The Triplets Queen

Chapter : 2. Introduction..

I am sure that by now you must be wondering what is this girl talking about? Who is she and why is she claiming herself as the daughter of the moon goddess? What is this game she’s taking part in? Why is it called a hunting game? What is a mating season? Or what curse she was talking about?

To know the answer to it all, we have to go in the past when all of it started..

It was about a few hundred years from now when the werewolf world was only hungry for power. Every man wanted to gain power to rule over others. Even the alphas, who are known as the most powerful leader of a pack, were not satisfied with what they had. They wanted more and more, causing several wars and thousand innocent life’s death. And the only way to remind them of their ethereal bonds was their mates.

No matter who you are or what you are greedy for. When the mating season comes, everyone has to return home to be with their mates on those days. Mating season is basically the time when women go in heat and men go on rut. The time is not fixed for who will have it when. It can happen any time in between the month of February to March, which we werewolves call as the mating season.

Singles have to go through that pain alone and mates will share it together by helping each other. The couples always go in heat and rut together to match their partner’s needs. This mating season is the time when most of the couples conceive their child because the females are the most fertile in their heat. The warmth and the love they get at that time help them create a new life inside. It’s truly the time of the moon goddess blessing.

The males know about the importance of women in their life. They know that without a mate, everything will become worthless for them. But still, they never give them the value and the respect they deserve. They think woman are weak. They think women are only for breeding their children. They put them so low in their life that the women never get to feel the freedom, the joy, the love they were meant for.

To stop this from happening, and to remind the men about a woman’s power, the moon goddess sends her one and only daughter among those werewolves. She comes on earth after every hundred years as the most beautiful girl anyone ever seen, with blue eyes and black shiny hair. And to recognise her among all, there will be a white wolf with galaxy like eyes, protecting her always. No one knows where she will come out of. It can be in an alpha family or a slave. But she will come to remind everyone of the goddess presence and to be careful with her blessings as their queen.

But the power-hungry men were too greedy to notice it. They were so determind to become the most strongest, that they ignored the one they need most in life. They only used woman to give birth to their son, who can take forward their legacy and their bloodline. And if they failed, they were bound to die. That became the fate for the woman in the end.

But that is not how they got the curse. The goddess was kind enough to keep trying to show them the right path. But about four or five hundred years ago, they killed the goddess daughter because she failed to give an alpha a son. Her own mate killed her. But that was also not it. The next time when the goddess daughter took birth in the world as a peasant’s daughter, her own father killed her with his own hand, because he needed a son to protect and to earn for his family.

That made the goddess angry. She observed the pain her daughter went through on earth. She witness the murder of her beloved daughter because she wasn’t a male. Her own mate, her own father, killed her. And at last she came to a decision that the werewolves don’t deserve a complete life anymore. They don’t deserve her blessing. So, she cast a curse on her own creation in anger. From that moment forward, no men will have a complete family. They will never be fully happy because there will be always something or someone missing from their lives. They will crave for a mate, they will crave for a child, until they learn their lesson and start respecting woman. They have to accept that the woman are on top of everything and without them, they are nothing.

The effect of the curse started showing right after. The death rate of woman increased and the birth rate of babies came down. With each passing year, the number of pack members started decreasing. The werewolf females were slowly disappearing from the face of the earth. Leaving only men in packs.

No one knows if the goddesses daughter came again among werewolves or not after that, but the curse did make everyone angry at the goddess. They started blaming her for all their suffering. But they never thought of it as their fault. They never blamed themselves for treating a woman with so much disrespect. According to them, what they were doing was right, and the goddess was wrong. So, they never learned the lesson as they were supposed to, and the curse was never lifted.

After a couple of hundred years, the number of woman became so low that finding a destined mate was nearly impossible. Even finding a chosen mate was a hard task. But they need woman. They need a mate for the mating season. They need a girl to bear them a child so that their bloodline can keep going on. But how?

