Prologue

Summary: After his little brother ended up in a hospital, Shawn Kaijira was willing to do anything to ensure that he walks out unscathed. Even if it meant selling his soul. Which he happened to do. But as always, there's a price. With his brother, Issac Kaijira, fully healed, he must become something else to to fulfil his promise. He must become the new Spirit of Vengeance!

(Story Begins)

A boy with spiky black hair and piercing onyx black eyes sat quietly in a chair as he held the hand of his little brother, who laid in the hospital bed.

The said boy let out a single tear as he thought about what transpired three hours ago.

(Line Break)

-3 hours ago-

On a bus to Washington DC, nine boy with messy black hair and innocent black eyes bounced up and down excitedly in his seat with a toothy grin on his face. The boy wore a pair of blue jeans, a green shirt, a grey windbreaker, black and white sneakers and a black scarf.

"I can't believe we're finally going to the Hall of Justice!" the boy exclaims, causing the sixteen year old boy next to him, his brother, to smiled at him.

Shawn wore a pair of black jeans with a chain, black boots, a black short sleeved muscle shirt and a grey leather jacket with a black skull on the back.

"Yeah, sorry we couldn't go on your birthday, Issac" his brother apologized. The boy, now identified as Issac made a frown, "Shawn, many times do I have to tell you to that it's OK? I know that you're always working since..."

After there parents passed away six years ago, Shawn managed to get a job as a professional kick boxer, a part time mechanic and a photographer for the Daily Planet. While school and have enough time to spend time with his brother. Sometimes people wonder if he's even human!

"I know" Shawn sighs as he ruffles his brothers hair, "but don't worry buddy. When I graduate from high school, we're going on vacation. Whenever you want"

"Even outer space" Issac asked excitedly with stars in his eyes, causing Shawn to chuckle, "Yes, even outer space"

"Yes!"

Shawn smiled before leaning back and closing his eyes. However, his peace was interrupted when the bus made an unexpected jerk and people started screaming!

His eyes quickly shot open to see everyone try to get off the bus, but he didn't care. His first priority was his brother. He turned to see Issac's limp body on the ground with blood running down his forehead.

He tries to get up, but winced as he tried. As he looked down, his eyes widened in shock as a shrapnel from the bus pierced his right thigh!

He tries to touch it but it caused him grunt in pain. Breathing in and out quickly, he quickly yanked out! He held in a scream of pain and quickly limped to his brothers aid.

When he reached him, he checked his pulse. He let out a small sigh of relief when he felt a pulse. It was weak, but was better than nothing at all.

He lifted his brother into his arms and ran to the nearest hospital.

(Line Break)

Shawn sniffles and wipes his tears away and looks at his brother's peaceful face. He heard a knock on the door, causing him to turn. He turned to see a nurse with brown black hair and hazel eyes standing at the doorway.

"How is he?" Shawn asked, his eyes full of worry. "He's stable" she says, checking the clipboard in her hand, "there's barely a sign of damage to the skin..."

"But?" he asked, feeling a side effect of this situation. "...he may have mild amnesia" she finished. The 16 year old's eyes widened at her words and looked at his brother in concern.

"D-do you need a minute alone?" the nurse stuttered. Shawn sighs and slowly made his way out of the room, limping with his bangs covering his eyes, "I'm gonna get some air"

"O-OK"

(Line Break)

Shawn sighs as he stood outside the hospital drinking a Monster Energy drink. He was glad that his brother is going to live to see another day, but with the risk of forgetting everything that's ever happened to him.

"Life is just so unfair"

Shawn jumps as a doctor suddenly appears beside him. He let's out a breathe, "Jesus, man"

"Tell me about him" the doctor says rolling his eyes before taking out a flask and taking a swig. The doctor had grey hair with cold grey eyes. Shawn looks at him oddly before looking up towards the sky.

"Do you think it was a good idea to leave your brother up there alone?" the doctor asked

"Do you think a doctor should be drinking on the job?" Shawn asked back before taking another sip of his energy drink.

