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“Lee Yongbok, you have gone too far. This is the last time I will let you disrespect this pack!”

Felix scoffed, pushing sweaty silver hair off his forehead. So all his past misdeeds had been fine, but the second he decided to mess around with the pack alpha’s son it was suddenly too far? The pack alpha stood in the doorway of his house, face a horrible shade of red.

Felix looked at the pathetic alpha underneath him and sneered. He had burnt down Omega Im’s chicken coop last week just for the fun of it, but now he was going to get kicked out again because of some shitty dick?

“What were you thinking, Yongbok? Taehyun is supposed to be mated next month. He’s been courting the Kim Omega for almost a year. This is going to ruin him!”

“That seems like a Taehyun problem to me” Felix said, leaning back and looking at the pack alpha straight in the eyes “I didn’t force him to fuck me”

The pack alpha flinched and Felix grinned, sharp canines on full display. He glanced down at the dazed man below him and rolled his hips, causing the alpha to let out a breathy groan.

“Tell your sire, Taehyun” Felix smirked “Tell him about how ruined you are”

Taehyun just stared at Felix, looking like he was in a haze. That was the way it always was with alphas. Felix would make them see stars and in return he received a mediocre fuck at best. No alpha in the pack had ever done anything to impress Felix and he wondered at this point if anyone ever would. He had hopes for Taehyun—the future pack alpha should have to be someone special, but he was just like the rest—boring and dull.

“That is enough, Yongbok!” The pack alpha growled. He walked over and yanked the omega off his son “I have tried to be patient with you, but you have caused our pack nothing but chaos since you were a child”

Felix had to restrain himself from rolling his eyes. It was the same speech that he heard every time the head alpha got pissed off at him, which was nearly a daily occurrence as of late. Not really anybody’s fault, Felix was just getting bored.

“Are you going to send me away again?” Felix asked as the alpha dragged him by the arm. “Maybe I can go to the west this time. Haven’t been there in a bit”

“Oh, we’ll send you away again” the pack alpha sneered “but this time somewhere further away”

“Oh?” Felix asked as he was pulled out of the tent, still in his full naked glory “You couldn’t have at least given me a robe to wear?”

“Would you have actually worn it?”

Felix grinned, sharp canines on full display. He could see other pack members peeking out of their windows or standing in their doorway to see what sort of trouble Felix had gotten up to now. He winked at one of the older, mated alphas that was looking at him from the gate of his house. The man blushed a deep crimson “No”

“Of course not, you'd never do anything to make our lives easier” the pack alpha sighed as he continued to pull Felix along with him until they reached the village center where their pack hall was located.

“I suppose it’s fairly lucky I was fucking your son, wasn’t it?”Felix drawled “Your house is close by the village center. Made for a pretty short walk of shame”

“You will shut your mouth, Yongbok”

Felix did roll his eyes this time and looked at the crowd gathering around them. It was a testament to how truly boring this pack was that the daily Yongbok punishment was everybody’s main source of entertainment.

There was a shriek from amongst the crowd and everybody turned to see Nayeon, one of the council elders, rush through the pack. She whipped the large scarf from around her shoulders and placed it over Felix so that his nudeness was partially covered.

“Wooshik, how dare you?” She glared at the pack alpha “it is winter and you are parading Yongbok around naked! How can you treat a pack member like this?”

“Liking to see me in the nude must be a family trait” Felix said with a grin.

Wooshik growled. “Yongbok will not be our pack’s problem any longer”

“He will always be a member of our pack” Nayeon retorted, equally as enraged. Her and the pack alpha glared at each other, engaged in some sort of silent battle.

Besides the pack alpha’s family, no children in the pack knew who their parents were. They were taken from their dams and sires after they stopped nursing and were raised together in the children’s creche and mentored by all the adults in the pack. It was meant to foster closer bonds between the young ones and for every member of the pack to feel like kin to each other. However, Felix always had a feeling that Nayeon was his sire. She was the only member of the pack who had defended him since he was a tot, the only one who comfort him when he was younger and the other children made fun of him for his eyes or weird behavior. She was a bit of an odd one out herself, a lone alpha who’s omega had died many years ago.

“I have made the decision that we cannot have Yongbok in our pack any longer” Wooshik said, turning to the rest of the crowd “We will be sending him off again”

“Where are we sending him off to now?” Jurim, one of the other pack elders, asked “There are very few packs left we have not tried”

Wooshik sighed. He knew his next words would not be popular. “We will not be sending him to another pack. We have to send Yongbok as an offering to Bang Chan-nim”

There was a hush amongst the pack that had gathered around, all of them too shocked to say a word. Yongbok had been a force of chaos to the pack since he had been born, however sending someone to be sacrificed to the Wolf God was as good as signing their death warrant. Though each of the Gods—Raven, Deer, Shark, and Wolf—were said to be fearsome, Bang Chan was known to be exceptionally cruel on top of it. Maybe it was the inherent fierceness of a wolf or maybe the God himself had a bit of an evil streak, but there was a reason that offerings to the Wolf God were usually in the form of blood.

“You want to kill Yongbok?” A member of the pack asked from the crowd.

Even Felix, who always had a sharp word to say in response to everything, was shocked into silence. Sure, he was a bit of a problem but to kill him was a little far…

“We are not killing him” Wooshik said “Many packs send their members as sacrifices to the Gods and they live in their temples peacefully for the rest of their lives”

“But this is Bang Chan-nim” another person said “he’s not just like the other Gods…”

“Are you speaking ill of a God?” Wooshik asked. Felix rolled his eyes, thinking it was a little manipulative of the pack alpha to be pulling this card. He knew just as well as the rest of them that sending Felix up north to the Wolf God was basically sending him to die. Besides, Wooshik had never been known to be religious in any way before. He was always the main one grumbling their their yearly blood sacrifice was a waste of good livestock. It was obvious the only reason he was sending Felix as an offering was just to rid the pack of him for good. 

“This is not happening” Nayeon said, her tone final.

“Last I remember, I am the pack alpha and have final decision on this” Wooshik retorted. Nayeon bared her teeth at him.

“Well you remembered wrong, Wooshik. A decision this large has to be voted on by the council elders. I call a meeting now!”

The other council elders nodded in agreement at Nayeon's words and made their way through the crowd towards the pack hall. The rest of the pack parted way to let them through, the silence surrounding them almost crushing in its intensity. Wooshik was still holding Felix’s arm tightly and he looked at them with a frown.

“Is a whole meeting really necessary? We already know what the outcome will be”

“You have decided to kill one of our pack, we can’t accept it without a discussion” the second in command, Junho, said with a shrug.

Wooshik finally let go of Felix and entered the hall without saying another word, obviously not happy with the turn of events. Nayeon walked past and put her hand on Felix’s shoulder.

“I’m not going to let him send you off”

“I don’t think you’ll have a choice” Felix answered, truthfully. He pulled her shawl tightly around him. 

The rest of the council elders seemed to agree with Felix as they entered the hall morosely. Even though the young omega had been nothing but trouble for everybody in the pack, it wasn’t a happy decision to send a member to be sacrificed.

Once all the elders and the pack alpha were gathered in the hall, they turned to each other. The atmosphere was tense and heavy. 

“I know that Bang Chan-nim is this pack's chosen God” Jurim said, first to dare speak “But this will be the first time in our pack history that we will send someone to be sacrificed to him”

“Are we sure this is the wisest move?” Junho asked. “We can think of something else”

“You know there are no options left” The pack alpha said, calmly. “We tried marrying Yongbok off countless times”

And it was true. Even though Felix was strange his beauty was renowned, with rumors that he was the most enchanting omega to be born in the Southern Isles. The head alphas of all the major packs from every corner of the nation had been clamoring to be mated to him. However, every time he was sent to another pack, they would return him in less than a week. He was too wild, too violent, too unpredictable to become the head omega of any pack. And any lesser ranked alpha was terrified of him.

Nayeon frowned. “There has to be something else that can be done other than send him…there”

“There is nothing else, Nayeon” Wooshik said “Yongbok doesn’t belong here and we all know it. Everything about him is unnatural—his looks, his behavior, his smell, his teeth…maybe Bang Chan-nim will have some use with him”

“No one who has been sent as a sacrifice has ever been heard of again” Junho said, morosely “We need to think about this seriously”

The pack alpha sighed and rubbed his palms over his eyes “I know, but what other choice do we have? Yongbok is not safe to have here. Morale in our pack is already low due to the droughts we’ve been having in recent years and having him constantly antagonize everyone is causing our situation to become worse. If we sacrifice him, we may at least appease the God and maybe our fortunes will change”

“You are speaking of sacrificing one of our own” Nayeon said.

“What else can be done??”

“We can still try to mate him. The Moon pack in the east just appointed a new head alpha”

“No alpha wants him, Nayeon!” Whooshik all but yelled “There is something wrong with that boy and you’re the only one who refuses to see it! He doesn’t act like any other person we have ever encountered before and it’s dangerous for us to keep him here—he is violent and impulsive and his presence scares people. The other packs gossip about us, did you know? They ask what’s wrong with us for us to raise such a feral omega”

“He’s still young…”

“We all already had children by his age” Jurim pointed out. “I do not think he’ll grow out of…whatever is wrong with him. Maybe Wooshik is right. A sacrifice to Bang Chan-nim would do our pack well, we need the help with our crops”

“It has been awhile since any other pack have sent a sacrifice to the gods” Junho added on. “Us doing so might gain us some favor”

Nayeon looked around, but she knew that she was outnumbered. The rest of the elders seemed to be coming around to the idea of sacrificing Felix and there was little that she could do about it. she knew their patience with the young omega would eventually dry up, but she never thought that it would end like this. 

“A pack member’s purpose is to be useful to the rest of the pack” Wooshik said, tone final “It is not Yongbok’s fault that he was born the way he was, but It is not our pack’s fault either. With this sacrifice, he will finally be doing his duty to the rest of us and we may in turn get to at last know the peace and prosperity that has been robbed from us since his birth”

The rest of the council members nodded in support and Nayeon knew her singular dissent would not be enough. She felt the tears prickle at the back of her eyes but she didn’t dare let them fall.

“I am sorry, Nayeon” Wooshik said softly as the other members started to leave. They had made their decision “I know what the boy means to you, but we can’t put him above the pack’s safety”

Felix knew the moment all the elders walked out that his time in the pack, and most likely on the earth itself, was done. It was written on their faces; their sad yet determined expressions as they exited the hall. 

He didn’t even wait for them to say anything before he turned and walked back to his room in the pack house where all unmated omegas stayed. He wasn’t going to wait around and be told what his fate would be in front of the entire pack—he wouldn’t give them that last bit of entertainment.

Felix knew he was the odd one out in their pack. Everyone had treated him differently since he was a tot; but even if they hadn’t, Felix wasn’t dumb. He could see all the differences between him and his peers. He didn’t look like any other person in any of the packs he had encountered. The only thing the same was his tanned, honey colored skin. Everything else was foreign—his silver hair, his eyes which were wide and large and two different colors—the left one dark brown and the right icy blue. His canines were sharp and pointed. He had claws that he could extend and retract from the tips of his fingers and had dots speckled all across his nose bridge and cheeks. No one had ever seen someone who looked like him before.

And then there was his smell—it scared and disgusted everyone to the point that Nayeon had created scent blockers for him to wear around the clock just to be around others. As soon as he had presented the pack alpha took one whiff of his scent and retched. Vanilla and blood. A terrible, cloying combination that no one had ever heard of before. The vanilla was so sickly sweet it was almost suffocating and mixed with the iron tang of blood, it was a scent that could make a person sick just being near.

Nothing about him was what an omega should be. His voice was too low, his scent was off-putting, he was dangerous and violent. Some of his pack even thought maybe he was an alpha who had somehow mis-presented. His pack was a fairly progressive one and there was a span of time that they decided to just raise him like an alpha instead, but they quickly realized that even for an alpha, his behavior was especially wild. Felix never used any of the weapons they trained him with. Bows or spears were useless in his hands—he preferred to use his claws and teeth like some sort of feral animal.

Nothing about him had been normal from the moment he was born, but Felix didn’t ever think that was something to send him away to die over.

No, he thought as he grabbed his bag and started stuffing clothes into it. He wasn’t going to die. No one knew what happened once sacrifices reached Bang Chan-nim’s wintery northern temple but as long as he had his claws and fangs, Felix wouldn’t let himself die. Even if it meant that he would try to disembowel a god.

Nayeon strode into the room just as Felix was packing the last of his shirts. She was carrying a large wrapped container and looked as though she was about to burst into tears.

“Yongbok…”

“You don’t need to say anything” Felis said to the alpha “I already know what their decision was”

“I’m so sorry, Yongbok-ah” Nayeon said softly as she looked at the packed bag that sat on Felix’s bed.

“It’s fine” Felix shrugged, meaning it. Packs were meant for stability, especially for omegas who were historically seen as weaker and not able to care for themselves. Felix didn’t think he would have that problem. His pack had never been his safety. They had never tried to protect him or even cared much about him at all. Since the moment he presented, they had shipped him off to various other packs in hopes of getting him married. He was used to taking care of himself.

“You have to know I tried. I tried to stop them but…”

“You don’t need to make any excuses, Nayeon” Felix interrupted “I knew that I would eventually be sent away for good. There was only so many times I could provoke the pack alpha before it was too much. I didn’t think they’d sacrifice me to the gods, but I suppose it’s better than being mated to some horrid alpha for life”

“How is this better?” Nayeon asked, aghast.

“It’s something different. Whenever they send me to an alpha, it’s always the same thing over and over again. Since they’re sending me to a God this time, it has to be different, doesn’t it?”

Nayeon sighed and shook her head. “This isn’t something to joke about, Yongbok. You have to be careful, okay? Bang Chan-nim is not like the other alphas you were sent to before. He is a God and a very cruel one at that. If you do anything to displease him, he can kill you without lifting a finger”

“Then I suppose I shouldn’t do anything to displease him”

“Please” Nayeon said, distressed “You have to be careful”

Yongbok ignored the warning. Instead he turned to Nayeon and looked at her intensely. “Tell me about your mate”

“What?” Nayeon asked, shocked at the sudden change in conversation.

“Your mate. No one ever mentions her” Felix said lightly.

“I’m not allowed to talk to you about her…”

“I’m about to be sent away to get killed, Nayeon. The pack rules don't apply to me anymore. Please, I want to hear about her."

Nayeon turned and stared at the blank walls of Felix’s room. She was silent for so long that Felix thought she would just ignore him until he left. He moved to grab his bag but stopped as Nayeon started to talk. “Her name was Mina. She was a very kind and gentle omega. I knew from the moment that we presented that we were to be mates; she just sparkled. She worked as one of the pack’s healers but I never saw her more excited that when she first came with child. There was nothing she loved more than children—if we were part of a different pack, I’m sure she would have made an excellent dam”

“How did she die?”

Nayeon let out a bitter little chuckle “Ironically enough, she died in childbirth. Only lived long enough to see and hold her baby for a short while”

Felix sighed and looked up at the ceiling. Of course. Even with his birth, he was already causing death and chaos. Maybe the pack alpha was right—he was just born wrong.

Nayeon looked at the boy “Why are you asking about her?”

“Felix” he said. He saw Nayeon’s eyes widen “That’s what she named me before she died, wasn’t it?”

“How…how do you know…”

“I remember it”

“You can’t remember that” Nayeon said, sounding a little panicked “you were a newborn. Nobody has memories from their birth”

“I do. I remember what she looked like—my dam. Her hair was black and she had a sweet face. She named me Felix because it means happiness. But the pack alpha didn’t like it so he renamed me Yongbok once I was taken away. I don’t remember her dying”

“We took you away before then” Nayeon said softly. “My Yongbok…”

“Felix” he corrected.

Nayeon’s eyes filled with tears “Felix, when Mina was pregnant with you, she told me that something felt different. You were her first and only baby so I thought she just wasn’t sure what a pregnancy should feel like, even though she was a healer. But she was adamant that something wasn’t normal—that she could sometimes hear you talking to her from the womb. It sounded crazy then, but when you were born we all knew…”

“That I wasn’t right”

“No” Nayeon said, insistent “that you were unlike any other baby we had ever seen. You’re not wrong, Felix, you’re different. We just don’t know what purpose you were born for. But Minha was insistent that you were born to do something great. She said she could feel it from when you were in her womb”

Felix frowned “Well she must have been wrong. I am entering into the end of my life and I have not done anything great until this point. All I have done is cause chaos and upset amongst our pack”

“You were always means for things larger than this pack, Felix” Nayeon said “Maybe Bang Chan-nim will find you of great use. That could be the reason why you were born”

“I don’t think I was born for any reason…”

“You were” Nayeon insisted “That was the last thing Mina said before she died. She said that you were born for a great reason. I know you will find it yet. You just have to keep yourself alive until you can. Promise me”

“Nayeon…”

“Promise me, Felix” she pressed. “Promise me that my Mina’s sacrifice was not in vain”

And what could Felix even say to that. He sighed and looked at the alpha in front of him. At the lines creasing her eyes; the grey shot through her brown hair. “I promise. I will try to keep myself alive”

“Thank you” she said as she walked over to Felix and placed a palm on his cheek “I know you never belonged here in this pack, but I am selfishly glad that I was able to see you grow up”

Felix smiled at the woman, probably his first real smile in as long as he could remember. He was glad that Nayeon was his sire.

“Here, take this” Nayeon said, holding out the wrapped package she had brought with her “It’s the rest of the scent blockers I made. Be sure to use it before you are presented to Bang Chan-nim”

Felix took it and placed it in his packed bag. Nayeon had made the formula just for him after his presentation and this was the last of it he would be able to find in the world.

“You are meant for greatness, my Felix” Nayeon said, standing on her toes place a kiss on his head “I have all the faith in the world that you will find it”.

Felix left the next day with very little fanfare. The whole pack gathered as he and his belongings were placed into the pack alpha’s personal carriage. The best horses from their ranch were yoked to it and Hajoon—a beta who had grown up with Felix from the time they were born—was tasked in charge of driving the carriage to the Northern Wolf Temple and back. To his credit, Hajoon looked very upset by the whole thing and he had even whispered to Felix that he would look the other way if he decided to run during any time of the journey. Felix didn’t have time to answer before the pack alpha stepped forward.

“Here we bid farewell to our pack member Lee Yongbok as he is sent as an offering to the Wolf God, Bang Chan-nim, to procure a bountiful and fruitful future for our tribe” Wooshik said, standing in front of the crowd as Felix entered the carriage with a huff.

“We greatly appreciate the sacrifice you are making for the sake of the pack” the head alpha continued, as though Felix had even had a choice in the matter. “Do you have any final words you may like to say to your pack?”

Felix thought about just getting into the carriage and leaving this place without any word about the miserable years he had spent there. But that wasn’t him, the feral thing bubbling inside of him would never let him be silent.

So instead the leaned over and addressed the crowd with a grin “I just wanted to say fuck all of you and I hope you never have a peaceful night sleep again knowing that you sent one of your pack members off to die. Hope your fruitful harvests or whatever is worth it!”

And with that, Felix closed the carriage door with a cackle. He could hear the gasps and yells from the crowd as Hajoon took his place in the front of the carriage and started to drive off.

The journey to the North took nearly a week and Felix hardly left the carriage as they trudged on. He had little interest in seeing the surroundings as he had already been sent to most of the far flung places in the nation as his pack had tried to marry him off. He had seen it all, from the lush forests of the East to the sandy deserts of the West and the icy glaciers in the North. None of it interested him anymore. 

As the ground became more and more icy and the snow started to swirl around them, Hajoon called out that they were nearing the Northern Temple.

“This is your last chance to run, Yongbok-ah” Hajoon said. “I promise I won’t mention it to anyone in the pack. I’ll just pretend I left you at the temple”

But what would Felix do if he escaped? He had nothing but the clothes in his bag and a tub of scent blocker that would eventually run out. No other pack wanted him and he had no resources to survive on his own. If he left, he was guaranteed to die. At least when he faced Bang Chan-nim, Felix might be able to convince the God to give him a chance of survival. It wasn’t going to be a high chance, but he had promised Nayeon that he would try his hardest to live.

So instead of escaping, Felix just looked out the window at what might very well be the place that he died. The landscape was wintery, fresh white snow blanketing everything around them. In the near distance was a giant mountain with a white marble temple carved into its face. The temple had soaring pillars and sculptures that Felix couldn’t make out the details of. Anything that lay below the temple at the base of the mountain was obscured by an enormous white wall that seemed to grow out of the snow itself.

Hajoon brought the carriage to a steady cantor as they approached the main gate of the wall, where a single guard stood in front of a tightly sealed entrance. Felix tried to see if there was anyone else around besides this one man but the snowfall and the blinding white of their surroundings made it difficult to get a good view of anything.

The guard stopped them in front of the gate and Hajoon stepped forward.

“I am here from the Park tribe of the Southern Isles. We have an offering for Bang Chan-nim”

“A sacrifice, you mean” Felix yelled from inside the carriage. Hajoon cringed as the guard gave him a very unimpressed look.

“And what blessing is your tribe asking for in return for your offering?”

“We have been experiencing droughts for the past decade. We pray that Bang Chan-nim could send rain our way and provide a bountiful harvest for our pack”

“That does seem to be the most common prayer these days” the guard said, sounding extremely bored “Let’s see the quality of your offering, then”

Hajoon went over and opened the carriage door. Felix sneered at him, fangs on full display as he exited. The interior of the carriage had been ripped to shreds, pieces of fluff and blood red fabric laying in shreds on the floor.

“Please don’t make this harder than it has to be, Youngbok-ah” Hajoon whispered.

“You’re acting as if you're the one who’s about to be sacrificed”

“I gave you the option of running. You were the one who decided not to” Hajoon said. He looked into the carriage and sighed “Did you really have to mutilate the carriage like this? You know this is the pack alpha’s favorite one”

“Consider it my blessing to the tribe”

“Is there a problem with the offering?” The guard asked. Hajoon grabbed Felix’s arm and dragged him over to the gate. Felix went limp like a rag doll, becoming a dead weight in order to make Hajoon’s life a little harder. The snow around them was falling so hard that Hajoon needed to practically push Felix into the guard’s face for him to be visible.

“No problems here at all. I present to you Lee Yongbok, our offering”

The guard looked over at Felix and his eyes widened. Felix tried not to scoff at the expected reaction. It’s the way everyone looked at him whenever he had been shipped off to a new pack. He knew that even though his scent and behavior was off-putting, people were always fascinated by how he looked. Maybe he could survive meeting Bang Chan-nim if he just didn’t open his mouth…

“I’ve never seen anyone who looks like you before” the guard said, sounding awed “Are those your real eyes?”

“Nope, these are fake. Got my real ones stuffed in my bag” Felix drolled. Okay, maybe he couldn’t stop himself from opening his mouth. He was probably as good as dead here. Hajoon groaned from next to him.

“I need a second opinion” the guard said. He snapped and then another man stepped through the snowy mist that surrounded them. Hajoon flinched but Felix faced the man with narrowed eyes. He wondered how many other people there were hiding in the snow.

“Bang Chan-nim will be pleased with him” the second guard said, getting a good look at Felix “Are those his real eyes?”

“Does everyone here have an eye fetish?” Felix whispered to Hajoon, who made a distressed sound in the back of his throat.

“Should we put him in The Hall?” The first guard asked.

“Don’t you think you’re being too presumptuous? We would probably need to ask Minho-sshi for permission at least before putting him there”

“But look at him. Like you said, Bang Chan-nim will be pleased”

“Why are we speaking about me as though I am not present?” Felix asked with a sneer. The two guards looked at his fangs and their eyes widened even more.

“Should we just present him right away?” The second guard asked, awed.

“We need to get Minho-sshi here”

The first guard snapped again and then all of them waited a moment until a slender man dressed in blood red robes stepped through the snow.

“What do you two idiots need? It better be something good to take me out of the temple. You know this is a particularly busy time with planting season approaching”

“It’s the latest offering, Minho-sshi” the second guard stuttered, pointing to where Felix and Hajoon were standing. “He’s…look at him”

The man named Minho sighed and turned towards Felix “I cannot believe you called me in the middle of the day just to inspect some offering. I will report you…”

He became silent as he saw Felix standing amongst the snow and ice falling all around them. He took in Felix’s eyes and delicate features carefully. Felix decided to sneer at him too out of sheer defiance and Minho actually smiled in return.

“Oh, this is interesting. What a fun little treat. The Wolf God will be pleased indeed”

“We were wondering if we should just present Felix to Bang Chan-nim right away” the first guard said, hushed.

“Yongbok, what are they talking about?” Hajoon asked, looking confused as each new person stepped out of the swirling snow. Minho was extra intimidating, with his cat like eyes and blank face. Neither of them knew what an offering to the God entailed, but both could tell this was not the usual course of events. 

“How the hell should I know?” Felix whispered in return.

“We need to follow some decorum” Minho answered. “Me taking him to The Hall without approval is breaking the rules enough. He will be presented on the first of the month with the rest of the offerings”

“Lee Yongbok” the guard said, finally addressing Felix properly. “We accept you as an offering from the Park Tribe of the Southern Isles. Please step forward”

Felix breathed in deeply. He turned to look at Hajoon—the last time he would see his packmate ever. Hajoon nodded his head towards him, fingers clenched at his side as though he wanted to hug Felix but didn’t dare bring himself to.

Felix returned the boy’s nod and then took a large step forward, towards Minho and the two guards. The second one raised his hands above his head and clapped. In that instant, the snow around them grew heavier to the point where nothing was visible. He felt a hand hold onto his arm and guide him forward.

Felix walked through the heavy snowfall, letting the guiding hand pull him in this and that direction until another clap sounded out and suddenly there wasn’t anymore snow at all.

Instead Felix found himself standing at the beginning of what looked to be a town.

“Welcome to Miroh” Minho, waving his hand around “the Holy City of the Wolf God, Bang Chan-nim”

The town of Miroh was nothing like the blizzarding surroundings that Felix had just been traveling through. The most noticeable difference was that everything was lush—a springy looking dull green moss covering the ground with a faint dusting of snow scattered here and there. The streets were paved with white marble, and the buildings were carved out of rock—jagged walls and pillars that opened up into the occasional small courtyards that held pools of steaming water. Waterfalls dotted the landscape, falling from the nearby mountains who’s summits were shrouded in a sort of sparkling, icy mist that hung over the whole town.

Children ran through the streets, their laughter loud and piercing. Their dams followed behind them or stood in groups, gossiping to each other as their kids played.

“Please follow me, Yongbok-sshi” Minho said as soon as Felix’s eyes had adjusted. The two of them started to walk up the street leading into the town “Allow me to explain to you the rules of Miroh as I take you to your accommodation”

“Rules?”

“Yes, as with all Holy Cities, Miroh has a strict code of conduct that you must follow. First, no alphas are allowed within the city walls. If any alpha enters, they will be killed straight away with no exceptions. Seeing as how you are a beta, you will have no issues with this rule”

Felix was taken aback for a second. No one had ever mistaken him as a beta before--with his delicate features and build, people automatically just assumed he was an omega. He assumed the scent blockers dulled his smell enough for Minho to think he didn’t have one at all. But also…

“Who do all these children around belong to?”

“They are the children of various omega offerings that were given to the Wolf God” Minho said, as though Felix was stupid.

“I know that! But who is their sire? If no alphas are allowed here then how did they come to be?”

“Some of them are sired by the betas who live here. You are allowed to have relations with whomever you please within Miroh. However, a good many of them are sired by Bang Chan-nim.” Minho answered in that same obvious tone of voice.

Felix’s eyes widened “Bang Chan-nim sired these children….with the offerings? What do you…Are we a harem??”

Felix had fully expected to come to the Northern Temple to be sacrificed for his blood. Never had it crossed his mind that being given as an offering would have…other meanings. Though, he realized belatedly, that of course he should have realized what it meant. There were enough half-gods wandering around the various packs that it was obvious that the Gods spent much time sleeping around. He suddenly felt sick to his stomach. Was he brought here just to bed the Wolf God?

“You are whatever Bang Chan-nim deems you to be” Minho answered with an airy chuckle. “But if that is what he asks of you, then yes.”

Felix growled. He would rather be sacrificed for his blood.

“Now if you will—continue to follow me. I do not have much time to spare on a mere offering so I will need to take you to your new home quickly”

“Isn’t the Wolf God immortal? I would think all you had was time”

“Bang Chan-nim is immortal. The rest of us are not. And he is a rather demanding god who will be angry if his advisor is away from him for too long” Minho said as he led Felix down a path surrounded by hot springs. Various omegas and betas sat in the warm water, chatting to each other as more children—the Wolf God’s children—splashed around in a kiddy spring.

“Second rule is that you are allowed to leave whenever you please, but once you step foot outside of the city walls, you will never be able to enter again. The only ones with permission to leave and re-enter are those that Bang Chan-nim chooses to be priests at his various temples”

“I can leave?” Felix asked, surprised.

“Yes. No offerings are prisoners here. If you feel you have someplace to go outside of these walls, you are welcome to leave.”

Felix scoffed at the words. Minho said they weren't prisoners, but they were just as good as one. None of them had any place to go. They were given up as sacrifices by their own packs so there was no way they could go back. And they couldn’t join a new pack either because they would be considered cursed after being a God’s offering. And that was even if they could manage to make it out of the icy North on their own. Most well bred omegas and betas wouldn't be able to survive a day in the northern wilderness alone. 

“This rule of course only applies to after you are presented to Bang Chan-nim. You cannot leave beforehand” Minho said as they crossed a what seemed to be a marketplace. Stalls with everything from breads and meat to clothing and twinkling glass accessories sat scattered around.

“Everything in the marketplace is free for those who live in Miroh” Minho explained. “Once you are presented to Bang Chan-nim and officially accepted into the city, you will be assigned a position to work. As long as you fulfill your position, you will be able to use the marketplace as you please”

“This place runs as though its a pack”

“I suppose you can consider us to be some sort of a pack. However, we all belong to Bang Chan-nim. Every one of us was brought here as offerings and he controls what we do”

The two of them stopped in front of an impressive building. Unlike every other stone structure in the town, this house was carved out of the same white marble that the temple looming above them was.

“And that brings us to our final rule” Minho said. “Bang Chan-nim’s word is law. All new offerings are presented to him on the first day of each month. Beyond that, you are not to interact with him or enter his Temple unless he calls on you. Anything he says must be obeyed and if you do not, you risk being expelled or killed.”

Honestly, Felix had been expecting to be killed and his blood used as sacrifice the moment he had stepped foot into this place so this was a better deal than he thought. All he had to do was not piss off Bang Chan until he was able to bide his time and hoard enough resources to leave this place and make it on his own.

“This is your new home” Minho said, pointing to the building in front of them “we call it The Hall”

“Why does it look nicer than all the other homes here?”

“This is where Bang Chan-nim houses his favorite offerings. He keeps them here until he bores of them and then he’ll send them away to become priests” Minho explained.

Felix looked at him, confused “Then why am I being housed here? Bang Chan-nim hasn’t even seen me yet”

“I am Bang Chan-nim’s personal advisor. I already know that he’ll choose to house you here so it’s easier for us all if I just keep you here from the beginning. I do hate the extra hassle of having to move all of you”

“Didn’t expect a God’s advisor to be so lazy” Felix muttered. Minho politely ignored him, which was a first. Everybody in his pack was always so quick to anger over his little quips. 

“The others staying in The Hall will answer any more questions you have. I need to return to my duties. A guard will come collect you in two weeks for your presentation to Bang Chan-nim. In the meantime, you may wander around and get used to the city. But do remember you are not allowed to leave until you have been presented.”

And with that, Minho spun around and then disappeared into thin air. Felix gaped, mouth open wide as the man just vanished. It left him with even more questions on top of the millions he already had.

Felix had never considered himself a particularly inquisitive man. He usually just went along with whatever life threw at him without questioning why. But in this case, he didn’t think there was anything wrong with him being curious. Everyone in his pack made it seem like he would just automatically be presented to Bang Chan-nim and killed immediately as a sacrifice for their prayers. He hadn’t been expecting to find a whole town of people and a weird pack like system here to greet him.

Shaking his head, Felix clutched onto his bag tighter as he walked through the open archway into the The Hall. Even though the walls were just a series or arches with thin, gauzy drapings over them, it was comfortably warm inside of the building. It was almost as though the floors themselves were heated and radiated their warmth through the rooms.

The main room of The Hall was inviting, with plush couches and overstuffed pillows scattered around.

Felix was just about to drop his bag on one of the couches when there was a rush of movement from the other end of the room caught his attention. He looked up to see five men stumble in, looking delighted when they saw him.

“You were right, Jinnie!”

“I told you I heard the guard bring someone! You guys just didn’t believe me”

“Well it isn’t the first of the month yet, so we didn’t expect anyone new to be sent here.”

“Uh…hi” Felix said, confused.

“Woah, your voice is so deep!” One of the men said, walking up to him. He smelled like candy floss and lilacs, very overwhelmingly omega. “I’m Jeongin. And over there is Hyunjin, Jisung, Changbin, and Seungmin. We’re the other ones who live in The Hall”

“I’m Felix. I just came here today so I suppose I’m the newest person to live here?”

“Did you meet Bang Chan-nim already?” Changbin asked as all of them crowded around Felix. “How did you get sent to The Hall?”

“Minho brought me here. He said…”

“Minho???” Jisung cried “As in Lee Minho, Bang Chan-nim’s advisor?”

“I guess? I didn’t really catch his last name”

"I'm so jealous you got to meet him on your first day here" Jisung pouted "You're lucky. Isn't he gorgeous?"

“Minho never comes just to look at the new offerings” Jeongin said, completely ignoring Jisung. He looked at Felix in confusion. “Why would he personally come to see you? And bring you to The Hall”

“I don’t know” Felix exclaimed. He could feel his claws prickling to extend as the other boys crowded him further, eager to come out and tear them to shreds. He kept them in, remembering his promise to behave and stay safe. “Everyone just kept saying that Bang Chan-nim would be pleased with me”

“It’s your eyes” Hyunjin gasped, “They’re the same as his; I thought he was the only one with eyes like that”

“Huh?” Felix asked, eyebrows raised “Someone else has eyes like me?” There was no way that could be the case. Every pack he had been sent to was always in shock seeing his eyes. Felix had become a bit of an urban legend amongst the nation because of them, the omega with silver hair and strange eyes. Even the guards here had seemed surprised by them.

“Bang Chan-nim” Jeongin answered “His eyes are just like yours”

“Well, the opposite” Seungmin corrected “His left one is blue and his right is brown. But they look the same”

“So you’re saying I look like a god” Felix preened a little, tossing his hair over one shoulder.

“Only the eyes” Hyunjin said “nothing else is the same, thankfully”

“Why? Is he ugly?” Felix asked, curious. He had never heard anything about Bang Chan’s looks. Whenever people talked about the Wolf God, it was always about how terrible he was: a cruel, vicious alpha who used omegas without thought and who’s terrible temper would lead him to strike people dead whenever he pleased. At all his various temples across the nation, the high priests would require blood sacrifices to make any requests or prayers.

“He isn’t ugly, but he’s terrible. Cruel and uncaring and rough” Hyunjin bit out. “You’ll see soon enough”

“Maybe he’ll be spared” Changbin said “Bang Chan-nim doesn’t prefer betas, usually”

Felix’s blood ran cold. So all of the omegas here, the ones that Bang Chan-nim liked the best, were part of his harem. It was obvious what was going to be expected of Felix and he felt himself heat up from the core. He had been prepared to fight for his life; to figure out this grand destiny that his dam has prophesied for him. This couldn't be it; to be used as nothing more than a bed warmer for a bored god. 

“I don't think he'd mind a beta that looks like him” Jeongin scoffed, pointing in the general direction of Felix’s…everything.

“I’m not a beta. I’m an omega” Felix sighed. They all turned to look at him.

“What? But you have no scent” Seungmin said. The rest of then nodded, sniffing at the air in order to catch a whiff of anything and failing. “There’s no way you can be an omega”

“I wear a scent blocker”

“What is that?”

“My sire created it” Felix said, feeling strange to officially call Nayeon his sire. “She made it to hide my scent after I officially presented”

“Why would you need to hide your scent?”

“It’s off putting” Felix answered with no hint of embarrassment. It was just a fact. “That’s why I was sent here. My pack said everything about me is off-putting for an omega. My voice, my scent, my teeth”

“Your teeth?”

Felix grinned, showing his full canines. Seungmin moved even closer to get a better look and Felix bristled, holding up one clawed hand in warning. The rest of them gasped and moved back.

“What are you?” Hyunjin asked in a hushed tone.

“Your newest roommate” Felix grinned back.

After their brief introduction, the other five men of The Hall left Felix a wide berth. Changbin had showed him to his room and Felix got himself situated. Over the next days ,the other boys did try to have small conversation with him here and there, but Felix never engaged. There was no point of it. He realized quickly that he did not belong here and would be moved as soon as he was presented. The guards and Minho had most likely brought him here because of his looks, but it was only a matter of time before they realized that his nature was far different from the facade he wore. This house was made to hold Bang Chan-nim’s favorites: the future priests. No one in their right mind would make Felix a priest or consider him to be their favorite.

Bang Chan-nim was surely like every other alpha out there. Wanting a beautiful, graceful omega like Hyunjin. Or someone like Jisung and Jeongin who smelled pretty and knew how to look delicate. Or betas like Seungmin and Changbin that were smart and strong and dependable. Even after just spending a few days amongst them, Felix realized that each of these five boys were a testament to their secondary gender--prime, shining examples of what an omega or beta should be. 

Felix was none of that. He wasn’t ashamed of what he was, but he was realistic. He was wild and untamable. Even here, in the Holy City, his fingers itched to claw at a wild animal or set something on fire. Something feral and dangerous inside of him burned to be released. None of these boys would accept him if they knew what was held inside of his body. The bloody fantasies ingrained in his claws and fangs. Nobody in his own pack had accepted him, so why did he think complete strangers would—especially five strangers that were the God’s own favorite to the point where they had a house carved out of marble for them. 

Felix felt like an imposter once again. Nayeon had told him that she hoped he would find the reason he was born here in the desolate north, but even here he was still an outsider looking in. A fraud who didn’t fit in and made people wary just to be around. 

