[Now after watching the Lady Death movie and looking through some of the comics. I thought of trying to pull this off and make a short story for this. This will be based on the Classics, but with a few changes and difference in the story for Lady Death. Now I don't own Lady Death or Doom so all credits goes to the creators so I hope you enjoy.]

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In the medieval times of the 15th century, a war between humanity and the Demons that suddenly came into this world has become known as The Great War. Humanity stands beside a faction that is not form this world, wielding amazing technology that overpowers their own, but requires the help from Earth to defeat the Demons and bring them back into Hell. They are known as the Night Sentinels, an army of holy warriors that are bent into fighting the Demons and destroying them.

In this small town, a nobleman, named Matthias that rules over this place and has been conscripting many townspeople to join him on the frontline against the Demons. He wishes more people to join him on the front line with the Night Sentinels and requires many people as pawns to reach his goal by reaching close to the Night Sentinel order.

Today, he sits on his black horse and wearing a dark red, plated armour with a large sword on his back. He watches two of his soldiers drag two young men out of the church and hereby brings them into the army. The father rushes outside, begging for them to be release, but one of the soldiers had to hold them and make sure they do not interfere.

"Please! Don't take my children!" The father speaks out "They are all I have left."

"We are at war here with the monsters of Hell!" Matthias replies, angered when looking down at the weaken old man "This is the fate of humanity and I must have more soldiers!"

"We are not your pawns to be used to further your goals into the Night Sentinels." Another voice calls out and brings the attention from Matthias. He finds a priest, carrying the staff with the cross at the top of it. He was unhappy of the decree here.

Matthias scoffs the man and turns away "You of all people should understand what I am doing is the benefit of mankind's best interest. We are fighting a war for survival and I need as many warriors as I can." He then looks back at the father and to the boys "When they return, they will be soldiers."

After that, the nearby soldiers pushes the priest to the side and they all begin departing from this place. Matthias never even bother to give the sons a chance to say goodbye to their father, dragged away and unable to even hug him. It was a sad day, but the priest had to comfort the old man and pray to God to ask "Why have you forsaken us? Is this a test?"

Meanwhile, somewhere in a house, a beautiful woman, named Hope was serving lunch and place two plates on the table, one for herself and the other for a pet. She looks on the floor and smiles, lowers herself down to pick up a brown rabbit to place her on the table to eat her food, which was just a carrot on a plate. She sits back down, prays to God, but before she could eat, her husband comes through the door and greets her in open arms.

Here he was, the Doom Marine or Doomguy. He wore a green Night Sentinel armour that shows some protection, but exposes his back and shows off his abs. He comes into the house, takes off his helmet and comes to Hope with open arms.

"You're back. I prayed for your return." Hope replies when she comes up to him and wraps her arms around him.

He does the same and holds her tightly, as it has been a while since he last saw her. "You knew I would come home."

"My instincts were correct." Hope replies and leans her head against his chest "I missed you."

"I miss you too, but I'm afraid I can't stay here for much longer."

"What?" Hope moves her body off of him, keeps her arms around his waist and looks at him with confusion "You're not staying?"

Doomguy walks around her, drops his helmet on the table and replies "The legion I'm in command here will stay here for a short while, but we must travel west very soon." He then looks to his rabbit Daisy that comes up towards his helmet, lifts itself up to place two of her feet onto his helmet to lean up. She really wants a pat from her master and Doomguy ends up patting the top of her head for a while.

"How is the war?" Hope asks

"It's bloody and terrible… They just keep coming and I just got to have to keep killing them."

Hope comes closer to him and presses her hands against his back. "Promise me you'll return when this is over."

"I promise. I'll kill every last one of them and still be the same man you married."

Hope sighs then leans her head against his back again and closes her eyes.

While the two stay together and finally had the chance to kiss, an interference would happen when Matthias arrives to the house with several of his men. Only he got off of his horse and approaches the house, with only Hope coming out of the house to greet her father.

"Father…"

"How many times have I told you of not coming back here in this hut? You disrespect me for disobeying my wishes."

"I-I'm sorry father, I didn't mean to disrespect you." Hope replies, frightened when looking up at her father and held her hands together in front of her.

