It took Johnathan about a day to recoup his thoughts and six days to fully heal his broken body. In those days of recovery, he also replayed the previous battle in his image training so that when another battle occurs he will be better prepared. The other thing was that KZ was heavily damaged from the battle as well, so the rider power was out of commission for a while. The bad thing was Johnathan didn't know how long it was going to take for KZ to recover and he needed the rider tech so he could get back to Earth - 38 due to Johnathan merging the breach tech with it.
"I guess it's not all that bad being transported to Earth - 666. Better than being sent to Earth - 2 with Zoom or even Earth - X, at least there is no speedsters, rampaging meta - humans, or even crazy aliens." Johnathan said to himself as he stood in front of a grave stone with the engravings of a familiar name. Earlier, he was able to fool the detective, Chloe Decker, by forging a new ID. Johnathan chose a new name due to not wanting to gather any unwanted attention due to him not know much about this Earth history due to him not watching much of Lucifer's TV show. But he did find out that that this Earth's Johnathan passed away coupe weeks ago due to being caught in a gunfight with Malcom and his cultists. Johnathan was an undercover officer and was sent to infiltrate Malcom's Cult due to the high rate of deaths caused by them. Lucifer and Chloe got caught up as well and when the cultists were about to rain fire on the hostages due to their involvement. Johnathan had no choice but to reveal himself in order to save the hostages.
" A Selfless Hero, " the engraving stated below Johnathan name on the grave stone.
"It seems that every version of me is stuck with the hero sickness, but it isn't that bad I suppose," Johnathan said as he placed a shot glass and bottle of sake on the grave stone.
"Rest easy, pal," Johnthan said before walking away from the gravestone and out the gates. As Johnathan was walking towards a brand new Kawasaki Vulcan S motorcycle that he created using his powers, he noticed a tall and handsome gentleman waiting for him.
"Lucifer Morningstar, what do I owe the pleasure?" Johnathan asked before getting onto the motorcycle.
"Visiting a friend of yours?" Lucifer responded.
"You could say that," Johnathan responded and Lucifer nodded his head.
"You have peaked my interest, Mr. Tendou," Lucifer said while he used air quotes for when he said Johnathan's fake last name.
" It seems that even my lies can be caught by the Prince of Lies, though you Lucifer cannot tell them yourself," Johnathan responded and Lucifer let out a subtle oh.
"It seems you really do know me," Lucifer said with a bright smile, before grabbing Johnathan's collar with both hands and lifting him into the air.
"Now, mother, you will tell me why you are here and your plans!" Lucifer demanded with his eyes glowing red. The sudden aggression caught Johnathan off guard for a moment but the statement made by Lucifer helped Johnthan figure out the time frame he was currently in.
"It's a good thing I watched till the second season," Johnathan said while chuckling.
"Unfazed are we, it just makes my assumptions that more true." Lucifer said with a bit of rage.
"Uh, sorry to disappoint but you have the wrong person. I'm not Aurora, but I can help you find her." Johnathan said before Lucifer could get enraged even more. Lucifer held Johnathan in the air for a few more seconds before setting him back down.
"Alright, let's say I believe you. Where is she now?" Lucifer asked with a bit of doubt. Johnathan straightened his collar back and got on the motorcycle once again. They both looked at each for a moment,
"Well, are you going to get on?" Johnathan asked as he tapped the back seat of the motorcycle and Lucifer just gave him a disgusted look.
"You really expect me, to ride the back of a motorcycle with you. If you were a beautiful woman I would have no hesitation but sadly you are not." Lucifer responded.
"I guess you don't need my help then. Good luck finding your mother," Johnathan stated before starting up the motorcycle. Lucifer began to rapidly think for a few seconds before stopping the motorcycle from moving.
"Fine, you win. Just give me a moment to ready myself," Lucifer said in defeat before slowly getting on the back of the motorcycle. It was a good thing that there were handle bars on the sides of the back seat for him to hold onto. Because Lucifer wouldn't dare to hold onto the waist of Johnathan due to his pride as a man. The duo reached their destination after a couple of minutes of riding through the city of LA. Johnathan parked in front of a tall building with a big sign that read "Sunset Hotel",
"Why are we at a Hotel?" Lucifer asked as he got off the motorcycle.
