CHAPTER TWELVE First Prophecy…Jake Gallen

Mucust 3rd 3261

As Kathren stood there looking at the alien child, she wondered where it came from. As Kathren touches the alien, she does her best to heal him and knowing she is more powerful in the ocean.

So Kathren takes the boy by the hand and with the rest of her power she turns the boy and herself into liquid then into a gas. As Kathren goes to the East Aqua, she and the boy enter the ocean, and the boy struggles to breathe, but Kathren held him down and as she swims up to the boy she takes his hands and holds his hands and placed her scaly lips upon the boys lips, and with the water in her gills, she breathes the water into the boys lungs, and the boy stops breathing. As the lifeless body floats in the water, suspended like if held by magical strings, Kathren wonders why it did not work.

Kathren swims back up to the lifeless form, she takes his hands and tries passing her energy into his lifeless form. As the energy pass through him, the boy takes his first breath underwater.

He pulls away from Kathren, and noticing he is underwater; panics and struggles to find the surface to take his next breath, but he does not know where the surface is.

Kathren calms him down and tries to open a basic conversation with him. "Please don't panic!" The voice in the child's head aches him, he is hearing more then one voice, he is hearing the open conversation of the sea.

As the boy grips his crest bone with his webbed hands, he rocks back and forth in pain. It's like being in a rock concert and standing near all the speakers amplified. As the boy screams out in his mind, he is close to passing out. "Make it stop! Make it stop!" Cries the nameless child.

Kathren, feeling remorse for the child, she reaches out and holds him close to her, the child this time does not resist. She looks at the young boy and speaks to him in a soft voice, emplacing a telepathic wall to block all outside noise, and to aloud him to select sounds.

Kathren closes her eyes and chants, "Mipten to le bhimf, I al Kathren. Xou are Sroshecx. I dree xour linf, buimf a vamm." The child looks at Kathren with an odd expression upon his face. Three-forth of whatever she said made no sense whatsoever! Nut as Kathren discontinues her chant, the background noise fades away and he can only hear Kathren's thoughts. Kathren smiles to see the boy comfortable. "Better?" The boy nods, he still has not got the idea of speaking through his mind. As the boy looks at himself, his hands have turned into fins, he was transforming! As Kathren calls the attention of the boy, she wanted to know who he was. "I am called Kathren…do you have a name?"

The boy struggles to speak, for when you use mind speech, you are always talking, but the brain has a on and off switch and you can choose to speak to yourself or to speak to another individual. He tries, "I am called Jake, Jake Gallen Sheridan…this is silly, this is not working!"

Kathren is amazed that he can speak so quickly…a quick learner! As Kathren smiles, she replies, "It's a honor to meet you Jake."

Jake gazes at Kathren's hybrid appearance of half fish and half Humanoid. "What are you, and what did you do to me? And how can I breathe, come on Jake, get a hold of yourself, this is only a dream."

Kathren realizes that her appearance to this alien would appear quite alien to him. "My species has no name, we are only regarded as ancients of this world. And for what I did to you; I saved your life, you were hurt by a demon called a Tsiegret'lop."

"You know the Tsiegret'lop's?"

Kathren ponders, "I knew them before they were cursed by Er Murazor, they were once called the people of Poltergeist. They were turned into evil spirits, and thus hid their true name with the name Tsiegret'lop, meaning Poltergeist spelled backwards."

Jake nods, he has heard a version of this story before. "Sounds familiar, our mother, Delenn, claimed that the arch lord Asron, who is truly Sauron according to my friend Bri, used the Witch-King of Angmar to curse them."

Kathren feels a cold shiver go down her back. "You know the Witch-King of Angmar?"

"Know him! He aided in the complete destruction of the universe, then felt pity for us and spared us when he was released from his Morgul curse. He now possess my friend, Bri."

Kathren remembers the group of aliens at Lake Evendim. "You were not alone?"

Jake shakes his head. "No, I am not clearly sure about the legend, but according to the Minbari, the universe will be swallowed by darkness and the Soldiers of Darkness will lead the pack. The Minbari claim that fifty hybrids will spare the universe and restore peace."

