This last day had been crazy, I had been traveling with Johnny across Scotland heading north, towards Elgin. Apparently there was a monastery near Elgin where the gang could use as their place to commit to the ritual. The ceremony would be held in the central gardens in the middle of the four walls of the monastery.

Though it was December… and there were 9 days left until the summer solstice. Yes this sounds stupid. A Summer Solstice in December. Well there are (according to the half man half burning skull) four times in a year when a summer solstice can happen. And this year it is the 22nd December. And it is the Southern Solstice. This is all very confusing to myself… But Johnny here seems to know what he is talking about…

But where we were right now was questionable… we were in a small town trying to find someone who knew the people we were looking for. Who knew where they would go and take Courtney and Rosemarie. Johnny and myself had been together for the day trying to find my friends. We had spoken, but not much… Johnny was a confusing man but he was kind and caring. I just don’t think he felt like he could fully trust anyone, because of the way he was, because he was made by the devil himself.

We were sat in a bar in Aberdeen. We were at least a two hour drive from Elgin. We had been driving for the last two hours from Edinburgh. Johnny hadn’t said much but that wasn’t a surprise, I hadn’t either. As we sat in silence in the bar a couple of men were looking at me making me feel uncomfortable, as I shifted in my seat and looked away Johnny glanced at me,
“Just don’t look at them and they’ll leave you alone.” Johnny muttered,
“I would do that but I can feel their eyes burning into the back of my head… I feel weird in here…” I replied quietly. I looked at Johnny, we were obviously in here for some reason of getting information because we would have gone straight to Elgin else… two people walked over to us and one guy sat next to me and pushed me up against the wall and the other guy sat next to Johnny and made him spill some of his water.

“You know women are not allowed in here. Not unless they are working.” The man spoke who was sat next to Johnny, the other man was staring at my face while his finger slowly moved my hair out of my face and hooked it behind my ear and moved it over my shoulder as his finger slowly stroked my neck. I didn’t look at either of them but at Johnny only and he was looking at me. “I’m talking to you two.” The man snapped again as I felt the other man move his hand behind my neck his grip was loose but ready to get harder if needed.

Johnny was the first to break eye contact with me as he looked at his spilt glass of water,
“You spilled my drink.” Johnny spoke, he then looked to the man besides him and then quickly smacked his head on the table knocking him out and punched the mans elbow who was holding me and banged his head on the table as he started to shake. Johnny could sense that there was more evil in here and I knew it. His head turned to me like a psycho would look at his prey and he grinned. “We’re in the right place.” Johnny looked up at the other men as they suddenly roared.

I felt like I was in some kind of knock off B horror movie as they were all vampires! I kicked that guy to the floor who was originally next to me as his body was unconscious. Johnny moved in front of me in a protective stance as I stood behind him.
“Johnny they are…” I muttered,
“I know… don’t worry. I won’t let them hurt you.” Johnny muttered as I gripped onto his jacket standing behind him,
“I’ll hold you to that…” I muttered.

Just then they attacked as Johnny suddenly turned into the Ghost Rider to slay them all and destroy them. I had moved back to the table as I doubted my water attacked could do any good against blood suckers that are servants of the devil… so I stood back and I saw some women cowering behind the bar. It was like the women were the only people there who were normal. I quickly moved over to them and ducked down behind the bar.

“It’s going to be okay…” I spoke,
“Why did you come in here. They will kill us now.” One woman spoke,
“It wasn't my decision it was his. He’ll help you.” I muttered as a vampire reached over and grabbed my hair, I screamed out as he dragged me over and pinned me to the ground as the other women were screaming. I tried to push the guy away from me as he was trying to reach down to bite my neck. I knew that Johnny was too busy so I used my powers to move the water out of the taps and it wrapped around the guys neck and pulled him back, but he managed to scratch my chest as I yelped and moved back quickly. I crawled under a table as I looked at my chest, the scar was deep in some places but it wasn’t going to kill me.

I lay under the table until I was pulled out quickly from under it. I screamed and kicked the person who had grabbed me to find out it was Johnny as he fell back.

“Oh my God, Johnny I’m so, so sorry!” I quickly moved over to him as he was lying on the floor holding his nose. I looked over him quickly as he glanced at my chest where it was bleeding.

Johnny sat up as I kneel by his side and he moved his hand off his face,
“I didn’t hurt you did I?” I asked as Johnny smirked,
“You are probably in much more pain then me here.” Johnny spoke,
“I’m numbing the area of my body by cooling my body temp in that area.” I shrugged as I looked over Johnny’s face to make sure he wasn’t hurt from my hard kick.

As I looked around the room I saw a lot of ash and Johnny put his hand on my shoulder as he stood up off the ground and helped me up.
“Let’s go talk to the manager.” Johnny spoke as he walked ahead of me. I followed him into the back not really worried about the scaring on my chest now as he kicked down the doors to the managers office and then his head suddenly shot up in flames as he got shot in the chest a few times with bullets I ducked behind the wall as he just stood there.

