CHAPTER 3: Kill, Win And Rule

ZEUS-

“Shoot him!!” I heard my father’s voice who was standing right behind me. He handed me a gun to kill the charlatan begging for mercy.

I was calm with a steady heartbeat and didn’t feel any remorse while aiming at him. This is the way I was brought up; I was told to be merciless and callous since birth, this world is too cruel and especially for people like us.

They tend to get scared of us and would harm our breed calling it self-defense while we have no say to it. We aren’t considered as humans but people call us beast and monsters just because we are different.

In order to trigger my werewolf curse, I had to take a life and I was up for it. in order to become an alpha a life of a mere human meant nothing to me. I've always followed the agenda of, kill, win and rule which never let my dad down.

I haven’t turned yet but still have the qualities an alpha is born with, the ability to decree and take the throne. I was still the strongest in this house without turning among the werewolves and no one had the nerve to hit me.

I was always told that Jade Ogre is our biggest enemy ever since I was a child, he’s been trying to take over in attempt to become a Lycan but I won’t let that happen. It’s either me or my father and no one would have the audacity to rule us Harper’s.

“Zeus Harper, get on with it now.” I heard a loud voice making me look at my prey once again as my father yelled at me for taking too long.

I gripped onto the gun and shot him right in between his head making him collapse on the ground, a smile passed through my lips as blood started flowing from his head and nothing could satisfy me even more than to see my rival dead on the ground.

“You’ll face death now, learn to bear the pain.” He spoke and stood right in front of me. He placed his hand on my shoulder and his voice started echoing, I felt a snap behind my back, the person I shot was dead now and I entered into the realm of extreme agony.

I've only heard that the first transformation is extremely painful but this is something every werewolf has to go through. My body started twisting in an unnatural manner as bones reshape and shift to form a lycanthrope-humanoid skeleton. It caused me immense pain as I felt every bone of mine cracking into several pieces taking different forms.

I didn’t know from where my next bone would snap and by that time I would think, I’ve already cracked ten bones of mine, although the first transformation is an extremely slow process and my huge structure wasn’t helping at all.

My tall physique only added pain and my eyes grew huge that glowed yellow in color, my fangs appeared and I turned into a hulking wolf-like celestial. Being an alpha, I was told that I can turn as per my will and would have control over my mind as I wouldn’t turn into a crazy beast hunting for food.

I could see my father through the yellow glow from my eyes with a huge smile on his face, all my subordinates bowed in front of me as the great alpha had established and I ran towards the woods howling.

People naming it as werewolf curse probably couldn’t handle it and faced death, but that wasn’t the case for me as I felt free finally after 25 years of my life and it didn’t seem like a curse to me.

Hating your own kind is the curse and I wasn’t hating even a tad bit of it. I roamed around to see the world with my new eyes and different perspective from dusk till dawn and later found my body in the middle of the forest.

I forgot that I would be naked the next morning and didn’t know where to go. I looked around and gladly saw a familiar car with ‘night walkers’ written on it approaching in my direction.

I strolled but bumped into a huge tree making me look at it for a while. I don’t know where it came from but was enormous and knew that if a werewolf would fall, he’d die in no time from that height.

“That’s big” Arthur spoke looking down at my manhood and I mouthed asshole to him since he wasn’t talking about the tree, he stopped the car in front of me and threw a bunch of clothes in my direction and I wore them quickly. I was dirty and felt a huge need to take a bath.

Arthur would be my beta once I'm an alpha completely and he’s the only man I trusted with my life. He didn’t belong to any pack earlier and my dad tested his loyalty, since he’s about my age we became friends and here we are now.

It’s been two months since that incident and I can turn as per my will, I was throned by my father and he officially made me the leader. I can even control my process on a full moon which eventually comes with the advantages of being an alpha.

I’ve gained power and my only motive is to beat Jade Ogre and end his pack in order to become a Lycan, that’s all that matters to me and I wouldn’t even care even if I walk over thousands of dead bodies.

This is what I was taught since the beginning and it would be a shame if I don’t end up living up to the expectations of my father.

My dad named me Zeus as it means king of gods so, it was destined for me to become a Lycan and rule over all the alphas. Everyone should be scared of me and terror should rush inside their veins as they hear my name.

Apart from this werewolf world, I've lived a normal human life too. I go to university and have a friend or two who doesn’t belong to the world I'm from. All my trainings and classes were going fine until I saw someone following me.

Although I didn’t know her but the scent attracted me and I grabbed her hand in order to feel that aroma. It took me a minute or two to realize that she was a werewolf too, and she was destined to be my Luna, she was my mate bond?

I looked at the pathetic self, standing right in front of me who wasn’t even aware about her true identity was chosen as my Luna? While I'm trying to become the strongest werewolf, would I be marrying a wretched human?

I would be lying if I said she wasn’t breathtaking, her amber eyes killed me in an instant but she doesn’t have it inside her what it takes to be a queen and my mate bond. She knew nothing about my world and I scoffed at my fate as the moon goddess chose such a weakling.

Would I be a rebel going against her will by not falling for my mate bond? I'm free although there would be consequences, but I can never see her as my other half, she j—just doesn’t have it.