Mortal Kombat Story

The Elder Gods VS the One Being
Long ago at the beginning of time, there existed only the Elder Gods and the One Being. The One Being gained his power by draining it from the Elder Gods. Eventually the Elder Gods launched their attack on the One Being to save themselves. In the end, the Elder Gods created six weapons called the Kamidogus. When they used the weapons, the One Being split into many pieces, although its consciousness survived. The Kamidogu became lost in six different pieces of the One Being. Eventually, these pieces became the planets, and life began to grow inside them. There were six main planets: Earth, Never Never Land, Outworld, Orderworld (otherwise known as Seido), Chaosworld, and Edenia, each with a representative Kamidogu which held the essence of each planet.

The Gods VS Azazel
Long ago after the defeat of One Being in the vastness of space, a great, formless evil arose on Egypt, Earth. Before it could do harm to the universe, it was set upon by the three prime deities of the Earth: Orak, Fujin, and Raiden, the Gods of fire, wind and thunder. The three deities fought a fierce battle against the evil manifestation, burning the entity almost completely out of existence with their divine power. However, during the battle, one small fragment of the entity that was cut from the whole by Orak did not burn away. Unnoticed by the three deities, this fragment floated away from the site of the battle and drifted through space for an untold amount of time, until it eventually crashed to Outworld during the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era on Earth. It is implied that this crash is the event that caused the Outworld's sky to turn purple. The fragment developed over eons into an ominous forest of shiny gems that devoured anyone who dared to enter. Eventually, the forest grew so large that the God by the name of Zaggot decided to kill the evil at its source. Armed with a magic gem given to him by Buddhist monks, the god and his cavalry rode into the heart of the forest. But as they rode, the forest began to kill his men, leaving the god himself as the only survivor. Once at the black lake in the forest's centre, Zaggot doused an arrow into the crushed gem he was given and fired it into the black lake, believing that it would destroy the evil. Unexpectedly, the gem's magic had the unforeseen effect of galvanising the evil into a human-like form, giving it sentience and supernatural abilities, and thus giving birth to the demon god, Azazel.

Zaggot attacked Azazel, but with nothing more than his mundane, mortal weapons, he could inflict no harm upon the beast. Azazel easily defeated the god, and trapped him to the side of a tree so that he could watch as Azazel destroyed his home and killed his people. However, the deities, sensing the good in Zaggot, summoned him to them. Taking the good inside him, they used avatar bodies to create an enchanted sword that was capable of harming Azazel. Armed with the sword and a magical suit of armour, Zaggot plunged into battle against Azazel. In the end, Zaggot was victorious, but he was unable to destroy the demon, and so instead sealed him in the devastated wasteland in the planet of Orinion, as Never Never Land was not created yet at the time. As he was sealed away, Azazel vowed he would one day return and conquer Outworld. During the battle, Zaggot's wife gave birth to a son. That son was no other than Shao Kahn himself.

The Reign of The Dragon King
At some unknown point in history, long after the creation of the planets and banishment of the One Being and Azazel, there ruled an emperor in the planet of Outworld called Onaga. Onaga was the first Emperor of Outworld, uniting an otherwise divided planet.

He began to conquer other planets, merging them to add that planet's power to Outworld and expand his ever-growing empire. Onaga's secret to victory was his undefeatable and seemingly invincible army. Onaga's heart gave him the ability to raise the dead, allowing him to revive his dead soldiers continuously. However, Onaga wished to live forever; using the last dragon egg. His followers formed a spell that would transfer his body into the tiny dragon inside and with it, be granted eternal life. It was at this point, a strike plan was in effect, orchestrated by Onaga's trusted adviser, Shao Kahn. However, Shao, who did not like sharing power, but knew that he would lose if he fought Onaga directly, instead poisoned the Dragon King, and took control of Outworld for himself. Unlike Onaga before, he was not able to rule his domain as a united planet.

