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Ruby stretches as she sits down to read her book. She sits out in the deep forest of a dirt path on a large stone wall in disrepair. Her bag sits beside her as her weapon leans on the wall, ready to be grabbed to use and attack anything that comes after her. The book in her hands allows her to summon it from wherever it goes before she starts looking through it to see if any new entries have come up or look at some of the things she skipped over so far. "Let's see. Your mana pool one o' one," Ruby reads.

"Mana…whoa…is this for real…it's just like one of my games mana system," Ruby comments as she reads.

Ruby becomes heavily interested and starts to read almost all the fine print even. "A succubus is a particular case in terms of curses. Once you become a succubus or incubus, your body will eventually break down the curse and cycle it into greater mana capacity. Note, this way to gain more mana capacity is very tedious, and the returns are almost nonexistent," Ruby reads as she leans her eye in close to a subtle print at the bottom of the page. "Well, thanks a lot for getting my hopes up," she complains, frowning.

Ruby spits to the side and flips to another page. "Ohhh! Shapeshift!" Ruby squeals excitedly and looks closely at the edges for any fine print but could not find any…yet. "Okay. Shapeshift. A universal power that all succubus have. With this, you can change your form to infiltrate, seduce, or just change yourself to any desirable form. This includes age, gender, or even some species. Warning: Do not try to shapeshift into a full animal like a dog. The blowback from your magic is severe, and do not try to turn into an inanimate object. You won't be able to move or do anything," Ruby reads. "Okay. This is cool…and makes sense," she thinks aloud to herself. "Have to seduce most to their wanted desires. So…maybe I should change for Richard? Give him more fun?" she thinks for a few more seconds before smiling and shaking her head. "Nah," Ruby dismisses with a hand wave. "Richard likes me for me. Not for another girl like a celebrity."

"Now let us see…should try something simple at first," Ruby says, taking out a mirror from her bag to look at herself while she does this. "Okay…hair," she says and looks to the strains of hair before thinking of them as Yang's color. The blond golden yellow then travels from her scalp to the tip of her short hair, ending with Ruby having the golden color. Ruby squeals happily and feels the hair to notice that it wasn't anything different. It was almost like this is always her hair since birth. "Now, I know how Yang feels. In fact," Ruby adds before her hair starts to cascade down like a waterfall. "I am getting the hang of this. Okay…what else?" she asks while changing her hair back.

"Hum…I can do hair, but…what about Blake's hair and features?" Ruby questions herself as she considers it.

Ruby runs a hand through her hair before feeling a little furred piece that rises. She then sees the cat ear in the mirror before the other one pops up among her dark red hair. "Awesome…" she whispers in happiness before her sight goes a bit blurry, and when it clears up, she had the same amber cat-like eyes Blake had. "Okay. Anything essential to use, it would be disabled in some way…can I keep the night vision, please? It would be awesome," she says, changing her eye color back to her silver state. "I should keep my silver eyes if I am correct."

Having said that, she feels the book buzz and looks down at it to see a page shining. Turning to it, she reads. 'Note, changes must be maintained, reverting to base undoes them.' "So no night vision unless I keep Blake's eyes," Ruby says, pouting a bit. "Fuck these rules. Oh well. I guess it can be good if I need it quickly…I might keep the ears, though. Just have to keep them flat and see if Richard would love them…and pet me," she says hopefully while looking in the mirror for the ears and eyes again.

"Ok…what about height now?" Ruby thinks, standing up for this one. Ruby then feels her center of gravity start to shift a bit and starts to feel a bit of vertigo as she sees she is getting further from the ground. "Ok, so that worked as well," Ruby says happily. She then changes back to her height and wonders what else she can do.

"Ok, next, the three biggest things the eye draws," Ruby says before looking back at her ass as best she could. She then imagines it being more prominent and then feels her skin stretched before smiling as her skirt is pushed up enough that she can imagine parts of her lower panties are showing. She then runs her hands over her hips and feels her skeleton shift a bit, pushing out and spreading the skirt wider apart. Ruby turns her gaze to her chest and touches her breasts before humming. She grins as the budding flesh grows in size until she is left with her breasts being two cup sizes bigger. "Nice."

Ruby smiles as she undoes her recent changes and starts to strip. Once she is naked, she decides to try all of it at once. "Let's see if I can do it all together now. I think Yang would be a good choice for a trail run," she says to herself and tries to imagine Yang and her appearance. A rushing wave of tingles and goosebumps travels up her legs and to her head, in a single rushing shake as if she is dropped in water, but it passes without any after-effects afterward. "And how did I do?" she asks herself, placing the mirror against and steps back to look at herself.