But, for once, Felix was forced to bury his true nature as to not get struck dead before he even had a chance to be presented. He cursed Nayeon and his promise to her to try his hardest to stay alive. He hadn’t harmed or lashed out at anyone and had instead just isolated himself in his room to avoid any temptation. He felt his insides boiling out at him, screaming to destroy, to maim, to burn it all down to the ground; and he forced himself to ignore it until it was a dull, dying animal rotting beneath his skin. He wasn’t used to suppressing himself and he felt the wild thing inside of him suffocate more every day. By the time his presentation day came around, Felix was downtrodden and felt like all the fight had been drained out of him. He let the guard enter his room and do whatever they pleased. He became nothing more than a doll in their arms, letting them dress him in some gauzy white silk robe and put a white lace veil over his head as though he was some blushing virgin sacrifice. He slathered his neck and wrists with scent blocker and let himself be led out, all plaint and peaceful as an omega should be.

The other five boys were clustered around the entrance of the house, watching him. They all wished him luck, Hyunjin even saying they hoped to see him back in The Hall once the presentation was over. Felix didn’t know how true that was.

The guards led him and three other omegas, all dressed in the same nearly sheer robes, up the endless amount of stairs that took them to the temple on the mountain cliff. By the time they reached the entrance, they were all tired and chilled down to their bones. The guards made them kneel in prayer in front of the temple doors.

Felix knelt and felt the wild thing inside of him cry, clawing to get out. He looked to the right and left of him and saw the other omegas that were there as offerings. They were the picture of gentle obedience. Two of them were crying softly as they said their prayers and the thing in Felix finally snapped.

You will find what you were born to do.

Fuck this, he thought. He wasn’t just going to sit there and pray while being offered to the God like some sort of sacrificial lamb. That wasn’t the type of omega he was. He had fought his whole life and he would fight again. His dam sacrificed her life to birth him and this couldn’t be what he was meant for. He wasn’t meant to just be presented all pretty and sweet so he could become part of a harem. 

He was born for something more than that.

With a growl, Felix took off  his gauzy veil and used it to rub off his scent blocker. Immediately, the omegas next to him started to retch. His scent hit the guards seconds later and soon they too were doubled over as they were overwhelmed with the sudden onslaught of suffocating vanilla and the overpowering sharp, earthy tang of blood.

Felix threw the veil to the side and stood up and opened the door to the temple. He would face Bang Chan-nim as he was. Wild, violent, bloody—claws and fangs out, ready for a fight.

He was born for a reason and he had to find out what it was.

Minho walked into Chan’s dressing room and looked towards the god, who was lounging on the settee, staring at the ceiling with a bored expression. It’s how he usually found him. Minho found himself wondering, not for the first time, how dull a God’s life truly was.

“We have a few matters to discuss before you view you view this month’s offerings” Minho said, looking through the papers in his hands.

“Sure”

“One of your children is going to present very soon. We are expecting it to happen any day now”

“Okay, and?”

“She will present as an alpha”

“Then do what we always do. Give her the allowed amount of gold and kick her out” Chan said with a frown “why the fuck are you informing me about this?”

“It’s just her dam. He says that he will not stay here if his child is forced to leave. He wanted me to bring his concern to you”

“Tell the dam that he is very well welcome to leave with the child for all I care” Chan said with a shrug. “No alphas are allowed in Miroh. You know I don’t like the way they smell”

“Yes, I know” Minho said with a sigh. Bang Chan had the most sensitive nose out of anybody he had ever met. He could even smell betas. Minho wondered if that was a skill all gods had, or if was the wolf part of Chan. “I do believe that this dam hoped you would want him to stay and would therefore allow your child to stay as well”

“Is he one of the omegas from The Hall?”

“No”

“Then what would make him believe that?”

“You know how some of your offerings become” Minho answered “You bedded him multiple times so I suppose he hoped he meant something to you”

Chan scoffed “I am immortal, Minho. How would I even remember who he is let alone how many times I slept with him? All you humans with your pathetic lifespans are meaningless”

“I will pass along your message”

“Make sure the guards tell the new offerings as well” Chan said “I do not want any of them to get attached to me.”

“Of course, Bang Chan-nim. I do believe you will be pleased with this new batch of offerings, however”

“Oh, and why would you think that?”

“Because I was able to meet one of them when he came in. He is just your type”

“I do not have a type” Bang Chan said with a frown. He had lived far too long for such a trivial thing. Humans were there for a bit of fun but nothing beyond that. 

“Oh you do. You’ll realize it as soon as you see him”

“What are you….”

Chan stopped in the middle of his sentence as a smell hit him. He could hear Minho gagging to the side of him but he didn’t even care about what was happening to his advisor because he was smelling the best scent he had ever come across and it was driving him slightly mad.

Chan jumped up from the settee and ran out of the room, following that scent to the source. It was the strongest, richest vanilla undercut with an iron tang that couldn’t be anything other than blood. It was the thrill of a kill and a burst of sweetness wrapped into one smell and Chan found himself already addicted.

Minho trailed behind Chan, one hand covering his nose as he tried to keep up with the god “I have no idea where this awful smell is coming from, Bang Chan-nim. Perhaps some animal died near the temple? I will have it found and disposed of immediately…”

Chan ignored his advisor as he rounded the corner to the entrance hall. He looked towards the doorway and saw the most bewitching boy staring straight back at him.

Time seemed to stand still.

Felix looked up at the man standing at the end of the hall. He was shirtless, pants slung low on his hips. Slash marks decorated his muscular chest and back and his face was beautiful—as though every feature had been painstakingly carved out of the same white marble that surrounded them. The man blinked and his eyes were the same as Felix’s; ice blue and brown. Claws extended out from the tips of his fingers and his black hair fell messily over his perfect face. 

And Felix though Oh…

This was the reason why he had been born.

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The whole temple seemed to descend into silence as Felix stared at the man in front of him. Even though there hadn’t been any sort of formal introduction, he knew this had to be Bang Chan-nim. Who else but a God could look the way he did and command such a strong presence just by simply existing.

The two guards who had brought them all up to the Temple finally regained their senses and ran in after Felix. The other three omega offerings hobbled in after them as they all tried hard not to gag and throw up on the marble floor, a whole cacophony of chaos playing out at once. One of the guards ran up behind Felix, hand still covering his nose.

“My apologies, Bang Chan-nim. The offering took us by surprise and attacked us with this…smell before any of us could react. We will rid you of him immediately”

The guard grabbed one of Felix’s arms to drag him away. Felix turned to claw the man’s eyes out before a voice stopped them both.

“Unhand the offering”

They turned to look at Bang Chan, who was still standing stock still on the other side of the entrance hall. Felix thought his voice sounded a lot sweeter than he looked. He had expected him to have a voice a little like his own—a bit too deep and raspy to sound pleasant. But instead, the God’s voice was pleasant and rich like honey.

The guard didn’t let go of Felix “It is my fault for not keeping better control of them, Bang Chan-nim, please forgive me. It will be no issue for me to rid you of this offering. His behavior is unacceptable to say the least”

Felix struggled against the grip on his arm. It was weak but the guard seemed determined not to let go of him no matter how much he squirmed around.

“The Wolf God told you to unhand me”

“Silence, offering! You’ve already caused us too many problems”

“I have a name, you know” Felix said, rolling his eyes. The guard tried to drag him towards the front entrance of the Temple, calling the other one to come and help him. Felix looked beseechingly at Bang Chan.

The God growled low in the back of his throat and suddenly the guard holding onto Felix crumpled to the ground in a heap. The other guard backed away suddenly, eyes growing wide at he looked at Bang Chan.

“I would advise you not to touch the offering unless you would like to befall the same fate as your comrade”

Felix kicked the body at his feet, the wild part inside of him rejoicing when he could detect no movement from the guard. Nayeon hadn’t been lying when she told him that Bang Chan could kill someone in a split second. Felix didn’t know if he had ever found something more attractive in his life.

He kicked the body harder for good measure before walking over to Bang Chan in long strides. The gauzy excuse of a robe that they had dressed him in did very little to cover any parts of him and he could see the God scanning him from head to toe.

“Bang Chan-nim, this is Lee Yongbok, the offering I was mentioning earlier” Minho said as Felix came up right in front of them. The smell of him grew stronger as he came closer and Minho felt his eyes water from it.

“No” Chan said, looking straight at the boy “You’re not a Yongbok, are you?”

Felix grinned at him and he saw Chan’s eye zero in on his fangs. And he knew, in the deepest part of him, that if the God smiled back at him he would have matching canines. “I’m not, my name is Felix”

Chan raised a single eyebrow “Happiness. Is that what you are?”

Happiness would probably be the last thing that Felix would say he had brought to the world up until this point, but maybe that would all change now. Either way, something inside of him wanted to rile the Wolf God up as much as he could. “Happiness is objective”

“Meaning?”

“Meaning some people have found great happiness with me” Felix grinned.

“Oh? You seem to have much experience in that”

Felix moved even closer. He looked up at Bang Chan from underneath his lashes, a move he knew made him look as innocent as a little lamb “Maybe”

Bang Chan inhaled deeply as Felix drew nearer and the omega stiffened a little, waiting for the inevitable grimace or look of disgust. There hadn’t been a single person who had ever smelled Felix’s raw scent without being immediately sickened by it and he didn’t figure this would be any different.

“Your smell is intoxicating”

Felix’s eyes grew wide at the words, not knowing how to react to that. Nobody had ever said anything like that to him before.

“Surely you must have heard that countless times” Chan said as he pulled Felix towards him so he could drown himself in the vanilla and blood that was just getting thicker and stronger by the second. “No wonder you have plenty of experience, how would anyone be able to resist your scent?”

“It’s been a little polarizing…”

“It’s the best thing I’ve ever smelled” Chan pressed as he brought there foreheads’s together. Felix had always thought the Wolf God would be some huge, hulking creature, but Bang Chan was surprisingly the same height as him. He was almost twice as wide, with corded muscles, and his aura was even larger. Just as Chan seem intoxicated with his smell, Felix found himself intoxicated by everything that was the Wolf God. His face, his mussed hair, his arms that could so casually maneuver him around.

"Can I see your teeth?" Felix asked. He needed to see the fangs he knew would be there. 

Chan didn't seem bothered or confused by the question at all. Instead he opened his mouth, baring a set of shining perfectly normal teeth. Felix frowned at them and Chan laughed aloud at him. 

"You seem disappointed"

"I was expecting something...sharper"

"Oh? Like this?" In a split second, Chan's canines grew longer and more pointed. Felix gasped: the Wolf God had fangs that could expand and retract just like his claws. The sharpness of them glinted in the low light of the Temple, looking dangerous and ready to pierce skin--absolutely perfect. Everything about the God was perfect, as though he had been crafted straight from the omega's darkest fantasies. Felix felt himself starting to leak slick—another first for him. Alphas always tended to bore him so he would normally have to force himself to slick up so he wouldn’t endure a dry fuck.

Felix’s slick made his scent heavier between them and Chan actually growled as he smelled it.

“Fuck” he muttered. He looked at Felix with wild eyes. His expression was something feral. “Lean back, Felix. I have to taste you”

Felix had no idea what he meant, but he leaned back either way. He found himself unable to refuse when the God was looking at him with those eyes. Chan scanned his body one more time before dropping to his knees in front of him.

Everyone else in the room gasped. Minho staggered forward a little, hands splayed outing front of him “Bang Chan-nim. You can’t…kneeling in front of a human is…”

Chan ignored him and just kept his eyes on Felix. He grabbed the edge of Felix’s robe before pulling it up a little to give himself room to move under it.

Felix groaned as Bang Chan stuck his head underneath his robes. The guards hadn’t given them any undergarments to wear, so Felix knew that his pussy was on display, slick leaking out—sticky and messy on his thighs.

He heard the God inhale deeply once before he felt the slick tongue lapping at his thighs in long stokes—hot even against his rapidly heating skin.

Felix didn’t really know what to expect next. All of the alphas and betas he had bedded in the past had just gone straight to penetration without even trying anything else. Using one’s mouth to bring pleasure was seen as something dirty and besides, even with all the scent blockers Felix slathered on, his slick always carried his natural scent and no one wanted to be around it.

So the first lick to Felix’s pussy was almost electric. He felt Chan’s whole body shudder as he coated his tongue with Felix’s slick. The God stilled, his breath coming out so erratically that Felix wondered if he was hyperventilating. He was just about to lift his robe to see what was going on when Chan grabbed him by the waist, slammed him fully against the wall, and shoved his face in the omega’s pelvis.

Felix keened, high and whiny, as Chan started to lick at him like a man starved. He lapped at the slick coming out and shoved his tongue into Felix’s folds to catch anything that lingered inside. His hands shoved Felix’s thighs wider apart as his tongue worked relentlessly at Felix’s core. The sounds echoed loudly through the entrance hall and there was no hiding what was happening from any of the other people present.

Felix threw his head back harder against the wall, breath coming out in shallow pants as he felt Chan’s tongue licking at the sides of his entrance before going on, the tight muscles pulsing against it.

He looked to the side and saw Minho staring in shock at the scene before him. His cheeks were becoming more and more red as it continued. The advisor looked up and caught his eye and—just to be a little shit—Felix grinned and started to thrust his hips to help Chan get his tongue deeper inside of him. He kept eye contact with Minho the whole time, loving how embarrassed the other man looked. He let out a laugh that turned into a loud moan as Chan flicked over his clit greedily.

“Bang Chan-nim, would you like to continue…this in your chambers?” Minho asked. Felix knew on the other side of the hall, the remaining guard and other three offerings were probably equally as mortified. The thought filled him with such raw pleasure that he felt himself on the verge of orgasming—also something very rare for him. No alpha had ever been able to bring him to completion so quickly, if they even had at all.

“I’m close” Felix breathed out.

Bang Chan let out a noise that almost sounded like a whine. He mouthed at Felix’s pussy, dull teeth biting and nibbling at the flesh like a babe teething—eager for the omega to release another onslaught of slick into his awaiting mouth. Felix ground down on his tongue more insistently until he felt the tightly coiled spool unfurl in his lower stomach and he came with a loud growl. Chan matched his growl and lapped up the flood of slick coming out with such intensity that Felix twitched with overstimulation. Chan’s tongue was everywhere in him, stroking desperately along his folds.

When the God continued with his ministrations, Felix knew that unless he did something, Chan would probably never come up from underneath his robes. He would be happy to lap at Felix’s pussy and eat his slick all day long. So he stuck his hand under his robe and grabbed onto Bang Chan’s hair, pulling his head out from under it. In the light streaming through the entrance hall; the Wolf God’s lips and mouth were shiny and messy with slick, some of it dripping down his chin onto his neck. His eyes were wide and blown out.

Chan pulled against Felix’s hand, trying to get back under his robe, but the omega didn’t loosen his grip. Instead he pulled Chan’s head back and looked the God straight in the eye.

“Won’t you come up here and let me taste myself?” He whispered.

That was all it took for Chan to straighten up and push Felix against the wall once again, crushing their lips together. Felix tastebuds exploded with sweetness and iron. He rolled his body against Chan’s and felt the God’s hard erection digging into the softness of his stomach. His eyes rolled back at the size of it.

“Can you see how divine you taste?” Chan demanded as he pulled back slightly. He nipped at Felix’s lower lip, fangs extended enough to rip the soft flesh a little. “I am addicted to you. Want to eat your slick all day”

“Hm” Felix moaned, He rolled against Chan once, twice, before the God got the message and started rutting on him. Felix lifted himself onto his toes so Chan’s erection rubbed against the top of his mound. He was already starting to get wet again and the smell of it was heavy between them.

Chan groaned and buried his head in Felix’s neck. “You don’t understand how good you smell”

Felix buried his face in Chan’s hair and frowned. “I can’t smell you at all”

“A God’s scent is personal, little pet” Chan said. Felix shuddered at the nickname. Chan was still grinding against him. The heat of his erection was hot against him even through all the layers of clothes.

“I just let you lick me in front of a handful of strangers. How much more personal do you need to get?” Felix muttered. Chan chuckled against his neck.

“No one but my siblings have smelled me before” Chan said “and especially not a human”

“Don’t you think I’m special?” Felix asked. Chan pulled away and looked Felix in the eyes. The eyes that were a mirror version of his own.

“I’ll have to think about it”

Felix grinned and snaked his hand down his body, pulling at the sash of the flimsy robe he was wearing. It came apart, handing loose off his shoulders and putting his whole body on full display. Chan’s eyes went down his unmarked chest.

“You loved tasting me, didn’t you?” Felix whispered in Chan’s ear. “Imagine how much better it will feel to fuck me”

Chan groaned and inhaled deeply. “Don’t tease, pet”

He dragged his hand down Felix’s exposed chest. One of his sharp claws dug into the unmarred skin, leaving a long scratch mark. Felix sucked his breath in sharply as blood came out of it, staining Chan’s marble pale skin.

“Does it scare you?” Chan asked, looking from the scratch to Felix’s face.

The omega smiled brightly. “Never. I want even more”

Chan groaned and grabbed Felix, pulling him in closer as he rutted against him harder. Felix’s blood smeared onto the God’s exposed chest. “Tell me what you want”

“I want you to claw me harder. Rip me open. Grab me by my throat and tear it as you fuck me” Felix muttered. Each word seemed to hammer into Bang Chan, who was almost feral; breathing heavy and rutting so aggressively that Felix was sure he would be bruised from the blunt force.

“You are dangerous” Chan rasped out. He dropped his head to Felix’s neck again, this time nipping at soft skin at the juncture between his neck and shoulders, where his sweat and scent was concentrated. Chan had his fangs out and Felix could feel the little pricks of them.

He rutted against Felix once, twice, three times before before he stilled with a loud growl. He bit down on the juncture of Felix’s neck—fangs retracted now—dull teeth bruising his skin as he gnawed at it over and over. Felix wondered if the biting and teething was a wolf thing. He thought it was adorable, which was a very strange thing to think about a half naked God who had just given him the best sexual experience of his life without even fucking him.

Bang Chan finally lifted his head up and looked at Felix again, taking in his face properly now that his mind wasn’t so hazy. Felix could feel those eyes focus on every single feature of his and he held his head up proudly for the first time. It wasn’t that he had ever been ashamed of his looks before—he knew that people found him to be rather enchanting as long as he didn’t call too much attention to certain aspects of himself. However this was the first time that he didn’t have to actually keep those things hidden. Everything that people had hated in his past—his eyes and fangs and smell—were things that the Wolf God seemed fascinated by. It made him feel beautiful and desirable because of those things, not despite them.

“I’ve never seen an omega like you before” Chan said after a few seconds. His eyes flitted around Felix’s face.

“Well you haven’t seen any of the other offerings yet” Felix said, looking towards the entrance of the Temple, where the remaining guard and three other omegas stood in shock. They were all staring at the ground with bright red faces, trying their hardest not to make eye contact with Felix or Chan.

“I don’t need to look at the other offerings” Chan bit out.

Minho cleared his throat from next to them. “You probably should take a look at them, Bang Chan-nim. You…they…they haven’t been presented yet”

“I said I don’t want to see them” Chan said, looking at Minho with narrowed eyes “Why do none of my staff seem to want to listen to me today?”

“Of course you don’t have to see them if you do not wish to” Minho said quickly. “What would you like us to do with them instead?”

“Kill them for all I care” Chan said. Felix shuddered against him and Chan’s attention was once again drawn to the omega in front of him. “You like that, pet? When I order humans to die?”

“You can just strike them dead like you did with that guard, instead” Felix replied. The front of his robe was becoming stained with blood from the cut that Chan had given him and it made the iron in his scent even stronger.

“The tribes who sent these offerings would not be happy with them being killed before they were even presented” Minho interjected, eager to not have those three innocent omegas killed for no other reason than the fact that the Wolf God had met a person as equally deranged as him “Perhaps I can take them back to their temporary housing for now and just bring them to be presented to you with next month’s offerings?”

“Do what you want” Chan snapped “But if you mention them to me one more time, you will be the one killed”

“Of course, Bang Chan-nim”

Felix tilted his head to the side as Chan’s eyes returned to him. He could see them start to darken again as they raked over his body and he almost let our a whimper at the God’s stamina. He had just cum and yet he seemed ready to go again. Every part of Felix screamed to just let the God have his way with him; he was more than eager to know how to felt to have that heavy cock inside of him. However, Felix knew better than that. Even though none of his endless marriage proposals had come to fruition, if there was one skill that he had learned from them, it was how to catch an alpha in his web. And even though Bang Chan was a God, he was still an alpha at the end of the day.

So instead of listening to what his body wanted and letting Bang Chan fuck him right there in public, Felix tightened his robe around him and stepped away. He smiled coyly at the God before making his way over towards the entrance where the other offerings were still huddled.

“Where do you think you’re off to, pet?”

“Isn't this month’s presentation over now?” Felix asked, voice and face nothing but the picture of innocence. 

“For the others, not for you” Chan said.

“Why not for me? I thought that I wasn’t anything special. Didn’t you say you had to think about it?”

Bang Chan didn’t answer that question. Instead he just looked at the omega with hooded eyes. “You should stay the night in the Temple. There are many more private areas here for you to discover. I do believe you would enjoy it”

“I’ll think about it. Maybe in the future. For now, I would like to go back home” Felix said with a wink as he gingerly stepped over the dead guard who was still lying in a crumpled heap on the floor and walked out of the temple doors. The lone guard left didn’t seem to know what to do, whether to follow him or just stay with the other offerings.

Felix didn’t wait for the man to decide or for Bang Chan to reply to his flippant goodbye. He knew his way back to The Hall and he didn’t need anyone to guide or guard him. He had talked back to the Wolf God himself and nothing had happened, so he felt pretty safe traversing Miroh on his own.

The air was still frigid that high up in the mountains without any of the hot springs on the ground to warm it up and the cold definitely didn’t feel great on Felix’s tacky, slick and spit stained thighs. So by the time he returned to The Hall, he was frozen to the bone and wanted nothing more than to take a nice, hot bath and tuck himself into his plush bed.

Unfortunately, the other five residents of The Hall were all eagerly awaiting his return.

Hyunjin cried out when Felix came in, Changbin checking the window facing the front entrance in confusion.

“You’re back! So Bang Chan-nim is allowing you to stay in The Hall?” Hyunjin asked as he came over. He stopped short, noticing the blood caked to the front of Felix’s robe.

“You weren’t guided back by a guard?” Changbin asked, still looking outside. “Why did they make you come back on your own?”

“He’s hurt!” Jisung added in, rushing to stand next to Hyunjin.

Changbin’s eyes darkened and he turned to look towards Felix “What did Bang Chan-nim do to you? Did he hurt you?”

“Of course he hurt him, he’s bleeding” Seungmin interjected. All of them looked over Felix's body with worry. His lip had dried blood on it as well “I’m sorry, Felix. We should have warned you more. We all know how cruel he can be and we didn’t prepare you properly for meeting him. Did he hurt you anywhere else?”

Felix thought about the bruises forming on his stomach from where Chan had dug into him and shuddered in pleasure. Jisung whined.

“He did, didn’t he?” The omega asked. He tried to come closer to Felix and then pulled away, gagging “You smell like blood! How much did he hurt you?”

“We didn’t think he would be like…this...during your presentation” Changbin said. He looked over at Jeongin who was rooted to the sofa, eyes wide and frightened as he looked at Felix “Out of all of us, he was only cruel to Jeongin during his presentation, but even then he just yelled at him a bit. He never physically hurt any of us until he bedded us. That’s why we didn’t warn you ahead of time. We didn’t think he would get violent so quickly”

“What does he do during a typical presentation?” Felix asked, the first words he said after returning.

“Presentation is usually very quick and formal. Bang Chan-nim just looks over all the month’s offerings and makes sure that they seem fit to live in Miroh. Then he will let Minho and the guards assign them to a house and job. If he takes a liking for you for whatever reason, then he will assign you to The Hall. As you can see, that doesn’t happen very often”

“I think my presentation only took less than a minute” Hyunjin recalled.

“Mine was short too” Jeongin said, still sounding a little spooked “But Bang Chan-nim just got angry at me because I wasn’t bowing low enough. He said I was lucky that I smelled good because otherwise he would have killed me”

Felix couldn’t imagine the man he saw today being mad at someone for not bowing properly. Hell, Felix had smeared his blood all over him and he hadn’t seemed to care. “Does he ever do…anything else…during a presentation?”

“Like violent things?” Jisung asked, eyes trained on the front of Felix’s presentation robe.

“Ah no” Felix said, grinning slightly “I mean like sex things”

“Sex things?” Hyunjin gasped “During presentation? In front of all those people? No way! Bang Chan-nim always keeps those things private and only in his chambers.”

“Why?” Seungmin asked “Is that what he did to you? He bedded you during your presentation?”

Felix didn’t say anything and the rest of the five men suddenly went into an uproar at the idea of the Wolf God breaking decorum like that. Miroh was run on rules that had been set since Bang Chan had created the city and it ran as well as it did because the Wolf God was always so strict with those rules. Anyone who broke them or even threatened to break them was immediately killed or exiled—which this far up north was even worse than being killed outright.  It was unthinkable for Bang Chan to let anyone disregard his carefully set out rules, let alone he himself doing so.

“Oh you have to tell us all the details” Hyunjin said, excitedly. "I can't believe he bedded you right away!"

“Still doesn’t explain why you smell like blood so much” Jisung added, though he looked equally as thrilled to be getting some sort of illicit details about Felix’s time in the Temple.

Felix, on the other other hand, had no real desire to tell the other five men anything. The part of him that reveled in chaos enjoyed the suspense that the situation was building in his roommates—wanted to keep them in a state of limbo for no other reason than to deny them something they so desperately wanted. And the other part of him, which he was slowly starting to discover, wanted to keep whatever was happening between him and Chan to himself. He recognized that what had happened was something bigger than just almost fucking in the Temple entrance and he felt an internal thrill thinking about what would happen next. He had never felt this way about anybody or anything before in his life and he didn’t want to share it.

So instead, he just stretched his arms over his head like a little kitten, allowing the his robe to slip a little and let the growing bruise that Chan had sucked at the juncture of his neck and shoulder be visible. He heard Jisung gasp.

“I am actually in desperate need of a bath” Felix said, “Maybe I will answer all your questions tomorrow”

He wouldn’t, but it was fun to keep them in suspense.

“No fair” Hyunjin whined. Felix felt almost giddy as he went down the hallway to where his private bathroom was. It was a strange feeling for him—never in his life had he felt as elated as he was now. He knew that whatever was going on couldn’t remain a secret forever, but he would keep it to himself for as long as he could.

As long as he could, turned out, to be less than a day.

The very next morning, Hyunjin burst into Felix’s room before he even rose, yelling excitedly and loudly enough to wake the whole Hall up.

“Felix!! Come outside and look at your delivery!”

“My delivery?” Felix asked as he blinked his eyes His voice was even deeper and rougher with sleep. He was glad that he decided to sleep in the velvet robe that was provided to them instead of just in the nude as he normally preferred. He didn’t think his roommates were ready to see him in that state yet, especially with the long scratch down his chest that still had dried blood caked on that he hadn’t been able to bring himself to wash off when he bathed the night before. He didn’t want them to ask any more questions about it. He was also glad that he had decided to put his scent blocker on before slipping into bed last night.

“Wow, you really sound like some sort of demon” Hyunjin shuddered “But come with me, hurry!”

Felix let the other omega drag him out of bed and he made sure the sash on his robe was tightened before Hyunjin led him out of the room and down the hallway hurriedly.

“Couldn’t this have waited until I was fully awake?” Felix groaned as the light streaming in from the arched hallway and reflecting off the white marble stung his eyes.

“No!” Hyunjin said, insistent “This is something miraculous”

Felix thought that miraculous things probably weren’t that out of the ordinary seeing as how they all lived in a Holy City literally ran by a God, but Hyunjin’s excitement was a little infectious and he felt himself curious as they finally entered into the main room of The Hall.

Changbin, Seungmin, and Jeongin were inspecting a large pile of what seemed to be gold littering the floor while Jisung stood stock still and stared—mouth open—at Minho, who was casually lounging nearby. They all looked up as Felix and Hyunjin entered.

“Ah, finally. Yong….Felix” Minho said, standing up. “I hope you had a restful sleep”

“It was fine” Felix said, eyes narrowing. He didn’t know why Bang Chan’s advisor was once again coming to address him personally. He had mentioned before that he rarely left the Temple, but in the short amount of time Felix had been in Miroh, he had already seem the man multiple times.

“Well, this is highly unorthodox, but Bang Chan-nim wanted me to bring these to you” Minho said, ears a little red as he waved his hand towards the golden pile on the ground.

Felix moved closer to it and saw that it wasn’t just random gold, but it was an assortment of fine jewelry and silk garments that had been folded and displayed carefully. There were belts, necklaces, bracelets, and body chains all made of delicate gold and sparkling gemstones the like that Felix had never seen before. He was from the Southern Isles, where pearls were common but gemstones were hardly ever seen as they were far too precious and expensive to be traded for with anything that his pack was able to produce.

There were rumors that in some of the larger and more prosperous packs, the head alpha would gift their chosen partner a ring with a single gemstone in it once they became mated. That was seen as something that only the most ridiculously wealthy packs could afford. For Felix to be given multiple pieces of jewelry all with countless amounts of gemstones was absolutely unheard of.

Likewise, all the robes, tunics, and blouses that were sitting in front of him seemed to be spun from the softest and most elegant of silks, dyed in very dainty, pastel shades that would compliment Felix’s silver hair and golden skin perfectly. All of the pieces were very obviously curated with Felix in mind.

“These are all for me?” Felix asked, looking up.

“Yes” Minho said, sounding a little awkward “Bang Chan-nim said he thought these would suit you”

“I’m so jealous” Hyunjin gasped, leaning on Felix and looking at all of the gifts. Normally somebody being so close to him would made Felix’s violent urges come up, but his roommates did seem to be growing on him slightly.

“Bang Chan-nim has never sent us anything like this before” Jeongin added on. “He’s just maybe given us one or two things”

“He did give me this bracelet” Changbin said, holding up his arm and showing a large brass bracelet that was so thick and large it looked more like a vambrace. There weren’t any gemstones on it, but there were intricate carvings of various wolves and forestry “But that was only after I had been here for a year”

“What did you do to him?” Seungmin wondered aloud as he touched one of the more intricate silk robes that had gold thread weaved through it.

Felix looked up and caught Minho’s eyes. The advisor blushed a deep shade of red and glanced to the side, staring intently at one of the overstuffed pillows on the settee.

“It’s probably nothing” Felix said with a wave of his hand.

“Nothing?” Jisung choked out, finally pulling his eyes away from Minho long enough to look over the pile of presents “these presents are worth a fortune! They would make you the richest person back in my pack!”

“In any pack” Changbin said with a shake of his head.

Seungmin looked down at the gifts more intently “But don’t you see something odd about what Bang Chan-nim chose?”

Hyunjin leaned forward, holding onto Felix’s shoulder tighter “Odd?”

“Jewelry and clothes. Aren’t these normally….”

“Courting gifts” Jeongin gasped. He looked up at Felix with wide eyes “Bang Chan-nim is giving you courting gifts??”

“No way” Changbin interjected “don’t be daft, you two. There is no way a God would do something like send a human courting gifts. Gods don’t mate”

“Of course they don’t mate” Jisung added, looking over towards Minho “…right?”

Minho finally looked back at the pack of boys standing near him “I believe a God can mate, but I’m not entirely sure how the process goes. None of the four Gods have a mate so there really isn’t any precedence for that. Though…I’m sure if a God did choose to court someone, they would give them something more impressive that mere trinkets”

“These are not mere trinkets” Hyunjin said holding up a belt that was studded with white stones so bright that they reflected diamonds all over the marble floor.

“For a God, they are. I believe Bang Chan-nim just wanted to have Felix dress up nicely for him”

“For what reason?” Felix asked, looking at Minho. The advisor blushed again—ears and the back of his neck turning a bright red as though whatever he was about to say next was embarrassing.

“The Wolf God requested your presence in the Temple today. He seems….eager…to continue where he left off yesterday”

Felix grinned as Jisung choked next to him.

“Oh, ew” Hyunjin said, wrinkling his nose. “Figures Bang Chan-nim would give out gifts just because he wants to wet his cock”

“He didn’t send any of us gifts before bedding us” Seungmin pointed out.

“So Bang Chan-nim sent you to come and fetch me?” Felix asked Minho, ignoring everyone else.

The advisor nodded “He wanted me to escort you to the Temple”

“Hmmm…no” Felix said.

Everyone looked at him in shock. Jisung made a sound of distress low in the back of his throat.

“What do you mean no?” Hyunjin asked “You can’t just say no to Bang Chan-nim”

“Well I believe I just did” Felix answered airily. He bent down and picked up a necklace—holding it up to the light and admiring the way the rubies shone dark like blood. He wondered what it would look like if he got fucked wearing just that and nothing else. Chan would probably appreciate it. 

“I went over it with you when you first came to Miroh, Felix” Minho said quickly, sounding a little panicked. “You can't say no; you have to obey whatever Bang Chan-nim says”

Felix rolled his eyes and looked over at the advisor “I’m not disobeying him. If the Wolf God wants to fuck me so bad, then he can come here and whisk me away himself. I am not going to follow his errand boy around like some duckling”

“Bang Chan-nim won’t come here” Changbin said, looking around at the room “Why would a God come to The Hall?”

“Oh, he knows why he’d come here” Felix said.

“He hardly ever leaves his Temple” Jisung said a little nervously “He says being around too many humans annoys him”

“Bang Chan-nim may have given you a few pretty trinkets, but don’t let it get to your head, Felix” Minho said “It is still considered blasphemy if you do not listen to his orders and you saw yesterday what he does to people who betray his orders”

“Well he’s all seeing isn’t he, the Wolf God?” Felix asked, almost mocking.

“Yes”

“Then he can see and hear our conversation now. So I’m telling him to either come here and get me himself or just strike me down dead. I will not take orders from anyone but him directly"

Silence fell over the room for a second before there was a sharp cracking sound and Bang Chan appeared right before them.

Immediately everybody but Felix and Minho fell to their knees in reverence. “Welcome to The Hall, Bang Chan-nim” Jisung said, wringing his hands together as he stared at the ground “It is an honor to have you in our home”

Chan didn’t even pay attention to the other omega. His eyes were solely trained on Felix.

“You are getting too bold, little pet” he said, voice hard.

“Please forgive him, Bang Chan-nim” Hyunjin interjected, placing an arm around Felix’s shoulder “He is new and does not understand the rules of Miroh quite yet”

“Don’t touch him” Chan snapped at Hyunjin, who immediately dropped his arm and moved away with a bow “And I think Felix understands the rules perfectly; don’t you, pet? You just enjoy being a little shit”

Felix chuckled. “Bold assumptions from someone who just met me yesterday”

Chan walked closer to the omega, eyes locked with each other. “I think I’ve known you for far longer than that”

And it was true, Felix felt it deep in his core as well. Chan was so familiar to him, as though he had known him his whole life—possibly even longer. He had known it from the second he had seen the God.

Chan stood in front of Felix and brushed some of the silver hair away from his face. His frown deepened “What happened to your scent?”

“I use blockers” Felix explained “I can’t be around anyone else if I don’t.”

“Fuck anyone else, they’re not who you’re here for. You can’t hide your scent while you’re in Miroh. I won’t allow it”

“You say all of that but you still haven’t shown me your scent yet” Felix pouted. He could feel Chan’s eyes drawn to his pout.

“I believe I told you, little pet, that is personal”

“Yes, well I believe my scent had just become personal as well”

Chan chuckled “Didn’t Minho explain it to you, everything in Miroh belongs to me. And that includes all parts of you”

Felix leaned forward and brushed his thumb across Chan’s lower lip. The Wolf God extracted his fangs just in time to knick the finger, causing blood to bloom on it. Felix grinned and pushed his finger into Chan’s mouth, feeling the man’s rough tongue lap at it. Both of their eyes darkened.

“Then maybe our scents should just belong to each other”

Minho and the other members of The Hall gasped at Felix’s words. How could he claim anything of a god for himself?

Chan lapped up more of Felix’s blood before flicking his thumb out of his mouth “Nothing of mine belongs to a human. It could be considered blasphemous to suggest that”

“Oh, I would never want to be blasphemous. Maybe I don’t know all the rules of Miroh just yet” Felix said, taking his thumb away completelty. He almost laughed at how Chan seemed to follow it like a puppy. That comparison was probably blasphemous as well. “I don’t think Minho explained them to me well. I might require a…private lesson”

“Don’t bring me into whatever this weird foreplay is” Minho grumbled.

“I don’t normally give lessons but I might have some free time today” Chan said with a shrug.

“My lucky day. Lead the way, Wolf God” Felix chuckled. Chan grabbed him by the waist and in the next second they disappeared. Some of the gifts that been given to Felix disappeared as well, namely the body chains and some of the more sheer robes. Changbin looked down at the pile in disgust.

As soon at they were gone, Minho let out the loudest groan and flopped down on one of he settees. For the normally stoic advisor, it was shocking behavior but after what they had just witnessed, none of the inhabitants of The Hall were that shocked by anything anymore. 

“I am going insane” Minho screeched. “Those two are going to kill me!”

“What is going on with them?” Hyunjin asked as the other five crowded around the advisor “Felix did like…a million things that would normally get him killed but Bang Chan-nim just let him do it without punishment?”

“That isn’t even half of it” Minho groaned “Bang Chan-nim is obsessed with him. He asked Felix to stay in the Temple with him last night but Felix refused to”

“He refused a God?” Jeongin gasped.

“He literally refused a God in our living room, why are you so surprised?” Seungmin said.

“I thought he would kill Felix right then but he just laughed. And then asked me if Felix reminded me of a little kitten. I told him not in the slightest and then he got angry at me” Minho continued, eyes ablaze “I had three cats before I was sent to this forsaken place as an offering and he thinks I don’t know what a kitten looks like!”

“I don’t really think that is the main issue here” Changbin pointed out.

“Why does Bang Chan-nim seem to be so keen on Felix?” Hyunjin asked.

“At first, he was fascinated by his scent for whatever reason. Then after he left, Bang Chan-nim spent the rest of the night in the library trying to find literature of a human that had eyes or fangs or claws like Felix. He didn’t even request I bring him another omega to spend the night with”

“Does he think…” Jisung stopped mid sentence, not completely sure if he wanted to finish it. Minho looked at him, encouragingly, and he steeled himself to ask again “Does Bang Chan-nim think Felix could actually be his mate?”

