The Night Beasts

**Nocteiumentis nocteiumentis** (commonly known as **Night Beasts**) are a nocturnal species under the genus Nocteiumentis. This species first evolved approximately 333,000 years ago, around the time that Omnisterra first formed. They can grow up to 7 feet tall naturally, but after all the mixed breeding, selective breeding, and genetic engineering, they can grow to be up to 9 feet tall. The females are slightly bigger than the males, less bulky, slightly taller, and more slender with longer legs than males. Because they are less bulky than the males, they can typically run faster, with the females reaching an average of 40 miles per hour at maximum speed, while the males can only run 30 miles an hour. They usually hunt in packs of ten, typically five males, five females, but some packs can vary. They are highly intelligent, with intelligence smarter than dolphins, but not as smart as humans. Like humans and whales, they have their own languages, and different packs can speak different languages from each other, though these languages are not as advanced as those of humans. They use their intelligence and their language skills to plan coordinate attacks to catch their prey and hunt using echolocation. Their whisacles are very long, especially when compared to most other Septempollicems, and can be used in a similar manner to arms. This allows them to throw rocks and primitive spears, though they cannot throw these "spears" very well. This grabbing arm ability is primarily used to grab chunks of meat from their prey, as they only have two legs and thus it is more difficult to maintain balance. The average lifespan before hybridization was 70 years, and after hybridization, it is 100 years.

## Hybridization

Just like humans, the first 1000 years after it evolved, it started to migrate out of its point of origin, just like humans did, and 333 years after that, they began to mix breed with the other species of its genus, like humans they are the only species left in their entire genus and for similar reasons, just like how homo sapiens mix bread with Neanderthals and Denisovan until they were no more, Nocteiumentis nocteiumentis did the same thing, but more then humans did, humans only mix bread two other species out of existence, every other human species was either directly killed by homo sapiens, or died from some other natural causes, The Night Beasts mix bread with every other species in the genus until there were only one super hybrid species left, when colonist discovered this species, they discovered two populations, the major population which has the Super hybrid, and the minor population which had the original species would know hybridization, just like how some populations in Africa only have Homosapien in them, but this minor population was decreasing when humans got there, and within the first hundred years that population was gone, and only the super hybrid remained. There were also multiple races of them, just like humans, but now there's only one, once again due to makes breeding, this race is called the master-race. Upon discovery, it was made very apparent that these creatures are dangerous, so for the first few hundred years humans tried to avoid them, but once humans and night Beast got used to each other, the first attempts at domestication began. Upon domestication, two breeds were made, one was bred naturally through selective breeding, and the other one was G.M.O.ed. The first breed, the one that was naturally bred, was bred like a chicken for its eggs, meaning just like a chicken it is on its menstrual cycle every day of the month, except for Wednesdays, this makes them more irritable and easy to anger, making them a lot more dangerous than their wild counterparts, the other breed, the one that was G.M.O.ed was made to be a weapon, they made its three electrical organs even bigger, giving it an even stronger voltage. going from 8,000 volts or 10,000 volts to 11,000 volts or 12,000 volts of electricity. even though they have the strongest electrical abilities they mostly use their teeth and killing Claus to take down prey, and only use the electric ability if the prey won't stop struggling, they rarely use their electric ability because if they use it too often it would kill them, and it hurts them every time they use it, they will also use it if they feel threatened, but once again only as a last resort. Some of these breeds escaped into the wild, mixed breeding with the wild population, and after human society fell on Hume III, the rest of them ended up all mixed breeding until there was only one perfect night-beast left. Called The Perfected Night-Beasts!

## Anatomy

Because they are apart of the Order Peponin they have a special organ called a melon in their head, use for echolocation, this big organ takes up a lot of Headroom. They have external ear holes. Their whisacles are really long, and are light gray in color, and can be used as arms to grab ahold of prey, and administer the deadly shock. Their mouth has a tongue, and it's filled with many razor-sharp teeth, a night beast's normal bite force is around 400 pounds. If it is protecting itself, a large night beast can bite down with over 1,200 pounds of pressure, Large night beasts are very strong. They have completely lost their eyes. Their body only possesses two legs, with each foot having only two toes on the end, they appear to have lost both the front pair of legs. and the back pair of legs, leaving only the middle pair of legs, in the male's the legs are a little bit shorter, thicker, more muscular, and bulky, while the females have longer legs, that are more slender, thinner, and less bulky, at the end of each toe, there is a large killing claw meant to help carve open Pray. They do not possess a tail. They have the internal organs you would expect, heart, lungs, intestines, all that good stuff, the only really notable thing is the fact that the three special organs that most Septempollicems have are really enlarged here, the largest of any Septempollicem, this allows them to have the greatest electric abilities of any Septempollicem, being able to generate 8,000 volts to 10,000 volts, more then any other Septempollicem. Their skin is thick, rough, and waterproof, but no scales, no fur, no feathers, no skin covering of any kind, the only skin color they have nowadays is a mix of dark gray and black, but they used to come in so many more colors, they used to come in black, dark gray, gray, light gray, white, brown, pink, Cyan, blue, green, blue-green, red, purple, orange, yellow, and even Caucasian human skin tone, which was weird, but due to mix breeding the only color they come in now is dark gray and black.