"This is where you will find your mother, but I don't know the exact location so you will have to figure that out yourself." Johnathan replied before trying to take off but Lucifer stopped him for a moment.
"Just know if you are somehow deceiving me, you will not only burn in hell but I will personally come down there time to time just for you." Lucifer threatened.
"Damn, and here I thought you didn't want to go back to that dreaded place. Don't worry, even I'm not stupid enough to deceive the Devil." Johnathan responded before finally taking off.
Four days went by and Johnthan was enjoying his peaceful days but he did check with KZ regularly to see how the repairs were coming along. On the third day KZ was sitting at fifty percent fixed and it helped Johnthan relax a bit. But Johnathan didn't forget to keep an update on the Lucifer situation as well. Before they departed with one another, Johnathan planted a small Kabuto bug on him so that it could follow Lucifer around. Everything was playing out as it should but the bug that Johnathan planted on Chloe had a different story. A recent murder spree had turned up a day before Johnathan crash landed in the city. There was someone reenacting the killing of Jack the ripper. This person was murding woman every two days and all the victims were working in the adult entertainment business. No matter how big they were or small, nobody was being spared and so far five woman have been murdered. The investigation had no luck in gathering information of the suspect but the list had at least five names with motive. There were also another three that had suspicious activities that matched the days and Johnathan was one of these suspects. So in order to clear his name, Johnathan created a ID and PI badge to be able to investigate the case.
Later that night Detective Decker was currently searching through a previous crime, when she heard some noise coming from behind the alley way. She pulled out her pistol and began stealthily walking over to investigate the noise. She noticed a figure rummaging in the dark, so she pulled out her flashlight as well and pointed it the figure along with her pistol.
"Freeze, LA PD! Put your hands up!" She ordered. The stranger's back was facing her at the moment and she began to slowly move closer the the person. When she put her hand on the shoulder of the the stranger, it turned around showing that it had no face and pale white skin. It opened its mouth revealing two rows of shark teeth and it let out a horrendous screech. Detective Decker backed up and put her hands up to cover her ears, but then the faceless stranger rushed toward her. She shot at the stranger four times but the stranger was kept running without being phased. Just as the stranger was about a feet away from her another stranger appeared from her right side and smashed into faceless stranger. The two began scrambling on the ground and Detective Decker regained her composure. She flashed her light on the two strangers and notice a familiar face between the two.
"Mr. Tendo?" Chloe shouted in disbelief as she held her pistol pointing at the duo. Johnathan was surprised by the strength of the faceless stranger due to his base strength being on par with four men. He quickly circulated the inner ki to over power the faceless stranger and once he was in the mount position. Johnathan grabbed a hold of the faceless stranger's head with his left hand to keep it from bitting him and gathered ki into his right fist. He punched the stranger with his strengthen fist and the stranger's head exploded into fragments. Black blood was splattered all over Johnathan's shirt and the ground where the headless body laid.
"Well, this really sucks. I just got these clothes the other day," Johnathan said as he got up from the headless corpse but Chloe kept her pistol pointed at him.
"Don't move, put your hands up," She order and Johnathan did exactly what she said.
"What are you doing at a police crime scene?" Chloe asked.
"Calm down, if you let me I will show you my my PI badge," Johnathan replied to which Chloe nodded and he moved slowly to pull out the badge. After handing it to her, Chloe verified the badge and re-holstered her pistol. Johnathan let out a sigh before getting his badge back
"What kind of PI is able to smash a person's head into pieces" Chloe asked,
"You do realize that I have to place you under arrest for murder right," she added.
"It wasn't me who did it," Johnathan replied and they both looked back at the body but it was now just a puddle of foam.
"What the hell? What did you do with the body?" Chloe exclaimed
"I didn't do anything to it, you are the one who hangs out with the devil" Johnathan retorted.
"Yeah, but he is not really the Devil, Lucifer is just acting. That's his thing," Chloe tried to retaliate but Johnathan just looked at her in disbelief.
"Well, since the body has disappeared then i am no longer getting arrested for murder. So I'm just going to do my own investigation and if I find something, I'll update you," Johnathan said before walking away. Chloe couldn't keep him due to no body and she was the only witness but with no evidence. She just let out a sigh before going her own way.
