This is the first chapter to the new story Alpha vs. Omega: Civil War. Hope you all enjoy!
Humphrey's POV
"He is not a dud. In fact, Humphrey, you'd be surprised to find that he is…" Kate said, struggling to find the last word.
It was the moonlight howl and Kate just ran to my typical spot by the log. I've been to this spot every time since I've known about the moonlight howl as nobody wanted to go with me. Sure, I've taken Salty, Shakey, and Mooch to the moonlight howl, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about someone actually dancing with me, and preferably a girl. Anytime I try to ask anyone out, I get too embarrassed. One time, I was about to ask Kate out, but I saw her Dad, so I gave up. This is where I later went. This log has been my hiding space.
"Strong!" I butted in, sarcastically. I mean, sure, he was strong physically, but that was not a strong howl. A hamster can howl better than him.
"Yes. Yes! Strong! And he's... He's…" Kate said, still having trouble finding the last word.
"Proud!" I said to her. Maybe a little too proud.
"Yes! Yes. Proud. And he's... What's the word I'm looking for?" She said. I don't think she is even looking for a word; I've picked the word the last two times. Something's up with this, must've been her trying to hide his terrible howl.
"An Alpha's Alpha," I said, trying to figure out a word to say; two words were good enough.
If you didn't know, it's illegal for an Alpha and Omega to have any type of relationship, other than friendship, which is still not allowed sometimes. That's the second law in our Book of Rules, our law code. It's also one of the biggest and highly regarded laws. The only one bigger is the first one, "wolves of any rank shall not commit treason against the leader or the pack". One of the main reasons I'm allowed to be friends with Kate is because, a couple of years ago, she begged her Dad to let us be friends. She was like that up to Alpha School, but she came back different.
"That is right! He is an Alpha's Alpha." Kate said, but then she took a look at my face. I was making a sarcastic face, trying to make a joke about it. "You make me so mad!" She said in response to my face. Usually, she has a good sense of humor, but I guess not today. Again, must've been the howl.
"Hey, I was just kidding," I said as I was just trying to be funny. "Is everything okay?" I asked as she still wasn't on alert. Once again, It must've been the howl. It was a pretty bad howl.
"Yes! Everything is okay! I wouldn't expect you to understand, Omega!" She snapped at me. Okay, maybe she doesn't always appreciate my humor, but she never gets mad at me.
That's why Kate is different. She always understands me and has never been as mean as some Alphas can be. She can get away with it too, she's the leader's daughter. However, she doesn't take advantage of that. She always supports everyone and is nice to all. However, again, Alpha School seemed to change her.
"What is that supposed to mean?!" I said to her, seriously ticked. She crossed a line there. She knows how much Omegas get abused, not even physically but verbally; and the only reason why Alphas don't physically abuse Omegas is because the Alphas would kill the Omegas.
You see, it's not just recent, Alphas have always been mean to Omegas; there's no holding back either. Even my best friend and secret crush just yelled at me. I think it's something at Alpha School, it's like they alter their thinking there. A wolf leaves to go to Alpha School; a different one comes back.
"Nothing, nothing. Just go home." She said to me. Obviously, it wasn't nothing. I stayed to see if she was going to say anything else. As much as I was mad at her, I still cared about her. That caring, I know, means something more, but that stupid law prevents anything.
"Go on. Don't you Omegas have any sense of decency?!" She said to me. I had heard enough of these Alphas. I started to walk home to avoid a fight.
Speak of fighting, those Alphas have no clue how much we do for them. If it weren't for us, every pack would be at war ripping each others' throats out. Who looks over the pups when the Alphas are gone. We do. Who keeps the peace? We do. Who maintains stability within the whole pack? We do. Who gets abused? We do. The tensions between Alphas and Omegas are at an all-time high.
"Humphrey, come back. I wasn't serious," She called to me. I didn't turn around to look at her. She wasn't sorry for hurting me, she was sorry for me walking away. I wasn't mad at her, she was mad at something else, and I couldn't blame her. I didn't know what she was mad at though. I have pretty good Omega skills when it comes to other wolf's feelings, and my senses are telling me to leave before things get escalated.
"No, go back to your Barth," I said quietly walking away. I don't even know if she heard me. I said it in such a low voice that she wouldn't hear me. That wasn't meant to be mean to her, that was meant to be mean to Garth.