She is Yang in every sense of appearance. Ruby smirks and starts to caress her breast for a moment, imagining Richard playing with Yang. "Richard is going to love this…but maybe I should keep it quiet against him for now. Don't want to push things," she says to herself while still rubbing her hands all over herself. "I should stop soon," she notes, even still going along with the caressing.

"I should start bringing extra clothes as well," Ruby says as she starts to change back and gets dressed again. "Hum…maybe, I should head into one of the nearby villages and see what I can do. Could also corrupt a few people and make them into my slaves," Ruby considers as she smirks.

Ruby hums happily as she enters a small village that sits near a quaint little lake. Not much in terms of things as it seems like a few houses, a tavern, and a small temple for personal sake. As if monsters and demons can't enter those, Ruby muses to herself before walking to the bar. When most people spot the girl, they thought of her as another adventurer after a long journey.

Ruby walks in quickly into the building without incident and looks around. There are only a few people here; two were guards, a group of a mishmash of outfits sits at another table, and a lone man sitting in a corner. Her eyes watch this man carefully and then feels the rush of dark aura hit her form. Ruby hums and walks over to the man before smiling and beside him. "Hi," she introduces, waving a hand at him. "Name's Ruby. Yours?"

"Call me Dawn Flower," the man says in a female voice, making Ruby more suspicious.

Ruby smiles and leans on her hand. "Sounds cute. So what are you planning to do?"

"Me? I am a humble merchant of the market," Dawn Flower informs, making Ruby's mind go to the demon market.

Ruby taps a finger against the table as she thinks how to approach this. "Well, here's hoping I can get some special potions for my team and me? Maybe get ourselves…bigger too."

Dawn Flower snaps 'his' fingers, and Ruby sees the eye color of the guards and the one manning the bar change, and they move to different positions to guard or perform lookout duty. "Specifics?"

"And the mortals?" Ruby asks in a quiet tone, nodding her head to the rest that is inside the building.

"Don't worry, they belong to the market, so it's safe to talk. So new to this, aren't you?" Dawn Flower asks.

Ruby sighs and hangs her head. "Is it that easy to read?"

"You didn't know about that, and you asked what I was up to," Dawn Flower points out.

Ruby shakes her head before leaning her head against the table. "How about a tip or two for a newcomer?"

"Do you know how to see what your potential victims' desires are?" Dawn Flower asks.

"Other than talking to them, no," Ruby states plainly.

"Alright, look at that girl out there doing laundry and try pushing demonic energy into your eyes," Dawn Flower instructs.

Ruby looks out the slightly broken window and sees a farm girl hanging clothes and blankets on a rope. Ruby then starts to focus her energy inside her and then moves it to her eyes. As she does so, a screen, as in a video game, appears beside her and lists out her likes and dislikes. With the dislikes scrambled as if full of static, Ruby figures that she must not be strong enough. But the likes are mostly of a heavily barrel chest man with long blond flowing hair. 'Can you get anymore cliche?' Ruby thinks without even bothering to read the rest as she can guess from that first one.

"You see that?" Dawn Flower asks, seeing her frown.

"Yeah…is strong guy and long blonde hair common among you guys?" Ruby asks curiously.

"No, that is her taste. Now the way that works is that what you know, you can use it to your advantage," Dawn Flower informs.

"Obviously…now I just need a good guy…or transforming into one, isn't it?" Ruby asks, looking back to Dawn Flower.

"That is how it works," Dawn Flower informs.

"Knight incoming," one of the guys informs.

Dawn Flower lowers her hand in the air, and everyone seems to go back to normal to drink or eat away. Or, in the case of the group of possible adventures, sleeping happily. "It is handy to set up your own place like this in the mortal world. Not as good as our homes, but still good enough."

Ruby, in the meantime, was leaning over to get a look at this approaching knight. Her eyes focus and see his likes and notices that…wow. This guy is a perv. Ruby sweatdrops as she sees he likes an elven loli girl. And one that could be slutty would be even better. So a high ranking knight likes loli and slut ones? What a day. "He's…he must be normal."

"You going to take care of the knight for me?" Dawn Flower asks.

Ruby then smirks and turns to the demon with a specific look. "How much is it to you?"