Johnathan arrived at another crime scene to see if there were going to be another assailant there to stop whoever was snooping around but after ten minutes no one was seen. So he decided to scan the area with his newly made hand scanner. Thanks to memorizing a prototype meta - human scanner that Cisoco created, he was able to find traces of faint footsteps and small blood splatters covered by other stains.
"It seems that there is more than one killer, that explains why the murders are happening all over the city rather than just in one area," Johnathan deducted as he walked around the entire area for more clues. After a few more seconds of scanning, Johnathan realized that the traces were leading somewhere. He began to follow them and soon it brought him to an abandoned warehouse.
"An abandoned warehouse is pretty cliché, why couldn't they have a base in a night club or something," Johnathan said to himself before finding a way inside. He was able to get in through an unlocked window on the second floor by using the side ladder. Once inside, Johnathan began walking on the railings and after getting closer to the entrance, he could hear people talking below. There was about ten people dressed in black suits with bright red dress shirts. They were three standing guard near the entrance, four of them were patroling the warehouse, and next to a door that lead to the basement stood the last three guards.
"I wonder why the boss accepted this job? Seems kind of out of the ordinary, in my opinion these people are wack-a-doodles." One grunt stated.
"I agree, but they are paying big money, so the boss accepted. Besides we get paid for protection not our opinions," another grunt replied.
"But aren't you at all curious about what they are doing down there. It can't be anything normal, especially with all those buckets of blood they've been moving." The first grunt said.
"If you are so curious, then why don't you go down there yourself and ask them?" The second grunt retorted with a bit of annyonce.
Johnathan pulled out his phone and began to take pictures of all the evidence. Then Johnathan snuck toward an area close by the basement door, he found some small debris lying on the ground and used them to distract the guards by throwing them near. He was able to get one guard away, but there was still one standing guard. Johnathan knew he couldn't take the guard out because there was really no where to hide the body. Plus with one guard missing the others are bound to get suspicious. After a few seconds of thinking, Johnathan created a small size ball and threw it into a dark corner. When it hit the ground, it lit up and began flashing to which caught the attention of the last guard. With the guards delt with, Johnathan was able to make his way to the door without a hassle and quickly made his way downstairs. The scene that unfolded before him made Johnathan disgusted. There were a bunch of satanic symbols drawn all over the walls and pillars. A giant goblet sat in the middle of the room that was filled to the brim with blood, a star was embedded underneath the goblet as well. There was at least six hooded figures standing around the alter, they were currently chanting in greek and the fire inside of the torch stands began to flicker rapidly.
"We are now finally at the last step. All we need now is a virgin sacrifice." The leader wearing a red star on his hooded chest stated.
"That is easier said then done, this time of age not many people are virgins," one of the hooded figures responded and the other four nodded in agreement.
"Well.... I guess you guys better get to it then. Use the LA data base to filter out some and check the lodges of the orphanages. Go through the foster care as well, this is the most important step." The leader ordered and the group dispersed while the leader turned around to go into another small room. Johnathan took this time to call Detective Decker and inform her of everything that was happening.
"I appreciate the information, but we will handle it from here. This is beyond the jurisdiction of a PI. I will make sure to fill in my superiors about your help." Detective Decker stated before hanging up.
"Jeez, couldn't she have been nicer?" Johnathan said to himself while putting the phone back into his pocket. With the LA law enforcement informed, Johnathan had a feeling this his name was cleared for the moment. So he decided to investigate a bit more, Johnathan waited till the leader left the small office before breaking into it. Once he was inside, Johnathan looked around and the room was filled with pictures of all the victims, potential ones, even had police officers. There was also a picture of Lucifer with a question mark scribbled next to it. Sitting on the middle of the desk was a book that had human skin as the covering with stitches sweing together.
"Sheesh, reminds me of Evil Dead," Johnathan said to himself before putting on some gloves. He picked the book up and began flipping through the pages. Much of it was in latin, but from the scarce bits of pictures, Johnathan could tell that it was a book about summoning evil entities to Earth. Either by sacrificing a piece of oneself, other people, or offering artifacts.
