The smell of burned flesh had conquered the courtyard just like the thick smoke and the fire itself. Fury looked around calmly as she overlooked the carnage she had inflicted on the demonic fortress from on top of the main gate.

The once mighty gate wings had been ripped from their hinges and flung inwards while the corpses of dozens of demons and sellswords were thrown about in a bath of blood.

That was the price anyone in creation needed to pay when they tried to hide the enemies of the charred council under their roof.

Now the fortress stood in flames and their inhabitants where as dead as the ones she had been send out to set an example upon.

Expect for the one whimpering fool behind her on the ground none of her targets were left to take care of.

With great care and rigor she continued to tie the last rope.

She only glanced to the side shortly when she heard footsteps approach and saw one more castle guard appear form the smoke.

The demon bellowed and raised his axe above his head as he saw her but the Horseman just turned her head around and continued to work on the rope.

The sound of the demons heavy boots increased in speed as he approached and came ever closer until the sound stopped completely when the demon jumped the last of the distance, aiming his weapon directly at Fury.

Without letting go of the rope with her left the Horseman grabbed her whip from her belt with her right and easily caught the demon mind jump.

As the bladed whip entangled itself around the demon twice in the blink of an eye Fury used the fools own momentum to throw him over herself and let him crash headfirst into the stony walkway of the wall itself.

The foolish demon was still trying to get on his feet as Fury let simple energy run through her weapon.

The fire started from the whip and spread over the whole body within a heartbeat until it consumed him whole.

It only lasted for a dozen seconds, but the screams that the demon made where agonized and high-pitched.

Fury had already put the whip back on her hip the moment the fire ignited and continued to tie the rope while the screams rang in her ears.

To her it sounded like the hissing of a burning hot sword in cold water to a smith.

Like a work well done.

As calmly as before she finished tying that rope and pulled at it several times to make sure it would hold.

The material was slick and improvised, but she had done this many times before, she knew it would hold the weight.

With proficient ease she tied the bloody rope around one of the battlements before leaning down to the whimpering red mass that was cowering at her feet.

She pulled it in a sort of upright position as she put the rope around its bloody neck.

It had once been a demon of might and power, now it was nothing more than a regretful whimpering mass that sweated blood.

After she made sure his own skin was sitting tightly enough she pulled at the organic rope one more time before she casually threw the body over the battlement.

The rope held.

It always did.

It still trembled for a while.

She absolutely knew how to tie a hangman’s knot.

However, this had not been one.

Of course the demon whimpered even louder than before.

As far as a being without a tongue could.

His death rattle joined the fading sound of the other two.

It sounded like a hammer hitting and anvil.

Fury turned around and looked at the foolish guard that had fruitlessly tried to harm her as the ashes of its corpse began to lose itself in the slight wind that came up from the depths of hell itself.

What a fool, it would have been wiser to run.

She shrugged and jumped of the battlements before calling upon her black horse and riding of into the distance.

One last time she took a look around.

Three demons were hanging from the main gate of their own fortress, a fair warning to everyone in creation what they had to expect if they tried to steal form the charred council.

The burning fortress itself only added to that warning.

Third Wallpaper for Fury from the Darksiders series. Largely photo manipulation and other stuff used, nothing drawn and much less any actual talent used.

Obviously simple and easy to guess what picture of Fury I worked with here, maybe someone likes a bit of a simpler version. Had this done a while ago but wanted to get a short story to go with it and couldn’t decide which one would fit.

It has some gruesome parts, if anyone wants me to I could make this story separate and link it here instead, but then again Darksiders isn’t very “kid friendly” to begin with.

Either way, enjoy.