Matthias looks behind her to find Doomguy coming out of the house with his rabbit on his shoulder. The two stare at one another and Matthias replies "Ah, I see you've returned from the crusade. I thought you'd be dead by now."

"No Demon will kill me." Doomguy replies and comes closer to stand next to Hope to give her some relief "And you have no business being here."

"I have the right of being here! What is that armour you wear?"

"I'm part of the Night Sentinels." Doomguy replies and place his right thumb against his shoulder to where his brown sash was "Take a good look at my rank."

Matthias gasps and surprises him deeply "No… Y-You're a general!"

"And I intend to use the Night Sentinels on destroying the Demons and return home with Hope."

"Hmmm, we shall see about that." Matthias looks back to Hope and says "My daughter, you will return back home for protection there. My army will accompany the good general in the west, so I expect you to be there when I return home." He then turns around to mount back on his horse and takes his leave with his men.

Doomguy looks back at Hope and takes Daisy off of his shoulder "You should return to the castle until I return."

Hope takes Daisy in her arms and replies "I will pray for you every day for your return. Please be careful."

Doomguy nods, kisses her forehead and hugs her for a while until he finally has to depart. He puts his helmet back on and leaves Hope behind with Daisy in her arms. Both had to watch as Doomguy departs, not looking back to see Hope shed tears and pray for a safe trip through the war.

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[One year later…]

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The war against the Demons continues and the Night Sentinels have manage to gain more ground over the full year. While the war continues, Doomguy continues his campaign against them and never returns home to visit Hope and Daisy.

Inside the castle where Hope now lives, trapped in there for a long time, but at least she brought Daisy here for company and remains sleeping during the terrible night. She kept moving her head left to the right, sweating and feeling a bad omen was coming here. She had nightmares of her father, laughing like an evil villain, as he laughs at Doomguy that was being overwhelm by the Demons. He easily slices through so many of them with his Crucible Blade, but then a spear came from Matthias and manage to pierce the back of his body. That moment made her wake up, left herself wide awake and sits up quickly from that dream.

Meanwhile, Matthias arrives to the castle on his horse and was in a hurry to get there, while the rain continues to flood the entire land. When he arrives, he leaves his horse behind and enters the castle, makes his way through to reach the lower levels of his castle.

Hope remains in her bedroom to try and fall asleep, but notices something was wrong, she found no sign of Daisy and quickly takes a candle to go search for the little rabbit. She travels around through the dark, still found no sign of her and ends up discovering something that she would wish she stays in bed.

Hope had no idea that her father already came back when she was sleeping, she heard his voices coming from below, so she decides to investigate and heard hid making an incantation. When she pass down the stairs and found him on his knees, painted the front of his chest with a devils pentagram in blood. What she discovers causes her to gasp and when she finds the rabbit Daisy in front of him with her head no longer connecting her body. Matthias kills Daisy.

As Matthias finishes the incantation, the souls of his victim came pouring out of his body, crying out in pain and the spirits went straight through this red portal that he activates and sends them all into the other dimension.

"Father! What have you done?" Hope comes out of hiding and Matthias stops the incantation to turn towards her. She was shock to see the devils pentagram on his chest and shakes her head when moving backwards.

"You have picked the right time coming down here my daughter." Matthias replies and grabs her arm to stop her from leaving. "You are about to witness the true power of Hell itself."

"H-How could you!"

Matthias scoffs her and pushes her away from him. He spreads his arms out and replies "Your husband isn't going to save you. He is long dead."

". . . . ." Hope remains sitting on her knees and shakes her head "No… You're lying!"

"During the offensive against the Demons, he led the charge and I watched as his army was destroyed. No man could survive that major battle and now that he is dead, I can finally become more powerful than the Night Sentinels!"

But suddenly, a commotion happens from the top of the stairs and a soldier came falling all the way down to the bottom. The two find the soldier dead with his head remove, and pretty soon, a Night Sentinel with a bloody sword at the ready, descends to the room and finds the two working with Demons.

