Symbiote Girlfriend: Ghost (complete)

My big sister was always my hero, and from the moment we met nothing could keep us apart. Siti and I did everything together, and since our parents were away a lot, sometimes all we had was each other. When I was in high school, our parents’ plane crashed when they were returning home from a business trip. Siti immediately dropped out of college and came home to be my primary caregiver.

While I continued with school, Siti managed a lot at home, including our family’s security business. She took up training with the rest of the cadets in the company so she could better understand the business. She began training new recruits as well, and started a course in special ops. She took a job at the lab of one of her old college professors, Dr. Maxim Harlan. It was around this time I noticed Siti was beginning to train harder than ever before. She was building muscle mass, and talking about MMA fighting.

I go to her gym one day, taking her dinner since she hasn’t eaten. She’s practicing away at a punching bag, sweat dripping down her brow. She looks up as I come in and smiles. “What time is it?” She approaches and takes a towel from the ground. “Did I miss dinner again?”

“You did,” I pout. “What the heck are you doing, Siti? You’ve been working off your patootie ever since you took a job at that government lab.”

Siti takes a slice of fruit from the plate and bites into it. “Just want to build up my strength, that’s all.” She flexes her arm, showing off a bit. 

I sigh. “It’s a science lab. Who are you going to fight there, Bill Nye?”

Siti snickers,.“it’s a government lab, Noi, and there’s all sorts of people who come through there. Officials, dignitaries, their bodyguards, military folk. It’s good to be prepared.”

I frown as I watch her return to the punching bag. “I just don’t like how seriously you’re taking it. Ever since you went to that lab, something has changed.”

“Like what?” she asks as she stretches her shoulders back.

“Between school and everything, I barely see you. When we’re home together, you’re down here in the gym, working out, or doing whatever it is you’re doing.” I know I’m possibly being a brat, but she’s my best friend and sister, andI feel like I’m being neglected.

Siti looks me over. “I’m working so you can go to a good college!”

“I have a trust fund for that!” 

“One that I control until you turn twenty,” she snaps back at me. Then she turns to face me. “You don’t even know what you want to do yet!”

“Yes, I do,” I grumble. I’m not committed to it, but I really want to prove her wrong. “I want to be a doctor.” 

Siti arches a brow at me. “Since when?”

“A while.” I know she sees through this, but I’m stuck with it now.

She smiles at me. “That’s great! What kind of doctor do you intend to be?”

I open my mouth to say something, then instantly close it. I ponder for what feels like forever before I say, “Cytologist.” I’d just heard the word on TV today.

“Then maybe you’d like to meet Professor Harlan. He’s running some studies on disease cells at this very moment. Maybe he could help you decide if this is really what you want to do.” Siti gives me the knowing, smug look I think all big sisters have. “Unless you change your mind by next morning.”

“I won’t,” I scoff.

Siti goes back to her workout, and I set her dinner plate aside. The next day, she takes me into work with her. She’s wearing her all-black uniform, which makes her look like a villain in a Street Fighter game. She signs in, getting special clearance for me from the front, as well as permission from Professor Harlan.

The lab doesn’t seem like anything special. I had imagined something from the movies; instead it looks like an old schoolhouse, each of the rooms modified for a different lab. As we walk down the hallway, a really tall guy comes towards us. “Good morning, Siti,” he says with a smile. “Who’s this you have with you?”

“Good morning, Jack,” Siti replies. “This is my little sister, Arsinoe. She wants to become a cytologist, so I’ve brought her to meet Professor Harlan.”

Jack smiles down at me. He’s kind of cute, and I can feel my cheeks grow warm. “You’re around my friend Max’s age. Getting ready for college, that must be getting stressful.”

“Kind of,” I say with a shrug. 

Jack perks up. “I was just heading over to see Harlan, actually. We’re getting ready to test one of the samples today.”

Siti pats my back. “I have rounds to make, so go on with him.”

