The Silver Spirit

1: Inhale

I ran as fast as I could. Whipping through the bushes and trees at the speed of light. Everything was blurry, distorted. Everything besides the sounds of who was chasing me, or should I say what. Their evil features are still fresh in my memory.

I've been told by many that I look scary. I never really pay mind to them though. I know I'm not the most beautiful girl there is, but I know they're not calling me names for my physical appearance. They're scared of what I am, of what I can do. I am what's known as a tribrid, a mix of three of the most powerful beings on this planet. A witch, a werewolf, and a vampire. There are only a few of my kind, We don't happen very often. it's not unusual for different creatures to mate with others, but it's rare that more than one type of gene will make it there the process to the offspring. Let's say a vampire and a witch were to have a child, it would be more likely that the child will be a vampire or a witch rather than both. But not impossible. All creatures are equal when it comes to the ratio of their genetics. There is an equal chance to be one breed or the other in a dual breed relationship, but sometimes both do end up mixing.

Dual-breeds are more common than me due to the fact that there are only two types of genes fighting for the spotlight. The process depends on the purity of the parent, meaning if they're pureblood or not. That can change the chance of one breed or the other. So if two pureblood parents of different breeds were to mix, It would be an equal chance. If one parent is pure blood and the other is only half, there is more of a chance for the pureblood gene to pass on. You are considered a mixed-blood if you are dual-breed. So only a child of two single-breed parents, of the same breed, can be considered a pureblood. With all that said, to have a tribrid child is the rarest due to the many factors of interbreeding. Most think they should be outlawed due to the power and strength tribrids possess. Many hate them just for being born, calling them monsters, demons, and mistakes, saying that those like me have tainted blood.

My parents were both dual-breeds, my mother was a mix between a witch and a werewolf while my father was a werewolf and a vampire. Sophia and Ereion were their names. My father was much older than my mom, by a few hundred years, but they didn't care. They met one night after my mother ran away. My mother at the time was living with her coven, she had been left by her mother to a friend who was a witch. Not knowing what to do with a child, she brought my mom to her coven where she grew up as a witch. She didn't know she was part wolf until she shifted the night of her 16th birthday. Her only friend was another witch in the coven, Hela. They were both terrified and didn't know what to do. They went out into a field until my mom fully shifted and ran away. She came back to the coven the next day, and when they asked where she had gone she said that she got lost in the woods. At first, her coven didn't believe her but when Hela stood up for her they didn't question it.

She didn't have any problems with keeping her secret, she went years without anyone finding out, the only one who ever knew was her best friend. Until the day that Hela didn't show up for dinner, my mother went to look for her. She found Hela lying on their bedroom floor. She rushed to help but she was already gone. Hela had lost too much blood from a wound in her abdomen. She didn't stay long enough to find out what happened. Her wolf took over, she was so distressed from seeing her only friend in such a state she took off into the night with nothing but the clothes on her back. She shifted and ran until she couldn't anymore. When she finally stopped, she collapsed, so worn out from running she fell asleep in the forest.

My father lived nearby in his family home with his parents and his older brother, nothing really out of the ordinary ever happened to them until that night. He was woken from a deep sleep by this pull in his chest, his wolf yelling at him to go outside. He opens his door and immediately his wolf takes over, smelling the most amazing scent they had ever experienced. He ran through the forest until he found my mother laying on the ground and his wolf knew they were mates. He knew he had to help her, so he brought her inside and took care of her until she woke up. They lived together after that. Years went by and then they had me, their miracle child. At least they thought so.

Now I am faced with those who don't believe I'm a miracle, they think anything but, and would do anything to get rid of me. I'm not sure how far I've run until I come up to a river that I know is on the border of the neighboring pack lands, and it's in the way of my escape from what is after me. I turn frantically to look for any way out but I am met with glowing blue eyes only a few yards away, and moving fast in my direction. I know I only have one choice if I was to live. I turn back to the water and chant a spell, one that will turn me practically invisible for a short amount of time. I inhale my last breath before I plunge into the frigid rapids of the river.