Prologue

Long before there was humanity there existed two races that were created by the creator, the warriors of light, the angels and the warriors of dark, the demons. For centuries these two races, Heaven and Hell, constantly fighting for one thing, dominance. But then another race that wielded both light and dark powers, created by a demon name Lilith. This race was The Nephilim. The Nephilim were a new race at that time. They were ruthless and thirst for war, they even fought both angel and demons alike in search of a home for the Nephilim. The charred council, a group of beings created by the creator, decided to exterminate all the Nephilim to keep the balance between Heaven and Hell because they were deemed of a threat.

The charred council sent four horsemen, a group of Nephilim that were chosen by the charred council, to wipe out all the Nephilim kind. At last, the Nephilim were extinct and were left with only four Nephilim left, the four horsemen. Then a truce was created between the two races and a seal was also created.

When humanity was created and live in a planet called earth, a great apocalypse fell to the human world. Demons and Angels alike used earth as their place for war. Earth was destroyed and War, one of the legendary horsemen, was to blame for the destruction of mankind, breaking the seven seals, and making the apocalypse earlier. Death, one of the horsemen, has a quest to bring justice for war's innocence. But before he went to see the crow father, he visited earth one last time because he had a feeling that he might not come back to see him again.

In the underground, a safehouse that was built by humans a long time ago, there was a boy 12 years old with raven black hair with red eyes. His skin was pale and has a relatively good physical build for someone of his age. He is 165 cm in height. He wore a black jacket, black tattered cloak with a red color under it, black trousers, and black boots. The boy wore armguards that was made from demon steel and black fingerless gloves made from demon skin. A red scarf was dangling loosely around his neck, wrapping his lower chin.

The boy was currently sharpening his weapon what looked like a combination of a scythe and a spear. The scythe could be broken down into two separate blades, when combined it would turn into a longer scythe, and the scythe has a mechanism, the curved blade could be turned straight into a spear. At a table not far from him was a magnum pistol and a white mask that looks like a skeleton with two thin horns on the forehead. While the boy was sharpening his weapon, he heard a knock from the door. Knowing only one person that knew this place, he then walked to the door and opened the locks. After he unlocked the the locks, he opened the safehouse door.

In front of him was a big pale man wearing bone-like mask.

"Hello Father." The boy said.

"Hello Shaun." Death said.

The boy Shaun let his father inside the safehouse. Shaun locked again the door.

"I see you were sharpening your scythe." Death said while he was examining his son scythe.

"Yeah I was, father what are you doing here so sudden, I mean you came here two days ago just to give uncle strife's spare firearm to me." Shaun said sitting at a chair near the table.

Death put Shaun's weapons beside the anvil. Death then took a seat on another chair on the small safehouse. Death prepared to tell his son about his plan to free his brother war from his punishment.

"Son, there is something that I wanted to tell you." Death said seriously.

"What is it that?" Shaun said curious.

"I've… once told you why there weren't any humans after you born, right? And my brother or your uncle, War was accused for the extinction of all human life." Death said.

Shaun just nodded to his father. His father saw this as a sign to continue.

"Well… I have a plan on how to prove my brother's innocence and maybe resurrect the humans." Death said.

Shaun eyes widened after what his father said to him. If he succeeds, then humankind will live… including his mother.

"Then… that means mother will live again?!" Shaun said almost shouted before he remembered that he could possibly attract demons to the safehouse.

"It's a possibility." Death said to him. Death remembered his wife, Mary Hopkins. He met her while he was given a mission to kill a demon lord on earth. It was the only one happy memory that he made in his life, but she died three years ago because of a demon killed her. Good thing that he saved his son before the demon could kill him.

"Then how will you do it father and can I help you aid in this quest?" Shaun said to his father. Death already knew that his son was going to said that. He knew that his son was capable of killing a demon and using his Nephilim abilities, which very resembles after him. But he won't allow him to roam freely.

"I'm sorry Shaun, but you can't." Death said to Shaun.

"But why? I can take care of myself and I even already unlocked my true form father." Shaun then demonstrates his true form. Shadows wrapped around Shaun's body and black-red smoke emitted from him. Then from the smokes came out a big figure. The figure wore a black cloak that covered his whole body with his hood up that was covering his face. Red glowing eyes and two short horns was on the shadowy face. Two big shadowy wings were seen on the figure's back. The figure's body was only made bones and has no feet, but was replaced with black mist. Shaun then turned back into his humanoid form.

"See father." Shaun said.

"Impressive… but sorry boy, the reason why I don't want to bring you with me is because I'm afraid that the council will discover you. The people who only knew your existence is me, your mother, and Strife." Death said folding his arms.

"Ok… but will you come back? It's like you're saying you will not come bac from this." Shaun said to his father.

Death approach his son and ruffles his raven messy hair.

