Alpha's Blind Luna



"I know you were working with the Mother Witch when we were with the Crescent River pack. Do you think she would be willing to talk to you again?"

He clicked his tongue. "Talk, sure. Much else, I don't think so. They pretty much viewed our transaction as done when we got out of there. Since our kind were the ones who technically stole their children, there really wasn't a feeling that they owed us. Which was fine but if you asking for anything more..."

"No no, just to talk. I'm wanting to get her to come to a meeting with the other kings. I want to be able to get all the leaders together. I've decided to bypass the High Council. I want to build a treaty with all the races. The best way to do that is the one entity they all look to and view as their leader."

"I think I could arrange that. I know she would actually be really happy to be included. Witches sometimes get lumped in with humans and it's pretty frustrating for them. When did you want me to reach out?"

I thought for a second. "Let's wait till I come back. I'm going to try and get in touch with the Fey King. Pipsqueak is helping but she can't do that for a few weeks, when I go with Zeke to Germany. So when we come back after that?"

"Sounds good."

I looked at the phone as the line already went dead. What was it with people hanging up on me tonight? Though, I would admit that my relationship with still strained with Hector. We weren't outwardly angry with one another but he was more just another pack member now. Not the wolf who raised me and helped me throughout my entire life. Running my hand through my hair, I fell back on the hotel bed and closed my eyes.

'This might help. Might be a better way forward.' Naresh tried to cheer me up.

'Maybe. Hopefully. There isn't much else I can do. I'm at a bit of a loss.'

He paced a bit in my head. 'We take over the castle of the High Council and make it our own?'NôvelDrama.Org holds text © rights.

I laughed. 'Yeah, no thanks. I don't think Zeke would move away from the ocean. He loves swimming too much.'

Naresh hummed and I felt the shift when we talked about our mate. Naresh started to pick up on it too, within Faris though. It was becoming more of a regular occurrence that Faris would take over for multiple hours during the day. He wasn't bad, never randomly shifted and enjoyed being with the pups. Zeke just would disappear and that was more worrisome. When he would come back, he would just apologize sheepishly and then blame it on the fact that he was tired. Except that it was getting more frequent.

Hopefully, taking him out will change that. Really love on our mate without the worry of the pups interrupting wanting to sleep with us.

Slipping under the sheets and resting my head on the pillow, I nodded. Hopefully. Otherwise I might need to seek some guidance.

The both of us lapsed into a silence but it took a little while finally fall asleep. Too much was running through my mind. The meeting tomorrow, trying to get the Alphas to agree on anything. Reaching out to the different heads of the supernatural races. How the High Council would react for me going over their heads. There was so much bouncing around but when I finally fell asleep, it was with Zeke in mind. Wanting to be next to him curled up and sleeping peacefully rather than alone in the hotel room.

It went as I expected. The room was in an uproar about the different things I had found that the fey, vampires, or even witches were pissed off about with out race. It was either denial, our rights as wolves, or the betterment of our race. My fingers were pinched at the bridge of my nose for at least an hour that I thought my nose would be permanently altered.

Bryan had opted out of this one, saying he didn't have a good evening and was too tired to be of any use. AJ was sitting next to me but as the meeting continued, the thin line of his mouth curved further down his face into a frown. Holding up my hand, finally, I waited for the Alphas to notice it. A few did and finally all of their eyes were looking to me.

"I understand that this isn't ideal but I'm not going in empty handed to a meeting to requested this list..." I held up the list of issues we had created and went over at the beginning of the meeting. "...without some kind of compromise."

Setting down my hand and the paper I moved AJ's laptop over to me. Opening up a blank word document, I cracked my neck before I continued. "Let me start from the more difficult requests and work our way down. I want reasons why we can't give them this option. I also don't want to hear that it's our goddess given right or we've held onto it for years. That's not what this is about. I need serious factual reasons as to why we can't give them what they want."

All of the Alphas sat back in their seats and I motioned to AJ. He took up the list of issues we had come up with.