I nod. “Okay.” I follow Jack, who takes me downstairs. He gives me a lab coat and gloves, and we enter into a room divided by a glass wall. On one side of the room is the door and a table, and on the other end is a fixed, clear cabinet displaying three different vials. The contents of one vial are black, another is red-and-white, the third is empty. A man is standing in front of the cabinet, taking a syringe of the black substance and putting it into a container of alcohol. The blackness spreads like ink, mixing with the alcohol and turning grey, but then it surges, the grey turns black again, and the substance and the alcohol separate into two distinct layers. 

Jack presses a button close to the glass partition. “Harlan, we have an onlooker today. Siti’s little sister.”

The man takes off his goggles and mask, and I see he is quite handsome. “Well, hello there. My, you do look like her back in the day,” he chuckles. “So what brings you here, Miss...”

“Arsinoe,” I reply.

He smiles and nods. “The sister of Cleopatra,” he murmurs. “Hope you and Siti don’t behave the same way.”

I shake my head. “No, sir.”

“Your sister had lots of potential when she was a student.” Harlan sighs heavily. “I’m sorry about your parents. Is that why you want a career in science? Because of Siti?”

I press my lips into a firm line. “I guess so.”

Harlan steps out of the separate room. “You’re in luck, we’re running a major test today.” He points to the red-and-white vial in the clear cabinet. “A while back, I collected these from an asteroid that struck Earth. This will be the first time this containment has been opened since then.” He opens the cabinet, and a rush of cold flows out.

“What are they?” I ask.

“That’s what we’re trying to find out.” Harlan carefully removes the vial. “I can’t tell you much else, Arsinoe.”

Suddenly a red light flashes on, and an alarm begins to blare. “What’s going on?” I exclaim.

Jack pulls me close, and Harlan places the vial back into the cabinet. “Jack, take her back upstairs. Get towards an exit.”

Jack takes my hand in his. “What about the subjects?” 

Harlan seems surprisingly calm, but I can feel Jack shaking. “Don’t worry, I’ll make sure they get locked away. Just get her out of here.”

Jack takes me back upstairs, where there is smoke and gunfire. “Get behind me, Arsinoe.” He pushes me back. “Just stay there and keep your head down.”

I hear screams from the end of the hallway as Jack rushes us in the opposite direction. He takes me through another lab and tries to open a door. There’s a loud bang from inside, and glass shatters. I scream, and Jack picks me up off the ground and runs. The smoke is becoming unbearable and there are more loud explosions and gunshots. Jack suddenly stops. “Siti!”

I look up to see Siti coming down the hallway, leaning heavily to her left. “Get back,” she croaks. “Go!”

“The other exit is blocked,” Jack sets me down, and we both race to Siti. “Come on, I’ve got you.”

I nearly scream. There’s so much blood, and my sister’s black uniform is ripped and shredded. But her left arm... from the elbow down, it’s gone.

Jack scoops Siti up in his arms. “Stay close to me, Arsinoe.”

I cling to Jack’s lab coat as we progress slowly down the hallway together. Then I see something in front of us, huge and glowing red through the smoke. It comes closer and Jack forces me behind him.

I can’t remember what happens after that. I try and I try, but my memory ends there. I wake up in the hospital, where I’m told there was an explosion and I was buried under debris. My back and legs are broken, and the doctor says I will never walk again. Had it not been for Jack, I might have died. Unfortunately, he did. 

I don’t know why, but I’m not scared. I hurt, of course I do, but there’s a strange calm inside me. I’m more afraid for Siti than anyone else. 

She comes to see me. Her arm is gone, taken just above the elbow. She lies at my bedside and weeps, screaming and cursing the world in anger. Ever since then, I have only seen anger and hatred in her.

When we go home, Siti stays by my side. She makes sure I get everything I need, and spends a fortune on making the house wheelchair-accessible. But she’s become withdrawn and reclusive. Her anger festers. It scares me to death. I’m not willing to lose her to this.

One evening as I sleep, I wake to hear voices. I sit up in bed and see lights in Siti’s bedroom. I listen intently, but the voices are hushed and low. Then I see something walk past my room. The shape of it is huge and monstrous, with a tail like a scorpion’s, and every inch of the figure looks jagged and sharp. I throw myself back down into bed as it turns, and cover my head with a pillow as I hear it step towards me.

“Are you asleep, Noi?” It’s Siti’s voice.

