Don't own Darksiders. My thanks go out to detrametal again. That tis be all. For now…

I ran ahead of the Horseman, suddenly hyper for whatever reason.

"OH MY GOD I'M SO EXCITED!" I went back to War, circling him as he plodded along, "Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! You are far too slow!"

He didn't "hurry up" so I left him again in favor of the demon bats and zombies roaming about.

I ran up to one of the zombies and shook its hand as it tried to rip me to shreds, "Hiya Mr. Zombie! It's a pleasure ta meet ya!" That's when something weird happened. The zombie suddenly burst into flames. I stared in amazement as Mr. Zombie burned to ash then floated away to join the ashes on the side of the road.

"Awesome!"

Anyway, I proceeded to run around, tripping every once and a while on the broken pavement, as War dealt with the bats and zombies.

Finally done, he grabbed my book bag as I ran past him and held me suspended in the air, the straps digging painfully into my arms, "Calm down."

I reached for the ground, arms and legs swinging, tongue sticking out, "Why should I calm down? What's goin ta happen if I don't? Is another apocalypse gonna happen? Will I die again? I don't wanna die again. It was really painful. I hope I gave that demon indigestion. Why didn't it eat the cows? I wanna go by shark attack, er firing squad. Those sound like fun. I have a very morbid sense o' fun. I think a pet would be fun too. I want a pet tiger, er a piranha, er a panther, er an alligator snappin turtle named Mr. Tickles. That would be totally awesome. I miss books, and video games. I had this totally awesome game that I really loved and ya got ta play as one o' the Four Horse-"

That's when I finally crashed and everything went black.

Waking up some time later, I found myself in the only building left around, the Horseman nowhere to be seen.

It appeared I had been abandoned… At least he didn't leave me out in the open I suppose.

I hugged my knees to my chest, keeping my back against the wall and playing with the bells and star charms on my anklet. What was I supposed to do now? Couldn't just sit here for the rest of eternity, hunger pains are a bitch. Plus I made a deal with Shadow Man. Not my best decision, now that I think about it, but it happened.

Just as I was dozing off again, I heard heavy footsteps coming down the stairs. Thinking it was a demon, I hid in a corner between the stairs and the wall and waited for it to pass.

"Wakey, wakey, human." The Watcher said, poking the top of my head.

"Touch me again and I'll break those spindly fingers o' yours one by one." I looked up at my traveling companions, actually glad that the Horseman hadn't left me. Couldn't care less about the Watcher. "Good mornin."

"It's way past morning, ignorant girl."

"And you're way past your expiration date. Maybe I should throw ya out?" I got up, dusting the dirt from my pants and throwing my hood back up, "So where ta now?"

In answer, War went back up the stairs, the sprite flying back into his gauntlet.

At the top, fresh blood splattered the walls and floor and broken pieces of tables and chairs littered the ground, evidence that the Horseman had already been here. Through a hole in the wall two blue orbs could be seen, leading to a broken highway littered with cars.

We jumped from road to road, with help of the orbs, fighting off the occasional zombie and demon bat. Zombies and batsies until we got to about the third piece of road, that is.

A huge demon somehow jumped from the ground and onto the first section of road, picked up a car with its huge claws, and… threw it at us. We quickly got out of the way - I was pushed - to see the demon coming after us. It would also be just our luck that the orbs disappeared.

As it got closer, and threw another car at us, I could see that this thing was even bigger than the Horseman. So compared to it, I was an ant, a very amazed ant. I wished to be friends with him…

Anyway, said demon had a skull necklace, a wicked ugly face, claws that seemed to be attached to his hands by chains, and… pants. Armored pants. Why didn't we have those a hundred years ago? We might have actually had a chance to survive the apocalypse! Not really, but still… Anyway, that didn't matter, we were friends forever now. Until War killed him, that is.

The Friend Killer Horseman first sliced off both of its hands, followed quickly with an uppercut, jumped onto its back, and snapped its neck. Poor Mr. Buttons.

"Was that really necessary?" I asked him.

He just looked at me as the blue orbs reappeared.

"Oh, guess it was."

We reached the last section of road and, finally, the building on the other side. And was immediately attacked by zombies. The way we were probably supposed to go was blocked by a blue wall of… energy? Generated by a red eye thingy that closed when we got closer. So now the only way to go was downstairs.

War jumped down through a hole in the floor while I took the civil way by stairway. At the bottom I found him fighting off four demons at once. He looked like he was doing okay so I left him in favor of exploring and found a neat treasure chest. Go me! Adventurer Hope does it again! What that is, I'm not entirely sure.

Hearing he was done with his little tussle, I called him over and watched as he slammed his elbow into the chest and ripped the lid off. There had to be an easier way to do that. Inside was a dagger like thing that sort of resembled the gate thingy upstairs.

Luckily, War seemed to know what it was and what to do with it and lead us back upstairs.

