This story is set in the same universe as "A Man Named Susan" but is a completely stand-alone story... for now.
I keep meaning to get back to writing stories with more romance and tenderness, but Tabatha is just not that sort of woman. For her, sexual satisfaction and the domination of others is the only goal that matters.
Warning - Although this is a fantasy story of witches and magic, it does contain strong elements of BDSM, humiliation and non-consent.
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The Awakening
Tabatha was currently extremely annoyed and more than a little sexually frustrated. She had been stood up at the last minute and she wasn't happy about it.
For weeks now she had been seducing this sweet little thing called Mandy. Mandy was still in the early stages of discovering her new powers and the wonderous possibilities that lay in her future as a newly discovered witch. Also, she was very much in awe of the more experienced witches like Tabatha and the skills they had promised to teacher.
Mandy was just Tabatha's type, petite, slim, a tight little ass, perky breasts, slightly shy, and best of all she hadn't yet discovered how devious and manipulative other witches could be. In short, she was cute and extremely gullible. Absolutely perfect for what Tabatha had in mind.
They had initially agreed to meet this morning as Tabatha had offered to spend the weekend instructing her personally in some of the more exotic forms of magic that weren't on the current approved training programme. The magic and training Tabatha had in mind probably wasn't the sort Mandy imagined, but she would learn to enjoy it in the end... probably. Tabatha had been fantasizing all week about what she was going to "teach" dear sweet Mandy and had worked herself into a state of perpetual arousal at the thought of the things she was going to do to that tight gorgeous body.
But now it looked as though it wasn't going to happen. Somebody had warned Mandy off.
She had gotten a phone call from Mandy earlier that morning. Mandy was extremely apologetic, but had decided that she had so much to learn about being a witch that she really should spend all of her time studying... by herself. Tabatha tried to talk her round, saying that she would help Mandy study, but it soon became clear that Mandy wouldn't be swayed.
It was obvious that Mandy was now somewhat afraid to be alone with Tabatha, which was understandable, given what Tabatha initially had planned for her. Someone had obviously been talking to sweet little Mandy. If Tabatha ever found out who it was, she would curse them with a pox that would make their cunt itch for a year.
So here she was, extremely pissed off and full of a week's worth of pent-up sexual energy. She decided that she needed to get out of the house or she would just end up stewing in her anger. But first, she needed to go to the bedroom for some self-relief.
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Later, sitting at an open-air café, Tabatha was now calmer but no less frustrated. She had even begun to reason that Mandy pulling out of their liaison was Mandy's misfortune, not hers. The things she could have taught Mandy just couldn't be found in books... well, not the sort of books that fine upstanding witches kept to hand. Tabatha however had a whole library full of such books.
She sighed. Good sexual partners were so hard to come by these days. No experienced witch would drop their guard enough to make themselves vulnerable to another witch, and these days mind-wiping "normies" after having some fun with them was extremely frowned upon. Tabitha was already in too much trouble with the coven to risk doing that again, at least not until the heat from the last scandal had died down a bit.
Sure, she could use her natural charm to seduce a normie and later have sex like a normie, but where is the fun in that? For Tabatha good sex involved the use of a lot of magic, or else what was the point of being a witch?
She sighed again. What she needed to find was somebody just like herself that would be willing to help her satisfy her needs.
Echoes of this thought began to circle her mind. At first the echoes were whispers that slowly drifted in and out of her consciousness. "
Just like herself... just like herself... just like herself
." But gradually the echoes got louder and louder and picked up speed as they ricocheted off of the walls of her mind. Her subconscious was trying to tell her something. But what?
The echoes of that tantalizing thought were practically deafening now as her subconscious struggled to make itself understood. An idea was forming, but she couldn't quite make it out. It was... it... was...
Then the idea exploded fully formed across her mind. It was breathtaking in its simplicity and daring.
She didn't need somebody just like herself. What she needed
was herself
. A copy of herself that she would already know as intimately as she knew herself, and who wouldn't go blabbing to the coven elders if things got a bit spicy.
