Learning to Dance

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Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: Shantae (Video Games)
Character: Shantae (Shantae)
Additional Tags: Transformation, tgtf, POV Second Person
Language: English
Stats: Published: 2021-03-11 Words: 1,266 Chapters: 1/1
 Learning to Dance
by meat_beat_agent

Summary

Looking for treasure in the desert was a great idea until you got lost. But as you're wandering,
disorented and confused, you find a magical oasis. Using it to quench your thirst has some
side effects...namely, side effects that get you turned into your favorite half-genie, Shantae!

Notes
See the end of the work for notes
Learning to Dance

Exploring into the desert was one of the worst ideas you've ever had. You came out here
chasing treasure, but instead all you've found is sand, heat, sand, dehydration, a single wild
camel, and some more sand.

Up until a few hours ago, it wasn't that bad. You had brought a car designed specifically for
tackling the rough sand dunes...until you hit a rock and broke an axle. With no supplies to fix
it, you had no choice but to continue on foot.

You came to regret that choice almost immediately. You had lost your trail of footprints in
swirling sands, and lost your canteen of water when you slipped and tumbled down a dune.

So now, you're lost, tired, hungry, thirsty, and without a single piece of lost treasure to your
name, you've decided that you will probably die out here.

But as you're wandering, you see a shimmering in the sands not that far from you. An oasis.
Well, probably just a mirage, but you might as well investigate anyway. Better than brushing
it off.

But when you get closer, it doesn't vanish like you were expecting it to. As you get closer,
you realize that you're actually staring down an actual oasis. Beautiful, shimmering blue in
the desert sun, surrounded by a small ring of plant life that's able to be sustained after this
small amount of water in the desert.

You dip your hands into the cool, clear water, fearing that you've maybe been driven mad by
the heat, but hope wins out as you start splashing water against your face and gulping down
as much as you can, before grabbing some of the exotic fruits off the nearby plants.

Maybe it's just the desperation, but this is more delicious than anything else you've ever
tasted in your life. Your first thought is to simply rest here and wait for a rescue, but things
aren't quite able to play out like that.

As your meal settles in your stomach, you feel strange. You feel energized and full like you
neverhabe before, but you have an odd tingling sense starting to coveyourbody. You start to
worry that maybe the fruits were poisonus, but the tingling is too pleasant for you to feel
scared. If anything, it's somehow plesant.

You suddenly double over in pleasure as the tingling goes from “kinda good” to “fucking
amazing” without any real warning.

But before you can think about that, your body begins changing. You stumble and almost fall
as your center of gravity shifts as you become a number of inches shorter, feeling disoriented
and dizzy as the world around you gets taller. You keep feeling less and less balanced as your
stomach and shoulders slim down, the weight and size relocating to your hips, and your
thighs, and your bust.
The last one surprises you, because you're not a woman. But you're growing new breasts, so
sensitive that just the feeling of them of them growing and rubbing against the inside of your
clothes is enough to leave you moaning out loud with your eyes rolling back.

Somewhere deep in the fog of your pleasure, you think that maybe this oasis was somehow
cursed. Or blessed, based on how amazing you're feeling.

Another wave of tingling washes through your body. You feel an extra weight against your
head, and something soft flowing down your back. You reach behind it, and grab a fist full of
your own hair. Your own hair that is growing at a ludicrous rate and rapidly shifting in color
until it's a deep purple.

The next change is the most inexplicable one. Your clothes change too. You had dressed for
the weather, but that takes a pretty drastic change as you look at your arm and realize that
your sleeves are getting heavier up to your wrists, but the fabric behind it rapidly recedes into
nothing. The fabric that remains on your wrist rapidly shifts color and texture until it
becomes a pair of golden wristbands, glittering bright in the desert sunset.

The fabric that was shrinking off your arms continues as it starts vanishing from your
stomach up, exposing your now much slimmer stomach to the world while all the remaining
fabric rapidly shifts to a red color. It shrinks up and down until all that remains is a strip
around your new breasts, which takes the form of a red bra. You feel a little relieved that it
didn't expose your breasts too, but...Maybe that wouldn't be so bad?

As the final changes effect your pants by transforming them into a pair of red dancer's pants
dangerously close to exposing your crotch, you don't feel scared. You don't feel confused or
worried. You feel comfortable in how you look, if not confident. You step over towards the
oasis, with a natural shake in your hips to a rhythm that doesn't exist, in order to look down at
your reflection in the water.

A single glance confirms your suspicions. The magic of the oasis somehow turned you into a
perfect double of Shantae!

The pleasure that took over your mind and body might be gone, but it left a fire inside of you
that you're desperate to satisfy. And with how downright beautiful you've become and how
confident you're feeling, it should be a cakewalk to find someone willing to fill that
desire...and to fill you.

At least, it would be, if it weren't for the fact that you're in the middle of a desert and still just
as lost as you were before your transformation.

Or so you thought, as glancing back towards the dune you took a tumble down sees that it's
gone, and in it's place is a town. A town that's starting to turn it's lights on for the coming
night.

A voice in the back of your head that you have no control over tells you that the oasis came
to you, and it's letting you go here. An hour ago you'd think something like that was a sign of
insanity, but it makes sense after your transformation.
Full of confidence and a desire to show off your new body to as many people as you can, you
start walking towards the town. Your unfamiliarity with hiking through this rough terrain is
replaced with steps so graceful that they could be mistaken for a dance-to the point where
you wind up incorporating a few actual dance steps into your walk. You had never had much
experience with dance, but this transformation had somehow turned it into instinct for you.

You quickly arrive at the town's gates. A pair of armed guards stop you and demand to know
why you're here, but all it takes is a wink to one and a peck on the cheek to the other and they
let you through without a word.

Every step you take turns the heads of passerby as you find your way to the square in the
center of the town as you stand up on a stage. It's probably used for official events and the
leaders giving speeches, but you'll take advantage of it to show yourself off to the world.

“Hello, everyone! My name is...” you pause a little, trying to remember your own name.
That...doesn't matter anymore, you decide pretty quickly. After all, since you look so much
like her and can dance like her, you might as well BE her! “My name is Shantae! And I'm
here to give you the most amazing dance you've ever seen!”
End Notes

(I know this ends kind of abruptly but it's heading in the direction of a public sex scene and
I'm not comfortable enough to write that at the moment, maybe I'll make a second chapter
someday)

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