"Of course, my son…" Death said. In truth he himself didn't knew if he come back again, he had a feeling that this his final time he could see his son again.

"Shaun… if something happens to me… I want you to know that I love you and you are the greatest thing that came into my life." Death said. Shaun then hugs his father which Death returned.

"Don't say that father. Mother always said to us to have hope. I know you will come back from whatever you will do." Shaun said.

"I hope so." Death said ended the hug. After that emotional moment Shaun asked his father if he already eaten anything, because he gotten many meat from his last hunt. Death said he didn't need to because after this he will soon go on to his quest. Shaun nodded and Death then said goodbye to him and left the underground safehouse.

Six years later

It was night time, a figure was overlooking a street full of draughts and demons alike. They were trying to pry open a seal steel door where the humans gathered. The figure preparing his double scythe in hand then he jumped, free falling from the tall building. The demons and draughts stop what they were doing and focused to the falling figure. The figure landed across the street from the Draughts and the Demons. The demons and Draughts were looking at the hooded figure wondering who it was.

"Mmmmh, I sensed something strange about you… you smell familiar, like a certain horseman." A demon said. This demon was bigger than the other demons that were present, it was a demon lord named Abyssal. (A/N: to be honest idk if there is a demon lord from Darksiders, name like this but welp it's an oc).

"It doesn't matter who am I, what matters is that you will all die right now by my hand, if you stop hunting the humans over that steel door." The figure said, hands gripping his two scythes on each hand. Abyssal then laughed at him.

"You think you can kill me? Then you are only a fool." Abyssal said. The demons around Abyssal began to growl at the figure.

"We shall see." The figure then began to run to the demons. The figure shot out bullets from his magnum gun, which killed five demons before the demons ever get to him. He then saw six demons charging to him. The figure drew his double scythes, one demon was holding a sword and the Demon tried to do a downward attack, but the figure blocked the attack with one scythe. He used the other scythe to do a slashed on the demon's abdomen. The demon squirm by the figure's attack, the figure then quickly beheaded the demon.

The other two demon was heading to the figure with swords. The figure then teleported over to them in a black-red shadowy light, cutting the two of demons with his scythes instantly killing them. Abyssal eyes widened his eyes. The scythes and this familiar energy…

"No… it's impossible! I thought it was only a rumor, you're Death's son! Kill him my minions, don't let him escape from here!" Abyssal said to his demon minions. The minions then charged to attack the figure. The figure then turned into his true form which resembles his own father's form. He then began to kill all the demon minions that were in his path to kill Abyssal.

After a couple of minutes, all the demons had been killed by the figure. At the center of the bodies of the fallen demons and draughts, Abyssal was on the ground clutching his horizontal wound because of the figure's scythes. He looked at the figures face who was currently wearing a bone-like mask with two little horns on the forehead. Red eyes were staring piercingly at the demon lord.

"They… will know you, Death's spawn. One of my minions have already escaped from your slaughter. The Council will find you…" The figure then beheaded the dying demon lord. Looking at the steel door where the humans reside, he approached the door and knocked three times.

"The demons are dead. You are all safe." The figure said now known as Shaun. He then went away from the place before the other humans could thank their savior. Shaun riding his dead father's horse Despair head to his underground safehouse. As he rides across the ruins of New York city (which his mother told him when he was 8 years old) he thought about his father's warning. Now that a demon was reporting to the Council, he needed to escape Earth. His father once said there were portals that allowed to cross between worlds.

The portal that was mentioned was not that far from his safehouse, but the portal was being guarded by Angels. Uriel, the Angel commander, was the one who was in charge to guard the portal from the Demons. His father told him that she didn't knew Shaun's existence which means he needed to be stealthy in order to go to the portal, unnoticed.

He then also thought about his father. When he heard the news that his father sacrificed himself to The Well of Souls from Dust, the crow's Crow father, he was very sad. He loved his father even if he sometimes didn't come to the safehouse to see his mother and him. His belongings were brought to him by his father's horse Despair. After his father's Death, Despair became his stead.

After along while riding across the city he finally arrived at his safehouse. He cautiously looked around the perimeter for enemies or stalkers around him. Satisfied that there weren't any around, he carefully unlocked the locks of the door. After he was inside the safehouse, he pulled out his mask from his face. After six years, Shaun grew stronger. His messy hair was now longer and messier, and he's now 185 cm in height. He then walked to the sofa which he threw his mask there and sat on the sofa. He then began to think his next moves.

'That Demon Lord said one of his minions managed to slip by… Then I needed to get into that portal. Who knows when the council will find me…' Shaun thought.

He then looked at the clock, it was almost midnight. Pondering if he should rest or not, he picked the first option. He lay down on the sofa and went to sleep. Three hours later, Shaun heard an explosion from the door's safehouse. He quickly got up and dawned his mask.

