Chapter 6.

Coming up on Taehyung's door, Shunee stopped Kurgi demanding to k ow why he was in the forbidden wing.

"Shyfter requires the Royals and their Betas to meet him in Sanji and Okubo's room, you too Aisha. This involves you as well." Kurgi bowed, turned, and headed for his and Moon's room.

"I wonder what this is about." Jungkook said, getting to his feet and went to the room Kurgi indicated.

Knocking on the door, they heard Shyfter say to come in. When the door swung open, their eyes opened wider at the sight of Sanji and Okubo bound and chained to the wall of their room. Aishas eyes met Shyfter's, silently thanking him.

"Now that we are all present and accounted for, let's begin again, shall we?" Shyfter smiled, a,darkness in his eyes.

"What did they do to warrant this punishment?" Makai asked. Shyfter looked at Aisha until the others did also. Finally, Aisha spoke.

"Ii didn't want to relive this memory ever again, but it seems my past is doomed to follow me wherever I go and whomever I'm with or surround myself will be attacked for that past, but it seems that I have to stop and face that past if I am to ever be truely free from it." Aisha closed her eyes, mentally preparing herself, collecting every ounce of steel in her body, so she may have the courage to tell her new family about her old one.

"When i was a younger wolf, I hadn't yet learned how to take care of myself without help, I'm an Omega, but not just any old, run of the mill Omega, i am a female Nightshade Omega. I don't know many Nightshade when I was young, they were still scattered throughout Gaia and hadn't found a safe way to reconnect our bond with each other yet, since we were exiled and hunted by the Council. My family and I ran for the north, further north than the Royal's territories. My father told me there would be other Nightshade out looking for any trace, any scent that would point us in the direction of the others. We found 3, maybe 4 other Nightshade, becoming a mini pack for a few years, then whispers in the wind from other Nightshade, that the Council was under 'new management', AKA, Taemin, and he overturned Taehyung's father's decision to just exile us, making it open season on us again. Killed or captured became a sick war game, invented by the Council, was how we lived our lives for the next thousand years or so, it's no wonder where our hate towards the Council for putting the bounty on us. We were mad at the 7 packs too." She paused to take in their expressions, their reactions reflected their sadness, empathy, and it was softening everyone to her. Her eyes shot to the two chained wolves. They had defiant, cocky expressions that she wanted to rip off their faces with her claws, but somehow restrained herself and her wolf enough to finish the story.

"One night, in the dead of winter, after we had all settled in for the night, had our night watch was just starting their watch, all was normal. Sometime in the middle of the night, a shrill howl cut trough the air, freezing our wolves in our beds. First they slaughtered the guards outside our walls, then the screams from within our walls started. Distant at first, then getting closer until it reached the innermost walls, where people of my rank and status were being kept, thinking we would be safer at the center, that no one could get to us, but we never thought of having a defense for sensory warfare, until Taemin took the First Seat, and slammed the omegas in the center useless, powerless, and we had nowhere to run after the upper ranks started falling. Some of us just grabbed who we could and ran with them until we were out of the noise radius, and for omegas, we can hear a leaf fall from a tree and hit the ground if it's quiet enough, it was a long run. I don't know how long the group of 5 of us stayed in a cubby we found, waiting and making sure there were no more Council wolves out there, and we made our way back to the pile of burning rubble, cries for help, and the smell of burnt flesh that was out home. We dug out as many as we could, taking breaks only to get water, food, or medical help to the injured. We had the luck of saving 7 of the wolves we dug out, a big number, by Nightshade standard. After those who had been injured, recovered, they needed a plan, a purpose, and a leader. Most of us simply couldn't lead, we were Omegas. We functioned as a pack like a newborn pup fumbles with phasing at first. We had much of the same mindsets so we exsisted for a while on our own." She paused to steel herself for this part. Looking dead in Sanji and Okubo's eyes, letting her own dead eyes turn an erie side of silver none of them have ever seen.

"Then we met you two, Sanji and Okubo. Our true enemies masquerading as our heroes, saving us from an Alpha squad hunting stragglers in the area. We thought you were Alphas rhat could help us, finally we'd have a leader to follow, protect, and who would protect us, not kill all of the omegas who were with us, but you couldn't kill me. I still don't know why you didn't kill me. That's what I'm here to hear. The truth. Why didn't you two kill me along with the rest? Why was I special enough to save, while my friends were killed in front of me?" Aisha screamed at the two who were still smiling, mouthes sealed, not wanting to reveal to her what she didn't know.

"SPEAK!" She growled again, this time shaking the whole house. Even Tae and Kook jumped when the whole room moved.

"A-Aisha, what are you doing, love." Taehyung shuddered, not k owing how to handle this problem.

"Guys, her aura will hurt you. Tae, you, Suga, and Kook should step away from this." Shunee said.

"No, they will be fine. Kurgi, help Lady Aisha calm herself please? Then the two 'strays' can tell all of us why she survived and the others were killed." Moon stepped in the room.

"You're not going to hurt her, are you Moon?" Sanji asked sarcastically.

"No, I'd never hurt an Nightshade Oracle. They are precious, rare, and, as you can plainly see, they are powerful. Aisha didn't know this, but she was destined to become our new Alpha. As Anatashi was." Moon looked straight into Taehyung's eyes.

"What does that mean? Are you going to take her back with you when you leave?" Taehyung asked, panic surrounding his heart, his wolf crying out, afraid of losing another Luna.

"No, we cannot take her unless she wishes it like with Anatashi. While Anatashi wasnt an oracle, but she was fated to be our Alpha, our leader. Has there ever been female Alpha at the head of any Pack? The Rogues and the Council has been typically controlled by male Alphas, yes? We decided a long time ago that a change needed to be made. Anatashi was the Luna, the human Luna, of your father, Taehyung. Did she give you his journals telling you anything about your father, how and why he died?" Moon asked.

"Yes. I have read through it a couple times, he was so detailed, I thought it would bring me closure to know, buy it just left with more questions. By the way you're speaking, I assume there's more to it than what's in his journals?" Taehyung asked quietly.

"Did your father ever tell you the story of him and Anatashi? I know that he never wrote about it, so only a select few of us know the truth." Moon paused to judge Taehyung's reaction, then continued on.

"Anatashi was born human, but had also been blessed with the Spirit of a Wolf. Your father met her once and knew she was his mate, his other half and made her his Luna. She and your father started looking at the lore to see if there was any way to make her a wolf, while keeping her humanity and wolf sepreate, but together. That's how the whole...'Lunas shall be human, being the only ones capable of bearing life and continuing on the Bloodlines' idea came about." Moon paused to let Taehyung's brain catch up to what he just said.

"That can't be right. My father never told me about it. Why would he hide this from me?" Taehyung let his words flop, his head deeply bowed looking defeated.

"He kept this from you because the the Luna Chain was created from your birth, Aisha. You are the reincarnation of Anatashi's Lunas Spirit. You and Taehyung were fated to meet, at any cost, and connect the Bond as Alpha and Luna once again. There are things about you that Winter, nor Anatashi could tell you, as they were bound by the agreement of the Chain was, you two needed to find each other on your own, unassisted by any wolf in order for the Bond to be true." Moon sighed.

"Moon and I brought the 'First Curse' to the wolves, Winter and Anatashi brought on the Second Curse. Leaving you and Taehyung to bring the 'Final Curse' upon the humans and wolves." Kurgi looked to Moon.

It was finally time.