Chapter 1

There was a three-year-old omega girl sitting in a small iron cage, with many scars and wounds that litter her body, and her name was Aire, with hair as yellow as the sun and eyes as blue as the sky.

Aire was a pet to Baron Wisern, a male alpha who treated Aire as a toy. He was known to the world as an alpha who was kind-hearted and always offered help to the church and helped the orphanage children. However, what no one knew was that behind this alpha who wears a smile.

He had an illegitimate omega daughter, he had raped one of the maids serving his wife and the maid had died giving birth to Aire only after naming the pup. Today was Aire's third birthday, but being a slave to her father she never celebrated it with the Baron's family.

The Baron had a wife and a son. Aire yearns to be loved by her father or the baroness, or even her half-brother, but no one ever paid attention to her. She was forced to stay in a closet under the stairs and was locked in a small iron cage when no one wanted her to entertain them.

Some of the maids would try to care for her but the majority of them took their stress out on her. Aire couldn't read let alone write, but she only knew how to spell her name. She was currently shuffling in the cage hoping someone would come.

When they did, Aire notice it was her father. But she wasn't allowed to call him that, she was punished the first time she called him 'Papa'. Despite being only one and a half at that the Baron used a whip and whipped her to the point she fainted.

"Master…"

"You listen to me and you listen, the first imperial princess, the fourth imperial prince and the Emperor is coming over to stay today afternoon, for three days and two nights before leaving for his majesty's villa. You are to stay here and be a good slave and not make a sound or I will not feed you.

Is that understood?"

"Yes, master."

Aire replied shaking in fear, due to her sire's pheromones. When she didn't do well she would be starved and whipped, and no one would help her for fear of angering her father…no her master.

Aire has never left the mansion where the sun shines and she has never seen the sky or the sun. All she wanted was a little freedom and love but no one cared.

Soon it was afternoon, and Aire was in the stair's closet holding onto a teddy bear her mother had sewn for her before she was born and she was holding onto it in fear of it being taken away. The closet was filled to the bring with dust and she was sitting on a blanket that had turned grey.

Aire's body ache in pain as she sat down and brought her knees to her chest. Her knees hurt due to having no protection and her back was still bleeding as the maids had entertained themselves using her.

Aire stared at the closet's door and quietly waited. Hoping someone would drop her a piece of bread. She lay on the floor as she smelled two new scents passing by the closet door, they smelled almost identical, to one another and as the scents passed she smelled the pheromones of an alpha who had a similar smell to the previous two but something was missing.

Aire sat there suddenly she heard a voice call out affectionately.

"Evelyn, Edmund, come here let me carry you."

Aire was jealous of whoever they were, they were being carried, Aire could only imagine being carried by her sire but she knew that would never happen to her.

"Sire! Me first!"

"Sire! No me first!"

Aire wanted to move closer but she knew if she moved from her spot her master would be alerted and she would be punished. She was curious, she wanted to know more. She just continued staring at the door as she wanted the same experience.

She remembered when her sire had left for a long time and she was fed only when they remembered she existed, but when her sire came back, her half-brother, Kyle, had run into their sire's arms shouting.

Flashback

"SIRE! Welcome home!"

The Baron had laughed and picked him up and twirl the boy around.

"Haha, my boy Kyle, sire's home."

Aire had happened to be doing her chores when she saw what the boy had done. She wanted to try as well but she saw the way her sire had looked at her when he saw her out of the closet. It was the feeling of dislike.

"Welcome home, my love."

Aire's stepmother said. The man smiled at her lovingly and kissed her and return her greetings.

"I'm home, milady."

She had wanted to be loved in the same way as well and with the same amount. But being an illegitimate child she wasn't allowed near the master.

Flashback end

Aire sat in the closet when she saw a shadow stop right in front of the closet. In fear that she might have been found she quickly tried to hide deeper in the closet. Suddenly she heard the voice of the one called Evelyn.

E: "Father, there's an omega scent coming from here."

F: "Is that so? I don't remember you adopting or having an omega as your child, Baron."

B: "No I don't, that closet is filled with keeps sakes from the orphanage."

