Chapter 1: Prologue

Long ago at the beginning of time, there existed only the Elder Gods and the One Being. The One Being gained his power by draining it from the Elder Gods. Eventually the Elder Gods launched their attack on the One Being to save themselves. In the end, the Elder Gods created six weapons called the Kamidogu. When they used the weapons, the One Being split into many pieces, although its consciousness survived. The Kamidogu became lost in six different pieces of the One Being. Eventually, these pieces became the realms, and life began to grow inside them. There were six main realms: Earthrealm, Netherrealm, Outworld, Orderrealm (Seido), Chaosrealm, and Edenia, each with a representative Kamidogu which held the essence of each realm.

But now there was madness and destruction upon the realms. Since the 3rd tournament and Shao Kahn defeated, evil secrets have been revealed beyond the Elder God's control. Shinnok has returned from his imprisonment thanks to the foolishness of Sub-Zero, the death of Liu Kang from the Deadly Alliance: Quan Chi and Shang Tsung, the return of the Dragon King Onaga thanks to Reptile and the manipulating Shujinko, the failure of Raiden to destroy Onaga which only lead Raiden to be corrupted, and the curse of Armageddon in Edenia with the safe guard pyramid with Blaze on top only to end every worrier that ever-defeated Blaze. All was lost and there was more than one party at blame. To say the least, everything has gone to hell in a nutshell. The Elder Gods realized that things were getting out of hand and has to fix it one way or another. So, they thought of a plan. The Elder Gods gather every deity in the world: Near East and North Africa, Central/Northern Asia, East Asia, India/South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Americas, and Australia-Oceania.

Everyone gathered at a big round table and the table was the outline of the universe with a giant turtle holding the table on its back. The Elder Gods said to the counsel, "The balance of the realms has been altered. Evil has made it permanent mark since the failure of the Safe Guard we put in place in Edenia. So, we called the Council for a solution."

Odin, the deity for the Vikings stood up. "What about you ally Raiden? What of him? You send Raiden to earth to take care of Shao Khan after he took down the Dragon King."

They replied, "Somehow, both Khan and the Dragon King returned and Raiden tried a suicide attack but it was fruitless and he became corrupted."

Rama, the deity from India asked, "And the victor of the so called Safe Guard?"

The Elder Gods replied, "2 that are not in our favor: Shao Khan and Raiden with Shao Khan the victor."

Ra, the Egyptian deity said, "Then we must think of a plan to prevent this from ever happening." He pressed 'pause' on the universe just as Raiden was about to do the spell and Shao Khan killing him. "Any ideas?"

Everyone at the table was chattering away that soon turned into arguing and soon turned into a fight. Just then there was a bright light that stopped everyone. Then the Yellow Dragon or Huáng Lóng, a Chinese Deity, appeared in place of the Jade Emperor who couldn't attend the meeting. "I have a plan that can stop the inevitable but the alter of time will differ to those that will listen." he said.

Zeus/Jupiter, the Greek/Roman deity asked, "What is it that you have planned?"

Huáng Lóng replied, "I will send my 4 animals to earth, far before the first tournament and try to warn the combatants about the original timeline."

Amaterasu asked, "And if they don't listen, what then?"

Huáng Lóng replied, "If they don't then the vessel of the 4 will do his or her very best to prevent Armageddon, even if it cost his or her own life."

The Elder Gods asked, "Have you chosen a vessel to carry this burden?"

Huáng Lóng got a covered item and once uncovered it was a clay statue of a woman. "This will be the vessel and she won't know of her destiny until she is old enough to understand. I have already picked a family to have her and raised her. And one will be notified of her destiny."

The Elder Gods said, "Show us the 4 you have selected."

Just then 4 animals appeared. They were the 4 Chinese constellations of Chinese mythology: Bai Hu/Byakko the White Tiger of the West, Qing Long/Seiryu the Azure Dragon of the East, Zhu Que/Suzaku the Vermilion Bird of the South, and Xuan Wu/Genbu the Black Tortoise of the North. Huáng Lóng said, "These 4 will be with the vessel until the proper time. We just need a vote to carry out this plan or not."

The Counsel talked among themselves until the Elder Gods asked, "All in favor of this plan?" Every single one of them said 'Aye'. Then the Elder Gods said, "Then by your lead go. The table is yours."

The 4 animals turned into beams of light in their respective colors and entered into the little figurine. Then Huáng Lóng touched the table and moved time backwards to a certain date. Then he stopped the clock to pause the earth, touched the land of China, zoomed in on a small family village and then zoomed in a small house where a couple was living. Huáng Lóng placed the statue on the house. "Good luck…Shan Mao." Then he pushed the figurine down and it disappeared into the table.