Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (15 page)

His eyes were pools of starlight, he regarded them a while longer and then turned to rejoin the two Elder Gods.

Then, the glow around the triumvirate brightening until it dazzled the eye, they streaked skyward like heaven bound comets.

There was silence for a long time afterward.

“You know,” Sonya said finally. “I think we’ve all earned some time off.”

“Where should we go?” Kitana said. “By now things should be getting back to normal on Earth. Will you stay here with me, Liu? Or will you return there?”

He looked at her a moment.

“Hmmm, tough call. I mean, you’d think I could do better than a ten thousand-year-old princess,” he said with a wry wink.

And for the first time in eons, the sound of mirthful laughter soared high into the Outworld sky.