Mileena: Ravishing Terror by Jade Gretz

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Mileena: The Hunger of Two Faces

The moon over Earthrealm was a thin blade of silver, sharp as a whisper. Beneath it, the diplomatic citadel of Xiang Plaza stood suspended over a lake of glassy black water. Lanterns shimmered across its marble bridges, where envoys from realms unnumbered mingled—Outworlders, humans, Edenians, all under uneasy truce.

Among them walked Mileena, cloaked in crimson silk and stillness.

Her reflection trembled in the water beside her—a beautiful woman’s face veiled by gold embroidery, and beneath it, the faint glimmer of fangs. She forced her lips closed. They cannot see me, she told herself. They must not.

Inside her, another voice—wet, coiled, and hungry—laughed.
They already smell you, sister. They always do.

She tightened her gloves until the fabric creaked.

The Earthrealm diplomatic mission had taken months to assemble. Outworld’s new empress, Kitana, had sent Mileena as a gesture of faith—an irony the courtiers whispered about behind fans and masks. “Send the hybrid to represent peace,” they said. “Send the monster with a smile.”

It was a cruel jest, but Kitana believed her. Believed that somewhere beneath the teeth and bloodlust, her twin harbored loyalty. Or maybe it was pity that had sent her here. Mileena couldn’t decide which wounded more.

The Earthrealm envoy met her in the Hall of Mirrors—an endless chamber of polished obsidian panels where illusions folded like smoke. At its center waited Ambassador Hsu, an aged diplomat with parchment-thin hands and eyes like chipped stone.

“Lady Mileena of Outworld,” he greeted, bowing slightly. “It is an honor.”

His attendants bowed too—four humans in silver robes. They stared at her as one might stare at a painting rumored to be cursed.

“The honor,” Mileena replied, voice calm, “is shared.”

Her speech was perfect now. Kitana had trained her for months, drilling refinement into every hiss and consonant. Yet even now, certain syllables threatened to fray into a growl.

“Empress Kitana offers peace,” she continued, “and trade between our realms.”

Hsu smiled faintly. “Trade is easier than trust.”

“And trust,” Mileena said softly, “is easier than truth.”

He blinked, perhaps uncertain if it was wisdom or warning. She held his gaze. The other voice inside her purred. He smells of salt. Of life. Bite him.

No. She forced the thought away like a door against a storm.

That evening, the diplomats feasted beneath crystal domes. Lanternlight rippled through the glass like trapped fireflies. Platters of spiced meats, jeweled fruits, and rice perfumed with jasmine covered the tables.

Mileena’s hands trembled as she reached for a cup. Her tongue flicked across her teeth before she caught herself. Every scent in the room—roasted flesh, warm blood pulsing beneath living skin—was agony. The other inside her stirred restlessly.

When Ambassador Hsu rose to toast the gathering, she rose too, echoing him with grace. “To unity,” he said.
“To survival,” she answered.

The crowd murmured approval. The diplomat’s smile returned.

But across the hall, a man in a dark hood watched her too long.

He wasn’t part of the mission—she was certain. His robe bore no emblem. The scent around him was wrong, old as graves. And when their eyes met, she felt a pulse inside her skull, like cold fingers tapping from within.

Later, when she left the table, she found him waiting near the mirrored corridor.

“Outworld’s beast walks among lambs,” he whispered as she passed.

She froze. “Speak carefully.”

The man’s hood tilted up, revealing the faint lines of a Tarkatan scar running down his jaw. Her breath hitched. That mark—those ridged slashes—belonged to her kin, the flesh-bred soldiers of Shao Kahn, long thought extinct or exiled.

“You are of Tarkat,” she said.

“I was,” the man rasped. “Before the hunger hollowed me.”

Her pulse stuttered. The voice inside her purred in recognition. One of us. Or what’s left.

“What do you mean?” she asked.

“The sickness returns,” he said, eyes glassy. “Tarkat is not gone—it sleeps in blood, waiting for a vessel strong enough to reignite it. You, daughter of fangs, are that vessel.”

Mileena’s nails dug into her palms. “Lies.”

“Ask your body,” he whispered. “Ask the hunger that gnaws when you smell human warmth. Ask
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