December 31, 2039

Several months into Gene and Amy's relationship, diplomatic relations with the Americans continued to deteriorate, mostly due to Amy's expatriation to the Plutonian Empire. The decline finally slowed by Christmas time when King Gene sent his congratulations to the American government when they finally liberated North Korea for good, after countless false starts and false promises, epecially way back in 2018. Now it was New Years eve, almost midnight.

"Sixty seconds!" Amy yelled. As always, the venue was Gene's Hangout in Neuve Pluton, in the arcade room. This time, the majority of partygoers were almost all women of various origins and backgrounds. The only men in here were the Gamer Triple, as they've come to be known, and the King.

The large Holo-TV was hanging from the ceiling in front of the wall opposite the main entrance, showing a ball drop party being broadcasted from a park in downtown Neuve Pluton a mile away. The ball itself was like a magical bubble of neon lights and lasers, hovering in the air, and began slowly descending to a high ledge of a nearby building at the 60 second mark.

King Gene was standing on the bar's counter top to Adelle's right, with Amy right in front of him. When the countdown passing 50 seconds, they saw Leokadia and an unknown woman enter the building together. Fortunately, the doors finally got replaced by Star Trek-like autosliding doors, making entering thick crowds a bit less rude. Leokadia immediately spotted the royal couple and brought her mystery friend over to Gene and Amy's side, joining the countdown.

"Thirty! Twenty Nine..." A small portion of the crowd continued chanting, with Gene and Amy rejoining after being momentarily distracted. By 10 seconds, the rest of the crowd had joined.

"Nine!"
"Eight!"
"Seven!"
"Six!"
"Five!"
"Four"
"Three!"
"Two!"
"One!"

Everyone wooed and screamed "Happy New Year!" As the magical bubble ball transmorphed into various, almost indescribable celebratory shapes and appearances. Amy and Gene kissed, with Leokadia's friend licking her lips as she watched. Leokadia had habitually turned to say happy new year's to her friend and saw the whole thing, suppressed a snicker, and repeated her well wishing, after which the friend finally reciprocated.

After a few minutes, the celebration finally died down enough for conversations to resume, and Leokadia finally got to introduce her friend as Gene finally got back down to the floor.

"Gene, Amy, this is Keres van Golden, my cousin," she announced. They all shook hands and said their hellos.

"Ohh, nice to meet you, Keres!" Amy exclaimed. "What brings you here?"

Keres, about 5'7", wearing a black, low cut tank top, and feminine blue jeans, took a step to her side and suggestively leaned forward onto the counter, amplifying her 32G tits. Her hair was blonde with brown streaks.

"You two cuties, baby." Keres winked as licked her lips again, blatantly eyeing both Amy and Gene, mentally sizing both of them up. She had a lusciously pleasant voice, with a slight German accent.

"Sorry girl! I'm straight!" Amy began, totally knowing what Keres was up to, and started walking towards the stairs, grabbing Gene's arm. "And his first fuck of the year belongs to me!" Gene had a hard time keeping up with his girlfriend, his mind all over the place now because of Leokadia's hoooooot new cousin. Keres continued eyeing him, doing that half-lip bite and all.

Leokadia facepalmed, her eyes closed and nosebridge pinched, throughout the entire thing, slowly walking to the second barstool away. When the King and Amy disappeared up the stairs, Keres grinned cheesily as she took the nearest barstool. Someone also turned the music back on, but at a mildly lower volume than from before the countdown, and people started dancing.

"Slut." Leokadia mumbled as she sat down, finished with her facepalm, amused by it all.

"Hehe, you know it baby." Keres winked, surprisingly able to hear it. As she sat down she pinched the thin air just above the countertop. A crystal clear wineglass made of ice materialized, spreading from Keres' fingers. "Red wine, please." Keres asked once the wine glass completed.

Adelle, also amused and briefly shaking her head, obliged.

"Fess up, girl. How long?" Leokadia leaned on the bar, not interested in a drink at the moment.

"Ahhhhhhh... Ehhhh... A few months?" Keres admitted. She converted to Plutonianism back in August, found out she had abilities too. Leokadia knew already her older cousin had powers, considering she migrated to the Empire from Germany just a week ago. She just didnt know how long until now. Keres took a sip of her wine.

"How 'bout you? Any witchy sexiness?"

"Nope. Staying 21 forever is enough for me."

"Fair enough." Keres nodded. She and Leokadia caught up with each other now that they had a little bit of time. Apparently Keres' long-time relationship with her girlfriend fell apart shortly after discovering her powers, and was evicted from her apartment shortly afterwards. Her parents had already disowned her years ago for being bisexual.

"Just like they disowned my mom. Grreeaat." Leokadia rolled her eyes sarcastically. Keres sighed, dropping her head. She was tired of the homophobia in her life. Another thing that made her move to the Empire. Leokadia sympathetically rubbed her cousin's back for a few moments. They both sat at the bar quietly for a minute or so, as Keres finished her drink.