Chapter Summaries

Hawk confronted Ariel the Wind Demon, who was attacking the passenger plane, and used his Cosmo and Phoenix Fire to refine him for the wind element. Ariel self-destructed and damaged the plane, but Hawk completed the refinement and gained wind within his Cosmo.

• Hawk left Sharon aboard the plane and appeared on its fuselage, where Ariel the Wind Demon was attacking the aircraft with turbulent wind.
• Hawk tried to recruit Ariel, then trapped him with Weather Control when the demon attacked and attempted to flee.
• Ariel begged Hawk to spare him and promised loyalty, but Hawk resumed burning him with Phoenix Fire to obtain his origin.
• Ariel self-destructed, slicing off both wings of the passenger plane, while Hawk continued refining him as the aircraft plunged toward the ground.
• Hawk completed the refinement, and wind appeared within his Cosmo.

After gaining the Wind Element, Hawk used Telekinesis to save a wingless passenger plane and decided to go to Stockton Fort for the motorcycle stunt show. There, Mephisto appeared before Johnny Blaze and demanded that he retrieve a soul in exchange for releasing Johnny and his father from their Soul Contract.

• Hawk sensed that the Wind Element was changing his Cosmo and helping his stored meteorites gather together.
• Hawk stopped the damaged passenger plane from crashing and guided it to a safe landing in the Texas desert.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents confiscated recordings, and Sharon told the pilots Hawk’s codename was Phoenix before joining him in an SUV.
• Hawk told Sharon the plane’s disaster had happened because of him, then chose to travel to Stockton Fort and wait for Blackheart.
• Johnny Blaze awoke from recurring nightmares, and Mephisto appeared to remind him of their contract and offer freedom in exchange for one person's soul.

Mephisto manipulated Johnny into signing a contract to deliver Hawk’s soul in exchange for his father’s release, then empowered him with Revengefire. Meanwhile, Hawk arrived in Texas and discovered Mephisto’s influence was suppressing his abilities as an Earth Demon named Gogom emerged to confront him.

• Mephisto revealed that he wanted Hawk’s soul so he could claim Hawk’s Immortality and Nirvana Divine Authorities and become a true god.
• Mephisto persuaded Johnny to accept a contract promising to release his father’s soul if Johnny delivered Hawk’s soul, and he showed Johnny images portraying Hawk as a dangerous criminal.
• Mephisto gave Johnny Revengefire, which he said would let Johnny approach and harvest Hawk’s soul in Texas.
• Hawk entered Stockton Fort with Sharon, sensed that his powers were suppressed, and recognized Mephisto’s aura.
• Hawk left Sharon and traveled to a desert valley, where the Earth Demon Gogom rose from beneath the ground.

Hawk defeated Earth Demon Gogom and absorbed the Earth Elemental into his Cosmo, then tracked Fire Demon Salamander to a volcano. Salamander saw the auras of his captured brothers on Hawk and refused to come out, leaving Hawk to prepare to confront him inside the volcano.

• Earth Demon Gogom found Hawk while searching for Ariel, and Hawk claimed Ariel had gone to help him before striking Gogom.
• Hawk dodged Gogom’s stone spikes, punched through his chest, and pulled out his earth core, causing Gogom to dissolve into sand.
• Hawk refined the Earth Elemental with Phoenix Fire, and his Cosmo shifted as the Wind and Earth elements began shaping the beginnings of a planet.
• Hawk sensed Fire Demon Salamander nearby and flew to a volcano, where Salamander emerged from the magma, saw Hawk, and dove back in.
• Hawk told Salamander that Ariel and Gogom needed help, but Salamander called out from beneath the magma that he would not be tricked into coming out.
• Hawk raised his foot and stepped forward, preparing to go after Salamander inside the volcano.

Hawk devoured Fire Demon Salamander, adding the Fire Element to his Cosmo and bringing his first planet closer to forming. Memories from Earth Demon revealed Blackheart’s plan to challenge Mephisto with the Four Primal Demons and the Sancrist Contract, leaving Hawk interested in the contract’s power over Earth’s souls.

• Hawk confronted Fire Demon Salamander in the volcano and said he intended to use him to assist his cultivation.
• Fire Demon Salamander attacked Hawk, but Hawk’s Phoenix phantom absorbed his energy and drained his origin completely.
• The Fire Element joined the wind and earth in Hawk’s Cosmo, where scorching grains began merging and a black Phoenix appeared.
• Hawk received memories of Blackheart recruiting the Four Primal Demons to build a Hell Dimension and challenge Mephisto.
• Hawk realized Mephisto had lied about Hela deceiving Blackheart and recognized that the Sancrist Contract could let its holders contend with Mephisto for ownership of Earth’s souls.

