----Gayara POV----
At the junction of Woodrose in the capital of Eldram country just under a mango tree, 15 meters from the light post is where I decided to spend my 6 hours before sunrise. I came to the capital to attend the University of Eldram in my pursuit and interest for Biotechnology. Due to my stubborn decision of avoiding the heavy traffic, I decided to walk, dragging a red suitcase with my right hand while carrying a bat with my left. "You win!" my phone said through my earphones. Yes, that's right. I was playing shadow fight when I noticed an expensive, black car humming 25 meters to my right. It just stayed there while the driver never took his eyes off of the road, smoking leisurely so I think he never noticed me from where I sat on my suitcase. [ Well, that's strange.]
I checked the time, it was 12:12 am in the morning. I stared at the bat between my legs and sighed to myself [ I specifically bought it for self protection, considering I was not allowed to go on carrying a knife around. Who can blame me? The news I always see on TV with regards the capital are things like rape, murder, fire, earthquake and crime. I jokingly told my sisters one time, " the capital is the home of the criminals!"
My second sister gave me an incredulous look, " of course not, it's news. It was never the only thing happening in the capital but it was there since it's interesting and purposeful." Even then, I still firmly believed this place to be dangerously filled with untrustworthy humans who littered the planet like parasites.
I was suddenly jolted from my reminiscence by a loud bang!!!! screeeeech!!!! and a crash. I stood up from my sitting position to see the recently humming car to have crashed another expensive, black car with two passengers on it. "What the hell, man!!?" I muttered to myself before dialling for the nearest hospital to call for an ambulance.
"There's a car accident here at the junction of Woodrose with 3 victims," tooot!!! I cut the call and was about to rush to the scene when I saw the driver who smoked, forcefully trying to drag a pregnant woman out of the car.
"Get out now while I'm still patient! I won't be so lenient with you just because you have a powerful family," the man said.
[Wow, really?] I couldn't believe what I'm seeing right now. Nobody seemed to notice me so I took the bat with quick quite steps, I can feel the rapid beatings of my heart.
The woman's driver lunged at the man, " stop it! Madam, make a run for it!"
It was futile for he got punched in the face and on the gut before falling to his knees. " Pathetic! Come on," he turned to the woman again. " My master told me not to kill you yet but if you keep on delaying, I will have to kill you now!" he threatened.
Pyong!!!!thud!!! "Yes! Gaya for the win. Thank you! Thank you!" I was bowing to my imaginary audience with a bloodied bat on my right hand. The man had fallen to the ground.
"Are you crazy!" the woman finally reacted for the first time since the car crash. I turned to hear what she wanted to tell me but she only gasped in shock as I could not understand her behaviour. " He has a gun!" she repeated. "What!" I exclaimed and turned around in a hurry.
Bang! [ Damn! That was so Jose Rizal- ish] I got a shot on my heart but before dying, I wanted revenge so I put all my remaining strength on the bat and swung it again on his face this time around. [So much for that excitement...]
I fell on the cold road drenched in my own blood as I could see in a haze the alternating color of the siren, my sight getting blurry and dark. The pregnant woman knelt beside me and asked, "what's your name?"
Smiling, I thought [ took you long enough...]. "Gayara"
The woman held my hand and repeated after me as though in an attempt not to forget, "Gayara." She was silent for a while before saying, " thank you, truly"
It was then when everything became cold and dark, I felt like falling into a long sleep. When I came to, I was surprised to be met with four people staring down on me, " Why isn't she crying?"
[ What are you talking about? Quit staring at me!] They were wearing hospital gowns so I thought maybe they just operated on me, like replacing my heart or something like that.
"Congratulations ma'am, your baby is an alpha!" one of them reported in excitement.
[ This people are nuts! isn't alpha a mathematical symbol? And there's no baby here! ] I tried so hard to move when I saw my arms and they were so tiny!
" Awe! the baby's angry, " another one pointed out.
I was quiet for a long time before realizing [ so I really died, no big deal. I'm alive again. I can just start at day one].
---3 years later---
"We surrender to the leader!" all the alpha, omega and beta toddlers of the organization surrendered to me as Almirah, my mother and Ylthon, my father were having a meeting in another room.
