Kasumi walked into the house and looked about cautiously as she carried the groceries into the kitchen and started placing them away. And before doing so carefully set aside a perfect-bound paperback book with an area the size of a standard letter-sheet of paper and about an inch thick.
"Of Makai Kind."
She'd stumbled on to the book in passing the old curio store where Kuno had once purchased a phoenix egg. She would have kept looking save that the cover art included a print of an old painting that had a child with green hair and batwings in the background.
It looked so much like a young Morrigan, that she couldn't resist stopping to purchase the book.
With the shopping put away, she started the laundry and sat in the dining room reading as she waited for the washing machine to finish so that she could hang the clothes.
"Okay, Rally," Kate said. "A succubus is drawn to primal passion and confidence."
"I thought it was sex," Rally responded.
"Can you think of a more obvious example of a height of primal confidence than mind-blowing consensual sex?" Kate asked. "I mean...by report."
"So they feed on confidence then?" Roy asked.
Rally had a sudden image of her being reduced to a simpering, spineless wimp.
"No, they feed while you're at the heights of passion and confidence, it's their door to your lifeforce, like blood for vamps," Kate said, shrugging and sighing. "And it feels so good even while you're getting tired. Like you can rule the world."
She took a deep breath and widened her eyes.
"And it lets you keep your youthful looks longer," Kate noted. "Why else do you think I still look eighteen. I fairly regularly feed a succubus, so my youth is fading slowly...but that's how dick clark did it."
"So you're going to live longer out of beating up on sex demons," Rally asked.
"No, just stay young longer," Kate said. "I get old enough unless I find something else, the body still stops working. But I'll look great when it happens!"
"Oh, I'll bet I can call Jezebel," she said, pulling out her cellphone.
"Jezebel," Roy repeated, arching an eyebrow.
"Mmhmm," Kate said. "Hey, Danny, is your wife there?"
Rally and Roy exchanged a look and mouthed the word "wife" questioningly.
"I have a friend who has a date with Queen Morrigan Aensland," she said proudly. "And we were looking for an expert."
"And this is how tabloids get their stories," Roy said.
"Succubi generally feed via battle or sex. For most of history, this has been sex due to the fewer risks involved, but with the rise of full contact sports such as wrestling, boxing and martial arts tournaments, where the dangers have been comparatively minimized, battle-centric feeders are becoming more common as it became less and less likely that injury would outpace feeding.
Any individual of either primal passion..."
Kasumi took a marker and highlighted those words.
"...or extreme self-confidence..."
...as well as those...
"...is like a beacon to a succubi. In the place of one or the othe..."
Kasumi skimmed a little further to find reference to "virgins".
"Most children of a succubus are half-succubi only, bearing a stronger relation to their other parent, but with a heavy streak of recklessness. Each succubi is capable of bearing only one full blooded succubi in their life-times, and that is when they are virgins just coming into their sexual maturity. If a succubi's first sexual encounter is with another succubi then the child will be a succubi, but they will never be able bear a full succubi child in their life again."
"Likewise, a human woman who is still virignal might become a succubi via ritual intercourse with a full succubi. The new makai will also be pregnant with fully succubi child. This is the preferred method of reproduction as it practically doubles the..."
Kasumi sat up straight and took in a breath.
Morrigan-san was a succubi, looking for human women to make more succubi. Including, and her eyes sparkled, children that would need to be cared for and protected and guided.
Something she only thought she'd be able to do by caring for the children of others given her leanings.
She was the woman for the job!
Confidence!
And now all she had to do was prove it to Morrigan-san.
"Primal...passion," Kasumi said consideringly.
The book did have another thing to say.
"Entrancement is a state of mind induced by the succubi's pheromones more than their feeding practices. The basic result makes the individual exposed more and more addicted to the situation of the exposure.
For example, most encounters with succubi produce a growing sexual attraction to women. At first this is a general attraction, but becomes more and more specific to the individual succubi with great exposure.
Succubi who feed in battle cause their opponents to receive a similar high from fighting that might overwhelm the seeking of other sorts of primal highs, such as sex.
