Part 13: To Who is it Right?

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#13 of Deep in Kansas

Amanda learns from the succubus all she wanted to do was what she found was right.


Amanda continued to stare at the demon.

"She's hot." The opossum spoke. He stood beside the vulpine detective.

"Are you another paladin for me to seduce?" The succubus licked her lips; she glanced at Amanda and maintained a predatory, lusty gaze. She had to shout over the factory floor.

"Come on." Amanda nudged her companions behind her. "Let's have a meeting with our succubus."

"Amanda!" The fox loudly whispered. "Are you sure it's a good idea to go right up to a demon?!"

"No. We need to get to the bottom of this. Everything we've found has led us here. If we want answers, now is the time to get them."

The fox couldn't argue with the mare's logic. While the opossum meekly spoke up.

"You guys, go rite ahead; I think I'll sit this one out." He rubbed the back of his head.

"Are you sure?" The fox asked.

"I've had my fill of supernatural shit for some time. Ya'll just make it back out." He spoke with his southern drool, turned around, and left.

"Ignoring me, are you?!" The succubus shouted again. She paid no mind to the opossum. Then the she-demon watched the mare walk up the steps, followed by a fox. "Oh. Brave of you to approach a demon." The she-devil spoke in her usual tone.

"Bravery has nothing to do with it." Amanda quickly responded. She stood two meters away from the devil and crossed her arms. "I want answers."

"We!" The fox added.

The succubus pursed her lips and peered up at the big mare and back to the normal-sized fox-anthro. "Who are you? Detectives? I've already dealt with the ones from earlier."

Amanda found the fox's hands balled up into a fist. The demon glanced up at the Indagator again and maintained eye contact. The mare could feel the succubus reach out with some magic. Little did she know, Indagator mutations make the futa mare extremely hard to manipulate with magic. After a brief moment of eye contact, she could feel the succubus's magic fade to nothingness.

"What are you?" The demon asked, her face turned up into a frown.

"An Indagator." Amanda cooly spoke. Briefly, the herm mare found a flicker of fear in the demon's eyes, only to be quickly replaced with caution. Her formerly predatory, lusty gaze had vanished.

"Ah." The demon was terse. She carefully stepped around the mare toward the horse's foxy companion.

"Angela, don't look her in the eyes." The herm briefly panicked. She knew sex demons, like the succubus, began to work their magic upon eye contact.

Angela, Amanda found, managed to hear her voice and gazed at the succubus's forehead.

"You're lucky you're with an Indagator." The demon sounded displeased. "Otherwise, I would have bound you to my will already." The succubus continued to orbit around the fox taking in her physical appearance. "You have some large breasts." The succubus smiled coyly. "And six of them, how-" there was a brief pause. "-delicious." The demon licked her lips again. She looked Amanda up and down and found only her hips, broader and more fecund than anybody else; it made her appear as some fertility deity. "You have some very sexy hips, Indagator."

Amanda was glad the succubus could only see her hips. Her cloak, more prominent on the inside, expertly concealed her tremendous assets.

"What's that noise, sexy?" The succubus questioned the mare. Amanda knew the succubus meant her rumbling endowments.

"Nothing." The herm mare quickly responded.

"You got something underneath that cloak?" The succubus asked and took a step forward. Amanda stepped back and whipped out her pistol in a moment. The mare leveled it at the demon's head.

"Don't try it." Her voice was cold. The futa mare needed to ensure the demon never found out about her assets, their colossal nature, and her constant heat and rut. Otherwise, she'd wagered; the succubus would use it.

The succubus put her arms into the air and carefully stepped away. The Indagator holstered her pistol, spinning it around her finger.

"Fine. What do you want?" The succubus reluctantly asked.

"What I said earlier, we want answers." The horse's voice was stony and steady.

"Are you sure it's we? It seems like you're the one who wants answers more than your companion."

"Don't make a mistake, satan-spawn; I want answers too." Angela's voice struggled to keep her anger in check.

"Hmph. Fine." The demoness turned up her nose, offended.

"You made these zombies." Amanda accused the demon.

"Yes. I did." The succubus responded with a level tone. Her face maintained a neutral, calm demeanor.

"Why?" The Indagator asked. She recalled the disappearances within the town and how the succubus forcefully took over the village with their zombies.

The demoness's face glowed with pride as she smiled. "Well, Indagator, have you ever looked at recent events and asked how idiots craving power reach it?"