"Ah, young miss! Are you bullying your playmates again?" Shal, the maid assigned to me said in surprise.
"I'm not bullying them! They lost so they agreed to become my subordinates, Shal."
---2 years later---
"What's going on, Ylthon?" Almirah asked as I sat opposite my parents.
"Gayara said she wanted to go to college," father sighed, handing my mother my graduation diploma in highschool.
She frowned but I pleaded with my eyes so she finally agreed, " alright, but be low profile about it. You're so young, can't you just play with your friends like a normal kid?"
" Mom, you know I don't have friends. Only subordinates," I protested.
Shal also sighed from the sidelines. [ As if I've caused any trouble.] I just wannabe over all my education earlier, not wanting to repeat all that I learned except biology. I mean, I'm in the ABO World after all. As such, I was slowly getting used to having both female and male reproductive system instead of just female reproductive system since I became an alpha.
---6 years later---
"What did you say? you want to go to military training?" father stopped eating as my mother did as well.
"Yes dad, you said right. I need military training," I never really got over my insecurities about being the strongest since I see just about every human as a hostile, harmful being. I was reminded of my death and just how right I was about humans so I wanted to become strong real quick. I was lucky enough to be borne by the pregnant woman that I saved but this is a parallel dimension.
"I will agree on one condition," my mother learned to be clever and started exchanging deals with me ever since she knew how obsessive I am about my goals.
[ What could my mother be hiding from me? She can't stop smiling, I'm scared.] " On what condition, mother?" I asked warily.
" I have chosen a fiancee for you," my mother gave me her picture and she looks younger than me.I barely even gave it a glance before tucking it in my pocket. " I don't want to see or hear you fooling around." she warned me.
[ Why is my mother so protective of her?] father seemed to have noticed my confusion and said, " she's Almirah's Goddaughter but for now you're not allowed to look into it for more details until you come back from military training."
[ Mother must be disappointed since I'm not always around most of the time. I guess it's good that someone can make her happy while I'm not around.] " Fine, I agree as well."
---9 years later---
----Venus POV----
I can't keep still, the teacher has been going on for hours now but my nervousness is growing like a balloon, choking me with so many thoughts that I can't seem to organize.
I remember my godmother telling me that I will meet my supposed to be never-before-met-fiancee tomorrow Saturday. I also remember my godmother's frustrated tone as she threatened Gayara on the phone. And it was also my first time hearing the voice of my fiancee.
"How long have you delayed going home, Gayara! 5 years, imagine that?" my godmother was crying then. She must have missed her daughter so much.
A concerned voice answered quickly, " I got it mother! I-I'll be home by Saturday, don't worry. I Promise okay? Don't cry mother, I'm embarrassed!" [ pfft, why is he so funny? ]
My godmother punched the air and then she shushed to me. I didn't know she was acting, how shrewd. But then again, I was told that Gayara was mostly never home even when he was a kid. As a result, I became the target of my godmother's affection and attention. Although, she also kept bragging to me about Gayara and it manifested into many things: from admiring his pictures together to recounting old memories about Gayara's early mental maturity and his military exploits aired on TV.
I still remember witnessing on tv how he saved the ambassador who nearly got assassinated by a sniper while descending the plane. He protected him with his body and jumped off sideways taking the fall and breaking his dominant arm. That's why my godmother tricked him into going home because he wasn't planning to come home any time soon.
" Venus, I'm counting on you. Please try to keep Gayara home permanently," godmother was practically begging me. *sigh*
Then I got jolted awake by a tickle on my sides, "Mercuria!" I admonished.
" Hey, did you know?" Mercuria playfully asked me. I looked around, confirming that it was already dismissal.
" Know what? Mercuria." Mercuria is my childhood friend and she is an omega just like me. We have been attending the University of Eldram for omegas together as 1st year colleges.
"So you really don't know about how everybody's been crushing on the general, your fiancee lately?" I swear, this girl.
"I don't even know if I'm in love with him or not as I have not conversed with him personally yet but-" I stopped [ he kept sending me gifts during my birthday or just about anything on holidays]. " I just can't get myself to disobey my father nor disappoint my godmother," *sigh*
"Oh, did you ever imagine what kind of person he is? I mean, what if he's already in love with someone else?" Mercuria suggested, her being one of the most committed fan. [ Sometimes, I feel like Mercuria knows Gayara more than I do with all that knowing expression spreading on her face.]