For the most part this entrancement is temporary and fades away to a dream-like memory after sometime. However, in the face of a weakened lifeforce, the entrancement can become a more or less permanent effect that is not easy to reverse. This can result in a shift in gender preferences, a fetish for a particular color hair or body type, in the extremes, a near-obsession with the individual succubi that caused the entrancement.
When this is induced in a sexual feeding, the succubi usually prefers to accept the entranced individual as part of a harem to feed on regularly. There are ways to reverse the obsession, but they are, for the most part, more damaging than the fixation itself.
This has not yet been well observed amongst battle-centric feeders. But it is assumed that a growing desire for battle and especially for fighting the specific succubus will develop over time. Or even all at once dependent on the level of a particular combat.
Sakura ducked under the swift kick with a heavy intake of breath as she admired her opponent's form. They were close and intimate enough in their match, and their passion and confidence were both at such a high, that it was an easy open door for her to feed, drawing off some of her opponent's life force as she countered with a roundhouse that the other fighter stepped back from, letting her into the full set-up for a shunpuu kyaku.
The young succubus was about to make contact with her opponent when another kick interrupted her, sending her falling back to the ground momentarily and kipping up while rubbing at the cut on her lip. Smiling as if she had just been revitalized more than she had been hurt by the impact.
Joe Higashi took a deep breath and shook off the growing fatigue as Sakura came in again. The girl's form was just so beautiful and perfect. He could fight her all day and forget however tired he was. Especially as she seemed to be getting more and more energetic as the fight moved on.
He dodged aside again as a hadoken fireball streaked past him to impact the side of the ring, blowing away the support column for the scoreboard at the edge of the football field they were fighting on. So focused on their fight, Sakura and Joe continued dodging in and out trading blows, connecting and almost connecting while the scoreboard toppled behind them, sending up sparks as they moved their fight into its rubble.
It was an incredible feeling, even as it became more and more difficult to strike precisely and move quickly. Especially in comparison to her. It was like all his strength was being poured into her and it was...was...
...it was feeling a lot like sex.
Finally they both came together in the center again, punches ready to land and decide which of them would win this....
and the round timer buzzed to a stop.
"Match draw," the referee declared.
Both punches landed moments later as the participants failed to listen to the referee. Both fighters struck and went flying backwards to the ground unconscious with silly looking grins on their faces.
"In recent times, with the increase of more full-contact, non-lethal sports, some succubi have become what they've called "celibate" by focusing all their sexual interest on one individual while gaining the bulk of their feeding from battle or competition."
"These are mostly formerly human succubi and it is unknown whether such preferences will extend past the death of a chosen mate. Also temptation to step away from this lifestyle is always present. In general pregnancies for the succubus lead to having to at least temporarily spread their sexual interests around as the pregnancy moves later into term."
Ibuki wrapped her wings around Anko tightly as the older girl held onto her. She nuzzled her face into the crook of Anko's neck, kissing lightly as she came down from a feeding.
"Anko-sempai," Ibuki cooed quietly as the weary ninja woman held the succubus's tender form gently.
"I have you Ibuki-sama," Anko whispered as she pulled the blanket over the other girl's wings.
She wasn't about to let the rest of the college know what Ibuki was. By now, the deans and her clan had to know that she herself was compromised. Anko had done some research after seeing the girl's wings for the first time, and knew what had happened, but didn't care.
Her obsession was induced by the succubi pheromones, and soldified by the first time Ibuki had fed on her and the extra layered entrancement slammed into her. But there was more to it than that.
She'd been something of a useful leper to her own clan for so long, and here was someone that looked up to her and called her sempai and looked to her for advice and aid.
This was someone who had confidence in her, Anko Mitarashi, accursed snake girl.
And Ibuki was trying to reciprocate as much as she could. Her streetfighting had become more frequent, and her random socializing less so.
For her part, Ibuki smiled quietly enjoying the feeling of a filled lifeforce and Anko's warm form. She'd always been after the perfect guy. The husband with whom to have children. Her change in species had broadened her ideas somewhat, and instead she'd found the perfect girlfriend.
Too bad she hadn't been a virgin when they met.
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