Scene 1: The City Never Sleeps
Even at midnight, Mafia City throbbed like a sick heart. The alleys were painted in warped shades of red and green by the neon lights that flickered and died above broken sidewalks. Smoke, rust, oil, and something more perilous, fear, were all in the air.Lee was sitting with his back against a dirty wall in the hollowed-out shell of an old car garage. Each breath felt like a glass stab.with her fists clenched and blood still drying on her knuckles, Arya paced uneasily. Jin sat apart, silently and intently checking his pistol.
"We can't pretend that was anything normal," Arya said at last, her voice cracked but steady.
"No," Jin murmured. "It wasn't. And whatever it was… it's not finished with us."
Lee, wincing as he adjusted his injured shoulder, spoke up. "It was real. That thing—whatever it is—it looked into me. Spoke to me."
Arya gave a nod. "I don't think we'll see it again."
Jin whispered, "We're not prepared for something like that."
Arya stopped to look them both in the eye and said, "Then we better get ready fast." "Because we might not survive the next time."
Scene 2: A Friend
A lone figure sat in the darkness above the top of the billboard of the partially demolished roof. A cigarette glowed dimly between his fingers, and his long coat floated slightly in the breeze.
Silas.
Like a ghost story, the name voiced through the underground: vicious, effective, and totally unpredictable.His eyes followed the garage below, as sharp as shards of glass.
He tapped his communicator.
"They're holed up. Ready to move."
The response was static, then a gravelly voice: "Proceed."
Silas exhaled smoke through a smirk. "Showtime."
Scene 3: Setting the Trap
Inside, the tension had turned electric.
"Something's off," Lee murmured.
Arya's steps slowed. "You feel that too?"
Jin looked into the darkness and cocked his gun. "This bothers me."The lights abruptly went out..
A thick silence settled.
From the doorway, slow applause echoed into the darkness.
A voice sneered, "Well done." "I didn't think you would live this long."
Jin took a step forward and aimed his handgun. "Silas.""
The figure emerged, his smirk unmistakable in the flickering light. "Miss me?"
Arya's eyes narrowed. "You should be dead."
"Now, now," Silas uttered in a mocking tone. "Let's avoid interfering with personal feelings. It's only business.
The tension was broken by Lee's voice. "What are you looking for?"
"Jo wants you gone. I'm just the guy making sure that happens."
Then, he snapped his fingers.
The walls exploded.
Armed mercenaries surged through the openings, shouting and firing.
Scene 4: Fire and Steel
There was a roar of gunfire. In a matter of seconds, Jin's shots eliminated two assailants. With her precise and vicious movements and flashing blades, Arya was a tornado.With his heart thumping in his ears, Lee clambered behind a workbench. His will was stronger than his body.
A fallen wrench lay nearby.
He snatched it and waited—then cracked it against a mercenary's knee as the man rushed past. The scream was immediate. Lee stole his gun and fired into the chaos.
"We can't hold this!" Jin shouted from behind a stack of tires.
"Then stop talking and move!" Arya replied, ducking low as bullets tore past her head.
Through the mayhem, Silas strolled in like a conductor of violence.
Without hesitation, he turned his blade on his own men. One mercenary fell, throat slashed. Another was gutted before he could even aim.
Lee's stomach turned. "He's killing his own?"
Jin gritted his teeth. "Silas doesn't do sides. He does blood."
Scene 5: Blow It to Hell
The shop floor was soaked with blood. Gunpowder burned in the air.
Lee staggered to Arya's side. "We're outnumbered."
Jin's eyes locked on a rusty gasoline drum in the corner. He gave a wicked grin.
"Not for long."
He kicked a fuel can toward the mercenaries, then fired.
BOOM.
The explosion tore through the room, a fireball swallowing bodies and machinery alike. Silas barely dodged the worst of it, diving into the shadows.
Arya grabbed Lee by the collar. "Go! Move now!"
They burst out the back as the structure groaned and collapsed behind them.
A black SUV screeched around the corner.
The door flung open. "Get in!" a voice yelled.
Lee didn't hesitate. He threw himself inside, followed by Arya and Jin.
As they sped off, Lee turned to see their rescuer.
His breath caught.
"Maria?"
Scene 6: The Bigger Game
Maria's expression didn't soften as she drove, her eyes scanning the road ahead like she expected death around every corner.
Lee's voice cracked the silence. "Why the hell are you helping us?"
Instead of answering, she tossed a folder into his lap.
Inside: photographs of strange runes, scribbled lab notes, confidential blueprints marked Apex Industries – Black Ops Division.
Lee's jaw tightened. "What… what is all this?"
Maria's voice was quiet, but unshakable. "Proof. That whatever you saw back there was just the beginning. Something much worse is moving."
Arya leaned forward. "You knew."
"I suspected," Maria admitted. "But now I know for sure."
Jin frowned. "And Jo?"
"Jo's just a piece on the board," Maria said. "The real enemy hasn't made their move yet."
A long silence followed.
Outside the window, the city kept breathing—corrupted, alive, watching.
And from one rooftop far behind them, something inhuman crouched in the shadows. His name is Paiasan ,Jo's Right hand
Still.
Listening.
Smiling.