The Prophecies of the Future
Unknown time after Onaga's death, as Shao Kahn now commanded the armies of Outworld and carried the legacy of attacking other planets, the Edenian protector-God, Argus, and his sorceress wife, Delia, had two children: Steven and Daegon. They fought alongside their father and the dragons Orin and Caro, repelling an attempted invasion by Shao Kahn. At the time, there were two prophecies of the future which Delia frequently had visions and premonitions of. One of the events was the prophecy of Armageddon. She predicted that the Mortal Kombat warriors would one day grow too powerful and numerous and if left unchecked, their intensifying combat would bring upon the destruction of all the planets, bringing about the Apocalypse. The Elder Gods demanded that a safeguard be put in place in order to prevent this from happening, one that would make use of the combatants' insatiable bloodlust. Like moths to a flame, they would be drawn there to battle. They left this task to Argus and his wife. Delia predicted that the climax would take place at a crater within the Edenian southlands. For this reason, Argus had a pyramid constructed underground at this crater, while Delia created a fire elemental known as Blaze. Blaze would contain the power needed to stop the Mortal Kombat warriors. While Argus wanted all of the warriors destroyed, Delia wished a more merciful approach; stripping the warriors of their powers. They decided that they would put their two children in competition, and whichever one defeated Blaze would be gifted with the power to become the new protector of Edenia. On their way to confronting Blaze, each brother would have to retrieve a sword from one of their father's temples, and a suit of armour from one of their mother's temples, both in Earth. One suit of armour would mean that all of the Mortal Kombat warriors were destroyed, the other would mean that they were stripped of their powers. In effect, this would be like a coin toss between Argus and Delia, to decide which outcome would be achieved. Argus initiated the plan to save the planets is to have the two brothers to be summoned to Argus' temple in Edenia, where they were ambushed and placed in stasis. They were both placed within the mountains somewhere in Earth, with a dragon to watch over them. The golden dragon, Orin, watched over Steven, whilst the red dragon Caro watched over Daegon. When Blaze gave the signal, the dragons would wake the sons from stasis to begin the quest.

Shinnok and the War for Earth
As the Elder Gods watched over the planets, governing the planets with untold wisdom; one such Elder God known as Shinnok gave into greed and illusion of ultimate power and wanted the planet of Earth for himself; however, the Elder Gods had appointed the God of Thunder, Raiden to protect Earth. Having profited of Blaze's enslaving by the holy men who remained faithful to Onaga, Shinnok masterfully tricked the dragon Caro into thinking the signal had been sounded and convinced the awoken Daegon that his parents (Argus and Delia) were against him. Daegon killed both his parents, weakening Edenia and leaving it in a state of anarchy, which allowed Shao Kahn to invade it without a protector god opposing him.

Shinnok then turned his attention towards Earth, whose Jinsei could grant him the power to become invincible. The battle between Shinnok and Raiden was fierce, sending Earth to its near destruction and plunging it into centuries of darkness, but Raiden discovered that Shinnok's power was linked to his mystical amulet. It allowed him to weaken the borders of a planet and therefore enter the planet without challenge and keeping the Elder Gods at bay. Raiden, given the choice whether to destroy the allied Saurian civilisation or risk handing over Earth to Shinnok, chose the former and stripped Shinnok of the amulet with the aid of the Gods, banishing the fallen Elder God to the Never Never Land. The exact date of the devastating war on Earth is not known, but interpretations vary from around 66 million years ago in the end of the Cretaceous–Paleogene period, coinciding with the demise of the dinosaurs to around 8.000 years BC, coinciding with the Great Flood in Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Christian, Hindu and many more civilisations' myths and also coinciding with the date of the Edenian War, 10.000 years ago. The saurian survivors received compensation from the Elder Gods a new home in the free planet of Zaterra, where they would again build their civilisation until they too would become a target for Shao Kahn's empire.

Another legendary prophecy unbeknownst to the Elder Gods was the Return of the One Being. It was decreed that if one were to obtain all six Kamidogus and the sacred Amulet, they would be granted ultimate power in fusing all the 7 weapons into one, and bring about the destruction of the planets. Raiden, in order to prevent this from happening, created a massive temple deep within the mountains of Asia to house the amulet, and appointed four guardians to serve as protectors of the amulet. Each of these guardians represented one of the elements of which the planet was comprised: Wind, Earth, Water, and Fire. As long as the amulet remained on Earth hopefully in safe hands, Shinnok was remained and trapped in the Never Never Land.

The Never Land has existed since the beginning of time and has had many names. Whether it's known as Hell, Hades, or Gehenna, it has always had the same purpose: to act as the final home of those who have done wrong. When Shinnok awoke in the Never Never Land, he found himself under attack by Kazuya Mishima, the leader of the fiery planet who was imprisoned there due to the bullying of Raiden. Mishima used the souls of those whom Shinnok himself had banished to the Never Land to attack the former Elder God. Shinnok was quickly beaten and found himself in the depths of Hell for eternity.

For an unknown number of years, the former Elder God Shinnok laid in torment from Kazuya in the Never Land, until he stumbled across a mysterious sorcerer by the name of Quan Chi. He was once an Oni from the Never Land, transforming his appearance upon learning sorcery, even gaining the power to travel throughout all of the planes of reality without detection from any of the Gods.

