Order of Lunarius: Return of the King

Chapter 1:

My life starts going to hell (well, sorta)

I never thought that I would discover a secret ancient society of werewolves that would end up training me and I would soon have to save them. It’s not like I nearly died on a quest to find the king of a lost society. Wait, sorry I forgot to mention, I can’t actually die, I'm actually immortal which is weird cause apparently I am the first human to be medically classified as Immortal. I’m also not exactly normal. You see, ever since I was six years old, I began to have visions of events that would actually come true, I mean it never really benefitted me except for giving me nightmares. But, I slowly began to stop seeing these visions, and I began to realize that I was incredibly strong for a six-year-old, I mean I could lift 268 lbs easily, and all my senses were probably 150 times stronger than a normal person. It wasn’t until I was fourteen that I soon began to realize that I was able to control my ki, heat, energy, strength, dreams, and even control my body’s adaptive capabilities.

During this time, I had grown a liking to wolves, I even had a bond with wolves which was cool but also strange. I had grown into a well educated teen, obviously, I wasn’t innocent either. I did my fair share of crap like a teenager, but things began to also get weird at this age.

I began to have these weird dreams, almost as if they were memories of a war. This war had 8 armies fighting on two sides. The first side seemed to have been made up of an army of demons, monsters, aliens, and humans, all wearing black armor. All being led by, I assume, a twenty-two-year-old guy with black hair, radiant golden eyes, and pale skin. He radiated power and fear, his surrounding air seemed to distort in his presence as if he were warping existence itself.

The second army was made up of werewolves, vampires, angels, and humans, all wearing silver armor while the angels wore golden armor. They were led by a teenage boy. Something was different from this guy, he didn’t radiate power like the pale man but rather radiated power. Raw Strength. The guy kinda looked like me.

He did not wear the silver armor that the army wore, no. He wore a simple long leather trench coat with some thin red design lines. His hair was dark and untidily, he appeared mortal, but his eyes. His eye color was fiery red.

As the armies approached each other, both leaders began to run at each other, and as they got closer they both began to change. The man began to release a dark smoke that swirled around him, he began to grow in size as a sword appeared in his hand. The teenager began to grow what appeared to be black hair around his entire body, he was transforming into some sort of beast. A Werewolf. As he transformed black wings appeared on his back, not small wings but almost angelic like. He bristled with muscles. As the two leaders went airborne, the silver army yelled, “ Hail to the King, True Alpha!!”. As the two enemies clashed, a blinding light flashed. As the scene cleared, the land was covered in bodies as the two armies looked upon a hill.

The boy they had called a king, was at the mercy of the pale man. The man thrust his hand into the boy’s chest as he yelled in agony. A blue aura began to flow up the man’s arm as the teenager began to return to his human form.

The man laughed as he told the boy, “ Your power is now mine. And here I thought you were immortal and unbeatable. How disappointing.”

The boy started to say something, “N-n-no. I still have something up my sleeve. Ath-bheothachadhB.”

The pale man looked terrified, “NO, what are you doing, stop right now, Stop!”

A red flash appeared as the blue essence that the man had taken, flew out of his body and disappeared, but so did the boy.

These were the kind of dreams that kept repeating every night, I still wasn’t sure what it meant but all I know is that it couldn’t be anything good.

Wait, I forgot to introduce myself. I’m Derek King, but my real name is Alphastorm. Very few people know my real name, normally only the people who I trust. I am 17 years old and I go to Lunaria High School. I am currently a sophomore, and yes, aren’t I a bit old to be a sophomore? The answer is yes, but I was a late starter so what can you expect?

Everything started to get weird on a casual Tuesday, if you could call a sky filled with smoke from a brush fire casual. Anyways I just pretty much woke up in a cold sweat after my dream ended at 6:25 a.m. as I went to my bedroom’s bathroom to put on my brown colored contacts to hide my eye color. Just so you know, I was born with probably the rarest eye color in the world, red. Almost all my life I’ve worn contacts to hide my eye color because it freaks people out, and once when I was twelve, a really religious mean hag called me a devil spawn.