"So it seems we have ourselves a rat," a voice whispered and Johnathan put up his guard and turned around. The only problem was that he didn't see anyone but Johnathan's senses were going off telling him otherwise. Just then the floor opened up swallowing Johnathan into the depths of darkness. He quickly created another ball of light and it lit the area up enough for Johnathan to see where he was. The only thing was it was the same exact room that he was just in, but he could feel that the air and atmosphere felt different. Almost as if he was in another dimension, Johnathan made his way to the entrance and slowly opened the door just in case the guards were back. Johnathan felt that the warehouse was too quiet, because he knew there were still ten guards and the other five members. Once Johnathan was on the ground level again, his senses went off once more, warning him that enemies were approaching. He gathered ki within his body then directed it to his feet and took off in a blur toward the source of the enemies. But as he got closer, Johnathan noticed that the figures had no faces and were in a circle walking toward his direction. Another thing was that some of the figures were just shadows with no distinct features at all.
"It's these guys again?" Johnathan said to himself before the figures approached him. The faceless figures noticed him first and their faces split apart from the middle revealing rows of sharp teeth. They let out a screech and the shadow figures quickly melted into the ground disappearing from Johnathan's sight. The faceless figures rushed toward him as well at non-human speeds, but Johnathan was ready and quickly covered his body with stone armor. The shadows emerged from the ground to attack and Johnathan covered up to block the incoming attacks. The shadows were able to chip off a good chunk of his armor, but Johnathan was able to regenerate it with the surrounding rocks. Using his ki to enlarge the smaller pieces made it consume less than creating them without a medium. Johnathan quickly used his ki to control and mold some of the stones into spikes. Then he used hands to motion the stones to attack the shadows, but the shadows were able to regenerate themselves even after being pierced by multiple stone spikes.
"Shit, this is getting me nowhere," Johnathan said to himself before creating small bullets of pure sunlight and shooting them at the shadows. Once the sunlight bullets made impact, the shadow figures began to disperse and were not able regerate their bodies. Even though Johnathan found a way to damage the shadows, it came at a cost, the sun's energy burned his skin even though he was the one who made them. Johnathan always had a lingering feeling that even if he is able to create any material if he knew the base components of it, but the downside was that it would be nearly identical in all aspects. Johnthan tried covering his hands with a thick layer of Ki to prevent the harmful heat of the sun's energy but he could determine that he would only be able to fire off maybe ten more before he ran out of ki for creating and protecting. Soon the faceless humanoids were finally in reach of him and began their assault,
"This is literally straight out of horror movie, I can not catch a break," Johnathan said before dodging one of the faceless humanoids claw attack and he countered with a quick jab - cross combo. The faceless humanoid was sent flying by the counter but was quickly replaced by another one. Johnathan was able to hold out for a few minutes by countering the feral attacks of the humanoids. It felt easier dealing with the humanoids than the shadows was a thought that appeared in Johnathan's mind, but then he sensed that something was emerging behind him. He front kicked the humanoid that was currently rushing at him, then rolled to the right just in time to evade a giant shadow fist that smashed down.
"Great, they decided to form a Voltron," Johnathan spat out before ducking under an attack and sent the attacking humannoid flying with an uppercut. Right before the giant shadow figure could attack, Johnathan could hear someone speaking in multiple phrases in Latin. Then a bright light flashed in front of the giant shadow figure, which eradicated it to smithereens. A tall man with short wavy blonde hair, wearing a brown trench coat with a grey suit underneath.
"Is that who I think it is?" Johnathan said with disbelief.
"Bloody hell, how did a normal person get trapped in the dark dimension?" The stranger asked with a scoff.
"Mind telling me what the dark dimension is?" Johnathan asked as he walked up to the stranger.
"First off, bud. You can start with how you got into this place first and who you are." The stranger replied as he pulled out a pack of cigarettes.
"Well, I was tracking down a Cult that was conducting multiple murders and while I was searching one of the rooms. I was dropped into the floor by someone and when I left the area I came upon this place." Johnathan stated.
"Sounds like you got your nose in the the wrong arse," the stranger said with a chuckle and then took a drag on the lit cigarette.
"So, mind telling me who you are and what you did against that giant shadow creature?" Johnathan asked. After taking another drag of his cigarette the stranger looked around for a moment,
"Names John Constantine, and I used a bit of magic to get rid of that big fella. Well more like demonic magic I would say." John replied but mumbled the last sentence but Johnathan was able to catch it with his heighten hearing.