Kathren ponders on her life goal. "So it's true, you must be the Prophecy I was told to await."

Jake is not sure what Kathren is hinting at, but he knows that Kathren is close to describing who they are…the Prophecy. "Well we are called the Prophecy. We were reborn under the Minbari-Human hybrid form…like you almost, except you are a Human-fish hybrid."

Kathren wonders what it means to be Human. "What is a Human?"

Jake does not know how to describe a Human. "Well a Human is a mammal creature, quite present throughout the universe, but a Human is a family-centered, emotional creature."

Kathren ponders on the concept of being Human. "Maybe that is what I am…a Human?" Kathren searches her memory, but does not remember any Human's. Kathren changes the subject. "You said that the Witch-King is helping you…how?"

Jake nods, "It all began with the finding of that ring in Carn Dum, on Minbar."

Kathren's eyes widen. "A ring?"

Jake nods, not realizing Kathren's concern. "Yes, a silver ring!"

Kathren pulls back, is it possible that it's her ring? "A silver ring, a worn-out silver ring with two skeletons holding up a red ruby?"

Jake is amazed, how did she know. "Yes, yes, that's amazing, how did you know?"

Kathren looks down. "That is my ring, given to me by the hands of Asron himself. Asron wanted me to remain water-bound, and that ring held a terrible power, it was meant to transform me back into my race so I would never be a threat to Asron." Kathren looks at Jake. "If your friend has it, it will not know the difference, and do to your friend what it should have done unto me!"

Jake's eyes widen. "If that ring is as you say it's, is the effect irreversible?"

Kathren shakes her head. "I don't know?" Kathren looks up at the surface. "What to go to the surface?"

Jake looks at the glowing surface. "Can we breathe up there?"

Kathren looks back to Jake, "Well I can breathe, but I am not sure about you, I guess we can find out." Kathren takes Jake's scaly hand and swims up to the choppy surface. As Kathren and Jake break the surface, both are lucky, they can both breathe air.

Jake looks at Kathren and uses mind speech to ask his question. "Kathren, what will happen to my friend Bri with that ring?"

Kathren sees a rock and swims to the island, Jake follows her. As Kathren climbs up to the rock, but does not emerge out of the water, instead helps young Jake out of the water. As Kathren picks up Jake, she places him upon the cold rock. As Kathren stares at Jake's mutating body, he looks like he is eighty percent complete. Jake's once skinny, smooth, un-weathered fingers are all webbed together, jointed closer to the palm. The skin is transparent film, that if you held a light to the skin, you could see the cellar stratification which looks like thousands of small, interconnected 'X's.

The odd-function of the skin is that it's all elastic, able to stretch, and go back into form, thus there is no flabby skin, all very tightly connected, and best of all, can't break because the width of the flanges is the width of the elastic fin. This elasticity is the same on the toes. If Jake was to clinch his toes together, you never know he had fins. But Jake also had a slight problem, like Kathren, Jake is becoming a water-based creature and thus Jake's foot has changed.

Jake's foot is all non-Human, not like Kathren's foot, but more humanoid. If you saw Jake's foot, you could compare it to a average Human foot regarding the bone structure.

Jake's toes were once only a inch in length, but the flanges grew to the staggering length to create Jake's foot to look like a flipper. For a visual example, when Kathren looked at Jake's right foot, the big toe, or known to Kathren as toe one was the shortest, and the fattest toe, it's about nine inches long. Toe two is about ten inches long. Toe three, which is suppose to be the longest toe, is no longer the longest toe, for toe five is now the longest toe. Anyway, toe three is about eleven inches long. Toe four, it's about twelve inches long and the last toe, the forgotten little toe, grew the most, actually for Jake, it grew to fifth teen inches long. All tows were interconnected with webbing.

With Jake having once a nine inch foot, now he has a ghastly, twenty-three inch foot. No shoe on Earth nor Minbar could fit that foot, and with the miracle of still having an ankle, Jake was still able to walk.

