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Heart | Revenant!Liu Kang x Reader

Heart

A person's feeling or capacity for love or compassion.

It was dark, damp and murky inside of the dungeon. There wasn't any light peeping through the bars from the outside. Of course, how could there be? It wasn't like there was a direct light source within the Netherrealm. Demons didn't need to survive with daylight; they were creatures of the dark anyways.

You fumbled with the shackles bound to your wrists. Breaking yet another finger nail with your futile attempt to make do with an escape. Blood flowed freely as you grew tired of caring.

You wondered why there were not any other prisoners in the holding cells, why you were the only left to bask in your solitude. How long had you been down here in the prison? It felt like years, almost two decades. However, the greater question that riddled in your mind was why, why had you not been killed already by the ruthless new emperor, Liu Kang?

You had to admit, you were in love with the Shaolin. But his heart was never yours for the taking; he had been amorously infatuated with the Edenian princess. Woe is you, when your love since youth had been nothing but a one-sided romance. A little piece of you kept holding onto the hopeful thought that maybe, just maybe, in his heart; you resided. That he secretly longed for you the way you longed for him.

Then again, wishful thinking was the reason that landed you here as his prisoner. Believing his words when he invaded Earthrealm to cause damage and wreak havoc, to create chaos and distraught the Thunder God, Raiden. Instead, he had gotten the upper hand on you; knocked you out, and now you were used as a bargaining chip.

It was just too good to be true.

You had only one thing to blame and that was your heart.

It was so feeble, and weak to believe that the Liu Kang, defender of Earthrealm, was in love with a lowly combatant such as yourself.

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Basking in the silence of his throne room, there sat the newly self-appointed emperor of the Netherrealm. Liu Kang had been staring at his feet for what had felt like a century. His thoughts were slowly suffocating him as his mind constantly drifted to you.

He could the echoes of your shackles being shaken from the dungeon below; he could your shrieks of demented terror rises like a banshee's wail. The panging sounds that cried out with every outburst of your sanity slowly crumbling away. It wasn't like he took great fascination with your declining humanity and broken screams.

In fact, it had felt like he was being stabbed in the chest repeatedly throughout the days. He was beginning to feel some form of regret build up within his tormented soul. Anguished cries provoking him to break his solidarity upon the throne, pushing him to run to the cellars and release you.

He had felt his fingers twitch with the new sound of your sobs reverberating into the empty room. Liu didn't mean to hurt you, not at first; he had wanted to protect you.

To save you from Shao Kahn's forced invasion of Earthrealm, he wanted to cherish every moment of life with you. That desire of his to grow old with you, raise a family. He had only wanted to make you proud.

Ever since his untimely death due to Raiden's hands; he had grown bitter, cold, ruthless and murderous. He wanted revenge on those who failed him in his living life. Being given a second chance to live again, instead as a slave to a sorcerer, he had taken full advantage of the situation and cards played to him. Liu chose to conquer and destroy as he saw fit.

That was, until he saw you again. You listened to him, smiled and told him that you forgave him for whatever ruinous deeds he had committed. Your voice soothed his afflicted soul and lulled him back to a semi-conscious state of mind. The shine that was beaming in your eyes that night was almost enough to crack Quan-Chi's spell over him, how he wished it had worked. Instead, he had snapped back to his revenant form and lashed out on you, kidnapped and tortured you with the ever so maddening silence of solitude. He left you to rot in your own thoughts and drown within your doubts.

And for that, his heart knew that it deserved no part in your life.