LOG 1-175

Nothing built can last forever. Every legend, no matter how great, fades with time. Each year, more and more details are lost to time and age, until all that remains are myths- half truths.

To put it simply, lies.

And yet, in all the known universe, from this timeless place to the distant and chaotic Far Lands, from a now-lifeless sprawling desert that was Crown Mesa to a place in the clouds where the sky is literally the limit in Sky City, from a world filled with murder and mystery and zombies to one filled with the most difficult but most amazing games, the legend of what is known to all as the New- or the Hybrid- ORDER OF THE STONE endures, unabridged, as self-evident fact.

Indeed, it is only troubled worlds that have need for heroes, and we're lucky to have, not all that long ago, FIVE heroes such as these.

PETRA the Blaze hybrid, whose quick blade and even quicker flames were the fiery end to many a battle, even if these flames were occasionally the thing that sparked said battle.

OLIVIA the Enderman hybrid, an amazing redstone engineer that was also a creature of the End, where the mysterious creature known as the Ender Dragon used to dwell, so very long ago.

AXEL the Creeper hybrid, whose explosive nature and creativity benefited us all, and whose destructive tendencies managed to create and bend and break the laws of what should be possible and not.

LUKAS the Ocelot hybrid, whose sharp mind and claws took them to great lengths, and whose loyalty and kindess never wavered, even in the most dire of situations.

And JESSE the Spider hybrid, who was always willing to lend her six hands to anyone in need, an amazing multitasker and friend, and leader of the Hybrid Order of the Stone.

The road that these five friends have followed has been created by others that came before them. The original Order of the Stone, the Old Builders, the Bureau of Amalgamology. So many new friends have been made in these many worlds that they've traversed. New friends, new enemies, new allies, old friends, deaths and rebirths, memories that have been lost, and found, and rediscovered, and recovered.

Their greatest quests have been recorded and stored, in a book that remains in the Order of the Stone's treasure room, a file on a computer in the Bureau of Amalgamology, a distant file on a former scientist's computer, in one of who is known as the 'Author's' computers, and their story will be passed down and retold and passed down again through generations. So many enemies have been defeated, and so many more have been made a friend.

These FIVE friends have given so much to be remembered as FIVE heroes, and have proved that what Gabriel the Warrior once said, not so long ago, is true.

Anyone can be a hero.

Even a hybrid.

This has been completed. The book has been closed.

Their story has ended.

LOG 2-1

Once a story is complete, it can never be reopened.

It's over. No matter how hard you try, even the most powerful Author can do no more but add to it, write more. They can never go back and change the story, for better or worse. No matter how many times you try, how hard you attempt, how desperately you desire it to change, the story can never be reopened. You would have to break the laws of reality itself in order to change it.

Theoretically, if a story was reopened, we would have to continue it until there came a time when we could close it once again.

But you would be unable to do so.

Once a story is reopened, there is almost no way to close it again. A reopened story is trapped in a vicious loop, of closing, reopening, closing again, and reopening again- over and over. The story would go on forever, and ever, and ever, and because every story has an ending- how else would new stories be made?-With no new stories, the natural order would be corrupted, and eventually the story would wipe out the universe itself.

That is why stories cannot be reopened, and that is why you would have to change reality itself in order to reopen a story.

But what if there was a being in which breaking the very laws of reality, bending and breaking and changing, is child's play?

What if that being was powerful enough to reopen this story, a story that should never be reopened after its completion? A story that CANNOT be reopened after completion?

Of course, you would think that such a feat is impossible. And a few months ago, I would have believed the same thing.

There is a children's story that many children in this land hear at night. It's a tale that is told to frighten small children into behavior, the story of a being with glowing white eyes. This being is the general of monsters, leading them to do things and perform strange acts. This being is known as a 'Great and Powerful One' by worshippers of this being with glowing eyes. And, he can change the very laws of reality to do whatever he pleases.

What if I told you that this children's story, this myth...

Is real?

What if I told you he is a very much real threat to the very universe itself?

And what if I told you that this children's story can change the laws of reality, the reality that our fearless Hybrid Order of the Stone live in?

And what if I told you that in changing the laws of reality, he has reopened a story that was never meant to be reopened?

My friend, if we are going to have any hope of closing a reopened story, if we're to have any hope in breaking this vicious loop, we are going to have to fight a myth with another myth. A story with a story.

And, we are going to have to RECODE REALITY.

A/N: So... yes.

This is the REAL sequel to Hybrid.

I hope you all enjoy.

x.X. A.L. X.x