The Cheated Kombatant (Cheater Kitana x Male Venom Reader x Mileena)

Chapter 27: Securing The Crown

At Shang Tsung's island, Shang Tsung, Sindel, Fujin 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 in colour. Shang Tsung looks on them with an expression of genuine to remorse. 

Shang Tsung: They couldn't go on. I am... touched by their devotion. 

One 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. 

Nightwolf: I question their judgment. 

Shang Tsung: Have neither of you any compassion? 

Nightwolf: Not for fools who follow you. 

Sindel: Are we not following him now? At least we do not follow that fool Raiden. Then we would surely die. 

Shang smiles at the remark. Nightwolf and Fujin exchange glances of suspicion at her words. 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. 

Fujin: You may run like the wind, Kabal, but I command it. You should have devised a better plan. 

Kabal: There's more to come. 

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. 

Jade: Rise in Shinnok's name! 

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 and Sindel, growling at them with vocal cords long rotted away and surround them in a semi-circle. Jade also walks up to them, pointing her staff in their direction. 

Jade: You will be returned to the void. Not even she can help you. 

The Shaolin monks roar and charge. Nightwolf parries one's strikes and kicks, while Shang Tsung 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. 

Kabal: Too slow! I expected better, Fujin. 

They fight. With a speed enhanced by magic and a troublesome weapon in the hookswords 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 bought to the fray and he succeeds in bringing Kabal down in the end. 

Fujin: Now do I meet your expectations? 

Over on the other side of the courtyard, Shang Tsung sends Jade flying with a jumping spin kick to her chest. Nightwolf and Sindel have successfully destroyed all of the zombies attacking them as they all regroup.