"well thank you kahn." Lucia said rolling her eye and making her grin, subconsciously Lucia looked down at shao kahns body and stared at his armour, he looked wonderful.
"Like what you see little one?" Lucia rolled her eyes and took the arm shao kahn held out making sure to grab a glass of outworld 'finest' wine.
"I'm forever humbled by your humble personality." Lucia joked.
Shao kahn nodded "my influence is everlasting."
"Oh maybe the influence of your personality, but definitely not your fighting skills." He pulled completely away from Lucia and gave her a look.
"What are you talking about!?"
Lucia chuckled and blindly glided the glass to he lips drinking the sweet/strong saccharine wine "I'm just saying I I did infact beat you at simple sword sparring, so..." Shao scoffed.
"For your information mortal, had I not have been interrupted during the last match you would have lost!"
Lucia looked at him "oh interrupted? You were distracted deary, but I don't blame you, who can resist the beauty of Lucia Morana?" Shao kahn laughed.
"You have an ego bigger than mine." Sao teased.
These were the moments lucia couldn't help but enjoy, the moments where Shao kahn let's loose an enjoy her company.
Out of her thoughts she heard shao kahn mumble something "is something bothering you Kahn."
"Another tournament is coming up, you will be put in the front lines, but it's extremely high risk."
Lucia shrugged "enough kahn, let us drunk and forget about tomorrow's worries."
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Lucia didn't know when or how it happened but both of you had stumbled onto the bathhouse and fell onto the floor sleeping in one another's arms in a drunken haze.
Later when shao kahn woke up he assumed he was on his bed until he turned uncomfortably hard to the side and opened his eyes briefly.
There he saw a sight ever so beautiful Lucia sleeping beside him her breath was steady and eyes were fluttering but not opening. Just then he realized a hand was pressed against his breastplate of armor.
She was so beautiful pieces of her black hair had fallen onto her face making shao kahn reach his hand up, and pushed the hair behind her ear letting his hand linger on her.
Shao snapped out of it quickly I getting up and practically ran out the door, he scolded himself for being vulnerable and walked to his own chambers. Shao kahn earned questionable states from maids but ignored them, when he got to his room a butler greeted him asking to get him breakfast but he shook his head.
"What happened last night?" Shao kahn asked.
The butler spoke "Emperor, you had taken a early leave last night, we had fiqured you went to your chambers."
"And what of my wife, where is she?"
The butler seemed a little hesitant "My empress had entertained-um a guest, but for now she is in the company of her guards."
Shao kahn groaned it wasn't unusual for Sindel to take suitors or make concubines, hell he couldn't even remember the last time he fucked his wife himself.
"Bring me one of my concubines!" The butler left in a hurry.
Shao kahn needed someone to satiate his need, it wasn't uncommon for Shao to mix love with lust. All he knew was that if Shao kahn isn't going to fuck someone he was going to rush in the room he left Lucia, wake her up and take her for himself.
When the door creaked open and a longtime concubine walked in, she smirked. Of course the concubine was wearing something scantily clad, red lace lingerie under a silk robe. Something she of course could afford because Shao kahn's 'generosity'.
As Shao kahn stated at her with the most unappreciative gaze the woman squirmed, he thought to himself 'if only the lingerie was black or white.' not realizing it was the colors Lucia adorned.
"My kahn how many I help you?" the woman said, shao kahn realized, these woman pretend to love him because their payed to love him. This wasn't a problem shao kahn usually cared to face but now it felt like a problem.
The concubine had straddled shao kahns lap somewhat afraid to take control. Her hair was brown, with hazel eyes and tan skin, at some point in time shao kahn had found her desirable. But now? Now he couldn't help but throb for lucia.
Her split colored hair he could swear was natural. Her short yet deadly stature that was only short because he was unusually tall. Her clawed hands and how its cold steel would subconsciously trail his skin. Lucia's body was cold to the touch, as if shao was holding onto a ice cube. But when ever his hand would hold her small ones, those brief moments, Shao would notice how she succumbed to his heat. As if it was the first time she felt warm, as if it was the first time Lucia had felt the effects of a warm body against hers. Seeing Lucia's eyes rest as if shao was her comfort. It made shao feel needed and welcomed it made him feel like the sun that welcomed it's people to the warmth of daylight. Shao remembered Lucias eyes trailing his body making Shao shiver, the look of utter excitement whenever Shao would appear in her presence. The looks she would give him with those enchanting different colored eyes, she made him feel appreciated. Not to mention her personality. How she challenged him, how she tested him, her snarky comments had one to many affects on Jim. He actually wished to see more of it. Shao loved that little stubbornness embedded into her personality, and there was no doubt that her intelligence could single handedly take down an enemy.
