Yep. we went there

  That Friday had started rough for me. The night before I had gotten little sleep. It had been one of those nights where insomnia hit and I hadn't been able to close my eyes till 3am, roughly two hours before my alarm clock was set to go off. When it did I was greeted to the local classic rock station coming half in, the song being barely audible under the white noise that choked it out. I argued with myself to try and call in sick, take the day off to get some sleep. I didn't, instead laying there for another fifteen mintues before rolling off the couch and stealthing around the apartment as to not wake Tsubaki.

  The cold morning had made me thankful for remembering my jacket. Forgetting it would has lost me precious time as I raced back upstairs to grab it as quickly and quietly as possible. The early mornings were also the calmest the city got, with the night life having retreated and replaced with the first shift. Small pockets of groups moving from point to point or congregating to chat. Even still there was a bit of danger even in these sleepy first hours of the day...if you were a single man like I was. There were ways mamono could tell a man was single, it was like a sixth sense they and only they possessed. One that sometimes lead to bad situations.
As I waited at a cross walk I felt a  tap on the shoulder, "hello there~." said a alluring feminine voice from behind me. "Do you have a minute?"
  Turning around I found myself coming face to face with a woman who oozed sexuality.  Perky body, blonde hair that went down past her shoulders with blue eyes to go with. She looked like an elf with smaller ears and a pair of horns that cured around from the side of her head towards the front. The tips curling upwards giving the appearance of a head dress. A set of bat like wings poked out from behind her lower back, both of them folded against her hips.

"Succubus," I groaned to myself as I looked her over. "Great...". I thought as my eyes narrowed.

  As a sub-species of Mamono, Succubus were one of the most common. They were also one of the straight forward types typically. A mentality the for some reason grated on my nerves like nails on a chalkboard.

"Sorry," I yawned out. "I've gotta get to work."

"Oh please~." The succubus pleaded. " I need help, my glasses case skittered under the dumpster in that alleyway back there."

I groaned quietly to myself. "Look ...I...." my words fumbling as I looked for a excuse.

"Just say you have work and leave it at that." I tried telling myself.
Another side chimed in. "She needs help though, just see what it is."

  It was only a quick request, how could it hurt? Afterall in this day and age things like "claiming" was a rarity, something you heard on the news maybe once every few years. Now a days most couples were childhood sweethearts or fated encounters. I didn't see any danger and followed her into the alleyway. It was a dead end alley, the dumpster she brought me to situated about midway down and across from a locked back door to some storefront.

"Ok yeah, I see it." I said as I got low to the ground and looked under the dumpster. "It's  all the way under there." I groaned.

  It wasn't too bad, the case had skittered almost all the way under the dumpster. I moved over to the left side further into the alley and crouched down. It was still a ways underneath but at least it would be easier to grab from this angle. I stooped into a crouch and tried grabbing at the case, frowning when I realized the job would require me to get on my stomach and reach under.  The ground itself wasn't too bad I had just would have rather not been on my stomach reaching under a dumpster.

"Almost..." I groaned as my fingers brushed against the case and tried pulling it towards me.

"Got it!" I thought to myself as I brought the case close enough to grab fully. "Easy" I said aloud.

  Standing back up and turning around to hand the glasses case back my eyes were drawn to something. The front of the succubus' button up blouse had been unbuttoned, her breasts dangerously close to popping out. I wasn't given much time to process how this happened as I found myself in a thank you hug.

"Oh thanks so much sweetie~!" she said, pulling me into a very strong hug,

  The oddly calming hug didn't immediately set off alarm bells in my head, and neither did the fact the act had pushed my back towards the wall of the building behind me. I just stood there being held by a strange woman. In my mind I saw nothing wrong, it was just a hug.

"That's it just relax~." Said the succubus from somewhere.

  I listened to her, the hug felt great. Being embraced so gently and having my head stroked made me feel relaxed. No alarm bells rang as I stood there being embraced by this unknown succubus. Everything felt right in the world, especially when I felt the hand leave my head and begin rubbing and kneading my crotch through the fabric of my pants. I felt my breath getting heavier as I became aroused, but as my arousal rose so did something else. A singular alarm, that shouted "WAIT STOP!" in my mind. The scream grew louder as the edges of my rational thought was being eaten by lust and arousal. I finally realized what was happening, I was being claimed.

  Claiming was a worst case scenario in the modern era. You'd hear about it, some single guy would up and  disappear. Either reappearing with some mamono around his arm and a kid in her stomach, or a special operations squad breaking down the door to some house and finding the guy having had his brains fucked out (figuratively). Trying to push her away wasn't working, I felt too calmed even as my mind started to race. I didn't want to leave her embrace or touch. My need to stay there fought against the need to pull away and get away.

"No" I sighed. " I've got work... I can't be doing this."

  "Don't worry about it sweetie~." Cooed the succubus, "relax and don't worry about anything~."


  I started pushing back. Slowly at first, then with force as I plied myself out of the hug. As I did so, my back hitting and bouncing off the wall right behind me I got another look at the succubus. Was her hair getting shorter and darker? He features seemed to be swimming as well and changing. From her height to her facial features, everything about her was changing! The two thoughts that had freed me were now joined by panic as I saw her changing shape.


"Just relax sweetie~" said the creature, as it reached back towards me. "I can be any woman you want~."

  I could have shouted for help by this point, by all accounts it would have ended the situation. I wasn't thinking though, my mind still entertaining the idea of letting it happen was still there and making complex plans something unviable. So I did the next best thing, I rushed the shapeshifter. It was either a stroke of luck or something she hadn't planned on, but I barreled into her, seeming to knock her down with ease.  Now with enough room to run my only hope was she wasn't a shoggoth.  I sprinted out of the alleyway, if I had made a scene of it I don't know. I was moving as fast as I could and not looking behind me. There was no point, I'd be looking for someone who can change their appearance on a whim.

  When I finally got to work I hurriedly punched in and started organizing a outgoing job, moving the tables and chairs for the road crews to haul them away.