Whoa. Been a while huh? Sorry for the long delays. :P I hope you guys have been liking how the story has been going and hopefully you'll like what I have added.

The Gang's van roared as Murray pressed down on the gas, tearing up the ground. Sly sat in the front beside Murray, turned around to lean on the back of the seat to watch Katie. Bentley sat across from her, his laptop sitting on his knees.

"The Murray has missed you, Katie."

Katie smiled and stood up, the rocking of the van did not disturb her as she easily walked over to the front seats.

"I missed you too Murray." She leaned over the seats and hugged Murray's shoulders from behind as he drove.

Katie pulled away and moved back to her original spot and looked up at Bentley as he stared at his laptop. She could see the expressions on Sly and Bentley's face. They wanted answers and she knew she had to deliver them.

"CH0001 489-WYVERNEX-538." Katie spoke as Bentley typed in the code. "That will unlock all of the classified files on the Wyvern Experiments. Now that you know of what I am, you should know more."

Sly stared at Katie, her hair was cut short in a chaotic manner that barely reached her shoulders while her bangs made a slanted jagged cut to the left side of her face. Katie sighed as she hugged her legs to her chest, looking down to the floor of the van.

Bentley's glasses lit up white from the reflections of the computer screen, "These files have a weird security barrier around them. At the files' programmed times, they will open up to be viewed. After the file has been opened for 10 minutes, a new code will make them classified once again. Each time the files are reopened, the code becomes harder and harder to crack. Whoever encrypted this is a genius!"

Without looking up, Katie explained, "My father didn't want anybody to know about what happened so he hired Arpeggio to hide these files and make sure they could not be copied down for future use."

No one spoke for a while. Everyone seemed hesitant about what to say. Bentley looked at the time on the computer, waiting for the first file to open up so he could read it. Murray focused his attention on the road ahead while Sly continued to stare at Katie; wanting to confront her.

"Whatever you want to say, Sly, just say it." Katie lifted her head to look at him. Sly noticed that her eyes quickly flashed from red to blue.

"I get that when you were Wyvern, you were different. But why did it come out now? Why did you act the way you did?"

"The spice drink Tanner gave to me awoke Wyvern. It just took a stressful situation in order to have Wyvern come out and take over; that situation being trapped in the Contessa's faucility. As for my reasons, well..."

Katie looked down at her paws, "... First, when Wyvern woke up inside me, I took the opportunity of my Rhino and Gorilla genetics. I busted free and ran off. Although Wyvern was awake and its thoughts were flooding my head, I kept fighting it. I had to help you guys. Eventually Wyvern won the fight and took over, but my thoughts about helping you guys remained. Which is why Wyvern helped you, but not in the most pleasant way. As Wyvern I lied to the Contessa, saying that I killed 'Katie' but never showed the body to her. This intruiged the Contessa's odd ways of trusting people, thus she allowed me to mess with you, Sly. Once that was over, I knew where you were located and the confrontation with Bentley earlier showed me where he was located. I just had to get you all together and give you all of the information needed to set you on the right track to the Clockwerk parts."

Bentley looked up from his computer, "Why did you- Wyvern, say that it wanted to die?"

"Would you believe that Wyvern is just nuts and I have no idea why it said that?" Katie sheepishly asked, smiling softly while shrugging her shoulders up a bit.

The expression on Bentley's face answered that question for her.

Katie closed her eyes and stretched out her legs and arms while sighing in defeat, "Wyvern was created inside of me, somewhat of a spin off from my Tiger genetics. Wyvern has a conscious thought and willpower, but its only memories are from when it is the one controlling me. Those memories include all of the experimentations and what just happened recently. Wyvern truly believes it killed me, its host and the only thing it has ever known besides the scientists who hurt it. Wyvern's past and its belief that I'm dead is why it wants to die. Its only known pain, suffering, and betrayal. Not many people can live with that alone."

Sly kept silent, allowing Bentley to converse with Katie.

"But you're Wyvern's host. That means you have the memories of the experimentations as well, right?" Bentley asked.

Katie nodded, "That is correct."

"And saying you are Wyvern's host, means Wyvern is a parasite feeding off of your body and mind."

Katie nodded again.

"So doesn't that mean that Wyvern is feeding off your past and insecurities? Wyvern isn't the one who wants to die. You are." Bentley's voice slowly faded into a whisper as his words worked out what he had been thinking all along.

"Wyvern is a dangerous side of me. It's swift, strong, smart, and harsh. As you all have seen, Wyvern is unforgiving and will do anything that it thinks of. It can kill innocent people, it can and will destroy anything in its path. And now since it is awake inside of me, there's no telling when it will show up again... And what it will do when it does."

Sly finally spoke out, "That doesn't mean you have to die. You have controlled it before."

"That may be true, but Wyvern was dormant during the years I had control. Now, its just waiting patiently for when I'm weak enough to take over. I'm not saying that I want to die or that I'm going to do reckless things more often. All I'm saying is that when the time comes, I may have to. After all if you kill the host, you kill the parasite."

The Contessa stayed inside of her gothic tower inside of her home. She looked out at the tall window, watching Neyla's forces patrol the town across the way from the mansion.

"Foolish Neyla. How dare she cross me?" She scuttled to the side, letting the dark purple drapes fall back over the window, casting light away from the dark room.

"Her hunger for power will be her undoing." The Contessa continued to gripe on about the betrayal. She walked out of her room, followed by three bat guards. The four of them walked out across a bridge and up some stairs that circled a large tower. Once they reached the top, the guards opened the lone door for The Contessa.

Carmelita was strapped to a table that leaned upwards, her eyes were golden with red swirls in them. The Contessa walked towards the struggling Carmelita and gently stroked the Clockwerk Eyes as their light pounded into Carmelita's subconscious.

"I will get my revenge on everyone who has made the unfortunate decision of crossing me." The Contessa laughed as Carmelita's struggles continued to slowly die down.

I'm sorry if the story seems to be taking a weird and bleak turn, but it will get more lively and funny again. Every up has its down :P