"You owe me for teaching you," Dawn Flower points out before snapping her fingers.

"Then get me some clothes to change into quickly," Ruby instructs.

Dawn Flower hums before snapping her other hand, and Ruby feels her clothes shifting around before looking to see herself in a long white, almost see-through dress. "Better start becoming what that knight wants."

"You alter my clothes, or this something new?" Ruby inquires, really liking that outfit.

"Consider it a bonus set of clothing I have. Otherwise, you would have to work with what you have or see if you have the power to change your clothing," Dawn Flower seems to joke happily.

"Alright," Ruby says, accepting it for now as she starts to change.

Dawn Flower growls under her throat as the knight enters the tavern and goes up to the counter. "He has been coming in here repeatedly. I just hope his order of transfer happens tonight," she whispers.

"Where to?" Ruby asks, turning into a little elven girl with darker skin and white waist-long hair. The long dress is flowing down below her slim waist and larger plush ass that make it look like she has a bigger hip size. Though, to Ruby's disappointment, she has to leave her chest mostly flat to fit the image. But overall, hardly a piece of fat and mostly muscle on her body to give a curve form.

"Don't know," Dawn Flower informs, smirking as Ruby makes her way out.

Ruby hums as she watches the knight for a bit, wondering how to get his attention and what to do with him after the fact. She could sell him and get money, but the price for slaves has hit a low in the market. Ruby could send him for various jobs, but he could be found missing and bring attention to whatever she does to him. Ruby groans as she leans and hides against the side of the doorway.

As Ruby looks around, she spots the ruined and scorched building of what used to be a family home. Small, but meaningful as she notices a small alcove up a ladder that has some scorched straw and hay. Ruby shakes her head as she figures that the family has gone to the still living village rather than these ruins as some light wind brings in some smoke of the other burned building from out the door.

Ruby's ears perk up and hear some hooves clopping against the ground. She peeks her head around the doorway and sees the knight riding his horse into the ruins, but he doesn't seem to be stopping. His stallion is white as an orchid while his armor matches with golden trim lines on his chest piece. A sign of purity in Ruby's mind, but one she can quickly dirty to her liking.

"Let's see…oh. A spell to increase libido that can work in this situation," Ruby says, looking through her book.

Ruby looks at the spell carefully before holding out a finger towards the man. The tip of her finger lights up before it sends out a small ball of shadow that flies through the air before it hits the man in the arm. The soldier does not even slow down until he is about to leave the ruined village. Ruby smirks and closes her book, tossing it behind her as it disappears for her to grab later on.

'Now all he needs to do is see me,' Ruby thinks, trying to think of how to do this. Ruby looks around the building she is in before grinning ear to ear on the sight of an old jar on a shelf.

The man quickly turns around as he hears a crashing noise come from one of the buildings. He swiftly gets off his horse and rushes to the burned home to then stop before it. He grips his sword as he carefully steps inside and tries to see if anything is in the old building. He then stops as he sees a white cloth flowing behind a box. The man raises an eyebrow before lightly kicking the box to the side and sees a dark-skinned white-haired elven girl looking up to him fearfully. His view then slowly shifts down the girl's form as he notices the white dress and how much he can see her form under it to notice all the slim curves and growing body.

Ruby smirks inwardly as the man slowly lets go of his sword hilt and leans down to her prone form. "Are you…okay?" he asks, somewhat shakily as he reaches out to grab hold of her hand. Ruby gives a meek performance and gingerly lifts her hand for him to grab. She starts to smile and give some nods, sending her scuffed and dirty hair flying around. The man groans as he shifts his legs, trying to ignore the growing bulge under his pants and armor. "Good. I…can take you back and…and…" he slowly trails off as his grip becomes stronger. Ruby lets out a groan of some pain as she is gradually dragged closer to the man, her dress riding up her back before it leaves her ass uncovered and up her stomach. "You are so beautiful…and a slut. Wearing a dress like that? Stupid slut. You are just calling guys to fuck you," he growls as he grabs her other arm and drags her under him.