"To-chae" the doctor chuckles. "...it really is a miracle that you got him hear to the hospital. Especially with that injured leg of yours."

"Yeah. It was...how'd you know about my leg?"

"I'm a doctor. It's my job to notice these things. In fact..." the doctor says as he closed his flask, "I'll fix your leg up right now"

The doctor suddenly snapped his fingers and Shawn's leg suddenly felt better. He looked down to see that the wound was healed! There wasn't even a scratch!

"H-how did you-"

"Ah ah, it's a secret" the doctor said before walking away. As he walked, an idea suddenly came to mind, "W-wait?"

The doctor stopped walking and turn towards his head towards him slightly. Shawn continued, "I was wondering if...if you could save my brother"

The old doctor raised an eyebrow before adopting a devious smirk, "Oh? What makes you think I can save save him?"

"Because you want something from me" Shawn says, "why else would you expose a gift like that to me?"

The doctor chuckles, "Clever boy. Now say I do save him, what do I get out of it?"

"Depends" Shawn says, "your the one calling the shots." The man's smirk grew wider, "Alright then, since your so desperate, your brothers memories will remain unharmed. But it'll cost you"

Shawn reaches for his wallet, but the doctor stops him. "I don't mean money. I meant your soul"

"...My soul?"

"That's right" the doctor says, "and you will become my personal fighter"

"...OK"

"Wait...seriously" the doctor asked shocked and perplexed, "just like that"

"If it means saving my cousin, I would gladly give up my soul." Shawn spoke with determination before saying bluntly, "And plus, what am I gonna do with a soul? And I can take care of myself"

The doctor gave another look of shock before laughing, "I knew you were a good choice." He then reaches into his coat pocket and takes out an old scroll and hands it to Shawn, "All you have to do is give your signature"

Shawn takes it and unravels it, "Do you have a pen I could u- Ah!" As he finished unrolling the scroll, something pricked his thumb. As he moves his thumb, small drops of blood stained the contract.

"Oh that'll just fine" the doctor says as he took it backwith an evil smile, "now as your first task, which I think you'll love, is to find the ones responsible for you and your brothers accident"

"Who caused it?"

"I believe you heard of the man known as 'Cinderblock'. He has upsetting a balance between good and evil more frequently than usual. You are to stop him before he could destroy anything else"

"Why not let the Justice League? They have powers, I have fight skills that don't do squat on cement"

"Oh that's right, I almost forgot" the doctor says before reaching into his pocket and taking out a key chain with a skull attached to it.

"This hear is the Chain of San Venganza" the doctor explains, "with this, you'll have the power to stop Cinderblock and walk out without a scratch."

As Shawn took the chain, he felt something...weird enter his body. It felt pretty good, if you asked him.

"Where do I looked?" Shawn asked the doctor. "Trust your instincts" he replied, "the real question is how are you gonna get there"

Shawn looked down at his skull key chain, "Why do I get the feeling that this'll help me with that"

The doctor shrugs, "Who knows? Maybe it will"

"So how does this...work?" Shawn asked before looking for the doctor, only to find that he wasn't there!

Shawn sighs before looking at the chain, "Alright...tell me where I gotta go"

(Line Break)

Three hour later, Shawn found himself standing in front of a closed construction site. He took a deep breath before stepping inside the nearly completed building.

"This was a bad idea" he muttered to himself. He then felt vibrations in the ground. Or in this case, underground.

He sighed to himself, "This was a very bad idea" He then made his way to the basement. Once inside, he saw the one responsible for his brother's hospitalization was munching on pieces of cement.

"Here goes nothing" he mutters before walking out of his hiding spot, "Hey, block head!"

Cinderblock turns to Shawn and raised a stone eyebrow. "I'm here to kick your ass" Shawn says as he pounded his right hand, which held the key chain, into his left palm.

