Chapter 7: Full moon rising
2 days later-
"Welp that should do it" the exchange program's chief construction advisor proclaims, two more rooms had been fashioned into Armen's house, one for Stella and one for Ariya
"Thanks pal! A little something for you're trouble!" Armen slipped him a $30 for good measure
"Much abliged friend! Have a good one! And word to the wise...you might wanna be a little careful tonight...things'll get a little wild"
"Huh? Why do you mean"
"Uh nothin! Just a little small talk!" The carpenter dodged, Armen gave him a skeptical look but chose not to think too much into it
"Alright...have a good one!" He says waving to him from the doorway
"Alright girls! How about we check out those new rooms?" Armen chipperly asks, but the expressions of the girls said differently...they looked somber almost disconsolate as they sat on the couches with disheartened and depressed looks on their faces
"Whats with the long faces? This is a cheerful situation! We have a new member and new rooms! It's almost like you guys just came back from a funeral or something..."
"Might be the case pretty soon..." Stella mumbled
Disregarding her comment Armen asks
"Ok what's going on? Seriously!"
Ember sighs and responds"it's just that tonight...is a bad night for us liminals..."
"What do you mean by.."bad night?"
"A night where we...give in to our nature as monster girls...it never usually ends well" Astraea adds
"Hmm...well I can't really say that isn't a bit unnerving...but at the same time I'm your host! It's my job is to keep you all happy and safe, and if you're gonna give in to you're instincts and possibly harm yourselves and each other, then it's my duty to keep you from doing so, you guys are my family...and I would never abandon you all over the threat of a monster going on a rampage in my house ...I'm here for you girls, and I always will be" Armen states
Armen's speech reach struck a chord in the girls, they all felt uneasy, but at the same time it rekindled the faith and undying love they all had for him...he was willing to put himself in harm's way for them...they had no words
"C'mere you silly girls!" Armen held his arms out wide, and they all dived into his embrace squeezing and nuzzling him
"Now...Stella, Ariya..what's say we go check out you're rooms?" They both ecstatically nodded
"Let's try yours first Stella!" Armen suggests, he opens the door and inside is a gothic Transylvania style room, dark greyish paint, black curtains over the window, and a coffin fashioned into a bed
"Holy shit! This is awesome! It's so beautiful!" She joyously prances around the room
"I thought you'd like it..sorta put in the request myself, figured a vampire would like gothic culture-" he is stopped when she slams her lips against his cheek for a prolonged smooch, she pulls away and beams the biggest fanged smile she could
"You're so awesome Armen, if I wasn't as sweet as I am, I would have flown off and hid you in a cave somewhere no one would ever find you, slowly but gradually smothering you with my love and my body until you're soul merged with mine..."
"That's..not disturbing at all...well then..Ariya let's see yours" she clings to Armen's arm and nods, while walking down the hall, Armen noticed that she was beginning to cling to him more, wrapping her arms around his waist
"Hey...you ok? you're being a little clingy..."
"I-Uh...im fine, i-i just like..being close to you is all..." She stutters, Armen then noticed that her face was flushed, and the wrapping of her arms around his waist had moved to his neck, she leaned into him, pushing him against a wall, just staring into his eyes with her own, unreadable, yet lustful gaze
"Uhh..A-Ariya?!"
She snaps out of her entranced state, unwinding her slender arms from around his neck
"I-I'm so sorry! I don't know what I...i-i mean I-just...heeeuuuuugh..." she groaned as she shrunk back in shame, grasping her head
"Uhh...hey, it's ok, while a little uncalled for, it's not like anything really happened, you didn't kiss me..."
"I wish I had..that way I wouldn't have to share you..." she mumbles
"What was that?"
"Nothing! nothing! I...I'm sorry..."
"Its ok, I couldn't stay mad at you..." he gives her a tight squeeze "you're too sweet..."
"Heeee, thanks..." She chirps
"My pleasure, and oh look it's you're room! What do you say we check it out?" He gestures to the unique looking European style door
"O-ok..."
