Episode I: Nightwalkers

***Blackbird - Episode I: Nightwalkers***, or simply known as ***Episode I*** or ***Nightwalkers***, is the beginning of *Blackbird*. It was originally released on April 1, 2023.

## Plot Synopsis

The story begins with Hannah Sommers going camping with her boyfriend Malcolm in the woods. They soon encountered by a horde of zombies and got surrounded before they could escape. The young couple attempt to run away but Malcolm gets bitten by a zombie, gradually turning into one, much to Hannah’s dismay. Before the zombified Malcolm could eat her, however, a short shadowy figure with red and yellow eyes impales Malcolm through the chest with just a hand, causing Hannah to run away scared.

She is cut off by an incoming zombie horde before a young and tall handsome man with red eyes arrived and commanded the zombie horde to cease which they did. When she asked, he revealed that he is a vampire with so many names, and he is hungry for some fresh young blood. She attempts to flee but gets caught in his grasp before she suddenly manifested some form of magic, injuring him greatly and she regenerated from her wounds quickly. After regenerating himself, he commanded his army of undead to feast upon her and follow his command, but they were interrupted by the same ‘shadow man with the red and yellow eyes’, eliminating every zombie with just two Desert Eagles in its hands before fighting the young vampire.

After a brief exchange, the ‘shadow man’ kills the vampire before looking at the still conscious Hannah Sommers, leaving a card at her feet with the name “Dr. Edward Smith” and his phone number.

Subsequently, Hannah continued to have nightmares and terrors of the incident while going through grief over her boyfriend’s loss. He was declared missing and she had no friends for support. She was reluctant to talk to anyone as she believed that it was not real before being harassed by a black cat with the same eerie eyes as the ‘shadow man’. Remembering the card, she decided to call Dr. Smith the clinical psychologist and booked an appointment. When they met, she recounted everything happening to her, only to see that Dr. Smith was not what she expected him to be.

Explaining to her the world of the supernatural, magic (and demonstrating some techniques of his own), and that asked if she would be interested in fighting against the forces of evil. At first, she refused and promptly left, only to return when she was attacked by a ghoul at a nearby cemetery. Before the ghoul killed her, Sommers began using some of her magic and learned how to telekinetically push her opponent away before tiring out. Before the relentless ghoul could kill Sommers, however, a tall blonde woman with red and golden eyes while donning a brown Stetson, duster, two bandoliers each shoulder crossing her chest in an X-shape, came to her rescue. She introduced herself as ‘Beaty Viane’ and Sommers recognized her eyes as being the same as those of the ‘shadow man’, thinking they were related somehow.
She decided to help Sommers fight and slay the ghoul as the former revealed that she has fought these things before. Afterwards, Hannah decided to take Dr. Smith’s offer, not

## Characters (In Order of Appearance)

* Hannah Sommers
* Malcolm
* Lemar Wolfblood
* Unnamed Vampire
* Dr. Edward Smith
* Tiberius Birch
* Cody Harris
* Hatsumi
* The Kitsune
* Satsuma
* Kelly Milson (Epilogue)
* Neil Edda (Epilogue)
* Finster Xavion (Epilogue)