"He is here. My father's little attack dog." Blackheart said in a disgusted tone as he stared at the direction the sound was coming from. It was getting closer and closer every second.
Soon a fiery figure became visible which became brighter and brighter as it came towards them. The figure finally stopped moving after it arrived a few meters away from where they were standing.
It was the one and only Ghost Rider who was right now riding on his iconic burning skeleton motorcycle. He got off his motorcycle after he stopped and looked towards them.
He took a glance at Blackheart before giving Rudeus a once-over in an appraising manner and then went back to looking at Blackheart again.
"Let me guess, you took care of my henchmen didn't you? Well I knew they would inevitably die against you but truthfully I expected to be there when you killed them, maybe even save them if they useful enough. But I guess sometimes plans don't exactly work like we expect them to, do they? Only if I hadn't tried to take care of that girl, my other plans wouldn't have been derailed right now. A pity.
I guess that's what we get when we try to do things unplanned. I truly didn't expect someone unique like him to be here to stop me from killing that girl. *Sigh*. Well, no sweat. I'll just have to re-evaluate some of my plans. But before I go, I don't guess you'll give me the location of the contract of San Venganza, will you?" Blackheart jokingly asked the burning skeleton.
"The only thing you'll get demon is what's coming to you, judgement." The angel of Vengeance said in a threatening manner as he placed his hand on the metal chain wrapped around his shoulder.
"There is nobody in the world worthy enough to judge me, not you and certainly not my father." He said as the smile that had come back on his face after meeting the Ghost Rider vanished. "I would have already killed the two of you if I had my true powers, if I could use my real form but fortunately for you, I am what the people nowadays call nerfed by my father. Also the mystic barrier made by the human sorcerers is also quite annoyingly effective. It even constantly opposes my remaining demonic powers. I can't even tap into the full power of my concept or the darkforce because of it."
After saying his piece, the demon prince just turned into black mist and evaporated into the atmosphere.
Rudeus wanted to stop him but he had no idea how to destroy him even if he was able to stop him from living and if he remembered right, even the Ghost Rider from the movie verse wasn't able to really put the demon down before he absorbed the souls of the San Veganza contract. This was mainly because Blackheart wasn't really a physical or spiritual being but instead a conceptual demonic entity that derived his power from sins and suffering much like his royal red-ass father Mephisto.
That's why both the Ghost Rider and Rudeus didn't try to stop the demon prince and just let him leave without a serious fight.
'I'll probably have to contact Morgana about him. Shit. Just when I thought I wouldn't have to face any big level threats before I learnt magic, I meet this smartass delusional demon prince with daddy issues. One such prince was gonna be enough for me in this world and I was truthfully expecting Loki to fill up that particular position.' Rudeus thought annoyedly.
"What is a god doing here?" Johnny Blaze in his Ghost Rider form asked as he now stared at Rudeus with his fiery hollow eyes like he was looking at his very soul.
"Just enjoying life. Nothing more, nothing less." Rudeus answered in a calm and collected voice.
"Hmm. Don't sin, god or I will come after you." Ghost rider threatened him.
"Is that a threat? Because I don't take threats too well, especially from talking gothic skulls with a leather fetish. And as for sinning, I don't 'sin'. I just make questionable life choices." Rudeus said with a straight face and a serious expression while also making it clear that he didn't like Ghost Rider threatening him.
However, it looked like Blaze didn't really get his humor mixed warning. He just silently turned and got on his bike again to leave. The Ghost Rider, although prideful and confident wasn't an idiot to fight a god without any preparations or any actual reason.
Its job was to hunt sinners, demons and other supernatural threats, not keep watch on gods. There were too many gods for it to do that. Also it couldn't really feel any actual sin from the young god enough for him to fight, so he had no reason to seek a battle with him, although the god's bad sense humor could be a good reason for him to do that.
"Oh and by the way, a piece of advice. You can't fatally hurt or permanently purge Blackheart currently because he doesn't have a soul. None of your abilities work on him because there is no soul for you to destroy and his physical body isn't exactly his weakness. He is mostly concept based right now. If you wanna truly put him down, then you should consider giving him exactly what he wants.
The San Veganza contract will give him a 1000 corrupted sinful souls but each of those souls are the souls of corrupted sinners, sins that you can burn, souls that you can purge. He will no longer be concept based if he himself accepts and possesses a soul after all." Rudeus gave him the solution to the problem of Blackheart's immortality and gave him a significant clue to defeat the demon prince on his own.
He wanted Ghost Rider to take care of Blackheart for him. He really didn't wanna waste his time and effort on Blackheart especially since he had someone who could do it for him. After all Rudeus still hadn't begun learning magic or unlocked his divinity yet.
Of course, he didn't expect the Angel of Vengeance to be able to destroy someone like Blackheart permanently so easily like in the movie since this was an alternate universe with a much higher bar of power level. But he did expect Ghost Rider to atleast temporarily get rid of Blackheart or keep him busy until he either learns magic from Morgan or gets stronger divine abilities.
'I should probably try to unlock my divinity soon. I need to unlock it before I meet any other gods.' He thought to himself with determination.
"Why help?" the burning Skeleton superhero asked Rudeus with a face that seemed to almost raise its brows, although none were present on the skull.
"Well I like making friends. After all, a friend is better than another enemy. I already have plenty of the latter including the one who your current vessel signed the deal with years ago." Rudeus said as he studied the skull's face for any change of emotions.
And just as he thought, Ghost Rider's fire seemed to flicker a bit like he was interested in the topic. However Rudeus didn't continue with it.
"We will talk about it later one day, maybe over some barbeque. Till then, take care. Also if you ever need help, don't be ashamed to ask. I love helping friends and doing favors. The name's Atem by the way" Rudeus said as he gave him a friendly smile.
"Ghost Rider" The supernatural hunter said as he kickstarted his bike and sped off in the distance probably to reach home before sunrise.
Rudeus continued smiling looking at the direction Ghost Rider left. 'He could be a good partner to Blade if I am able to hire him one day but that would be really hard.' He thought.
He didn't waste anymore of his time and walked over to the unconscious Wanda as he released her from her bindings and carried her over to where Emma was currently standing with an ashen face. She had come out of hiding when everyone had left and was re-evaluating her life's beliefs.
She could not believe that she had just seen a real demon prince and an actual burning skeleton wearing leather riding a burning monster bike.
"Maybe I am growing old after all. I should probably schedule some extra visits to my psychologist." She said out loud as Rudeus ignored her and just opened up a boom tube.
He was both worried and happy due to today's events. Worried because he had attracted the attention of a number of supernatural entities today including Ghost Rider, the demon prince Blackheart and of course the King of Hell Mephisto who Rudeus was sure somehow watched the entire thing. But he was also happy because he finally got his hands on Wanda Maximoff, THE Scarlet Witch... in not a perverted way.
'Just another day at Marvel, I guess.'
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