Armen opens it, and is mores shocked than Ariya, it looked like the chamber of a Britannian princess, like a corridor of an English castle had been installed in his house, but the amenities were ones of a girl's charm, brightly colored cobblestone walls, her dresser, beautifully carved wood, a mirror made from pure Crystal, a canopy on her bed, and two large closets, for later use
"Whoa...this I wasn't expecting thi-gagh!" Ariya gave him an extremely tight squeeze
"It's perfect...and it's mine..." she gave Armen a tender, loving smooch on his cheek"thank you for having me, If you hadn't taken me in, I don't know what might have happened..."
"Well you're here now, that's all that matters...so I'll leave you to get comfy, I'll be downstairs with Astraea if you need me.."
He decided the stairs, thinking on which game he planned on playing with Astraea, only to find Jones once again on the couch just chatting it up with Astraea
"Oh hey bud! How goes it?!" She chirps, sipping at her coffee mug
"Do you just let yourself in or something?" He remarked sarcastically
"Hello Armen...long time no see" the raven haired bombshell greeted him
"Smith? What are you doing here?"
She and Jones looked at eachother and giggled, almost in a devious manner
"What are you two laughing about?"
Astraea stood up, visibly shaking, she then began walking away, but Armen grabbed her shoulder
"Astraea What's-" he stopped when he saw her face, it was as red as a tomato, her eyes were swirling with confusion and she was sweating up a storm, she snatched her arm away and dashed up the stairs whimpering worriedly
"What did you two tell her?!"
"Allow us to explain sweetie..." Jones offers
- - - - 3 minutes later
"MARRIAGE?!"
"That's right sweetie!" Jones chirped once more
"B-but I thought that was forbidden by interspecies exchange law!"
"True! But due to a loophole I discovered in the act after a successful test with a host 2 months prior to now , I figured out that if a homestay consents to a relationship with the host and they so choose to elope, then this particular aspect of the exchange law is nullified seeing as it isn't a violation of said anointment so neither party is seen as guilty of prohibited sexual activity and such...if that's how you and you're homestay wanna do things..." smith added, pulling her trademark tight lipped grin
"Wha..." Armen drones, slack jawed
"So Armen, who will you choose to marry?" Jones asks with a playful croon
"M-marry?! I'm only 20! How the hell am I supposed to pick someone?! We're too young to get married!"
"Well you better mature quick baby, cause this is a requirement in order for these girls to stay now, if they so choose..." Smith added
"B-but..."
Just then Ember, Stella and Ariya climber down the stairs, falling over eachother, landing in a pile of scales,wings, and multicolored hair
"MARRIAGE?!" Ember shrieks
"HOW?!" Stella cries out in the same manner
"WHY?!" Ariya squeals
"Girls, the details don't matter, all that matters is because of this recent development, marriage is now a factor of the interspecies exchange, effective immediately!" Smith chirps, completely oblivious to the looks of shock and disbelief present on they're faces, while Astraea stood atop the stairway chanting something under her breath that sounded like"...the perverted pleasure...the pleasure! the forbidden pleasure..."
"Well we'll just leave you all to contemplate this then!" Jones concluded holding the door open for Smith
"Jones wait you can't just dump something like that on us and walk off!"
"Oh, can't I? Have fun!" She croons in response
"EHHHHHHHH?!" Armen exclaims fearfully, the girls staring on shocked expressions and flushed faces
For the next few hours, Armen didn't move a singl muscle from the couch, he was slimed against it, his head swirling like a torrential storm with thoughts of separate scenarios with the girls in wedding dresses, what kinds of rings they would like and if it was even possible to have children with them...but then realized he was overreacting and went upstairs to take a quick nap to calm himself, it was then and only then when he got into his room that he saw the moon beginning to peak over the horizon, he must have been n that couch for more than three hours, and oddly he hadn't seen much of the girls, so just chocked it up to them possibly getting an early rest in.
"Hmm...it's full tonight...didn't Astraea say something about a full moon earlier this morning? Something about..."instincts"? I wonder why she meant..."
A knock was heard at his door and Armen got up to walk to the door, he opened it slowly to reveal Ember with a neutral and almost indescribable expression on her face
"H-hey...Armen..."
"Ember! Hey, what's up? You seem upset..."
"N-no...not upset just...curious.."
"About?"
"Are you ok with marrying one of us?...I mean, at all? You seemed really scared when Jones and smith brought this up to you and made you choose ...do you not like any of us that much?"