He broke out of his thoughts and stared at the woman straddling his lap. There were moments in his visions that would flicker to show his imagination, where he pictured Lucia atop him, where Lucia would use him like no woman dared to do. Where Lucia's wondering eyes would look up at him as Shao trapped her between his arms. Watching Lucia's face light up with pleasure. He wonder how she would react if shao pinned her to a bed and used his tongue to explore parts of her no man had ever tasted.
The concubine wasn't Lucia he knew that much, but he decided to make the most of the situation. He grabbed the arms of the concubine and threw her on the bed. The woman moaned and undid her own clothing presenting herself to shao. But his eyes seemed hardly interested in the woman herself. "Dont speak unless spoken too." He demanded.
Through breathless sighs the woman spoke "yes master."
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Lucia had long since woken up and had already taken a shower remembering how embarrassed the kahn must have been waking up in the floor with her in his arms.
She had already put on her accessories, and jewels but decided to wear something simple yet sleek.
She remembered the emperor telling her about the tournament today so she decided to wear stylish clothing. She let her hair loose and left it so it gently laid upon her shoulder and mid back before making her way to the Kolosseum.
The Kolosseum was packed as it should be with people still filling in the fighters were preparing them self with stretches.
Mileena had sat by Lucia who was waiting and made conversation.
"Mate, Marry, kill Jax, Cage, Kung lao?" Mileena said looking across the stadium at earth realms fighters
Lucia chuckled "kill Cage, Mate with jax and Marry kung lao." Mileena gasped.
"Marry lao why?"
Lucia shrugged "got a give him a break, he keeps dying by shao, and to tip it off practically all the women on their team is already taken!" Mileena laughed.
Shang tsung had of course started the tournament with a simple introduction of fighters.
"Quan chi!" - "Skarlet!" - "Noob Saibot!" - "Mileena!" - "Lucia!"
The crowd cheered as the five fighters had walked to the middle of the arena and raised their hands in Victory.
"Defending earthrealm are-"
"Scorpion!" - "Sub-Zero!" - "Cassie Cage!" - "Jade!" - "Johnny Cage!"
The emperor had long since walked to his throne and stared at the fighters.
"Sub-Zero vs Noob Saibot" the fight was a dream match resulting in sub zeros lucky win.
The fight went on until it was lucias turn against Johnny Cage.
"Cage Vs Lucia!" As they both did their own styled entrance they
"How's it going dead lips? " Johnny said kissing his own muscles.
Lucia gave him a scrutinizing look before giving her axes a good swing "should I take that as an insult, Ninja Mime?"
Johnny smirked "shouldn't all chaos realmers take death as a compliment? And you watched my movies?" He said with a surprised voice
"I have, and I can't believe mortals are convinced the martial arts in that movie was real." The playful banter had ended and soon true fighting had begun.
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Shao watched as Lucia had beaten Johnny Cage with a laugh Lucia looked down at Johnny who was clutching his stomach in agony.
Cassie had nearly pushed past everyone to save her dad from what she thought was Lucia's finisher but Jax and Jacqui had held her back.
Out of no where Lucia had reached her hand out to him and spoke "those stunt doubles have been soaking up too much of your pain cage, now you don't know how to fight true."
Everyone stilled at the fact she had preformed a mercy, either way it didn't matter, this would still be taken as a win for out world. As the defenders of earthrealmers cleared out of the Kolosseum, the outworld fighters had gave Lucia appreciative Pat's on the back before they all retired to the dining room to celebrate their victory.
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Lucia was sitting on the floor mats of the dining room, her chopsticks had reached in and out the copper pots to get desired vegetables out, as well as some boiled seaweed. For right now, she was helping herself to a steaming bowl of long grain rice and a hot bowl of chanabe.
