Cythrius (Extended)

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The Original Version is linked here: Cythriusian Empire

Cythriuses are the creatures were made by Ethan. They were actually vampires but in monstrous version of it. It was few believed that they are aliens. What it was originated is unknown, still there were claims in Egypt, but it remains unknown. But with a quarter vampire, quarter zombie and the half as their own genes makes up a cythrius. It's little, half or almost realistic, sort of, apart from its wings.

Transmission and Replication
It's unknown that the virus may have been spreaded by vampire bats about 6000 BCE. But started when the mysterious virus has been living in the distant past. And returned after discoveries of burial. It led the infection in the fertile Nile and around the Mesopotamian areas.

But anyway, the replication can be done by its own saliva, since some cythriuses have hyper salivation while transforming itself, when it becomes transform, they usually come through the glands.

The vampire bat is also a sign of danger, sometime they carry the virus onto humans rarely. But they can suck the blood out and also brings the virus also, it can replicate quickly after the bite.

What the virus is was adapted to blood and fluid, making it vunlerable to the body's blood and its water. It is also to known by surviving in water, but the chances are still small to survive into this type. Not even filtered water can stop this as it has a very small chances on 5%.

The virus can also get bitten by a cythrius exchange by the virus. Which is always common for all cythriuses.

The Blood Cells
I mean Red Blood Cells.

The red blood cells can be change rapidly from the virus. Allowing the modification of the blood to the way the virus is going to replace it. Since there are over 25 trillion or more red blood cells and the virus can destroy 4.5 million blood cells and replacing it, might have been taking about three to four months. And hemoglobins are reduced at 20% or more.

Locks
The virus may have 200 keys to make the replacement, it's diameter is about 20 micrometres or more. Trying to infect all cells it needs.

Symptoms
All of the viruses can rewrite the genetic DNA and then transform the infected into one. But few symptoms will appear also, but some gets more severe symptoms.

During the first progress of transforming, the water is using up much making dehydration for the host. A hot body temperature makes a small sign of Hyperthemia but commonly the fever. Small chills, finger movement loss and finally a temporaily insomnia.

The second progress becomes more scarier as the body temperature just rapidly falls to something about 29 degrees celsius, just as the heart stops beating forever, it means that death is common at this stage. There is about 40% chance of the person surviving the death.

When the third stage is done, the 60% gets buried and while 40% comes out alive, they usually change into a cythrius, about 3-4 hours, it becomes the interest of finding thirst. So many of them can become dormant from the virus until the bite is exchanged for the virus. While the buried cythriuses, there is 60% chance for them to strike out of it's own coffin and rise for thirst if it fails, it's blood decays slowly until it dies out. The reanimation happens after 2 hours of burial. But much of the physiological appearance has changed, after 5 days of transformation, the newborn cythrius grows bat-like wings. They feel mindless for a few hours without knowledge but after this they have an enhanced intelligence.

They also have hyperosmia so they can smell further away and the nose of a cythrius detects blood nearby.

While the rare ones, some may have these conditions at 10%. The hyper salivation may occur, causing extra production and possibly infect few people near with that virus. The ears may be effecting by dryness. Skin infection may include some inch and dryness and also sweating. Sometime, inflamation on the throat, coughing.

There's 1.5% chance on cythriuses to have photophobia. It can be caused but they are more active at night.

Dizziness can happen to this, feeling tired and confused also been a sign.

All cythriuses have the echopraxia only during infection, they move similar to the cythrius horde leader's movement, allowing the horde members to mimic the horde leader's movement.

Origins and Evolution
The virus may be unknown, the first viruses (not this one) may have came back about the Late Triassic or the Paleogene Period (Early Tertiary). But much estimates may have came from the Neolithic times in the East Mediterrean sea.

Photosensitivity
A cythrius at the first stage of infection has the exposure of the sunlight. But when they finally reach the third stage, a cythrius in the morning or afternoon is exposed because of the UV light. Which they are sensitive from the UV light, most of the cythriuses are more active at night than the day. Even a cythrius uses its wings against the sunlight cannot block it because it can still expose them, some do not have the exposure so they can infect them during the day and the night, but once a cythrius without the exposure to the prey is infected they also do not have the exposure. About 35% of the total cythriuses have not exposed to the UV light.

If a cythrius stayed in the sunlight for too long for about one or more hours, burns will happen and will have serious damage to their skin, the regeneration of the skin takes about five months to recover it. Rarely, a cythrius can suffer vitiligo which caused by the sunlight exposure and allergies in a reaction or sort of.

Some do not suffer the sunlight, 35% of the cythriuses are not exposed to the sunlight and the UV light, allowing to be active at the light more often than night as most people sleep. A cythrius with exposure to the sunlight must wait until the sun is covered, about 8 oktas should do it.

Decaying
Without blood feeding for a long period, they decay their blood without feeding, for a few days they can possibly die before into the hibernation state which is only used for severely decayed cythriuses who have the 80% of the blood all decayed, once a cythrius in hiberation, they don't move until a prey of a cythrius nearby can smell it allows a cythrius to wake up and kill the prey and allows to refill their decayed blood and goes out and find more preys to infect.

Vocalisation
A cythrius can still have to speak but sometimes cythriuses have to moan and hiss at the prey, the prey does not hear any cythriusian voice more often as they just moan and hiss at them. Their voice is kept secret until they do not see any prey, which they speak more unless hissing for anger against one of the cythriuses or any kind, the prey hiss allows them to remove the prey's consiciousness for a short period of time and show their true sound and their superiority. While moaning helps the attraction to the cythrius horde and also towards preys.