Habitat

Their point of origin is South Primaterra, they first emerged in the intermediate areas between the grasslands and the forest, but just like humans on Earth, they were extremely adaptable, able to migrate to other areas, so now they are found in just about every biome, except Tundras because unlike humans the night beasts can't make clothes, so they cannot handle too cold of an area.

## Diet

They are mostly carnivorous, with 98% of their diet being meat, 1% being plant, and the last one percent being other, when they are younger, they eat a lot of hume bugs, and whatever meet their parents give them, as well as a few plants here and there, such as grass or berries, but once they are old enough to hunt they only occasionally eat hume bugs, and they mostly eat whatever is in their area that's not poisonous, if they can kill it they can eat it. they've also been seen eating some Hume mushrooms, but the research shows that this is not for nutritional purposes, just like humans and a few other animals, they eat these mushrooms to experience a form of high.

## Breeding

Their breeding habits differ from before and after the hybridization, I'm only going to talk about the original species mating habits, I'll save the other one's mating habits for its own page. The subspecies Nocteiumentis nocteiumentis nocteiumentis mating habits went a little something like this, once they reach sexual maturity at the age of 13 in human years, their parents encourage them to leave the pack and go form their own pack, once they form their own pack of usually five males and five females, they will pick a partner and they will mate for life, a rarity in the animal kingdom, mating season occurs in early spring and ends in early summer. When it is time to mate the male and female will Press their cloacas against each other, this species does not have a penis, after mating the female will lay her eggs and keep watch over them until they hatch, once they hatch, it's not just the mother and father who help take care of them, the whole pack does, when they get old enough they will be taught how to hunt, and once they are ready to leave the nest they are promptly kicked out, and the cycle continues.

## Adaptations

Their biggest and most notable adaptation is that their main organ, Hunter's organ, and Sachs' organ have been greatly enlarged to be able to generate the highest amount of electricity of all the Septempollicems, they can generate up to 8,000 volts to 10,000 volts, but in order to add somewhere, you have to subtract from somewhere, so in order to get these massive organs, they've had to sacrifice a lot, four legs, all but two toes, their eyes, their tails, their penises, and the size of the melon, because of their reduced melon size, they are not the best Echolocators on the planet, their echolocation is average. Their next biggest adaptation is their extremely long Prehensile whisacles, not only do they give the exact same Advantage as an elephant trunk, acting as arms, due to how long they are they also increase the night beast's sense of smell, they have the greatest sense of smell of any Septempollicems, with their sense of smell being as good as a great white shark. And their last adaptation is their high intelligence, and their language skills, these two traits, as well as the fact that they hunt in packs basically makes them the land Orca of Hume III.

Threats

Before humans came to Hume III, the only thing they really had to worry about is if an Ice Age hit, other than that these things had no threats once they reach maturity, when they're young they are vulnerable like any animal, but with the protection of their parents it's safe to say that they're fine, but now the only thing that threatens them are humans, but at the same time they're threatening the humans right back, so it's basically a stalemate.

Additional Information

Discovery: About one Hume III month after colonist arrived on Hume III, a team of researchers and explorers went off into the jungle to see beautiful sights and document new species, one of them had a camera on their person and was live broadcasting with it. One night the team heard strange noises, one member of the team went to go investigate, after they heard his blood-curdling scream the entire team started to run back, but they were a few days away from civilization. Over the next few days the team started to be picked off one by one, until eventually there was one left, the camera guy, and as he was making his way out of the woods, he heard running footsteps behind him, he turned around just in time for the camera to finally catch what has been chasing them for a few days, the monster jumps towards the camera with its mouth wide open, and then just cuts off, his body was discovered a few days later, the autopsy report shows that his body had received 10,000 volts of electricity.

Name of the person who discovered it: Jonathan Sebastian (R.I.P.)

Jokes: It is "shocking" how tall they get.

Intelligents Level: near human intelligents.

Can you eat it or no?: No, because it tastes like shit.

Assessment: It is the most dangerous creature on the planet and should be avoided at all costs. If you hear them don't run that will create noise try to quietly get out of that area, if you see them it's probably already too late, but just in case you don't see them, and only hear them, and you happen to be near some mud or body of water, here's what you should do, lose your scent by covering yourself in mud, bury yourself in it if you have to, and remain perfectly still, so their echolocation can't detect you, and remain quiet so they can't hear you until they move on, you can also try swimming away because they aren't very good swimmers, or climb up a tree they're not very good climbers.

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Phylum: Xenochordata

Subphylum: Psariaskoulikion

Class: Ostikiepithymia

Clade: Idiotamcaptionemviventem

Clade: Ilektrikapodia

Clade: Septempollicemia

Superclass: Septempollicem

Class: Ypsilistasia

Order: Peponin

Family: Nocteiumentidae

Genus: Nocteiumentis

Species: Nocteiumentis

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**Subspecies under Nocteiumentis nocteiumentis**

Subspecies: Nocteiumentis nocteiumentis nocteiumentis

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**Races under Nocteiumentis nocteiumentis**

Race: The Master-race

Race: †black

Race: †dark gray

Race: †gray

Race: †light gray

Race: †white

Race: †brown

Race: †pink

Race: †Cyan

Race: †blue

Race: †green

Race: †blue-green

Race: †red

Race: †purple

Race: †orange

Race: †yellow

Race: †Caucasian

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