The Wilderness

Eventually, many of the Dusk Creatures grew either intelligent or powerful enough where their non-changing environments could no longer support them and their rapid constant growth because there was no constant rapid growth always occurring around them in order to sustain them. Therefore, these Dusk Creatures broke out of the lab and went back out into the Wilderness of the Spectral Dusk, integrating back into the ecosystem naturally as their bodies would allow or disallow. As any living creature would, they searched only for places hospitable and supportive to their newly taken on life that is something completely different from whatever it once was before. The current environment no longer supported them as they were -- they had evolved, as the creatures on the Veritas did in their time. Yet, this exponential evolution was something that extended far beyond what the current state of the environment could handle. They branched out all over the continent, searching for a place they could live. They would either adapt to the environment and make a habitat or die off and never be seen nor heard from as a creature or species again due to being the only of its kind in every instance. There would be none other like them, yet somehow they were completely disposable, as some creatures in natural life cycles were in order to sustain the progression of the generation. Their only goal now was to survive in the Dusk.

Boss: One was great and powerful and symbiotically absorbed everything in as itself. Whatever it touched, it was that, too. - Symbiote

The mutating Dusk Creatures were exposed to the natural habitat of the Dusk and its elements adapted to the hazardous elements either through degeneration and decay or absorption and immunity. Some would have adverse effects by counteracting the chemicals and others would become like the chemicals of the elements and synchronize with them so that they were virtually the same and thereby ineffective as a hazard and toxin to whatever was like itself and the chemicals that were bonded to it. Once this occurred, the Dusk Creatures became part of the environment and its natural habitat, establishing this environment as their own. They bonded to it and would live in this environment as normal creatures would. They stopped evolving at a high speed and suddenly settled to a point of stability, and each creature remained what it was. Life went on.

The Dusk Creatures that were already constant and did not change, however, were left untouched and unchanged for so long, they became lifeless and atrophied. Nothing ate. Nothing changed. All remained constant from life until death -- completely terminal. One would look on and find a cluster of dead animals that stopped evolving at whatever point in time evolution stopped functioning for them and they became still life, like a stillborn child, littered in random places of the continent. There their bodies remained to either be decomposed, devoured or completely erased.

Elsewhere, there was exposure to the elements of nature that, combined with the elements already part of them, caused the Dusk Creatures to mutate in a different way because of the exposure to both elements at the same time. These Dusk Creatures adapted their senses to a heightened degree that allowed them awareness of things beyond themselves and their enclosed environment in whatever habitat they settled in. These Dusk Creatures, who were wise, could tell from the accumulative heightened sensory perception that there were changes going on outside of their own location that also affected their location. In a type of paranoia, these Dusk Creatures became more fearful and cautious of everyone and everything. Their eyes grew wide and their ears became more perceptive. They were jumpy and swift, becoming as flexible as possible in order to escape if necessary.

Collectively, the Dusk Creatures all grew more intelligence and tame. Growing a sense of awareness, they each learned naturally about what was occurring and what was within their grasp. They began to study the Veritas and test things on their own both on themselves and other things based on the height of their curiosity and measurement of their intellect. Experimentation with their own evolution began to occur by this point. Instead of becoming compulsive and easily startled due to a sense of fear, like the other Dusk Creatures that had yet to be developed in the same manner, these Dusk Creatures settled down and became more comfortable with their respective areas. They considered the laboratory their home and became accustomed to its resources, as well as each of the habitation components. They grew with the Veritas as part of the Veritas and helped the Veritas to grow further after the integration. Soon it became commonplace, and the Dusk's life grew in population and prosperity in the Wilderness all over Midna, the Spectral Dusk.

Some Dusk Creatures were reacting unstably to the environment and each other. All of the 'Variable's caused natural reactions that were chaotic and insecure, which threatened the safety and stability of how long the area would remain supportive of the unstable reactions. These Dusk Creatures began to rapidly mutate, searching for a stable form that would allow them to survive in the land. These Dusk Creatures went on roaming the Wilderness of Midna until they found their place in the Spectral Dusk at all, repeating the process of their predecessors until they either befell one of the other fates or yielded another destination for their growth. Some may have been hostile or hazardous, but any type of hazard to the Veritas would automatically be neutralized by the Veritas once it was considered such, making all of the potentially hazardous things within the Veritas ultimately only so to something else, and not actually the Veritas, at all.