"Damn, if you are here then what kind of shit did I get myself into," Johnathan mumbled with a deep sigh,
"Did you say something, mate?" John asked while pulling out another cigarette. Johnathan just shook his head,
"So how do we get out of here?" Johnathan asked.
"Easy. We just got to find whoever is casting the spell and get rid of it. Or kill the demon they are summoning." John replied with a bight smile.
"Okay, sounds simple enough. How do we go about doing that?" Johnathan asked and John pulled out a small leather book. He walked over to one of the faceless stranger's and pulled out a knife to cut off some skin. John then put the skin into the book and began chanting some Latin phrases. Soon a small yellow spell circle appeared from the small book. It had Latin letters surrounding the outer rims and a compas arrow in the middle. It began to spin around for a moment then it stop pointing toward a certain direction.
"Follow me chap," John said before walking south of their location. After walking for about twenty minutes, they arrived at a huge black castle.
"Wow, looks like it came straight from Games of Throne," Johnathan said while John nodded his head.
"Cults love their fancy club houses, this is probably the thirtieth one I have come across," John added,
"Thirtieth one? Do you come to the dark dimension often?" Johnathan asked with disbelief.
"Yep, every now and then some bloke decided that they need to have more power and that they are beings above others. So naturally they decided to go looking in the dark abyss to find what they need and of course those desires are quite tasty for some," John stated before walking into the castle's front gate.
"Wait? You just going to waltz right in with no plan?" Johnathan asked puzzled and John just nodded. Johnathan just shook his head and walked right behind John,
"Well, if things go bad at least I won't be first," Johnathan said to which John just chuckled. Once the duo made their way into the front gate, the interior was modern design which threw off Johnathan for a moment. They soon moved on and made their way to a room in the center,
"This is the spot," John said while the little compas was pointing and shining toward the door infront of the duo. John closed the book and grabbed the door handle, while Johnathan materialized the axe gun for insurance. Before John opened the door, he look at Johnathan,
"You know, I never got the chance to ask but are you also a part of the mystic arts?" He asked.
"You could say that, but not to the extent of you," Johnathan replied. John nodded and turned his attention back to the matter at hand. He opened the door slowly and the scene before them was straight like the part of a horror ritual in the beginning of a B rated horror movie. There was a huge spell circle drawn on the ground with blood, a giant golden chalice in the middle at the bottom of stone bed. About ten people were standing around in positions of the spell circle and the head leader that Johnathan saw earlier was standing at the head of the stone bed. On the stone bed an unconscious woman was laying down and in the corner of the room was a jail cell that was holding two women captive. Johnathan enhanced his eyesight with Ki to see clearer and noticed that it was Detective Decker and Maze in the jail cell.
"I just saw the leader and talked with Detective Decker just a couple hours ago. How could they already be here?" Johnathan asked,
"Time flows differently here, a couple hours here is about a week outside," John replied. The leader began chanting in Latin along with the followers and the torches that lit the place began to flicker. Johnathan began creeping toward the jail cell while John began scribbling down small spell circles around the perimeter of the bigger spell circle. Chloe didn't know where the Cult brought her, but she knew that it wasn't good due to Maze's reaction to the area. She bumped into Maze when she was investigating the area of where Souji Tendou mentioned. Maze was in the area because she felt dark energy gathering around the warehouse as well.
"These are some crazy fuckers, I don't think the realize what type of insane person they are trying to summon." Maze said while trying to pry open the bars but most of her energy was being siphoned by the spell circle.
"Is that why they kidnapped that woman. Some type of offering for whatever crazy Cult idol they worship?" Chloe asked and Maze nodded. As Chole tried to gather more information, she noticed a figure making their way to the jail cell. Maze was able to see through the dark and pointed out his description to Chloe to see if she knew who it was.
"Mr.Tendou? So this is where he disappeared to. It all makes sense now." Chloe stated. Once Johnathan got close to the cell, he made his way to the lock on the front door so the could pick it. As he got close enough to the door, Maze lashed out at grabbed his collar with both her hands with quickness. She pulled him into the bars so that Johnathan would not be able to get away. In that process Johnathan dropped his axe-gun and Chloe snatched it up and pointed it at him.
"What the hell is this for? I'm trying to free you?" Johnathan asked.
