Monster Mansion Chapter 2: Succubus

“Calm down, sweetie, there is nothing to fear~,” my grandmother said to me. “Your body is currently undergoing a metamorphosis~. It is transforming into its true form, so that you may become who you were always meant to be. Now come along there is a room already laid out for your body to rest~.”

“What!? There’s no way that I can just accept this!” I yelled at her, knowing that this was all insane nonsense. How could any of this be happening right now!?

“Hmm~. It would seem that he had done much more damage than I thought,” my grandmother said to herself, trying to think. “No matter. I never thought that things would be easy anyway. For now, I should focus on fixing what I can, and we can both move forward from there.”

“Alright, Rachel sweetie, grandmother knows that everything might seem a bit strange right now, but I need you to trust me~. Can you do that?” My grandmother talked to me as if I was a child, but for some reason, I didn’t feel upset by it. In fact, I found myself slowly calming down. While I still couldn’t understand a single thing that was happening right now, her voice helped me.

“I th-think I can,” I said nervously to her, trying to not focus that she called me Rachel instead of my actual name. She was my grandmother, and she was the only person that was there for me. I owed her at least the benefit of the doubt, before I started to freak out any more than I was right now.

“Alright, thank you, sweetie~. Now come, let’s bring your body into the master bedroom so we may talk~,” she said to me with a gentle smile.

“…Um, how?” I asked her, not quite certain that I could touch anything in the current state I was in.

“Oh my, how foolish of me~. Here let me help~,” she said, causing my body to float up into the air as the door to the room opened, and my body was pushed towards the stairs. The master bedroom was on the third floor of the mansion, while the office was on the first floor. I followed after my body and my grandmother, walking towards the master bedroom. Despite my slightly translucent form, I could actually walk on my feet like I used to. It was certainly an odd experience.

“What are you doing!?” I yelled, entering the room to see my grandmother laying my body inside of a sleek black coffin.

“Calm down sweetie, this is for your own good~,” she said, not paying attention to my protest, before closing the coffin with my body still inside of it. “Please sit down, and I can explain almost everything to you. I promise that your body is fine, so please listen to what grandmother has to say.”

“Alright,” I said, sitting down on the bed before she sat down next to me and put her arm over my shoulder, and to my surprise, I could feel it.

“I know that things seem to be moving fast, but I promise you that this is how things are supposed to be,” my grandmother said as her eyes started to glow. I feel my body or rather spirit start to become warm for some reason. “My adorable, sweet Rachel, for so long, this world had been wrong. Nothing is how it should be. From the world to the people to even your memories, everything is wrong. You know that feeling that something was missing inside your memories, this is that. Rachel, you aren’t a human, but a monster.

“B-but how? How can I be a monster? And what do you mean by Rachel? That’s not my name,” I said to her. I knew that nothing she said should have been said, but oddly enough, I couldn’t help but believe in her words. But still, that left the question of how? How was all of this a lie?

“There is so much that you must learn, but for now, you must trust me~,” she said, caressing my cheek. “All will be revealed in time. For now, knowing your true identity as Rachel and that you are a monster is enough. We shall work on your upbringing soon enough~.”

“Upbringing?” I asked her, unable to shake the feeling that whatever was happening right now was merely just the beginning of this “new life,” she had planned for me.

“Your etiquette, my dear granddaughter. As a boy, you didn’t need such a refined skill set, but as a young lady, there is no way that I may leave you alone like this. We must begin your training as soon as possible~. My grandmother was always strict with her rules, but it would seem that now I had no other choice but to listen to her. If I did, maybe I could get more answers or even return to my body.

For the next month, I did as my grandmother told me, learning etiquette and taking care of the house to the best of my abilities. It took me a while, but after a few days, I was able to finally pick things up with my current form. I couldn’t hold things for long, but I was making progress.

“Perfect, you’re doing excellent~,” my grandmother said, happy to see that I had finally started to master the basics in tea time etiquette and to be honest, I actually started to like it. It was a fun pastime, and I really wished that I could learn some more.

