I do not own Darksiders or the song which is How We Kill Stars by Shaka Punk. Enjoy the updated version my peeps! Any negative comments will be... taken into consideration. Thank you for your time and thoughts.
She sat on the edge of the cliff, her feet swinging over the huge drop, wings resting against her back. She bounced in time with the music blasting through the huge headphones into her pointed ears and sang along in a loud and slightly off-key tone as she watched the battle raging below her. Though, it was more of a massacre really. Despite the fact that there was only one of the Four Horsemen against a horde of demons, he was doing quite well for himself. In her opinion anyway. He hacked and slashed his way through the ranks with a grace that was surprising for such a mountain of a man and she found him fascinating to watch, even if he was killing off members of her kind at an intense rate. Soon, though, she lost interest in the battle and focused on singing along to her music.
Down below, the Horseman sliced through the last demon, cutting it in half. He watched the halves turn to ash as he returned his huge blade to its place on his back. Thinking himself done with the task set to him by the Charred Council, he summoned his fiery steed. They had told him to track down the group of demons that was gathering and eradicate every last one of them. The task had taken him all day, though he would have finished sooner had one of his brothers or sister been sent with him but they were away on their own missions. Then again, maybe not since the demons seemed to just keep coming.
He mounted the huge warhorse and prepared to pass through the Veil and into the Council's Realm for his report then to home when a strong wind blew across the field, carrying with it the sound of singing. He whipped his head around to find the source of the sound but saw nothing in the immediate area. He then directed his search to the skies and movement at the top of the nearby cliff caught his attention. Another demon.
He patted his horse's neck, "One more, Ruin," he said in a deep, gravelly voice, "then we can return home." The horse just whinnied and tossed his head in response to his master's voice.
Turning his horse again, the rider led him up the back of the cliff and to his final target for the day. As he neared the final demon, he was able to hear the song more clearly. He could tell from the high pitch voice that it was a female but he did not recognize the song.
"You're living in a lie, don't you hide, this is bio-mecanica deep inside 'What you have? You know what I also got!'"
What kind of song is this? he thought to himself, It doesn't make any sense.
"Simple bot, think a lot before you act and you talk, simple man, you say that you do what you can… Punk I don't know what you can but I am what I am, don't you fucking understand… Yo I am what I am."
He thought that this could only be one of those ridiculous human songs.
"I'm a girl, I'm a man, kindo mix, no offense, but if you want it to make sense, you've got to be smarter 'baba'!"
Reaching the top of the cliff, he saw the she demon sitting at the edge and bouncing slightly while she sang. She was completely oblivious to the fact that he was even there.
"Try me if you wanna, it's so easy: Try me! If you wanna kill me if you don't like me no more, just kill me I'm so easy."
Jumping off Ruin, he drew the massive blade from his back and stood behind the still unawares demon. He could finish her off now but something besides his own sense of honor was preventing him from doing so. He leveled his sword with her neck and sliced the thin cord that ran from the headphones to her iPod in her hand, both stolen from the human world.
She jerked to attention at her music suddenly being cut off and whipped around to face the newcomer, nearly falling off the cliff in the process, "Hey! What'd you go and do that for?! It was getting good!"
"Stand, demon, and defend yourself." He told her, ignoring her rage.
She, in turn, ignored him and studied the ends of the cut wire, "Great, now it's ruined. Do you have any idea how hard it was to get theses? You so owe me a new pair." She took off the headphones, mindful of her dark grey horns, and threw them off the side of the cliff along with the other half of the cord, letting the music blast from her iPod.
"Do you know who I am, demon?"
She got up, brushing off the dirt from her shorts, and turned to face him, "Of course I do, fool, you're War of the Four Horsemen. Everyone knows that."
War paid no attention to the fact that she had called him a fool, or the fact that she regarded him as a mere nuisance, his only thought was how beautiful she was, and War never thought things, much less demons, were beautiful. She had pale skin that seemed to shine in the dying light, smooth jet black hair that fell to her waist and was intertwined with blue ribbons, gossamer wings that fluttered gently behind her, iridescent eyes that shifted colors every time she blinked and were looking at him angrily. There was something about her that seemed familiar but War couldn't remember where he'd seen her before.
"Hellooooo, can you hear me in there? Earth to Horseman."
War shook his head slightly to clear it of such thoughts and raised Chaoseater to the demon's throat again, "Do not mock me."
She rolled her eyes at him and crossed her arms over her chest, "Who said I was mocking? You just seemed to disappear inside your head and, being the kind soul I am, I was simply wondering if you were okay."
"Why did you not escape while I 'disappeared inside my head', as you say. It's obvious I'm here to kill you."
She brushed War's sword away with the back of a black gauntleted hand, "You're here to kill me?" she said, sarcasm dripping off every word, "Geez, I really couldn't tell."
War tried to get annoyed at the demon, tried to find a reason to end this odd conversation and her but found that he couldn't, despite the fact that it was his mission. "Tell me, who are you?"
She yawned, boredom evident on her face, "Hmm, let's see… today I think I'm… Alina. Yeah, that's a good name."
War growled at her flippant and obviously untruthful response, "Do not lie to me."
She shrugged, a smirk on her lips, "Who says I am? What if I'm telling the truth but just saying it in a way that will make you think it is a lie? Or perhaps it actually is a lie but I told you that just now so that now you'll think that what I told you before is the truth when, in fact, it is still a lie."
War's eyes narrowed in his confusion from her babbling, "What are you saying?"
"Alina" looked down at her iPod, which was still playing music, when she heard her favorite song come on, "What I'm saying is that this is my jam and I have to be going. I need to go back to Earth to get new headphones before the stores close because someone ruined my old ones." She took a step back into empty air, "See ya later." She said with a smile before plummeting towards the ground.
Halfway down the cliff, she started to beat her wings and flew back up to the top of the cliff where the horseman still stood after watching her fall. She drew level with him and patted the top of his hooded head, "Then again, hopefully I won't." With that she flew off into the Veil between worlds and to Earth, leaving War to stare after her.
He was confused and relieved at the same time. Why didn't he kill her? Why did he want to do anything but that? Ruin nickered behind him and butted his massive head into his master's shoulder. War turned to his steed and put a comforting hand on his head, "It's fine, let's go." He swung up into the saddle and led Ruin back down the cliff. He knew he had failed his mission. But surely the council could overlook one demon escaping, right?