"Don't you lie to us, I figured it all out. You gave me false information to lure me to the warehouse. Then you could use the Cult to get rid of me due to you being on the suspect list. I knew something was wrong the minute you showed up at the crime scene and once I looked into the PI Personal, there was no Souji Tendou on any PI list." Chole stated and Maze was staring at Johnathan with a sadistic smile.
"You and your friends here are going to be locked up for a while, once I am able to get out and contact for backup." Chloe added with a smirk.
"Damn, you really are a great Detective," Johnathan said with a smile which clearfied Chole's suspicions.
"You are right, my name is not Souji Tendou, it is Johnathan Takahashi and I am not from this world. I arrived here after fighting a disastrous monster in my world. I believe due to the intense pressure and kinetic energy between the two of us it created a wormhole that sucked me in. Which sent me here, Earth - 666, as I call it," Johnathan explained to a confused Chloe and suspicious Maze.
"Okay, I don't know what kind of drugs you are on but I believe some writers need it for a new sci-fi TV show." Chloe spat out sarcastically and Johnathan just chuckled.
"I already knew you wouldn't believe me just as you don't believe that you are literally working side by side with the devil." Johnathan said but he saw the glimmer in Maze's eyes and knew that she believed him due to her previous encounters with John Constantine.
"Okay, let's say I believe you are Johnathan from another Earth, why are you with the cult?" Chloe asked,
"I'm not with them, I truly was investigating them as well and when I was in the warehouse the leader somehow dropped me through the floor and I ended up here as well." Johnathan replied.
"Alright, I'll buy your story for now, but once we get back I'm taking you in," Chloe stated before telling Maze to let Johnathan go. She did and Johnathan went back to picking the lock. He created a new key within the lock by materializing clay into the key hole, then transforming it into copper with the pattern created by the clay. After a few seconds, a clicking sound was heard then the lock opened and Johnathan quickly took it off the door for the women to get out.
"So what is the plan?" Chloe asked,
"Um not sure, I haven't really dealt with magic before, I'm sure John had something up his sleeve." Johnathan responded and John appeared right next to them.
"Maze, how are you doing, love?" John asked,
"Wonderful, always love being in the dark dimension, while crazy Cult members absorbing my energy." Maze replied with a bright smile and John just chuckled at her sarcastic comment.
"I have set up a counter measure for the summoning circle and also found the return portal." John stated.
"We should get out of here first so that we can gather back up," Chloe suggested,
"I agree, but two of us should stay back and try to disrupt whatever is happening so that way there is more time to spare." Johnathan added. So the group decided that John should lead Chloe out, while Johnathan and Maze would stay back to cause a distraction. The group began to split up, but the summoning circle began to glow.
"Yes..... yes! Head our call! Almighty and powerful BlackHeart!" The leader shouted while the henchmen began chanting louder. A few seconds later, a chilling breeze exploded from the center of the circle, that froze then henchmen and the torches. The hell ice began rapidly approaching the group freezing anything in its way, Johnathan step forward and released a good chunk of his inner Ki to shield them. The hell ice was stopped in its track by the Ki field created. A eight feet figure emerged from the Frost fog, the figure had hedgehog-like hair extending from the top of its head all the way down to the middle of its back. From the back, there was a four feet tail that was shifting side to side, the figure was covered in pitch black color and the only color they could see was two dark red slanted eyes. It's attention was shifted from the being who summoned it to something that was able to stop it hell ice. It pointed at Johnathan with its claw-like finger,
"Amussing incect," Blackheart said in a chilling voice then it turned toward Maze and it had a surprised expression but the group could only slightly tell due to the change of its red eyes.
"Maze..... it is a pleasure to meet a fellow arch-demon in this filthy place," Blackheart said before taking a little bow.
"Don't compare me to someone like you," Maze growled and Blackheart just chuckled.
"John, you need to get Chole out of here now!" Johnathan ordered,
"He is right, this is going to be difficult fight and we don't need dead weight hanging around," Maze added. John nodded and grabbed Chloe's arm before darting out the room,
"No matter where they run, I always get my prey," Blackheart arrogantly stated before crouching down on all four like a tiger.
"Get ready," Maze said while pulling out her two trusty daggers and Johnathan materialized his Earth armor for protection.
"Time to feast!" Blackheart growled and pounced on the duo.