Arcana Pt. 01: A Shapeshifter's Desire

"Sorry, no. My girlfriend wouldn't like it if I did. Got a bathroom I could use?" Caroline asked, ignoring the fact that this man was stroking the hunger that burned down in her core.

"Yea, right over there. Take it easy sister." He waved jovially as she walked away. At least he had been polite, Caroline thought.

In the bathroom she rapidly ditched all her wet clothes and stuffed them in the trashcan. The blood didn't get entirely washed out of them in the water, so she thought it best to get rid of them. The hoodie was a bit rough on her bare breasts and the pants felt good on her cold, damp skin.

She stuffed her money and wallet back into her pants. Her phone had gone missing in the surf. She pulled the hood up and headed out of the store. She rushed home, taking the crosstown bus and walking a few blocks.

"Whew! Oh, I am not going to make it." Caroline breathed when she closed her apartment door behind herself.

"The internet is shockingly fast, you know that? Barely three or four hours and you're already trending on twitter and films of you have a million views on YouTube." A cool, female voice said in the dark of her apartment. The woman sighed and shook her head.

"Who are you? What are you doing in here?" Caroline growled, feeling her insides twisting at the voice. Dragon scales blossomed from her flesh and her reptilian eyes cut through the darkness of evening. A woman in a plain blue dress sat on her couch. She had a Native American look to her with tanned skin and dark hair. She was young, barely older than Caroline herself.

"Don't worry. I am not here to harm you or tell of you. But with your spirit awakened as it is, I felt you needed instruction." The woman said. The woman smiled up at her, "My daughter."

"What." Caroline froze. She stared at the woman with wide eyes. Then anger flared inside her and she growled, "How dare you. How dare you come in here and say that."

"Are you worried I lie?" She asked, her hands still calmly folded in her lap.

"Does it matter? If you are lying, then you know much about me and you are toying with me. If you are not, then you abandoned me to that useless man I once called my father." Caroline took a step towards her, "Why should I not kill you?"

"Because you cannot. Now sit and we may talk." She said as if it were a fact. Her simplistic dismissal of Caroline made her rage boil. It was an anger deep and abiding, born from old memories and feels, jealousy of others with parents and those that had the chance to grow up loved. Her hunger surged forth, hungry for blood, hungry for flesh, hungry for this woman's death.

Caroline lunged with a roar, claws leading.

The woman changed. Her flesh became tough leather covered in thick fur and she countered Caroline. Her own enormous lion paws slashed at Caroline, skating harmlessly across her scales. The two of them fell into a thrashing fight of talons and claws, scales and golden fur. The two of them slashed and jerked, fighting ferociously for the victory.

But it didn't last nearly as long as Caroline had hoped. In just a few seconds, she found herself pinned down under the body of a huge lion with enormous fangs latched around her throat. Her neck popped and she growled. She could try and breathe fire on her, but she would probably snap her neck before she could do any serious damage. Her armor protected her from the outside, not the inside.

Blood pulsed in her ears as the seconds slowly passed. Nothing could be done, a deep and painful sensation of loss pierced her insides. Caroline closed her eyes and submitted, letting her scales melt back into skin. The lion released her and stepped back. Almost as quickly as one could blink, she turned back into a human and pulled her dress back on, covering her indecency.

"You are valiant and proud, your instincts are good. You would've had any lesser creature at your mercy, for those scales are like steel." The woman said with a nod, "Truly, you are my daughter Caroline."

"You became a lion. You can shapeshift." Caroline breathed, "You can become animals, not just their aspects."

"You can too. You've just not had your power long enough." She sniffed the air, "What has it been, less than a month? Your spirit is newborn, barely learning to walk on its own. I imagine the desires have been quite ravenous with it growing."

"Spirit? What are you... Look, can you at least tell me your name?" Caroline asked, slumping back down on the coffee table to be across from her.

"My name is Yukeewuiala. It means 'One Who Watches The Heavens' in our ancestral tongue. Call me Yu." She said, "And yes, as I am a native Indian, you are half. We are of the Shikanal tribe that once lived on the islands here in the Puget."

"I'm an Indian?" Caroline raised an eyebrow, "Wait a second, back a few steps. What is his spirit you were speaking of? What does that mean?"

