Dario's Integrity

Elian is spending a quiet and peaceful moment next to his wife, dancing to the rhythm of soft music, despite the difference in height the Greek's voice was mellow just talking to her, he narrated the story of his life, or rather since the day Zeus cursed them, the couple was still moving when the music was turned off, the older one looks up and meets his younger brother, Dario nods, the older one rolls his eyes in annoyance.

_ They interrupt a moment that is too private and intimate.

_ What's happening? -She was going to get out of the grip, but the Greek prevents her-

_ You better go to your office.

_ It's too much to ask for peace. -let go of her wife-take care of her.

_ You don't even have to ask for it- the older man gives him a kiss on the lips and a caress on the belly- You know, it's been years since I saw my brother this happy and all thanks to you.

_ I'm glad to know that I make him happy, he makes me happy.

_ It feels good to know that you are already happy, you have finally stopped being a broken woman.

_ Do you believe it?

_ Yes, do not tell me that you do not. My Secu, don't you see how you bring my brother? she felt jealous of Fernando. To be honest, even I am jealous of that man, I still don't understand that you saw him.

_ I don't know, I suppose it was the sincerity of his words.

_ What sincerity is married.

_ I never hide it - he sees it in the face - not like others I've met who lie in order to have sex.

_I don't fall into that category, I never wanted to have sex with you.

_ I didn't say it for you, but I already saw that the sack fell - laughs softly-

_ Don't make fun of my Secu-she takes her in her arms-if she had made love to you, at this moment you were assfucking me, you would have left Fernando and I assure you that you will not marry Elian.

_ And was your lover.

_ My wife. -he pulls her to her strength, inhales her aroma, closes her eyes, her lips tremble- outside the father of your child.

_ You are very sure of that.

_ - Both glances collide- Because I know myself, I know what I'm talking about, I know you, I know how to get to you.

_ Yes of course. You three smell just as good.

_ Because we are brothers.

_ Was it only you three?

_ No, according to Estrella we were more, I remember my sister Lucrecia, not the others.

_ Why were you small.

_ And because between Elian and Ciro they were killed.

_ What? Why? – Not being able to believe what she was hearing-

_ According to him, because they wanted to kill him and he only defended himself. To tell the truth, that he and Ciro have not killed each other has been largely thanks to me.

_ To you, how?

_ Despite being Alpha like my brothers, my behavior has been more like that of an omega.

_ I didn't know

_ Let's go sit down. You see when all that disaster started I was barely three years old I don't remember much, what I do remember is that from that moment on my life was not the same.

_ Yes, I know that feeling.

_ I fled with them, we hid from my grandfather, I left my brothers to teach me to be a man, I met Selene, my first wife, with her I had my first children who unfortunately died, since I was fifteen years old I have known Dedalo/ Daedalus.

_ A long life without a doubt.

_ With their ups and downs, some still hurt. Come with me - he offers his arm - I will narrate what Ciro has always told.

_ I'm all ears.

_ My Secu, I hope you have a good imagination.

_ I have my Dario. - The Greek takes her by the hand- I have always liked your mitts. -they both laugh-

_ Well, in that case let's travel to my homeland, the one where I was born…in Arcadia…

Arcadian 2450 BC

The kingdom of Arcadia despite being small compared to others was prolific, full of resources, its inhabitants lived quiet and peaceful but nothing is forever, gradually declined, the king Licaon to see this commanded to build a temple to Zeus, the years passed and so both he and his subjects prayed, They made offerings, and gradually the kingdom returned to its former glory, and both the king and the commoners their faith became fanaticism to such an extent that the sacrifices instead of being animals began to be human, in view of the God father of the gods is not well seen, cannibalism is the most aberrant, even so he did nothing, he waited patiently, he saw how they raised the crops, he saw the celebrations, a vassal of his spread the rumor that he would go to the party to be exact to the main banquet, that reached the ears of the king, in a tone of mockery he ordered to cook human flesh, At that precise moment the wrath of the God was unleashed, the festivity became chaos, lightning and flashes did not stop, all those present saw with horror how all the Licaon were turned into wolves, including the children. Terrified they run away from the place Elian takes Lucrecia in his arms and Ciro takes Dario, they both run as fast as their legs allow them but they can't run faster than a lightning, the lightning hits Elian leaving Lucrecia falling down, a black and grey wolf with red eyes appears, the lightning hits the little one, her fur was completely gray, it was Ciro's turn, the lightning hits him and he is hit against a pillar, Dario flies away, by the time Ciro regains consciousness he is a totally black wolf with golden eyes, Dario suffers a cut on his right cheek because of the blow he receives from the impact, a tiny gray wolf with blue eyes cries incessantly, either by instinct or by a hint of reasoning the four are grouped crouching from fear, a single lightning flash floods the room, everything was calm, apparent calm because all those who were not changed were expecting something much worse, the king and his sons did not take long to give them deaths, thus becoming a sea of blood. By the time dawn broke, everything was over, the Licaon returned to their human form and before them stood the great Zeus.

