A/N: Greetings again everyone! So I know this is a quicker update and I meant to post this Thursday or Friday but it just could never happen it seemed. Soooo I kinda rushed to get this all wrapped up and updated for you all to enjoy :) I'm sorry about any grammar errors or spelling mistakes. My beta will be back for the next chapter. I told her to expect the next chapter to this story so it may be a slightly longer wait again guys but I hope you like the end results.

So I planned to have this whole "who turned Light" mystery wrapped up by chapter 20 and then start part 2 of the story. As of right now I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to do it in the next 5 chapters but I'm gonna try :p it might turn into a crunch thing I'm not really sure. It's kinda hard to say lol

I was going to add one more scene in this chapter but my muse left me for the rest of the night. Although I'm already planning, and know, what's going to happen in the next chapter. So stay tuned because things are about to get really mind boggling I think XD and I hope I take you off guard to some extent ;)

Thank you to everyone who tuned in, left feedback for me to read and overall enjoyed the last chapter :) thanks for the support and I hope you all enjoy this too!

Celest ^I^

He could feel the gentle touch of what felt like a smooth cloth run over his naked body. He knew without even having to open his eyes that he was unclothed because he could feel a slight breeze once in a while brush on his exposed skin. It wasn't cool, maybe slightly warm and damp. The slightly tangy smell of some kind of bath soap overpowered his sensitive nostrils making him wince.

Blinking his eyes slowly he shifted his head to glance around only to notice he was in a very opulent bathroom. The "bath," or what he assumed to be the bath anyways, had to be the size of an Olympic swimming pool.

Swallowing down his awe his attention was dragged back as he noticed a body hovering out of his range of sight working on running the cloth up his legs. The sensation stopped and he heard the person dip the cloth in the water and a second later wring it out.

"You passed out after," L's deep baritone jarred his system into full wakefulness. "I carried you here after in order to clean you up; you were quite the mess."

Light tried in vain to fight the blush down that he could feel threatening to creep up. "Did we actually…"

L looked over at him. "Have sex?"

Light nodded his head slightly almost afraid to have the answer. "Yeah."

L looked down at the cloth again and stroked his leg once more. "We did."

Light swallowed harshly at that omission. He opened his mouth, squeaked, cleared his throat until he was sure he could talk, and then asked, "So what now?"

L paused in his cleaning once more and walked up slowly so that Light could see the alphas face clearly and not strain his neck to make eye contact with him. Light couldn't help the dark red blush that spread down to his chest upon seeing that the alpha was naked like the day he was born just like him. L looked down at him with dark black eyes.

"You're my mate," L answered him plainly; "we are a mated pair. I claimed you and you claimed me; what's done is done."

Light blinked and bit his lip. "What does that all mean?" he whispered quietly feeling as if the world had dropped out from under his feet.

L paused as soon as he was about to answer upon hearing Light's words. He took a closer look at the kitten and his black eyes softened somewhat at seeing the lost, hurt, fear and desperation in the young ones eyes. Sighing he leaned against the wall turning his back to Light.

Light glanced up at him in shock as he saw the alpha completely let down his guard for what seemed like the first time around him. His shoulders drooped, eyes downcast, and his whole body seemed lax in his stance.

"Don't worry, Light," L told him gently. "I won't let anything happen to you I swear it. You gave me a very precious gift to me tonight and I won't abuse it. Whether we both knew what was happening or not is not the issue here. I won't neglect you and I won't force you to do something that you are not comfortable with. I'll help you acclimate to your role slowly so as not to overwhelm you."

Light sucked in a large breath of air at hearing the alpha so gentle and not so … dominating. Usually L was full of self-confidence, pride, a dominating presence and a strong leader. Here he was gentle, kind, patient and loving. While he had seen, or instinctually known that L was this way with his pride on an everyday basis, he also knew that the alpha couldn't afford to show these traits all the time. Others may perceive it as a weakness and as he realized this and let it sink in, Light could feel a warmth blossom deep inside him. For once he felt content in the presence of the alpha; not overwhelmed like he had been this last week or so with the man, but he felt loved.