I remain silent.

“Let’s go,” another voice hisses. “We’ll find him.”

After that, every so often I see the creature who came in the night out of the corner of my eye. I see it faintly on my sister, around her, on her. Sometimes I see it at night, outside my window. It’s taking my sister from me, I just know it.

One evening, I sit up in bed, listening and waiting. No one is in the house. Siti has gone with that creature, but I want to make sure I hear them come home. I hear a rapping at the doors to my patio, and when I turn I see nothing. The doors open, and I see a shimmer in the air.

“Who’s there?”

The shimmer turns into a bird that lands at the foot of my bed, pure white with accents of blue and pink. The eyes look strange, wide and large. It looks at me - really looks at me.

“Don’t be afraid,” the bird says.

My breath is sucked from my lungs. “Are you God?”

“I beg your pardon?” the bird asks, tilting its head side to side.

“That’s what angels say, in the Bible...” I shake my head back and forth. 

“I am nothing of the sort. My name is Ghost.” The white bleeds away from the body of the bird and rises up like smoke. It forms the rough shape of a human head, and the bird flies away out the open doors. “I’ve come to help you.”

I’m not sure why I’m not more afraid. I should be freaking out, right? But I am serene. I’ve faced death - what else can happen? “Okay,” I murmur. 

Ghost slips closer to me. “Your sister and my sister have come together, and I am afraid they could hurt themselves.”

“Siti,” I lose my breath. “That creature I’ve seen is your sister?”

“Her name is Beast.” Ghost settles in my lap. I hold my hands open. and she rests herself in my palms like water. “I’m supposed to be her handler and take care of her. But I am afraid that with your sister, there is nothing I can do to help her.”

“There’s nothing I can do either,” I murmur. 

“Alone, maybe. But together, I think we can make a great team.” Ghost slides up my hands, coating them in an opalescent shimmer. She slowly envelops me, covering me from head to toe, and I suddenly feel light and airy as I stand from the bed. I walk across the room and stand in front of a mirror to see what I’ve become.

“How is this possible?” I touch our face, which is quite large, with a mouth that looks like it could unhinge all the way to the neck. I take our hands and glide them down my body. “I was told I could never walk again.”

“I can help you,” Ghost says. “With me, you can do anything.”

“But why would you want me?” I ask as I look at us in the mirror.

“I know you want to save your sister,” Ghost murmurs. “I can help you.”

I feel tears rise to my eyes. My chest hurts, and Ghost squeezes comfortingly around me. I start to sob when the bedroom door flies open. 

Siti stands there with a wild look on her face. “What is this?”

Ghost slips back away from my face and I rush towards her. “Siti, it’s me!”

Siti grabs me and shoves me to the floor. “What are you doing here?” she screams. A blue-and-yellow mass begins to slide down her arm, forming a huge claw-like weapon. “Get out of her! Leave her alone!”

Ghost and I leap up, tackling Siti and knocking her into the hallway. We struggle as the one called Beast takes over my sister. “This rage isn’t worth it!” Ghost shouts. “Rabid is not worth it!”

Beast throws us aside, tossing us towards the stairs. Ghost and I grab hold of the wall and sling ourselves back forward, pressing our feet onto Beast’s shoulders.

“Rabid has to pay for what he’s done to you!” Beast and Siti scream. They strike at us and Ghost hits the ceiling, turning us invisible. We scamper along the ceiling like a lizard, while Beast strikes at us with her powerful claw. 

Ghost lands behind Beast and lunges, striking them with her long, powerful tail. Beast stumbles, hitting the wall, and I see Siti’s face for a moment. “You’re scaring me!” I cry out to her. “Siti, you’re angry, I know you are! But I just want you! I don’t care what happened. I just want my sister!”

Siti charges, tackling and pinning us down to the ground. “That monster destroyed our lives! I won’t let him get away with it! I’m going to kill him with my own hands!”

I punch her directly in the face, and she falls back. As she looks at me with a bloody nose, I feel like the world has stopped. Siti laughs, and then Beast takes over and jumps out the window. I rush to stop them, but as Siti and Beast flee into the night, I get the horrible, aching feeling I will never see her again.