_Because of your pride from now on and until the end of time, you and yours will be cursed every full moon will be transformed into bloodthirsty wolves - he looks at all the members including the children - _The children pay for the sins of the fathers.

Having said this, he disappears from the place. Everyone with horror see the ravages of that night, is the same king that without wasting time and to the temple to beg forgiveness day after day, night after night, he and his family beg forgiveness however their pleas were never heard on the contrary from that day the kingdom was declining, the king after a while stopped seeing the curse as such to see it as a blessing, and began to eat human flesh for pleasure meat of his subjects because at full moon did not care if it was children, One night when he was hunting, he saw a medium-sized wolf eating human flesh and attacked it, killing it treacherously. It was not until the morning that he realized that it was one of his granddaughters, a sixteen year old girl, he saw her body and could recognize his own bites, but instead of giving him remorse, he took her dismembered body and dropped it in the middle of the main hall.

_That will happen to anyone who crosses my path.

_It was your granddaughter.

_When I am beast I don't recognize blood.

Estrella worried about the king's behavior, takes the four youngest taking them with her to the temple of Zeus and there she begins to pray not for a cure as she knows there is none but for a weapon capable of stopping the king, day and night she prayed, begged for help, So a year passed, a year where the king had finally given end to his kingdom, Lycaon had already lost his mind and began to eat his own children, seeing that Star takes advantage of an oversight of the king and the cloak of night leaves the island with the four children.

The raft was enough for the five accommodates well to the four covers them with a blanket is made to the sea an oversight of her falls asleep in his sleep a beautiful woman appears to him, this beautiful woman gives caresses to the four children, dedicates the beautiful of her smiles, caresses the brown hair of the girl raised her blue gaze.

_Silver, only pure silver can give death and can also save your life, you are immortal.

When Estrella wakes up with the surprise of having landed on dry land, when she arrives on land she moors the small boat, the four children wake up and the five of them realize that several boats are about to set sail, The cook dares to inquire in response as several soldiers were about to go to kill the beasts of Arcadia, that scares the woman, she takes the children and quickly leaves the port, thanks to the "borrowed" jewelry she can buy a wagon and a horse, she is about to leave the city, she buys enough food for a month, He does not overlook the dream goes to the blacksmith where he talks long and hard until he gets a deal, some chains of pure silver as well as some silver daggers, ten sets of daggers, he pays the blacksmith the order within a month he would return for the order, he continues his walk to the deepest part of the forest, the most isolated until he finds a cave, fearful, the five enter and make sure that not even a wild animal lives in it, together they make it habitable, one night they all sit down and have dinner.

_ What is happening to us Estrella? – asks the older one-

_ All of us have been cursed therefore every full moon we transform into wild beasts.

_ But why? What did I do? – asks Ciro scared-

_ Nothing, you did nothing - gives him a hug- not one of you did anything, just be grandchildren of his grandfather.

_ If he did something bad, let him pay - says a young Elian angrily-

_ I don't understand – says Dario –

_ Neither do I- says innocent Lucrecia-

_ Listen well, all of us must learn to live with this curse.

_ Why? As?

_ I still don't know how and why it's what we had to live. Every full moon we transform into that, well, every full moon here we are going to lock ourselves up so we can avoid unnecessary deaths.

_ I prefer to kill – says Elian-

_ Me too - says Ciro-

_ They won't do such a thing or you were someone's dinner.

_ Oh! -they say-

_ If you have finished dinner, go to sleep, tomorrow will be another day.

