-Palace Throne Room-
Day breaks on the Dragon King's palace and the next match of the tournament is about to take place. The fighters are summond to the throne room with a loud gong.
Gabrielle"Who's up today?"
Sub-Zero, answers in a cold tone"....Sensui"
As the fighters enter the Dragon King awaits, along with Hatsuma who is all but dead.
Gabrielle in a light voice"Hatsuma."
Dragon King"Let's get on with this."
Lorne is the first to enter."Let's get to this."
Suddenly everyone hears a clank, like some type of armor. As they turn around the see Sensui, along with Xion walking in. Sensui steps foreward and the two fighters are now squared off, standing on the dragon logo, surrounded by the onlookers.
Dragon King"Excellent, now let the contest begin!"
Sensui"Shut up. I'll choose where we fight. No objections I presume?"
Dragon King snears"Fine."
Sensui begins to glow with a dark aura and the room is filled with evil lightning which courses blinds everybody. Within an instant, everybody finds themselves on a huge platform, covered with red sand. Pieces of land are floating in the sky, apon furhter inspection, they see these are remaints of old locations that where used in previous tournaments.
Sensui"This is the Portal Nexus, a place where all realms interconnect. Now lets do this."
Dragon King"Fight!"
Sensui sinks into his Bui Zui Xan Quan stance as Lorne sinks in to his One-armed boxing. The fighters square off for a split second. Then suddenly Lorne is the first to make a move. He charges Sensui with his great speed and unleashes a vicous combo of kicks and strikes. Each could easily shatter someone's skull if connected, and at first it appears that the combos is connected, however, with Sensui's Drunken Fist style he was able to easily dodge every strike unscathed. Sensui bridges over backwards and summersault kicks Lorne under the chin sending him up into the air. Lorne tries to scream, but only chokes on his own blood. Sensui jumps up after Lorne and grabs him by the leg. He twirls him around and then shoots him to the ground, causing Lorne to bounce up like a rag doll. Sensui then shoots down and stomps on Lorne's chest, breaking his sternum.
Lorne"ARGH!!!!" Sensui flips off and turns his back to Lorne.
Sensui"What a pathetic disappointment."
Lorne kicks up and instantly keals over from the pain onto one knee."Get back here! We're not through yet!"
As Sensui turns around, his face meets with a strong right hook from Lorne, causing him to stagger back dazed, blood trikles out his nose.
Sensui regains balance only to face another combo by Lorne. This time it connects. Senui is showered with a series of vicious palm strikes to the ribs, then a back fist to the face, fallowed by a machine guns kick to his knees, sides, ribs, and shoulders. When it looks like the combo is finished and Sensui is staggering, Lorne plants down firmly and unleashes a roundhouse kick to Sensui's head with such force that it causes Sensui to spin in mid air and shoot into a pillar head first, causing it to collapes.
The good guys cheer wildley, thinking that the fight is over. Lorne, suffering a shattered sternum, and bleeding badly grabs his chest and falls to one knee, breathing heavily.
Suddenly the collapased pillar explodes as Sensui stands up, bleeding from the forehead. A familiar grin on his face. He switches to his Wushi Kenpo stance and disappears without a trace. Lorne is confused, and a look of pain appears on his face, as an afterimage of Sensui fills in behind him, with an elbow to the spine. Lorne screams a split second later as his body shoots foreward, tumbling on the ground like a doll. Sensui has actually hit Lorne so quickly and viciously that it was faster and harder then the body could recognize it, causing a what looked like a delayed reaction. Lorne tries to get up, but falls back to the ground, blood dripping out of his mouth. Sensui walks forward and picks Lorne up by his hair, head level with Sensui. Sensui lets go and as Lorne is about to drop to the ground for a second time, Sensui delivers a knee to his stomach, knocking the wind out of him. Lorne can't even manage to scream as his body bounces back up, only to meet a fist to the face from Sensui, breaking Lorne's nose, and filling his eyes with blood and tears. Sensui grabs Lorne by the neck and lifts him into the air, then charging up his fist with power, he unleashes a barage of strikes to Lorne's defenseless torso. It looks like it can very well be the end for the prestigious boxer. But on Sensui's last strike, Lorne manages to kick Sensui in the throat, causing him to drop Lorne. As soon as Lorne hits the ground he manages to hold his balance and delivers an elbow to Sensui's back, shooting him to the ground. However, before Lorne can make another move another lighning storm commences, Lorne, along with Sensui, and the rest of the fighters in the tournament suddenly feel a sense of displacement. The areana goes dark, for a split second. Then in a bright flash the fighters find themselves in the Edenian Embassy central chamber. As everybody regains their senses, Gabrielle realises that for the first time in what seemed to be ages, she's in her home realm.
