Alpha's Blind Luna novel Chapter 65

The screen before us flickered and showed a typical news layout. A woman of fey decent with bright purple hair and black glasses was sitting behind a desk, her hands intertwined on top of it. A blue news bar at the bottom ran: ‘We interrupt you nightly news for an important segment. We will be back to the nightly news after these messages’. In a box on the right hand side of the screen was a title card as well.

“High Council, friend or foe?” Lucy read aloud. “Oh god…no…”

Felix shifted and took her hands, holding them tight. In fact, all of us were now holding onto something. For me, I clutched my knees, as did Jax next to me. Simon and Vale were clutching the arms of their chairs while AJ just had his fists balled up.

The paused screen started with the scurrying of multiple people, all wired with earpieces in. One handed the anchorwoman cards and another finished putting in her earpiece. It all felt like an emergency announcement. The fey seemed nervous, quickly glancing through the cards before tapping them against the desk.

“Hello my fellow supernaturals. I apologize for the interruption of your nightly new, but there has been some breaking news in which we feel we need to bring you right away.” She took a deep breath. “An individual has come forward with information that he is willing to share with us. Our new station has been previously collecting information on this story but we didn’t feel like we had enough facts or information until now. We as Holographic TV deemed it necessary to give this emergency broadcast with the individual stepping forward to speak about an issue that could possible change our entire world.”

Her eyes fell to her cards and even she looked frazzled. Like she had just been called to do this with barely any information. “My name is Ophilla and I will be your moderator for tonight.”

“Let me start by introducing our guest before we dive into this information. Our guest would like to remain anonymous but has provided his credentials to us and we as a station vouch for his resume. He will be referred to as Dr. J.” She turned slightly to the right where the box with the headlines disappeared and another box appeared. “Hello, Dr. J. We appreciate you coming on to speak with us such last minute.”

“Of course.” His voice wasn’t altered but his face was blurred. He was wearing a suit and you could tell he was in an office. I swallowed and tightened my grasp on my knees.

The anchorwoman gave a small smile. “Now, Dr. J, I’m going to go through the initial story that Holographic TV was looking into before you reached out to us with enough more information and confirmation of some of the information we received. At any time, please feel free to interject.”

“Yes, of course.”

Ophilla turned back to the TV, looking at us directly. “Nova 2.0 has been a drug that we have seen a rise in popularity among werewolves in the past couple of years. At first, little was known about the drug other than it was another iteration of the drug that swept over the vampire population over twenty years ago.” She flipped her cards before continuing.

“Nova 2.0 was marketed as a super serum catering to werewolves, instead of vampires. There were some in the supernatural communities who were worried that the drug would unbalance our community, considering the level of power it provided werewolves. Our station was looking into the impact this drug was having as well as the origin and where it came from.”

She looked over at her guest. “Dr. J, why don;t you say specifically why we have you on this evening.”

“I was hired originally by the Bloodhunter cover to create Nova 1.0 as it is now known. I also did much research from that which contributed to the Nova 2.0 creation as well, though at the time, it wasn’t to create a new drug focusing on werewolves.”

“I believe that understanding Nova 2.0 we must understand Nova 1.0 and where it came from. If you wouldn’t mind going into the details that you know.”

He nodded and shifted in his seat. We all did, our eyes glued to the screen.

“Originally, before Nova existed, a drug hit the market for humans. It was made by vampires, an experiment more than anything. It was made out of small amounts of ingredients of supernaturals. It was to see how the humans reacted to the supernatural. It turned out it proved a trip that was like no other but it started to make the humans blood worthless to vampires. Their blood became much like the werewolves. The High Council requested that drug to be pulled from the market.”

Ophilla putter her hand up. “How was that done?”

“The High Council enlisted the help of the mafia, specifically the boss Morgan Russo, to handle the drug smuggling in Russia to stop the spread of it.”

“And that was the end of it?”

The doctor shifted again. “In a way, yes. That drug was taken into custody and essentially wiped off the face of the earth. However, a few months later, the formula as well as some of the product made its way into the hands of the BloodHunter Coven. I don’t know how the BloodHunter Coven got access to it, but I was hired to alter the drug into something else.”

“For those of you who don’t know, just over three decades ago, a drug called Nova hit the market targeted at vampires. It was rumored that the BloodHunter coven was its distributor and later proven correct. Now, I would like to go into the symptoms first before going through what it’s made of, as that will come up later in the conversation.”

The doctor cleared his throat. “Yes, of course. Nova was meant to strip vampires of their humanity. Bringing them back to their natural state of mind. It was popular because a vampire could leave the humanity behind, what grounded them and made them unhappy, as vampires live a long to caged to their humanity. The reason it was called Nova was because one of the side effects we were unable to remove was that the user’s eyes looked like a galaxy or super nova.”

Ophilla jumped back in. “Now, the High Council didn’t step in until there were more and more attacks in cities. Vampires going ‘crazy’ as they say and ripping apart humans indiscriminately. Even local covens, vampires and witches, along with werewolves started to need to protect their territories from them, is that correct?”

“Yes, that is correct. The High Council waited until the body count was too high for the humans not to notice before they hired Morgan Russo, again, to stamp out the issue with the drugs.”