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One year
later...
“Great dinner, Alex,” said Cyrax in delight.
“Thank you,” Alex replied.
The
two of them along with Kenshi, Jax, Sonya, and White sat around at the dinner table. Alex had invited her Special Forces friends
for dinner to her and Kenshi’s new house on the residential area of the base. In between Kenshi and Alex in a highchair
was a small infant, only about a few months old.
“So is the baby giving you guys much trouble lately?”
asked Jax as he looked at the child.
Kenshi smirked. “Not today at least. Victoria must’ve known Cyrax
was coming over.”
“Because I’m not just a mean old ugly mechanical robot,” Cyrax answered.
“I’m all sweet and handsome with a lot of good tricks up my sleeves.”
Cyrax’s chest opened
up revealing a stuffed doll. “Look at what Uncle Cyrax got you!”
Alex smiled as Victoria cooed at the toy
in front of her. “I’m going to regret the day she starts calling you Uncle Cyrax.”
Everyone laughed
a bit as Cyrax set down the doll in front of Victoria for her to play with. Then they continued eating and having other conversations.
Kenshi
slightly turned his head towards the child next to him as she held on to her new stuffed doll. Everyday since the day she
was born, he still found it hard to believe that this little wonder belonged to him, that she was his daughter. It was only
a year ago that he had come to Special Forces where he met and fell in love with Agent Alex Walker...a year ago that he had
went on his mission to Outworld while Alex and his unborn daughter waited on Earthrealm for him.
When Kenshi and Alex
named their daughter, they chose Victoria for that it meant, ‘warrior.’ They both believe that someday she will
become one. Perhaps she would become a swordswoman or a Special Forces Agent. Perhaps she would be part of the next generation
of Raiden’s mortals to protect Earthrealm from the forces of evil.
There will endless possibilities of what she
would become in the future and Kenshi hoped to be there when that time came.
Before Kenshi knew it, everyone was finished
with their dinner. Alex noticed that his food on his plate was only half eaten.
“Lost your appetite?” she
whispered.
Kenshi smirked as he heard her sweet, gentle voice. “No, I was just doing some thinking...about Victoria...just
wondering what she’ll be like in the future.”
Alex smiled. “Before we know it, we’ll know.”
She quickly kissed him before taking her plate towards the dishwasher.
Jax grinned at everyone. “So who’s
up for a game of poker?”
“No way!” cried Sonya. “Kenshi always wins that game.”
“Yeah,”
said Cyrax. “And pool, and Scrabble, and chess, and Monopoly, and darts, and Ping Pong, and Go Fish, and about every
video game you can name, especially that one game...what’s it called...I think it’s Street Fighter. Heck, he can
even win in that game where you have to act out a TV show, a movie, and music!”
Kenshi showed off a cocky grin.
“I guess I’m just too good.”
“Well let’s play poker any ways,” Jax suggested. “Kenshi
you’re on my team!”
“No fair!” cried Cyrax.
Just before anyone got up, Kenshi immediately
felt an eerie chill go up his spine. His senses could sense something from outside...something dark, something evil...
Something
with a sinister force.
He stood up and faced where he could sense the disturbing chi. What is going on? he
thought.
Alex, who was holding Victoria in her arms, turned around to face Kenshi, but she didn’t find him following
her with the others. He stood there facing the window showing off the perfect blue sky and the bushes and trees on the green
grass. She walked over to him. Kenshi, sensing Alex and their daughter next to him, turned his head towards them.
The
others ended up noticing the couple no longer following them to the other room. Alex had walked over to Kenshi who stood there
by the window. Each of them immediately realized why he hadn’t followed them.
He had sense something.
“Kenshi,”
said Alex. “Are you okay?”
Kenshi slowly turned his body in front of her and slowly wrapped both arms around
her and Victoria. At first, everyone was relieved, thinking that Kenshi was only daydreaming. That was, until he said the
two words that would alter what was to come.
“Something’s wrong.”
As soon as he said those
words, a thunderbolt landed in the room next to them, startling everyone and causing Victoria to cry a little bit. The familiar
former Elder God appeared before them.
“Raiden!” cried Sonya. “Welcome back.”
“Hello
mortals,” said Raiden.
“Something’s happening, is it?” asked Jax with concern.
“I’m
afraid so.”
“So now we’ll be going to Outworld and kick some butt again!” cried Cyrax.
“That
indeed, but there is something important I must tell you,” Raiden began to inform. “This is a new evil force,
something that mankind has never faced before, one with a sinister force.”
Kenshi’s senses were right,
what he sensed WAS a sinister force. He held Alex and Victoria closer to him. “What kind of sinister force?” he
asked.
“One more powerful than any other,” Raiden answered. “He is called...The Dragon King.”
At
that, dark clouds began to cover the blue sky above them. Whatever was happening was now the beginning. And whatever was to
come, Kenshi was going to help out in defeating his sinister force with his friends and lover, the ones who have given him
light in his own darkness.
The End.
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