Gabrielle"I'm.....home"
-Edinean Embassy-(TomTazs stage)
The split second of warping has destracted Lorne long enough for Sensui to regain his balance and switch into his Judo stance and bounce back up.
Sensui"Never let yourself get destracted in battle, boy!!!"
Before Lorne can react Sensui grabs him by his gi, no stained with blood and tosses him through one of the statues of Queen Sindel. Before Lorne can recover, Sensui grabs him again by his short and tosses him straight into the air. Sensui's legs are engulfed in flames as he jumps up into the air.
Sensui"High Riser Hell Kick!" Sensui delivers a kick to Lorne's stomach causing him to ignite in flames. Then, before Lorne can scream, Senui delivers an axe kick to Lorne's back, shooting back to the marble floor below in a falling fireball. The impact is so strong that it leaves a crater in the floor, as the flames subside Lorne's shirt has been burned away, revealing the bruises and broken sternum that he has recived in this fight. Lorne rolls over face up, only to have Sensui come rashing down on his leg with a stomp, shattering the bone and causing Lorne to let out a scream.
Lorne grabs his leg in pain"Bastard! I'll get you for this!"
Sensui"That's highly doubtful."
As he takes a step forward, Lorne unsheaths his ninja blade out of his back scabard and stabs Sensui through the thigh. Sensui reals in pain and stumbles back as blood drips off the blade and onto the floor, igniting anything it touches.
Meanwhile Lorne finally manages to get up and switches to his Eagle Claw stance, which is convinient since this style can be done with one good leg. Lorne leaps forward of his back leg and spins in mid-air delivering a Ryu type dragon kick to Sensui, causing him to shoot backwards and into a door, shattering it through. Sensui lands on the rooms floor, which is beautifully furnished, with a grand wooden table, leather chairs and a red carpet. Lorne hobbles in on his leg as Sensui is lying face up. the other warriors fallow. Then something unexpected happens. Sensui's flamable blood, ignites the carpet in flames on contact. The flames spread to the rest of the room igniting it as well. The whole place becomes an inferno in which the fighters square off. Lorne jumps through the flames, abit singed but not wounded. His pants ripped, and shirt completely disintegrated he walk towards the fallen Sensui.
Lorne"Never underestimated your opponent." Lorne reaches down and grabs the knife out of Sensui's leg, which is scolding hot and glowing red from the intense heat. The handle burns Lorne's hand, but he ignores the pain, switching to a cross between his Eagle Claw and Knife stance. He holds the blade horizontaly, parallel to his arm and is read to strike. As Sensui gets up, and leans on one leg to decrease the pressure on his wounded leg, Lorne attacks. He comes in low, and slice up vertically along Sensui's chest with the scolding knife, leaving a burning cut in his body. Sensui recoils in pain.
Sensui"Argh!"
Lorne comes in again and delivers smaller slashes on Sensui's arems, legs, chest and to the sides of his neck. Sensui is no covered in blood wounds, which begin to bleed. Lorne then flips over Sensui, turning in mid-air and Slashing him down the back, down his tattoo. As this happens a jet of flames shoots out Sensui's back and hit Lorne hard. Lorne is shot back furhter into the room, right infornt of a giant window which over looks the courtyard.
Lorne stands up, charred from the explosion."What the hell was that?"
He sees Sensui facing away from him, and the fire which shoot out of his back takes the shape of demonic wings. Sensui turns around to face Lorne. Lorne's eye fill with fear and confussion. Sensui is now a living inferno thanks to the cuts Lorne has inflicted on him. Sensui grins and spreads his "wings". The fires inside the room, as well as those on Sensui's body change to a familiar black. The flames swiril around Sensui, entering his body and merging with his flames. Sensui's eyes burn red as his body changes to a black color.(As in coal black.) He spreads his flaming wings and points his palm towards Lorne who still hasn't gotten up.
