AN: It's been a while since my last story, but here you go. This story is the product of constantly thinking about monster girl games. To get it out of my head, I started writing my thoughts down, later combining it with a fantasy setting I'd been working on independently. When I first wrote out the story outline, it was similar to the games I was inspired by: monster girls attack the protagonist and try to make him come, and make him a sex slave and/or kill him if they succeed. I then realised that I wasn't really comfortable with writing such a story, and had another idea: what if I took the concept of "sexual combat" and tried to make it consensual?
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It was Friday night. For most university students, this was the time to visit the pubs, wind down after the stress of the week, and have the time of their lives.
So why was Lee alone in his apartment?
That was a question he'd asked himself repeatedly. He wasn't even all that interested in games like this, so why was he spending - or rather,
wasting
- a night on one?
Lee looked at the cover of the game's case. It was emblazoned with a picture of a very voluptuous woman with a goat's horns, a bat's wings, and a spaded tail - the stereotypical image of a succubus. Her clothing, if it could be described as such, only served to emphasise her figure - it was basically a modern string swimsuit, with the strings allowing just a hint of her areolae to be seen. The title was "Drawn into Passion" in ornate purple lettering.
The sight of the cover made Lee highly suspicious of the nature of the game. Not for the first time that night, he considered simply throwing the game out and doing something more productive.
Then he remembered that he'd spent fifteen dollars on this, and no refunds were allowed.
Sighing, Lee took the CD out of its case and inserted it in his computer. He also plugged in his headphones and put them on.
While he waited for the game to load, Lee flipped through the game's manual and read through the basic controls. He then put the manual down, as he preferred to avoid any potential spoilers in his games.
The game took a surprising amount of time to load, though that might have been more because of Lee's outdated hardware. While he waited, Lee reminisced about how he'd ended up in this situation.
Lee travelled to and from university using that marvel of transportation technology, the only one that had withstood the test of time - his own two legs. It saved him the cost of public transport, and as an added bonus, walking all the way while carrying a backpack was a decent way of staying fit. Thanks to this method of transport, Lee had stumbled across a run-down second-hand shop with a sign outside saying: "All Kinds of Wonders at Incredibly Low Prices". Since he wasn't in a hurry at the time, he'd stepped in for a look.
The sign turned out not to be false advertising. Indeed, Lee saw all kinds of merchandise on offer: pots and pans, crockery and cutlery, clothes in all sizes, shelf after shelf of books, a veritable mountain of children's toys. And most of the items showed no signs of damage.
After some browsing, Lee had reached a corner containing several stacks of video games. They ranged from recent releases to old classics, and all were at reasonable prices. Still, money was a bit tight this month, so Lee had resolved to only buy one game.
Lee had spent what felt like hours searching through the stacks, though obviously it couldn't have been more than five minutes in reality. At that point, the woman behind the counter had asked if he needed help. Lee had politely declined, then decided to use his usual method of making a choice in this kind of situation. He used a random number generator app on his phone to, well, generate a random number, then removed that number of games from the top of a stack and picked up the game that was revealed.
In retrospect, he really should have rolled for another number.
At the time, he'd decided that he was tired enough already and should get home as soon as possible. Of course, when he had begun approaching the counter, his heart was filled with apprehension due to the nature of the game. However, the woman behind the counter hadn't said a word about that. She did, however, warn him that they didn't accept any refunds.
Back in the present, the game finally finished loading. The title screen appeared.
It was the same succubus on the cover of the case. She was squeezing her breast with one hand, completely revealing the nipple, while her other hand reached provocatively towards her groin. And in the background, a woman's moans were faintly audible.
Lee looked down at the power button of his computer. He eventually wrenched his gaze away, muttering to himself, "Fifteen dollars, no refunds. Fifteen dollars, no refunds." With some resignation, he moved the cursor to the "New Game" option and clicked.
The screen turned black for a few seconds. Then a series of still images appeared, resembling pages from a picture book. They depicted medieval peasants working in the fields, fantastical creatures roaming the wilderness, knights in shining armour assembled in grand castles - essentially a standard fantasy setting. It had the usual mishmash of culture and technology from a range of places and time periods. Words appeared at the bottom of the screen, narrating the setting in an overly-dramatic manner. It didn't quite start with "A long time ago, in a kingdom far, far away" but Lee wouldn't have been at all surprised if it had.
The later images had a dramatically different atmosphere. Monsters invaded the kingdom, breaking through any resistance and kidnapping everyone in sight. The sunny day was replaced by a night lit by a red moon. Even the letters of the narration changed, going from pale brown to the same shade of purple as the game's title.
But the monsters were - well, they could best be described as demonstrating the nature of the game. They were all combinations of women with animals, plants or various other things. Some were based on mythology, like the harpies swooping from the sky to snatch up victims or the mermaids bursting from a lake to overturn boats. Others had more modern inspirations: Lee was fairly certain that a woman with worms for arms had never appeared in any myth. And the monsters' feminine parts were all universally, unrealistically attractive. Each one had the face of a supermodel with well-done makeup and the figure of a porn star. To top it all off, they were dressed just as skimpily as the succubus on the cover, or were completely naked.
Then there was the manner in which the monsters were fighting, if 'fighting' was even the correct word to use. The humans were unable to injure even a single monster: their swords and spears shattered on the monsters' bare skin, while their arrows bounced off entirely. Whereas the monsters... the monster manner of fighting was illustrated, in exquisite detail, by a particular series of three images.
The first showed a lamia, a monster with the lower body of an enormous snake, coiling around a human soldier and easily tearing off his armour. The soldier was visibly wounded by the act, but the lamia showed no signs of caring.
The second showed the lamia raping the soldier, who cried as he tried to push her away.
The third showed the soldier utterly broken in mind and soul, while the lamia had an expression of dark triumph.
This kind of scene was repeated over and over.
Afterwards, there were images of monsters surrounding a human woman. The monsters' shadows warped and grew, no longer corresponding to their owners' actions, and covered the woman. Then the shadows retreated to reveal the woman, now transformed into a succubus. The succubus mounted a man and proceeded to drain him into an emaciated husk through lethal intercourse.
There were so many images in this vein that Lee zoned out and stopped paying attention to the details.
Eventually, the introduction shifted in focus. The images were no longer in a picture book-style and all focused on a silhouette walking through a dark forest. This was probably the player character, Lee guessed.
A window appeared on the screen, asking for the player's name. Lee decided to put in his own, too tired to try thinking of another one.
