Chapter 1

The End of Man

Disclaimer:I do not own Darksiders much to my chagrin. I do however own the OC.

The day the third kingdom, man, fell.

I paced anxiously inside my tiny apartment. I had been this way for more than a week. My name is Michelle; I'm 20 years old and find myself in the unfortunate position of living in a large city. Even in this large city there was still dirt and a few trees that echoed the anxiousness I felt. As a druid, I was more in tune with nature and the world that most people had blinded themselves to. The rumblings in the earth were unsettling and foretold doom. The earth seemed to be holding her breath, waiting and watching to see what would be.

Meteor showers had started raining down from the heavens yesterday and the death toll from them kept climbing and to make matters worse there were rumors of creatures that crawled from the rubble that the meteors left. I shivered involuntarily and wrapped my arms around myself before leaning against the windowsill as I looked down on the street from my two story perch. I checked my reflection in the glass as nothing below caught my attention. My sapphire blue eyes stared back at me, my wavy burnished gold hair reaching the middle of my back, my powder blue sleeveless dress twirled around my legs at the knees and the soft brown moccasin like boots I was wearing complimented my long lean legs and body. I walked back to the couch and settled the little blue summer dress around myself once I sat down.

I had just leaned my head back when suddenly my entire apartment building shook and dust sifted from the ceiling. I gave a startled little cry and dove for my closet. I threw the door shut as I panted while watching the door as I searched for the wall behind me. Once I found it I sank down to the floor and huddled in the corner of the closet for what seemed like ages as the screams from the streets met my ears and unearthly roars and cries filled the air as well.

I clapped my hands over my ears and tried to block out the sounds of death. When the building stopped shuddering and groaning I opened the closet door cautiously and gaped in wide eyed shock as I took in the chaos. My apartment was no longer there at all, just parts of the staircase that had led to the street below as well as a ledge in front of the closet that was no wider than a foot. There were beings flying around on wings. They were heavily armored from head to toe, even their wings were armored. I hazarded a guess they were angels and the monstrous beast they battled with in the streets of what was once my home, were demons. They sure fit the bill with what demons were supposed to look like.

Taking a deep breath I eased out onto the ledge and made my way towards the stairs or at least what was left of them. I finally stepped out onto the stair case and started carefully to make my way towards the streets below. As I reached the last of the steps I stopped. The stairs were missing the last six foot to the ground. I was puzzling over how to get down without breaking anything while my fingers played with the tiny jewel that hung around my throat. I wonder why it is glowing like that and so warm, I thought to myself absently as it had never done that before.

Suddenly a snarl from behind me had me whipping around to face what could only be described as a demon dog. It stalked forward, its tail lashing side to side and crouched, preparing to pounce. The thing bared a mouth full of razor sharp teeth at me as I backed closer to the edge of the steps but before long I didn't have anywhere to go. I gave a small scream and turned, jumping the last few feet to the ground. I landed hard but quickly twisted to my feet despite being winded from the fall as fear drove me. I took off running as I heard the beast land heavily behind me and give chase.

I ran as fast as I could, and screamed again as this time an angel swooped toward me, his huge sword already in mid swing. I quickly flung myself to the side narrowly missing the sword swing and the beast that had sprung for me from behind. I rolled onto my back and watched as the angel shook the dead demon from his sword and flew off. I looked over when something drew my attention from the retreating angel and saw a big man walking calmly through the chaos, slaughtering anything that attacked him, his silver hair flying out around him from under his red hood. The way he swung that huge sword was beautiful, almost like a dance, as he swung and parried with it, almost as if it weighed nothing.

I heard another demon roar somewhere close by after the man had moved out of my range of vision and I decided I had better get moving again. I struggled to my feet, my legs being pretty banged up, and took off running again. The strange man was momentarily forgotten in the ensuing flight from angels and demons as I ran with no real destination in mind other than to stay alive.

As I was running through the streets, another demon dog gave chase and I ran that much harder, I knew that if I wanted to survive at all then I would have to keep moving. Suddenly I ran into something hard and pointy. The impact sent me sprawling backward onto the ground where I looked up quickly at what I had run into. I was startled as I looked up into glowing blue eyes in a face covered by a red hood.

It was that man again and he was staring down at me as I started to scoot back until the snarl of the demon that had been chasing me stopped me mid-scramble. Stepping around me, he dispatched the demon dog then turned and walked on down the street, continuing to swing his sword about in a deadly arc. I heard a demon roar again so loudly that it shook the ground beneath my feet. I decided this time I would follow that man because he alone probably stood a chance, and a fool I am not. I followed him through the streets and when a group of angels attacked him along with a monstrous demon with huge claws. Suddenly a blinding red light engulfed the man and when it cleared, in his place stood a huge red dragon looking demon with flames licking across its body. Quickly the angels were destroyed along with the demon and the man transformed back and continued walking. I followed discreetly, not wanting him to decide I wasn't worth the trouble of allowing me to tag along behind him.

As we turned the corner there was a huge pool of lava and above it was what had to be an Archangel. His wings were larger than any of the others that gathered close to him and he didn't wear the armor on his wings that they did. The two started talking and I very discreetly found a hiding place and pulled my aura and power close to me, forming a small protective ball and the jewel around my neck started pulsing. I spared it a glance before it I turned to look at them again.

I couldn't make out a lot of the words from my hiding spot but a few were loud enough to hear, "Abaddon", and "Horseman, the seventh seal was not broken." Suddenly before anything else could be said or done a demon sprang out of the pit and bit into the archangel's arm. He gave a growl of annoyance and killed the demon with his own massive blade. He said something then that I couldn't make out since his head was bowed but he didn't notice the demon flying straight towards his back.

Before he could react a female angel with golden wings charged in and killed the one that was attempting to attack his back. When it seemed the worst was over an even larger demon reached up and crushed the archangel in his hand as he tried to fly higher above the pit, and the others fled leaving only the man to face the beast after it became clear that they stood no chance against it.

He started fighting it and I was sure he was going to win when he sprung onto the demons face and gouged out one of its eyes. It roared in pain and shook the ground beneath my feet. Suddenly a horn sounded from somewhere and I clutched my ears, wincing in pain but the man was doubled over as if in agony. Laughing evilly the demon swatted him like a cat playing with a mouse and when he tried to stand it clutched him in its hand before lifting him to its face. For an instant our eyes met; startled and frightened sapphire blue and disbelieving glowing powder blue.

The man turned to the demon and spoke, "The law has been broken." The demon laughed and brought him closer, " And so have you, horseman." With that the demon crushed the man in his hand and dropped him into the lava pit at his feet. When his body hit the lava a brilliant pink light pulsed out from the pit and my necklace at the same time. When they touched, the light was blinding and then my vision started to fade. Somewhere a voice spoke in the back of my mind before the lights went completely out. "Sleep daughter of man, sleep and awake when it is time." I knew no more.