Humans and yokai have co-existed with each other for millions of years, with yokai being the force giving humans their problems, their answers, their driving force for life. Only few humans have ever seen and talk to yokai, and fewer have been in an intimate relationship. And from these rare relationships comes a hanyou.
Springdale does not have many people who wake up after 6 am. The few who do are early birds who want to get to work early, people who have to take their friends home after an alcohol-filled night of partying, and college students who wake up early to cram in more information for tests and exams.
Katie Forester was the last. The morning started out normally in her dorm. She groggily got out of bed, picking up her tooth brush, and stepping over her booze filled roommate to the community bathroom.
Since it was early in the morning, no one else was freshening up for the day. Katie ambled over to the sinks and began to brush her teeth. She glanced at the mirror to look over herself. Her shoulder length curly hair was an unbrushed mess of mahogany curls. Her eyes had bags under them from late nights and early mornings of cramming.
But then, as she scanned her torso, she something quite out of the ordinary. Maybe it was the lack of coffee, maybe it was because she didn't have her glasses on, but she swore she could see a small light blue glow coming from her lower stomach.
Ok, she thought, maybe I'm just seeing things. She closed her eyes and shook her head. After a few seconds, she opened her eyes. It was still there. Katie had no idea what to do now. She thought it was the work, but soon brushed it of since she had no idea of a yokai who could do something so elaborate. Maybe she was going nuts…
The door to the bathroom creaked open on its hinges. In a panic, Katie sprinted out of the washroom and to her dorm, bumping into the other early bird. Slamming the door the dorm, not caring about her roommates discomfort of loud noises in one of her hangovers, Katie walked over to a certain ghost, who was floating in the air besides the shared nightstand. She then gently shook him so he would wake up. Needless to say, he didn't.
Frustrated in such a mysterious situation, Katie gave a much more forceful shake, which did wake up the ghost.
"Auuugghh, I'm awake, I'm awake!" he screamed while flailing through the air.
After hearing a response, Katie put down the terrified, angry, and dizzy ghost. The rapturous scene seemed to have woken up another phantasmagorical guest, a red cat with a split tail and Choco Bar wrappers under and around his plump body.
"Nyyyaaah, good morning Kat- uuuummm, am I missing something?" the ectoplasmic feline questioned to his friends.
"I'll tell you what," replied the white as a sheet ghost in a huff "SOMEBODY decided to wake me up by swinging me around like a sack of potatoes."
"Look, I really apologize Whisper, but some weird stuff id going on and I need your help. Look."
Katie wrapped her hands under the bottom of the black tank top and pull the cloth up to the bottom of her breasts, giving a full and clearer view of the mysterious glow on her lower abdomen. Whisper's eyes squinted in confusion of this situation and the red cat just look dumbfounded.
"This… certainly is an interesting situation. But nothing like a little research can help. If we can find any…" Whisper said breaking the awkward silence.
"Katie, did you eat a glowstick?" the cat curiously asked.
"Jibanyan, how did that thought even pass through your brain and to your lips?" Whisper snapped back.
"Hey, nyah callin' me a dummy!?" Said the cat Jibanyan, now up in paws. The unconscious roommate stirred from the commotion caused from their friend trying to break up the fight between two ethereal beings.
"Guys, there is still a little problem here" Katie interrupted pointing to her still glowing stomach.
"Ok, ok, I'm sorry for lashing out, but let's stop dilly-dallying and find some clues to this phenomenon. Um, why don't we take a closer look?"
Katie let out a sigh and laid down on her bed and straightened her body in an erect position, making it easier for Whisper to check the oddity in the abdomen.
When taking a closer look, the glowing orb seemed a little more… animal-like. The body was turquoise like the light, and had what seemed like a tail four little limb, and two dark indentations for the eyes.
Whisper, once seeing the actual cause of the light, was taken aback by the tiny being. He should known what this was in the first place, the signs were all there! Then again, these children were very rare so there was few documentations. But even with little evidence, it would make a much more sense than anything else.
"So, what is happening with me?" Katie questioned after about a minute. It was almost 7 am, and no work had been done. She thought it was a yokai thing that could be finished in a little amount of time, and her collage life could go on without a hitch.
But she was not prepared for the next thing Whisper said.
"Katie, you seem to be pregnant. With a yokai's child.
Welp, that was a pain in the ass to write…
Hey readers, author here! I just wanna tell you that this is my first story that I've ever written, so please give me a lot of criticism. I want my writing to become better.
As you could tell, this is not the best, and I may rewrite this. But hey, better than nothing, right?