Portals of Infinity: Kaiju Page 7

  Gregory, Joseph, and I got some attention, a lot of people wanted to practice their English on us, and I left that to the others.

  "So why are they snubbing you?" I asked Evean quietly after the other people had left us alone.

  "They don't like Vietnamese people," Evean said rather matter-of-factly, "Most Japanese people don't like the other Asian races and worse yet, I'm a half-breed."

  "Half-breed?" I said looking at her curiously.

  "My father was a Frenchman. Least my mother thought he was French. He was with the French forces that were in Vietnam before you Americans came in."

  "Oh, what happened to him?"

  "He died in the war when I was still a baby."

  "Sorry to hear that."

  Evean shrugged a shoulder, "It all happened a long time ago."

  "So why are they all over Suzona like flies?"

  Evean giggled, "Because they like big tall and very sexy American women here. She's going to be opening up a lot of doors for us."

  "I'm not so sure she's going to like that," I warned.

  "Too bad for her then," Evean looking at me, and gave me an evil grin, one that really did look evil.

  "You know, you really should go for that surgery," I said.

  "Why? Don't like looking at me?" Evean said giving me a hostile look now.

  "No, it's because I can see it bothers you, a lot. You can afford to fix it now, get it fixed. We suffer enough for our gods, no reason for us to suffer about anything else, is there?"

  "No," She said settling back into the seat and losing the hostile expression.

  "So, what are we going to tell these people when we get to Tokyo?"

  "We're an advance team from a small studio in southern California that is looking to do a documentary on the kaiju movies that were done here in the sixties and the seventies."

  "Think they'll buy that?" I asked surprised.

  "Well, I have a nice set of counterfeit identification that says that's who we are, and tall, blond, and Viking, over there bears a remarkable resemblance to a rather popular female actress back in America."

  I laughed, "Well she's sure insufferable enough for it."

  "You don't like her much, do you?" Evean asked.

  "Oh, she's alright, most of the time. Her attitude just rubs me the wrong way occasionally."

  "She's always the hottest bitch in the room and she knows it."

  I nodded, "Exactly."

  "Worse then me even?" Evean asked, grinning at me.

  I shook my head. "You never copped an attitude over it, Evean. You go into a bar; you buy everyone a drink even though you're the hottest gal in town. She's goes into a bar and she expects everyone to bow down and buy her drinks."

  "Want to piss her off?" Evean asked giving me a wink.

  I looked at her, "What did you have in mind?"

  "This," She said and leaned over in her seat to press up against me.

  I noticed Suzona looked up from the man she was chatting with and shot me a glare.

  I put an arm around Evean and closed my eyes relaxing back against her.

  "This I can do," I laughed softly.

  As we were taking a train, I had thought it was going to be a long trip, but it was surprisingly rather quick. The trains here were incredibly fast, as well as comfortable. A little less than six hours after we left, we were in Tokyo. It was late at night, so Evean made a few phone calls and found us a hotel to stay at. So once again we all marched off after her to it.

  Suzona was playing up to Gregory, who seemed happy with the attention. I knew that they had slept together fairly often the last time we'd been together, while Joseph had avoided her like the plague and I'd tried to as well.

  But she kept shooting me nasty glances, as I walked along with Evean to the hotel. As Suzona and I had only slept together that one time, I was rather surprised by that.

  "Somebody is on the warpath," Joseph said to me when we got to the hotel as Evean went up to the desk and booked us rooms.

  "I noticed. Any idea why?"

  "Because she thinks she's the alpha bitch and that all the men should be sniffing around her, but you're not."

  "Well you're not either."

  "But I haven't slept with her," Joseph smirked, "you have. And now you're paying attention to a woman who she sees as far below her."

  I sighed and shook my head, "Suzona is going to be in for a very rude awakening when Evean lowers the boom on her."

  "I don't know, Will. Suzona is a pretty tough cookie."

