Jesse hugged her knees to her chest from where she was sitting beside the window seat, staring up at the stars that dotted the sky.
Cassie moving in hadn't been too much of a trouble- the trouble mostly came from finding a room that wasn't blown halfway to smithereens. Which was... surprisingly more difficult than you might imagine. Jace had insisted on rooming with either the 'kitty hybrid' (Soren did a spit-take when he heard that nickname), the fire girl (Gabriel had done his best not to smirk) or his sister.
Needless to say, he got his twin sister.
A little head nudged its way into her lap, and she started before spotting the floppy pig ears. "Oh. Reuben," Jesse said, softly, reaching up and fondling his ears again with a soft smile. "Couldn't sleep?"
Reuben shook his head and snuggled into Jesse's grip, letting out a little squeak of happiness as she put her arms around him in a warm hug. "It's funny to think we used to start out in a tree house," Jesse murmured, hugging her little pig hybrid to her tight, "and now we've- been to some of the weirdest places in the world."
"And out of it."
Jesse looked over. She wasn't entirely surprised to see her twin brother padding over and plopping himself into the seat next to his sister, snuggling up next to her. "Yes, and out of it," she agreed, smiling slightly at him.
She hadn't realized how much she'd missed him until she'd realized he'd been gone.
"Make room, please," and a blonde-haired head popped its way over the edge, ocelot ears twitching.
"Oh!" Jace blinked, scooting sideways and letting Lukas clamber in next to him, squishing the wolf hybrid against the window slightly. "You're up?"
"Yeah, can't sleep for some reason," and Lukas yawned, so hard that he brought a couple of tears into his eyes. "Why are you guys up?" he mused, when he'd recovered from the incredibly loud yawn.
"We're nocturnal," the spider and wolf hybrid spoke simultaneously. Lukas shook his head in amusement as Reuben said, head snuggled into Jesse's chest, "I couldn't sleep."
"None of us can with all your jabbering," Petra crabbed playfully, elbowing her way into the group sitting in the window seat. Jesse scooted aside to make room for the Blaze hybrid, feeling the comfortable warmth seep into her right side and the coolness of the night seeping in through the window on her left.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Lukas teased back, tail flicking and thumping Jace on the back, "shall we all be quiet then, your highness?"
"That would be lovely, thank you," Petra said, in her most formal, snooty-sounding British accent, and it was all Jesse could do to not snort and wake everyone else up.
Olivia bleeped into existence and squeezed her way into the pile, Petra scooting a bit so that now Jesse's entire left side was pressed up against the glass of the window so that the Enderman hybrid could perch on the seat. "Couldn't sleep for some reason," Olivia whispered, pinkish-purple and dark black eye blinking. The pink-purple eye glowed in the darkness.
"Funny, neither could we," Petra agreed.
"What are you all doing?"
Everyone's head rotated to see Axel sneaking into the room, as quiet as he could. The floorboards creaked a bit, and his voice hadn't been as low as theirs, but on the whole it was pretty darn quiet.
"Just kind of sitting here," Jesse said, her head turning so she was looking back out at the sky and the twinkling stars that studded it. Jace leaned forward to look at them as well, tilting his head up so he could look at it, all of them looking at the endless starry night sky, the endless sky that was almost synonymous with their endless opportunities. They would have days and weeks and months and years to do this, to do anything they really wanted to put their minds to.
But for now, they were all content to sit and muse and wonder about the unforeseeable future.
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.
A/N: And this is the official epilogue of Hybrid! Aw, sad times, ain't it?
But we're not done yet! Don't sniffle and fish out a handkerchief at the end of this story, because there's more that I need to tell you all! My plan for the next year or so (until the second-year anniversary of MCSM). (And yes, please read this entire wall of text, it's important).
If by next year, Minecraft Story Mode will be continued, I will write a sequel based on that! If not... well, I'll still write a sequel, but just not based on the next season.
But in the near future, I am writing a story called Minecraft: Hide and Seek Mode! When Ivor runs back into the portal network and the Order of the Stone pursue him, they find themselves in a strange arena with six other people. What's more, they are then paired up and thrown into a series of games of Hide and Seek. Oh, and one last thing- the last pair standing will face up to the person keeping them trapped here in the ultimate game of Hide and Seek. And if they lose... they lose more than just their life. Please check it out! I guarantee you guys will like it (or, at least, I hope...)
After I finish writing that (although updates will be more sporadic through the month of November due to my participation in National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo) and my work on a comic I'm doing), I will then publish two things: a Hybrid oneshot book, in which deleted scenes or requested scenes (or alternative scenes) are posted in oneshots, and a Hybrid prequel! We will get a good look at what happened back before the events of Hybrid occurred.
After that, I will either work on Minecraft Shipping Mode, Hex (which will be renamed Charade and be rewritten), or Minecraft: Reality Mode. For the first and the last one, they are both found on Quotev; please give them a read and let me know if I should move those here as well!
LittleAngelbun: And now you know x3
Choco: Lol I'm glad xD And I sure do hope so xD
NoItsBecky: Lol xD I'm glad you liked the chapter
Toni42: Honestly, I feel like this book was published a long time ago, since I usually take forever to finish a fanfiction! This is by far the longest fanfiction I've ever written and stuck with x3
TheRealRedGaming: (insert Lenny face here)
Luna96: Well, I will make more Hybrid... after Minecraft Hide and Seek Mode. xD I hope you don't mind...
RattleSnaketheSandWing: I'm glad you came along too! Thank you for reading!
ChoyofBonk: Hehe xD You're gonna like what I have next
rebekahtpe: I'm sorry... but, on the brighter side, happy two-month anniversary to Hybrid!
angelwings: Hey, I have a four-day weekend too! But mainly because there is voting on Tuesday and Monday is a teacher workday... we're going to be electing the next president of the United States... -_- Pick our poison.
RapidSammi: Ahhhh I'm sorry
Jace54: Haha x3 I'm really glad you liked it!
SquiddytheBlaze: I'm glad you stuck around for the fic, and I'm really glad you liked it! And I actually like both... x3 Depending on the story, I ship them interchangeably.
DemonCatLady: Holy sh!t you read my mind...
Thank you to everyone who has read the logs of Project Hybrid here at the Bureau of Amalgamology and to those who stuck with the project from the very beginning. Thank you for reading the reports of Subject "Jesse", Subject "Petra", Subject "Lukas", Subject "Axel", Subject "Olivia", Subject "Jace", and Subject "Reuben." I thank the top contributors to the logs, Toni42 and DemonCatLady. I am the writer of these 175 logs of Project Hybrid, Ariza Luca. And thank you to TheRealRedGaming for the inspiration for this last thank you.
Signing off for the last time on Project Hybrid,
x.X. A.L. X.x.
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But when one story ends, another one begins.
