CH 1
The little blue fairy had given Kumiko a tough time, sending her off to different places when Kumiko didn't want to go. To help her daughter, Kurumu got help from Mariko and Jade Kurama, and surprisingly, from Tsukumoka, Yukari's daughter. She was now a young teenager and just as intelligent as Yukari had been.
Tsukumoka determined that the anti-magic glyph that had been burned into Kumiko's right shoulder blade did stop any magic from acting on Kumiko directly, but she was still affected by magic in the area. That was why when Kumiko disappeared, she always fell down through a portal. The fairy put a portal under Kumiko, then gravity helped her down through it and into whatever place that fairy sent her.
Knowing this, Mariko designed a set of shoes for Kumiko to wear what were not affected by magic. She then made a portal on the floor, only into the next room, and had Kumiko walk across it. Kumiko walked right over the portal. It collapsed and didn't take her anywhere.
The only drawback was Kumiko was safe from magic portals only when she had her shoes on, or wore her collar with her leash. Kumiko was rather liking her collar and leash, especially when Frank or Liz was holding her leash. That did get the little blue Fairy upset she could no longer whisk Kumiko where she wanted her, so the Fairy picked another Succubus to pull into service.
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Kurumu is a popular singer, she had learned to impress images into people's minds when she 'lightly' Charmed them during her songs, making her extremely popular. There is no language barrier to these images or the meanings to these songs. Kurumu could also perform some magic on stage to delight the audiences.
Flying home with her arms full of groceries, Kurumu thought it was just another day. Suddenly in a flash of light she found herself inside some place and flying at a metal wall. She screamed and tried to stop, but slammed into the wall.
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On the Battle Star Galactica, mechanics in the hanger bay look up when they hear a woman scream above them. They looked up to see a winged woman with blue hair turn vertical and slam into the back wall, the bags she was carrying fly out to the sides and the contents spread out to fall and she did. The now limp woman does a slow flip on the way to the floor and landed on her face to bounce a bit.
Everyone stared.
"What the Hades was that?" Cally asks weakly.
Her voice broke Chief Tyrol's stare. Chief Tyrol gathers his wits and said, "I don't know, but she has to be hurt," he yelled out, "Get medics down here!" He jogged towards the prone … woman?
Hurrying to the crash site, he and others come closer to stand in a ring around the KO'd woman, He gaped at her. The woman has long blue hair, large bat wings coming out of her back from the open back of her purple top. A long thin tail protruded out from her gray skirt. The fingernails on her hands were longer than her fingers! He'd never seen anything like this before.
Staring at the strange sight as well as the cans, vegetables and loaves of bread and other supplies all over the place, he heard people around him whispering. Still shocked, he brought himself to move over to kneel down beside her, taking care not to step on her wings, and check for a pulse. He felt her pulse and announced, "She's alive."
"But, what the Hades is she?" a deck hand asked from behind him.
"Where did she come from?" another voice asked in a weaker tone.
"We need a medic here!" Chief Tyrol reminded them loudly. He wanted to turn her over, but with those long wings, he didn't dare try to move her, fearing to cause more wounds to her.
The call went out that 'someone' flew into a wall in the port hanger deck. The lead med Tech asked for clarification, who it was and what made them fly into a wall. By the description of a ' very odd looking unknown person' hitting the wall high up at a 'fast speed' and fell to the floor, he called CIC to let them know it might be a cylon. CIC informed the Admiral and sent marines down to the hanger bay also.
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"OOUUCH!" Kurumu groaned out as she woke up with a pounding headache. She retracted her nails, wings and curled her tail up to wrap it around her thigh. Cupping her head with both hands, she curled up. Hearing voices and feet shuffle all around her, she groaned as she moved to sit up, one hand still on the knot on her forehead, which really hurt.
"Huh?" she asked, seeing a bunch of people all around her, moving back a bit when she looked at them. They all wore types of jump suits, but different solid colors. Except for the ones in military uniforms who held guns not quite pointed at her. Every one was staring at her. Grimacing from the pain, she weakly asked, "Where am I?"
