Lamprey

**Lampreys** are a supernatural species of Shapeshifters that were introduced during Season 5 of *MTV's Teen Wolf*. The only known Lamprey is the Part-Lamprey Chimera, Donovan Donati, who was turned by the Dread Doctors.

## Powers and Abilities

The powers listed are based on the brief amount of time that Donovan Donati was seen using his powers in the series, and thus it is not a comprehensive list.

* **Shapeshifting**: Lampreys possess the ability to transform several of their features into those similar to Lampreys.
	+ **Lamprey-Mouth Manifestation**: Lampreys can develop or create 'Lamprey'-mouths on their body and make them vanish when they're done with them. These mouths are powerful and can cause painful bite wounds that take a while to heal, as seen when the mouth Donovan created on the palm of his hand managed to bite Stiles on the shoulder, causing a bite wound that didn't heal for several episodes.

## Weaknesses

* **Mountain Ash**: Lampreys, like the majority of supernatural species in the show, most likely cannot cross barriers made of mountain ash or rowan wood, nor could they touch or manipulate the wood or its ash in a non-barrier form. This would make them vulnerable to being trapped within a ring of mountain ash, or being prevented from entering an area that has been warded with it.
* **Electricity**: Lampreys can most likely be weakened or killed by exposure to electricity, depending on the level of voltage used.

## Known Lamprey Chimeras

### Donovan Donati

#### Part-Wendigo/Part-Lamprey; Chimera

Donovan was a genetic chimera as a result of receiving an allogeneic skin graft several years prior to his introduction after he was involved in a motorcycle accident. He then grew up to be a petty criminal and was eventually arrested by Valerie Clark. After escaping from a prison transport van during Tracy Stewart's attack, Donovan was captured by the Dread Doctors. They held him down and used a drill with a stabilizing metal cone around it to drill into Donovan's head through his ear canal so they could inject modified mercury directly into his brain, causing his eyes to develop silver nictitious membranes. Later, they broke him out of jail to bring him back to the Dread Doctors Operating Theater, where they pulled out all of his human teeth so that his double-rowed Wendigo fangs could grow in their place.

After Theo Raeken came to Donovan and suggested he use his newfound super strength and senses to get back at Sheriff Stilinski by going after something he loves, he released him from his restraints. Donovan took advantage of this freedom by tracking Stiles Stilinski, the Sheriff's son, to the high school, where he attacked the teen by biting him on the shoulder blade with a round lamprey mouth that he formed on his hand. Stiles managed to use his wrench to hit Donovan in the head hard enough to run and hide in the library, and when Donovan followed after him, he created another lamprey mouth on his neck in anticipation.

He had nearly cornered Stiles in the library when the younger man climbed up a construction scaffolding to get to safety, leading Donovan to show his white Wendigo eyes and growl that he was going to eat Stiles' legs. However, Stiles pulled a pin out of the top of the scaffolding to drop a great deal of metal construction materials on him, hoping that doing so would neutralize him long enough to run away; instead of simply knocking Donovan into a daze, one of the metal braces impaled Donovan through the heart and killed him. Judging by the modified mercury that was laced in the blood that came from his wounds, Donovan was in the process of rejecting his transformation and becoming a failure.

## Gallery

*Teen Wolf Wiki* has 1 image related to ***Lamprey***.