The Dream Keeper

The Cryptid Menagerie actually happened. Well, except without Cryptids. Shame, that would've made one Hell of a News Story . . . . . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050778/Ohio-animals-killed-Lions-tigers-shot-dead-escaping-US-zoo.html

The Guards, searching the premises, wondered what was upsetting the animals so much. They’d never before been this vocal; forget about loud enough to be heard outside the buildings. The first group to figure out what was happening, sadly, wasn’t the one that had any of Shuker’s lethal weaponry. It was a trio of guards, all with tranquilizer guns, who came across the tribe of Sasquatches, marching down a trail out of the woods. One of the guards, stupid enough to assume he could successfully hit a moving target’s head in barely any early-morning light, fired and hit a tree. Alerted, the alpha male – a towering, gargantuan monster of dark, black color and very poor disposition, lunged for them. One of the guards was seized, his arm still connected but the bone wrenched from the socket. He was lifted up and hurled into a nearby tree, where his vertebrae shattered and one of his shoulders dislodged. When he fell eight feet to the ground, both of the female Wood Apes de...

Here was a dark room, filled with all sorts of animals in cages – only these beasts were ones he (and Science) recognized. One cage had a Snow Leopard, another held a Water Buffalo. Yet another held four Chimpanzees. A Stellar Sea Lion was on a slab, knocked out or dead. A bulky, male Orangutan sat in the corner of its cage – also in the corner of the room. Moose, Monitor Lizards, Crocodiles, some Salamanders in vats and some others he didn’t bother to try and recognize. Indeed, the standard Menagerie seemed to be here. “Al, the creatures you saw – the modern megafauna that in-name-only ‘Scientists’ have been arrogant and cynical enough to lambast as myth and legend – were built. Constructed. Engineered, you could say.” He could not say a thing, as it happened. He could only stare. Finally, he found his voice. “Engineered?” “Yes, silly. We built them. Gene-by-Gene, like with Legos. That’s what these beasts here are all for.” She swept her hand around the room, i...