The Alien's name was 'Groz'. At least that's what James and Hana called him. And there's the first problem; 'he' or 'him' wasn't actually anatomically correct because Groz didn't display any gender specific body parts or functions at all. Groz wasn't both genders. He was neither! Groz did display a personality, as well as an incredible intellect and an affinity to human emotions, so to call Groz an 'it' would be very unkind and downright rude from a human viewpoint. 'He' would just have to do.
James and Hana met Groz in very unusual circumstances, which will be explained shortly. It was a meeting which would change each of their lives dramatically.
Including that of Groz.
James
James was 32. He had a job in a local welding shop which paid the bills and allowed for a small amount of entertainment, usually in the form of weekend clubbing and Sunday afternoon drink sessions. This lifestyle was not exactly magnetic stuff for female company which would lead to any long-term relationships, or prospective family futures. James did enjoy occasional encounters with females, but any real naked intimacy was restricted to the few times a year when he could afford a local escort. These were always advertised in the local papers and they were usually Asian of some sort. Fortunately for James, Asian women were part of his sexual fascinations.
He enjoyed the sex he had with them immensely. Their smooth ivory skin, longish dark hair and petite bodies with smallish tits were almost perfect. He fixated on their tits. They were mostly a c-cup, but perky, ending in large dark areola which supported stiff large dark nipples. He loved staring at, fondling, tweaking, gently pinching and pulling them. Most of all though, he loved licking and sucking them. From the responses he usually got from the ladies, he could say with some confidence that he was an expert at manipulating breasts to such an extent that he could almost make any escort orgasm just from that alone. This was no easy feat, and he eventually got a name for himself among the return girls. 'Odayaka Gigalo', they called him; the gentle gigolo. Unfortunately for James, the term 'gigolo' was not really correct. He always paid the girls. They never paid him, even though they received as much pleasure from the sex as he did.
Obviously, there weren't many Asian women in the small mid-western town where James lived. He just wasn't attracted to any of the local available women. Sure, they were easy to talk to, and his demeanour around them was always confident and polite. He just couldn't see himself forming a long-term commitment with someone he wasn't sexually attracted to.
Consequently, James was desperately lonely.
He often found himself asking the same old question, albeit after a bout of heavy drinking while sitting on a park bench in the middle of the forest which surrounded his town. "What will become of me and my life?" He always came up with terrific insightful answers while in this state, but for the life of him, he could never remember them the next day, probably because he was too busy nursing a hangover!
It was during one of these 'D and M' soul searching reflections, aided by a half-empty bottle of bourbon, on the usual park bench, in the usual forest that the rest of his life really started. Up until that point, he was really only marking time.
The falling light that James saw through the trees seemed very close and not like any of the usual meteorite atmospheric burn-ins that he had seen before. He was actually quite surprised that his alcohol-blurred eyes allowed him to spot where it seemed to land. Near him... just at the edge of the forest. But no sound of impact or any damage to the trees and ground at all. At first, he just stayed glued to the seat, staring at the round object, about the size of a large motorhome. The silver shield around it glimmered and wavered as if it was alive. It didn't look solid. Eventually James's mouth, mind and eyes networked and he said aloud, "What the fuck!"
His legs also eventually untangled themselves from alcohol-related paralysis and he ambled towards the weird object. "Run away, idiot!" his rational brain cells screamed, but they too were silenced by the power of bourbon. He was only dimly aware that he had ventured right up to the object and was reaching out to touch the liquid-like surface. No heat, no burning sensation, just a slight vibrating sensation, almost magnetic to his fingers. James had experienced a small electric shock before and this sensation reminded him of that, but to a lesser extent. "Shit. Is this thing going to fry me? Why do I feel so compelled to touch it?" he mused.
He fought the strong desire to see if there wasn't an entrance of some sort and turned to head back to the dregs of his favourite bourbon, but he couldn't move his legs. "I'm drunker than I thought," he whispered. "Looks like I'm staying here until my liver deals with the bourbon intrusion sufficiently for me walk back home." This was something he had done many times before.
The pull from the object became stronger until James was physically dragged front first to its surface. Expecting to feel a dull thud from the impact, James was surprised to feel himself become absorbed into the silver metallic liquid, until he emerged on the other side. "I must be dead!" he thought. Then there was blackness. The sleep of the passed out drunk.
Hana
On the other side of the world, in a sleepy little fishing village on the east coast of Hokkaido, Hana gazed wistfully at the calm blue Pacific Ocean and the horseshoe-shaped harbour which caressed the fleet of twenty fishing vessels, keeping them safe from the perils of the ocean. The clifftop where she was currently perched was a favourite of hers. Here, she could see for miles and sit uninterrupted for hours. The cool ocean breeze, the clear sunlight, the picturesque scenery were indeed paradise. So why didn't this feel like heaven for Hana?
She was twenty-four years old and a typical Japanese lady, fit, healthy, demure, educated and attractive. All attributes which should surely make men come running. And they would, if there were any around. She was tied by family loyalty to stay in her ancestral village; a place she came back to after completing her engineering degree at the university in Tokyo. "What a waste of education," she often commented to the only person who listened to her inner-most musings... herself! Fishing vessels designed and built a hundred years ago and manned by the rapidly aging male population of her village had no need for engineering qualifications.
The village needed her for what lay between her legs. A perfect vagina, attached to a fertile uterus was what was important to the village. Potential babies to replace the youth who were lured to the big cities. Not that anyone would come right out and say that. That would be far too rude and not in keeping with entrenched rules of politeness. But that is what everyone thought, secretly, or whispered softly to their spouses.
One problem with that though was that there were no eligible male bachelors for at least thirty miles and they were in the neighbouring village. That village was considered another world by her family. There was one available male in her village. He was forty and very slow thinking, due to an accident on a fishing boat many years ago. The knock to his head from the net boom kept him unconscious for nearly a year. When he finally came to, his speech was slurred and he had a constant drool on the left side of his mouth. Any conversation with the unfortunate fellow had to be repeated at least thrice and slowly at that. Still, apparently his penis still functioned, according to several old ladies who often saw him tugging one out behind the boat sheds!