Meet and Greet

Cicilia giggled as Sayumi apparently shared her sentiment, the two girls marveling in just how WELL that song came together. What's more interesting though was seeing Mariah blush there on stage in response to their praise. As Bubbles went up there to no-doubt state her approval, Cicilia contemplated how this could be... She had been so calm and collected compared to the rest of them this entire event, never once showing that she was prone to outburst of emotion like this. Well... They were getting a whole new side of their new friends, weren't they...?

She couldn't help but smile, unable to miss the small lick bubbles had inflicted upon her wife, her sanguine eyes flashing over to her lover and doing the same thing... mentally. T'was more of an impulse thing. Cicilia wasn't especially dirty-minded (at least she thought so) but... it was something she just couldn't help but think. Maybe she'd try it later... see what she thought of it...

What snapped her out of this bubbly state however, was they way Mariah addressed her girlfriend. There was nothing overtly alerting based on what she said, more the way she said it that got the German's attention. That word "friend" and that wink afterwords... It ignited Cicilia's protectiveness. Cicilia's smile fell a tad, a certain probing look in her eyes as she glanced between the two women. SURELY Mariah wasn't saying what that sounded/looked like... It was just some kinda joke or something and Cicilia just didn't have a sense of humor...

They have been good hostesses, Cicilia... Stop thinking everyone is out to hurt you or your girlfriend... Cicilia growled to herself, blinking the glare out of her eyes. They don't deserve it.

This protectiveness she championed... It was sometimes the worst thing... It kept her from enjoying the moment like it was now... It made her suspicious of people who'd been nothing but kind... It was so hard to abandon these habits that'd gotten her so far all these years... But she would... For the sake of herself and her relationships. She was tired of always being the bad-guy.

Shredding those thoughts and emotions, she tossed those feelings of suspicion right out the window in favor of a laugh, raising an eyebrow at her sweetheart as if to re-ask Mariah's question.

After her brief praise for Mariahs's great song.... Which  Sayumi was in no way biased even though she had been involved as audience participation, she had popped up and made her way over to the machine. She was chomping at the bit for her turn... Well, their turn, then hers. She was a pretty big fan of Michael Jackson. She didn't know anything about him, aside from his music and dance moves, but she knew he was awesome.

For being the King of Pop, his music was nothing like the floaty upbeat music she knew as j-pop. It had substance, it had body, did she mention the dance moves already? Thriller and Smooth Criminal were especially dear to her. Long short film length videos sold the package.

She found Thriller among a few copycat versions on the list. The original one was best though... Not that she knew of any others.. what even was Indian Thriller? She primed the machine up, pulling out one of the spare microphones. She twirled it between her fingers, a move she practiced when she went to the karaoke bar all the time... She just never had a crowd to look at her did it.  

"Are you ready!?" She threw up a fist into the air, leaping up in place. "Lets do this!" She waited for Mariah to be ready, but seemed like she was looking to take the lead on this even if it was a duet.

Mariah was feeling surprisingly confident as they made their way up the stage. Maybe it was just the fact that her first song had done such a good job of getting the jitters out, but she was ready to get started, feeling the karaoke spirit. Especially after her wife had given her the promise of wild sex - a promise that would certainly be kept. She wasn’t going to get up to anything with Cicilia in the ring, which meant that she was going to be particularly amped when the time came for a late night romp in the bed.

The thought brought a smile to her face as she and Sayumi made their way up to the stage, taking their place amongst the lights.

A little prep work, getting things into place, and...showtime.

The howl of the wolf, echoing in the night, slicing through the cold, crisp air. Footsteps, down a long hallway, growing farther and farther away, fading fast. It was a haunting way to open a song, and it only grew moreso when the music picking growing stronger, faster, building up until the iconic moment when one of the most recognizable themes in music history came blaring out.

