Devilman Crybaby Rise of the Spirits of Vengeance

by amosclw

(AU crossover fanfic) Taking place between Devilman Crybaby episode 9 and 10. You've heard the tale. You've seen the story. Due to being trapped in an eternal time loop, the cast of the story are doomed to experience tragedy again and again. Until one day, as if fate had decided that enough is enough, the spirit of vengeance arrived to give Akira the ending that he deserves.

2. Devilman's fateful encounter

The world has fallen. A man broken. The hero named Devilman aka Akira Fudo has lost everything. His entire family. All of his friends. Most importantly, the person that he loved with all of his heart.

All of them murdered. Their lives taken away by the demons. Broken by his loss, he is on his way to Ryo's current location. The cliffs that they spent their childhood days when they children. Holding Miki's severed head, what's left of his love, he is slowly making his way there.

Until, he had heard the sound of a motorcycle approaching him. Soft at first, but then it grew louder and louder as it grew close to Akira. Then, Akira saw him.

It was a being who wore an outfit that resembles one worn by a member of a biker gang. He looked like a walking human skeleton. What's more disturbing about the being was that he was on fire. Literally. The being's entire body was burning on so much fire. The being's motorbike was also just as terrifying as the being itself. It had a giant skull on the front and the wheels of the motorbike was also burning on fire.

The being then pointed a bony finger at him and spoke in a demonic voice. "Akira Fudo. Devilman", Then Akira flinched at how the being had known his identity, then out of impulse, Akira transformed and soon fought against the being. After a while, Akira was defeated but thankfully not killed. The skeletal burning being then introduced itself.

Akira asked "Who are you?" and the being replied, "I am the spirit of vengeance that roams this world to punish the wicked who has spilled the blood of the innocent. You can call me what the humans who know of me call me, the Ghost Rider."

Akira said, "Ghost Rider?" and the Ghost Rider said "That friend of yours, the one named Ryo Asuka. His manipulations have shed so much innocent blood. He must pay for all of his crimes and vengeance for those whose lives were mercilessly taken away by him and any or all of his allies must be fulfilled."

After that, the Rider had told him about the eternal time loop Akira, Ryo and everyone on the planet including his loved ones were trapped in an eternal time loop to make Ryo suffer for his crimes and told Akira that this time loop of eternal torment and misery has gone on long enough and needs to be put to a stop.

Akira claimed that the Rider is lying but the Rider claims that he is not lying as he has seen the time loops and the series of tragic event happen many times already. The Rider even describes the entire series of events right down to tragic deaths of every major character involved and the way that they died. This shocked Akira but it proved that the rider was right.

So, the rider said that he had an idea on how to help Akira to put an end to this situation once and for all. He asked for Miki's severed head and told him that he could trust him with it. So, Akira trusting the Ghost Rider handed the head to him. Thus, with the head of the dead young girl in hand, the Ghost Rider rode off into the night.