Hybrid

> **"So, without thinking of possible consequence, I bit and turned that very wolf. His name was Thomas and he became the first Hybrid."**
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> -Elizabeth explaining to Dolphine how Hybrids came into existence. (Chapter Eight)
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Hybrids are the cross between two species. For a long time, this was though to be impossible, but in 1399, it was proven it could be done, but only under specific circumstance.

## Species Information

### Related Species

* Witch
* Vampire
* Werewolf
* Upgraded Vampire
* Upgraded Vampire

### Distinction

A combination of two supernatural species, with the strengths of their parent species and very few of their weaknesses.

## Creation

A Hybrid is a cross between two species. There are three types of Hybrids with the first known type being a Werewolf-Vampire Hybrid. During 1399, Elizabeth encountered a violent Werewolf named Thomas. She found him feeding on a corpse and when he tried to attack her, she bit and turned him, making him the first ever Werewolf-Vampire Hybrid. The first ever Hybrid to be created however is Eve, who used the same immortality spell she used on Elizabeth on herself. This in turn made her a Witch-Vampire Hybrid, although she lacked all the abilities she gave Elizabeth. The first Witch-Werewolf Hybrid was made through Jessica giving birth to Tracey. Since Tracey's mother was a Witch and her father Claude was a Werewolf, the two genes combined and made her a Witch-Werewolf.

## Werewolf-Vampire

These are the first type of Hybrid introduced in the story. Werewolf-Vampire Hybrids take on both the powers and some of the weakness from both species. Asides from Elizabeth, the only way for a Werewolf to become a Hybrid is through Thomas turning them. It is unknown if any other Hybrid would work. If a normal Vampire tries to turn a Werewolf, they will feel the affects of Vampirism try to take over. They will soon start to convulse uncontrollably before eventually dying. These were effectively made endangered upon the death of Elizabeth.

## Witch-Vampire

While normally a Witch will lose their powers upon becoming a Vampire, if they were to have the immortality spell or upgraded immortality spell cast on them, they will keep their powers. Upon Eve’s death, the ways were reduced to only one way of being created.

## Witch-Werewolf

By far the rarest form a Hybrid to encounter due to the how they are created. The only way for a Witch-Werewolf Hybrid to be created is through the lycanthrope spell or being born into it. Due to Eve being the only Witch who knows how to cast the lycanthrope spell, this way died with her. Chances are still low even if both parents are supernatural since genes aren't always inherited. Even though the lycanthrope spell was created by Eve, these were still alive upon her death due to their Witch side.

## Witch-Werewolf-Vampire

While this is not technically a Hybrid, it's still a cross between species. This is a rare creation since they would have to be born a Witch-Werewolf hybrid first and then have the immortality spell or upgraded immortality spell cast on them. Even though the lycanthrope spell was created by Eve, these are still possible due to their Witch side.