I can already tell Garth is an Omega-hater; I can see it in him. Muscular, cocky personality, the son of a leader, and 'attractive' (according to female wolves, but I just see disgustingness). The only wolf I find attractive is Kate, and that's not even the best part about her.
I felt terrible getting into a semi-fight with my best friend/crush, but they say that sometimes arguments bring wolves closer. I was walking back to my den in the Omega field. Oh yeah! That's another thing! While the Alphas can get any lot or den that they want, most adult Omegas live in the Omega field. However, with minors, it's a little different. While still a minor, a wolf is not assigned a rank. Once a wolf becomes an adult, they go to Alpha School or Omega School - barely anything is taught in Omega School by the way. You are assigned a rank based on when you were born and go to the school according to that rank. If an odd pup (born first, third, fifth, etc.), you are an Alpha. If an even pup (born second, fourth, sixth, etc.), you are an Omega. I never knew my parents, so I never knew what I number was born in; Winston just made me an Omega. There could be a future Omega living in an Alpha den because they aren't an adult yet. It's stupid if you ask me.
I was walking back when a saw a white blur in the corner of my eye; it was Lilly.
"Hello, Lilly," I said to her as she was walking by. She must've also been leaving the Moonlight Howl.
"Oh, hello, Humphrey," She replied back to me, stopping in her tracks. "How are you doing?" She asked me.
"Not good...not good," I said to her. I didn't really want to talk about what happened with Kate. "I was just heading to the Omega field," I told her.
"Oh, I'll go along with you," She said to me.
"But you don't live there?" I told her; she lived in the leader den (her Dad's den).
"I could use the company," She had replied; so, we started walking to the field. "In all honesty, I'm not doing that hot either right now." She said about herself. Must've been something to do with the Moonlight Howl.
"What happened?" I asked her wanting to be polite. I was also concerned, she's not usually that bummed. Maybe the air tonight is affecting all emotions for the girls. I just ignored that unrealistic thought.
"The Moonlight Howl," She said to me. I guess I wasn't the only one who had bad experiences with the Moonlight Howl.
"Alpha trouble?" I asked her. Even though she was still the leader's daughter, wolves were still mean to her every now and then, but not nearly as much as some wolves I know.
"Well, in a sense, yes, but not in the situation you may think," She told me. What does she mean by that?
"Tell me about it," I told her; I was now invested in this. Either an Alpha abuses an Omega or doesn't, there's no in-between.
"Promise you won't tell anyone?" She asked me. I nodded my head at her question. She looked behind her, left and right, then turned to me. "So, you remember Garth?" She asked me in a notably quieter volume.
"Don't even get me started about it," I said. She didn't ask me about the "starting" part.
"So, while Kate and I were walking to go meet up with him, we saw him standing on one of the rocks at the Moon Howl. I don't know what it is about him, but I feel drawn to him," She told me.
"Good or bad?" I asked her. I don't know what she was necessarily talking about. No Omega makes fun of an Alpha.
"I don't know. Kinda… kinda like you and Kate in a sense," She told me. Not what I was expecting.
"So you feel like… friends? You probably haven't even officially had a full conversation with him yet," I told her. There's no way she knew that I liked Kate, but I know that she knows I consider her my best friend.
"No, I feel like… attracted to him," She told me. Maybe there is something in the air tonight.
"What do you mean?" I asked her. There was no way she knew how I felt, so I played the dumb card.
"Let's cut the crap; I know that you like Kate," She told me. Well, I was wrong.
"What? Nooooo. I don't," I told her. I didn't think anyone knew; I tried to keep it very hidden. She gave me the look that says are you sure about that? "Okay, maybe I do; but if you're comparing that to Garth then-" I had started, but Lilly interrupted me by saying, "Yes, I think that I like him," Can't say I saw that coming. My mind was just blown in a matter of a couple of seconds.
"If only it weren't for that stupid Alpha and Omega law," I told her. I didn't want to mention that Garth was a douchebag because that may hurt her feelings. "If only we could do something about it," I said to her thinking about what it would be like. "Yeah…" She said also thinking.
"What if we can?" I remarked to her. I had a plan up my fur.
"What do you mean?" She asked me. Here we go, creative Humphrey time.
"We can take a vote on whether or not to change things," I said to her; I was implying our voting system.
