"I don't seem to understand all of this jealousy between you, and your sister." The young Outworld Prince named, Rain spoke aloud to Princess Mileena. The two were gathered inside of Mileena's lavish private quarters. The room was designed to match the pink dressed Princess perfectly. The room was themed in pink, and black. Those were the colors of the beautifully hung curtains that hung over the room's entrance way, that led out to her balcony, and that overlooked almost the entirety of Shao Kahn's stronghold. Mileena was sitting on her perfectly made bed, and as she sat there her attention seemed to be directed solely on Rain, who was sitting at a lovely, handcrafted table across the room. His hand was preoccupied with a glass of red colored wine. Rain was now out of his royal, purple robes, and was now sitting shirtless. His body was toned, thin, and covered in tiny little scars, as if he had been slightly clawed in many different areas. His black hair was laying flawlessly across his head, and his ocean blue eyes were now meeting Mileena's shade of Tarkatan yellows.
Mileena was also out of her royal robes as well, and was now wearing a light pink gown, that left her shoulders bare, and her figure exposed. She still had on her veil, however.
"Jealousy isn't the word that I would use." Mileena sneered over at Rain, after hearing the words escape his mouth. Rain smiled slightly at this.
"Then what word does describes your relationship with Kitana?" Rain asked, before taking a sip of his wine. He also would recline in his chair slightly, as he awaited Mileena's response.
"Unfair." Mileena retorted almost instantly.
"Explain it to me." Rain demanded boldly. Mileena shook her head quickly at his request.
"I would rather not." She spoke, as she tried to hide her face from Rain, who was still watching her closely.
"Mileena, you can trust me. Everything you say to me, will forever stay with me." Rain's voice displayed sincerity with each word he uttered. Mileena hesitated for a moment. She seemed almost saddened by what she was about to say.
"The God's have cursed me since I my birth." Mileena sighed aloud. Her eyes would not look into Rain's as she explained.
"Not only was I Shao Kahn's second born daughter, I was also...I was also given the traits of those vile Tarkatans." Mileena mumbled, as she continued to hide her face from Rain.
"I could never rule Outworld, I could never be found attractive by any man. Kitana, she's the beautiful first born, the future of the realm. I am nothing more than her disgusting, worthless sister." Mileena was on the verge of tears as she recited the memories of her past in her head. All the times she was laughed at. All of the times she was overlooked in favor of Kitana. Every instance where the civilians of Outworld gave her disgusted stares.
"You could not be anymore wrong about any of that." Rain spoke as he placed his wine glass down softly onto the handcrafted table. Mileena's eyes once again shifted to him.
"What do you mean?" Mileena asked, before hiding her face again. After seeing her do this, Rain rose up from his chair slowly, and began making his way over to his soon to be wife. Mileena's body trembled out of nervousness, as Rain made his way closer to her.
"The Gods never cursed you. They were merely testing you. Testing you to see if you had what it took to make it to this point. Soon your sister's claim to the throne will be made worthless. Kitana's spoiled ways have finally caught up to her. She'll be labeled a traitor, and be forced to serve under your rule. The Gods were testing your resolve, to see if you could live this life, and now that you have proved to them that you could, now their plans come into play. Together, you and I will rule this realm. That is why you were born. This is no curse. This is your gift." As Rain finished this, his hands reached for both of Mileena's high cheekbones. He turned her head, so that her dilated eyes met his once again. Mileena's breathing became heavy, and slowly turned to resembled a Tarkatan's grow. This didn't faze Rain at all. He closed his eyes, and slowly moved forward. He pressed his lips, and kissed Mileena's forehead as softly as possible. His hands moved lower, and began to reach the veil that forever hid Mileena's deformity. As soon as his hand's reached the cloth, Mileena gave out a quick grow.
"Don't!" She cried in horror of the possibility of Rain seeing her true self.
"Mileena, We have been together for ages now, and I have yet to see you, the real you. You have no need to hide yourself from me. I will never judge you. I want to love you. I want to kiss the person from whom I shall marry one day." Pleaded Rain, who pulled her back in towards him. Mileena gave his words a brief moment of thought, but was once again firm in her insecurities.
"I cannot!" She yelped in terror. Rain looked down, and sighed after hearing her fears.
"You cannot worry what other's think about you. Their opinions are meaningless. You control all of them. You will be their Queen, whether they want you to be, or not. Nothing can change your destiny, our destiny." Rain expressed wholeheartedly. Mileena was still not budging.
"Do you remember when we were children, how we used to play together in the courtyard, you, me, Kitana, and Jade?" Rain asked, as he backed away from Mileena slowly. Mileena nodded her head, and slightly regained her composure as she noticed Rain's backing away.