Minho sighed at leaned back against the settee “I have no idea, but if that is the case then we need to be on top of it before news gets out to the rest of Miroh. I’m sure the other offerings from yesterday are already gossiping”

Hyunjin shuddered. Some of the other omegas and betas in Miroh could be quite territorial and jealous when it came to the Wolf God’s attention. While many were chill, there were still plenty that fought each other over who garnered more affection from the aloof alpha. They hated members of The Hall on principle and if they knew that Bang Chan was thinking about selecting a mate amongst one of them, it would be chaos.

“Okay, the six of us are a team” Changbin said. “Whatever is going on, we’ll make sure to keep it under control”

Minho closed his eyes and thought back to last night. To how crazed Bang Chan had seemed once Felix had left. How the God had sat in his library, taking out book after book and thumbing through them like a madman. How he had come up to him that morning with a case full of trinkets and gifts that he had found himself to give to Felix, demanding to see him again. He had almost looked desperate.

And he didn’t know if this was something that any of them could keep under control…

Chapter Text

It wasn’t as though Felix was boastful on purpose. Even though it was very well in his nature to be, there was something about his current situation that made him want to keep it close to himself—a private, intimate secret world just for him.

However, Miroh was a small and isolated place that thrived on gossip so the fact that the Wolf God had only been calling on one person for the past week became huge news. No one had ever witnessed this before—even those who had been in Miroh for decades. If there was one thing Bang Chan was known for, it was not caring about any of them as individuals, never remembering names or faces of any of the Miroh residents. He was notorious for have a new person; sometimes two or three new people, in his bed every day.

Which is what Felix knew everyone thought was happening. The fellow residents of The Hall as well as all of the other offerings in Miroh all assumed that Chan was fucking him whenever he was whisked away to the Temple. A random beta has even cornered him in the hot springs yesterday as he was taking a bath and asked him for tips about how to enchant an alpha. Since Chan was the only alpha in all of Miroh, Felix hadn’t exactly been keen on giving her any advice.

But the truth of the matter was that Chan and Felix hadn’t actually even slept together yet. For all the rumors about the Wolf God’s sexual appetite, Chan always seemed laser focused on pleasuring Felix instead of chasing his own release.

In fact, the God seemed fascinated by everything about Felix in general. He always encouraged Felix to keep his claws out, would run his fingers over the omega’s fangs all the time, and seemed to enjoy nothing more than spending hours with his face plastered in Felix’s neck—inhaling deeply at his scent gland as he listened in amusement to Felix ramble on and on about the chaos he had caused his old pack.

It was thrilling. Part of it because there was some level of deep seated power that came with being the current interest of a literal God. But more than the fact that Chan was a God, the excitement came from being with Chan himself. Felix had never wondered what his ideal alpha would be—everyone he had encountered was more or less the same, just different shades of boring. In the past he had been courted, he had been engaged, he had made it to a couple of weddings even. There hadn’t been any wild romances, but there had been plenty of grand gestures and declarations of love. None of those even held a candle to receiving one simple smile from Chan.

Felix was still cautious. It had only been a week and his whole life had trained him to constantly be on guard. He wasn’t doing anything silly like giving his heart away to the God, but whatever was going on was the most fun he had ever had.

Of course, the other residents of Miroh did not see things similarly.

On a rare day that Chan had actual God duties to attend to, Felix found himself outside of the Temple during the daytime for the first time since he had arrived in the Holy City. Miroh was mystical at night, with its glittering steam and clear view of all the stars surrounding them; but it was magical during the day as well. The sun shone brightly above them and reflected off the snowy surroundings. The occasional pillars of ice or frozen tree branches scattered around caused rainbows to be reflected onto the ground as Felix walked into the marketplace. He hadn’t been assigned a job like everyone else in Miroh so he wasn’t sure if he was able to take anything from the stalls, but he wanted to take a closer look at them either way. If he found something he liked maybe he could convince Chan to get it for him.

He was just about to head over to one of the bread stalls, when three people stepped in his way. They smelled sweet, like fruits and flowers and a hint of spice from one of them. Omegas.

“What are you doing here?” One of them asked. He had short cropped black hair and looked at least two decades older than Felix. The other two omegas that flanked him were about as different as they could get. One was a youthful girl with large eyes and hair almost as light as Felix’s. The other seemed a little older than Nayeon with pink hair and sleepy eyes. The only thing similar about all three was the fact that they looked angry.

“Am I not allowed to go to the marketplace?” Felix asked, confused. This city had entirely too many rules.

“Just didn’t expect you to be prancing around Miroh like you own the place” the man with cropped hair said. He eyed Felix with disdain "You must feel all high and mighty thinking Bang Chan-nim cares about you”

Oh, so this was what was going on. Felix rolled his eyes. How boring. Jealousy was such a trite thing.

“Don’t know what Bang Chan-nim sees in a beta” the pink haired lady said, spitting that last word out as though it was a curse “And a freaky looking one at that”

Felix didn’t bother correcting their misconception. Most people who didn’t know him would assume he was a beta due to his lack of smell. And it wasn’t even because of scent blockers this time—Chan had made him throw those out the second day he was in Miroh. Instead, the God had put a spell on him so that only he could smell Felix’s scent. It was mutually beneficial. Chan’s possessive side was fully indulged, and Felix didn’t have to bother with slathering his whole body in blockers just to live normally amongst others.

“What?” Felix asked, getting closer to the pink haired lady “You’re mad that the Wolf God likes a beta more than you? Insecure that a beta can pleasure him more than you’ll even be able to?”

The lady looked taken aback that Felix actually talked back to her. It seemed like the three of them were used to running the place without any sort of interference. Felix would see about that; he wasn't the type to accept being pushed around. The short haired guy moved next to her, crowding Felix.

“Back away from Yeeun” he said “Do you even know who we are?”

“Should I?” Felix asked, one eyebrow raised. It was laughable that these fools thought they could intimidate him.

“I’m Wooyoung, this is Yeeun and Somi” the man said. Felix looked at them in confusion.

“Okay, and am I supposed to recognize those names?”

“Don’t act like the Wolf God has never mentioned us before” Wooyoung said with a scoff “We’re his favored omegas. We’ve had 10 of his children amongst the three of us. Do you know how many times he’s bedded us to make that happen?”

Felix laughed, the sound loud and grating in the increasingly silent marketplace. “Oh, we don’t do much talking when we’re alone” he said. It wasn’t true—they talked plenty. But he loved seeing the anger on the other omega’s faces. If he could sustain himself solely on the rage of others, he’d be happy “Besides, Bang Chan-nim doesn’t even know the name of his children, let alone the people he’s had them with. You’re pathetic if you think he talks about you”

“The only pathetic one here is you.” Somi said “I heard the guards talking about you, they said your original pack couldn’t wait to get rid of you, that you were a pariah.”

“A freak” Yeeun added in, just for fun. 

Wooyoung grinned “And now you’re here thinking Bang Chan-nim cares about a beta who’s only been here for a week and can’t give him anything.”

“I give him plenty” Felix grinned. “Plenty more than an old man like yourself could ever dream of.” Wooyoung obviously had enough of Felix and his attitude because instead of replying, he just punched the younger omega in the face.

Felix fell to the ground at the force, his head banging against the surface, a few stray rocks cutting into his skin. He laughed as he felt his cheek swell. Oh, he had gotten under their skin so beautifully. He was about to push himself up from the ground when someone stepped in front of him.

He looked up to see Changbin staring at the three omegas with a glare.

“Leave him alone” Changbin bit out, voice hard and menacing.

“Don’t get involved in this, Seo” Yeeun growled “This has nothing to do with you.”

“You’re threatening my roommate, I have every right to get involved”

“Oh?” Wooyoung asked, stepping forward “You think you’re better than us too just because you’re roommates with the pariah? All of you people from The Hall get so uppity when you haven’t even done anything”

“None of us have done anything” Changbin scoffed “We’re offerings. Our purpose ended when we were sent here”

“I have given Bang Chan-nim two children!” Wooyoung spat out “I preserved his bloodline. That is more than any of you can say”

Changbin let out a sarcastic laugh “And you think he cares about that? Does he even know the name of these children? If they’re alphas, do you think he’ll let them stay in Miroh or will he kick them and you out without second thought? Bang Chan-nim is immortal, his bloodline will live on forever through him. All we are here for is to be of some amusement for him, and Felix does it better than anyone else.”

“This freak is just the toy of the week” Yeeun said, aiming a kick at Felix's face and getting him straight in the mouth. He felt his lip split and tasted the blood in his mouth.

Okay, now this had just gone too far. Felix could take a punch and whatever insults hurled at him by insecure people. Neither of those things had ever affected him. However, splitting his lip open was just unacceptable. How was he supposed to make out with Chan now?

With a growl, Felix launched himself up from the ground, claws fully extended as he lunged at Yeeun. The omega fell onto her back and Felix clung on, falling down with her. He slashed at her face—teeth bared—and watched her eyes grow wide in terror. He could hear Changbin and the other omegas yelling at him in the background, but it was all white noise to him. This girl had made him bleed and she wouldn’t get away with it.

He sunk his claws into the delicate skin of her neck, watching her eyes grow more and more terrified as she began to understand what her fate was. Her arms flailed out as she began to scratch at the ground, trying to get away. But Felix’s claws were dug in too deep and she couldn’t move. He watched as the horror started to bleed out of her eyes, much like the blood oozing around his fingers, until they became dull and vacant. Lifeless.

Yeeun’s body twitched a couple of times and Felix kept still—kneeling on her with his claws in her neck. He only detached himself once all of her movements stopped and he could feel no pulse at all underneath his fingers. He took his claws out and licked her blood from his fingers. It tasted bitter.

“What the fuck did you just do?”

Felix looked up and saw Wooyoung looking at him in horror and anger—face red. “You just killed one of Bang Chan nim’s offerings! That is a cardinal sin here, you…you just broke Miroh’s most important rule”

“Do you want to be next?” Felix spat out. He bared his teeth—still red from Yeeun’s blood. Wooyoung backed away quickly.

“You are going to be executed” Somi breathed out as Felix got up from the ground “It doesn’t matter how amusing Bang Chan-nim thinks you are, you killed one of his belongings. There’s no way he’s going to let you live now”

“Well if I’m as good as dead, might as well take you two bitches down with me” Felix said, claws still extracted as he rounded on the two omegas who suddenly looked even more terrified. He was stopped by a hand on his shoulder.

“Felix, let’s go back home” Changbin said, looking at Yeeun’s body bleeding out on the ground.

“Like hell I’m letting these two live!”

Changbin shook his head “They’re right, you broke one of the main rules here. You’re not allowed to kill any of the offerings because they are property of Bang Chan-nim to do whatever he pleases with them. He’s going to be angry if I don’t get you out of here before you cause more trouble”

“They’re the ones who started this all!” Felix seethed, waving at the two omegas

“I know. And we can tell the Wolf God about it when he gets back” Changbin insisted “For now, let me take you back home. I need to take care of your cheek, it’s swelling up”

“I don’t need a babysitter” Felix spat out, eyes still trained on Wooyoung and Somi.

“I’m not your babysitter, I’m your friend” Changbin said. And that took Felix aback for a second. A friend? He had never had a friend before and definitely no one who would call him that aloud in front of other people. “And I’m trying to keep you alive. Please, come back home with me”

Felix took one last look at the other two omegas, huffing out a snort before he turned to Changbin.

“Fine, take me home”

The beta seemed relieved as he grabbed onto Felix’s shoulder and moved him through the marketplace. A whole crowd of people had gathered around once the fight had began and Changbin shielded Felix from all of them, tucking the omega’s head into his side as he navigated them back to The Hall.

Changbin was exceedingly gentle as he led Felix down the winding paths and around the heated pools that sprang up randomly. Once they were safely back in The Hall, he guided Felix towards one of he settees, sitting him down on it and looking at Felix’s cheek with appraising eyes. Even though he was the most muscled person Felix had ever seen, he handled the omega as though he was made of glass; touches light and soft. He took a piece of cloth from his pocket and walked outside for a moment.  

Felix stared at the entryway until Changbin reappeared, holding the cloth that now had something tied in it.

“I packed it with snow from outside” Changbin explained “It’ll be good for the swelling in your cheek. Just press the coldest side against it”

“How did you end up here?” Felix asked, gratefully taking the bundle from Changbin.

“What? We...walked here together...”

“No. How did you end up in Miroh. You seem like an ideal beta. Why would your pack send you as offering here?”

Changbin’s very faint fresh laundry scent soured a little as he sat on the settee next to Felix. He fiddled with the thick brass bracelet that he had mentioned Chan giving to him in the past—fingers tracing over the delicate carvings of trees and leaves.

“What’s an ideal beta?”

Felix shrugged “Dependable, loyal, smart”

Changbin blushed “That’s what people thought about betas back in your pack?”

“Is that’s what people think about betas in every pack?”

“I’m from a pack in the east; we lived deep in the forest separated by miles from any nearby pack so we were always a little isolated and traditional” Changbin explained, eyes glazed. Felix had heard about the more traditional packs, ones where omegas and alphas weren’t even allowed to meet before they came of age and were assigned partners to mate. Felix’s pack had never sent him off to one of those; knowing any traditional pack would take one look at him and send him back immediately, but he had still encountered some on his travels. “Omegas and alphas were prized since they’re able to have babies easily. Betas were mostly ignored”

“From the time I was a baby, I was raised to serve the omegas and alphas in our pack” Changbin continued “it was a beta’s duty to take care of the more important sexes. We were usually assigned to a household and would work as maids or cooks. I was sent to the Park household because I was strong and Hyebin, the alpha of the family, was the pack's main hunter and would use me to carry back anything she killed during her hunts”

“Was she a good alpha?” Felix asked, even though he already knew the answer. Changbin frowned darkly.

“She was terrible. When I came to her as a young boy, she was just violent and mean to me. She expected me to keep up with her on all her hunts even though I had never been trained to, and if I couldn’t she would beat or starve me. Once I grew up and became an adult, though, she…”

He broke off and Felix understood. He rolled his eyes. Typical alpha brutes.

“She wanted to bed you”

Changbin nodded tersely “Even though she was mated and had children and I was a beta, she still had her eyes on me. When I rejected her, she told the rest of the pack that I had come on to her. A beta trying to bed a mated alpha was a huge sin in our pack so they sent me as offering to Bang Chan-nim the very next day”

“And let me guess” Felix drawled “Park Hyebin was able to live life normally after all of that”

“I’m sure she’s still living like normal with her mate and children. Probably with another beta under her to abuse. Alphas always get away with everything."

“It’s unfair” Felix said simply.

Changbin shrugged “It’s life; life had been unfair for most of us offerings”

Felix didn’t know if life had been unfair to him. Sure he was different and always ostracized from the world since the time he was born. But now that he had met Chan, he was starting to realize that every aspect of him had been carefully crafted for a very specific purpose. He found it hard to see his once hated features as unfairness now that he had met his life’s reason.

“You know what the worst part of it all is?” Changbin continued “Even with as awful as Hyebin was to me, I still miss my home. I miss my family and the beta friends I grew up with. I miss the forests too, the animals and the greenness of everything. When I was little and wanted to escape from my chores, I would climb up the tallest tree I could find and fall asleep in the branches. Sometimes the sun would shine through them and birds would come out to play.”

“It sounds lovely” Felix muttered. He wondered what it felt like, missing something. He didn’t miss his pack at all. Sometimes he thought about Nayeon and what she was doing, but he felt much more at home amongst the cold starkness of the north than he ever did in the perpetual hot and sunny southern isles.

“It was lovely. But there is some light here too. Even though Bang Chan-nim is cruel, he did me a great service assigning me to The Hall. I’ve grown closer to the people here than I thought possible”

Felix wondered if he was included in that.

He didn’t have a chance to ponder that question more because in a flash of blinding light, Bang Chan appeared in front of them—looking like he was two seconds away from committing murder. His whole body was trembling with poorly concealed rage.

Changbin immediately dropped to his knees and bowed, welcoming the Wolf God to The Hall. Chan brushed him off in his haste to get over to Felix.

“What the fuck happened to your face?”

Felix’s whole body immediately softened. His pouty lips trembled and his eyes started to water. Changbin thought it was fascinating to witness in real time. The omega was truly a master at his craft.

“I go away for a couple of hours to deal with the western temples and this is what I come back to?” Chan growled. He turned to Changbin with fire in his eyes “How the fuck did you allow this to happen! Did someone touch him??”

Changbin stuttered, still kneeling on the ground. He wanted to throw himself on the floor to beg for forgiveness, terrified that this would be where he would die.

“Don’t get mad at Changbin. He actually helped me get away” Felix whined. “I was attacked by three omegas in the market.They were jealous that you were giving me attention”

“What did they do to you?” Chan asked, turning away from Changbin and giving his full concentration to the omega in front of him. He grabbed Felix’s face and turned it from side to side, eyes sliding over the scratches on his cheeks and his split lip. “Why are you hurt?”

“They punched me and threw me to the ground” Felix whimpered “And then one of them kicked me in the mouth so I cut my lip. She called me a freak”

Chan’s hand trembled “Did she now?”

“I killed her”

Changbin held his breath, worried about Chan’s response. Sure the Wolf God was more indulgent with Felix than he had ever seen before, but killing one of his offerings without permission might be a step too far. Even though Chan never cared about them as individuals, he hated for anyone to mess with what he owned or cause a disturbance in Miroh. Changbin had seen the God strike a beta dead just for taking another offering’s loaf of bread before.

But all Chan did was smile and pat Felix’s chin “Good boy. And the other two?”

“They’re still there” Felix frowned “I wanted to kill them too but they said that you would get angry and strike me dead. Changbin took me away before I got into more trouble”

Chan turned to Changbin, who didn’t know whether to apologize for dragging Felix away from the marketplace or not. He knew the most important rule of Miroh was to not kill one of Bang Chan-nim’s offerings, but it didn’t seem like any of the normal rules applied to Felix.

But instead of yelling at him, Chan just narrowed his eyes and asked “What are their names?”

“Jeon Somi and Jang Wooyoung” Changbin said quickly. “Wooyoung seemed to be the leader of them. He was the one that punched Felix”

Chan nodded briefly, before looking back at Felix. He traced over his bruised cheek again before huffing out a sigh. “This Wooyoung might have led them, but did Somi stop him from hurting you?”

“No” Felix said. “No one in the market bothered to stop them besides Changbin”

“Then their fates have been decided” Chan said. He gathered Felix in arms and in a flash, they were gone.

When Felix opened his eyes again, he was standing in the middle of the marketplace. Minho was on one side of him and Chan was on the other. The Wolf God was holding him close to his side, a protective arm draped across his waist.

“Hello Minho” Felix said, happily. The advisor sighed.

“Hello Felix. I see you’ve had an exciting day once again”

“I think it’s about to get much more exciting”

Everyone in the marketplace immediately dropped to their knees at the God’s sudden appearance. He ignored them all as he stared into the crowd of people and sneered.

“Where are Jang Wooyoung and Jeon Somi?”

A rush of whispers broke out amongst the crowd and there was a fluttering of movement until the two omegas appeared a few moments later. Somi looked terrified as she bowed, but Wooyoung had on a smug expression.

“Bang Chan-nim” he said warmly, walking forward as though he expected to be embraced by the God “Are you looking for people who witnessed that beta killing Yeeun? I saw it with my own eyes”

“What did you see?” Chan asked.

“He dug into her throat…he has claws, did you know that? I guess he keeps them hidden most of the time, but he let them out and clawed Yeeun’s throat out. It was so horrible to see!! I was about to cry, he’s like a wild animal, Bang Chan-nim. He even scared the children that were in the marketplace, they’ve never seen anyone so feral”

“I can give them a repeat performance” Felix said, leaning forward, claws itching to come out. He felt Chan’s arm tighten around his waist.

“How did Felix get these injuries?” The God asked.

“He’s dangerous!” Somi said quickly, straightening up from her bow “Wooyoung was just trying to protect everybody from the beta’s craziness. We didn’t know who he would hurt next!”

Chan turned to look at the rest of the crowd in the marketplace “And everyone else here saw this as well?”

The crowd murmured amongst each other until one of the ladies that was working a stall spoke up. “We all saw it happen, Bang Chan-nim. He ripped out Yeeun’s throat right in front of us. He looked like he was about to attack Wooyoung and Somi too until Changbin took him away. It was terrifying”

Felix sighed and looked over the crowd. He had, probably naively, hoped that maybe Miroh would be different. In many ways he had found a place where it felt like he might belong. But some things would always be the same. Chan might accept him and the other boys in The Hall seemed to not feel negatively towards him at least, but most people still despised having him around.

“And did you see Wooyoung hurt Felix?”

“It was in self defense!” Wooyoung cried out.

“Address me properly!” Chan roared. Wooyoung swallowed deeply.

“It was in self defense, Bang Chan-nim. No one here intervened because they knew this beta is dangerous. He was going to kill Somi and I next”

“I have heard everything that I need to about this situation” Chan said. “It seems as though some disturbing things took place here earlier”

He turned towards the crowd and Wooyoung took the opportunity to lean closer to Felix, that smug smile just growing wider. 

“We told you that you were going to be executed, freak” Wooyoung whispered to Felix. “I can't wait to see it happen. You can’t just get away with murdering someone”

“And if I just put my claws through your old man face right now what would you do? You wouldn’t….”

Felix’s threat was interrupted by Wooyoung’s body collapsing on the floor in a heap. Somi followed right after him. Just like the guard that Chan had killed a week earlier, Felix knew they were dead just by looking at them.

The crowd around the erupted into a chorus of gasps and screams. Chan turned to face them with fiery eyes.

"Wooyoung and Somi made the grave mistake of touching and threatening what is mine" he said, tone low and even “And as for all of you, everyone who saw these two push around a new Miroh resident and did nothing to stop it, none of you are welcome in my city anymore.”

“You’re expelling us?” Someone from the back of the crowd yelled “What…where will we go?”

“That is not my problem” Chan bit out “Be thankful and give prayers to me for the rest of your lives that I am not striking you dead on the spot like these two”

The marketplace suddenly filled with the sounds of sobbing and apologizes and begging. Chan didn’t seem to be affected by it at all.

“Bang Chan-nim…are we really to expel everyone gathered here?” Minho asked, cautiously. He took one look at Felix’s swollen cheek and torn lip and knew he had to tread carefully.

“You heard what I said” Chan answered “I don’t want to have people in my city that will just stand around and watch an innocent omega get beat. Expel everyone and assign new people to work the stalls here. I will not have my villagers disrespect Felix like that”

Felix felt a shiver run through his whole body as he turned to Chan and looked the God straight in the eyes.

“I wanted to be the one to kill them” he pouted.

Chan looked down at him and grinned “You have to let me do my duties, little pet. I’m the one who makes the decisions here in Miroh. You can't just go around killing anyone you please”

“Yeah, but wouldn’t I have looked so cute ripping their faces off?”

Chan laughed. If the townsfolk around them had not been panicking about being exiled, they would have been shocked. The Wolf God never laughed. “You look cute doing anything”

“Yeah?” Felix whispered “Am I cute when I do this?” He grabbed a handful of Chan’s hair and brought their faces together, kissing him right there in the middle of a marketplace filled with grieving people.

Chan groaned into his mouth and kissed him back just as fiercely. Felix wound his arms around the alpha’s neck.

Minho sighed deeply as he turned and saw those two fucking making out as everyone around them descended into chaos at suddenly being kicked out of their homes. He felt a migraine coming on. He would never know peace as long as Felix was around. 

“Bang Chan-nim. Please, we’re in public” he begged.

Chan tore his face away from Felix’s and looked at his advisor angrily “And? They’re not my villagers anymore so why should I care what I do in front of them?”

Okay, so that tactic wasn’t going to work. Minho had to pivot quickly.

“That is true, but do you really want other people to see Felix like this? Maybe they’ll start to fantasize about kissing him too”

Chan’s eyes darkened and Minho knew he had gotten through to the God. Chan gathered Felix up into his arms and with a flash, the three of them were back in the Temple. Minho looked at the familiar walls surrounding him and sighed again. He didn’t even want to think of the mess they had just left behind.

“Bang Chan-nim, we…”

He turned and saw that Chan wasn’t even there anymore. He caught sight of the Wolf God hurriedly making his way down the corridor that led to his personal chambers. Minho ran after him, yelling out.

“Bang Chan-nim; we need to deal with moving all of those people out of Miroh!”

“Just round up the guards and use them to kick them all out. You can be in charge of it; I don’t want to see any of them anymore”

Minho really didn’t want to be in charge of dealing with the consequences of Chan’s rash decisions but his job as the Wolf God’s advisor was basically just him constantly doing things he really didn’t want to do.

“Okay, I'll do that. And for the matter of the remaining meetings for you to attend with the western temples today…” Minho asked as he hurried behind the God. Felix leaned his head on Chan’s shoulder and stuck his tongue out at the advisor.

“Cancel them” Chan said, shortly. They reached the door that led to Chan’s personal chambers. The God shifted Felix to one arm with ease in order to open the door with the other.

“But, Bang Chan-nim, we’ve already cancelled a handful of times. The priests will be…”

“You’re dismissed, Minho” Chan said as he kicked the door shut behind them and then dropped Felix down on a fur covered settee. Felix preened at the softness surrounding him, stretching his limbs and clawing at the fur underneath him. Everything in Chan’s personal chambers was soft. He had expected the chambers of a God to be made of marble and dripping with gold, but Chan seemed to prefer intricately carved wooden furniture with various exotic furs draped over everything. He hadn’t made it past the sitting room into Chan’s bedchambers quite yet, but he predicted that the God’s bed would be equally as plush and soft.

“You really do look like a kitten” Chan said, face pulled up in a fond smile. Felix stared at it in wonder. It was so different than those smiles he showed in public—the sardonic half grins or the dangerous smirks that meant someone was about to die. This smile made his whole face light up, his eyes crinkled small and dimples appearing in his cheek. Like this, he was less of a God and more just an alpha that Felix was finding himself increasingly keen on.

“You have a pretty smile” the omega said, a little dreamily.

Chan’s eyes widened in surprise “You think my smile is pretty?”

Felix scoffed “Of course. Everything about you is pretty. Surely you know that”

“I…I don’t think anybody has called me pretty before” Chan said, a little bashful. He had been called countless things before—most of them negative: cruel, wicked, violent, savage, uncaring, a bastard. The most positive thing anyone had said about him was that he was hot. None of the insults nor praises from humans meant anything to him. His siblings had a few colorful things to call him as well, but they mattered even less.

Yet, despite Felix being a mere human from an ordinary tribe, he somehow wanted to hear everything that this omega thought about him.

“Well then everyone is an idiot” Felix said with snarl “Because you are pretty. And when you laugh, you’re cute. And when you tell a whole crowd of people to fuck off, you’re hot. And when you finally come over here and kiss my injuries away, you’re sexy”

Chan laughed again and crawled his way over the settee, grabbing Felix and placing him in his lap. His eyes roamed over the omega’s cheek and lip.

“Don’t let anybody else hurt you again”

Felix dropped his forehead against Chan’s. He rolled his hips over the God’s lap, feeling the outline of Chan’s cock through his pants “But seeing you kill people over it gets me so worked up, you know?”

“You are a menace, Lee Felix” Chan said, smashing their lips together desperately. His tongue licked over the seam of Felix;s mouth again and again until the omega gave in and let him enter. Chan licked into his mouth, running his tongue over Felix’s fangs.

Felix let his mind wander as Chan explored his mouth further. Normally, he would lose himself in the moment and get so worked up that they would rut against each other like horny teenagers or take it a step further. Felix had just taken Chan’s cock into his mouth for the first time a couple of days ago and he was eager to do it again.

But not quite yet. He had a more important things to deal with first. He pulled away from Chan, trying his hardest to ignore the way the God followed his mouth with his own like a kicked puppy. Instead he just leaned back and took a deep breath, centering himself.

“I need you to do something for me” Felix said, running a single clawed finger up Chan’s chest. The god looked at him with one eyebrow raised.

“Demanding things of me already?”

“I’ve demanded plenty of things from you” Felix muttered. Chan laughed.

“That you have, pet. Do you want me to lick your pretty pussy again?”

“That wouldn’t really be you doing me a favor, would it?” Felix asked with a scoff. Most of the time, Chan liked doing it more than Felix enjoyed being on the receiving end. Not that either of them were complaining about it.

“Then what is it that you desire?”

Felix played with Chan’s fingers, rubbing the sharp knuckles that sat under moon pale skin. “There is a person who I would like for you to take care of for me”

“You need to be more specific with your words, pet. Take care of how?”

Felix looked up at Chan with wide, innocent eyes. Even though his mismatched eyes were intimidating to the average person, people in his pack had always said he had a very good pleading expression. “I need you to kill someone for me”

“I already killed those omegas who hurt you”

“Not them” Felix said “An alpha. From a western pack”

Chan frowned deeply “How do you know an alpha from the west? I thought your home pack was in the Southern Isles”

“I’ve traveled around more than you can believe. I’ve been to every inch of this land” Felix said, not wanting to go into details about his past engagements now. He knew that the Wolf God wouldn’t take it well and even though part of him trembled with excitement over the thought of Chan going on a murderous spree with all his old fiancé’s, he had a more pressing issue to deal with now. “My pack never wanted to deal with me and would send me away often”

“And this alpha in the west was cruel to you during your travels?”

“She often looked at things that did not belong to her” Felix said. It wasn’t exactly a lie, but from the way Chan’s eyes darkened fiercely, it was obvious the God assumed that Felix was the thing that was being looked at.

But what Chan didn’t know couldn’t hurt him.

“What’s her name?” Chan asked, voice calm but there was a slight tremble beneath it that Felix was able to detect.

“Park Hyebin”

“She will be dead” Chan stated, tone final. It was as though it was a fact and not a promise. Felix knew there was no doubt about it. However it didn’t end there.

“That’s not all I want” Felix continued, this time pouting his pretty lips. It added to the overall pathetic expression that most alphas were always weak to. And Chan, at his core, was just another alpha.

“My pet is being extra demanding today”

“This is an extra bad alpha, Bang Chan-nim” Felix pouted, batting his eyelashes a few times for good measure. Chan leaned over and placed a clawed finger under Felix’s chin, lifting it up and looking the boy straight in his eyes. Felix almost scoffed. If the Wolf God thought he could detect a lie just by looking into Felix’s eyes, then he needed to up his game. Felix wasn’t a normal omega—he had years of practice with this. And he was a born natural at putting alphas under his spell.

“What did she do to you?”

“She is a very cruel person” Felix answered. Once again, not a lie. “I want you to bring her body to me. I need to see her dead”

Chan frowned deeply “You know I don’t like having other alphas in Miroh. Their smell taints my city”

Okay, so Felix needed to up his game a little. That could be done. He moved even closer to Chan, so close that their lips were almost touching.

“I need to see her body, need to taste her blood” he whispered into the scant space between them. “Don’t you want to kiss me with her blood on my lips?”

Chan’s breath hitched and Felix had to stop himself from laughing. Typical alpha…

“Plus, If you do this for me maybe I’ll finally let you fuck me”

“You belong to me” Chan stated, pulling back with a grin “I can fuck you whenever I want”

“I’m sure you can, but what’s the fun in that? It’s better if I give it to you willingly, isn’t it?” Felix asked. He rolled his hips one more time for good measure “Maybe we can even fuck over her dead body? You can take me and claw me and watch my blood drip down onto her body. Would you like that?”

Chan breathed out harshly before bringing his head down and licking into Felix’s mouth one more time. “I’ll give you anything you want, my pet. But we’re not going to fuck on a dead body. That’s not hygienic”

“Yeah and neither is licking my ass but that's never stopped you” Felix said, rolling his eyes. Chan laughed—bright and loud—before snapping one of his clawed fingers.

A thud was heard from down the hallway followed by Minho’s loud shriek.

“Her body is waiting in the entrance hall for you” Chan said nonchalantly. “You can go look at it. I’m sure you’re eager to take her over to Changbin”

Felix’s eyes grew wide “You knew?”

“Of course I knew. I’m a God, Felix. It wasn’t difficult to wonder why you wanted an alpha from Changbin’s old pack killed”

Felix looked up at Chan. “You knew she never did anything to me but you still killed her anyways”

“You asked me to” Chan said simply. Felix felt his heart surge but he didn’t want to look into that too deeply.

“Would you really give me anything I want?”

“Within reason, pet”

“Well what I really want is for you to fuck me tomorrow” Felix breathed out. “I know you have meetings, but I’m sure you can cancel them. I’ve been here for a week and you haven’t fucked me yet. That’s really not fair”

“I thought you were the one who didn’t want me to fuck you yet?” Chan grinned lazily.

“I wanted you to do it earlier today but you left me all alone and I got hurt because of that” Felix pouted. “But it’s okay. You exiled and killed all those people for me and you’ll fuck me tomorrow, so I don’t feel that bad anymore”

“You really are a menace” Chan said with a shake of his head. “I’ll be all yours tomorrow and I’ll fuck your pretty pussy as many times as you want. Now go and look at your precious dead body you begged me for”

“My perfect, pretty alpha” Felix preened. He leaned over to kiss Chan one last time before jumping off the settee and running out of the sitting room and to the entrance hall in a swirl of silver hair and golden skin and giggles. He was like a child excited to see his birthday gift.

Chan watched the omega’s retreating back in wonder before leaning back against the settee. He raked a hand over his face. What was getting into him?

The next morning dawned cool and foggy, as it seemed to perpetually be this far up north. Changbin walked from his room through the living room of The Hall, waving lazily at Jisung who was still half passed out on one of the settees. That was typical of Jisung, who only made it to his own bed half the time, preferring to fall asleep on whatever soft surface he landed on first. He had been extra busy the day before since he had randomly been assigned to manage one of the stalls in the marketplace after all the old shopkeepers had been exiled. Miroh was still in a state of chaos over it all, but it was starting to calm down a little.

Changbin walked outside the entrance to gather water to heat up and drink as he always did every morning. Only this time there was a surprise waiting for him.

He stood, so still it was almost like he was paralyzed, as he stared in wonder and horror at the site in front of him.

There, in front of him, hanging off the grand willow tree of The Hall’s main courtyard, was the body of Park Hyebin. He hadn’t seen the alpha in years but there was no mistaking the strong curve of her jaw; the broad shoulders, her long and wild brown hair. Her skin was unnaturally pale in death and Changbin found himself speechless.

Why was the alpha that had haunted his nightmares his whole adult life hanging dead in front of him?

A rustle of noise came from behind him. Changbin turned to see Felix stepping out of The Hall. His silver hair was a little wild and tousled and he was holding a nectarine snatched from their fruit bowl in one of his hands. He came to stand next to Changbin and looked up at the tree with appreciating eyes.

Felix took a bite of the nectarine with his fanged teeth. Juice spilled past his lips which pulled up into a little grin. Changbin followed the trail as it trickled down to the omega’s chin. For a second he wondered what it would be like to lick it off. The back of his neck suddenly prickled cold—as though in warning. His eyes snapped back up to Felix’s as the omega turned to him with that pleased smile.

“I guess life can be fair after all, huh, Changbin-ah”

Changbin couldn’t reply as Felix took another bite of the nectarine and grinned. “Well if you'd excuse me, I did promise a God that he could fuck me today so I have to prepare myself for that”. And with that insane statement, the omega turned and walked back into The Hall so casually; as though finding a dead body hanging in their front courtyard was no surprise at all.

Which, Changbin realized quickly, it probably wasn’t. Who else could be responsible for this? Who else had a God wrapped so tightly around his fingers that he could cause this to happen? Hyebin had been one of the most powerful alphas in his whole pack and now she was hanging like a sacrifice just for him. In that moment, Changbin felt a rush of loyalty towards Felix that he had never felt towards anyone before. He knew that whatever the omega did, he would protect him.

Jisung ambled out next, on his way to gather his own water, when he stopped dead in his tracks right next to Changbin. He looked up at the tree with huge eyes.

“What is that????”

Changbin turned and glanced at Hyebin’s face. It was once so marked and twisted with cruelty. In death, she looked almost peaceful.

“It’s justice”

Chapter Text

Felix usually spent hours pampering himself before getting fucked.

It was a routine for him at this point. He would luxuriate in a hot bath, letting the steam soften his skin and open his pores so that once he got out of the water and slathered himself in lotion, his skin would feel like silk. He would let the humidity of the bathhouse curl his hair so it lay prettily past his shoulders and would use one of the razors that omegas always kept hidden to shave his arms, legs, and intimate areas.

It was what the omega den keeper who looked over all the unmated omegas from birth up until mating ceremonies in their village always stressed to them. Alphas liked pretty, delicate omegas. Soft, docile things that smelled nice and looked sparkly and clean.

Felix had once upon a time cared what alphas liked. But once he realized that alphas didn’t like anything but chasing their own pleasure, he had quickly stopped giving a fuck.

Now, his pre-coital bath time was for no one but himself. Sure, he liked cock just as much as the next omega, but the long luxurious baths before sex were more satisfying than sex most of the time. At least the hot water and pretty scented soaps never let him down.

He didn’t discriminate much; fucking female or male alphas and male betas alike, but it was never that satisfying for him. He felt like he was always searching for something more; chasing something better. Sex was mostly fine, but it never satisfied him the way he wanted. He was definitely more adventurous than the average omega, most of who saved themselves for after they mated in fear of getting pregnant. No matter what pack an omega was part of, being pregnant and unmated was a dire fate. For some reason, Felix had never feared that. Something in the back of his mind had always told him that he wouldn’t get pregnant until it was the right time. The den keeper had told him that was a naive and foolish thought; and it probably was. But it hadn’t stopped Felix yet.

The omega sighed as he sank lower into the marble tub in his personal bathroom. His hand wandered to the razor that was perched on the golden tray resting nearby before stopping.

That same voice in the back of his mind told him that Chan wouldn’t want him all pretty and delicate like he was supposed to be.

So instead of going through the whole ritual that he normally did, Felix just took the time to soak himself in the hot water. He forwent the scented soaps and body scrubs and skipped razoring down his whole body.

Instead, he just stayed in the water until the skin on his hands and feet were a little wrinkly and then he got out and dried himself briefly as he went through the impressive collection of clothes that had been gifted to him over the past week. There were trousers, blouses, robes, tunics, dresses, skirts—any combination of clothing he could think of in a variety of colors and materials that ranged from silk to leather. And that wasn't even touching the small mountain of jewelry and accessories that he had collected. Bang Chan seemed to like seeing him in pretty things, and Felix wasn't adverse to being spoiled. 

But for today, he decided to go more simple. He chose a robe that fell to a little above his knees, in a pale blue organza that was so sheer it might as well have been see-through. His hand skimmed over one a body chain with little bells attached to it before deciding against it. The less to take off, the better. 

