Ghost Rider in Twilight

15. Penance.

He turned around and entered the car.

*Vroom*

He drove the car forwards, almost crashing with the drunken men.

''Woah!'' The drunken men fell on their butts, fear filling their faces.

Edward snorted and was about to leave.

But then...

*BOOM*

Bella looked outside of the window and widened her eyes in horror.

The drunken men rubbed their heads, and after seeing that it was not a hallucination.

They slowly stained the ground underneath them with their urine.

Edward looked in the direction where everyone else was looking and widened his eyes in shock.

A man with a flaming skull exited the alleyway and stomped towards the drunken men.

''W-What...'' Bella couldn't believe her eyes.

'Is he the one... Why is he here?!' Edward thought anxiously.

He remembered his discussion with Carlisle, and he said that a man with a flaming skull killed two vampires who were trespassing their property.

Edward tried to read his thoughts but only heard a fire crackling.

The same noise... He remembered from a black-haired young man.

'Is he...' Edward looked shocked, but seeing the skeleton approaching, he instantly turned his car around and left the area.

They passed the flaming skeleton, but he didn't seem to care about them.

His gaze was on the drunken men.

Ghost Rider cracked his knuckles, which made a terrifying sound.

He stopped in front of the drunken men and chuckled, ''You cannot impress the Spirit Of Vengeance... This is very... Disappointing... The first time in a week, I could unleash my Vengeance, and this is what I get... How utterly disappointing.''

He grabbed the first man and looked him in the eye.

The drunk man gulped— his eyes were shaking in absolute terror.

The drunk man looked at his eyes and started seeing every bad thing he had done.

He remembered every victim of his bullying.

He felt their anger and sadness.

He felt how much they wanted to make him suffer, but they couldn't do anything because he was with his group of friends.

But then... All his victims of bullying appeared in front of him.

''Aa... Aahh!'' The drunk man started crying in agony because his victims of bullying, robbing, and everyone he had ever assaulted... Started tearing off his flesh.

They started with his face, ripping his skin off until his skeleton was the only thing remaining.

They did the same with the rest of his body.

He felt everything they did to him.

But in the outside world.

His friends only saw as his eyes went pure black, and he fell lifelessly on the ground.

Ghost Rider turned his gaze towards other drunken men, ''Say hello to Mephisto for me!''

After those words, the same fate happened to the other drunken men.

...

Edward and Bella reached a restaurant where others were waiting.

Bella was still pale white.

She couldn't comprehend the things she saw.

The door of the restaurant opened, and a group of 5 came.

''Edward?'' Edythe, Jasper, and Alice were surprised.

But then they saw Bella next to him, looking pale like she had seen a ghost.

''Bella, is everything alright?'' Angela asked with worry.

Bella shakily nodded her head.

''What is wrong with her?'' Edythe asked Edward with her Telepathy.

'We saw him...' Edward said in his mind.

''Who?''

'The flaming monster Carlisle talked about!'

Edythe gasped.

Jasper and Alice looked at them, and Edythe told both of them.

Jasper's body started trembling.

'Jack...' Alice thought with worry.

Edward looked at Alice and heard her thoughts.

Usually, he doesn't like to read his siblings' thoughts, but he had to be sure.

A certain image formed in Alice's head, which showed Jack's face being turned into Ghost Rider.

'So it was him...' Edward thought with a conflicted look.