Introduction

All Alpha creatures have the ability to sooth and ground Omegas. All Alphas can release calming pheromones while the most powerful can also release pheromones to help prevent nightmares. This can sometimes be tricky to control so rooming a powerful Alpha with an Omega who is having nightmares can be tricky. The Alpha will struggle to learn control. This is why all Alpha creatures must room separately to Omegas or even Humans.

Alpha creatures can be male or female. It does not matter what magical being or creature they are. Alpha males are more common than females but not as rare as Omega males. Whether you are Alpha or not typically depends on your personality, not your biology.

Alphas are all looked after under the AMS no matter what their magical gifts are. This is due to the approach needed to look after them medically. To treat any alpha, you need to ask, especially if it is another alpha. A fight could break out affecting the patient's health even more. To assist with this most healers or doctors who treat Alphas are either beta magical creatures or Humans.

To assist with getting alphas treatment, some schools have rules in place to help. One such is Magere Akademi. Magere does not stipulate which magical beings can attend. As such they have some who attend with low immune systems. To make sure these students education is not compromised Magere demands that all sick children go to the infirmary no matter who or what they are. This ensures that growing up the Alpha students get the correct treatment and allow the procedure to happen. After they leave many are now used to receiving such. That means that as long as they are with a healer or doctor, they trust they will not protest medical aid.

Not all schools have this system meaning some Alphas grow up avoiding medical help for the need of being seen as reliable. This does affect the Alphas health in later life. This is made even worse if the child is abused or rejected for coming into a creature inheritance.

The children can suffer from feelings of abandonment. Or worse have been taught they do not deserve medical treatment. These children need extra help, support and counselling. However, with this support, most do not suffer problems in later life.

Grounding

Grounding is an act of calming yourself or having someone assist you in doing so. It is often needed in those who have trouble calming their emotions or who bottle their feelings up until they spill over. Grounding is necessary in all magical creatures and magical beings. No matter if you are an Alpha, Beta, Omega or human.

Omegas are the most frequent in needing grounding. But that is not to say that Alphas do not require that assistance from time to time. They just ground differently. Alphas are often able to ground themselves in doing things they enjoy. This can occur by music, drawing, writing, cooking, flying or even a sport of some sort. Sometimes it can be as simple as having a bath or a shower after a hard day.

Alphas are free from the thoughts of being unworthy after they grow out of there teenage years. They are sure of themselves and their abilities. This is due to Alphas often fighting each other and testing themselves against each other to prove themselves to others. Alphas also do not care what others think of them unless that person is a close family member or mate. However, if that family member disapproves of something. They would have to make a compelling argument to get the Alpha to change a particular behaver trait or action. Mates have an easier time with this. Although it can sometimes be a challenge if it is a deeply ingrained behaver.

Alphas also find it soothing to help Betas or Omegas. Often the very act of assisting them will also help ground an Alpha. This is done by talking and giving advice, releasing any of their own pent up emotions as well.

Humans

Some humans who are at high risk of coming into a magical inheritance can present Alpha traits before that inheritance. It does not guarantee them to come into a creature inheritance as an Alpha. But it does increase the chance. These children are treated under the AMS to decrease the likelihood of them needing to change which Organization they are under. It does, however, depend on the school how these children are sorted, housed and treated medically.

These humans do not have the issue of dream assisting pheromones. As such, there are no problems rooming them with an Omega magical creature. Humans are also not able to help with grounding Omegas and Betas as they need it. They do however need to ground themselves just as all magical beings and creatures do.

Humans often do this through something they enjoy such as music, art, writing or sport. Humans who may become Alphas though do sometimes struggle with thoughts of not being good enough or doubting themselves. This means they can have the same outbursts of emotions that Omegas struggle with. In these cases, an older Alpha will assist them by holding them and talking as you would with an Omega. There is an advantage to this though. These Alphas are often able to help Omegas more easily due to this experience. The humans who do not go through their inheritance will have an easier time controlling these emotions as an adult.

AMS

The AMS or Aristocracy Monitoring Service as stated in the introduction chapter has three departments catering to various humans and magical beings. There is the Creature Department, Gift Department and Family Department. The AMS is primarily responsible for the medical needs of those who fall under their care.

However, if the family is unwilling or unable, they are also responsible for assisting with the person's various needs. This usually happens when the child becomes the responsibility of the school or government. However, it can happen to some children who live with their parents for various reasons.

Under these extra responsibilities, the gift department is the one that generally ends up arranging tutors. For this, the AMS keeps on staff a number of people specialising in the gifts that fall under their responsibility. They also go to the other organisations to tutor those there. But also have to arrange for people from those organisations to mentor someone under the AMS as necessary.

For example, they might have an Alpha Vampire with a substantial gift in Telepathy. Telepathy falls under the OSS. In this case, the AMS will contact the OSS to arrange a suitable tutor for the vampire.

The creature department is also responsible for educating someone about their inheritance or race. This is again if the parents are unwilling or unable to. This typically only happens in a few circumstances. These are the child being an orphan. The child being abandoned by their parents. Or the child being forced to flee the country. This is due to some countries banning certain magical creatures from being within their borders. Education about their race involved their magical abilities but also their biology. In some, it can also involve pheromone control and adapting to being an Alpha.

The family department has the least extra responsibilities. In fact, those additional responsibilities are those shared by all the departments. This is to watch for those that might be registered under the wrong organisation. Such as someone who should be under the OSS being registered under the AMS. Some would think that this is no big deal. However, as said in the introduction chapter this is dangerous.

The AMS does not have the resources to care for more than a couple of sensitive children. It is rare for an Alpha to be sensitive to magic, but it can happen. When it does, it typically does not affect medical care and is often related to sensing dark magic or objects. As long as this person showers or baths regularly that is not a problem.

Typically the AMS has the lowest track record for finding people who have been registered under the wrong organisation. This is because they trust their Alphas to tell them. But it is also because they are the second largest organisation with most purebloods preferring male children. In England, it is seen as invasive to test a child for their organisation twice.

This means it is difficult to catch if someone is registered wrong. Often these children are enrolled under the family department. It is only as they get older and start showing particular gifts that it can be caught. Not the easiest when people can have gifts multiple organisations are responsible for. In such cases, the spell to see what organisation you should be under can be cast twice.

Another responsibility all share is to look out for abuse. Abuse can happen in any race of creatures though it is more common in some than others. When anyone working at these Organizations sees someone being abused it is there responsibility to monitor and report it. This is one area that AMS does well. But with magic sometimes it can be hard to spot any form of abuse. Mental abuse is most common in the magical world, and it is always the hardest to detect.