His hair wasn’t even dry when he waltzed into the sitting room of The Hall, where the other members were eating breakfast and getting started on their days. Jisung choked on a piece of bread when he looked up and saw Felix.

“Are you headed out somewhere?” Seungmin asked, single eyebrow raised.

“I’m off to the Temple” Felix said airily. He grabbed another piece of fruit from the bowl on the counter. Even though they were this far up North, all the fruit sent to The Hall was always perfectly ripe. 

“You’re going to walk all the way to the Temple dressed like that??” Hyunjin gasped. “Felix! It’s freezing outside”

“They had us wearing something this flimsy when they paraded us out for presentation” Felix sneered.

“Yeah, but that was presentation” Jeongin said with a shudder. It was obvious he was still a little traumatized by his own presentation “It’s not meant to be a pleasant experience. We’re just supposed to be on display for Bang Chan-nim”

“Yes, and I want to be on display for him now too. This is my getting fucked outfit”

“Ew” Seungmin said at the same time as Jeongin stated “Yeah, that’s a good choice”. Hyunjin sent Jeongin a glare from across the room.

“Guys, just let Felix do what he wants” Changbin interjected. “He basically runs Miroh at this point, he probably knows what to do better than any of us”

"And to think he's only been here for a week" Seungmin sighed into his bowl "Life isn't fair"

"Would you like to be Bang Chan-nim's favorite instead?" Jisung asked with a single raised eyebrow "And have to deal with getting fucked by him everyday?"

Seungmin shuddered "No way. He's brutal and he doesn't know what aftercare is at all. I don't know how someone as small as you handles it, Felix"

"I haven't gotten fucked by him yet" Felix pouted. He motioned to his robe "That is what this is supposed to be about. I need to get him to finally fuck me"

"Seeing how he is whenever you're nearby, I don't think you'll need to do much to convince him" Jisung snorted. "I'm surprised he hasn't already. He's never shown any sort of restraint with anyone else in Miroh. He normally just takes anything he wants without thinking."

“At least wear a coat when you go out” Hyunjin stressed. “Bang Chan-nim will be furious with us if we let you get sick”

Changbin nodded “I do have to agree with that. Bang Chan-nim almost killed me because I let you get hurt”

“Fiiiiine” Felix whined, going over to the coat rack and picking a heavy wool coat that smelled like roses and sugarplums. He looked over at Hyunjin with a grin.

“Just because you keep nagging me, I’m going to get fucked in your coat”

“Wait…” Hyunjin stuttered as Jeongin and Jisung burst into laughter.

“Don’t worry, Jinnie” Jeongin said with a cackle “you know Bang Chan-nim is not going to let him keep any of his clothes on for more than a second”

“All of you keep putting images in my head that I most certainly do not need” Seungmin huffed before turning to the blonde omega “Be careful on your walk over to the Temple, Felix. There’s something dangerous lurking outside and you’re already hurt from yesterday”

“Yeah!” Jisung yelled, throwing his toast to the side “There is a literal dead body hanging outside in our courtyard! Changbin and I saw it this morning. Something freaky is happening here”

“I wonder why Bang Chan-nim isn’t doing anything about it” Seungmin frowned “He usually on top of any wrongdoers in Miroh”

“I’ll be sure to mention it to him when I see him” Felix said, laughing as he slipped on Hyunjin’s coat and sent a wink to the other boys as he sauntered out the front door “I’m sure Bang Chan-nim will be very eager to be on top of the wrongdoer”

The Hall descended into silence as Felix left; the open front door letting the morning chill into the sitting room.

“Wait” Jisung asked, voice pitched up high “Did Felix kill that person in our courtyard?!?”

Changbin shook his head “It’s probably best not to worry about it too much”

Felix was in the Temple in record time. The path had become familiar to him, each step worn and warm as though it was engrained in him. It felt silly to say it about a place he had only really known for a week, but the Temple and the path to it felt like he was returning home. As rocky staircases gave way to marble and the towering entrance with bare willow trees loomed over him, Felix felt deep in his bones that this was where he was meant to be.

Light reflected off the marble and cast sharp shadows on him as he waltzed through the entrance as though it was his own. Hyunjin’s coat had been discarded somewhere along the path up to the Temple. Felix knew he should feel a little bad about leaving it in a pile somewhere in the snow where it would slowly get sodden, but he really didn’t. If Hyunjin was upset by the loss, Felix would just get Chan to gift him a new one.

Minho rushed into the entrance hall as soon as he was alerted that someone had entered. He took one look at the visitor and sighed deeply.

“Good morning, Felix” he said. He adverted his eyes to the floor in case Bang Chan saw him looking at the omega and got the wrong idea “Bang Chan-nim is…”

“In his chambers, yes” Felix finished, walking past Minho breezily “I knew he would be. We have plans for today”

“All day plans?” Minho asked, a little apprehensive.

Felix grinned, little fangs on full display “If I have it my way, yes”

“Is it possible for you not to have it your way today, perhaps? We do have a lot of prayer requests to tend to that he’s been putting off”

“Yeah, you’re going to have to push them off a little longer” Felix answered, swinging his still damp hair over one shoulder.

“Felix…”

“Minho, do you see this outfit?”

The advisor looked up at the ceiling and prayed to any God that was not Bang Chan “I am trying very hard not to”

“Well, I look super fuckable in it. So either you answer those requests yourself or they are gonna have to wait.” Felix said before he turned and made his way down the hallway to Bang Chan’s personal chambers.

“How am I supposed to answer prayer requests? I’m not a God” Minho mumbled. Felix ignored him completely as he walked the twisting hallways with practiced steps. He hadn’t been to Chan’s personal chambers too often; but just like with every other part of the Temple, he felt like he knew it. Even the places he hadn’t ever been to flashed in blurry images in his mind—as though he had dreamed it before—courtyards with moonlit pools and tall marble pillars; a garden with more weeping willows; gray tendrils blowing in the wind like veils. A dark forest carpeted with snow and dense with pine trees where a flash a silver fur flew by.

Felix felt his breath catch at that last image but he shook it out of his head as he approached the familiar carved wooden doors. They were huge and towering with a solemn looking wolf etched onto the surface. Felix ran his hand over it, shivering. He had felt completely comfortable on the whole walk over to the Palace; the cold not even bothering him at all. But standing here, he felt a chill down to his bones. It was electric.

Felix didn’t even bother to knock before pushing the door open and stepping inside the room. He was hit with an immediate blast of warmth from the roaring fireplace. Felix preened at the feeling. Even though he was strangely never cold here in Miroh, despite the frigid temperatures, he did always miss the perpetual warmth of the South. There was something about a roaring fire that made him just want to curl up on a plush fur and fall asleep. But he wasn’t here to sleep today.

Chan sat at his desk on the far side of the room. Felix rolled his eyes.

“Are you pretending to work?”

Bang Chan stared at the suspiciously empty desk resolutely “I am very busy, Felix”

Felix grinned. For a God with a reputation for being vicious and bloodthirsty, Chan was surprisingly cute sometimes.

“Ah, well that is a shame, I got myself all prepared for nothing” Felix sighed dramatically “I suppose I’ll just have to go find some random beta in Miroh to fuck me instead”

Chan looked up with a growl “The hell you will…”

“Minho said we were allowed to bed whoever we wanted, that it wasn’t against any rules as long as we didn’t bring alphas into the city”

“if he told you all that, then he must have also explained to you that the most important rule of Miroh. My my word is law and I receive whatever I desire”

Felix raised a single eyebrow “And it seems like you desire to work on the very important tasks you obviously have”

Chan sighed and pushed away from the desk. He was sitting in a large wooden chair that was covered with a soft grey fur. Felix wanted to bury his face in it. “You are being extra bratty today, pet”

Felix leaned against the doorway and grinned “Yeah, but at last I look pretty doing it, don’t I?”

He saw Chan’s eyes look him from top to bottom. From his silvery blonde hair which was drying in waves around his shoulders to the blue organza dressing gown that was more air than material and did nothing to hide his golden honey skin. Felix wasn’t ignorant to how he looked, but he had never felt more beautiful than when Chan was looking at him. The Wolf God looked at him as though he was the only thing that existed in the world.

Chan leaned back in his chair and curled a single finger at him. “Come here, Felix”

And, as though he was commanded, Felix felt his body automatically follow the God’s order. He almost floated across the room until he was standing right in front of the alpha. Felix wished he could smell him.

“Did you enjoy your dead alpha?” Chan asked, eyes burning as he looked up at Felix.

“Very much. She made such a pretty decoration for The Hall”

“Is that so?”

“Yeah” Felix said, sliding onto Chan’s lap easily. He felt the fur under his shin and reveled at how soft it was. It was the only soft thing he currently felt. Chan’s body was rock solid underneath him. “It was hot how you killed her. You should kill more people for me”

Chan tilted his head to the side. This close up, Felix was able to see that the God also had some dots across this nose bridge. They were much less prominent than his own, almost invisible unless you looked close enough, but they were there all the same and it caused his heart to surge.

Everything everyone had always hated about him; his eyes, his fangs, the dots across his face—they were mirrored here on the most beautiful man Felix had ever seen. On a God.

The two of them weren’t the same, but they complimented each other perfectly. The opposite eyes; Chan moon pale to Felix’s sun kissed golden. The claws that would rip and scratch at each other without any hesitation. The omega didn’t know what it meant, but it felt significant in a way that sat heavily in his chest and made it a little hard to breathe.

“I already banished a good portion of Miroh for you and now you want me to kill even more people. Greedy”

“I am” Felix said, dropping his forehead so that it rested against Chan’s “You make me greedy”

Chan inhaled deeply before he pulled back a little and stared at the omega’s face. Felix wondered what the God was thinking. Did he have those same feelings in his chest about them, could he see how they fit together. Did it scare him too?

“And you make me insane” Chan replied “I don’t know what you’re doing to me”

Felix gasped at the words. He leaned forward and brushed his lips against Chan’s. He didn’t know what Chan was doing to him either, his whole body hot in a way that it never had been before. He felt ravenous, like he needed to feel Chan’s lips on him or else he would starve.

Chan must have felt the same way because he grabbed the back of Felix’s head, claws sinking into his hair and scratching the back of his head as he deepened the kiss with a growl. Felix gave an open mouthed moan as he felt Chan’s tongue almost ram down his throat. The God explored every single inch of the omega’s mouth with an animalistic hunger, running his tongue over Felix’s fangs and across his soft palette—rough and insistent.

The hand that wasn’t tangled in Felix’s hair slid down to the omega’s hip. Chan gripped it tightly and pulled Felix flush against his body so that he could rut against him. Felix felt the hot outline of Chan’s cock under the satin robe the God was wearing—already hard. Felix tried to angle his hips so that his barely covered pussy could rub against it, but Chan’s grip on him was too tight. The God held him in place as he dug his hard cock into the panes of his stomach just as he had the first day they had met.

“Already so hard just from kissing” Felix chuckled against Chan’s mouth. The God didn’t bother to mention how wet Felix was as well. The smell of his arousal was so thick between them, he didn’t need to say anything. Felix wished he could smell Chan in this moment—wanted to smell their scents intertwine. No alpha had ever smelled special to him before, but he knew Chan would be different. He had to be different.

Chan pulled away from Felix’s mouth and he trailed his lips down the column of Felix’s neck. The hand that was on his head skimmed down his body until it reached the tie that held together Felix’s flimsy robe. He used one of his claws to rip it easily and the baby blue chiffon slid off of Felix’s body as though it was water.

“No fair” Felix breathed out, grabbing at the front of Chan’s robe as well. His fingers danced over the tie but he got distracted by Chan’s bare skin instead. He had seen Chan in all sorts of states of undress in the past week—done all kinds of things with him. But he had never taken the time to appreciate the God’s body before.

Chan’s skin was pale and soft over hard muscle—as though he was made from the same marble that this whole Temple was. For as violent and reckless as everyone said he was, he didn’t have any scars or old injuries marring him save for some scratch marks that decorated his chest and back. However looking closely, the marks didn’t seem like old scars, but rather just markings that the God might have been born with.

The thought left his mind as he dipped his hands into the opening of the robe, feeling Chan’s abs flex underneath his fingers. His slick leaked out of him faster. He had always had a weakness for strong alphas and no one was stronger than Chan. The Wolf God had probably never worked a day in his life, but he was built as though he spent hours laboring.

Chan chuckled against his neck, hot breath ghosting over pebbled skin.

“Who’s the one getting worked up now?”

“Can’t help it. You’re too hot” Felix said, finally untying the robe and pushing the material off of Chan’s shoulders. It pooled at his waist, draping across his lap where he sat in the chair. Felix groaned in frustration and Chan laughed, eyes turning into crescents.

“So impatient, Lix” he breathed out and Felix’s eyes rolled to the back of his head. No one had ever called him by a nickname before and he didn’t realize it would be so sexy.

“Need to see your cock” Felix rasped, blindly reaching down to grab at the robe. Chan grabbed both of his wrists with one hand and pulled them so they were above his head, putting Felix’s body on full display in front of him. Chan’s mismatched eyes scanned over the omega’s body, growing darker as he took in more of the freckled, honey skin that was presented to him.

“Everything about you is…” Chan groaned out, attaching his mouth to Felix’s neck once again and sucking hard. Felix cried aloud and tried to buck his hips the best he could while being restrained.

“You even taste good” Chan said, lips kissing up and down the column of Felix’s neck feverishly. His free hand skimmed over the curve of his hip and cupped his mound, fingers immediately stroking the folds of his pussy.

“Not just your slick” Chan said like a man possessed as he kissed Felix’s jawline over and over “But your skin too. Your sweat. And your blood. All of it is perfect” He inserted a finger inside of Felix and moaned loudly “You’re burning up inside. How do you...you feel so good around me”

“If I feel this good on your fingers, imagine how good I’ll feel on your cock” Felix whispered into Chan’s ear. He felt the God’s cock twitch underneath him. Chan flexed his thighs and started to rut upwards, humping against Felix like a wolf in heat.

“Need it” Chan panted “Need to feel you, Lix”

Felix twisted his fingers down to run them against the hand that was grasping his wrists. “Then take me, alpha”

Chan growled, low and gravely as he tossed Felix’s hands aside and ripped the robe from his lap, throwing it somewhere in the room. Felix looked down to get a good look at Chan in all of his naked glory—his broad shoulders, his abs, the corded muscles of his arms, the strength of his thighs: his skin pale and glistening all over. His cock was red and heavy as it sat, pointing straight up against his abs. He grabbed Felix’s throat and the veins of his forearms popped out beneath his skin. Felix let out a strangled moan.

“You ready for me, omega?”

Neither of them cared if he was ready.

“I don’t want to be ready” Felix said, words high and reedy as Chan tightened his grip on his throat “Hope it hurt a little, hope you rip my pussy trying to put it in”

He had taken the God’s cock in his mouth before and he knew it was so much larger than anything he had taken previously.

“Not going to rip you, Lix” Chan muttered as he gave himself a few strokes and lined his cock up with Felix’s folds “You’re going to take me perfectly. Like you were made for me”

He didn’t know why he said that and neither did Felix, but when Chan slid into the omega, it really was a perfect fit. Chan was so large that was a little on the side of uncomfortable—just the amount that Felix loved. His walls caressed Chan’s perfectly; tight and inhumanely hot.

“Fuck” Chan groaned as he felt the heat engulfing him. He pushed Felix back against the desk, hand pinning his neck and head to the wood, giving himself leverage to pull out and plow back in, starting with a brutal pace as he chased that addicting heat even more.

Felix’s eyes watered at he stared at the ceiling. This was everything he had been missing. Chan’s cock was thick in a way that no other alpha’s had ever been; reaching places in him that no one else had, and going at a pace that he had always wished for. All the previous times he had ever had sex before was getting erased with every stroke of Chan's cock deep inside of him. They had all just been a warmup; pale imitations of what it was supposed to feel like. He was ruined for anyone else now. 

“Fuck you feel so good, Lix” Chan moaned as he continued to fuck into the omega at a brutal pace. It was as fast as he always went, but Felix was actually taking him without complaint. His body was suckign him in like none other ever had and it made him want to go even harder. 

Chan lifted Felix’s head up and brought the boy’s body closer to him. He leaned Felix against his chest, caressing his skin as he fucked up into him.

“Keep going” Felix breathed against Chan’s neck. God, he wished he could smell him “Go faster”

“Yeah?” Chan panted “you can take it faster?”

“I can take anything you give me” Felix whimpered “Go faster, go harder, hurt me…do whatever. I want it all”

“You are so dangerous, pet” Chan groaned "You don't know what you're doing to me" He leaned forward and bit down on the juncture of Felix’s neck and throat: his sharp fangs piercing the omega’s skin and filling his mouth with the sweet taste of his blood.

He used his grip on Felix’s neck to keep the omega in place as he fucked into him even harder. His hips cantered up and he held Felix down, almost grinding the boy onto his cock. Felix was burning and the heat was driving Chan insane. 

Felix gasped, eyes rolling to the back of his head, as he bounced like a rag doll on Chan’s cock. He held onto the alpha’s shoulders and rocked his hips over and over, eager to get the delicious length as deep into him as he could.

He was stretched like he had never been before but he wanted more. Needed more.

And, just like his prayers were being answered, he felt Chan’s dick suddenly start to grow. He didn’t even notice it at first, mind so hazy in pleasure that he just took it as an additional aspect of the God that was made to please him. He wanted Chan’s dick to grow, so it grew.

But whatever it was started to grow even larger, butting up against the rim of his pussy. Felix stilled a little and tried to pull back to look at Chan.

The God was grunting and growling, his teeth still biting at the column of Felix’s neck, holding the omega in place. His body was trembling as he held onto Felix’s hips desperately.

“Fuck…Felix…Lixie” Chan gasped—breath hot against the saliva slicked column of his neck. “You’re going to take it, right? My good boy, my perfect omega. You’re going to take it and milk me, yeah? Fuck, let alpha put it in”

Whatever was pressing against Felix’s pussy pressed harder into him as thought it was trying to enter him. Felix’s hazy brain wanted to let his body relax and just take whatever it was like Chan was begging for, but the feral part of Felix needed to know what was going on. So, despite his whole body yelling at him to do the opposite—Felix put both hands on Chan’s shoulders and pushed back as hard as he could, dislodging the God from his throat.

Chan looked at him with hooded eyes. “Lix…”

“What is this?” Felix asked, rocking his hips against the thing pressing against him.

Chan stilled, breath caught in his throat as he looked down at where he was connected to Felix. He inhaled sharply before pushing the omega away and scrambling to sit further back in the chair.

Felix lost his balance at the sudden push and found himself tumbling onto the floor; the fall luckily cushioned by a soft fur rug that was underneath them. He looked up in shock and fury that was immediately replaced by confusion.

From his place on the ground, Felix could see Chan’s cock perfectly. It was still impossibly hard, angled straight up to the God’s chiseled abdomen. But at the base of it was what looked like a swollen ball. It was so large and inflated that the skin covering it was an angry shade of red.

Instinctively, Felix reached out to touch it. His fingers brushed across it, feeling how scorching hot it was. Chan groaned loudly.

Felix looked up at Chan “What….”

“It’s a knot” Chan breathed out, sounding bewildered.

“What’s a knot?”

“It’s…wolves get them when they want to breed” Chan said. He looked down at Felix with an unreadable expression. His eyes looked almost frightened but that couldn’t be the case. How could a God be frightened of anything? “I’ve…what the fuck…”

“Did you want to breed me?” Felix asked, a bit shocked. That was going a little too far for the first time fucking but it’s not like he was totally against it…

“I don’t….what the fuck” Chan repeated as he got up and kicked the chair out of the way. He looked down at his dick and then at Felix, who was still sprawled out on the fur rug. He touched his dick hesitantly, inhaling shakily as his fingers skimmed over the knot.

“I’ve never knotted before”

“Oh, do you usually stop before putting it in?” Felix asked. His pussy twinged a little at the thought of taking that knot in him, still clearly interested even though the mood had shifted.

“No, you don’t understand!” Chan yelled. He started to walk over to the fireplace before changing his mind and walking back to the desk. His eyes looked wild. “I’ve never knotted before. This…I…I’ve never popped a knot”

Felix’s eyes grew wide as he looked at Chan. “But you have plenty of children, how have you never breeded before?”

“I don’t need the knot to breed anyone. That is just something wolves do” Chan said, sounding crazed. He was breathing heavily.

“Then why did you knot now?” Felix asked, getting up and standing still in place. He didn’t dare take any steps towards Chan—the God was so taut that the omega felt that any movement might make him run.

“I don’t know!!” The God turned to Felix, face looking angry and feral.

“What did you do?” Chan demanded, looking at Felix with those wild eyes. Felix suddenly felt defensive. Why was this being put on him? He wasn’t the one with a knot in his fucking dick.

“I didn’t do anything!”

“You did!” Chan yelled, pointing a finger at the omega “You…you did something. Why did you feel like that?”

“Like what?”

“Like no one else I have ever bedded before! You were addicting. I lost my mind when we were fucking, I didn’t even feel like I was in my body anymore. You did something to me.”

Felix stuttered. He didn’t even know what to say. He had felt the same way when they were fucking, as though he was possessed. Nothing had ever felt as good as bedding Chan had felt and he didn’t know how to explain it.

“Even now, I can’t stop thinking about it” Chan said. Felix wondered if the God even knew what he was saying “All I can think about is fucking you over and over again and knotting you. I didn’t even know I could knot and now all I want is to keep you on my knot forever”

Felix ached with the need to do just that.

“What are you?” Chan breathed out, moving away from Felix a little. “Are you a witch? Did you put a spell on me?”

“What?” Felix asked, a little shocked at the sudden accusation. He head heard of witches before, but he had always assumed they were fairy tales. No one had seen a witch before. “Of course I'm not a witch”

“You have to be something” Chan insisted “You cannot be a human”

“I am” Felix said, just as confused. Of course he was a human, he was born from two humans and had lived a bit sad but wholly unextraordinary human life up until he had been sent to Miroh. He had never felt like he belonged anywhere, but he had at least always felt like a human.

“Then why do you make me…”

The God cut himself off before he finished his sentence. He looked down at himself again and then back at Felix.

“You need to get out”

“What? I…”

“Get out, Felix” Chan repeated.

The omega stood his ground, not wanting to move. He wanted to talk this out with Chan. Yes, everything happening was strange but there had to be a reason for whatever was going on and they just needed to talk about it…

“GET OUT!” Chan roared. The blast of the command hit Felix like a stack of bricks straight to the chest. He immediately scrambled away, body moving even though he wasn’t controlling it. He didn’t even bother to grab his discarded robe from the ground before prying the door to Chan’s chambers open and running away as fast as he could.

Felix ran down the hall, hair whipping behind him. Minho, who had been going through various prayer requests by the entrance looked up in shock as the omega ran straight past him, as naked as the day he was born.

“Felix?”

Felix didn’t say anything so Minho immediately started chasing him, mind running just as fast as he was. What had happened? Had Chan done something to him? It wouldn’t be unusual—Chan was always doing terrible things to the omegas he brought to the Temple. But Minho couldn’t imagine that Chan would ever do something to hurt Felix.

“Felix, are you okay?” He shouted. “Did Bang Chan-nim hurt you?”

“I’m fine, Minho” Felix yelled back “Go talk to him if you’re concerned”

“But where are you going? The Temple entrance is back there…”

“Go do your job and advise your boss!” Felix yelled as he rounded the corner and ran down another hallway. He let his legs lead him—they were moving on their own, as though they were leading him somewhere important. The Temple whirred around him a blur of marble and gold as he ran and ran and ran.

Minho watched him go before turning on his heels and speedily making his way to Chan’s chambers. He didn’t know what was going on, but Felix had been adamant that he go to see Chan so he might as well do that.

Something huge had happened and even though Minho didn’t know what to do in this situation, as the Wolf God’s advisor—and really only person Chan had there for him—he had to make sure everything was okay. He knew that Chan would never hurt Felix, but he wasn’t as sure that Felix wouldn’t hurt Chan. It was probably stupid to think that a mere human could hurt a God, but deep down Minho thought Felix was capable of a lot more than any of them could understand.

The doors to Chan’s chambers were wide open; the first sign that something was amiss. Even though it was only the two of them in the Temple the majority of the time, Chan never left the doors to his personal areas open. The Wolf God’s den was extremely private for him and Minho had only ever been in it a handful of times over the years he had been in Miroh.

Minho inhaled deeply, preparing himself for whatever he was about to find in the room. He could handle it. He had been Chan’s advisor for six years now, he had dealt with a lot. He could deal with whatever was happening now.

Walking in and seeing Chan’s bare ass was not one of the things that Minho had been expecting to deal with.

He yelped and quickly picked up a pillow from a nearby settee, hiding his face in it as Chan started to pace around the room, grabbing books from random shelves and tossing them on his desk.

“Bang Chan-nim…are you…what is happening right now? I saw Felix running away.”

“I don’t know!” Chan growled, sounding half feral. Minho knew that if he could bring himself to look, Chan’s fangs would be fully out.

“What do you mean you don’t know?” Minho asked. “You are a God…”

“Exactly!” Chan yelled “I am a God! I am supposed to know everything. So how is there something that I can’t explain?”

“If it’s about Felix, then maybe it is a human problem” Minho said, voice muffled by the pillow “You most likely do not know much about human problems. Maybe you can tell me what the issue is and I can see if there some sort of explanation”

“This is not a human problem” Chan spat out “Look at my dick”

“….Do I have to?”

“Minho, look at my dick”

Minho cursed every mistake he had made in his life that led him to this exact moment. What he wouldn’t give to be back in his little northern hut in his home pack with his three cats lounging by his feet. Hell, he would take being exiled and spending the rest of his days wandering the blizzardy fields surrounding Miroh over being in this current situation.

Taking a deep breath, Minho lowered the pillow. He would be lying if he said that this was the first time that he had seen the Wolf God’s dick before. He never purposely looked at it, but before Felix came to Miroh, Bang Chan usually had a new omega or beta in his bed every night. The God never seemed to be particularly excited about any of them, but Minho had accidentally interrupted him in the act a few times. Chan had always looked bored whenever Minho had walked in on him and he tended to push whatever human he was with off of him to pay attention to his advisor. 

All to say, Minho had unfortunately seen Chan’s dick a few times before. But it had never looked like this before. This was a large bulge at the base of it that looked swollen. Minho wondered if Felix had bitten it or done something to make it swell like that.

“What is that?”

“It’s a knot” Chan said, hand coming up to run through his hair. Minho had no idea what a knot was…was it like when he had a bunch of tensed muscles in his back or shoulders? Felix did that to Chan? That didn’t make sense.

“Did Felix cause this…knot…to happen?”

Chan nodded, looking more distressed by the second. He seemed like he was in pain.

“Bang Chan-nim” Minho said delicately, knowing what he was about to say wasn’t going to go over well but knowing it needed to be said nevertheless  “If Felix did something to hurt you, I can have the guards escort him out of Miroh immediately”

“No!” Chan yelled “No, don’t take him away from Miroh. I just….I don’t understand”

Chan fell on the settee and ran a hand across his face. Minho discretely walked over to the desk, where Chan’s robe lay in a pile on the ground. He picked it up, hoping that there wasn't any sort of bodily fluids on it, and handed it wordlessly to the God. Chan took it and draped it over his lap. Not exactly what Minho had hoped for, but it was progress.

“Everything about him confuses me to the core” Chan said “And the fact that it confuses me is what vexes me the most. There should be nothing in this world that confuses me, especially not something about a human…”

Minho took a beat of silence before sitting on a chair next to the settee. It was the first time he had allowed himself onto any of Chan’s furniture and it was surprisingly comfortable and plush. “I don’t think Felix is just an ordinary human”

“Obviously he’s not” Chan bit out “But he is still a human, he assured me he was. So why does he look like that? Why does he smell and feel like that? And how could he make me knot? I have never knotted before. I didn’t even know I could”

Minho nodded. Everything about Felix seemed to have been hand crafted specifically for Chan, every single aspect of the omega painstakingly made to the Wolf God’s exact preferences. Which really didn’t make any sense at all unless…

Minho looked at the God and swallowed deeply. “Bang Chan-nim, have you ever wondered if…”

Chan looked up. “If?”

Chan looked a little crazed; his hair was messy and his eyes were wide and strangely vunerable. Minho didn’t know if he should bring up the possibility of Felix being the God’s mate. It was obvious that Chan hadn’t come to that conclusion on his own yet, and Minho wasn’t sure if he should intervene or not. He wasn’t a complete stranger to human romance, but he didn’t know how mating worked with Gods. Or how a romance would work with Chan.

Just the mere thought of the Wolf God in a romantic relationship would have been utterly inconceivable a couple of weeks prior. Minho would have laughed out anyone who even brought it up. The Chan he had known for years was a cruel alpha who didn’t care about anyone or anything besides his own pleasure. He was also a solitary God who had chosen Minho as his advisor solely because the omega was aloof and mostly left him alone. He never bothered to remember the names or faces of any of his offerings or children. Minho had asked him why one time and Chan had just replied with a flippant ‘what’s the point, they’re all going to eventually die anyways’.

Minho looked at Chan. He wondered, for the first time, if the God was lonely. Maybe Felix would finally be someone that could stay by his side.

“Finish your fucking thought, Minho”

“Is Felix your mate?”

Chan stared at Minho with wide eyes. His mouth opened wordlessly. The two of them just continued to look at each other in silence for a solid minute before Chan scoffed and closed his eyes. He threw his head to the back of the settee.

“Don’t speak such nonsense, Minho.” he said. He sounded tense.

“It’s just, Bang Chan-nim, he seems to be…”

“Stop” Chan spat out. “One more word of this topic out of your mouth and I will kill you with no hesitation”

“Understood”

“I think I have just been spending too much time with Felix.” Chan continued “He’s been here every day since his presentation and it’s making my head feel strange. That’s why I never see the same omega for such extended periods of time”

Chan never saw the same omega for an extended period of time because all of the rest of them annoyed or bored him, but Minho wasn’t about to correct him.

“Bring another omega to my room tonight” Chan said. “Any one. Whoever you think looks pretty”

“Bang Chan-nim, are you sure that is the best idea? You…”

“Are you questioning me?” Chan asked with a glare. 

“Of course not, Bang Chan-nim” Minho said, bowing his head immediately. He shuddered to think what Felix would do if he found out about this sudden turn of events, but that was a problem for the future.

Bang Chan stood up and, thankfully, put the robe on as he wandered back to his desk. “And assign Felix a job in Miroh, anything you feel he would be good at. He’s been here far too long to not be working. It’s about time that we start having things go back to normal.”

Minho knew that things would never be able to go back to normal again. Chan’s decision to ignore what was obviously in front of him would not end well, but how could a mere advisor tell a God what to do? He had already pushed it too far by bringing up the topic of mates. He was lucky that Chan had given him a warning instead of just striking him dead on the spot. 

“Bring me the prayer requests that you were mentioning the other day, I'll work on them now. You are dismissed.”

Minho nodded and bowed low as he quickly left the room. Bang Chan was in deep denial and it was a little painful to watch, but at least it seemed like he was finally willing to get some work done.

He supposed there were silver linings to everything…

Felix found himself running through the Temple without a thought in his head. There was no one anywhere trying to stop him. Minho seemed to be the only person besides Chan who even entered the palace on a daily basis and it made it easy for Felix to just run without stopping.

He wasn’t angry at Chan for screaming at him or kicking him out, he just needed to get away. The command the Wolf God had yelled at him still echoed around him and his body felt compelled to follow. Plenty of alphas had tried to command him before, and Felix had just laughed at all of them. Alpha commands usually had no effect on him at all, but his body automatically followed Chan's. It was a loss of control that was terrifying to the omega. 

Felix just wanted to put as much distance as he could between him and Chan right now so that he could feel in control of himself again. He wanted to be outside, needed to be outside. Needed to feel the chilled air on his skin again.

And just like with most things since he had come to Miroh, his wish was granted almost immediately.

He turned another corner and found himself outside of the Temple. It wasn’t the normal path he took that led him down the mountain back to Miroh. Instead, he found himself running up more stairs and over clearings where springy moss gave way to rock and ice. The snow fell harder and harder the further he went from the Temple and even though he was naked, he didn’t feel cold at all.

After running for what seemed like ages, he found himself at the entrance of a forest. The trees were impossibly tall and dense and the overpowering smell of pine filled the air. The forest looked dark and menacing but Felix felt an immense pull to enter it. His claws vibrated with the need to extend and his fangs started to ache.

Kneel down a voice in his head cried out. Kneel down and transform.

Transform?

Felix blinked a few times, wondering what the hell that meant. What the fuck was he supposed to transform into?

The snow started to swirl around him and Felix mind was filled with the thought of running through those trees, feeling the snow under his feet. His hearing sharpened to the point where he swore he could hear the pitter of animals scurrying across the forest; the heartbeat of a rabbit that was nearby.

He was struck with the thought that he just needed to submit. If he just kneeled and submitted then he would have everything he wanted. This forest, this mountain, this need thrumming under his skin…it would all be his.

Felix fought against these strange thoughts. He didn’t understand what any of it meant or why they were even coming to him. He had never kneeled and submitted to anything; it was against his very nature to do that. There was something very wrong with this place if it was putting those type of thoughts in his head. He needed to get out of here…

Felix looked at the entrance of the forest again. The trees at the entrance swayed, as though enticing him to come closer and he was powerless as his feet moved on their own. The rational side of him was screaming to get away—screaming that this was a dangerous place, that there was something insidious here, a dark and thick presence that seeped into the ground and would suffocate him.

But he couldn’t stop his feet from walking closer and closer. His claws and fangs throbbed harder with every step. By the time he reached the treeline, they felt like they were about to rip straight through his skin. His whole body ached.

The trees in front of him called out to him, beckoning him to enter. They were telling him that this was his home, this was where he belonged. Felix had never been in a forest like this before ever. Never even seen one that looked like this. The forests he had encountered out West were more lush and temperate with wide, inviting dirt paths and leafy trees that varied in colors from green to orange, red, and yellow.

This forest was much different. The trees were densely packed together and impossibly high. The smell of pine was so strong that it made his head spin. Snow fell heavily around him and everything looked dark and menacing.

It was completely foreign yet nothing had ever felt so much like home. That voice in his head rang out again.

Come home Felix 

As soon as Felix took one step into the forest, he was filled with a sudden sense of longing and an even stronger sense of loneliness. The loneliness was so painful and overpowering that it choked him. He felt it so intensely that it felt like he could never escape it.

Felix had always been a bit of a loner. Besides Nayeon, he had never had a person growing up that he would consider to be close to him, and even Nayeon had been distant for most of his life. His dam had died birthing him, none of his peers had liked him growing up and the adults around liked him even less. He had been sent off to countless packs, each one more disgusted than the last. People used him for his beauty and threw him aside the moment they found something strange about him.

He had never had many people around him, but the sense of loneliness he suddenly felt in this god forsaken forest was something that he could never describe. It was the loneliness of being isolated forever; to have everyone around you eventually die and leave you behind, to live year after year by himself in a cold marble prison with everything enjoyable dimmed and dulled to the point where he never felt pleasure anymore.

Felix looked back down the mountain to the Temple. Is this what Bang Chan felt? And if it was, why was he feeling it now?

Chan had asked him what he was, and in this moment—standing in this menacing forest with his whole body yelling at him to transform into something he didn’t even understand—Felix felt the most uncertain he ever had.

What the fuck was he?

Chapter Text

The weeks after Chan had decided to take a break from Felix were strange.

Well, strange was an understatement. Horrifying would be a better description. 

The Temple had fallen into a state of terror that Minho had never experienced before. Chan usually had a tricky temper and terrible attitude to go along with it, but it had become near unbearable the longer Felix stayed away. Chan was perpetually agitated, tension boiling under his skin and spilling out at the slightest provocation. Minho had made the mistake of mentioning that the weather was unusually cold for the beginning of spring and Chan had burned the advisor’s bedchambers down, furious that the man had dared to say anything negative about his Holy City.

Though Minho realized, as he slept on a pile of furs in a spare room in the Temple: even with the complete loss of the few meager possessions he had, he was much better off than the omegas that he reluctantly presented to the Wolf God daily. Chan would constantly demand a new omega be brought to him: sometimes even multiple in a single day. And every one of them would frustrate and disgust him more than the last. If they were lucky, they would leave the Temple in tears. The unlucky ones…

There had been more funeral pyres built in the past month than there had been in decades. 

In the beginning, Minho had been very careful about choosing omegas that were very sweet and agreeable—the complete opposite of Felix. After three days and three dead omegas, Minho knew he had to change his tactics. He then chose ones that were a little prickly, but Chan didn’t seem to like those either. Then came the ones that had overly sweet scents; ones that knew how to hunt; ones that had a bit of a wild side. Minho even threw a couple of betas in thinking the change up might do some good. Every single one just seemed to frustrate Chan more and as his anger grew day by day, Minho just took to sending over omegas that were causing issues in Miroh or that were cruel to the other villagers; his guilty conscious lessening slightly. But it never completely went away and each day that this horror show continued on, the guiltier Minho felt. As troublesome as the omegas and betas he now chose were, he knew that none of them deserved to be subjected to Chan’s wrath.

Normally Minho would reach out to one of The Hall members to try to calm Chan down as they were the ones that the Wolf God found the most preferable; but he had become a little attached to the ragtag group of boys and he knew that they were becoming closer to Felix as well. It would cause nothing but sorrow to bring one of them to try and please Chan. 

Plus, no matter how many omegas or betas Minho brought to Chan, he knew it was all a useless endeavor. There was only one person that could calm the Wolf God and Chan was too stubborn to summon him back to his chambers. So instead, Minho just observed in horror as the Temple became a minefield and a dark cloud grew over Miroh.

However, for as angry and self destructive as Chan had become, Felix seemed to be almost thriving on his own. He had come back to The Hall on that fateful day naked, blue from the cold, and covered with thin cuts that he had gotten from the pine needles in the forest. His five housemates took one look at him and descended into chaos. Hyunjin immediately wrapped him in piles of furs while Seungmin made a fire and Changbin heated some tea up on it. They were outraged at the state of the omega. They of course knew firsthand how cruel Bang Chan could be, but they never expected him to treat Felix that way.

