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Last Night of the Fireflies

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Chapter 1 - Prologue - The Reaper's Hitman

 The metallic door creaks open as the boy steps out into the night. He is only 9 years of age. The world is dark and muddy buy small buds of light still fly through the air. The overgrown buildings surround him, the world is desolate and fragile. He who does not sleep watches the child. Eying him through the crosshair. He is a mere shadow, watching, waiting. The boy walks throughout the street, the collapsing city surrounding him. He sits on a shattered wooden bench, it wobbles underneath his small, frail body. The shadow steadies his rifle. He breaths slowly in and as he exhales, relaxing his shadowy figure. The trigger is pulled.

 A single sound rings throughout the air as the boy tilts his head slightly. There is no time to scream or to move as he sees the object flying towards him. The mark hits true as the boy falls to the ground. Blood spurts from the fist size hole gaping in his head. The fireflies glow ferociously bright as the shadowy figure clad in black is revealed. He stands at 6'0" and is very frail and small. He holds a sheath at his side and a .50 caliber rifle in his palms. The shadow is feared by all who know of his existence. Many think he is a legend or myth, a story to instill fear into all. After all he is known by many names for he is thought to be the hitman of the Reaper