The shapeshifting bed monster loomed over Isabelle and cackled evilly. Its huge, wooden talons looked wicked and ready to cut her guts out and play with them like marionettes. But Isabelle wouldn't let that happen, and what's more, she wouldn't let it happen to Tahsi Junior or Shiach, either. Even though Tahsi Junior was an annoying young dragon-kobold and Shiach was a noticeably stinky phoenixborn whose sexual stamina left something to be desired. No, Isabelle was going to save them all, and she was going to do it with her magic. She would use her magic to push back the bed monster's paws and claws which were practically made out of adamantium to cut off its appendages so that it couldn't kill anyone else in this wretched cave ever again with its bedpan hands and absolutely non- functioning bedpan claws!
Isabelle raised a closed fist into the air and began to chant a spell in the ancient language of magic as she closed her eyes and focused on the only thing in this cavern that she wanted to destroy more than anything else in this world or any other: bed monsters everywhere!
"Isabelle!" said Shiach stinkily, for her breath was rancid. "What are you chanting? Also, why?"
Isabelle grinned evilly and continued to chant in that ancient language of magic which neither Shiach nor Tahsi knew much about because they were young and dumb and always talking about their dragon dicks or sex or whatever they talked about every time they came back from their short 'trolololo' breaks in the woods near their hometowns in the south-western desert surrounded by thorny shrubs and poisonous snakes!
"Isabelle," Shiach said again. "Did you just murmur 'trolololo' under your breath?"
But Isabelle wasn't thinking about Shiach or wondering about how terrible Shiach's hygiene had to be for her breath to stink so much from the distance of what had to be at least three feet. She was chanting, and she could feel the power and mana swelling within her bosom as she chanted. Soon, she would be able to cast another powerful spell which would create a large, invisible wall of energy that would shield everyone from the bed monster's attacks...
"Trolololo!" said Shiach again, interrupting Isabelle's chanting for a third time. "You're not going to cast a spell are you?"
Isabelle's eyes opened wide in shock as she realized that Shiach could see her eyes glowing with magic even though Shiach couldn't see far past her own bodily stench.
"Isabelle," said Tahsi Junior, "I'm worried this shapeshifting bed monster is going to start disemboweling me, could you please try and help? I'm right here next to you."
Isabelle turned around in surprise even though she knew that Tahsi Junior had been there when she had started casting the spell. But she didn't turn around because Tahsi Junior's dragon-kobold body was so disgusting that she felt vaguely violated just looking at it from over a few feet away!
"Isabelle!" shouted Shiach, almost as if she had heard Tahsi Junior's words. She also kind of pushed her breasts out as if to try and catch Isabelle's attention with them, small though they were. "What are you doing? Are you trying to cast a spell or something? You're not casting a spell!"
"Shut up," said Isabelle with an evil grin on her face as she kept chanting in the ancient language of magic while closing her eyes with one hand and pointing with the other hand at the bed monster which was now standing next to Shiach Junior and Tahsi Junior's bedding which was also made of wood despite being a bed monster. "I'm not casting a spell! You're so fucking stupid..."
With her eyes closed, Isabelle could see through everything except for the magical wall of energy which was now around them all but still visible only to Isabelle herself and Shiach and Tahsi Junior who had to
be within an arms' reach of Isabelle for her to see them through the energy wall. The bed monster snarled at Isabelle angrily.
"I can still hear you," said Isabelle calmly. "I can hear your snarl even though I can't see you. It's highly annoying, you little bed bitch."
"I can still hear you too," said Shiach with an equally calm tone as if Isabelle had just suddenly started speaking another language that Shiach didn't understand. "And it's turning me on, honestly."
"I wasn't even talking to you, you whore," said Isabelle with a roll of her eyes.
"Fuck," said Shiach, "Please call me a whore again."
"Shut the fuck up Shiach!" spat Isabelle. She regarded the bed monster again, feeling the magic flowing over her eyes and burning her irises like the force and power of a billion exploding supernovas. She knew that she could feel the bed monster's thoughts like they were her own thoughts through this wall of energy, but they weren't nearly as strong or powerful as hers. "Can you hear me now?"
"Yes," said the bed monster with a snarl. "You're so small and weak! I will devour your soul and turn it into a bed monster just like me!"
"You will not," said Isabelle without hesitation and without looking away from the bed monster. "You have no power over me, vile bed- themed beast. I bet your sheets are covered in cum. I bet your sheets are covered in the cum of every guy who has fucked you and cummed on your sheets."
"I'll fucking cast a spell and turn you into a bed if I have to!" said Shiach angrily. "Also, the only guy I've fucked was Ryzer and he was way faster than you!"
Isabelle rolled her eyes again because it was obvious that Shiach didn't understand that she wasn't even talking to her. She also rolled her eyes because apparently to Shiach having fast sex was preferable. What a strange woman, Isabelle considered. But still,
Isabelle didn't need to think about sex. She needed to think about magic, and beds, and bed monsters drowning in cum...
