The Hybrid Song

Chapter Two: The Cover-up

Dumont sat back and watched with great interest as the Kat before him looked deep into the tank that "Emma" was sleeping in. He was hoping that when she came around again, that he presence of this other Hybrid might help to calm her down enough so that he could properly assess what was wrong with her.

Hayami jumped slightly when he felt someone's hand come to rest on his shoulder. He turned around to see Warlock offer him a cigarette. Hayami took it and accepted the lighter that the man held out to him. Warlock turned to Dumont. "We're going to step out for a smoke, keep an eye on things." He said to the other scientist as he and Hayami left the room to enjoy their habit without offending the non-smoking types in the room.

Warlock was the first to speak once the door closed behind him. "Tell me, Hayami, has anything unusual been happening lately?" He asked casually.

Hayami looked up at him and regarded the question briefly. "No, nothing really, why do you ask?" Hayami then added.

"Oh, nothing really, just curious; what, with all these strange events happening and all." He replied innocently, setting his cigarette down in a nearby ash tray on the counter top that he was leaning against. "Social animals such as us often engage in these things." Warlock added with a smile.

Hayami gave an uncertain smile back and took a drag off of his cigarette.

.o.o.o.

Macintyre spoke calmly into the phone. "Yes, I agree, it would probably be best if we held a press meeting, hopefully that might smooth things over. Good, I'll contact you later." He finished and then set the phone back down in its cradle. He then heard a knock at his door. "Come in." He said without looking up from the papers on his desk.

Mr. Clarke stepped in, holding several files in his hands. "I have the reports here, sir." He announced as he stepped into the spacious office room.

"Good." Macintyre replied with a smile. "Has everything been properly dealt with?" He asked calmly.

Clarke sat down in front of the desk. "We were able to keep most of the media out of the loop, and our man in the force is going to arrange for the police files on the incidents to vanish." Clarke replied.

"Good, anything ells that might just be a problem in the near future?" Macintyre asked in a less than serious tone of voice, not really expecting an answer.

"Well sir," Clarke began. "There is one thing." He continued. Macintyre perked up suddenly at that bit of information.

"What? What do you mean 'one thing'?" He asked, standing up abruptly in the process.

"You know the 'experiments' we were doing? Well one of the bodies was missing from the site." Clarke replied nervously.

"What do you mean missing?!" Macintyre exclaimed venomously. "What you're trying to tell me is that there was a slip-up!" He shouted. Then, suddenly, he sat back down in his chair and became quiet again, as if nothing had happened. "Now, Mr. Clarke, find out what happened to the body and have it eliminated, or I'll see to it that you'll be the next candidate for the 'special testing'." He informed the man in a dangerously calm tone of voice.

"Y-yes sir!" Clarke answered nervously and left the room.

Macintyre then turned around to face the large map of the remains of the world and stood up in front of it. "Soon, I'll change the face of this map for ever."

.o.o.o.

Hayami and Warlock had walked back into the room to see what would happen when the creature named Emma awoke.

It didn't take long for her to wake up, and when she did, she suddenly began look around frantically. Then she saw the Kat outside the glass and looked at it keenly.

Muteo pressed her hands against the glass and made some sort of strange musical sounding call. But when it failed to calm the other hybrid down, she became frustrated and tried to reach up to the top of the tank. "Need to be closer to Em-ma." Muteo implored to the others. Hayami quickly hoisted her up onto his shoulder so that she could reach into the water inside the tank.

Dumont watched in amazement, completely enthralled by the interaction between the two creatures.

Hayami watched and listened carefully as the other slowly swam to the surface of the water.

Muteo looked into Emma's eyes and made a little melodic chirp-like sound to her. The other Kat responded, making a similar sound back to her. Muteo reached into the tank and took Emma's hand and held it tightly while she made another, longer sound and gestured towards the two doctors and then to gestured to Hayami and made a different call. Emma looked at her with a quizzical expression and then looked at Hayami and looked back to Muteo and made another chirp. Muteo then blushed furiously and made a shy little reply.

Hayami had decided that he and Muteo should get back to his house to get some sleep. So, after saying goodbye to Warlock and Dumont, he and Muteo quietly slipped out and left for his house.

After they had gone, Warlock turned to Dumont. "So, Richard, what do you make of all this?" Warlock asked his friend and associate.

Dumont paused for a moment and scratched his chin. "It has potential, that much is obvious." He remarked.

"Potential for what?" Warlock asked.

"Well, Marcus, that other hybrid, the one with Hayami, she interests me greatly, she is quite amazing." He replied.

"Yes, she seems to have adapted well to living with a human." Warlock replied.

"Yet, she has retained the ability to be able to function with her own species still." Dumont added.

"Hopefully, little Emma here will be able to do that one day." Warlock replied, gesturing toward the fish girl inside the tank.

"Yes." Dumont said to himself in response.

.o.o.o.

Mr. Clark was standing next to an older man in a lab coat, who was fiddling with some sort of machine.

"Well, will it work?" Clarke exclaimed.

"Just a moment, this is delicate work. Yes, there we have it." He said and then turned on the device and a small screen flashed to life showing a map of the all the city and all the near by lands and coast lines. "With this, you should be able to find the body, using the implanted tracking device in her leg." The scientist informed the man.

"Good, just what I needed to hear." Clarke said with a smile.

End of Chapter Two

So, what did you guys think of chapter two, was it good? If so, then please send me some reviews so that I know that I should go on with the third chapter of the story.

-Bojack727