I bet your all wondering why no one suspected Naofumi to be an omega. One reason is body type. In Naofumi's world, omega's are bit above average height (Naofumi is 5'8) and have a sharper features. Naofumi's eyes and face are a bit sharper, but soft in some ways. Omegas in the other worlds tend to be on the shorter side and are much softer in appearance. In the current world, Naofumi appears to be an alpha because of her height and slightly sharp features.

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Three hours into the wave, and it showed no signs of ending anytime soon. Rubble from destroyed building fell to the ground, another obstacle to dodge in the wave's chaos. Produce from street merchants laid on the ground smashed. Luckily, all the villiagers had escaped due to the party's efforts. Naofumi blocked another incoming attack from a monster, looking the beast in the eyes. Raphtalia, her sword drawn, drove it into the beast'a chest. It roared in pain before falling on the debris ridden ground. Naofumi couldn't even breath before another monster tried attacking her. Naofumi let out a growl. Sweat was dripping down her flushed face, but her pheromones weren't showing up. Filo, in her bird form, kicked a beast in the snout. It effectively was launched back 50 feet before coming to a skidding hault.

The wave wasn't letting up at all. Monsters were still rampaging around the group and the villiage was nearly destroyed. The wave should have ended by now, and Naofumi didn't know how long she would be able to keep up. She could feel her self control leaving her as time continued on. The omega knew that she had to find somewhere place and soon to have her heat. She needed to take Raphtalia and Filo, and put the both in a well cared for nest. Her pups needed to be nestled with in the soft confines of sheets, and she couldn't do that with this wave.

"Damn it!" Naofumi gulped down another vial of medicine, her seventh one since the wave began. If those useless alphas weren't going to defeat the boss, then Naofumi will and have her heat in peace if she can't suppress it. "Raphtalia! Filo! We're leaving! " Naofumi called out to her pups to follow her.

Naofumi turned towards the group of adventurers who joined her, "You guys! Stay and protect the villiage for as long as you can! We're going to end this wave!"

Naofumi jumped on Filo's back with Raphtalia and ran off. The group watched the hero and her party ride off into the distance in the midst of their fighting, until the large bird could no longer be seen. The fighting was getting more intense as the wave proceeded. They made barely a dent in the wave's forces.

"AHHHH!" The demi-human, magic user fell to the ground as a monster had struck her from the back. As she was trying to regain her footing, the monster gave her no time as it's claw was reeled back. His arm was cut clean off by a sharp slice of wind. The monster screeched in pain, before it was beheaded by another gust of wind. The demi-human was speechless, gazing at the defeat monster. It wasn't until a fingerless gloved hand appeared before her in an outstretched position. She gladly grabbed it and was pulled up.

"Thanks for save m-" She started, but her words ceased when she saw the young man before her. He was a bit taller than her and wore a bright smile on his face. He wore a beige tailcoat with gold entailing. A black button up shirt was hidden under the coat and a white ascot was neatly tucked under his chin. She notice the emblem on his breast for a prestigious magic school that no demi-human could get in to. His dark brown trouser had a touch of dirt on them, but nothing that couldn't be cleaned off. His pants were tucked into his black boats with silver colored detailings. He dressed so neatly, nothing was out of place. Even in the hectic wave and crowds of monster surrounding them, he remained calm. The scent of freshly made coffee rolled off of him. The scent was strong, proof of his alpha status and made the demihumans knees weak. Never had an alphas pheromones made her feel this light headed.

"Miss, are you hurt anywhere?" He said, tilting his head slightly, smiling gently at the demihuman. It was then that the demihuman realized that she was gawking at the young man. Flustered, she nodded her head not daring to look him in eye. "Stay here, ok? You must be exhausted from the battle."

He turned away from her, his arms outstetched and palms glowing as they gathered magical energy. Wind start to swirl above his hands as he started to chant, "I, Iwatani Yuu, who asks the origin of power to cut down my foes in a hurricane of wind and leave them gasping for air. Dreifach Gale!"

He launched the attack at a group of monsters successfully killing three of them and injuring the other five, before the gusts of wind disappeared. The demihuman looked in shook at the young alpha who looked back at her.

"Excuse me, but would you know where other heroes are? More specifically the shield hero? It's really important that I find her." He said, then launched another attack of air to assist the soldiers.