"The Night Sentinels have come for your head!" The soldier replies and holds onto his sword with both hands

Matthias laughs and turns his back on him "Fools! You are too late to –"

The moment he turns his back on him, the Night Sentinel did not hesitate or even listen to what he had to say, so he drove his sword through his back. However, what the soldier fail to realise is that this is what Matthias really wants, sacrificed himself to the Dark Lord himself and would finally finish the ritual. When he collapses onto the floor, the red portal becomes unstable and in a few moments, a flash of bright light would blind everyone in the room and this light would soon turn into flames. The fire incinerates the whole room, burned that fellow soldier and consumes the entire castle in the flames from Hell and incinerates every single person that was here. There was a small platoon of Night Sentinels here, as well as the townspeople that have come to join them on seizing Matthias, but was too late. Most of the castle fell a part, but the only survivor this disaster would be Hope and her father that suddenly rise up from the ground.

Hope remains cowering on the corner, covered herself up and crying at what she just witness. Her father approaches her, touches her chin to force her to look up and gaze at the new form that was given to him by the Dark Lord.

"Do you like this?" Matthias asks "I have big plans for you, my daughter."

Hope gazes at the new form that her father had become. He was much taller than before, his skin changes to pale with black veins spreading across his chest, two curve horns on his head and red glowing eyes. His legs are replace with hooves like a Baron of Hell, while his nails are sharp enough to pierce through the flesh and armour so quickly.

"God… Help me…"

And so with this disaster came, Matthias begins to use his new form power against the rest of the town and unleashes an army of Demons to help him exterminate them all. All hope could do is watch the Demons destroy her home and bring everyone into damnation. She is the only one that the Demons spare, as Matthias has full control over them and orders them all to spare her life, but kill everyone else. The sun would never again to bring light to this broken place, only the black clouds with red lightning would fire from below them and begin to turn this town into a hellish landscape for Matthias. It will not be long before the population outside of this town would find Demons and calls for help from the nearby kingdom, as well as the Night Sentinels that will soon hear the news about the destruction of that town.

As for Hope, she remains as a prisoner of her father yet again, left to wear her torn up clothes, chained up against the wall and left in the dark for a while until her father returns. All she could do is hang in there until someone rescues her, but even if someone were to find her, they would probably kill her for being the daughter of this Demon.

"Have you finally considered my proposal?" Matthias asks Hope.

"Bastard! Why do you have to torture your own daughter like this…? Isn't my death enough of you?"

"All of that pain and suffering will go away. It makes you weak to keep such emotions like that." Matthias comes closer and touches her face to force her to stare back at him "I can offer you eternal life with me, but all you have to do is forsaken everything and become the daughter I dreamed you would become."

"NO! I would never become a Demon!"

"You don't have a choice." Matthias lets go of her and stands up straight "Your husband has forsaken you, everything you loved is gone and I am all you have left. You don't have much time left in this world. If you should escape, the Night Sentinels will just burn you, so either way, I still win."

Hope lowers her head to the floor and shed tears. She really was beginning to lose hope and knew that he was right about what he said to her. But still, she slowly looks back at her father and replies "The answer is no."

That answer made him growl and unhappy at her rebellious. He turns away and replies "You are just as disappointing as your mother." He comes up to the door and looks back at her "I didn't wish to do this to you, but you leave me no choice." Then leaves the room, left the door open and allow two humanoid Demons that look like Hell Razers, but they wear dark red armour and would carry swords instead of an energy blast for an arm.

The Demons took their time with her, ripped her clothes off and slowly tore her flesh a part. Hope continues to pray for God for help, while she tries to embrace as much pain for much longer, however, she could not hold for much longer and ends up submitting for twenty minutes. With God not on her side, she collapse and left broken, left to submit herself to the Demons and back to her father. With her soul broken, the Demons left her to her broken state and drags her outside to reunite with Matthias. They shove her to the floor, left her in front of Matthias in a naked and torn state.

"The time has come, my daughter." Matthias replies "The Night Sentinels will arrive here and will kill all of us here. You will do as you are told and begin the incantation."

One of the Demons grabs her shoulder to lift her up off the floor and keep her on her knees. While she cries and whimper, she finally begins to call for the incantation that will finally bring her to her father side in Hell.

"I conjure thee… Invisible shadow… I call to thee, illuminators of darkness and destroyers of light. I call to thee by the name I was given and ask thy gate be open. Open to me!"

