Chapter 42
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Chapter 42 – The Ocean and the Moon
The sun was already high when I woke up. I guess I forgot to close the curtains last night. I rose from my canopy bed and put my robe on.
“Master Aahmes, are you awake?” a voice called from outside.
“Yes, you may come in.”
The maids entered one by one. There are four of them. They helped me bathe, get dressed, and get ready for my departure. This is how it has always been for a prince like me. But I’m not just a prince anymore. Yesterday, I was diagnosed as an omega, a gift from the gods, with the body of a man and the ability to bring life into the world like a woman. Our people have embraced this belief ever since my eldest brother turned out to be one, and today, at age 12, I too, shall be part of the Omega Palace where all the omega royalties live together until they reach manhood, away from prying eyes and the poisonous stench of the alphas.
“Are you ready, Aahmes?”
I looked at the doorway and saw my mother standing there, as regal as she has always been.
“Mother, have you come to send me off?” I smiled and ran to her.
“Stand straight!” she snapped at me. “Is that how I thought you to behave?”
I immediately stopped where I stood and wiped the smile off my face.
“Remember, you are to follow the rules in the Omega Palace. If you can excel in your academics, you might be able to get into a good university or even study abroad.”
“Yes, Mother.”
“Do your best and show them that you are more than just an omega bride candidate.”
“Yes, Mother.”
Mother placed a hand on my head and gently stroke my hair.
“Good, now you may go.”
There are 34 other omegas in the Omega Palace. These are all children of privileged families and other members of nobility and the royal family. It is actually a type of boarding school where omegas can stay until they come of age, or in some cases, are married off to alpha members of high society.
It became my second home. My only home, since my family decided to keep me there, so as not to seduce my older brother who was an alpha. I was no longer allowed to go back to my family, and the only way to return, as my mother told me, was to show that I can be more than just another bride.
“I heard you are very smart.”
I had been staying in the Omega palace for five months when they approached me.
“We were sent here by the queen.”
“There’s no queen in the Omega Palace.”
They laughed at my answer.
“You are new. You don’t know about the queen,” said one of them. “You should be honored to be called to her presence.”
“Who is this queen?” I asked.
“Follow us if you want to find out.”
They brought me to the higher levels, to the rooms of our mentors. There, they introduced me to their queen. She was one of the instructors who was in charge of the higher classes.
“Queen Nauret, we have brought him to you.”
“Good,” answered a soft voice with a strong accent from behind a divider. “You may leave us.”
The others quietly left, leaving me alone in the room. The queen showed herself then. A beautiful omega with golden red hair and green eyes. She was all woman, except for her flat chest and the bulge between her legs.
“You are Aahmes, the child of the moon,” she said, stating the meaning behind my name.
“And you’re Nauret, the goddess of the ocean.”
She laughed, a soft, gentle laugh that was so like herself. She came closer to me. We were the same height, even though she was so much older.
“I have heard about you,” she said, “A bright student from the university. It was a pity you turned out to be an omega.”
“Why so?” I asked.
“Omegas have a disadvantage,” she said. “they are build with a smaller, weaker body, and are held back by the medicine they take. They then, are chosen as wives and are given to alphas who would e*****e them and make them bear their children.”
“I don’t want to bear children.” I told her. “I’m going to university and become a doctor.”
“Is that so?” she laughed again. “I was told you were a bright one, but they did not say that you were bold as well.”
“Of course. If I’m successful, my mother will praise me,” I said. “She was disappointed when I turned out as an omega, even though omegas are the closest to the gods. She told me that I could still make her proud if I can go to university.”
“And so, you will, when your time comes. As did the others before us.”
“You’re older than all of us,” I asked when she turned to sit on her bed, “tell me, why are you still here?”
She turned to face me again and smiled.
“Because I chose to stay here,” she answered, “to look after children such as yourself.”
“Like me?”
“Tell me, Aahmes of the moon, why have you not been drinking your suppressants?”
I was surprised by her question.
It was true that I’ve been secretly throwing my suppressants away. It made me weak and stupid. I find it easier to study when I’m drug free.
The question is, how did she find out?
“I am the eldest here in the Omega Palace,” she seemed to have read my mind, “as such, I receive a lot of respect from the residents here. They tell me things,” she continued. “They tell me everything.”
“Am I in trouble?” I asked her. “Will you tell my mother?”
She gave another laugh.
“Of course not,” she answered, “though I know that she would be so proud if she knew the truth.”
“Really?”
Nauret patted the bed. I came close and sat beside her. She gently stroke my long hair, looking at me like my mother used to before she found out I was an omega.
“Tell me, Aahmes, how long have you been throwing your medicine?”
“Since I first got here,” I told her. “I wanted to see if there would be any difference. There doesn’t seem to be any. So I didn’t bother taking them again.”
“And you have not experienced any difficulty during your heat?”
“No. None. It was only on the first time that felt really weird,” I answered. “The next day, before they gave me the suppressant, I decided to do some meditation, and it helped. So the next time my heat came, I meditated instead and it never bothered me ever since.”
“I see, you are indeed a very capable child. Smart and intelligent as well,” I felt myself beam. “Do you know that you are also very special?”
“Special?”
“Yes, there is a type of omega that can control their heat with ease. They can control others as well.”
“And I’m one of them?”
“Yes, my dear, and I can teach you how to be better than everyone else, even those dominant alphas who are dying to tie us down to succumb at their feet.”
“I don’t want to succumb to any alphas.” I frowned, thinking of my older brother who laughed when he found out I was an omega, like our eldest.
“Exactly,” said Nauret. “We will never succumb to any alpha, for we are far more superior to them. We are the Prime Omegas.”
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