The female demihuman snapped out of her daze and nodded her head, "She was just here, but she left to go assist the other heros with the wave." The demihuman recalled the shield hero on the back of her filolial companion.

After another burst of strong wind sliced through the air Yuu turned back to the demihuman, who was readying herself to attack, "Do you now which direction she left it?" Yuu said. The demihuman could tell he was desperate to get to the shield hero by the tone of his voice.

"She went west with her party members," the demihuman recalled. "But she's on the back of a filolial! She could be miles from here!" The demihuman let out a small blast of fire emerge from her hand and hit a monster in the face.

Yuu concentrated his power into a deadly tornado, sweeping up nearly all the enemies into the sky before falling to their death. The adventurers looked at the young alpha in amazement and shook. Yuu bowed his head at the demihuman, "Thank you, miss. My attack should have weakened their forces a bit, but its best to push them back as much as you can." He said, as he began to jog in his sister's direction.

"Please be careful!" He called out to the battling group. He followed the track of filolial prints that were engrained in the dirt.

A mile up the trail, Naofumi clung to Filo's feathers. The white filolial was going full speed towards the ship in the sky. The ride was bumpy to say the least. Raphtalia felt like she was going to fall off at any second.

Raphtalia's clutched her master's green cape, digging her face into the tuff of fur on Naofumi's collar. Her eyes widened in shock, and she nearly fell of Filo's back when she caught a wiff of a warm scent radiating from her master's neck. Previously, Naofumi was basically had no scent at all. Now though, the smell of the sweet tea Raphtalia's mother used to make. The comforting smell was faint, but was still there.

"Naofumi-sama..." The raccoon muttered out, deeply inhaling the Naofumi's scent, "You smell different."

Naofumi let out a groan in annoyance, not directed at her slave. Her heat was going to start soon, very soon. She probably has a hour, and that's being generous. The shield hero reached back and pulled out another vial from her cloak.

Raphtalia immediately tried to grab it from her master's hand, "Naofumi-sama, that's too much! You're drink our entire stock!"

Before she could grab it, Naofumi chugged down the liquid and threw the glass bottle to the side. "Raphtalia, when this wave is over, I need you to do me a favor."

"Anything," Raphtalia responded, tightly gripping on to her master.

As Naofumi was about to say something, the bow hero appeared. Itsuki was shooting arrows at the ship above head with amazing accuracy, fitting for the bow hero. He let out another shot, but the attack did pratically no damage. As Naofumi approached on the back of Filo, Itsuki only spared his fellow hero a glance of disapproval before attacking once more. Naofumi jumped off of Filo's back, a dizzy feeling was rolling aroung in her head.

"Itsuki!" The omega called out to the younger man, "What's going on? Where are Motoyasu and Ren?" She approached the group carefully, hoping they wouldn't catch her scent.

Itsuki didn't even look in Naofumi's direction, "They insisted on entering the ship, even though taking down the ship would end the wave."

Naofumi gave the bow hero a look of disbelief, "Shouldn't you have joined them?" She gave him a look of confusion. Why were they taking different approaches to defeating the boss.

"In the game I played, that strategy would never work!" Itsuki argued. Naofumi felt a fierce rage crawl up her back. This was the reason the wave wasn't ending? Why she couldn't find a safe place to have her heat in peace? Before she could even think, she reached out and grabbed Itsuki by his collar, letting out a growl in disapprovement. The alpha simply glared at her, but his eyes widened at the sweet scent he was suddenly inhaling.

"This isn't a game!" Naofumi growled, before noticing the young alpha's shocked look. "What?"

The young alpha shock out of his daze, "There's an omega near by." Itsuki looked around to try to find the source of the scent. Itsuki's party all looked around, attempting to find the omega. Some even let out purrs in hopes of luring one out. Naofumi let out a snarl at their poor attempts to 'find' the omega, even though she was right in front of them. Luckily, the party hadn't figured out the scent was coming from Naofumi. Naofumi instantly let go of the younger male, and hopped back on Filo's back.

" Come on, Filo! We're going on the ship!" Naofumi patted the bird twice on the back of her head.

