Flames of Redemption: The Ghost Rider's Journey

Eclipse part 1

In the middle east, in the dry climate of the desert, a small squad of military personnel, who are currently trekking through the sand and rock. Under normal circumstances, the squad would be in the field, in the action, and helping the army. But tonight, they are tracking a vehicle belonging to a man named Fassan. They were attempting to find out where their target was as Fassan was supposed to lead them to it.

"Anybody wanna' tell me what is wrong with this picture?" asked the squad leader when he saw the vehicle left alone in the middle of the desert.

"The truck is here but where is the target?" The squad did not answer as the did not have one. Any normal person would have stayed with the vehicle in the middle of the desert as to avoid dying out in the harsh climate. Two soldiers of the group had taken up defensive positions behind them as to make sure they would not be ambushed. Seeing as how nothing interesting was happening, one of the soldiers decided to make small talk with his teammate.

"So why did you join the army? The lack of action or bad pay?" he questioned while looking through his rifle's scope.

"I joined to fight terrorists like Fassan." replied his teammate, indicating that she was a woman who wanted to do the right thing. She was also looking down her scope when she saw a figure appear on top of several boulders. She hailed her CO that she had a contact. That's when the figure leaped away across rocks and stone. The squad gave chase as to find out who that person was, following him or her to a cave entrance among several stones. The group stopped just outside the cave, but outside the cave were dozens of latin hieroglyphics.

"Cave? Didn't need the fancy carvings to figure that out." muttered a soldier as he tried to interpret the writing.

"It's in Latin, it says beware." clarified the one woman on the team. Their leader gestured for them to head into the cave but remain alert in case whoever ran in there would try something. Inside the cave were more carvings in the walls, piles of sand, and dust. The woman that was part of the team was walking down a hallway when she heard a distinctive crack underneath her boot. Looking down, she saw a human skull, the jaw broken off and parts of the skull cracked.

"Uh, Sarge? You might want to see this." called the soldier as she saw a large pile of human remains. The Sargent came over and picked up the skull to examine it. He tossed it away when he saw the other remains.

"This isn't Fassan's work so what happened-" began the Sergeant till one of his men called him over.

"Sarge'." said a soldier as he stood before an altar with a violet crystal sat upon in a stand.

"I think I found my kid's college tuition." said the soldier as he was about to grab the crystal. Before he did, some dust fell from the ceiling. Looking up, he saw the figure from before, dropping down to attack him. The attacker landed on the soldier's head and jumped off to get behind the other soldiers. Turning around, the figure held some sort of crystal that emitted a huge light, temporarily blinding the soldiers.

"Death-mongers!" shouted the attacker, charging towards a soldier, pulling out a sword. He sliced the rifle the soldier held in two places, before performing a leg sweep to knock him down. Jumping into the air, the attacker performed a tornado kick to knock out the Sergeant. The woman fired her own rifle at the attacker who jumped into the air and used his sword to deflect the bullets.

"World-Enders!" continued the attacker as he kicked the woman in the head knocking her down. Once on the ground, the attacker grabbed the woman's shirt so to hold her up.

"Touch not the Black Heart!" The woman now had regained consciousness and looked up to see her and her team's attacker. It was an aged man with white hair, mostly bald on his scalp, a white long beard, and wore ancient clothing as he looked down on her.