" Let's just go home," I dragged Mercuria with me. I felt funny and began to panic internally as I felt my heat coming all of a sudden.
"Are you okay?" Mercuria asked me, worry began to form on her face. We were walking on the sidewalk while she tried to converse with me, "isn't your estrus regular, how come it suddenly sprang an attack on you?"
I shook my head sideways, sweating and panting, barely even conscious now. [ I don't really know why but both of us know we don't carry around any inhibitors since we both have regular estrus cycle to the dot. Weird, what changed?]
It was now 6:00 pm in the afternoon and the sun has long set but to my surprise, an armored military car stopped just right where we were standing. Then when I least expected, a voice commanded, " allow me to send the miss home. Lieutenant General Jupiter, please escort the other lady to her home."
Oddly enough, Mercuria didn't squeal or jump for joy. That's weird, considering her personality. [ that voice sounded like Gayara] I felt someone carry me into the car before hearing Mercuria say, " I leave my friend in your good hands. Please take care of her."
I heard the doors close before the engine rumbled away. It was then that I smelled a very cool, relaxing scent which ebbed the pain I was feeling. Desperate to get rid of the pain, I clung to the source of it and she said in surprise, "what are you doing?"
It sounded really flustered when I heard someone say in an amused tone, "pfft...General, I think she's trying to get more of your pheromones to alleviate her pain."
There was a long silence and then that familiar voice said, "oh, I see." He patted my back and then my head, obviously treating me like a child. [ Well, let's see if you can still treat me like a kid.] It pissed me off seeing her behaviour towards me, I'm not a child!
Without as much a warning, I kissed him as she tensed under me. I was now able to focus and see clearer but I got scared when I saw the way he looked at me. There was something in his eyes that made me excited and shiver at the same time. The voice at the driver's seat talked again, "Wow General, congratulations! Your first kiss is gone."
In one swift motion, he closed the window connecting the front seat and the back seat. "How dare you even look," he replied.
It just registered to me that this is supposed to be our first meeting so I began to feel ashamed for what I have done. [ What if he thinks that I am promiscuous and be disgusted with me?]
"I don't know if you're fearless or just brave but you should take responsibility for what you've done," he pulled me even closer to him and buried his nose in my neck. He inhaled my scent and licked my collarbones. [This is not good. The heat's coming back to me!]
"ah!" he bit right below my collarbones. It was a mix of pleasure and pain. He pulled back to see me shy away but he caught my face and kissed me so passionately, I can't help but moan. "Mpph!...mhmn!!..ah!.. ha..mmm!
I can feel his tongue inside my mouth, exploring the cavities so eagerly. An electric-like pulse passed through my body to my core as a thought ran through my mind. [ I need release!]
"Tell me what you want," he whispered to me and left a hickey on my neck. [ he's so possessive, my heart is drumming like crazy inside my rib cage.]
"I -" the door opened so suddenly that I didn't get to finish my sentence.
" I'm sorry, General!" the soldier apologized in surprise while reflexively covering his eyes to what he didn't expect was happening and then attempted to close the door again.
Gayara stopped the door with his hand, clearly irked by the intrusion. "now talk!"
The soldier straightened his back, "We have arrived, sir!"
"Oh, I see." *sigh* He examined me a few times, fixing my hair and clothes before hugging me for a few seconds. If human heart could bloom, my heart might have bloomed right then and there. How can a person be so affectionate to the point of giving me heart attack with his every gesture?
"Well, see you again tomorrow, love. I hope you have a wonderful evening." [ Ugh! what's wrong with me!? How did I ever act like that?]
I didn't know how to answer him. My mind was spinning, doubting whether I could be dreaming or that my imaginations went too far. I saw the gate to my family's house so I unconsciously went out of the car, bowed to show gratitude and ran away with an embarrassed face. I heard the closing of the door and the departing car so I looked back. He was gone, "I wanna see him again", I didn't know I could feel so reluctant parting with him.