Wasn't self-cloning banned by the coven? Was it even ethical? She didn't know and cared even less. This was too good a solution to have doubts about.
She was so excited she didn't have a second to waste, she quickly stood, waved her hand in the general direction of the counter to magically pay her bill and hurried home to begin her research. She was now in such a good mood that when paying her bill she had even tipped the waitress a $1000, not that money meant very much to a witch, but still, she was in a mood to share her happiness.
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It took Tabatha three weeks to complete her research, including a trip abroad to track down one extremely rare tome, and then it took her another two weeks to track down and prepare the necessary ingredients and equipment.
In the ancient past, one of the most time consuming parts of the preparation would be that the witch would have to hand carve a life size human figure out of either wood or clay. The carving didn't have to be very good, merely human in size and shape, the magic would do the rest and fill in the details. Luckily Tabatha lived in the modern world, so all she had to do was order a plastic mannequin from Amazon, which arrived the next day.
And now the day was here. Today was the day the magic would happen.
Tabatha had risen early and after showering had eaten a large breakfast. Today was going to be a long day, and she had no doubt she would be expending a lot of energy, both physical and magical, to accomplish what needed to be done. She wanted to be well rested and her magical energy to be at peak levels before she began her task.
She had already prepared her workroom. Everything had been moved out except a table right in the centre were the mannequin now lay, another table was off to the side where her reference tomes lay open and ready, together with various ingredients and potions. She had even installed a quaint campfire arrangement over which a traditional witch's cauldron was supported by a bracing tripod. At first she had scoffed at such antiquated absurdities, preferring the convenience of a kitchen hob and a saucepan for her potions, but her main reference tome had been very firm on this, actual flames were required to heat the primary potion.
Eventually the preparations were ready, and she began the magic.
The process was even more exhausting than Tabatha had imagined. Spells were not just a matter of reciting words form an old book, for a spell to work a witch needed to empower every single word from her own reserves of personal magic, and this process was going to require a lot of spells. Her time was split between reciting hugely complex spells and preparing the primary potion that would later need to be applied to the mannequin. On and on the process went, and the more exhausted Tabatha became as her magic flowed into her work. But she carried on with a grim determination. If this worked, it would be her greatest achievement.
At various times during the long process Tabatha was required to make personal sacrifices of herself. Luckily these were trivial in nature. At one point she had to kiss the mannequin, making sure she left sufficient of her own saliva on the plastic lips. Another time she had to smear the juices from between her own legs around the sexless groin of the plastic figure. Finally, a small cut on the palm of her hand supplied the necessary blood for the potion.
It was late into the night before the magic was nearly complete and by that time Tabatha was almost swaying on her feet through extreme exhaustion.
The penultimate step was to coat the mannequin in the potion that had been brewing for most of the day. This was achieved without too much difficulty.
Now it was the final step. A final spell to recite in order to bring together all of the other spells she had been casting throughout the day.
Tabatha held the ancient tome in one hand whilst she recited the words and made the necessary mystic shapes with her other hand.
She watched the mannequin intensely whilst she said the words. Eventually she saw it begin to glow. The more she said the words the brighter the glow became. Eventually the glow around the mannequin became so bright that Tabatha could no longer look at it directly. Still she spoke the words.
She could see the end of the spell was approaching, and still the light continued to get even brighter. She could now also clearly feel her magical energy draining from her at a noticeable rate as the blinding light continued to leech the energy from her. And still she spoke the words.
The last word was finally spoken... and the light exploded.
It was a silent explosion, but in her weakened state it was still enough to knock Tabatha off of her feet.
As Tabatha slowly and tiredly picked herself back up, she was relieved to feel some small part of her expended magical energy returning to her body. She felt a little stronger because of it, but she was still extremely weak.
Then she froze.
The mannequin had disappeared and, in its place, stood a flawless copy of herself.
She was perfect.