Mariah started tapping her feet without even thinking, getting into the mood. It wouldn't be a masterwork, but she was certainly feeling the mood. Deep breath, and…

”It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed

'Cause this is thriller! Thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike
You know it's thriller! Thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

Around one minute in, and Mariah was already enjoying herself immensely, getting into the funky - if that was the right word for it? - groove, bobbing from side to side as the tunes blared. She could still remember the first time she’d heard this song, during one of her parent’s needlessly long road trip. Her father loved it so much he played it three times, back to back, putting Mariah and her mother’s sanity to the test.

Fun times. She did miss him and his goofiness sometimes.

You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl!
But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind
You're out of time
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl
Thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight!


She hit a high note with that last bit - perhaps a bit too high. Hurt her throat and made the microphone whine a bit. It was an easy enough thing to recover from, though, and she took a few quick breaths as she let Sayumi do the heavy lifting for a little while. Mariah took up position behind her, whipping her shimmering hair about, complimenting her partner as they moved into the next part.

Cicilia was just all laughs with Sayumi's enthusiasm just spilling out over everyone, the beautiful girl declaring if they were all ready. She was acting like she was some kind of rock star or something and the German was LOVING it! Her enthusiasm was so hot... She couldn't think of many things that got her THIS excited, or at least anything that they do together. She looked upon her girlfriend with the widest smile, crossing her arms and waiting for the performance to begin... Ah, she couldn't wait... The boxer glanced over at Bubbles, though as the creepy music began to fade in through the speakers, her smile only widening as she was reminded of what would come after.

Her fight with Bubbles Burste... That was going to be the TRUE show, at least for her... Clashing with such a monster was going to feel so amazing... A REAL test of her strength and resolve that she never had before... Anyone would be completely INSANE to not be looking forward to a match with such a woman, one who was kind enough to help do this all for them... One who was just as eager to fight her as she was to do the same...

With the two women starting their song, Cicilia turned her attention back to the pair, surprised by the lyrics. These dark and foreboding words were NOT what one would expect from a song called "Thriller". Evil lurking in the dark? Terror? Screaming? What kind of Thriller was this? The buildup was intense, almost like the abuse of the violin most horror films used to indicate a build in pressure. And SUDDENLY the song turned on it's head, turning into some kind of upbeat, groovy song that made the German squint, perplexed... but just snickering along. Something about this tune was just... hilarious...

Mariah seemed to be the head of the tune, leading the song with Sayumi following behind... But as that part of the song came to a close, the generous hostess stepped back, allowing the lavender angel to take the lead in the second half of the song... Cicilia grinned as it was her lover's turn in the spotlight... As good as Mariah was, Sayumi was going to be absolutely beautiful... she just knew it...

Sayumi was shaking with anticipation to get started, hopping forward to howl into the microphone along with the wolf, already off to a strong start. She loved this song. While it wasn't the music video version she was more familiar with, which the prompting selector was so kind to tell her, it was pretty much the same, it just had the chorus mixed in. That much she knew. She bobbed with the beat, hunching over a bit to really get into the dark and spooky mindset, letting Mariah take lead while she provided some fun backup dancing and pantomiming. Karaoke was her jam, and songs like this that came with actual dance moves were the best!

”It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed"

Sayumi slicked around behind Mariah as if looking for something, suddenly gasping as she clutched her chest! She turned to the side, motioning as if trying to let out a let scream, reaching up to gesture plucking the invisible sounds from her mouth and tossing them to the wind. he went rigid, half turning with her arms up, stuck in place with her mouth hanging open, eye darting from side to side.

"Cuz this is thriller! Thriller night~
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike
You know it's thriller! Thriller night~
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight!"

As the chorus hit, she threw up her arms, clapping her hand loudly against one of her wrists, giving the same sound without striking the mic. She joined in her, singing along with Mariah.She even added some of the actual dance moves into it. only hindered by the lack of space on the stage for the time being. Shen she threw up her arms, striking the a poise at the literal word "strike" she bumped hips with Mariah, trying to coax her into dancing along too.