I wasn’t really like the other kids who would just cry and bawl in their parents' arms from a sentimental breakdown, no I just stared at the woman and said something like, “Then that must mean that you're Lilith, for being such a bitch.” She just gaped at what I said and just shouldered her ugly handbag and left for the nearest store. Only Conner knows about my eye color from everyone else apart from my family.

After I dressed and ate, I made sure to grab my bag and ride my bike to school. Yes, I could drive to school, but that’s just a waste of gasoline and plus, I stay fit with my bike. I got to school, locked up my bike, and found my best friend waiting at the fence, Conner Jackson.

I met Conner Freshman year during my first period, PE, before I had a schedule change because I was in Lacrosse. At first he creeped me out a bit, but it turned out that we understood and shared A LOT with each other. He pretty much knows about every secret I have. He had earned my trust. Plus he knows that if he leaked out any information without consulting me first I would murder him, not literally but I would give him hell.

He knows that I can’t be killed, and that I can kill really easily if I wanted to. I don’t really kill anyone, nor have I ever, but I have killed a wolf with my bare hands when I was thirteen years old. I don’t like killing animals, but that time I had to do it to defend my family. Not many people really know about what I’ve done or am capable of, yet my mere presence gives off a sense of danger to other people.

At first I may look intimidating but I’m actually a pretty chill dude, except to those people who act like gangsters and think that they are better than everyone. Now those people I shut up if they ever try to trash talk me.

Anyways Conner greeted me by addressing me like a stereotypical British gangster? I honestly have no idea. “You’re late you fuck’in wanka.” “ And I’m about to kick your ass in five seconds Conner so you better run,” I said smiling as we started heading to the front gate to wait for Destiney, Conner’s girlfriend. Destiney is a chill person, but sometimes she abuses over some of the things that Connern does for her, she isn’t one of those people who uses people. She just sometimes abuses over some things. All though it makes me happy to see Conner happy.

Although, I’ve currently had one crush that I’ve been meaning to ask out, she’s my best friend from elementary school and her name is Elizabeth. She’s in color guard and used to be in Orchestra, but dropped out since you can’t really fit two zero periods in one day. She has smooth coffee colored hair, and these radiant hazel eyes, she has this way of bringing the light out from inside of others. She brought me out of the darkness that I was trapped in for so long...

We ended up just walking around the campus like most days, talking about stuff that we did, cracking jokes at each other, and just listening to each other. Today in particular was different from our usual conversations. “Hey, did anyone hear the drum sounds that rang through the night? Cause those did not sound like marching band drum practice, but rather more like they were coming from the sky.”, Conner explained . I responded, “Yeah, I did. But, it was super weird. I swear that I kept seeing lightning flashes with no thunder sounding afterwards.” “Yeah speaking of- CRAP!!!!” Conner was interrupted by a sudden earthquake. This earthquake didn’t feel normal, it felt as if the whole world was shaking. Everyone around was falling to the ground. “ALPHA YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO! AH MY FOOT!”

I didn’t need to be told once. I made a fist. My whole body flexed as my legs began to tense, getting ready to kick off the ground. I jumped 30 feet in the air. At that moment I heard a voice say. “ You were never really gone were you?” I was not sure whether it came from someone around or if I was just going crazy, I shook it off and got ready for impact. I slammed my fist into the ground, shattering the ground.

The impact sounded as if someone had dropped a semi truck from the sky. As the aftershock ended, the earth stood still. As I stood up I saw people around me staring at me with their mouths open. Even Conner had his mouth open, I guess he told me what he said as a joke and didn’t really expect me to actually stop the shaking.

As I felt everyone’s eyes on me, a girl began to walk towards me from across the quad area. I recognized her, “Lydia?” But what confused me the most was what she did, she turned towards the people and produced a flash from her palm that made everyone contract a blank gaze, I actually thought that she may have just made 30 or so people brain dead. “Go to your first period and don't mention what just happened.” She kissed my cheek and then said something that I didn't understand. “Stay safe, don’t let him find you. I'll take care of this. Now go!” I did as she said, rubbing the spot where i had just been kissed.

