Mortal Kombat: Story of The Dead

Prologue-Through the Darkness

I feel every second like an eternity. Every particle of me feel the pain as the world became more and more blurred. Everything around me was buzzing or maybe it was just in my mind, but the noise was muffled. I could see people leaning over me, pointing at me and something next to me. After a while, all I could tell were blue and red lights. I distinguish two pairs of hands lift me up and feel a swaying incessantly. My body doesn't listen to me as if defying me with no shame. Inside me I struggle angrily, not understanding my inability. I black out and after a while, all I could've of hear was something that I could not really understand. 

" We have to....die if we don't....pull it out...NOW! ...nothing else could...."

All of a sudden I am lighter, and I am finally able to control myself. I open my eyes and wake up with a blinding light around me. I want to close my eyes but the light keeps blowing in. Frightened, I get up on my elbows, but I don't see any reaction from the people who were working with the tools on my body. Weirdly, I don't feel any movement on me and I try to get out of bed but instead of touching the floor, I notice that I'm a little in the air. I look down better and see that my shadow is untraceable. To my left is a device specific to hospitals, I realize after a few moments. A long red line stretches across the screen and I wait for fear to hit me, knowing that it is connected to my body. To my surprise, I don't feel anything, although according to the norm, my heart has to beat harder. I want to touch my chest but my hand goes through my bones. I discover that I have reached the metaphase, that I no longer have a heart or a possible bone, and most interestingly, but morbidly, that I no longer have to breathe. I look up and reach for the ceiling, hoping I can float. Disappointment comes waves over me but I still don't give up. I try to push myself to the floor but all I do is sink to the abdomen in building material. I try to move my toes but I don't know if I have accomplished the mission or not. I try to calm down and focus on one thing. I only think about the fact that I have to get out of the mess and I notice that I am slowly floating from the barrier between the floors. Concentration made me tired, which was weird considering my condition. I fly around the bed where my body is sitting and I feel like throwing up. Wrought iron was making its way through my abdomen. The picture is ugly, especially when I know that I will have to bear the brunt of my family's sadness and grief.

But the fact that I am still here and watching 'live' the doctors' despair to restore my heartbeat proves my theory that God and faith in Him are only the primary needs of man to feel protected by a supernatural being.
The coordinating doctor, I suppose, goes out with two colleagues, telling the others to take me to the morgue. I'm following the three gentlemen down the hall because the morgue isn't a place I'd like to see. Along the way, one of them breaks away from the group, and I am left to listen to an orderly conversation about how the parents will be informed. He checks my phone, which I hate,  even though I didn't set my password, and finds out my dad's phone number. I do not dare to approach and listen to the interlocutor, so I wait in the corner until the end of the conversation. During this time I analyze myself better, and I realize that I still have a well-defined shape of my legs, the whole body is well-defined, only that I am invisible. I see a broken mirror supported by an armchair and when I approach I notice an almost imperceptible shape. The door closes behind me and I realize I'm left alone, both literally and figuratively. But one question still intrigues me, if I am, being dead, in this world where are all the other souls? But I don't have enough time to deal with this, I have to try to signal to my parents that I'm not gone, I'm still with them. But how? I can't touch anything, let alone move anything.
I'm going to leave the room but a nurse passes quickly, one with a perfect body, with perfect circled breasts and a big ass, carrying a girl with a broken spine on a bed just like mine. My eyes rest a little on that woman, whom I think should have worked at the adult entertainment company. It seems like I'm thinking with the thing from my pants even in the ghost body. I stop thinking about living people anymore and I help myself with the signs on the wall and after a few wanderings, I reach the main entrance.
I analyze the people around me and have no known faces. Big hustle and bustle in hospitals on New Year's Eve, I can tell.
