"Speech"
[Phone/Muffled Speech/TV/Radio/Electronics/Robots]
Labels/Electronic Messages
Thoughts
Republic Of Korea (South Korea)
Somewhere
A child-like foxgirl came into image of a compact living room... just barely large enough to hold a couch... and a television set. All of the walls were painted in white, which stood out along the red carpet floor. The only two ways out of this room was a sliding window lead out of a two story drop, and a simple doorknob/lock combination...
She was 4'5, black silken shoulder-length hair,a familiar pristine white fox ears with only one white foxtail evident on her. She was dressed in a traditional hanbok consisting of silken lined yellow jeogori (blouse shirt), and her legs all the way down to her feet being entirely hidden with a vibrant purple wraparound skirt.
The young fox girl was eagerly watching finale episode of a widely popular South Korean TV Show "Secret Garden" while hugging one of the couch pillows.
It was such a simple scene... a young gumiho like her watching this TV show was purely harmless and no ill intent... except it was part of the training and the gumihos' obsession...
To blend in with the humans, to live with humans, to fall in love with humans, and ultimately... become human. Becoming physically human was a feat impossible to them despite all of legends that speak of them.
Despite this disdain, there was a practice that was zealously believed by the head mother, the young girl's grandmother, had her eyes set on indoctrinating the young gumiho... The head mother favored this girl above all else in the family believing that she will be one of the next steps to sinking in deeper to the human's world, despite the issues that the head mother's daughter who was the birth-mother decided to hinder the process greatly... This was because of something involving a liver...
As the young Gumiho was giddily anticipating the closing scene to the whole tv show itself.,
but if someone were to listen beyond the television set... you would hear something... a total one-eighty degrees turn of how the situation was unfolding...
[YOU OLD HAG! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?]
[THIS IS TRADITION , OUR RACE WILL BE ABLE TO REACH THIS STATUS OF BEING HUMAN!]
[Being human? You mean the fact, you drugged him... then you-]
Ga-yeon's little stature and innocent pillow hugging exaggerated her prospect at the coming proposal scene in this TV show.
[I LOVED HIM, I GAVE BIRTH TO HIS CHILD! I WAS EVEN READY TO GIVE UP OUR WAYS FOR HIM!]
[Each truly good natured human will be one step closer to our society being able to join the human world, you remember this since the day you were born... Don't you?]
[YOU BITCH, THIS TRAINING SHOULDN'T EVEN APPLY FOR MY DAUGHTER THEN! I DON'T WANT HER TO BECOME A BACKSTABBING DOL DAE GA RI! (Stone head/stupid person) ]
[But you should know Jiyeon, that we need this to survive, you are my daughter of course.]
[I DON'T EVEN CARE ANYMORE THEN I'll TAKE MY DAUGHTER AWAY FROM YOU DIGUSTING-]
The escalating argument between the Elder Gumiho and her daughter became too garbled to even understand anymore...
[THE MOMENT YOU DO THAT I'll DECLARE YOU EXILED FROM ALL OF OUR FAMILY IN BOTH SOUTH,NORTH KOREA, AND EVEN THE DMZ! I'll CUT ALL ACCESS TO ALL OF YOUR INCOME AND CONNECTIONS... IF YOU DARE LEAVE US, YOU WILL LEAVE US ALL THE WAY!] The elder Gumhio yelled in response.
[IF I DO, THEN DON'T YOU DARE EVEN TRY TO GET NEAR MY DAUGHTER-]
[YOUR DAUGHTER WON'T GO WITH YOU!]
…
"Hau~ They're about to kiss!" The young fox girl's anticipation was slowly building with glee.
At a moment of distraction to the little fox girl
The door busted open in the room the young gumiho was in.
The young vixen became started at the sudden appearance of her mother in a gold-trimmed purple hanbok.
She looked almost the same as Ga-yeon but really-
"Ga-yeon, lets go..." With her mother covered in light lacerations around her face and her clawed fingers slightly dripping in blood.
"Eomma! , Where are we going... is it somewhere fun? Do I get to learn more about humans?" The naive little gumiho said happily as she rarely got to see her mother.
The motherly curvier fox-girl gave a hushed sigh, and muttered... "Only for you Ga-yeon..."
"~Okay~" with a blissfull ignorance to what occurred to Ga-yeon's mother and grandmother, she skipped off of the couch and to her mother's side.
…
A darkness ensued from there.
Antonio's Room
Cruz Residence, Orange County
…
3:30AM
My eyelids slowly slipped open with the morning blur greatly obscuring my vision of my darkened room.
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
The only I could pick out of the room, was the digital clock sitting at the nightstand.
They say dreams can be interpretations of emotions... or whatever that shit means...
And I'm not quite sure how to interpret this 'dream' or why I even get this dream.
