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Item #: SCP-9252

Object Class: Apollyon

Special Containment Procedures: The area which SCP-9252 currently resides in, being 450km in diameter of the Tyrrhenian Sea, is to be routinely patrolled and closely monitored by the Foundation naval vessels. By no means are any civilians or other vessels allowed entry into the area during hours between 2:00-5:45, 9:00-15:45, and 19:00-22:45. All deep dive explorations and tests are to be authorized by high-ranking personnel. Any individuals who have seen SCP-9252 are to be transported to Site-405 for immediate administration of class A amnestics.

If, at any point, SCP-9252 entered Stage Gemma, a naval task force is to be sent out for temporary neutralization of the entity and potential rescue of survivors. If any individuals have survived the creature, they are to be transported to Site-405 and administered class A amnestics.

Description: SCP-9252 is a giant, aquatic, octopus-like entity that strongly resembles species of annelids (lumbricus terrestris), serpents, and cephalopods (enteroctopus dofleini). The entity is approximately forty (40) meters in length and sixteen (16) meters in width. It has a perfectly circular maw with three (3) sets of thirty-two (32) fangs, sizes ranging from about seventeen to twenty-five centimeters (17-25cm) long.

Additionally, SCP-9252 possesses eight (8) pairs of fifty centimeter (50cm) long fangs positioned near the oropharynx. Its body is hard and jagged, possessing the properties of stone. It is fully dark gray, with two (2) large, oval and white eyes positioned on either side of the maw.

SCP-9252's behavior depends on the time of the day-night cycle, switching between three (3) stages: Stage Alpha, Stage Beta, and Stage Gemma. The entity's primary stage is Stage Alpha, which consists of SCP-9252 being sedentary, underwater, only moving if provoked or to sustain itself. The creature sits at the bottom of the Tyrrhenian Sea, roughly 3,700 meters below the surface.

SCP-9252 enters Stage Beta during time periods of 2:00-5:45, 9:00-15:45, and 19:00-22:45. At this stage, the creature becomes mobile and will rise up to sea level. During each duration of the stage, SCP-9252 will swim in a spiral pattern at thirty-two miles per hour (32mph), starting from the close middle of the ocean and traveling outwards in an anti-clockwise motion. If SCP-9252 finds no other life forms, it will swim back in reverse order and sink down to the ocean bed.

SCP-9252 will only enter Stage Gemma when it has detected a living human or a naval vessel in its path. At this stage the entity will become acutely hostile, chasing its prey at sixty-five miles per hour (65 mph). Once it reaches ten (10) miles of its target, SCP-9252 will dive under the sea surface and disappear. In most instances, subjects who have encountered and survived this event have documented feeling sudden dread, and being in a state of complete paralysis.

Between two to five (2-5) minutes after the entity's departure, SCP-9252 will rise from the deep sea, rotating at eleven miles per hour (11mph). As a result, a large whirlpool the size of the creature's maw is created, dragging in anything in its close vicinity. Once it has noticed its prey is in the center, SCP-9252 will close its mouth and sink back below the surface to possibly ingest its sustenance. Approximately between five to ten (5-10) minutes after consumption, SCP-9252 will continue the rest of the current Stage Beta or will transition to Stage Alpha until the next period begins.