Hiding in plain sight

Before the world came to be populated it was the playground of the old gods. they would swim in the oceans and rivers, play in the fields and sleep peacefully under the trees. They each used their own magic to shape the world and create wonders that would last. But they were easily bored. They watched as creatures changed, and were intrigued at how the creation changed. but being God's decided they wanted to participate more. And so the supernatural races were created from the union between the gods and humans. Nyx, beautiful goddess of the night, gave birth to a race of breathtakingly gorgeous creatures. They loved the dark hours and would become weak if out in the sun for too long. Their skin was perfect alabaster, their eyes iridescent and mesmerising, but they required warm blood to survive. Now this race is known as vampires. Gaia, whose closest connection was to nature itself, mothered a varied race. Nyads, Dryads, fauns, mermaids...hers was the Fae race. All creatures connected to nature in a way that no one else could achieve, and all beautiful and dangerous in their own way. Hekate, powerful and strong, became Queen of the witches. From her line came the witches, sorcerers, magicians and all other magick users. Finally the great wolf Fenrir and the goddess of the moon Selene had their own line. The Lycans were more dangerous as they had the tempestuous nature of Fenrir. They saw what their line was becoming and made a decision. The leaders of the 5 tribes of the Lycans were each gifted a mate. They became the first Alphas and Lunas. From these 5 pairs came the line of werewolves. Each of the 5 mates had been given 3 gifts. The first was an elemental gift, allowing them to connect with nature and that part of the element in the people around them. The second was that their wolf when they transformed would be smaller than most other wolves, but they would be able to control their element even while transformed. Finally they would never be controlled by an order from a higher rank. These gifts would be passed down their direct line, not to each wold born, one in every 5 generations would receive the gifts. For a millenia the races lived peacefully with humans, but as time passed it became dangerous and the supernatural races either went into hiding, learning how to appear human themselves or they escaped through the veil into Marellia, a parallel world created by the old gods before they withdrew from the world themselves. Before they all departed they created a council of 12, who would remain in the human world and would help all of the races. Made up of all the races the council contained one true Lycan, 2 fae, 2 witchThey would be record keepers, peace keepers, and most importantly protectors of the prophecy. The prophecy had been given to the races by Hera, Queen of the Greek gods. She had seen turmoil and strife for the children of the gods and had given them the prophecy to help them when the time came, as she herself had said she wanted no part of their fate, and beyond this warning she would not help. The prophecy read: When the gemstones are united in a single birth, 17 years will pass in peace and harmony. At the end of this time blood will run, trees will die and all magick will end. Unless the Gemstone learns to heed her own magick and can unite all by the day that is a night, then the magick blood that sustains the children of the gods will run dry, and they shall be no more. No one understood this, and so the prophecy was kept with the council. Many came to study it and hazard a guess, but to no avail. They had forgotten the 5 mates. The one gifted with an affinity to water had sapphire eyes, earth had emerald eyes, air had eyes the colour of citrine, fire had Ruby eyes and spirit had eyes the colour of amethyst. They had been known in their time as the Gem wolves, but their time had long passed, and their bloodlines were unknown.