Quan Chi told Shinnok that he would help him escape from his prison and defeat Mishima if Shinnok accepted his proposal; power and the right to rule at Shinnok's side. Shinnok agreed, made Quan Chi an arch-sorcerer, and the two waged a war in the Never Land that lasted for centuries. They eventually beat Kazuya and took control of the Never Never Land. Shinnok was now the ruler of the dead planet, but wasn't content with his conquest. The Never Never Land is nothing more than fire and brimstone, and he only rules over the grotesque demons that inhabit the planet. However, Shinnok wanted more, and what Shinnok wants, Quan Chi must try to arrange.

The Terror Reign of Shao Kahn
Shao Kahn, like Onaga before him, sought to expand his empire and his power through conquests of other planets. He attacked and conquered many smaller planets, slowly building up power over thousands of years. Eventually, he built up enough strength to conquer every planet equal to Outworld's size, and gain even greater power beyond any mortal imaginings. His first target, is the lush and fertile planet of Edenia. To take over that world, Shao had to win the sacred tournament established by the Elder Gods themselves once held every generation known as Mortal Kombat. If he succeeded, it allowed him to merge the two planets.

Despite the Edenian warriors' best efforts, Outworld won 10 consecutive Mortal Kombat tournaments and Edenia's blue skies were ripped apart as the portals began to open. Shao Kahn's invasion force entered the planet, merging it with Outworld. Shao annihilated the ruler of Edenia, King Jerrod, took his wife Sindel as his queen, and adopted her daughter Kitana as his own. After Sindel convinced him of her worth, having the young princess trained as his personal guard, and as an assassin. Sindel, however, seeing the effects of Shao Kahn's reign on the Edenians, chose to commit suicide in order to create a magical ward preventing Shao Kahn to step foot in Earth and claim that planet as well. But Shao Kahn, not willing to let his beloved queen go so easily, held her soul in Outworld, thus stopping her transition to the afterlife.

Mortal Kombat Tournament
A few millennia had passed, now with Edenia conquered and other planets added to the Outworld empire (including Rodia), Shao Kahn turned his attention to the conquest of Earth, in which many considered to be a powerful jewel. Shao Kahn sent Shang Tsung to establish the sacred tournament as a competition between his armies and Earth. The prize for the winner of Mortal Kombat would be that the champion would not age for 50 years until the next tournament. Shao would only be allowed to take Earth if he won ten of these tournaments in a row. Raiden rallied the best fighters of Earth into the White Lotus society, a group established to discern a champion every 50 years to defend Earth in the tournament. The Great Kung Lao was one such warrior defeating Shang Tsung and becoming Grand Champion. Lao only kept the title for one generation before eventually falling to Shang Tsung's new secret weapon, a shokan prince named Goro. Goro quickly dispatched and killed Lao, winning that and the continuing 8 tournaments, giving the Outworld warriors nine consecutive victories.

Imprisoned in death for centuries after his betrayal by Shao Kahn, the angered Dragon King learned of Shao Kahn's treachery, infuriating him, so then he secretly worked to revive his physical body. By transferring his essence into an apparition, he appeared before Shujinko, a very promising warrior who was set to be the chosen Earth combatant in an upcoming Mortal Kombat tournament. Claiming to be an emissary of the Gods named Damashi, he tricked Shujinko into embarking on a quest to obtain the Kamidogu from the various planets and placing them in the Nexus, a special location created between the planets to ease the travel of the Champion of the Elder Gods.

Before the events of the next Mortal Kombat tournament, Quan Chi had recruited Sub-Zero the Younger to help him retrieve the ancient amulet. Sub-Zero proceeded to venture through Earth, defeating the gods of wind, earth, water, and fire and obtained the amulet. Sub-Zero then delivered the amulet to Quan Chi. Quan later gave a fake amulet to Shinnok, whilst he kept the real one for himself. Raiden then confronted the Lin Kuei Clan warrior and revealed to him his mistake by giving Quan Chi the amulet. Reluctantly, Sub-Zero then proceeded to return to the Never Never Land and retrieve the amulet from Shinnok. Sub-Zero was successful and preserved the peace of all reality for the time being.