Sensui in a double voice"Lightning Inferno." He shoots the flames out at Lorne which burn so fiercely they actually transform into black lightning and strike Lorne at full force. Lorne is shot out the paine of glass, covered in black lighning and flames. However, before Lorne can hit the marble balconey below, time freezes and a familiar lightning storm surges through the areana. It all goes black and in a flash the fighters are once again transported. In an instant, an intense heat is fealt, coupled by millions of screams. Gabrielle, Ryoko, Sub-Zero, Smoke and the others find themselves standing in a shallow pool of blood. Suddenly, a flaming skull ignites and illuminates their surroundings. Giant, spikes, torture devices, iron cages, talking corpses, and a sky ash grey with fireballs coming from the sky, with volcanoes in the background make it clear. The fighters have been transpored to the 10th level of the Netherealm, they are in the Chaos Sancutuary.
Gabrielle is instantly horryfied, and is filled with tears as she collapese to her knees.
Gabrielle with tears in her eyes and fear in her voice."No, no, no. This can't be happening! I vowed I'd never comeback to this place."
Ryoko kneels next to her and cradles her in her arms."Don't worry little one, nothing will happen to you with me by your side."
Smoke"With all of us by your side."
Gabrielle holds on to Ryoko for comfort as the fight rages on.
Lorne hits the ground from a height of three feet, saved by time and space. As he gets up, scortched, bleeding, and broken Sensui shoots him back to the ground.
Lorne makes one final attempt to defend himself. All he can do is focus one shot into his arm. Unfortunatley, as he tries to hit Sensui, the now pissed-off fallen demi-god grabs his fist and breaks his arm. Lorne screams in pain. Sensui towers over him with a sinister look. Then hits him with a back fist, causing him to fall face first to the ground. Sensui creates a ball of energy and forms the evil Malice Blade. He grabs the hilt, and solidifyes the sword. He then points down and is about to impale Lorne through the spine one he hears a female voice in his head.
"Don't do it, please."
Sensui stops."Who's there?" An image of Tsunami appears in his mind."It..can't be."
Again the voice rings out."Don't do it. Please a beg of you."
Sensui shakes his head and focuses. As he's about to impale Lorne he retracts the blade back into it's energy form."Your spirit is strong, but your body is weak. I'll spare your spirit, but I will releave you of your handicap."
Sensui lifts Lorne to his feet and walks away.
Dragon King"Finish Him!"
Ryoko"Don't you dare! You hear me?! I'll hunt you the ends of the realms! Sensui!!!!"
Sensui ignores her and turns around and charges up his fist.
Hatsuma instantly recognizes this attack.
Hatsuma"No! Don't do this!" His plea falls on death ears
Sensui's fist glows with a dark energy. He then unleashes it in a plam blast at Lorne. The blast transfroms into a dragon half way there. It intangles Lorne or a split second then lurches back and roars. It enters Lorne's body through his mouth. Sensui grins and closes his fist. Suddenly Lorne begins to cough up blood as a bump can be seen traveling through his body. It sinks in to his broken sternum and dissapears. Then suddenly his chest rips open as he screams in pain with a giant dragon swirling out of it. Lorne screams in agony as his last breath gives out. The dragon towers over the torn corpes' open chest cavity, blood spilling out like a fountain. The dragon returns to Sensui's arm in it's energy form, delivering Lorne's soul to it's master.
The fighter turn their heads away and grimace.
Sensui"And soon, your life will begin a new." His eyes glow red. Then in a brief instant glow a holy blue as the thisthingisdisabled changes from sadistic evil to that of disgust and shame, then changes back.
The lightning storm starts over again and the fighters are back in the Dragon King's throne room.
Dragon King"That was delightful. The winner of this match as a result of a fatality, Sensui!"
The onlookers have a look of anger, disgust, and fear on their faces.
Gabrielle, Ryoko, along with the rest of the female heroinse shed tears.
KaTian crying "He didn't deserve to die."
Sensui leaves with Xion, leavinf the others to suffer their losses.
Well, it took me a while but I finally finished the fight scene. I hope you guys enjoy it. And as for Lorne, I really grew to like him during this, that's why I spared his soul, so he will comeback. Trust.
art by fear-sAs
