The Outworld Chapter Thirteen- The search for Chun-Li

Ken runs through the woods. Just an hour ago, he won the tournament against the Lin Kuei robot Cyrax and is now trying to catch up with the others who are on their quest to save Chun-Li. He runs past the trees, plants, and a few hills.

Soon as the sun begins to set, Ken spots Ryu, Liu, Rayden, and Guile. Ryu turns around to see his best friend finally catching up to them. "You made it, my friend," Ryu said.

Ken bends over to touch his knees with his hands and tries to catch his breath. "I kept my promise." He smirks.

"We must keep going on our journey," said Rayden. "Chun-Li needs us and the sun is setting."

The five men began walking again. Guile looks around as he says, "Now, where exactly is Shao Kahn's lair?"

Rayden points to two mountains just ahead of them. "Just behind those mountains. There is a trail that will lead us between the mountains."

Ken turns to Rayden. "You know so much about Shao Kahn."

"Yeah," said Guile. "Is he like a relative or something?"

Guile was joking when he said that, but when Rayden turns to him, the look on Rayden's face obviously proved to him that he was not joking.

"Shao is more than a relative," Rayden replied.

"Really?" asked Ken.

"Yes," Rayden said. He bowed his head. "Shao Kahn is my brother.

***

Dan and Mika stand by the edge of the woods and look at Nightwolf. "Thank you for helping us," said Mika. "We'd stay longer, but we have to get back to the tournament."

"It's my pleasure," said Nightwolf. "Come back here someday and let me know how much you improve."

Dan gave Nightwolf the thumbs up. "That won't be a problem. We'll see you around."

"Remember," Nightwolf said. "Your will to be strong is in your heart."

Dan and Mika nodded. They wave goodbye to Nightwolf and began making their way towards the trail, which will lead them back to their camp.

"Dan, I had a bad thought last night," Mika said. "I wonder if anyone is alive back at the camp."

Dan wraps his arm around her. "Don't worry, babe. I'm sure everyone's still alive."

Neither of them knew what happened back at the camp of course..........

***

"Crap!" cried Fei-Long getting into his fighting stance. Sub-Zero followed as they stare at the demon in front of them; Scorpion. His white eyes peer at them.

"He's fast, Fei-Long," Sub-Zero said. "Watch out for his flying snakes."

"What flying snakes?" Fei-Long asked. As soon as he finished that sentence, a gray snake wraps around his waist.

"FEI-LONG!!!!!!!!!" Sub-Zero cried. Fei-Long was pulled over towards Scorpion.

"GET OVER HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Scorpion shouted. He punches Fei- Long's chin sending him flying across the pit. Sub-Zero runs toward the Lin Kuei demon. The two throw kicks and punches at each other and both manage to block each other

Fei-Long gets up and runs toward Scorpion. "WAA- CCHHHHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he cries out. He goes under him, jumps, and kicks up. He hits Scorpion's jaw sending him flying backwards.

Fei-Long returns to his fighting stance. "That's for hitting my chin!"

Scorpion quickly gets up and puts his hands out. Two snakes fly in lightning speed, one towards Fei-Long and one towards Sub-Zero.

"GET OVER HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Scorpion shouted once again. The snakes wrap around the good fighters' waist and quickly pull them over. When they stopped pulling, Sub-Zero and Fei-Long were a foot away from the demon. Scorpion punches them both rapidly in the face at the same time.

"I'm not a punching bag!" Fei-Long cried. He manages to do a karate chop at the neck of the snake. The snake was chopped into two. He does the same thing to the snake holding Sub-Zero. The two fighters do a backward flip twice. Then they got into their fighting stances staring at Scorpion.

Scorpion begins to take his mask off.

"Shit!!" Sub-Zero cried out.

Scorpion takes his mask off fully revealing his skull.

"That's disgusting," said Fei-Long.

Scorpion pulls back and opens his mouth. A big line of flames fire out towards Fei-Long.

Sub-Zero puts his hands out. A gust of wind was heard and the flames were turned into ice. They fall to the ground and shatter into pieces.

Sub-Zero looks at his hands. "I love doing that."

"I noticed," Fei-Long replied.

They look back up at Scorpion.........but he was gone.

They raise their guards. "Where is he?" Fei-Long asked.

Suddenly, with a blink of an eye, they were back on the trail.

Fei-Long lowered his guard. "Looks like he doesn't want to fight anymore."

Sub-Zero also lowered his guard. "Keep your eyes opened though." He looks up at the sky. "The sun is down, we've got to find Dan and Mika."

"Right," Fei-Long replied. They get back on the trail and walk south.

***

"There it is," said Liu. They look up at the cliff. In the middle was Shao's Lair.

"Now all we have to do is climb it," said Guile.

"That won't be hard," they heard Rayden said. The men gasp and turn towards the cliff. Rayden stood up there.

"How did you do that?" asked Ken.

Rayden smirked. "Immortality has many great offers."

Liu sighed. "Let's get climbing."

For five minutes, the four men climb the cliff. They make it to the top safely.

"Let's go in," said Ryu. Rayden leads the way into the entrance of the lair. The hall was lit with candles hanging on the walls of the lair.

Soon, they enter a balcony area. They try to peer down, but Rayden bends down quickly. "Get down!" he said. The four men bend down. They get up a little higher just enough to be able to see below.

They saw of course, Reptile, Mileena, and Baraka. Two other people were with them including..........

"Shao Kahn!" said Liu.

"So that's him," said Ryu.

Next to Shao was a woman in a purple swimsuit-like outfit, black knee high boots, and very long white hair with a black streak in the middle. Her white eyes glowed just like Bison's.

Rayden gasped. "Queen Sindel. Shao must've resurrected her!"

Then, someone comes in wearing a black cloak. The person took off the hood of the cloak revealing.........

"Shang Tsung," said Guile. "He works for Outworld?"

"Looks like it," replied Ken.

They talked, but no one could hear anything.

"Sounds like they're being careful about their conversations," said Ken. "Let's go find Chun-Li."

Suddenly, they heard a monstrous battle cry. The five men turn around to see a half-human half-dragon female with four arms.

"Or maybe we'll let ourselves be chased by one, mean, ugly, scary, lady," Ken said.

"Who is that?" asked Guile as they all stood up.

"Sheeva, Queen Sindel's bodyguard," Rayden replied.

"Destroy them!!!" they heard. They turn around. Shao and the others down in the lair have spotted them.

"RUN!!!" cried Ken. The five men break into a sprint.