User blog comment:AnimalKirby/Gore Magala Discussion/@comment-99.67.20.85-20121110221159

I think the Dragon Virus is not so much a virus as much as a bacterium. Maybe it is extraterrestrial, and would have died quickly in the planet's atmosphere, but the Goa Magara turned out to be perfect for inhabitation, because its wings emitted a chemical that protects the bacterium from dying from nitrogen or oxygen or something, and the bacterium's comet landed in a cloud of the stuff. The Goa Magara stopped using its eyes because some mutated strains had poor eyes, but the extra space allowed the bacterium to enter its eye cavities, and started manipulating it's nervous system using its own form of maybe sonar(?) to find what was going on around the Goa Magara. This method was much better at scoping out the area than eyes, and these malformed individuals with poor eyes survived much better, and became normal. It became a symbiotic relationship, with the bacterium spreading to other monsters, a bit like rabies, and stopping cell division, killing them when the Goa Magara injured them and they couldn't heal (as the effects show, there's a comment below). Meanwhile, the chemicals emitted by the Goa Magara kept it safe inside the body. If the Goa Magara was too stressed by injuries, it's secretion glands would fail, killing the bacteria, again, present in the dragon virus's effect. This would cause a huge burst of adrenaline in the body, increasing strength (affinity, as shown by effects). When a monster, such as the infected tigrex, gets infected, but not injured once cell division has actually stopped, escapes, it becomes and infected monster. There's enough of the Goa Magara's gas in their bloodstream to keep the bacterium safe, and they take over the nervous system of the monster. They use the new body for attempted symbiosis, and the reason wyverns might more easily be affected is that they have a chemical similar to the Goa Magara's in their bloodstream, they just don't emit it. They use it to release themselves onto a new host and act as though the infected monster was the Goa Magara by releasing spurts of blood or something, just with wildly different coloration due to the huge amount of bacterium in it. These infected monsters still survive through intake of blood from other wyverns, and if they don't have any blood type system or simply have the same blood type, they can still survive. This requires hyper-aggressiveness, however.

AND DASSSS EETTTT.