The Dark Side Of Fate

~Sylvester~

I offered my mother a sit on the couch so she would not feel we did not want her in our room. It was morning anyway, but we would have to sleep regardless because we were awake all night.

“What happened?” My mother asked, and I sighed, ready to explain.

I sat on the couch facing hers, and Tamia sat beside me.

“They were attacked. Their Limo lost control, went off the road and hit a tree in the forest. Then silver immune mutant attacked them. They pumped eastern silver dust in the air and killed the driver and escort.

Theo, Marcel and Leo fought, but they were no match for them. The silver hindered their wolves, and those things injured them badly.

Had it not been for Amelia, they would have all died. Amelia is immune to silver, so she can fight them. She killed two, but one got away. That was when she ran here to tell us what happened.” I summed it up, and my mother was stunned.

“Mutants, you say?’ he said, and I nodded.

“Only mutants would be immune to silver,” I said, and she shook her head.

“You mean there are more Stepanovs out there?” she asked, and I nodded.

“We initially thought it was only Amelia, but we were wrong. I guess some people are out there carrying out experiments on themselves.” I said, and she shook her head.

“If wolves are immune to silver, then they are of the Stepanov bloodline,” she said, and I shook my head in disagreement.

All the Stepanovs were killed, so it was impossible.

These people had to be lab experiments which explains why Amelia’s DNA sample was taken.

“Grandfather killed all of them,” I argued, and she nodded.

“He did, but maybe one or two survived and escaped it. The details we have about the Stepanovs are based on stories told to us by our parents. Dimitri wanted to wipe them off from existence and did a good job at it. We were not taught their history in schools. Our parents were the ones that told us about them. It was a crime to talk about them. We were not allowed to say anything outside the small information about their treason.” She explained.

“Anyway, these people might be experimenting on themselves,” I said, and my mother disagreed.

“The Stepanovs bloodline did not evolve by injecting themselves with things,” she said, and I frowned at her.

“The Stepanovs wanted to improve themselves, unlike what popular history says. It was their bloodline that was the original kings. They alternated power with the Volkovs. The Volkovs came from the Stepanovs and not the other way around. I can tell you this because you are now king.” she said, and I was attentive.

“Rulership was alternated between the Volkovs and the Stepanovs, but things happened, and the two families were overthrown. The Stepanovs did not want to be vulnerable again, so they started looking for ways to be immune to silver.

The Volkovs had their way of building strength, and that was by isolating the alpha gene. Hence why only those in the line of succession can bear Volkov’s last name, and he has to be an Alpha, while the others will have to bear their mother’s last name. Hence why there are Sidorovs, Orlovs and Belyaevs. We are all from the Volkov bloodline but lost our last name because our ancestors were not at that time alphas; thus, they were not in the line of succession.

The Volkovs also ensured that their Alpha and successor breed with a female Alphas only,” She said and stared me in the eye.

not get together until his father passed away. Your father was much lenient than his father.” she said and smiled, remembering my father. They had their moments, and I could see it in

breed powerful alphas. The Stepanovs took another route. They decided they wanted their bloodline to

called it Alchemy back then, but now it

will give birth to the first pups. After that, the experiments

the next set of pups. Then they inject the Vaccine or serum directly into the fetus, hoping

but soon they succeeded and gave birth to the

a tolerance. He wouldn’t stay down like others and would recover faster than everyone. They were happy about this and stuck with the formula. By the time the children that had developed tolerance started having children by outsiders, they realised it weakened the genes, so

next generation and the ones after them,” she said,

between siblings, then cousins, and it widened until it was no

and Stepanovs, but each bloodline did what it could

lost their alpha genes and eye pigment. Their wolves’ dark eyes were white too. Where ours flashed black in our hominid form, theirs flashed

but the Alpha gene was the worst

abundance of strong Alphas, the Stepanovs

travelled to the east to mate with an Alpha female. The experiment was unsuccessful, and she ended up birthing a Beta. It was the closest to Alpha they could get. I do not

strong as the Stepanov Deltas. He was tolerant of silver, but that was all. The child had no immunity, so his

to their family head, and they

the history of the

read anywhere because Dimitri decided to wipe them away along with their story,” She said, and Tamia and

in school, but my grandfather might have been worried that others

nothing against Amelia. She was a good woman, but the others were scum. Seeing the blood that might

grandfather did the right thing because they are scum,” I

knew she wanted to say something and was afraid to speak up,

and she nodded, but it seemed she was trying to arrange

the truth behind our families. Your grandfather was in the wrong. Adrik was the one in the right, but history is always told by

ago. The families lost their power and were demoted to council

Decisions were slow because it was a form of democracy. Mind you, before the people’s revolution that took the monarchs out of power, the Stepanovs and Volkovs had the same power. They alternated succession between

for one to die before

was allowed to rule was a

of

to his cousin, Adrian Stepanov, so they could seize power again to save

great combination of powerful Alphas and Delta-like alphas immune to silver. They knew they would win and take over,

that they would alternate power like

loyal and did what needed to be

go first, then after his tenure, he would hand over to a Stepanov, and they

it would have been Gregory, Adrik, Maurice, and

That was the agreement.

years after they had won, and

added a clause to the law of