"It means that I wasn't sure you would be blessed with the spirit of a skinwalker when I gave birth to you. So I left you with your father and checked in every now and then as you grew up. If you ever showed the signs of it, I would step in, as I am doing now." Yu spoke softly, "I am here to answer any questions you have about yourself."

"What the fuck is a skinwalker? Is that what we shapeshifters are called? For that matter, what is this spirit? Is it the source of my powers?" Caroline asked impatiently.

"Yes. Any daughter born to a shapeshifter has the chance to be born with the spirit of a skinwalker. It is something blessed to many Indian tribes by the gods. When you are young, it lies dormant. Sometimes you can change yourself a bit, that's the spirit dreaming. But once you become an adult, the spirit is born inside you and it comes into full consciousness. You use it to change into anything you want, but the spirit lives off the energy of others, so you must feed it." Yu took a breath, "And there are only two ways of doing that. Sex and murder."

"Wow... So I have something living inside me, some kind of spirit." Caroline said, eyes wide.

"Uh-huh. And it will continue to grow for a few more months. It will be ravenously hungry just like a growing baby in that time. I assume by the scent of your bedroom, you have a lover you feed on?" Yu said without blinking.

"Yea. Kate. She's out of town at the moment..." Caroline put a hand on her stomach, "Won't be back until later tomorrow and I'm trying to survive."

"Trying to stay monogamous? Honorable, if quite difficult. Your hunger will cry out for energy. When she comes back, you will not be able to hold yourself." Yu chuckled, "Better than killing though. I am very glad you did not choose that path."

"How does one choose?" She asked with a twinge of nervousness.

"With your first feeding. When the spirit first awakens, it will drive you uncontrollably. You will either kill and feed or mate. Whichever is its first taste is how your instincts will learn to feed." Yu said.

"Okay... Here's one I'm scared about... Can I hurt Kate with this?" Caroline said, twiddling her thumbs.

"No, not easily. The spirit can only drink of their energy, not their life if you do not kill them yourself. Worst you can do through just feeding is knock them out cold for a long sleep. Do not be scared, I'm sure your lover is becoming more accustomed to it as well." Yu smiled, "You are a wonderful woman Caroline, to care so much for one other."

"Okay... so this spirit lives inside me. It gives me powers and I feed it sex. It's some kind of ancient monarchical tradition. This spirit will grow and flourish in time. I take it my hunger will lessen when its full grown? I hope so." Caroline grimaced and rubbed her stomach again, "I love the sex, but it gets tiresome to always feel this."

"Yes, it will lessen with time as the spirit becomes fully alive inside you and you start to communicate better." Yu smiled, "Always learn to listen to it and know when to tell it 'no'. You need to know what your spirit is to you, you understand?"

"Yea, I think so. One more question, if you don't mind?" Caroline said with a groan.

"Only the one?" Yu smiled knowingly.

"For now. Why did you leave me?" Caroline asked solemnly.

"I... Had no choice. I made a bad mistake sleeping with your father that night. I wanted him. In the end, you were the result." Yu stared at her through eyes sparkling with tears, "It was never meant to happen. I am a skinwalker, a woman of the wild."

"It hurts..." Caroline growled, first looking at the floor and then up at her eyes, "...To know I wasn't wanted. He never loved me, he fled as soon as I was legally an adult. Yu, I will never call you a mother. I hope you know that. You've never been one to me." Caroline raised her chin in pride.

"Fair." She said, as she nodded. A thought struck Caroline.

"The money. You left the money." Caroline gasped and Yu nodded.

"Indeed." Yu nodded, a broad smile spreading over her.

"Hey, you were right. I got one more. Where did it come from?" Caroline smirked.

"I've got a lot of money. Using my nose and my skinwalking, I've found things most only dream of. There are ways to make money, you'll know when you're older." Yu explained.

"Huh." Caroline smiled, "Thank you for all these answers."

"Alright, before I go, could you do an old gal a favor?" �Yu said, smiling widely, "Tell me a story of your life? Anything."

"Oh boy, I have a few of these." Caroline laughed, "How about I just tell you what it's been like since I first shapeshifted." Yu nodded eagerly and settled in to listen.

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CHAPTER 9 - BACK WITH A SMILE

Yu had left Kate that night, sometime after Caroline had fallen asleep on her shoulder. She had been tucked into her own bed and she could almost still feel her mother's lips on her forehead. That night was also filled with quite a strange dream.

