The Omega

            Omega. What an ugly word for the one who takes care of everything in a pack. We wake before everyone to make sure there is enough food for the students who leave for the human school, for the adults who follow them in order to make sure they don’t expose our kind. We keep all the laundry clean and make sure that it never gets mixed with anyone else’s. We can be used for training, for our gender only. We clean everything for everyone. We keep secrets that no one even knows we have. We stay up late to finish cleaning everything from the day.             The word omega is simply the end of the Greek alphabet. In a wild wolf pack, the omega is a single wolf, the weakest, the scapegoat for the pack. However, in a werewolf pack there are around ten of us to a pack of a hundred. Basically, an omega is doing our part for ten individuals, or that of two full families, or one full family and five individuals.             So, let me take a guess of how many books you have read where some helpless full is a punching bag and can’t do anything until the big strong alpha mate comes along and shows just how strong she really is. An omega is not a slave, we take our job as it is with the greatest respect from the higher ranks. They know without us; they would not be able to complete what they have been able to.             Some of us simple ended up here because the great Goddess played a great joke on our parents and gave a beta couple a mute for a daughter. I hear you, “But you have beta blood, what does being mute have to do with anything?” Well, I can’t communicate with other packs, only my own. And my father’s main job is a go between for our pack. “Oh, then you are mistreated.” No one in this pack is mistreated. I knew I had two choices warrior or omega, I can hold my own with the best, but my disable doesn’t help when working with other packs. I choice this job because it was the best place for me and for this pack.             Plus, I even lucked out, I take care of my family and new couple who is about to have their first pup. Which gives me time to help in the kitchen. My life may not have been easy, but it wasn’t a horrible life.             At least until the changing of the alpha. In our pack, the new alpha steps up when he meets his luna or the former dies. But most often, it’s the greeting of the new alpha and luna. This time however there had been a rogue attack, and while we all did what we could, Alpha Xavier was no longer with us. My father would give his place as beta to my older brother, and gamma remain the same as his only son was just sixteen.             When Luna Morgan blessed her son with his title, the world around me stopped. I don’t mean in the way it will once I meet my mate. The great Goddess stopped time, and spoke to me, “A luna queen will be blessed, an alpha king now raised. Let not a false luna stand, lest the pack forever be damned.”             The first time my voice spoke, the first time anyone heard me speak was me repeating the words, “A luna queen will be blessed,” everyone stopped clapping and cheering, looking at me. “An alpha king now raised.” There was a couple of gasps. I was a mute; how could I be speaking. “Let not a false luna stand.” My eyes looked around, ending on my alpha, I grew up with him. I saw him as my cousin, my protector when my brother was gone. “Lest the pack forever be damned.” It wasn’t that long, but it felt like it took forever. My body felt so weak, there was dark spots everywhere. Then everything was gone.             ~~~~             I would love to say that everything was great after that, but when I woke, I wasn’t with the pack healer, or in my room. I was in the dungeon. You know the cells below the pack house, hidden away for rogues or anyone who dares to attack us. That was where I was at, and my mind link wasn’t reaching anyone.             I sat up, looking around. It was as cold as ever, even with a thin cover that we never gave to the prisoners. I walked over to the bars, they had a warning on them, if anyone touched them, and a guard was to appear, so I burnt my hand to summon anyone to tell me what was going on.             Guard Ben appeared, looking at me, I tilted my head, trying to ask what was going on. “You spoke before, do it again.” I shook my head, opening my mouth, no sound came out. “You can’t fool us anymore. We are doing to find out how you hide your voice from even your parents since birth.” He had always been so kind to me, inviting me to all the birthday parties when we were children, being there when I lost my uncle. But now, I was disgusting.             I shook my head, not in disagreement, but disappointment. I reached my hand out again, grabbing the bar. It was covered in silver. It wouldn’t kill me, just burned. I held onto it as long as I could, maybe ten minutes as he ordered me to remove my hand, before other guards began to appear. It hurt, I couldn’t hide the pain, but not a sound came out. I know my face was screaming, but I couldn’t let go. I need to hold on until the alpha showed up. “How can she not make a sound?” “A witch?” “A changeling?” “A curse?” Each guard was guessing, as they ordered me to let go. Until the alpha finally appeared. He looked at me, every guard could now attest that I didn’t scream in pain like anyone of warriors would have, anyone who wasn’t a mute would have. I held on, waiting. “Bring her to the meeting room.” He had dark eyes, and to him I was a possible threat to our pack. I let go, waiting for them to place cuffs on me and lead me to where he ordered me to go. Ten minutes, and I was in the alpha office, looking at him, my parents and brother, as well as the former luna. “I opened the mind link to this room; you better explain yourself.” The alpha look as though he hated me, though I didn’t know why. “And do not lie.”             Her hair was silver, her eyes were as gold as the moon. She stood by you when your mother crowned you. But no one was moving, she spoke those words. I don’t know how they came from my broken mouth.             “Altalune.” I looked to my mother, her eyes were full of fear, “Her forehead. Could you see it?”             Though it was an odd question, I thought back to the silver hair lady. Her skin was glowing like moon on the water, but her forehead had a crescent moon was shined brighter. Her dress was a dark blue with gems covering it. She placed her hand on Alpha Boris’s right shoulder. A star glowed.             The growl that came from behind me, made me turn with just enough time to cover my face. Her hair was red, almost like it was on fire. Her eyes green as ever. The delta of our pack, Rosemary. “You lie!” I only protected myself, the cuffs made it so I couldn’t fight back, so my brother stand up, and pushed her away.             “Alpha.” I looked back at him, wondering why my brother called to him, and saw him pulling his shirt down, seeing a star. I looked to my brother, “You didn’t know?” My face must have said what because I don’t know why else he would explain anything to me. “When an alpha hasn’t met his mate, but must take on the title, the delta takes on her role for one year. At which time, she will become the chosen mate, otherwise known as a false luna.”             Nothing was clicking in my head. What does that have to do with me being in the dungeon and not with a healer? I looked to my family, then at the delta who was still angry, but even she looked shocked by my sentence.             “You don’t know what you said?” Her voice wasn’t as ugly as when she called me a liar. I shook my head, hearing a deep sigh as she shook my brother off, “You said that if he takes on any female other than his real mate, our pack is over. You spoke a curse over this pack.” She had returned to the delta I knew her as, almost luna like, but still our greatest female warrior. “Do you know who you saw in this vision?”             “The great Goddess.” The voice was my mother’s her eyes looking at the ground, tears falling. I’m sure who spoke the word what louder, but my mother didn’t jump, or flinch. It was like all her fear was at who my vision was about. “I’m sorry.”