The first time I saw the enemy we were to fight it was almost a day after we had set up our troops to defend the pass. They looked like something from a nightmare. They were all black, and looked almost like charcoal. They walked on all fours, and their limbs were spindly and skeletal, like the rest of their frame. They had a triangular shaped head, at the front of which was a jaw full of sharp teeth. Their tails were the same as the rest of their frame, and extended as long as several meters. Death laughed at the sight of them. "Tiny creatures." Death said, and I looked nervously at him. I was somewhat afraid of the creatures, but when Death called them pathetic, it made me wonder what sort of terrifying creatures he had destroyed. A single creature with a light shade than the other of the several thousand strong horde led them, and it stopped walking, as did the rest of them. I looked out at their horde, and it stretched out as far as I could see. It was either gigantic, or it was spread out in a line along the ground that they stood on. The lighter shaded creature sniffed the air and bellowed at us, and the horde of creatures behind it charged at us with surprising speed. I drew my sword and prepared to charge. Death held out his scythe, Pestilence set an arrow upin his bow, and War pulled his claymore from its place on his back. We charged at them as they charged at us, and drove through their first few ranks with ease. I swung my sword about, while Death and War cut their way through them with their weapons. Pestilence fired off arrows into any of the creatures around him, and picked anything off that came near him. Famine simply rode through them, and the creatures that came close to him burst into a cloud of black dust. I struck several down, and they left no blood upon my sword. They simply burst into a cloud of black dust, as they did when they got too close to Famine. It struck me as odd, but I continued fighting through them. The creatures who made it past us Horsemen charged down at the defensive formation of our troops, and attacked the formation with all of their might. They were unable to worm their way through the shield wall, and the troopers with spears easily thrusted out the spears and impaled the creatures climbing upon the shield wall. The creatures didn't give up though, and one was lucky enough to worm its way through a small gap in the wall. It killed few soldiers, and was easily struck down by a sword wielding trooper. We continued to ride through them, and we grew dangerously close to the creature that was their apparent leader. They strengthened their push towards us Horsemen, but we refused to back down. We slashed and hacked our way through them and grew closer and closer to the leader, and the creatures also strengthened their attack on the defensive shield wall behind us. The leader leapt at me, and for the first time during my time with the Horsemen, I was knocked down off of my horse. Its forward limbs pounded into my chest, and heaved me backwards off of the horse, and I landed on my back amidst the fighting creatures. I jumped to my feet, and several of the creatures surrounded me, which I struck down with ease. The leader snarled at me and bellowed loudly before it jumped through the air at me, an attack I expected was coming. I dodged to the side and slashed the creature's side open, and the creature howled in pain. It landed on its side among its fellow creatures, and its wound quickly healed back together. It glared at me, and I realized that the creatures had no eyes on their heads. It bellowed again, and the creatures stopped fighting. Our troops and the Horsemen did not however, and continued fighting off the creatures. They turned and ran, but us Horsemen turned towards the shield wall and cut down any creature that tried to flee.