Beside the miracle of foot and finger webbing, Jake also has the beginning of his facial fins. The skin on the ear-side of both eyes is swollen, Jake's crest bone around his eyes has a small fin, only about one to two centimeters in width.

Jake's eyes themselves also have changed, his once clear blue eyes have changed to a cloudy blue with a second eyelid that produces mucus.

One last physical change is the development of scales. Scales layered blue-green shades on his legs, chest, and even neck. Jake just sitting on the rock, Kathren witnesses as scales grow around his eyes. Kathren doe her best to ignore the transformation, but it's obvious that Jake knows that he is undergoing a transition. As Jake stares at Kathren, Kathren pulls herself out of the water.

Jake for once is able to see what Kathren looks like out of water. Jake, being a child, sees Kathren without any clothes on, for all matters of fact, Kathren's physiology does not require that much clothing. It's true that Kathren's form is similar to a Human females, but the curse has only caused the importance of filters on Kathren's mammary glands which too are covered in thick scales. But as for the stereotypical reproductive organs, they are all internal, and if I did not tell you where they were, which I shall not, you'd never know where to find them, unless if you were a physician or a smuggler or Kathren herself.

Since Kathren is a defiantly a female, she contains no buttock, which is usually covered by cloth in Human culture. Her advance reproductive organs are carefully hidden, camouflaged by the scales in the location of her stomach. As for Kathren's digestive system, it's nothing like Human's, since Human's are required to expel their bodily waste, Kathren's bodily waste is expired through sweating, coughing it up, and the rest is turned into thick, protective mucus.

So with this said, it's completely understandable that Jake would not stare, since Kathren wears no clothing and Jake is afraid he may have to focus on the average Human, female physiology.

But as Kathren looks at Jake, she wonders if he is okay, and verbally speaks to Jake with the mortal tongue. "Jake, are you okay, do I frighten you?"

Jake quickly shakes his head. "No, I just am being respectful to you, it's not right to look at naked people unless you are in a hospital or are partners."

Kathren does not understand the concept of hospital, and why it's a visual impairment to Human's to look at one another naked. "Sorry if I seem slow Jake, it's, that my knowledge about Human's is, well, nothing." Kathren gently, with her hand lifts Jake's face up, but his eyes are closed tightly. "Please Jake, I don't know what ales you, but I'm not that hideous!" Kathren thinks, "Well maybe somewhat hideous." Kathren turns her attention back to Jake, "but for me to understand you, why is it wrong to look at other species bodies, when you look at the un-clothed bodies of sea creatures…and second, what may be a hospital? Is it where your from?"

Jake thinks about the reason to why it's wrong to be naked, but he truly does not know why. "Well, maybe, for I don't understand, but as far in Human history, every Human has wore clothing. The rule of clothing was very important to Human's is to provide protection, give warmth, and to hid our…our…well." Jake does not know how to explain his own Human reproductive anatomy, for he personally does not know how it works. "Well our reproductive track."

Kathren notices that this Human is trying his best to explain his process of reproduction. "So your telling me that you must protect you reproductive system?" Kathren wants to laugh, but does not, thinking how rude that would be. "I think it sounds odd, but it's just a natural occurrence, just like breathing…do you hid your mouth and nose?"

Jake ponders on the idea. "Well only in hospitals, if we need to protect our lungs."

Kathren hears that Human word again. "What is hospital, is it your planet?"

"A hospital is a place where the sick and injured go, and no it's not a planet, it's a building."

Kathren finally understands. "So if you go to a hospital, your naked?"

Jake laughs and smiles at the remark. "No, oh-no, we're quite clothed, but the medical staff have the right to see us naked, Bri says that is because they are trained to see nothing except the illness."

Kathren nods and looks at her own self, but sees nothing embarrassing, but she does think about what Jake might see. "Jake, you must understand, you will be slightly water bound, you need to learn to coop without clothes, for clothes will only weigh you down and begin infection through the rubbing and collection of your mucus. But I am making a swimsuit and can give you mine if you are interested?"

Jake wonders what is so special about the swimsuit. "I thought you said that clothing weighs you down and causes infection?"