F: "Hmm…"

Aire feared for her life, she didn't want to be abandoned by her sire, as long as she was able to stay with her sire, she was willing to be submissive and to be hit.

The shadow left and Aire lets out a breath she was holding.

The day the Emperor and co. left

"Thank you, Baron for letting us stay."

B: "Of course, your majesty. It was my pleasure."

Ed: "Evelyn, what's wrong sister?"

E: "There's a child crying."

Ed: "I notice and I can hear her suffering, she wants her mother."

E: "Edmund, where is it coming from, I can only feel it somewhere but not exactly where."

Ed: "The -"

"Children we are going to be late."

E & Ed: "Yes, sire."

Both prince and princess said as they ran to their sire. Aire was still in the basement currently being whip for breaking a precious painting of the Baroness.

Aire was crying.

Aire's POV

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

The baroness kicks the omega and shouts, "What kind of FREAKING OMEGA destroys an alpha's belonging?!"

"I-I-I didn't mean t-to. Aire didn't mean to…WAaaaAaaaaAH I'm sorry!"

"Shut up! Stop crying no one wants to hear you."

The Baroness said angrily as she slept me across the face. I looked at her in fear and shut up my mouth tight. I was careless, I broke madam's belonging, I should have been careful.

The Baroness continued to punish me and after the thirtieth whip landed on me, the baroness dropped the whip and left, as I cradled my still bleeding body.

It hurts…I'm sorry…Why doesn't anyone love me? I asked myself in my thought as I hugged myself. Suddenly the head maid entered and I let out a submissive whine in fear of being punished again.

I close my eyes tightly as the punishment continued. Aire knew she wasn't wanted because her dame named her air. So she became like the air.

Seven years later (Third person POV)

Aire was being forced to sit in her closet again and despite the fact that many years have passed, she was still small. But now she was the size of a seven-year-old child, despite having turned just 10 the other day.

Aire continued to yearn for love, to be welcome. The emperor had been notified of her birth, two years ago. She was 'adopted' into the family as she was found on the streets and she bore a tiny resemblance to the baroness.

The Baron had chosen to tell the empire to show them his loving father and husband's side. But in the shadows, she was still treated like a slave. The emperor had also sent a message to the world three years ago that the princess would be choosing a fiancee to engage with soon, it didn't matter what status or gender they had.

As long as they were an omega, she was willing.

When Aire had heard the news, she didn't know what it meant. But she knew that there was a chance her sire might look at her with love. But her father tried looking for another omega and even tried to have his wife conceive another pup.

Aire's heart was shattered, her father would rather raise another than acknowledge her. But she still prayed.

On the day of choosing ceremony, she among many omegas was picked up by carriages and brought to the imperial palace where she was among thousands in front of the princess.

"ENTERING, PRINCESS EVELYN VON IGNEEL."

The princess's long maroon hair was beautiful in every way, her golden filled with mana shone like a gem. When she entered, Aire couldn't help but stare. How gorgeous the princess was, but…Aire was a rag cloth that was kept as there was still some use to her.

As the princess sat on the throne, she let out a large amount of mana and the omegas began to fall to their knees until only Aire was left standing.

E: "Hmm, so there was an omega who could stand against my mana."

Aire couldn't why the other children were all huffing and coughing, as the body was absorbing the mana from the princess.

E: "You, what's your name?"

"Ah…my name… is Aire. Princess."

Aire had said in fear of the eyes the princess was looking at her with. She kept her head down, and the princess suddenly ordered.

E: "Get them out before they die by accident."

G1 & G2: "Yes, ma'am."

G3: "Princess, what about the last one standing."

E: "Sent her to my room."

G3: "Yes, princess."

Aire stood in fear as the guard walked toward her, she never liked guards or maids even adults, because no one was nice to her, she only had fear in her heart for them.

The guard stared down at her as he stood in front of her, before commanding Aire.

G3: "Follow me, the princess has given her orders."

But Aire wasn't even listening she was having a panic attack as she felt the guard staring at her. She wanted to run but the guard suddenly grabbed her and in fear she screamed.

"AHHH!"

