MN - 11 - Sub-Zero Scene

The water froze as it spilled across the floor. Far across the hall, Liu could see Kitana standing at the top of a set of stairs, watching him. The princess’s words came back to him.

“Use the force which brings life...” Liu whispered. Suddenly the answer came to him. “Water!”

Liu picked up the second pail of water, still attached to the carrying yoke. He swung it around and around his head, faster and faster. The centrifugal force grew. He could hardly hold the bucket. He let go, and the bucket flew toward Sub-Zero, spilling a trail of water as it tumbled through the air.

The ninja loosed his cold blast. When the blast struck the water, all the trailing droplets coalesced, absorbing the freezing attack the ninja had meant for Liu. Their motion through the air continued, but now the droplets were frozen into a long spear of solid ice, flying point-first toward the blue-clad fighter.

Before the ninja could move out of the way, the icicle struck, piercing his chest and pinning him to one of the columns of the Great Hall. Sub-Zero looked down with disbelief at the icy shaft transfixing his body. Slowly, from the center out, he himself froze into a glittering sculpture of solid ice. His head was the last part to freeze, a look of rage and disbelief still caught in his open eyes.

Liu looked away from the frozen ninja, and saw that Princess Kitana was still watching. She turned and vanished through a doorway, deep into the side of the mountain.