Lucia had stuffed a piece of tofu, soaked in yummy fish broth, into her mouth, before looking up and noticed erron black struggling with the chopticks.
"Do you need help erron?" Erron seemed awkward to admit it but nodded regardless and spoke.
"Beans and stew with a forks what I'm Used to."
Lucia leaned over the table slightly and grabbed his hand "well first I suggest holding the bowl in your palm itself." Lucia placed the bowl in his palm and he gripped it tightly. "Woah there cowboy don't break it." Everyone at the table laughed "it's real china."
Lucia grabbed his other hand and "now this chopstick goes between your thumb and your pointer finger" Lucia bit her lip in concentration "then put the other chopstick on the other side of the pointer finger and your middle." As erron got the grip in it Lucia let him steady it before showing him how to eat using it. Sooner or later erron got it and thanked Lucia profusely. Lucia laughed and looked at erron "I gotta go..." Lucia got up from her mat and walked between the isle of tables to shao kahn and sindel who were sitting upon their throne.
"I shall take my leave, Mr. Konqueror, dinner was much appreciated." People spared a glance at Lucia before going back to there own thing.
"Where must you go in such a hurry mortal?" Sindel interjected shao kahns statement.
"Let her go where she pleases my husband, she doesnt deserve to be here anyway."
Lucia rolled her eyes and walked away going out the dining room ignoring the emperors calls as she walked to her room she flipped open the book and began reading. After a couple pages Lucia found herself the spell she has been looking for but her eyes ogled at the ingredient.
"Gah!
1 Vile of Earthrealm blood
1 Vile of Shokan blood,
1 Vile of Edenian blood,
1Vile of Saurian,
1 Vile of Enenra Blood
1 Vile of Kytinn blood,
1 Vile of Osh-Tekk,
1 Vile of tarkaten blood
1 Vile of Dragon blood." Lucia gripped her hair in announce.
"Dragon blood? DRAGON BLOOD!? Where the hell am I supposed to get that!" Lucia opened a notebook, wrote all the ingredients down the opened a portal before hopping through she needed to get down this list as quick as possible.
She teleported to an hq the middle of the desert. Apparently it was already under attack by sektors people Lucia rushed in and even though shoots were fired at Lucia she soaked them up not caring, she walked up to cassie who was ready to fight Lucia but Lucia raised her hands.
"I don't want to kill you Little Shinnok slayer, I need a favor to asks." Cassie had ducked down behind a metal barricade popped her head out and shot at the upcoming men but Lucia was still standing. Cassie pulled Lucia down behind the barricade.
"Look if you want a favor I have a deal, you go save my mom and dad and I'll do whatever you want, just please keep them safe."
"Done." Lucia had ran through the halls pushing through any one once Lucia reached sonya and johnny she urged them to come with her in the portal. As they went in wether they wanted to or not Lucia teleported them back to Cassie and cut her hand forcing the blood to go into the vile as lucia went into the portal Cassie tried calling out to her,
"Wait!" As expected Lucia didn't turn background to help them just finished the deal and went back to business.
When Lucia went into the portal she teleported herself to the ice gardens. The garden where the Lin keui train and reside.
She had approached kuai Liang who had his back turned to her, but stayed a far distance away. She had noticed they were scouting out the cyber Lin kuei facility again, as if their last attack didn't help them achieve their goal. Scorpion had snuck up behind subzero, after they had conversed Lucia had listened into their conversation.
"We need to get to the cyber Lin kuei factory, they didn't have Cyrax when we had attacked before, maybe Triborg had put him back." As they made their plans Lucia still stayed in tow behind lurking and sneaking without them aware of her presence.
Soon Lucia had watched as they had to fight frost and Sektor. She they were all finished Cyber Cyrax had shut down and was now on the floor and when they went to rush to his aid Lucia had quickly came out of hiding a put her axe right onto cyraxs neck making scorpion and sub zero halt to a stop.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Sub zero shouted.
"Tch tch tch, I haven't come here to fight you!"
Scorpion scoffs "yet you intent on killing Cyrax."
Lucia huffs "No, I have a deal to strike with you."
Kuai growls "we are not here to make deals!"
Lucia only sighs "then I guess I'll just have to cut off his metal fucking head wont I?'
