Quick Author Note! Kink warning list, skip down to the story proper for no spoilers, but here's the warning!
Features: Gender Transformation, Non-con, and Non-Human!
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The noise of her chanting was the first thing he heard. Esandra was loudly saying phrases in a tongue he didn't understand. Even if he knew the language the muffled sounds reaching his clouded mind would have meant nothing. The last events that had happened to him slowly returned, Esandra revealing part of her plan, that she was going to summon a demon, and then drugging him. He didn't know what she had done to him, but he felt completely sapped of strength. His entire body felt as if it was burning, and even without his sight returning yet he could tell he was dripping in sweat.
Leoric tried again to open his eyes, but they were too heavy. He barely got them halfway open before he had to give up. He could see the blurred silhouette of Esandra in front of him, still seemingly naked. The cave was brighter now but he couldn't make out anything else. The next attempt to open his eyes was even more difficult than the first and he wasn't able to see anything before darkness took him again. Instead, he tried to speak, his mouth was dry, even his tongue. All he managed was to mumble out an incoherent sound. What had the witch done to him?
The noise he made seemed to have gotten her attention, moments later he felt her moving next to him, the back of her hand pressing against his forehead. "I was worried you weren't going to make it." His hearing was slowly returning and she did actually sound concerned, but that hadn't stopped her from doing what she had.
"What did you do?" he asked slowly, the words coming out as a croak from his dry throat.
"Hush, don't speak." It was far more concerned than the last time she had told him to be quiet. She walked away from him, and a moment later he felt a glass pressed against his lips. "Drink."
The last time she had done this it ended up with him in this decrepit state. He tied to turn his head and refuse it, but even that was a struggle.
"Don't be a child, it's just water." She tilted the glass up, and he felt the cool liquid against his lips and tongue. True to her word it did seem to be water. He happily drank it down as she tilted it higher and higher. As she withdrew the empty glass he felt a damp cloth against his face, a small reprieve from the heat he was feeling.
It seemed like his strength was slowly returning, not in any proper way, but enough that he tried opening his eyes again. It was a struggle holding them up, but this time he managed to,. looking face to face with Esandra. She looked relieved to see him opening his eyes.
She brought the cloth down, wiping his cheeks. "I had never done that spell before, I didn't expect the effects to be so trying on you, I'm-"
"Don't say you're sorry again." Leoric eyes narrowed into a glare. "You're still holding me captive and summoning a demon, you don't get to apologize for it." He was able to speak much easier now, but his voice still sounded odd to him. "What did you do to me?"
She took the cloth away from his face, meeting his eyes before her gaze faltered. "Fine, I won't say it again. I'm only doing this because I have to though if I don't... well you wouldn't care, but it's either me, you, or one of those women you freed, and he'll go easier on you than me, at least you won't have failed him again," she said referring to the demon.
"Sorry if I don't feel any sympathy for the witch who tied me up and drugged me with some spell." He realized why his voice sounded odd, it was a higher pitch than usual. "Esandra, look at me." Leoric waited for her to look back up to him. "Now for the last time, what did you do to me?"
The witch didn't answer him right away. She seemed to be struggling to find the words to say. Leoric noticed something else strange before he had taller than Esandra, now the two of them were eye to eye.
"My bloodlines contract with the demon is a long and complicated one. My grandmother is the one who made it, cursing her children and grandchildren into service," she began.
"I really don't care about your family's backstory. Tell me what was in the chalice."
She scowled at the interruption, "Alright, I'll skip ahead. There is only one way I get out of the contract with him. He wants a vessel. If I get him that then I am free to go. For the first time in my life, I won't have a demon breathing down my neck and threatening hellfire if I disobey."
Leoric's heart sank at the news. "And what? You're giving me to him?"
Esandra actually laughed at that, "Oh don't be silly, you aren't remotely a suitable vessel, not a drop of magic in you." The amusement quickly fell from her face and she couldn't quite meet his eye again.
That was a relief, he couldn't imagine what being possessed by a demon would be like. Proper demons, not lesser ones like imps and succubi, were supposed to be beings of utter hatred and destruction. "Then what do you need me for?"
She didn't even try looking back at him. "He isn't looking to possess someone," she answered slowly, "he wants an heir. Half human, half demon, but born on our plane."
"Demonspawn? If he wants an heir what good am I to him? And why don't you have it and not force someone else to?" This quest was clearly over his head, there were more qualified adventures that should have been sent to handle such a dangerous task.
Esandra gave a nod, not looking up. "I would have. If bearing his demonic heir would have freed me from him, I would. But I can't. The specific magic he is working requires a virgin, and as you're familiar with I'm not. Hence why I needed one of those women that you freed."
"You were going to force one of them to bear this demon's child? How could you possibly think of doing that to someone?" Leoric couldn't believe she would do something so evil.
"You wouldn't understand." She swallowed looking away from him, but not before Leoric could see the complete fear on her face. "I tried not to help him, the things he did, I can't fail him again."
"With the women gone what are you going to do then? Why are you still summoning him if you don't have what he wants? Isn't this just going to make things worse for you?" Leoric was more confused than ever.
"That brings me to what was in the chalice. I have to summon him tonight and now. I didn't have a choice. I know you don't believe me, but I more than anyone wish things weren't this way. I needed a virgin woman. You and your companions interfered and took away my only options. I would have taken one of them, but neither of them are virgins. So..." she finally looked back up to him. "I had to take you and do some spell work and..." Her words slowly trailed off, and her eyes again fell, but this time it wasn't to her feet it was down and along his body.
"I don't understand, I-" Leoric's eyes followed hers, finally looking down for the first time since waking up. The front of his brown undershirt was bulging outwards. Not only that it was hanging loose on him, the neck of it low enough that he could see skin, cleavage, his cleavage. "What-" His eyes looked further down, his pants had never been pulled up after Esandra had finished with him. Now they hung even lower on his legs, down around his ankles. His cock was nowhere to be seen, instead, there was a slit, and a small patch of hair topping it. He couldn't even form words.
"If it means anything, you are quite pretty," Esandra offered weakly, trying to make light of what she had done.