The Rise of the Shadow Hunters. Part 1

6 YEAR AGO

"Listen to me child, I don't have long, come closer to me. Listen carefully. If you have nothing to post about on Hive and you are all out of hobbies or you do not have any "thoughts" , go for a walk , find a leaf or a ladybird ughhhhhhhhhhhh...."

Haily aka @Hailyposter was upset her dad (Hive account@weeklyposter) was dying. He went down hill all of a sudden and he was trying to get his last morsel of advice to his daughter. He was not even that old but she leaned closer again to hear his whispers.

"Do not publish a post or take a photo of any shadow?"Ughhhhhhhhhhh

DADDDDDD!!!!!

"PROMISE ME HAILY PROMISE ME!! UGHHHHH

"Ok dad I won't, I won't"

"They are not who they seem"

"WHO DAD WHOOOO?

"The Shadowhun.......uuughhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
DADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD. WHOOOO? DADDDDDD???? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

The Present Day
Ok so I went for a walk and didn't really see much. Well I saw one dog sniffing another dog's hole but surely that can't be good content. But it was lovely and sunny on the walk though. It would be a shame to not post about it. I did see a ladybird but it went into that weird flight mode that makes them freaky and she left a lil wee on my finger. What to write about what to write about?
Just then Hailey saw the latest Shadowhunters competition and just thought hey why not! All these guys are my friends or my dads (lord to mercy on him) friends. I may as well enter their competition with her intriguing gate shadow. She had forgot all about her fathers deathbed request but she needed to publish a post. She clicked on "Publish" and went about her business which was not much.

meanwhile.....

High above the Atlantic on a private jet. The Shadowhunter were coming back from their latest operation. To kill the a famous Russian billionaire that threatened not only Hive but crypto itself. It was fortunate that he fell out a window. Obviously someone gave him a helping hand and the Shadowhunters mobile scootered their way right out the front door. They then proceeded to complain about a car blocking the footpath slope which gave them the perfect cover.
A notification rang through and the shadowhunter high command got a message that Hive account@haileyposter has published a post on their page. Normally this would not be an issue. Many hive users would post on Shadowhunters when they were all out of ideas but this one was the now deceased Hive account@weeklyposters daughter.
Hive account@weeklyposter had met his maker around 6 years ago and truth be known he was not only a prominent shadowhunter but its most deadly assassin.
The Shadowhunters used Hive as an onboarding platform for their best ninjas. Hive was perfect for recruitment. People with little else to be doing , not many friends and here was the great part. When they finally posted to Shadowhunters they were at their lowest point in their lives. Trying to muster up a few Hive rewards by taking photos of shadows. The CIA used to recruit their spies from the prison system but they were always very rough around the edges. Would end up eating a baby or something. Hive was different especially the Shadowhunter community. These were people who were too honest to scam the DHF like the other lackies. The honest ones resorted to posting shadows instead. You don't see the Venezuelan serial conference attendee or the rally car drivers posting in the C/Shadow Hunters. No, the shadow hunters were good folk. They would always give a new recruit a $100 upvote and there was the hook. It would bring the user back to post again and while they were doing it train them to look for the shadows in any given situation.

"When you hunt for the shadows you will become the shadows"
_{Mary with the crutch}

It was equivalent to Mr Miyagi getting Daniel Son to do all his housework without telling him that he was learning Karate moves. The Shadowhunters were making Jason Bournes without them even knowing about it. This is how they recruited Hive account@weeklyposter and now his daughter Hive account@haileyposter was knocking in the door. They knew this day would come but not so soon.

The problem was that Hive account@weeklyposter , Hailey's father had got all too powerful. He had become Matrix like in his ninja skills and he had become unmanageable. While saying that he had taken out many a target with his skills while maintaining his image of Hive Stalwart , a safe pair of hands. He had been the Shadowhunters best recruit. Even with one gimpy leg , Hive account@weeklyposter could move when he had to. He could still do a cart wheel for example. He loved those cartwheels. Would his daughter be even better? Did she have the cart wheeling ability also. That was the attraction. The Shadowhunters had to be careful here. That the daughter would be even more deadly. She didn't have a gammy leg . Looking back over her posts , Hailey did have a very lazy eye in her youth which would make her blend in well with the rest of the Shadow Hunters. But this was not a disability, an eye patch made her good eye even stronger while healing the laziness in her lazy eye. So the normal disability as seen in most Shadow Hunters was actually an ability for Hailey. But eye disabled was never a problem for the Shadowhunters. One even owned a guide dog. Nobody suspects a blindman with a guide dog. There was one assassination where Colin's guide dog actually finished the job because Colin was stabing a mannequin

"Do we kill the child or recruit her?" asked Claude who was a Professor Xavier like character in a wheelchair.

"She's too raw Claude" said Angela, this is her first shadow hunting post. It's sloppy. "There's fucking sunlight everywhere. And she cannot find out about how we poisoned her father"

"But the prophets have always told us that the true Oracle will be borne from a treasonous ShadowHunter? If we murder her then we could be killing our own existence. Let's take this carefully" added Maureen as she made another pearl in her knitting.

"Let's give her the upvote and prepare the jet to initiate contact."
"Lets bring Hive account@haileyposter in and tell her what her true meaning in life is, a stone cold contract killer"

"But Maureen she is not versed in the way of the shadows yet. That last post for example, Its too soon." complained George.

"George , Shadow hunting posts are only on the sunniest of days."
"She doesn't know it yet but I can see potential. Where is her own shadow in her first post?"

"She does not have a shadow. THIS CANT BE?!!?!? gasped George as he stroked his wooden arm.

"He's been teaching her our ways!!!"
"It's the way of the shadows."

"Captain change course for Spain. It's urgent."

The future of the Shadow Hunters is in this girls hands.