bone hydra

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Apparently there is a video game with a boss named bone hydra, this is hearsay, a travesty, copyright infringement on my fine intellectual (because this is a very smart scp mhm yes) property.

Thank you DrAkimoto, Nerdibbles, gee0765, for looking at bone hydra a million years ago, and others, others, others, and others, for looking at bone hydra now.

there is no joke. give bone hydra your skeleton.

Image: sk — CC BY 2.5

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Item#: XXXX

Level3

Containment Class:

euclid

Secondary Class:

{$secondary-class}

Disruption Class:

keneq

Risk Class:

danger

link to memo

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Several skeletons on their return to SCP-XXXX during its initial discovery, descending from the ceiling of a nearby courthouse.

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be contained in a large-sized containment chamber entirely padded with durable cushioning material to prevent self-decapitation. In the event SCP-XXXX loses one or more of its heads, the respective amount of D-Class personnel are to be sent into the containment chamber.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a large sentient entity composed of approximately 300 complete human skeletons. SCP-XXXX vaguely resembles a winged dragon with twelve bicorn heads. Individual bones are suspended in place, with removal requiring extreme force. SCP-XXXX as a whole is relatively docile, only becoming aggressive when otherwise provoked.

If SCP-XXXX has one or more of its heads completely removed, the skeletons present in the removed head(s) will gain individual sentience. The skeletons will stand upright and run towards nearby adult persons whilst vocalizing loudly.

Once skeletons originating from SCP-XXXX have made contact with a human subject, they will place both of their hands in the subject's mouth, grabbing onto their teeth. The skeletons will then effortlessly pull the subject's entire skeleton out of their body through their mouth. This skeleton will then similarly gain sentience and assist SCP-XXXX originating skeletons in the removal of other skeletons.

After a varying¹ amount of skeletons have been removed, all skeletons will return to SCP-XXXX's body, arranging themselves into twice as many heads than were previously removed.

Addendum XXXX-1 — Discovery: SCP-XXXX was discovered at the birthday party of eight year old Blake Mellows. SCP-XXXX arrived in a large crate as a gift for Mellows, ordered by his parents Marvin and Claire Mellows from an unknown source. It was stowed in the garage before gift-giving took place, and upon opening the garage door, SCP-XXXX broke out of the crate and moved onto the driveway; at the time of discovery, it only has two heads. While many partygoers promptly began to call emergency services and animal control, Mellows was elated by the gifting of SCP-XXXX. Foundation agents are alerted by the multiple emergency service calls and depart for the location.

SCP-XXXX then violently broke one of its heads against the concrete, eventually resulting in its separation. The skeletons from the separated head immediately became upright, arranged themselves in a line formation across the driveway, and performed a ten minute long dance routine. Local authorities arrive at this time and engage with the body of SCP-XXXX, which lunges forward with its remaining head and incapacitates most of the combatants.

Once the dance routine was completed, the skeletons dispersed and began removing skeletons from nearby civilians. They appear to avoid any children, instead performing short dances for them before continuing their search. Foundation agents arrive at the scene and engage with the body of SCP-XXXX, but by the time of their arrival, all skeletons have already returned to SCP-XXXX and arranged themselves into two more heads. Agents are eventually able to entice SCP-XXXX into a containment vehicle using a bone that has been removed from its mass. Despite of the incorporation of both of Mellow's parents into SCP-XXXX, he remains elated by the experience.

Advanced hypnosis measures are applied to any surviving witnesses, and after an investigation of SCP-XXXX's discovery location, the premises is detonated to allow for the cover-up story of a deadly gas explosion.

Addendum XXXX-2 — Further Investigation of Origins: The mobile phone of Claire Bellows has multiple phone calls to an unknown number. Records of these phone calls appear to have been deleted, and attempts to call this number only lead to the following voice mail:

Sorry dragon business venture is no more. No material no more dragon, refund not accepted-ed. Bye-bye.

A personal computer of C. Bellows also contained various searches to a website named "epicdragondotcom.███". This website has since been deleted, and no archives are available.

When testing the identity of each skeleton in SCP-XXXX, one skeleton comprising SCP-XXXX was notably found to be genetically identical to D-4573.

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tags: scp euclid skeletal sentient hive-mind hostile mobile dado _image

Footnotes

1. The exact number becomes larger as more heads are removed.