Kneeling and apparently begging, in a small room where only the light of the burning lamp served as Stella's light, she wept and begged God to bless her with a child. That is all she wants, but with her hope that someday her wish will be fulfilled, as the day goes on, she slowly replaces anger and hatred with what was once her heart's hope.
As the days passed, she gradually distanced herself from God and reached the point where she was losing faith in it.
In her desperate desire to have a child, an idea passed through her mind, trying to rely on a demon. She began offering prayers, until the point where she offered other people's lives. She obeyed all that the demons wanted.
And the night she had been waiting for, finally, the demons fulfilled Stella's desire to have a child, their promised child to Stella, the night she would be blessed with a baby in her womb. While she was patiently waiting in a vacant space behind her house deep within the woods, she felt a sudden change of atmosphere.
A whimper in the blackness, a compressing of air, and suddenly she's face to face with a tainted soul of sin and death. Two bleak eyes stare at her with an infernal madness, and another whimper echoes from its hollow mouth in an attempt to intimidate her.
Six jagged horns adorns its bulbous head, which itself is glowing with incredibly intensity. The smell of death escapes the creature's expansive nostrils set within a chunky nose. Its bulbous head sits atop a thick, muscular body. Gaping wounds show an infernal fire within, but what this means will hopefully remain a mystery. The creature strides toward you, its two legs lumberingly carry its fiery body with a threatening energy.
Two enormous wings extend themselves fully. Cracked bones, and ripped membranes stretch upward away from the creature. The creature ignores you, it doesn't even look in your direction anymore.
Terrified but still able to stand up to her two feet and say, "Where is the child you promised?". With every word her thin lips uttered, it equalized to the chills that went down to her spine up until it flow all over her body caused by both fear and coldness of the air that encircled the place.
The scary creature before her still does not signal any response. But Stella noticed the gradual transformation. The scary creature is slowly changing its form. Stella hadn't even realized that her face had been replaced by redness that had recently been shrouded in fear. She tried to squeeze her eyes into thinking she was just imagining what she was witnessing now, but she wasn't.
The once scary creature has suddenly become a figure of the male protagonist who is strong enough to grab attention. It has no trace of being a monster. It slowly turned into a man with a silver, short hair, pulled back to reveal a fine, well-structured face.
Gentle brown eyes, set appealingly within their sockets, along with his thick brows that compliments his alluring yet intimidating gaze. His jaws voluntarily clenched as he fixes his stance. He brushed his long and slender fingers through his hair so that it would not interfere with his sight.
As soon as he realizes the presence of the woman in front of him, he stares at Stella in a very gentle and passionate way causing the young lass' face to turn flashing red in an instant. The image of this man made the butterflies in her stomach go wild.
"Stella..." he trailed off as he slowly walks closer to her. The huskiness of his voice sent Stella's system trembling yet she also felt a dash of excitement and complacency but sense of uncertainty.
"U-uh..." she stuttered as she took baby steps backward. She was so surprised that he suddenly held her hand. She felt the cold temperature of her hand, yet it opposes the warmth that she felt in each of his gaze.
"Erebus Rousentein", he said in a very low and breathy manner, just enough for the both of them to hear it. Yet Stella sensed a bit of sultriness in his words. "I hear you call me..." Erebus' slowly slid upward into Stella's arms until she reached the maiden's cheek. Eyes slowly examining every detail of her face.
Stella is in her near thirties but her figure is unimaginable. Compared to other women of her age, it is clear that she is superior to all of them because you will see no signs of aging at all. Her rosy-pale skin matches with her lanky and slender body.
Her wavy, shoulder length, ash gray hair, tied up in a messy up do, revealing her diamond-shaped face. Her coral green eyes also seemed to be a perfect fit for her face, as it made her look more sophisticated. Elegance is also visible within her aura even without her trying.
No wonder Erebus didn't have any chance to talk again, for he was stuck staring at the woman, scanning every detail of her, sketching it in his mind, making sure that he'll never forget that every features of this woman - his wife.