I ran to my first period without thinking about what I was doing or what I had just seen. I got to my first period and sat in my seat. “What the fuck just happened?”

I was still in shock about the fact that Lydia just kissed me on the cheek. What even was that flash that she produced from her hand? It kinda looked like the neuralyzer from Men in Black.

I shook the thought out of my head and examined my hand for any side effects. Just as I was checking my hand from hitting the ground, my friend Josh stepped into the classroom out of breath. Did he just run to a classroom for no reason?

“What the hell was that?!!” Josh yelled at me.

“What do you mean?” I was so confused for a moment.

“Smashing the ground and stopping the earthquake with your freaking hand! I know you're basically indestructible, but I didn't know that you were THAT strong.” I stared at him for a moment, “How do you remember that? Didn’t Lyd- err, nevermind.”

I remember what she had told me about not mentioning that moment. “What do you mean, how do I remember? I saw what you did and ran to the video production room to hide.”

I quickly explained to him that he couldn't tell anyone and that currently, I didn't have all the answers. “Ok. Just promise that you’ll never punch me.” I looked at him and said, “What the hell! Josh, I'm not going to kill you! Jeez.”

In the moment the first bell rang and everyone began to enter the class, all everyone was talking about was what might have made the crater near the theater building. I saw Josh look at me from time to time.

Second period wasn't much different but yet again our 3-month substitute didn't really give a shit about what we did in the class, so it was fairly interesting. I made sure to leave my bag at my third period before I left for break. Apparently, the school was having a tour today for adults and parents to check out the campus, and I found out the hard way.

As I was walking to the cafeteria, all of a sudden, something hit me from behind with such force that I was thrown towards the senior quad area. Just to let you all know, the senior quad area is separated by a 4-foot tall wall, so if I hadn’t done what I did next I would have probably left a me-shaped crater in the wall. So as my body closed in on the wall, I grabbed onto the edge and pivoted backward, as I somersaulted back to where I was hit. Landing on my feet I saw a tall man in a business suit waiting for me.

He quickly grabbed me by the shoulders and spoke to me with a very unnecessarily intense voice. “Sorry about that, those are some reflexes you have there, such incredible strength at such a young age.” The man said this with a malicious smile.

The people close by appeared intimidated by this guy, and his smile was creeping me out. I pushed him away and stared him in the eyes, or where his eyes would be behind his extremely dark sunglasses. Like I mean his sunglasses were dark, like pitch black. I noticed a golden glint through the lenses.

“Looks like you've been away for far too long,” said the man. Did this man just address me as someone that's been missing? “What? What do you mean, I've been away for too long?” What is up with this guy? “I'm not whoever the fuck you think I am, but whatever you do stay away from me.”

The man seemed to study me for a moment, “You're right, you’re not someone I know, but you remind me of someone I used to. A very very long time ago.”

The man turned and walked back to the group, keeping a watch on me as I went to get my food. I felt Conner jump on me from behind, “Who the hell was that guy? He seemed off, kinda creepy if you ask me.” “You saw that?” I asked.

“I mean it's not like you just did some hardcore ninja shit when he hit you. So noooo I didn't see anything with everyone around.”

“Ok, I get the sarcasm jeez. Now lay off before I snap that wrist,” I told Conner, to which he quickly took his arm off of my neck. “Let's just go find Ashlyn and see what the fuck she's doing,” I said as we walked towards the library.

I don't know what was off about that guy earlier but Conner was right, he did seem kinda off. Seeing how the people around were intimidated by him proves his point. Why did I feel like I knew this guy, and why do I have the instinct that I should be attacking him to protect these people? All of a sudden I felt a pain in my chest. It was almost as if I was having something shoved into me. Searching for something. Looking for… Power.