Not that Chan had really even been cruel to Felix. All he had done was tell him to get out; he hadn't even been violent about it. But Felix didn’t divulge that fact with the other members of The Hall. He just let them come to their own conclusions and luxuriated in the anger and curses they threw towards the Wolf God. It was fun to see them get upset on his behalf—he had never experienced that before and it made him feel warm in a way that he hadn’t expected. He wondered if this was what friendship was. Probably not, since friends were most likely less manipulative than Felix; but he figured he would enjoy it either way.

And it wasn't just this facsimile of friendship that Felix was enjoying. True to Chan’s request, Minho had sheepishly come to The Hall the day after Felix had been ejected from the God's chambers to inform the omega that he needed to get a job. Changbin had yelled at the advisor, saying that Bang Chan-nim had some nerve treating Felix that way, but Felix had actually been a little excited by the prospect. From the time he had been old enough to present; he had been constantly shipped away to some pack or another. He never stayed in his home pack long enough to be trained properly for an actual job nor had any of the elders actually trusted him to have that much responsibility. Felix hadn’t cared about doing anything of use for his old pack, but he did feel strangely invested in the runnings of Miroh and he didn’t mind having to find something to do.

Minho had seemed disproportionately pleased over Felix agreeing so easily. The advisor looked tired in a way that the omega had never seen before, but he didn’t dare ask why.

Because Chan had banished a good number of the marketplace vendors in Miroh after Felix’s scuffle with the other omegas, Jisung had been assigned a new job working at the bakery. Felix had tagged along one day out of sheer curiosity and found himself enjoying it much more than he thought he would.

All of the omegas who had been forced to work in the kitchens in his old pack had complained about it constantly, but Felix felt strangely at home in the bakery. He liked the heat of the ovens and stoves and found that his scent—which only he could smell now—somehow fit in well with the smells coming from all the freshly baked goods. And as someone with a newly discovered sweet tooth, he enjoyed tasting all of the new recipes that him and Jisung decided to try.

Felix had found himself strangely drawn to a recipe entitled ‘Chocolate Chip Cookies’ as he was looking through the bakery’s collection of recipe books one day and they quickly became his specialty. The omegas and betas of Miroh would get up early just to buy the freshly baked cookies daily.

Now that Felix wasn’t constantly in the presence of Chan he was able to mingle with the other residents of Miroh more. He was still on edge around them and they seemed to be on edge around him too, especially after seeing a good portion of their city be banished because of him, but they were kinder to him than anyone besides Nayeon had ever been. Sana from the butchers stall that was next to the bakery would always bring Felix and Jisung any extra rations of bacon or cured meats that were left over at the end of the day for them to take back home and Jooyeon—a young omega who worked at the tailor stall with Hyunjin—would marvel at Felix’s clothes whenever he stopped by to visit. He even made Felix a small, clumsily embroidered purse that he swore would go perfectly with a particularly beautiful white velvet robe that Felix had been gifted by Chan in the past. It was a testament to how much the townsfolk of Miroh were growing on him that Felix hadn’t tossed the purse away immediately.

As he stared at the bag later on that day, he realized it wasn’t the people of Miroh that he was so drawn to, it was the city itself. Everything about Miroh just felt like…his. From the springy, mossy ground to the steaming hot springs and the lingering smell of pine in the air. It all felt as though it belonged to him and was his to protect.

In fact, Felix was taking to Miroh so well that he almost laughed when Minho came to The Hall five weeks after the infamous event at the Temple.

The advisor’s cheeks were sunken in and the dark bags under his eyes were large and prominent against his sickly pale skin. He was holding his back as though it was hurting him.

In contrast, Felix was lounging on one of the plush rugs in The Hall. Hyunjin was sitting behind him, combing his long, silvery hair and tying it up in a series of complicated braids. Felix seemed to be enjoying the attention, eyes closed sleepily as his claws extended and retracted over the fur beneath them.

Minho stared at him in wonder.

“Maybe you actually are like a kitten”

Felix had never seen a kitten before so he just shrugged, enjoying the feeling of Hyunjin playing with his hair.

“No way, Felix is more scary than a kitten” Jeongin said “Maybe he’s a tiger”

Felix opened his eyes and raised one eyebrow at the youngest omega “What have I ever done to scare you?”

“You’re scaring me right now!” Jeongin shuddered “your eyes are too intense”

“Aww, but our little Felix wouldn’t hurt a fly, would he?” Hyunjin trilled, holding up Felix’s face and squishing his cheeks a little. Felix growled lowly in his throat.

“I literally saw him rip Yeeun’s throat out” Changbin said casually, mixing a pot of tea over the fire.

“She deserved it”

“Of course she did” Changbin said, indulgently, as he stirred the tea. It smelled divine and the entrance room of The Hall was so warm and cozy. Minho felt himself tear up a little just being in the room. It wasn’t anything special and there was still some tension between him and Felix, but it was the most peaceful he had felt in weeks.

“Is there a reason why you came here?” Felix asked Minho, his words cutting through the calm. The advisor looked at the boy and swallowed deeply.

“I was wondering…if you would want to come back to the Temple?”

Felix didn’t say a word as the boys around him erupted into yells.

“Back to the temple?” Jisung cried “After what happened last time??”

“We were the ones that had to take of Felix when he came back home” Seungmin added, eyes hard “He was naked, frozen and covered in scratches. They didn’t stop bleeding for days”

“Scratches?” Minho asked, looking at Felix in confusion. He had seen Felix run from Chan’s chambers that day. Sure, he had been naked and probably frozen by the time he made the walk back down to The Hall, but he hadn’t been hurt at all and definitely not covered in scratches.

Felix just shrugged slightly and leaned back against Hyunjin with a smug looking smile.

“Is Bang Chan-nim summoning him?” Changbin asked.

Minho swallowed deeply. He hadn’t been expecting the other five boys to jump to Felix’s defense like this “Well…no…”

“Then Felix doesn’t need to go” Jeongin said plainly “He is safer the further away he is from Bang Chan-nim”

“He might be safer but the rest of Miroh is in danger!” Minho cried out.

“How so?” Hyunjin demanded.

“Surely you must all observe it” Minho pressed “The whole city is on edge. He's killed more people in these past weeks than have died in ages! All of the omegas out there are terrified that they’re going to be the next ones summoned to his chambers. They hide themselves every time they see me coming”

“It seems like this is more a problem for you” Felix said.

“It’s a problem for the whole city! Just because I’ve shielded the six of you from having to experience the brunt of it all doesn’t mean that the rest of Miroh aren’t terrified. No one enjoyed being asked to go to his chambers before, but now it's as good as death sentence. When he summons an omega to his bed it...”

“Listen” Felix sneered, interrupting the advisor “I don’t see why I have to care that the Wolf God wants to bed every single omega in town. If he has…”

“He’s not bedding them!” Minho yelled out. The others looked at him in surprise.

“What do you mean he’s not bedding them?” Changbin asked. “What else would he be summoning them for? Bang Chan-nim isn’t the type to just want omegas around for their company”

“He tries to to bed them but he can't" Minho said with a shudder "I have accidentally seen it"

"Accidentally?" Felix asked, one eyebrow raised. 

"Okay, maybe not accidentally" Minho mumbled "But I just wanted to know why he was getting so frustrated all the time. And I was hoping that maybe there was something that I could do to aid the omegas that I was bringing to him; it wasn't doing my conscience good to be sending these poor people off to get tortured. So after the first week, I started slipping into his chambers to observe what was happening. And I saw...well, he would try to bed them and it just..."

"Just?" Jisung prodded. 

"It wouldn't work"

The boys just stared at him in wonder. 

Jeongin frowned "It meaning his dick or..."

"Why are you inquiring about Bang Chan-nim's dick?" Hyunjin asked, affronted. 

"It meaning everything" Minho said "He's not able to bed any of them or even touch them, really. No matter what type of omega I bring him; and I've tried every kind, trust me. Betas too. All of them just seem to repulse him and he gets more and more angry every day because of it"

"I would be angry too if I had a malfunctioning dick" Seungmin said, wisely. 

"His dick isn't malfunctioning, it's his heart" Minho replied. 

All of the The Hall residents burst into laughter besides Felix, who just seemed perplexed. He turned to look at his housemates in curiosity. Changbin chuckled loudly as he started to ladle the tea from the pot into seven individual mugs. "Oh, come on Minho..."

"What?" Minho asked, sounding offended. 

Jisung wiped a tear away from his eye "Do you really expect us to believe that Bang Chan-nim experiences any matters of the heart?"

Minho frowned "He is as capable as anyone else of it"

Changbin passed the advisor one of the steaming mugs. "He is a God, Minho, not just anyone else. And all he has ever shown he is capable of is having disdain for every human in existence". He walked around and passed out of the rest of the mugs to the other boys lounging around. Felix watched with keen eyes as Jeongin took Hyunjin's mug and blew on it until the liquid wasn't quite as steaming.

"Bang Chan-nim has never been interested in matters such as that" Hyunjin said as Jeongin passed the mug back to him. Jeongin's eyes went soft as the other omega kept talking. "I think topics such as love or romance bore him deeply. He always shut me up whenever I tried to bring it up"

"You talked to Bang Chan-nim about romance?" Jisung gasped. 

"Of course I did" Hyunjin sniffed "it's the most important part of my life"

"Lame" Seungmin snorted. Jeongin looked at him with a scowl. Suddenly it was all so obvious to Felix. He hadn't noticed it before, but to be fair--he hadn't noticed much of anything to do with his housemates before. He did revel in their strange affection for him, but he had never cared enough to look into their personal lives more deeply. But now, seeing it right in front of him made it harder to ignore. He turned to look at Hyunjin. 

“You and Jeongin are together romantically” Felix stated, saying it as casually as if he was talking about the weather. Jeongin spit his tea out onto Seungmin, who yelped loudly.

“Who told you?” Jeongin demanded 

"No one had to tell me" Felix scoffed. "I am neither stupid or blind"

"No one thought you were either of those things" Changbin said "But you always just seemed too...preoccupied by whatever it was that was going on with you and Bang Chan-nim"

Felix nodded slightly. It was partially true. He wasn't necessarily preoccupied by Chan, it was more that he usually only cared about himself and what he was doing. He only started to pay attention to those around him when it affected him personally or when he found amusement from them. It was a selfish trait of his, he knew that. But he had never pretended to be a good person. 

“Even so, Hyunjin and Jeongin are highly obvious” Felix drolled “even to someone like me who has never experienced romance”

“Never?” Jisung asked, sadly.

Felix shook his head “Never have and most likely never will now that I’m stuck here in Miroh for the rest of my life”

Minho scoffed at that, but chose not to say anything as he took another sip of his tea. Changbin looked over at him strangely.

“Innie and I got lucky finding each other. We grew up together and were friends for long before we fell in love ” Hyunjin said a little dreamily.

“I don’t know if I would call us falling in love lucky” Jeiongin said, ignoring the gasp that Hyunjin sent his way “seeing as that’s why we got sent here”

Felix looked at them in confusion “What do you mean?”

“All of our packs were similar; very traditional” Jeongin explained “Ours gave omegas a little more freedom when it came to having jobs compared to other packs out there, but they were extremely strict about mating. Any pairing other than an omega and an alpha or two betas was considered against the law”

“Outdated pack nonsense” Seungmin muttered. Jisung nodded enthusiastically. Felix briefly wondered what their stories were.

“There was an alpha that wanted to court Hyunjin” Jeongin continued. Hyunjin snorted from behind Felix. Obviously the thought of this alpha still angered him. “He tried to court him for ages, but Hyunjin never accepted any of his gifts. One day he caught us kissing and reported us to the pack alpha”

“Everybody in our pack thought that being sacrificed to Bang Chan-nim was a death sentence but he didn’t care” Hyunjin seethed “His ego couldn’t handle that the omega he desired loved another omega so he wanted us killed”

“Typical alpha shit” Minho said. All the rest of the boys toasted with their tea in agreement.

“Luckily being sent to Miroh didn’t mean we got killed” Hyunjin said “And for as cruel as Bang Chan-nim is, he did at least allow us to live in The Hall together”

“Didn’t stop him from bedding us even though he knew that we were together”

“I never said he was good” Hyunjin retorted “I’m just happy that we get to finally live together”

“But you aren’t mated?” Felix asked, looking at their bare necks. Both Hyunjin and Jeongin blushed a deep shade of red.

“Like we said, our old pack wouldn’t let two omegas mate” Hyunjin said.

Felix frowned. “Why didn’t you mate once you got to Miroh then?”

“Who would do the mating ceremony here?” Jisung asked.

“A priest?”

“There aren’t any priests in Miroh” Seungmin said.

Felix looked around the room, aghast. “What do you mean there are no priests here? This is a holy city”

Jisung frowned "Actually, that's a pretty good point"

Changbin shook his head “We don’t really have the need for a priest here. No one gets mated in Miroh and we don’t do any of the yearly festivals either since we don’t have anything to sacrifice”

“I mean, we’re all literally sacrifices” Jisung added in.

Felix didn’t understand. He supposed parts of it made sense; there really was no need for festivals here. For all the outside packs, the Gods were just idols that they worshiped and regularly prayed to. They knew they existed, but no one had ever witnessed them in person. For the residents of Miroh, everyone lived with the Wolf God himself. Festivals dedicated to a God that they lived with and served on a daily basis seemed a little redundant. But that didn’t explain why no one here got mated.

“Why wouldn’t people get mated in Miroh?” Felix demanded “We’re all stuck here for life. Surely the omegas and betas find love amongst themselves”

“Many of us find someone” Seungmin agreed “But mating is against the rules”

“Why?”

“Because we all belong to Bang Chan-nim” Minho said with a sigh “How can we mate if we belong to someone else already?”

Felix’s eyes flashed and his mouth drew up in a straight line. He arched his back a little before standing up and looking over at Minho. The advisor shuddered a little at the intensity of the younger boy’s gaze.

“Hyunjin and Jeongin deserve to be mated” he said, tone final “so we are going to get them mated, the rules be damned”

“Uh…how?” Jisung asked. “We just established the fact that we don’t have a priest and you can’t do a mating ceremony without one”

Felix continued to look at Minho “How does someone become a priest?”

The advisor stared at him with an open mouth “You want to become a priest?”

“Why not?”

“Felix, no offense but you are the least priest-like person I have ever met” Seungmin said.

“What does that mean?”

“From what I’ve seen of the other people that Bang Chan-nim has chosen to be priests for his temples, they have to be very submissive and strict about following the exact rules and regulations of all the ceremonies and festivals”

"Oh you have no idea how submissive I can be" 

"I don't, nor would I ever want to" Seungmin said easily "But even with your very explicit innuendo, I somehow doubt you can be submissive in any way"

That was a bit insulting. What Seungmin was saying was completely true, of course. Even in sexual situations, Felix had a hard time being submissive. Another tick in the 'omega failure' thread. But if there was one thing that Felix hated even more than being forced to be submissive, it would be people doubting his ability to do something. Felix was stubborn to a fault and a contrarian for no other reason than the fact that he delighted in doing what people didn't want or expect him to do. So if no one thought he would be a good priest then fuck it, he would become the best priest that Miroh had ever seen. 

"You never answered my question, Minho. How does one become a priest?"

"When Bang Chan-nim picks his new priest, I take them up to the Temple. We have a room dedicated for the process" Minho explained "They have to take the priest oath and bleed themselves into a bowl of blessed holy water"

"That seems like something I cannot do?" Felix asked, turning to Seungmin. 

"It's not the process that he thinks you can't do" Changbin interjected. "It's just...you don't seem like the priest type. Everyone in Miroh knows that Seungmin is next in line for priesthood after one of the current ones dies, so he's been training for years to do it. He knows what it entails"

"It's a complete lack of freedom" Seungmin added on. "I've come to terms with it. Most people in Miroh have. I just don't see you agreeing to it, Felix"

Felix bristed. He wasn't the type of person to be told what he could and couldn't do. Even if everything that Changbin and Seungmin was saying to him was true, the very rotten essence of him fought against being told that he wouldn't be right for something.  "So you are just jealous I am taking your job?"

Seungmin had the audacity to laugh. "I am not jealous, Felix. No one wants this job! No one is happy when Bang Chan-nim picks them to be a new priest. You get sent to whatever Temple has an opening and are forced to live there by yourself for the rest of your days. All you do for the rest of your life is listen to blessing requests and help the nearby packs pray to the Wolf God. It isn't a life anyone wants"

"I will not be sent to a random Temple" Felix retorted "I will be Miroh's priest"

Jisung shook his head. "But Miroh has never had a priest"

"And Miroh has never had me before either" Felix spat out. He turned to Minho with determined eyes. "Take me to the Temple. I am going to become Miroh's priest and then I am going to get these two fuckers mated"

"Unnecessary" Hyunjin pouted. 

"This guy is going to get all of us killed" Jisung sighed. 

Minho looked back at Felix and shrugged. It would probably be the biggest mistake in the world to let someone like Lee Felix become a priest, but the only goal that Minho had in mind when he came to The Hall earlier had been to get Felix to come back to the Temple. If this was the way that would happen, he would take it.

"Sure"

"Minho, think about this" Changbin protested. "You said that Bang Chan-nim is already in a murderous mood. Doing this might just get both of you killed. All of us killed if he's truly as bad as you say he is"

Minho just shook his head. It was true--with the way Chan's moods had been as of late, who knew how the God would react to Felix's latest attempt at being a little shit. Becoming a priest for any of the four Gods was not a light matter or something to just be done out of spite, but there was little else that Minho could do. The monthly new offering presentation was just three days away and if Minho didn't try to do something, none of the new omegas or betas that had been sacrificed to Miroh would make it through. If it kept going like this, Miroh itself likely wouldn't make it through. There was no way stubborn Chan would ever come in person to request Felix return to the Temple and there was no way stubborn Felix would return unless Chan himself asked him to. So this was the only way for Minho to bring the boy back to where he belonged. 

"Trust me on this" Minho said, for whatever reason. He didn't know why he was asking Changbin for his trust when he didn't even trust himself in this moment. All he knew was that he needed to bring Felix back to the Temple however he could. Everything after that was for future Minho to worry about. 

But surprisingly, Changbin nodded and backed off. It seemed he had some sort of unearned trust in Minho too. The advisor realized for a moment that one of them had idea what to do in this type of situation. Minho had been in Miroh for the longest of them--almost a decade and a half at this point, but he was just as lost as all of them. He had seen Chan in moods before, but never something like this. And reading through all the books and diaries penned by the Chan's past advisors throughout the centuries, the God hadn't been in a state like this in many, many years. And likewise none of them, from all of the distant reaches of the world they were from, had ever encountered an omega like Felix. 

This was all uncharted territory for them and it was terrifying to be in the middle of it. 

"Come, Felix" Minho said as he stood up and brushed the front of his robe. He looked at his half empty cup of tea mournfully. "Let's get you ordained"

Felix preened happily and almost skipped over to Minho. Like this, he really did look like an adorable little kitten. But Minho knew that one wrong move and his throat would meet those claws and it would be over for him. Or he would do something to upset Felix and then it would also be over for him and the whole city once Chan realized. Either way, this kitten of a human was somehow the most dangerous creature in Miroh.

The two of them left The Hall and started up the familiar path to the Temple that loomed overhead. They both walked in silence for a little, letting the tension build up slightly. Felix hadn't walked down this road since the day that he had been unceremoniously thrown out of the Temple and it even though it wa strange to be walking it again, it did feel like it was returning home. It was a feeling that angered him a little. 

"Was what Seungmin said true?" Felix asked "Is being a priest of the Wolf God really something no one wants?"

"None of us wants to be in Miroh in the first place" Minho said. "But being a priest is a more difficult position than most. It's one thing to live and work in Miroh against our will and it's another to have to pledge to be submissive and serve Bang Chan-nim for the rest of our lives. His temples are usually in rather remote areas and no one from the packs ever interact with the priests unless they have prayer requests or during the yearly religious festivals. Plus...you know what the prayers and sacrifices to the Wolf God are like. He was your pack's chosen God. There is a lot of blood and dead animals involved. It's not something any of us particularly want to be a part of"  

“There are three other Gods" Felix mused "Are their temples any nicer?"

"Some, I'm sure" Minho said "My home pack was near a temple for the Raven God. I always thought it looked pretty. And there wasn't ever nearly as much blood involved in their ceremonies"

"Then why don't I just become a priest under one of them? It seems like a more agreeable life"

Minho groaned, burying his face in his hands “You can’t become the priest of another God while you are literally in Bang Chan-nim’s own holy city!!”

“Why not?”

“It’s sacrilegious!”

Felix shrugged “They’re all siblings, aren’t they? Why would it matter if I became the priest of another one”

“None of the four siblings have a great relationship” Minho said carefully “It’s a complicated situation that I don’t fully understand, but I know enough to know that it would be the highest form of disrespect for one God’s offering to dedicate themself to another God”

“Bang Chan-nim” Felix spat out, as though the name itself disgusted him “Has refused to talk to me in over a month. He is too afraid to come and talk to a simple human. He's a coward who is sulking in his Temple like some sort of wounded animal just because he got too horny and couldn’t understand it and I am supposed to respect him?”

“He is still a God, Felix”

“Well it’s a good thing I never gave a shit about religion”

“Not a great quality for a priest hopeful” Minho sighed as he looked at the younger omega. “And besides, Bang Chan-nim is not hiding because he’s confused over wanting to bed you”

“Then what is it?” Felix scoffed. From his point of view, it sure seemed like it. Chan had gotten so worked up that he popped a knot, whatever that was, and then became confused by it. And in his confusion, he threw Felix out and never bothered to talk to him again afterwards. It had been more than a month since Felix had even seen the God and it made him feel angry in a way he didn’t even fully understand.

He had only known Bang Chan for a week before the God cast him out. He had known most other alphas in his life for much longer than that. Even his multiple engagements usually lasted for longer. So he shouldn’t care that an alpha that he had spent just a few paltry days with didn’t want to see him anymore….

But that was the thing. Felix did care. Even if he did his best to ignore it, there was an anger and disappointment simmering under his skin. He wanted to do something to get Chan angry at him; furious at him; to just get Chan to notice him again at all.

Of course, he would rather die than admit it aloud. So instead he just held his head up high and looked at Minho with a sneer.

“Actually, don't answer that. I do not care what the Wolf God’s reasons for acting the way he is are. He is surely getting his needs met with or without me. All I care about it making sure my needs are met, and my need right now is to become a priest”   

"Your need is to be an insufferable piece of shit who makes stupid decisions like this just to be a contrarian" Minho retorted. 

Felix shrugged nonchalantly "But at least I make your life amusing, do I not?"

"I would much, much prefer to have a boring, normal life" Minho said as they finally reached the Temple. As soon as they walked through the doors, the cloud of anger and tension came out to choke them. The entrance hall was completely empty but the dark cloud that hung over the whole Temple was so heavy that it felt as though they had entered a packed room. It was claustrophobic. 

"It really is a mess in here" Felix said, looking at some torn tapestries and shards of a pot that Chan had thrown against a wall just that morning. He turned to Minho with a disapproving look "You should do a better job maintaining it"

It took all of Minho's self control not to throttle the omega where he stood. "I have been occupied by more pressing matters as of late"  

"Once I become priest of Miroh, this sort of behavior won't be acceptable anymore"

Minho frowned deeply as he led Felix down the hall into the room that was set up specifically for priest ordinations. Chan and Felix really did deserve each other. They were both the most insufferable people to ever exist. One hopeful silver lining was that when they both got their heads out of their asses and finally mated, they would hopefully be too occupied with each other and would stop making everybody around them miserable as well. 

"This is where all the priest ordination ceremonies are held" Minho explained, motioning to the large marble room that was empty save for a shelf that held a gold basin of water and a golden dagger that had rubies studded all throughout the handle. 

"It seems a bit plain"

"Well it's not exactly the most glamorous of ceremonies" Minho said as they both walked towards the center of the room. He went over to the shelf and grabbed the dagger from it, presenting it to Felix without much fanfare.

"The first step in the process is to draw your blood with this. You need it to start the proceedings" Minho explained as he took a basin of holy water from the shelf it always sat on. Minho had filled it up after the last priest appointment they had two years ago, so the water had sat undisturbed since then. It was rare for Chan to choose a new priest, only picking them once a current priest died and needed to be replaced. "The forearm is the best place to cut, less nerves and you don't use it as much"

Minho turned and watched as Felix sliced the palm with the blade. He had to suppress an eye roll. He knew that the other omega would completely ignore his suggestion, but cutting a palm was terribly cliche. He had hoped Felix would have at least been a little more creative than that. The red bloom of his blood immediately started to drip out. Minho pushed the basin of holy water closer towards the younger omega.

“This is your last chance to back out of this" Minho said tensely "Becoming a priest isn’t a decision that you should make out of spite"

"Who said I'm doing it out of spite? I just want to get Jeongin and Hyunjin mated"

This time Minho did roll his eyes at the blatant lie. But at the very least, no one could say that he at least didn't give Felix a last warning before proceeding with the ceremony. It was a useless endeavor against Felix's stubborn nature, but he tried. With a nod, he turned to the other omega and closed his eyes. He held onto the basin, feeling the power of the holy water thrumming over his fingers. Even if he didn't get to do these ceremonies often, the feeling was familiar. 

“Lee Felix, do you submit your life and your soul to the Wolf God, Bang Chan-nim, for eternity; pledging to serve his needs fully and perform all religious duties in his name?”

Felix looked at his closed fist. He could feel the blood pooling in it, ready to seep out and drip into the water below. As soon as that happened and as soon as he gave his affirmation, he would be fully submitted to Chan. He wondered if this is what the voice inside of him had been yelling about all those weeks ago when he found himself at the entrance of the mysterious forest. It had been telling him to submit. Was this what that meant? Was he supposed to submit himself to Chan like this?

He closed his eyes and let his mind guide him, just as he had back then. He brought his fist closer to the basin of water only to feel his body recoil from it. His eyes popped wide open as his body scrambled away from the water as though on autopilot.

No the voice in his head screamed suddenly. It was strange to hear it again after it had been silent for so long—lulled into a peaceful security by the mundane monotony of ordinary life in Miroh.

Felix tried to push against it, moving to go closer to the basin, but his whole body locked up.

No it screamed again This is not what you were meant for

“Felix?” Minho questioned. He didn’t look all that surprised to see Felix crouching away from the holy water as though it was a live flame that would scald him, but he did seem mildly concerned at the way the boy’s body was jerking around like some sort of marionette.

“I can’t” Felix breathed out. “It’s not letting me”

“What isn’t letting you?”

“My body” the younger omega answered “It’s like I have no control over it”

He was frustrated out of his mind. He had wanted to take the oath--not for any good reasons. He had wanted to prove Seungmin and the other boys in The Hall wrong and show them that he could become a priest just as easily as any of the other losers who had took the job previously. And he had wanted to piss Chan off by doing mating ceremonies in Miroh against his wishes. Stupid, selfish reasons, sure, but to not be able to do them because his body was betraying him was still infuriating.

“That was what Bang Chan-nim was saying too after he bedded you” Minho sighed. He moved the basin away from both of them and went to sit in front of Felix. "He said that he felt as though he didn't know his own body, that it was confusing him" Felix looked at him with wide eyes.

“But that makes no sense” Felix said. Sure, what was currently going on with him also didn’t make any sense but at least he was a human. Strange things happening to humans in a Holy City wasn’t unheard of. For something to happen to a God that they couldn’t control shouldn’t be possible. What force was more powerful than a God?

“Love often doesn’t make sense” Minho said.

Felix’s eyebrows furrowed “Love? Why do you keep talking about that?”

A familiar voice floated from the entrance of the room.

“Minho, leave”

The advisor looked up with wide eyes before bowing lowly and scurrying out of the room like some little mouse. Felix didn’t move a muscle, still curled up in the corner of the room, hand bleeding onto the ground next to him. He heard footsteps get closer and closer to him, but he kept his gaze trained on the floor.

“What happened to your hand?”

It was the first words Bang Chan had spoken to him in over a month and Felix wanted to scoff. Instead, he just kept his mouth shut and opened his first—revealing the steadily bleeding cut on his palm.

“Did someone do this to you?” Chan asked.

Felix’s eyes flicked to the abandoned basin of holy water in the middle of the room and the bloody knife laying on the ground near it. He let out a little huff.

“You did this to yourself? Were you trying to become a priest?”

Felix finally looked up at Chan. He hadn’t seen the God in over five weeks, but he was still shocked by how much the alpha had managed to change. His skin was still moon pale, but it looked almost sallow. His hair was a wild mess of curls on the top of his head and looked thinner than it had the last time Felix had seen it. His eyes also looked more tired. Felix hadn’t known that it was possible for a God’s appearance to change and it made Chan seem almost human.

“Why aren’t you answering any of my questions?” Chan asked.

Felix raised both of his eyebrows “Why do you keep asking stupid questions?”

Chan hummed, a ghost of a smile playing on his lips. He leaned against the wall that Felix was crouched beside. For one silly, fleeting second Felix wished that Chan would come down and sit on the ground next to him. But he felt stupid thinking it the instant it came into his mind. As if a God would lower himself like that.

“What part about the priests oath stopped you from taking the final step?” Chan asked “Was it the submission or the pledging to serve my needs?”

“I mean, neither part is great” Felix sniffed. He glanced up at Chan, who was looking back at him “Your priest oath could use some revision”

This time, the God actually grinned down at him. “Glad to see this part of you has remained unchanged”

“It’s not a part of me, it’s just my personality” Felix muttered.

“What is?”

“Being a little shit”

Bang Chan let out a laugh, high and a little squeaky—a very unexpected sound for such a cruel and bloodthirsty God. Felix couldn’t help but be endeared by it no matter what the current circumstances were.

“Is that why you wanted to become a priest? To be a little shit”

“I did think it would get under your skin” Felix admitted. “That was my main motivation, but I also wanted to do a mating ceremony”

Chan tensed slightly “For who?”

“Hyunjin and Jeongin. And whoever else wants to be mated. It’s unfair that you don’t hold any mating ceremonies in Miroh, don’t you think?”

Chan hummed “It seems that you have started to care for your fellow Miroh residents. How cute”

Felix shrugged “It's not that I care about them. It's just something about this place feels…”

Chan nodded “It feels like it’s your own”

“How did you know?”

“It’s what I felt too, when I was first given Miroh. It felt like my home even though I had never stepped foot in it before and it was just a vast empty space. But it was more a home to me than the place where I grew up”

Felix looked up at Chan “You were given Miroh? By who?”

“My father” Chan said. He looked out into the emptiness of the room with vacant eyes. Felix realized that in the time he had known Chan, the God had never talked about his family members or anything about his history at all. He had encouraged Felix’s various rants about Nayeon, Mina, and his home pack and had been eager to hear all about the omega’s various experiences with the many packs of the world; but he had never mentioned anything about his own family. Even though Felix knew that there were three other Gods, who Chan referred to as his siblings, he never really thought about Chan having an actual family. It just didn’t seem like something a God would have.

“My father created myself and my siblings and gave us each a Holy City. One God for each of the four corners of this world. I was given Miroh and I spent a few centuries living here with just the wolves surrounding this area before father realized that a God was essentially useless without people to govern so he created humans for all of us to play with”

“You lived here alone?” Felix asked, a little aghast. Miroh was already extremely isolated being this far up North, but the cozy pack atmosphere of the city made up for the bleak surroundings. He didn’t know what it would feel like to live in such an icy, desolate place all alone. Even for an extremely independent person like Felix, it sounded like a cruel form of torture.

“Us Gods are immortal, Felix” Chan said “Even after the humans came into existence, it doesn’t stop us from being alone”

“But you have Minho”

“I have had countless Minhos” Chan said “And I will have countless more after him. Minho’s entire lifespan is but a speck in my existence”

"That sounds lonely" 

Chan shrugged "What does lonely feel like? This is the only life I've ever known"

"That could be why you're so grumpy all the time" Felix pointed out. Chan scoffed. 

"When have you ever seen me grumpy before?"

"Minho told me you've been insufferable recently"

"He said that about his God? That is bold of him" Chan said. Felix looked up at him with a grin. 

"He said you've been killing omegas"

Chan grinned back down at him. "And what if I have?"

"Then you should have invited me to come watch. You get so sexy when you kill people"

Chan sighed "Felix..."

"Listen" Felix interrupted "I don't care. I don't care that you threw me out or became angry when we bed. My ego isn't so frail that I would stay away because of that. If you had wanted me to return to the Temple, then all you needed to do was ask. But you never did" 

"I wasn't ready for you to return to the Temple"

"Why?"

"Because you make me feel like I'm losing control" Chan confessed "And that is dangerous"

"Feeling out of control is better than feeling lonely"

"You speak with such confidence about my loneliness, Felix. You cannot begin to know what I'm feeling"

"But I do" Felix said, softly "I felt it in the forest. I took one step in and I felt the most intense loneliness I ever felt before. I thought I would choke on it. I didn't know why I was feeling it, but now I think it was trying to show me what you felt like. It was trying to help me understand"

"What forest?" Chan asked, sounding a little tense. 

"The one behind the Temple"

Chan inhaled harshly. "You were able to enter that forest?"

Felix looked up at him oddly. Why wouldn't he be able to enter a forest? He'd been in countless forests before and sure he didn't really prefer them with all their bugs and rotting leaves, but he wasn't so prickly that he couldn't handle it every now and then. "Should I have not been able to? It's a forest..." 

"It's my forest" Chan said, voice tight "The one I lived in before humans were brought to Miroh. It is meant to just be for wolves. No one else can enter"

"Well I'm not a wolf" Felix said, before stopping and looking at Chan in horror "...right?"

Chan didn't say anything. Even though he was a God and was supposed to know everything, he wanted to continue to pretend that he didn't know what Felix was. But it was becoming obvious to him; the more his very being felt like it was being shorn in two when Felix wasn't there, the more times his body rejected bedding another human, the more he observed his own features knowing that they were mirrored on the omega sitting beside him. The fact that this was the most calm and content he had felt in over a month and he wasn't even doing anything besides just being in the presence of the omega. Many years ago when humans had first come into existence, Chan had thought he knew what love and companionship was. But after betrayals and then watching everyone around him die over and over again, he realized that all of it had just been a lie. Now, he wasn't so sure. 

It became less about whether Felix was a normal human or nor and more of what he was. 

He was Chan's. Handcrafted and made just for him. 

His mate. 

Chan sighed and leaned his head against the wall, staring up at the ceiling of the room. It shouldn't be possible, but all the signs were staring at him. Ever since Minho had brought up the possibility, the thought hadn't left his mind and the longer he thought about it, the clearer it became. Nothing like this had ever happened before, but he knew what he had to do next. He looked down at Felix, dreading his next words with every fibre of his being. 

"We need to speak to my brother"

Chapter Text

The Temple of the Wolf God had become a strange place.

The moment that Felix had stepped into it once again, the frustrated tension had drained out completely but it had been replaced by a different type of tension. Gone was the violence and anger and in its place stood this sort of waning hopefulness and sense of being on the precipice of something much larger.

Felix didn’t know what was going on, but he wasn’t exactly opposed to the change. The energy between him and Chan had somehow become both more and less intense in different ways. The sexual tension that existed between them was definitely still there, but it had fallen to the wayside. Before Chan had never been able to be in the same room as him without pushing him against a wall to eat him out or kissing him breathless. Chan was still touchy now, but it never progressed beyond lounging together on one of the settees in Chan’s personal chambers or gentle kisses on the forehead. Even if it was confusing, he delighted in seeing the ways that Chan was changing towards him. Felix had even dressed in his most sheer robe one day just to see what Chan would do and the Wolf God had just draped him in a fur blanket and started the fire, scolding the omega for wearing something so thin in the cold.

Felix thought he would become frustrated by the lack of sex, but he found himself strangely endeared to this new version of Chan as well. Even though they weren’t doing anything sexually intimate, Chan still seemed to want to keep Felix around him constantly. Everyday after the bakery closed down, Felix would go to the Temple for a few hours just to be around Chan. It felt new and sweet in a way. It was almost like they were two young, innocent kids who were in the beginning stages of their courtship.

For Minho and the residents of The Hall, it was frighteningly weird to observe firsthand. Every time they would stumble upon a new gift that Chan left for Felix or every time Felix would prance through the Temple as though it was his own domain, they just got more and more confused. One day Bang Chan even came to the Bakery to call on Felix, which left all of Miroh in shock. The Wolf God hardly ever left his temple and if he did, it was only for the most important of reasons. To see him doing something as mundane as standing in a bakery was almost comical. 

Sana from the butchers next door stared with wide eyes and open mouth as Chan collected Felix and presented him with a new fur collar. Felix preened as he put it on and gave the Wolf God a box of cookies in return before he was whisked away to wherever it was that they went.

She turned to Jisung in awe “What was that?”

Jisung continued to do the closing tasks for the bakery without even looking up “What was what?”

“That!” She cried, voice rising hysterically “Bang Chan-nim came to the bakery”

“I suppose he wanted to try the cookies fresh this time” Jisung said casually as he grabbed a broom and started to sweep behind the cases “He has apparently taken a liking to them”

“The Wolf God eats cookies?”

Jisung looked up with a frown “Why not? A God has to eat too, you know”

“Does he?” Sana asked, “I just assumed that he didn’t need to do human things like that”

Jisung stopped his sweeping for a second and stared into space. Now that Sana mentioned it, did Bang Chan need to eat? There was no way a God required human necessities to survive and Jisung never recalled Bang Chan ever eating anything or even having any food sent up to the Temple in the past. Which would mean that he only ate those cookies because Felix made them and were his signature specialty. Jisung felt a little nauseous thinking about it.

“If I didn’t know better I would think that Bang Chan-nim was courting Felix” Sana laughed. Jisung looked at the ground nervously.

“Don’t be silly, Sana. Bang Chan-nim is a God. God’s don’t court”

“I know. Especially a God like Bang Chan-nim” Sana said darkly “Why court when he can just take whatever he wants?”

Jisung shuddered “Don’t we know that all too well”

The two omegas stood silent for a second, both lost in their past experiences with the Wolf God. It was strange to imagine the ruthless, violent God they both knew trying to be kind to someone. This was the same alpha who had just spent the past month terrorizing Miroh and killing a good number of omegas and betas just for the mere sin of not being Felix.

Sana shook her head "Besides, I can’t see Felix being someone who would want to be courted anyways”

Jisung immediately felt defensive over Felix but it wasn’t like he could deny that anyway. Of all the people and creatures that existed in the world, there were no two people less likely to do something as mundane and normal as courting. Bang Chan-nim was a God who took his offerings in the form of blood sacrifices and Felix was an omega who set things on fire and killed people for the fun of it. The thought of either of them courting was almost absurd, but Minho had told the rest of them that it was exactly what was going on and to keep it a secret from the rest of Miroh for now. He said that the God was still figuring things out, which sounded preposterous since shouldn’t a God be all-knowing? But Jisung wasn’t one to question Minho.