  "Yeah, but I'm not afraid of Suzona."

  "But you're afraid of Evean?" he asked looking over at her as she collected the room keys and turned to walk back to us.

  "Evean terrifies me. Ask Jane about her sometime."

  "Okay, I have four rooms, so who is sharing with who?" Evean said.

  Suzona walked up and grabbed a key and started to look at me when Evean continued.

  "Actually, make that three, Will and I are already sharing one together," and she just winked at Suzona, who turned on her heel, grabbing Gregory as she stalked off.

  Joseph grabbed the next key and then took Jane by the hand and smiled at her. She nodded and the two of them walked off.

  Evean handed the remaining key to Loomis, Shin, and Teshes, said something to them in Japanese and then after showing them where their room was, she led me off to ours.

  "I finally get you all to myself, and in bed no less, and I look like this," Evean grumbled.

  "I'm surprised you haven't switched to your Champion form," I said taking off my shoes and relaxing.

  "Would you sleep with me if I did?" She asked, but apparently already knew the answer.

  "Not tonight, no," I said grinning.

  "Well, I'm going to use the bathroom, then you can have it."

  "Sure," I agreed.

  Evean quickly stripped, and I had to admit, she did have a nice body. However she had a couple more of those port-wine stains on her upper body, and they were fairly large. I didn't think they looked bad, but I could see how she wouldn't think so, when you added everything else up.

  When we finally got settled she turned the light out and cuddled up against me.

  "Well, now that it's nice and dark, how about we fool around some?"

  I sighed, "Turn the light on, Evean."

  "Why?" she said, and I could faintly hear the hurt sound in her voice. She was trying to hide it, but I could tell it was there.

  "Because I want to look at you while we make love," I said and rolled over and kissed her.

  "Are you serious?" she whispered surprised.

  "Very."

  The light came back on.

  Eight

  Earth - Tokyo

  Morning came, and Evean was so incredibly happy that it was almost painful. As for me, I wasn't sure I'd ever be able to walk again.

  The truth is, I really did like Evean, after the time we'd spent together on Siren we'd developed a fairly close friendship. I knew she wanted to get me in bed, I'd known that for sometime now, but back home, on Saladin, where she probably was the most beautiful woman in the entire world, it was kind of scary to have that kind of woman focused on you.

  But here? Looking like she did? Well Fel was right, it didn't really bug me that much and she was now a lot more, I guess you'd say 'accessible'. It wasn't scary having a woman like her interested in me here.

  Plus I knew it would make her happy, and again, I really did like her.

  The problem now however, was that she hadn't been kidding when she told me years ago that she'd been taught everything the priests and priestesses in her order knew about sex. I'd slept with a lot of women over the years, some of whom were very experienced in the ways of love and sex.

  Sex with Evean was, well, to be honest I was at a complete lack of words for it. Amazing, fantastic, and unbelievable just didn't see to do it justice. She did things that I didn't even know were possible.

  "I think you broke me," I moaned as the sun came
through the window.

  "Want me to kiss it and make it better?" Evean teased.

  "I was kind of hoping to get an hour or two of sleep before the others woke up," I groaned rolling over to face her. I don't think I'd ever seen her so happy before, and I'd seen her happy quite a few times. "What's got your motor revving so much? Still trying to kill me?"

  Evean kissed me and cuddled up closer. "No one has ever done that before, Will. You're the first."

  I pulled the covers up and then put an arm around her; Evean was definitely very cuddle-able. "You expect me to believe no one has ever made love to you before?"

  She shook her head, "No, not here, not ever. Oh, I've had sex here, more than a few times. With the lights out, in the dark, with men who didn't mind using my body, as long as they didn't have to look at me."

  I didn't know what to say to that, so I didn't say anything. I just gave her a kiss and closed my eyes and got some sleep.

  Or tried to at least, Evean still had other ideas.

  "What happened to you?" Joseph asked when we all sat down to eat breakfast.

