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New years eve, if there was ever a time Malen didn’t want to be in his house it was then. New years was far too suspicious a time to trust in Matilda’s abilities to keep them safe. Thus he and Kishi were spending the evening and Raven’s, he’d be drinking with other new years revellers and Kishi would be upstairs entertaining Ryvan. Hopefully it would be an enjoyable evening for all.

Kishi walked into the currently closed bar, she and her father were there early since it would look wrong for her to be in a bar filled with adults even if only for a few minutes. She carried a duffle bag filled with close for the next day and pyjamas as she would be spending the night. She’d be sharing Raven’s bed with Ryvan.

She waved at the woman behind the bar “ Hello it’s nice to see you again,” She was looking forward to tonight, her sleeping was still not going well and she hoped that being around Ryvan and her brightly burning wand might comfort her while she tried to deal with it.


Raven smiled as she watched Malen and Kishi walk into her club, “hey baby-girl you going to come give me a hug before I take you and Ryv upstairs?” Normally Raven hated new years as it was just a long night filled with an endless stream of drunken assholes who seemed to want to kill each other in her damned club.

Malen however made the evening look a little brighter even if only for the fact that he was a fun drunk and always seemed to be able to catch her hair in the morning before she even knew she was bent over the toilet.

Ryvan giggled at the visitors, the pretty one was back and the pretty boy was with her. She waved her little fingers in the air at the guests and grinned “KeySee!” She was getting words down… kind of at least.


Kishi grinned at being recognised and she winked at the red headed baby “ Hi Ryvan.” Nodding she walked over and around the bar to hug Raven “ Dad says I get to have a glass of new years wine.” She wasn’t sure if she’d enjoy the wine or not but she was glad he trusted her with even a tiny amount of alcohol.

Malen laughed at that “ Might as well not make it forbidden and thus something to get into when I’m not around.”

Raven smiled “Well then sweetie I will be sure to give you a nice glass.” She picked the girl up and set her on the bar top next to Ryvan, “Now is there anything else special you want tonight? You get to pick your dinner, what ever you want I will order for you kiddo.”

Ryvan smiled when the girl was set next to her before reaching up to finger the girls braid, she liked the girls hair, it was soft and she was fun. Maybe she would tell her stories like mommy.

Raven smiled and winked at Malen “And what about you babe? Anything special for you tonight?” She didn’t mean anything sexual by it really, she knew Malen had someone and was happy for him, she wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize that. At least she would never make the first move.

Kishi looked thoughtful “ Umm I wanna try Mexican wait nor Chinese umm” She frowned “Pizza and wings?” There a simple thing to order that she knew she liked.

She blew a raspberry at Ryvan, the girl really seemed to like her hair. She supposed as long as it stayed out of the girl’s mouth she’d let her play with it.

Malen just shook his head “Beernuts, peanuts and some good drinks will keep me content.” he was aware of the subtext in the offer and chose to ignore it.

Raven nodded “Pizza and wings it is honey now lets get our butts upstairs to get you two all set up.” She lifted Kishi down from the counter so that she could follow and picked up Ryvan, she knew damn well that Malen knew his way up to her level of the club and he could lift himself over the bar, she had done it enough times in their friendship.

Ravens apartment, if you could call it that, was the top two floors of the building she had purchased for her club, the main floor was the living room, kitchen dining room and a bathroom, the upper level was bedrooms and an office. She set Ryv down on the floor and went to collect the pizza flyers for Kishi and sat her a** down on the couch motioning for Kishi to do the same.

Ryvan giggled when her mom set her down she liked the floors they were so soft and cool just like the fire on her wand and the pretty girls hair. She wondered if the pretty boy had soft hair too after all he was kishi’s daddy. She decided that she wanted to find out, malen, her mommy called him Malen so she would give it a try.

“Mah Mah-en!”

Kishi flopped onto the couch making herself at home. normally She wouldn’t have done this but she felt relax at Raven’s place. There was just a feeling of safety there.
She wiggled a foot at the baby on the floor “ What are you trying to say” she asked not really expecting a great answer. She knew Ryvan could talk in a way, a few words and half words like most babies but nothing really understandable as of yet.

Malen having followed the women looked down at Ryvan “ No I know what you’re thinking I’ve raised three girls of my own and babysat numerous children.” there was no way he was letting the child near his hair. “ You’re still cute but you’re not going near my hair.”


Raven laughed and handed the flyers to Kishi and winked at the little girl,” pick anything you want sweetie, anything at all.”

