DISCLAIMER: Yada yada we all know the drill Darksiders I and II all characters related to said games belong to Vigil Games and THQ not me. Also the idea of the Horsemen not killing the Nephilim is Aragem's idea. I did ask permission before using this so no one can bitch about it and you should read her story "White Mask" either on this site or for the uncensored version, its pretty amazing, anyway onto da story.
Chapter 1: Even the Earth can Bleed
Red, the color of blood, the color of the sky that 'it' happened, the night the Earth cried with blood and the Human race, our arrogant self centered race came to know the truth about everything that we've been taught. That night had been like any other, dark blue and black swirling around the endless sea of stars, a calm night, a night where the full moon gazed down at the Earth. It was in the moon that our first ominous warning had come, at midnight a dark shadow fell over the moon and seemed to float across its surface before hovering over our world, bringing with it a feeling of dread and coldness. The animals had stopped their nightly routines to cower in their homes but Humans, we have long forgot our instincts for luxury, the humans kept going about their business until the moon turned blood red and the sky lit up with red as large meteors began to plummet down to strike the Earth.
This was the night, the Earth bleed with our blood. Each of the meteor strikes brought with it not debris from outer space but something far more terrible, the Nephilim. These creatures were bigger than any human and their strength could easily snap a person in half if not crush them in a fist. Each Nephilim was different but they all had one similarity, destruction. The Nephilim began their bloody conquest of the Earth, slaughtering everyone and everything in their path, not ever the nation's militaries could stand against these creatures, their weapons cleaving into tanks, cutting into the soldier's armor, even one particular Nephilim, though slimmer than the rest, carried two massive pistols in which he was able to bring down planes and choppers with.
Yes, the human blood soaked into the ground, rising up in ditches and crevices, allowing the Earth to bleed with human blood as the Nephilim ravaged the human race, breaking into homes, stores, empty buildings just to drag a human out to slaughter it. A few humans however, escaped the carnage by hiding in areas to small for the majority of Nephilim to get into, only coming out when it was absolutely necessary, for food, water, and other provisions.
Angels soon arrived to attempt to fight the Nephilim to attempt to save what was left of the humans but the three days between the arrival of the Nephilim and the arrival of the Angels was too long, already the human race had been brought down and the Angels could do little to stop the monsters. The corpses of Angels would litter the destroyed streets of cities and bloody feathers would float on the winds, a few angelic corpses seemed to have disappeared, leaving only bloody trails where the bodies had been.
This would be what happened to Earth and a full two weeks later after the defeat of the angel battalions, a small group of humans hiding beneath an old monastery in old winding catacombs, was in need of provisions and it would be a rather unlucky night for them. The leader of this small group, Abramo De Luca is a faired skinned male with short black hair and dark blue eyes, a man of 32 years of age that has since the Nephilim attack, has kept his hiding mates safe as best he can. Aidan O' Brien is Abramo's second, a hefty but strong Irish man of 28 with spirited green eyes and blazing red hair. Then of course there is the lovely Shirokawa Miyako, Shirokawa being her surname, is a young 29 year old woman from Japan who had been visiting the U.S when the attack happened, her hair a short black with blue tips and her eyes a light blue. Miyako is coveted by this group as she has had training from her family for generation in the art of stealth and is thus the group's only scout.
These three humans are important to the group but not the only ones, among the ground are mothers, fathers, children, not many but enough to fill the tight passages of the catacombs snuggly. Miyako was the one to notice the supplies getting low thus Abramo had brought Aidan and Miyako out of the catacomb which is where we start the story of one of the last groups of humans.