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.

until his father passed away. Your father

They decided they

then, but now it is just biochemistry. They

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

pregnant with the next set of pups. Then they inject the Vaccine or serum directly into the fetus, hoping it will develop an immunity

lost this way, but soon they succeeded and

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 they made a very severe decision.

to concentrate the gene in the next generation and the ones after

cousins, and it widened until it was

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

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

but the Alpha gene was the worst

of strong Alphas, the

up birthing a Beta.

did not have silver eyes and was 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 to

reported the outcome of his experiment to their family head, and they decided

history of

away along with their story,” She said, and Tamia and

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

good woman, but the others were scum. Seeing the blood that might run through their veins was

thing because they are scum,”

to say something and was afraid to speak up, so I sighed and looked

say whatever you like,” I said, and she nodded, but it

you the truth behind our families. Your grandfather was in the wrong. Adrik was the one in

six hundred years ago. The families lost their power and were demoted

chaos and mutiny. 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 themselves.

one to die before

longest a king was allowed to rule was a

long because of war and mutiny, but that

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

silver. They knew they would win and take over, but their unwillingness to force the hand of

like in the past, and

and did what needed

would go first, then after his tenure, he would hand over to

they had followed that order, it would have been Gregory, Adrik, Maurice, and

That was the agreement.

died a few years after they had

to the law