The Creature

Odd?

The scientist quickly turned his head, he had jumped in surprise when something tapped his shoulder. Nyer  stood there with a snail sliding across his face.
"What are you doing..?" He spoke with a confused and astonished tone, he stared at the snail that was on the Hybrid's face and held his clipboard up in his hands. "How.. did you get a snail on your face?"DC now  seemed to find a way to be irritated by this too now.

The hybrid gave a confused face before pulling the emailing from his face, he looked at it in his hand for a few seconds before opening his mouth and chucking it in, biting down, a crunch of the snails shell was heard, then the sickening loudness of the snails chewed body made its way to the scientists ear.

The scientist watched in shock as the hybrid just threw the snail into it's mouth and swallowed it. No second thoughts, no fear or disgust. The Hybrid had just eaten a snail, and with no hesitation at all.
"Oh.. Oh my!" he shouted, out of shock.
The scientist seemed to be panicking a little bit, his heart started beating a little faster.
" You know..The more I talk to you, the less I understand you..." The scientist took a deep breath and held on to the clipboard a little tighter.

The hybrid grinned  at him before speaking."'Me..fast?" he asked.

"Y-yes, you are fast."
He said that with a serious tone, he was trying to sound as mature as possible when talking to him. He scanned the males face before speaking again.
"Can I ask you something?"
The hybrid nodded slightly it's smile dropping.

"Why didn't you even hesitate to eat the snail?"
That question was one that the scientist was genuinely confused about. The look on the Hybrid's face was like he just said something weird. He wanted to know the answer because he had never seen anyone nor anything ever just eat a snail without a single care.

"Human no eat?" he asked with a confused look as he tilted his head.

"No.. it's not normal for humans to eat a snail. I mean, maybe if the snail was cooked and seasoned, but why did you just pick it up and eat it?" He asked with a disgusted. He was still holding onto the clipboard.The hybrid frowned.

"hybrids..what eat" he said as he crossed his arm.

The scientist stared at the Hybrid's cross arm for a moment, before speaking again.
"What do Hybrids eat?" He repeated, wanting to make sure he heard and understood the Hybrid correctly.

Nyer nodded before speaking.
"slimy worm..(snail) green tree bark..(leaf).." he then leaned in and smiled sinisterly at the scientist. "human".

The scientist suddenly became tense and startled . The look on his face had suddenly changed.
"What do you mean 'human'..?" His words had a slightly terrified and fearful tone, his breathing quickening. He seemed to be completely freaked out by the Hybrid's sudden behavior change. This caused the hybrid to laugh in his face before calming down and responding.

"funny face..hybrid no eat .." His sentence not really well put together.

The scientist's breaths became even quicker, he was clearly very worried and anxious.
"What do you mean, Hybrids can't eat humans?...Don't eat humans?...Hybrids not eat..?" He tried to finish Nyer's sentence. His words came out fast as he spoke.

"No..me not eat human..other..maybe" he turned to the scientist and shrugged.

He turned to look at the Hybrid again, his face looking confused and nervous. He was trying so hard to think of an explanation, any rational explanation that would calm him down. But the Hybrid had said that 'others' might eat humans. "W-what others?"

"hybrid" he replied.

"Hybrid?" That reply didn't calm him down in the slightest, if anything it had made him even more confused. He looked at the Hybrid for an answer.
"There's more of you?" He asked.

the hybrid gave a confused look, he thought everyone knew this.
"uh..yes?"

He took a deep breath in. He was trying his hardest not to freak out.
"How many?" He asked it with concern, as if he was afraid of the answer to his question.
The hybrid thought for a second.

"uhh..what..setlikdng in human?" he asked tilting his head slightly.

"S-setting..?" The doctor said it with confusion in his voice as he furrowed his eyebrows.He seemed to not understand what the Hybrid was saying.

"no..no setting. setlikdng. Number in hybrid language." The hybrid held back from face palming at the doctors answer.

"How many hybrids are there?"He asked it again with a little more urgency now, it seems the only thing getting him to calm down now is the answer. The hybrid rolled its eyes, he thought doctors were supposed to be smart.

"you have chart? hybrid number and human number?" he asked.

The doctor looked at him confused before realisation struck his face.
"Ah, yes." The doctor then turned his back to the desk as he raised his hand to his mouth, nibbling on his fingernail as he scanned the files. He then saw a purple folder. He removed his finger from his mouth and grabbed the folder with his other hand before turning to the hybrid. He then signalled towards the hybrid to come over, to which he did. As the hybrid approached the doctor opened the folder and put the human number chart. Numbers from 1-1000. He watched as the hybrid scanned the chart before he put his hand up and placed it in a number. The doctor looked to where he was pointing and almost fainted.

"Uh.. arre you sure that's the right number?" he asked nervously.
The hybrid looked at him with a deadpan face before nodding. The doctor turned back.
"300?" he asked. The hybrid nodded.

"In this building. More outside."

The doctors face paled slightly.
"Uh.. how many more?"

The hybrid looked at the chart and looked at the numbers in human language before pointing to the number 10. The doctors face turned back to its normal colour before responding.

"You mean to tell me... there are actually 310 of you?"His eyebrows raised and his eyes widen, he had not expected to find out that there were that many Hybrids. His voice was still calm, but his facial expression showed that he was extremely surprised.

"thousand."

It was silent for a bit before the doctor processed what the hybrid had just said.
He stared at the Hybrid without saying a word for a few seconds, he had no idea what to say after that.He was looking at him like he was about to collapse from shock, maybe he should sit down somewhere. He took another deep breath, closing his eyes for a few seconds.
"So.. so where are the other 9,690..?"

"Different place, different hybrid" he shrugged.

He slowly opened his eyes, still a little stunned by what he had just heard. He looked at the Hybrid for a few more seconds before speaking again. "But you're all like.. like the same kind of Hybrid, right?" He asked that with a little hesitation in his voice, like he already had an answer in mind but wanted to make sure.

He deadpanned the doctor "No. I say there more."

"There's more than one kind of you..?"He sounded very surprised once again. He had only heard about one hybrid, and now he was being told that there were more than one.
His questions kept piling up and he didn't know what to ask next."Like.. different.. types of you? What different kinds of you are there?"

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Sorry for not uploading, been busy with college work and work😔.

Anyways I will try uploading more this week since it's the last week of school holidays.

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