And With the morning blur slowly dissipating to accentuate my eyes in the darkness better.
Something caught my eye...
It was a dark figure moving outside the window of my household... Something about it's presence felt familiar... like something related to that dream I just experienced.
A unnerving uneasiness of discomfort filled my body as I lazed under the warm layers of my bed sheets . I choose the safer approach to everything that happened right now.
Probably my mind playing tricks on me... there can't be anything that can fuck around with my mind and that's just my mind playing tricks in the darkness.
With denial seating in... I never talked about this to anyone. Just chalk it up to stress... yeah stress lets go with that.
Liminal Embassy of Los Angeles
Downtown, LA
Waiting Room
Kyu is awfully protective of me for some reason today. I couldn't help but noticed she was scanning the whole area and taking focused occasional glances to Ga-yeon and I. Maybe it was the fact there protests outside of the embassy that we're at right now? Kyu was becoming a person that I could depend on to feel safe... Sort of.
Or maybe the "unsavory-looking" people we occasionally passed, graffiti, and homeless people, which I tried to digress to the minotaur that they're not all bad things and people... especially the homeless. Ga-yeon didn't seem to mind a single bit, in fact she even asked a pleathora of questions to my dismay.
Kyu on the other-hand must have been influenced by the sheer amount of television stereotypes.
Not like it matters for us... with me being in a god awful business casual getup with a tie... Ga-yeon being in a hanbok that looks so... familiar, and Kyu also wearing that usual leather jacket getup to give her a sense of confidence it makes it a pretty unapproachable nature.
I'm pretty sure the weird trio of a gumiho, minotaur, and a human might stave off anyone who wants to be unsavory, the female minotaur alone already does it.
At least we made it inside...
The beautiful marble tiles with the roman style columns leading up to an immense layout of a dark-stained furniture laden bank. This felt just as nostalgic of the time I lost my passport during my visit to my parent's home country, that forced me to sit out in the US embassy.
With the same lines, same numbers of people, and liminals trying to fill out applications, documents, and fumbling for other paperwork that was missing. It could be argued that this feeling was like a DMV in cross with a fancy bank because of the immigration-official booths with bulletproof glass. However, I'm still confused on how the Inter-species Program handles documentation compared to US Visa work.
From carnivore to omnivore to... photosynthetic liminals filled the seats of the embassy of every kind, ranging from student visa to work visa applicants.
Do they still have to do the lengthy interview process? This place feels also too familiar...
Suddenly the "standard" commotion kicked in.
"I SHOULD HAVE AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS, I'M AN AMERICAN JACKALOPE!" A female angered scream came from the back of the main room with following warnings coming from the in-house security team. It was a shoulder-length greyish hair, well endowed female human-hybrid between a rabbit and antelope, she was wearing a pinkish blouse with a black dress skirt.
Yup... definitely too familiar...
"Oppa... what does she mean by citizenship?"
Do I have to explain... COME ON!
Kyu's eyes turned back to Ga-yeon harshly, "It's like you've never learned anything here during your years."
The vixen looked back at Kyu in a bitter looking face then back to me with a her usual teeth-baring canine grin.
I didn't catch those gazes and Kyu's affront since I was dreading at the sheer paperwork hell that I was about to deal with, along with watching the unveiling hate-filled scene of a jackalope girl getting dragged off by two other "TALIO" liminals.
"Oppaaa, Can we also purchase some cooking utensils so I can cook some beef for Oppa's friends?" The gumiho asked with sincerity but still a questionable generous grin.
A bit random... not sure why she would ask that in addition.
"Not on this trip Ga-yeon but thats very thoughtful of you, but that jackalope means citizenship by having a right to live, work, and... pay taxes in this country."
"Does this mean I can get citizenship too~?" Eyes widening of the elegant hanbok wearing fox-girl.
Just say yes... just say yes... and she'll shut up... She hasn't shut up for the past hour with questions. I just had to explain why there was a mob of protesters in front of the embassy... it's awkward enough to say that "humans don't like you because you're a liminal". Don't get me started on the homeless.
"Yes... somehow.?"
"Yay!" the young gumiho cheered as she started to clap her hands in joy.
Apparently due to the recent abuse and misgivings that the liminals and liminal law enforcement with a disturbing bias, it has been the fuel to anti-inter-species supporters. This also sounds like fuel for another situation that LA has seen before.
That and it wasn't complete without picket signs, megaphones, yelling, and of course... some degree of law enforcement monitoring the protest, I seriously doubt it won't be that long till shit comes down.
...
Except instead of just only the infamous LAPD only on standby, there was a set of other humans equipped with riot protection body armor with the word TALIO stitched in bold white letters.
Someone must of gotten some serious top dollar to protect this embassy because to find a security company that gets access to this level of gear.
