A 20 year old Thief, 800 Years ago…

“Finally I made it!…” I said out of breath.

I had climbed the one of the Forbidden Mountains and reached the entrance of one of many dungeons that was banned by the village to explore. Looking back across the mountain range I could see the small village of Lustion, my home.

Being born the son of a bandit who had **** my mother I was seen as an outcast by the village. My mother died penniless and I found myself living on the streets for most of my life. Although my mother was poor she had taught me how to read and right and everything she knew. While my mothers own magical skills were weak I was born with a better aptitude and was taught some basic lessons by some of the other villagers before my mother died when I was 16.

Once my mother died I lived the next 4 years of my life stealing and scrounging. Eventually I found work doing some adventuring in some of the many dungeons in the mountains around the plateau the village resides on. After stumbling upon a book in the town knights library after sneaking during a cold winter night a few months ago I came across a dusty book detailing and talking about the Forbidden Dungeons in the Forbidden Mountains and explaining what may be in each dungeon.

Having stolen the book for myself I read each and every page for the next several months while waiting for the ice to thaw and the mountains to be accessible again. I was looking for something to turn my life around. There had to be something, anything I could find to sell or steal or even use to change my life for the better. I was tired of living on the street or in caves or random barns and seeing the better off guys getting all the pretty girls or being able to afford to move away from the village. I wanted to be able to afford to leave. I wanted to be surrounded by the village girls or even just spend the night with one for one night.

Eventually I found several pages of note. One of them explaining how a powerful grimoire resides in a dungeon in a cave on Mount Cinder. The Grimoire of Lust and Power is what it was called. It was said to contain a several spells used by the ancient Dark Kingdom long ago used by spies or and to subdue and control entire towns. To keep this knowledge out of peoples hands it was brought to the mountain dungeon nearly a thousand years ago.

No one in the village apparently knew of what laid in this dungeon. The knowledge of what resides in most of the dungeons had been lost to most of the villagers and without a doubt no one knew what was in this dungeon.

I had left for the dungeon as soon as the sun began to rise. Arriving at the dungeon’s cave entrance by midday and with no one following I was free to explore at my own pace.

I the cave was lit by glowing crystals that hung from the walls and ceilings which was standard for dungeons built in that era. However, I quickly discovered several traps and puzzles along the way. There was a trap that opened a trap door that dropped you into some spikes if you stepped on a low wire. I cut the wire with my knife disabling the trap for good. Then there was a rudimentary puzzle which was basically a test on if you could read magic runes and apply power to them. Both of those were easy.

These traps and puzzles having been made at a time when these were quite advanced and reading magic runes was an extremely rare skill. Without a doubt this was probably why they relied on building the dungeon in such a remote place so that the most difficult part would be finding it and getting to it to begin with.

The final trap was at the end of the dungeon which was in a stone brick constructed room. In the middle of the room was a large stone pedestal where the object of my search sat. The trap was a simple pattern of pressure plates that if you stepped on it would shoot a dart at you which would poison you. However using a stick I pressed on the pressure plate and taking one of the darts I tasted the poison and found that the poison itself had long since lost most of its effect. At this point the worst thing it could do was incapacitate someone for a while.

Stepping on the safe stone path I easily snuck across to the pedestal and reached the grimoire. This room was lit by more crystals that hung from the ceiling. I picked up the grimoire and opened its pages. The writing was faded and the language used was Continental Standard so I had no problems reading it but the grammar was clearly dated but I could still understand what each page said.

Several spells immediately caught my eye as I skimmed. One for changing one’s life in a literal sense. The exact details of what it meant by that were faded and I’d need to read it in a better lit room. The other spell involved hypnotizing and seducing an individual and another on brainwashing and corrupting people. A spell to transfer magical abilities and power from one body to another. There were dozens of potentially powerful spells in here that would take some time to look through.

“Eric! Put down the grimoire.” A familiar voice suddenly called out to me.

Looking back at the entrance was a familiar face. The villages most popular, beautiful knight and most skilled fighter, Grace Heinz. Her angry face looked me dead in the eyes.

“Eric you’re not supposed to be in the Forbidden Mountains, let alone this Dungeon.” Grace lectured. “Come back with me now and you won’t be in trouble.”

“Why so I can sleep in the rain again?!” I said annoyed. “I’ve had enough of that village treating me like trash!”

“I’ve had enough of your antics Eric. The people and I are about ready to exile you from the village entirely!” Grace said sternly. “More knights will be here if you don’t come with me.”

“Why don’t you try and come get me!” I challenged her.

“Fine then…” Grace drew her sword and stepped forward stepping on a pressure plate. A dart shot out immediately and struck Grace in the leg! “AHHHH!!!” She screamed and fell to her knees!

