Coming of Age

Chapter 7

©CRGangell aka Whitesabretooth

Chapter 7

“I need you to turn Rayven.” Thais’s declaration was meet with shock as if he had suddenly asked Crystal to become straight or Nhor to become a horse. Crystal just blinked, she didn’t know what to say.

“Turn… Thais I am already a vampire, you can’t re-turn someone, its forever.” Rayven said a little confused, which finally helped Crystal kick her brain back into gear. Their human friends were completely focused as nothing they had read said anything about that, that once you became a vampire it was for keeps.

Crystal nodded agreeing with Rayven, once bitten twice dead was the vampire saying, once you were bitten and changed there was no turning back and a second bite from another non-human was a death sentence. It was yet another reason as to why Were and Vampires didn’t become mates, it would be cruel to both, to know your mate but to know you couldn’t claim them without killing them and if you couldn’t resist, the guilt of killing the other half of your soul. Thankfully there had never been a case of a True Vampire and Were mate bond.

Thais chuckled, he wondered briefly if they would ever stop questioning him, “when will you learn, I am never wrong. I wouldn’t have asked if it weren’t possible.”

“Okay then, explain it to us.” Crystal asked folding her arms and was pleased to note that her body was healing, that the movement hadn’t caused pain to shoot up her spine, however she could also tell that although the internal wounds were healing, the surface wounds weren’t.

“Okay, you understand that the Mystery gene can be passed on via a bite,” Thais asked and Crystal nodded, Rhun in fact was doing an analysis on her bite to confirm it. “Well by tomorrow Rhun will have come up with something that will puzzle him, Destiny carries the Mystery Gene in her bite but up until last night you never carried it in your bite only your blood.” He gave Crystal a pointed look, clearly asking if he needed to remind her of what happened last night to change her so dramatically.

“Serenity’s bite,” Crystal stated in understanding and Thais nodded in confirmation.

“Yes, Serenity’s bite and her blood have reworked your genetics as it did for Destiny. You can now pass on what you are to anyone you bite and as the Mystery Gene will later be confirmed as a dominant gene it will make anyone bar a person already carrying the Mystery gene just like you. It will make Rayven like you, she will still be kind of a Vampire but she won’t be.” Thais explained with a smug grin.

“Can Destiny do this?” Crystal asked stunned.

Thais considered her question for a moment, wondering if it would do damage for her to know the answer now. “No, because she wasn’t born with the Mystery Gene like you were. She gained it when she was forced to drink your blood which means she can bite someone but nothing would happen. Yes the gene is in her bite, because of Susan’s blood, but it won’t transfer, if she bit a human nothing would happen, she can’t even make normal Vampires.” He explained. “Only you can make a… whatever it is you are.” He finished.