It’s a dark and rainy night. The suburbs never looked so foreboding and hopeless. We see a nice small house with a nice walkway and then we pan from the house to a street light in front of the house. It’s turning on and off. Light on, nothing under the street light. Light off, nothing again. Light on, a shadow figure appears under the street light. The figure sneaks into the back of the house and opens the window of his target. He sneaks in like a cat, no sounds, and no footsteps.
His target is a middle-aged man, early 30s, caucasian and is asleep with his wife. The figure draws his katana from the scabbard tied to his back and proceeds to slice the target's throat, leaving him to drown in his own blood while asleep. The figure hears the neighbors awake and decides that going back from the window he came from can be too risky. So, he leaves the room through the bedroom door and decides to go out through the front. But as soon as he enters the hallway, lightning cracks the sky. He soon hears: Daddy…I’m scared. The house is as black as night, yet the child can see his outline. NO WITNESSES flashes through his mind like a rabid dog barking. NO WITNESSES ,NO WITNESSES. He walks up to the child slowly with hesitance. He starts to draw his sword from the scabbard and then lightning cracks again.
Lightning strikes again, and it is a dark and rainy night in the city. On top of a skyscraper, the rain is pouring like bullets and lightning strikes again, and we see a flash of the same figure from before on top of a skyscraper. The skyscraper is in front of a company which is owned by a well-known mafia boss. Lightning strikes again, and the figure vanishes. There are about 100 guards in the 10-story building, and there are two guards at the front entrance. Christ, this rain is coming down like it's hail! Tony whines.The other guard, Zander joins, why do we always have front door duty when it's raining? Only when it's raining cats and dogs, they give us front door duty. The only thing these two can see in front of them is a dark abyss until they see two eyes emerge from the darkness. HEY! WHO’S THERE?!! YOU'RE TRESPASSING! Tony says. Not even 5 seconds later, two shurikens come flying at them aimed specifically at their jugular. The figure runs past the two guards as they collapse and start to bleed out.
The figure goes through the front, and the entire lobby is filled with armed guards. They start shooting immediately as the figure unsheathes his katana and goes to work. Twenty. There are twenty guards, ten with small machine guns and the other ten with assault weapons. The figure throws three smoke bombs, one strategically placed where the biggest crowd of them are. Crowding together like herds of sheep, reduced their chances of surviving. Primitive. As smoke emerges, the guards formation is thrown into disarray and they start to panic. The figure starts to quickly them all down one by one. Twenty. He slices two guards heads off with one swing. eighteen. Like dominoes when one falls, so do the rest of them. He counts down with each kill until: zero. He has only a few more minutes until she escapes. He speeds up the stairs and slaughters anyone he finds in the stairs until he gets to the 5th floor. This is taking too long. He decides to take the elevator but someone’s coming down so he decides to go up the shaft himself. He prepares his grappling hook from his suit’s gauntlet and aims it at the elevator car coming down. He throws explosive shuriken at the floor of the elevator and it blows the floor to the roof killing all of the guards in the elevator. He lands on the ceiling of the elevator and hops out to the next floor.
He is now on the 9th floor and this is where all of the remaining guards are. All of them are here, What’s left of them. This isn't a display of strength, more like weakness. It’s 50 men armed to the teeth vs someone or something beyond human. The lights, there are only 4 of them. He once again pulls out his shuriken, throws it at the lights, and it is only darkness on this floor. There are gunshots, screams of agony, and then silence. Lightning cracks the sky and the light from the bolt illuminates the figure, to reveal that he is covered in blood and is in front of a grand door. He kicks the door open and has a gun aimed at his head by her.
The legendary night assassin is about to die because of some stupid little kid. Anger boils up inside of the figure, an anger he never felt before. As he attempts to swing his arm, she pulls the trigger. The gunshot echoes the room and the casing falls to the ground. There is silence and then action. NIghtraider forces her wrist to drop the gun and grabs her by her throat. How….did you….survive? She is barely able to let out those four words out of her mouth as his grip is unbreakable. Nightraider drags her by her throat to her and crashes her body through her large window. He hangs her over the black asphalt as she attempts to beg for forgiveness with the few breaths. Plea…please. Did you give her that mercy that you beg for? When she realizes that nobody is coming to save her, the look of terror and dread comes over her face. Nightraider cracks her neck and drops her to her death. Sirens blare and flash, and as lightning strikes as our figure disappears.
Not many things are known about this figure. His name, his height, his race, none of that info is known to the public. He was an urban legend. A cautionary tale There have only been unconfirmed sightings of the figure. Only recently was his existence truly confirmed with testimony from an alleged victim’s mother. There was a string of murders that went unsolved but now with the confirmation of the figure’s existence, the public has connected the dots on the murders. There may be debate if he is actually involved in the murders or not or if he even is real. But there is one thing that is for sure and that this figure’s name is NIGHTRAIDER.
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Nightraider: Demon of the shadows
ActionThis is an action thriller about an assasin named nightraider, who seeks revenge against those who has hired him after a hit gone wrong. Read the tale of men with regrets who are trying to make up for their past sins.
