Chapter 1
Till's first memory of himself was... being held tightly by his mother, Io, and looking over her shoulder at the barbed wire they had left behind as she ran.
He heard his mother crying, of course, but it wasn't from sadness. She was crying with joy at saving both her child and herself. He remembered being passed from hand to hand when his mom reached the rebels' shelter. His mother's joyful laughter...
Unfamiliar voices were shouting that everything was over and everything was starting again. He knew. A few years of his life had been cut off harshly and was now being pulled to a completely different place.
He remembered Dewey gagging while changing his diaper. He had gotten into a fight with Isaac. He had started training in combat quite severely, he had also learned how to hold a gun, swing a knife and run as fast as he could.
How old was he, maybe seven or eight, a girl named Hyuna came to their shelter with her brother and a girl named Mizi. When Mizi came, she was constantly crying about another girl named Sua, and Hyuna kept saying that they would come back for her. And all three of them were incredibly talented in music. Whenever Till watched Mizi, his face would turn red, he would run after her in admiration, and as a result of this admiration, he picked up a guitar himself. And it turned out that Till was insanely talented at it. They started performance as a group at the rebel’s bar.
When they all grew up, Till had become a drinker and a smoker, just like Hyuna. Not that his mother approved, but he felt like he couldn't do it any other way. Another thing that came out as they grew up was their second gender.
hyuna and hyunwoo were already dominant alphas when they came here. While Mizi was an omega, Till was... an alpha.
His first rut was terrifying. It felt like all his bones were breaking. The endless flames inside him had enveloped him and he felt like he was burning alive. When his rut was gone, he thought he would never experience anything so bad in his life. Until his next rut. It got worse each time, and the last time he had slept with one of the omegas in the bunker, yes, he had seen how pleasurable rut could be.
As for Mizi... she was still whining about someone named Sua, and Till had experienced his first heartbreak the moment he realized that the girl was truly in love with her. Fortunately, the pain passed quickly. It was bearable.
Then, one day, they saw the "Alien Stage" on tv. Till, was transfixed on the screen. Hyuna next to him, was frozen. Mizi was crying while pointing to the girl with short black hair.
They knew the two men there: Luka and Ivan. Luka was a blonde, dominant alpha. The winner of the previous alien stage. A prince, no, a king. The winner would get everything they wanted. Till looked at Luka’s big smile on the screen. Popularity had smeared arrogance all over his beautiful face. He could see it, he could feel it. Till winced. None of this changed the fact that he was a prisoner, a slave.
Till's eyes shifted to the Luka who was holding omega’s waist tightly. Ivan wasn't going to participate in the alien stage.
He was just there to... stand there and look pretty. He was singing with Luka, he had a charming voice, but he wasn't in the competition. Hyuna had said it was about Luka. The aliens knew the blonde would win again. It could also be understood that they weren't willing to throw their most precious one there. Ivan sang, modeled for Aliens, became an actor. Beautiful eyes, beautiful face, everything about the man was more than beautiful. Till, as an alpha, could see that.
hyuna turned to him. The girl's gaze was strange. They were both looking at Ivan's big smile and the heart he made with his fingers.
“He is so dangerous,” hyuna said in a whisper. till didn't understand. how dangerous could an omega who was only a year older than him be?
"He's a dominant omega... but he's different from the others, he's a first.” Hyuna began to explain. “In our days in the Anakt Garden, Ivan was always in a separate place. Separate clothes, no collar, they treated him like some kind of... princess. He always looked fragile, concrete, indifferent, not a single emotion could be understood on his face.” Hyuna took a deep breath. “Before I ran away, i knew he could imitate scents. I don't know if he has a scent, but he can smell like whatever he wants. flowers, a spice, i dunno, like- anything." Hyuna looked back at Till. "A dominant omega who can constantly change scents, an omega who can mimic scents." They both shivered. "That's scary, Till. It's way scarier than being a dominant alpha. he can fuck anyone but betas. In the ass and in the mind." hyuna bit her fingers. "besides, i guess he's like a fertile field. considering how well they treat him..."
till knew that scents were special, and yes, if every ivan person could copy the scent he smelled, that was a goddamned dangerous thing. dangerous enough that aliens shouldn't have it in their hands.
Till thought about this as he stood in front of a large photograph of Ivan, ironically a perfume advertisement.
There was going to be a competition this morning and they were going to get Sua out of there. Till slowly took the cigarette out of his mouth as he looked at Ivan's picture.
Dangerous, huh?
hyuna tied two guns to his waist. Till was nervous. Hyuna might have never escaped from there before, but Till had never been there before. That's why he was so nervous. Mizi should be grateful that they were risking their life for a girl. Hyuna had a completely different reason for going in there. She was saying that she was going to bring down the system. but till... he was just there to support them and pick up after them.
He stroked Mizi's short hair and laughed while the older one shouted at him angrily.
When they entered the aliens stage... till felt like he was in a completely different world.
hyuna and mizi were catching the aliens off guard with smoke bombs in their hands. till knew hyuna had bombed the stage. they took sua. But when they were blocked by dozens of aliens, Till cursed as he saw them all scatter in another direction. till did what he did best and ran. he found a scooter and jumped on it, and when he finally couldn't see the aliens, he tried to find a way out, but he felt even more lost. Out of breath, he looked around. His hand gripped the gun in his pocket. Stress and fear were taking over him. The walkie-talkie in his other pocket vibrated. hyuna's anxious, fearful voice echoed in the empty hallway. "THEY'VE TAKEN MIZI! GET OUT NOW!"
What? Till trembled in fear again. Every cell in his body was terrified. They had taken Mizi? Hyuna, Dewey, Isaac--- Hyuna shouted again. "Till where are you-" Then the voice stopped. The aliens must have done something.
Till stopped helplessly and was about to cover his face with his hands when he saw someone in front of him. Someone very, very familiar. That scary, dangerous, dominant omega. Red lights were flashing around them. Till continued to stare at him, out of breath and with in fear, in doubt.
Ivan's dark eyes looked at him. His eyes were dark, he looked tired, and his cheeks were wet. The omega walked slowly towards him and till continued to stare at him until the omega took his hand. "Do you want to get out of here?"