Kathren nods, "That's true," Kathren touches Jake's worn out robe given to him by Delenn. "This material is land-made, the sea will consume it, but if you wear a outfit made from the sea, then land will consume it, unless if you've been working on the suit for a long time."

Jake smiles, but wonders why Kathren is willing to give away something that has taken years to make. "Well I would be honored, but, what about you, what would you wear?"

Kathren takes Jake's scaly hand. "Like you, I already have my protection, my scales, they cover the body and protect the weak flesh." Kathren slowly places Jake's hand back down without any resistance, either Jake is relaxed or tired. "Jake please, will you face me, if you don't open your eyes, you will be constantly running into things." Jake opens his blue-iris eyes, for even if you had any other color of eyes, the ocean turns the iris blue to see better underwater.

As Jake looks at Kathren, he notices that certain features are missing and actually feels more comfortable not seeing them, but then suddenly remembers that he too is transforming into a same make and model as Kathren, meaning he too will look somewhat like her, and if myth is correct, Kathren, being female is the modern model of a classical Earth mermaid, and that there is no such thing as mermen, even though gay communities created a gay mermaid called mermen to please their own fantasies. So if this is correct, Jake will not only be a fish, but female fish, a mermaid.

This thought discomforts Jake to think he might soon become a girl! But as best as Jake could, he cast out the thought, for he must first learn to survive the watery depths!

As Jake looks at his deformed hands, he notices how slender and smooth the scales make his hands. The webbing between each finger confuses him. How could the skin stretch twice its size? Kathren held the answers, but the answers would only confuse him. As Jake places his hands upon is soaked, cold clothes, he looks out towards the south. "So you live out here?"

Kathren looks southward where Jake is looking. "Part of the time. I've lived mostly on land for about fifty thousand solar years." Jake looks at Kathren, amazed at her beauty at fifty thousand years old. "I personally like the land, gravity makes life noticeable! But my body thrives for the open sea, I can't change it, beside, I'm Kathren."

Jake stares at the ocean. "What is your race called?"

Kathren is puzzled by the question. "What do you mean?"

"Well I'm Jake, like you are Kathren, that's our name, but my species is Human, what is yours?" Says Jake in a sad tone.

Kathren searches throughout her memory, "I'm Kathren."

Jake is almost ready to strangle Kathren. "No that's your name, is it not?"

Kathren nods and then quickly shakes her head. "No, my mother called me Kathren Deprofit Eastmar."

Jake nods his head, he's summing up a conclusion. "And your mothers name?"

"Kathren Colddeath Southmar."

Jake's hypothesis is shot down. "Don't tell me, your grandmothers first name begins with Kathren also."

Jake waits for a reply, but Kathren does not tell him, as requested. "Yes?" Says Kathren in a confused manner wondering what Jake is hinting at?

Jake does not notice his error. "Well, what is the name?"

Kathren is now confused at Jake's odd behavior. "You told me not to tell you."

Jake ponders on his words and realizes a common Human jargon was misinterpreted. "It's a matter of speech to provoke a response!"

Kathren still is unclear, but decides to tell her grandmothers first name. "You Human's are very interesting…an the answer is Kathren, Kathren was my grandmother."

Jake ponders on the name. "Your all a family?"

Kathren smiles and nods, "Yes!"

Jake is hit with divine revelations. "That's it, Kathren is your family name, and your second name is your first, but that still does not answer the question…what's your species?" Kathren has no answer. "We could make one?"

Kathren looks at Jake. "Make another name?"

Jake nods, "Yes, your species name."

Kathren seem interested, "What details make a species name?"

Jake looks at the pool of water to think and comes up with a educated guess…"Well for example, I am Jake, and my family name is Gallen Sheridan, which comes from my mother and fathers last names. My species in biology is mammal and my species in genetics is Human, which is a term driven up from the scientific meaning homo, meaning man, and the Hu is just the periodic element from my species, meaning when you put them together it spells out Human, or commonly Huhomo, but that is far out of my understanding. So in species detail to me…I am Jake Gallen Sheridan, species is mammal, subspecies is Human, hybrid species is Human-Minbari crossbreed."