With that said and done, Matthias touches her forehead with the bloody fingers from the fallen and creates a pentagram on her forehead. When he finishes, it activates and a portal would suddenly open up and more Demons, like the Gargoyles would appear and drags her into the other world. Once she is through that portal, Matthias also goes through, while the rest of the Demons are left to battle with the Night Sentinels by themselves.

Through the portal, the screams of the millions of victims who have been corrupt with the sins of the deeds they have done on Earth. Hope could hear all of the screaming victims, unable to block them out until she makes it to the other side. While she falls, all the wound she took would suddenly regenerate and restore herself to what she was before, but her clothes remain gone and her hair was still short. There she arrives through one of the realms of Hell itself, left to fall without the help from the Gargoyles and finds herself crashing into the black muck in Hell.

Hope rises out of the muck, struggled to even move, but with her body restore, she uses whatever strength she now has to get out of there and come to normal footing. But as she made it there, she found her father standing nearby and watches her crawl to safety.

"Welcome to Hell, my daughter."

"You bastard… I condemned myself in Hell because of you…"

"Things can be much better." Matthias replies when coming closer to her

Hope faces the ground and replies "I doubt it."

Matthias smiles and chuckles a bit "Oh, but you will see what I have seen on the other side."

Hope looks back to Matthias with an angry look on her face and replies "You've got what you wanted… Now what do you want from me!?"

"The Dark Lord requires our presence, so you will do what I tell you to do and you will obey. Failure to obey me… Well…" Matthias grabs the top of her head and lifts her up in the air. She cries out and grabs his hand, but cannot break the hold he has on her. "Will you obey me?"

Hope closes her eyes and sheds more tears. She mutters by saying "Y-Yes… I'll go with you."

"Excellent." Matthias throws her back into the muck behind her and turns away "Now get out of that muck and follow me." He then turns away and walks away from her.

Hope comes back out of the muck and breathes heavily from the damage that Matthias has done to her. She was left a mess, forced to drag herself out of the muck, shaken by the events that has happen to her and left a little surprise that she can walk fine, since the Demons manage to break her legs before coming here.

Somewhere in the next realm, lies the Black Citadel where the Dark Lord lies. This realm he owns, dominated many Titans that moves around and does his bidding on building more places wherever he wants them to be. His Black Citadel is under the guard of his royal soldiers, the Barons of Hell and left some Tyrants around as captain of the royal guard. Outside of his capital, only Hell Knights and thousands of Cacodemons surround the palace, while the rest of the lesser Demons remain far away, as they fear that the bigger Demons could crush them if they show their faces here.

Inside the royal palace, over a hundred Barons of Hell are standing on both sides of the red carpet in the middle and two Tyrants stands near the throne where the Dark Lord lies. Lucifer himself, sitting on the throne, appearing much taller than a Tyrant and has a strong-built muscular body and his skin was red. His appearance does shows some similarities of a Baron and a Tyrant, having goat legs with hooves at the bottom, but his horns are much bigger and longer than the Demons here.

Matthias arrives first to the throne room, noticed the lovely temptresses that could be Succubi and are just sitting around together on the steps in front of Lucifer's throne. Several of them wore these black silk clothing that can see through, as well as see through cloths that covers much of the face. They are seen either pleasuring themselves or leaning themselves against Lucifer.

Matthias shoves Hope onto the floor and together they both go down on their knees in respect to the Dark Lord. Hope lifts her head up to see the presence of Lucifer himself, but after what she witness today, she never expects to be in front of the one responsible for all the suffering on Earth.

"What a frail and weak soul you are." Lucifer replies and with a wave from his right hand, the shackles on her wrists and legs suddenly vanishes "I can put an end to your suffering."

"I've heard that before…"

Lucifer rises from his throne and comes closer to the two. Matthias remains where he was and watches Lucifer approaches Hope. Lucifer replies "You possess incredible power thanks to your father. With my knowledge, I can help you into mastering this power and together we can overthrow Earth. The Night Sentinels can finally be extinct."

"That's… What I am here…" Hope replies

"Allow me to train her." Matthias replies and steps forward "I can make her into a powerful weapon in your army."

"No! I will take her." Lucifer looks to Matthias with anger for a moment then back to Hope and replies "It's time to accept your destiny in front of you, my dear daughter."

