We continued up the drive and I pulled up to the main doors and shut off the engine and got out. Kaiba sat in the car for a moment watching me, but when I started up the steps to the door he finally got out and followed me. I opened the door and walked in, I left the door open so Kaiba could enter, and I never spoke a word. I continued through the house and Kaiba followed a few paces behind me keeping his distance. I stopped inside one of our formal sitting rooms located smack in the middle of the house and began focusing on the sounds to hear if Caleb was home yet. I heard soft music playing up staisr and I knew it had to be Caleb; I stopped and sent out several vibes of helplessness and anxiety so Caleb would come down stairs and find me. I turned to face Kaiba once I was finished.
"Please sit, make yourself comfortable." I said and gestured to one of the arm chairs. Kaiba sat but continued to watch me warily.
Soon I heard Caleb quickly coming down the stairs and then he came running into the sitting room. "What is it? Is something going on? Are you…" he trailed off, "Oh, hi Kaiba?"
"Caleb can I speak with you for a moment please." I said and stared down my twin to portray the severity of the moment. Caleb approached me and we stepped away towards a corner of the room.
"What the hell is going on?" he asked concerned
I began whispering my intentions in his ear and he face began to fall as I explained what I needed to do.
"You can't! You know what that could do to us? To everyone!?" he asked scared.
"Yes… I am well aware of what could happen, but there is only way to find out if I'm right." I said sternly
Caleb stood silent for a while and I could tell he was weighing the options in his head. "Fine, let's do it, but I'm not happy about it."
"I'm not either, but I need to know." I said and began to walk back to where Kaiba was sitting.
I approached Kaiba and then knelt down in front of him and grab one of his hands. All of the feelings I had felt in the restaurant returned; the electricity, the heat, the enhancement of light and sounds. I continued to hold on to Kaiba and looked up to see how he was reacting this time. Kaiba's eyes were wide and shocked by the sensation that was running through his body. I dropped his hand and looked back at Caleb.
"Well? What did you see?" I asked still kneeling in front of Kaiba
"Electrical currents, bright blue." He said with a deep look of concern on his face.
"Just as I thought, okay you try it and see if it's the same?" I said and got up to let Caleb take my place
"Wait what are you two doing? Do you mind filling me in since you are clearly using me as some sort of test?" Kaiba asked angrily
"Just let him do what I just did and then I promise I will explain everything." I said coldly
Caleb knelt down in front of Kaiba just as I had and hesitated before placing his hand on top of Kaiba's. At the moment Caleb placed his hand on Kaiba's I changed my eyes over to my werewolf eyes to see the aura of both men, and I hoped to see what Caleb had. I noticed nothing, no change in either's aura, no electrical currents between each other's skin, nothing.
"I was right…" I said looking at Caleb, "We have to tell him."
Caleb stood up and took a seat on a love seat next to Kaiba, and I remained standing.
"So what was with the touching just now?" Kaiba asked becoming increasingly annoyed.
"Kaiba what we are about to show you and tell you has been a family secrete… well forever, if you let out that you know it will get you killed. That is not a threat that is a promise." I said as lightly as I could but still with enough emphasis to make him listen to what I said. I took off my heels and began to unzip the back of my dress.
"Woah hold on what is going on?" Kaiba started to say but before he could complete his sentence I had phased. I was now standing in front of Kaiba and my brother as a wolf, teeth bared, deep throated growl, hackles raised, and completely vicious. I took a moment to control myself and tried to appear less vicious before sitting down on my back legs. Kaiba had somehow managed to stay seated in his chair, but the look on his face was everything but calm.
"It's okay Kaiba, she won't hurt you." Caleb tried to calm Kaiba
"What the fuck is going on here? What is this?" Kaiba cursed
"Kaiba she, well we are all wolves… werewolves, and somewhere there is a very small part of you too that has the werewolf blood." Caleb said as soothingly as possible.
Kaiba just looked over at Caleb like what he said wasn't even English. He just looked back and forth between Caleb and me, panicked. I couldn't blame him though. Caleb stood up and walked over to me and placed a hand in between my shoulder blades and began to stroke my black fur. I think he was trying to prove that the giant wolf in the room is friendlier than its appearances, but I just really wanted to bite him in that moment. Kaiba watched for a moment and then stoop up to approach us. I remained in a sitting position and Caleb took a step to the side for Kaiba to have a walk way around my entire wolf body. Kaiba approached slowly and never took his eyes off of mine.
"Why are its eyes red?" He asked cautiously like at the sound of his voice might send me into to a rage.
"Well it's because she is the alpha of the pack." Caleb explained with a hit of annoyance of Kaiba calling me an it.
Kaiba stopped directly in front of me and I tried to sit as still as possible. Soon Kaiba began to walk around my body, inspecting my gigantic frame. When he completed his circle I slowly stood up to show my height and size of my body length wise. As I stood a let out a deep breath that growled out of my throat and I saw Kaiba flinch.
"You can touch her, she is real. I promise this is not a hologram." Caleb coaxed
"I can tell it's not a hologram, not even I can make a person's body disappear by putting a hologram on them." Kaiba said still watching me cautiously.