[Mana 69%]
And thus, Isabelle cast her spell and was surprised to discover that this time it worked! Well, it worked at first anyway because the bed monster began to change shape right before Isabelle's eyes as if it were some kind of liquid being poured into another liquid shape like how water magically turns into wine sometimes in fairy tales. But then the transformation halted as if it had hit an invisible wall and froze solid like a glass sculpture in midair with ice crystals forming all over its body. And that's because that was what had happened. That is to say, the bed monster melted into a liquid, and then froze into a solid. And in that moment, Isabelle felt a sharp pain shoot through her right eye as if someone had shoved a needle into it which sent a stream of bright red magic energy shooting out of it into the frozen bed monster which instantly began to melt back into liquid form all over again before freezing solid again.
"What the fuck?" gasped Isabelle in pain as she opened her eye again only to see that the bed monster had turned back into its original shape except that now its face was looking down at her as if it were trying to look at itself in the mirror instead of looking at Isabelle. "What in the fuck was that?"
[Shadow magic unlocked] [
Magic interface 2.0.1 activated]
[Notice: You may downgrade to your earlier magic interface, magic interface 1.6.9, at any time by thinking 'Initialize Downgrade Imaging Sequence']
Confused, Shiach and Tahsi Junior looked on and watched as their bed monster began to change shape again which was clearly not what Isabelle had intended or wanted at all because she did not want to see what was happening right now! The bed monster suddenly
froze again, but this time it froze into a strange new shape that was hard to describe but actually looked like a giant purple hand holding a tiny little rocket launcher with a tiny little grenade attached to it! But in fact, the grenade wasn't attached to anything at all because it was floating right in front of the bed monster's face which seemed weird because that seemed like it would be dangerous and possibly explosive but the bed monster didn't seem bothered by it in the least bit because it also didn't seem bothered by anything else which was also weird because why hadn't it been bothered by anything else?
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[Learning spell]
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[Spell 'Transform' learned]
"Holy fucking Jesus," said Tahsi Junior.
"Tahsi Junior, why did you say Jesus?" said Isabelle. "Jesus doesn't exist in Beaubinte." Suddenly, Isabelle felt like a magic user with a hint of paranoia. "I think."
"Oh, I have no idea who Jesus is," said Tahsi Junior. "I just learned to say that from you, Isabelle. I'm an impressionable youth, remember?"
Isabelle shook her head. Then, she looked back at the bed monster. It had, apparently, relegated itself to what appeared to be a puddle of gelatin.
"What did you do to it, Isabelle?" Shiach asked stinkily.
"I'm not sure..." said Isabelle. "I... I think I might've taken its ability to shapeshift away?"
[Clarification: Yes.]
Isabelle shuddered. How had she done that? She wondered if she could use it. She thought, 'Cast Transform.'
[Error: 'Cast' system command has been deprecated in magic interface 2.0.1]
[Notice: You may downgrade to your earlier magic interface, magic interface 1.6.9, at any time by thinking 'Initialize Downgrade Imaging Sequence']
Isabelle shuddered again. This was just too weird. She felt like she'd only just gotten the hang of how her system worked, and how to exploit it, and now it was changing? What's more, what it had changed into made little to no sense. How did magic interface 2.0.1 work? Did it rely on her chanting? How had she shot magic out of her eye? What in the hell was shadow magic, anyway? None of it made any sense! And yet she felt like she could do more than ever before! She was using so much more magic than before! It was like she'd gotten superpowers or something! Was this what they meant by evolution? Or maybe like an upgrade? God, she felt amazing! Maybe she'd finally leveled up?
"Isabelle!" Tahsi Junior shouted from behind her. "What happened?!"
Isabelle turned around to see Tahsi Junior staring at her with a look of great concern on his face. "Um, I think I took away its ability to transform," said Isabelle with a shrug. She turned back towards the bed monster again and wondered what she should do next. She wondered if she should try casting again. She looked at Shiach and wondered if she should go over to her and give her small little butt a good squeeze, just for fun. And maybe a few spanks. No, that was too much. Was it too much? Was a few spanks on Shiach's little butt too much for Isabelle's new abilities? She almost wanted to try and find out... but then she remembered Tahsi Junior staring at her and looked back towards him instead. He was staring at her with some kind of mixture of fear and fascination on his face. She wondered what he was thinking about her and her new and improved magic abilities. He was probably intimidated, that scaly little pussy. She wondered if he'd ever admit that he liked her but then realized that he would probably just deny it and start crying about how he couldn't handle the truth or something like that bullshit scaly menfolk do once in a while when they're confronted by the primal awesomeness of a woman like Isabelle who could take down anything that would ever dare to cross her path! Or maybe he'd start crying because he felt guilty for having sex with his own sister and then realized that he couldn't handle being confronted by the primal awesomeness of a woman like Isabelle who could take down anything that would ever dare to cross her path! Shit, where was her mind wandering? Did Tahsi Junior have a sister? If he did, would he really have fucked her? Fuck it, she thought as she turned back around to the pile of goo that used to be the bed monster. She'd just go over and give Shiach a nice little hug, maybe some kisses, let her know she was okay now that Isabelle had taken away the bed monster's ability to transform and stuff. She'd feel pretty bad about it but she bet Shiach wouldn't object to her hugging her and kissing her and rubbing her firm boobs all over her face a little bit!
