The Alpha's Moon Luna

Prologue

She didn't like public school. Her mother told her it would just be temporary while the pack relocated from the dry, deserted, but colourful state of Arizona to the dreary, rain flooded state of Washington. Their pack Alpha, Alpha Magnus had inherited some land directly from the merge between his clan, the Scarlet Creek pack, and the Mount Rainier pack in Washington by orders of the Lycan King.

They were called Scarlet Creek because there was a beautiful creek that ran central through their lands. The sand in Arizona was so orange, and sometimes red, that the creek bed looked scarlet beneath the water.

Alpha Magnus had committed to a new Luna after his first Luna died. They weren't at first second chance mates, rather tactful allies, turned second chosen mates. The Alpha and Luna brought their clans together under the Lycan King's orders to keep the peace treaty between the clans, as tensions were growing across the continent and conflict was breaking out.

Luna Ofelia was Luna of the Mount Rainier pack, and was now their new Luna. She was widowed before she could bare any pups, and her clan was in need of an Alpha just as much as Magnus was in need of a Luna. There was a considerable age difference between Luna Ofelia and Alpha Magnus, but the merge was first and foremost political.

They had been the largest single two clans on the entire continent, and now they were a super clan, the largest clan that had existed in a long time. Some even said they were large enough to overthrow the Lycan King, but that was treason, and anyone who spoke treason lost their tongue, their ears and their eyes. The Lycan King was smart, and he was building defenses across the continent in preparation for war.

War was always a threat amongst the species, between wolves and wolves, wolves and lycans, even the wolves and humans. But something greater had been coming, and everyone was on edge. The Alpha's, in particular, could sense a change in the atmosphere almost imperceptible to everyone else. Some said the Lycan King was afraid, and it was a first, but again, that was treason. But whatever the Lycan King was afraid of, they should all be afraid.

They had adopted their new Luna's clan name as their own out of respect. The heart of the clan resided at the base of Mount Rainier in Washington, the highest volcanic peak in the contiguous United States. Their land extended hundreds of miles, interstate and through the forests, along the coast lines and into the midwest.

Selena was supposed to be homeschooled after she was settled into their new pack house with the Alpha's family, the new Luna, her Beta and her closest confidants. Public school was only supposed to be temporary. But then Alpha Magnus decided indefinitely he wanted the pups of the Scarlet Creek to attend the public school with the pups of Mount Rainier. That's how the Mount Rainier pack had educated their young wolves for centuries, and his new Luna was adamant that if their arrangement were to work, Magnus would have to make some new changes with his clan.

So there she was, thoroughly enjoying the public school education with all the other wolves and few humans in the state. There weren't many public schools left after the last war between the species three hundred years ago. It was a war between the humans, Lycans and wolves, all species warring for their side. She learnt about it in class.

The world had been shaped by wolves and Lycans, run by wolves and Lycans, and the humans were treated no better than slaves. The humans fought back. Many clans were destroyed, many bloodlines ended, much blood was spilled on all sides. The war always came down to the same cause, superiority of the species. Wolves thought themselves superior to humans, and Lycans thought themselves superior to wolves.

More human lives were lost than any other, and humans were now becoming an endangered species in the dystopian future. There were those within the species who fought for equality, and those who tried to destroy it. The current Lycan King was trying to prevent another war, perhaps the last war, and eradication of the species. Lycans and wolves may be supernatural, but as legend has it, the first Lycan who created the bloodline for all Lycans and wolves, was human, and it was his sacrifice to the moon that created their species.