"Oppaaaaa, how much longer is this going to take?" As the yellow-purple clad hanbok wearing fox-girl whined as she hugged my arm in-between her chest.
Nothing like sitting around in the waiting seats of the embassy... between two liminals vying for your attention.
Jesus F Christ...
The minotaur in the other-hand held a similar contempt on the young fox-girl's annoyance too but for different reason.
"Wifey... make them hurry up!" Her hand nudged my shoulder in annoyance except that nudge felt more like a one-handed dislocation of my shoulder.
The intensity of these complaints was starting to garner attention from the other liminals and humans that joined us in the waiting section of the embassy.
Double Eff Christ...
"Oppa, why does she call you Wifey? She's so abusive, that's nothing like a spouse that Sang-hoom-ssi mentioned..." The cute little gumiho tilted her head in confusion as she looked at me with discontentment.
And... now we're leading to this...
"Ugh... Anton, why are you even doing this for her...you know I don't abuse you... intentionally..." Kyu uneasily answered back to me.
Eyes of liminals and humans glued onto the minotaur out of curiosity.
"Oppa, why do you even bear with this cow... all she does is hurt you." Her wording was aimed at making the Minotaur girl feel guilty and by effect, more attention of bystanders.
"Anton...D-don't listen to her please, you know I-I don't do that." Kyu eyes had a look of fear as if she was losing a battle from both.
"Oppa!" Ga-yeon ensembled a feeling of overbearing care upon me.
Come to think of it, what the hell happened earlier to make me the medium between the two?
"Look Ga-yeon, Kyu, I-"
The intercom of the embassy came around, interrupting the argument where they never addressed each-other and before I could try to cool off the situation.
[Ga-yeon and her host, please head up to counter 16A]
Okay... at least that was a scene avoided...
"Kyu... you're fine there right? I'll take care of Ga-yeon's registration now..." As I erected to a standing position from the uncomfortable seating arrangement.
"Asshole... how can I protect you from this human city and that stupid fox if you're staying away from me" The minotaur harshly murmured with a pouting in-directed look away from me.
"Something up Kyu?" I received some small notions to Kyu that something was up.
"N-no, nothing..." She entirely denied what was going on to me.
En-route back to Waiting Room
It was never just as bad as I remembered it to be... but face it... anxiety of getting approved or not for things like these are probably every immigrant's fear. Except I wasn't the one whose supposed to feel that anxiety.
The young gumiho on the other-hand, had her eyes always aimed at every random "human" related thing possible. I don't understand how do you get into the United States, without knowing about documents, passports, or even the inter-species bill.
How did Ga-yeon even get here in the first place?
A change of tone however, turned the embassy visit into a well... an evacuation.
[Hello, there is a minor security issue involving the protesters outside of the Embassy, please head over to the nearest TALIO security guard for immediate evacuation instructions]
"Oppa? What's going on?" The hanbok wearing fox-girl looked at me in confusion but not in fear as she grabbed my arm like a child.
The fox-girl and I, mostly I... were walking back to get to Kyu, who was impatiently sitting with an annoyed look on her face specifically aimed at Ga-yeon.
I was about to wave to the impatient minotaur as a way to show her I didn't forget about her as we were on our way back to the waiting room.
However, right as we were about to reach the minotaur, we were interrupted by a female TALIO guard in a black suit. This TALIO person was a female human that didn't don the riot control gear like the other TALIO humans had, something about this woman felt familiar as Ga-yeon hanbok.
"Excuse me Miss and Sir" As we were interrupted by this female TALIO in particular along with two riot-clad TALIO members standing behind her.
This woman seriously gives me some negative vibes going on.
"Yes?" Slowly as I could say out of concern.
"Please follow me... We have some questions for you two..." The female guard said with a stern alpha tone of voice.
Questions... What?
"Wait... are we being detained" My eyebrow raised in question to what was happening.
My eyes lingered beyond the TALIO guard , and back to Kyu.
The leather-clad minotaur in the waiting seats of the embassy looked back at me.
"Sir! Please cooperate, or we'll be forced to use non-lethal force."
Woah woah woah, threat of escalation shouldn't come THIS FAST. What kind of Embassy guards do that?
"Okay... okay... I'll go." As once again, my hands raised up out of fear and "surrender".
Kyu's slightly watered eyes watched as the two of us get dragged off by a group of three TALIO embassy guards.
Something feels really off... I hope Kyu catches on.
The Gumiho on the other-hand just took the moment instead to hug my shoulder ever so lovingly like usual.
Upon being led off to the side away from the main lobby and out of sight, something felt REALLY off.
Maybe because the way we weren't walking was towards an exit but instead of one of the embassy's backrooms.
"Wait, where are we really going?" My wavering voice muttered out of fear.
