Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“And lastly, Madam President, I am the queen of two different kingdoms that I combined into one. Those kingdoms were the shifters, the multiple varieties that they are, as well as the magic users, including but not limited to witches and warlocks. I am personally a Wolf, a Witch, and a Fae. I also have the souls of three gods inside of me and I am the Goddess Incarnate. There is so much about me that is different from the others in my kingdom that aside from my children, there is almost no one like me in this world.”
“Th..th..that makes no sense to me at all. How can you all claim to not be human? It’s impossible. Thoroughly impossible. Wolf shifters, bear shifters, witches, and even Fae, those things are myths and legends. And you.” She pointed at Joaquin. “You said werewolf. Is that what these wolf shifters are supposed to be? Half man half beast? Like the Hollywood movies?” She still looked so skeptical.
“Not quite like that. Most wolf shifters can only become the wolf itself. Not a half man and half beast. I am the first Lycan, or true werewolf that there has been in centuries. And I gained that ability almost twenty years ago.”
“OK, yeah, now I know that you are all lying to me. There is no such thing as werewolves. I don’t appreciate being lied to or tricked. All of you are going to be on my list. I will never trust any of you ev-.” She stopped abruptly then, because she was stunned into silence.
Silence was the best really. She could have screamed with what she was looking at. I mean, Joaquin was standing there one moment and then the next he was in his Lycan form. And the president of the United States was standing face to face with a real life Hollywood-looking werewolf.
Then again, the woman might have been silent because she was scared shitless and unable to breathe. She was going pale and red faced at the same time. And then the red face started to look a little blue.
“Joaquin, shift back.” I snapped at him. “I will take care of the clothes.” I threw my hand up and blocked him from view before he was exposed to the president. She didn’t need to see him naked on top of his Lycan form. Then, with another wave of my hand I had clothes on Joaquin again. That was good, at least he was decent again. I even managed to make the scraps of clothes disappear from the room. “I am sorry about that, Madam President. Joaquin was just trying to help you to understand.” I glared at him, but I knew that he had done the right thing. He had chosen himself to shift because it would be the most impactful. It’s just that it was also almost the one that ended up killing the president.
I was still a little worried about President Maddock as she looked at Joaquin. She wasn’t blue anymore, nor was she red faced, but she was pale. And that worried me. What if she fainted or something? What were we going to do if Joaquin’s revelation to the woman was enough to make her go insane? What if we had just broken her? This was all a little too much for me to try and process while also trying to prove what we were, that we weren’t dangerous, and that we just wanted her help. UGH! This was all a little daunting all of a sudden.
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Riviana
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I really was worried about President Maddock though. She was extremely pale and that didn’t bode well for us. What if she started to scream about monsters? What if she was too scared to help us now? What if we had just blown our one and only shot here?
“Madam President?” I called out to her softly, trying to be as non threatening as possible. “Are you alright?”
“H..h..h..he just turned into a werewolf.” Some color was returning to her face, slowly but it was there. “He just turned into a real w..w..werewolf.”
“Yes, Madam President, he did. As we said, we are not humans. However, we are people just like you. And we need your help.” Finally, the president took her eyes off of Joaquin and looked at me. I saw that she wasn’t actually scared. Instead, she looked like she was more excited and intrigued. Was she OK with the idea of there being someone that wasn’t human in her office? Was she going to help us out here? Man, I really hoped so. I didn’t want to have all of this happening for nothing.
“You need my help?” She looked surprised as she settled her eyes on me. “What is it that you need me for? If you’re the queen of all these people, and you can do magic like I have already seen, what do you need from me?”
“Well, Madam President, we are in a little bit of trouble. Do you remember those serial murders from over the summer?”
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“Yes, of course I do. So many people died around the world, and even a few of them here in the US.”
“Yes, well, those people were all part of my kingdom. There was a family that had been manipulated by former god-like beings into killing us. They resented us and targeted my people. I wanted to help them, to save as many as I could, so my husband and I joined in the investigation. That wasn’t an issue at the time, but after the fact people started to investigate us. They wanted to know what was going on with us. And they started to wonder about how we haven’t aged.”