“It’s my fault,” Ghost whispers. “Arsinoe, I’m so sorry.”

I whimper and start to sob. “I don’t know what to do. I just want to help her.”

Ghost and I stay together. During the day, I go to school like normal, trying to lead an ordinary life. Then at night, Ghost and I go out to look for our sisters, as well as the man who is the cause of all this. When we think Siti and Beast have finally been captured, held at the Hephaestus Academy, somehow they escape.

“Rabid was an influential general back home,” Ghost tells me one night. “He came to Earth in hopes of colonizing it, but his vessel was purposely sabotaged, so he and the others on board were stranded here.”

We walk, invisible, down the street, looking for any sign of our sisters. “But why?”

“Rabid lost his mind. He ordered a bunch of attacks on neighboring worlds. Beast and I were deployed in a campaign that nearly killed us. Our escape vessel was nearly destroyed and, despite my objections, Beast brought us here to find Rabid. The fact your sister wants him dead as well gave her the perfect partner.” Ghost touches our chest. “They’ll use their rage as a weapon.”

I clutch the hand Ghost controls in my own. “I’m glad you found me.”

“Me too,” she says softly. “But I’m sorry about it all the same.”

We trace several attacks by Rabid and Beast over the years. Eventually, we’re able to track Beast around Hephaestus Academy. After a while, things go quiet. There aren’t any sightings of Rabid for a while, but we can sense Beast nearby.

One day I’m taking a bath, and Ghost is around my shoulders. She holds up my hair so it doesn't get wet, and as she does she starts massaging my shoulders.

“I’m kind of hungry,” I say. “There’s that adorable Mexican restaurant we passed on patrol the other day. Let’s go there.”

Ghost slips down and nuzzles my cheek. “You’ve not wanted to do that in a while.”

I smile at her soft touches. “When we’re out looking and we’re invisible, I like to see the people around us. I know I have you, but I can’t help but feel lonesome.”

Ghost kisses my cheek, and I turn to meet her. I sigh as she wraps around me, her embrace sliding under the water. “I understand,” she murmurs sweetly. “It sounds like a fun idea to go out for a bit.”

“We can treat it like a date, if you like.”

Ghost slips on to help me from the tub. Once I’m dry, we sit down on the bed together. “A date?” She snuggles around my neck like a scarf. “With me?”

“Sure.” I put on my bra. “After all, you and I have been together for a while now, right? We should celebrate that.”

Ghost purrs softly. “What brings this on?”

“I just want to show you how much I appreciate you.” I slide on a dress. “Can’t I do that for my favorite girl?”

Ghost rises up to look me in the eye. “Of course you can. But say the magic words.”

I smile at her and lean in, giving her another kiss. “I love you, Ghost.”

Ghost giggles and kisses back. Her thick tongue pushes into my mouth, slowly becoming our mouth. 

I call a car that takes us to the little restaurant. Music pours out from inside, along with delicious smells. I’m seated near the stage ,where a young man is performing. His voice is beautiful, and the way he plays the guitar is almost seductive. Ghost is still curled up like a scarf around my neck. “This is quite romantic,” she purrs. I feed her a chip and salsa. “The music, the dining, the...” She stops.

I cup my hand around her. “What’s the matter?”

“I smell something,” she whispers. “It’s faint, but...”

I look up to the stage, catching the eyes of the young man. I smile shyly and he winks, causing my heart to skip a beat. Then I notice the surprising orange tint on his fingers. 

“Arsinoe,” Ghost whispers urgently. “Rabid has been here.”

My whole body grows tense. “What? Where?” I carefully scan the restaurant.

“I’m not sure,” she trembles. “I don’t think he is here now, but he has definitely been here. I can feel it.”

We start keeping a watch at the restaurant. When we do, I always try to listen to the music. I learn the young man’s name is Julio, and the restaurant belongs to his family.

“Getting a crush?” Ghost teases one evening, while we’re sitting on the grass in the nearby park.

“It’s the voice,” I huff. “He’s really good.”

Ghost squeezes around me. “You can tell me anything, my love. You don’t need to be so shy, although it is very cute.”