Grace became paralyzed immediately. She rolled onto her side and began foaming at the mouth. Grace was an excellent knight and magic user but she was no expert on dungeons. Even a basic trap like this she had no knowledge of.

I decided now was as good time to try at least one of these spells before more knights arrived. In a panic I flipped to one about changing your life and read out the incantation. I figured it would be some kind of shape shifting power or possibly rewriting my life’s history to be more favorable.

“Mikhailsebus Lingro! Vormmagnus Paracitus!” I read aloud.

Nothing happened… I stood there looking at my hands and feet and my body didn’t change at all. I walked over to Grace holding the grimoire somewhat annoyed. Then my stomach began to churn. I felt immense pain erupting within me!

“AHHHHH!!!” I screamed and fell to my knees.

I dropped the grimoire to the ground and held onto my stomach and chest. The pain was traveling up my chest and towards my throat! I felt like I was going to throw up! I collapsed onto the ground next to Grace and began to hurl!

I threw up a clear slimy fluid at first and then suddenly found myself unable to see! I suddenly lost all feeling in my body instead my feeling being replaced by a new feeling as if I was surrounded in a wet right passage and my eyes suddenly reconnected as if I was seeing inside my throat! I soon realized I was!

I felt myself be suddenly forcefully expelled out of my body! A long slimy worm that I now was was forcefully expelled from my body onto the floor! I was in total shock!

I could see my body laying besides me lifeless alongside the incapacitated Grace. Meanwhile I had become along and thick worm about 3cm in width and 20cm in length! I was covered in a clear slimy substance which was the same as I had vomited up. Now without a real body I was completely helpless. I was now literally a worm!

Unsure as to what to do now I was suddenly given a clue as a new instinct took over! I found myself immediately drawn to Grace. I began to move myself over to her slowly wiggling towards her powerless body. I found myself drawn to the are between her legs and crawled onto her leg and began to travel up her leg towards her hips. Once I got to her hips I slithered towards the hem of her pants and curled myself underneath and began to slide under her pants and underneath her panties! I immediately was now face first in her trimmed bush as I traveled further down her groin. I could hear Grace uncomfortably groan as I slithered further down.

I couldn’t stop myself and before I knew it I was pushing my slimy cylindrical form between the lips of her flower! Pushing further and deeper I squirmed my way inside stretching her insides as I felt drawn to her! Grace’s vagina was damp and tight but I found it easier to travel further. I pushed past her cervix and into her womb itself as the last of my cylindrical body disappeared into her vagina! Then I began to feel a startling sensation the front of my head split one and began connecting with her uterine wall and I could feel begin to feel Grace’s body!

Slowly I started to gain Grace’s senses! Meanwhile I could feel Grace begin to shake and twist and turn as her eyes rolled to the back of her head! I was taking control of Her body! Then all my senses went ceased!

Then as if my senses reset u could suddenly feel things again! I was laying on the ground and could feel the hard stone floor underneath me. I opened my eyes and could see the stone ceiling above me.

I immediately sat up and felt a weight on my chest and the shift of that weight downward as I sat up. I looked down at myself and was immediately in awe at what I saw. My chest bulged out and was covered in a white shirt. My legs were wearing black pants and a red cape hung from my shoulders. I raised my hands and was greeted by white gloves covering my hands. Long blonde hair appeared in my periphery and I could tell my hair now stretched down my back.

“I actually became Grace!” I said as Grace’s voice left Her now My mouth.

I looked beside me and immediately noticed my original body laying next to me. I checked my body’s pulse and was immediately confronted with the fact my original body was dead. It took me a few moments to process that “I” was dead. I figured I could now never go back and had to deal with living as Grace for the foreseeable future.

Having to come to terms with this revelation I needed to find out more about what I had become and what this spell had actually done. I reached over and picked up the Grimoire that was still being held by my original body and flipped through the pages. I quickly found the page the spell I used was on and tried reading the faded page explaning of the spell.

The spell was called Life in Changer. The spell turned its spell caster into a parasitic worm that can possess people. As a worm it’s spell caster would be immortal and would only die if one physically killed your worm body. Your host however will age normally and can be killed and you would have to find a new body to transfer to. This spell also allowed its users to gain its hosts memories, abilities and personality if a significant stimuli was inflicted on the body.

The page on additional abilities of the parasitic body was faded and covered in what appeared to be covered in blood from along time ago so I couldn’t read further. I would need to discover those for myself. I needed to study this grimoire further, that was for certain. Now as I was Grace, I could easily access any of the forbidden texts contained in the knight’s library.