Sunset Rider

The sun was setting when they left. It was beautiful and Sunset and Johnny embraced it as much as they could on the ride home. Sunset parked in her small garage, waving goodbye to Johnny as he took off, but after a few moments Sunset heard gunfire. Running out she found Johnny being gunned down by two people in a car. Doing a u-turn, they sped away. Sunset sprinted to Johnny and was relieved to see that he was still alive. However, the relief was short lived for she knew that he was dying.

Sunset rode her bike as fast as it would go (150 mph) to her towns general hospital. She brought Johnny into the main lobby "HELP, someone help him! He was shot!" She yelled. Paramedics immediately came rushing to her and put Johnny on a stretcher. Sunset watched them wheel Johnny away to the ER.

Sunset texted her friends and told them what happened. Her friends appeared 10 minutes later and immediately hugged her. They waited in the waiting room for hours. Sunsets mind was racing 'please let him be ok. I don't want to lose him' she thought to herself. A doctor suddenly walked up to them "You're the girl that brought Johnny Blaze in?" He asked.

Sunset shot up out of her chair "yes, my name is Sunset Shimmer and these are my friends. They are with me" she responded quickly.

"Come with me" the doctor said. He led them down a few hallways before coming to a large window. Sunset put her hands on the window and looked in. She saw Johnny with an assortment of tubes going into him "is he going to be ok?" She asked. The doctor looked down, took a deep breath, then looked a her again "I'm sorry, but there's just too much damage to his body for him to heal" he said.

Sunset looked at the doctor with a sudden fire in her eyes "what did you just say" it wasn't really a question. She grabbed him by his coat and pushed him against a wall "you're a fucking doctor, you're supposed to be saving people" Sunset said with absolute fury in her voice. She was about to throw a punch but her friends grabbed her and pulled her away.

"You are fucking useless! You are...you are...." Sunset broke down into tears, dropped to her knees, and began crying. Security arrived but they just saw a crying girl. "Sunset, stop! This isn't going to change anything!" Yelled Rarity. She knew Rarity was right so she got up, sprinted out of the hospital, mounted her bike and sped away.

Sunset came to a stop in the middle of an empty highway, letting herself fall to the pavement. She slowly crawled away from her bike before getting to her knees and screamed into the night sky. Falling onto all fours her mind began racing again but the thoughts this time were broader. 'My one true love is going to die. What am I going to say to his parents? Will they hate me? Will they ever be the same? I don't want them to change, I just got to know them. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?'

A realization suddenly dawned on her. It was them. The people who shot him. They are the reason for her suffering. An ideology sprung to life in Sunsets mind, evil must be destroyed "I'm going to make them suffer every bit of pain they caused me" Sunset declared in a voice filled with venom.

She gets on her motorcycle again and rides to Johnny's house. When she arrived she got out a key that Johnny gave her and went inside. Sunset marched to Johnny's room pulled a case from under his bed. She opened it and found what she was looking for, a shotgun and a box of shotgun shells. It was a stockless leaver-action with a sling that carries more ammo. She loads the gun and puts more shells on the sling.

She marches back outside and gets on her bike, slinging the lethal weapon over her shoulder. Before she could take off, Sunset heard a voice "meet me at the town graveyard, I have an offer for you" it was masculine and echoed through her mind.

Sunset suddenly had a very powerful urge to go there, so she went.

Later.....

Sunset slowly came to a stop at the graveyard, it was foggy. She got off her motorcycle and drew the shotgun, ready for anything. It suddenly became very cold as frost started to appear on the plants and gravestones. The figure of a man with a cane appeared out of the fog and walked up to her "there is no need for your weapon. I'm here to help you" he said.

Sunset didn't lower the shotgun "how could you possibly help me? My one true love is dying and I couldn't save him" she said as she started to tear up again.

"Do not cry little one" the man said as he wiped away her tears "I can save him"

Sunset was shocked "you can?" She asked with hope, lowering the shotgun.

"Yes I can, but it will come at a cost. Not money, but something more valuable, your soul. I can also give you the power to have revenge on the ones that hurt your true love" he said as he pulled out a scroll. "Just sign here and we have a deal" he concluded.

Sunset became confused 'what dose he mean by.... no, don't question it, if this can save Johnny I should do it'. She cut her thumb on a small blade at the top of the scroll and then let a drop of her blood land on the signing line.

The strange man smiled wickedly and rolled up the scroll. He then began to change, his eyes started glowing, fangs grew from his mouth, horns grew from his head. Because Johnny is religious he had explained a great deal about the Catholic religion to Sunset. She had also seen a picture that look exactly like the man in front of her, it was Satan, the Devil. "You mortals are so easy to trick" said satan.

Sunset tried to make a break for her bike but she suddenly couldn't move, like someone was controlling her. "I have your soul, so I now have you" When she was turned around by Satan he raised his left hand pointing his index and middle fingers at Sunset. Two beams of fire came the fingers and went into Sunsets eyes.

Sunset screamed, she felt like she was being filled with fire but she was kept standing by the unknown force.

"Why are you screaming? I'm giving you power beyond your imagination, this should feel good" Satan teased knowing full well that this was painful for her. But he didn't care, Sunset Shimmer belonged to him now. The beams of fire stopped as Satan lowered his hand and Sunset fell flat on the ground.

"As the bearer of the Spirit of Vengeance, you shall bring me evil souls. Be my soul hunter and Johnny Blaze will be healed. May the spirit give you great power. Destruction shall follow you wherever you go" Satan said with glee. "But be weary, your powers will only work at night. However, that's also the time evil is most active, so it will all work out" Satan summoned a chain from under his coat "this may look like an ordinary chain but when its infused with your powers it becomes a very powerful weapon, the classic weapon of the Ghost Rider. The same will also happen to anything you infuse with you power" he finished.

Sunset grunted in pain as she tries to stand up but the fiery pain of her new powers brought her down again. Satan laughed demonically again at the sight of Sunset in pain as he disappeared into the fog again, leaving the chain behind. The pain had finally subsided but she still felt very warm. She was very disoriented, not quite sure what had happened.

She felt a sixth sense activate within her and she could fell evil nearby. The burning sensation came back but this time it was worse. She screamed again as fire started to burning her flesh away but for some reason, it suddenly felt good. The pain turned into pleasure as the power of hell started surging through her. She actually started laughing the power felt so good. The rest of her face had burned away as well as her hair, leaving only a flaming skull with two tiny dots of Fire in the eye sockets.

The Ghost Rider was back.