She found herself no longer lying in bed, but instead she was standing in a dark place lit only by a circle of light shining down from above. She wasn't in that strange, half-conscious shifting dream state, but instead was fully conscious. She knew she had fallen asleep talking with her mother, and she knew she had been lying in her bed not that long ago. Her eyes flicked from side to side as she looked around the dark area, suspicious of the perfectly rounded light. She stepped into the circle and so did herself.

Well... At least, so something that resembled her stepped in across from her. It looked like her, but as if it were viewed through hazy heat waves and similar distortion. She was almost curious if it was just reflecting her own look back at her. It kept shifting and changing almost randomly. Any attempt to look beyond the blur just showed a shimmering shapelessness.

"What am to you?" It spoke in her voice.

"I do not know. Who are you? What is your name?" Caroline asked.

"I do not have a name. I exist inside you and change your body how you wish." She said, "I am a fledgling spirit of the wild only newly awoken."

"You're what my mother was talking of, the hunger inside me. The desire to fuck Kate and make her cum so hard... you know, besides how much fun it is." Caroline smiled naughtily.

"Kate..." The spirit cooed, "That is our mate's name."

"Do you not hear or know what I know?" Caroline asked in curiosity.

"Until now, I've never been able to speak to you. I didn't know how. I could only express myself as sensations to your mind. Pleasure. Hunger. Desire. Need. I could only catch snippets of your world. Not enough to be of any instruction." She said, her figure wavering about differently as she spoke.

"Really? So, now that we're here, you'll be able to talk to me in the future?" Caroline asked.

"Yes, but it depends on what I am to you. You have not yet told me." The spirit pointed out.

"I don't know. You give me wonderful power, power that I have used to save lives and to give my lover amazing pleasure. But now that I speak with you, I know you've been there my entire life. I know what I was feeling so many times before when I felt the strength to go on against a horrible life. Perhaps... perhaps, you are my friend?" Caroline scratched her head. She didn't want to just say that she was a part of her, like a foot or an eye, or that she was just a source of power. If this spirit was as naive and newborn as her mother said, then she would likely be very impressionable. Anything she said or did now would help shape her.

"Really? I am a friend? I think I like that. Friends..." The spirit was slowly coming more into focus, but she was also changing. She didn't look as much like Caroline anymore, "You know friends to be someone you can trust, someone you will support and will support you. Not necessarily a romantic interest, but someone close to your heart."

The spirit sharpened further, her hair becoming a darker black and spreading down her back. She spoke more, "If I am a friend to you, then I should support you, as you feed me. Your love with Kate helped me grow, and it still helps me now. Although you have not lain with her in some time, I know you will."

Her right arm grew into a dragon's talon, black scales past her elbow, and her eyes became golden reptilian. Clean white horns spread back from her temples and she breathed a deep breath. The blur around her disappeared entirely and she looked upon her clearly for the first time. She was naked and busty, her skin pale and perfect except for her right side and shoulder, which was now covered in onyx armor. A smile showed long fangs and sharp teeth. A great curtain of black hair flowed thick and wild around her horns and down her back, all the way to her ass. She was an interesting sight overall. Her horns and one claw were enough to be a serious threat while the rest of her body showed a deep, uncontrollable need for love and sex. Her large breasts and foot-long dragon cock showed her deepest sexual nature. Caroline looked up from all of that and her heart caught in her chest. Her eyes...

Her eyes were deep and they showed unabashedly, exactly what she was. She was truly what Caroline had made of her, a spirit of raw sexual desire, dangerous and wild. She could be caressed and loved, a deep and abiding friend and partner. But cross her and she had the power to rip you apart and bathe in your blood. And she would do so with no mercy or pause.

"You asked who I was. Now I know fully. I am Draconis. I am your spirit of passion." The spirit spoke with a new depth in her voice. She held out her dragon hand to Caroline, "And I am your friend."

Caroline took her hand and gripped it, a smile from ear to ear, "Fantastic to meet you. I think we are going to have quite a life together!"

"I agree Caroline. Now, awaken because I think I smell Kate approaching." Draconis said, raising her head to look up into the light, "And I still hunger."

And with that, Caroline's eyes jerked open. She was laying in the dark, staring at the ceiling in her bedroom, and the apartment door just closed. She should get up to greet her, but there was just too much going on in her head, mostly about her mother Yu and her spirit Draconis.