Honestly, if I hadn't gone crazy around the city to buy fireworks, I wouldn't have been hit by that car on the bridge. Consumed by all these thoughts, I don't even notice the appearance of my mother and father. But I can't get too close to them because I feel a force pulling me back. I want to go even closer to the doctor who talks to my family, but my body refuses. Before I was pulled for good by that force, I noticed the tears that appeared in my mother's eyes, and then it was only darkness. Fuck it, how much I hate the dark. I feel numb, and somehow I feel the lack of any kind of body. Panic sets in, believing that I will remain permanently in this darkness and that all I will do is think. And I keep quiet and I think and I keep quiet and I think over and over again, and I continue like this for a long time, I think, considering that the time is a subjective thing, until I hear a constant knocking. I ignore that sound thinking it was in my mind, but it becomes clear to me that it is not, when each knock intensifies. That insistence is starting to drive me crazy, so I open my eyes.  First I am shocked because it is no longer dark, everything is made up of bright colors. I look around and notice that I am in a slightly medieval room. Gold objects are on bedside tables and ordinary wooden tables. I rest my eyes on the sheet I'm sitting on and notice that I'm no longer invisible. I move my legs and feel the soft, cold texture caressing my skin. I get out of bed and the wooden floor resists my body. I lose my balance a little, but soon I get back on track. I walk to a massive closet, past a mirror. I stop in front of it and look at her intently. The body, the face, everything is one piece again and ... and I'm just like before. I lean more towards my reflection and notice that my right eye is pierced by a long pinky scar, probably from my accident. I bring my fingers closer to the new mark and I feel that my skin is slightly cold. I hear a knock, the same one that made me wake up, but this time it is accompanied by a female voice:
"Open this door once, I know you're awake, I hear you move!"
I'm completely naked, so I take a look in the closet, thinking it contains ordinary clothes. To my amazement, there were only ninja yorois in different colors. I reach for the blue one, involuntarily. It's not my favorite color but at least it's better than nothing. I try to put my pants on, ignoring the nervous screams behind the door.
"Let me in! I swear if you don't open I'll knock the door down"
In two short movements, I managed to get into those pants. I go back to the window, wanting to put the curtains aside. I can't take more than two steps because I hear a deep thud behind me. I see the door lying on the floor as my girl promised. Inside the former door, a female figure was dominating with a victorious smile
"I see you would do anything to admire these muscles," I say in a flirtatious voice, looking down at my body. "Come closer, I don't bite, you know."
"Greatness dreams, boy," she whispers indifferently in my nose.
To be honest, it kind of hurt me, but she doesn't know who she's dealing with. I reach for her shoulder, but I'm left with only a purple mark in place of her body. Then she slams me on the floor, nailing me to the floor with her knee on my back.
"You never touch a girl without her consent, especially not me, is that clear?"
I make an approving sound and its weight rises from my body. Damn, how strong she is.
I massage my jaw and get dressed in the rest of my clothes. I could feel her eyes all over my body, analyzing my every move. I want to get out of the room, but somehow, from the comfortable armchair she was sitting in, she appeared in front of me.
"How the hell did you get here?" I ask in astonishment.
"I have the Wicked Sister abilities, or arcana as it is called here, teleportation is the least awkward thing at me."
"Cute, I can't wait to meet your sister too, maybe she'll kick my ass a little, I see it's a common thing in your family" I try to annoy her.
She growls at me and suddenly two sai weapons are speeding towards me. Because of fear I can't move, I close my eyes and wait to feel stabbed. The sound of metal rubbing against the air was more and more intense and then silence. I hear the sound of metal falling on the marble. I open my eyes and see the weapons lying at my feet. Did I do that?
"Is that how you greet guests, Rianna?" a man's voice echoed in the hallway.
"Rianna ... I like that name!" I indulge provocatively.
She throws me a hateful look, I honestly don't even understand why it's like that ... maybe she didn't sleep well.
"Sorry, master! It won't happen again." says shy Rianna.
"That's what you said and when you ate your last income, I hope it doesn't happen again." the same voice is heard.
A shiver runs down my spine at the last message. I turn my back on Rianna in an attempt to locate the mysterious man.
Disappointed, I want to go after the Wicked Sister, but in my way stands a man with braided hair.
"Shit, there are more to teleport?" I ask nervously.
"I'm Kung Lao, and no, no one but Rianna is teleporting, I'm just sneaking up. Now, let's talk about something more important, what's your name? Where are you from?" the man asks.
"Ashford, and of course, I'm on Earth"
"Who lied to you boy? Maybe you're from EarthRealm, but here, you are in NetherRealm."
"Old man, did you take your morning pills?" I ask him, starting to think he's crazy.
"I'll be old, but look around. Do you think there's anything on EarthRealm here?"
I approach the first window to prove to the guy that we are on Earth, but I am amazed when I see waterfalls of huge proportions around me, the flora was unseen, with orange, purple, and other flowers the size of trees. The rocks that should normally be gray here were a light brown color.
