Chapter 15: Wind Of Change

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The scene cuts to Shang Tsung's island. Shang Tsung, Sindel, Fujin, (Name), and Nightwolf all walk through the passage leading to the main courtyard.

As they approach the end of the passage, they pause to gaze upon the grisly sight of 5 corpses hanging from the rafters. The corpses are Shaolin monks, hanged by their necks. Their skin is horrifically decayed but has not yet completely rotted away, leaving their eyes intact but a dull yellow-gray. Shang Tsung looks at them with an expression of - for a change, genuine - remorse "They couldn't go on. I am... touched by their devotion" He says as one of the rotted monks' eyes falls from its head and lands on the floor. Sindel walks on, unimpressed. Shang follows her, still upset, while Nightwolf looks doubtful. Fujin remains impassive. (Name) unbothered but grateful her daughter was asleep "I question their judgment" Nightwolf says "Have neither of you any compassion?" Shang Tsung questions "Not for fools who follow you" Nightwolf replied "Are we not following him now? At least we do not follow that fool Raiden. Then we would surely die" Sindel retorts

Shang smiles at the remark. Nightwolf and Fujin exchange glances of suspicion at her words "She's not wrong" (Name) said as she walked beside Sindel who smiled at her and petted Calithea's hair. Fujin understood where she was coming from. As they walk out into the courtyard, a purple blur of light speeds around them all, moving in a circle to box them in. After a moment, Fujin shoots out a wind blast in front of him, catching the blur and shoving it back. The revenant - now identifiable as Kabal - slides to a kneeling halt. He picks himself up and approaches them.

"Kabal?" (Name) says making him look at her "Hey, babe, been a while," He said smirking under the mask before Fujin guided her behind himself "You may run like the wind, Kabal, but I command it. You should have devised a better plan" He stated. Kabal sneered under the mask at the god "There's more to come" He said.

From behind a wall, the revenant Jade emerges. She approaches the four of them and slams her staff into the ground. She picks it up and twirls it over her head, generating green energy in a circle above her. She once again slams the staff into the ground, and The green energy pulses from it in shockwaves into the surrounding area.

"Rise in Shinnok's name!" She calls

The energy reaches the hanging corpses from earlier, which suddenly revive and start freeing themselves from the ropes they are hanging from. One corpse's flesh is so rotted that it decapitates itself before it can free its neck, but this does not inhibit the rest of the body from standing up along with the others.

The Shaolin zombies, along with five others from the surrounding area, approach Fujin, Nightwolf, Shang Tsung, (Name), and Sindel, growling at them with vocal cords long rotted away and surround them in a semi-circle. Sindel turns to Shang Tsung and glares "Keep my daughter and granddaughter out of the fight! If anything happens to them you'll suffer a fate worse than death!" She growled surprising them but Shang Tsung nodded. Jade also walks up to them, pointing her staff in their direction "You will be returned to the void. Not even she can help you" Jade taunted

The Shaolin monks roar and charge. Nightwolf parries one's strikes and kicks, while Shang Tsung Quickly opens a portal beneath (Name) making her drop into it, He then blocks swipes from Jade's staff with the metal braces on his forearm. Fujin shoots a zombie through the head at point-blank range with his miniature crossbow, killing it, and follows with three more shots at Kabal. The Black Dragon deftly avoids them with his super speed and gets into fighting range.

"Too slow! I expected better, Fujin"

They fight. With a speed enhanced by magic and a troublesome weapon in the hook swords he wields, Kabal would be a frightening encounter against an ordinary human. But Fujin is a god and is as fast as the wind he commands. His millennia of fighting experience is brought to the fray and he succeeds in bringing Kabal down in the end.

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