So instead he just resumed sweeping and changed the subject to something that wasn’t about the Wolf God’s recent strange behavior. 

However, the change of behavior wasn’t as easy to ignore in the Temple. Though the place wasn’t a battlefield anymore, it wasn’t exactly normal either. Bang Chan spent the majority of his time holed up in his personal chambers, either alone reading through an endless number of books or with Felix. And now that their time together wasn’t spent just climbing all over each other, Felix found himself actually having full conversations with Chan.

While Chan had always indulged Felix’s chatter in the past, the omega never thought that a God would actually be interested in anything he had to say. He was a human, after all, and even though his life had been slightly more entertaining than other omegas he knew, it was most likely nothing compared to everything Chan had witnessed during his immortal life. However, Chan seemed eager to learn anything that he could about Felix and his past--no matter how boring or banal the details were.

“So you never knew either of your parents growing up?” Chan asked as the two of them lounged by the fire.

“No one in our pack was raised to know their parents” Felix said. “They said it was to promote pack unity, but I don’t think it ever benefitted anyone. I always said that whenever I had a child I would raise it as my own, rules be damned. The pack alpha wasn't too pleased with that of course” 

“You want children?” Chan asked, eyebrows raised.

“Yeah” Felix answered “Everyone always told me I’d be a shit dam. They’re probably right about that, but I’ve still always felt the need to have kids. Like some deep burning in me. Maybe it’s just part of being an omega. Couldn’t ever find an alpha fit for the job, though”

Chan hummed and ran his fingers through Felix's hair. He wondered what the omega had looked like as a pup. He must have been adorable. 

"You don't seem that interested in children"

“I’ve had too many pups to count” Chan said its a shrug “They're really not worth the hassle” 

Felix grinned. He thought it was cute how Chan called his children pups. Very wolf-like “You don’t know any of them?”

“When you’re immortal everybody just comes and goes. The only people I know are my siblings. From time to time, someone who claims to be my pup calls on me or visits one of my temples to ask for favors. I grant them if I’m feeling amiable”

“Your children aren’t immortal?” Felix asked. He already knew the answer, but he liked listening to Chan’s voice. Everybody had met a demi-god or two in their lives. Felix had even been engaged to one at some point. Like Chan said, he had a very vast number of children and the other Gods did as well. Demi-gods had longer lifespans than normal humans, but they were far from immortal.

“The only immortal pups I would be able to have are ones born from my mate” Chan explained.

Felix looked up with a frown “Gods can have a mate?”

Chan stared at the ceiling “Apparently so”

“How does that work?”

“I suppose the same way it works with humans”

Felix raised a single eyebrow “You suppose?”

“No God has ever had a mate before so there is not much research that I have found on it”

Felix crawled closer to Chan “Why have you been researching mating?”

“I research a great many things, pet. Human mating rituals are interesting"

"Well you could see one in person instead of just reading about it if you would let me do a mating ceremony for Hyunjin and Jeongin" Felix muttered. Chan chuckled.

"You're still being stubborn about that?"

"Because I don't see why you won't let anyone in Miroh get mated!" Felix cried "I'm sure they're not the only two who would want to."

"Everyone in Miroh belongs to me, Lixie. How could I call on someone if they're mated to someone else?"

"As if that would stop you" Felix snorted "Besides, you're not even fucking me. So why are you thinking about fucking others now?"

"Oh, have I been neglecting you?"

"Yes, and I'm bored because you won't let me ride your dick so at least let me do mating ceremonies to keep me entertained" Felix whined. 

Chan smiled widely at the little omega "You are really so spoiled, pet"

Felix shook his head with a pout "No, not nearly spoiled enough. You should spoil me more, you know"

Whatever Chan was going to say next was interrupted by a series of sharp knocks. Both him and Felix frowned as the door to the God's personal chamber opened and Minho stuck his head in. The advisor looked a little disheveled and confused. 

"Bang Chan-nim, you have a visitor"

This piqued Felix's attention. A visitor? Miroh never got any visitors. No human could just walk into a Holy City without permission and even if they could, there were very few who would want to visit the Wolf God. Sure, he had his fanatical devotees but even they were terrified of him for the most part. Hell, besides Felix, no one in Miroh even wanted to visit Chan and he was just a short walk away from them.   

"Who dares enter into Miroh?" Chan demanded. 

"It's Hongjoong-nim"

"Fuck" Chan breathed out "I didn't think he would get here so soon" 

"Would you like me to tell him you are occupied?"

Chan sighed "No. I called for him so we might as well get this over with"

The Wolf God stood up abruptly, almost causing Felix to topple off of him. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing his curls even more than they were. Felix had a million questions about what was going on but, as he had been doing quite often as of late, he let them go as Chan offered a hand to him and urged him up off the settee. 

"Come, pet" he said softly "There is someone that I need you to meet"

Felix took Chan's hand and let Minho lead the way out of the room and down to the Temple's entrance hall. The advisor was walking strangely and kept touching his back with a wince. Felix made a mental note to remind himself to talk to Chan about getting Minho a new bedroom. He would have brought it up right then and there had he not been distracted by what seemed to be a giant, dark cloud barreling towards the Temple. Felix gasped and ran towards the main doors, ignoring Chan and Minho yelling at him. 

The massive black cloud hovered in the sky above the Temple, moving in a way that was almost graceful. He squinted his eyes and realized that it wasn't a cloud at all. It was birds. Thousands of black birds were flying in unison, circling around a figure that seemed to be floating in the middle of them. 

"So damn dramatic" Chan sighed from behind him. 

Before Felix could even ask what was going on, the mass of birds started to descend upon them. For a few seconds, Felix's vision was filled with nothing but countless beating black wings. The screeching of birds was deafening. By the time they had dispersed enough to see, there was a man standing mere feet away from the entrance. Felix figured that this was Hongjoong. He had black hair and robes which made Felix want to roll his eyes at the monotone aesthetic of it all. Like Chan said, it was so damn dramatic.

Hongjoong smiled at them as he walked over. His steps were light to the point where it looked like he was floating over the marble floor.

“Ah, It’s been too long since I’ve been in Miroh. I keep forgetting how cold it is up here” he said amicably.

Felix looked at the man with raised eyebrows. It was obvious by his obnoxious presence alone that he was an alpha, but the fact that he was floating and that Chan hadn’t killed him immediately most likely meant he was a fellow God—one of Chan’s siblings. Felix ran his tongue over his teeth anyways, cocking his head to see what the best angle would be to tear him apart if need be. This new alpha felt wrong in Miroh and Felix was filled with a need to defend the city.

"Hello Hongjoong" Chan greeted, coming up to stand next to Felix. He wrapped an am around the omega's waist casually. "You were here only a decade ago. It hasn't been that long"

“You have a new omega with you!” Hongjoong continued, catching site of Felix “I’m so used to just seeing Minho around when I come. Did he die? I can’t keep up with how humans age.”

“Minho is alive”

“Pity. I was hoping for a funeral, it’s been so boring lately. I like this new one, though! He looks so cute, like a little lamb. And his eyes match yours!”

Chan chuckled lowly. “This is Felix”

“Felix, charmed to meet you. I am Kim Hongjoong, Raven God”

“Raven!” Felix said excitedly. “I was engaged to one of your sons. He was the head alpha of some eastern pack”

Chan tensed up next to him and Hongjoong frowned.

“Ah, one of my fledglings. How boring”

“It never fails to amuse me how little you gods seem to care for your children” Felix grinned. Hongjoong looked at his sharp canines in interest.

“When you’ve lived for as long as we have, your fledglings become the least interesting thing about you” Hongjoong said with a wave of his hand “Mine have only caused me problems”

“Why were you engaged to a demi-god, Lixie?” Chan asked. His tone was light but his posture and the tenseness in his shoulders was anything but.

“I’ve been engaged to more alphas than I could count” Felix sighed “My pack kept trying to mate me off so they would constantly arrange me with some pack alpha or another. They’d all send me back within days, though”

Chan leaned over and patted Felix’s cheek “Good boy”

“Why would an alpha send you back??” Hongjoong gasped “surely an omega who looks like you would be treasured in any pack”

Felix preened under Chan’s touch, leaning into his hand a little. He shrugged nonchalantly at Hongjoong’s question “I always ended up doing something. Killing livestock or setting something on fire, mostly.”

Hongjoong raised both eyebrows as he stared at Chan and Felix. Chan could see his brother’s eyes dart to Felix’s teeth “That seems very much in line with the Wolf God. Your scent is very…wolfish as well. I don’t think I’ve ever come across anything like it”

“You can smell me?” Felix asked. “I thought I was spelled so that no one could smell my scent”

“My powers don’t work against other Gods” Chan explained.

“It matches well with my brother’s scent” Hongjoong said, trying to stay casual. 

"You can smell him too?" Felix asked, voice coming out like a whine "What does he smell like?"

"I keep telling you my scent is personal, Lixie"

"And I keep telling you that all of you Gods are selfish fucks" Felix retorted. "How come you can smell us but we're not allowed to smell you?"

Hongjoong looked at the omega in shock. What kind of human was this that he was acting so disrespectfully towards two Gods? And why was Chan letting him? Hongjoong has seen Chan around humans countless times before. His older brother was violent and had a notoriously short temper. He had killed humand just for not greeting him properly in the past. But this pretty little human was talking to Chan as if they were equals and Chan was just...letting him. There was no reason for that to happen at all unless...

"What is this?" Hognjoong demanded. 

Chan's face pulled into a frown as he saw his brother's expression. He had called Hongjoong in to confirm what he deep down already knew was the truth. The look on the Raven God's face was confirmation enough, but he still needed to talk to him about it. He felt Felix tense next to him, on guard by the anger in Hongjoong's voice. The omegas claws started to extend. The tips of them were bloody for some reason. 

"Felix, calm down" Chan said, moving his hand to the small of the omega's back. He felt the tension drain out of Felix immediately. 

Hongjoong looked between the two of them "Is he actually your ma..."

"This is something that should be discussed in private. We can talk about it in my chambers." Chan said quickly, cutting his brother off. Felix scoffed from next to him. 

"Lixie..."

"Tell me what is going on" Felix said, turning to look at Chan. "You have been so secretive over the past two weeks. You ignore me for a month and then come back and your behavior has completely changed. Now your brother is here to discuss things about me in secret with you. If this is something about me, I deserve to know"

"You will know in time, pet. I just need you to be patient"

"Patience has never been a virtue of mine"

Chan chuckled "Trust me, I know. But you will know everything eventually, Lixie. For now I need you to be a good boy."

Felix's eyes hooded as he stared at Chan "I can be good"

Chan's eyes were glued to his mouth "Can you? I've yet to see it"

Hongjoong stared at them both with his mouth wide open "Are you two about to fuck right in front of me?!?"

Chan and Felix jumped back, as though they had completely forgotten the other God was there. 

"You get used to it" Minho yelled from the other end of the entrance hall. 

Chan shook his head and untangled himself from Felix "I need to go talk to Hongjoong, Lixie. I'll be back right away. Be good and don't bother Minho too much" 

Felix pouted "Fine. But you and I are going to have a long talk of our own when you get back"

Chan shook his head and motioned for his brother to follow him inside the Temple. Hongjoong floated alongside his brother, watching how Felix immediately went over to Minho and latched onto him like some kind of kitten. The omega touched the advisor's back, asking him something that the Raven God couldn't hear as he followed his brother down the hall over to Chan's personal chambers. He hadn't been in Miroh's Temple in awhile and he was taken aback once again by how warm and cozy Chan's chambers were. While he felt more at home with the heat and sand of his desert, he did have to admit that the furs and large fire roaring nearby were rather nice. 

However, as nice and cozy as the room was, it wasn't enough to distract him from the shock he was in after seeing Felix. As soon as Chan closed the door, Hongjoong rounded on him.

“Chris, what is going on?” he asked, using a name that no one but the four siblings and their father ever used or even knew. 

“You tell me” Chan said, running a hand through his hair. Chan wasn’t necessarily close to any of their siblings. They had all lived together during the beginning years of their life but once they were sent to separate corners of the world, they rarely communicated. However, Hongjoong was the one closest to him in age, he wasn’t as neurotic as Lisa nor as much of an idealistic dreamer as Karina so Chan figured he would be the best one to seek a second opinion from.

“What you mean I need to tell you? That human has claws and fangs. I haven't come across many of your devotees, but I know that's not normal. Is he truly what he seems to be?”

“That’s why I asked you to come. I needed a second opinion on the situation”

“The situation?” Hongjoong gritted out “That’s what you’re calling this? The situation?”

“That’s what I’m calling what?” Chan demanded.

“You know what! It’s why you brought me here. You needed me to confirm that Felix is your mate”

Chan closed his eyes and threw his head against the wall behind him. He had heard Minho say it and had thought about it constantly for the past month, but it was completely different hearing it come another God.

“Fuck. I was hoping I was wrong about it”

Hongjoong snorted “Of course you would complain about having a mate. Lisa always said you were an ungrateful shit”

“I’m not complaining. I just don’t know the first thing about having a mate”

“Yeah, none of us do” Hongjoong said “How did you even get a mate? It shouldn’t be possible unless…”

Chan looked at him with wide eyes.

“Did father actually make you a mate? You out of all the siblings?"

"What does that mean?" Chan asked. Hongjoong didn't answer him, but he didn't need to. Even Chan had to admit that he was a lousy candidate to be given a mate. Though the wolf in him howled in delight over the thought of finally finding someone to spend his life with, the other parts of him rejected the very notion. Humans had never caused anything but suffering for him before and likewise, he had never caused anything but suffering to them as well. He didn't know what to do with humans beyond just using them for fleeting pleasure. These past couple of weeks spent trying to get to know Felix was something new for him as well. He hadn't asked a human personal questions in ages and even before he had never found himself actually wanting to know the answers to them. However with Felix he wanted to know every single thing about the omega. Where he came from, how he grew up, every single thing he had ever done in his life...Chan needed to know it all. He felt like he would go insane unless he knew everything about Felix down to his very essence. 

“What now then?" Hongjoong asked "Did father tell you what to do with a mate?”

Chan glared at his brother “You know none of us have talked to father since he sent us to this world. And when has he ever warned us or given us advice about anything?  Felix just showed up here one day—with his scent and eyes and claws and fangs—with no warning whatsoever. I’ve been driving myself crazy researching what to do. There is a surprising amount of literature written about mates, but it's obviously all about humans.”

“So what did you learn to do?” Hongjoong asked.

Chan stared at the ground. The tips of his ears were red, which was something Hongjoong had never seen before “I’m…courting him”

“Courting? What is that?”

“It’s something humans do, I read about it” Chan said, continuing to look at the ground “The alpha is supposed to give his intended mate gifts and spend time with them to get to know them better”

“Sounds like typical human bullshit” Hongjoong snorted “Why are you doing that? You’re not a human”

“Yes, but Felix is a human so I thought he might be more receptive to human mating rituals.”

“And where does sex play into all of this?”

Chan looked up and gave his brother the most withering look he could. If Hongjoong was anything other than a God, he would be prostrating himself in terror. But instead the alpha just rolled his eyes.

“You know that glare doesn’t work on me, Chris”

“And you know I have no interest in discussing our sex life with you”

“Why not?” Hongjoong sighed “I’m bored and want to hear all the details. If I had an omega as gorgeous as Felix, I’d be bragging about fucking him to everyone in earshot”

“Back off Hongjoong” Chan growled.

“Okay, okay, no need to go all possessive wolf on me” Hongjoong said, taking a step back “I keep forgetting you wolves aren’t as free and fun as the ravens”

“Maybe that’s why father never made you a mate. He knew you wouldn’t be serious about one”

“And he thought you would be?” Hongjoong said “You might be my brother, but you are the most insufferable being I have ever encountered. None of us could have imagined you would take the idea of having a mate seriously. After Bambam, you’ve never even had any remotely positive feelings towards humans”

Chan froze. He stared at his brother with wide eyes.

“Do not mention him”

Hongjoong looked at Chan strangely “Are you still hung up over him? It’s been over a thousand years, Chris”

“I am not hung up over anyone” Chan retorted “I just don’t see the need to ever bring him up again”

“Fuck, you’re so fucking repressed and yet father still made you a mate before any of us” Hongjoong muttered “Lisa is going to lose her mind!”

“Lisa doesn’t need to know anything” Chan said, eyes narrowed.

“Of course she does, Chris. You know Lisa has to approve of Felix before you can actually mate him”

“She’s not our mother”

“No, but she’s the eldest” Hongjoong said “Just because you’re the second eldest doesn’t mean you get to overrule her. Don’t you remember that time Karina thought she found her mate?”

Chan sneered when he thought about their youngest sibling and Jaewook, the flashy omega boy that she had found herself infatuated with after he showed up in her temple to offer prayers. He had been a silly, flighty thing but Karina had fancied herself in love with him and tried to mate him without letting her other siblings know. Lisa had found out about Karina’s intentions and had struck Jaewook dead in seconds. The youngest had been outraged, but the feelings had cooled after a couple centuries and a few more crushes.

“Karina is going to be pissed too. She’s been begging father to make her a mate for millennia”

Karina was the eternal romantic amongst the four of them and had been obsessed with the idea of finding her mate for as long as they could remember. But she was also the kindest of the siblings and though she would be jealous, she’d get over it quickly enough; especially after she saw Felix. Lisa on the other hand was a bit of a romantic as well—but more than that, she was competitive. She was the first God that their father had created and had been his only child for centuries. Chan getting a mate before her would not go over well at all.

“Unless you want Lisa to kill Felix, you will need to bring him to meet her”

As soon as the words left Hongjoong's mouth, Chan felt like he was paralyzed. His whole body went as cold as if someone had dunked him into freezing water. Hongjoong saw his face and immediately sputtered. 

"I didn't mean it like that. Lisa won't kill Felix but..."

"She would" Chan whispered. He looked at his brother "She has before"

"When she sees how much Felix means to you, she wouldn't"

"That hasn't stopped her in the past" Chan hissed. When Lisa became jealous, her rage was unparalleled. She was normally more kind and gentle with humans, but when it came to her siblings she was the harshest of them. Chan had been on the receiving end of her jealousy once before and the result had been catastrophic. He had survived it even if it had left him with lasting scars. If she did the same thing to Felix, Chan didn't know what he would do. He felt murderous just thinking about it. 

"We can do it as a group this time" Hongjoong said in a hurry "All of the siblings can come to meet Felix. Between you, me, and Karina we should be able to stop Lisa if she tries to do anything to him. But if you mate with him without Lisa meeting him at all, we can't control what she'll do"

“I am not taking Felix to Tally” Chan spat out.

Nestled deep in the Western Forests, Lisa’s holy city was the most hidden of all four siblings’. And unlike Miroh, with it’s almost cozy pack-like atmosphere; Lisa ran Tally with as much control and discipline as she did with anything else in her life. She was extremely strict about what offerings she would take and she currently only had three other girls and a small handful of boys occupying the city. Every inch of Tally was painstakingly curated and perfect and Chan was very reluctant to bring Felix—the most chaotic human he had ever encountered—inside the city walls.

“Well you know Karina and I are fine meeting anywhere, but Lisa won’t travel to Miroh for this. You don’t have much choice, Chris”

“We can go to neutral ground. Why don’t we all meet in Halazia?”

Hongjoong frowned “You think Lisa would travel to my city? You know she hates the desert and the sand. Plus, my ravens are afraid of her”

“She’s a deer. Why would your ravens fear her?” Chan demanded.

“Because she killed a flock of them last time she came just because they accidentally kicked some sand on her shoes” Hongjoong said morosely “We are not having this meeting in my city. It's your mate, Chris. And I'm doing you a favor by coming with you to this meeting. I'm not letting my ravens or offerings die for this.”

"You're just coming because you're bored and you want to see Lisa lose her mind" Chan retorted. 

"Sure, but why should my offerings pay the price for my boredom? Unlike you, I'm actually fond of my humans"

“Fine. If we can’t go to Halazia, then let’s just meet in Kwangya. Lisa has a soft spot for Karina, she’d travel there”

“In case you forgot, Karina is a shark, Chris. Kwangya is literally underwater. We might be fine, but Felix is a human. He won’t be able to survive”

Chan sighed and stared at the wall. He knew that Hongjoong was right, but he was trying to deny the inevitable for as long as he could. The last thing in the world he wanted to do was bring Felix to Tally. Sure, the omega always said that he could defend himself and Chan knew that was correct to some extent. Felix wouldn't let himself get killed so easily and Chan wouldn't let it happen again. He had in the past, but he had been younger and more naïve back then. And there hadn't been this much at stake. Now he had Felix--someone that had been made just for him. His mate. He would defend Felix even if it meant going against his sister and burning the whole world to the ground. He just hoped it wouldn't come to that, even though he knew Felix would probably love to see it. 

"Okay" Chan said after a few silent minutes. 

"Okay?"

"Send notice to Lisa" Chan said, looking over at his brother "We're going to Tally" 

Chapter Text

Felix was pissed.

It wasn't an unusual mood for the omega to be in. Before being sent to Miroh, Felix would say that he spent the majority of his life being pissed at something or another. His patience was practically nonexistent and the other members of his pack and the packs he was sent to always seemed perfectly designed to annoy him. Miroh had been different. Even though the majority of people in the Holy City were still annoying there was something about the city itself that calmed him down. Maybe it was the gentle, sparkling mist that always hung over everything or the crisp winter air that was more refreshing than any stream or pool he had experienced back in his old life; but Miroh had become a balm to Felix's senses. He found himself ignoring things that would usually anger or frustrate him. Hyunjin and Jisung had even gotten into the habit of braiding Felix's hair every morning before work and the omega reluctantly let them. If anyone from his old pack had even tried to touch his hair he would have ripped them into shreds.

Miroh Felix was definitely a more calm and subdued Felix. But that still didn't stop him from being pissed off at whatever was going on.

Ever since Chan's brother had come for a visit, things had become more secretive. They had been fairly secretive beforehand, with Chan acting strange around him, but it had amped up to a degree that no one could ignore anymore. Felix would still go to the bakery for his shift every morning but Chan would accompany him more often than not now. The citizens of Miroh had been in shock the first few times they walked into the bakery to get their daily bread or sweets and saw the actual Wolf God standing on guard near the counter. Gossip and whispers had flown fast and by the end of the first day that Chan spent in the bakery the townsfolk were already starting to speculate what was going on.

The rumors were wild and each one pissed Felix off more than the last.

"Is Bang Chan-nim going to fire everyone in the bakery?" an omega asked as they relaxed in the bathhouse at the end of the day. Felix sulked in the corner of the heated pool. He had his own private bathroom in The Hall: a beautiful marble and gold one stocked with heavenly smelling products courtesy of Chan. However his housemates always insisted on dragging him to the public baths at least once a week. They called it bonding but Felix had never understood how slowly boiling away in a pool together was anyone's preferential bonding experience. He liked luxuriating on his own. Less annoying voices to worry about.

"Do you think he's going to exile all the vendors in the marketplace again like he did a couple of months ago?"

"Oh Gods, I hope not! I just started working in the vegetable stall and I'm too young to die"

"I heard that he has his eyes on Sana" a beta who Felix had never encountered before sniggered as he moved closer to the group of them "She works in the butchers shop right next to the bakery so he was probably watching her"

"Why would he need to watch her?" someone else asked "He's Bang Chan-nim. If he wanted her in his bed, he would just order her there"

The beta shrugged. "Maybe he likes her more than he likes other omegas."

"But what about Felix? He works in the bakery and Bang Chan-nim seems to favor him"

"He probably wants Felix to be his next advisor like Minho is now" the beta said with a wave of his hand "My neighbor said that she saw Sana pray at the altar in town two weeks ago and the day after that, Bang Chan-nim stopped his reign of terror. He hasn't killed a single omega since! That has to mean something"

"It means that everyone in this city is blind" Changbin muttered as him and the rest of the members of The Hall listened to the gossip in mild horror.

"Why would Bang Chan-nim be in the bakery if he wanted to look at Sana" Jeongin asked.

"And plus, he's been spending way more time with Felix than before. And he's giving him gifts all the time" Seungmin added "I don't think he did that with Minho. It doesn't make sense to do all of this just because he wants a new advisor"

"I can't blame them for thinking that" Felix frowned into the water "None of this makes sense to begin with"

"What do you mean?" Jisung asked. 

"Whatever is going on doesn't make sense so why should anyone in Miroh be able to explain it" Felix said, sounding sulky "Why is the Wolf God coming to the bakery, why is he spending all this time with me just talking, why is he giving me all these gifts, why is he keeping secrets from me and not telling me anything?"

All of Felix's housemates glanced at each other. Even if they didn't verbalize it, they all knew what was going on. 

"Bang Chan-nim hasn't talked to you about anything?" Seungmin asked carefully. 

"That man" Felix seethed "is allergic to talking. Which is ironic since that seems to be all he wants me to do these days. But we never talk about any important shit. He just always wants to know about my childhood or my feelings"

"Those are important things" Jisung pointed out.  

"Important for who?" Felix demanded "Don't pretend that he's asked any of you questions about your feelings"

"Of course he hasn't" Jisung laughed "But you're different"

"How?"

"Oh you know, Felix" Jisung said, waving his arm through the smoke. Felix just frowned. 

"See, this is what I'm talking about" Felix huffed "Everyone keeps telling me that I'm different but no one is telling me how. Minho told me that I need to be more aware of my behavior now and then the Wolf God said that I am perfect and don't need to change anything no matter what and neither of those fuckers would even tell me what the hell they were talking about!"

"Ew" Seungmin frowned. 

"Bang Chan-nim really hasn't mentioned anything to you?" Hyunjin asked "Usually he tells you whatever you want. All you have to do is threaten not to fuck him or something and he'll do anything you ask"

Felix pouted deeply "That isn't going to work this time either. He's not fucking me anymore"

"What?" Jeongin gasped.  

"Yeah, he just cuddles and holds my hand and kisses my forehead but he never goes beyond that" 

"Did you just say the Wolf God cuddles?" Seungmin asked, looking disgusted.

"He isn't fucking you?" Jisung pressed "That doesn't sound like Bang Chan-nim at all. Before you came to Miroh, he had someone in his bed every night. He literally killed dozens of people last month because he was horny or something"

"I know" Felix sighed. "And those people probably didn't want to sleep with him. I actually ask him to fuck me and he tells me no!"

"Did he mention why?" Hyunjin asked. 

Felix looked at the water darkly "He just keeps saying that he wants to do things the right way. But I don't know what he means when he says things. What is he trying to do the right way?"

Hyunjin loathed to say that anything about Chan was cute. The Wolf God was miserable and irritable at the best of times. At his worst he was murderous. Even his appearance--from his eyes to his claws and the sharp panes of his body--was hard and unforgiving. But even Hyunjin had to admit that the God's clumsy way of trying to court Felix was endearing. It was as though he had read a manual about courting and was trying to follow the exact steps that were written. The way he stalked around the omega like a forlorn puppy, the stuttering attempts at trying to get to know Felix on a personal level. Even the gifts that the God bestowed upon Felix now were personal. In the beginning he would just give the omega anything that was flashy and expensive--golden jewelry covered with gemstones; silk robes; trinkets made of marble and precious metal. But now all the of the gifts that Felix received were specifically catered to his liking: small candies that could normally not be found in Miroh, clothes in various shades of blue, exotic supplies for the bakery, furs that might not be from rare animals but were extra soft and warm. It was obvious the God was actually putting effort into this. 

"Felix, he is spending all of his time with you, giving you gifts, trying to get to know you better..." Hyunjin said gently. It was textbook courting. "Do you really not realize what is happening?"

But, in honesty, Felix had never been courted before. He had been engaged more times than he could count and had been given a few rather ostentatious gifts from head alphas who were trying to show off to other people rather than trying to impress him. So he had no idea what was going on. "Are you calling me stupid?"

"Of course not" Changbin said quickly "but it's not our place to say what we think is happening. This is probably a conversation you should have with Bang Chan-nim" 

Felix's eyes burned "You don't think I've tried? I've asked him a million times what was going on. I've yelled at him, tried to seduce it out of him, threatened to throw Minho off a cliff unless he told me. But he just keeps telling me to be patient. Me. As if he thinks I'm capable of that. All I know is that something is happening that concerns me and it seems as though everyone else but me is aware of it."

"Maybe try a different approach" Hyunjin suggested "Have a nice, calm conversation with him and let him know that it's making you sad that you don't know what's going on."

"Yeah!" Jeongin added on "I'm sure Bang Chan-nim would probably panic over the thought of you being sad and just tell you whatever you want. Foolproof plan"

Have a calm conversation? Felix nodded into the water and as he thought it over. He could try that. Afterall, none of his other approaches had worked up until now and at this point what was there to lose?

But of course, Felix was incapable of discussing anything calmly, especially with Bang Chan. Maybe the two of them were just too passionate, about each other and in general, but calm discussions were not exactly a thing that existed between them. Whenever the two of them were together it was like fire: burning, intense, destructive. 

When Felix walked into the bakery the next day, Chan was already waiting there. He should have known by the small crowd of omegas gathered by the bakery's front window that something was going on. He walked in to see the God staring intently as a case of muffins that Felix had baked the day before while Jisung awkwardly swept the ground behind the counter, trying not to make eye contact with anyone. 

"What are these?"

Jisung almost choked on air "They are muffins, Bang Chan-nim"

"And what are these things in the muffins?" Chan asked, poking a claw at one of them. 

"Chocolate chips, Bang Chan-nim" Jisung answered, eyes trained to the ground. 

"Those are what Lix puts in his cookies?"

"Yes" Jisung said "You had 50 bags of them sent to us last week so we had to find other ways to use them"

"Is that too many bags?" Chan asked sharply. Jisung immediately fell into a half bow, shaking his head wildly. 

"No, not at all Bang Chan-nim. 50 bags is like the perfect amount! The...the best amount!"

"I want to try this thing. The muffin" Chan mumbled. 

Jisung dropped the broom without second thought and rushed to the case, pulling out a muffin with as much haste as he could. Chan watched it all with discerning eyes. He scowled a little as Jisung picked a muffin up with his bare hands but didn't comment on it. 

"Give me one that Lix baked"

"He baked all of them" Jisung answered as he passed one to Chan. The God took it and looked at it intensely before taking a bite. Jisung held his breath, nervous as though he was the one who had made it.

"It tastes good" Chan said after a few silent seconds "a bit too crumbly, maybe. But still good"

And for some reason, that was the metaphoric straw that broke the camel's back for Felix. Chan's behavior the past two weeks had been confusing and mildly irritating in itself, but to criticize Felix's baking on top of it all? Well that was just unacceptable.  

"Get the fuck out of my bakery" Felix screeched from the doorway. 

Jisung froze, eyes wide and mouth wide open. Sana and the other omegas gathered by the window to get a look at Chan gasped in horror. No one had ever talked to a God that way and definitely not the Wolf God. It was sacreligious at best and suicidal at worst. No God would accept that sort of disrespect from a human. 

Chan turned to see Felix standing by the entrance. 

"Lix" he said, holding up the muffin "I just tried this thing. It's good" 

"Did you hear me?" Felix demanded, stepping into the store and letting the door close behind him. The omegas gathered outside protested at the loss of being able to hear all the drama "Get out of my bakery!"

"This isn't your bakery" Chan pointed out "Miroh in my city. I own everything here" 

"But why are you here?"

"I can't visit the businesses in my city?"

"You never have before" Felix said, throwing his arms up into the air "Everyone here told me that you never used to leave the Temple. No one has ever seen you visit any of the businesses before. So why are you here in the bakery, insulting my muffins..."

"I said it was good!" Chan defended. 

"You said it was crumbly"

"It is crumbly" Chan grumbled "But it still tastes nice. I just like the cookies better. Can you make those next time?"

"Can you kiss my ass?" Felix retorted. Jisung tripped over nothing in shock and fell to the ground. Neither Felix or Chan paid any attention to him "Oh wait, I forgot. You can't because you're suddenly allergic to seeing me naked or being anywhere near my ass" 

"Lix..."

"No" Felix yelled "You can't just Lix your way out of this. You said that you would tell me everything in time but that time is now. I am done being confused. You can't just come visit me at work and give me gifts and want to learn all about me and my life and then at the same time refuse to fuck me and go around keeping secrets from me."

"I'm not..."

"Don't you dare say you're not keeping secrets from me" Felix yelled "because we both know that's a lie"

"I told you that I would explain everything"

"Then you better start explaining. Because from what I can tell, all of these fuckers" Felix pointed a finger at Jisung, who was still lying on the ground "know what is going on and I don't. Do you know how frustrating it is when all of my housemates and Minho know something about me that I don't. You may own this city and everyone in it, but whatever is going on is about me and I deserve to know. You can own my soul or whatever, but it's still my life and I refuse to just sit around and let you mess with me. You picked the wrong omega for that"

"No. I picked the perfect omega"

"Yeah?" Felix challenged, stepping closer to Chan "Would you still say that when I get mad at being left in the dark and burn this whole city down to the ground in retaliation?"

"You wouldn't" Chan said lightly. He stepped even closer. 

Felix raised a single eyebrow. They were so close to each other that their breaths mingled "Try me, Wolf God" 

"If burning Miroh to the ground is really what you want, then I'd allow it"

"Please don't" Jisung interjected from the ground. They continued to ignore him. 

"Because you let me do whatever I want" Felix said, eyes dark. 

"I do" Chan said, indulgently. 

"Even if what I want is to destroy your Holy City and everyone who lives in it?"

Chan chuckled lowly "Sure. But I know that's not what you want. You see Miroh as yours, don't you?"

Felix hated that Chan was right. That even though the current situation annoyed him and the people in Miroh also annoyed him, for the first time in his life he didn't feel like burning a place to the ground. Normally Felix wouldn't even need an excuse to set something on fire. There was something primal inside of him that loved to see things destroyed and burned to a crisp. But the thought of doing that to Miroh caused him so much distress that it was almost physical--his chest felt heavy even thinking about this city ceasing to exist.

But there was no way that he would let Chan know that he was correct in his assumptions. So he just shrugged flippantly and said "I think I can spare Miroh for now"

"Good"

"There are things I want more anyways" Felix pressed "I want to get Hyunjin and Jeongin mated, I want to get Minho a new room, I want you to make private rooms in the bathhouse so I don't have to listen to annoying betas ever again..."

"Did someone bother you in the bathhouse?" Chan asked sharply.

"But what I want most of all" Felix continued, ignoring the God "is for you to take me back to the Temple so we can finally talk about what is going on."

Chan looked at Felix for a few silent seconds before breaking eye contact with a sigh. And just like that, Felix knew he had won. Why had he ever doubted himself? Chan might be a God but he was an alpha underneath it all and Felix knew how to play alphas like a fiddle. Chan was a little more tricky than most, but in the end he always did get his way: he just needed to try a little harder sometimes. He was honestly a little mad that it had taken his housemates to push him to try to talk to Chan about it again. He should have known himself that it would just take one major blowout for the God to give him what he wanted. 

Chan held out his hand "Let's go back to the Temple, Lix"

Felix extended his claws before bringing his hand out to grasp Chan's. He loved the way the their claws grazed each other's, sharp points running across soft flesh. It was one of the many things that were the same about them: the things that Felix had grown to love about himself after coming to Miroh. He closed his eyes and in a flash, they were both back in the Temple. 

Minho had been standing and polishing some golden wolf statues near the entrance and jumped in shock as Chan and Felix suddenly appeared next to him. He dropped the polishing cloth on the ground with a groan. 

"I really should be used to this by now"

"Minho" Chan said, waving a dismissive hand "Get my chariot ready"

"Your chariot...?" Minho asked in confusion. 

Chan looked annoyed "Yes, it's in the carriage house. You should know where my things are located if you are my advisor, Minho"

"I do, Bang Chan-nim" Minho said quickly "It's just that you've never used your chariot. Or at least not since I've become your advisor. You normally just do your...teleportation thing? So I was surprised by the request"

"Did I ask you your thoughts about it?" Chan asked fiercely, glaring at Minho. Felix felt a shiver run through him as the God's harshness "When I tell you to do something, I expect it to be done without question. We'll be going to Tally and I need to take my chariot"

Minho bowed immediately "Of course, Bang Chan-nim"

Chan nodded and started to walk down the hallway to his chambers. Felix followed behind him, mind racing with questions. Of course questions about what was going on with him and Chan were the most pressing but he also wondered what the whole chariot thing was about. Minho was right in that Chan never seemed to have to use traditional forms of transportation; he usually just whisked himself to wherever he wanted. The thought of the Wolf God doing something as mundane as sitting in a carriage was almost amusing. 

They reached the familiar carved wooden doors of Chan's personal chambers in no time. Felix had walked down this hallway so much that he was sure he would know his way there with his eyes closed. He waited for Chan to open the doors before slipping into the familiar warm room. The fire was burning as always and Felix wondered briefly if it just burned eternally or if Chan started it himself every morning. The alpha fiddling with firewood and kindling was an even more amusing thought than him riding a carriage. 

He remained silent as Chan closed the doors and walked over to the plush settee in front of the fireplace that him and Felix normally sat on. He sat on one end and patted the other end, imploring Felix to come over. Felix just raised a single eyebrow at the alpha and stood his ground. As though he would just go and cuddle with Chan like nothing was wrong. 

The silence between the two of them stretched on longer and Felix didn't break eye contact with Chan. He was here to get answers and he wasn't going to back down so easily. 

"We need to go visit my sister" Chan said finally, looking at the ceiling. 

"What?"

"My sister, Lisa. The Deer God. We have to visit her"

Of all the things that Felix had been expected Chan to say, that was probably the last thing he could have imagined. He had been expecting to hear about some sort of huge secret or even to get dismissed from the Temple as he had been a month before. Not be privy to some sort of family reunion news. 

"What are you talking about?" Felix asked "You were supposed to tell me why you've been acting so strange around me and instead you're saying that we need to meet your sister?"

"It's hard for me to explain...to say it out loud" Chan admitted. Felix was taken aback. For as human as Chan sometimes seemed around him, he was still a God. He was all powerful and could kill a human without even moving. Nothing in this world should be hard for him to do. Hardship seemed like something that should only be reserved for humans. Gods had to be above all mortal discomforts such as that. 