You see, the Omegas take votes on issues for what to do, and there needs to be a 3:1 vote (75% in favor) in order to get a bill/law passed. Typically, this is how we should deal with the Eastern Pack or how to evenly split up the caribou during a food shortage. Usually, the popular vote will then be taken to the leader, in this case, Winston, and he gets the final say in the bill/law. However, if it is just an issue that affects only the Omegas and not the whole pack, as long as the vote is in favor of a 3:1 or greater, the bill/law is passed. A bill could also be ended or paused by a 3:1 vote. Each family gets 1 vote which is cast by the oldest family member.
"How you would do that?" She asked me. She didn't technically ever really vote because she lives in an Alpha-headed family, so it's not odd she doesn't know how it can fully work. That was another thing, each Omega family gets a vote, not each family with an Omega in it. That's because, typically, by the time a wolf gets their rank, it's only a couple months or one/two years before they get married and get their own den.
"Well, I would propose a bill that gives Omegas less abuse and become equal to Alpha along with ending Alpha privilege throughout the whole pack. I mean, there is no explanation why Alphas can eat first. Why can't we just eat at the same time?" I told her. "Then, if the majority of Omegas votes in favor, which they probably would, we will take it up to your Dad." I finished.
"What makes you think my Dad would agree? He's pretty stubborn," She told me.
"It's the best chance we've got at becoming equal," I said, telling her the truth. She couldn't deny that.
"Tomorrow, we'll hold the vote. There are no rules for when or how the voting has to take place. I'll let some wolves know to prepare for the vote," I told her, telling her what was going to happen. "You should go home, it's getting late," I said to her.
"But we haven't reached the field yet," She said, practically begging me to stay.
"Yeah, but you can come there tomorrow. I mean, I know you can't vote because you live in an Alpha family, but you still wanna come, right?" I asked her.
"Of course I do, this affects me just as much," She told me.
"Okay, I'll see you there tomorrow then," I said to her, signaling she should go home before her parents start to get worried.
"Okay, later, Humphrey," She said to me as she starting walking back home. Wait a second.
"Hold on, Lilly," I said to her before she got too far away.
"Yeah?" She said turning around.
"You won't tell anyone about Kate and me, right?" I asked her. She couldn't blame me for asking her as the penalty for different ranks loving each other is either death or banishment, depending on the severity of the so-called 'crime'.
"As long as you won't tell anyone of Garth and me," She said to me.
"Deal," I said and then she turned away and started walking back to her den. I also starting walking to my den in the field.
It really wasn't much farther as I could take a shortcut through the trees instead of the trail. I wasn't going to make Lilly walk through the trees as her parents would be confused and suspicious by her appearance of rough fur.
I got to my field where I saw some Omegas walking back to their dens, probably from the moonlight howl.
"Hello, guys. Just as an FYI, there's going to be a vote tomorrow, okay?" I asked them all to make sure that no one else was also planning a vote. They all just nodded their heads.
"Just make sure to set it up in the Mac," One of the wolves said.
"Will do," I said to them while walking to the Mac.
We got this weird thing called the Mac that lets us record information by pressing buttons. All we have to do is open up this thing called The Google Drive, then open up the vote recommendations in the spreadsheet section and record the proposed vote. I typed in "Omega abuse and Alpha privilege shall be ended". I figured I should leave out the repel of the second law as it may be too much at one time. We still take each vote in person by each head wolf in each family saying whether they agree or disagree, and we tally one yes or one no depending on their vote. If the bill is passed by the Omegas, we type a Google Doc either as a law for the Omegas and add it to the Law of Omegas book (laws only the Omegas follow), or we type a Google Doc to Winston which he then accepts it (therefore adding it to the Book of Rules) or rejects it. The Alphas also have their book called the Law of Alphas (laws only Alphas follow). In a sense, Law of Alphas and Law of Omegas are both subsections in our Book of Rules (our official law code for the whole pack). We stole these machines from humans, and we have three. One for the leader, one for the Omega field, and one for the Alpha meeting zone (as their land is way bigger in area than ours to call it a field). No other known packs have this machinery, so Winston wants it to remain a secret.
Once I finished typing the vote, I walked back to my den and sat down. I was thinking of speeches in my head to say during the vote. I had thoughts like, "My fellow Omegas, we have been abused and neglected too long." I also was thinking something like, "The Alphas have taken advantage of us too long!" I was thinking of the speeches to say when sleep caught up with me as I dozed off in my den.
That concludes chapter one! Leave a review or like and have a nice day!