He finally felt like he had a home here, whether he originally wanted it or not.

Reaching his hand out he grabbed L's hand in the water and threaded their fingers together. L jumped at the contact and turned his dark eyes to take him in once more. The two merely stared at one another for a few minutes then L turned to face him.

Leaning down slowly he pressed their lips together. Molding them perfectly as their supple textures rubbed sensually against one another. Light moaned as he felt L lick his bottom lip lightly, coaxing his mouth to open and allow him to gain access.

And who was he to deny the alpha of the pride?

Resignedly, although willingly, he let the alpha in and groaned at the sweet taste on L's tongue. The taste of chocolate, sugar and tea flooded his senses and he whimpered at the slight sweet sensory overload.

L couldn't help but allow the growling, rumbling purr from deep in his chest. His little kitten whimpering below him from his mere presence was a turn on and he nipped at his bottom lip earning a startled squeak from the young body. Growling his approval he almost missed the door opening on the other side of the room.

A large snarl ripped from his throat and he vaulted himself out of the bath, crouched over Light and flattened himself against the kittens' naked body with his own; forcing Light flat against the ground.

Light gasped in startlement as he felt the heavy weight of the alpha pressed against him crushing him onto the tile below. He squirmed trying to shake some of the weight off; however, that only seemed to infuriate L slightly and he growled lowly forcing his body tighter against his own.

Looking up he noticed L staring over his head in the direction he assumed had to be the door. Craning his neck back he looked upside down to see the second in command, Near standing at the door.

L bared his fangs and growled harshly once more at his second; his eyes appeared dark as pitch. As his fangs lengthened he continued a steady mantra of snarling.

"Alpha," Near said lowly as he quickly prostrated himself on the floor, baring his neck towards the alpha.

L sniffed deeply in the seconds' direction and his chest rumbled once more in a growl but one not nearly as harsh as before.

Seeing his opportunity, Light quickly lifted his head up and nuzzled into one side of the alphas face and neck; purring soothingly trying to convey an air of calmness.

L began to relax his tense posture over him. He returned the nuzzling; half growling and half purring once more. He nipped at the tip of his ear and that earned another squeak from Light below him which made him growl in pleasure.

Near looked up at that point to take in the two weres on the floor, limbs mismatched and tangled, skin against skin, nuzzling one another in contentment. As though he knew he had looked up, L's eyes snapped to his again. He stared at Near and the second quickly lowered his gaze so as not to antagonize L.

Light whimpered and L looked back down at him. L chuffed him slightly and blew the top of his hair gently. Light purred at the attention.

Looking back up at his second, L growled lowly, "Turn around."

Slowly yet quickly at the same time, Near turned so his back was to the two of them on the ground. Looking back down at Light, L nuzzled him once more then moved so that the kitten was free from being pinned by his body.

Shaking himself lightly, Light looked up at the alpha as he padded over to a wall rack with towels folded neatly and pristinely and some robes hanging off of a hook. Shaking one out he came over and draped it over his shoulders.

Leaning down he whispered, "Go back to the room you share with the other kittens. I will summon you later today and we shall talk about this."

Light gazed back at him solemnly for a second. Helping him stand, L allowed a small smile to show through and Light couldn't help the brilliant grin back. Leaning down he offered the alpha a quick peck on the lips before padding silently out of the bathroom past the second.

L gazed after his kitten fondly until the door closed then his gaze snapped back to his second.

"Near, I hope you have a good enough reason to have interrupted me," L growled out back in his alpha mode again.

Near stood slowly still keeping his eyes downcast. "You have taken a mate?!"

"He's more than just that, Near," L growled out softly. "He's what's going to save us all."

Nears' brow furrowed at hearing L say this.