"Why?" Felix asked. He walked over to the settee and sat down next to Chan.

"Because this is the one thing in this world than none of us Gods know anything about" 

Felix nodded sympathetically and patted Chan on the shoulder. "Erectile dysfunction?"

This time it was Chan's turn to be stunned. "What?"

"I was thinking that could be the problem" Felix sighed. "That you couldn't get it up after you got that knot so you decided to distract me with gifts and spending more time talking to me. Minho said you were super frustrated during that month that you kept trying to bring other people to your bedchambers"

Chan just stared at him with his mouth open. 

"You don't have to worry" Felix continued, trying to sound reassuring "You Gods might not know much about it, but it's fairly common amongst humans. I don't know if any of the normal human medicines would work for you, but we can always try. It's not something that we have to go to your sister to ask about" 

"I don't have a problem with my penis, Felix"

Felix threw his hands in the air "Well if you can get it up then why haven't you been fucking me?!?"

"Because I've been trying to court you" Chan bit out, causing Felix to freeze. "And I wanted to do it the right way. None of us Gods have done this before, so I just read about how you humans normally do it and followed that"

"You...are trying to court me?" Felix breathed out. Even after being engaged countless times, this was the first time any alpha had ever tried to properly court Felix. He had observed other omegas getting courted back in his old pack: receiving little handmade trinkets from the alphas or betas that fanciend them  and being invited on walks by the lake. But no alpha in his pack had ever dare try to court him and none of the alphas he was sent to thought they needed to go through the whole formal courtship process. Felix had never been jealous of the other omegas--the alphas that courted them were utterly unremarkable and Felix would have rather chewed off his own leg than have to endure taking walks with them or pretending to love their poorly whittled wooden figurines or clumsy flower bouquets. But he had always been curious what being courted would feel like. 

Turns out, it just felt confusing. Or maybe it felt confusing because it was Chan that was doing the courting. Felix wouldn't lie and say that of all the countless alphas he had ever come across, Chan was the only one who he would ever actually want to be courted by. In fact, ever part of his body vibrated in excitement now that he knew what was going on. In some ways it felt natural; as though there was no universe or situation where Chan wouldn't be courting him. But at the same time, he couldn't help but wonder why. It felt natural that Chan should be courting him but why would he actually to be doing it in reality. Chan was a God. What use would a God have with courting?

"Why?" Felix demanded. 

Chan looked at him, face pinched "What?"

"Why would you be courting me?"

"You know why. Don't make me say it out loud"

But Felix didn't know. And that was where the problem lay. He wasn't stupid, he knew what courting traditionally meant even if he'd never been courted before. But he also knew that Chan was a God so whatever courting meant for humans probably didn't mean the same thing for him. 

Because surely...

"You're my mate, Felix"

For the first time, Felix was stunned into silence. A mate. He had been promised a mate so many times that the word had lost meaning to him. All the other omegas in his home pack always daydreamed about what type of mate they would have in the future. Felix had once been curious about it too; back when he was younger and still naive to how unsettling others in his pack found him to be. He would listen to the older omegas gossip about their mates and would wonder what type of alpha or beta he would end up with. Would they be strong? Would they be able to look past his odd features? Would they allow him to do whatever he pleased? But after the fifth time he had been sent off to another pack to mate someone there and then promptly sent back before that could happen, the idea and promise of a mate had become shallow. By the twentieth time, Felix had just resigned himself to never having a mate. It was probably for the best anyways because there wasn't a single person he had met that he felt he could tie himself to forever. 

But here was Chan...Bang Chan, the Wolf God, telling him that they were mates. And--for the first time in Felix's life--it all made sense. The premonitions his Dam had before he was born; his eyes and claws and fangs and scent; the voice inside of him that led him straight to Chan's forest and physically refused to let him become a priest: telling him he was meant for something more than that. The electric connection that they had whenever they were in the same room, where everyone else would fade out and it would only be them. He finally realized why he had been born the way he was and why nothing in his life had ever felt right until he came to Miroh. He had been born to be Chan's mate. 

"Do Gods even have mates?" Felix asked, unsure. 

"We haven't until now. My youngest sister thought she did, centuries ago, but it was different than this" Chan explained "which is why we need to go and see Lisa. Whenever one of us does something major, all four siblings need to agree to it. The other two will, no question, but Lisa is the eldest and without her approval it would be dangerous to mate"

"How does mating even work with a God?" Felix asked "with humans, we just do a ceremony and give each other a mating mark and then we're done with it. Is it different with Gods?"

"I don't know" Chan admitted "Like I said, none of us have had a mate yet. It is probably something that my siblings and I need to discuss once we reach Tally and get all of their approval--how to move forward with the mating process. If father made me a mate then it's only a matter of time before he makes mates for them too and we need to figure out what to do"

"Okay, then we better get a move on to your sisters' city" Felix said, standing up and moving towards the door. "That's why you had Minho prepare your chariot anyways, isn't it?"

"Right now?"

"Of course right now" Felix said, motioning for Chan to stand up "I have been promised to more alphas than I could count. Every single time, they told me that I would mate with them and every time I was rejected and sent back to my pack. And whenever it happened I didn't give a shit, I was never sad or upset or angry that I didn't mate. I just didn't care. This is the first time that someone has told me that I have a mate that I actually care about seeing it through"

Chan looked shocked at the confession. "Lix..."

"Do you really think I'm your mate?" Felix asked. 

"Yes" Chan answered immediately "I can feel it. Every single part of me is telling me that you are. I tried to ignore it and I nearly killed half the omegas in Miroh in my rage."

"I feel it too" Felix said seriously "It's like everything about me that I spent my whole life confused about finally makes sense. You're my mate so why should we wait longer than we need to make it official? You know I'm not a patient man"

Chan did know that. And he also didn't know how to say no to Felix, especially when the omega called himself his mate out loud and was currently giving him those pleading puppy dog eyes from the other side of the room. 

"Hurry up" Felix said, eyes getting wider and more sad looking "Your mate wants you to come and whisk him away to Tally and get your stupid siblings' approval so that we can officially do the mating ceremony and finally fuck again" 

Chan chuckled as he got off the settee and walked over to Felix. He put his arm around the omega's waist as he led them both out the door and into the hallway. "You're going to be insufferable now, aren't you?"

Felix rolled his eyes "Acting like I wasn't insufferable before" 

Chan laughed as they continued to walk down the hall and into the other wing of the Temple. Felix had always felt like this Temple was his second home--another thing that was now starting to make more sense. The fact that he was Chan's mate was probably why his body knew how to navigate all the twisting halls and endless pathways of this Temple without having ever walked them before. 

"Why would you even need a chariot?" Felix asked "Minho was right, can't you just transport us to Tally?"

"There are somethings that are sacred even amongst us Gods" Chan explained as they walked towards the carriage house "Our Holy Cities are one of them. All of us like our privacy so we can't just transport ourselves into each other's cities suddenly. It would be considered highly disrespectful. You remember when Hongjoong came here"

Felix nodded "He came in that crowd of ravens. Was that his form of a chariot?"

"Yes"

"So what does yours look like?" Felix demanded. Chan chuckled as the two of them stepped outside. 

"Always so impatient, Lix. You'll see in a second" 

Whatever Felix was imagining Chan's chariot to be, nothing could have prepared him for the reality. He knew it would be much more elaborate than the carriages he was used to seeing in his home pack so the white oak and gilded gold trim and jewelled inlay were nothing shocking. However what did take him by surprise was what was pulling the chariot. Standing tethered to the large wooden structure were four huge wolves with dull golden fur. They stood calmly and didn't even bother to look over at Felix and Chan as they entered the carriage house. 

Felix gasped as he saw them. They were much larger than the wolves that he had occasionally seen in the wild whenever he was sent to a Northern tribe. Just standing on all fours, they reached Felix's shoulder. If they were standing on their hind legs, they would eclipse him. Their heads were nearly the size of his torso, but they seemed calm and surprisingly gentle so he didn't feel frightened by them at all. He turned to Chan with huge eyes "Are these wolves from your forest?"

Chen nodded "Before we were given humans, us Gods only had our animals to keep us company. They're still the only ones we trust to transport us anywhere whenever we have to go to one of the other Holy Cities. You don't have to worry about them; they won't harm you at all"

Felix didn't doubt that for a second. 

"They're beautiful" Felix said as he looked at them and their golden fur more closely. It was probably the nicest thing he had ever said about a living creature before, but he couldn't help it. There was just something so breathtaking and achingly familiar about them. He wondered if that was how Chan felt about them. If that's what it meant to be mates--being able to understand each others' emotions. 

"They are" Chan said simply before grabbing Felix's hand and leading the omega inside of the chariot. Even though the structure didn't seem that huge from the outside, due to Godly magic or whatever other reason it was as large as a whole room on the inside. The floor was covered in plush rugs and the walls were festooned with velvet drapings in calming greys and light blues. There wasn't a fire burning anywhere, but it was as warm as Chan's personal chambers and decorated with a collection of overstuffed settees. 

"Hmm, is this the perk of being mated to a God?" Felix preened as he spun around and fell on top of one of the settees with a sigh "Getting to travel in luxury?"

Chan seemed a little dazed at his words and just stared at Felix fondly "Hopefully we won't need to be traveling very much beyond this" 

Felix grinned up at him "Not looking forward to this trip?"

Chan sighed before coming to sit next to Felix "Not in the slightest"

"Aren't wolves pack animals? I thought you would be more excited to see them"

"My siblings aren't my pack" Chan bit out, eyes turning dark "If I never had to interact with them again it would be too soon"

"I dunno, Hongjoong was pretty nice" Felix shrugged. Chan huffed a laugh at the omega calling his brother--a God--by his name so informally. 

"You just say that because he said you were hot before he left" 

"Well I am hot" Felix retorted "Can't fault him for having good taste" 

Chan just shook his head as the chariot started moving. There was no driver at the helm but Felix didn't question it at all. He knew that these wolves were linked to Chan and knew exactly where to go without any instructions. If he tried to concentrate very hard even he could feel some sort of fuzzy connection to them but he didn't feel the need to look so deeply into it at the moment. If Chan was correct and they were mates, he would have many more years to explore whatever this kinship to the wolves was. And for now he just wanted to concentrate on the gorgeous God sitting next to him and the scenery whipping past the huge windows on the far end of the chariot. 

The journey to Tally was much shorter than the one Felix took when he was sent to Miroh. Chan's wolves moved faster than horses and didn't seem to need to stop to take a break or sleep. It still took almost a full week to reach the Eastern Forests, but the chariot was extremely well appointed with anything Felix wanted appearing as soon as he needed it. Whatever food and drinks he fancied would placed on a beautifully carved dining table the moment he started feeling peckish and there was a door on the side of the main room that led to an extremely spacious bathroom done in Chan's signature white marble that even had a soaking tub in it. As Felix sat in the perfectly steamy water and watched the icy landscape fly past he realized that for as much as humans feared the Gods, being in one of their good graces was truly second to none.

The time also went by quickly as Chan and Felix just spent the whole time wrapped around each other, talking. They didn't discuss them being mates--something about it was so new and fragile that it was almost like they didn't dare bring the details of it up. Neither of them had been in a relationship before, let alone be close to being mated, so they were unfamiliar with the nervous energy that coursed through them--unspoken but thrilling. Instead, Chan just continued to ask Felix questions about his childhood and home pack. He always seemed sad when he heard about how isolating Felix's childhood had been but he wanted to hear all about it nevertheless. He was much more cagey whenever Felix would ask him about his family or the beginning days of Miroh. Chan would just wave his hand and say that it was nothing worth learning about or just change the subject to something about Felix instead. The omega was sure there was some incident in his past that Chan was reluctant to talk about but he didn't press it too much even though he itched to. He realized that the God hadn't had a single person in his millenia of being in this world that he talked about himself with so it would take some time for him to open up.

As the snow and rocks outside gave way to mossy ground and the trees started to get denser, Chan became more silent. Felix noticed a tenseness in his shoulders that hadn't been there previously. 

"What stick got lodged up your ass so suddenly?" Felix asked as he looked at the God with eyebrows raised. His patience for Chan's moodiness only went so far.

Chan sighed and looked out the window "It's time we talked about Lisa"

"Your sister?" 

Chan nodded "We'll be in Tally shortly. There are certain rules you should know about"

"You Gods and your rules" Felix sighed as he rolled his shoulders and sat up straighter. 

"Tally has even more rules than Miroh" Chan explained "Lisa is highly protective of her city and her offerings. She only has a few of them so she keeps them under a pretty careful watch"

"Why does she only have so few?" Felix asked. He normally wasn't too curious about his surroundings, preferring to let whatever happen without caring much about it. He knew how to take care of himself and he didn't concern himself with others so he never felt the need to be prepared. But now that he knew that Chan was his mate, he felt like he wanted to know everything about him and his family. Maybe it was why Chan was so endlessly curious about his past life as well. 

"There was an...incident...in the past" Chan said, eyebrows furrowed as he looked straight at the ground "everyone in her city died. So she tends to keep her numbers small and only accept very few offerings"

"Everyone in her city died?" Felix gasped "What could have done that?"

"That's not important" Chan said quickly "what is important is that you behave yourself, Felix. Lisa is already going to be upset by this situation so anything you do can set her off. And she can get extremely violent and dangerous when she's upset"

"That's what I was warned about when I was sent to you" Felix scoffed "and you never hurt me"

Chan looked over at him "That is because you're my mate"

Felix felt his whole body flush hot at the words. Sure he had heard Chan say it before, but it was still new to him and it made his body feel like he was on fire every time he heard it: as though there was a furnace inside of him that was lit by the Wolf God calling him his mate.

Chan continued on "Hongjoong and Karina will be fine with you..."

"Karina?"

"My other sister. She agreed to come and keep Lisa in check in case anything happens. But that shouldn't be necessary. All you have to do is stay quiet and just go along with everything I say, okay?"

"You know I can't do that" Felix sighed as he leaned back on the settee. 

"Can you at least try?" Chan pressed. Felix looked at him with a pout. 

"Since when have I ever been able to just stay quiet and listen to what you say?" Felix asked. He didn't even know why Chan thought he could. No one would say Felix had an agreeable personality and he hadn't ever been able to listen quietly to any instructions given to him. Hell, the first time he had met Chan was when he deliberately didn't listen to the guards and ran into the Temple, looking to kill his way out of Miroh. 

"Okay, well at least try not to upset Lisa anymore than she already will be. And don't hurt any of her offerings or destroy anything in Tally. Don't even touch anyone or anything. All we need to do is for her to accept you as my mate and we'll leave right away. Hopefully we can just be in and out with no issue"

Felix enjoyed Chan's optimism but he had a feeling it wouldn't turn out like that. He was much too good at getting on peoples' nerves and causing chaos. He had been doing so from the moment he was born. Chan saw the look on Felix's face and sighed. 

"Let's aim for getting out with minimal destruction, okay?"

"Minimal in general or minimal for me because..."

"For fucks sake, Felix" Chan muttered "Just don't kill anyone or set anything on fire. Can you at least promise me that?"

"I can promise to try my hardest not to do either of those things" Felix said, solemnly.

"I'll take what I can get" Chan sighed. "I put an outfit for you in the washroom. Go get changed. We'll be in Tally momentarily" 

That was an order that Felix could follow, so he scurried to the washroom and put on the outfit that was carefully hanging on the wall. He took the time to brush out his hair and even put in a little braid like Hyunjin always did for him. When he walked outside, he saw that Chan had changed into a completely new outfit that he had never seen before. The God was wearing his typical low slinging pants, but this time they were stark white. His chest was bare as always, but he had put on a long white fur coat over it. The clothes that he had set out for Felix were normal--pants, sleeveless shirt, and a jacket--but they were in the same shade of white. Felix thought it was cute how Chan wanted them to match and then almost immediately hated himself for that thought. What would his old self say if he knew that one day he would think something as cheesy and cliche as matching outfits was cute? That was stuff only the most nauseating couples back in his home pack would do and he would always sneer at them. Maybe having a mate really changed him. Or maybe he was just horny after being denied sex with Chan for over two weeks. Either way, he was slightly disgusted with himself. 

"Welcome to Tally, Felix" Chan said, breaking the omega out of his thoughts as he gestured to the window. Felix rushed over to get his first glimpse at the Deer God's holy city. 

Like Chan said mentioned, Tally was sparsely populated. The city was mostly heavily forested areas with with a winding path carved in the middle. A few wooden houses could be seen high among the trees, built near the canopies. The whole place seemed still and silent, as though they had entered a place suspended in time. Unlike Miroh, there was nobody to be seen. No bustling marketplace or children running around or even people walking down the pathway. Felix didn't know if it was because there just weren't many people in Tally or if Lisa had told them all to stay inside during this visit. 

After a short journey through the city, the chariot stopped in front of the largest tree that Felix had ever seen. Halfway up, carved partially into the enormous trunk itself, was a large wooden structure that could only be the Deer God's Temple. Felix and Chan started to walk up the endless amounts of stairs to reach the Temple and halfway there, Felix found himself cursing the Gods for making their temples so high up. Of course it didn't make a difference for them, they could just teleport themselves wherever they wanted to go. But for the humans who had to come to the Temple, the stairs were a pain in the ass. 

"You know, I might not have the energy to kill Lisa after this trek" Felix panted. 

"Please don't joke about that here" Chan groaned. 

"Fine, whatever. Any more last minute warnings you need to give me?"

"No" Chan said, before pausing "Well...my name"

"Your name?"

"My siblings will be calling me by my birth name" 

Felix almost stopped climbing but he knew that if he did, he would lose all motivation to keep going "Your birth name isn't Bang Chan??"

"No, it's Chris" The God said as they neared the top "Bang Chan is the name I gave myself after I started living in Miroh. But they all know me as Chris"

"Do you have a preference?" Felix asked. 

Chan looked a little taken aback as though no one had asked him that before. Which they most likely hadn't. "I never liked Chris much. It reminded me of my father and those first years in Miroh before we were given humans. But...I don't know. I don't think I'd mind being called Chris if you were the one who called me that"

"Fucking cheesy" Felix muttered, pulling a genuine laugh out of Chan as they reached the top. 

And After what seemed like forever, the two of them finally made it to the entrance of the Temple. It was perched so high up that they had climbed above canopies of the trees that were surrounding them moments ago. Tally's Temple was as calming and bright as the rest of the city. The whole structure was made out of wood and had exposed beams and huge windows that let in an extraordinary amount of natural light. The floor was covered in plush, sage green rugs and there were countless plants creeping up the walls, hanging on their ceiling, and sprouting from various pots placed carefully around the room. In the middle of the entrance hall was a huge pool that reflected the crystal blue sky above. Wooden carvings of deer flanked all four sides. Compared to Chan's cold, wintery Temple of white marble and gold, Lisa's was a bit of a natural oasis.

Felix looked to the other side of the room where three people were standing, all of them wearing different colored robes. Chan led Felix to them and the omega took them all in with sharp eyes. He obviously knew who they were but he did want to at least pretend like he was going to try to listen to Chan and stay quiet for the time being.  

"These are my siblings" Chan said, hanging an arm over Felix's shoulder. The casual motion caught the attention of the two women in the room. One of them looked delighted and the other confused. 

"You've met Hongjoong already" Chan said, waving towards his brother. Hongjoong winked at Felix and the omega cringed in return. The Raven God gasped in mock hurt and Chan ignored him as he turned Felix towards the other two people in the room. 

"This is our little sister, Karina. The Shark God"

Felix looked at the girl standing in front of him, the one who had looked overjoyed to see Chan drape his arm on Felix. Like Chan, she was moon pale and had a long, wine red hair framing a heartbreakingly beautiful face with a slanted nose and full lips. Her eyes were kind and when she smiled at Felix, every single one of her teeth were sharpened to a point. There were slits on either side of her neck similar to the gills on a fish. 

"It's so good to meet you, Felix" she said. Her voice was a little deeper than Felix had been expecting, but nowhere close to as deep as his "Hongjoong told me all about you! But you're even cuter in person than he described. You look like a little puppy! Do you have a tail like Chris?"

"You have a tail?" Felix asked, looking at Chan. He had seen Chan naked dozens of times before and he had most certainly never noticed a tail. 

Chan ignored him as he pointed out the last person in the room. "And this is Lisa, Deer God"

Felix took a deep breath and faced the person he had been so painstakingly warned about. Lisa was just as beautiful as the rest of her siblings but in a starkly different way. Her skin was golden tan, her limbs long and coltish, and her hair was a soft brown and fell in waves to the small of her back. She moved like a dancer; graceful and precise. 

The first thing Felix realized was that none of these siblings looked anything like each other. They were all alphas and all good looking, but that was where the similarities ended. The second thing he noticed were that they were all about his height. Whenever he thought about the Gods in the past, before he had been sent to Miroh, he had imagined them as these giant and intimidating creatures. But they looked much more human than he expected and he found that he wasn't really intimidated by them at all. Maybe it was because he met Chan first and Chan was entirely too indulgent with him, but he felt it hard to be scared around these Gods. Nayeon had warned him to be behave before going to Miroh and Chan had warned him over and over to behave before entering Tally but Felix couldn't really bring himself to care about any warnings. He would behave as much as he needed to. 

"A human?" Lisa asked, eyes moving from Felix to Chan. 

"You have a lovely city, Lisa-nim" Felix said with as sunny of a smile as he could manage. It looked a little maniacal, especially with his fangs on full display, but it was an effort and he could tell Chan appreciated it by the way his body became a tad less tense. 

Lisa looked at Felix's fangs with interest before she turned back to Chan. 

"Did you file his teeth to match yours?"

"No" Chan said simply. 

"Then why does he have fangs like you?" Lisa pressed. She was already starting to get upset and Felix thought in wonder that all these siblings were so freaking sensitive. 

"Felix is the reason why I asked to meet with you here today" Chan said. 

"You called an emergency meeting" Lisa said, voice pitched high "made me open my city, had our little siblings come, disrupted all our schedules just so I could see a human with funny teeth? Is he some sort of priest?"

"No" Chan answered. 

"Are you giving him to me as an offering?"

"No" Chan said, more resolutely. His fingers curled into fists at his side. 

"Then why did you bring him here?!?"

"Felix is my mate, Lisa" Chan said. Felix swallowed and looked as Lisa's face morphed into confusion. "That's why I brought him here. Hongjoong said you needed to approve before I mated him"

Lisa scoffed "Stop joking around with me"

"He's not joking, Lisa" Hongjoong said, finally speaking out. "You can see the boy. I was shocked when I visited Miroh and saw him for the first time. He looks like an omega version of Chris, doesn't he"

"He looks like father made him just for Chris" Karina added with a wistful sigh. "So romantic and for what?"

"Why would father make Chris a mate and not the rest of us?" Lisa asked, completely unimpressed "it doesn't make sense"

"And yet here we are" Chan retorted. 

"Maybe you enchanted him to look like that to trick us all" Lisa said "I wouldn't put it past you"

"Lisa, you know Chris wouldn't do that" Karina interjected. "Plus, it's not just the way he looks--even Felix's smell matches perfectly. It's obvious that father made him for Chris."

"But why?" Lisa demanded. "Chris is the worst of us"

Chan snorted as he leaned against one of the deer statues near the pool. "Wow, love you too, Lisa"

"It's not about love" Lisa said "You've even admitted it before. You're the only sibling who hates humans. You literally kill them for fun. And with the amount of children you have running around, it's obvious that's not the only thing you do with them for fun. So why would father think to make someone like you a human mate?"

"Maybe it's his way of trying to get Chris to appreciate humans again" Hongjoong suggested. 

"He wants Chris to stop killing humans for fun so he rewards him by making him a mate?" Lisa asked, eyebrow raised. 

"No one ever accused father of being rational" Hongjoong shrugged. "At least do your examination of him before dismissing him like this. You did one for Jaewook even though we all knew he wasn't Karina's mate. No offense..."

"None taken" Karina said, scowling at the memory of her favored omega that Lisa had killed centuries ago. "Felix is different from him, though. You can tell just by looking at him"

"He is not different. But in the spirit of fairness, I will at least humor you and take a look at your human, Chris" Lisa sighed as she walked up to Felix and grabbed the omega by his arms to bring him in front of her. Felix bristled, growling low in his throat at being manhandled. Chan shot him a warning look, which is the only thing that stopped him from clawing Lisa's eyes out. 

The Deer God held Felix's face in her hands, moving it this way and that. She looked at his ears, his mismatched eyes, his nose. She opened his mouth and looked at his teeth as well as ran a hand through his white-blonde hair as though to check if it was real. Felix had been examined like this before. Some of the packs that he was sent to did physical examinations to make sure they knew what they were getting. He was such an odd looking omega that people often assumed his home pack was playing a trick on them by using various dyes or trinkets to alter his appearance. He had stood and gotten prodded and poked countless times and each time his patience with it grew thinner and thinner. He wasn't some sort of meat in the butcher's shop. He was the mate of a God. Even if Lisa was being a colossal bitch about the whole thing. 

Lisa moved her hand from Felix's hair down to his hands, running a finger over his claws before going to the waistband of his pants. 

"Don't touch him there" Chan bit out, voice hard and menacing. Lisa pulled back and shot her brother a look. 

"What?"

"There is no need to do a full body inspection" Chan said. "Felix deserves to have some privacy"

"Lisa literally had Jaewook strip naked before she inspected him" Karina frowned. 

"If you think I'm going to let you see Felix naked, you're out of your mind" Chan warned. "You've touched him enough. So back off"

"Fine" Lisa said, holding her hands up and walking away "I don't need to see anything more of him anyway. I've made my decision"

"Already?" Hongjoong asked. "You spent a full day doing tests on Jaewook. After the physical exam, you had him do an intelligence test and a sporting test and even made him climb up and down your insufferable stairs ten times. You haven't even spent a full minute with Felix"

"I don't need all of that to know. I can already tell you that I can't accept Felix as Chris' mate" Lisa said. Felix let out his breath and stared at the Deer God in shock. 

"Lisa, be reasonable" Karina said. "It's obvious that he is"

"It's obvious that Chris has been bewitched by this human, but we have no solid proof that Felix is the mate to a God. There has never been proof that any of us could have a mate and now you think it's possible just because Chris parades someone in front of us."

Hongjoong snorted "Yes, because there are just an abundance of humans who look and smell like him"

"That is not evidence of anything beyond the fact that he is just a strange looking human"

"Hey" Felix grumbled. 

"What evidence would you need?" Chan asked "Do you want to call father down here so he can confirm it himself?"

"If anyone is calling father, it would be you" Lisa answered "Since you are so insistent that this is your mate" 

"None of us are calling him" Karina said "Not like he would come even if we did. You know he finds our squabbles annoying; he wouldn't get involved even if we begged him. We need to figure this out amongst ourselves"

"Then I suppose we're at an impasse" Lisa said, shrugging her shoulders and turning to Chan "Don't make this more than what it is, Chris. Just have fun with this human and then let him go. It'll be sad for you when he dies, but you'll survive and find another one sooner or later anyway. In a couple of centuries someone else like Felix will show up in Miroh and you'll have your fun with them until they die and the cycle will continue on like that forever. That's the way it's always been."

"That is not going to happen" Chan said.

"Don't try to change the system that we've always had. It's just the four of us--always has and always will be. God's don't have mates."

"We do. Felix is my mate, I know it" Chan said resolutely "I'm not going to just find someone else like him. We've lived for millenia and there has never been anyone like him before. He was made for me."

"Get over yourself, Chris" Lisa bit out "You're not more special than the rest of us. Father wouldn't make a mate for someone like you"

"Lisa, I know you're mad at me but don't take it out on..."

"Mad?" Lisa interrupted, laughing "brother, I am beyond mad."

Chan shook his head "We both did terrible things to each other in the past"

"Don't you dare" Lisa said, shoving her finger in Chan's face "What I did to you is nothing compared to what you did. You are a cruel and evil person, Chris."

"It's been centuries..."

"Time does not erase your very essence" Lisa spat out "You are a villainous person and will always remain one. But unlike you, I don't let my emotions completely rule me. I am being honest with you here when I tell you to give up your fantasy of having a mate. I am your sister before anything else and I do not want you to be dissapointed"

Felix frowned. Chan hadn't mentioned doing something awful to Lisa in the past, but even if he had Felix still didn't like the way the Deer God was speaking to Chan. She was utterly condescending and treating Chan like some sort of wayward son. It reminded him too much of how the Head Alpha of his old pack would talk to him before he was sent to Miroh. For once in his life, Felix felt his blood boil for someone who wasn't himself. 

"No, I know what this is" Chan said, stepping up closer to his sister. "It isn't about my potential disappointment.  It's about your jealousy. You can tell that he's my mate. Deep down you knew it the second you saw and smelled him. You just can't stand the fact that father decided to give a mate to me and not you"

"Because you don't deserve one" Lisa said, shortening the gap between them even further "Someone like you will never deserve to have love in their life"

And that was just going too far. No matter whatever bad blood existed between the two siblings, there was no way that Lisa was going to stand there and say that Chan didn't deserve to have Felix in his life. Not while Felix was there; he wouldn't let anyone talk to his mate like that. 

"Back the fuck away from him" Felix said, striding forward and stepping in between Lisa and Chan. He heard gasps from behind him but he didn't care. Let those fuckers be shocked. They hadn't stepped in. No one here was defending Chan as he was getting berated and there was no way that Felix was just going to sit by and let it continue to happen. 

"Lix, what are you doing?" Chan asked, desperate. 

Felix growled at the Deer God. He stood as tall as he could, jutting his chin out and looking at Lisa darkly. His white blonde hair fell messily across his face and his eyes flashed in the low light. "Insult my mate to my face, I dare you"

"Lix!" Chan gritted out. 

"You dare me?" Lisa asked with a laugh "Who do you think you are?"

Felix was tempted to say something utterly cliche like 'your worst enemy' or 'the omega of your nightmares'. Something that would sound cool in the moment but cause him to cringe by himself in the bathtub later whenever he thought back on it. But the tension in the room was growing so he just decided to stay silent. He continued to glare at Lisa. His eyes usually caused great discomfort in people. Countless people had mentioned that the ice blue one looked as though it was staring straight to their soul. However Lisa didn't seemed bothered by his glare at all. Maybe she was so used to Chan's eyes that they didn't bother her at all. 

"Step away from Chris, little human" Lisa said as she stood eye to eye with Felix. 

Felix snarled, his fangs on full display "Make me"

Chan grabbed Felix's elbow, trying to move him out of the way. His eyes were wide, obviously panicking. He looked over at Hongjoong and Karina and found them both paralyzed as well. They had seen Chan and Lisa verbally spar so many times that it didn't make a difference for them anymore and they had never expected the only human in the room to actually stand up for their brother. Karina looked as though she was on the verge of a panic attack and Hongjoong looked both scared and supremely amused at the same time. It was times likes this that Chan really hated his siblings. He had told Hongjoong before and he meant it--if Lisa hurt Felix then whatever peace this world knew would be over. 

"I don't care who's mate you think you are" Lisa said, lowly "No human disrespects a God like this"

"And I don't give a fuck that you're a God" Felix retorted "You don't get to talk about my mate like he's scum and expect me to sit on the side and watch. I don't know what kind of pathetic omegas you're used to, but that's not me"

"My omegas are not pathetic. They just have better self preservation skills" 

"My claws are the only self preservation I need" Felix snarled. Lisa narrowed her eyes. 

"Are you threatening me, human?"

"Do you want to be threatened?" Felix hissed "You keep saying stupid shit so it seems like you do. Do threats turn you on? Do you want to fuck me? Because, no offense, I don't think you can do it half as well as Chan can"

"What the fuck" Karina whispered, still frozen in place. 

"Did he just call Chris by his name informally?" Hongjoong asked. 

Karina turned to her brother with her mouth wide open "He just basically propositioned and turned down Lisa in the span of one second and you care that he addressed Chris informally?"

"You made a grave mistake bringing him here, Chris" Lisa said to Chan with a wild smile. "He's out of control. I said that you would survive when he dies and it seems as though we'll be putting that to the test sooner than expected"

"Don't you hurt him, Lisa" Chan said as he finally managed to push Felix out of the way towards his other two siblings. 

"He doesn't get to come into my city, disrespect me, and survive" Lisa spat out "Humans need to know their place"

Chan's eyes flashed "You know what happened after you killed BamBam. If you try to kill Felix, neither you nor Tally will ever know peace"

"I am your elder" Lisa said "You can't kill me"

"Hurt Felix and I assure you, I will" 

Felix felt Karina and Hongjoong tense up as Chan's fangs extracted and he raised a single clawed hand at his sister. Lisa in turn made a sound that sounded like a bray as she rolled her shoulders. Sharp antlers started to sprout out of the top of her head. 

"She's going to try to kill him" Felix breathed out. 

"No she's not." Karina tried to reassure the omega "They're just play fighting. They do it pretty often since their egos are too big to resolve fights in any normal way. Most of the time, they can keep it to just verbal fighting but I think you made them escalate beyond that."

"It looks way more scary than it actually is, trust us" Hongjoong added "They do this every century or so to get it out of their system. It's probably best that it got to this level, anyways. They'll both be more docile after they knock each other around a bit"

"It's always much easier to have a conversation with them after" Karina agreed. 

But as Lisa charged at Chan, none of that mattered. Felix didn't even hear what Karina and Hongjoong were saying. All he could see was that Chan was in danger and he needed to do something about it. It might be a play fight, but his body and mind didn't see it as that. All they registered was that there was a threat to his mate.

Felix felt his senses dull and then come back with such sharp clarity that he swore he could hear the blood running through his veins. That ever present voice in his head yelled out Protect your mate. Transform and protect your mate. And for once, Felix didn't bother to question or even fight against it. He could hear Hongjoong and Karina yelling something behind him but it didn't matter anymore. His eyes were locked on Lisa, who was running towards his mate with her sharp antlers pointed directly at him and all he knew in that moment was that he needed to fight for Chan. 

So he let his body do what it had been screaming to do for years. He let the wild thing inside of him take over as he ran full speed towards Lisa. He felt his claws extend fully, his fangs elongate, his whole body change as he lept and barrelled straight into the Deer God. 

Lisa yelped as something (or better yet a certain someone) heavy knocked her off her feet and to the ground. She gasped as the wind was knocked out of her and turned to spear Felix straight in the heart, Chan and his obsession with the omega be damned. She could deal with the consequences, but no way was she letting a human physically assault her while she was in the middle of a play fight.

Only it wasn't Felix standing on top of her. 

All four Gods stared in disbelief and wonder as a massive creature with silver fur and ice blue eyes growled menacingly at Lisa, claws positioned right at her throat. 

"Well you were looking for proof and I guess you have it now, sister" Hongjoong--the first to recover from his shock--said with a laugh. Chan just stared in wonder, eyes wide and heart in his throat. He had known that Felix was meant for him, had been so sure of it, but seeing the evidence of how much they were made for each other still overwhelmed him. "Felix is a fucking wolf"

Chapter Text

The four Gods sat on the floor of Lisa’s temple, each in different states of shock and acceptance as Felix—still very much in his wolf form—pranced around as though he was mocking them. He seemed to be completely unfazed by his new body.

Lisa groaned and fell to her back, bringing a hand up to cover her eyes. She took a few deep breaths before something sharp pricked her arm. Throwing her hand off her face, she turned and glared at Felix, who was pulling at the sleeve of her robe with his mouth.

“Chris, get your mutt off of me”

“Stupid Lisa, that’s not how you pronounce mate” Felix yipped.

Of course in this form, Chan was the only one who could understand him and the Wolf God suppressed a laugh, causing Lisa to glare at him.

“Is he talking shit about me?!?”

“Could you blame him if he was?” Karina asked from the side. She cooed over Felix as he fell onto his back and started wiggling around. His tail whipped back and forth, making sure to smack Lisa’s face with every movement. “Besides, how can you be angry at him? He’s so cute!!”

“This isn’t cute” Lisa coughed around a mouthful of fur. Felix thumped his tail directly in her face.

Hongjoong could see his sister’s patience waning by the second and figured that someone needed to be the diplomatic one here. Karina seemed too delighted by the wolf’s playfulness and Chan looked too enamored to do anything useful.

So it was up to Hongjoong: Hongjoong who would rather be back in his desert Temple chilling with his ravens and having his advisor draw an ice bath for him. But instead here he was having to wrangle Chan’s puppy because his brother was too indulgent to do it himself.

“Felix, maybe it’s time you turn back into a human now” Hongjoong suggested gently.

Felix, very predictably, completely ignored the God in favor of jumping up and running around the room as fast as he could. His claws click clacked against the wooden floor noisily.

“This is why I don’t deal with you mammals” Hongjoong said with a sigh as he leaned against the wall.

“You just asked me to help procure you a bear last month” Karina said with a scoff.

“Because one of my offerings wanted one!”

“Why would you ask Karina for a bear and not me?” Lisa demanded, turning her head towards her brother. “Bears are found in the forest, not the sea”

“Why has this become a sudden interrogation of me?!” Hongjoong cried “shouldn’t you be more concerned about that?”

They all looked towards where the Raven God was waving; Felix had upturned one of Lisa’s many pots and was dragging the plant in it out by its roots. For however chaotic Felix was as a human, it seemed to be amplified tenfold when he was in his wolf form.

“Chris, if you don’t get that demon under control I swear I’m going to toss him out of the window” Lisa screeched. Those plants were all centuries old and Felix seemed to be hellbent on using them as some sort of chew toy.

That seemed to wake Chan up from whatever stupor he was in. He turned his head to the wolf on the other side of the room.

“Felix…”

Felix looked up. He had half chewed leaves dangling from his mouth and his blue eyes were wide and pleading.

“Oh my heart” Karina said, clutching onto her chest “He is precious! How come your wolf isn’t this adorable, Chris?”

Chan ignored her. “Lix, it’s time to change back now, okay?”

Felix whined and stamped his feet, causing another potted plant to fall over. He was much larger than a typical wolf and it seemed he wasn’t quite used to his body just yet. Though as he toppled over two more pots, Chan started to wonder if he actually was used to his new form and was just destroying things for fun.

“I’m sure Lisa doesn’t approve of you messing up her Temple like this”

Felix scoffed and started trotting in the spilled dirt, spreading it around all over the once pristine floor.

Lisa felt a throbbing behind her eyes. “Chris, I swear if you don’t…”

“Lix” Chan said, voice low and dangerous “What did I tell you about being a good boy”

Felix stilled and looked at him—fangs bared and eyes intently set on Chan. It suddenly felt like the whole room had become an electric field.