  "Evean happened," I said and yawned.

  "What, she beat you up or something?" he teased.

  "Or something. I think like eight hours straight of 'or something'. I thought taking her on in her original form would be safe. Boy was I wrong!"

  "That good?" Gregory asked from next to Joseph, we were all sitting along a counter; eating breakfast. Evean was standing at the far end, talking in Japanese to Jane, Loomis, Shin, and Teshes.

  "The term good is an insult in its inability to fully describe what happened last night," I said and yawned again.

  Suzona shot us a dirty look. "Men and your bragging."

  "I'm not bragging about me," I pointed out, "I'm just telling the truth about Evean. I mean I've heard the stories, now I know the truth."

  "Stories?" Joseph asked, "Now I'm really curious."

  "Well, understand her champion form is from the same place as mine, only hers is quite incredibly beautiful."

  "And?"

  "She leads armies into combat ...."

  "I lead armies into combat!" Suzona interrupted.

  "... stark naked," I finished. "With a sword."

  Gregory laughed as Suzona turned red and Joseph nodded slowly. "Yeah, that would scare the hell out of me. A beautiful woman coming at me with a sword, with an army behind her?"

  Evean walked back over and sat down next to me and started in on her breakfast with an obvious appetite.

  "Somebody looks hungry," Joseph teased.

  Evean didn't even look up from her plate, "Usually they pass out after a few hours, Will however, stayed up all night."

  She looked up at Joseph and winked, "And I do mean up."

  I tried not to choke on my tea as both Joseph and Gregory broke up laughing rather loudly, while Suzona just scowled, then stood up and walked to the door.

  "I think I need some air," she said going outside.

  "I think she needs to get the rod out of her butt," Evean smirked and went back to eating her food.

  I took a minute to recover from choking, trying not to laugh at Suzona's behavior.

  "She is a nice woman, but she does need to be taken down a peg now and again," Gregory offered.

  "That's the truth," Joseph agreed.

  "So, what do we do today?" Gregory asked Evean.

  "I have identification that shows us as working for a small production company. Today we go to the Toho studios and ask some questions, find out the name of our man, and then go meet him."

  "That sounds easy enough."

  "Well, yes. But first we must dress the part. Someone go retrieve her royal highness, and as soon as we're finished, we can buy some better clothing."

  Three hours later we were at the offices of Toho studios. It was Me, Evean, Joseph, Gregory and of course, Suzona.

  Evean was in an understated business suit. Her role was that of our guide, translator, and facilitator. Joseph and I were in business suits, rather nice ones. Gregory was dressed to look like a bodyguard, complete with dark glasses and I had to admit he seemed to rather enjoy the role.

  Suzona was done up in a skin tight black leather outfit that was a front and a back with lots of lacing up the side, so you could tell she wasn't wearing either a bra or any underwear, with stockings, three inch pumps, and a black choker.

  Men's jaws were dropping as she strutted by, and she did not look happy at being used as eye candy.

  "Smiles everyone," Evean said as we approached the door.

  Suzona scowled and Evean said without even looking over her shoulder, "Don't make me have to talk to Isengruer, Sue."

  "It's Suzona," Suzona growled.

  "Of course it is. Now, smile," And with that Evean opened the door and we all swept in. Suzona, I noticed, was smiling. I guess Isengruer was her god or something.

  The five of us walked up to the front desk, Evean had set the other four on some other task, as I didn't speak Japanese I really had no idea what it was.

  When we got to the desk, Evean started to talk in Japanese to the young woman sitting behind it, switching to English after a brief discussion.

  "One moment, while I summon Mr. Takagi," The woman behind the desk said and gave a small bow. "He is most interested in talking to you."

  "Arigato," Evean said and bowed, then steered us over to a set of chairs the receptionist had motioned to.

  "They're expecting us?" I said.

  Evean nodded, "I called yesterday, while you were all eating."

  "And they talked to you?"

