Party Start

"Thank you so much for been able to come here to care for our dad while the party is in going, Mrs Hanamura, I know it must been out of hand to come here at a saturday night, but I really appreciate it" thanked Dora, while bowing to the grizzled but kind and warm old lady in a plain and conservative nurse uniform that stood before her at the door.

"Oh, don't mind it. Today Saito is sleeping over at one of his friends house, so I had nothing much to do at home anyway" answered the woman with a smile while going into the living room.

"I had to thank you anyway, Mrs Hanamura, if it wasn't for you..." Dora started, closing the door after her.

"I'd call another nurse from the agency. Don't worry Miss Takeda, I'm here because I want to." The woman cut her off, holding her arm, reassuringly, and then went upstairs to Akira's room.

As Dora heard the old lady closing the door behind her, she let out a sigh, still unsure of Wolfgang's idea for the party.

As she did so, the door slammed open after her, almost hitting her in the back.

She jumped back, terrified of what could it possibly be, the worse possibilities coming into the realm of a shadowy figure with a snake for a tail.

But it was only her stupid brother and his jackass friend Kinshi.

"Oh, Dora, you're here! Do me a favor please and lock the door behind us!" said Wolfgang while passing through her with Kinshi and an enormous sealed jug of what looked to her like to be ethyllic alcohol.

"What the fuck are you bringing into my house?" she asked as they breezed through her as fastest as they could carrying that weight.

"The theme of the party is American Teenage Party so we had to bring in some homebrewed drinks, right?" said Wolf as he and Kinshi gently lowered the jug into the kitchen floor.

"We even got a rubber hose to drink from it, isn't it cool?" asked Kinshi apparently excited at the prospect, and pulling the afore mentined object from his pocket.

Dora looked at them as if they were lunatics.

"No it isn't, why do you get the idea that this is primordial to an american teenage party? Or even that it would be a good idea, no matter the theme" she argued.

"Relax sis, it will be ok, we're all going to be adults at the party, no one we called will do dumb things, it's just a fun activity to try! For the immersion!" said Wolf as he and Kinshi carried the jug around the house in direction of the kitchen.

Dora made mention to object, but she then dropped it, moving a hand to her nose bridge, as if getting the prelude of a headache.

Hours later, Dora was increasingly becoming aware that, even tho her house was big, it wasn't so big as to accomodate a real party, at least not without it getting cramped up.

They had some friends from school, college and work over, Mr Matsumoto and his homestays, some of the closest young neighbors and Wolfgang's best friends, of course.

All stacked up, made no more thant 30 guests, but the utilitarian house barely held all those people in place, and it didn't help that Wolfgang pulled a big supply of sake out of his hat. The current pop music from the USA rolled in the background, not yet too high, but whispering was no longer a possibility.

She then felt a reasuring clawed hand on her shoulder, and turned back to see Basillia there.

"It will be ok" said her girlfirend "I know I will not be able to do much, because of all of the noise and the music, but I'll be here for you, ok?".

Dora smiled to herself and hugged Basillia tight.

Meanwhile, Wolfgang opened the door for the last arriving guest, which happened to be Yoko.

He hesitated before greeting her tho.

"Sorry, are you a time traveler?" he asked "you most likely recognize me since we're childhood friends, but it seems like you're 15 years old again".

"Fuck you Wolf" Yoko said.

She was looking exactly like her rebel goth phase, in Wolfgang's memory, thus the joke: black makeover, a loose white shirt with two buttons left open, for a mild flash of her modest cleavage, a black loose blazer and a loose tie around her neck, tight black leather pants and leather boots, plus jewelry. She even did her nails black and dyed a strand of har blue.

"Just joking" he said while getting close to hug her welcome, as an excuse to whisper at her ear "What are you doing? You're looking like a troubled teenager, unless Noelle's a pedophile you're not helping yourself here".

"Screw you, that's what you said she liked!" she whispered back.

"You could be subtler!" he said, as the rest of his friends came over to greet Yoko, and Kinshi teased her much more openly than him.

Meanwhile, just upstairs, a certain princess observed the whole thing. She was mumbling uncoherent stuff in the bathroom while using her x-ray vision to watch over everything.