"How did I get here? Why was I brought here? Why ...?" I ask desperately.
"Son, take it easy. I'll answer all your questions later, now I have to go," he answers me in a hurry. I look after him like a loser while he lets me down and goes about his business. I wait in silence, analyzing Rianna. She has straight, black shoulder-length hair. She is all dressed in purple, standing out with some amazing hips from which were firing two weapons, the weapons that were heading towards me with deadly speed a few moments before.
"Hey ... Rianna! Can you tell me exactly where we are?"
"Ashford, we are not in an exact place, everything is in motion, but to answer you we are inside the Shaolin Monk's Temple."
"Monks ?! I assume there are other activities here besides prayer ... do you have a gym?"
"What is happening here is anything but prayer. We have a gym, you just have to make a deal with Brooks, he is a gym rat." she assured me with a slightly malevolent laugh.
We wander in several hallways until we enter the training room. Boxing bags hung from the ceiling, and several wooden weapons and shields rested on the floor, calling for me.
"This is the place for the uninitiated to learn. This is where you will start, sly."
"Did you make me a beginner?" Do you want to test the lie you just told? I challenge you to a fight, little cannibal."
"Don't shit on yourself anymore. I'll accept the invitation anyway, I never hesitate to kick some asses."
I lean over a wooden sword, but the slightly disgusted look on her face suggests that she doesn't agree. He throws me a real sword, inlaid with gold and silver, slightly yellow on the handle.
"It's a copy of Hanzo Hasashi's original sword, also known as Oni Killer." she steams me with a story.
I know the trick, it distracts me and then attacks, but it doesn't work for me. I look intently at her hands caressing the sai weapons. With a short movement, both weapons are in the air, but I also have my movements and I defend myself from both blows. Until the weapons fall to the ground,
I am struck in the back, disarming myself in front of the enemy. Rianna teleports over me, throwing herself on my spine with all her might, feeling the painful heels.
"Make a plan, follow the plan, abandon the plan, and attack on the spot. This is the best way to victory, believe me, beginner," she tells me in a victorious voice as I shake off the dust.
We leave the first room and continue the unconventional tour to a new place, this time a more sophisticated one. Traps, flamethrowers, and automatic arches are in this training room.
"This is where the people who have found their inner self are prepared, those who have come to terms with who they are and who are exploiting the power they have received."
"Does everyone who came to this place have a new personality? I mean, will I be Ashford and another person?" I ask discreetly but enthusiastically.
"There was once a single boy who had no other personality, but he had been cursed by the gods. So don't worry, you'll find out who you really are. If you asked me, you would be very good as Erron Black, you have a good target, and I think you will be better off with guns than with normal combat. " she tells me slightly satisfied.
I roll my eyes and listen to what she has to say next, what's sad is that we remained in embarrassing silent.
"Don't you challenge me to any more fights? How cute ... The man has become a little boy. I'm a little tired of beating you up today anyway, don't you think?" and she looked at me pampered.
I show her my middle finger with both hands, and she runs her tongue over her teeth. Shit, this girl scares me. She walks away from the training room and I follow her, assuming that this is part of the tour, but I find out that she has retired to her room and I am staring at a wooden door.
I look left and right in the hallway, nobody and nothing. What to do? I choose a direction and I hope it is a good one. The hallway gets narrower and darker, and when I reach the end of it I almost fall down some stairs. The smell of rot and mold doesn't seem to match the gold and silver design in the rooms, but who am I to judge? Maybe the maids get tired of cleaning the rooms and they don't clean here anymore. Although it doesn't look welcoming and I know it will only get me in trouble, I'm starting to go down the stairs to the unknown. Every step is covered in mud, at least I think so because I can't see. I stretch out my palms to touch the left and right walls so I can be guided in the dark and not hit my head. Slowly, the walls move away from each other and begin to fumble with outstretched hands in front of me, this time. Luckily for me, a faint light can be seen at the end of the stairs, and I rush towards it. I made a big mistake because in my haste I slipped on the stairs and filled myself with dirt. The stink makes me dizzy, and the thought flies to a tub of cold water and a lot of foam. However, my curiosity brings me back to the present and I look at the tunnel in front of me. The light source comes from a torch, convenient for me. I get on my toes and take the piece of wood out of the stand with the flame on it. I walk in the dark and analyze the walls around me. The brick had a dusty gray hue, and the smell was indescribable. I lift my blouse and cover my mouth and nose so that I can smell the scent of my body instead of the mold. I don't see anything interesting and I'm hesitant to abandon the quarters until it's too late, but after a few moments, I find a turn that leads to my right. I dare, and I sink even deeper into the darkness that swallows me greedily. From here things change, what I thought was a dull tunnel is a dungeon, a forgotten one, I guess because I haven't seen anyone under the key yet.