“Why thank you, grandmother~,” I said, giving her a small curtsey, which she loved.

“Ooo~!!! That’s perfect~!” she said ecstatically. “I can’t believe all the progress you have made during this time. It’s extraordinary~!!! I wish that that would have time to do more, but it would seem that we have a guest to entertain~.

“Grandmother, what are you talking about?” I asked her, confused by what she just said. Most people would never even come here. The Mansion was pretty worn down, and in its current state, no one would visit. Not to mention that the sun had already set.

“Come along sweetie, it is time that you see the wonders that our mansion possesses~,” she said, leading me upstairs to one of the storage rooms, where I could hear some rustling going around. “What this~.” My grandmother waved her hand, and the wall became one of those one-way mirrors from the cop shows. Inside the room was a man with bright blond hair, eagerly searching around all the boxes with jewelry and antiques. By the looks of it, he was a thief, and he made his way in through the window.

“Grandmother, what shall we do?” I asked her. I wasn’t confident in meeting with strangers, and in my current form, could I stop him?

“It’s alright sweetie,” my grandmother said, patting my head. “All we need to do is watch. Trust me, we are about to witness something quite extraordinary~.

I did what she told me to do and watched. The man was quite clumsy, tripping over multiple boxes and clothes, causing a great deal of racket. Was this his first time? For the next ten minutes, we watched as he continued to move boxes around, stacking what he considered important aside until he found something quite interesting. It was a large chest with a pink heart painted on it.

Without hesitation, the man opened the chest, through to my amusement, he found that it was almost empty. The only thing that he found in it was what looked like a skinsuit of a short black-haired girl. We watched as he tried to throw it down to the ground, but it no matter what he did, it wouldn’t let itself out of his hands, causing him to start to freak out.

What happened next was something that I couldn’t believe. All of a sudden, the skinsuit began to crawl around his body, quickly forcing him inside of it! In a panic he tried to rip the suit off, but it was no use; it wouldn’t let him go. It was as if it was alive. My grandmother let out a small laugh, almost as if she expected this to happen, but I decided to stay silent.

Once his entire body was encased inside the skinsuit, it began to reshape his body to best fit the skinsuit, and soon I could tell that it began to fuse itself to his or, rather, her body, forcing them to be permanently fused together. While trying to take off the suit, her face began to turn red, and slowly she started to take interest in her new body. Seeing that this was going in an interesting direction, my grandmother gave me a slight shove, and I soon found myself inside of the room without even having used the door.

I could see the shocked expression across her face when I entered, and I knew that I needed to make a good first impression. From my studies with my grandmother, I could tell that she was a succubus, and succubi were creatures that were strongly driven by their desires. Based on what I went through, I could tell that she needed someone to help her. Perhaps I could be that person.

“My, my, it would seem that grandmother was right,” I said, looking down at the girl, trying to sound as refined as grandmother while I spoke. “Though it would seem that the first one to join me is a bit obscene.” Which more or less was the truth. I hope that I could find her something nice to wear. “No matter, I am not one to turn away a girl in need. What is your name?”

“A—Ann.” She said, trying to talk, but it looked as if she couldn’t concentrate as much as she wanted to.

“Ann is it, what a lovely name~,” I said to her. “A bit pure for a succubus such as yourself. I can just tell that all the boys and girls will love you~. Though I can see that you have yet to get used to your body’s urges.”

“Pl-ease, ma-ke it sto-p,” Ann said, sounding a tad bit ashamed that she couldn’t hold herself back in front of me, but that was nothing that she had to be sorry for.

“Why would you want it to stop? You’re a succubus, so go and do what all succubi do. Go enjoy yourself. There is a feast waiting for you beyond these walls that will satisfy your every need.” Succubus’ rarely killed their prey, so, letting her have some fun shouldn’t be that big of a deal. And it would seem that she agreed. Before I could say anything else, she had already made her way to the window and flew off.

“Fufufu~. It would seem that we have quite the interesting first new member of our family,” my grandmother said, coming into the room. “Come along Rachel, there is much we have to do, and there will be more family members to add real soon~.”