Helpless Heroine
(c) 2021 by Skarlette One
Part I
I can't believe I'm here again, letting myself into Wizardess's country house with the spare key under the mat. The estate is immense, the kind of thing you can afford when you're a sorceress with her own criminal empire. Not when you're a hard-working superheroine like me. An hour ago, I didn't know this place existed, and now I'm walking up the back staircase to her "playroom" like I've made this trip a dozen times.
Which I likely have. Wizardess only lets me remember so much. An hour ago, I had just finished a training session as the super-fast heroine Vibra at Libido League Tower. An hour ago, I knew that Wizardess was one of dozens of supervillains that we guarded Skarlette City from. I knew she was dangerous and well-connected. I knew that her magic took time to cast, so if I ever happened to run into her, my best tactic would be to strike hard and fast.
I didn't know she had already leashed my soul.
I was just changing into my street clothes to return to my civilian life as Vivienne Vain. I had a lunch meeting with my boss, then an afternoon of catching up on work.
Wizardess had other plans. A tiny shape tingled on my scalp, underneath my dark hair. Although I'd never seen it, I knew it was a tattoo of a magical rune -- Wizardess's brand upon my soul. Without a word spoken, I knew she wanted me. I sent a text to cancel lunch, and dressed in the special outfit Wizardess wanted me to wear. Wrapping myself in a raincoat, I hurried to her country house at half the speed of sound. An hour ago, she paused my other lives and made me remember that she owned me.
The stairs of the country house never take me long to climb. Never long enough. Reaching the playroom door, I want to stop. I want to pause for just a moment. A moment to catch my breath from the run. A moment to steel myself for the ordeal she has in store for me. But the magic allows no delay. My hand is on the doorknob and I'm already stepping through.
Positioning myself before Wizardess, I gaze straight ahead. She's shorter than me, so I'm staring at her blonde hairline, taking in her beautiful face through my peripheral vision. Her deep cleavage wrapped in virginal white lace floats on the edge of my perception. How can someone so beautiful be so wicked? How can she get more beautiful every time she summons me?
"Show me how you've wrapped my present today, Vivvy."
I hate the name "Vivvy
."
Every time she calls me that, I want to punch her right in the face. I picture my body moving to strike at super-sonic speed, my fist connecting with her jaw in a fierce uppercut. It's the same punch I've landed against Wizardess countless times as I've foiled her crimes against Skarlette City.
That's not what my hands do. They nimbly untie the belt of the bulky raincoat I'm wearing. With one smooth motion, they pull apart the lapels. I shrug my shoulders and the raincoat is on the floor. I stand before Wizardess wearing nothing but a leather harness, dark straps outlining my breasts, spanning my waist, flanking my sex, wrapping my limbs, and encircling my throat.
She twirls her forefinger and I slowly turn around, showing her the curve of my hips, and the way the straps come together to form a leather thong. I can feel her eyes counting the steel rings set into the harness, the ones that work with the clips hanging from my wrists and ankles to immobilize me with the greatest ease.
Not that she
needs
any more control over my body than her magic has already given her; she just
enjoys
it.
"The harness is very naughty, Vivvy. I like it. Tell me why you chose it."
I want to shout
So I can truss you up like a turkey and cart you off to jail, you bitch
, but my voice doesn't listen to me. It obeys Wizardess. Soft and calm, I say, "I saw it in the window of a fetish shop while I was on patrol. I stopped two of your thugs from breaking into a pawn shop in the Tenderloin. I had just turned them over to the police when I spotted the harness on a mannequin in the window. I was disgusted by the way it hugged the mannequin's form, but also changed it. It was designed to turn a woman's natural beauty into something controlled, commodified, constrained. It sickened me."
Wizardess smirks. A warmth deep inside me springs to life. "I'll bet it did, you prissy, little cunt. How did you acquire it?"
"I went back the next day, as Vivienne. I wore a hat and sunglasses and too much makeup to keep from being recognized. Slutty makeup. I fended off the sales girl's flirtations and innuendos. I paid cash and carried it home in a plain brown wrapper."
"Why did you tell yourself that you bought it?"
I swallow. My face burns with shame. "I tried to convince myself I could use it for undercover work. But that was too ludicrous to accept. I never go undercover as a sex worker. I'm too uptight. Too repressed.
"For a moment, I thought I might want it as a feminist statement of autonomy. I would buy it to reclaim my own sexuality from the patriarchy. But there were a dozen things I could do besides buy this slutty leather harness to assert my erotic agency.
"Then I remembered an old boyfriend from college. He dumped me for not wanting to give him my virginity on the third date. He'd called me frigid and a tease and a prude. I thought that the next guy I was interested in might feel the same way. I should have something on-hand in case I needed to prove to him that I was adventurous, exciting, and desirable. I told myself that I bought it so I'd be able to please a man... if one was ever interested."
I wish I could hang my head in shame, but I just stand there, staring straight ahead. My cheeks are wet.
Wizardess laughs. "That is delightful! The world's fastest woman compromises her principles so that
some boy
might like her... maybe... someday. How humiliating, Vivvy."
Every chuckle is like a dagger through my heart, and also a lick across my pussy. My breath comes ragged to my throat. I hate how much this humiliation is turning me on.
"You are such a devoted little slave-girl, Vivvy. You make me feel good with laughter... and other ways. Acquiring your True Name was one of the best magical deals I've ever made. Tattooing it on your scalp so you can