"Hold on!" Filo called out, launching her large body into the air. Naofumi looked down at Itsuki's party who were searching for an omega under some rubble of an old building. She let out a tired sigh. The wave needed to end now or she'll have her heat in the midst of a battle. Why wasn't the medicine working? It was possible with how much she took, she built up a resistance. If she was going to have her heat regardless, she rather find an empty building and build her neat there. Far away from anyone who would find it, and a greater percentage of people not finding it.

Filo landed onto the rotten, wooden floorboards of the ship's deck. The other two heros and their parties were fighting seperate battles. Naofumi let out a snarl in annoyance, which caught the attention of the two groups. The shield hero jumped off the filolial's back, landing on the creaking planks.

Malty decided to open her mouth, "What do you think you're doing here?" She screeched, letting out a growl to assert her dominance.

"Shut up," Naofumi said, not sparing the princess another word. "What are you guys doing?"

"We have to kill this monster to spawn the boss, but Motoyasu doesn't realize that," Ren let out a growl at the older Alpha. Motoyasu retaliated with a louder growl to assert his dominace over the younger alpha.

"You already killed it like 3 times!" Motoyasu yelled back, "It's obviously not going to work!"

Ren held his ground, baring his teeth. "You have to kill it more than once!"

Naofumi clicked her tongue. This was the reason she couldn't have here heat; stupid alpha. It most likely had been inflated since coming to Melromarc. As far as Naofumi knew, Melromarc encouraged an alpha's display of dominance over others. Erhard had explained since Melromarc consisted of and even number of alphas and betas, alphas had to display there dominance. Since no omega was around to calm alphas down with their pheromones, alphas were left to compete for dominance with no clear winner. The shield hero let out a sigh. These alphas were going to be the death of her. She was sure of it.

"We gave to take down the ship," Itsuki's voice called out to his fellow heros. One of his legs was over the ships edge, as he just jumped on the ship. "We have to take this ship down now! There's an omega down there!"

That causes the other two heros to stare back in disbelief. Omegas in Melromarc, as far as they knew, were born probably once per generation. They were nearly extinct in the country.

Motoyasu let out a growl and grabbed Itsuki, "You left an omega down there! What's wrong with you?"

Itsuki let out a snarl,"My party is still down there looking for them! They won't come out until they feel safe!"

Naofumi felt a wave of dizziness and put her hand on Filo's feathered body for support. She was thankfully her pheromones wasn't at full power. The other heros' parties were filled with alphas with maybe 1 or 2 betas between them. They were totally oblivius to Naofumi being an omega, and she didn't perticually want them to find out so close to her heat. Naofumi felt the back of her neck, just over her major scent glands. They were terribly swollen, and seemed on the verge of exploding with her sweet scent. She had to finish this fast. The alphas were arguing amongst themselves.

Naofumi regained her balance, just in time to block an uncoming attack. The soul eater would only spawn if they defeat a monster. Naofumi's eye brightened with an idea.

"Raphtalia!" Naofumi called out to her oldest pup, "Can you use your light magic and brightened up the ship?"

"Of course," Raphatalia replied, holding her sword our in front of her and focused her power. "I, as source of my power, command: Attain the truth once more, and let light shine here. Fast Light!"

Raphtalia pointed her sword towards the sky, as a bright beam of light radiated from the tip. The others covered their eyes as the illumination was too much for their eyes. Naofumi looked down and noticed the two creatures' shadows were moving around oddly. A face appeared on the shadow, letting a malicious grin spread on it's supposed face.

"The shadow!" Naofumi yelled to the other heros. "Aim for the shadows!"

The heros each attacked one of the shadows. From their attacks, a glowing mist emerged. It gathered at the sky in a vortex before forming the soul eater. The heros let out an all out attack towards the monster, but it didn't do any damage. They all stared in disbelief. The other heros and their parties decided to charge the fish like demon. The monster gathered energy in it's mouth, then launched it at the heros. Naofumi and her party, luckily weren't hurt due to her shield. The other heros could look better, kneeling and clutching their new wounds. Naofumi was desperate now. She couldn't be here for too much longer, but if she had her heat now, she wouldn't be safe. She activated her rage shield, and the consuming fire of rage engulfed her.

If this is what she has to do, then so be it.

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I was going to make this longer but oh well. We'll get a sibling reunion next chapter I promise... maybe...

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