Ghost Rider: Hell-Raiser
By ChaosCrimsonGallantmon
(Author's Note: I claim no ownership over the Ghost Rider film and comic series, but I do own Baphomet, Ace Hardden, and the Archfiends of Hell.)
Birth of the Rider
Through every century and millennium on this earth, legends of spirits of vengeance who ride in evil's hour and ever does the Devil's dirty work to capture wicked souls on the planet and sent them straight to the fiery depths of Hell. But the source of these dark riders recorded through out history as myths and ghost stories goes back to a time where angels and demons walked the very surface of the earth….
When the rebel angel Samael was banished from Heaven and sent down to the heart of Tartarus by the archangel Michael along with his fallen followers, one such of them was a spirit blessed by the Lord with the power over all fire whose power grew to rival that of fellow archangel Uriel. As this angel fell down from Paradise, instead to landing in Hell as the other fallen, he fell upon the side of hidden shadows. All at once, the angel was suddenly transformed from his gracious figure to a creature of pure fire and darkness, his rage and hunger for power replaced all his former self's humbleness and love for the Lord. This unnamed angel who once sat at the throne of God became the demon known and feared by fiend, spirit, and angel as Belial, the spirit of dark flame and hater of the Father.
As time went on, the seven archfiends who ever rule Hell with an iron fist along their master Samael (Baphomet – Rage, Lilith – Lust, Beelzebub – Envy, Behemoth – Gluttony, Leviathan – Envy, Lucifer – Pride, Barbatos –Greed, and Belphegor – Sloth) began to fear the growing power of Belial on earth, so the lords of Tartarus banded together and tore apart the demon of fire and shadow, one part at a time. At the end of this, each archfiend held only a tiny ember that remained of Belial in their palms. So they decided to keep their embers and use them for their use to wage havoc on earth.
Thus, this led to the first Rider when Lucifer gave his Belial-ember to a Roman gladiator who desired freedom and transformed the young fighter into his personal bounty hunter to hunt demons that walked on earth and send back to the sulfur pits of Hell. Soon, each generation had a Rider in it, a being that could walk in both worlds gifted with the power of hellfire through a twisted bargain with an archfiend of Hell to grant their wishes…in return for their souls. But Baphomet the Prince of Wolves (as in Werewolves!) was the wises and patient of the fiends and he now waits for his time for his own Rider to come and wander the earth upon hell-blessed steeds in search of stained souls to bring back to him…
The last Rider was during the Wild West in Texas and did what no other Rider had ever done: When he was send by the archfiend Beelzebub to receive a blood-signed contact with the people of the town of San Vengenza, what he found was so evil and twisted that he instead rode off with the contact never to give the Lord of Flies his offered souls from the town. Since then, every demon either of archfiend rank or not have seek to claim the Contact of San Vengenza and the power it hold, so even Baphomet the Archfiend of Wrath would tempted enough to take the search and uphold its reward and he may do through others to claim it, including his own Rider and track it down and bring back the contact in one piece…