Jealousy
(An unfinished fic that is still on going)
Pairing: Raiden/Liu Kang
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 1,139
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“Alright, so let me get this straight.” Johnny says, pressing his palms together and pointing directly at him. “Basically Shang Tsung, in your universe, managed to lure you into a trap and used some sort of magical crystal to transport you into a different realm, but somehow accidentally transported you into our timeline and now you have no way back home?”
Raiden, well Rayden as he calls himself to prevent any confusion, shrugs his shoulders. “That’s pretty much the gist of it, but yeah.”
“Can’t you just use your powers to transport back to where you’re from.” Kung Lao suggested and Rayden shook his head.
“Doesn’t work that way. I teleport to places, not jumping into unfamiliar timelines.”
Raiden crossed his arms, “But why this specific timeline?” he asks.
“Beats me,” Rayden shrugs. Much to Raiden’s irritation of the lack of a direct answer. “All I know is that the crystal Shang Tsung used, which may I add, the Kung Lao in my own timeline was supposed to be strictly protected. Is capable of opening doors to other realms, I never expect it to hold this much power to blast me into a different timeline.”
Kung Lao winces at the mention of his name of his counterpart, and Rayden notices as he quickly added, “No offense.”
“Speaking of timelines,” Johnny starts, almost shoving Kung Lao out the way, much to the monk’s displeasement as he grimaces. “Dude, you gotta let me know if I’m still a movie star where you’re from!”
Raiden frowns as the rest of the group gathers around his alternate self. Whom he doesn’t seem to mind answering questions as his friend’s chatter around him, intrigue at how different this Rayden is, besides the name, is compared to theirs.
The two look similar in appearance and height. But different in personality and clothing, his counterpart's personality is rather too nonchalantly with a hint of mischief in his counterpart's not-so-blazing blue eyes. His long white hair goes past his shoulder, added with a straw hat hanging behind his back. He wears baggy white clothes, a light blue vest with a similar colour of his sash wrapped around his waist. He looked like a normal commoner who doesn’t exude an aura of raw power that shows he was a divine being, a god, but rather a harmless looking human being.
His counterpart didn’t seem to show much of a threat with a rather low-key and approachable personality.
‘For now at least,’ Raiden thought and joined the group.
“So wait, in your timeline I don’t exist where you’re from?” Johnny asks and Rayden shakes his head.
“I wouldn’t say you don’t exist, I just haven’t met you yet and that includes you three.” Rayden points at Sonya, Jax, and Kenshi.
Johnny’s face droops, “Oh man, I was going to be super stoked to learn about what my counterpart is like.” he whines.
“Well who knows, maybe further in my immortal years as time passes I might meet your counterparts. Although I did mention Kung Lao is in my timeline and then there’s Taja, Siro...” Rayden informs and then his blue eyes land on Liu Kang. “And then there’s you.”
Liu Kang who had been silent in the whole group blinks at the mention of his name. The rest of the group turn to face him and Liu Kang ducks his head, feeling a little embarrassed and shy at the attention.
“Me?”
“Mhm.”
Rayden approaches and circles around him, like a predator examining his prey. For a thunder god of another timeline whose personality is a polar opposite of Raiden’s and seems to be a little more approachable. The closeness of his counterpart circling around Raiden’s disciple makes Liu Kang squirm on the spot as he closes in.
Raiden’s eyes harden.
A little too close, he thinks.
“Hm.. it’s weird to see how similar you two are.” Rayden mentioned, stroking his chin as he stands at his side. “Same height, same eye colour and same build. Although the difference is that your hair is much shorter than his. Kind of reminds me of one of those karen hair cuts.” he says, touching a strand of Liu Kang’s hair and lifting up to examine the colour. Liu Kang’s brows furrow when hears Johnny and Kung Lao snicker.
Irritated, the red ribbon monk scowls as he slaps his hand and Rayden brings his hand back with a yelp.
“Lord Rayden, kindly please keep your hands to yourself.” Liu Kang hisses, cheeks tinted red.
The counterpart winces and shakes his hand as if in pain, “Ow, both respectful and feisty too.” he adds and continues making his way behind him.
“Although you wear a little more modestly, I can tell that waist and those legs,” Rayden implies heavily. He bows a little low sideways as his blue eye trails up from his legs to his backside. Liu Kang hurriedly brings his hand behind him as he twists around to avoid the other thunder god’s prying eyes as he sees the older man straighten himself. “Still looks as fantastic as ever.”
Raiden makes a strangled noise in his throat that almost sounded like a choke, Liu Kang’s face flushes red with a horrified look, and Rayden’s blue eyes twinkle.
Raiden always knew there are possible and countless timelines with different versions of himself and his friends, his amulet proves that. But he never expected to meet this version of himself to be so- so shameless!
Raiden swears he’s going to strangle him.
Johnny elbows Kung Lao’s bicep and whispers, “I’ll bet a 100 bucks Raiden is going to kill him.”
Kung Lao whispers back, “200 if Liu Kang will be the first to beat him up.”
Sonya crosses her arms and smirks, “250 that Raiden is going to defend Liu’s honour.”
Kenshi sighs, “Guys…”
Jax jabs his thumb at Sonya’s direction, “I’m with Sonya on this one.”
Raiden quickly steps in front of his counterpart, shielding his eyes from Liu Kang’s figure as he glares.
“Are you done examining my student?” Raiden asks coldly.
Liu Kang quickly comforts his mentor by giving him a slight squeeze of his bicep in his hand. “Lord Raiden, please calm down. I’m sure he’s just joking around.” Liu Kang reasoned, trying to de-escalate the tense situation.
Feeling the reassuring warm hand of his student through the fabric of his arm, Raiden breathes out and forces himself to relax for the sake of his student. And Liu Kang feels Raiden's tense figure relax under his grip.
Rayden pulls his hands up in surrender and chuckles. “Apologies, just seeing a familiar face makes me feel a little homesick so I tend to get a little carried away.” he says and drops his hands.
“Rest assured, you will return home,” Raiden promises.
‘And I’ll make sure it stays that way.’ he adds.
(To be Continued)
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Apologies if the character's seem to out of character. I'm pretty much new to the MK Fandom so I'm still learning 😭.
