So... I put up the poll... and legit every person who voted voted for this story.
So guess which story I'm publishing now? xD
EDIT: To those of you who have not read 'Hybrid' (probably should have said this the first time around) before, you have to read that first or this story will make no sense. Sorry. Now you are warned. If you have not read Hybrid before you need to go read it. xD
LOG 1-175
Nothing built can last forever, and every legend, no matter how great, fades with time. With each year, more and more details are lost, until all that remains are myths- half truths.
To put it simply, lies.
And yet, in all the known universe, from here in this timeless place to the distant and chaotic Far Lands, from the sandy deserts of Crown Mesa to the high reaches of Sky City, from a world filled with the most plebeian creatures to the most difficult Games, the legend of the ORDER OF THE STONE endures, unabridged, as self-evident fact.
Indeed, it is only troubled lands that have need for heroes; and we are so very lucky to have, not so very long ago, FIVE heroes such as these.
PETRA the Blaze hybrid, whose quick blade and even quicker flames lit the way to victory in many a battle, even if her quick temper did occasionally spawn one of said battles.
OLIVIA the Enderman hybrid, an extraordinary redstone engineer that sparked creations and a creature of the End, where so very long ago, the mysterious Ender Dragon dwelled.
AXEL the creeper hybrid, whose destructive nature and creativity benefited us all, and whose goofy, playful nature always made him a new friend.
LUKAS the ocelot hybrid, whose sharp claws and even sharper mind took them to great lengths, and whose loyalty and kindness never wavered even in the most dire of situations.
And JESSE the spider hybrid, who was willing to lend any of her six hands to anyone who was in danger, an amazing multitasker and friend, and leader of the Order of the Stone.
Others have created this path for our heroes to follow. The original Order of the Stone, the Old Builders. These five friends have made so many more friends in their journeys across the worlds to fulfill their numerous quests, so many new allies and new enemies, deaths and rebirths, memories lost, and found, and rediscovered.
Their greatest quests have all been written in a book that remains in the Order of the Stone's treasure room, in a distant file in a former Bureau of Amalgamology scientist's computer, and have been listed down. So many enemies have been defeated, and so many have been made a friend.
These FIVE friends have given so much to gain their rightful place as FIVE heroes, and to prove to everyone that what Gabriel the Warrior once said is, in fact, true.
Anyone can be a hero.
Even a hybrid.
LOG 2-0
Things have changed drastically in the past few months.
An enemy Subject Jesse and her friends have never faced before has risen once again.
Subject Jesse, Subject Jace, Subject Petra, Subject Lukas, Subject Axel, Subject Olivia, and Subject Reuben will need old friends, old enemies, and new friends alike if they're to have any chance of defeating this new adversary.
And they may even have to blur the lines of what's real and what isn't in order to defeat this one enemy that defies the very laws of reality.
Because this enemy that they are about to face isn't even supposed to exist.
No.
Because, you see...
This enemy...
is a GLITCH.
GLITCH
It's been 7 months since the whole portal network adventure has occurred. Most of the doorways of the portal hallways have been labelled now (and Soren has fought some of the Old Builders on some of the names).
But this is not something they're worrying about for the next few weeks; the next few weeks have reached the time around the holidays and they are acting accordingly.
Jesse stood up on her tiptoes on the ladder, but she was still just a little too short. "Thanks for helping me string up these-" Cue a tiny hopeful hop to see if that would be enough to get her high enough to put the lights over the edge. Of course, the tiny hopeful hop didn't work. "Lights, Isa."
Isa smiled at the smaller female, trying to hide her amusement as Jesse stretched futilely. "No problem. Aiden and the Blaze Rods would've helped-" And a tiny scowl that appeared whenever she mentioned their names nowadays, "except they have to get a flu shot."
"It shouldn't take them THAT long- Ivor'll give 'em the flu shot, they'll come back up here-" Jesse gave another, futile hop. "And we can actually get the lights strung onto the stupid roof," she finished with an annoyed huff.
Isa chuckled a bit at Jesse's little dilemma as the spider hybrid finally just gave up and climbed on the roof, all of her legs scrambling around to keep her in place and trying to ignore the snow- it was a bit slippery.
"Well, in any case," Jesse finished once she hooked the lights onto the ledge, "I'm glad you guys could make it for the holidays."
"I'm glad too, Jesse- Reuben, what are you doing?" Isa's attention was a bit distracted as she spotted the tiny pink-haired boy trotting along through the snow.
He was hugging a little white thing that looked a lot like Benedict, but he glanced upon seeing Isa. "Oh, hi Ms. Isa!" he called, removing one arm from the little white thing and waving up at her, "I'm bringing Benedict inside; it's freezing."