“I’ve never...” I pout. “Aside from you, I’ve never really…” I scoff and shake my head. “It’s silly, Ghost. It makes me feel silly.” Ghost and I go back into the shadows and we sit on the roof.

“Tell me,” Ghost asks gently. “I want to know everything about you.”

I take a breath and slowly let it out. “I’ve barely ever dated before,” I confess. “And well, I’ve only ever kissed one other person before.”

“I see.” Ghost gives me an extra-tight squeeze. “Crushes are still new?”

“Kind of.” I smile to myself. “He is cute and all.”

“Oh, I agree. I like the way he makes your heart pitter-patter.”

I giggle and cup our hands around our face. “Don’t tease me like that, Ghost! I feel silly enough as it is.”

“You’re adorable,” Ghost says. She tightens around my thighs and pulses slowly. “It makes me want to gobble you up.”

I moan softly as she rubs against me. The small ripples she makes rub against my mound, pushing between my labia. “Ghost, here?”

“I feel it inside you,” Ghost whispers. The waves grow bigger, faster. It feels like her tongue is lapping against me. “Desire pulses through your veins so easily.”

I tilt my head back. “It feels good.” 

Ghost pushes inside, swirling against my inner walls. I clamp my mouth tight to keep my voice from growing any louder. “That’s it,” Ghost breathes. “So sweet and wet now. Your pussy is squeezing so tight around me, my love.”

“Don’t talk dirty,” I whimper. 

Ghost chuckles. “You like it though.” She pushes deeper inside. “That tight little pussy is dripping. Good thing I’m here.”

“Ghost!” I gasp out loud.

Ghost pulses inside me, filling me deeply. I lie back, reaching down with our hand. “Good girl. Touch us.”

Our fingers rub between my labia, finding my clitoris. I moan and Ghost purrs. “Keep going,” I pant. “It’s so good!”

“What feels good?” Ghost breathes.

“Everything.”

Ghost moans into my ear. “No, love, what feels good?”

I shudder as I can feel an eruption in my belly. “Oh, god...”

“Say it, Arsinoe.”

“My pussy,” I whimper. “I’m going to come!”

Ghost moves harder inside, focusing her efforts there. Our fingers rub harder. “Come,” Ghost pants. “Come, Arsinoe!”

I bite down on my lip as I am overwhelmed. I throb, bucking sharply as Ghost brings me to the end. I breathe hard as I lie there, Ghost wrapped snugly around me. 

“You’re too good at that,” I grumble.

Ghost giggles. “You’re good at turning me on.”

I sit up and hold our face between our palms. “I know I asked for this, but I still feel silly.”

A few days later, we spot Rabid’s partner, a man named Solomon Savage, near the restaurant. We watch him for a while until he gets in his car, following the bus that Julio got into.

“He’s following him,” I gasp.

“Then so should we. Let’s go.”

We get on top of a car heading the same direction as Solomon and the bus. Julio gets out at the mall, so we follow close behind him. Once there, Ghost becomes a scarf again and I get into a wheelchair. I think Julio realizes we’re following him, because he ducks into a bathroom. Solomon is close, and I can feel Rabid’s presence behind me. 

Unable to hide any longer, Ghost and I go into the bathroom as well. I knock on the door. “Come with me if you want to live.” I instantly hate myself.

“Are you a Terminator?”

We shake our head and I try to be defensive, but I realize he can’t see us. “What? No! I’m being serious! You’re being followed.”

He scoffs. “Yeah, by you!”

I don’t have time for this. Rabid is coming! I grab the door and pull it off the stall. “I don’t have time to explain! Your life is in danger!” I pick him up and throw him over our shoulder. Solomon comes into the bathroom, so we have no other choice but to run.

We get away in time to evade Rabid. I take Julio to my hideout, where we’ve been staying the last month or so. When the lights come on, I see Julio is just like me and Ghost.

“My name is Ghost. Who are you?”

“Julio,” he says breathlessly. 

A little sliver of dark purple peers up from under his collar. It starts to take over his body. “And Sonata,” it says. 

Ghost pulls back to reveal my face. “I’m Arsinoe. We want to protect you.”