From a Woman's Point of View

Female Problems

The sun rose high and its rays seemed to filter through the curtains and bathe Sub-zero in sunlight. She opened her eyes and sat up, her head and the upper bed almost colliding. She shook her head groggily. She then felt it. Her bed was wet.

"Dear Elder Gods, don't tell me..." She stood up and looked at the place she once sat on. Her eyes widened in horror. There was blood. At first, she thought she was injured, but then, comprehension dawned on her. "By the Elder Gods." She muttered. She was panicking in the inside. "What the hell am I going to do?" Then, as if the Gods had damned her, someone knocked on her door.

"Who is it?" she asked. Anyone but Scorpion, she thought to herself. She had no idea where that came from but she wished it wasn't him.

"It's Scorpion." By the Elder Gods. She opened the door and stuck her head out. He actually knows how to knock.

"Y-yes?" she asked shakily. There was definitely something wrong with her. Sub-zero did not stutter.

Scorpion raised his eyebrow. "Breakfast is ready." He announced. "Why do you look so panicked?"

"It's nothing." She looked at the floor. "Are Sonya and the others here already?" He nodded. "Could you call Sonya for me?

"Do I look like a messenger boy?" he growled grumpily, but complied to her request anyway. He left and Sub-zero closed the door. After a few moments, someone knocked again, she threw the door open. As she expected, it was Sonya.

"Hey…er…'Zeiva'." Sub-zero could hear the quotation marks as she said her invented name.

"Hey, Sonya. I require your assistance." Then, she finally broke away from her calm exterior. "I need, need, need your help!"

"Whoa, whoa, what do you need my help for?" She asked warily.

"That!" Sub-zero exclaimed as she pointed to the, once blue, bed sheets. Sonya's expression turned into surprise and pity. She turned to Sub-zero and placed her hands on her shoulders.

"This is what you need to do and promise me you'll listen to what I say." Sub-zero nodded. "You have your monthly period-,"

"I figured that out for myself." She mumbled.

"- so you're going to need napkins. Go take a shower and I'll be back with one pack." She continued unperturbedly and Sub-zero nodded once more.

When Sonya left, Sub-zero went into the bathroom and turned the shower on. As she was taking a bath, she heard her door open and close. Then, she heard Sonya's voice.

"I've got your napkins here, Sub- I mean, Zeiva!" she called to her. Sub-zero turned the shower off and stepped out of the bathroom. Sonya showed her how to apply the napkin. Dear Elder Gods! This is more humiliating than admitting that I am Sub-zero…or maybe not.

"You have to change once every three to four hours." Sonya instructed her. "I'll take care of these." She said as she stripped the bed of the covers.

"Thank you Sonya. I owe you one." Sub-zero said, embarrassed.

"Don't mention it." She flashed a grin towards her. "You should go downstairs or Jax'll eat all the food." She said before leaving the room. Sub-zero smiled to herself and put her clothes on and went downstairs to eat.

OoooooooO

The day passed by in a blur. Before she knew it, night had already fallen. She followed Sonya's instructions and changed her napkin once every three hours.

They were scattered all over the house since they couldn't fit in the table all at once. Raiden, Li Mei, Sonya, Cyrax, Johnny, Mokap, Nightwolf, Sareena (which came as a surprise to Sub-zero), Ashrah, were the new additions to the group. So now, there were actually nineteen of them staying in a large house with four floors.

Sub-zero took the time to go to the balcony. As she sat there eating her meal in peace, the door opened and Kenshi made his way to sit next to her.

"Hello Sub-zero." He said in a hushed tone. But still, Sub-zero shushed him.

"Don't say my real name while we're here!" she said. Then, she replied more calmly. "Just call me Zeiva." Kenshi smirked.

"Nice name." he commented.

She nodded in assent.

"I have a question for you, Kenshi." She said as she plopped a dumpling into her mouth.

"Fire away." He replied, mimicking Sub-zero's action.

"Wrh-wr-yew-jwing-n-ja-fresht?" She said with her mouth full.

"I'm sorry?" Kenshi grinned. "I can't understand a word you said, 'Zeiva'." Again with the quote-and-quote? Sub-zero swallowed.

"I said, 'What were you doing in the forest when you found me?'"

Kenshi sighed. "I was tracking someone."

"Tracking? Who?" He seemed hesitant to tell her who it was.

"Sektor. You do know I've been working for the Special Forces for a few months. There have been rumors that Sektor's ship had crashed there. So I was sent to investigate."

"What? Sektor's ship had crashed and I wasn't informed?" She was furious.

"Sektor wasn't planning anything." He assured her.

"Oh really? How sure were you? I was in the same damned forest as he was in. And in my weakened state, he could have…" she shook her head. "Why didn't you tell me any of this? Have you already forgotten Sektor's plans of turning the Lin Kuei into cyborgs?"

"He has abandoned that plan long ago." He defended.

"How sure are you?"

"Pretty sure. I mean, he has a clan of his own now, why would he bother with the Lin Kuei?"

"I don't care what his reasons are." She fumed.

"You really care about your clan, don't you?" he asked out of the blue.

The question took her aback and her eyes softened. "They are my life." She simply said. "Just tell me next time, all right? I hate being left out of the loop. Especially when it's related to either Sektor or Noob Saibot." She sighed.

"Yes ma'am." He gave her a mock salute as the seriousness of the conversation dissipated.

The two continued to eat and chatter away happily. They talked about Kenshi's life before he met this group and he told her how she got blinded.

"I'll kill that Sorcerer." Sub-zero muttered as she stood up.

"Thanks." He grinned. "But I'll kill him myself." Before Sub-zero opened the door, he said something else. "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, you have blood on your behind." He said, grinning and he laughed.

Sub-zero growled at him and ran straight to her room. She changed her outfit, still blushing.

Someone rapped on her door lightly. She opened it; it was Scorpion.

"What?"

He looked mildly annoyed. He sighed.

"Let's go downstairs. We have an 'activity'." He replied. The two went down and went to the living room. All of them were there and they were seated in a circle and there was a bottle in the middle. Sub-zero looked horrorstruck as she realized what they were for. Johnny greeted them cheerfully.

"Hello you two! All of us are going to play a little game of 'Truth or Dare'!" he announced and Sub-zero almost fainted.