Two years later, Earth rallied some of its best fighters in order to win the tenth tournament and preserve Earth's freedom. Amongst the established warriors were Liu Kang, Sonya Blade, and Johnny Cage. With the help of Raiden, the Earth warriors were victorious and Liu Kang became the new champion of Mortal Kombat, resetting Outworld's counter to 0. Scorpion, who was a rival clansman of the Lin Kuei clan, and the same man Sub-Zero killed years before, fought one another again. In the end, however, Scorpion slew the elder Sub-Zero in retribution for his own death by Sub-Zero the Younger's Hands.

Despite Shang Tsung being unable to deal with his failure in the last Mortal Kombat tournament, Shao Kahn ordered the Tarkatan horde to attack the Wu Shi Academy. The Tarkatan horde raided and killed most of Liu Kang's fellow monks, including his Shaolin masters. This enraged Liu Kang enough to follow them into Outworld. He was not alone, Kung Lao, Johnny Cage, and Major Jackson Briggs, who was in search of his missing subordinate Sonya Blade, were also following right behind Liu into the planet, seeking revenge and to compete in the next Mortal Kombat tournament at the same time. But unbeknownst to Raiden and the Earth warriors, the tournament in Outworld was a diversionary trap set by the Emperor in an attempt to break the rules set forth by the Elder Gods themselves. In rescuing Sonya, Shao Kahn's scheme was thwarted and the Earth warriors prevailed. Shao Kahn, however, responded by resurrecting Queen Sindel on Earth and stepping across the dimensional portal gates to claim her, thus successfully merging it with Outworld. The Earth warriors rallied once more in a battle for the first time, and upon Shao Kahn's defeat, the threat to Earth was over. Escaping back into Outworld, the emperor was severely wounded and defeated. But most importantly, Edenia was freed from Outworld and returned to a whole planet for the first time since Shao conquered Edenia so many years ago. Shao Kahn's final attempt to conquer Earth has failed once again.

The Return of Shinnok
During his time in the Never Never Land, Shinnok rallied an army of allies to help him avenge his losses. With the help of his disguises and his allies in Earth (Noob Sailbot for example) and Edenia (Tanya), Shinnok escaped to the newly restored Edenia, eventually returning to the heavens. Shinnok proceeded to kidnap Queen Sindel and Princess Kitana in the process of ruling with an iron fist as much as he could in his takeover of Edenia for the second time, (the first time was by Shao Kahn) as part of his scheme to launch his attack on the Heavens as an audacious act of vengeance, including murdering several of the Elder Gods and many of the lesser gods for his suffering in the Never Land for millions of years and finally finish the war.

Fujin and Raiden escaped to Earth, where they rallied the Earth warriors. But unlike the last one against Shao Kahn, this time, they are up against Shinnok and his minions. After a long and arduous battle between the fallen Elder God and Earth's champion of Mortal Kombat, Liu Kang prevailed once again, defeating Shinnok, and emerging victorious in saving both Earth and Edenia, thus Shinnok was re-banished to the Never Never Land, along with the sorcerer Quan Chi when he was about to do the same to Scorpion where he was believed to have been killed. However, It was revealed to Scorpion by Sub-Zero, that it was the sorcerer who was the true mastermind, hiring the Lin Kuei behind the death of his family and clan the whole time. Scorpion was sent to the Never Land along with him, and thus the ninja spectre was on a manhunt for the sorcerer. This time he is out for vengeance, and in which he vowed not only to protect the future Lin Kuei warrior of good as atonement for killing his brother once more, but vowed to kill Quan Chi for the death of his family and his clan. After the defeat of Shinnok, the Elder Gods appointed Raiden an Elder God. Raiden then appointed Fujin as the new protector of Earth.

The Deadly Alliance
While in and escaping from the Never Never Land using a secret portal, Quan Chi discovers much information about the past, via unlocking the secrets of the ancient runestone, including the existence of the Dragon King's seemingly immortal army. He approached Shang Tsung with an offer to join forces, thus forming the Deadly Alliance. Quan Chi established a soulnado in Shang Tsung's fortress with the agreement that Shang would use some of the souls to animate the army. Together with their combined strength, they planned to overpower their two foes who could one day prevent their total domination of ruling the planets. Their first target was Shao Kahn. Previously, Shao Kahn was humiliated of his consecutive defeats at Outworld, with most of his subordinates abandoning him. This only made him easier to take out. They first approached in a feigning allegiance to the Emperor and attacked him, seemingly killing him in his weakened state. However, unbeknownst to the Deadly Alliance, it was later revealed that the Shao Kahn they killed was a clone, and the real Shao Kahn had escaped death once again and would begin scheming to retake his throne. Then they travelled to China, Earth via a mystical portal to double-team and kill their next target, the only one who could possibly stop them, Earth's Mightiest Warrior and Champion of Mortal Kombat, Liu Kang.

