Ghost Rider: Hells Journey

Shadow VS The Ghost Rider

Chase stood outside the school's arena feeling nerves in his stomach. The team didn't speak to him all morning and what made it worse was when Lisa simply brushed past him and didn't even say hello. Something was seriously wrong but he couldn't remember the events from the night before what-so-ever and Zarthos was being very cryptic about the whole affair. He was now just waiting to be introduced into the arena.

(Announcer) AND NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE LEGEND HIMSELF, THE ONE AND ONLY GHOST RIDER!

The doors opened and Chase stepped out into the arena looking at the crowd of students that had gathered for the event. Chase searched the crowd until his eyes fell upon his team. They were all glaring daggers at him, apart from Lisa she wasn't even looking at him at all. He sighed and stepped further into the soon to be battle field. Shadow stood across from him and Chase could see a demonic glint in his eye. That look made him feel that same primal urge from the night before, but he quickly quelled it, not wanting to lose control like last night.

(Announcer) GENTLEMEN ARE YOU READY!?

Shadow smirked and summoned a scythe out of nowhere and nodded his head to the announcer. Chase held out his hand keeping eye contact with Shadow and summoned his chain which appeared out of thin air and wrapped around his arm. He kept eye contact and nodded signifying that he was ready.

(Announcer) BATTLE!

Shadow ran at Chase letting out a battle cry as he did so. He swung his scythe at Chase but he simply dodged it and kept his distance trying to analyse the fight. Shadow was very skilled with that weapon of his but he needed to be in close to use it. So distance would be his ally in this battle.

Chase slung his chain at Shadow and it wrapped around his weapon. Chase gave an almighty pull and his chain tossed the scythe across the battle field to which it lay snapped in two. Shadow growled in anger and his eyes began to glow with a purple energy.

(Chase) Oh shit.

Purple fire spewed from Shadow's mouth entirely encasing Chase. The crowd seemed to cheer for this but when the flames stopped and Chase stood unharmed they all went silent. Chase growled and his skin started burning away revealing the flaming skull of the Ghost Rider.

The crowd gasped at the reveal of the Ghost Rider. Many of the students had hear of it from other students that witnessed his transformations but now they all knew of the Rider.  Ghost Rider let out a long whistle and the ground opened up and a flaming motorcycle shot out of it landing in front of the Ghost Rider.

The Rider hopped on and Shadow began throwing purple fireballs from his hands at the Ghost Rider in an attempt to slow down the beast. The Ghost Rider laughed and threw the chain at Shadow. The chain wrapped itself around his legs and soon the Rider was speeding around the arena dragging Shadow behind him. Shadow bounced off of the ground and the boundaries of the stands as the Rider simply laughed. The bike came to an abrupt stop and Shadow was launched into the air due to the sudden stop and came to a crash on the earth below.

The Ghost Rider stepped off of the bike and made his way slowly to Shadow who was struggling to get back up. When the Rider grabbed his shoulder to turn him around Shadow held up an ancient gem in front of the Ghost Rider making him stumble backwards.

(Shadow) Et in captionem et daemonium Zarthos lapis ille a quo non revertetur 

(Translation: I trap the demon Zarthos within the stone from which he will never return)

The Ghost Rider let out a roar of agony and then he flew into the air where he hovered for a moment. The flames died down leaving just a skeleton in biker gear and smoke shot out of the skeleton's open mandible and flowed through the air and into the stone which glowed a bright red color. Shadow laughed and the crowd watched on in shock. The flesh returned to the skeleton and Chase crashed to the earth. Shadow kicked Chase in his side sending him flying through the air.

(Shadow) You no longer have the Ghost Rider, meaning you don't belong at this school. Exile.

Shadow went to give another kick but Chase caught his leg and flipped him over whilst standing up. He readjusted his grip on the chain and flung it at Shadow. Shadow rolled out of the way, without the Ghost Rider's powers it was harder to control the chain but he still gave it a shot. Many in the audience  were starting to share their applause for Chase, he didn't have any powers but he was still holding his own.

(Shadow) ENOUGH!

A purple aura surrounded Shadow as he seethed with anger. Chase backed away slightly, without the power of Zarthos he could get very hurt by a charged attack like this.

He looked around and spotted the two broken halves of his scythe and ran to them, just before Shadow struck his attack Chase managed to get to the scythe and  throw it's head at Shadow. But it was in vain. Shadow released his energy and Chase was blasted across the arena and crashed into the gates upon which he had entered.

Everything was blurry, there was ringing in his ears. Chase shook his head to try and get his bearings. He tried to stand but fell. He lay face down in the dirt, he could feel unconsciousness calling to him. He wanted to go to it, escape the pain that was all over his body. Escape the emptiness that was once where Zarthos dwelled. But he couldn't give up.

The crowd watched Shadow laugh manically as he slowly approached the body of Chase. But to their surprise Shadow stopped laughing. Chase staggered to his feet and spat out a mouthful of blood into the dirt beneath his feet. He gave Shadow the middle finger as a show of defiance. Everyone's respect for Chase grew and students began calling for the fight to end. Calling for Chase to be let go free for his valiant effort. But no, Chase is not so lucky.

(Shadow) You are resilient I shall give you that much. But you are not a match for me.

Chase limped forwards, anger was etched upon his face. The crowd fell silent wanting to hear his words.

(Chase) You're a fucking coward. You say you're amazing and are all powerful...you had to use a fucking gem to cheat and steal my power...yeah you're a real fucking man. But be warned I am going to come back for you and I will drag you down to hell where you will burn for eternity.

(Shadow) You can't; you are just a mortal now.

(Chase) Well you'll have to kill this mortal because I won't stop till you and Blackheart are dead.

(Shadow) Works for me...Rider

Shadow moves as quick as lightning and pulls a dagger from nowhere slitting the throat of Chase Johnson. Chase drops to his knees blood gurgling from his throat  as he tried to breathe. His hands when to the wound and tried to stem the flow, but when he realized it was no good he surprised the crowd once more. He gave the finger to Shadow with a smile on his face, then he keeled over and was gone from the world.