Ghost Rider laughed then picked up the guy and knocked him out. I stood by the door and looked at the Ghost Rider. I walked over to him and looked at him as he looked away,
“Monster…” Ghost Rider turned away from him as I grabbed his jacket to make him look at me,
“Looks mean nothing. It’s who you are that is important. And you are a very strong and caring man. You protect the weak.” I spoke as Ghost Rider looked at me; it was strange, for those few moments. Standing in that creaky old office the Ghost Rider was staring at me, like he was looking into my soul and he could see something I couldn’t.
“Such power is hidden within you that you do not realize. If you stray from God’s path the world could be in danger.” Ghost Rider spoke as I frowned in confusion,
“Excuse me?” I asked in confusion, though Johnny suddenly returned as I looked at him with the same confused face, “What do you mean? I want to protect the world not destroy it…” I spoke and stepped back as Johnny looked at me.
“The Ghost Rider has a funny way of saying things… But I saw what he saw and he is right. If you get caught and your innocence taken, it could mean the end of the world.” Johnny explained,
“How?” I asked,
“Your powers are to manipulate water and if anger takes over your soul then with the power you hold you could flood the entire world.” Johnny spoke as I sat down and lost focus as I felt the pain in my chest return suddenly and I cringed and put my hand over myself and Johnny knelt down in front of me.

“I won’t let you change though.” Johnny spoke as I looked at him,
“You also said you wouldn’t let me get hurt.” I looked at him as he frowned and closed his eyes,
“I know… I’m sorry.” Johnny put his hand on mine as I looked into his eyes.

* * *

A while later Johnny and myself had managed to tie up the guy on his desk chair as we waited for him to wake up Johnny was attending to my scarring on my chest as I had to take my jacket off and sit in my tank top on the old mahogany desk. Johnny had some vodka in his hand to disinfect it as I gripped onto the table and he had some bandages ready to patch it up and a needle and thread to seal the wounds. I looked at him as he was waiting for my signal.

My whole body tensed as I nodded and he put some vodka on my wounds as I cringed and closed my eyes and I groaned in pain while breathing heavily. Sure I had numbed the area to a certain extent but it wasn’t completely numb else I’d have issues since it was near my heart. But anyway, I gripped onto the table as Johnny did what he was told to do. I had explained that Rosemarie had taught me a few things in the medical field just in case anything happened and she wasn’t there. So Johnny was able to do this for me now.

Once the last stitch was sown I taken a deep breath and relaxed Johnny looked over my face as I smiled at him,
“Thank you.” I spoke as he nodded. Johnny looked to the man on the desk chair as I looked away. Johnny looked at me and turned my head to face him,
“We will get your friends back. And I know this man knows about the Innocence ritual more then anyone else in the UK. He might have even met your friends already and told them where to take them.” Johnny spoke, I looked at the man tied in the chair and nodded,
“Don’t kill him though… he’s not worth it.” I spoke as Johnny looked at me, he nodded and then moved closer to me. I looked over Johnny’s face as he moved in front of me and pushed my hair back off my scar.

I looked up at Johnny, and noticed how close he was standing in front of me as I looked up at his eyes,
“The Ghost Rider is fond of you, he doesn’t usually show a like for people but he cares about you.” Johnny explained as I looked up at him,
“I like you both.” I replied as Johnny smiled gently, I didn’t know what it was about this guy… but I trusted him… he made me feel safe and secure. I looked around at the other guy, then back at Johnny. Johnny leaned forward a tiny bit as I moved towards him, our lips were about to meet when the guy groaned and suddenly woke up as we both looked at him and he smirked at us.

“Sorry… did I interrupt something?” The guy smirked, Johnny walked over to him and punched him across his face. I winced, as the guy coughed up a little blood. “You don’t scare me.” The guy spoke, suddenly Johnny turned into Ghost Rider and grabbed him closer to his face,
“Are you sure?!” Ghost Rider yelled, the man suddenly cowered as I had to smirk at him and sit on the desk,
“Where are the Innocence stealers?” Ghost Rider yelled, “You have seen the woman and the girl haven’t you? Where are they!” Ghost Rider looked at him.

I moved off the desk and pulled my mobile out of my pocket and found a picture of Rosemarie on the internet and put it in his face,
“You’ve seen this woman and a young girl with green skin recently haven’t you?” I asked, and glared at the man as he looked at the picture, I put my hand behind his head and made him look at the picture, “Tell me!” I yelled as he laughed,
“You make empty threats, you are the one they are really after. An adult with an innocence still inside her. You wouldn’t even hurt me.” The man smirked,
“You don’t understand what innocence is. It stops you from killing people. But it doesn’t stop you from hurting them.” I glared at him as I started moving the water in his body around his right leg so it was going to break it, the guy yelled out in pain as he gritted his teeth and his head flung back. “It’s best not to lie to me when it comes to the people I care about. WHERE ARE THEY?!” I yelled at him, screaming almost. In fear, anger, pain… my friends were in danger and I needed to help them.

The man looked at me and his breathing was rapid as he looked at me, fear in his eyes at the women before him.

“Fine! I’ll tell you… I’ll tell you… just don’t…” The man spoke as I released him.

I fell on my knees as I felt light headed, I had never focused so hard to move something like that so slowly and painfully. I could feel his body moving against the bone and it was almost painful for myself. Though I never shown any sign of weakness.

“The bone is cracked but he is going to speak now…” I spoke as Ghost Rider took over. I lifted myself from the ground and moved out of the office while Ghost Rider took what information with needed from him.

Notes

Okay... its been a while. I had been thinking about this chapter for ages on what to do with it. It's getting closer to finding Rosemarie and Courtney now. But I wanted a little more interaction with Precious and Johnny and that was in there...

I hope you guys are enjoying it though. Please let me know :-)