"Right, this will be it" she said while pulling out a bleach bottle from the innards of the bathroom cabinet "With this, I will make it so Tiki will not be able to stay up in the party! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" she laughed maniacally.

She leaft the bathroom in a hurry, eager to put her own solo plan in motion, but as she opened the door and stepped forth into the corridor, she bumped into someone she didn't noticed, since she was so caught up on the idea.

The bleacher bottle creacked, and a gash erupted, thankfully on the upper part, but it still spilled over her and the person she bumped into.

"WHAT? I am so sorry, I did not meaned to..." she started apologizing until she realized who it where "You".

"Beholder Princess. I had hopes that our reincounter was to be less violent..." said Prince Tao Lei as he looked down at his ruined attire "and drier".

"Argh! Look at this, now my party dress is ruined..." Beatrice said as she started to cry.

"Oh, please don't, here, I can fix it for you" he said.

"Fix it? FIX IT? It is hand made, fitted perfectly for me, for this specific occasion, I had my father's guards deliver to me yesterday!" she yelled at him.

"That is very odd, but never mind, I can still fix it" he said "I can use my chi technique to fix the color and texture, you won't even feel the difference" Tao Lei explained.

"What? You can do that?" the Princess asked, surprised.

"Of course I can" he answered "You just have to take it off somewhere safe and hand it to me so that I can work on it.

Beatrice gazed suspiciously at him with all of her dozens of eyes, which was a little disturbing.

"Ok, but if you do ANYTHING weird while we are there I will flay you alive" she said much more seriously than that phrase would normally sound coming from a teenage girl.

"Ok" said tao Lei while immediately removing his T-shirt.

"What are you doing?" the Princess asked.

"My shirt is wet, it is uncomfortable. You said you were going to flay me alive if I did anything weird while we're there, and I thought you might find me removing clothing weird, so I better do this now, right?" he explained.

It seemed logic to Beatrice, even if it was just a tease.

In more ways than one she quickly realized, now that she started failing to avert her eyes from the Ryu-Jin Prince's abs.

"So? Will you take me somewhere you can undress privatly, or will you just stand there and let people guess what we are doing here?" Tao Lei asked suddenly.

Beatrice immediately blushed "Ok come here" she said taking him to the bathroom, and locking the door behind them.

"I am going to fucking regret this, am I not?" she thought to herself.

"Come on, ladies and gentleman, come on to the table don't be shy" said Wolfgang, gathering people around the table in which the jug of drinks sat upon "Come on for the next game of the night!" . There were not more than two hours into the party then, and most people had something or another to drink already, except those who don't drink alcohol at all, really.

Yoko, Kinshi, Kana and his girlfirend Harumi were the first ones to join in at the table, and soon Noelle sitted down, followed by Jack, the shark merman that was a homestay to Mr Matsumoto, and a few other school friends of Wolfgang's. One chair was left, and with a grin, Wolfgang put his plan in motion quickly:

"Hey Tiki, come over here please, just a second" he shouted.

Tiki looked at him from the living room, where she was friendly chatting with Dora, Basillia and a few of the neighbours that attended to the party.

"Hey, are you going to crack that jug up now?" she asked.

"Yes sir, we are! And there is a little game for it too, wanna sit down and hear it?" he asked, motioning the empty chair to her.

"I'm in for games!" Tike said as she sat down.

"Step one, complete" noted Wolfgang to himself in his thoughts.

He sat himself down and started to explain "Ok, the game is thruth or dare, but there is a catch. Whoever gets to be asked something tells that the request is easy or hard, if it is easy, the person who asks takes a single shot of drink, if it is hard, it takes three, and we circle around the table for who askes the queation, got it?" said Wolfgang.

"Right, so that we must be careful of who we want to ask the best requests to, and when" observed Kinshi "Cool I like it" he said brushing his hands.

"Alright, game on?" asked Wolfgang, tring hard not to stare as Tiki for too long, so it wouldn't be suspicious.

"Game on!" the table answered in unisson.

Yoko was already dizzy, even tho she only had done one hard question yet, but she was tanking it like a pro.

Some of the people at the table had left already, including Kana and Harumi, since Harumi's parents wouldn't aprove of her coming back home completely wasted, but Yoko was determined to at least try her luck with Noelle, she didn't drop a date and sent so much time and money to come there and give upon her dreams.

