As our passion subsided, I felt his body shift again, this time becoming a wolf with eyes filled with adoration and love. He nuzzled against me, licking my neck and leaving a trail of kisses down my spine as he shifted back into human form once more. We lay together in the afterglow of our encounter, our hearts beating in sync as we caught our breath, knowing that this was just the beginning of our incredible journey together.
Johanna continued cuddling with the shapeshifter while he brushed through her hair, as she still needed time to recover. After the shapeshifter noticed that Johanna had calmed down, he got up and asked her.
"So what is your ability that you wanted to show me?"
Johanna slowly got out of the coffin and took a few steps away from him. She then had to focus pretty hard since she planned to show him how she acquired his shapeshifting ability. It didn't go well at first, so they just stood in complete silence for a few seconds until Johanna's hair colour started to shift from blonde to black, then to red, and finally back to blonde. Johanna could clearly see the surprise of the shapeshifter on his human face.
"What, you were a shapeshifter too?"
"No, I am not, but after sleeping with you, I gained this ability from you."
"What?! Wait, so you have the ability to copy another being's ability from fucking them?"
"That's the gist of it."
"Your ability is amazing, and with my shapeshifting abilities that you just copied, you would be able to fuck literally anything. Wait, did you copy or steal my ability?"
"Don't worry, I can permanently copy your ability, but it won't affect your ability in the slightest."
"Oh, thank God. So what is your plan for now?"
She wasn't sure what to do with him or her new ability, but one thing she was sure of was that she wanted to get out of this cave as fast as possible. And after that, she could give more of her time to this new situation.
"Well, let's first get out of this cave, please."
"That shouldn't be too big of a problem; we just have to walk the same way you came in."
"And there lies the problem: I fell through a hole in the ceiling, went unconscious, was dragged by the spiders that live in this cave to some cave in this whole underground system, and I stumbled on you out of pure luck."
"That confirms it; we must have met by faith! Since we don't know the way out and I don't want to fight spiders all the time, why don't we turn into spiders and just explore the cave until we find an exit?"
"Doesn't sound too bad. Let's do it this way."
As Johanna confirmed the idea, the shapeshifter turned into a human-sized spider in mere seconds, but Johanna struggled with turning into a spider for various reasons. She just earned the ability and never had a chance to practice; she couldn'tput herself in the spider's position. The shapeshifter noticed this and remembered that he himself also had to practice his shapeshifting ability, so he tried to help her out by explaining what to do.
The transformation of Johanna wasn't instantaneous, so it looked quite horrid since she started shifting her head first and then her body, but the shapeshifter didn't mind at all because he himself had done the same thing in the past.
Finally, Johanna was able to turn into a dog-sized spider, but she wasn't happy about that fact and also didn't feel secure, so she asked the shapeshifter through the telepathic connection they gained through fucking.
"How do I make myself bigger?"
"It's simple; basically, just imagine your legs lengthening."
Johanna did exactly that and noticed that she was "growing" taller in mere seconds; once she reached the height of eight feet, she stopped. Looking down, Johanna saw that her legs and body were still as thin as before, and her body started to hurt since it wasn't "strong" enough to hold itself. She imagined herself getting thicker and her body getting longer, and as that was happening, she decided to stop once the ratio looked good enough.
Now she was a big spider, ready to explore the cave with the shapeshifter. As they walked back through the hallway, they started to chat.
"So are there any limits to body shifting?"
"Of course there are; it depends on your efficiency and on your magic power, since unlike the rest of your stats like strength and agility, you cannot shift into a being and gain magical power. Magical power is determined by your soul or something inside your body that cannot be removed or changed."
"Ok, I understand."
They continued chatting and exploring the cave until Johanna thought up a plan on how to use the shapeshifter. She could simply use him as a doppelgänger for herself, so that she could be at multiple places at the same time. She could also use him to explore this cave and occupy it to expand the cave of the goblins.
She explained these things to the shapeshifter and explained to him that he shouldn't even reveal his existence to the goblins; he should just live as Johanna from now on. And while she was explaining all of this to the shapeshifter, she stumbled upon Ethan.