The Disciples

Chapter 48

Chapter 48

While the Disciples were scattered across the kingdom, the last warriors of Edenia were gathering in a private meeting after Shao Kahn had left the palace with the Kollector by his side. The Edenian warriors had sombre expressions because of what had happened:

Shao Kahn had silenced Sindel by making her mute.

Princess Kitana was of course devastated when one of the guards informed her the news. She wanted to attack everything on sight! How dare that tyrant who once claimed her as his daughter and her mother as his wife, would be the sole reason there will be a war. Sindel was trying her best to protect her, Jade and her loved subjects. She didn't have a choice in marrying Shao Kahn, from what she was told by the Queen herself.

Kitana was practicing her twin fans in the training room, trying to vent out her anger. Jade watched as her friend had been on edge ever since the news of Sindel losing her voice. Jade herself would've been in the same situation as well if it had happened to her own mother.

Only her fate was different...

While watching her friend venting out her rage, Jade traced the moss-green bracelet on her left wrist absent-mindedly. It was as if the bracelet wasn't there before Jade realised it. It brought back some memories of her lover before he died. No matter how much everyone had consoled her, Jade's mind will always go back to her former lover.

Even during her time with Nash.

She thought that being with him could at least block out Jai's memories hoping she would moved on but it didn't work. Especially now that Nash prefers someone else which was both a relief and a painful decision Jade had to endure.

Right now, she must push her thoughts about the past aside and focus on her friend who was practicing her twin fan-blades with fury. She would be angry too if Shao Kahn would cut out her mother's voice. But that's not the case with that temptress Tanya who not only killed her former lover but her parents as well before Edenia was merged with Outworld.

One by one, Jade had witnessed the dwindling population of Edenians after a war with Shao Kahn to reclaim their homeland but they weren't prepared for what the tyrant had thrown at them as long as he has the sorcerer by his side. If Kitana doesn't stop now, she might as well be as irrational as Shao Kahn himself.

"How can this happen?" Kitana asked herself rather than her friend who was watching her every move. Jade wondered if this was how she looked like when she had her episodic rages a few weeks ago after Tanya's arrival and Nash's actions.

"My mother's voice has been muted," Kitana continued as she proceeds to stab at the training dummies with the knife tips of her fans. "A war is coming and what's worse is that abomination that Shao Kahn claimed to be his 'daughter' is still alive! If she becomes empress..."

Jade caught Kitana's hands in a grip to stop her. Jade's expression was stern before she shoved off Kitana away. "Kitana, I understand that but getting angry won't change anything."

Kitana took a deep breath. Much as she would disagree with her friend, she just nodded. "We need a plan."

The both of them decided to spar with each other while carrying on their discussion. Jade was using her signature bojutsu staff while Kitana used her fans again.

"So have you heard anything about the Disciples?" Asked Jade as she used her staff to hoist herself up from Kitana's fan tornado.

"As far as I've heard that they are scattered across the kingdom. Nash and his group are somewhere here in Outworld while Riana is somewhere else with her group."