This time, when we got close to the gate, its eye stayed open and I noticed that its pupil look strangely like a keyhole. Not wasting any time, the Horseman took the dagger and pierced the eye with it, making the poor thing scream and blood spray everywhere. After turning the key, makes sense if it was a key, the Horseman drew back and the gate dissipated. Now, the only way to go was up.

When they say beauty's in the eye o' the beholder, I don't think that's what they meant.

At the top of the stairs we saw… angels flying around.

War slammed his back up against the wall, knocking me back too, as they flew over us. What could be so bad about angels that we needed to hide from them? I thought they were pretty awesome looking…

"This way!" the first one said.

No, it was that way! What was that way?

"It's nothing. Some demon trick." Said the second.

How can it be a demon trick if Big Red killed all the ones here? Then again, I guess they don't know that.

"I know what I saw." First snapped at Second.

Apparently not. What did he see anyway?

Another angel floated down and landed on the top of the broken wall, right above where we were hiding, and we had to slink back around the corner to avoid being caught.

"He's right." She said.

"Uriel." Second said. Didn't catch anything after that.

"So what'da we do now?" I asked, looking back up the stairs.

Apparently War knew as he picked me up and carried me under his arm as he jumped over the huge hole in the floor and crumbling parts of walls, heading towards the hole in the wall we came through. Bad news is, the orb had disappeared again.

"Hey Big Red," I nervously chuckled, "suicide is never the answer, ya know? Especially if ya plan on takin someone with ya."

I screamed and tightly closed my eyes as War jumped through the hole. I felt myself being thrown and hitting something and opened my eyes to find myself sitting behind an angel on a… griffon? How awesome is that?! And why was an angel, who had wings, riding a griffon? Anyway, the angel and I were staring at each other out of pure surprise when he was knocked off Griff and the Horseman took his place, holding one of their weapons obtained from somewhere else.

With War's added weight, we ended up dive-bombing but pulled up just in time to see the Uriel chick ordering the others to attack us. What a bitch.

"Hellguard, TO ARMS!"

"Slay him!" another angel said, as if her orders weren't clear enough.

"So wait, the angels are tryin ta kill ya too? What didja do exactly?!" I asked, not expecting an answer.

"I answered the call." He said.

"Oh…okay. Then…let's get outta here before they really do'slay' ya."

"For the Hellguard!" one of the angles yelled. What is the Hellguard anyway? Do they guard Hell? Seems like a backwards occupation for an angel.

I rode behind War on Griff as he fired bolt after bolt at the angels with their own weapon. Teach them to attack a Horseman and use long-range weapons that can easily be stolen.

"Bring him down!" they yelled.

We passed through caves, under a waterfall, over streets and buildings. All the while War continuously shot at angels, bats, and the occasional grounded zombie, all of them going down way too easily. Until one angel appeared that had golden wings instead of white and carried a cannon and a shield. In the end, he fell as well.

I'm happy to say that we even passed over another Mr. Buttons, sad to say that we had to leave him behind… More angels, more angels, more angels. And I was always taught that they were the good guys. So much for that…

"Hey Rock Man!" I yelled at the stone giant as we flew over him. Don't think he heard me though since he seemed to be fighting something himself.

More angels… more bugs, another Rock Man, another lava pit. Why is there so much lava? That's when we saw it… A huge ass demon that was bigger than even Mr. Buttons. It flew away like the coward it was and left the fire bats to deal with us. Or try to anyway. They went down just like everything else so far.

For whatever reason, huge stone spikes thought it was a good idea to start popping up out of the lava and War had to steer Griff to stay clear of those along with the attacks from the bats and all the other environmental hazards. Looks like the angels were gone for now at least.

Huge Ass decided to show up again and break a rock bridge right above us by flying through it. He also decided that it was time he faced us - meaning War - himself by spitting fireballs at us. Can this day get any better?

The answer is yes, and not a sarcastic yes. The Horseman brought down Huge Ass, took him a while but he did it, and we continued on out merry little way. Over another lava pit and through more bugs…

More bugs, more fire bats, more bugs and fire bats. When will it end? Pretty sure I dozed off at one point.

We finally exited the seemingly endless cave to see a huge… thing flying around in the distance. As we got closer, the thing - which turned out to be a humongous bat - attacked poor Griff and hit War with its tail, in turn hitting me, and knocking us both off.

It was the bat. You know, the one that attacked and ate me at the beginning of the story? Remember? I know it was a long time ago but c'mon.

As we fell, the Horseman did something weird. He wrapped himself around me so that he landed on his back and I bounced off his chest, unharmed. Mostly unharmed anyway.

I guess we had arrived at our destination.

We had a bat to kill.

Here's four! If this is the same person who found the other three, why are you still reading these? Why am I still writing them?

Still missing Mr. Buttons,

Hope