A woman wearing a white uniform with red bands on the arms came closer slowly. Squatting down in front of her, the woman pointed to her head and said something. Kurumu didn't understand any of it. She took her hand off the knot now sticking out of her forehead and touched it. "Ouch," she whined.
The woman nodded. With shaky hands, she opened the white kit she had and said something in a soft tone. She took out a cloth and wiped Kurumu's forehead, then her nose, which stung a bit.
Kurumu winced. Great, she busted her nose too! This was NOT a good day. She looked to the sides, her groceries were everywhere! Seeing a ripped bag she drew it to her and frowned. She also saw a man pick a can up and look at it. "Mine," she said and pointed to the can.
He looked at her and showed it to the soldier nearby. The soldier took the can. She also noticed others were picking up her scattered things and inspecting them.
"I just bought those, can I have them back?" she asked. Thinking they were collecting them for her, she did a simple mend on the bag and held the bag up. The woman in white held her hands and helped her stand up, asking something.
Not understanding anything, Kurumu pulled the woman a little closer and brought her tail out to slap on the woman's forehead. Not understanding words, Kurumu wanted to read her thoughts.
The woman saw her tail coming screamed and backed up. This made all the soldiers in the group to bring their guns up and aim at her.
"What did I do?" Kurumu asked in a whine.
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Starbuck arrived to see guns being aimed at the woman by the wall with the odd hair color, who was obviously unarmed. "Guns down!" she barked. She then saw the odd woman had a long thin tail with a spaded end swishing behind her. "What the frack?" she asked.
Chief Tyrol offered, "She somehow flew in here, fast like and rammed into the wall up there, and fell. Never seen nothing like her before."
"She flew? In what?" Starbuck asked.
"She's got wings," he explained. "Somehow, she retraced them."
Starbuck looked at the knot on the woman's forehead, then asked him, "Did you hit your head too?"
"No, we all saw it!" he told her. "She had bags of food, they spilled all over the place when she fell."
"Here's one of the cans she had," A sargent said, giving it to her.
Starbuck took the can. The writing on it was illegible, the picture showed some kind of red vegetable. On the top was what looked like a price, but again, she couldn't make out the writing. "She got this from a store. It's not from ship's stores. How did she get on board?"
"No idea," Chief Tyrol said firmly.
Starbuck moved closer to the woman. Seeing one of the marines still had his rifle up, she barked, "I said GUNS DOWN!"
He reluctantly did so.
Walking closer, she help up the can and asked, "Where did you get this?"
The woman motioned to her head, then Starbucks. Her tail came up to the side. She pointed to Starbucks forehead.
OK, so the woman couldn't speak? Starbuck nodded. The spade end came over and slapped on her forehead. Starbuck thought about her question, and she got a very powerful vision, and suddenly she knew everything.
Kurumu was in the store, pushing a cart and shopping. She picked out the tomato sauce cans and put them in the cart, then went on to the bread isle. There she met a woman who had the fur, ears and partial face like a fox and they talked about the upcoming concert Kurumu and her band was giving in town. Fox woman promised to be there. Continuing shopping with Kurumu, Kara saw more weirdness. A pair of teenagers ran to her. The girl looked human, the boy almost human but his hair kind of looked like animal hair, a mix of light and dark brown. She talked with them and they eagerly asked her to sign pictures they had of Kurumu up on stage. Kurumu did, and made them promise to be 'good little monsters'. They left happy.
Going to the checkout counter, a human girl greeted her happily and also talked about the coming concert with a blush. Everyone, humans and no-so humans greeted her with smiles on their faces on her way out. Outside, Kurumu climbed a few steps that went nowhere and vaulted into the air. She flew over the city and waved to a flying machine going by. In the glass cockpit, the pilots waved back. Kurumu flew along until suddenly the scene changed to the hanger deck she was flying in. She tried to stop and ran into the wall.
Starbuck blinked and recoiled slightly. She then began to go through her own memories of the Cylon war, the escape and the battles she'd fought and the things she did right up to the present time.
Kurumu gasped, took on a sad look and hugged Starbuck.
"Holy FRACK!" Starbuck said in a gasp. She returned the hug of condolence.
