Chapter Four.

The next morning after having spent the night at Heln's place, Rishio was preparing for yey'r journey back to the capital. The sun was still peeking over the horizon, the morning mist barely settled as Ryok's breathe was still visible in the cold air of the morning.Fastening up the last piece of luggage onto Ryok's back, Rishio stepped back to admire yey'r handiwork, not perfect but it would do.

"I take it that the ceremony went well, since you came back home and immediately went to sleep?" Heln asked as yey appeared behind Rishio.

"If you mean that there was no violence, then yes it went quite well."Rishio replied turning to look at yey'r.

Heln walked towards Rishio and cupped yey'r cheek and said," I know you hate this town but do you have to leave already? Stay a bit, this is still your home."

Rishio placed yey'r hand on Heln's that was on yey'r cheek and said,"I was raised here by a wonderful omega,that I agree, but this is not my home." Rishio pause as yey removed Heln's hand from yey'r cheek .

"I am still trying to figure out just where that is." Rishio added.

After a brief pause Heln chuckled then said,

"Twelve years ago when Naama came crying home with snot all over yey'r face and dragged me out of the house saying to me that yey'r friend was hurt then took me to a beaten up, half conscious omega,all I could think of was,"Oh no not another one"."

Looking into Rishio's eyes Heln continued,"It broke my heart because all I could think about is how another young soul has been broken by the world too goddamn early.How will yey survive this,I remember thinking this after I took you to the hospital and your family refused to come see you because apparently it would have aroused suspicion of what really happened." Heln could not help but ball yey'r fists at the memory.

"But you surprised me when Naama and I came to see you and you put on the brightest smile I had ever seen, so bright that no one would have even suspected what you had gone through just a few days ago. At first I was confused at what was happening or what had happened."

Heln paused then turned to look at the rising morning sun,"Then I realized something, I realized you were protecting Naama who by that time was a fourteen year old child.You were smiling through so much pain so that you could shield my Naama from what happens in the real world. Naama who apparently was an idiot then and still is believed that you were in an accident, I still remember how pissed yey was when you told yey'r the truth." Heln remembered fondly with a smile on yey'r face. Rishio turned to look towards the morning sun as Heln was doing, the soft sun rays slowly creeping up their bodies.

"I remember thinking," Heln continued,""This tupid kid is in for a world of hurt." Bu I let it go because I assumed that you would want to talk about it when you were ready. But your stubborn nature and stupidity held you back from asking for any help. Maybe it was my fault for not asking you to open up because gradually you closed yourself off in a place where no one could draw you out, and when I noticed it was too late." Heln finished while turning too look at Rishio who did not turn to face yey'r.

With a sigh Heln started," Look kid, the world is a huge place with different people. If by some miracle you meet somebody worth opening up to and revealing your true self," Heln said jokingly earning a small chuckle from Rishio, while wrapping yey'r hands around Rishio's shoulders, " You have to put that stubborn nature away and open up, you know if you lock up that heart of yours for so long, you might lose it to monsters and this is actually worse than a heartbreak. Showing vulnerability is scary but what is life without a scare or two." Heln added with a smirk on yey'r face.

Releasing Rishio, Heln turned and walked away towards yey'r house saying," But if you want to die alone, be my guest, it will not be my problem because I know that I will not come to bury your sorry ass. Call me when you get home, not a second later." Heln added as yey entered yey'r house.

" Will do mum." Rishio replied with a shout directed to Heln. With a laugh Rishio mounted Ryok who had grown impatient with yey'r and had started thumping his tail on the ground gently to show his annoyance at the delay. Immediately his master got on, Ryok stood up ready to start the journey, he was not pleased by his master's command to stop at the sight of another human, he expressed this by a dissatisfied growl which was quickly silenced when he heard his master's tone toward the human that had just appeared before them.

"What are you doing here Yian?" Rishio asked yey'r sibling who just appeared before them on their way out with a tone so cold that Ryok could not help but let out a soft whine.

With a quick shuffle of yey'r feet that indicated that Yian was uncomfortable being there yey replied softly," I just wanted to thank you for coming, it meant a lot to me. I..I was the one who asked mama to invite you."

Not earning a reply from Rishio Yian continued, "I also wanted to ask for your forgiveness for what happened, I know I should have done better I should not have been so damn greedy, but if I had not done that Runi would have done it with me and I was scared..." Yian finished not daring to look up at yey'r sibling.

"See, you had me at the first part..." Rishio started," Then ruined it by reminding me just how selfish and greedy you were and are. You have not changed at all Yian maybe you will but I will not be here to see that."

Letting out a sigh Rishio continued,"I forgave all of you a long time ago." Yian perked up at this.

"So does that mean..." Yian started but was cut off by Rishio,

"That means nothing , for you anyway." Rishio could see the confusion on Yian's face so yey continued,

" Look Yiyi, I did not forgive you for your sake but mine because I want to forget, forget everything that happened and everyone including you and our parents." Yian's expression visibly darkened at Rishio's statement.