Kathren is overwhelmed by the thought process of the Human. "Interesting, so what then do I call you?"

Jake, know how to explain this in detail. "Since we're already acquainted, you can call me just Jake. If I was only a guest, then call me Gallen Sheridan. If you were to describe me against another creature other then my own, then you would call me a mammal. To a organic species with knowledge, then a Human to narrow down the family of mammals, since there are thousands of different types of mammals across the universe."

Kathren odd enough to say, understood this very well. "So how would you call me?"

Jake sighs, "Well we've been working on that, we need to assign you a subspecies name."

Kathren thinks. "How about Universal Breeder?"

Jake looks confused, what a odd name. "Why Universal Breeder?"

Kathren was not prepared to defend her choice. "Well, according to my memory, in the past Alquarious was a dead planet and the universe birthed the family of Kathren, the first was Kathren Dawndeath Northmar, who was bestowed the ability to give countless birth, without complications to the offspring or its producer. The name was although abandon with the arrival of the Numenorean's."

Jake seems intrigued. "You once were called Universal Breeders?"

Kathren pauses to think, then nods. "Now that I think of it, yes."

Jake smiles. "Then there it is. You would be addressed in my opinion as Kathren Deprofit, you are the daughter of the parents named Deprofit. Your family name is Kathren, and your species appears to me to be a combination of mammal and fish crossbreed. Your subspecies name is Universal Breeder, which classifies you as a separate family in the branch of mammals and fish hybrids."

Kathren ponders about who she is. "Interesting…I never could have guessed there is so much about me!" Jake looks deeply at Kathren and smiles. Kathren turns and looks at the foamy water. "You understand Jake…there is consequences about me saving you!"

Jake's smile disappears like the warm sun behind a cloud. "What do you mean Kathren?" Says Jake all choked up.

Kathren looks up from the foamy water to where Jake sits, looking at Jake. "When I found you, it was by mere chance of a mistake. You were to be left to join the souls of Tsiegret'lop. I did the only thing I could do to repair your wounds, but it was useless, you were injured badly by the supernatural. That type of anger I can't heal, so I gifted you as one of my children, and let the energy work through your form." Kathren pauses then continues. "The consequence is that you had to be birthed through me, I did this through the ocean, by all remarks, you are not the same as you were when you came to K'ha'dum, no longer Human nor Minbari, you're my species."

Jake looks at his hands again, still not able to grasp the whole concept of being rebirth this time through Kathren and the destruction of his original body, and him living in a completely alien body…being half Human, half Minbari, but mostly Universal Breeder…it was all so confusing! "I will be then honest, I thank you for saving my soul, but what I truly want is to be with my people, my friends. I wonder about them, i pray that they are okay!" Kathren stares off into the open sea. "You know something of this Kathren?"

Kathren looks back at Jake. "I saw a group of aliens similar to you high in the north."

Jake's gloomy face brightens up. "Awesome, they are still alive!" Jake looks at Kathren's gloomy face. "They are still alive are they?"

Kathren looks at Jake. "They took the northern road through Angmar to Lake Evendim."

Jake does not get the sense of fear in Kathren's voice. "I know they were going to Angmar, but what is Lake Evendim?"

Kathren feels a cold shiver go down her back once more and looks at Jake. "Lake Evendim is nicknamed the Cursed Lake. It's the reason why I can't take my…well…my flesh form anymore."

Jake looks at Kathren, he is now wondering about the functions of this body and if he could make it to Lake Evendim to save his friends, his family. "If you don't mind, can I ask about my functions, my parts, and limits of this…this reformation?"

Kathren smiles, "Sure, what would you like to know?"

Jake wonders where to begin. "Ah, the hands, how does these…theses" Jake can't seem to find the word as he stares at his fleshy webbed fingers.

Kathren enters the word. "Fins?"

