A finely dressed boy was descending from Heaven.
Black hair streaked with silver, metallic eyes and a satisfied smile.
Erebus was hated by everyone, but he considered his position as the God of Darkness as necessary to put in prominence the Light, and consequently Justice.
It had only been seven years since Astraea had sent him back to the Upper World, but he was ready to descend, with a new, very ambitious plan in mind.
The god wanted to create the perfect union between his Darkness and the Light, but he had not yet found the equivalent of him, not in the environments he had frequented so far.
One day, boring as ever, he consulted his onyx sphere, which revealed an extremely interesting image to him: in another world, far from Gea and the Paradise, a place he had never seen, there was a girl.
At first glance, she might have looked like an ordinary human, with normal dark brown hair and mild garnet eyes, but to Erebus that was everything. It was her, the Light he couldn't find, hidden on another planet.
He, like Freya, was able to perceive the color of people's souls, and Linh's, as the girl was called, was white and so blinding it completely illuminated the onyx sphere.
A strong sense of contentment seized Erebus: he wouldn't have descended on Gea, but he would have opened a portal and visited that unknown planet, in search of the mysterious girl.
The portal would have remained open, and it would've slowly approached Gea, threatening to suck it in and panicking the population. So dark and so swirling, it would have given the people the impression of being in front of the Final Hour, where the primordial darkness takes revenge on Creation and brings it back to its initial conditions.
Thanks to his powers, a sort of small dark galaxy took the start, which rotated on itself, producing black beams that went dispersing, and in the center of which Erebus could observe stars from a distant section of the Universe, so far away that it couldn't be easily reached even for a god.
With an elegant leap, the fascinating and sinister god jumped into that portal, and landed on the soft grass of Olive Town, the place where the woman destined to be Erebus's eternal counterpart was.
The distinguished appearance of him didn't take long to attract the attention of another local, a boy with blond hair and light brown eyes, named Eiji.
"Good morning! Are you new in these parts? Did you just buy a house in Olive Town?"
Satisfied, Erebus came up with a convincing story from scratch:
"Good morning to you! I am a count, my family is of ancient and noble origins, but I got tired of those boring lounges and so I decided to stay somewhere in peace, like this beautiful village."
Eiji, impressed and convinced of the genuineness of his words, smiled at him.
"If you want I can guide you."
"It would be very useful to me. Don't be so formal, please, you don't look much younger than me."
Erebus was really happy: he had found his Light, and he hadn't aroused suspicion.