Really Strange Stuff - Ch.36 - Exposed (Patreon)

=::= Callie's PoV =::=

"How's it looking Bails?" I asked. "Are we good to go?"

Our foxgirl girlfriend tapped a few buttons on the AV panel while watching the screen on her laptop. Then she fidgeted with her glasses as she told us, "Yeah we're good."

"That'll be camera one," she added as she pointed to the camera on her right. "It's on you two."

Then she gestured to the one on her left, "That's camera two, it's covering the other half of the sofa. And I've got my laptop's webcam on me, since we forgot the foxcam back at the hotel."

Instead of our usual well-worn sofa in our basement studio with the seventies-era wood panel walls and everything, we were set up in the living-room of a modern stylish open concept home. The walls looked like they'd been painted recently, the floor was polished hardwood, and there was a cozy fire burning in a hearth off to the side.

Sere and I were sitting next to each other on one end of a large L-shaped sectional sofa, facing towards the fireplace. And Bailey was in a love-seat on the other side of the room, where she had a good view of the whole makeshift set. She had her laptop and the rest of her gear set up on a coffee table in front of her, and we had a couple cameras on tripods positioned to either side of that.

Two of our hosts were watching and waiting from the other end of the sectional near the fireplace, while the rest were off-camera to our right. It seemed like they were pretty curious about our set-up too, some of them were interested in our camera equipment while others were watching Bails and her AV gear.

"Sounds good," Serenity smiled.

I nodded, "Just give us the signal and we'll get started."

Our foxgirl girlfriend adjusted her glasses again as she gave everything a final check. Then she nodded, "Recording in three, two, one, go!"

"Howdy folks!" I smiled at the camera. "I'm Callie Wilson -"

"And I'm Serenity Varela," my cohost chimed in.

I continued, "And have we got some Really Strange Stuff lined up for you!"

My tall sexy girlfriend took over again, "Regular viewers will already know this isn't our usual studio back at RSS World Headquarters. Right now we're up in Canada, and get this people? It's the night before halloween, and we're about to record an interview with some real live demons!"

"That's right Sere!" I nodded enthusiastically, while my tail and ears all stood up. "The three of us came to Toronto looking for demons, after a wave of sightings started back in June then reached a peak this month. And folks, you won't believe what we found!"

Serenity's ears and tail were all standing up too as she grinned, "We can't call them our guests since we're doing this in their home, so let's hear it for two of our hosts, Mara and Amber!"

Bailey gestured to the two demons so they'd know they were 'on', although since this wasn't live she wasn't actually cutting back and forth between cameras. The video feeds from all three cameras were being recorded, then we'd splice that raw footage together into a nicely edited episode once when we got back home.

"Hi there," Mara replied with a wide grin that made her look almost as excited as me.

The demonic coed had her horns and tail in full view like usual, and she was dressed in what I took to be her normal outfit of dark leggings combined with a large loose top. She was seated sort of in front and to the left of Serenity, on the other arm of the L-shaped sofa. And she looked equal parts relaxed and excited.

"Hello," Amber added with a smile, but she seemed a little more reserved than her girlfriend.

She was sitting to Mara's left, and she looked very different from the shy blushy girl we met at the party on Saturday and again at brunch on Sunday.

This Amber was tall and slim and devastatingly attractive, and also appeared to be more than a half-dozen years older than the original. She was dressed in a sleek black pencil skirt and a tight fiery red blouse, she looked like a confident sexy young woman in her late twenties. Her silky chestnut hair flowed down to her shoulders in gorgeous loose curls, and her make-up looked like the sort of thing supermodels and movie stars would pay a fortune for.

In fact I wouldn't have believed she was the same girl if I hadn't witnessed her transformation a half hour earlier. Instead of being small shy and innocent, she now looked exactly like I'd expect for a succubus. And she was dressed for a night on the town, like she expected to visit a nightclub and pick up a human or two so she could snack on them.

After her magical glow-up my girlfriends and I actually had a hard time not staring at the sultry succubus, but that seemed to amuse her rather than annoy her. She also explained that this was similar to the form she wore when she was working at her sex toy boutique. Which made sense, it was hard to picture her small shy persona doing that sort of work.

In fact I caught myself staring yet again, and had to remind myself to focus on the interview. "Mara and Amber, maybe you could tell us a little about yourselves? Let our viewers know who you are."

"So I'm Mara," the demonic coed announced with a wide grin. "And I'm a demon! As if the tail and horns weren't enough of a give-away."

Her long muscular spade-tipped tail started out coiled up on her lap, but while she spoke it uncoiled then the end began to slowly wave around in between her and Amber.

Mara's grin faltered slightly when she added, "My demon mom won't let me share anything she thinks is too sensitive, but I can say that me and my polycule live in a house in the north-east part of Toronto."

"And she wants me to explain that demons aren't all evil," the demon girl continued. "We don't come from hell and we don't have anything to do with stuff like Satan or whatever? That all comes from the mythology of one or two major religions, but it's not based on reality."

