Offer to send them home -- for a price.

Because Krystal looked completely human, and had remembered a word of Japanese, the schoolgirls wanted to stick close to her, even as she turned in her gear and changed back into her “fatigue uniform” of red hot pants. As she’d expected, there was indeed a button on them now. To be honest, she didn’t mind the girls’ attention. All that tender young female flesh pressed close felt pretty good, and she indulged herself imagining just how she could get some of these girls to show her gratitude. Her mouth quirked in a wry grin. “The me I used to be – the me I was just a few days ago – would be horrified at what I want to do to these girls,” she thought. “Now I’m just wondering how I’m going to seduce one of them when the other eleven won’t leave us alone. Or two and ten. Might as well be ambitious if it’s just a fantasy anyway.”

Her thoughts were interrupted by the arrival of the general. Krystal stiffened to attention and saluted. The general returned the salute, then turned her full attention to the girls.

“Why don’t you tell me what happened to you,” she said.

The girls started to sob again, but one of them finally looked up. “We were on our last school trip before graduation, visiting our sister school in Seoul,” she said, “and the bus…” she shivered, but seemed to physically pull herself together and went on, “it blew up. We thought we’d hit a land mine, but then we saw monsters coming through the flames. They killed the teachers and the boys, just tore them apart… so much blood…” she started to cry again.

The general brushed aside the bangs of the girl’s pageboy cut and placed a hand on her forehead. “Tell me your name,” she said.

“Kagesaki Akiko,” the girl replied.

“Akiko, calm,” Adijah commanded. The girl’s sobs subsided. “Then what happened?”

“They grabbed us, pulled us into the fire, but we didn’t burn,” Akiko said. “I wish we HAD burned. Instead we were here. They beat us, and **** us, and **** and beat us at the same time. Then they sold us to those tentacle things. And as we were marching off one of the demons said–” Akiko started to cry again. “It said ‘vacation’s over, girls.’ That’s when we knew that whatever was coming next, it would be worse.”

“But then?” Krystal prompted.

“But then you came,” Akiko replied, “and brought us here.”

“I imagine you’ll want to go home now,” the general said. The other girls looked up, hope in their eyes.

One of the other girls, the hair on one side of her head still done up in a pony-tail while the other side hung loose and tangled, raised her hand as if she were still in school. “You can do that?” she asked.

“Well…” the general looked a question at the girl.

“Shinobu,” she said.

“Well, Shinobu, I can… but I’ll need your help to do it.”

“What do we have to do?” Shinobu asked.

“We are succubi,” the general explained. “We use sex to fuel our magic. To open a portal back to your world we’ll need to bring you to orgasm and harness that energy.”

The girls started to cry again. “We can’t do THAT!” Akiko declared.

“The general nodded, a look of compassion and understanding on her face. “I understand. You’re welcome to remain here with us, then, under my protection. You’ll be safe as long as the Bhlegoth don’t send a big company out to recover what they’ve lost.”

Some of the girls started to wail in terror. “Can you stop them?” Akiko asked.

The general shrugged. “We’ll try. But war’s a chancy thing. It could go either way.”

“Okay, we’ll do it,” Akiko said.

“Are you insane?” Shinobu demanded. “These girls can’t handle that after what they’ve been through!” The two girls started yelling at each other, with the less traumatized of the other students joining in.

“We can also make you forget everything that happened down here,” the general said.

That changed everything. “We’ll do it,” Shinobu said. The other girls nodded.

“We have tents set up back in camp,” the general said. “One of the girls from the rescue party will be there to help each of you.” She turned to Krystal. “As one of the heroines of the hour, you can have first pick.” She bent in and whispered into the junior succubus’s ear “remember this – there are many kinds of seduction. Learn them all.”