~x~

Back in the Kitten's Room

~x~

Light staggered back into his room that he shared with Ryuk and Teru. Groggily he closed the door behind him, rubbing his eyes; he heard a scuffling in the room and immediately lifted his face.

Teru and Ryuk were in the room as well and both had frozen what they were doing as they took in his overall appearance.

"Holy shit," Ryuk whispered as his eyes traveled across the parts of his skin he could see from under the robe.

Light blushed a hot bright red and quickly closed the robe so that it almost suffocated him. He mentally thanked any god that was listening that the robe was long enough to cover the worse of the bruises, bite marks and the occasional handprint that seemed to litter his body.

"Uhh hey guys," Light said nervously as the two continued staring, "shouldn't you still be out there for the festival?"

"Well it's only a couple of hours before sunrise we thought we would get a little shut eye before then…" He trailed off as well seemingly at a loss for words.

"It looks worse than it actually is," Light muttered, finally getting fed up with the stunned looks on both of their faces.

"Light, did the alpha take you as his mate?" Teru asked his eyes narrowing.

Light swallowed at that. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me," Teru said adamantly. "I can practically smell it on you so you may as well just be truthful."

Sighing, Light walked across the room and gingerly sat on one of the plush armchairs by the fire. He winced in slight discomfort as his rear gave a sharp twinge of pain and his whole body felt as if were beaten down and used. Although, he had to admit silently to himself that the feeling wasn't unpleasant.

"Yeah," he murmured quietly to the two.

Slowly, Teru and Ryuk inched closer until they sat on the couch on the opposite side of him. Both looked at him with a combination of emotions; fear, shock, anticipation and disbelief.

"Bull shit," Ryuk groans out scratching his messy hair. "You haven't even been here that long and already everything is being turned upside down on its head."

Light frowned at that. "Why? What's wrong with this?"

Teru's eyes narrowed slightly. "Light, don't you realize everything that an alphas chosen mate has to do?"

Light threw his hands up in frustration. "Of course not, Teru! If you haven't noticed I've been kinda thrusted into this whole situation and basically told 'here, deal!'"

"Light, one of the duties that the mate of an alpha has to do is bear a child. Or actually maybe I should say children," Teru scoffingly said.

Light frowned at that. "Well I can't exactly do that."

"And now you see the dilemma," Teru responded back.

Light glared at Teru while Ryuk kept rubbing his eyes, mumbling, "We're so screwed, we're so screwed."

"I don't see what you're so worried about, Ryuk," Light told him bitingly without meaning to sound too harsh. "I'm the one that's supposed to get knocked up by the alpha and I can't, which I don't exactly know what means for me now! I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about that!" He fumed loudly as he absentmindedly began scratching at his chest over his heart, through his robe. "Dammit! Why is my skin so itchy?!"

Teru frowned at this. "Wait!" Light froze immediately at the outburst and looked up at the other kitten with wide eyes. "Pull the robe away from that spot. I swear I'm picking up something that's faintly glowing."

Hesitantly, Light pulled away the robe from his chest and the other two sucked in large lungful's of air.

"Well that changes things," Teru murmured in awe.

~x~

Next Morning

~x~

Light sat in the library trying to obtain some peace and quiet. Everywhere he went people from the pride would stare and point him out openly. It made him feel as if he were an interesting science experiment; and the constant whispers and murmurs were driving him mad to the point where he had to seek some solace elsewhere and hide out.

He had eventually found himself in the library in a small secluded corner out of sight of prying eyes. It worked for the most part, no one seemed to know he was there but that didn't stop the occasional whispered rumors as the whole pride seemed to buzz with the news that the alpha had taken a mate, and said mate happened to be the newest kitten that was illegally turned by a rogue were.

Huffing in frustration he turned the page of his large, dusty tome that he had collected from one of the shelves and began to try and lose himself within the outdated wording once more; when all of a sudden a book slammed down in front of him.

Jumping in fright he looked up quickly to be greeted by Shiori as she plopped down in the seat across from him and stared.