The guard quickly released and Aire ran to a female knight who had a serious look on her face. She wasn't scared of the knight, because it was the first female knight, she has ever met, she was sometimes punished by male knights but it was the first time she met a female knight.

G3: "Duchess Salvator…"

D: "What's going on here?"

E: "Duchess…that girl is my soon to be mate."

D: "So, why is she running? It seemed like she was afraid of the guards. Which family does she belong to?"

E: "Ah, I forget to ask her."

The princess could see an angry sign on the top of the duchess's forehead. Suddenly, she was flicked by the duchess.

A: "I-I'm the 'adopted' child of Baron Wisern."

D & E: "Hmm, the old man."

The duchess and the princess said at the same time.

E: "I am Evelyn von Igneel, I am the first and only imperial princess."

"I am Aire, the adopted omega."

E: "Why do you call yourself that?"

"It's true."

E: "Follow me to my room, duchess won't you join us?"

D: "As you wish."

The duchess pick Aire up, and she felt the child go stiff in her arms and she noticed the child had flinched before she was picked up.

"Ai-Aire can walk on her own."

D: "I'm sure you can but its faster if I do it."

Duchess Salvator's POV

Just as we were about to pass by the crown prince's room, the door opened and out came the crown prince with the fourth prince in his arms, and suddenly the crown prince looked at the princess and asked.

CP: "Evelyn, where are you going?"

E: "Back to Edmund and my room."

CP: "I'll bring you there c'mon."

The crown prince picked up the princess while the fourth prince was still in his arms. The omega looks at them and I notice there was a look of sadness in the omega's eyes.

My ears perked up and I heard the young girl in my arms whisper.

"I wish sire would carry me like he does…"

"Child are you alright?"

She flinched and turn stiffly before answering with tremble and fear in her voice.

"I-I a-am fi-fine."

I let out a hum and the child tried to avoid me. She would occasionally stare at the family ahead of me or she would fiddle with her fingers as we continued to the prince and princess's room.

"Miss Aire."

I said. She looks at me again with fear.

"Yes, ma'am?"

"How old are you?"

Her face darkens in fear and she begins to tremble.

"Ai-Aire is se-seven th-this year."

"Is that so?"

Having been born with many abilities, one of them was to tell if someone was lying, I stared at the pup who had forced herself to lie.

"Aire…is sorry."

"Why are you sorry?"

"Urm…Urm…"

"Are you tired?"

"No. Aire can stay up the whole night if the duchess wants me to."

"Why do you think so?"

"It's just a th-thought."

A liar is what this just child is. Having heavy eye bags, she says she isn't tired, she was exhausted. The walk to the prince and princess room was a long walk, it usually takes about an hour to get there if she were to walk by herself.

But the crown prince and I have been using magic to amplify our speed, so we could get there within twenty minutes.

The princess turns to me and I gave her a nod in respect, and she sends me an order telepathically, to see if Aire was a threat to the royal family.

"Aire."

"Yes, ma'am?"

"Does the Baron love you?"

"Yes. The Baron loves Aire like the young master even though I am adopted."

She lies, despite smiling happily. As though talking about the Baron created shards in her heart.

"Does the Baron treat you like his blood child?"

"Yes?"

She answered but it was more like a question. I could see the confusion in her eyes, but she turn to me and asked.

"What does it mean to treat me like his blood child?"

"It means he loves you and gives you the same thing as the young baron Wisern."

Her confusion shifts and the answer she had turned out to be a lie.

"Does the Baron ever hit you?"

"No."

A lie again, how much will this child lie to protect the sire that doesn't love her?

"If I say, I want you to be my pup will you agree?"

"I…don't know."

Confusion. That's all she was feeling.

"Alright, but you need to tell me, how old are you?"

"I'm seven, didn't miss ask me this question a while ago?"

"I need you to be honest Aria."

"Arie…is ten years old…but please don't tell master. He doesn't like it when I tell people my actual age."

"Arie…"

"B-But Arie likes master even when doesn't like it. Sometimes he gives Arie clothes and food."

"What does your sire feed you?"

"His not my sire, his my master…Is there a difference?"