## Powers

### Werewolf-Vampire

* **Charm:** Hybrids have the ability to charm Humans and Werewolves into doing what ever they desire. However, they cannot charm Witches or other immortal beings.
* **Excellent Senses:** Hybrids can sense can sense when they are being looked at or if something is coming their way. This allows them to easily anticipate attacks and counter them, although they can still be caught by surprise. Their senses also allow them to smell the difference between Vampires and Werewolves and smell blood from afar.
* **Increased Strength:** Hybrids are stronger than the strongest Werewolf. Their strength is also tailored to what their strength was before they turned. (I.E A Werewolf who worked out or was noticeably stronger than most will be stronger than Hybrids made from lesser Werewolves.) They can use their strength to easily rip someone's heart out and throw them around with ease.
* **Increased Agility:** Hybrids are more agile than most Humans, and paired with their excellent senses, this allows them to easily dodge incoming attacks. They can easily vault and climb over objects with ease.
* **Increased Speed:** Hybrids have faster speeds than most cars. This allows them to easily dodge attacks and run behind their enemies. While their speeds are faster than most things, they are slower than they are with their wings out. Their speeds also allows them to do speedy attacks.
* **Increased Jump:** Hybrids can jump higher than animals since they are able to jump to the top of a very tall building with ease. This means they can quickly scale tall buildings by jumping. This can also let them quickly get out of a sticky situation if they need to.
* **Increased Hearing:** Hybrids can hear the most quietest sounds if they want too, and are capable of hearing quite far.
* **Increased Smell:** Hybrids are able to smell anything from far distances. They can distinguish the difference from humans, Vampires, and other Werewolves.
* **Beast Form:** Due to the combination of the Vampires true form and Werewolves wolf form, they have the ability to turn into their wolf form that has wings and has a demon look to them. The process to turn is more painful than their normal wolf form and they have no control at all once they turn and are only driven by the need for blood. They are forced to wait until daytime or be subdued. In the rare case of a Werewolf being pregnant before being turned, they have the ability to turn back but only after being subdued, while others will still have to wait until daytime.
* **Wings:** Hybrids have the ability to grow wings and fly. Their wings are completely indestructible unless cut with The Vampire Blade. With their wings are out, they fly faster than most aircraft's and are faster than their running speed.
* **Claws:** Hybrids can get help from their beast form and turn their hands into claws. These allow them to cut through anything with ease except for other Vampire's wings.
* **Increased Durability:** Hybrids are more durable than their individual parts, with them being unaffected by modern weapons and taking more of a beating from anything.
* **Increased Healing:** Hybrids can heal faster than their individual parts. This paired with their durability makes them nigh-invulnerable.
* **Full Moons:** Hybrids are much stronger during a full moon. They are also stronger in their beast form but are still unable to control themselves.
* **Immortality:** Hybrids are immortal and as such, do not age. And because of this, they also get older the longer they've been around.
* **Unholy Crosses:** Hybrids are stronger with upside crosses. Unholy crosses increases their strength to the point they almost become stronger than Upgraded Vampires or even more. Unholy crosses affect all Hybrids the same. They will also increase their healing factor.

### Witch-Vampire

* **Charm:** Hybrids have the power to charm Humans and Werewolves into doing what ever they desire. However, they cannot charm Witches and other Immortal beings.
* **Better Senses:** Hybrids can sense when they are being looked at or if something is coming their way. This allows them to easily anticipate attacks and counter them, although they can still be caught by surprise. Their senses also allow them to smell the difference between Vampires and Werewolves and smell blood from afar.
* **Increased Strength:** Hybrids are stronger than the strongest Human but weaker than Werewolves. Their strength is also tailored to what their strength was before they turned. (I.E A bodybuilder Hybrid would be stronger than a Hybrid who didn't work out as a Witch.) They can use their strength to easily rip someone's heart out and throw them around with ease. Some Hybrids can be strong enough to stand their ground against Werewolves but are ultimately still weaker than them.
* **Increased Agility:** Hybrids are more agile than most Witches, and paired with their better senses, this allows them to easily dodge incoming attacks. They can easily vault and climb over objects with ease.
* **Wings:** Hybrids have the ability to grow wings and fly. Their wings are completely indestructible unless cut with The Vampire Blade. With their wings are out, they fly faster than most aircraft's and are faster than Werewolves.
* **Claws:** Hybrids can get help from their true form and turn their hands into claws. These allow them to cut through anything with ease except for other Vampire's wings.
* **Unholy Crosses:** Hybrids are stronger with upside crosses. Unholy crosses increases their strength to the point they almost become stronger than Werewolves or even more. Unholy crosses affect all Hybrids the same. They will also increase their healing factor.
* **True Form:** Hybrids have a true form that they can only access at night. Their true form turns their human form into a demon like beast with sharp claws, razor sharp fangs, wings, clawed feet, and blackened eyes. New Hybrids may have a hard time controlling their true form while older Hybrids and have complete control. This form is followed with a terrible blood lust that takes time to control. In this form, they still have access to their magic
* **Immortality:** Hybrids are immortal and as such, don't age. This gives them the edge over Werewolves as they still age and as such, get weaker.
* **Spell Casting:** Hybrids have the ability to cast many spells ranging from breaking bones to starting fires. They have access to a wide array of magical spells they can cast. However, if they are killed by another supernatural, any spell they cast will be removed.
* **Enchantment:** Hybrids have the ability to enchant items and give them magical effects. Despite how they killed, these enchantments will remain on the item until another Witch or Hybrid removes it or the item is destroyed.
* **Increased Durability:** Hybrids are completely unaffected by Human weapons. Their body will still be affected with bleeding but it has no baring on how they act. They also can take several beatings before going down by Werewolves and other Immortal beings. This also makes them hard to kill.
* **Increased Healing:** Hybrid bodies heal faster than anything which is what makes them so durable.