Jake smiles, "Yes, fins, how big will these things get? And am I through my major part of my transformation? What about my legs, why don't we have a tail like an average fish? And what is up with these fins on my neck, what purpose do they serve? And…"

Kathren hushes Jake's interest. "Jake, darling, settle down!" Say Kathren with a smile. "I will do my best to tell how you work one step at a time!" Kathren remodels herself on the rock. "I will tell you, but you will have to first help yourself."

Jake positions himself on the rock, but has to move the three inch hip fin, since the fins seem to be very sensitive, and sitting on it is not one bit comfortable! "Okay, what must I do?"

Kathren looks at Jake's clothing. "You must remove your clothes."

Jake's eyes widen. "Now…here?"

Kathren nods, "Yes, if you wear this clothing you will be sick!"

Jake looks around, and thinks that the only thing that would see him would be the fish of the sea. As Jake removes his shirt, and pulls it over his head and feels the shirt rub against his facial fins on his face, Jake does his best to ignore them. With his bare chest exposed to the sea, Jake does not feel the coldness of the ocean breeze. Next comes the pants and undershorts. As Jake removes the clothing, he stood clotheless. As Kathren gazed at the half-flesh, half-scaled body of young Jake, there are some appendages that Kathren has never seen on a species before, but does her best to ignore them. Kathren picks up the clothing, rips it apart and throws it into the surf to rid of that problem.

Even Jake has never seen some of the new transformations. Beginning down at the foot level, Jake's feet have fully transformed into fins, more like flippers with ankles. Jake's five toes have grown almost seven inches making his foot fifth teen inches long. The odd feature of Jake's toes is that they have transformed from bone to cartilage. Another oddity is that the muscles have developed in Jake's legs and Jake can easily lift each toe to more the flipper in general. Going up Jake's leg, which is covered in bluish-green scales, about to the lower calf-muscle is another fin, not big, but very annoying when walking. The fin is mostly used for satiability. After that fin we come up to the waist.

The waist, including abdomen, hips, and groin has its own transformation. Jakes hips have grown and exactly off the hip bone grown another fin. It's used also for stability and motion. As for Jake's groin, it retains it's humanoid form, but there is no flesh, only scales, even the reproductive organ is covered in scales. The scales in the groin are meant to reduce friction sores.

Further going up Jake's body, you enter his chest to collarbone. This part has more flesh then scales. Jake's belly button remains as a identification marker in the location of the stomach. Jake also has five, half-moon scars near the lungs, on the sides of Jake's chest. These red, sore scars really hurt and to make matters more noticeable, was that Jake's breast are also swollen, and scaled covered, like Kathren's. With wider hips, and swollen breast, it's the first evidence that Jake is making a gender transition from male to female.

Above the chest is Jake's neck, growing on the sides of Jake's neck is fins and closer to the middle of the neck is three half-moon slits on either side, all very sore like the ones on his chest. Scales cover the sides of the neck, but not over the bronchus or trachea.

Jake's face is covered in designated areas with scales around the mouth, the eyes, but not the eyelids, and follows the fins down to the fins on the neck. Jake still has hair and blonde-peach hair all over his remaining flesh.

Jake's hands have changed, but if Jake closed his fingers, the fingers would look normal, and the skin between each finger can stretch to the limit of the bones. The hands are not all covered with scales, the scales stop at the first joint and covers the palm only. The scales otherwise go all the way up to Jake's neck and across his shoulder blades. Another change is a long fin on the outside side of the wrist and it stretches out for twice the size of the arm-span.

As Kathren looks at Jake, she notices that Jake contains features not similar to her, she searches her thoughts…she's got it, a very old memory from the first Kathren, Jake has a bloated stomach, swollen neck because everything is normal, except that he is pregnant.

Jake looks at his stomach, but feels sharp pain in his upper chest, it's the scars. As Jake expresses his pain, Kathren wonders what is wrong. "What is it Jake?"

Jake grips his chest, near the scars. "Those scars, they really hurt!" Kathren moves over to Jake. Kathren then looks at the scars and touches it. The skin breaks and opens up, then the other nine open up and the sound of air rushing through these slits startles both Jake and Kathren.

