Alpha's Blind Luna



The screen before us flickered and showed a typical news layout. A woman of fey decent with bright purple hair and black glasses was sitting behind a desk, her hands intertwined on top of it. A blue news bar at the bottom ran: 'We interrupt you nightly news for an important segment. We will be back to the nightly news after these messages'. In a box on the right hand side of the screen was a title card as well.

"High Council, friend or foe?" Lucy read aloud. "Oh god...no..."

Felix shifted and took her hands, holding them tight. In fact, all of us were now holding onto something. For me, I clutched my knees, as did Jax next to me. Simon and Vale were clutching the arms of their chairs while AJ just had his fists balled up.

The paused screen started with the scurrying of multiple people, all wired with earpieces in. One handed the anchorwoman cards and another finished putting in her earpiece. It all felt like an emergency announcement. The fey seemed nervous, quickly glancing through the cards before tapping them against the desk.

"Hello my fellow supernaturals. I apologize for the interruption of your nightly new, but there has been some breaking news in which we feel we need to bring you right away." She took a deep breath. "An individual has come forward with information that he is willing to share with us. Our new station has been previously collecting information on this story but we didn't feel like we had enough facts or information until now. We as Holographic TV deemed it necessary to give this emergency broadcast with the individual stepping forward to speak about an issue that could possible change our entire world."

Her eyes fell to her cards and even she looked frazzled. Like she had just been called to do this with barely any information. "My name is Ophilla and I will be your moderator for tonight."

"Let me start by introducing our guest before we dive into this information. Our guest would like to remain anonymous but has provided his credentials to us and we as a station vouch for his resume. He will be referred to as Dr. J." She turned slightly to the right where the box with the headlines disappeared and another box appeared. "Hello, Dr. J. We appreciate you coming on to speak with us such last minute."

"Of course.” His voice wasn't altered but his face was blurred. He was wearing a suit and you could tell he was in an office. I swallowed and tightened my grasp on my knees.

The anchorwoman gave a small smile. "Now, Dr. J, I'm going to go through the initial story that Holographic TV was looking into before you reached out to us with enough more information and confirmation of some of the information we received. At any time, please feel free to interject." "Yes, of course."

Ophilla turned back to the TV, looking at us directly. "Nova 2.0 has been a drug that we have seen a rise in popularity among werewolves in the past couple of years. At first, little was known about the drug other than it was another iteration of the drug that swept over the vampire population over twenty years ago." She flipped her cards before continuing.

"Nova 2.0 was marketed as a super serum catering to werewolves, instead of vampires. There were some in the supernatural communities who were worried that the drug would unbalance our community, considering the level of power it provided werewolves. Our station was looking into the impact this drug was having as well as the origin and where it came from."

She looked over at her guest. "Dr. J, why don;t you say specifically why we have you on this evening."

"I was hired originally by the Bloodhunter cover to create Nova 1.0 as it is now known. I also did much research from that which contributed to the Nova 2.0 creation as well, though at the time, it wasn't to create a new drug focusing on werewolves."

"I believe that understanding Nova 2.0 we must understand Nova 1.0 and where it came from. If you wouldn't mind going into the details that you know."

He nodded and shifted in his seat. We all did, our eyes glued to the screen.

"Originally, before Nova existed, a drug hit the market for humans. It was made by vampires, an experiment more than anything. It was made out of small amounts of ingredients of supernaturals. It was to see how the humans reacted to the supernatural. It turned out it proved a trip that was like no other but it started to make the humans blood worthless to vampires. Their blood became much like the werewolves. The High Council requested that drug to be pulled from the market."

Ophilla putter her hand up. "How was that done?"

"The High Council enlisted the help of the mafia, specifically the boss Morgan Russo, to handle the drug smuggling in Russia to stop the spread of it." "And that was the end of it?"

The doctor shifted again. "In a way, yes. That drug was taken into custody and essentially wiped off the face of the earth. However, a few months later, the formula as well as some of the product made its way into the hands of the BloodHunter Coven. I don't know how the BloodHunter Coven got access to it, but I was hired to alter the drug into something else."

"For those of you who don't know, just over three decades ago, a drug called Nova hit the market targeted at vampires. It was rumored that the BloodHunter coven was its distributor and later proven correct. Now, I would like to go into the symptoms first before going through what it's made of, as that will come up later in the conversation."

The doctor cleared his throat. "Yes, of course. Nova was meant to strip vampires of their humanity. Bringing them back to their natural state of mind. It was popular because a vampire could leave the humanity behind, what grounded them and made them unhappy, as vampires live a long to caged to their humanity. The reason it was called Nova was because one of the side effects we were unable to remove was that the user's eyes looked like a galaxy or super nova."

Ophilla jumped back in. "Now, the High Council didn't step in until there were more and more attacks in cities. Vampires going 'crazy' as they say and ripping apart humans indiscriminately. Even local covens, vampires and witches, along with werewolves started to need to protect their territories from them, is that correct?"

"Yes, that is correct. The High Council waited until the body count was too high for the humans not to notice before they hired Morgan Russo, again, to stamp out the issue with the drugs."