### Witch-Werewolf

* **Increased Strength:** Hybrids posses greater strength than anything, with their strength surpassing Vampires. Similar to Vampires, Hybrids do get stronger as they age but when they get too old, they grow weaker. Since their Wolf part was to hunt Vampires, they are stronger than the oldest Vampire.
* **Increased Speed:** Hybrids have faster speeds than most cars. This allows them to easily dodge attacks and run behind their enemies. While their speeds are faster than most things, they are slower than Vampires with their wings out. Their speeds also allows them to do speedy attacks.
* **Increased Jump:** Hybrids can jump higher than animals since they are able to jump to the top of a very tall building with ease. This means they can quickly scale tall buildings by jumping. This can also let them quickly get out of a sticky situation if they need to.
* **Increased Hearing:** Hybrids can hear the most quietest sounds if they want too. They can also hear quite far.
* **Increased Smell:** Hybrids are able to smell anything from far distances. They can distinguish the difference from humans, Vampires, and other Werewolves.
* **Wolf Form:** Hybrid can chose when to turn into their wolf form at well, although it's hard for new Hybrids to control themselves. There wolf form stands on their hind legs with really sharp claws. They look are covered with hair from head to toe. Their face is turned into a large snout and their arms are larger with claws at the end. This form boosts all their usual powers. Since turning into their wolf form causes their bone structure to change, it will hurt the first few when turning. While they're in this form, they can still cast spells.
* **Full Moon:** Hybrids are at their strongest during the full moon. The full moon also makes their wolf form even stronger, while it is not needed for them to turn.
* **Increased Durability:** Hybrids can take much more trauma than humans. While they can still be harmed by modern weapons, they are much more resistance to them. This is the only thing they are weaker in than Vampires.
* **Increased Healing:** Hybrids are able to heal their wounds faster than normal. This mixed with their increased durability makes they almost invulnerable.
* **Claws:** Hybrids can grow their nails out to become small claws that can cut many things. While they're not as large as Vampire claws, they are almost as stronger and due to their smaller size, let's them move faster to attack.
* **Spell Casting:** Hybrids have the ability to cast a wide array of spells to harm their enemy's. However, if a Hybrid is killed via a supernatural way, any spell they have cast will be removed. This can be avoided if the Hybrid binds the spell to something else.
* **Enchanting:** Hybrids have the ability to enchant regular items to have magical powers. A group of Witches or Hybrids can use each other to gain more power to create a stronger enchantment like with The Vampire Blade.

## Weaknesses

### Werewolf-Vampire

* **Sunlight:** While not directly harmed by the sun, Hybrids are weakened by the sun, however, they are still stronger than most Werewolves.
* **Wood:** Hybrids, while unable to be killed on its own, will be rendered unconscious when stabbed or shot with wood. Older Hybrids become immune to this. If stabbed or shot with silver at the same time, they will die.
* **Silver:** Hybrids, while unable to be killed on its own, will be rendered unconscious when stabbed or shot with silver. Older Hybrids become immune to this. If stabbed or shot with wood at the same time, they will die.
* **The Vampire Blade:** Since the blade was made to kill Vampires and Werewolves are immune to its effect, they will only be rendered unconscious.
* **Invitation:** Hybrids can't enter any owned place without being explicitly invited in. If they do try to enter without permission, their skin will begin to burn and if they do successfully cross the threshold, they burst into flames that only go out upon their death or leaving the place. They can avoid this by making their Vampire side dormant, but only old and very skilled Hybrids can successfully do this.
* **Broken Bones:** While they will heal, if a Hybrids bone is broken, it'll be unable to use it for a short time. If their neck is broken, they will be rendered unconscious for some time (the time varies an how strong the Hybrid is).
* **Churches:** If a Hybrid tries to enter any church, they will start to burn up similar to trying to enter a place without permission, but with the difference being they will still burn whether or not they were invited. The flames will also burn faster, thus killing them faster, which gives them less time to react. They can avoid this by making their Vampire side dormant, but only old and very skilled Hybrids can successfully do this.
* **Crosses:** Along with churches, crosses will also weaken Hybrid, al though on a smaller scale. When a Hybrid holds a cross, their hand will begin to burn but it won't ever set them on fire, albeit it'll burn slower. If a Hybrid is close enough to be affected by a cross while the sun is out, they will be unable to access their claws. Whenever a Human has a cross on them, they will become immune to a Hybrids charm as long as they have it on them.
* **Animal Blood:** Hybrids do not gain the same strength from consuming animal blood. The same amount of animal blood compared to human blood is not enough to give a Hybrid their strength. In order for them to be at full strength, they have to consume a lot of animal blood over a very long period of time, in which their body will be able to take in less animal for the same strength.
* **Heart Loss:** If a Hybrid loses their heart, they will die.
* **Decapitation:** A Hybrid will not survive if their head is removed. This must however be removed by another supernatural being.
* **Mummify:** If a Hybrid refuses to feed, their body will slowly weaken to the point they mummify. When they do, they can't move at all unless they get any type of blood in their system.
* **New Moons:** During a new moon, Hybrids will be at their weakest, which isn't very much. They remain stronger than Werewolves.