"Ashford ... Come closer! Kill for me! Tear for me! Come to your queen, release me!"
My spine starts to shiver, while that voice gradually turns into a scream. A purple light, similar to Rianna's, stands in front of me as if asking me to follow her. As a hypnotist, I get up from the floor and walk resolutely as if I knew this place as my home. I reach the front of a cell inside which a woman looks, or rather stares at me with a pleading look. I turn my back on her and walk to a nearby room where there is a bunch of keys. I take them and return to the woman's cell without thinking about what I'm doing. I try the first key, it didn't work, the second, the same bad luck, and when I get to half the number of keys I hear some voices:
"Hurry up! We have to stop him, we can't lose her."
I drop the keys on the floor, and desperately I bend over to pick them up and hit my head on one of the bars. I notice among all the keys a more sophisticated one. I put it in the padlock and, guess ... still wrong. Different from the others, it is also a knife-shaped key, with no unevenness. A little weird, but I hope it will work. The question comes to my mind, what do I care about this woman ?, but I still can't stop. I unlocked the door successfully, but I'm knocked to the floor by ... the woman's hair. She walks over to me, wraps her hair around my neck, and lifts me off the ground, leaving me breathless. I struggle in despair but still nothing, her hair looks harder than the wall itself. The woman's attention is distracted from me and she looks at something else. I turn my head and see a legion of fighters, with Lao in front, or whatever his name is, and Rianna. I am hit hard by the wall, so hard that I get stuck in it, and the woman takes a deep breath and does something I never thought possible. A scream comes out of her mouth so loud that I feel my eardrum explode. When her voice returns to normal, she has a stunning grimace.
"Your trick, the Maleficent March, doesn't work anymore, Queen Sindel." the old man's voice echoed as if untouched by her scream.
"Maybe not, but I won't stay here like an ordinary woman in this pig kitchen. And if it weren't for you, my little boy, I wouldn't have returned to my king today," she informs me, disappearing as Rianna does when she teleports.
"Do you have any idea what you did?" Rianna teleports to me, pointing her sai at my neck.
"Do you know how long it took us to catch her? How much effort, how many people died just to have her as a prisoner? And why? Not to give us any information about Shao Kahn's plan and you let her go? " she screamed at me desperately.
"I didn't know it was dangerous and I wasn't even aware of what I was doing, I was just moving," I instructed in an attempt to defend myself.
"Dangerous? Well, I kept her there like she was good as an angel, or what? How stupid you are to think she's not dangerous?"
"Rianna! Calm down! There were others before him who tried to free her, but I caught them before. It's our fault we didn't arrive on time, not his. The fact that he showed his agility has confirmed to us that we can use him in future battles, isn't it? Did we get along?" said her master.
"I'll be your master too, Ashford, I'm everyone's master, not just Riannas'. The rest are only coaches."
How the hell did he guess my thoughts? I really hate this place. I get off the wall, I know how crazy and funny it sounds, but I swear every bone hurts like hell. People look at me slightly irritated as the two acquaintances take me by the shoulders and help me get to where I left off. Arriving in my room, I must admit that I came with more questions than answers.
"So before we start questioning, Ashford, would you like something to eat?" Lao invites me to dinner.
Interestingly, only when he mentioned the food my stomach starts to struggle, so I nodded while resting my head on the bed.
"I know it sounds weird, but in what form am I here? Am I still a ghost? Because I know when and how I died."
"We are something between life and death. You see, here you have reincarnated in your body, but your interior is changed, it is no longer just you. Inside you lies something stronger, waiting to be discovered."
"But I noticed you have two training rooms, why?"
"But we don't have just two, here are many more. But two of them are more important. In the first, you learn some basic movements, and in the second you train your interior, you will understand later." he assured me.
"But what exactly is going on in these areas? Why did you lock up a queen here?"
"A long time ago, I had a disciple, Shang Tsung, who was great, he had a power I had never seen before, he was a Soul Stealing Sorcerer, he could heal any wound, no matter how fatal it was, but with great power comes greed, which consumed him and turned him into everything he swore to destroy.
