"What do you want?" Yuzaro asked. "That's no way to greet an old friend yuzaro." the creature said with a sinister smirk on his face. "Who are you, and how do you know my name?" Yuzaro asked as lee and billy looked on with anger. These kids were not afraid of the beast that stood before them, "you don't remember me?… let me remind you" the creature said as he commenced to explain as it goes into a flashback" "What is your name kid?" Yuzaro asked. "I…..I am brude lecher sir" he answered, as the ninja looked on at Yuzaro. "Glad you can join the fight," Yuzaro added. as it goes into another flashback, it shows Yuzaro getting the scroll then, he and brude escaping other ninjas, as brude was seen screaming for Yuzaro as the flashback ended.
Yuzaro was standing there with a scandalized expression on his face "what happened to you brude?" Yuzaro asked as Brude laughed "why did you leave your fallen comrade Yuzaro?, but if you must know, they hauled me to a desolated location and created what you all are feasting your eyes on; brude lecher is dead, I am known as Nightmare….. you know something, you will be dead as well" nightmare declared.
Back At the Northern quadrant, was the four leaders alongside Chanzu, In Zodiac's Office."
"Coldfront and my team, collected data from software in the nightmare clans Dojo, with info on Red's father Rajin. "What about this Rajin guy?" Shiniko asked as it proceeds into a flashback. It shows Red entering his house. "Mom, Dad I'm home" he yelled with a smile as he shouted for them once more. He then entered his parent's room and saw a man standing there with some kind of mask on. "dear boy...your mother is resting come...come join her," Rajin said as red replied "Fa…..Father!" as he started walking slowly and glanced at the broken picture on the floor of him, his father, and his mother. He then looked up slowly to the masked mercenary once known as his father and shouted "you murderer!" And red took off running towards the door when Rajin somehow appeared in front of red. Red then fell on his bottom by being surprised and scared that his father was that quick. Rajin then walked up to red as red began to beg and plead, "please" "…don't Kill Me!!!!" Red yelled as he got to his feet. Rajin then dashed and gutted his 4-year-old son in the stomach, cutting his wind as a little blood flew from red's mouth from the impact. "I'm not gonna kill you just yet….but mark my words, the next time I see you…..you will join your pathetic mother." Rajin said as red tried to talk but could not as Rajin kicked red in the stomach sending him flying back and impacting the wall and falling in the pool of his mother's blood, and then passing out as the flashback ends." "that's why we're on the hunt for him." zodiac added. "I'll alert all of our allied ninja clans and tell them to be on the lookout" Zenith added.
Back at the Chan's Residence
"I am going to kill you and your precious wife Mei-Lin" nightmare declared, as lee chan had gotten angrier. "you will not touch my family! I will not let you do that" Yuzaro also declared, as nightmare added "well shall we dance?" he asked as he just stood there. lee chan then ran up towards nightmare with the tendency to kill nightmare, "lee no!" Yuzaro yelled as billy did the same but was both kicked to a distance and landed hard on the ground. "No!!!" mei Lin yelled." "Stay back!" Yuzaro demanded his wife. "he's mine…." he also said as he went into his martial arts stance. "you will regret harming my family!" Yuzaro said. as he then ran toward nightmare then hitting a front-flip to a dropkick to nightmare's chest, sending him stumbling. then added another kick to nightmare sending him to the ground. Nightmare then stood up and ran and kicked Yuzaro who then did a back handspring back tuck, then ran back towards him and did a 1,2 hit combo to the face following a 10 hit combo to the stomach and followed by an uppercut to the chin of nightmare. as nightmare became very angry and the mood began to shift. Yuzaro was then proceeding for a kill move when suddenly, Yuzaro came to a screeching halt and now afraid, screaming with fear, as nightmare released a fear-inducing chemical to Yuzaro's brain allowing his perception to be altered causing him to see fear. "Poor Yuzaro chan….." Nightmare said as he walked up to him slowly. "the red dragon's fiercest warrior trembling at my feet;" "not to worry I'll end this quickly. You did put up a fight, but your time is up" nightmare added. As he then snapped Yuzaro's neck with malice while lee chan looked on with his eyes widened. as nightmare then approached Mei-Lin chan who was sobbing in tears, as the cries of her newborn were echoing from the house. "Mei-Lin forgive me, but you do know how this ends." nightmare pointed out as she looked at lee chan who was looking at his mom in a state of shock as tears rolled down his eyes. He was still on the ground and billy was out cold as mei- Lin responded, "lee…..take care of your brothers…..an….and mommy loves you." she said as her last words as she began to cry as nightmare snapped her neck as well leading up to lee screaming with pain as you can feel his pain from his roar "mom!!!!" lee chan screamed as nightmare walked up to him "know…fear..." "He said as he laughed and blue smoke covered his body as he vanished as lee chan collected himself and got up slowly and walked to the dead body of his father. He then dropped to the ground attempting to wake his dad while covered in tears. "father...….father get up.." He whimpered to no response from his deceased father. "father get up please!" he whimpers once more as he saw his mother and then walked to her deceased body "m…..mother…" he whimpered. "Mother my heart is hurting...mom get up...please mom...mom!" he added as he embraced her.