Cinderblock stands at full height laughing as he walked towards Shawn. Once he was close enough, he cupped his hands together and smashed downwards, causing a crater!

When the dust cleared, Shawn was gone. Cinderblock tried to looks for him, but couldn't find him anywhere.

Until Shawn have a shout and kicked Cinderblock straight in the face! The kick made Cinderblock stumble back, but Shawn didn't stop there.

Shawn jumps and elbows him in the face. This time, he clutched his face with one hand. Shawn then circles around him, and kicked him in the back of the knee, making Cinderblock fall his back.

Growling in anger, Cinderblock lashes out a punch, hitting Shawn square in the chest! Shawn tries to cross his arms in front of him to block, but even that wouldn't work.

The teen was sent flying through the air, crashing through the ceiling of the basement and then the ceiling of the barely constructed building.

A bloodied and bruised Shawn crashes onto the ground, barely hanging on to life. Though his visions blurry, he could here the stone villain make his way towards him.

'Is...is this it' he thought as he coughed up blood, 'beaten to death...to save my brother. Was it worth it...yes.'

Just before he closed his eyes, a silver glint caught his eye. He turned his head slowly to see the key chain he got wasn't far from him.

'Chain of San Venganza' the doctor's words rang in his head. In one last attempt to survive, he crawled towards it.

'With this, you'll have the power to stop Cinderblock and walk out without a scratch.'

'Well old man, if that's true' he thought as he gripped the chain, 'how does this thing work?'

What Shawn didn't see was that his blood sunk into the skull, causing the eyes to glow blood red and steam to roll off.

Just as Cinderblock was about to stomp on Shawn, he heard him laugh quietly. Confused, he looked at Shawn to see him laugh harder.

Annoyed by this, Cinderblock stomps on Shawn, ceasing his laughing. Cinderblock was about to walk away until he felt a burning sensation at the bottom of his foot.

The sensation was so hot, it made Cinderblock shout in pain and back away. He looked down at his door to see that there was a skeleton-like hand mark embed into his foot!

Confused again, the stone villain looked at the spot where Shawn's body laid, but it wasn't there. He looked around for him, but still couldn't find him.

"Oi, dirt bag" a warped demonic version of Shawn's voice says that could send chills down even Mr. Freezes spine. Cinderblock turns to face the person behind him, but was met with a fist of grey flames!

Cinderblock was sent flying into a steamroller, causing a large boom. The stone giant groans in pain tries to get up. But a foot stomps on his chest, causing him to groan in pain.

He looked up into the eyes of his attacker, but what he saw could only be described as one word; monster.

Shawn looked at his now flaming skeleton like hands and clutched them a few times to make sure it was his.

'This feeling' he thought as he felt his eerie grin grew slightly, 'is something else!'

Shawn gave a loud primal roar that struck fear into Cinderblock. Using ounce of his strength, he pushes the demon off him before throwing a hard punch to his chest.

Shawn flies back a few feet, before planting his feet into the ground. Cinderblock could only watch in horror as the demon before him wasn't affected by his attack.

He shot forward with a growl and sent a barrage of flaming punches to his abdomen, causing him to roar in pain!

With an uppercut, the stone villain was lifted up a few feet in the air. Relying on instinct, he struck his hand forward, causing a giant flaming hand to grab hold of him!

Cinderblock roars in pure agony as the flames burned so hot, it burned his very soul! Shawn motions his hand to smash into the ground, causing a small earthquake and a large crater.

Cinderblock was in pain. Everytim he tried to move, he resisted the urge to cry out in pain. He heard footsteps approach him slowly, causing him to shiver in fear.

"M...mercy" the stone villain says, for the first time. Shawn gave an evil laugh before saying with fake sympathy, "Sorry. All out of mercy"

He suddenly appears in front of Cinderblock, causing him to whimper under the gaze of his eyeless sockets.

"Look into my eyes" he says in an almost soothing tone as flames began to swirl in his sockets, "you are going to see what terrifies you for the next 20 minutes as soon as I leave. And I want you to remember who I am. What I am."