"You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl!
But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind
You're out of time"

Saymui stomped her foot hard on the stage to replicate the door slamming, lowering ehr mic down far enough to pick up the sound easier. Slipping up behind Mariah, she hit herself from view, reaching up and over to slip a hand over her shoulder letting it slowly build suspence until finally grabbing the other woman at before the chorus began.

'Cuz this is thriller, thriller night~
There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl... OoooooOoooo!
Thriller, thriller night~
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight!

She twirled out from behind Mariah with a giggle, skirt fanning out around her hips. She sang along with the chorus, taking this one a bit easier with the dance moves to make sure she was ready to pick up the slack.

"Night creatures call~
And the dead start to walk in their masquerade~..."

Sayumi slowly circled Mariah, eyeing her intently. She opened her mouth, taking a small bite in the air at her before backing away

"There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time~
This is the end of your life..."

She took to the edge of the stage, hopping down from the small rise to take herself into the "crowd" with the wireless mic.

"They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side~
They will possess you unless you change that number on your dial..."

She crept around the front of the two girls observing, moving like some creature out of a horror movie. Slipping up behind Bubbles wiggling her finger at the large woman's ear at the line of possession before looping back around to Cicilia, messing her girlfriend's hair up as she pass behind her.

Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together~

Sayumi, plopped herself back into Cicilia's lap, giving her a fond little nuzzle as she snuggled close while she sang. She even got in a small kiss on the cheek between lines.

"All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen..."

She looked Cicilia in the eyes, giving her a small nose boop.

"I'll make you see~!"

Sayumi slipped from Cicilia's lap, drawing back before she kicked a leg up, resting her boot on the edge of her girlfriend's chair between her legs, stilling straight to her with a mischievous smile.

"That this is thriller, thriller night~
Cuz I can thrill you more than any ghoul could ever dare try!
Thriller, thriller night~
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, chiller~
Thriller here tonight!"

She gave Cicilia's chair a playful nudge as she backed up to the stage, repeating.

"Cuz this is thriller, thriller night~
Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghoul could ever dare try!
Thriller, thriller night~
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller!"

One she had gotten back beside Mariah, she pointed out to Cicilia with a smirk.

"I'm gonna thrill you tonight~!"

She gave Mariah a small nudge, surrendering the spoken lines, at least the start, to her. How good was her Vincent Price? They were about to find out.

Wow. Sayumi was not kidding. Mariah had been somewhat skeptical when she said she was expert when karaoke - to her ears, it was a bit like saying someone was at taking shots or drunken dancing or whatever other things people did when they got bored in bars. She thought she’d been into it, with her light dancing and hair flipping and prancing, but Sayumi went further beyond the call of duty, to a place that few dreamed.

It was almost hypnotic to watch her move about, as if this was some choreographed routine that she’d practiced a hundred times, over and over. She knew where to be. She knew when to be there. It wasn’t just impressive, it was downright scary, as she maneuvered around the staged with haunting prescience. Mariah could be a bit of a hog sometimes, loving the attention whenever she could get it, but here, she had to just let it go. There was no way she could compare. Sayumi was a karaoke virtuoso.

She was so taken aback that she managed to miss her cue on the last part, only remembering it a few seconds after Sayumi gave her the nudge. After a bewildered stare, she snapped out of it and got to work, ready to lead them.

”-midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize your neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell!”

She stepped back and gave Sayumi all the space she could ask for, knowing the younger woman wouldn’t let this opportunity for theatrics slip through her fingers. On her own part, her main concern was getting her Vincent Price just right. She did a good job for a thirty-something woman impersonating a septuagenarian, getting just the right amount of scratch in her throat to pull it off.

”The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller!”

And no came the coup de grace, as Mariah let loose with the biggest, evilest, most maniacal howl of laughter that she could, filling the room with her ghoulish cackle. It came surprisingly natural to her, and felt oddly refreshing, as if it cleared out her lungs. Cathartic.