"Starbuck you OK?" a marine asked.
"Fine," She said and turned to the crowd. "Tell the Admiral we have a real alien here! A real Frackin alien! Her name's Kurumu, and she lives on a good planet. We need to find it!"
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Kurumu didn't mind the blonde woman holding her hand after they hugged, the fear in most of the humans here went away after Kara the Starbuck began speaking to them. Kara then jerked on her hand and motioned for them to move. Kurumu walked with her, the people in front of them moved aside. Now that she'd read Kara's mind, she knew what the woman was saying.
"Chief Tyrol! Get all that food picked up, Sargent stand down your men except for two to come with us up to the Admiral's ready room, then contact the quartermaster, Kurumu's going to need a place to sleep!"
Towing Kurumu to the stairs up, they met Lee Adama coming down. "Lee!" Kara cried, and went on in a run. "An alien arrived! She communicates odd, telepathy through her tail, but I know everything on how she got here! She was … the best I can understand is transported from the skies of her own planet right into the port hanger bay here, but unfortunately she ran into the wall and knocked herself silly. She let me see into her mind. On her planet they had humans and different kinds of human, animal mixes! It was really freaky, but everyone I saw got along…"
"Whoa, hold on," Lee replied, holding his hands up as he stared at her. "So she is what the alert was about?"
"Yes! And she can fly, I mean she has wings, and a tail!" Kara stated happily.
"Ahhh," he said eyeing Kurumu, "We should go see the Admiral."
"We are, come with us!"
Speaking slowly in their language, Kurumu said, "Hello. Lee. Kara, I read your mind, I know your language now. I am Kurumu Aono."
"She's smart too!" Kara said with a grin.
"Hello," Lee replied. "Follow me please."
Kurumu grinned back, she liked being called smart. She also began thinking about how she got here. Someone had teleported her here. Someone powerful, for she had no warning at all, it had been instant.
For a while, it had been her daughter Kumiko who'd been zipped off to her and there to do things for a stupid little blue fairy. They'd solved that problem by adding to the anti-magic glyph on Kumiko's shoulder and a special pair of shoes so no one could send her someplace against her will.
She also knew from Kara's mind these people were in big trouble. Although she wasn't happy about being send off someplace else, as well as ramming a wall, she felt they had to help these people out. How, she didn't quite know, but after she found out all their problems, she'd go back and get whatever help they needed.
Seeing people stare at her as she walked by, one hand still in Kara's hand, she waved and said, "Hi," as they passed. A few waved back. Most just stared at her.
Getting to the Admiral's quarters, Lee opened the door for them and escorted them in. Going inside, she saw an older man with a pockmarked face and glasses staring at her. Beside him was a taller bald man with an eye patch. Sitting on the cough was a woman eyeing her and a shorter thin man who was gaping at her in awe. She also felt heavy feeling of mistrust and fear in the air.
"Look what we found!" Kara beamed. "Or rather, who ran into us. This is Kurumu Aono."
"Sure she's not a frackin cylon?' the bald man said in a hard grumble.
Kurumu raised an eyebrow. "No, I'm a frackin Succubus."
"What's that?" the woman on the couch asked in a hard tone.
Kara spoke up again. "Kurumu, this is Admiral Adama, Commander Tigh, the woman is Laura Roslyn, our President, and that is Guias Baltar, currently the vice president."
Kurumu bowed. "Pleased to meet you all. You have a very serious problem. Several serious problems, actually. I will see what we can do to help out. First I need to contact my husband and tell him what you need."
"How would you know our problems?" Tigh asked in a growl, "And how'd you get on this ship!"
Yup, she could feel he was scared. Kurumu offered him a gentle smile and added some Charm as she said, "Mr. Tigh, you don't need to be scared. I was brought here not of my own will. I am not happy about it, but seeing how … persecuted and desperate you are for help, I will do all I can. As for how I know some of your problems, I read Kara's mind." She glanced at Lee and Kara and said, "By the way, Kara, Lee, it is perfectly fine to have more than one … dedicated lover as long as your other lovers know and agreed."