He got up and walked away from the defeated Cinderblock a few feet before grabbing his key chain. With a roar, the eyes of the cskull on the chain flashed red before the ground shook.

Cracks appeared in the ground before grey flames shot up like a geyser! From the flames, a fast fireball zoomed out.

The fireball drove in a circle around Shawn before skidding to a halt in front of him. With a swipe of his hand, the flames dispersed revealing a gothic version of a Harley Davidson with flaming wheels.

He hopped on the bike and automatically felt comfortable. He revved the bike a few times, causing the bike to give a deep growl.

'He's excited' he thought as he got ready to take off. Until he hears, "W-what are you?"

Shawn looks back at him and says one word.

"The Rider"

With a maniacal laugh, he zoomed off, leaving a trail of flames in his wake!

As he left, Cinder block 's nightmare began.

(Line Break)

Shawn zooms down the street, leaving a trail of car alarms going off, broken glass and grey flames. The eerie grin on his face grew even wider before he gave a whoop and popped a wheely, making him go even faster.

A bored police officer lazily held his speed monitor in front of him as he watched cars pass by. But suddenly, a roar could be heard heading his way.

He turns to see a grey fireball moving at monstrous speed. Reacting quickly, he pointed his speed monitor at the fireball and let it calculate.

Numbers began to appear on the screen, trying find out how fast he was going. But when he drove past him, the monitor overloaded and shorted out.

The officer was blown back by the speed, making him crash into his car window. The officer groans in pain and sits up slowly.

He couldn't see what was in the fireball, or tell how fast it was going, but he did find a trail of flames.

Since he wouldn't be able to keep up with the fireball, he decided to see where the thing came from. Turning on his car, he drove in the opposite direction of the fireball to investigate.

(Line Break)

The flames deceased as Shawn's body returned to normal. He quickly made his way into the hospital and into his brother's room to see that he was still asleep.

He sighed and sat in the chair he was in before and waited for him to wake up.

"Ah, your back" a voice behind him says, "and you learned how to transform and turn back to normal"

Shawn spun around to see the doctor from before smiling proudly, "Yeah, I did. But you also forgot to mention how to use this!"

"I knew you'd figure it out" the doctor says lazily, "and since you held up your end of the bargain, I'll hold up mine"

He waved his hand over Issac a few times before the boy woke up with a cough.

Shawn was about to call for a nurse, the doctor tells him, "Remember Shawn, you are now my personal fighter. Remember that"

Shawn turns to the doctor to agree with him, but was gone. Shawn wanted to know more about that mysterious doctor and more about his new 'gift'.

But right now and always, his brother will always be his first priority.

(Line Break)

The cop from before called the just got off the phone his detective to send down members of the Justice League at the construction site.

What he saw was an odd sight; a stone giant screaming in pain and fear. "We got here as soon as possible" he heard someone say.

He turned to see the Caped Crusader, Batman and the Arrow of Starling City, Green Arrow!

"What's wrong with him?" the officer asked as continued to look at Cinderblock. "I've seen this before" Batman says, "he's paralyzed with fear"

The Green Arrow takes out an arrow and shoots Cinderblock square in the face. The arrow releases a green chemical, that soon seeped into his. His screams began to quiet down and Cinderblock was able to pass out.

"Do you know who did it" the officer asked. The heroes shake there heads until something caught one of their eyes.

Batman crouches down and takes out q-tip. He brushed the swab against what he saw.

Meanwhile, Arrow was talking to the officer about the grey fireball.

"The thing was so fast, it left a trail of fire so hot it burned through cement!" the cop says. The arrow nods before looking at Batman to see that he was in detective mode.

"What'd you find" he asked.

Batman holds up a q-tip that was now red, "Blood"

"I'll inform The Team on this" he says before he walked away. The Dark Knight inspected the blood before narrowing his eyes.