1 Chapter 0 - History of Werewolves

It all started in Ancient Greece. Back then witches and wizards would pretend to be gods and goddesses. They were even more arrogant than modern pure-bloods. But they had spells powerful enough to back up their arrogance.

Many of these witches and wizards had spells unique only to themselves. Spells that let one create earthquakes and cause flooding, see glimpses of the future, control the hearts of men, commune with nature, control lightning, or even turn people into monsters. And that last one is the source of the the monsters known as lycans.

King Lycaon of Arcadia had learned that a man claiming to be the king of the "gods" Zeus was within his city and demanding that the king prepare a feast for him. King Lycaon did not believe that the man was Zeus, and even if he was he worshiped the titan Prometheus and would not willingly serve Zeus a feast. However he could not risk that the man truly was Zeus, so he agreed to the feast but also hatched a plan to test whether or not the man was a god.

When he took a bite of the food he had been served he thought it tasted odd and had an odd texture. He asked what kind meat had been use and Lycaon revealed it was the flesh of one of his guards. Angered and disgusted that he had just been served human flesh Zeus cast a powerful curse on Lycaon. This curse caused Lycaon to take on a monstrous wolf like form and lose control of himself.

Zeus left while Lycaon tore his children and guards apart. He continued on and starts to do the same to his people before escaping to the forest, hunted by those he had ruled over. He was hunted for several years, having fought off countless attackers and killing many innocents, until one day he laid bleeding to death under a tree.

This tree was special, it was the tree of a dryad that had trained in magic under the wizard Pan. This dryad saw both Lycaon's physical and mental condition and began to use her magic to heal his wounds and calm his mind. As his mind calmed his form became more human. Eventually he became completely human in appearance and woke shortly after.

Curious of why he had changed back and believing the dryad could help him he remained there, only leaving for food and water. It was during this time he discovered that he could control his transformation but his emotions and mind became more and more unstable the more severe the transformation was. However this peace did not last long.

One night, during the full moon, Lycaon found that he could not control himself and was basically forced into transforming. He couldn't control his anger or the animalistic instincts that had grown more powerful under the moons influence and killed the dryad. He regained his senses when the sun rose and buried the dryad before leaving.

Over time he discovered many things about himself and his curse. He learned that he didn't age and that those he bit would either die or turn into what he had. For these individuals he usually gave them the choice to live as a monster and control their abilities or die. Those who chose to live were taught how to control their transformation. Lycaon also discovered that while they aged slower than normal people and had longer lifespans, it was nowhere near the level he was at.

Another observation he made was that those he bit had red eyes when the transformed or gave into their emotions while those they bit or gave birth to had their eyes glow golden-yellow. Those bitten by the ones with golden-yellow eyes dind not receive the curse like those bitten by the red eyed ones either. He decided to call the red eyed ones Alphas and the golden-yellow eyed ones Betas.

Eventually a beta killed a man on the night of the full moon and his golden-yellow eyes turned icy blue. While not the first among them to kill a human, he was the first to kill someone who wasn't a direct threat, an innocent. This led to a dispute between him and an alpha which they decided to settle with a fight. The fight resulted in the beta killing the alpha which resulted in an unexpected change: his eyes turned red and he gained the abilities of an alpha.

After this incident the alphas gathered together and decided to leave, each taking some betas that were loyal to them. These were the very first packs. As for Lycaon he chose to head off to a new area and liv a life of solitude.

Eventually on the night of the full moon, long after the fall of the Greek Empire, a young girl found Lycaon. The first thing he noticed was that she had the curse and that she had no control. He restrained her until the sun rose and then questioned her. She revealed that her name was Lupa and that she was a lycan. This caused him to realize that the packs must have used his name for their race.

She also revealed that her pack was killed off and that the anger from that is what caused her to lose control. She also revealed that her father, the pack alpha, refused to let her fight and that she has never killed a human or lycan. He revealed himself to be a lycan as well and told her she can stay with him.

Over time Lupa and Lycaon became closer. At the same time Lupa was getting stronger and started showing some changes. During a few of their spars, Lycaon saw Lupa's eyes momentarily turn red. One day Lupa was found by the alpha of a pack. This alpha fell for Lupa and demanded that she become his mate. Lupa refused and he challenged her to a fight. Lupa was overwhelmed by the alpha but did not give in. she resisted and continued to fight. Eventually he eyes turned red, and unlike the other times they stayed red. She defeated the alpha and let him live. Lycaon, after learning what had happened to Lupa decided to call her a true alpha.

Time moved on and eventually Lycaon and Lupa became lovers. Lupa gave birth to a daughter who was just as talented as her mother and had also, through much hard work, gained a balance between her wolf and human natures being the first lycan to gain a full wolf form and break free of the moons influence. She later left to travel on her own after helping Lupa achieve the same feat.

The alpha that Lupa had previously defeated had later returned and nearly killed Lupa before Lycaon stepped in and killed him. Lycaon used his ability as an alpha (since he is the first lycan) to heal Lupa. This however had an unexpected side effect: Lupa gained the same eternal youth that Lycaon has.

Lupa later found a pair of twin boys floating down a river and decided to raise them. These boys later created city that grew to be an empire: Rome. About 30 years ater its founding, a Roman wizard who had met Lupa and Lycaon created a potion in hopes of becoming a lycan without needing to be bitten. He hoped to become like Lycaon and have eternal youth. However instead of a potion he created a disease.

This wizard became the very first lycanthrope, a person who transforms into a wolf like monster on the night of the full moon and acts purely in their animalistic instincts. Worse was the fact that any who survived an encounter with him also became lycanthropes. Because of the dangers they posed lycanthropes were hunted and lycans were caught in the crossfire. The lycans, in order to survive, spread out all over the known world, most forming packs but some remaining alone.

Lupa and Lycaon were no different and traveled from place to place. At times they isolated themselves from the world for years, at others they lived like normal humans. And lived like that for nearly hundreds until the late 900s A.D. when they met two witches and two wizards who were trying to build a school for magic. Lupa and Lycaon helped by acting as intermediaries with the magical creatures in the area around where the school was to be built.

Nearly 500 years later they helped a goblin establish what would later become the sole wizarding bank in Europe, Gringotts. 70 years after that they helped a group of wizards trying to establish laws for magic in Britain deal with magical creatures, however this group refused to publicly reveal the differences between lycans and lycanthropes due to believing that both are no different from each other.

But the greatest tragedy that the lycan race had to endure was a civil war among its members. The lycans hating how the wizarding world treats them started to fight over ho to deal with the situation and blood was eventually spilled between the factions. The war continued in secret, most wizards not even knowing what was going on, from the mid 1700s to the mid 1800s. By the end of the war all the alphas had died and the number of lycans was less than 100.

While in Japan in 1979, Lupa and Lycaon found the last lycan, a pregnant one at that. They took her in and helped her while she gave birth to a baby boy at midnight just as '79 became '80. Unfortunately she shortly after naming her son. She named him Ichigo Ookami. Lupa and Lycaon made their way to the USA and raised Ichigo there. Lupa even trained Ichigo to obtain balance between his two natures, and even though he hasen't succeeded he is able to keep his transformation under the moons influence to a minimum. He only gets claws and fangs without the extra hair and changes to his facial structure, unless he wants it that is, an of course his eyes change color

However a decade later Lycaon is hit with a terrible curse that gave him only a few months to live even with his powerful life force and healing ability. Lupa wanted to try to save him but he refused slaying that it was his time. Before he died though he decided to head to talk to Britain's Ministry of Magic to settle things and get Ichigo into Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.