"However, our other sources say that by then, the BloodHunter coven already had multiple distributors across the world and had a ridiculous amount of the drug they were holding onto as they trickled it into the market. is that correct?"

Dr. J nodded, the blur going with him but you could see him intertwine his fingers on his lap. "That is correct. My job had already been completed and therefore once a few other scientists and I confirmed the correct process within the distributors warehouse, we were paid and released."

The fey anchorwoman turned back to the camera again. "Now, you might be wondering the connection between the original Nova and Nova 2.0. Especially when the original Nova was focused solely on vampires while Nova 2.0 focuses on werewolves. it seems like a disconnections but Dr. J, that's not necessarily the case, is it?"

"No, it's not. A few months after being let go, I was contacted by Micah Smith, one of the top BloodHunter Coven leaders. He died in the battle between the fake Alpha King and the previous Alpha King, therefore I can name him specifically. But he requested me personally to come back in. I'll admit, I was curious as we had already created the drug they wanted. However, when we met, he handed me a file with a month worth of observations already. It turns out, Mr. Smith had given the drug to a single werewolf to monitor the effects the drug had on them."

"So you were brought in to monitor and watch for the symptoms and side effects of the drug on another supernatural species while Nova was at its height of being an issue for everyone else."

He nodded again. "it turns out, the drug effected the werewolf in very peculiar ways. We were also proved a first hand account from the werewolf in question."

"Do you mind?"

"Of course." The doctor pulled up a document in front of hi. "The werewolf did still have the nova or galaxy eyes side effect. however they saw an increase in strength and agility. There was also something akin to echo location that was notated as well. Something that I found interesting as well is that while vampires used it to remove their humanity, the werewolves was removed of their emotions."

Ophilla looked down at her notecards for a moment before looking up. "What do you mean by 'removed of their emotions'?"

The doctor's hand came up and rubbed his chin. "I will describe it as they did. If any half-humans are watching, they may understand the feeling when on a drug for depression or ADHD, however, not all supernaturals may understand that reference. The werewolf described their emotions as being a pool of water. One that was not accessible to them. They could feel but any real anger, sadness, pain, happiness, love, none of those feelings were within their reach."

"Now, some might say that's a godsend but most don't understand just how severe of a symptom that is." Ophilla was looking down at her cards while she said that.

"Correct. That kind of loss of emotion basically removes that humanity but because there isn't a vampiric side lurking underneath the surface, it is far less violent for a wolf. It does, however, call into question decisions made under the influence of the drug."

Out of the corner of my eyes, I saw Bryan cross his arms over his chest. he was checking on his cheek and you could see the anger dancing in his eyes. I looked back at the screen when the anchorwoman spoke up again.

"You knew who the specific werewolf was who was under the influence of the Nova, correct?"

The doctor rubbed his palms on his pants, a nervous feeling. "Yes. I actually met with her three times over a two year period."

"Who was that werewolf?"

"The Huntress."

I gulped, feeling the room start to get warmer, like the walls were coming in closer. There still seemed to be something we were missing. Why come out against Nova, against Auri now. She had disappeared, very few knew she had been captured but she had been removed from the public eye for a while now.

"The Huntress, also known as Auri Meadows, the Luna Queen is that correct?"

"Yes, that is correct."

With her eyes narrowing, the anchorwoman seemed to straighten up more, putting her cards down slightly like she knew where this was going. "It seems odd that the Luna Queen was the one who fought against the BloodHunter Coven and lead the removal of the Nova if she was the one taking it." Ophilla turned to look out at us. "Digging through the war, we confirmed that the Luna Queen had in fact been under the influence of Nova during the war with the fake Alpha King. As well as during the campaign to remove all distributors of Nova and the eradication of the BloodHunter Coven. Coming from first hand accounts of the events. Making us wonder why she was removing all the Nova from the market if she knew what the side effects were and how greatly they could help her race."novelbin

She continued. "The removal of the Nova 1.0 as well as the destruction of the BloodHunter Coven ushered in this peace that we have been seeing for the past few decades. Everyone seemed to have forgotten about the drug though the lasting scars of the BloodHunter coven still are felt to this day. That is, until Nova 2.0 began popping up."

She paused for dramatic effect, flipping through her cards in front of her. "In between that time, the previous High Counsel was removed, with rumors that they were corrupted by the BloodHunter Coven. Luna Queen Auri and Alpha King Logan Everfell say to the destruction of the old council and the rebuilding of the new High Council. The new council has been hand picked by them to usher in the next few decades of peace. However, with the increase in issues between the different races and the rise of Nova 2.0, tensions have been high. The new Alpha King Vale Everfell has worked quite hard to try and keep the peace. However, it may not be a coincidence that the first reports of Nova 2.0 were within the previous Alpha King's packs." I felt my throat constrict. While I didn't know the whole story, I started to pick out things. Pick out small changes from the truth. My heart hammered and I looked over to Bryan. he caught my eyes and shook his head. His lips were pursed in a thin line but I could tell this wasn't easy for him to hear again. If anything, Bryan was our only link to the truth right now.

Looking back at the screen, I still couldn't understand where this was going. Why they were doing this or to what end.