Chapter 254: His Family
Ester didn’t think that Raine’s wedding would turn out like this. She knew that she missed a lot of things because of her inaction, but she was at least aware of the fact that Marcus was at war with the werewolves.
Mirage... was no ordinary group. There was always more to the group than any unsuspecting eyes could see. In truth, the three clans comprising the Mirage were originally formed by humans alongside the most powerful among the supernatural beings; that being vampires and werewolves. The Moon Clan’s original ruler, the Yue family, was born from a union between a human and a werewolf. Thus, werewolf blood ran through their veins ever since. Of course, not all of Yue harbored the genes of a werewolf. There were always exceptions, like her and Arthur.
Some of them considered it a curse, and some thought of it as a gift. Throughout the generations, the law of the Moon Clan changed with every ruler, and with it, the different beliefs and reasonings when it came to considering a werewolf’s blood in their veins a curse or a gift ebbed and flowed. Her father, as an example, was someone who believed that it was a curse... He wanted the world to be dominated only by humans, a world order he perceived to be fair and square for all life on earth. To that end, he created hunters to kill any creature that would harm humans, as well as reform the laws of the Moon Clan to suit such an agenda. Her father then instituted a forced training regimen for children at an early age. That way, they turned out to not only just be hunters of the supernatural but also be deadly assassins for the betterment of the Moon Clan as well.
Truly, he and Marcus were so alike in many different aspects. Though the two didn’t share blood like father and son, they were more alike than both would like to think. She could still remember how her brother Arthur was always envious of how well their father treated Marcus. Even better than them, who was his real flesh and blood. Even so, she and Arthur didn’t harbor any bad feelings against Marcus. After all, he was always good to them.
Ester sighed. She missed the good old days when the four of them lived peacefully like real siblings. She and Arthur, together with Marcus and Yun... She couldn’t remember where it started to go wrong in the first place... But there was one thing she was sure of, and that it all started with one person: Ava, Raine’s mother.
Ava was someone who had unexpectedly arrived in their clan. Marcus had found the woman unconscious, and he saved her by bringing her into their care. Her father, as well as everyone, was fond of Ava once they got to know her. She was a nice lady, nice enough that her father even thought of adopting her like Marcus and Yun. Such a thing didn’t occur, however, because Marcus fell deeply in love with the woman.
Looking back, Ester thought that the two would end up together, but it turned out that it was only a one-sided affair. In reality, Ava fell in love with one of the Princes from the Sun Clan. Of course, both Clans were against the relationship, which ended in the two lovers eloping. Once he realized what happened, Marcus went haywire. He stopped at nothing, trying his best to look for Ava just to bring her back to him.
During that period, her father Philip, who was the King of the Moon Clan at that time, also found out about Ava’s origins. Apparently, she was a fallen angel, so he told Marcus to stop the search since he didn’t want her back anymore knowing that she wasn’t human. It was at that point that Marcus started changing as well.
Ester didn’t know the exact details of how Marcus found Ava, but what little she knew was that she died in the hands of the man she loved, who also turned out to be a werewolf. Marcus came back a changed man. That was when he became a mad man who would stop at nothing to eliminate those that deemed were too dangerous for humanity to survive.