"What Ember no! No...I do like you girls, I love you girls! It's just the way they brought it to my attention made me nervous and anxious, I've never had a girlfriend let alone a wife! Plus...I'm still a virgin..."
Ember's now glowing, almost enchanting amber slitted eyes lit up with joy, and she slowly advanced on him, closing the door behind her
"I knew you'd say that! We love you too! Well...me more than them..." She huskily croons wrapper my her arms around his neck and head, pulling him into a soft embrace
"You're something special...you listen to us, you respect us, and don't discriminate against us because we're monsters, you care and try to make your everyday life mesh with ours...this caring demeanor, and that adorable smile...it's a part of you that drives me nuts~ forget those two...tonight's about you and me~"
"U-Uh Ember...ware you getting at?" Arden asked her, becoming nervous when he felt her tail slink around his legs and chest
"I love you Armen...I didn't want l to tell you before because I feared you didn't feel the same way. But I was wrong! I know you love me! And we're gonna have fun tonight now that I have you all alone...we can make babies!" She giggles, with a hint of unhinged malicious satisfaction and lust
"WHAT?!"
"They'll be so cute! The boy will look like you with those adorable green eyes and that beautiful face! And our two daughters will look like me but have a mixture of our hair colors and skin tones! That's what I'd like! Think you can do that for me baby?~"
"Ember what's gotten into you?! This ain't you!"
"You did this...it's you're own fault for making me lust for you, and now that I have you...you're never getting away, you're mind baby! All mine!...Hmm...I wonder how big you are" she said as she began growling like a panther, waltzing toward him with drool streaming down her lips, a lust filled smile and dilated slitted pupils
Armen's hand hovered above the doorknob, as Ember began drooling and letting out practical derailed giggling
"Ember I'm flattered really! But you see...while some people are cool with rape and abusive relationships...I'm not!"Armen hauled the door open and it smacked her dead in the face, he then dashed out of his room and down the hall, but ember managed to fire two large fireballs at him
That he skillfully dodged but stumbled to avoid and clamber back onto his feet, just to bump into Stella...
"Oh! My dark prince has come to me! And here I was thinking I'd have to hunt you down and stun you so we could do it, too bad, would've been more fun...but I suppose this'll work too!"
"Stella?! Oh god not you too!"
"...yes, me too...you and I were meant to be my prince...we were meant to cross the threshold of immortality and transcend through eternity as a singularity of true love, please make this journey with me my love! Let me bite you so we may be together forever!" She droned on blissfully as she interwove her fingers with his, peeing into his eyes with hers, now filled with little pink hearts
"Uh...I'm sorry stella but n-" she slams him up against a wall her eyes returning to They're usual crimson red, but sharp and piercing with murderous intent
"I'm not taking no far an answer my sweet prince, I will reanimate you if I must...you belong to me, and me alone..."
"LET GO OF MY PRECIOUS ARMEN YOU SLUTTY COW!" Ember roared as she charged Stella
"MAKE ME YOU FIRE SPITTING WHORE!" She shrieks as the two clashed palms, which produced a shockwave powerful enough to rattle the timbers of the doors and the floorboards
"Holy shizz! Gotta book!" Armen exclaims as he ducks down the hallway and sprints back off toward his room, only to be tackled by a blur and whisked off in another direction
"Ugh What annoying sluts!" An unfamiliar voice growled
"What?" Armen opens his eyes and is slack jawed at the source of the voice, it was Ariya! And lo and behold she was half naked, had her tail wrapped around his legs, and had Armen pinned against her bed
"Ariya?!-" She shushed him, moving closer to his face
"Cmon you didn't think I'd pass up an opportunity like this did you? Uhh being so shy is such a pain in the ass! I hate acting like that! But I can't help it, only on full moon nights can I be a real lamia...and the way you saved me, ohhh gods did that rile me up, that look in you're eye when you asked for my mask...that stoic, strong...caring attitude...made me wanna ravage you right then and there! But I couldn't...I had to bide my time! And this is the only time I'll get to act like this so let's get in on sweetness! Make me a woman tonight!~" She howled blissfully
"A-Ariya?!"