The four obey, the four take a long time to fall asleep because none was imposed to this lifestyle, with the passing of the days Estrella gets some cattle with a double purpose, soon the full moon arrives, with them the transformations of the five, Estrella is the first one to kill some sheep, between the four little ones they kill one of them, by the time the sun rises the ravages are few, two sheep, four chubby puppies, by the time the moon is no longer full Estrella's plan had worked, within her ignorance she was beginning to educate them. As the days went by she went to the blacksmith who already had her order ready, chains of the purest silver she could afford as well as the daggers, she had to be very patient to prove her dream and so one more month passed and when the moon began to fill both her and the children she put the silver in effect as well as it calmed them it hurt them because the links were marked on their ankles and wrists as a third degree burn, which disappeared with the passing of the hours, That gave them peace of mind to the five spent the day of the moon Star and Elian went down to the village where they went to the market there heard terrifying stories of the soldiers who went to Arcadia, most found their death in that place and those who returned did so cursed, where the same soldiers killed their families, they also learned that the king offers a generous reward for his grandchildren three men, a woman who delivers them dead or alive. In a hurry the woman leaves the village scared, the little boy was the same or more than her to such a degree that he did not stop crying he did not want to return to his grandfather because he knew that a certain death awaited him, he clings to the right arm of the woman, she tries to give comfort without being able to achieve it when she arrives at her "house" she enters running leaving everyone speechless, It is not until she enters that she explains what happened that they understand the behavior of his older brother, Ciro goes with him and tries to calm him down and succeeds a little until they start to fight because Ciro calls Elian a crybaby girl, Estrella lets them fight but little Dario does not, He gets angry so he gets up the courage and despite his short stature and young age, he gets in between the older boys, which they don't care about and the little boy gets punched by both of them and Dario's crying stops the fight, the two go to comfort him between sosillo and sosillo, the little boy scolds them, making both of them ashamed of their behavior, by the time the little boy stops crying the older ones have made peace and even joined forces to devise a plan to never ever return home and stay alive, that same day Estrella tells the four that they are immortal and that apparently silver is the only one that can save them as well as kill. Like faded pingos a mischievous smile is drawn to the older ones, they take the younger ones as guinea pigs and experiment with them, in fact after several "experiments" they realize that they can not really die and that they heal quickly, however, the wounds inflicted with silver take longer to heal and leave scars.

Years go by without being discovered but the plague of lycanthropes was spreading, leaving the comfort of the island Estrella has to manage to keep a low profile, traveling from city to city or rather from forest to forest always away from civilization. One day while she was finishing the laundry she watched carefully the little five year old Dario, parchment in hand sitting with his eyes fixed on the horizon, she approaches him and tries to talk, but he shuts her up and leaves the place for lunch time and returns home, now it is a cabin in a forest clearing north of Greece, sitting the five eat quietly, when they finish Dario explains to those present that he has been watching for months a pack of wolves that live near his house. He explains that one of them is the one who commands, he called him "boss", that boss has a partner who also commands, but the females, there is another one who follows the boss, I call him "the second one" and something curious is that when there were fights in the pack the boss calmed them down, but the one who calmed the boss was his partner or a commoner.

_ You are telling us that we are like them. – says Ciro jokingly.

_ I do not know, may be.

_ We are wolves too maybe if we are like that.

_ If true, how will we know? – It is Estrella who asks-

_ I will investigate further – says Dario cheerfully – I have an idea, but I don't know how they are going to take it.

_ Speak at once!

_I will try to sneak into the herd this full moon.

_ As? If we do not lose memory of our actions.

_ I don't know, but I'm going to try.

_ I'll go with you I don't want to be left without a younger brother.

_ Thank you, big brother! She - she runs to hug him, but pushes him away-

Dario's black eyes are fixed on the full moon as if he were hypnotized, they turn golden, he opens his mouth, he takes his hand to his face and starts to tear the skin while his ears overhang, his jaw starts to creak, each bone of his face thunders as if it were fracturing, that makes him scream in pain, the human scream gives way to a terrifying scream, his mouth overhangs his muzzle, the teeth fall out to give way to wolfish teeth and fangs, his hands are not yet wolfish, he takes them to his chest with force and tears off the skin of his white chest exposing his gray fur, he falls to the floor rolling over in pain, the scream of pain and terror becomes a howl of a wolf, not just any wolf but one thirsty for blood and that night they did not have the restraints nor were they forbidden anything, although he did not know for sure, He killed a whole family and left no one alive, he left the food when he heard the wolves howl, his thirst for blood was not quenched, he wanted more this time it would be them and if possible the whole pack, his fine hatred led him quickly to the pack, and there without wasting time he confronted the wolves, When they were attacked, they were organized by the alpha to defend and attack and so began a fierce fight, the little one was giving a good beating until he was surrounded, there was no part of his body that did not receive a bite, that made him cry of pain and fear, his cry reached the ears of his brothers that although they were not aware of being brothers, they came to his aid. The first one to jump in his defense was Ciro strong, fierce and fierce, he was at one on one with two brothers, it was a spectacle to see them fight, the little one was going to receive another wave of attack this time Elian is who defends him facing the alpha of the pack, Ciro and Elian against the whole herd, the fight stopped when the older brother killed the alpha couple, he howled victorious, the moon was hidden, the three returned to their human form seeing with astonishment the survivors at their feet.

_ What happened? – asks Ciro astonished-

_ Was it us? – He sees without being able to believe the massacre they did-

_-Dario does not stop crying because his body, although he is immortal and strong, is not immune to pain- My little hands and feet hurt. – Elian puts it on his back, they return home accompanied by the herd-