Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 36
Vaeludar seemed that his fishy wife was volunteering to read the book while he investigates the walls, floor, and the entire interior of the strange, horror lab. “You can read?” he asked her.
Marina glared at Vaeludar. “I was raised in the capital city for five years, in the royal family,” she said. “Yes, I can read. Are you questioning my abilities to read?”
Vaeludar raised an index finger and opened his mouth to speak. Then he lowered the finger and slightly closed his mouth. He seemed to be overestimating the Siren’s skills. “I’ll let you do the reading then.” Vaeludar drew his eyes away so he could explore more of the building that had a small portion destroyed in an explosion.
Marina opened the book cover gently. For her, it had some weight to it, if it was made from pure gold. The first page she glimpsed at was a picture of a Minotaur’s half body on a horse’s body; a rotten take on a Centaur, but a creature that would have been half horse and half bull.
Geraldus glimpsed over Marina’s shoulder and saw the picture himself. He was shocked by the mere sight like the sight of the lab he was in. “Is that what those two were doing here? Were they trying to create creatures from other creatures?”
Marina flipped to the next page and saw another strange creature that seemed like a Manticore’s body but with a dragon’s head and claws and a snake’s tail. Then Marina flipped the course of a few more pages; all of which shown disfigured bodies of different mythical creatures being morphed into one body composed of many different body parts, and many more pages showed more of these strange figured pictures. Marina couldn’t find any words or notes written on the first few pages of the book she was trying to read.
“Were they being Frankenstein?” asked Geraldus.
Flarefur even saw the pictures with his Griffin eyes and he too was shocked by the ideal sketches. He saw a few pictures had featured Griffin wings, claws, and heads tied with on a Unicorn’s body with a Unicorn’s horn on a Griffin’s head. “I was told they used science to make weapons, not bringing dead, mutated creatures to life.”
They studied a few more creatures that closely resembled Vaeludar’s appearance: dragon wings, dragon legs in human standing position, a dragon tail, and an upper half body such as a Minotaur’s upper half or a Unicorn’s upper half that was just the Unicorn’s front body.
“It seems they were trying to create different types of hybrids composed from many dead creatures,” said Marina. She placed a finger on a corner, finally found small writing. “These notes say something about creating… hybrids.” She turned to Vaeludar who was looking at the empty jars on the bottom shelves.
“Hybrids?” said Geraldus. “Like Vaeludar? I didn’t see anything pictures using human corpses.”
Marina slowly flipped to the next page, and there were two pages fully written with notes and a few pictures of math angles and science that someone could learn in basic schooling. On the very top of the left page, Marina read “Project Hybrid of Centaur and Minotaur.” She continued to read of how to sew the body parts in the right places and using a certain DNA from something in the heart of a unicorn to make it come alive. An important noticed she read was something about “…using the DNA from the living and still active embryo we found in the dark, underground chamber and use it to bring this dead hybrid to life. And after it is active, we’ll see if it has humanity in it.”
After she read the first full page, Marina proceeded to the next page but only to see the entire page of notes crossed out and read at the top, “Project Failure: Soulless Beast” and those words were all what was written on the second page that weren’t crossed out. Marina turned the page to see the same formula being used “…DNA from the embryo in a glass jar found in the “underground, dark chamber” and also the title “Protect (of a random name)” and then reading the final title “Protect Failure: Soulless Beast!”
Marina kept turning the pages, reading everything that had written “Project Failure: Soulless Beast” and that was every single page, which meant every “Project “something” was deemed a failure by the means of use of the “…DNA from an embryo found underground.”
Geraldus, Flarefur, and Marina all skimmed through the pages and found all these Projects being failures. Every single page they skimmed and read around a few seconds before turning to the next page. The three of them saw these experiments written on the page and how they were meant to be carried out, and they had done so throughout the hundreds of pages filled with hundreds of failed projects.
Marina read that the “Soulless Beasts” coming to life end up being created to be ruthless, savaging mindless monsters. Dead creatures created from different body parts and limbs sewed into one unearthly, unnatural beasts.
And when the DNA of the embryo is poured into the sewed, bodily mutated corpse, the animal comes alive but ends up becoming a monster without a mind or a soul. “All these animals are being awakened by a blood DNA from this one embryo,” said Marina. “I’m curious to see what kind of DNA from this embryo they have found underground.”
“Maybe it’ll say in the last pages, but for now let’s keep browsing all these pages,” said Geraldus. “Even if it takes just a few hours or days.” Geraldus turned to see Vaeludar walking to the shelves close to the exploded holes.
Vaeludar saw that jars have been lightly scorched by the explosion but remained largely undamaged. Only black burnt marks and scorches but no cracks or dents had been made on