Part IV

Chapter 2:

Spirit of Vengeance

"Please don't burst into flames." Evyn sighed holding onto Johnny tightly around his torso. "Once was good, twice was uncomfortable, but three times? I'll shoot."

Johnny chuckled driving past a car. "You didn't complain the first times."

"I was curious! I was a stupid ass 22-year-old." Evyn huffed. "And you tried to kill me."

"How was I supposed to know those were demons? Besides you already had a track record." Johnny groaned. "And you did shoot me!"

"It was in the leg. You walked it off!" Evyn shouted.

Johnny rolled his eyes as the past the California sign. "Like that changes anything."

"Hush you." Evyn muttered. "Where exactly are we heading?"

"Los Angeles. It'll be a while till we get there." Johnny stated.

Evyn look up at the night sky with a hum. "I figured…"

Pietro woke up the next morning with a yawn. Sitting up, he left his room, looking around the living room and then to the kitchen a small frown forming on his lips.

"Mom?" He called out looking around.

He turned towards his mother's room and opened her door to see the room empty. He hummed scratching his head as he made his way back to the kitchen area.

"She must have gone somewhere. But this early?" Pietro mused, taking out the eggs and a pan. He turned his head when he heard the phone ring. Walking over he picked it up.

"Hello?" Pietro blinked when he heard his mother's voice on the other end. "Mom? Where are you?"

He walked over to the stove and cracked an egg listening to his mother. "Personal mission? You don't know when you'll be back?" He frowned watching the egg. "Okay. I understand, I'll tell Wanda when I call her." He paused listening closely. "I'll stay here." He nodded his head and flipped his egg. "Okay. Bye, love you." He ended the call and groaned.

"'I forgot to tell you' is not an excuse." Pietro sighed.

"Really? 'I forgot to tell you', that's your excuse?" Johnny chuckled looking at Evyn with a raised eyebrow.

"It's not an excuse. It's the truth." Evyn huffed putting the phone down, and slipping her jacket on.

"Oh, so it's like what happened before." Johnny hummed.

"You're still hung up on that?" Evyn gasped. "Are you serious?"

"I thought you died!" Johnny stated opening the hotel room door. "But no, it was 'Oh, I forgot to tell you'."

"I thought it wasn't important!" Evyn countered following Johnny.

"The woman I've been sleeping with for a year thought it wasn't important enough to tell me she wasn't completely human." Johnny blinked looking at Evyn. "Really?"

"I didn't know our relationship was gonna last for a year! Besides I thought Mr. Skull face Vengeance would have told you!"

Johnny raised an eyebrow at that. "Really?"

"Yeah." Evyn muttered looking down.

Johnny let out a long groan. "You haven't changed. At all."

"Hey, I became responsible." Evyn huffed walking to the motorcycle.

That earned a raised eyebrow.

"Ish." Evyn added in softly.

Johnny smirked and walked towards the motorcycle. "Let's go, it's not that far."

Evyn nodded and wrapped her arms around his torso.

"Do you still have that weird book?" Evyn asked.

"You could say that." Johnny stated driving. "It's safe."

"It shouldn't be here." Evyn muttered.

"Yeah, but for now it's safe." Johnny stated passing an SUV.

Evyn went to open her mouth, when a sinking feeling washed through her. Looking up she noticed a truck in front of them, with no warning she took her gun out and aimed.

"Evyn?! What the-" Johnny started but the half-devil already pulled the trigger.

"Go around the truck! Go left!" Evyn shouted.

Johnny shook his head and followed her instructions, going past the truck's left side. "What the hell? What was that for?"

"Thought you didn't want blood on your dear bike." Evyn hummed putting her gun away. She turned her head to watch the limp body of the demon fall. "Besides…I'm getting bored."

"Oh no, the dreadful words of a half-devil. Bored." Johnny sighed, taking a side road to an alley.

Evyn leaned back to look at Johnny with a frown. "That's mean."

"Really? The last time you said that, I found you in a half collapsed church with blood everywhere. You still won't tell me what the hell happened!" Johnny pointed out.

"You'll just chastise me! Like always!" Evyn countered. "Hell, you're doing it now!"

"I'm not chastising you!" Johnny argued.

"Yes you are!" Evyn pointed out. "Now you see why we didn't last?"

"We lasted for a year."

"But the whole time we argued." Evyn said.

"You got a point there." Johnny sighed scratching his head.

Evyn hummed and walked past Johnny. "I'm gonna look around, never been to L.A. before. Wonder what people live here."

"You have been to L.A. before!" Johnny shouted at her.

"No I haven't! Not that I can remember." Evyn shouted back with a smirk on her lips.

Evyn found herself walking down the busy streets of east L.A., taking in the scenery when a group of males walked up to her. She raised an eyebrow at them. "Yes?"

"What's a pretty girl like you doing alone?" The bulky male in front of her asked.

"First, woman I'm above my teens." Evyn stated holding one finger up, followed by a second one. "Second, I'm exploring." She then held up a third finger. "Third, I like being alone."

The lanky tatted up male chuckled and placed a hand on her cheek. "You don't have to be all alone."

"Hey!"

The group turned around to see a young Latino male standing there dressed in a black leather jacket with a white rectangle in the middle. The bulky one glared at the male.

"What do you think you're doing, huh?" He asked.

"I was gonna ask you the same thing." The young male stated.

Evyn sighed. "This is cute and all, but I should be going."

"Come on, don't be like th…" The lanky male trailed off seeing Evyn's guns. "Oh…oh…"

Evyn pushed his arm off and started to walk off.

"Hey!" The bulky male shouted grabbing Evyn's shoulder.

Evyn turned around and grabbed his arm twisting it earning a groan of pain from him. "Trust me. You don't want to get involved with me." She kicked him down and look at the dumbfounded Latino male. "Thanks for the thought of help. You should go, hate to see a good kid like you get stuck in the wrong crowd." With that Evyn walked off.

Later that night, Evyn stop in an alleyway, taking her gun out she turned around aiming it at the head of Lavanza. "Oh, you got to be kidding me."

"I-It's good to see you again, Lady Evyn." Lavanza stuttered looking up at Evyn.

"Haven't heard from you for a good year. I thought I got rid of you." Evyn sighed. "What the hell do you want?"

"Lady Evyn must leave. This place is not safe. The Dar-" Lavanza started.

"It's safe." Evyn stated.

"No…it was open." Lavanza muttered.

That earned a frown from the half-devil. "What do you mean, 'open'?"

Lavanza look down and vanished.

"God damn it." Evyn hissed.

"Evyn!"

The half-devil turned her head to see Johnny pulling up to her.

"We have a problem." Johnny stated breathing heavily. "The Darkhold is gone."

"You said it's safe." Evyn pointed out putting her gun away.

"I thought it was." Johnny sighed. "We need to find it."

Evyn nodded and look up at the darken sky. "Yeah. We do."

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