In his pursuit of power, he attracted others, including Shao Kahn, his master. They created their legion, called the Impalers. But they had an alliance with the fallen Elder God, God of Death, Shinnok. They attacked one of the most coveted, wild, and powerful realms, the Outworld. They fought the Tarkatans, nomadic legions that killed people just for fun, not wanting to occupy any territory. To everyone's surprise, no matter how brutal they were, they quickly surrendered to Shang Tsung and Kahn's reign. At the same time in the Edenian realm, Sindel, the woman you met earlier, ruled next to her daughter, Kitana. As expected, she could not resist the temptation to join such a powerful leader, and soon married Shao Kahn. But they didn't limit themselves to that, they made a monster, Mileena, created from Shang Tsung's Flesh Pits, composed of Tarkatan and Edenian blood. But greed doesn't give you peace for a second, in his paranoia, Kahn created his daughter out of dark magic and blood and named her Skarlet. In time, she became his bodyguard and one of the best fighters. Her passion, you can guess, is blood, having a special appetite for the Edenian one. And then he gave life to one of his latest creations, Ermac, which is a fusion of the many souls destroyed in Outworld's wars, only to be controlled by Emperor Shao Kahn and his Shadow Priests. Because of this, he refers to himself as "we", "our", "us", and "ours", instead of "I", "my" "me", and "mine". Because of the sheer concentration of souls within it, he possesses the gifts of telekinesis, teleportation, and the ability to travel between realms. But one of Shao's great enemies was Kotal Khan, who allied with our legion, in time, managed to drive out the dark emperor. With Shao Kahn, Sindel and all the others disappeared, it was thought that they were banished with him, but it seems that Shao Kahn is still planning his revenge. A few years ago, a rift between our lands and EarthRealm took place, and Shao Kahn sent a legion of Tarkatan barbarians, but we managed to cover up the traces and make it look like a simple earthquake. From that moment on, I assumed he wanted his throne back, but I didn't act too hard. We managed to kill his two daughters and turned his dark spell so that any newcomer would have power in this land. For example, Rianna, who holds Mileena's powers, may teleport, and it is brutal, but she hasn't reached the last stage yet. Unfortunately, something I didn't realize when I altered the dark emperor's spell was its form. After using your powers for a long time, there is a possibility that your physique will transform into the body of the person who first held the power you received. I look different, but I took the body of the old owner, and that's why I look so old and wise. You, Ashford, will discover your alter ego, don't despair. But in order to get to know your power, you have to start with the basics. "
"Rianna referred to her as The Wicked Sister, so I suppose there is another sister? And about the training I want to start tomorrow, I don't care how unprepared or uninitiated you think I am, but I have to be prepared for anything, at any time." I answer fiercely.
"Kitana, yes...She and Mileena share their mother's blood, but the princess always considered her a monster. And it's not a rush, you have all the time, but we can start preparing you when you wish, but I warn you, it's a long and painful workout, not only physically but also mentally.." he's trying to demoralize me.
"Kung Lao, I have one last question. You mentioned a fallen Elder God earlier, who are the others?"
"Besides the fallen Elder God, Shinnok, on the side of evil has also passed Centrion, the only one who is still uncorrupted is the god of lightning and thunder, Elder God Raiden." he ensured me. "The myth says that his face is so bright that if you look at him you can go blind, that's why he often appears with a hat shadowing its face. Nobody has seen it before, but there is a legend that says that a newcomer will look at him to survive. The problem is that we don't know which one of them. Is Raiden in danger of death or the newcomer? But as I said, it's just a legend, it can happen or not."
We are interrupted by some knocks on the door and I get up on my elbows in the hope that dinner has come. Rianna enters the room, walking briskly, holding a chicken coop in her hand. I look at her questioningly, and she shrugs carelessly and slams into my bed.
"I like that even though she can teleport, she keeps knocking on the door to be polite." I'm talking to the master who looks at her disapprovingly.
"Look how things go, I can go wherever I'm allowed, but I can't teleport into a person's personal space if it didn't let me, knowingly and willingly." she gets into my discussion.
"Then it means I'm safe from your unconventional appearances here, lady!"
"Little bastard, you'll see what I'm doing to you tomorrow!"