"You cannot do that, you cannot leave all of us behind." Yian started frantically.

"I already have."Rishio replied.

"NO YOU CANNOT!" Yian shouted,visibly shocking Ryok who got startled a little but was calmed down almost immediately by his masters pats.

"Where will you go? Who will you go to? We are your family,all that you have, without us you are nothing at all." Yian continued facing yey'r sibling who did not seem fazed at yey'r certain outburst.

"I have family but you are not part of it." Rishio replied.

Bursting out into a maniacal laughter that caused all yey'r teeth to be exposed, Yian replied,

" What family? Do you mean that low level omega who was raised by an omeg without an alph..." yey'r words stopped when Rishio commanded Ryok to whip his tail towards Yian barely missing yey'r eyes.

"LISTEN UP!" Rishio started coldly directing a death glare to Yian,

" I do not care if you want to be annoying fucks towards me but if I get word that any of you dared to breath towards my mum... I will kill all of you, so do all of us a favor and keep out of my business. Take the damn olive branch while I am still willing to extend it."

Ryok did not quite grasp what was happening but he could understand that the human before him was the cause of his master's anger, something that rarely... actually never happened for as long as he had known his master.In defense of his master, Ryok let out low growls directed towards the human before him.

Although Yian was not the brightest one in a group, yey'r body could not miss the murderous aura that Rishio was emitting. They might have been close in their younger years but the omega that was in front of yey'r thought of yey'r as nothing more than dust particles. Rishio had really forgiven and forgotten yey'r. Yian did not miss the slight twinge of pain in yey'r heart.

" Now get out of my way and my life." Yey heard yey'r sibling say not a smudge of emotion present in yey'r voice. Standing aside to give the beast way, yey said,

" I wish you at least hated me because not having any emotions toward me is a bit cruel don't you think?" Yian looked at Rishio tears streaming down yey'r face.

Without skipping a beat Rishio said," We both know that even hate is too good for you. Let us go Ryok we have a long journey ahead." With that Ryok sprinted off, leaving Yian in the dust.

Yian clenched yey'r teeth in pain that could not be expressed through the tears.

"Sometimes I forget just how fucking similar you and that child are." Heln started startling Yian who frantically wiped the tears off yey'r face .

"So similar but so different." Heln added as yey stood opposite yey'r.

"What gives you the idea that you can..." Yian started but was cut off by Heln who pinched yey'r ears while saying.

"Shut the fuck up you brat, I do not care if you are not my child but getting that damn haughty attitude from a face that looks like yey'r still pisses me off."

"Do you have any idea what that child went through because of you and that damn family of yours?" Heln asked while removing yey'r hands from Yian's ear.

Holding yey'r ear in one hand and balling a fist in the other Yian said," You think that Rishio went through such a hard life? What about what I had gone through?What I had to put up with since yey was the better version of me? Living in fear that Runi may leave me for yey'r? I had to do it to secure MY FUTURE as a mated omega." Yian finished while panting.

Heln gave yey'r a blank look then said," If that is what you tell yourself so that you can sleep at night, I feel so fucking sorry for you. Maybe it was not Rishio who was ruined that day but you." Heln pointed at Yian who gave yey'r a confused look.

"Having an alpha does not complete you it is who you are as a person that counts because at the end of the day, we are not alphas or omegas but humans. I just hope that you do not realize that when it too late." Heln said staring deep into Yian's eyes a hand on the left side of yey'r hip.

"Now hurry home before your parents miss their doll." Heln added pointing the way out of yey'r property with yey'r chin. Yian, still a confused look on yey'r face, turned to leave. Heln watched yey'r leave then turned around while shaking yey'r head saying,

"Saru just how far did you fuck up your this child." and entered back into yey'r house.

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Ten minutes before Rishio and Ryok arrived home, a rainstorm fell down on them leaving them drenched. When they finally arrived home they both looked like they fought through a tsunami.Hurriedly, Rishio took Ryok into his pen after making sure that he was warm and fed yey headed towards yey'r house that was a couple steps away, but not before thanking Ryok.

"Good work Ryok." Yey said to Ryok who was already dozing off.

As yey was on the staircase heading to yey'r house, Rishio noticed an object at yey'r doorstep, yey'r guard immediately went up.

It could not be from Naama because yey knew I was not home for the past few days or a package from anyone since I made sure everything is delivered to the bar, Rishio thought as yey quickly examined yey'r surrounding checking for any unwanted attention. Whoever placed the object on Rishio's doorstep knew yey'r and clearly only wanted yey'r to see it.

As yey approached it, yey noticed that it was quite big, the size of a mini fridge, had an egg shape, smooth to the touch, had carrying straps on the sides and was black in color making it almost impossible to see as the night approached. Rishio saw that there was no opening on it but a latch on its side, which Rishio assumed would open the strange object.