"Sire refers to father, daddy, dad or papa. But master means to own you, like a slave."

There was a look of understanding in her eyes.

After a while, we finally reach the prince and princess' room. When the door opened, there were toys littered everywhere on the floor.

"WAH!!!"

Was the pup's reaction to the toys. As though it was the first time she ever saw all these things. I set her down on the ground and she waits for the princess and the two princes before doing anything.

E: "Say Aire, would you like a toy?"

The pup's eyes shone at the princess' words. Was it her first time receiving one?

A: "Master, doesn't allow me to have one."

"Why not?"

A: "Urm…Urm…I'm not sure. I just can't have one. Aire only has a teddy that dame sewed for me."

The princess went to her bed and picked a white bunny with yellow eyes and a pink bow tie.

E: "Here for you."

A: "Aire can keep it?"

The princess nodded and Aire slowly held out her hand when I noticed there was a small cut on her small hand.

"Aire…?"

A: "Yes, ma'am?"

"What happened to your hand?"

A: "Aire accidentally broke a vase and picked it up with her hand."

Not a lie nor the truth.

"Shall we bandage it up?"

A: "N-no, but thank you."

E: "Doesn't it hurt?"

A: "What does it mean to hurt."

"When you get injured there is a prickling feeling, that's what hurt is."

A: "I…don't get it."

E: "Duchess Salvator will you be adopting her?"

"That depends…"

E: "Don't go back on your words."

"I myself already have an heir, what's the point in raising a pup that doesn't belong to me."

Ah. The pup was still in my arms…I slowly looked down and saw she wasn't crying or whining. This was the first time I have ever seen a pup act so quiet even after being told that there was no point in raising them.

A: "Aire…knows she is not wanted…you don't have to care for Aire…"

She understood what we were talking about.

A: "Before you send Aire back, can Aire get some bread…Aire will return this to you…just some bread or even the crusts please."

The pup passed the rabbit back to the princess and continued to quietly stare at it. As though her inner self really wanted to have it.

"Aire, what does the Baron usually feed you for your meals?"

A: "Urm… sometimes bread that is a bit dirty or maybe once every few days a small piece of the bread."

She use her fingers to show us an example of really small bread. No wonder she was so small, she was barely even being fed.

I set her down as I bend down and look at her and look at the princess who was eleven. There was a huge height difference.

A: "Princess is tall. I wish I was tall too."

The pup looks at the princess before she looks at herself again.

E: "Don't the Baron feed you enough."

A: "What does it mean to feed you enough? Aire has always been like this since she was adopted."

E: "It means you eat more than just bread. Have you ever eaten meat or vegetables or even rice? Have you ever drank milk?"

Aire looks at her with confusion. Before she looks at the imperial family and replies.

A: "What is meat? Vegetables? Or milk? Can I eat those? Is it yummy?"

"What kind of human treats their daughter like this?"

Ed: "Sister, let's remove the title from him."

CP: "That sounds like a good idea."

A: "You can't take master's title. How will the young master survive?"

Why would she care more about others than herself?

A: "Aire, can live like this…with master…"

"Aire, where's your dame?"

A: "Aire doesn't have one…Mistress said dame died becuse I was born."

"For tonight, you will stay with me at my house…We will get you some new clothes and some food."

E: "Duchess…are you sure?"

"Where else can she stay? I'm sure the twins won't mind. Since they always wanted a sister"

A: "If Aire stays with the duchess does that mean I can stay under the sun a little longer?"

Ed: "Why would you want to stay under the sun a little longer?"

A: "Aire isn't allowed outside the manor except for today, once Aire goes back she is going to be locked in the cage again…Aire likes the sun…Aire also wants to see the moon."

We all look at her as she fiddled with her hands and fingers.

"Aire look at me."

The pup lifts her head and looks at me, I watch her movement, unlikely the other pups Aire was trembling, her bones were showing and she had bruises all over her body. She was far too short for a girl who was already 10.

"Haiz, crown prince do you have any orders for me?"

CP: "I agree with Edmund, we should remove their title. As for the pup, how about you just adopt her."

"HUH?!"