Hawk found Carter Slade, the first Ghost Rider, guarding the Sancrist Contract and made a deal to take it in exchange for stopping Blackheart. After Hawk claimed the contract, its thousand-plus evil souls tried to tempt him, but fell silent before his overwhelming darkness.

• Hawk met Carter Slade at the cemetery and revealed that he knew she was hiding the Sancrist Contract in the shovel.
• Hawk offered to stop Blackheart and the Water Demon in exchange for the contract, and Carter Slade accepted so she could avoid returning to Hell.
• Carter Slade went inside as Blackheart and another presence approached, while Hawk broke the shovel and claimed the Sancrist Contract.
• The contract's evil souls urged Hawk to join them, but his darkness silenced them.

Hawk captured Hydros and absorbed the final Primordial Element, setting his Cosmo on the path to forming a world. He then pretended to accept Blackheart’s offer to join forces, but attacked him with the Phoenix Phantom Demon Fist.

• Hydros sensed the other Primordial Elements within Hawk and fled, but Hawk caught and refined him, absorbing the water element.
• The four elements began gathering around the core of a world within Hawk’s Cosmo, and Hawk resolved to take the Law of Life and Death from Blackheart.
• Blackheart offered to help Hawk revive his sister and create a new Hell together, while warning him that Mephisto would never return her soul.
• Hawk pretended to trust Blackheart and offered him the Sancrist Contract, then donned his Bronze Phoenix Cloth and struck Blackheart with the Phoenix Phantom Demon Fist.

Hawk defeated Blackheart, refined him to obtain a fragment of the Law of Life and Death, and began planning to create an Underworld and a Phoenix Surplice. After reporting Blackheart’s defeat to Carter Slade, Hawk hurried back to New York City to spend Christmas with Gwen and prepare a surprise for Mephisto.

• Hawk used Phoenix Genma Ken to trap Blackheart in his deepest fears, then refined him with Phoenix Fire and obtained a fragment of the Law of Life and Death.
• Hawk absorbed the fragment into his forming Underworld and considered borrowing the Time Stone from the Sorcerer Supreme to speed its development.
• Hawk returned to Carter Slade and told him that Blackheart had been dealt with.
• Hawk called Sharon to say he was leaving Texas and flying back to New York City to be with his fiancée, Gwen.
• Hawk flew toward New York City at over five hundred Mach, planning to prepare a surprise for Mephisto.

Hawk returned to New York after Mephisto’s trap failed to catch him, then decided to visit the Himalayas and Kamar-Taj to seek the Sorcerer Supreme’s help with his plans against Mephisto. He and Gwen had also chosen Phoenix as Hawk’s new surname, but the trip took priority over finalizing it at City Hall.

• Hawk arrived home before Ghost Rider could reach New York, and Gwen welcomed him back and asked about his trip.
• Hawk told Gwen that Mephisto had invoked Hela to lure him to Texas, but he had returned without encountering the trap; Gwen revealed that Johnny Blaze’s motorcycle show had been canceled.
• Gwen teased Hawk about returning with another S.H.I.E.L.D. T-shirt and explained that classmates had gone to Texas to see Johnny Blaze.
• Hawk and Gwen discussed changing his unofficial surname, and after considering five candidates they chose Phoenix.
• Hawk decided to visit the Sorcerer Supreme to prepare his surprise for Mephisto and use the Sancrist Contract to negotiate for his sister’s soul.
• Hawk told Gwen they would leave the next day for the Himalayas and Kamar-Taj.

Hawk brought Gwen through the New York Sanctum to Kamar-Taj, where the Sorcerer Supreme explained how Mephisto’s soul wine could bind drinkers to Hell. After discussing Hawk’s recent troubles, she heard his request to borrow the Time Stone.

• Hawk drove Gwen to the New York Sanctum, where Kaecilius opened a portal to Kamar-Taj.
• Hawk and Gwen met the Sorcerer Supreme and shared tea with her.
• The Sorcerer Supreme explained that Mephisto’s soul wine strengthened the soul while marking it for Hell until the wine was absorbed.
• Hawk realized Mephisto had been setting him up to go to Hell if he died before the wine’s effects faded.
• Hawk asked the Sorcerer Supreme to lend him the Time Stone.