Both Kara and Lee snapped their heads to stare at her, blushing.
Kurumu shrugged and said. "It's fine, you would both be happier."
"It is NOT!" they both cried in unison.
Admiral Adama coughed. "In any case, Kurumu, you said you can help us?"
"Some by myself," Kurumu said with nod. "Once I know more and get my family involved, we can do more."
Baltar spoke up. "You're an alien? From where?"
Kurumu looked over at him. "We live on Witch Hill. It started out as just a school, but now it's much bigger, it's all over the place! Instead of maybe a square kilometer, it's gotta be twenty square kilometers in size," she told him.
"Humans live with you too?" he asked.
"They do," Kurumu agreed. "A good portion of our population is human. We also got a bit of everything there." She grinned and said, "Health class was tough, let me tell you!"
That brought a brief grin from Lee.
"How many species are on your planet?" Baltar asked intently.
Kurumu frowned a bit then raised a finger up. "The best way to explain it is sing a song. Everyone, please sit on the couch."
"Ah, you can just tell us," Lee offered, thinking Kurumu had the wrong idea.
"No, no, this will explain, and be a bit more fun, trust me!" Kurumu said happily.
Tigh frowned and looked at Adama. He just nodded.
Admiral Adama eyed her but went over and sat by Laura the President. Seeing them together, Kurumu pointed to them and said, "You two need to be nicer to each other too!"
Kara shorted out a giggle. "Come on, Lee," she said and guided him to the couch.
Once they all were sitting down, Kurumu cast her 'concert' Charm on them and said, "This is the best way I can explain it."
With a happy smile, she pointed her fingers to the sides, and they all heard music, she then started singing.
(Sung to CCR's 'Lookin out my back door')
Just got back from Oukatu's
lock the front door, Ya-hoo
Got to sit down
and take a rest on the porch
Family joy's settin in,
pretty soon I'm singin
Ya-hoo-hooo
lookin my back door
Minotars and fairly girls are playin in the band
won't you take a ride up on Scooby do?
Ya-hoo-hooo
Akemi's doin cart wheels, vampires' wearin high heels
Look at all the happy creatures dancin on the lawn
Wondrous apparitions, provided by our witches
Ya-hoo-hooo
lookin out my back door
Minotaurs and fairy girls are playin in the band
Azami takes a ride up on Scooby do,
Ya-hoo-hooo
Looks like the senior class are playin in the sky
Give me a bit, I'll be flyin soon,
Ya-hoo-hooo
Bother me tomorrow,
today I'll have no sorrow
Ya-hoo-hooo
Lookin out my back door
As Kurumu sang, they saw visions of what she was singing about. Scooby do, a huge wire haired and muscular canine, things they'd never seen before, especially huge flying lizards, birds and people with wings in the air flying around and chasing each other, a big bovine was playing the drums, small girls with gossamer wings, one on the keyboard, another with a guitar beside a human playing. The dancers on the ground were just as varied. Some looked human, others didn't. There was even a hald man/half horse dancing with a dark haired girl who had stubby horns on her head. They sat in awe, jaws dropped open, seeing these things in their minds as Kurumu sang. Once the song was over the visions stopped coming.
The first one to speak was Baltar. "Wow," he said vacantly.
"Holy Frack," was Kara's comment.
"You can … give people visions?" Roslyn asked weakly.
"Frack me," Tigh said in a weak grumble.
Admiral Adama was shocked, but thought a little deeper. "Kurumu, can you give those visions to Cylons?"
Kurumu shrugged and offered, "I don't know much about cylons. But Hey, if one of you come with me, you can tell Tsukune about what you need!"
The people on the couch looked at each other. "Going where?" Admiral Adama asked.
"Back home." Kurumu told him. "I think that little blue fairy sent me here, but I can get home, and since I've been here, I can come and go as I please." Looking at them, the only one who didn't look completely stunned was that Baltar guy. Kurumu pointed to him, "Ahh, Guy-ass, right? Come on, come meet my husband," she prodded and held her hand out to him.
Baltar swallowed. "There has to be someone better than me," he said weakly.