He then pins her arms down with his knees as he fumbles with his armor and clothes. Ruby plays around with the whole thing, giving him the idea that this is all his doing. So she groans, trying to shut her eyes and biting her lip. The man notices her turn her head away, but he grabs her jaw and yanks it back as she gasps fearfully at the slab of flesh before whimpering as it slaps against her face. He then grabs his cock before pushing the tip against her lips. Ruby whimpers before gingerly opening her jaw slightly and lets the tip in a little. The man groans as he grips her head whole the other keeps moving and forces his dick deeper into her mouth. Ruby cries out as she tries to play up that she is a vulnerable girl and tries to push at the tip with her tongue. But this only entices the man further as he shifts his hips against her chest and finally buries his head into her little mouth. A squeal escapes from around the efforts of the girl underneath him as he starts to shift his hips around, making sure to bury as much as he can into the elf girl.

'Ug. He has no form or even knows how to please a girl,' Ruby thinks as she just takes it. The man keeps thrusting into her mouth as she mulls over what to do with him some more after this as she was doing him a service and getting nothing in return. Heck, no pleasure even from this. Richard had better form and even then, had this shy movement about him that she does love. And loves to tease. The man keeps grunting harder as he starts to bury more down her throat. Ruby chokes and frowns inwardly at the sudden hit but tries to play it still off of being a scared elf girl…maybe this form can be used when they learn of her powers, and she can tout the usefulness.

The man then grunts as he tries to push as far as he can go before Ruby squeals, hiddenly acting, painfully before choking and coughing as his little sperm fills her mouth. But she hardly feels anymore as he pulls out and leaves her mouth gaping and drooling. He pants to catch his breath as he looks down and sees her having trouble between spitting and swallowing as she chews, so he grabs her jaw and shits it closed. "Swallow slut. Or I can keep you out here for my bit of fun," he orders as he keeps her jaw pinned and nosed closed so she will be forced to swallow. Ruby groans before giving a loud, obscene gulp as he laughs at her misfortune. Only grunting when he lets go and starts to stand, adjusting his armor and clothes. "And got nothing on you too. An easy cleanup," he spits, tossing her his waterskin. "Clean up."

'Should I now or should I enact a contract now?' Ruby considers. Even the way he is talking to her was affecting her pride. "I don't think so. You now owe me," Ruby says before her form starts changing, and she adopts a succubi version of the little girl disguise. It was at that moment the knight knew he fucked up bad as chains came out of nowhere, holding him down. "Now, what to do with you?" Ruby asks as a piece of paper appears in a burst of flames before her.

"Please! Let me go!" he begs, trying to struggle against the chains. But it is futile as the metal only wraps tighter around him.

"Now, what to do? What to do?" Ruby asks herself, looking over the contract with the name 'Valen.' Ruby peers closer before noticing some extra scribble and sees that his last name is part of a house. "You know, I could use a new breeder. Just have to edit this right here, and you will become a woman, and my goblin minions can use you to increase their numbers," Ruby lies, wanting to see him start to sweat a bit. "Then again. I can also turn you into a harlot and make you sleep with people for money and also get information from what you hear," Ruby adds. "Course. You won't benefit that much considering it all goes to me," she says, almost playfully touching the contract as if changing it from his not so clear view.

"Please. Anything but any of that. None of those, please," he begs pitifully.

"I'm sorry. You act like you have a say," Ruby says before grabbing a pen and moves to 'write' something.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait. I am a knight lieutenant. I was on my way to the capital of the Von Eberhard noble family. I could be your agent on the inside," he offers via begging, making Ruby stop.

Ruby slowly leans over past the paper to stare at him. "Is that so? And what can you even eventually give me? Because gold is almost worthless to me. Why not share something valuable to me to get things started? Or I could find some use out of more goblins," she adds, grinning at the end.

"I…I can provide you intelligence. For supply convoys, so you can outfit your minions," Valen offers.

Ruby's smirk grows even more prominent. "Keep talking, my servant."

"There is going to be a civil war soon. With the right intelligence, no one will realize certain things and people going missing," Valen says, thinking he finally had something that he can latch onto to save him.

Ruby playfully taps her chin and looks thoughtful. "Very tempting. You would sacrifice your own kind to save your pathetic hide?"

"They are the enemy. We will kill them either way," Valen tries to justify.

"Even better. I like a servant that is willing to do anything to win…besides get me. I will kill you if you try to kill me…no wait, I will just turn you into a woman and toss you to the goblins. That is worse," Ruby warns before he feels a searing burn onto his hip. "Congratulations, by the way. Follow my orders, and you will live not to become the victims of the horrid stories of the goblins. I am sure you have heard. So tasty," she playfully says and gives a drool, her tail whipping around behind her. "Now leave and get to your post, and don't breathe a word of this to anyone. If you don't do well, I can always summon a portal to the underworld underneath you and drag you down to your fate," Ruby adds.