Hawk asked The Ancient One for the Time Stone, and she agreed to help after he had recovered from the alcohol. While showing Gwen Kamar-Taj and explaining how magic drew power from other dimensions, Hawk revealed that the Andromeda Cloth he had given her could protect her, then activated it around her.

• Hawk asked The Ancient One for the Time Stone, and she agreed but told him to wait until the alcohol had left his system.
• Hawk and Gwen toured Kamar-Taj, where Gwen watched apprentices practice the Spark Portal and asked if she could learn magic.
• Hawk explained that mages, witches, and other supernatural beings drew power from dimensions and risked becoming beholden to them.
• Gwen asked which dimension Hawk had sold his soul to, and he told her that he was energy himself and that she already had some of his energy.
• Hawk identified Gwen's necklace as the Andromeda Cloth and activated it, causing it to unfold and armor her.

Hawk gave Gwen an Andromeda Cloth for protection, then visited the Sorcerer Supreme to borrow the Time Stone. The Ancient One revealed that Hawk had already fulfilled the promise he could not remember making.

• Gwen tested the Andromeda Cloth and used its chain to bind Hawk before he warned her that its energy was limited.
• Hawk and Gwen explored the snowy mountains near Kamar-Taj, then returned for dinner after Wong invited them to dine with the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Wong gave Gwen Kamar-Taj's Wi-Fi password and led the couple to their guest room.
• The next morning, Wong directed Hawk to the library, where The Ancient One led him to the chamber holding the Eye of Agamotto.
• The Ancient One handed Hawk the Time Stone, then told him he had already fulfilled his promise; Hawk reacted with surprise as she raised her hand in a flower gesture.

Hawk used the Time Stone to glimpse the future and accelerate his Cosmo’s growth, but stopped when the Heart of the Phoenix warned that his mind had reached its limit. He then accelerated the formation of his Underworld, where Black Gemstone appeared and offered a way to travel between the worlds of life and death before he reached the Seventh Sense.

• The Ancient One revealed that she had borrowed power from her future self to use the Time Stone and refused to tell Hawk what she had seen of his future.
• Hawk used the Time Stone to enter the torrent of time, then transformed his Cosmo and filled it with stars before the Heart of the Phoenix warned him to stop.
• Hawk considered seeking the Mind Stone from Hydra to help him comprehend the Seventh Sense.
• Hawk used the Time Stone to accelerate the formation of his Underworld and complete its absorption of the Law of Life and Death taken from Blackheart.
• Black Gemstone formed throughout the Underworld, and Hawk planned to use it to forge Surplice that would let him travel between life and death before comprehending the Seventh Sense.

Hawk used the Time Stone to bring his Cosmo’s Underworld into existence and shape its landmarks, including the King of the Underworld’s temple and Black Phoenix Underworld Armor. After spending two days inside the library, he returned to Gwen and prepared to face Mephisto with a surprise of his own.

• Gwen waited outside the library, and The Ancient One invited her to tea while Hawk remained inside.
• Hawk used the Time Stone to create and rapidly develop the Underworld within his Cosmo.
• Hawk built the Underworld’s gate, river, and central structures, then merged the Black Phoenix into the King of the Underworld’s temple as armor took shape.
• The Vishanti closed the Eye of Agamotto, and Hawk left the chamber after jokingly offering them a place in his universe in exchange for the Time Stone.
• Hawk reappeared beside Gwen, apologized for being gone for two days, and said goodbye to The Ancient One.
• Hawk and Gwen left Kamar-Taj, intending to see Mephisto and reveal Hawk’s surprise.

Hawk returned to Stockton Fort to face Ghost Rider, while Johnny Blaze struggled to reach New York and evade S.H.I.E.L.D. As night fell, Hawk waited in a canyon, expecting to recover his sister Anya before dawn.

• Hawk left Gwen safely at home, then flew back to Stockton Fort, where the Hell Dimension’s aura failed to suppress him.
• Johnny Blaze sensed Hawk returning to Texas, got off his bus too early, and continued his journey on foot.
• Sharon Carter told Hawk that Johnny was Ghost Rider, and Hawk warned her that Ghost Rider served Mephisto and that agents should avoid him at night.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents received Hawk’s warning and drove past Johnny instead of arresting him.
• Hawk waited beneath the moon in a canyon, hoping to bring Anya back before sunrise, as Ghost Rider’s laughter approached.