"Enough! You two will make a team. If you don't understand that and you won't stop this baby quarrel, I'll kick you both out." he intervenes irritably. "Rianna, tomorrow you'll teach him the basics of attack and defense. When you think he's ready, I'll test him, and if he fails, you'll be in trouble."
"How? Are you crazy, Master? I can't stay with him for two minutes without pulling his eyes off."
"Strongly agree" I'm trying to get rid of her.
"No, it stays as I said, Ashford will start training tomorrow, and you, you should do well and train him as I did with you."
We are left alone in the room, and the hate floating in the air.
"To have a good start, I say let's get to know each other better, right?" I start a friendly conversation.
"You can start, I'm a teacher to you anyway."
These women are never inferior to a man. Fucking pretentious!
"I'm from Dallas ..." I start, but I get stuck, I just don't know what to say next.
"Is that your whole story?" laugh at me. "Are you called somehow else than...Ash?"
"It's Ashford for you, and friends call me Arnold. I'm not used to that name, but you can call me like that if you don't like the ash."
She rolls her eyes as she punches me in the shoulder.
"How did you die? Was it boring? Or how?"
"I was walking through a bad neighborhood searching for fireworks on the black market, and a drunk was speeding down the street, and as the road was slightly frozen he slipped and ran over me. The impact propelled me into an iron rod that it went through my stomach and I was soon dead. " I explain to her simplistically.
"Tasty!" she looks at me as she runs her tongue over the chicken bone.
"When the hell is that dinner coming?"
"If you're referring to a guy with a lot of food made out of chicken, you know, he had to go back, because I swallowed your whole meal." she smiles at me.
                                ***
I wake up with the sun in my eyes, and the cold has crept under my sheet. I growl from fatigue and lie down on the phone, but get him out of nowhere. Fuck it! I thought it was just a bad dream, too. I get out of bed and slam the window shut. I break the window handle, and I quickly throw it under the bed with the idea that I'll fix it later. I dress in the same clothes as yesterday, only the model, the clothes are new and washed, thank the gods. I am interrupted by some banging on the door and I rush to open it.
"You are expected on the 1st floor, in the training room!" a servant informs me.
"And my breakfast?" I guess we don't start without the most important meal.
"Weren't you told? Beginner training is endurance, they only eat after training. Do you want me to show you where to go?" the man politely offers.
"I'll have to learn this place one day, but yes, thank you!"
Soon I enter a room full of people of all ages. Rianna is squeamish, supported by weapon support.
I walk over to her, drawing everyone's attention to me.
"Why is everyone staring at me?" I whisper to her when I reach her.
"Getting here the day before the new year is not a good sign, and the release of the dark queen has only deepened their belief."
I try to ignore the unwanted attention I've received and wait for her to tell me what to start with.
"Okay, we're going to take the simplest moves. I'm hitting, and you try to defend yourself, that's the best way. Self-defense may be more useful than offense. "
She doesn't finish well speaking, as she points at me with a right-handed punch. From reflex, I raise my hand and block it with my elbow.
"Not so easy! Do you think you can put me to the floor quickly?"
"No more talking, novice!"
I wave to her and she comes down on me with a bunch of fists. I defend myself on the left, in front, and on the left again, I get a punch in the ribs, I defend myself again on the right, in front, on the left, dodge a kick and in the end, I get another punch in the face. DAMN, she's fast. The blows don't have a certain pattern so I don't know what the next step is, which distracts me. After the first few minutes, I feel my hands burning, and the pain in my forearms is accompanied by bruised areas on my skin. I analyze the enemy's fighting position, trying to find a weak spot. This woman looks like a robot, position, attack, and defense, everything is well set up. I avoid two blows to my head and squat on the floor trying to unbalance her with a kick. That move came unexpectedly for Rianna, who I saw slumped beside me. Unfortunately, she doesn't touch the floor because she uses teleportation and throws herself at me with her weapons out. I see the anger in her eyes as she approaches me and I try to roll out of her area of ​​action. Her weapon get stuck where I had my head a few seconds before. I get up from the ground as he pulls out the sai weapon and throws matchwoods around. People around her start shouting her name, chanting in her favor.
"I won't miss you this time."