"Wait! Tell me your terms an I will agree."
Lucia smirked "scorpion goes back to the netherrealm and brings me the soul of your friend, smoke."
"What do I get in return?"
"I turn your friend here back into a human."
"Impossible." Sub zero said.
"Possible." Lucia replied.
Hanzo interrupted Lucia and kuais banter "deal I will go, it may take a while, so figure out a time and place."
Lucia looked at kuai "meet me at the fire gardens, preferably don't bring a enterage. But do bring this hunk of metal with you." Lucia said kicking Cyraxs limp cyber body before disappearing with that scorpion got to work finding the soul, while kuai had to drag Cyrax to the fire gardens.
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Lucia had made her way to the palace, but this time she has sought out reptile when she found him outside as expected.
She had approached reptile who had bowed, Lucia was becoming his favorite customer.
"Hello Syzoth-" Lucia had connected her fist to the palm of her right hand and bowed out of respect, it was so rare to see someone bow to a close to extinct race.
"Ah Lady Morana what may I help you with."
Lucia had waited to answer the question sitting down on a stone bench and looking out into the setting sun.
"Outworld always has the prettiest nightfall."
Reptile had reluctant sat down far away from Lucia "indeed, my people would say the sun ends in outworld, and the cycle stops."
Lucia tote her gaze of the sun and looked at Syzoth- "it must...hurt not to have your people around."
The saurian looked down to the floor "...you didn't come to talk about my race, what is it you seek?"
Lucia laughed softly "In my culture we would often see saurians being descendants of dragons, your race was well respected by my people...still is."
Reptile looked at Lucia as she got up and stood infront of him "what would you do to get your people back hm?"
"Anything. Everything." Reptile said getting up and staring down at her, he had nearly thought she was testing him.
"What if I told you I'm hr answer to all your problems, what if I told you that I could bring your people back I could help you find the few of your people who had managed to evade the raith o shao kahn."
" Listening.'
Lucia held out a small vile and handed him a knife "I need your blood..."
"Why?" Reptile asked staring at the knife.
"I promise I am not doing anything weird with this, besides i can give you a vital piece of information right now about the other survivors of your race."
Reptile looked at the knife before gripping the blade with his out her hand and slicing down on his palm and squeezing his green blood into the vile.
Lucia took the vile from him and put a cork into the top to stop the blood from pouring out.
Reptile had hardly felt any pain before he looked at Lucia with a hardened look "tell me what you know mortal."
Lucia nodded and summoned a undead warrior who handed her a necklace. Lucia in turn handed the necklace to Syzoth, he stared at the necklace with wonder...how...he had not seen such traditional necklaces since his people had been slaughtered.
"How has this necklace got into your hands?" Reptile asked.
"During my travels I had traveled to the very edge of outworld. There I had encountered a small group of natives, at first I was hostile to them but soon I realized they were working as merchants. Interested I went up to one of the stalls in which they were selling necklaces. When I had spoken to the grip behind the counter I had bought this necklaces. But there was a certain mystery surrounding the girl, she had bandages all cross her face. Curiosity got the best of me and I pretended to drop something on the other side of the counter, when she picked it up low and behold her bandages fell of and it revealed a young saurian girl."
Reptile looked at Lucia interest oozing out of his gaze "what then?"
"Then she had fled but she hadn't gotten far, I had ambushed her and instead o killing her, which I could've, I gave her koins and a horse and helped her flee. But one things certain, the merchant woman goes to that market every full moon."
"What are the directions?"
Lucia pulled out a scroll and drew him a map. "Quite the distance, but if you leave now you shall be there in a days travel, follow the Insavak river and keep heading east until you finds a broken down bridge above a creek. You will know you've arrived trust me." Reptile toke the scroll and grabbed lucias forearm, and Lucia did the same, it's called the warriors handshake.
"Thank you."
"I wish you and your people luck, now go." Lucia watched as Syzoth saddled yo on a stallion and rode off.
Lucia had made a portal for herself to go to the fire gardens.
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Once she arrived she watched as subzero and scorpion arrived. Hanzo was holding a double gem and kuai had Cyraxs limp body over his shoulder.
"You made it."
Lucia nodded and watched as kuai set down Cyrax.