After a brief hesitation Mara wrapped up her little speech, "So um, yeah. Some demons are good, some are bad. Same as humans. But there's way more humans than demons. Something like a billion to one or whatever? I don't know. Anyways we're rare but we're mostly just people, same as everyone else."

Amber had a little amused smile on her face while her girlfriend was speaking, then when Mara finally finished she took over and introduced herself in a calm relaxed voice. "My name is Amber, and I'm a succubus rather than a demon."

"Don't worry about me trying to seduce you though," she added as her tone became a bit more playful. "I'm demi-ace, so I'm not really interested in all that 'exchanging bodily fluids' stuff. At least not for myself? I'm very sex-positive, and wholeheartedly support other people's enjoyment of those activities."

Serenity responded, "I apologize if this is an ignorant question Amber, but I was under the impression that succubi were a form of demon? Is that not the case?"

The sexy brunette gave my cohost a patient smile as she replied, "Succubi are demonic, but we aren't demons. Although the distinction probably won't matter to most people. This isn't a great analogy but it's like comparing a sparrow to an eagle? Both are birds, but they're very different."

"Alright," I smiled. "So we've got a demon girl and a succubus here with us, and I know one of the first questions our viewers are going to ask is what sort of stuff can you do? Do y'all have magic? Or powers? We can see Mara has horns and a tail, are there other physical traits that set you apart from normal humans?"

A thoughtful look settled on Mara's face as she replied, "So I've got demonic strength, but that probably won't look very impressive on camera? It just means I'm stronger than I look, I can run fast and lift heavy things? Kinda boring. And I can see in the dark, like night-vision or whatever? But that's even less impressive."

"Oh!" she grinned as her horns and tail suddenly vanished, leaving her looking like a normal college freshman. "Here's something I can show you!"

Serenity commented to the camera, "That's not special effects folks. Mara's horns and tail literally just disappeared, right before our eyes."

"So what did you do exactly? Did you just transform yourself into a normal human?" I asked.

The demon girl shook her head, "Nah. I could do that, but it makes me feel dysphoric? Or dysmorphic, I can never remember the right word. Anyways my demon bits are still there, I just made them invisible."

"I used to do this all the time actually," she admitted. "Like so I could blend in with humans or whatever? It works pretty well, but since my horns and tail are still there people can accidentally touch them. And they show up on infrared cameras, which got me in trouble once."

I asked, "So you can shape-shift, but you don't because it's uncomfortable? And you can also selectively make parts of yourself invisible. Can you make your whole body invisible?"

"Sure," Mara nodded, and a moment later she did just that.

The demon girl vanished completely, but the sofa cushions were still deformed underneath her for another second or two. Then they smoothed out as the demon girl stood up. And a moment later she reappeared standing in front of the sofa, horns and tail and all.

"That's amazing," Serenity responded with a smile.

With another wide grin Mara said, "Let me show you one more trick while I'm on my feet."

A pair of large bat-like wings suddenly extended outwards from the girl's back. There wasn't enough room for her to extend them fully, but she flexed them enough to prove they were real and she could control them

"You've actually got wings?!" I pretended to be shocked. "Does that mean you can fly?"

The ravenette demoness nodded, "Yeah! I have to make myself invisible first though, so people won't see me."

"Either that or we wait until it's dark out before we go flying," she added as her wings disappeared. Then she sat back down next to Amber again.

I gave her a hopeful look, "Any chance we could see you flying? Maybe get it on camera?"

"Oh yeah that'd be awesome!" Mara exclaimed. "It'll be dark enough soon, but I don't know how well your cameras will record it? And we should go somewhere more private, so we don't scare the neighbours or whatever. But yeah let's do that!"

That put another smile on my face, but for now we had to finish the interview. And my cohost already had another question lined up.

Serenity asked, "You said you wait until dark before 'we' go flying. Does that mean your girlfriends accompany you?"

"Unfortunately not," Amber shook her head. "Succubi aren't able to fly."

Mara added, "I like to go flying with my demon family. That's me and my mater and mehter, and my other half."

I asked, "Are Mater and Mehter demonic names? And could you explain what you mean by 'other half'?"

"Oh um," she hesitated for a second. "Mater and mehter are our words for mom and mum? Like ancient Latin and Greek or whatever? Actually I'm not sure where they come from. And 'other half' is what my uh, twin sister and I call each other."

My girlfriends and I still didn't really understand any of that business about how Mara and Mira were related. They looked like identical twin sisters though, so that's what we assumed they were. Except it seemed more complicated than that, but from the sounds of it Mara wasn't going to explain any further on camera.

Then Serenity addressed our other host, "Amber do succubi have any magic or talents you'd like to share with our viewers?"

The gorgeous succubus gave us another little smile as she replied, "Nothing that'll make for good video content I'm afraid."

"Or nothing you could put in an episode without breaking a few laws that is," she added with another smirk. "Seriously though, we do have some supernatural talents. I don't want to get in trouble with my fellow succubi so I won't expose all our secrets, but I can share a few things with you."