As Kathren looks at the scares on Jake's neck, they pop open. Jake grasp his neck in pain. Moaning and rolling on the rock, Kathren holds him, and turns him over to see what is going on. Jake is crying from the pain, and Kathren studies the slits and as Kathren watches them, she notices that inside of the slits on Jake's neck is hundreds of tiny slits…they appear to be gills, external gills.

Wondering what the slits on the chest were for, she looks at the ten slits, they have no minor slits inside them, only a dark siphon with warm air coming out. Jake looks at Kathren. "What are they?"

Kathren places the slit flap back down and looks at Jake. "I believe you have just developed your third respiratory system."

Jake looks at the slits on his chest. "They were not there when I was in the ocean!"

Kathren stares at the gills. "No, I created your internal gills so you could breathe underwater, but the awakening species DNA must be taking its full advantage to see that you survive."

Jake looks at the gills, but then feels his waist tightening, and his stomach bulging, he is turning back into a female. Jake's hips are more visible, and with this sudden reformation, Kathren freezes in terror and watches Jake's waist narrow and his belly grow. Jake looks at Kathren, his eyes full of fear. "It's not over!"

Kathren looks at Jake, "What do you mean?"

Jake can feel other transformations welling up, he can feel something inside him. "I think I am about to make a full transition, every organ, every inch of my body is tingling!" Jake looks at his chest, the most active feeling. the pressure wells up near his lungs and the pressure begins to build tissue, to form breast, but their not big, since Jake is still only a child. As the breast stop growing the tingling becomes severe and around the nipples, scales begin to grow out of the skin and begin to cover Jake's feminized chest. As the scales approach Jake's gills, they at first don't grow on the flaps, for the flaps have just transformed into cartilage and this is very painful with the cause of rapid transition from skin to cartilage.

As the pain dies away as quickly as it began, Jake and Kathren watch some of the flesh begin to bulge out around the bottom of the breast, as the stretching reaches its climax, the skin breaks and a fin emerges and scales immediately grow around the fin acting as an anchor. The fins never connected across the chest, instead they cup the breast and appeared to be a protection for either the lower portion of the breast or the gills below the breast.

As Jake's chest transforms into a mermaids chest, Jake looks at Kathren. "What is happening to me?"

Kathren looks at Jake's feminized chest. "I don't know, but you look like one of the Kathren's."

Jake looks at his breast. "Which Kathren, for you don't look like me!"

Kathren agrees. "Correct, you look like the first Kathren, a full, true Universal Breeder."

Jake looks at his fishy body. "Will I turn all into a fish?"

Kathren looks sad. "I don't know Jake, to be honest, I don't know." Kathren looks at the sea. "I need to teach you quickly, with your sudden transformation, I fear the great enemy is upon us!"

Jake looks at Kathren, fear has not left his eyes yet. "Asron?"

Kathren turns to look at Jake. Jake has stopped transforming and lies panting due to the rush of foreign hormones and alien hormones, a strange feeling that is like a sickness. "Lets go, we need to make it to the island for tonight." Kathren helps Jake into the surf and then enters into the waves.

As Jake and Kathren swim to the island in the South Aqua, they arrive by late night. Jake and Kathren are about one mile away, but Jake is so tired and weary that he falls asleep in the ocean. So Kathren turns around and softly grasps Jake's hands ands tries to awake him, but Jake just falls back to sleep. Knowing that Jake has not learned about sleeping in the ocean, she secretes a large amount of mucus upon her back and literally pastes Jake on her back and carries him to the island.

When Kathren and Jake reached the island she carries Jake to an old airport owned by the Tsiegret'lop. There she places Jake into the only working spaceship and produces enough mucus to thickly encase Jake into a slimy cocoon of mucus and makes Jake enter an artificial sleep.

As Kathren leaves the airport, she looks at K'ha'dum, she knows she is dying and needs to find the creature called Bri. But as Kathren entered the water, she felt her life power fading, death has finally come to her, she saved Jake, transformed Jake into a shadow of herself and now like her mothers before her, she dies.

As Kathren closes her eyes, her body explodes in a violent underwater lightening explosion and her soul scatters throughout the oceans.