----Almirah POV----
I just learned last night that my daughter turned son, Gayara, had always been self harming whenever he's in rut. I previously told him not to participate in sex with anyone but my chosen partner for him. Strangely enough my daughter/son is, for the very first time, obedient as a lamb to the point that I had to blame myself for not being able to predict such an outcome.
6 years ago after his military training graduation, my child came home looking like he had eaten someone: tree splints pricking the tip of his fingers on his right hand. "Good evening mother," he said with a smile so bright I was disbelievingly following him every move until he disappeared into the second floor of the mansion.
Shal followed right after and confessed to me, " the Young miss....the young master has fallen in love, master."
[ Who falls in love looking like that!?] There was blood on his mouth and onto his undershirt. The splints on his fingers were so visible to me and they're also dripping with blood! "Did he finally murder someone?" I asked the maid.
I was always worried since my child has violent tendencies coupled with obsessive disorders that's why we let him do whatever it is he wanted.
"Yes, he has murdered six-" Shal was saying but I cut her short.
"What!" My blood pressure is rising but it's more important to know as to why he did that. We sat on the sala sofa, " tell me everything that has transpired, Shal. Don't leave anything unturned."
I learned everything from Shal. [ Obviously I was proud of my child but his growth is scary.] There were also some deficiencies in his personality that I find lacking that's why I tried my very best pairing him with Venus Alva, my goddaughter, to make up for what he lack.
Surprisingly, she became the object of his obsession. I can still remember him confess to me last night, "my girl kissed me on her own initiative, mom." [ Venus kissed my child? ] My child gripped tighter at the bathtub, reminiscing what seems to be the kiss he treasured so much. "I was so over the cloud that I couldn't control myself. In the end, I had to send her home." *sigh*
I can feel his conflicting emotions from where I stood there, unable to say anything but noted to help him win what made him happy best.
----Venus POV----
*cough* *cough* *cough* Gayara wore a facemask, his left hand on the steering wheel and the other right waving at me. Compared to yesterday, his ride this time is a Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Convertible with all its blackness. It appears to me that he has a cold for his voice was breathy, raspy and strained as he called for me, "Come, mother told me you needed a ride to the main Veldora Family Household."
[ What has my godmother been thinking? Sending Gayara to fetch me while he's sick won't make him even sicker, right?] Besides, I feel reluctant knowing we will be alone in the car considering he's in a rut. He seems to hide it from me but it's impossible not to know. Because of my secret ability, all information I want with regards an existing person is open.
Even so, I was happy that I can spend some time alone with him. "Thank you, Gayara. And good morning!"
I opened the passenger seat, only then did I notice the smell of blood coming from him as I took the seat next to him. It was faint but his pheromone was even more potent than yesterday. I swear I can see him gripping the steering wheel, eyes too focused on the road, not even a side glance to see me.
[ What's going on with him? Was he forced to come?]
He sped up as it was my turn to feel troubled by the sheer force of the racing car. I was scared but I dare not say it. It was uncomfortable, thinking of the possible consequences of speed driving so I just closed my eyes shut while tightening my grip over my seatbelt.
To my surprise, a small chuckle escaped Gayara's masked mouth. He finally put his attention to me, adjusting the speed to normal. "It's alright," he assured me, reaching out to my head with his right hand as he stroked it.
I relaxed my grip , "hm", I said, embarrassed over my display of weakness.
+Veldora Family Main Household+
"Venus! I am so glad to see you," godmother practically ran to me as she dismissed Gayara with the wave of her hand.
Gayara removed the mask from his face, turning to me. He had short, care-free, touchable, dyed in blond curls that reflect his personality. His brown eyes were out of focus as he pulled me in for a hug, kissing my forehead and rushing away from the sala where we stood.
"Sorry dear, Gayara will not be available today even though we were supposed to have a talk with your father with regards the announcement of your engagement." Godmother led me to a couch where pastries and tea were served.
" It's okay godmother, it is enough that he escorted me from home and finally here. Although, I have noticed that he's not in good condition with the way he acted," I assured her, looking towards the direction Gayara rushed to earlier.
" About that-" godmother hesitated before getting lost in her own thoughts.
[ Is it something that alarming? I need to know.]