It had been good to meet her, share with her and learn the truth of many things. It had filled a large gap in Caroline that she never truly noticed before. She awoke feeling good, feeling happy, as if the world held new light and new possibilities.

She sniffed the air and realized that Draconis was right. She could smell Kate from across the apartment. Just a gentle shift in the air and the faintest whiff of her soft hair and warm skin had Caroline on fire. She had never been able to smell this well before and it was exciting. Her cock burst from her loins and she threw the covers back, ten inches of throbbing dragon cock eagerly twitching before her. As she got to her feet, she felt her eyes change and her teeth lengthen into fangs.

Her hand wrenched open the bedroom door and she breathed out a curl of smoke. Kate was standing in the doorway with her bag on her shoulder and her shoes only half off.

"I need you!" Caroline roared, striding over to her in three steps and picking her up and turning around. Kate cried out and laughed as Caroline carried her effortlessly back to the bedroom and dropped her on the bed.

"I want you too! Jeez! Let me have a shower though!" Kate laughed and giggled as Caroline fell upon her, kissing her neck and stripping her clothes.

"No, the scent is delicious. It is you, pure and lovely." Caroline growled at her as she dragged her pants to her knees and shoved her legs in the air. She buried her face in her pussy and drank deep of her scent and taste. She hadn't had a shower while she had been gone and it was delectable. Her nethers were permeated with arousal and desire as Caroline dug her tongue in deep.

"Ahahhhh! Caroline, you're mad!" Kate cried out in pleasure, "Wow! You are wild! You're really going mad!"

She didn't know if it had something to do with Draconis awakening fully or just the first time in a long while she went more than a day without fucking Kate, but she loved being surrounded by her lover. She adored her being the only thing she could taste, she could smell and she could feel. Her cock was drooling precum born of sheer need and desire.

"Oh! Caroline! I'm gonna...!" Kate panted, "Its too quick! You're moving to fast! Ahhh!"

Kate seized up and came, her heart pounding wildly. It was easily the fastest she had ever been brought to orgasm, but the look in Caroline's eyes and the tone of her voice... She could only submit and give.

"Ahhhh! That is good. That tastes good!" Caroline signed happily, slowing down to lap up Kate's delicious girlcum.

"Good... Grief... Caroline..." Kate wheezed, trying to catch her breath, "You're crazed. Let me breathe."

"Time for breath later. I want your pussy!" Caroline yanked her pants off the rest of the way and shoved herself between her wet thighs. Her dragon dick sank deep, thick ridges rubbing her pussy all along the way. Kate's eyes went wide forma second, as if it was taking her mind a moment to process the avalanche of ecstasy falling upon her. Then she screamed with joy and wrapped her legs around Caroline's waist.

"Oh fuck! Caroline! You're so deep, and so big! Use me! I'm all yours!" Kate cried out loudly, her pussy convulsing around her cock.

"I've missed this pussy so much! I've never tried another before, but you have to be the best. Kate, there can't be a woman alive with a more lovely womb!" Caroline moaned, thrusting little movements against her, just enough to draw out the largest ridge and push it back in.

"My goodness.. I can't take this... I'm not going to last at all..." Kate moaned huskily, her fingers digging into Caroline's back.

She clenched up and came again. Caroline could feel Draconis drinking in her energy and her body bristled with power. She drew her cock back all the way and bottomed it out again. The rhythmic convulsions of her pussy were very pleasing and she came with a happy cry. Her cock released thick, gooey splooge into her with big and splattering squirts. She exhaled and sighed, basking in the buzz of the orgasm. Her dick dribbled out the last of her seed and she pulled free of her with a weak moan. She sank down against the wall, breathing hard and smiling as Kate stared at her.

"What... What just happened... I don't even know." Kate gawked, unable to raise her head from her pillow.

"You left me alone for two days. I needed release and I needed to feed." Caroline said, reaching over to grasp Kate's hand. She kissed her on the cheek, "And you are just so sexy, how could I not mount you the moment you came through the door."

"Oh you are just... Incorrigible!" Kate huffed with a smile, letting her head flop back on the pillow.

"Go take your shower. We have a lot to talk about. Something exciting happened while you were gone." Caroline said, smacking her bare hip. It took Kate almost ten minutes to feel her legs well enough to stand up.