"I'll agree with that," Kara said. "Admiral, I'll go."
Laura Roslyn shook herself away enough to say, "I do think Baltar should go." To Baltar, she said, "We will speak after you return."
Baltar swallowed. He cast Kurumu a frightened look.
Kurumu grabbed his hand and jerked him upright to wrap an arm around him and brought out her wings. "Hold tight, bye guys!" She wave and vanished.
Tigh, both Adamas and Roslyn all let out long breaths.
The admiral cast Starbuck a hard gaze. "She read your mind? Everything?"
"She did, Sir," Kara said, not looking a little shocked. "And now she's not here, I'm thinking how foolish it was to bring her straight up here, let alone trusting her right from the beginning."
"You were doing what she wanted you to do," Roslyn stated.
"She was controlling us mentally," Admiral Adama agreed. "So, why pick Baltar to go with her?"
Roslyn let out a huff and said, "He's not as critical as anyone else here is, and I got the distinct impression we need to talk without that female thing guiding us in what we do and think."
"She's frackin more dangerous than the Cylons!" Tigh stated.
"Very," Lee agreed. "Like Kara said, however she does it, she can control how we react, at the very least."
"I'm glad she did," Starbuck stated. "We learned more about her ..." she then paused and her face took on a look of understanding. "Frack me! I know where she's from! Dear GODS Admiral, she lives on EARTH!"
"Are you sure?" Roslyn asked.
"She let me read her mind ... This Witch Hill, it's on Earth. Yes, humans are there, and so is a whole menagerie of other creatures! If even half of them can control people like she can ..."
"We'd be helpless against them," Saul Tigh concluded. "And she's coming back here, with MORE of them?"
Starbuck nodded.
"Will jumping the ship get us away from her?" Admiral Adama asked.
Starbuck winced. "I don't think so. From what I got, she knows this ship now, and can come here no matter where it is."
The Admiral rubbed his face and let out his own grumble. "Well, at least they plan on helping us. Starbuck, that woman had groceries with her? Go find them so we can get an idea of what they eat. Saul, get an update on the status of the fleet, which ships need what, and anything Galactica needs. Laura, we're going to need to inform the Quorum sooner or later. We'll need a good political spin for when we have to admit we're getting aliens on board."
"Yes, we do," Laura Roslyn said and got up.
With Starbuck and Tigh heading off to do their jobs, The Admiral dragged out a bottle of ambrosia and asked Lee, "A shot?'
"Please," Lee agreed and got the glasses. Sitting down, he watched his father give them each a healthy dose, and said, "I never imagined anything could just ... pop onto the ship with no warning at all."
"Yeah," The Admiral agreed and took a drink. "Question is, what can they do about the cylons. Can she control them like she controlled us?"
Lee puzzled for a moment, then said, "We have Athena Agathon. We can ask Kurumu to do her thing on her."
"What about those Centurions, and the Raiders?" the Admiral wondered.
"We'll have to find out," Lee said in a musing tone. "If they can even help fight them off, that will be something. I noticed her voice has power, possibly broadcasting to them when she sings?"
Starbuck ran in, carrying a small clear bag filled with a red substance, not asking permission or even knocking. She showed it to him. "Kurumu said she had groceries, things they eat." She showed him the bag. "This is a bag of blood! They drink blood!"
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Baltar went from standing in the Admiral's quarters to hanging high in the air and falling. Wailing out a scream, he clung tight to Kurumu as they fell. She wrapped her arms around him and spread her wings.
"Quiet down!" she snapped. Her wings caught air and she flew down towards their mansion on Witch Hill.
His eyes wide, Baltar saw her wings out. "You ... you can fly!"
Kurumu laughed at him. "Duh! I'm succubus, or course I can fly. I got you, stop gripping me so tight!"
"Sorry," he said automatically. looking around, he saw below them was a huge stone house and a large pool in back. There were forms on the pool. Long shapes that had heads, arms and torsos that looked human, but from the waist down, they looked like fish with wide, flat flukes on their tails. In recliners on the patio, a man in shorts and a pink haired woman in a very brief swimsuit laid back.