Opening his mouth to ask how she had found him, she quickly beat him to the punch. "Ryuk and Teru had a good guess about where you had gone. I've been hearing everywhere! It seems congratulations are in order for you," she said happily giving him a small wink.

Light blushed at the attention. "A-aaa-ahhh thanks," he quickly stammered out as he seemed to lose his voice.

"I know word travels fast in the pride; it's worse than a gossip mill in here at times."

Light smiled slightly at that and Shiori smiled back.

"How are you feeling after…you know."

He looked down at the table and scratched the back of his head. "Fine! Yeah better than fine actually. He's a lot better than I thought, Shiori. I just don't want to embarrass him. And I'm afraid that's what I'll end up doing. I have no idea what my role entails now."

He looked up to see Shiori's eyes had locked onto his wrist on the hand that was scratching his head. Quickly lowering it he pulled the sleeve down over the ring of bruises that littered his body from last night, blushing profusely as he did so.

Shiori blinked. "Don't worry, Light." Light looked up at her reassuring tone. "You won't embarrass him. Besides I'm sure L will be showing you what is expected of you and Teru told me about an interesting mark on you, so let's see!"

Light undid a button his shirt and pulled it to the side slightly so that she could see the silvery mark seemingly scorched into his skin.

"So it is true," she whispered in awe upon taking in the mark.

Light covered the mark again and hastily buttoned up the shirt. "Everyone seems to be in awe when they see that mark for some reason."

"Light! Don't you realize how important that mark is?! You're a chosen one!"

He gave her a dead pan look. "Yeah funny enough, Teru told me the exact same thing earlier. I don't know, maybe it was my orgasmic high or I was too tired but it kind of went in one ear out the other," he told her sarcastically.

Shiori rolled her eyes. "You're basically a fertile agent for the pride. To put it bluntly that is."

"Oh great, I'm fertilizer. Yup I could see where that would be important."

"No, no, no, Light. You basically bring prosperity to the pride! Here look!" She quickly opened the book in front of her and thumbed through a couple of pages. Landing on the page she wanted she flipped the book around so that he could take in what she had to show him.

"See this?" She pointed to one of the marks on the page. It was an ankh. On the other page was a large circular spiral.

"Hey, that's the two marks I have!"

"Exactly," Shiori said earnestly. "Light, these two marks represent the chosen ones in the therianthropes long history. Usually they were only branded by the ankh though, I've never heard of one being branded by the spiral….unless….hmmm; anyways it symbolized eternal life and was thought to be a gateway to the afterlife. It also originated from ancient Egypt. That's where therianthropes really began to have a strong grip on the world. It's where they would converge and became known slowly throughout history and within normal society. There's a reason Egypt was wealthy in knowledge, money and wisdom in some ways. And why they worshipped the kinds of gods that they did."

"They thought the therianthropes were gods? Well that explains the gods like Anubis or Horus even."

"Precisely! It made it easier for the therianthropes to be accepted within their folds. I mean countless other ancient civilizations worshipped in some forms half human half animal hybrids but Egypt was the most well-known. They never encouraged the worshipping but neither did they discourage it."

Light nodded at this. "Okay, so the only problem is I don't have just have the one mark. I thought you said something about the chosen ones being marked just by this," he pointed to the ankh on the page, "yet I have this as well." He pointed to the spiral on the page next to the ankh.

Shiori nodded. "This is where it gets exciting."

Light's eyebrows scrunched slightly on his forehead. "I don't catch your meaning."

"Well supposedly legend states that-"

"Light! Shiori!"

The two of them looked up at that moment as the voice called out to them. Seeing Ryuk and Teru all but running up to them they paused taking in their harried expressions.

"What's the matter with you two?" Light asked.

Panting Ryuk wiped his forehead. "It's the alpha; he's called a pride meeting."

"He's going to formally announce you there as his, Light," Teru informed him.

Light swallowed harshly at that.

A/N: Hope it was alright everyone! Have a good day or night depending where you are :)