Monty Screen loved his current life. In the beginning, there were problems. He couldn't find a decent body at first as he was in a grey land. The ground was void of any life except an occasional tree that moved about in the distance. He couldn't find anything remotely good to possess even after Lathander spoke to the entire class.
The ground was like sand, but was grey and black all around him. There were no beings about except some in the distance that moved quickly away from him as if they knew he was coming. He had gotten very depressed in the first five minutes of being sent to Arborea and was contemplating life.
He couldn't open up his map nor his status as he had no limbs to touch it with and he was tired of moving towards a creature that never came near him. When he first opened his eyes in this world, he only saw clouds. Dark ones that looked like the night.
He was scared and looked about to see his friends, but could not find anyone he knew near him or, to be exact, not another living soul or being about him. He had his back turned when the grenades exploded and hadn't known a couple "retarded delinquents" had blown up his classroom and he slightly recalled heat on his back before a sharp pain entered his head.
He wanted to say goodbye to his family, friends, and everyone else around him. He didn't have a lover though. He had so many regrets and wanted to voice them out in the limbo-like plain around him, but his soul did not have a mouth to do such a task.
He stayed in place thinking when a small white thing appeared in front of him. It was circular and had ten strange tentacles sticking out from all sides. At this point, he just wanted to get in a vessel quickly as he wasn't sure if he would die if left as a soul.
As quickly as he could, he moved inside of the creature. He wasn't sure what it was, but it seemed a bit on the smaller side and could fly. Perfect for flight evasion tactics. He was a high schooler who drove a car to school and was fairly confident in his controlling skills.
He slid into the being easily and his consciousness blinked for a moment. Then he awoke in his new body and form. Quickly, he tried to move a tentacle to his stat screen to find that his tentacles were drastically different than moving a limb. It was like trying to move a limb solely on muscle and willpower alone. Inside the tentacles were just muscles and cartilage.
After a while of trying to move his arm, he realized that he was on the ground. He tried to move upwards, but couldn't. He didn't know how or why he couldn't and he desperately tried. He even waved his tentacles about as if the were wings.
No. None of his plans nor his ideas worked. For now, he could only think of how to survive. He moved tentacle arms more slowly and precisely tapped the status button. On it, he saw that he was something known as a Death Kiss which was a less powerful variant of Beholder.
He had one red eye that could be used to fire off lightning strikes at foes and he had teeth and small mouths at the ends of his tentacles. He could open and close the mouths at will as one would do so with their own mouth, His skin was a discolored white and red color and his eye hideous and body grotesque.
He could barely look at himself and took a look at his skills and magic. He was able to suck blood and shoot out lightning, but one skill in particular stood out to him. [Shapeshift]. He could turn into anything that he sucked the blood from and he quickly tried to float upwards.
When that didn't work, he tried to move around like how he did when he was just a soul. He turned his eye in its socket upwards and willed his way forwards. He felt the sand move out from around him and he slowly moved out of the small divot he made.
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He wanted to cry out in relief as he was finally able to move around, but he could speak still. He sighed in his mind and floated high into the sky. He wasn't using his tentacles currently and, after he floated for about a minute with his tentacles dragging behind him, the tentacles moved up and into his body. He cringed as it felt disturbing that ten unknown tentacles shoved their way into his body.
He had been flying for a while when he found a beast below him. It was attacking someone and, when he descended, their mangled corpse remained headless and buried in the sand. It was most definitely humanoid, but he couldn’t tell what type of humanoid it was as the beast carried off with its head.
From the remains, he could make out that it was likely a female. He moved his tentacles out strangely and they latched onto her arms. He started pumping out her blood and felt disgusted by his actions. It was a humanoid like how he used to be an hour ago.
He wanted to throw up, but, without a mouth, he could not. Thankfully, he couldn’t for, if he did, then he would have been attacked by the furry creature from earlier.
He felt himself gain more powerful and energetic and he checked his status with the maneuverability of his tentacles increasing. He gained experience from sucking out the person’s blood and had also gained a form.
His eyebrow frown as he looked at what was on his screen. It said that he could turn into a Wolf Girl. He could turn into a female and not a male? That was messed up for him, but he had no other form to turn into.
He didn’t change yet as he wanted to find some more creatures.
He found three more creatures who were all small, frail, and weaker than he, but it was a start. They were two rats and a small six legged lizard. He found some wood that the dead woman was carrying and used it to start a fire along with his lightning skill.
He must have seemed defenseless when he turned into a female Wolf Girl. Not only was he fragile and thin, but he was naked and basically and exhibitionist showing off his petite body.
The body he was in seemed to be that of a petite 17 year old girl who had a pair of wolf ears on her head. The hair was a whitish and pink color that looked amazing as a hair color, but not so much for skin color. Her body didn’t seem to have much muscles, but Monty could actually move his limbs well, even if that body was smaller than his original. As for the body itself, she wasn’t that well endowed in the chest area.
Personally, he liked women who were well endowed than those with smaller ones, but he could live with the current body as it didn’t have two large things getting in the way of setting a fire. In fact, he skills and magic carried over from form to form and he could create lightning around his hands as well as shoot it from his eyes.
The only problem now was that he was a cold, nude girl lying on sand with only two rats and a lizard to eat. He hoped that his life would get better from then on and it did. For the next day he transformed into a Death Kiss and moved to the meeting area where everyone was meeting up.
After that, he had went to a village in the mountains and found that it was quite nice and peaceful. They accepted him in, even as a nude Wolf Girl who was extremely cute, and he helped them out until the next meeting point two months later.
Then, after six more months, the village had grown and he had gotten used to living as a woman. Well… kind of. Every male in the village had a slight crush on him at some point, but he rejected all of them and went for the women in the village.
The village prospered the more he helped and he helped them when they gave him a barrel of blood to drink. He did not need food nor water, but just blood as it was a Death Kiss’s only food source.
His help entailed him defending the village, helping with creating different tools, and trading with other villages. His village was only attacked twice, but he was able to get four barrels of blood in the first attack and eight in the next.
He had gotten one barrel of blood each time, but then gathered blood from the enemies. He downed all of them as it wasn’t a matter of drinking it instead of meals, but a matter of however much he drank, the longer he lived.
By the time he was invited to the tournament Rune was holding, he had gotten the forms of Wolf Girl, Wolf Man, Six Legged Lizard, Cat Rat, Piranha, Cat Man, Fox Girl, Sheep Man, Sheep Girl, Crystal Stag, Hill Giant, High Elf, Wilder Boar, Dark Wolf, Fluffy Rabbit, and Lurking Fish. The humanoid ones were taken from the enemies and bandits and the animals were taken from the hunted animals.
However, even with all these forms, he decided to stay a Wolf Girl as it was fun for him to be a girl, no matter how strange it was. Also, he could get into more perverted situations without being punished.