### Witch-Vampire

* **Sunlight:** While not directly harmed by the sun, Hybrids are weakened by the sun, thus leading them to avoid fights in the daytime.
* **Wood:** Hybrids, while they can't be killed with a stake. they be severely hurt and weakened.
* **The Vampire Blade:** Since this blade was made to kill Vampires, it'll still kill Hybrids because their Witch side offers no protection.
* **Invitation:** Hybrids can't enter any owned place without being explicitly invited in. If they do try to enter without permission, their skin will begin to burn and if they do successfully cross the threshold, they burst into flames that only go out upon their death or leaving the place. They can avoid this by making their Vampire side dormant, although only old and skilled Hybrids can successfully do this.
* **Broken Bones:** While they will heal, if a Hybrids bone is broken, it'll be unable to use it for a short time. If their neck is broken, they will be rendered unconscious for some time (the time varies an how strong the Hybrid is).
* **Churches:** If a Hybrid tries to enter any church, they will start to burn up similar to trying to enter a place without permission, but with the difference being they will still burn whether or not they were invited. The flames will also burn faster, thus killing them faster, which gives them less time to react. They can avoid this by making their Vampire side dormant, although only old and skilled Hybrids can successfully do this.
* **Crosses:** Along with churches, crosses will also weaken Hybrids. When a Hybrid holds a cross, their hand will begin to burn but it won't ever set them on fire. If a Hybrid is close enough to be affected by a cross while the sun is out, they will be unable to access their claws. Whenever a Human has a cross on them, they will become immune to a Vampires charm as long as they have it on them.
* **Werewolf Blood:** If a Hybrid feeds on a Werewolf, they will vomit it up and be weakened by it. This happens because it was done to prevent Vampires from easily killing a Werewolf and get stronger afterwards.
* **Animal Blood:** Hybrids do not gain the same strength from consuming animal blood. The same amount of animal blood compared to human blood is not enough to give a Hybrid their strength. In order for them to be at full strength, they have to consume a lot of animal blood over a very long period of time, in which their body will be able to take in less animal for the same strength.
* **Mummify:** If a Hybrid refuses to feed, their body will slowly weaken to the point they mummify. When they do, they can't move at all unless they get any type of blood in their system.
* **Over Exertion:** If a Hybrid uses their powers for an extended period of time in one go, they will grow weak and be rendered unconscious.

### Witch-Werewolf

* **Silver:** Hybrids only weakness is silver. If they are shot or stabbed with silver in the heart or head, they will die. If they are shot anywhere else, they will be in immense pain and be weakened.
* **Daytime:** Like Vampires, they are weakened by the sun but not to the same extent. Hybrids are still much more powerful than Vampires during the day.
* **New Moons:** When there is a new moon, Hybrids will be at their weakest, which isn't very much. Older Vampires or Werewolf-Vampire Hybrids are stronger than them during a new moon while Hybrids remain stronger than younger Vampires.
* **Over Exertion:** If a Hybrid used their powers for an extended period of time in one go, they will grow weak and be rendered unconscious.

## Trivia

* The strongest form of Hybrid is a Werewolf turned by Louis.
* Hybrids were created by accident as Eve never intended for any of them to exist.
* While Vampire based Hybrids can not procreate, if a Witch or Werewolf were pregnant before turning, they can still go through with the pregnancy.
* In the case a Werewolf becomes a Hybrid while they are early in their pregnancy, the child will inherit their extra strength, but not to the same degree.
* Any Werewolf turned into a Hybrid will see the one who turned them as their new pack leader, while some are able to resist that urge.