The Outworld Chapter Fourteen- The Captures

Guy and Kitana sit by the fire alone while the others were either inside the cave or training in the woods.

Guy looks at Kitana. The expression on her face makes it look like that she was sad about something. She plays with the sand, picking it up and letting it fall back little by little.

Guy sighs and takes her hand as soon as her last handful of sand leaves her hand. "Kitana," he said. "What's wrong?"

Kitana looks at him and sighs. "I'm just so angry. I mean, Rose didn't deserve what was coming for her. She was a sweet woman and she, like the others, didn't deserve that." She squeezes Guy's hand. "There is another thing that has been bothering me. Jax mentioned that he believes that there is something up with the tournament, like something, or someone, is after just our group in this cave. I'm starting to think that, too, especially since my stepfather's lair is located here."

Guy remembers the dream he had a few nights ago about Shao Kahn. He will never forget what he said he would do to Kitana. Guy growled in his head. "(I'll find you one day Shao and I'll kill you with all that I've got.)"

Kitana saw the angry look on his face. She reaches over to him and touches his face. "We will get my stepfather one day, I know we will."

Guy looks over at her. They stare into each other's brown eyes. They can both feel their hearts pounding and their palms sweating. They also felt the blood running to their faces making them blush. Guy smirks at Kitana. Then, he leans toward her and, finally, their lips meet. They kiss softly and collecting every moment of the kiss. To Kitana, Guy was very gentle when he kisses and to Guy, Kitana's kiss was as sweet as strawberries. Both wish that this moment never ended.

Eventually, the moment did have to end. Kitana moves her head back a little and they look into each other's eyes again. Guy touches her face. He wanted to tell her that he loves her, but for some reason, he couldn't get those words out.

***

A shadow walks through the woods. It looks around for something. It keeps searching throughout the wooded area. Then, it spots the targets. Two people, a guy and a girl, were walking through a trail.

This shadow has left a lair not too long ago after the lair's army chased after a few others like these targets.

Then, the shadow spots a hut. It knew that it had to hide.

The shadow goes into the hut........

(A/N: I know, that was confusing, but you'll see why that was there in a few moments)

***

"Here we are!" cried Dan with excitement. "Hereto's hut! Let's pay him a visit like we promised."

"Sure," said Mika. They walk up to the hut and knock on the door. Hereto the Wizard opens the door.

"Hello," Hereto says with a smile. "It's nice to see you two again."

"It's nice to see you again too," said Mika.

"Come on in," Hereto said moving back inside the hut. "I made drinks for you two."

"Cool!" Dan cried. The two go into the hut and site around the coffee table. The drinks were in steel cups.

Not having anything to drink since leaving Nightwolf's camp, Dan and Mika gulped down the drink quickly until their cups were empty. "That was good!" Dan said.

"So how was the visit to Nightwolf?" Hereto asked.

"He really helped us," Mika replied. She tells him what happened from the moment they found Nightwolf, to the moment they left the camp.

"I'm pleased that your journey went well," Hereto said after Mika finished the story.

Meanwhile, Fei-Long and Sub-Zero spot a hut. They stare at it for a minute.

"Maybe Dan and Mika are there," said Fei-Long.

"Let's go find out," Sub-Zero said. They go up to the door and knock on it. A few seconds later, a medium-sized man opens the door.

"May I help you?" the man asked.

"Hey, Fei-Long!!" cried a voice. Dan comes out from the hut. "Long time, no see!"

Fei-Long narrows his eyes. He wanted to choke him, but remains calm. "Were the hell were you two? Everyone thought you two were dead."

"We got lost for a while," Mika replied. "We were on our way back to the cave."

"Won't you two come in and have drinks with us?" Hereto asked looking at Fei-Long and Sub-Zero.

Sub-Zero shrugs. "Well, I didn't really have anything to drink all day," he said. He and Fei-Long walk into the hut. Hereto pours more drinks into more cups. Fei-Long and Sub-Zero drink them slowly.

"So, who's this?" Mika asked pointing to Sub-Zero.

Fei-Long nods at him. "This is Sub-Zero, he joined us on the first day of the tournament."

"Hi," Dan said. "I like your name."

"Thanks," Sub-Zero replied.