Hawk fought Ghost Rider in the canyon and discovered that his physical attacks could not harm the Spirit of Vengeance. After Ghost Rider tried to drag Hawk’s soul to Hell, Hawk crushed his separated skull and sent Johnny Blaze’s fused soul into a Hell Vortex, then chose to wait before following.

• Ghost Rider returned to Texas and attacked Hawk with his Hellfire-wreathed Soul Chain, but Hawk evaded it and pummeled him into the canyon cliffs.
• Ghost Rider survived Hawk’s blows and repeatedly attacked with his chain, while Hawk buried his body beneath the sand and grabbed his skull.
• Ghost Rider summoned a Hell vortex to pull Hawk’s soul into it, but Hawk’s soul remained unmoved because he had created his own Underworld.
• Hawk crushed Ghost Rider’s separated skull and realized Johnny Blaze’s soul had fused with the Spirit of Vengeance.
• Hawk’s Hell Vortex absorbed Johnny Blaze’s soul, and Hawk decided to let the bullets fly a while before going to Hell.

Johnny Blaze was dragged to Hell, where Mephisto condemned him and learned that Hawk had killed Blackheart and taken the fragment of the Law of Life and Death. Hawk reunited with Sharon in the canyon, then set out to find Hell while Mephisto planned to use Anya against him.

• Mephisto threw Johnny Blaze into a cage to suffer for ten thousand years after blaming him for separating from the Spirit of Vengeance and failing to defeat Hawk.
• Mephisto discovered from the Spirit of Vengeance's memories that Hawk had killed Blackheart and taken his fragment of the Law of Life and Death.
• Mephisto realized Hawk's soul no longer belonged to Hell and decided to use Anya's captive soul to control him.
• Sharon found Hawk in the canyon and saw Johnny Blaze's bloodied remains and crushed skull fragments.
• Hawk told Sharon he still had one place to visit: Hell.

Hawk forced open a path to Hell and confronted Mephisto, demanding that he return Anya’s soul. Mephisto revealed his demonic form and refused, leaving Hawk facing him with the black Phoenix at his side.

• Hawk used the Law of Life and Death to open a vortex to Hell, warned Sharon to return to her vehicle, and stepped through.
• Hawk cleared away the evil spirits around the Gate of Hell and punched the gate, calling Mephisto out.
• Mephisto welcomed Hawk and claimed that Anya was waiting at his palace, but Hawk demanded that Mephisto bring out her soul.
• Mephisto’s friendly act collapsed when Hawk refused to enter the palace, and he revealed his true demon form and admitted he had lied.
• Hawk cursed Mephisto, then summoned a black Phoenix that spread its wings and cried out over Hell.

Hawk transformed into the Black Phoenix Underworld Armor and confronted Mephisto in Hell, demanding his sister’s soul in exchange for the Sancrist Contract. The chapter ended with Mephisto holding Anya hostage while Hawk dared him to harm her, threatening to dedicate himself to ruining Mephisto’s control over souls.

• Hawk summoned his Underworld projection and donned the Black Phoenix Underworld Armor, sending Mephisto flying during the transformation.
• Mephisto realized Hawk had created his own Underworld using the Aether and the Time Stone, which Hawk said The Ancient One had lent him.
• Hawk offered to leave if Mephisto returned his sister’s soul, then proposed trading the Sancrist Contract for her release.
• Mephisto brought Anya before Hawk and demanded the contract, but Hawk and Anya affirmed their trust in each other.
• Hawk told Mephisto to burn Anya if he dared, threatening to destroy the contract and devote himself to preventing souls from reaching Hell and demons from leaving it.

Hawk rejected Mephisto’s attempt to use Anya against him and attacked him in Hell, protecting his sister from swarming demons with a devastating Phoenix Wing. After Hawk broke one of Mephisto’s horns, Mephisto demanded that Hawk leave Hell with Anya and surrender the Sancrist Contract, but Hawk said that was no longer enough.

• Hawk refused to let Mephisto threaten Anya into controlling him and struck Mephisto in the face.
• Hawk fought through Mephisto’s Hell-energy attacks as soul-eating demons emerged from the ground and approached Anya.
• Hawk unleashed Phoenix Wing, destroying the demons around Anya and leaving scorched glassy wings across Hell’s ground.
• Hawk rushed Mephisto again and broke the horn on the right side of his head.
• Mephisto ordered the demons back to Hell’s reverse side, then demanded Hawk take Anya and leave the Sancrist Contract behind.
• Hawk told Mephisto that leaving with Anya and the contract was no longer enough.