) Usually there is only one possible animality per person but he had developed a way to perform "hybrids". This in between world was not just a empty space (well to most souls doomed to live there it would be). There was actually a river of life that flowed just below the surface. Normal people, with their clouded minds could neither see it nor ever hope to reach it because; it was a river of animal souls. Not just the "heroic" ones; lion, snake, dragon, etc. No, here lay the souls of flies, clams, ants, squids; every creature that toiled away their short lives towards a goal that most humans would think of as well... useless. Nightwolf befriended them all; swimming with their souls as they passed through this area up to their individual visions of heaven.
He learned of their cultural meanings, their strengths and their courage. Every creature had a secret, a history, a power. And within this realm he could master them all. But could Nightwolf apply this to a battle with in the normal realms?
With the help of the elder gods Nightwolf's soul was put in to the body of a dying man in the middle of a (yet another) attack by Kano's full army.
As the previous man's soul exited the body, headed to heaven, the body started to reform in to Nightwolf's appearance. Was this a good thing? Kano knew what he looked like but not many others, especially not the lovely Kira.
Kira was a warrior of the highest precision but she was also a woman. A women with a need for attention, a need for praise, a need for the ego boot that comes from taking down a dark skinned warrior armed with a weapon that seemed to exist only though telepathy (by that i mean the spirit bow.) Yes she took him down, and could very well have killed him, but she "chose" instead to take him to the central location of the Black Dragon, where she planned to find out the source of such power.
After all, to her Nightwolf was just some random earth realm warrior (like that jerk Kobra.) They all had some kind of powers; some more valuable than others. What of course she didn't know was that his telepathic abilities were so strong that he could map the entire area just by passing through it, he didn't even have to pass through the entire building. Now he knew where to find Kano. But first he would play with Kira.
Locked up for 2 days before he even saw her again, he waited, naked, bleeding from his hands and a (self inflicted, but believable) wound in his chest; posing as someone who was too sick and wounded to pose any threat. Kira looked in on him once every so often, as if curious to the type of creature he truly was. When she finally entered his cell he stayed quiet, sitting in the corner with his head down, as if he was truly in physical and emotional pain, like a wounded animal. She knelt down to his level, raised his face, looked in his eyes; deep beautiful eyes, eyes that seemed to glow with pure soul energy. From there she was under his spell.
No one would notice, or care that she seemed smitten with him; Kira was easily smitten. She touched his face, he rolled his head back, inviting her to touch lower. He placed her hand over his still bloody wound. She could feel his heart. Then for shock he forced her hand inside his chest cavity, spilling blood, as if she could rip out his heart and he would not care. She removed her hand, covered in blood, paused , then for reason beyond her control she kissed him. Oh god it felt so god to kiss him. She took off her cloths and they made wild, animalistic love; something that looked more like a brutal fight then sex.
But as I said before, this did not draw even a glance from bypassers. After hours of exhausting sex, penetrating every orifice (pounding her hard as she screamed for more....), before ejaculating all over her large yet perky breasts; Kira was left in a limp sweaty heap of ecstasy. And Nightwolf was left with what he came there for; access to her mind.
He now knew the source of Kano's new power and he knew where to find him. Nightwolf easily exited the cell. He did not bother to take cloths; he simply morphed in to a color changing butterfly (a simple example of animality combining) and fluttered to the destination. His destination was, of course, Li Mei's cell where Kano was taking in a recharge.
Beaten and bloody, with broken bones in her chest, hips (and where ever else Kano forced his massive dragon cock) Li Mei's body still had enough life left to satisfy Kano one last time. Traditionally, after using up the female bodies he would devour them (in full dragon form); which gave him the ultimate sexual, powerful high. But not this time.
The single butterfly entered. Kano, (in partial dragon form) stopped, threw Li Mei in to a wall then simply said, "so, they sent you....".
Nightwolf changed in to a lion with dragon wings and Porcupine spikes. Kano changed in to the one animality combination he could do; one he had never before attempted. His natural spirit animal was a spider, so with that in mind he changed in to a 8 armed dragon. He smashed out a wall and exited the building; they would need room for this fight.
Outside Nightwolf changed in to a 10 foot tall squid-porcupine-snake-dragon. He needed to one up Kano at all costs. They both knew it would all come down to who ever could hold their power at this magnitude the longest.