“Aged? How old are you? Twenty-five at most right”
“I am almost forty, Madam President. And Joaquin is seven years older than I am. He is forty-six now.” I explained to her how old we really were and that was when her face fell.
“How is that possible? You do not look that old at all.”
“We are immortal. Though we never used to be. That happened when the gods that I told you about entered my body. That is what made my people immortal. Some people in our community, including my grandfather, got younger. And that raised some suspicions as well. Now the NSA is investigating us, and they truly believe that we’re not human. Which, as you know, we’re not. I could do something to make them stop investigating us, but that will only make them know that they were right. And these people are going to expose us to the humans when they have the information that they need. We need to be ahead of them. We want to reveal ourselves first.”
“That’s all well and good, Mrs. Gray, but what does that have to do with me?” The president was actually listening to what I had to say. That was good. I was starting to think that this might actually work.
“Well, there are no laws that protect people that are not human. We are just like you normal people, except for ancient magic that altered us a long time ago. Our ancestors, for the shifters anyway, used to be human. They were the humans that followed the various gods that gave them their power. The vampires used to be humans as well. And do not worry, they do not kill people. Anyone that does is a criminal in our community and we will deal with them swiftly. The witches and warlocks were born directly from the gods in the beginning, but they have long since married and bred with the humans, so they are just as human as you are. The Fae have no human blood, but they are still people. They still love the same, bleed the same, and feel the same. We are people just like you, and we want to protect ourselves. I want to put laws into effect, here and all over the world, that will protect the nonhuman people when we reveal ourselves. Please, Madam President, help us.” I could hear the desperation in my own voice as I pleaded with the woman. I needed her to understand just how urgent this was and why it was that we could not delay at all.
“I..I understand what it is that you want, but I don’t know how much I will be able to help you. I can’t push through laws on my own. They have to go through the house and senate. My hands are tied.” She truly looked apologetic there. And I could understand why she felt that way. She didn’t know how many people we had working for us.
“Madam President.” Senator Stevens was speaking now, her voice steady and firm. “Our people, the nonhumans among us, make up almost half of the house and the senate. We only need to persuade a handful of the people to get the bills to pass through to you. We can convene emergency sessions here very soon, and we will get this pushed through. We are not going to back down. We just need you to approve it when it reaches you.”
“Alright. I can do that. But that only helps you here. You said that your people are all over the world.” The president sounded worried about us just then. And I knew, then and there, that this was a woman that we could count on. I don’t know why, but I had a feeling that her being a woman helped. Women usually took the revelation about us a lot easier than men did. I guess that we were just a lot more open to the possibilities than men were, because we were used to things that were unexplainable.
“You don’t need to worry, Madam President.” I smiled at her. “We are working with other world leaders as well. Some of them are members of my community, the others are just a little high in the political ladder, but we have people that can help. And you can help there as well. If we refer them to you, to double check on these laws that we want, you can tell them that you are approving it as well.”
“I will do what I can.” She tilted her head for a moment and looked at me. “Mrs. Gray, or I guess Queen Riviana, how many people are in your kingdom? How many nonhumans are there in the world?”
“Well, Madam President-.” I started, but she interrupted me.
“Jamie, please.” She smiled and asked me to be more informal with her.
“Well, Jamie.” I smiled as I looked at her knowingly. “If I am being honest with you, my people, and those of the other kingdoms, make up more than half of the world’s population.”
“More than half?” She looked surprised by that. “So, if you people weren’t here, then the population would be cut in half, more than half actually?”
“That is correct.” I nodded at her. “There are a lot of us, and I truly want to protect them all.”
I watched as the president sat there and just stared at me. She was trying to process what all of this meant. She was trying to figure out what type of world there would be if we weren’t here. I could see it all in her eyes. And the moment that she had a revelation, she seemed to blink and come back to herself.
“So, I am president because of your people. If the country that we live in is more nonhumans than humans, it means that a good majority of your people voted for me than not. And you have been here for a long time. I am guessing since the creation of humans, or rather the evolution of them. No matter when it happened, you have been here at least as long as us, maybe even longer. And if you have been here all along, and we are still here and living, then it means that you are not dangerous people. I know that for a fact. If you were dangerous, you would have just threatened me to get my help. Instead, you begged for it.”