Hours afterward, lee chan was standing over the graves that he made for his family "I…. a proud member of the chan family will avenge your deaths. mother....father...he will pay!" lee declared as he clenched his fist. "I will continue your legacy father, I will join the red dragon clan and in due time, train my brothers and take care of them; I love you and I will not rest until nightmare pays for what he has done!" lee added as it begins to drizzle." "Moments later, a wounded billy was standing in front of the plots while having his backpack around his back, as he gave his condolences to his mother and father and placing a necklace on each plot with the Chinese emblems which stood for heaven, and tranquility. "Xie Xie, Mûqīn hè Fùqīn" (which means thank you, mother and father, in Chinese) as he wiped the tears from his eyes and walked to his older brother Lee, who had his backpack on with a picture of the family and baby things inside while carrying their baby brother zen Lui chan inside of a baby sling. As they took one last aspect of the place and then lets to go to Formaxion." "Later on, Coldfront was standing by the riverbank thinking to himself. "Other warriors from different quadrants, I have to win this tournament," Coldfront said as Zodiac appeared. "Coldfront, I wouldn't have chosen you if I believed you were weak," he said as Coldfront looked back to see zodiac. "I selected you to be the captain of the squad for one reason, and that's to lead and become stronger than before. You're the definition of what Formaxion is, and I alongside all of the others, believe in you" zodiac added. as Coldfront replied, "I'm gonna give it my all in the tournament teacher." he said, as it shows the two standing by the water.
It then shows the dojo temple of the nightmare clan…." "State your name." the master of the clan said. the young boy simply stared at him. "I see, the look in that kid's eyes, is like appearing into an empty room." the master said as it showed the kid still staring. "Show him to his room," the master ordered his right-hand top ninja, as the ninja said "follow me child." as the boy followed him.
Moments later, the two were walking in the fiery-lit hallway. "I don't know you, and I don't want to know you. I can sense carelessness in you, but I don't view you as a ninja, you may dress like one all you want, but you're not welcomed here." the ninja went on and said as the boy walked past a door while looking through the window attached to the door, only to see a female just as young as he was, and she was staring back at him. As he turned his head forward and continued to walk. when it showed the girl staring out at him." "That evening, the ninja who walked him in the room earlier, had returned in the room as the kid was lying on the bed. "You have been summoned by the elder" the man stated.
It then showed the boy walking with the captain of the clan. Moments later, they both entered the room where the other ninjas were as well as the elder. "Young man, I don't know who you're, but if you want to be here, then you must first compete in a trial by combat thanks to the captain of this league, he proposed that you battle him and here in this temple no two men have ever made it out of battle together....this fight is to the death." the elder said as it showed the kid female ninja.
"That's right kid, your fight is with me." the captain said as the boy looked on with a look of wrath as the captain added, "no one has ever defeated me, and you too will join the demised so-called ninjas." he pointed out as he went into his fighting stance. "Begin!" the leader yelled out as the captain dashed at the kid "who then dropped a smoke bomb. Then did a punch-front (front flip) followed by a hurricarana sending the captain to the floor. He then did a kip-up as they both charged at one another swinging at each other and evading one another's attacks. The captain then gut-punched the kid sending him to the floor. The boy then stood up and then the captain started landing tremendous blows to the kid. The kid then got back up to only get hit with a two-punch combo, in the face, and the stomach sending him back to the ground. "You're a waste of skin. "the captain said as he performed a spinning heel kick on the boy sending him to the ground once more, as the kid then stayed down this time staring at the ceiling. "I am going to end you now." the man said as it shows the female ninja again with worry in her eyes. "As I said, you're a waste of skin, and now I am going to obliterate you right here…..right now." he declared as he was handed a sword. It then goes into a flashback of a young boy crying before his dead father, followed by a dark ninja hidden in the shadows with the nightmare clan emblem on his chest. The flashback ended as the kid stood up with hatred in his eyes. "Still want more?" The captain asked, as the boy dashed at him with tremendous speed punching and breaking the sword while landing a heavy right to the captain, as the female ninja's eyes grew as well as the leader." "The boy then kept the assault going by landing repeated strikes to the stomach of the captain ninja, and every time the ninja tries to get his advantage back, the boy kills the momentum with more hits. He then kicked the ninja in the stomach sending him fleeing. The boy got even madder and dashed towards the captain hitting him in the stomach, then the face, followed by another kick. Then a round-off back handspring, back tuck. While in the back tuck form, he threw three shurikens at the ninja. The ninja then evaded the shurikens, but turned around to another punch to the face, as the ninja was going to the floor, the boy stayed on him with more punches even when the ninja hit the ground, the boy did not let up. he continued the punching as anger flooded his mind as well as the emblem. The boy continued as the others looked on. Without any words or emotion, the boy continued to land punches to the face of the ninja." "Enough!" the leader yelled as the boy did not oblige, he just kept hitting him. "I said enough!" He shouted as the boy held back his last hit while breathing heavily. The captain just laid there with a battered face. "this match is over." the leader stated. "This boy…..what is his purpose here?" the leader asked himself, as it showed the female ninja looking with shock on her face. Blood drenched from the hand of the boy in the ninja attire, as he commenced to speak. "I have no name…..I have no bit of light inside of me ever since that day." he said as he continued, "I am here to not make friends, only to kill anyone standing in my way, I've come from emptiness, my heart is as cold as ice, and I show sympathy for no one, I am Black Shadow." "the kid said as everyone looked on. "now that you know who I am, I suggest that you stay out of my way." he demanded as the captain ninja swung his sword down an cut the mirage of black shadow. "huh!" he said as black shadow was behind the ninja. Then drawing a small blade from his hand and stabbed him in the back of the neck. As the ninja was dropping, black shadow added, "now, you can join the so-called ninjas." he said as the body of the captain dropped face-first to the floor. Black shadow then stared at the leader with anger and then walked off.
Somewhere far, it showed Rajin standing in the forest. "so that's where you are red?" Rajin asked himself while looking upwards into the night sky. "The tournament is approaching, and once you return from the northern quadrant, I'll be waiting for you." he added as this chapter ends with Rajin still looking up in the sky."