NOVEL NEXT 34. The hairless apes reaction
The humans on Earth went into another uproar, they were even more common than usual.
Caelicetus had killed in total with this event sixteen humans, all deaths being gruesome in some way.
Ranging from vaporization, hiding as a popsicle while playing hide and seek with the penguins in Antarctica, becoming a cube, to being impaled on one of the Eiffel Tower's many metal structures.
Some like popsicleman in the middle of Antarctica were still missing, the humans only found ten bodies after all.
The cetaceans reincarnated as Astrodelphii was seen as the equivalent of angels for a good majority of humans.
This amplified the already wave of hate for wallers and people with jobs or culture involving the harm of cetaceans.
Certain devout people of any belief can be extremely violent if something goes against what they thought was right.
Let's say that they will have more blood to write their scripture with. It's a difficult process needing special tools, technics, and the fresh blood of heretics, preferably directly coming from the source itself.
It's something that stayed. It is pretty light compared to some of the other religious ways of treating heretics.
The fact that the ten found were all handlers of parks not known for their remarkable ethics, only furthered this earlier belief.
Of course, the Caelian Collective took advantage of this. It made them even more credible than they already were, for one simple reason, they have authentic proof. The only thing they missed was what Caelicetus truly looked like.
Not that it is fundamental when they have so much proof, and as if proof were even needed to make a religion. It wasn't science, that is why they generally don't go hand in hand.
So a religion with factual proof exploded even more than it already was. The death of those humans by their God, while sad for some, was seen as a divine punishment for nearly all of the Caelian.
"You see! Dr. Illen Andrew was right! This thing can make life, no, create life!", said an exasperated Rick Stanton with bloodshot eyes. He was always working and one of the new projects he was working on was the new aerial base for Monarch.
Essentially a futuristic giant plane. A flying fortress.
Rick remembered the first time he saw specimen Dah-way, it's still on Skull Island and he hoped to never see it ever again. It was to put it simply, incredibly creepy.
It was harmless, but there were a lot of times where it was found where it shouldn't be, like his assigned chamber, for example, somehow evading all cameras and captors of the base.
Anyway, he was still shocked by the dozens of videos of what happened yesterday. It again utterly violated what humans thought possible, not that it wasn't new with titans.
All of them did the same to some degree.
Just Godzilla was still a mystery about how he could even survive his own weight and that wasn't the most unique thing about this titan.
But Titanus Cetus certainly did take the cake. Bend gravity to his will, create/modify living beings at whim, what more? Travel to other universes and bring back fictional characters, as if.
"How does he do this?", Serizawa muttered with fascination, stars shining in his eyes, it was more than impressive to see it happen. No matter how many times he saw.
He would have preferred to be here in the flesh but at least Emma Russel with her daughter at one of the locations, and she was one of the few that directly saw it in the entirety of Monarch.
Emma didn't tell anything about what Maddison touched, she didn't want her daughter to be dissected on a surgical table.
She had faith in Serizawa for not saying anything, it was one of her friends after all, but the fewer people knew about this the better.
Emma also hammered that fact into Maddison's head, meaning her ex-marry was in the unknown. He will go bonker when he learns about this little detail.
For the moment nothing seemed wrong with her daughter so she was mostly calm if extremely worried.
It might affect her daughter at any moment in her life or not at all, this was extremely stressful for a mother who already lost a child to boot.
Serizawa was also one of the few with access to specimen Dah-way DNA. It was a perfect mix between Jia, Ilen Andrew King King, different species of plants, and an endemic bird of Skull Island.
This was exceptional on its own, but the most bizarre fact about the DNA was, that no mutations ever happened. Ever. It was very puzzling.
Mutations were something constantly happening in everything containing the self-replicating molecule known as DNA, from viruses to cockroaches to humans.
Mutations were not something inherently good or bad, this is simply the phenomena of DNA being altered with each cellular division both meiosis and mitosis, new mutations were constantly popping up there was no stopping it.
Unless total deletion of everything with DNA, of course.
It also wasn't exclusive to DNA, things like ARN could also have mutations.
And that also means that everything with DNA was technically a mutant.
Of course, DNA can be altered by other factors, directly or indirectly by things such as alimentation, radiation, and a lot of other things but it's not really the subject here.
The DNA of this specimen, if it can even be considered DNA at this point, was so 'stable' that it didn't change, at all. Never. Its ARN was in the same basket.
Anything used to forcefully change it resulted in its total collapse and rendered it completely useless.
It means this creature was more or less a complete middle finger to the current theory of evolution.
That is why it was put apart from the rest for the moment since it was created by unknown means, or it was the worst headache possible for the one that didn't believe what created it.
For example, if it has an offspring that also made an offspring itself and this cycle continues somehow until the end of time, this individual at the end of time will be the literal clone to the first and every other born in between.
They will be 100% identical at every single point. Identical twins will seem like complete strangers in comparison.
"It really does look like they are ascending to a higher plane of existence… How fascinating. And it seems to be a relation between cetaceans and Titanus Cetus.", Ilen Chen added with barely hidden excitement, which was soon followed by nods from the other.
"Which might explain the death…but why now?", she continued, this time with a frown.
"Don't try to delve too deep in trying to understand the thought process of this titan or why he does things, it's out of our scope.", wisely advised Rick and was going to take a sip of his coffee only to see it was farther from where he remembered placing it.
Frustrated, he looked down only to see behind his coffee cup, a small green-furred animal, with a yellow beak, and two ears, in the middle of the two was a tuft of blue feather, two big watery eyes, and two human feet.
"Boo-dah?", Dah-way said, it didn't know where it was. But it knows how it got here, it was a strange round white door that always appeared below him and transported it to other locations. (traduction->Bad?)
"What the fuck!?", the old man jumped back, something he thought impossible for his age, his yell was fueled with terror.
Attracting the attention of nearly everyone on his person.
"Look, it's freakin here!", he said while pointing a finger at nothing but his empty cup… His mind come to a stop for a slip second before the image of a certain whale passed in his mind.
"Yes, it's your coffee cup, and? We have more important things to worry about than your coffee cup.", said a puzzled and slightly annoyed Viviene Graham.
On the other side of the globe, Madison Russel was back and was currently observing the pink moth on her hand.
The moth moved on the palm of her hand where a very thin line of golden light appeared to instantly disappear just after.
"Must be my imagination, time to sleep anyways", she said, put back the moth in its terrarium, and jumped in her bed before falling.
She had a dream about space and things in a language she didn't understand, that she will not remember the next day.