Phil Rowling opened his eyes from a pleasant dream he couldn't quite recall. Where was he? The sheets he lay on felt soft like silk. He was used to the scratchy, dubiously stained blankets of Wargsnout's College for Warlocks. This bed was soft, warm and comfortable.
Two faces came into his field of view. One had clear blue eyes and short red hair cut in a cute little bob. The other had green eyes, a sunny smile and long green hair. It might have been easy to mistake them for gorgeous girls in their late teens if it hadn't been for the horns protruding from their foreheads, or the miniature bat wings sprouting from behind their ears. When they spoke they revealed slender, wickedly pointed sharp fangs.
"See, I told you he was still alive," the girl with the green hair said.
"Well I never. I thought you'd sucked him dry for sure," the girl with red hair said.
It all came flooding back to Phil: the guest room in the deserted west tower of Wargsnout's; Jake's crazy plan to summon a pair of succubi; the ritual; Rosa and Verdé; Jake's death.
His... death.
He had died hadn't he? All his attempts to escape had failed. The two succubi had fucked and fucked all the fluids out of his body until there was nothing left. All things considered it hadn't been a bad way to go.
Where was he now though?
Was this hell?
"Am I dead?" Phil asked.
The two succubi looked at him, looked at each other and then laughed.
"No baby warlock, you're still alive," Rosa said.
"How? What happened?" The last he remembered was being sandwiched between them, his body shrivelling up as Verdé sucked out his life with her pussy.
"I got so full I couldn't eat any more," Verdé said, patting her slender, tanned belly.
"That's what you get for snacking between meals," Rosa said.
"I'm alive?" Phil said.
"Yes," the succubi replied, their faces bright.
Why was it so difficult to move? Phil thought. He brought his arm up and would have shrieked in horror had his lungs been strong enough to expel the air. It was a stick not an arm. His skin was wrapped tightly over angular bone. He had the arm of an emaciated famine victim. Phil could barely lift it up and even then his arm trembled at the exertion.
Verdé blushed with embarrassment and looked away from Phil's accusing stare.
"I still had some appetite," she said.
"What have you done to me?" Phil said. "I'm skin and bone."
"Not every where's skin and bone," Rosa said. Her hand lightly rubbed over the sheets covering Phil's crotch and the fabric immediately tented with his erection.
"Exhalarat dom daemonica absu Ixcis!" Phil uttered, spitting the alien words like bullets. Rosa and Verdé backed away in surprise as the cadences of the dismissal spell reverberated from the stonework before slowly fading away.
Nothing happened. Rosa and Verdé looked at each other. They both nodded.
"That was a good one," Rosa said.
"Seems like our baby warlock has a little bit of talent after all," Verdé added.
"Needs to enunciate the 'a' in the 'ae' of 'daemonica' a little more."
"That sound has always been open to interpretation," Verdé said. "It's the force behind that matters."
"It certainly had force," Rosa said. She frowned. "We must be losing our touch if he wants to get rid of us that badly."
"Um..." Phil interrupted. "Shouldn't you... uh... be gone?"
The two succubi returned their attentions to Phil. They smiled.
"Oh we are," Rosa said.
"That spell is an emergency dismissal designed to send a daemon back to its home dimension," Verdé said.
Horrifying realisation crept up on Phil and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Where am I?" he asked.
"Our home dimension," Rosa smiled, showing her sharp little fangs.
"I'm in hell?" he said, his voice quavering with terror.
"Kind of," Verdé replied. "It's a little more complicated than that."
"What am I doing here?"
"Well. When I got so full I couldn't eat any more we decided to send you back to our home."
"As a snack for later," Rosa said, licking her full red lips.
"After we'd explored the human world a little," Verdé said.
"Then that security patrol turned up and gave us a good zapping," Rosa said. She rubbed a scorched looking patch of skin on her buttocks.
"The tall one with the floppy black hair and spectacles was very handsome though," Verdé said. "I think I'll pay a visit to his dreams some time soon."
"Slut," Rosa said.
"What shall we do about him though," Verdé said, looking at Phil. "I'm not sure I want to finish him off."
"He's not very appetizing like this," Rosa said, lifting up one of Phil's stick-thin arms with her thumb and forefinger.
"No, it's not that. I've got a little attached to him now," Verdé said. "It wouldn't feel right. Hey!" her eyes brightened. "Maybe we could keep him as a pet."
"A pet. Don't be ridiculous," Rosa said. "Can you imagine what Nÿte would say if she found out there was a human wandering around the castle. We should toss him to the Wargen."
She walked over to the far corner and lifted a body up out of the shadows. They'd brought back Jake's corpse as well, Phil realised. He watched as Rosa walked over to one of the narrow windows and casually threw it out. A cacophony of screams, growls and wet ripping sounds welled up from outside.
"Oh come on," Verdé said. "It will be fun to have a baby warlock around the place."
Rosa stood by the window, her black wings folded behind her. "I suppose we can always eat him if he gets boring," she said finally.
"We can't really leave him like this though," Verdé said. "He won't be any fun at all."
The two succubi glanced thoughtfully at each other.
"Nurse Honey?" Rosa suggested.
"Yes, she should be able to help," Verdé said.
The two succubi walked out, leaving Phil alone and helpless in the darkened room. It might have been better if they'd killed him, he thought. They'd left him with the body of a centenarian. He couldn't move or do anything.
Outside the night was filled with garbled cries and mournful wails. Occasionally he heard something large moving around just below the window. He shivered. He was in hell. The succubi had taken him back to hell with them.
He looked around the room. Moving his head was just about the limit of what he could do. He was in some kind of bedroom. The bed took up most of the room. It was easily large enough for five or six people. Thick velvet drapes hung from the ceiling above it like a tent. Beyond the bed Phil saw antique furniture carved with designs that were both lewd and grotesque.
"Oh dear, they really have had a good suck on you."
The voice was warm, rich and huskily erotic. Phil turned to the source and saw a tall, voluptuous woman standing in the doorway. Rosa and Verdé looked like teenaged girls with the bodies of porn stars. The newcomer looked like a porn star with the face of an angel. She had a full, womanly figure and despite looking older, was no less attractive for it.
She was dressed in a white nurse's outfit with a red cross on the front. Silky blonde hair spilled out from beneath a white nurse's cap. It took him a little while to realise what was odd about her outfit. It was rubber. He'd seen that gleam before in pictures from fetish catalogues Jake kept salted away under his bed.
"Who... uh," Phil mumbled.
"I'm Nurse Honey." She smiled at him like sunshine. "And what's your name, dear?"