So the little white thing WAS Benedict...
"Be careful!"
"Okay, Ms. Isa!" and Reuben trotted inside, his pink scarf wrapped securely around his neck.
"Alright, so... damn, where'd the syringe go?" Ivor muttered, crouching and lifting up a couple of books, before glancing at Hadrian and Mevia. He usually wouldn't have trusted them anywhere near his stuff in a million years, but today was an exception- Harper, Olivia, Ellegaard and Cassie were busy with some machine in the other end of the basement, Axel, Magnus, Gabriel and Petra were having a snowball fight, and several of the others were off doing their own thing. "Do you two think you could watch the substances and make sure that they don't get mixed up? I don't want to give Aiden Gill's flu shot or vice versa. They have specific mixtures."
Mevia scowled slightly at Ivor, but gave him a shrug. "All right."
Ivor shot her a reluctant smile before rushing back out of the room to go track down his syringe and then let the Blaze Rods into the room.
Mevia turned back around to see Hadrian examining the substances in each beaker. "Mevia, do you still have those samples from several weeks ago?"
"Yes, I do, Hadrian," and the cyan-haired woman pulled three vials out of her pocket, the tiniest smile on her face. "It's a good thing they were out shopping that day, else we wouldn't have gotten this."
Hadrian smirked back and regarded the three beakers, before taking one patterned one and dumping it into the one that was celery-green. He took the completely black vial and added it to the one that was dark brown, and then the one that was dark brown to the one that was faintly blue.
Mevia stirred them in so that the mixtures looked relatively normal, although a small worm of doubt was still forming in her stomach. "Do you think this is safe enough?" she asked, onyx eyes narrowing at the beakers. "I mean..."
Hadrian hesitated, his own eyes flickering for a moment, before they flickered shut with the softest huff, and he slipped the vials to the bottom of the trash. "It should be," he said finally after a minute.
The door opened, Ivor shaking the tiny glass syringe in his hand with an annoyed look. "Too bad I left it in the fridge... why I left it there I still have no idea. You three ready for the flu shot?"
"Sure," and Aiden regarded the celery green liquid with some apprehension as Ivor put it into the syringe and gave it a quick shake, "it's not poison, right?"
"I think Cassie would murder me if I poisoned you," Ivor responded offhandedly, making the brunette teenager blush and glare at him. "I-I told you, it's not like that..."
"Oh, really? I beg to differ," Ivor responded calmly, pushing the needle into Aiden's arm and making him wince slightly, before doing it to Maya and Gill in rapid succession, cleaning out the syringe each time. "There you go, you should be set for a while."
Maya let out a relieved sigh. "Thanks, Ivor- every time we do it in Sky... well, the City, it takes us forever."
"No problem, brownie."
Hadrian and Mevia exchanged a both mischievous and concerned look as they all trotted out of the basement, as yet another bang went off down the hallway.
"Cassie, I meant the other one..." Harper's voice echoed down the hall.
"Oh, sorry."
The man was standing in a cave that hadn't been visited in months, the huge screen completely blank, the barest red glow still illuminating everything. He gave his head a sad little shake.
"This place has gone to seed, hasn't it?" His voice was deep, thunderous in the silence of the cave.
Then he was standing in front of a strange, blackened heap on the ground, a few tentacles strewn on the ground and laying limply everywhere.
"This... this is also possibly useful," he mused, a rumble of amusement playing over his lips as he realized the partial joke he'd made.
And then he was standing in the temple of the New Order of the Stone, a huge, black egg sitting on the pedestal in front of him. He let out a mild humming sound, still thunderous.
"Curious... all of these, very interesting..."
He turned and appeared by the window, black smoke seeming to form around him as he stared outside, a young woman accompanied with a spider-girl trying to string up Christmas lights, laughing at the spider's efforts and making the spider-girl stick her tongue out at the young woman, trying to not look amused by this herself.
"Hm... hybrids."
His pure white eyes glowed as a strange, leery grin spread over his face.
"Now that's an idea."
He turned back to the egg, the leery smile widening to incredibly large proportions.
"And maybe it should start... here."
He disappeared a moment later, seemingly leaving nothing behind.
Well, except for one last thing
The egg's smooth, black shell started cracking.
A/N: HELLO EVERYONE! I am Ariza Luca and WELCOME to Hybrid's sequel! I really hope you liked the first chapter of the story so far! I guess this could be considered an early Christmas gift...? xD
The action has a slow start in this story, but mark my words some very interesting things are going to transpire (haha, I mean happen) over the course of this story.
Speaking of this story, since it's basically a continuation of Hybrid, I'll just respond to all the reviews from the last chapter of Hybrid here xD
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