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.

because she isn’t an Alpha. That was why Maurice and I did not get together until his father passed away. Your father was much lenient than his father.”

breed powerful alphas. The Stepanovs took another route. They decided they wanted their bloodline to be immune to the one thing that could

then, but now it

will give birth to the

of pups. Then they inject the

were lost this way, but soon they

By the time the children that had developed tolerance started having

inbreeding to concentrate the gene in the next generation and the ones after them,”

and it widened until it was no

created a wedge between the Volkovs and Stepanovs, but each bloodline did what

came at a cost. They lost their alpha genes and eye pigment. Their

bearable, but the Alpha gene was the

had an abundance of strong Alphas, the Stepanovs had

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 know the man’s name; I am just telling you history based on how my father told us, and his father told him, and so on, back to what

not as strong as the Stepanov Deltas. He was tolerant of silver, but that was all. The child had no immunity, so his father dumped him and returned

his experiment to their family head,

is the history of

wipe them away along with their story,” She said,

teach this in school, but my grandfather might have been worried that others might follow in their footsteps. Seeing what they tried to do to my people, I believed my grandfather was

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

thing because they

was afraid

she nodded, but it seemed she was trying to

say, Sylvester, but I am telling you the truth behind our families. Your grandfather was in the wrong. Adrik was the one in the right,

ago. The families lost their power and were demoted to council members, but the

of chaos and mutiny. Decisions were slow because it was a form of democracy. Mind you, before the people’s revolution that took the

longer, so waiting for one to die before handing it over is

was allowed to

long because of war and mutiny, but

Stepanov, so they could seize power again to save our

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

like in

and did what needed to be

tenure, he would hand over to a Stepanov, and they would continue to

would have been Gregory, Adrik,

That was the agreement.

Stepanov died a few years after they had won, and Gregory

added a clause to