"Anything. Anything! Thank you!" Valen agrees, bowing as much as he can.

The chains disappear, and Valen runs out the ruins, straight to his horse, and rides full speed away. "Impressive," Dawn Flower's voice comes and out walks, not the man Ruby had seen before, but a well-endowed succubus with goat hooves for legs and ram horns. "You have a knack for this."

Ruby sighs as she slowly changes back to her regular form and pats down her little dress. "I am keeping this thing. I like it."

"Fair enough. Now is there any other business you would like to do?" Dawn Flower asks suggestively.

Ruby giggles. "Nothing against demonic and mortal rules to spike a man's drink, is it?"

"There are instructions on how to do that in your book," Dawn Flower informs a bit disappointed Ruby wasn't taking her bait.

"Testing you," Ruby teases, smirking. "I will probably contact you for business later. Right now, I have to get back. A married woman shouldn't be away for too long, right?" Ruby asks, smirking.

Dawn Flower's hooves clop against the ground in annoyance. "No. And neither is…whatever cover you have."

"You travel around, or you stay in this area?" Ruby asks, wondering if this could be a supply route for her.

Dawn Flower waves a hand as her tail whips, annoyed behind her. "There is plenty of business from around this city. Very handy when you need some chump change demons to sell to."

"Any rival in the area I should know about?" Ruby asks.

"One. Big time slave dealer. But it doesn't hurt my business. I don't know about yours," Dawn mentions.

"Must not be doing so well, though. Heard from the manager that slave prices crashed hard," Ruby says, surprising her that she had mentioned the manager.

"She doesn't sell them. There is more use out of them than selling them. Heard she got a white-haired bitch and has been selling that slave's time like crazy," Dawn recounts, tapping her chin.

Ruby quickly checks her remaining dark currency and sighs. "Can you find out more about this white-haired girl. Specifically, if her last name is Schnee," Ruby says, giving her the rest of her money.

Dawn raises an eyebrow as she takes the money. "Interesting request. Alright. You will have the information soon."

"Thank you," Ruby says, starting to leave. 'Oh hello,' Ruby thinks as she got an alert on her screen the egg Weiss laid would soon hatch. 'I should check up on that one first,' Ruby thinks, heading into the forest to find a quiet secluded place to make the meeting.

Once far enough away, she calls for her nightmare. Ruby taps her foot against the ground as she pulls her dress off and starts to redress in her old clothes. A snort sounds out from behind her, and she turns her head to see him in her face before he nuzzles her head and neck. Ruby giggles as she grabs his head and kisses the side of his snout. "Hey, handsome. Now, where's our new minion?" she asks, looking at his saddle bags.

The nightmare looks back before the tentacles of its body brings out a large egg as it sets it down in front of her. Ruby wonders how Weiss was able even to lay it. She leans down to the egg as it shakes and starts to crack. Then a piece breaks outward as a hard scaled muzzle pushes through. Ruby smiles as she watches the critter start to break apart the egg from the inside, and then it breaks apart in a shower of shells. Ruby yelps and covers herself with her arms as she hears a soft thud. She then lowers her arms and sees the little dragonic monster growl and stare up at her.

Ruby smiles before digging into the saddlebag and takes out some dried jerky. The dragon beast growls before snapping it into its jaws and grabs it, chewing hungrily. Ruby quickly holds it before grabbing the monster around its hips. Her hands glow brightly as the mark is burned into the red and white scales, but Ruby makes sure it would be painless so the dragon wouldn't notice, but she felt a connection with the dragon as she branded it. Closing her eyes, she feels her consciousness follow the link before Weiss appears in her mind, sitting in the library of the castle and reading a tome on magic. Ruby sees her clothes fade away, leaving her naked in Ruby's mind and her mark appearing on Weiss's hip for a moment before fading away.

Ruby smiles as she gently puts the dragon down and watches it eat away. "Good…" Ruby stops, not knowing what gender it is and opens up her screen to check. "Ah. you are a boy, and…I got Weiss as well?" Ruby asks, a bit surprised.

The nightmare nickers and leans down to her, bumping his head against hers. His voice is sounding concerned more than anything.

"Watch after this one. I have to get back soon," Ruby says.

The nightmare nods his head as he lifts the little guy in his tentacles onto his back. He then rides off into the forest as he seems to disappear. Though, Ruby can see a faint trail leading where he has been.