She throws one of the weapons but misses her target and gets stuck in the perch behind me. Rianna squatted slightly and slid to the floor at my feet with her weapon out. When it's close enough I do a frontflip but it still hits its target, scratching my hand. I land a little unsteadily and when I turn my face to my coach, I wake up with a kick directly in the chest, expelling myself to the other end of the room. When I woke up, she grabs my shirt and slammed me to the floor. In her anger I can only defend myself as best I can. I have advanced so much in the fight that I feel a wall behind me. Next to me was her other sai weapon. I avoid a punch and kick her in the stomach. This time she falls to the floor and I pull out the sai next to me and approach her. I sit on her abdomen and raise her own weapon above my head. I see the anger combined with the fear in Rianna's eyes and give the final blow. The metal tip sticks to the floor and catches her coat at the same time.
"The enemy will not stop to let you breathe, no matter how tired you are, you have to fight for your life. And yes, I noticed that you did not teleport because you were too exhausted, it seems that you have a limited number of appearances in a fight. " I tell her, proudly. She snatches her weapon from the floor and I offer her my hand to get up.
"It wasn't that hard, was it? You should get used to my fighting style. Make a plan, act, and carry out the plan." I laugh at her as the world rushes out the door. She wipes her sai from dust and blood and hangs them back on her hip. I examine myself and apart from the wounds on my arms, I only got away with a few small scratches and bruises. The dojo, on the other hand, was made of rubble, the floor was ragged, the walls were punctured, and dust was floating everywhere.
"Listen, do your maids ever clean up somewhere? Because everywhere I go I see only dirt." and all the while she's just getting her hair done.
"This place sucks."
When I saw the porcelain in the room, I thought that this place was perfectly arranged, but I was very disappointed. Maybe for a lot of fighters, this place is pretty clean, but I grew up in a place where my mother used to clean almost every day, I didn't see anything messy in her house.
"Damn, you came here to train and become strong, you're not here to complain that you dislike everything. Here things are like that and they won't change for your lazy ass. , don't wait for someone else to do what you want. " and she thrusts a broom into my arms as she storms out of the room. How the hell am I going to understand women? Probably when I realize why pizza is made round to be put in a square box and then eaten in triangles. Anyway, I'm leaving that place and trying to find my way to the bedroom. Luckily for me, I find the right path, for my bad luck I notice a breed of animals mating. I don't think they were necessarily animals, but they were huge, without a definite snout and brown skin with a yellow head. What the fuck are they raising here? I'm trying to get over that moment, but you can't unsee what you've seen. I take off my dirty clothes and throw them on the floor in great laziness. I turn on the bathtub tap and relax my skin in cold water that easily covers every bit of me. I lean my head against the edge of the tub and sigh deeply as the smell of bath salts was doing its job. Although I would have stayed there, my stomach makes its presence felt and pulls me out of the tub more forcefully. I quickly wrap a towel around my waist and look in the mirror. I straighten my hair and for a second I have the impression that I see in the glass a pale face with white eyes and a pink scar on the right eye, but it passes quickly. It's probably a side effect of crossing this land, I don't know. I come out of the bathroom with thoughts in my head and run into Rianna sitting in my bed.
"What have you done there? Did you rub yourself? You were making some nice sounds." she whispers to me from my pillows as she gets out of bed. She approached me, put a hand on my shoulder, she was very warm and licked my neck.
"Do you want to do it?" she asks me as she kisses me on the neck. I grab her by the arms and pull her away, looking at her questioningly.
"It's some kind of joke or test, I swear I don't understand."
Instead of a concrete answer, she puts her hands on my abdomen and throws me in bed. She sits on top of me and kisses me with her tongue. It descends lower and lower while her lips and tongue are exploring my body until it reaches the area that comes in a V-shape. She looks up at me and I put my head back and let her do what she wants. She kisses every bit of my six-pack and slowly licks every groove on my abdomen. When she has a little left and reaches the magic zone, she gets up from me with a slightly amused look and she throws me a new pair of clothes.
"What the hell, did you really think we were going to have sex? I only satisfy my physical needs with handsome men." she ensure me while laughing.
I look at her curiously and I lie on my back with a weird grimace on my face. Of course, all she did was play with me and have fun of me. I get mad at myself for being so easily fooled by a woman. Of course, why did I think it was different? I roll my eyes and start dressing, from the top. I untie my towel and see that Rianna is a little embarrassed and turns her back on me, and I quickly put on my pants.
"Why are you so ashamed? Weren't you the one who saw thousands of naked men? Or am I too handsome and you're blushing and you don't want me to see you? "
We go out into the hallway and are greeted by none other than Kung Lao.
"Greetings my children, did you have fun? I heard you had a little brawl."
