Just My Luck

5

Kayla woke early as usual and hit the shower, breakfast was being served before the allegiance meeting and she didn't want to miss it, they'd arrived just after tea had been served last night and she didn't want to trouble the staff for food, her and Ally had made do with a white pudding sandwich she had packed for Ally as it was his favourite,

After finishing up and drying her hair she runs to grab breakfast for everyone and then heads to the meeting hall, there she's met by Sebastian who guides her to their table, there are over 300 werewolves and panther Alphas in attendance, all looking to affirm their loyalties, at the front there are two large tables facing towards them and surrounded by guards,

"Those tables are for the royal families" Sebastian says almost as if he'd read her mind

Shortly after both kings enter and take their seats prompting the commencement of the meeting, The kings had told of the attempted assassination on the panther kings sons and how some panther clans and werewolf packs had defected from the pact they had forged and turned on the royals, Kayla had quietly listened and had wondered why his sons and why on their 18th? What had they hoped to achieve? The chance to ask questions came and people jumped at the chance

" Excuse me your majesty, why your sons and not you or even your whole family? Were they trying to end your reign by taking your heirs maybe? Sorry I just don't understand what they had hoped to achieve" an elder Alpha asked

The panther king smiles like he was expecting to be asked exactly that and replies

"My son's are not ordinary, My mate was a vampire and our sons are identical twins yet only one is a panther shifter and the other a vampire, This is the only occurrence of this we've ever seen, no other identical twins have had differing abilities documented in the history of shifters, they are also the only documented case of babies born to a vampire outside of a vampire mating, We believe the attacks were because of an ancient prophecy that believes one day a panther and vampire hybrid will mate a dragon and werewolf hybrid and their children will be the most powerful beings to ever exist, their children will supposedly be immortal Gods,

However they are not hybrids and dragons were wiped out by a virus that only their kind and humans were susceptible to, the last dragon survivor died around 100 years ago according to documentation so it is a prophecy that cannot be"

"Where did the virus come from" Kayla asked curiously

It was something she had never been taught but had always been curious about

" Human kind found out about the existence of dragon shifters and started a war, they were losing terribly but refused to surrender or make peace, they had named the dragons the monsters of the night and brought their children up to hate them, using them as terrifying bed time stories to instill hatred and fear,

The humans went to extremely lengths to win which they did at great cost, they modified a noval virus from the Corona family which had devastated the lizard and snake population, they used DNA from fallen dragons to manipulate the virus into targeting the dragons and then released it world wide,

The virus worked far better than anticipated and completely wiped the dragons from existence in record time, it had a death toll higher than any previous plague but what the humans hadn't counted on is that the dragons were closely related to humans, far closer than any other shifter and that meant when the virus ran out of hosts it mutated and jumped to humans,

The entirety of the human race died off faster than they could realise it was their own virus responsible for their own demise"

Kayla was reeling from the new knowledge, she'd never heard of identical twins being different shifters, she could see why some may fear what they may become, many fear the unknown which is only natural, she could also completly believe the humans had been their own downfall, she had seen it documented many times that they'd played god and been stung by the consequences, all of those appocolypse stories and films and they couldn't see the issue messing with a virus, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

It wasn't long before the new pact was signed by each Alpha and the meeting adjourned, the opposition had grown vastly due to the kings heirs unknown abilities, more than they'd ever imagined possible which meant there was most likely a huge war on the horizon and everyone was to prepare,

all alphas who signed had agreed to move their packs onto royal lands until everything blew over, this not only gives each pack more protection it also helps protect the royals and prevents the opposition gaining more packs support, each pack were to be given a plot of land to set up on and each pack would be given the necessary materials to build a pack house to house their members,

Each pack had enough distance between to ensure pack privacy was upheld but not too far they wouldn't have immediate back up should there be an attack, all members capable of fighting would train together for several hours daily and those who couldn't would care for the packs vulnerable, all food and supplies would be provided by royalty as payment for their service,

Kayla could hardly believe what was happening, it felt surreal to go from the rejected omega to an alpha about to lead her pack into war and possibly their death, she hadn't asked for this but she'd promised to do what would need to be done to get Ally trained up and old enough to lead,

Now she had to break the news to her pack that they would be moving to another country and fighting for their king, She could only hope they didn't hate her for this but she didn't really have much choice.