Bhutta finished his prayer and stood to pull his sword from the ground. He was alone in front of the cave, the setting sun doing nothing to cut through the darkness and provide the paladin with some idea of what he was to face. The village in the valley below was being terrorized but no one seemed able to give him some idea of what was doing the terrorizing. All they could tell him was that it seemed to reside in this cave. Bhutta had plenty of combat under his belt and with Iomedae's power backing him how could he fail? He raised his glowing sword and stepped into the cave.
Bhutta heard sniffling as he waited for his eyes to adjust, but it didn't quite sound like some horrible beast. As he grew used to the darkness he realized the cave tunnel opened up quite significantly. The sand and rocks under his feet gave way to moss carpeting the whole area, the ceiling and walls almost glowed, littered with quarts and moonstone, he could barely make out some large shapes along the wall when something caught his eye. A small figure curled up in the center of the room had been the source of the sniffling, at first he mistook it for one of the boulders littering the center of the cave, he froze, the figure moved.
"D-don't hurt me sir!" The figure sobbed and approached him. At first glance it was a girl, not thin but somehow small, with short curly hair and tears streaking her strikingly angelic face. The garment she wore was torn and dirty and did not leave much of her figure to be imagined. Her face told Bhutta she was young, but her curves implied something else entirely. He felt somehow unsettled but tried to brush the feeling away, and tried not to glance at her exposed thigh again.
"Who are you? I'm not here to hurt you I'm here to help."
The villagers didn't say anything about a girl going missing? Maybe the beast had carried her off from somewhere else, it was impossible to tell how long she'd been here.
"I'm Lily, are you gonna help me sir? Take me home with you?" She had crawled closer to him but didn't get up from her knees. Bhutta kept his sword raised and continued scanning the cave.
"Where is it? The thing that brought you here?" He couldn't quite focus on the corners of the cave, nothing was moving but he knew something was back there he just couldn't figure out what.
"I've been alone her for so long, I didn't think anyone would ever find me, please sir don't leave me all alone, it's so cold." Something about the way she looked up at him from her position sparked something inside him. Especially with her eyes watering like that, and she did look cold... what with the goosebumps creeping up her naked legs and how tight the garment was over her breasts Bhutta could see the cold affecting her. Without realizing it he sheathed his sword and tried to shake those observations from his head. Bhutta removed his cloak and wrapped it around the small girl, maybe with her covered he could think a bit more clearly. He would have to take her back to the village before he continued his pursuit of the monster. He sat on one of the boulders next to the girl to think. They would have to make camp, she couldn't make the journey in a day and who knows when she'd last eaten, she certainly looked hungry. "Are you hungry? How long did you say you've been here?" Something flashed across her eyes, was that a smirk?
"Mmh I'm starving sir, I haven't eaten is so long" The way she licked her lips felt obscene somehow... something about her teeth? No maybe it was her tongue... he caught himself staring at her mouth. She noticed, she was very close to him when had that happened?
"What's this for?"
Suddenly she was standing between his legs her fingers holding the small sword and sun hanging at his neck. He felt something awaken when she brushed his skin and fought the urge to pull the girl close, finding himself eye level of her surprisingly large breasts.
"M-my deity, Iomedae," he remembered himself,
"I- I wear it for her, she gives me strength" it was almost a prayer as he fought to move his eyes to the girls face, what was happening to him?
"Wh-what are you?" His hand found his sword hilt but he could not bring himself to move.
"What do you see me as, brave paladin?"
He fought to focus on her face and somehow she changed, her features remained soft but there was a sharpness to them as well, something not human, her eyes cut through him and sparkled with mischief, her curls, which he had mistaken for blonde, he now realized were more purple. He felt as tho she were changing, the child he originally saw was still there but if he fought hard and focused that inhuman being was before him, something beautiful and terrible with small horns and fangs. These features didn't disturb him, in fact something about them was adorable, even sexy, he wanted to know what those little fangs felt like, the horns just barely poked out from her curls, he wanted to pull them. She was so close to him, looking down at him with her tits in his face. In his time of need Iomedae gifted him clarity, he stumbled backwards off his perch.
"Succubus!" He hissed clutching his pendant that she had touched! Her laughter sounded like a child, pure delight.
"Oh my! What a treat! You know how many brave men have come to slay me? And they all see exactly what they want to see" she bent over the boulder he had sat on, the angle and the way she was leaning gave her unholy cleavage.
"A little help from me at the start of course but they all were happy to see a sweet little girl, so innocent so grateful to be rescued" she became the girl he had first seen, and gave him the most innocent yet seductive look and put on a little girl voice.
"How can I ever repay you brave mister knight for saving me? Mmh it's so cold in this cave but your arms feel so warm, gee what's that in your pants mister knight?" She laughed again straightening up and coming towards him as he frantically tried to stand or get away from her.
"But no, it seems Iomedaes pet has no taste for corrupting the innocent. You know I can smell your desire, and you smell delicious. I know exactly what you want to see, my true form."
In one movement she pulled the cape around her, briefly hiding her body before she threw it off among the boulders. Her face was still impish, now dusted with purple freckles, her eyes had become as purple as her hair, a small set of bat-like wings stretched behind her sprouting from her shoulder blades, the dirt fell away and her garment separated in two and became even tighter, the incredibly thin, black fabric held up by thin straps crossing behind her neck and barely covering her breasts, leaving just under her nipples exposed. The second piece of fabric clung to her hips almost like a loincloth, one piece in front falling to her ankles and the other barely wide enough to cover her ass, they didn't connect on the sides so that her legs could move freely, just a thin strap kept the fabric from falling off her wide hips leaving her stomach exposed. Her nails became short, sharp claws, her skin was tinged an unnatural pink, there were bangles around each ankle and a thin tail with a spiked tip swayed behind her like a cat stalking its prey. He felt his manhood harden against his will and he muttered a prayer to Iomedae.
To his surprise she turned away from him, walked back to the center of the cave and perched on a boulder with her legs crossed beneath her, her skirt, for lack of a better word, keeping her decent, to his shameful disappointment.