After a serious meeting among all the alphas of each pack, they finally came to a conclusion for this problem. The hunting game. A game where every single and available girl will present herself along with all the single males who are looking for a mate. It doesn’t matter what age you are or how many mates you had before. If you are single and childless, you are eligible to take part in the game. It’s not compulsory for every male, but every female has to take part in it willingly or forcefully.

In the hunting game, the females will be the prey who will run to go to safety while the hunters or the males will chase after them. They will fight each other if two or more people go behind the same girl and finally who will put their mark on the girl, will win her as his mate. Sometimes these fights go to an extent where some of the males get seriously injured.

Horrible, right? What can we do? If you want a mate for the mating season, you got to fight for it. This is what happens when they don’t respect woman. But this is not the end of it. There’s another curse that the moon goddess gave us. It’s to help everyone find out who is good and who is bad. Who is strong and who is not. Who is more fertile to have a child and who is less. It’s by the colour of our wolves and it works both ways.

They say the whiter your wolf is, the stronger and pure you are. Also, they have the best chance of conceiving a child fast and bring it into the world safely. But if your wolf is more black in colour, then that will mean you have an evil soul. You are not blessed by the goddess and you probably will never have a child. So, sometimes the colour of the wolf matters during the hunting game to know how capable you are to succeed.

Now that I am done filling you with the basics of why we are in this position, let’s start with introductions.

Hi! My name is Amelia Francis. I am now eighteen years old and I am single. My father is Elijah Francis and my mother is Grace Francis. They are the alpha and luna of the Spirit Lotus Pack. And I am their one and only beloved daughter. Although I never saw my mother because she died while giving birth to me, I still love her a lot. She sacrificed her life to the curse for me. Dad says, I look a lot like her. It’s like I am exactly her copy. I wish I could see her once. Even if in a picture..

After mom’s death, I became everything for my father. He never looked down at me because I was a girl. He loved me the most and never left my sight. He educated me, trained me, raised me to be a perfect girl. A strong and brave alpha girl. Maybe that is why the goddess chose him to be my father. She knew that he is the one who will give me the value I deserve.

I had my first shift at the age of eleven, where other werewolves get their wolves at twelve. And that day, both of us found out that I was the daughter of the moon goddess. My wolf Sky, came out tall and strong with beautiful long white fur and a shining blue eyes. They were not exactly blue, because my real eyes are blue. It was a mixture of blue, purple, sky and all the other shades we can imagine. It was like her eyes were representing the entire galaxy. That was the day my father bowed down in front of me and promised me to protect with his best.

Dad and I both knew that the werewolves are mad at the goddess for the curse. And if they find out that I was her daughter, they will enslave me, torture me, and we have no idea what else could happen to me. So, dad decided to keep my wolf a secret from all. Even from my friends. So, I had to lie to everyone. I had to lie that I don’t have a wolf when they ask me about it. It was the best way to protect my identity for then.

But we knew that I was here for a reason, for a purpose. And my journey towards that purpose was not going to be easy. So, dad started training me secretly. He taught me how to fight as a human against werewolves. He taught me how to use my wolfs strength without letting her out. He taught me everything that would help me throughout my journey. And sometime he even allowed sky to come out and play with him or train with him in a very secret location of us where no one goes. Sky was happy with him.

Soon I turned sixteen. The age where I was ready to find a mate. Also, it was the age I started having my heat. I have to admit that a heat is not that bad as everyone says. It’s a little painful, but bearable. The only problem is, I had to stay locked up in my room for a total of seven days. My heat ended by six, but dad kept me in for another day just to be safe. And the sad part is, I didn’t find my mate.

After waiting for two years and not finding my mate, I finally became eighteen. The age where I have to participate in the hunting game. For boys the age to participate in the game is twenty, while for us it is eighteen. To them, eighteen is the age of a grownup for girls. To them, I am mature enough to start a family and have kids. But what about after that? What if I die after that? What if I die while giving brith, just like my mother? What will happen to the curse? Who will look after my father? Is this my age to die yet?