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Dante looks to the pair of them as Cora vanishes once the final ones have left and smiles. "Well that should fix this happening again." as both head towards him he smiles and lets them swat then lean against him "I am sorry I didn't tell you my plan before but had you known you would have kicked me out."

They look to each other than grumble as they agree and Edna looks to him. "You just threatened an entire city for my sake Dante. Aren't you worried what will happen to you now?" he shakes his head as she glares "Damn it Dante this is serious so you need to understand your situation!"

Dante puts a hand on her and kisses her softly. "I holoed the entire thing and once they are nearly back, will send them the highlight clip. If they try to start trouble I will send it to that city so everyone knows any and all troubles that arise are their doing. I won't have to lift a finger to attack them, they will."

Ally looks to him and after a moment. "So that is why you stayed calmly still for nearly the entire time, so you kept a steady holo field up." he nods as she smiles "You also spoke with Cora as she is most interactive with you and would react how you wanted without question." he says he can talk and mentally talk at the same time as her eyes widen "You are indeed a Beast."

Aeon barges into the room and huffs. "I put in an order and it wasn't here the same day. What kind of lazy Hunters are you employing anymore?" she notices Dante and runs over "Oh hubby I didn't see you. I tested all I could but it is stuck at needing a material." she looks down and shuffles her feet "I am sorry."

The room is silent but the sounds of her foot scuffing along the floor for several seconds before Dante finds his voice. "That is okay Aeon. What are you looking for?" she says female dragon tongue blue type of young to middle age "I uh, wow damn that is specific." he looks over to Edna and Ally as they sigh nodding in agreement "How about I ask around a few friends and see if I can luck out?"

Aeon shakes her head. "I could never ask you to do that. You are too good to me and I won't know what to do for you." Dante quirks a smile as this nut is like a damned switch "Oh yes I got done running your code next to someone else's," she eyes him for a moment "while yours has dozen of shifted links hers has just two. By comparing them, they are two of your earliest activated as I have access to all their scans of you now."

Dante is thinking now as he moves and sits against the table. "In that case I would say she has recessive snake genes in her code. If that is the case then I feel we can no longer rule out in the distant past humans did blend animal genes into the codes of others. Likely for the City Wars like our conversation suggested."

Aeon is next to him and holds out a lollipop. "I was thinking that but honestly with how code science has gone back and forth on the development scale depending on wars and global destruction. It is hard to know what they were able to do back then." she looks to Dante "That also doesn't explain your sudden activation of dormant recessive genes or the explanation for why you have so many?"

Ally speaks up as she shifts a file around once she has secured and locked the room down. "I have a thought." everyone moves by her "This is a black research from I don't know where. I have been looking even in the dark markets for things that might help Dante." Edna pushes as she nods "During the city wars, a City in the Plains region was attacked by a group of six people. These people displayed characteristics of multiple beasts and were nearly unstoppable."

Edna looks to her and motions. "Wait, the Plains region got nearly all wiped out after internal strife thanks to the Tundra regions fire attacks that starved them for several years before they came in."

Ally nods motioning as she continues. "This report was recovered by Tundra special forces. They also recovered other documentation but this only mentions it. But if this is true they unlocked how to blend multiple species and human code into one."

Dante looks over and shakes his head. "However it says they displayed it while I seem to only show snake characteristics."

Aeon looks to him and thinks. "Maybe that isn't true but we just attribute them all to snakes." as he looks to her "I have a timeline of all your code variations and with each addition noticed change." he nods "You didn't notice you had fangs until after the wolf, wolves have elongated canines as well so who says they are snake fangs?"

He laughs and smiles to her. "How about the venom I have, wolves don't have venom."

Aeon flares up and looks to the side. "I, uh, you don't either, it is, um, not a venom, but uh, an aphrodisiac." the room falls silent "I didn't just have you bite me for my pleasure, it was for science!"

Three minds call BS on that statement. Ally waves a hand dismissing her perversion for the moment. "How about his eyes going slit at times," her voice stills as she looks to him "they are reflective like a tiger." he mentions how it flicked up some before he had Ta and she shakes her head "You already had started the bond before then, back as a junior hunter."

He moves and sits down as this has gotten heavy on him. "If that is true, what am I some sort of monster mash?" as they look to each other they can see his strain but none know what to say "At this rate the more companions I have the less human I will be like and the worse others will treat us."

Edna gasps and touches her chest. "I got it. I know what you are Dante." as everyone looks to her she smiles softly "You are the only known Chimera." as they all stare at her she smiles "You are a mix of many different species yet the apex predator that all must bow down too. Our only task as your friends and loved ones is to find how to keep you looking human enough."

Ally speaks up having thought on this before. "I spoke with Dante before about his evolution into something else. If we go by what you said which makes sense to me, he is evolving into a Chimera and as none of his evolutions have harmed him. I honestly don't think we have much to worry about in the physical department for looks accept looking better." she blushes "He just seems to become more attractive."

Aeon speaks up. "Natural allure plays a big hand in natural selection so I think you may be right but in his case." she looks over and blushes seeing him pop the lollipop in his mouth "His is ramped up I think to ensure breeding happens."

They all look to her as she blushes. "I am guessing you tested his virility is a scientific manner Aeon?" Edna speaks with some heat in her voice "I would hate to have to boil you alive for mistreating a dear and close personal friend of mine."

Aeon pales as Edna has never been hostile, ever. "I swear I did it all proper but the half of the venom I drank." everyone is watching her squirm "I swear I didn't do anything bad to anything else as it was well, it weirded me out so I couldn't okay?"

Dante feels a bit thankful something can bother her at this moment. Looking to her he nods as he now is curious. "How successful would I be at getting a female pregnant?"

She looks up and smiles. "I have tested it against every genetic code we have in logs across every species plus humans." everyone gestures for her to continue "You are without a doubt, a stud." he blinks a few times and looks to the other two before back "You have a hundred percent rate with all species."

He holds up his hands and shakes his head. "Okay hold up crazy doc because I took science, still am actually. Anyways I know mammals and lizard don't mix and neither do avians and aquatics." she looks to him with a silly smile "Okay why are you like that, kind of scaring me."

She laughs and shakes her head. "You are a mix of countless species Dante." he nods "You have a little of everything in you so you can get a little of you in everything." Dante's head suddenly hurts very badly "If you really want to test it, just get a non-mammalian species with child. Wouldn't that be the quickest test?"

Ally shouts out. "Wait a damned moment! Are you telling Dante to go get some female something or another pregnant just to prove your theory?" Aeon nods and asks is that bad as the room falls silent for several seconds until she speaks again "I won't allow it!"

Dante walks up behind her hugging her against him as she slows and calms down. "It is okay Ally and thank you for standing up for me. However the only non-mammalian species I interact with at present are all Titan classed snakes. It takes years for their cycles to go from fertilization to eggs and finally to birthed live young." they all look to him "My mom is a mother so she taught me a lot."

Aeon looks over. "Oh is she the source of the strange substance that was brought in that you used all up?" he nods as she does "There was an enzyme I can't replicate that boosted the overall healing and regeneration." she moves and opens up a new file "If I could concentrate it down I could create a new formula that would allow the regrowth of limbs even. It wouldn't raise the dead or anything but getting back a lost limb would be as easy as swallow and go."