Kaiba slowly started to walk towards my right flank and I remained completely still, trusting him in my blind spot. Soon I felt a hand on my ribs, it remained there unmoving. I turned my head so I could see him, to my surprise he didn't jump away at my movement but remained standing with his hand on my side. I just looked at him through my wolf eyes; I could see all of the colors of his aura move and dance around him. I noticed that he was starting to relax a little because the colors were changing from harsh and dark blues to greens and yellows. I took the opportunity to take a few steps back so his hand would be in the area of my heart. Kaiba stood still as I adjusted myself and when his hand was over my heart I turned to look back at him again, this time he was significantly closer to my face.
"Can you feel it?" Caleb asked
"Yes, its calm, it's not racing." He said looking back at my eyes
"I told you she won't hurt you. She is strong and has absolute control of herself as a wolf. It's why she can phase at will." Caleb said still in soothing tone
Kaiba took his hand off of my side and began to run it down the length of my back and down my long tail. He did the motion several times as if he was petting me but I could tell he was feeling my muscles and spinal column, the strength that runs through my body. He then came back around and stood in front of me again and place and hand out with his palm facing me. I lowered my large head and leaned forward so his hand was in between my ears. I let out a deep sigh but thankfully it wasn't a growl this time. Kaiba removed his hand and I raised my head to look back at him.
"So you can do this too?" Kaiba asked looking towards Caleb
"Yes, as can Corey, but we look different. Even though in our human form Kenzi is short but because she is an alpha and has been since she was 14 she is slightly taller than us as a wolf. My wolf form is white with an identical spot on my chest like that but it's black." Caleb said and pointed to my white spot. "Corey is a sandy blonde wolf with some black highlights."
I decided that Kaiba had enough of me looking like a wolf so I managed to get my dress and everything in my mouth, not something I enjoy doing but I wasn't going to phase back and be completely naked in front of Kaiba, and started towards my section of the houses.
"Where is it…? I mean where is she going?" Kaiba asked and watched me walk away.
"Probably to go phase back and put on clothes." Caleb said and sat back down on the love seat. "She'll be back."
Kaiba also sat back down in the arm chair and looked at Caleb confused.
"We can't phase into our wolf form with clothes on, it shreds them and then you spend a fortune on clothing. That is why she was deliberately undressing in front of us; she didn't want to ruin that dress. When we phase back into humans we are completely naked. It would be nice if we could phase with clothes on but then it would be impossible to get them off as a wolf." Caleb explained.
I returned back to the formal sitting room in a pair of shorts and a tee-shirt from the college I attended.
"I guess we probably have a lot to explain now? I said and sat down in another arm chair facing Kaiba.
"I don't even know how to start." Caleb said
"Let's just start with the beginning, what we tell all the pups in the beginning." I said and adjusted my sitting position "We are born werewolves, which means that the werewolf gene has been passed down through blood. There are also bitten werewolves, but I made a promise to my father that when I became an alpha I would never create other werewolves through a bite. No one in the Argent family has bitten a person that we know of at least. I heard Caleb explain to you that we are all different colored in wolf form; it's because of our hair color. Now this is where it gets a little complicated. When we touched in the restaurant the other night and you said you felt the electric pulse through your body and everything around you became brighter. Well it's because you and me have a connection. Somewhere in your family's history there must have been an aunt or uncle that was a werewolf. I'm going to assume that they were bitten and when they had children of their own there was a 50/50 chance that the child would be a werewolf too. Now this I'm fairly certain of, none of werewolf's children ever became wolves, but they carried the bloodline in them. Eventually after they had children, and their children had children the possibility of them becoming werewolves decreased, but the gene was still there. After sometime you and Mokuba came to the world with an extremely small amount in your genes, but after what Caleb saw when we touched it's definitely there. Kaiba you and me have a connection that werewolves who are meant to be together have. I knew it when Caleb touched you and there was not any electrical current between you. I suspected it that night we first met, but I could not see a reaction on your face so I ignored it, but when you brought it up tonight I needed to test my theory. I was right; the small part of your wolf gene has a special attraction to my wolf gene. We are attracted to each other… umm, well romantically." I finished
The room was quiet for a while, and me and Caleb just watched Kaiba process everything we told him.
"That isn't everything, but we won't rush you." Caleb said calmly.
"No keep going, just get it all out there." Kaiba said in a monotone
"Okay well werewolves aren't the only supernatural creatures out there. You actually probably have several working for you, well I know of one for sure. The chef at the restaurant we ate at on Saturday is a witch, and I was going to kill him if he poisoned me or my brothers. There are vampires, fairies, banshees, chimeras, shapeshifters, windingos, demons, angles, ghosts, poltergeists, actually if you've ever watched that TV show Supernatural on the CW they go around killing a long list of creatures. It's a little off on some information but for the most part they know what types of creatures are out there." I said and paused to make sure I wasn't sending Kaiba into a panic. "It's a lot to take in; the world is pretty crazy when you know what is really going bump in the night. But werewolves aren't like they've portrayed in books and movies as you kind of saw. Most wolves have evolved from eating humans or human hearts, we eat what you eat. Our main purpose anymore is to protect people from other supernatural creatures who do primarily eat or drink humans like vampires and windingos. I guess do you have any questions?" I asked gently
Kaiba just sat looking through me really; I couldn't tell if he really believed what I was telling him. He said there for a while and then finally spoke. "Why are you showing me all of this?"