She managed to hold it all the way until the music faded out and the song stopped. That was when the real laughter started, and she moved over to Sayumi, opening her arms wide for an encompassing hug, squeezing the smaller woman tight. ”Oh my God!” She closed her eyes, laughing so hard that a few tears came out. ”You amazingly ridiculous and ridiculously amazing.”

Cicilia was completely enthralled by her girlfriend's dance, her moves perfect... If the German hadn't been there when the terms of the date were hashed out, she would've thought Sayumi had practiced this day and night to perfect. Knowing that this was all improvisation of the highest quality, however... that turned her on... She was so talented... Saying that she did some karaoke didn't even describe the sheer skill the beautiful lavender possessed when it it came to her craft! Her actions alone, even before leading the song put everyone else' performances to complete and utter shame and Cicilia couldn't have possibly felt any better about it... She loved watching her move so freely, dance so fluidly and beautifully like each one of her steps and slides represented an action stated in the lyrics. She was truly a master of this craft, one of the highest possible order... and somehow, through all the beauty and hotness that was her lover dancing and singing her heart out on stage, one thought reached Cicilia's mind:

I love you...

To make things even better, Sayumi's performance wasn't limited to the stage. Quite the contrary, she stepped down with her mike in hand, circling around Bubbles and then Cicilia herself, her cheeks flashing red as she felt her girlfriend run her hands through her long dark mane. She gasped in surprise as her lover just PLOPPED down on her lap, her blush darkening to the max as she nuzzled her, all while the song continued to go on... She stared up into those aqua eyes of her girlfriend, the two of them locking gazes.... Cicilia drifted forward, her lips seeking her girlfriends but like the ghosts she was singing about, Sayumi was no longer there.... She hopped off the boxer's lap, her boot now firmly planted on her chair between her legs, the German's eyes wide, staring up from her foot, along her leg until she reached her lover's face again, her blush deepening even more if that was at all possible. She felt her heart pumping as her lover made her way back on stage, feeling a very certain passion rise up in her chest brought forth from Sayumi's provocative moves, of course, but for the passion SHE felt for the art she was creating this night.

She listened to the sound of true music as her girlfriend sung the chorus before freezing upon seeing her lover's finger pointed right at her, saying she was going to 'thrill' her tonight... Were this some kind of anime or something, Ciclia's nose might've started bleeding from the blush that completely engulfed her face, her body shaking with all the restraint she had to keep from just running this stage and taking Sayumi right then... It was so hard to be decent when she was acting like this...! She might've even protested if it wasn't so GOOD! And it was good... it was great...

Sayumi was perfect...

It seemed Mariah was as stunned as she was but she recovered a lot quicker than Cicilia, continuing the song fluidly until the music came to an end with the most disturbing laugh Cicilia might've EVER heard. So disturbing was it that the deranged cackle actually sobered the German up a bit, bringing her back to reality.

Slightly.

Mariah embraced her girlfriend and Cicilia wasn't all that far behind, jumping out of her chair and rushing the stage, wrapping her arms around them both and potentially knocking them both over and sending them sprawling to the stage-floor. She cracked a massive grin, giggling as she burried her face in her girlfriend's neck, kissing her warm throat with dead-obvious passion.

"You're amazing!" She exclaimed, pulling away and staring into those beautiful eyes before locking lips with her in a deep kiss... Mariah exclaimed how utterly ridiculous and amazing Sayumi was and the German couldn't agree more... So she didn't say anything and pulled away, smiling...

Sayumi, glanced back between the Audience and Mariah as she was missing her cue. "-Across the land, the midnight ho-" Mariah had it now. She gave the woman a firm supportive smile.

”-midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize your neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell!”