The door caved in on itself with massive crash, and in flew Astraea, kicking Ariya in the face sending her into her cobblestone wall, knocking her out
" Master! Please follow me!" Astraea beckons to hi, grabbing his wrist, taking off down the hallway with him toward the staircase
"A-Astraea! What the hell's going on?!"
" it's what I tried to warn you of! The full moon! It awakens our carnal instincts! It's affected our kind for as long as we can remember...we have no control over ourselves..."
"Geez if I knew this is what you meant k would have asked the remodeling crew to put chrome plating on my bedroom door! Well at least your still alright Astraea! That's all that matters..."He then started hearing low growling from behind him
"Astraea? Are you..." He turned to see her crouched downon all fours, her tail wagging behind her and her hips wriggling as if she were some predator stalking prey
"A-Astraea...easy now, easy girl! Just calm down!" He tried to reach her reason with the devolving cat bird, but it wasn't working, she was too far gone
"~MROOOWWW!~" She mewled, pouncing on him like a cat, Armen yelped is pain when his head hit the wall
"Gaowww! Hey knock it off!"
"~Maaauuuwww!~" She mewled blissfully once more
"You can't even speak anymore can you?"
She smiled down at him, exposing her tiny fangs as her cheeks began to flush pink, she pushed him down and popped herself down on his chest, ripping his shirt in two, nuzzling onto his bare chest
"Hey hey! Whoa easy!"
'Crap this ain't good! At this rate she's gonna...no! I have to get out of this!' He screamed internally
Armen did the only thing that seems plausible at the moment, he squeezed both of her breasts as hard as he could
"Aaahhhhgh~" She squeals before reeling back, he then used this to shove her off of him and bolt out of her room, but the remaining three liminals were lying in wait on the opposite end of the hall
"Hah! There he is!" Ember screamed
"Aww COME ON!" Armen bellowed before a fireball was sent hurling his way, he dashed down the hall and skipped steps downstairs, jumping the last for as he skidded to a halt and cornered on a dime headed for the downstairs bathroom, knowing full well it was the only place they wouldn't look, he ducked into the bathroom and slammed together door shut and made sure he locked it. He heaved for breath and clung to the wall as he heard the rumble of multiple footsteps charging down the stairs, the sounds of sniffing, snarling, growls and chitters frightening him the most
"~aaaaarmeeeenn Cmon out sweet stuff! Ember just wants to play~"
"~Cmon my dark prince, don't play hard to get, I'll hunt you to the ends if the earth if I have to~"
"Armen...you adorable little mammal...I'll find you sooner or later, You're scent is unmistakable~"
"Please Master...we only wish to love you...don't make us have to force you to love us back~"
Each of their continuously lust filled requests only terrified him more to think what they're do to him if they caught him, they might just as well kill him by mistake for all he knew! So he just curled up and put his head between his knees, not knowing how long he would be him here...but knowing he wouldn't come out any time soon, it was gonna be a long night...
Hours later—
Armen snorted and woke himself up, he must passed out when the girls went on a rampage last night, cause dim light shining through the slit underneath the door let him know it was morning, he crept up to the door and slowly opened it up, he looked both ways and there was no sign of the girls. Then he stood up and slowly left the bathroom, quietly walking back to the living room, just to stop and find all four girls collapsed, Astraea and Ariya on the couch, Ember and Stella on the floor.
"Whoa!" Armen was smart and so as not to wake any of them up, he quietly grabbed his coat and keys and bolted out the door
He stopped jogging when he made it to a playground and slumped down on a swing
"Holy shit! Just what happened last night?! Why were they acting like that?! Did smith or jones know anything about this and not tell me?" He contemplated, slumping over while letting out a deep sigh
"Hey! rough full moon night?" A guy with navy blue hair, dory liking chestnut brown eyes, a light green jacket with a pale blue undershirt and blue jeans that had grocery bags in his hand
"Yeah! It got pretty crazy! Some girls I know just went...nuts!"
" haha! Trust me I know! I have a few liminals myself That cause enough trouble for me on a daily!"
"You're a host?" Armen asked
"Yup! The first here in japan!"
" Wait! What you're name?"
The guy smiles warmly and responds
"...kurusu, kurusu kimihito..."