“The first one is changing over leadership for all those who have taken over Nova 2.0."

The whole table erupted again and I shook my head, slamming my hand down on the table. They quieted and looked at me.

"I need reasons. Not it makes us stronger, or they are trying to weaken us."

"But..." Glaring at the voice and realized it was my father about to say something. A few of the Alphas were already nodding their heads before he said anything.

I growled. "Have fey gotten stronger over the years? Have witches received more magic in the past year? How about the vampires? Have they suddenly been able to drink from our blood?"

There was no response so I continued. "No, they haven't. So what I don't understand is this need to feel like we need to be stronger than we already are. For thousands of years, our kind has been strong. Stronger in a lot of areas than your average supernatural. We have been blessed as wolves and there has never been a time in our history that we needed to have a boost to our strength. Not unless we plan on fighting each other."

I looked around the room, Naresh on the cusp of taking over to quiet them down. Finally, one of the younger Alphas in the back lifted his hand. Sweeping my hand in his direction, he stood up nervously.

"I...I didn't realize the effects of the Nova and honestly I wouldn't have taken it if I had known. Not all of us though have replacements for leadership. Recently I found my mate and we are expecting our first pup. There isn't anyone else to take over the pack."

Nodding, I started typing on the laptop. "That I understand. Not everyone has the ability to cover the hole if all of the leadership had used it. Anything else?"

"It shouldn't matter to anyone else whether or not we take the drug." One of the older Alphas, Alpha Fielding, crossed his arms over his chest.

A few of the other Alphas agreed, a small chatter bubbling around the table. I looked up at the painting of a ship on the wall opposite of where I was sitting. It wasn't caught in a storm but right on the cusp of it. I'd stared at it all day yesterday trying to get rid of my headache and scrub the meaning of it from my mind.

"You have taken something that has altered your mind. I don't think anyone would be complaining if you took steroids. The strength that it provides I don't think is the main issue we are running into at this point. The issue is the cognitive changes. The lack of emotions that you have in making decisions."

"Isn't that a good thing? To be more objective?" It was my father again.

'Why is he pushing this?' Naresh was as annoyed as I was.

'Probably because he was the one that started taking it first. He's trying to justify his actions.'

Naresh snorted and I agreed.

"Removing your emotions, you feelings, doesn't make you a better Alpha. It makes you a worse one. We give shit to vampires who are older because slowly they lose more of their humanity the older they get but then here you are, removing that humanity without even having the experience behind it. You've especially just removed all the pieces of you that made your pack respect you. Your decisions and your emotions in regards to certain aspects of being werewolves. We are all different and that's a good thing. Taking Nova removes everything that makes you, the wolves you are and the decisions that landed you that title."

There was a hush over the table and I felt AJ snickering through our mind link. It made it hard not to crack a smile. Naresh even was chuckling at the sudden drop of objection.

'It doesn't help that someone as young as you is telling them this decision was stupid.' AJ added to the mind link and I glanced at him.

"I can understand the lack of having someone to take over. If there is nothing else, then I will go ahead and move to the next one which would be Nova being outlawed. That we are no longer allowed to use said drug anymore."

After chastising them and my question as to why we would need it, no one came up with a good enough excuse not to get rid of it. I wouldn't ask them to get rid of it yet. But now that the side effects were more well known, I knew quite a few packs had already thrown it out. Plus, a few of the packs had black mailed into getting the drug but it never went as far as Alpha Niles but it probably would get to that point. I'd used their pack as a cautionary tale. While it was true that many of the wolves who took Nova didn't have anyone to step up from their line, it didn't stop the others from requesting it to happen and me needing to find other Alphas to take over packs.

"Next on the list?" I looked to AJ.

"Territory lines not being adhered to and just being pushed well past their original lines agreed upon."

This made the table erupt again and I sighed, sitting back in my seat. Today was going to be a long day but at least we were getting somewhere. That maybe we were taking a step towards peace that wasn't on a knifes edge.