She slipped away, lowering herself to the stage on her hands and kneels, prowling around on the floor at Mariah's feet. She made a big show of clawing about and gnashing her teeth. She left her microphone behind crawling down off the stage on her way to Cicilia and Bubbles. She was having way to much fun with this apparently. At the mention of the hounds of hell, she threw back ehr head and howled!

She turned herself over, laying out along the ground, closing her eyes and crossing her arms over her chest. RIP Sayumi.

”The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller!”

He arms slowly rose up vertically. Then she sat upright stiffly. Her head slowly turned to face the two woman crowd. She stood herself up, shambling along the ground as she moved towards Bubbles, groaning softly, head lulled to one side. She draped herself over the large woman at the mention of her sealed doom. Sayumi grasping at her head to lower it down as she pantomimed eating her brains! GROSS! Having thoroughly zombified Bubbles, she turned to Cicilia with dull hungry eyes, slipping off the large woman. She was curious if Bubbles would play along, hoped she would.

With the closing line of the song's speech, she lunged for Cicilia, trying to drag her down to the floor as Mariah did her evil laugh. Though Bubbles had gotten the brain eating, Cicilia instead got lots and lots of kisses as Sayumi did her best manic evil laugh as well.

"Mwahahahahahaha!"

That was...something.

Bubbles looked on from her seat, not sure what she was seeing before her eyes. Was that her wife out there? Mariah was, usually, the more in control between them, the more serious, the more restrained. Yes, she could cut loose every now and then, but this? This was a side that was new to even Bubbles. So adventurous. So funny. So goofy. It was definitely something she could’ve gotten more used to.

To be fair, though, it was probably an aftereffect of being so near to Sayumi. The Virgin Killer was more than a little surprised when she came over and made an attempt at eating her brains, and she had more than a little trouble keeping all the giggles inside. It was a supreme effort, but somehow, she managed to hold out, feigning zombification on the chair, all the way until the song ended and Sayumi proceeded to devour her girlfriend.

When it was all over she stood up and gave them a round of rowdy applause, as she and Mariah moved around the side of the table, coming at each other’s sides. Mariah had a feeling that the pair might be at this for a little while, and she was more than happy to leave them to it. ”Hey,” She gave Bubbles a little elbow in the side. ”Were we ever this adorable?”

”Sadly, no.” Bubbles sighed, putting a hand on her hip as she watched with a light smile. ”Hard to compete, though.”

Yeah... this really was something... The German didn't know what to think watching Sayumi's performance kick up a notch. She blinked as her lover let out a loud howl in time with her lyrics, wondering just how MUCH the lavender beauty invested herself in this. Like... She could appreciate a good show but this was just a WHOLE NEW level of cheese Cicilia hadn't even come close to seeing before now.

And she loved it.

Even through all that blushing, the German smiled and watched her lover as she rose from her downed, stiff position on the stage, lumbering over to both she and Bubbles like the zombie she was supposedly personifying. Where the larger woman managed to keep her smiles on lock-down, playing along with her brains being eaten, Cicilia couldn't help but giggle and laugh at just the SCENE playing so close! It was so cute and funny... and she just HAD to do her best to play along, right...? She did her best to squelch her smirk with less than successful results, Sayumi approached slowly, glaring at her with the dead/hungry eyes of a walking corpse before LUNGING at her and dragging the boxer to the ground with a yelp, tipping over her chair in the process.

"Sayumi-" Was all she got out before she felt her lover's lips on hers, her eyes shooting wide in shock... Then slowly closing as she melted into their kiss. And that was just the first one, too. She sighed softly as she pressed up into her lover's lips, wrapping her arms around her back as she matched each and every one, smiling devilishly as her lover let out the most Dr. Evil laugh she's ever heard.

She loved being bad...

Cicilia pressed up into her lover with a few kisses of her own, losing focus on where she actually was in this moment... It tended to happen when they kissed... the whole world couldn't hold a candle to the importance of Sayumi's love... She wasn't afraid to deepen it either, moaning ever so softly into her lips as they met yet again, her blush fading away gradually as did everything else.