In order to protect Earth once again, Raiden forfeited his seat as an Elder God and rallied the Earth soldiers to stop this impending threat. Also included in the battle were newcomers Li Mei and Nitara. Nitara's planet, Venerus, had been merged into Outworld against her will, whereas Li Mei was trying to free her land from the Deadly Alliance. Others joined the fight as well, including the newly restored Cyrax (now working for the U.S. Special Forces Unit with Jax and Sonya), as well as Kenshi, a warrior who had been blinded by Shang's treachery and who sought revenge. Unfortunately, these heroes were unable to stop the Deadly Alliance, as the two sorcerers overcame all foes, destroying the majority of the opposition, either dead or fleeing and managing to put their plan to near success.

Return of the Dragon King
It had taken Shujinko years to complete the quest Damashi had given to him, but finally Shujinko had collected the sixth and final Kamidogu from Edenia. Jinko placed the Edenian Kamidogu on the altar in the Nexus with the other five. After the Kamidogus had been collected, the egg Onaga was imprisoned in hatched; the Dragon King resumed his physical form by merging with the ninja Reptile. Back in the Nexus, Shujinko began to wonder why the six Kamidogu were not transported to the Elder Gods as he had been told, it is then Onaga emerged in the Nexus to confront Jinko, revealing to him to be the avatar Damashi all along. Onaga reveals his true plan of obtaining ultimate control over all that exists once he claims Shinnok's amulet, currently in possession of the sorcerer Quan Chi, while using Damashi to manipulate him many of years ago. Shujinko escapes from Onaga into the Earth portal.

Meanwhile, Raiden (with his allies laying dead on the entrance of Shang Tsung's Palace), faced the Deadly Alliance on his own. Despite managing to hold his own for a time, he was ultimately defeated by their combined power. With their victory in hand, Shang Tsung and Quan Chi quickly turned on each other, each looking to grab all the power for themselves mainly for the reason that Tsung wanted Chi's amulet. Quan Chi emerged victorious, but the sorcerer's victory was short-lived, as the Dragon King returned to Outworld, vying to retrieve Shinnok's amulet. Quan Chi proceeded to try to stop him, and the quickly recovering Shang Tsung and Raiden aided as well, forming an impromptu alliance against the greater threat. They were unable to defeat the Dragon King, however, as even Raiden, releasing his godly essence and destroying everything around him, had little effect on the revived former ruler of Outworld who was now in possession of Shinnok's amulet which had been held by Quan Chi.

Sometime later, Raiden's essence, now corrupted from his encounter with Onaga and tainted with Onaga's dark magic, gathered again in the Earth. He had now became furious with the way Earth's inhabitants had treated their own planet. He became even more enraged when he learned that Shujinko had foolishly unleashed the Dragon King by attaining the Kamidogu of various planets for him. His patience exhausted, Raiden then decided he was going to punish those who placed Earth in harm's way. He brutally slayed Jinko for his errors, but Shujinko was able to survive, Raiden then turned his attention towards Liu Kang's corpse.

Removing Liu Kang's body from its grave, Raiden took it to an underground temple that belonged to an ancient sect of necromancers called the Houan, whom he had destroyed centuries earlier. Binding Kang's body with enchanted shackles the Houan had used to control their revived undead, Raiden spoke the enchantments etched into the temple's walls infusing it with a thunderclap of lightning and reviving his old friend. The corpse of Liu Kang was now the enforcer of Raiden's will, and he sent it on a mission to wreak havoc on those he believed did harm to Earth.

Onaga revived the Earth warriors as his pawns and used them and a newly-forged alliance with the Tarkatan horde preventing Edenia's army from interfering with his plans while he searched for the spells that would allow him to fuse the Kamidogus together and grant him supreme power. However, just as he was about to do so, Scorpion came and shattered each of the six Kamidogus, the source of Onaga's invulnerability. Weakened and in defeat, Onaga attempted to retreat only to vanish into thin air. Nightwolf carried, ventured, and absorbed all the sins by the time and travelled deep within the Never Never Land itself. Using a method of knowledge passed down to him by his forefathers called the 'Sin Eater', Nightwolf drew a binding symbol on the ground and chanted the ancient words that drew the spirit of the Dragon King. When the spirit of the Dragon King appeared before him, knowing that he had carried the burden long enough, Nightwolf released all the sins of his people into the mystic symbol, and their weight bound Onaga to the Never Land.

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