And she wasn't just being dramatical. Not fully.

"Hum, thats a hard one, geez..." said Jack, the shark guy "But ok, I'll do it, just line up your three drinks up miss".

The girl at the other side of the table from him giggled, she was one of Yoko and Wolf's school friends, and she seemed to enjoy Jack a lot, most of her turns were spent on asking him things up to that point.

Jack laid back on his wheelchair, and picked up an olive, putting it over his belly button. He carefullycontracted his belly, without dropping the olive as much as he could, and then suddenly, he bursted out, launching the olive across the table just at the girl's plate.

The whole table cheered in excitement from his feat.

Jack accepted the praised smugly, while the girl took a bite to the olive, with a smile on her face.

"Seems like it is my turn right?" Yoko spoke up.

"Ok, miss darkness, who shall be your next victim?" teased Kinshi.

"Certainly not you" she cut him "Noelle".

The Gnoll girl immediately looked up, curious.

Yoko blushed slightly, but the drinks blush hided it good enough "I have a good one for you" she was taking a huge risk at that, but she was tired, and went all in "Pick a person at the table and kiss that person".

Noelle smiled amused.

"Take your drink first, cause that is easy" she answered, causing a collective "WOOOOOOOA".

Yoko was shocked and hesitated for a second at this, but she took a cup from the table and drinked it.

Noelle immediately rose up from the table, not bothering to grab the crutch, she jumped the two steps between her and Yoko in a single feet, and grabbed Yoko by the neck and shoulders and kissed her.

But not just any kiss, she kissed her GOOD, passionately, with the toungue, and left a small bite gash at Yoko's lower lip at the end.

When they parted from the kiss, Noelle licked her lips and asked "Is that what you wanted?".

Yoko took her time holding herself without fainting, but in seconds she was able to reply "Part of, if I'm really honest".

Noelle did a "tch" and looked over at Wolfgang "I hope we'll not be missed for the rest of the game" and that was not a request of approval, she grabbed the crutch in one hand, and Yoko's waist in the other, and the whole table observed Noelle dragging Yoko upstairs. To her room. Nobedoy saw it, but nobody had to.

One by one, or two by two, the truth or dare game table emptied, until only Tiki and Wolf remained.

After Yoko, Wolfgang got kinda nervous, and couldn't excecute the plan.

Kinshi left off with what remained of the drinks jug, and Tiki raised up as well.

Wolf thought she was leaving as well, but she sat closer to him "Hell of a game" she said "Full of surprises, but I hoped to leave the table with someone before it ended. Noelle and Yoko seemed like they would have a lot of fun".

"Indeed" said Wolf, dabating to himself on the rest of his phrase "There is still time".

Tiki looked at him suspisciously, but amused "You're intriguing Wolfgang, just what is your game? Everyone said you aways had a girl over, but I've never seen any on all those days here. Don't tell me it is because of me".

Wolfgang was startled "Well no, of course not... Well maybe, but not really I..." Tiki interrupted him.

"I was joking" she said with a weak laugh, which stopped him "But you are clearly not, since someone like you is mumbling over at me, like a teenager..." she rested her forehead on her hand with a weak smile, but it quickly faded into a sad, conserned look.

She spoke before Wolf had the chance to ask why, tho "You're probably impressed by me or something, but you really shouldn't. You should be back to your old routine of pick ups and be happy, not deal with me and my problems. I'd just disapoint you, no matter how high or low your expectations might be" she said "It will be best for everyone, you'd be happier being able to pick up any girl you want, and I'd not broke another heart alongside my own again".

Tiki raised up to leave, but Wolfgang grabbed her by the wrist.

Tike was startled, and her scropion tail lounged at Wolfgang, stopping centimeters from his left eye.

He looked at the sting, aprehensive, but he dind't move, or let go of her.

Tiki retracted her tail, swating cold "Let go of me! Do you even understand what you did? I almost killed you by accident, for that foolishness!".

