Now Rick was a specialist in evolutionary metabolic chemistry,and was currently
researching the origins of the maternal mitochondrial dna of homo sapiens.
He'd made the pitch for his research grant to the Committee that if the mitochondria
inside the human cell could be made more efficient,there'd be less starvation,illness and
other social ills in the world.
Rick suspected that the Committee got its monies from the military's
special ops unit,and that his research would end up being used to make more
invincible and faster healing soldiers,but he had bills to pay
on Mondays,and needed the cash.
Any flights of fancy he'd had had been long burnt away when he'd taken on the
family responsibilities of raising Brendan from a squalling baby brat
and supporting Tabitha's peculiar hobby.
Now Tabitha was NOT a witch,Was NOT a part of a Coven.However she
did have a habit of collecting relics and bizarre curiosities.In one of her latest round the world collecting expeditions she'd gone to Derbyshire ,England to acquire a stuffed winged crocodile-serpent
mummy that the seller had claimed was a female dragon that had terrorized Derbyshire
in the 15th century till it had been slain by the local knight .
The thing however was that the mummy was 12 feet long whilst the lehends spoke of a vicious
monster 50 to 99 "King Henry's Feet" long.
Not to mention other discrepancies in the story.
However Tabitha had purchased the mummy with Ricks money,had it crated and
shipped back to 666 Gyvern Avenue,where Rick had recieved it.Then Tabitha had gone
wonky and was currently on a cruise ship going to King Willians Island,to look
for Sir John Franklin Lost Expedition relics.
Rick had assumed the mummy was a cobbled together fake,but since he was into
metabolic research,he'd taken samples from the mummy and discovered the thing was all one
animal.The wings,tail,crocadillian head,torso,legs and horns all contained the same mitochondrial
dna.
That had piqued Ricks interest,as it had dawned on him that the mummy
might be that of a solid flesh and blood mythical dragon.
So he'd extracted more dna from the dragon mummy and had included it in those potions that
he was working on in his private lab just before the accident had occurred
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The paramedics had gotten the emergency call that there was a man in distress trapped
in a basement window over at 666 Gyvern Ave.
The team leapt out their bunks ,slid down the pole into the awaiting cave below and soon
the ambulance was racing through the city and then out into the country towards Gyvern Ave.
As we all know Gyvern Estates is that rich gated community built on the farmlands of
Ezekial Gyvern,the eccentric 1920's millionaire who'd made his fortune in hi=tech research
projects with his partner General Pershing.
The ambulance raced past long abandoned Gyvern Mansion and came to a
stop beside 666 Gyvern Ave...