“Oh” Karina said, looking between the two of them “Oh no…”

“Listen, if you’re going to flirt with him do it when he’s a fucking human” Hongjoong said “This is too weird even for us”

“Oh don’t act as if you’ve never subjected us to weirder” Lisa grumbled “Remember three centuries ago when you invited us over just to watch you give yourself five dicks so you could fuck five omegas at the same time?”

Karina shuddered at the memory “Our brothers are gross”

“I’m not gross” Chan interjected.

“You want to fuck a wolf, Chris!”

“The wolf has a name” Felix barked “besides, I bet I’m super hot as a wolf”

He trotted over to the reflection pool in the middle of the Temple to determine that for himself. He stared at the water for a moment before realizing he didn’t really know what he was even trying to figure out. He wasn’t sure what being hot constituted for a wolf, but he did think the silver of his coat and his ice blue eyes were rather pretty. Being a pretty wolf was probably good enough.

Felix spent a few more seconds admiring his new form before deciding that the water of the reflection pool was much too calm for his liking. He stamped his paws in it, delighting in the ripples they made.

“Chris, he is putting his disgusting feet in my holy water!”

“I can see that, Lisa” Chan bit out as he walked over to Felix to try and reason with him once again. It was obvious that just asking him to turn back wasn’t going to work. Felix seemed even more stubborn as a wolf. It was as though his body was finally enjoying the freedom of being able to fully transform and it was trying to cling onto this new form for as long as it could. Chan needed a new tactic.

“Felix, I need…”

Felix growled low in his throat. Chan rolled his eyes.

“Okay, I want you to turn back into a human now”

Felix ignored him and continued to stamp around in the water, splashing it over Chan. The Wolf God closed his eyes and counted to five, trying to calm himself down. Felix was adorable in his chaos, but he was also getting on Chan’s last nerve. Just like the omega, Chan had never been known for his patience. 

“Felix, don’t you want me to fuck you?”

That finally caused the wolf to still. He turned his head towards Chan and cocked it to the side. His blue eyes lit up.

“I can’t fuck you when you’re like this, can I?”

“You can if you’re a wolf too” Felix barked.

“I’d much rather do it when we’re both human, Lix. I can’t lick your pretty pussy nearly as well when we’re wolves. Can you change for me?”

Felix looked conflicted for a moment, warring between staying and exploring this new body and getting fucked. He seemed to come to some sort of confusion as he closed his eyes with a shudder. A few seconds later, the wolf had disappeared and was replaced by a very naked human Felix.

The omega opened his eyes and stared at his hand. “Oh, so that worked! I wasn’t sure I even knew how to turn back”

Chan growled at seeing Felix standing naked in front of everyone. That was just completely unacceptable. He immediately took off his coat and walked towards the omega. Felix saw it and looked down at himself, frowning at his nakedness.

“What happened to my clothes?”

“They tore when you transformed” Chan said, waving his hand towards a pile of white scraps “You have to take anything you’re wearing off before you change forms. You’ll get used to it”

Just half an hour before, Felix didn’t know he had a second form at all. But now here they were talking about his future transformations as though it was something completely natural. And it did feel natural in a way. It was like he had finally come into his own, discovered all facets of his body. His wolf form felt as natural to him as his human one.

Chan belted the coat closed so that the only skin that was showing as a small strip of clavicle where it sagged a little at the neck. Felix tilted his head and looked at him.

“Did you know I was a wolf?”

Chan shook his head “I didn’t imagine that could be possible”

“But you said I was made for you”

“You are” Chan said, looking him in the eyes “But my father has never been this generous before. You’re like a dream come to life”

“Am I pretty as a wolf?”

“The prettiest”

Felix scrunched his nose “I thought you said I’m the prettiest when I’m bloody”

Chan shrugged and brought his hand up to cup Felix’s face. He traced a finger over his cheeks, his freckles, the tip of his nose, and down to his lips. He extended a claw as he caressed the omega's lips, cutting into the soft flesh and drawing blood. Chan’s eyes dilated as he smeared it all over Felix’s mouth.

“Yes, you’re the prettiest like this. I think I just needed to remind myself”

Felix sucked Chan’s finger into his mouth and bit down on it, sharp fang piercing it while his tongue immediately started lapping at the blood coming out. The omega’s eyes rolled to the back of his head.

“We taste divine together…Chris”

Chan’s eyes darkened at the name and at seeing Felix lap at his blood.

“Do we?”

Felix quirked a single eyebrow up “Come here and taste for yourself”

Chan lunged forward and grabbed Felix’s face. His tongue immediately thrust into his mouth while he gnawed at the omega’s lower lip, cutting it even more. Felix felt himself convulse at the onslaught of pain and pleasure. His claws extended as he raked them down Chan’s naked back.

Hongjoong gasped at the scratches Felix left behind. They were the exact shape and placement as the markings that Chan had been born with. It was as though their father had known from the moment Chan had been created that he would make Felix for him.

A loud moan cut through the Temple as Felix fell onto his back and Chan fell on top of him. Even though Chan’s body engulfed Felix’s to the point that they couldn’t see the little omega, the way that the Wolf God’s hips were moving was a pretty obvious sign of what was to come.

Which to Lisa was, of course, entirely unacceptable.

“STOP!”

Felix and Chan looked up immediately. Both of their lower faces were completely covered with blood to the point where it was dripping down their necks. The hair around Felix’s head was stained red.

“Aw, but they were just getting to the good part” Karina whined.

Lisa looked like she was about to explode. “No, they were about to fuck in my Temple!”

“Exactly, that's the good part!”

“If you are so horny go and fuck a shark” Lisa yelled at her sister “This is my holy, sacred ground. You two can’t just fuck here like you’re in some brothel”

“Well forgive a girl for wanting some excitement” Karina huffed “All of my offerings for the past few decades have been so dull. It’s fun seeing Chris get so worked up like this!”

“I also don’t object if they continue” Hongjoong added in.

But now that Chan was taken out of the moment, he reeled at how close he had been to just forgetting everything and fucking Felix right there on the floor of his sister’s Temple. Normally Chan prided himself on his impeccable sense of control. Yes, he had a short temper and did take pleasure in killing, but they were usually calculated decisions. Someone pissed him off so they got killed or he woke up in a bad mood so he killed whoever bothered him first.

However control went completely out the door when it came to Felix. The omega had something about him that made Chan not be able to concentrate on anything else when the two of them were together. Whenever he locked eyes on Felix or even got a whiff of his intoxicating scent, it was like everything else faded away into nothingness.

He couldn’t believe that he was about to let his siblings see them fuck. No one should be allowed to see Felix naked—let alone in the throes of pleasure—besides him. That was just completely unacceptable.

“No, Lisa is correct” Chan said, causing all three of his siblings to look at him in shock. “Fucking in another God’s holy Temple is disrespectful”

“But we can fuck in your Temple, can’t we?” Felix asked.

Chan turned to look at him. The omega’s face was still covered in blood and it took all of the Wolf God’s iron-clad reserves to not kiss him again. “We can. Come, Felix—we got what we came here for and we should head back to Miroh so we can make formal plans for our mating”

“And so we can fuck”

“….Yes, that too”

Felix stood up and was by Chan’s side in an instant. The alpha wrapped his arms around the omega’s tiny waist, fingers rubbing the soft fur of his coat.

“Not so fast, brother” Lisa interrupted “I am not done with Felix yet”

Chan immediately turned to her with narrowed eyes “What do you mean?”

“I need to talk to him…alone”

“Over my dead body you will!”

“Lisa, we already have the evidence that he’s Chris’ mate” Karina said “He’s a wolf. What more do you need to approve of him?”

“I can agree that Felix is indeed Chris’ mate” Lisa said. Felix’s head perked up. That was already monumental progress “But that doesn’t mean that I approve of them mating. I still need to talk to Felix to further understand him”

“Anything you say to Felix can be said in front of me” Chan said.

“Because that ended so well last time” Lisa said with a scowl.

“That is precisely why I need to be there with him” Chan retorted “I can’t let anything happen to him, Lisa”

“Do you not trust your omega to be able to defend himself?” Lisa asked.

And, for once, Felix found himself on Lisa’s side. Of course he could defend himself! His proclivity for violence aside, he was pretty sure he had proven that, push come to shove, he could defend both him and Chan plenty fine on his own. He had attacked a God and lived to tell the tale. No other human could say the same.

"I trust Felix but I don’t trust you”

“Oh please, Chris, I won’t hurt him” Lisa said with a roll of her eyes “I even promise to be nice. I just want to talk to the boy”

Chan stood still, so tense that his shoulders were shaking slightly. Hongjoong came up and placed a hand on his brother’s shoulder.

“Lisa won’t do anything to Felix. We all accept he’s your mate now so we won’t hurt him. Just let her have her talk so we can get this all over with and go home”

Chan looked at Felix, who had been staring at him the whole time. Felix could see the question in the God’s eyes and it made him almost deliriously happy. Chan was asking him for his opinion. Chan was trusting him to make the decision. Under normal circumstances that would be the bare minimum but Felix was currently the only human amongst a group of Gods so having any sort of autonomy in the situation felt powerful.

He felt like the most powerful human in the world, which he may very might have be.

He nodded his head minutely but it was enough for Chan to understand. The Wolf God turned to his sister with a sneer.

“You harm one hair on his head and see what happens”

“So fucking dramatic” Lisa said, shaking her head as she motioned for Felix to follow her. Chan grabbed the boy’s face before he went, running a hand over his cheekbone.

“Anytime you want to leave, you just come out here and find me, Lix. We’ll go right away no matter what.”

“Even if she doesn’t approve of me?”

“No matter what, little pet”

Lisa turned to Karina and Hongjoong. The three of them shared disgusted looks amongst each other. They had never seen their brother act like this before and it was really just…too much. Even for eternal romantic Karina, seeing her older brother act like this was sickening. She was fine with seeing Chan fucking, but seeing him being romantic to someone? That was gross. 

Eventually, Chan was sated enough that he let Felix go and the omega skipped towards Lisa, looking much too innocent for someone who had blood running down his chin. The Deer God summoned a towel out of the air and passed it to Felix as she led both of them down the hallway to one of the beautifully appointed meeting rooms she had curated all around her Temple.

Felix appreciated the aesthetics of the room as he wiped at his face. It was large and airy, with huge picture windows overlooking the forest around them. More plants hung from the ceiling and crawled along the walls and the furniture was all wooden and low to the ground. He turned to Lisa, who was making sure than Chan hadn’t followed them down the hallway before entering into the room. 

“So what’s the story with you two?” Felix asked as soon as Lisa closed the door behind them. He tossed the towel so the side as she turned to him with an incredulous look.

“Excuse me?”

“It’s obvious you two have a stick up your asses about something” Felix pointed out. “So what’s up with that?”

“It amazes me how you think you can talk to a God so casually” Lisa said, aghast “Chris lets you talk to him like this?”

“He lets me do whatever I want”

“Yes, I am realizing that”

“It’s because I’m hot”

Lisa rolled her eyes “I think there’s much more to you than just being hot that has Chris like this”

“That’s so nice of you to say” Felix said with a very fake smile “But flattery won’t make me forget my question”

Felix and Lisa just stared at each other for a few silent seconds before the God sighed and looked to the side, out of the huge windows. The canopies of the trees around them swayed prettily in the breeze.

“Have you ever heard about Bambam?”

“Chan mentioned him to you earlier, but he never told me anything about him before” Felix said with a frown “What a prehistoric sounding name”

“He was the first human Chris had” Lisa said.

Felix snorted “Called it; prehistoric”

Lisa ignored him as she continued to explain “He was the first human any of us had. Father originally created our Holy Cities for us and left us there on our own. We had our animals with us, but that was the only company we had for centuries. We didn’t know any better then but looking back, it was dreadfully lonely. Then one day Bambam suddenly appeared in Miroh. Father did end up creating more humans for all of us later on, but for decades it was just Bambam. And Chris was the one who was given a human”

Felix knew he shouldn’t feel jealous over some long dead human but he felt something a little rotten course through him at the thought of Chan and this Bambam being alone together for decades with no one else around.

“I was enraged” Lisa continued “I was the eldest; the one who had to look after the other three before we were given our cities because father was too self-absorbed to pay any attention to us. Yet he decided to give Chris a human before all of us. We were all lonely in our cities while Chris got to have a companion who he could actually talk to and spend his time with. I was jealous and angry…I didn’t see it back then, but now thousands of years later I can tell that’s why I did it”

“Did what?”

“I killed him” Lisa said. “One day Chan came to visit me in Tally. He took Bambam with him everywhere so he came too and I lost my temper and ended up stabbing him with my antlers.”

“Oh” Felix said. He hadn't known the full story but seeing how big of a deal this Bambam seemed to be, it was obvious that something terrible had happened to him.

“It was the first time any of us had experienced death before” Lisa sighed “The original animals that father gave us were immortal and so are we. We didn’t even realize it was possible for someone to just…cease to exist. I don’t know if Chris ever got over it fully”

“What did he do to you in return?” Felix asked.

“He didn’t do anything until nearly a century later. Father ended up populating the world with humans so we had more than we’d ever need. Chris waited until I filled my city with humans that I had grown to love and then he came in one night and killed them all”

Felix’s eyes grew wide. Chan had told him that everyone in Tally had been killed in the past but he had never mentioned it was him that did it. He wondered why Chan had left that out. Did he think Felix would judge him over it? Surely he had to know by now that Felix was thrilled with anything that he did.

“You deserved it” Felix frowned.

“Chris came in the night and stabbed every single human that was in Tally with his claws” Lisa said, eyes dark “And then he just left them in a bloody pile in front of my Temple”

Felix tried his hardest to not let his slick leak out hearing that. Fuck what he wouldn’t have given to see Chan do that.

“I know I killed his human, but to exterminate a whole city as payback? I had hundreds of humans in Tally back then”

“You hurt him so he hurt you in return” Felix shrugged. “Do the number of casualties really matter?”

Lisa looked at him, perplexed “You really think exchanging the life of hundreds to avenge the life of one is deserved?”

“For revenge, sure. Besides, you were the one that started the whole thing by killing the prehistoric man in the first place”

“I thought with you being a human you would care more about them, but you really are the same as Chris, aren’t you?”

“Why are you judging us when you’re the one who caused Chan to hate humans?” Felix demanded.

“It wasn’t all on me” Lisa retorted “I think Chris did try to get close to some humans after Bambam but they either acted as humans do and tried to use him or they would be good to him and then die after their natural lifespan. The rest of us accepted what humans were but Chris was always more sensitive to it. After a century of being betrayed or left behind, he started to hate them all”

“Wolves are pack animals” Felix said with narrowed eyes “He was never able to find a pack. Of course it would drive him mad"

“Then father did him a big disservice by giving him humans first. We didn’t know anything about them or the nature of what they were and Chris let them hurt him because of it. My jealousy and wrath only made it worse. That's why I worry about him being given a mate first. What if he hurts himself beyond repair because of his ignorance this time around?”

“It won’t happen” Felix said resolutely.

Lisa looked at him with her eyebrows raised “You could not possibly know that for a fact”

“But I do” Felix said “I am not like any of those humans that used Chan and I am not like Bambam. I won’t let myself be taken away from him. I can defend both of us”

“So sure of yourself, little omega”

“Now that you know I’m his mate, will you or the other siblings kill me?” Felix asked.

“No”

“Then if I’m not threatened by the Gods what else do I have to worry about? I can kill any human that stands in our way or tries to harm us. I’ve killed people for far less”

“I guess Chan has found himself a rabid guard dog” Lisa smirked “But what if the person you need to defend him from is yourself?”

“I wouldn’t hurt him” Felix retorted.

“Not on purpose. But you can die, little human. None of us have had a mate before so we don’t know what will happen once you formally mate. Maybe you won’t be immortal like Chris and will just have a normal human lifespan. Maybe you’ll die after a few more decades and Chris will have to deal with the aftermath on his own”

“That can’t happen” Felix breathed out “Your father can’t be that cruel”

“You have no idea how cruel our father can be” Lisa “But I know that nothing I say will stop Chris from taking you as a mate so I truly hope that it makes you immortal as well”

“It has to” Felix said. There was no way that it couldn’t. No way that he would be forced to leave Chan behind by himself again. “You said you know you can’t stop Chris and I from mating. Does this mean that you accept us?”

“I suppose I have no choice, do I?” Lisa asked with a laugh. “I just wanted to talk to you away from the rest to gauge what you were and what intentions you had. And I also wanted to let you know about Chris’ true nature so if you wanted to run away you would do it now instead of later when it is too late."

"How very big sister of you" Felix scoffed. His pack didn't have the concept of siblings, but some of the other packs he had been sent to did. He had gotten to see the sibling dynamic play out multiple times over.

"Despite what you might think, I do have my brothers’ best interest at heart" Lisa said "Chris and I have hurt each other in the past and I’m sure we will hurt each other in the future. Our relationship is complicated but all us siblings have ever had is each other and I do want Chris to find what is good for him.”

“Do you think I’m good for him?”

Lisa shook her head “I don’t know. I think you two are perfect for each other. Whether or not you’re good for each other is yet to be seen.”

Felix nodded. But Lisa was wrong. Him and Chan were good for each other. It was whether they were good for the rest of the world that was to be seen. Deep down, the omega knew they probably wouldn’t be—the two of them combined would be utter chaos and destruction—but he also didn’t care. As long as they were good for each other, the rest of the world could burn.

“Though I will say that this conversation didn’t last as long as I thought it would” Lisa said as she stared at the sun outside to judge the time of day. “Maybe for the best. I’m sure you and Chris are eager to go back to Miroh to do…whatever indecent things. And I have a trial coming up”

“A trial?” Felix asked, interest piqued. He was eager to get back to Chris and get fucked, but trails back in his home pack usually led to a banishment or execution and the chaotic side of him wanted to know more.

“One of my offerings, Seungri, has been found to be harassing other members of Tally for the past few months” Lisa said, eyes darkening “I am very strict with who I accept into my Holy City, but he had us all fooled. We’re keeping him in the central compound for now but I am holding a trail with him later today to decide his fate”

“Why don’t you just kill him?”

“Not everyone is as bloodthirsty or has as loose a morals as Chris and you” Lisa said with a roll of her eyes “The rest of us take our offerings very seriously. Miroh is different because Chris will accept anybody as long as they’re not an alpha. And the humans he gets are usually sent to him as a form of punishment”

“It’s not the same here?” Felix asked. He had only ever experienced packs that worshipped the Wolf God. Though each of the Gods had their Holy Cities in different regions of the world, there was no geographic limits to which packs worshipped them. Packs who followed the Deer religion could be found in all corners of the world and it was the same for the other three. Felix’s home pack and all the packs he had been sent to had worshiped the Wolf God. Packs of different religions hardly ever interacted so Felix hadn’t even met anyone who worshipped one of the other three Gods.

“For Karina, Hongoong, and I being given as an offering is the highest form of praise a pack can bestow on one of their members” Lisa explained “We are sent offering very rarely and we are extremely picky about which ones we accept. That’s why it’s so upsetting when one of them betrays us. Our offerings are all beloved to us and we are bound to not harm them”

“Bound by what?” Felix asked.

Lisa looked a little taken aback by the question “Well bound by our own rules and morals, I suppose. When you’ve lived as long as us, having a strict set of rules is the only thing that helps us remember our purpose”

“What purpose?”

“For me it’s to help humans” Lisa said, straightforward “I believe father made humans for us to guide and aid and heal. For Chan, it’s always been different. He sees humans as playthings who have only caused him pain so they don’t give him anything. I don’t think he’s ever found his purpose”

“Is that why you worry about him?”

“It’s why you worry me, Felix” Lisa said, looking over at him “I’m afraid that you have become Chris’ purpose”

Felix felt his breath stop for a moment.

“And if he loses you” Lisa continued “then it’s over for all of us. He killed everyone in Tally in retaliation just for Bambam. If you’re taken from him…well, he’ll take the whole world down with him”

Felix thought back to the month where Chan had pushed him away and forced them to keep distance from each other. Chan had killed dozens of his own omegas in rage in just that short period of time. If Felix was taken from him forever, Lisa was right—no one in the world would remain alive.

It was a heavy burden to carry but it also thrilled Felix. Imagining Chan destroying the whole world was so hot and it made him miss the alpha more than ever before. He felt fidgety with his need to see and touch Chan.

“You don’t need to worry about Chan and I” Felix said after a few silent seconds “Worry about your own shit first. What are you going to do with the fucker who’s terrorizing Tally?”

“We’ve already established that I can’t kill him so I will have to…”

“You can’t kill him” Felix repeated.

Lisa looked at him strangely “Well yes, I just said that”

But Felix wasn’t listening to her anymore. He was thinking of this Seungri, who had been terrorizing Tally for months and who Lisa said was locked away in the central compound. Maybe Lisa couldn’t kill him but she never said anything about him not being able to be killed at all.

This time Felix had the foresight to take off the coat he was wearing before he transformed. He quite liked the way the fur felt, after all, and he would very much enjoy getting fucked on it sometime in the future. As soon as the coat hit the floor, he was already in his wolf form and racing out of the room.

Chan had been standing miserably at the entrance to the hallway and was startled as a flash of fur ran past him. He stared at him in shock for a second before registering what was going on. Chan yelled out his name, but it didn’t stop Felix from running straight out of the main hall and down that impossibly long flight of stairs.

Chan was only stopped from transforming and running after him by Lisa, who came barreling down the hallway only seconds later.

Chan turned to her with murderous eyes “What the fuck did you do to him?”

“I didn’t do anything!”

“The fuck you didn’t” Chan roared “He ran away!”

“I thought you said you would try to be nice to him” Karina reproached gently.

“I was nice to him” Lisa said defensively “I didn’t yell at him or even say anything bad about him!”

“Then why did he flee?” Chan demanded “Where did he go?!?”

“How am I supposed to know, Chris? He didn’t exactly draw me a map before he left”

Hongjoong stared out the now empty entryway “Is he coming back?”

The room was silent for a few seconds as Chan shook with fury. He felt like he was losing control of his body. His fans were burning to extend, his claws becoming longer. “If he doesn’t come back, I will never forgive you Lisa”

“He’ll come back, he wouldn’t abandon you” Lisa said. Of all the things that were currently happening, that was the one thing she knew for certain “I honestly don’t know what’s going on. We were having a pleasant conversation, actually. I even opened up and told him about some of the issues happening in Tally and…oh”

“Oh?” Chan echoed.

Lisa looked at him with wide eyes “I think I might know where Felix went”

Felix ran over the springy grass with only a vague idea of where he was going.

This time Felix couldn’t let his instincts lead the way. Unlike Miroh, it wasn’t like his body automatically knew where to go. Tally was as foreign to him as any unknown city he had ever been in. However he wasn’t stupid and he figured that Tally’s central compound would be located in the center of the city. He had seen a large wooden structure sitting in what seemed to be the middle of a town square on the carriage ride over, it had been the only building visible and not hidden high up in the treetops of this giant forest. All deductive reasoning would lead to that being the central compound. And if he was wrong well…that was a problem for future Felix. He had always been the type to act fist and think later.

He ran straight to the structure, trying to remember the direction from the little he had seen through the carriage window. He was still getting used to how much speed he had in this new body and he almost passed by the building in is hast. He had to dig his heels into the ground and almost toppled over himself trying to stop. He thanked the universe that no one was there to see that spectacular feat. Unlike Miroh, Tally had a fairly temperate climate and Felix felt sweaty and much too hot under all his fur as he walked into Tally’s central compound.

A girl with her hair tied up like a fountain at the top of her head stared in shock as Felix ambled in. She was carrying a spear and was obviously some type of guard.

“Dara, who is it?” A male voice from further in the building called out.

“It’s a wolf” the guard—Dara—said. Her voice was quivering.

“A wolf?”

“I know you heard me, Mino”

“There are wolves in these forests?” Mino asked as he started walking over to the front of the compound “I thought they were only further up north”

“Well you look at this thing and tell me if it’s a wolf or not; you’re the one who’s from the north”

Mino stepped into the front room and gasped “Dara, get away from that thing! That…that isn’t a wolf. It’s massive; it’s as big as a bear!”

Felix growled and being called a thing. He very much was a wolf, and a pretty one according to Chan. No matter what these fuckers said.

“Why are its eyes that color?”

“I don’t know, maybe it’s rabid”

Felix shook his head. This conversation and these people were boring him out of his mind and he didn’t know why he was even bothering to stand around and let them continue to talk shit about him. All of his senses were heightened in this form and he could smell the heavy metal of chains coming from the other end of the building.

With a loud howl, he bypassed Dara and Mino and started to run down a narrow hallway. He could hear more than see the spear being thrown at him and dodged it like it was nothing. He tore through the compound, crashing into and splintering any of the wooden doors that stood in his way. He thought that Lisa should probably invest in some steel doors instead if this is where she was going to keep prisoners. But then again he was sure Tally’s residents were most likely more well behaved than him.

In in a matter of seconds, Felix had reached a room at the very back of the building. He ran full force through the door, wood splintering all around him as he came face to face with a man.

He was kneeling in the middle of the room, arms and legs shackled to the ground with heavy chains. The man looked up and his eyes widened as he saw Felix.

"A wolf?” He breathed out.

Felix titled his head to the side. He realized suddenly that he actually had no idea what Seungri looked like. But he had come this far and his whole body was thrumming for a kill. At the very least, even if this wasn’t Seungri he was still a prisoner so it couldn’t be too much of a loss at the end of the day. As always, act first and think later.

With a bounding leap, Felix jumped straight into the air. The prisoner’s eyes grew even wider as—mid-leap—Felix transformed back into his human form. He landed on the man’s chest, throwing them both back onto the ground and his claws extended as grabbed one side of the man’s face, ripping it nearly off.

The blood immediately started to pour out and Felix felt like he was on fire. Every nerve in him sang happily as he lowered his head to the man’s neck and sank his teeth into it, tearing into his throat. The man was clearly already dead but it didn’t stop Felix from delighting in toying with his body. Killing gave Felix the same feeling as burning something to the ground: it was exhilarating.

He was working on flaying the man’s chest open with his claws when there was a commotion from the doorway. Felix turned his head to see a massive brown wolf, a deer, and a raven came barreling into the room.

Felix was sure that the deer and raven looked impressive too or whatever, but his eyes were firmly set on the wolf. It was huge—larger and broader than his own. It was bigger than any animal he had ever seen. The wolf’s coat was a striking rusty brown and his eyes were the same ice blue as his. Felix’s breath caught in his throat.

Chan’s wolf form was beautiful.

He was so taken aback by it that he didn’t even notice Karina was sitting on Chan’s back until she slid off, pouting.

“It’s no fair that the three of you can transform but I need to be in the water to do anything and…woah, Felix, what happened to you? You’ve covered in blood!”

The rest of the Gods turned back into their human forms and Felix found himself sitting naked in a room with three other naked Gods, a dead prisoner, and a very confused Karina.

“Is that Seungri?” Lisa asked, looking at the bloody mess on the ground.

“I sure hope so” Felix answered.

“You ran out of the Temple so that you could kill Lisa’s prisoner?” Hongjoong asked.

“Yeah! She was telling me about how you three are wimps who can’t even kill anybody so I figured I would do it instead. Why waste your time when someone is bothering you? See how easy this is?”

Lisa stared in stunned silence at her dead offering for a few more seconds before laughing and shaking her head “I take back what I said before. You’re not just Chris’ guard dog; you’re all of ours”

Chan turned to her with a frown “Why the hell are you claiming Felix for yourself? Find your own human to do your shit”

“Why are you hogging him?” Hongjoong asked “Just because he’s your mate doesn’t mean he can’t help us out either. I have a couple heretics that would be nice to take care of…”

“What are their names and where are they from?” Felix asked, eagerly.

Chan shot him a warning look. “Lix, behave”

Felix shut up immediately.

“I’m so sorry, Lisa-nim” Mino cried, suddenly running into the room “The wolf came out of nowhere and we couldn’t stop it! I called for backup and…”

He stopped still as he stared at the naked, blood soaked man sitting on Seungri’s nearly dismembered body. Even with the blood dripping from nearly every part of his body, Mino could still tell the man was heartbreakingly beautiful with delicate features and starting eyes that were two different shade. The blue eye was very familiar…

“Yeah, this is not okay” Chan said as he reached over and stuck his clawed hand straight into Mino’s chest, pulling it out with a loud, wet squelch as the man fell dead to the ground. Felix felt a sudden surge of arousal course through him.

Lisa exploded.

“Chris what the fuck!?!?! You can’t go around killing one of my offerings like that! Are you out of your fucking mind??”

“He saw Felix naked!”

“I don’t care if he had sex with Felix right in front of you, it doesn’t give you permission to kill my offerings. You know how important they are to me!”

“That guy” Chan said, waving his hand towards Seungri “doesn’t even have a face anymore and I don’t see you caring at all”

“That is because Felix and I had an agreement” Lisa seethed, looking at the omega for confirmation.

If Felix was being technical, it was less of an agreement and more of a spur of the moment one-sided decision on his end but he could tell that this whole situation needed to be deescalated so he just nodded sagely.

See, he could be a good boy when he wanted to.

“Lisa, Chris is still getting used to having a mate” Karina said, voice low and soothing “it’s going to take him some time to get over the possessiveness. Give him some grace”

All of them knew that Chan would probably never get over that but they could pretend for the sake of their sanity. Karina and Hongjoong were already making mental notes to never let Felix near any of their own offerings.

“No matter the reason, Chris still killed one of my innocent offerings. I can’t let that go without punishment”

“You can have one of mine in return” Chan said with a shrug.

“Take a few” Felix added on. He thought about that beta in the bathhouse who was insistent that Chan fancied Sana. Or the omega who always complained to him that his brownies didn’t have nuts in them as though she thought Felix was making them for her. Or even Sana herself if there was truly a rumor about Chan liking her. There were plenty of annoying people they could send over to Lisa.

“That wouldn’t be a punishment for you, Chris” Lisa sighed. “I’d probably be doing a favor taking them from you. Instead of an exchange of offerings, I will do something that will actually affect you"

"Like what?"

"We will delay your mating with Felix for one month”

“What?!?” Felix and Chan both shouted.

“Be glad I am not revoking my approval of your mating completely” Lisa bit out “you murdered my offering. A delay is the most lenient punishment I can give and I am only letting you off so easily because I am grateful to Felix for helping me with Seungri”

“I wouldn’t push my luck any further, brother” Karina said “What is one month in the span of our lives? Just take it and get Felix out of here before one of Lisa’s other humans see him naked and you have to kill them too. You won't be mated for years if that happens”

“Fine” Chan bit out.

“But Chan…”

“Felix” Chan said, turning to the omega “we have Lisa’s approval. That’s all that matters. Now come, I need to get you dressed before anyone else sees you”

Felix grumbled but let Chan pick him up anyways. The God sidestepped both of the dead bodies laying on the ground as he walked Felix through the building.

Chan’s carriage was thankfully waiting right outside of the central compound as though it had been summoned and even more thankfully, Dara and the rest of the residents of Tally had made themselves scarce so that there were no more casualties that day.

Though, to be honest, even if anyone had gathered to take a peek at Chan or Felix neither of them would have been able to notice. They were both much too distracted by each other. As soon as the door of the carriage closed behind them, Chan pushed Felix up against the wall and attacked his mouth.

Felix had never been kissed with such bruising force before, but he returned it with equal intensity. He wrapped his legs around Chan’s hips and grabbed the back of his head, forcing their mouths together even harder. They nipped and bit at each other’s lips until they were raw and bleeding: all of their senses just filled with the strong iron tang of blood. The air smelled like it, their tongues lapped up the taste, red flashed behind their eyes.

Felix delicately crossed his ankles behind Chan and rolled his hips. He could feel the hard line of Chan’s dick like a brand on him. He wasn’t completely hard yet but Felix was sure he could get him there in a matter of seconds.

He ran his tongue over Chan’s lips and then kissed up his face, leaving little kitten licks on his cheekbone until he reached his ear. Felix licked his earlobe, sucking it into his mouth and biting on the soft flesh. He wondered if he could pierce the God’s ear with his fangs.

From this position, Chan’s face was buried in Felix’s neck, directly where his scent gland was. The sickly sweet smell of the omega filled the alpha’s nose and he was a lost cause. Chan had been addicted to Felix’s scent from the second he had smelled it and his craving had never waned. He immediately started licking at Felix’s scent gland in long, wet stripes. The smell was so thick he swore he could taste the vanilla sweetness on his tongue.

Felix felt Chan’s dick harden completely against him and he groaned, moving his hips against the alpha’s incessantly. He could feel the heat radiating from Chan’s cock and it made his mouth water. He was so close to getting what he needed. Hell, they were both already naked. All he really had to do was angle it just right and Chan would be in him.

“Fuck, Felix” Chan breathed out against his neck. Felix’s hands paused in their journey down his body “You don’t know what seeing you as a wolf did to me”

Okay, maybe Felix could put off getting fucked to get praised instead. Just for a little.

“What did it do? Did it turn you on?”

“It drove me insane” Chan moaned. His teeth scraped against Felix’s neck “and then seeing you sitting there after you killed Lisa’s human. Blood looks so gorgeous on you, darling. I had to force myself not to fuck you right there, you looked so wild.”

“Such good control, alpha” Felix muttered, running a hand through Chan’s hair “what a perfect alpha I have, not letting anybody else see me getting fucked”

Chan’s eyes rolled to the back of his head with the praise. “No one gets to see you like this”

“No one but you” Felix agreed. He rolled his hips again. Chan’s dick was leaking precum—smearing sticky on his hip “I need you to fuck me now, alpha”

“Felix, you know…”

“No” Felix said, looking Chan straight in the eye “I know you said you wanted to do this properly but we have to wait another month before we can mate. There is no way I am going another month without having your dick in me”

“I just wanted to court you as you deserve” Chan groaned. Felix could tell his restraint was wavering.

“What I deserve is to be fucked by you, Chris”

The name was the last thread that snapped the God’s painstakingly taut self-control.

Chan grabbed Felix by the back of his neck and tossed him to the ground, knocking the wind out of him. The omega barely had time to catch his breath again before Chan was over him.

“You have no idea how hard it’s been not to fuck you every time I see you, Felix” Chan grunted. He grabbed onto Felix’s waist—claws digging into soft skin—as he rutted against him. “I was trying so hard to be good but you tempt me all the time. Every single time I smell you or you’re in my chambers, lying on my settees and rugs. Fuck, even when you’re in that goddamn bakery, I just want to pick you up and ram you onto my cock. I want to fuck you all the time. Every second of every day, I want to be in you; your pretty pussy or your mouth, it doesn’t matter”

Felix’s toes curled with pleasure and he tossed his head back, letting Chan bury his face into his neck once again. He reached down and grabbed the alpha’s heavy, hot cock and brought it to his pussy. He brushed the tip against his folds over over, teasing Chan while stroking his clit with it. Slick poured out and the scent of it hung so heavily between them.

Chan moaned and with a single, sharp thrust, he pushed into Felix.

The moment he was in, it was like someone had stuck them both with lightening. Chan’s head emptied of all thoughts and the only thing surrounding him was the overwhelming smell of vanilla and blood and the scorching hot heat of Felix’s pussy.

Felix whined as Chan started thrusting into him at a rapid pace. Chan moved so frantically that the omega was sure his whole body would be bruised by the force and intensity of it. They hadn’t fucked in almost two months at that point and Chan’s cock was like a brand in him, marking his claim with every sharp thrust. The alpha was so deep in him that he swore he could feel him in his throat.

“Fuck, this is all I needed” Chan groaned “I tried…fucked so many people but they didn’t…they couldn’t…”

“They weren’t as good as me, alpha?” Felix breathed “They didn’t feel as good as me?”

“No one has ever felt as good as you” Chan said. He pulled his head from Felix’s neck and they stared at each other as they fucked. The God’s moon pale skin was covered in blood from Felix’s kill. Everywhere they looked was just red red red

Chan captured Felix’s mouth with him, kissing him deeply as he went even faster. Felix’s body bounced on the floor like a rag doll.

He could feel the base of Chan’s dick start to expand and his whole body grew hotter. He had never properly been able to take the God’s knot before and he burned for it. Needed it in him.

“You feel that, don’t you, Lix?” Chan babbled. His breath was hot against Felix’s mouth “You’re going to take my knot so well, won’t you? Made for it, pet, made just for me. To take my knot”

“Please, please. I need it” Felix choked out.

Chan didn’t know what it felt like to knot. The last time he had fucked Felix, he had formed the beginnings of a knot but he had been too shocked to let it fully expand and stay locked into Felix’s delicious heat. He had figured it would be marginally better than a regular orgasm but nothing in his thousands of years of life could have prepared him for the actual sensation of knotting Felix.

When the knot fully expanded and caught onto Felix’s rim, it felt as though his whole body was exploding into beams of pulsing, radiating pleasure. His body convulsed as he pumped stream after stream of cum into his omega. The sensation of Felix’s pussy throbbing around him and milking his knot was additive. He was still cumming but he already knew that he would be seeking this feeling out again and again.

Felix cried out loud as the knot locked into him. He had never felt so full before in his life and he knew Chan’s cock had ruined him for anything else. He had fucked plenty of alphas and had been cummed in by most of them as well. Normally he was only able to tell they were cumming by looking at their facial expressions.

But with Chan, he could feel the alpha’s seed shoot into him. There so so much of it, it felt never-ending and the sensation of being so completely full sent him over the edge. He came without being touched at all, convulsing around Chan’s knot and milking even more cum out of the alpha. Chan groaned at the sensation.

Both of their orgasms stretched on for much longer than they had ever experienced and by the time they came down from their high, they were both shaky and covered in cold sweat. Felix’s stomach was distended from the amount of cum Chan had pumped into him.

“What the fuck” Felix breathed out as soon as he was able to speak again. “What the hell was that?”

Chan was speechless. All he knew was that he needed Felix on his cock every second for the rest of their lives.

“How long is this stuck in me for” Felix asked, clenching his pussy around Chan’s knot. The God moaned into his ear.

“I don’t know” he panted “with wolves, it can be up to half an hour”

Half an hour. Well Felix was glad that they had knotted in this position so he could stare at Chan’s face at the very least. He leaned forward and pressed a kiss to his alpha’s lips. It was a very tame one that became heated within seconds.

Felix pulled back and looked Chan straight in the eye. “Do you think you can get it up again while it’s knotted?”

“I don’t think that’s possible, Felix”

The omega raised both eyebrows.

He had never one to back down from a challenge.