The horde leader hiss should be more specified than the other cythriuses, while many has their own hissing dialects, from each other. Depending on their voice before their bite from a cythrius. And many has it's own unique hissing sound so they can mark their own name without talking or taking the prey and any kind, their hissing is almost all different while the time is the same to the horde leaders and also the activity. As well as the emotion and their death, their final hiss of death can be their last hiss in their life forever, some recorded its hissing to analyse the cythrius' information.

Sight
The sight is enhanced, including ones that were born short sighted. The eyes are now perfect for the night vision, as few does not modify its sight to expose the sunlight, the eye's iris becomes hyperdilated and reddish. Their eyes will be wide for the few. The eyes are also glow without the night, dark ones that are reddish.

Hearing
A cythrius can hear at over 50000 Hz. And will slowly lowers down if the fluid decays slowly. But however the hearing of a cythrius is sensitive to louder sounds. The cartilage of the ear helix may have been slowly shrinks itself, as the capacity of the hearing becomes hard for old cythriuses at over 400 years after their bite.

But I think of the cythriuses are sensitive to gunshots, air horns and any loud sounds.

Teeth
When after the transformation, a rapid growth of the canine teeth grows, which is used for feeding the prey's blood. The fluid loss can result longer teeth than the biting, but the cythrius never noticed their teeth changes yellowish because of the lack of cleaning. A small part of the cythrius teeth helps the prey's blood to be fed by a cythrius. Their teeth can be regenerated through but they will be thinner and more difficult to feed into the prey, as well a cythrius taking out their teeth and still regenerates.

Skin
Their skin is usually blue or the ethnicity depends on the colour. But their skin is always blue, fat and water loss can result to reveal their own veins. But the warm temperatures and all of the activities in that area will be appear less blue.

As the thin skin layer ones are affected first then after hours it will turn into sometime blue but white or grey if in a warmer area. The newborn cythrius is sickly yellow.

Taste
A cythrius tastes the prey's blood stronger, the cythrius takes up the blood type and the tastebuds of the cythrius is more of tasting the blood and flesh. The gums are darken to purple and the tongue is more deeper purple, their tongue also gives the sense of smell as we'll see the smell section, it's tongue can be longer than an average human tongue length. Very few cythriuses have it's tongue down for thirst.

But with the cythrius, they can eat only meat and also blood. But the human flesh gives nutrients to that cythrius to avoid its decay slowly.

The cythrius can know the prey's identity of the gender, blood type and age only, the more the cythrius drinks the prey's blood a few more, the more that he'll know his appearance and status of been a cythrius.

Smell
It's smell can be heighten after thinning the nasal, some cythriuses sniff the air like wolves while the tongue is now not known for its taste and also the smell. Their tongue can find any human blood or flesh nearby, allowing it to find it immediately, many of them used the tongue while some are limited to its nose, their tongue is longer than the average human tongue, so it's tongue is also useful for the human blood taste before biting it to drink the prey's blood.

Nails
The nails are actually long, as they are been growing longer after it's transformation. A cythrius keeps the nails about 1.5-2cm while the horde leaders are about 2-3.5cm, the heir of the horde, servants of the horde leaders can only have about 1.75-2.5cm, it takes about two to three months to grow their fingernails into their average length, while it takes three to six months for their toenails as it grows slower than its fingernails.

The horde leaders can grow their nails more longer than the average cythriuses. Waiting for them for a longer period than them, only very few horde leaders have more than 3.5cm, without cutting its own claws/nails, it can grow about 7.5-8.5cm in length in a year after the transformation.

The newborn cythriuses only has about 0.15-0.75cm in length.

The nails of the cythriuses are their own claws, usually used for nothing, including cutting the objects, prey does not include. Just only few can use their claws useful.

Hair
While the older versions of the cythrius lose their hair quickly after a few hours or so, the new version of the cythrius has hair still but a bit bloody tone from the original colour.

The bloody tone is red, human blood coloured red or any other types of red is appeared in some. Note that it covers only 5% of the hair that becomes bloody-coloured, their hair colour remains the same.

Over centuries about ten centuries or later after the cythrius bites him, the hair loses it's hair strings, as years goes by the hair loses slowly until at twelve to thirteen centuries after the cythrius bite him, the hair is lost entirely.

Feeding (The Cythriusian Prey)
Most of the cythriuses suck blood from their prey, while few prefer to eat flesh from the prey. A cythrius is a carnivore (and a bloodthirsty creature), which they can eat the flesh what they prefer to eat, but the prey remains infected after the bite and its saliva remains when the cythrius abandons their prey once their saliva is at 5mL or 20mL if a cythrius has the hyper salivation on their prey which they can turn into a cythrius more quicker and moves to another prey because a cythrius is attracted to the movement.

Their diet on cythriuses can drink blood for the whole life to replenish their blood as the heart cannot produce anything and nor the skeleton. While some eat flesh from the prey and a chance of death at 5% chance. The cythrius eats flesh to create partial fat and water, while a cythrius drinking blood can digest the blood or filling up the decayed blood as a replacement. But a cythrius drinking too much blood exceeding the limit (10 litres) can make the cythrius sick. But still they are continiously thirsty and hungry.

A cythriusian grip is usually strengthened to preys making the prey almost impossible for the escape from it, when it's done, the prey usually strengthens the grip as well the changes when they are reanimated.

But some can consume one prey by two or more making the infection more stronger to the prey and becomes a cythrius about 2 minutes to 5 hours depending the amount of the cythriuses, about ten can lead 2 minutes of transformation and 2.5 hours of the wings to grow. The cythriusian saliva can replicate the virus and leaves the prey infected and turns into a cythrius after a day.