The female TALIO guard looked back as her intentions were unveiled and she produced canine-like smile that seemed a like Ga-yeon's.
Her lips moved , out one particular order to the other two human embassy guards following us.
"Sack'em, bbali bbali!"
Upon hearing those words and the korean caused me to jolt out of panic. The first sign of resistance that I tried, I was shown by one the two guards with a...
A knock-out punch to the face.
...
Darkness ensues from here along with faint noises of an "Oppa" in the background as the whole world turned sideways.
Liminal Embassy of Los Angeles
Somewhere...
Everything was bleary as it got... colors and shelves was all that I could see as I regained consciousness.
The first instinct was to scratch my head out of confusion, but a few certain things felt constricted.
Why am I tied up?
My eyes slowly regained more clarity to see where I really was.
Okay... uh... windex... ammonia, a janitor's bucket... an older curvier version of Ga-yeon standing in the corner of the room in a suit.
Uh... interrogation in a janitor's closet in an embassy. This isn't a spy movie is it? Wait... why do I see an older Ga-yeon.
"Oh good, you finally regained consciousness... now I get to ask some questions about you... young boy." Her sultry voice, and eyes got my male brain running off in an awkward way. From there, she started to walk towards me from the corner she sat.
Each step this lady took, her white ears and nine white tails became that of an oh-so-familiar fox girl.
Unlike Ga-yeon although, she had a brunette hair was cut into a trimmed bob-cut in contrast to Ga-yeon shoulder-length free-flowing silken black hair. Her body was similar to Ga-yeon's but there was certain signs of aging, and with a larger D cup breasts compared to Ga-yeon C-cup. Her overall appeal however was less cute and more of a seductress, as she had an air of refinement like a higher class society since she had more curves around her hips and legs.
As each of her steps finally reached me, she stood in a discomforting position in front me as I couldn't do anything in my tied up position.
Okay... male brain... please, IT IS NOT THE TIME FOR THIS SHIT.
"So it's time for questioning, Are you ready?" Her smirk was ever so seditious as it gotten with eyes that could get any man to do what they want.
If it was at this point, the gumiho race were the masters of seduction and espionage, that made succubi and shape-shifters look like hobbyists. For a gumiho to be long seeded into human society before the inter-species bill is an fearful accomplishment on it's own.
I tried to say something but my mouth was well... gagged with a cloth wrapped around my mouth, and something in my mouth under that cloth gag.
"Oh, silly me! I forgot you can't speak right now," The older gumiho softly giggled.
"Just get yourself ready though... once I take off that gag you will answer me immediately, or I'll maybe rip you open and eat your liver. If you scream or call for help, I'll go further than just your liver" She said the last part of that feeling that she'd do it for real, all in the while of a sultry voice portraying that.
"Understood? , or juguelae? (Do you want to die?)" Her head tilted and looked at me with an eyes dead set on murder.
I gave a nod, at this point... I can't do much.
"Okay~!" Her smirk went off like Ga-yeon's own smile too.
Her face came close to mine as if she were to give a kiss and started her questioning with her breathing under my neck erotically.
"First question!" Her breath tickled awkwardly, stroking the wrong parts of my brain due to sensory details.
Her hand reached the back of my head, gently fondling the mouth gag, ready to rip it off.
"What are you doing with my daughter and who do you work for?"
"Erghhh?" My mouth gag was not sufficient enough to muffle my disarray.
Out of the frying pan... into the fire with my liver.'
Coming Soon : Embassy Visit With a Gumiho Part 2 (Street/Dance Culture)
A/N: Where do I come from, and where did I go? Simple really... Finals, Overwatch, and a couple of headaches from caffeine withdrawal from finals. This chapter was in writer block hell for a bit because of all three of those factors.
That and I also may of binge watched 2 K-dramas.
Oh and I'M NOT DEAD! A new chapter will eventually appear since distractions are drowning me alive.
REVIEWS!
Bela-chan : Complete with a high vitamin A in the liver! And some vitamins in "other" places. Thanks for the review!
Hazmat Dude : Thank you for the suggestion on that part, I couldn't get the words for that quick AN part, although it's in paraphrase. That some of the korean featured in this fic is in fact pulled from K-dramas. Google Translate is kind of crap, since it doesn't capture slang phrases, the informal, formal pronouns... That and I had the horrible idea of using it in a real language course... Anyways, Thanks for the assistance and of course, the review!
Reviews are always appreciated, and I'm grateful for any review in general. Thank you everyone that has been following in any form so far.
I survived another semester of school. Have a good day!
Update 5/23/2016: Some extraneous circumstances came up lately, so I won't be likely to do much writing for a couple of weeks. Feel free to PM or anything like that if you have some thoughts about the plot/character/anything related to the story. Sorry folks.