Hanzo walked over to Lucia to hand her the soul gem but kuai stopped him.
"Wait turn Cyrax back to his original self first."
Lucia smirked "ha, what leverage would I have if I give you Cyrax? Just hand me smokes soul and I will take care of the rest."
Kuai sighed before nodding and handed Lucia the sould gem.
"Now turn him back." Hanzo demanded.
Lucia bent down to Cyrax an put a hand over his metal head.
Lucias undead soldiers sorounded the body of Cyrax blocking his view from Hanzo and kuai.
Soon enough the undead soldiers disappeared and left a human looking Cyrax behind in it's wake.
Cyrax gasped away his eyes glassing over Hanzo and his grandmaster.
"S-subzero...and Scorpion?" Lucia watched as he scrambled away from Lucia when he noticed her kneeling beside him. "Who are you?"
Kuai had rushed to Cyrax's side and helped him up.
Lucia looked down at the man and analyzed his beautiful features. Dark skin, voluptuous locks tied back and his traditional grabs.
"Had I have known you would have been this handsome I would have turned you back sooner." Lucia joked.
Kuai looked at Lucia "what are you going to do with smokes soul."
"You'll see."
Lucia had summoned a undead healer an handed it the soul of Thomas vrbada.
Once the undead healer left they all looked at her expectantly "what?"
"Why are you going to do to him?" Hanzo said.
"So many questions and not enough time." Lucias healer came back and was carrying smokes body. Before dropping it on the ground and disappearing.
Cyrax looked at Lucia then to kuai "smoke died?" Kuai nodded.
Lucia had walked over to smokes body and cut his hand forcing blood to drip into her glass vile before putting a cork in it.
Just as soon as she did smoke awoke.
"Here we are and here I thought the flame had died out love." Lucia smirked string at the enera blood.
Smoke starred at Lucia before getting on his feet gripping his palm and running over to his grandmaster.
"How...what...i-" smoke sputtered Lucia laughed before putting away the vile an staring at kuai "pleasure doing business with you."
Everyone stared at Lucia kuai looked at her with grateful eyes and Hanzo stared in shock. Smoke and Cyrax hugged, smoke had lived in a time where Cyrax had been forced to turn cyber.
As lucia walked away Hanzo ran up from behind her and grabbed her wrist.
"You can bring people back to life!?" He nearly shouted.
Luba nodded confused.
"Please... please!!! If I get the souls of my wife...my child, will you bring them to life!?" Hanzo said in a hurry.
Lucia scoffed an pulled her wrist from his grip "tch what business would I have bringing back the dead, I only did it for smoke cause there was something in it for me."
Hanzo grabbed her again "Fine ill give you anything, whatever it is I'll do! Just please bring my wife back to me."
Lucia sighed aloud and turned to Hanzo pulling her hand away softly "look I don't think you understand." The gold leaves had fallen around you and Hanzo. The leaves had fluttered from the upcoming breeze of nightfall. "Hanzo it is hard to understand the concept of life and death..." Lucia softly grabbed the back of his hand "netherrealm is the one of the dead, the land of the forgotten, the lair of beasts" Lucia flipped hanzos hand over so his palm was facing up. Black smoke hand covered his hand and soon moulded to look like netherrealm. "And in the heavens the residents are those who have lived an loved. Those who have fought brave and died for good. Those whose time was up, but the time was well spent." Lucias other hand came up and waved away the black smoke from his palm. Soon white smoke took over and covered his hand to look like clouds and a girl holding hands with a man and a little boy.
"What are you trying to say?" Hanzo said quietly, staring and the small shadow fiqure of a woman.
"Harumi Hasashi is gone and so is your son. Your wife was a good person, your son was innocent. Their body, their soul their life is in a much better place than anything you could have ever given her here in outworld. She is happy and resting. If she was in netherrealm than I could bring her back but her body is now in the heavens, with her son and has moved on."
Hanzo stared at his palm speechless even when Lucia had let go of him and smoke had disappeared.
"Do the same Hanzo, move on, forgive but never forget."
As Hanzo looked up to Lucia he had been greeted with her no longer there, she had gone in a flash.
Hanzo broke out of his daze and turned to sub zero.
"We must speak to Lord Raiden at once."