The characters aren't mine and I don't make money with this story. Futhermore English is my second language, so I apologize if there are any errors in it and hope to be excused.

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Myth and Reality

Prolog

„Kaito…“, Aokos voice was nothing more than a whisper. In front of her sat, on a chair in her father’s office, Kaito who had been missing since the last three months. A blanket around his shoulders, a cup of hot chocolate in his hands. But at the same time it was not Kaito.

That what was sitting in front of her, was a bizarre hybrid of human and myth, a caricature of her friend. When he looked up at her, only one eye looked at her like a cyclops from one of the greek sagas. And instead of his legs, his whole abdomen, an about 3,60 meters long snake tail grew out of his waist. There, where his abdomen SHOULD have been.

“Aoko...”, his voice sounded small, tired, exhausted... and yet indisputable his.

Hakuba who stood a few feet behind Kaito, began in a calm and gentle tone to speak. “Aoko-chan, maybe you should sit down too. Kaito-kun wanted to tell us (of course her father was there too) right now what happened to him, that now he...”

‘...looks like a monster.’ Aoko finished the sentence in her thoughts, which everybody in the room thought about but no one dared to say out lout.

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