After finishing their drinks, the four fighters stood up. "Well, thank you, Hereto," Dan said. He held his stomach. "But I'm starting to get sick and we better get back to the tournament."

Suddenly, after walking a few feet ahead, he passed out.

"Dan?" Mika cried. Then she passed out.

"What the......" Fei-Long said before passing out as well.

Sub-Zero narrows his eyes at Hereto. "You....." He only managed to say before passing out as well.

Hereto laughed before shape shifting into......the shadow from before. The shadow; Shang Tsung.

Shang smirks to himself and laughs in his head. "(Sad to believe that those fools fell for that)" He opens the door. The real Hereto falls out dead.

"Thank you my friend," Shang says looking at Hereto. "If I haven't been able to take your mind as well, I would've never caught those fools. Never knew those potions would knock them out in a flash."

Shang killed Hereto just one minute before Dan and Mika showed up at his hut.

***

Meanwhile, Ryu, Ken, Guile, Liu, and Rayden are hiding from Shao Kahn and his Outworld army in a small pit.

"Guys," said Ken. "We've been hiding in this stupid pit for three hours! My feet are asleep!"

"Patience," said Rayden. "I sense their closeness from here."

They hear giant footsteps running around looking for the fighters. They could hear them talking, pacing around, even the clinging of their steel weapons.

About a half hour later, Rayden stands up. "They are far. Let's go!"

The four fighters follow him out of the small pit and they slowly and quietly jog down the long halls. The candles on the walls would flicker each time the fighters pass them.

Suddenly, Rayden stops. He looks up.

"What's wrong?" asked Ryu.

Rayden looks straight ahead. "We're surrounded."

They find a door just a few feet ahead of them. They run to the door. Liu opens it and they run it. Liu shuts the door behind them.

"Such a coincidence that you guys are running from the army and end up finding me here," they heard a female voice say. The fighters turn around and find Chun-Li chained to a wall.

"Chun-Li!" cried Guile. He and the others run up her.

"Are you all right?" Ryu asked.

"I'm fine, the worse they did was chain me," Chun-Li replied. Rayden uses his electric powers to break the chains.

Just as he frees her, they hear the door fly open.

"Crap!" cried Ken.

All six fighters turn around. They see skinny monsters with arrows pointing at them. Then, Sheeva appears.

"Look! It's the ugly lady again!" said Ken.

Sheeva lets out a loud roar.

Ken looks at her eyes wide, mouth dropped open, and feeling the hair on his neck stand on ends.

Sheeva looks out the door. "They're in here!" she cried.

They hear more footsteps. Four figures come in. The fighters recognize them as Mileena, Reptile, Sindel, and Shao himself.

"You fools think you could get away with this," said Sindel with an evil smile. Her white eyes glow.

Shao steps up. "I'll take it from here, my dear," he says.

The six fighters get into their fighting stances. "What do you want?" Chun- Li asked.

Shao removes his helmet and mask revealing his young-looking face, bushy black eyebrows, and his baldhead. He smiles. "A valuable procession each and every human being owns."

"What would that be?" asked Ryu.

"You know," Shao replied.

None of the fighters figured out what it was that was a valuable procession.

Guile then noticed something. "Where's Shang?"

"He has important business, something that came to his sense a couple of hours ago, but that's not important right now," Shao said. "What's important right now.....is a deal."

"A deal?" asked Liu. "What kind of deal?"

Shao grins more evilly. "Reptile always loves a good fight. Not once has he ever lost. If not a win, it's a draw and he goes for it again and it ends with victory. Here is the deal..........Reptile will chose one of you five men to fight him. If you win, you five and Chun-Li will go free. If Reptile wins, I shall take your most valuable processions." "It's a deal!" cried Rayden.

Shao looks at Reptile. "Reptile, choose your opponent."

Reptile steps up. He narrows his dark eyes and looks at Ryu, Ken, Guile, Liu, and Rayden. He walks closer to all of them and paces himself back and forth between the five. Then he stops and stares at his chosen opponent......

Ryu.

"Excellent!" Shao said.

Ryu narrows his eyes. "This will be the first fight you will ever lose."

Shao laughs. "This is a fight to the bloodiest death of all! Let's be on our way now and let the death match begin!!" His laugh echoes throughout the lair.