"What's wrong godmother? Is it very bad?"
-----Deus POV----
Closing her eyes, Almirah inhaled deeply. After a moment, she opened them and said, " I called for you to tell you something about Gayara and allow you to make the choice you will not regret."
Venus waited for Almirah to spill the secret that she more or less know already. Deep down, she felt guilty for knowing secrets people don't want known to others. But what can she do? This deity has witnessed how her soul, while going through reincarnation, had gone through a transformation in response to a deep regret when she was alive.
Out of curiosity, this deity peered through what had pushed such transformation and found out about the incident. The young Venus in her past life is a very very pure soul who lived her life sheltered from the darkness of the world. One day, her tutor gifted to her a cellular phone to which she saw the world she had missed all her life. As a result of this enlightenment, a spark has ignited a fire in her heart to see in person the wonders deprived from her. Like a princess at the top of the tower, her father forbade her from venturing out of the estate for his enemies cannot wait to take from him the weakness that he had.
Knowing this, she crawled through a dog hole in the dead of the night while taking with her the phone as her guide. Determined, she followed the road for what seemed like an eternity. Her feet which was not accustomed to traveling long distances had been screaming at her to rest even if it were just a while. Her stomach was also pleading with her to eat even if it were just a morsel of food. Fatigued and restless, she climbed a mango tree for she remembered to have eaten them before.
After having her fill, she finally noticed someone sitting under the mango tree. Frightened by a person she had no recollection of, she dared not speak or move. She waited and waited for the person to go away but she just wouldn't. Then, she heard a loud crash to which startled her visitor and herself. The other person, although not familiar with the victims, rushed with the intention to help. But she who is timid and weak could do nothing but shiver by her lonesome.
While alone, she wondered why she is weak and she wondered why her father did not want her to go out. It frustrated her as the torrents of questions piled deep within her heart had come back to torment her. She observed the strangers who were shouting and hurting each other. She questioned as to how the other person did what she did, fearless and expressive, even in death. For the first time in her life, she was envious of these people because even in conflict, they were alive.
The girl wondered to herself, " am I even alive?" She did not know. She only knew that now, she wanted to go home and sleep in the comfort of her bed. But in that definitive moment, she slipped from her footing and fell from the tree. Luckily for her, she did not fall to her death but she bled and broke her leg bone. She saw the other person, she is also bleeding. The ambulance came and took her away. They said she's dead and the woman is crying for her. The girl did not understand why, "strange".
Then the girl noticed, "my blood is warm but it won't stop. Maybe I'm dying too. I still have a lot of things I want to know. But if there is a next life, I will see to it that I know everything so that I won't have regrets anymore". That was it, her death. Even at the very end, she did not know that the reason why her father confined her to her home is because she have hemophilia, a very rare disease among women.
In her next life, she developed a prophetic ability to see random future conflicts save for her own . Not only that, I let her borrow a status window so that I could ship her with that other girl she was envious of. This is the tool she uses to peek into the status data of other people.
Going back, Almirah is pained even just remembering what she would reveal to her goddaughter. "Do you remember that time your father approached us and told us that Gayara was kidnapped by Diaford?"
"I remember, godmother." Venus was 6 years old then but she was determined to help. She doesn't know why she felt obligated to help but if she were to turn a blind eye, she knew her conscience would not let her be.
+The alleged story narrated by Almirah+
---Deus POV----
"Puppy, catch!" Venus was playing with a husky in the front yard of the Alva Mansion when a vision came to her.
"Yes! yes, finally!!" a man wearing a lab gown hovered over an eight years old alpha girl, clawing at the floor in obvious pain.
"Diaford!" the girl said trying to assault the man but 4, one meter chains bound her to the wall. The man was over 5'7' with a clean shaved face and 12 cm hair combed back, a few strands hanging over his forehead.
Diaford punctured a red vial with syringe and filled it with whatever was in it. The chains shortened to which glued the girl stuck on the wall. The man approached her, "Alpha Gayara Veldora, the Styx Organization successor. You will become my perfect masterpiece in the field of biology!"
The girl struggled but the chains won't budge and, she is angry to the point that her hands broke with how hard she tugged at it. Blood began to flow, bones began to crack and that was how the vision ended.