  Evean smiled, "Apparently your god has a rather important contact in Washington. As I understand it, one of his aides called and asked the President of Toho studios if we could visit with their special effects department for this project."

  "Whose idea was all of this?" I asked surprised.

  "Mine, of course."

  "Yours?"

  "I didn't get this job based on my good looks," Evean grinned at me, "I was an up and coming player in the underground sex trade here in Japan, when Roden found me. I know the way things really work around here."

  "I'm almost sorry I asked," I sighed.

  "You really are such a boy scout," Evean laughed.

  "It's not that."

  "Oh? Then what is it?"

  "Your being smarter than me is quite the blow to my already fragile ego, after what you did to my poor body last night."

  Evean laughed again, Suzona glared a bit more, and the others just snickered.

  A well dressed middle-aged Japanese man came out then with two younger men in tow and came over to us.

  "Miss Evean?" he asked.

  "Ah, Mr. Takagi," she said and bowed, then introduced us each.

  "This is my employer, William Stout, Joseph Langir, his assistant, Suzona, and her bodyguard."

  I was surprised that she didn't give the last name that was on Suzona's credentials, I was also amazed at the amount of respect that they paid her.

  We bowed, like Evean had coached us, even Suzona behaved. Then again, I could see that she was eating up the deference that they were giving her. We exchanged business cards, again as Evean had instructed us, while she continued talking.

  "So, as I mentioned during my phone call yesterday, we're from Foundation studios, and we're currently setting up to do a documentary on the whole kaiju genre, and with Toho studios being at the forefront with the whole gojira series and the other kaiju follow-ups, we were hoping to get a brief tour of your production shops and meet some of the people behind the scenes here today. To start those relationships that will help when we send over the lead elements of our documentary film crew."

  "Yes, yes, of course! Allow me, to be your guide, please," Mr. Takagi said and led us inside to show us around.

  "How did we rate the boss?" I whispered to Evean, using a cantrip to make sure we weren't overheard.

  Evean smiled, "I told them that Suzona was really Brigitte Nelson traveling incognito
."

  "Who's that?"

  "Someone famous who looks and acts like Sue."

  "Does Suzona know about this?"

  "Course not, that woman couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. She'll just suck it up because the world owes her," Evean snarked, still smiling.

  I shrugged. She was right, of course.

  They took us around the new sets first, showing us what was going on currently, and even what some of the future projects would be. Then they took us into the model shop, and back in one of the corners there was a small section that was quite obviously dedicated to Godzilla, or Gojira as Evean said the Japanese had called him.

  "This is what started it all," Mr. Takagi said.

  "Who are the people who worked on creating the original creature?" I asked.

  "Oh, that was Eiji Tsuburaya. He left us to create his own company ages ago. Since he passed, his son runs it now."

  I nodded, "Do you think they might be willing to take part in a documentary?"

  "Tsuburaya Studios? Oh, I would think they would be very pleased to do so. Outside of Japan few people know of them." He turned to one of his men and spoke to them briefly in Japanese, and they hurried off.

  He led us back out to the front then, and I thanked him for his time, and let him know that the studio would be in touch. He then went over and talked with Suzona for minute, thanking her personally for having come to the studio.

  While he was doing that, the assistant came back, spoke briefly with Evean and handed her a note.

  We all bowed again, and then left.

  "What's the note?" I asked after we'd left the building.

  "An introduction to Tsuburaya studios, along with their address," Evean smiled. "Another step closer."

  "Those men were all so polite," Suzona said, smiling for real now and looking much happier. "They obviously know how to treat a real woman."

  Evean just looked at me and rolled her eyes.

  Nine

  Earth - Tokyo

  Tsuburaya studios

  We stuck to the same plan at Tsuburaya studios as we had used at Toho. Apparently they had called in advance of our showing up, and we were now seated in the office of the studio's president, who was one of the founder's sons, after having gotten a brief tour.