"Daughter?! No." Hope shakes her head "I won't live here with you."

"You are more of my daughter than he is." Lucifer replies "I gave Matthias his power and that power flows through you –"

"I've had enough of your lies!"

"Hmmm, I see you still hold some rebellion in you." Lucifer turns his head towards Matthias and he lowers his head. He looks back to Hope and replies "Hell can be beautiful. Living here will make you a powerful weapon that will show no bounds. Desire equals power."

"And I promise that my daughter will prove to be quite useful." Matthias replies and rises up off the floor "But now that I have given you my daughter and a new weapon, a reward would be quite handsomely."

"Hmmm…" Lucifer turns to Matthias and points at him "I have already given you the power you desire. However, take your pick." He moves his right arm towards the Succubi that remain sitting there and looking back at Matthias "Choose one and your daughter will take her place."

"Father! You wouldn't."

Matthias smiles and took his time to pick any woman he wants. He ends up grabbing the one with the brown hair, pulls her off the floor and brings her closer to him. Matthias holds her with one hand and looks to Hope to say "I'll be seeing you in time, my lovely daughter." He then walks away with the Succubus following him to somewhere private.

Shocked to witness that Hope's father trades her life to Lucifer for just a whore that could give him satisfaction. She would have to accept reality that he was no longer her father, just a Demon that desires power over anything else and shows no care on who he has to step on in order to get what he wants.

"Now then." Lucifer turns away from Hope and comes back to his throne. He looks to one of the Succubi and replies "Give her something elegant to wear and send her to the arena."

The Succubus nods and moves off to approach Hope. She takes her hand, smiles to her and shows off her snake-like tongue out of her mouth then departs with Hope somewhere else. She would bring Hope where he keeps the rest of the Succubi, help give her something to put on and also help wash her body to make her not stink. Hope did what she was told and said nothing about it, still left a broken woman after what her father did and she was all alone down here.

When she was done with her, she wore a black skimpy outfit that shows much of her skin and was basically just wearing her underwear. She arrives into the arena and grabs any of the weapons nearby to use them for combat. She hesitates at first, as this was the first time she actually uses a weapon and was not fond of violence. Lucifer would watch her from the distance to see how she is with a weapon, he lets the nearby gates to open up and a Pinky comes through first to be her opponent. She was afraid, her hands shake when holding onto this sword, and when Pinky comes closer, swings too early and left collapsing onto the floor. She got back up off the ground, picks up her sword again and quickly rolls to the side to have Pinky rush past her. After slowly getting back up, she rushes towards Pinky, attacks when it just turns around to face her and takes a blow from the sword through the head. The harden shell was enough to reject most of the damage, also left her sword broken and knocks Hope onto the floor again.

"What a bothersome creature." Lucifer says to himself, unsatisfied at this woman with a sword that knows nothing of combat. "Let's put things up another notch." He then conjures up another Pinky in the room and charges towards Hope.

Hope looks back to find another Pinky near her, she quickly gets up and moves away, while also picking up her sword again to try to defend herself. She keeps swinging and breathing heavily from using too much stamina on hitting nothing. As all chance of winning and chances of impressing Lucifer was fading, one Pinky would tackle her to the floor and was close of finishing her off right here and now. Hope screams out and would finally awaken her inner powers through rage instead of fear. A sudden blast of bluish energy came from her hands that sends Pinky off of her and left Lucifer amaze to see her finally awakening her powers. She slowly stands up off the ground, her hands left a flame and so does her eyes for a moment until they die out to show her eyes are just plain white. She looks back at the two Pinkies that was ready to attack together, but stops the two when she consumes them with bluish energy that forces them to stop and make them change their eyes to blue when the energy around them dies out. They no longer need the desire to attack her, they just remain where they are, while she soon collapses to her knees and her powers suddenly fade away from her body.

"She can control them. Excellent." Lucifer decides to descend down into the arena, noticed the Pinkies remaining where they are and decides to get rid of them. He crushes the both of them, splattered the blood all over the place and on his hooves too. He comes closer to Hope that remains on her knees and left facing the ground.

"There's the power I've been looking for." Lucifer replies "How does it feel, my daughter? How does it feel to wield to control life and bring death to all that oppose you?"