"Because you started digging into my family's deaths, and eventually you would have figured out it was anything but normal, you would have figured out that someone inside the remaining family killed that man, and then that would have led you to discovering our secrete, and if you did that I would have had to kill you before you could expose us. This way if I tell you and convince you that we are not a threat then I can let you live. Well if you still went and told people after this conversation I will still have to kill you, but this way I can explain everything." I said and took a deep breath.
Kaiba just looked at me surprised by the nonchalant tone in my voice when I said I would kill him if I had to. "So where do we go from here?" he asked
"Well that is up to you. You know the secrete it's up to you whether or not you keep it and whether or not you value your life. Because honestly if you tell people about the world of werewolves it won't just be her coming after you it'll be every area alpha. There are three in Domino alone but there are more patrolling surrounding towns and cities and they will come too." Caleb said sternly.
"He's right, I'm not the only alpha in town, there are three main packs here in Domino and we all divide the city in to sections; upper, middle, and lower. I manage the middle section because that is where our office is and I have the smallest pack, the other two packs are made up of 25 each. I might have the smallest pack but I have been an alpha the longest." I said with the slightest hint of warning. "The other two packs make sure the perimeter of the city is not breeched by any rival packs or unwanted supernatural visitors. If there is a nest of vampires moving in they are our first line of defense. We try not to get involved because now it's just Caleb and I, but if things get bad for the two other packs we'll fight."
"Wait how are alpha's picked, why isn't Caleb the alpha?" Kaiba asked and I don't think he noticed the sexist remark he said.
"Because I am the oldest by 5 minutes. When our father died the status went to me. If I ever choose to step down or if I die it would go to Caleb. Blood packs pass down their alpha to the eldest of the currents alpha's children, but because I have no kids it continues down our father's bloodline and would go to Caleb. But if I was to ever have children I would have to release my alpha status to Caleb before any of my children complete their first phase because my children would not be Argent in name but would be the last name of their father. It is up to Caleb and Corey to continue with the Argent name and therefore it would be their children to continue with being alpha's. Now if Caleb is to have a girl first it would be a situation like mine. Caleb can allow her to inherit the alpha status but she would have to promise to pass it her brother before she has kids of her own and they complete their first phase. I can also choose to not have children and then pass down the alpha status to one of Caleb's children before my death. If a wolf is lucky enough to live into old age they can pick the next alpha in their pack. It's simple to pass down and give up your alpha status, there is a whole ritual that has to be performed at exactly the right time." I explained
"Why would you have to pass the alpha status down before your future children's first phase?" Kaiba asked.
"Because from the time we are born up until your first phase into a full wolf we are not complete werewolves, only partial. We are at our most vulnerable at the time too. Completing a full wolf phase solidifies the magic inside of us that allows us to be in tune with the supernatural world. Once my children phase and I still hold the alpha status then no Argents could become alphas because like I said before my children would have the last name of their father. The only way a Argent could return the alpha line to them is to kill myself, my husband, and all of my children, then the bloodline would revert back to the Argents and my father's next child; Caleb." I answered solemnly thinking about the deeds that would need to be done in order to keep the alpha status with the Argent name was somewhat depressing.
Kaiba stood, "So could I still ever become a werewolf?"
Me and Caleb exchanged looks, "Well, honestly we don't know… We have never encountered a situation like this. You see it's incredibly rare that werewolves encounter their mates who have next to no werewolf inside them." Caleb said in a way that he wasn't trying to crush Kaiba's hopes, if he really was hoping to become a werewolf.
"It's possible that if you were to ever get bitten that bites venom could seek out that gene and enhance it, but we have never heard of a bitten wolf that was also a fraction of a born wolf change." I said watching him carefully. "So Kaiba we have to ask you," I stood to stand face to face with him, "are you going to tell anyone about what just happened here?" I asked and stared into his eyes and listened carefully to his heart beat.
There was a few seconds of silence but it felt like an eternity. Kaiba stared back at me as he thought over everything that we just told him. "I don't see how telling would benefit me, if anything it would deem me mad and I would lose all credibility as a business man and a duelist. Believing in monsters is childish; the only monsters people need to know about are duel monsters." Kaiba replied confidently.
"I believe you." I said and stepped back and away from Kaiba. "I will know if you do though, I will be keeping tabs on you. Sorry but now you can't get rid of us, we will constantly be watching." I said and sat back down in my chair.
"The same way you know my heart rate? You going to have a wire on me all the time?" he said with a laugh
"Yes, but it's not a wire. I can actually hear your heart rate, I can also smell your scent, and I can tell when you're lying." I said with a smug smirk. "Perks of being a werewolf, increased scenes." To my surprise Kaiba gave a laugh.