Chapter 3: A life for a life.

Third POV

In the middle of the wilderness, there is a hidden dirt path leading to a modern white and black cubic two-story house, big windows made of bulletproof glass, solar panels on the roof, cameras, and electric fences around everything next to a river with clear water connected to a small waterfall on the mountain side.

This house was going to witness a miracle happen: a hybrid between one reptile, a female Mozambique spitting cobra, and one of the rarest amphibians on the planet, a male adult axolotl. 

It was a miracle, a hybrid that doesn't look like a kid's drawing and that is from two mammals, two reptiles, and everything after were rare but a hybrid from two different classes, being born without major health issues for the newborn was excessively rarer.

The house contained a room similar to an incubator where in a sort of nest lay a skinny female snake with a pale and sickly appearance and practically no scale on her body and some tumors; she was on the verge of death.

Surya was coiling around her hatching egg with a look of intense excitement bordering on the deranged in her now white and almost blind eyes and also constantly smelling it with her forked tongue as if it was going to sprout legs and roll away. 

Sitting next to her and holding her tail with his mutilated hands missing most of their fingers, his arms with huge ugly stripes like wounds where bones were almost visible; looking like their flesh was cut off by a butcher with a scalpel, and his tail ending in a regrowing stump half the size it was one month ago, this was Mamoru also looking at his egg with trepidation and excitement but mostly trepanation as if something will go wrong like his mate health that during this last few months only got worse and worse that made him fill despair and dread at her coming death.

*poke*

The egg was pierced and a little green reptilian snout could be seen poking out of it, then a comically big head looking like the mix of a salamander and snakehead followed of the same color but with blue scale added to it, the sides of its head possessed 4 sets of red feathery fir trees gills (like axolotl) protected by black scale, the newborn opened its two eyelids, one of the two transparent, before looking around with its big eyes of lavender colored scleras and pure black colored pupils containing unhide amount of curiosity, shock, excitement and intelligence, the last part going unnoticed by the parents to mentally exhausted and relieved to notice it.

"Yawn '' the newborn opened its mouth showing its two little extended fangs and let out a little yawn, closing its jaw, before it started looking around and stopped on its mother's body.

"Hiss?" It hissed cutely, its black forked tongue going out on instinct to taste the air for the first time making it confused with the new sense, while also making it look instinctively in the eyes of its new mother even if all it sees is a big white blur, is others sense went in overdrive all it heard was a cacophony of sounds, the ability to feel the heat and the new sense of touch of its scales and skin.

All of these alien sensations, the new and different set of instincts with new emotions made the baby reptilian-amphibian brain of the freshly reincarnated Charles, decided to make his newborn body that he needed to hyperventilate before crying like the 30 seconds larvae-snakelet hybrid he now is.

While the new father started to have a panic attack on the other hand the new mother started to nuzzle him to calm her baby hybrid, knowing by his sents his sex and, the cold embrace of his mother calmed him down instantly. 

She spoke softly but loud enough for everyone to hear "My snakelet, your name shall be Cahaya, you are my light and the last I will see." she finished by nuzzling him again before falling asleep to never wake up.

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10 minutes earlier

First POV

It's time, I can feel it on an instinctual level. I can't wait anymore for how my egg couldn't contain me anymore. For the last few days, I was less sleepy, more aware of my surroundings, and could think more clearly.

I bashed my egg instinctively with the top of my snout one time, then two times, I repeated this again and again. I didn't even realize how animal I acted. I wanted to be born. That was the only thing going around in my reptilian brain and the sound of an egg breaking only stimulated it more.

When I broke my egg prison the first thing I did was look around and everything was blurry. 

Then I yawned, making me breathe for the first time in four months, and then I hissed and used my new forked tongue on instinct. 

I wasn't in control of my body anymore, I was working on instinct I turned around to where I tasted the scent of what my body considered as 'father' then I turned to my 'mother' there all my new senses went in overdrive causing my emotions to go berserk as well and all of this resulted in my newborn body to cry out loud.

The white blurry shadow of my mother directly came to nuzzle me. I felt safe and loved, all this made me sleepy like the baby I am. Before going to sleep I heard a soft feminine voice say in Japanese "My ########, #### name ##### be Cahaya, #### light...." I didn't hear the rest but I know my new name, thanks mother for this name and the thing that made me have a new chance at life, those were my last thoughts before falling asleep.

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Third POV

On this fated day, the 5th of January 395 at 4.37 p.m Cahaya Naja the hybrid was reborn, 3 minutes later Surya Naja pure-blooded Mozambique spitting cobra, heiress of the Naja family, she finally succumbed after four months of arduous battle against her worsening cancer and the complication tied to being pregnant with a hybrid egg of two classes.

She died feeling complete having achieved her wish of seeing and naming her son and at the same time incredibly sorrowful, and regretful and her heart ached until its last beat at the reality of not seeing her Cahaya grow up and living his life without ever really knowing her.