Hope was left breathing heavily for a while until she finally calms herself down. She looks back at Lucifer, picks herself up off the ground and looks back at him with an angry look on her face.

"Death… Hope is no more. I have taken her place and will fulfil her desires by destroying you and anyone else that has wronged me of my freedom."

"Ha! Were just getting started and you dare defy me now? I guess Matthias hasn't put you in your place."

"No more! I will not be your slave in this game of yours!" She activates her powers once again through her wrath and fury, fires a blast of blue energy from her hands straight towards Lucifer.

Lucifer stood his ground and never flinch from that attack, because he saw no strength within that attack that could hurt him. He smiles and ends up grabbing her waist to lift her up "No matter where you go, you will forever remain here in Hell for all eternity. Perhaps your next test is to see if you could survive the outside of this world."

"I will find a way to destroy you!"

Lucifer smirks and replies "No you won't. But I'll be watching you, daughter." He then summons a red and black portal behind her and throws her through it. Once the portal closes, Lucifer turns away and mutters "She'll be back."

It only took her a split second for her to reach the other side and found herself crashing into the water. She fell deep into the water and quickly got to the top, forced to deal with the water going in her mouth, which was disgusting. She tries to swim to the edges, while also dealing with the rough flow of the water until she finally made it to the rocks and tries to take a breather. She finally crawls out of the water and left to take a break when she lies on dry land with only her feet still in the water.

Suddenly, more trouble came to her and it was not from her underwear that remain on her body, but two wolves that are not as deadly as Pinky, more cunning than they are. These large beasts' growls when they smell new prey to feed on and together they surround her while she is down. She picks up a nearby bone to defend herself, only to knock one of them away and have the other attack the bone to knock it off her hand. With her defenceless, two are ready to attack, but she had enough time to finally unleash her powers to knock the both of them back. Her blast of power was enough to stop them from attacking her, so when she finally moves away from the water, the two wolves remain watching her, refuse to engage her again and just watches her sit down against the wall. Both wolves shown to have blue eyes for a brief moment until it fades away and both come closer to her to lay down on both sides next to her to show their loyalty to their new master.

At long last she finally had the time to take a break for a little while and found no sign of anymore Demons that could threaten her. But while she sits on the ground in front of the fire, protected by her two nameless wolves, another individual would come up from the shadows and made the wolves growl when they smell someone approaching.

"It's rare to find someone who could control the nameless wolves in this land."

"Who's there?" She stands up off the floor and was ready to attack.

"I am the Cremator, and I have been watching you since you fell from above. When I saw you, I knew you would be the next to defy the Dark Lord himself and come out alive."

"The next?"

"It's a long story…" The Cremator approaches one of the wolves and pats it, while Hope goes to sit back down

"We have time."

"Very well…" Cremator sits down on the ground and tells his story "Long ago, I was once the chief weapons master in the forge in Lucifer's army. I served him well until I stopped doing his wishes when I discovered that he was responsible for my death and the suffering of my beloved. I saw an opportunity when I heard he was weakened at the fight against the Slayer, so I challenged him and fail to deliver the final blow." He then touches the chest of where his scar lies and continues "I was left alive, but I never again made another attempt on Lucifer's life. Perhaps you could do that I cannot."

"I want him dead for everything he caused to my family. He turned my father into a Demon and thought he could use me as a weapon." She got tense and digs her broken nails into her hands "No more…" She then rises up and begins to ignite her powers once again when she starts getting angry at just thinking about Lucifer and Matthias. "Both of them must be destroyed for what they've created. They will be staring death in the eyes and will not come out alive."

Cremator steps away from her to avoid her wrathful power, but when she finally decreases her power, he steps forward and replies "Then we have something in common. Lucifer is powerful, but not indestructible. I have survived his wrath and so have you, so this could be the opportunity to strike back at the Dark Lord."

"Then what are we waiting for?"

"We can begin whenever you are ready then my lady." Cremator walks past her and walks away "Come, we've got much to do before you are ready to face Lucifer. By the way, what do I call you?"

She stops for a moment to think about it and finally found a name that would be perfect for all of Hell to fear. "Death… Lady Death."