"It was the only thing I looked forward to." Mileena spoke slightly sad at the thought of those childhood memories.
"I remember how we used to mock Kitana's know it all attitude, and do you recall that nasty, little slug we found, you know the one that I put it in one of her drinks?" Rain asked with a perfect white smile as he recalled the times he, and Mileena used to upset Kitana as children. Mileena gave a huge smile under her veil as she too recalled this moment.
"Yes! Those were the good days!" She accidentally gave out a loud Tarkatan like laugh.
"Yeah, things have changed a lot since then. After Jade succumbed to that plague those days ended rather quickly, but you are right, those were the good days. I remember shortly after Jade died my father had arranged for me to be married to Kitana." Rain spoke darkly.
"I remember begging for my father to change the plans from my marriage to Kitana, to a marriage with you." Admitted Rain. Mileena's eyes found his at these words.
"I did the same with my father." She told Rain, who chuckled, and grinned widely.
"It was known to all that my heart belonged only to yours. That will never change, never. You are the only person I have ever loved. We fell in love at a young age, maybe even too young. Young enough for me to eventually realize that I have never prepared myself to love anybody but you. All the walks we have taken, all the times we laughed together, and all of the times we have spoken exactly like how we are now. I choose you, I always have. That is why I want you to show me your real self, because no matter how you look, I will never stop caring about you Mileena. You never need to hide anything about yourself from me, because I love everything about you." Rain poured his heart out to Mileena with these words, and the emotion upon Mileena's face was indescribable.
Mileena was incredibly touched by Rain's speech. So much that a tear trickled town her face.
"You are right." She said finally, as the two stared eye to eye at each other in silence. To break the silence Mileena slowly moved her hands closer to her pink veil. Her long fingers gripped the upper edges of her face, and slowly began to edge the veil lower, and lower. She closed her eyes as she did this, as she was fearful of seeing, what she thought would be either Rain's look of disgust, or a mocking smile. Eventually the veil slipped off, and her eyelids squinted tightly to show her discomfort. Mileena's face from the nose upwards was identical to the beautiful face of her twin sister Kitana, but the lower half of her face was atrocious. Her mouth was circular, but her she opened it slightly to show large, white, fang like teeth that matched perfectly with the mouth of a Tarkatan. They were razor sharp, and almost stuck out of her mouth, but she could close it slightly to barely conceal them.
Mileena opened her eyes slightly after another long silence. She hesitated before looking up at Rain who was staring at her mouth carefully. He stared at her teeth, and then moved his gaze upwards so that he was looking into Mileena's yellow eyes once again. She was regretting her decision instantly. Rain, however was still joyed that she was brave enough to show him her true form.
"You're even more beautiful than I had imagined." He smiled widely again to show Mileena that her face didn't effect him. Mileena sighed a major sigh of relief, but her tense body, grew even tenser.
"Do not lie to me!" Mileena barked at him, as she sensed that he was not being wholesome with his reaction.
"Fine you caught me. I wasn't being truly honest." Rain spoke in complete seriousness.
"I knew it!" Mileena cried out in horror, and moved her hands rapidly to cover her mouth. She hopped from her bed at a lightning speed, and began darting for the exit of her room, but was stopped as Rain grabbed her shoulders, and turned her back to face him.
"Where are you going?" He asked her as he moved her hands from her face. He held her hands tightly, and resisted Mileena's attempts to escape his grasp.
"Do you not want to hear what I truly think about you?" He asked almost surprised at Mileena's reactions. Mileena would soon stop squirming in Rain's grasp, and lowered her head.
"The first thought was not of how beautiful you look, and you are only that, beautiful. No, my first thought was about how bad I wanted to bed you, and how I would manage to get that to happen." Rain whispered in a seducing tone. With this Mileena's eyes bulged slightly. Then without any further hesitation, Mileena swooped in, and grabbed Rain by his face, and began delivering very passionate kisses, that were returned instantly by Rain. His hands found her hair, and with a quick yank, he pulled her to her bed, and she laid down. She began quickly taking off her pink gown. Her breathing was heavy once again. Rain climbed on top of her, and Mileena's hands immediately clawed softly into his bare back. The two exchanged very deep, and very long kisses as the Outworld moon began to rise through the ashy clouds, with the light peering into the bedroom.
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This chapter was made to give Mileena more traits then just a monstrous half tarkatan. I wrote this chapter thinking maybe Mileena acts the way she does, because of how she was treated as a child compared to Kitana, and maybe it forced her to be the type of person she is. In a world where the Tarkatans are considered terrible beast, Mileena feels that she can't be a true Princess due to her deformities.