"Yeah, for your foolishness" Wolfgang answered raising up with her "Look, I'd be fine if you said you didn't like me or whatever, but if you're rejecting me because you think you are protecting me or that you are not worthy or whatever it means that you just said, I'm not gonna let you go. Maybe you don't desserve me, or I don't desserve you, but you desserve to be happy. And you are clearly not happy with whatever it was that the last person you dated with left you for. And I don't know what it is, but I doubt that it will disappoint me if we try something. If you want me at all. I won't let you refuse me because of something like that" he said seriously "And if you think a sting will let you free from this, think again".

"You don't know me" Tiki said.

"We already spilled food scrapes together" Wolfgang answered.

"Don't mock me" Tiki said, threatening to cry "I'm serious, you don't know me".

"Then I'll show you me" said Wolfgang "You will know exactly who I am. Then you can show me who you are, if you like me. And then you will know if I'd like you".

Tiki looked at him puzzled "What do you mean?".

"I have a secret" he said "I wasn't supposed to tell anyone. Only the family, some of the closest of the closest friends, and some homestays know about it. Noelle doesn't know it for example".

Tiki raised her eyebrow "I don't get it".

"You will" said Wolf, walking upstairs, still holding her "I mean, if you trust me to come along".

Tiki looked at him, nervous, but she eventually followed him.

Wolfgang took her to his room, he locked the door behind him, and stood up in front of her. He blushed slightly, but put both his hands cupped in front of his crotch, and let go of his transformation.

His clothes were immediately in the ground, and his elfy, much softer looks, accompanied with the dark skin and silver volumous hair took the place of the movie star like features he chose for a daily facade. He looked up aprehensively with his green eyes, but Tiki didn't showed any reaction, she was just groundless.

"Sou you... and Dora... you're all...?" she asked trying to wrap her head around it.

"No just me and Dora. And our mother as well, when she was alive" he smiled weakly "But dad is human, we lived all our lives in Japan, me and Dora".

"That... Should not be as surprising as it is, I guess" Tiki admitted.

"Maybe" Wolfgang agreed "But that is me. Who I really am. What do you think?".

Tiki put her hands cupped over her mouth, but she closed in "I... Feel that I can trust you. Its very sweet of you risking yourself like that for me... And kinda reckless as well..." Tiki raised her hand to touch Wolfgang in the cheek, aprehensive.

The doppelganger leaned his face against her hand, since he literally had his hands full on other things "I think it is unfair that I'm naked here alone, don't you?" he asked, his flirty tone being the ultimate proof that that was indeed the same Wolfgang.

Tiki's smile faded "Well yeah, I think that's fair..." she answered.

Wolfgangs face lit up, and Tiki started to undress in front of him.

She unbuttoned her pants, and immediately, there was something Wolfgang didn't understood at first.

As Tiki's pants dropped tho, it all became clear, all the reason behind Tiki's insecurity, and that meaningless blabber about diappointment, the volume bellow Tiki's panties were all explanation there was needed.

Tiki stopped undressing, fearful of Wolfgang's reaction, but he smiled.

"I cannot say I understand completely what it is that you're feeling" said Wolfgang extending one and in her direction, almost like asking permition to touch her "But you'll never have to fear anything from me. Not because of this, not because of anything. I love women, and I think that, you are a woman, right? Only you can tell anyone that".

Tiki held her tears at bay, she grabbed Wolfgang's hand, and he hugged her, his hands crossing around to her back, in an embracing way, unlike the sensual hugs he's normally give to his pick-ups, but tenderly, affectionate, welcoming of the whole of Tiki's body, and of her soul, above even that.

She cried at his shoulder, her fingers almost digging into his back, as if afraid that someone would come and drag him away from her, that something could happen to the person who finally disired who she looked like, and accepted who she really was.

She loosened the hug and joined foreheads with him "Can I kiss you?".

"Thought you never ask".

Their kiss was less intense and flashy than Noelle and Yoko's but was longer, thirstier, more passionate. And much more importantly, it's meaning went deep, much more than even they knew at that time.

"I know it is cliché of me saying that, or if you'll even find it funny" Wolfgang said, as he dragged Tiki over the bed "But be nice to me. It will be my first time".

Tiki giggled at that "it's not funny" she said trying to look angry.

"But you laughed at it, I saw it" he said as he pulled her and made her lay by his side.

She giggled again "I never thought I'd have such a thing for an end party".

"Just who said it is over?" asked Wolfgang with a raised eyebrow "This is just the Party Start".