Ryvan looked up at Malen, he wouldn’t share, he was being mean to her, had she been bad? Did she do something wrong? Her eyes started to well up and then the sobs started.


Kishi glared at her father and began leafing through the flyers.

Malen sighed and picked up the girl but held her so she couldn’t reach his hair “ You are stubborn much like your mother, both of them.” He wondered what if anything the teary eyed girl remembered of Neph. He looked over at Raven “ Teach her manipulation why don’t you.”

Raven laughed at Malen, “fine I will and while I’m at it I’ll teach Kishi too. Now girls always remember, when you want a boy to do something just make him think real hard with his real head, not the one on his shoulders.” She smirked and looked at Kishi “picked anything yet honey? Oh and you can watch any of the movies I have in the cabinate beside the T.V but don’t go into the bottom drawer, its all porn luv.” It hadn’t even crossed her mind that Malen might not have given his daughter the talk yet, in fact he had told one of her sons rather explicitly about sex before the boy was even eleven and Kishi had to be about twelve.

Ryvan looked up at Malen and fisted her hand in his shirt “Mah-en da-eee”

Kishi just sort of stared at Raven “ Can I have a double cheese pizza and honey garlic wings, oh and I don’t understand anything else you said.” Kishi had vauge ideas about the world of adult relationships but her world moved so fast and was so sheltered that she knew much less than most children her age.

Malen stared at raven as well “ I.. you woman I dunno what I’m going
to do with you.

Kishi had done it, she’d finally made time to get around to reading the book on Succubi from the library. She’d picked it out on the day she met Oak and his guardian but she hadn’t had to time or inclination to read it until now. She really really wished she had never found the time.

She was right in what she had said to Zah, they were bad and they shouldn’t have come back. Succubi were evil, Drow were evil, Mindflayers were really ******** evil. So why the hell were they being reborn, why were they allowed to live after they had probably ruined so many peoples lives.

Kishi had understood the basics of adult relationships before but the words and pictures in the book had taught her more than she ever needed to know about sex. To think that she as Yazhi had likely done that, had hurt men likes that, had used a special gift to manipulate others in such a way.. It had made Kishi sick and she could still taste the bile. What if when she grew old enough to for her powers to kick in she did that to Zah? That thought alone had made her want curl up into a ball and just cry herself into oblivion.

Of course another side of her had awoken from reading this book. An angry vengeful side. This all of this could be blamed on God and Adam and their stubbornness. If they had been willing to accept Lilith’s unwillingness to always be on the bottom ( did such a thing really matter) she would not have left in a rage and if god had not made the angles persue her and curse her so much could have been avoided.

The two sides of Kishi warred within her, on one side she was horrified and disgusted with herself as if she were no better than the creatures in between. On the other hand she had not asked to be born what she was and more so Succubi only existed as a result of a great unfairness. The second side of Kishi argued that she had ever right to live and take advantage of men as comfort to the curse that was placed upon her. She would need men when she grew, need them life one needed air to breathe and she could either give in to this need or die.

While her human and succubus sides fought Kishi wondered why in the worlds her mother had been in Navajo lands. The Dine had no succubus legends so why was she there? more importantly was she Kishi a product of one of these rapes or did her father truly care for her mother ( though she had no clue how such a thing was possible) She was sorely tempted to believe that her mother had enthralled him with her powers as a full succubus. Kishi as a cambion had lesser powers but the ability was still there though she swore she’d never use it.

That of course was the issue, which side would she pick, would she die unwilling to harm another or would she claim superior species rights and take what she needed to survive. Death meant leaving die, living meant risking hurting him. Living meant a tormented soul and death meant leaving behind a greving family.

“I don’t know what to do.”

Summary: Phone call with Zah

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Growth quest part one: Going home and going back.

Arizona was far too hot and Kishi had no idea how people manged to live there. A bright hot sun's rays blazed down making the air waver with heat On top of that Kishi'd only gotten off her plane and she was sure she was suffering jet lag from having crossed half the planet. The heat and jet leg combined were making her irritated , dizzy and sleepy, not a good combination for someone with limited time to travel and enjoy themselves.

Her father had brought her and Del to earth as a special spring break treat. For the first few days of the trip they had been on a secluded island that contained the inter planetary portal they'd used to get there. The island being privately owned and the portal connecting to several planets hosted many odd species and allowed the two not quite human girls to feel safe while enjoying sun, sand and water sports. After a dreary winter and spring it was well needed.