CP: "I mean its not like we can send her to the orphanage. No orphanage would want to be responsible for the fiancee of the imperial princess. And the nobles will go crazy if they find out that the fiancee of the imperial princess is an orphan."

A: "Are you taking me away from master?"

P: "It's a consideration at the moment."

After a while

P: "Well, that settles everything."

We had left Aire in the Prince and Princess room and went elsewhere to talk, after all the fourth Prince and the Princess were well versed in these kinds of topics.

When we went back, we couldn't find the pup anywhere, we begin to freak out, but suddenly we heard a little shifting behind the beds. I walked near it as I drew my sword in case it was an assassin.

There laid the small pup with a toy in her hand, a small soft toy, a teddy bear to be exact. It was dirty and old. I walked over and gently shook the pup.

A: "Hmm. Oh, urm duchess! Sorry, Aire is sorry…Aire didn't mean to fall asleep. The corner just looked comfortable…and…and…"

I glared at the pup and she begin to stop talking.

"Why didn't you sleep on the carpet then?"

A: "What's a carpet?"

CP: "This is a carpet."

The crown prince said as he touched the carpet. She tilts her head to the side as she looks at us. As though she never knew what sleeping on it would mean.

"Where did you get that from?"

I pointed to the toy in her hand.

A: "Ai-Aire bought it from manor…"

"I know, I meant who gave it to you."

A: "Aire's dame."

"Hmm. Give it to me."

A: "NO! You can't have this! You can't! Aire will give you whatever you want, just not my toy, its mine. My dame sewed it for me. I have nothing of my dame."

"Hush child, I just want to see it."

Aire shook her head, I was honestly on the verge of burning the toy. So I decided to threaten her. I snap my fingers and fire appeared right about my index finger.

"Give it to me now or else I will burn the toy."

A: "Ah-Ah-I'm sorry."

She obediently gives me the toy. Suddenly I was smack upright my head. I turn to find the emperor.

K: "Sister. How could you threaten a pup?"

"Your Majesty…"

I quickly examine the toy until I found a zip and unzip the toy. There was a letter and ring. I took it out and rezip the soft toy and handed the letter and ring to the emperor.

"What kind of older brother hits their own twin sister?"

K: "Me."

"Oh, c'mon you were only born two minutes before me."

The emperor opens the letters and suddenly said.

K: "Duchess Salvator von Igneel Rei."

I got on my knees and replied.

"Yes, your majesty."

K: "You are to bring me Baron Wisern and his family to be executed now."

I got up and replied.

"At once, your majesty."

I quickly drop the soft toy in the pup's hands and left.

Princess Evelyn's POV

Oh dear, it looks like they committed a bad deed. The pup's dame must have written it down and kept it in the toy in hopes that it would someday be found.

I noticed there was another piece of paper on the floor, I picked it up and saw it was addressed to the pup.

"Here, a letter for you."

A: "For Aire?"

"Do you want me to read it for you?"

A: "Would you?"

I nodded my head.

A: "Thank you."

I begin reading.

"Aire,

My daughter or son, if you are reading this, it means I didn't survive giving birth to you. And it's not your fault. My body has always been weak, so for me to carry you to full term was a miracle. I will always love you despite not being there with you. If you ever meet the Imperial family tell them, you are their distant relative, a descendant of the duchess Muse. The one who left the imperial family, two centuries ago. You are the last heir to the Duchess family and the only one whose name was not in the family records due to me not being there to register for you.

I know you are probably being abused by the Baron's family, and I'm sorry I couldn't protect you. But I hope you will have a family who will love you. Also if you meet Duchess Salvator von Igneel Rei, tell her I'm sorry for lying to her when she said she was in love with me. One more thing is that you are her pup, her daughter, who uses Baron Wisern's name because I couldn't tell her you belong to her.

Love,

Your dame."

A: "Aire isn't Master's pup?"

Ed: "You're our aunt's pup."

K: "You're a member of the imperial family. Well there are indications. Sister, had blue eyes and duchess Muse had blonde hair like yours."

A: "Did Aire not deserve to be born?"

CP: "No, you deserve to be born, its just shocking news for us."