Rianna begins to explain in detail what I have accomplished today and to my surprise, she praised me. Master nodded as he stroked his beard, as the wise men do in movies. I let the two of them go on, and I go out into the yard. The wind blows, creating a perfect atmosphere in combination with the heat of the sun. I advance through the big bushes and walk into a place like a jungle. Here the light barely touches the ground and feels wet and unstable underfoot. I take a dagger out of my blouse, one that I stole as soon as I was left alone in the dojo, and I make my way through the huge leaves and stems. Do people spray steroids on plants here to make them grow so big? I continue to slaughter the leaves until they come across a patch of bright grass that looks like an unarranged pavilion. I take off my coat and lie on my back with my hands under my head and look up at the sky. I used to do this at home every day. I used to pick up a girl from school and go to the park and look at the clouds and try to guess their shape. I've never been the type of boy to have a girlfriend, I've always enjoyed being free to sleep with whoever I want when I want and stay away from a couple's daily dramas. Thoughts and memories from the past pull me so hard inside my being and I fall prey to restless sleep.
I look left and right and I realize I'm in my room, in my house. I throw myself out of bed and go out the bedroom door. From the hall, I can smell the steak in the oven, my brother Cedric's favorite food. I enter the dining room and in front of my whole family, I notice only sadness. I approach my father, I have never seen him so demolished, he has always been the cheerful pillar of the house, the one who cheered us on at all times, and I try to put my hand on his shoulder, but I do not touch anything physical and fall under the table. I get up from the floor frustrated and look into my mother's eyes, which clearly show the sadness she suffered after losing a son. The last one is my brother, I always considered him small, although the age difference between us is only a year and a half, and I notice that he is changed from how I remember him, he has risen and become a little rebel. His fingers were adorned with rings and his hair was dyed blond. How did they agree with that? They didn't let me, they told me that only those with a lack of self-confidence dye their hair. I am interrupted by a cry that comes from somewhere above. I see my mother getting up and going upstairs, and I follow her curiously. There was a baby crib in Ced's former room where a little girl was whining, "Ethel, Mommy's baby!" My mother pulls out her breast and breastfeeds it, calming the restless baby's soul. I go downstairs where I see my brother on the phone. I can't look closely at the screen as I hear the window shatter. Three weird guys come into my house, each carrying a weapon. One of them signals to the other two who are coming towards Dad and Ced and puts the blades around their necks, signaling them to shut up. Mom asks something from above and gets the answer from the team leader who imitates Dad's voice to perfection. Fearing, my father tries to free himself from the edge of the enemy's weapon, but the guy grabs his hair and cuts his neck, letting him fall to the floor and soil the carpet, sewn by his mother, with red. Ced screams in fright, but the boss grabs him by the neck and lifts him off the ground. My brother's voice becomes muffled and he began to stumble in an attempt to catch his breath. The third guy takes his katana out of his holster and approaches the leader. With a short but fast movement, he thrusts his weapon into Ced's head and I notice how he leaves his weight completely in the hands of the enemy. The killer grabs both ends of the weapon and turns the boy's head upside down, looking at me. Out of fear and pain, I am stuck in place, and although I try to run to my brother I can't move any muscles. He snatches the katana from his brain and throws Ced over his father as he cleans his bloody sword on our table.
I wake up suddenly, sweaty and my heart pounding, but I can't get the dream out of my head. I am becoming aware of a rustle to my left. I slowly get to my feet and pick up my knife, not wanting to scare the creature. Before I can take another step behind the leaves, a little monster jumps. I look at him a little amused and lift him by one ear to my eyes. In return, I receive a stinging slap on the arm and let go of the grass again.
"Before you say anything, man, I need to know if you're willing to make a deal, otherwise we don't have anything to say." he announces to me.
"What kind of deal?"
The little guy sounds to me like he's giving me information about the location of the Dark Queen if I bring to it a golden object, after all this place is full of such objects, I don't think anyone will miss one. I think a little bit about what I can get, in the end, it's my fault she's free, right? I accept the offer and he explains to me what he wants me to give him in return. First I have to convince Rianna to show me the area. I can handle it, it's my turn to pull the string. I put on my blouse and go back to the temple. I ask everyone where Rianna is, but no one seems to know. She's not in the training room, she's not in my bedroom, she probably doesn't even want to do that after she did that thing with me, she has to be in her bedroom or in the kitchen.