Del had gone swimming with real dolphins and Kishi had learned to fly comforted by the though of a safe warm water landing.


Those had been good days but now it was just a Kishi cloaked in hypnosis and her father visiting Navajo reserve in Arizona.


Things did not look so different from the past and Kishi felt a shiver run down her spine. Sure some people wore more modern clothes but many were still dressed in traditional garb and hogans were as much viable as modern day houses. Most familiar though was the language of the Dine. After seven months of weekly trips to the community center back on gaia plus personal study Kishi had a rather strong grasp of the language and picked up fragments of conversations going on.

With her father currently occupied by some random artifact or another Talon had wanted him to look at Kishi was free to wander as she willed. Still she just wished she could fin the energy to to put into really enjoy getting to see another part of her heritage, this time in it's natural home.


As another wave of exhaustion washed over Kishi it felt familiar and she swore under her breath. This was not jet lag, too much sun exposure or past memories resurfacing this was the same damn sleep that had taken her the last time she had grown. Not now” she mumbled hoping she could avoid loosing part of her precious time here to yet another visit to a past that wasn't likely to end quickly if the last time had been any indicator.

The time had come however and it could not be put off. Kishi's legs folded and she crumpled towards the ground vision blurring then going black.

part three
hello there my friend and ceremony

Kishi was bored out of her mind. Unlike the last time she had done this there was no hopping and skipping to interesting parts of her life. It was a long often monotonous home movie that never ended. Sure there were places to go and she was free to wander, sort of but there just wasn't much to see.

Yazhi had grown up in a Navajo village during a time when nothing of particular interest was happening. Oh certainly Kishi saw her past self pick up skills like sewing, cooking and jewlery making but as she was for the most part unable to interact with the past it wasn't like she could practise as well or benefit from it.

Then of course there were times when kishi had been quite happy not to see things. As a kid kishi was a few years away from dealing with most women's great annoyance. Yazhi however had reached that age and Kishi had been less thrilled about watching the girl learn to deal with a period.

At least having gotten it would lead to something interesting though. Kishi was certain that any day now Yazhi would have her Kinaalda ceremony a 4-day ritual that would signify her coming of age.

It was an odd ceremony with many odd rules. Yazhi would have to be on a restricted diet. She wouldn't be allowed to touch her own skin, comb or wash her hair or even dress or undress herself. Everything she did would be watched closely because this ceremony was important to her future and she would have to avoid doing anything negative.


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A day later Kishi was pleased to find out that she was correct and she grinned as the ceremony began.

She watched as Yazhi ran several times around the village, cheered on and accompanied by other children. Kishi didn't quite remember the purpose of the race but she knew it was part of the tradition and was to be repated dailey like most other activities.

It amused her slightly to see that at her current age she was faster and more agile than her past counterpart. Of course Yazhi had never taught herself to run because it wasn't required of her.

On the other hand Kishi had no clue how to grind corn or make an alkaan but Yazhi was rather skilled at that and got no complaints on how her work turned out.

As the four days passed Kishi watched as Yazhi focused deeply on her hypnosis when her chosen female aid washed her, and dressed her each day. This much like Yazhi birth made Kishi a bit jealous. The Kinaalda was about the community and caring for others. This aid would become Yazhi's lifelong friend and be there to guide her always. Kishi had a family but it was not like this , there wasn't this closeness. This mututally beneficial codependance.


The only part of the ceremony Kishi felt sorry for Yazhi during was the body moldings. It had to have been hard for her to keep her concentration on the hypnosis when so many people were touching her and massing her body into the form of the changing woman.

As the four days ended Kishi hoped that there would be more interesting things to come.

part five
damn you hormones

Apparently the changing in Yazhi's eyes and the growing of her tail had been a signal that she was now in succubi terms fully mature, or at least mature enough for hormones to kick in.

Kishi had seen the girl take a bit more time to perfect her appearance in the mornings and whether or not she knew it her hypnosis looked a bit more alluring than normal.

It was obvious that her succubus nature was taking over.

How obvious became apparent as over the next few days Yazhi's nights were rather..entertaining for Kishi to watch. She couldn't follow the other girl into her dreams but she would watch her wriggles about and by following her the next day and seeing which boys looked the slightest bit like they were blushing when they saw her it was easy to tell what was going on.

It was also obvious that while part of Yazhi was content during this part of her was deeply disturbed by it and she was suffering. through some sort of internal tourmoil.

That Tourmoil however would not last for long.