"That's self-explanatory. Whether for good or bad, those who want power will always seek it." Amanda's tone was stony and level.

"That's a very vague answer, but. I cannot disagree with you." The succubus responded, then took a deep breath. "I arrived in this town some time ago. Summoned by the town mayor with a craving for power. He was upset his opponents were ahead of him in the polls and wanted me to end them. So, I disguised myself as a human and got to work." She paused. "Simply put, I got them arrested for sexual harassment, and the mayor won the next election."

"Why did you help him?" The fox interrupted the story.

"I helped him because the contract required it."

"There's a contract?" The fox questioned. "I thought that was just Hollywood."

"Hollywood doesn't always get everything wrong." Amanda calmly stated.

The fox nodded.

"After the mayor won the election-" The demon resumed. "he wanted to change the terms of his contract, so I act as his bodyguard and whore." The succubus sighed carelessly, waving her hand. "He had some fantasy of dominating a creature of lust."

"Hmph," Amanda grunted, unamused.

"I agreed." The succubus stated.

The mare's brow rose. "Why?" She asked, her arms crossed.

"Because I saw an opportunity."

The Indagator rolled her eyes. "Of course you did." Amanda was quite familiar with demons being excellent opportunists.

"Before the next election, I worked to build a reputation with my disguise."

"Building a reputation shouldn't be hard for a sex demon," Amanda responded.

The succubus smiled. "You know us too well, Indagator." She briefly stopped. Then continued. "During the next election, I fulfilled my end of the contract again. But ran against him."

"How can you do that? I thought your contract required you to eliminate the mayor's opponents?" Angela asked, confusion in her voice.

"The poor old mayor's contract never addressed what qualified as an opponent." The demon grew smug. "I never directly ran against him or opposed him. I just used my reputation to make suggestions."

"How did that work?" The fox was more confused than before.

"I suggested others vote for me, despite not being on the ballot or running any campaign." A sizeable wide smile stretched across the demon's face.

"You were simply there, not directly opposing the mayor. Just making suggestions." Amanda chimed in, shaking her head. "That mayor was an idiot."

"After the election, I was voted in." The demon smiled.

"Wouldn't that make you an opponent then?" The fox asked again.

"The mayor has no more opponents if he just so happens to fall down some stairs before the votes are finalized." The mare spoke.

"Sharp." The demon winked at the Indagator. "So, that's how I came to power."

Amanda grunted in response. "Yet the answer you've given me isn't the full story, is it?"

"How could you be so prudent to suggest I hadn't told you the complete truth?" The demon faked an offended tone.

The Indagator continued to stare down at the succubus, her face expressionless.

The succubus huffed. "Fine, yes, I haven't told you everything."

"I'll ask my question again, why did you make the zombies?" Amanda's voice grew more hostile.

"While the mayor was in charge, he passed legislation which suppressed voters, disenfranchised the farm, and had more money going into his pocket. I hated him." The succubus grew angry. "He was a lowly pig." The demon paused, regaining her calm composure. "The first thing I did after I took office was reverted all his changes and make the farm prosper. Yet the shareholders and representatives of the farm opposed me. They wanted to work their farmers to the bone."

The succubus walked over to the stone ledge overlooking her factory. She still wore her sheer white robe. "So I began to formulate a plan. One that would oust them." The demoness paused. "I researched and found zombies; if I can make them not look like a walking corpse, they could follow my every order."

"You can already make people follow your every command through lust. Why did you need the zombies?" Amanda curiously asked.

"Because, Indagator, I can't keep dozens of people constantly under my control by their lust. It would exhaust me." The demon spoke out over her factory.

The mare grunted in response.

"With zombies, I could keep them constantly under my control with little to no effort. The only issue was I had to make them not look like walking corpses and find a way to make them en-masse. Otherwise, others would rapidly catch on."

"So you began forcibly abducting people from their houses." Amanda chimed in again.

"Yes. I needed to conduct some experiments and found asking for volunteers foolish. After all, zombies are made-"

"-with corpses." The Indagator finished the demon's statement. She narrowed her green eyes at the devil.

"It didn't help; the others who supported the old mayor were making leeway faster than I anticipated. Otherwise, I would've kept it quieter." The demon stopped. "So, Indagator, are you going to kill me? For refusing to let others forcibly work their employees to death?"