Kissed By Moonlight

The legend says that the Moon Goddess Selene created the werewolves and is in control of their mating and shifting, and she is who they worship.  In ancient times, Selene had a child with Zeus named Pandia. Her name meant “All Brightness” and she personified the full moon with how she lit up everything and everyone she came in contact with. Immortality had its perks and its downfalls and it was no secret that the gods tended to have mortal lovers. Pandia, however, found love in a Lycan. This wasn't too surprising, since her mother was the one who created them and the werewolves. They were in love and had many children. When she gave birth, she made an agreement that her children would be Lycans and not have divine blood and that her lover cannot be immortal as she is. Selene tells her that throughout the generations to come that her lineage will evolve to only have Alpha werewolf blood as the Lycan bloodline dwindles. This will be so until a divine Luna needs to be born and bring peace. Pandia agreed to this prophecy and her werewolf lover perished after a very long, nearly immortal life and she returned to the gods. She watched as generation after generation was born and perished, waiting for the one to be born that shared her divine lineage. Thousands of years passed and she watched as the Lycans faded and the werewolves became dominant. She watched as they argued and had wars amongst themselves and more rogues formed. She knew it would be soon. Amara Galanis was born to Alpha Oliver and Luna Milena. Her father was the alpha of the Sapphire pack. They were a smaller pack known mostly for their striking blue eyes and kindness. Her mother was the daughter of Alpha James of the Crimson pack. This pack was known to have the best warriors. They shed the most blood, so they are given the name Crimson. This was the second largest and strongest pack. They were under the Amethyst pack, named after the purple representation of loyalty, which was the largest and strongest pack in the world. That pack is where the Alpha King and the strongest of bloodlines reside. They say the King and the higher-ranked wolves are the strongest, biggest, and most powerful of all werewolves. The Alpha King’s line also particularly tended to have a little less impulse control due to the power the wolves inside them had. It is also said they were the closest bloodline to the now-extinct Lycans. They were very possessive and could be almost feral at times. That's why it was important for them to find or take a mate to help them control the beast inside. Since the Crimson pack was composed mostly of warriors, a lot of warriors in the pack would go train in the Amethyst pack and some stayed. Especially if they found their mates unless they were ranked wolves and their mates were not. If anyone did find a mate in the Amethyst pack, they had to join that pack or be given permission to leave. If they were lower ranking, they usually got permission but the higher-ranked wolves needed to stay. This is another reason why they are the largest pack. The sapphire pack was unfortunately slaughtered by rogues when Amara was only an infant. Her mother and father did not survive and she went missing along with many other children. The rogues had been attacking the smaller packs and taking children with them. It wasn't hard to figure out they wanted a strong pack of their own. Alpha James searched for his granddaughter and so did his son Michael, who was currently the Alpha at the time. Finally, after a decade, they found the rogue army and packs banned together to save the ones who were taken and free them. Even the king and prince joined in the crusade. In the end, they thought they had won, but they didn't know what evil plan was truly brewing. Amara POV My life has had a lot of pain. It's all I knew for a very long time. I grew up in a cell, only allowed to leave when I was training, learning, or being tortured. For ten years, I was trained with others to be a lethal fighter. Even though I was a female, I had to fight the boys and I needed to beat them. I needed to learn how to be successful even though they were always bigger and stronger. The ones who lost were punished and I did not want to be that one.  The torture varied from starvation/dehydration, whips, silver chains, multiple large adults beating you up at once, and pretty much anything they could think of, including waterboarding with water laced with wolfsbane. One by one, I watched the others become of age and shift when they turned eighteen. I was the youngest one out of all of them by at least three years. Some of the others were not yet of age to shift, but they got their wolves when they were sixteen and could speak with them. This is true for all werewolves. We meet our wolves when we are sixteen but do not shift until we are eighteen. That is also when we can find our mates. The rogues were making a new army and wanted us to be their soldiers. They did everything they could to brainwash and control us and it worked on a few, but not all.  Like me, it never worked for me. I fought every step of the way. It got me more punishments but I would rather die with my dignity than become their slave. Luckily, it never came to that.  When I was twelve years old, Alphas and warriors from multiple packs came bursting in and took down the rogues that were holding us. They killed most of them and imprisoned the rest. I heard that the leader was one that was imprisoned. I never met him but I heard him make orders and knew he was a sadistic man and should have just been killed on the spot. That day I even felt a very strong aura and I believe it was the Alpha king himself and his bloodline.  It may be wrong, but I enjoyed hearing them tear those bastards to shreds. To hear them be the ones begging for mercy for once. We were all herded where witches were able to look into our mindset to see if we had gone to the Darkside or not. Luckily, most of us hadn't and the majority that did were killed in the raid since they fought. The ones that did and survived were imprisoned and they said they were going to try and rehabilitate them. The others were given back to what families they could find if they were underage and if they weren't, they decided what they wanted to do. Each pack opened up its doors for us. That day I met my uncle. Alpha Michael and his mate Luna Catherine and their twins Kylie and Carter. I met my grandparents and the former Alpha James hugged me so tight I couldn't breathe for a whole minute. I never had known love before and was skeptical, but they were patient with me and showed me how loved I truly and always was. They even showed me pictures of my mother and father and showed me how I had my father’s vibrant blue eyes and my mother’s beauty. I did have long, thick, white hair though. It was as white as the full moon. No one really had an answer to it except maybe it was some odd genetic mutation. When I was sixteen, I gained my wolf, Isla, who was very strong and dominant. My uncle said it was because I'm the daughter of pure Alpha blood, but Isla claims there is more to it. She just can't explain it all to me yet.  She’s been with me for almost two years now and in two months it will be my eighteenth birthday and I will finally shift. We're both excited about it, since Kylie and Carter shifted three years ago, all I've wanted to do was be like them. Carter is taking over as Alpha this weekend and many members of other packs are coming. Even the King, Queen, and their son and daughter. Their son Prince Kai will be taking over soon too and it is tradition for the King and his family to attend every, Crowning of the new Alpha ceremony. This weekend will be one to remember.