Storm-Shadow: Half-Thief*

A proverbial Interpol-ninja becomes a blood-diamond acrobat in Amsterdam and seeks a way out of modern darkness.

A blood-diamond opus inspired by The Saint (Val Kilmer). Enjoy, 

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Amlan Satan graduated from Dartmouth College (Ivy League) and went to the Himalayas to meditate and learn about the duality between Shaivism and Catholicism. He transformed himself into a thief-ninja, inspired by his studies about blood-diamond terrorism financing and the corrupt capitalism-barons using gems to create diamond-highways. Blood-diamonds or 'conflict-stones' are warlord-mined gems from Africa/Europe used to fund terrorism. Amlan Satan transformed himself into the ninja-thief Storm-Shadow under the metaphysical aura of the snowy Himalayas.

When Satan/Storm-Shadow returned to the USA, he informed his unhappy ex-wife Esmerelda that he sought to become an underground ninja-operator, inspired by anti-terrorism studies in the East and sought a more infiltration-oriented life which would only put her in greater danger, requiring more secure distance from her once-beloved sweetheart.

Storm-Shadow went off to Amsterdam where he'd seek to subvert the blood-diamond dominion of the corrupt Euro-baron Goldfinger, staging a diamond-heist using toy water-guns filled with acid!

Storm-Shadow was arrested for his street-thievery prior to his Himalayan meditations and spent time in a Dutch prison where he read the works of Frantz Fanon and became interested in anti-terrorism diamond infiltration. He decided to become a proverbial 'half-thief' or religion/politics.

Storm-Shadow had named/nicknamed himself after an iconic GI Joe comics avatar of the same title, a messenger of anti-terrorism ninja-work. Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) hoped his new life as a symbolic-diplomatic 'half-thief' would inspire more anti-terrorism dialogue in Euro-cities such as the iconic Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) was a big fan of ice-hockey in the USA and wanted to learn more about immersion in the bucolic men's sport in the Netherlands and decided to bring a souvenir ice-hockey sweater his ex-wife bought him in America.

STORM-SHADOW: I shall pursue the diamond-box of the evil Baron Goldfinger in iconic Amsterdam (Netherlands)!

Storm-Shadow decided his part-time in a Dutch prison had taught him the social/human value of folklore and civilization politics-writing and wanted to invest himself in the transcendental spiritualism behind a newfound life as a 'half-thief' of human redemption!

INTERPOL (police-body): Blood-diamond corruption in modern times threatens integrity of the modern diamond-market.

It's true that blood-diamonds were linked to terrorism-financing, and Storm-Shadow sought to undermine the work of the Euro-baron Goldfinger who's using these mined 'conflict-stones' to assist terrorism in Europe today.

Storm-Shadow decided to infiltrate a special Amsterdam bank where Goldfinger stored his special blood-diamonds in a guarded safe-box room in the vault area. He decided to disguise himself as a thespian-circus performer for the bank-robbery!

GOLDFINGER: I won't let any modern Interpol-vigilante disrupt my Euro-diamond traffic and terrorism government!

STORM-SHADOW: This Dutch bank is rather immaculate and requires me to be absolutely perfect for the diamond-heist.

BANK MANAGER: Are you a street-artist, sir?
STORM-SHADOW: I just want to deposit my (fake!) diamonds and take photos of the baron's gems!

BANK MANAGER: Are you linked with Baron Goldfinger's Euro-estate for media art?

STORM-SHADOW: Yes, and I brought my toy water-rifle as a sample of my new joint toy-store enterprise.

BANK MANAGER: So, you're opening a 'secret' toy-store in Amsterdam under Goldfingef's auspices?

STORM-SHADOW: Don't I look the part, friend?

Once inside the safe-box area of the vault-room of the Dutch bank in Amsterdam, the thespian-costumed Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) revealed that his toy water-rifled was actually filled with acid! He whispered into the escorting bank manager's ear, "I'll switch Goldfinger's reputed 'blood-diamonds' with fake I brought with me after burning a hole through his safe-box panel-lid and wait for the press to report on this strange media-stunt and possible Interpol-linked intrigue, which will draw the baron away from future press deliberations or public charges, so I need you to be quiet about this entire heist-espionage and just stand in front of that one security camera while I'm singing inside this safe-box room and performing the safe-box burn and diamond-switch!"

The heist was a success. Storm-Shadow had managed to burn through Goldfinger's safe-box and perform the diamond-switch and sent media photos to the Amsterdam Annual, which drew the evil baron away from further media-gossip, giving the proverbial 'half-thief' (Amlan Satan) enough time to switch the blood-diamond assets in Interpol-underground relations for Swiss assets in Zurich, all under the umbrella of the safe-box design.

SATAN (Amlan): Let's enjoy an Amsterdam ice-hockey game, my beloved ex-wife!

ESMERELDA: I get the uneasy feeling you've become a 'half-convert' or something.

SATAN: What's wrong with a little Dutch magic?

Is Storm-Shadow a master-thief or just a symbolic-diplomatic 'half-thief' of blood-diamond Euro-espionage? Meanwhile, Interpol began serious queries into the nature of Baron Goldfinger's diamond-activities linked to African/European terrorism. Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) would continue his personal studies into the Catholic faith.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)