It was laying on its side, the side on the ground four small protrusions that was the object's stands and on the upper side there was a ringer that had a symbol of a gold maned lion standing over an angel and a demon engraved on it, a symbol that Rishio was not happy to see again.

As soon as yey saw the symbol, Rishio was quick to understand that whatever the object was and whatever message was in the ringer were meant to be viewed in private.Grabbing the straps on the object Rishio carried it inside, which was not as heavy as yey expected, and placed it on the table in the living room, sitting on the couch that directly faced the object.

From what Rishio understood from the whole scenario,was that yey'r past acquaintance is the reason why yey has the strange object. What yey did not understand was why after five years did they decide to show up now.

Maybe I should not have dared the universe. Rishio said to yey'rself.

Yey looked at the symbol on the ringer, there was no doubt it was them. The symbol represented the type "S" alphas, as one would expect even among this gender there were further classified.

They were classified into type "A" and type "S". The type"A" alphas were the most common, they had black wings and two prominent canines on the upper jaw.

The "S" alphas were the more elite of the two, they came directly from the bloodline of the humans who fought in the war of The End that is was made them so different from the "A" alphas. That and the fact that they had golden wings and four prominent canines on their upper jaw unlike two of the "A" alphas.

While both alphas could use the the weapon "Hope", the "S" alphas was more lethal. However the "S" alphas were so rare and so elite that only a handful of people ever meet them in their lifetime.

Meeting them was more of a curse than a blessing, as they had power that came with being on top of the food chain and they abused that power as any other human would once they get more power than they need,Rishio had the unfortunate pleasure of meeting some in the past when yey was not at a good place. Yey knew yey could not escape the grasp of the elites,for five years yey did and yey dreaded the day that they would finally catch up to yey'r .Dreaded it but expected it, so that is why yey knew there was no escaping them this time.

Taking the ringer from the object, yey pressed the icon that blinked alternatively indicating that there was a recorded messeage for yey'r.

As soon as yey pressed it, a hologram face of an alpha appeared, Rishio could not help but swallow hard.

"Hello Number Fifteen." Gur started, the name gur said bringing back terrible memories that Rishio had long forgotten.

"I really hope that this finds you well, but remembering how you were my best fighter, I am sure that you are fine." The alpha continued finishing off with a smile that exposed gur's canines.

Rishio clenched yey'r fist, hating the fact that that alpha still knew how to piss yey'r off, yey hated what yey had to do to survive in the past, but hated it more when people would bring it up.

"As much as I love pissing you off, now is not the time." The alphas paused to adjust gur's golden wings into a more comfortable position indicating the message gur was about to relay was important.

"Earlier today, I sent a package to you,I predicted that it would arrive a bit earlier than you from your hometown visit." Gur added cockily.

Of course gur knows about that,they know about everything, Rishio thought bitterly.

"Now before you start cursing me," The alpha continued a smirk playing on gur's lips," You do remember what I told you, that I would help you get out of the'Pits' but you can never escape me or the others and also you owe me a favor that I would collect any day I want." Rishio's eye twitched as gur mentioned the favor yey owed that alpha.

"But I am here today because of me, I am calling in the favor." The alpha continued all playfulness leaving gur's face as gur leaned forward,

"I want you to take care of what is in the capsule. Protect it with your life I cannot do so because I have to deal with some other business." Rishio had a vague idea what the other business was.

"Of course you will be compensated if you are able to protect it," The alpha added while leaning back into gur's chair, " I will even ensure that Naama , her family and yey'r mother live a very comfortable life." The alpha said with a smirk on gur's face.

This bastard, gur is threatening me, Rishio realized.

"I hope now you understand Number Fifteen," gur started coldly, "I am not giving you a choice, you have to protect it just as I protected you, you might get some unwanted visitors when they figure out that I given it to you but I will do my best to ensure that that does not happen. I believe that you have the ability to do this, so I beg of you protect it." Rishio was surprised to see the alpha almost lose gur's composure and beg an omega, alpha never beg especially "S" alphas.

Just what is in there? Rishio asked yey'r self.

Clearing gur's throat the alpha said, "I will come to retrieve it after things have calmed down on my side. Till then Number Fifteen." With that the hologram went of and the ringer shut itself down and no matter what Rishio tried, it did not turn back on. Yey was quick to see that it was meant to be off till yey got another message so as to prevent the object from being tracked to yey'r.

Releasing a frustrated sigh Rishio said to no one in particular, "This damn alphas doing whatever they liked."

Turning to look at the object Rishio approached it, still skeptical as to what would make that proud alpha beg for help from yey'r. Whatever it was, it was valuable that other "S" alphas would come for it.

Slowly yey pulled the latch,that made the object's upper half side open with a pop then smoothly slid downward revealing a golden cushioned interior, small air vents and...

" That is an infant." Rishio spoke out surprised by the discovery.