Shaun looked at the person that was responsible for wrecking his door. A man with four white wings and a sword made of light. He wore white angelic clothes. Behind him were angels, a bunch of them if Shaun was correct. The angelic commander then pointed his sword to Shaun.

"Death's spawn, by the order of the Council you're to be sentenced for execution!" The Angel said to Shaun. Shaun then quickly summoned shadow minions, which was humanoids of shadows looked like dwarfs, but they are very dangerous if they're together. The shadow minions attacked the Angels, giving the son of Death time to escape to a passageway.

The passageway was a tunnel that leads to the surface. A ladder was inside of it to climb and a trapdoor. Shaun then opened the trapdoor and started quickly to climb. He could sense that the shadow minions were beginning to reduce. Finally, he got out of the safehouse and was greeted by dawn. He got out of the secret passage and closed the trapdoor. Shaun summoned Despair from the ground and mounted him. The horse and the half Nephilim-Human headed to the portal's location with the aid from Dust.

"Dust, find me a faster route to the portal!" Shaun shout to dust, which the crow gawk at him as confirmation.

Dust flew straight to the portal's location and Shaun rode with Despair following the crow. Shaun could hear shouts from behind. He saw Angels chasing him in the air.

"Faster Despair!" Shaun said to his horse. Despair rode faster, his cloak fluttering furiously against the wind because of the speed they were travelling. The angels were still gaining on them, Shaun needed a plan to slow the angels down. He then summoned shadow ravens to slow the angels down.

"Aggh! Annoying little ravens!" One of the angels said. Shaun then rode faster kicking up wind while doing it. He passed draughts that he quickly sliced them down with his combined scythe. After what a couple a minutes Shaun could see the portal. But unfortunately, they were heavily guarded by angels. Shaun looked at his back to see the angels that were chasing him managed to catch up to him.

Shaun remembered that the Angels were here to kill demons and protect humans. So, Shaun cannot kill them. Shaun still mounting his stead move faster if he was going to that portal he needs to go there fast. An Angel who was holding a weapon what's looked like a minigun, tried to shot Shaun with the weapon. Shaun then jump from his saddle which Despair then disappear into the ground.

Shaun while still in the air used his shadow grip at the minigun angel. Shaun then slashed the angel on his torso but not killing him. After that he teleported to the portal's direction. He was almost at the portal when a spear of light almost impaled him to his chest, but Shaun evaded the spear and instead hitting the ground beside him. He looked at the assailant, she was wearing golden angelic armor like the others, white hair with white eyes. She was in front of the portal, guarding it.

"So… you're his son. Kid give up you're surrounded, it's better for you to surrender yourself to the Council." Uriel said to Shaun.

"No, my father said to flee when they found me." Shaun said gripping his two scythes. Uriel was also gripping her sword. The two of them stared at each other, waiting for the other to do the first strike. Shaun then made the first move to attack. He combined his two scythes and transformed them into a spear. He thrust the spear to Uriel which then Uriel parried the attack with her blade. Uriel then kicked Shaun at the torso which Shaun side stepped in time. He then used shadow grip to catch Uriel off guard. With the momentum of the pull from shadow grip, Shaun kicked Uriel on the face stumbling her.

Shaun then used this opportunity to head to the portal. Uriel quickly launched her light spear to Shaun, but it was too late. Shaun already got into the dark-blue swirling portal, leaving only Uriel and the rest of the angels.

"Shit he got away!" Uriel said plunging her spear to the ground cracking it.

Shaun while inside the portal could only sigh. He finally got into the portal. He got an idea where his destination will be. The Forge Lands, an ancient realm that lingers at the edge of the Abyss so that creation can be balanced with destruction. As he flew to his destination in the swirling portal, then all of the sudden the portal starts to change color to red. Then the swirling became violent and Shaun was pushed away from his destination. His body was pushed around inside the portal, the massive pressures that he felt was too much for his body as the results he lost his consciousness.

In another place where souls were gathered after their death, an old man was looking below the souls of the dead from the tall earth that he was standing. The old man in appearance was already dead and was in spirit form. The old man was the Crowfather, also known as the former keeper of the souls of the fallen Nephilim. He was thinking back about the horsemen who sacrificed himself to resurrect humanity and… his secret child.

"Oh Death, it seems that your child has been discovered by the Council and it's currently gone from existence." The Crowfather said to himself letting out a chuckle.

"But… it seems that your child is alive… in another place which the Council cannot reach… yet. Well, let us hope your son is prepare for the danger that threatens… wherever the place is." The Crowfather finally said.

AN

Hi guys, so this is my second time writing a story, but it's RWBY X Darksiders. It has been in my mind to write this fic and I hope I manage to make this fic good to read.

Oh and check my first story will you? it is 'My Web Academia' if you like MHA of course.

Well enjoy reading guys and I see you in the next chapter.