Shiach was trembling in fear as Isabelle walked towards her slowly but surely with her hands behind her back, doing everything in her power to look scary but not too scary. That was pretty challenging, as Isabelle's expression didn't exactly scream "I'm about to murder you" or "I'm coming to kill you." Shiach looked up at Isabelle with tears in her eyes as Isabelle slowly bent down and started rubbing Shiach's tiny little butt cheeks as hard as she could with both hands. Shiach squeaked at the touch of Isabelle's hands, which sent a shiver down Isabelle's spine despite the fact that Shiach wasn't very soft or anything like that. Shiach moaned nervously.
"Shiach, it's okay," said Isabelle, looking up at Shiach with a smile on her face despite the fact that Shiach didn't seem to be smiling back at her whatsoever. "I think I took away the bed monster's ability to transform."
"M-m-mage of shadows," said Shiach, pointing a wavering finger at Isabelle. "Mage of shadows! The mage of shadows just grabbed my booty!"
"I'm not the fucking mage of shadows, Shiach!" sighed Isabelle with a roll of her eyes.
"I'm not lying!" said Shiach, looking up at Isabelle with tears in her eyes as she started crying again. "I'm sorry, mage of shadows! I'm so sorry!"
Isabelle sighed again as she let go of Shiach's butt, gave it a few nice pats, and stood up again, this time keeping an eye on the bed monster goo as it tried to crawl towards Isabelle. It couldn't transform because it no longer had its magic and Isabelle had taken away its ability to transform by giving it a stern look and a little bit of shadow magic...
Shit.
Shadow magic?
Isabelle wasn't the mage of shadows, was she?
No, she couldn't be.
Could she?
Was she going insane?
"Why do you think I'm the mage of shadows, Shiach?" asked Isabelle.
"Um, you literally just shot a spell out of your eye nonchalantly, for one," said Shiach.
Isabelle sighed again as she looked back down at Shiach's butt again. It was still there on the floor below Isabelle, trying to crawl towards her again. Oh, shit, that's wasn't Shiach's butt, it was just the gelatinous blob of the powerless shapeshifter. What did that say about the state of Shiach's butt, though, that Isabelle had mistaken a gelatinous blob for it in a passing moment?
"Shiach... why don't you just come give me a kiss? I guarantee you I'm not the mage of shadows," said Isabelle.
"No! I can't! I can't! I'm sorry!" said Shiach as she turned around and ran out of the room without another word. Damn it all! Isabelle thought as she sighed and wiped away some tears from her face. She wasn't going insane! The only way she could think of to prove that she wasn't the mage of shadows was to show Shiach that she wasn't the mage of shadows by properly casting a shadow spell on the bed monster goo so she could take out its magic and then destroy it! But... wait... what if... no, no, no! No! She really was going insane! She really was going insane! There was no way the mage of shadows could cast a shadow spell on a blob of goo just by looking at it! It was supposed to be impossible! That meant she couldn't cast the shadow spell on the bed monster goo until she took out its magic first! But even if she did that, it would take too long for Isabelle to cast the shadow spell on it so she could destroy it!
"Isabelle, are you okay?" asked Tahsi Junior. "You look... confused. Or are you just disappointed about Shiach not wanting to kiss you? If that's it, well, I can't say I blame you. I feel the same. I was really looking forward to watching you two make out, and now this whole bed monster thing has really ruined everything..."
Isabelle ignored Tahsi Junior as she looked down at the bed monster goo on the floor below her and thought once again about how she really needed to learn how to cast a shadow spell on something to prove that it was just magic and that she wasn't the mage of shadows. But then Isabelle realized something very important: Tahsi Junior might be right about her current state of mind because not only was she confused and conflicted over whether or not she was going insane due to being driven mad by the bed monster goo, but also because she had stopped paying attention to what was happening around her. All right, all right. It was time for Isabelle to get herself together and get back to what she was supposed to be doing because there were still things she needed to do in order to get through this day successfully and—
"Oh shit!" said Isabelle as she remembered that Tahsi Junior had been about to say something very important and that if she didn't pay attention soon he would say it anyway. "Tahsi Junior! Check this out! I'll prove that I'm not a mage of shadows! Look, watch this!"
Isabelle raised her hand and focused all her energy on destroying the pile of goo that had been the shapeshifter. After all, as long as it was alive, even powerless, she'd be locked in combat mode. She felt her eyes glow with power.
[Mana 72%]
A crackle of dark purple lightning shot out of Isabelle's nostrils and shocked the pile of goo. Suddenly, a small little pitch-black hole opened up and sucked the shapeshifter goo up like a vacuum. Suddenly, it disappeared into nothingness.
['Shapeshifter' is dead]
[Combat mode deactivated]
[Achievement unlocked: Re-enable mana]
[Achievement unlocked: Use shadow magic]
[Achievement unlocked: Steal a spell]
[Notice: You're ready to level up]
"So, um, what the hell was that, Isabelle?" said Tahsi Junior. "Because it looked a hell of a lot like shadow magic to me. You know, the kind of magic that the mage of shadows would use."
Isabelle blushed. "Oh, did it, now?"