Well, it has been a long time since I last updated this story. I would have done this sooner, but the original version was destroyed and I never really had enough time to rewrite it from the very beginning.

Also, I felt that doing the flashback scene at the beginning a second time would spoil its freshness. I managed to find a copy of the first few scenes and began working my way back up from there. This is the final product of my efforts.

THE HYBRID'S SONG

Chapter Eleven: Chaos Theory

.o.o.o.

The waves crashed against the side of the derelict building. . .

Kino frowned. "I don't know if I'll ever understand you. You seem to relate to them so effortlessly. You sympathize with them- and even their cause, don't you?"

Hayami looked at her, offering an expressionless gaze. "Somehow, labeling me as a 'hybrid sympathizer' is inaccurate." He replied. "You, by the same token, would be a 'Human Supremist'." He added. "Just as long as we're throwing around labels.

The waves went on. . .

Kino shook her head. "You're such an asswhole, do you know that?" She asked. "And even more so, you suck at people skills."

Hayami nodded. "I know."

"What does it all mean to you?"

"What does what mean?"

"Life, what is it to you? Are you just screwing around and going through the motions, or are you really doing something?"

Hayami smiled. "I don't know."

Kino frowned. "If I said I was going to kill you- right now- would you stop me?"

"Why would you want to kill me?"

The girl blustered. "That's not what I'm saying! I'm trying to get some truth from you."

"And what does shooting me have to do with this?"

"I want to know how badly you want to live!"

Hayami sighed. "Life's not about explanations. You just do what you have to."

"And what are you doing?" Kino asked seriously.

"I don't know."

And the waves kept coming. . .

.o.o.o.

Mutio looked up at the sky, it was getting dark. She let go off Verg's body and watched as it was recovered by the other creatures around her.

Later she swam back to the island and stayed there for a while and thought about who she was. She knew that she could never be the same again. She had seen and felt too much, and for it, she had changed. She had known fear and desire and all the other things she wasn't mean for.

"Such a strange creature you are." Gato remarked to her. "You really are alone, aren't you?"

Mutio looked up at the brown male hybrid- some kind of feline. ". . .alone?"

"Yes, 'by yourself'." He offered. "I'm surprised that in such a big world, you're alone." He paused. "Still, I suppose you're estranged from the others, aren't you?"

She nodded, seeming to understand the meaning, if not the words."

"The only thing for you is to go out and find someone." He reasoned. "But you might want to learn a bit more words, first."

Mutio decided that there was really only one person that she could relate to, the human that she had bonded with. . .

.o.o.o.

A piercing scream cut through the night air. Hayami and Doctor Ainsley jerked around, glancing into the house. Hayami pulled a gun out of his pocked at some point as they ran.

The two of them burst into the room, Dianna leading and Hayami coming in behind her. "What's going on?" She exclaimed.

Across the room, Dumont struggled to hold Emma down as she thrashed about madly. "She's going into shock- it's like some kind of seizure!"

Warlock descended to help hold her down as well. "She was just sitting there when her eyes rolled back into her head and she began thrashing around like this!"

Dianna's eyes narrowed. "I'm coming." She said and kneeled down between the two scientists. "Warlock, get a sedative while I hold her down!" She commanded.

The older man nodded while a pair of green hands clamped down around the small hybrid's wrists. Unseen muscles tensed beneath perfectly white sleeves as Dianna effortlessly held her down.

Warlock filled the syringe with a yellow liquid and squirted a bit out, clearing out any possible air bubbles in it. He then turned and picked up a bit of swab and placed it onto the soft slick flesh of Emma's arm.

Hayami watched as the hybrid eventually stopped convulsing and went limp. "What's happening?" He asked.

Dianna turned to face him and Kino. "This is Macintyre's insurance policy."

"What?" Kino exclaimed.

"While I was both working in and later trapped in the complex, I learned a lot of things." She remarked. "One was that the hybrids that were being created for the experiments were deliberated augmented with a hereditary disease." She added.

Dianna crossed her arms and sat down. "An insipient neurological condition- triggered by a virus I transmitted to her."

"What are saying!" Hayami exclaimed.

"I now realize that the injection they gave me before releasing me was not simply a sedative- it was loaded with the trigger agent, something for me to pass on to her." Dianna reasoned.

"And with Emma dead, there'd be no proof of their involvement."

"Yes, another dead hybrid would hardly be worth an autopsy." Warlock added.

"But how did you pass on the virus to her?" Dumont asked.

Dianna looked over at him. "Perhaps it was secreted through the sweat glands in my body and released through my pores." She replied. "I was in contact with Mutio, who in turn has been in contact with Hayami- who has been in contact with all of us. It was inevitable that it would reach her at some point."

"But is there anything we can do?" Kino asked after few moments passed.

"There's a cure." Dianna replied. "A anti-toxin to counteract the cellular degeneration of her nervous system."

"Where is it!" Hayami exclaimed.

Dianna stood up and smiled at him. "It's in the main offshore research platform." She paused. "Everything important happens there." She said, removing her tie and unbuttoning her sleeves.

"How do you know?" Kino asked.

Dianna took off her vest and looked over at them. "Because I was trapped in a dark cell there for the last three years."

Kino suddenly became quiet and looked down. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring that up, I—"

"It's not your fault, sweetheart." Dianna replied, walking up to her and looked her in the eyes. She then straitened back up and looked over at Hayami and Kisaki.

"It's Macintyre's fault!"

(- End of Chapter 11 -)

.o.o.o.

This is the second draft of the original version. The original was ruined when I usb drive erased everything on itself for no reason. It's a bit shorter then the first version, but I didn't feel like doing the same thing over again. The last couple of scenes will be in the beginning of the next chapter.

-Bojack727