She went on to list some, but like she said there wasn't really anything she could demonstrate. Although the first point felt pretty obvious to me.

"We're supernaturally attractive," Amber explained, "Although the effects are muted by the camera, so your viewers won't be feeling it quite like the three of you are now."

She continued, "In person it's strong enough that even gay men and straight women are sometimes tempted. And ace folks tend to really want to cuddle with us."

"Succubi also gain some insight into what our partners enjoy," she added. "I'm referring to things like kinks or fantasies or fetishes. And we use that knowledge to ensure our partners have the best experience possible, which of course benefits us as well."

I asked, "We may have to bleep some of this out later, but you're talking about sex right? That's how succubi feed?"

Amber nodded, "That's how most succubi feed. And no, we don't steal people's souls. We don't kill anyone either. After a human spends a night with one of us they're usually just tired, but very satisfied."

After a moment she elaborated, "Succubi feed on sexual energy. So it's in our best interest that our partners enjoy their time with us as much as humanly possible."

Sere asked, "You said you're ace though, you're not interested in sex. So how do you feed?"

The sexy brunette gave us a coy look then shrugged, "I still feed on sexual energy, but not as a participant. And I think that's all I'm going to say on the topic, if you don't mind."

I had a few guesses on how that worked, but my girlfriends and I knew better than to try and push for answers. Especially considering our goddess wanted these people to work with her, so we weren't going to risk offending or annoying any of them.

"We understand. And of course we respect your privacy," my cohost responded. Then she sort of joked, "We wouldn't want to get other demons or succubi upset with us either."

Amber and Mara both smiled, while Mira and the other two succubi looked like they were satisfied about not having too many secrets exposed. By that point it felt like we had a good sort of rapport going on with our hosts, so Sere and I asked a few more questions. Sometimes we got answers, sometimes we didn't. Or probably most of the time we got half-answers, since there was likely a lot of stuff they weren't comfortable sharing with the public.

After a good hour or so we finally wrapped things up. Bails confirmed all the footage was saved on her laptop, then it took us another half hour to take down the temporary set-up and pack stuff up in my car. Mara hadn't forgotten about the flying thing though, and both she and Mira had something in mind for us.

So it was nearly ten PM when my girlfriends and I parked the car in an almost empty lot right next to Lake Ontario, with the Scarborough Bluffs on one side and the water on the other. And despite it being well past sunset there was actually some useful light in the sky, thanks to the city lights reflecting off a low cloud cover. Plus we had some street lights in the parking lot, and a nearby marina had plenty of lights shining over the docks and their own parking area.

We all got out of the car then Serenity and Bailey got a couple of our professional cameras set up for some low-light action, while I grabbed one of our audio recorders and a parabolic mic.

"How do y'all want to do this?" I asked the demon twins, after the cameras were rolling and the audio deck was recording. "Will you two just fly around a bit while we shoot some video?"

Both Mara and Mira had their wings out as they stood in front of us, and the pair of them both looked like they were eager to fly. The girl with the horns grinned, "We're going to have some fun. So just try and keep up!"

"Are you talking to them, or me?" Mira asked with a smirk.

The first twin let out an excited giggle, then with a powerful beat of her big bat-like wings she was airborne. Her sister followed a second later, and next thing I knew it was like they were playing tag in the sky over our heads.

My girlfriends and I did our best to keep the cameras and mic on them as the two girls raced back and forth, up and down, out over the water then back in towards the cliffs. And every time I managed to get the parabolic on them the first thing I heard through the headphones was giggling.

Sure enough this was all just a big game for the demonic sisters, and I really couldn't blame them for that. They made it look fun, and despite how hard it was to keep up with them my girlfriends and I ended up smiling and laughing along with the demons.

The fun lasted a good fifteen or twenty minutes, before the girls finally set down in the parking lot next to us. Mara looked so happy she was practically beaming, but Mira managed to act serious while she addressed us. "Was that good enough? Did you get any decent shots?"

"We sure did!" Bailey nodded. "That was amazing!"

Serenity added, "Thank you so much for letting us film this!"

"We really appreciate it," I chimed in. "Seriously, we can't thank you enough."

I was still smiling as I continued, "This is the sort of footage we've spent our whole lives looking for. And here we are talking with you and working with you, and you're letting us film you? It's more than we could have ever hoped for."

I meant it too. Just a couple years ago team RSS were pretty much nobodies. We were two guys and a girl making oddball podcasts about chasing cryptids and looking for proof of the supernatural. Now we were two catgirls and a foxgirl, we were working with goddesses and demons, angels and succubi. And we were part of a bigger picture, a plan to bring magic and equality back to the world. That was way more important than just exposing some random paranormal stuff.

Just over two years had passed since we first heard of Kid Chaos, and in that time our lives had gotten better in so many amazing ways. I honestly couldn't wait to see what the future had in store. For all of us.

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