Captain Tkarro walked in and sat down at the head of the briefing room table and looked around dismayed. He asked, "Is this all the crew who saw anything weird on that alien ship we were just on?" Aldus Panchetta, the new Chief Medical Officer, shrugged and waved his hands wide, "I didn't see anything weird. Can I go? I have patients." Dokka Tkarro glared at him, and said, "You sit right there, Doctor Panchetta." Commander Rose blinked her eye and said, "Snowflake is in Sick-bay with my daughter, Lime. I'm linked with both of them. If they have any comments or questions, I'll relay." River Prince said from the far end of the table, "I want chickenz. I iz hungry! Scary stuff over there." Rose's stomach growled loudly and she looked at it in shock. She looked up as several people laughed. Prince said, "Rose wantz chickenz,TOO!" Rose rolled her eye. "My daughter who transformed me into this... form informs me that what I have is hunger pains. I feared I would self-destruct. There HAS been a lot of that going around recently." Zeelob, the Friggian Alien-Technology officer, said, "Captain, we have discussed what was seen, and I have some ideas. First--since NO ONE without some amount of Toxic's blood in them saw ANYTHING of the creature, I have an hypothesis." "518 had seen 'visions' of Chalchilaloq before after a transfusion from Toxic--her blood has to have transmitter/receivers in it. Something broad casted itself here to be seen." Dokka said, "That might be, but it still carved up a deck-plate with a claw. NO broadcast I know of can do that. I have none of Toxic's blood to allow me to see it. I felt it." Dokka drew on his screen and showed it to the rest of the table. He looked at Panchetta and asked, "Do you recognize this mark?" Aldus Panchetta had a great memory, but he looked stumped for a minute. He then exclaimed,"I HAVE! It was almost one hundred fifty years ago, in the ancient fortress of Shalmiraine. There was a room that Kruag--I mean KING Kruag found. It had tubes with these tetrahedrons floating in it. One had this symbol, one other had live blood still it, with a different mark." "We cloned the creatures from those two blood samples. One was the River King. The other was the Leviathan. Is this the what that the mysterious alien graffiti artist scrawled on the wall?" Dokka said, "Yes. I can read a little of Althan-Krommium. I wish Malbess wasn't so devastated by the loss of her man. She's fluent in it. I did check with her, though to make sure I'm right in my translation. It's 'Blood of Typhon'." Rose said, "Typhon must be a 'God-Killer'. Lord Plague panicked when he saw River Prince, calling him one. Prince is the descendant of the River King. HE is a clone of Typhon. Typhon doesn't look anything like River King, though. Simple algebraic equation of A equaling C." Dokka looked at Aldus Panchetta and slapped a hand down on the table and almost yelled, "WHAT does THIS have to do with TOXIC?" Aldus' face reddened and he dropped his head. "I cheated. I couldn't solve it. The Blight. It was killing everyone! I had to do SOMETHING! I did TWENTY clones, seeking a cure! I failed. I used the live blood sample in the twentieth clone. She produced antibodies for the Blight. One of the clones went mad and wrecked the lab and blew the brains out of that woman. I then put my daughter's brain in the body." He looked up with a look of haunted horror and whispered,"It completely replaced my daughter's brain tissue within TWENTY MINUTES! She seemed to be my daughter. She thought like my daughter. It was my daughter." Dokka asked in a chill, "The cure of the Blight is from that... THING? Why did it seek out Rose?" Rose said simply, "HE didn't. He must have sought out my daughter, Sunshine. She has Toxic's mind residing in her. He'll be back,too." Dokka nodded grimly. "We'll be at the moon, Hel, in an hour. We NEED to re-embody Toxic ASAP. Rose arrange it." --TO BE CONTINUED!--