(On Hold) A'luna Of Blood

chptr 17

A young boy stands in Center Stage slowlya young boy stands in Center Stage this skates beneath him begin to move as if natural curling his heel up bringing himself higher while gaining more speed slowly but surely he gains more and more speed allowing him to make it all around the stage with ease the stage to him was really an ice rink the stage in which the most exciting events in his life took place where he worked where he lived his life revolved around this stage and he knew it especially with his medical condition he spent years being told that he could never go out into the sunlight due to a rare skin condition that he had rendering him unable to be exposed to massive amounts of UV rays his parents loaded with money from a young age installed a multi-area that could turn into whatever he pleased for the past 13 years it had never changed from an ice rink he had it installed when he was 12 so he was had it for quite a long time 13 years of practice taught him how to do many tricks jumping even managing to get small spirals going throughout the mid-air even managing to learn how to stop on his own it did take him a good while to learn but eventually Max akerman learned how to do it Max had grown up sheltered and protected from the world never learning what lied beyond the door having tutors brought in to teach him things and getting private lessons constantly Max was raised to be the soul Air to Ackerman pharmaceuticals but then his little brother came along Levi Levi unlike him didn't have any major medical conditions until he was around 19 Max kept a close eye on his medical records as he did have access to the time through his father that's how he kept track of Levi to make sure he never gone to any trouble and that he was taken care of even though Max and Levi never got along at the age of 19 Levi was diagnosed on officially with stage 2 heart cancer just like their mother that was the thing with Levi he was more like his mother than he was his father gentle calm and caring while Max was like his father cold calculated and relentless there had been many fights between Levi and Max growing up mainly because Levi got to experience the outside world make friends and everything Levi like a normal child giving Levi less than Max because Max needed more but that's not what Max wanted he wanted to go outside he wanted to meet people but every time he asked his mother or father they'd simply say you're not ready and tell him to go back to his room or back to his studies eventually when Max and Levi's mother passed away when Levi was 15 Levi left home a year later when he was 16 because Levi began getting the treatment Max was getting and he wanted nothing to do with it leaving Max with the words that he would forever remember "I will never be like that stingy bastard he treats everyone terribly and only shoved me and treated me horrible throughout my childhood I'm going to turn out like that I'd rather die!" When Max heard this it shattered him it caused him to reconsider everything in his life eventually he found a weird kind of Peace within those words using the emotions he gained from that he pushed himself to accept what he had been given and become like his father if they wanted Levi to become the air to Ackerman pharmaceuticals then Max would just take it from him by showing to his father he was truly committed to Ackerman pharmaceuticals burying himself in his studies eventually Max found a way to invent a temporary cure to his condition it was an aerosol that he inhaled through a small canister and a nozzle by taking a long deep breath of it it would cancel out the cells that were extremely sensitive to sunlight it allowed him to expose himself to the sun without causing his allergies so he started mass producing the canisters on his own time hidden from his father because his father only knew that his condition was "starting to clear up" even though the doctor had confirmed to his father it was permanent and it could never be removed but with the aerosol he gained the ability to go outside but he told his father that he would only start to leave the house if his father would take him on important business meetings so he could start his real training to become a proper businessman and the perfect error to the industry his father was pleased with this this filled Max with pride the fact that he was outshining his brother for once he wasn't being treated like some piece of trash because of his medical condition you're not ready or you're not prepared no longer worked with him he would only take yes as an answer this fueled Max's desire to become the best eventually revealing the aerosol recipe to his father and put it out officially for the pharmaceutical industry also managing to change the recipe for a painkiller a simple inhale would numb out any pain receptors for 4 hoursthis caused the pharmaceutical industry to be dominated by Max and his father but unfortunately one day max had to suffer the price of his actions his father using the medication he had invented overdosed as he was having major migraines and he wanted the pain to go away not realizing this would happen Max continued to produce the medicine selling it as a miracle cure for pain but when his father overdosed Max became obsessed with perfecting the recipe once again going back into a shut-away lifestyle until he learned of the existence of werewolves he couldn't remember how but all he knew was that one day he came into contact with one and he shot at a bunch of times yet somehow the werewolf remained unaffected Max did manage to put the poor beast out of its misery in his eyes but took blood samples and tested the poor creature even in death max was unrelentless he found the cells contained within people cursed by like lycannthropy could produce ungodly amounts of stem cells which allowed them to heal any wound almost instantaneously that in their pain receptors were a lot less stronger than human ones which allowed them to tank a lot more damage and still come out unfazed they're high regeneration Factor only made this better he tried using werewolf blood in the recipe for the painkiller and it worked even better but now the only way to mass produce this was to get more werewolf blood and he didn't know how to do it so he found someone who could hunters they would kill werewolves for him he would pay them and he would get the blood he needed simple as that but at the age of 21 Max was found out by the prophecy clan of werewolves these were the alpha of alphas they were the big boys upstairs and Max had just made his first mistake Max became an official enemy of werewolves as well as Ackerman pharmaceuticals anyone associated with them could be killed on the spot until Max found a spot where the prophecy clan wasn't as strong Colorado where Levi lived and he even found Levi having been mated to two werewolves alpha is in fact Max saw this is an opportunity to make more money and possibly get Levi on his side but he knew it would be a risky operation especially when he found that Levi have purposely put himself in a car crash to avoid them so now he was doing everything in his power to keep Levi alive and try and remove the mark from him that bound him to the two werewolves it was a hard endeavor but one that he continued to do even a month after the car crash but after that monthly regained consciousness Max not wanting to be involved simply skipped out pretending that he was in a long-term residency at a hospital making sure to leave I never left by simply coming up with more and more excuses but Max knew deep down eventually Levi would have to find out one way or another