Succubus

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"Aaaand... here I am. What do you want, human?"

The voice that echoed through my room startled me so effectively that I jumped out of the squeaky chair I'd been sat on for the past few hours. My eyes snapped to the scene before me, unfocused, a jolt of electricity resembling fear traveling through the middle of my chest.

"Oh m- Who are you?! What are you doing in my house?!" I shouted, backing away quickly, desperately trying to look for an object I could knock the intruder out with.

"Uh, so you didn't summon me?" The intruder, a woman, asked with her greenish eyes narrowed at me.

"HELP! PLEASE-!" I resorted to screaming as my escape strategy, having failed in finding an object that could inflict harm on the person in front of me.

Somehow, my voice went muffled until it almost sounded like I had been abruptly dropped to the bottom of a fish tank. Maybe, it was my distress. Or maybe, it had something to do with the speedy swat of the woman's hand just now.

"Calm down. I don't intend to harm you. I'm only here because I was summoned." She spoke in a level tone, pinning me with her calm gaze.

She didn't look like she had weapons, and adrenaline drained from my body.

"S-summoned?" I stammered out, still cautious enough to keep a distance between us.

"Yes. I was summoned. Your reaction warrants that you weren't the one to summon me." The woman said, still speaking calmly.

"How would I- What?" I frowned in confusion, "Summoned?" I repeated.

"Please, stay calm," she requested, "My name is Jennie. And I'm a succubus."

I stared at the woman in front of me for what felt like twenty full seconds. I was honestly waiting for her to crack a smile and put me out of my misery but she was still looking at me, as serious as ever.

"I- I don't-" I sighed heavily, "I'm a college student and I just moved in here. If you're trying to mess with me to get money out of me, then please stop. I really don't have any on me right now." I wasn't lying. I really was broke at this point.

The supposed succubus's face didn't even twitch, "I'm being serious. I know this is hard to fathom but now I'm here when there's probably no way to get inside this house other than breaking in. And you didn't hear me, nor did you see me enter like a normal human being would. I could prove it to you once and for all if I revealed my true form but I'm afraid that will have you screaming again."

I think I've lost it. There is no way... No way a fucking intruder just got in and I didn't hear them break the door or a window. I couldn't have been that invested in my assignment, could I?

"Go away, please." I croaked, clenching my fist at my side in distress.

"About that," the woman threw me a fleeting look, busying herself with observing her surroundings, "I can't."

"You... can't?"

"Look, I'm sorry. I understand that this is an absurd situation but I was summoned by someone, and I'm guessing that someone was the person that used to live here before you moved in. I can't really go look for them somewhere else because the ritual they did is tied to this place, thus my arrival. And I truly cannot leave, or at least not fully, unless we do what I was summoned for."

I bristled, "You have got to fucking stop that, okay?! I'm not taking your shit anymore- OH MY GOD!!!! WHAT ARE YOU AAAAH!!!!!!!!" I fell back on my roommate's bed, screaming in fear.

"I told you. I'm a succubus. Do you believe me now?" Her voice was much more alluring than before as she stood there staring me down with her glowing emerald eyes.

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