Venus felt disturbed, sweat lining her temples while her breathing quivered at the sight of blood. She went to her father for help, "father, father! the Styx Organization successor was kidnapped. Let's go save her!"
Perez Alva ended the call to face his daughter, " Venus! How in the world did you even know about the Styx Organization! Did someone tell you that?" Perez Alva was mad at those who expose his daughter to the dark side of society. Even if she needed to learn of them one day, it would have to wait until when she has grown into an adult.
"I saw them at the gate, father! The kidnapper said so and he said his name is Diaford." She lied to her father. She knew he wouldn't believe her if she told the truth but for the sake of that girl, she was willing to trick her father.
Perez Alva was skeptical, "but Diaford is the Styx Organization's Chief Scientist. Why would he kidnap the successor?"
"Because she is an Alpha and he said that she will be his perfect masterpiece in the field of biology!" Venus was desperate for time is short. She didn't want to see the blood and the broken. She thought, [ who knows, maybe he's insane!]
Perez Alva noticed the agitation of his daughter, " okay, okay, I'll call her father. Even if it were a faux pas, at least we tried". Perez thought, [ still, this is a sensitive matter for if the republic government is the ruler of the country, the Styx Organization is its equivalent in the underground society all over the country. I don't want to mess with them if possible.]
Venus saw his father make a call and when he finished, he just sighed, collapsing on the sofa while waiting for the next call.
+Styx Organization Underground Laboratory+
"What did you do to me! Argh!!" Gayara's voice could be heard in the underground laboratory. Her bones began to deform and reform as can be seen from her shadow going wild and the obvious cracking of bones. Her body is showing traces of evaporation as she pulled the chains, the wall on her right hand giving in and collapsing. The same goes for the right, debris falling on Gayara's body as they roll down to the ground. Even her feet out powered the chains, broken by the extreme heat coming from her body. But instead of attacking Diaford, she toppled a glass tank of supplement and bathed on it, mist beginning to float all over the Alpha until nothing can be seen of her.
Diaford stood 5 meters away from the pained Alpha, taking notes of the reactions and significant details. " Nothing much, I just introduced to your system a concentration of White Alpha Wolf Gene's. You see, we recently captured an exiled White Alpha Wolf loitering the borders of Eldram. I was so happy then, but no one could stand the genes and they either died or went crazy. How about you?"
The young Alpha was quiet. Diaford moved closer, trying to see if it would be safe to approach it. Upon his arrival, he saw a massive black Wolf with 2 lines of white fur on her head lay sleeping on top of the mess. "I succeeded, yes! Congratulations to me, Diaford!"
The body had no reaction but she was still breathing. To his surprise, "Oh, oh, she acquired regeneration. Even the bones were reattached. After all, she is the strongest Alpha of her generation."
Before he could examine further, a voice boomed over the laboratory, "Diaford! you lunatic. What did you do to my daughter!?"
Diaford turned to his boss, "Oh hey boss! It's great to see you again. And by the way, I did everything. I mean, I made her stronger than ever. Thank goodness she didn't die-oops!"
Ylthon lifted the Diaford with his fist, "You better pray that she's perfect or else, it will be your skull next under my foot!" Ylthon raised his arm in an act of punching Diaford but was interfered with by a deep, "Grrrr!!!"
"What's that sound?" he searched the perimeter and saw a massive black Wolf approaching them.
Diaford said, "your daughter of course!" Ylthon thought he was joking so he threw Diaford to the broken wall as he crashed to it, coughing blood in the process. " I-I am telling the truth!" he protested.
Ylthon thought, [ perhaps he's telling the truth after all. ] He approached the wolf as it let him pat her head, "Gayara?" he asked.
The wolf morphed back into human and hugged him, "father!"
Ylthon frowned at the contact, missing something very important. "Gayara, your boobs are gone!" he said shaking Gayara.
Diaford lighted up at the discovery, running to collect his notes before they get wet. "Oh, oh and her boobs are gone! ... Wait, she's just eight...Boss, do you have any misconception about human physiology...or....I knew it! You're trying to punish me aren't you?!"
"Tch!" [ I wanted him to be my slave but..well, too bad. ] Ylthon could only give up.