Kurumu turned and dropped lower to line up along side the pool to slow down and flap to a stop. Once on the ground, she said, "You can let go now."
Baltar looked at her and realized they were on the ground. "Yeah, sorry," he said vacantly and let her go as he watched one of the fish girls cone up for a breath and go back under.
Kumuru giggled. "Like watching them, do you?" she asked.
He nodded. "They look so graceful," he whispered. He also noted their beautiful forms.
Kurumu giggled. "Tsukumoka is only 14, and Liz is married. Eye candy only unless you want to die," she said sweetly.
Baltar gaped at her. He swallowed.
"This way," Kurumu said and guided him up to the patio.
"They both look full grown," Baltar said weakly.
Loudly, Kurumu called, "Tsukune, we got a visitor! His people need help!"
The dark haired man lounging back beside the pink haired woman looked up. "I thought you were going shopping?"
"Sorry hon, I got teleported to this ship in space. They are in a bad way, this guy, Baltar can tell you all about it." She pushed Baltar over to sit in a chair near him. She then sat down on his lap and cast him an impish grin. "I want to get help for him. Do I get a reward? Hmmm?" she asked in a silky tone.
Tsukune chuckled and said, "I could use a snack."
"Yahoo!" Kurumu cooed and guided his face to her neck.
Baltar's eyes grew wide as he watched Tsukune open his mouth that sported long fangs and bit her in the neck. He heard him sucking on her neck and a small trickle of blood escaped as Kurumu cooed out in joy. Once Tsuukune got his 'snack' he licked her neck clean and they came together in a deep kiss.
"OH? I get left out?" the pink haired woman asked.
"Of course not, dear," Tsukune said. He had Kurumu get up and pulled the pink haired woman onto his lap. This time, she bit him in the neck to suck his blood before they kissed.
With Moka on his lap, Tsukune turned to Baltar who was still gaping at him. "So, what's the problem?" he asked.
Baltar couldn't speak. His mouth worked but nothing came out. They were drinking each other's blood! Hearing a happy yell, one of the fish girls had erupted from the water to spin in a triple flip high in the air to splash down. The younger, not so busty one cheered her.
"He does speak, doesn't he?" Tsukune asked Kurumu.
"He's human and never saw a Yokai before. I think he's a little overwhelmed," Kurumu explained.
Moka let out a giggle. "Kurumu, dear, could you read his mind and tell us what trouble he's in?"
Kurumu did. She didn't think Baltar even noticed. She explained to Tsukune and told him what Baltar knew as Baltar relived some things he did not want others to ever find out. He cringed as Kurumu told Tsukune everything, not only about Cylons, but also every one of Baltar's interactions with them. All the way from getting into the Colonial defense grid to get the Six the codes to get into it. By the time she was done, both Tsukune and Moka were glaring at him.
Thinking only about staying alive at this point, Baltar said, "I was tricked!"
Moka said, "Tsukune, my rosary please?"
Kurumu stepped back away from Baltar. "Moka, you going to kill him?" she asked.
Tsukune pulled the rosary off. The flash of light Baltar squinted against. He tried to get up and flee, but something grabbed him by his throat and lifted him up off his feet. He opened his eyes to see a silver haired and red-eyed woman glaring at him that filled him with terror. Her words seemed to drive into his very soul.
"You betrayed your own people for a fuck?" Moka growled in his face. "The only reason I don't rip you apart slowly is I am sure your own people will want that privilege when they find out about this, you pitiful, self serving piece of scum!"
Baltar fainted.
Tsukune watched Moka drop the limp Baltar on the floor then sat up. "Liz!" he called.
In the pool with Tsukumoka, Liz came up to the edge and lifted herself up. "Yes?"
"I'm going to need Frank's help. There's a big job to do. When she comes up, tell Tsukumoka we'll need Mariko also."
Liz hauled herself out of the pool and sat to take her tail off. "You'll need me too?" she asked.
"Quite possibly, I need more details and take a short trip with Frank, first."
"What do we do with Mr. Scum Bag here?" Moka asked.
"Drag him along when we go, let his own people take care of him," Tsukune stated.