Gold Peony and The Sinuous Wife
Part Three
By The Preve
Based on Serpent Dance by Synthean
Caution: some racist language
"Why! You! Arrogant! Low trash! Bitch! Whore! ShΓ©!"
The last word hissed from Jin as a word of power. The full force of magic, wielded by one of the most powerful sorceresses in history, followed. A minor spell, prepared in a potion disguised as tea, designed to bedevil and humiliate, became something far different under the power boost.
Jin's original intent was to charm Helen into a public striptease; her body a puppet. Now, fueled by anger, a new idea came to mind.
Helen experienced it first as a jolt, almost an electric shock. She gasped and spilled her tea. Her body slammed against the chair. The electric heat coalesced in her belly and began to radiate outward.
"Oh my God!" she thought. "The bitch poisoned me! I knew I shouldn't have taken the tea, but how? She drank the same tea, didn't she?"
She tried to rise, but her body wouldn't obey. It did other things, as if it were no longer under her control. Her body swayed and convulsed like a puppet under strings.
Her eyes turned to Jin. The woman's face was an angry mask. She chanted words, most of which Helen could not recognize.
Helen knew enough Chinese to recognize Nuwa,
Some Chinese goddess,
and ShΓ©, the Chinese word for snake. Other words were in dialects and languages completely unknown to her ears.
"What... what... did... you... do... to... me... you... bitch?!"
"Nothing except to reveal your true nature," Jin hissed. "You are an animal. A little reptile. No, I take it back. How about something in between?"
Jin chanted more words. A second jolt slammed through Helen's body.
"You... you... fu... cking... chink!"
"Round-eye slut!" Jin spat back. "ShΓ©!"
Helen's body swayed and rippled. She felt as if fluid flowed under her skin, not merely from her stomach, but through her entire body. She rose out of the chair, finally, and realized to her shock, her movement was not of her own accord.
"You... you... what... are... you... doing?!"
Speaking was difficult. Her tongue was hot and swollen. She looked at Jin. The sorceress' face was a mask of fury, but with a touch of superiority, like an angry goddess.
She swayed, sinuously, and Helen's body mimicked the other. It was almost a sinuous dance. Helen's body moved like a snake before its charmer.
Helen struggled to raise her arms, whether to stop or strangle the witch, she knew not. She glanced down at her gyrating body and gasped, with an unsettling hiss.
Helen's arms were fused to her body, following its curves down to her thighs. The sight wasn't what sent spasms of horror through her mind, however.
Scales?!
Her emerald green dress, tailored specifically to her measurements, with such skill as to fit her like a second skin, became so in fact. Silken cloth turned to emerald scales. Her hundred dollar gold Italian pumps were merged to her feet; no longer that wealthy color, but green-scaled as the rest of her body.
Helen Morgan prided herself on her reason. She didn't believe in God or devils or anything of the supernatural, and regarded those who did with cold contempt. She refused to believe, even as her body changed, the transformation this Chinese witch placed upon her.
I am not turning into a snake. This bitch put some hallucinogen, some convulsive poison, in the tea. It's impossible!
"You... you... bloody... bitch! Poisoned me! I'll bloody... have... law... on... you!"
"The law?" Jin laughed. "My magic is the only law here, round-eye. Let me show you its tenets. ShΓ©!"
"Aaauuugh!" Helen screamed. Her insides were on fire. Organs and bones rearranged into new configurations. Her body became one, long, sinuous torso, growing in length, and unspooling to the floor in a scaly rope.
Helen's body retained some of its former curvy shape; muscles and trenches and valleys suggested a woman's form covered in a skin-tight suit. Her legs below, however, had merged into an increasingly growing tail.
Helen struggled, attempting to separate her arms or part her legs. Her tail thrashed about, like a whip, as she was unable to control her new-shaped body.
The sorceress, demonstrating a skill of movement born from millennia of experience, danced, deftly, around the thrashing tail, chanting her spell in a mellifluous song.
Helen's horror contained a humiliating component; while the greater part of her body became increasingly like a snake, a quarter section, composed of her head, shoulders, and breasts, remained scale free, exposing pink, nude flesh.
Jin Mudan paused in her chant.
"Nuwa's Dance, ha! She who repaired the sky. The Creator, The Shaper, The Molder of Mankind. You are nothing but clay, round-eye. All your wealth and power mean nothing to the snake goddess. Your soul is a snake's soul, full of poison. Nuwa draws it out and gives you your true form, ShΓ©!"
Helen's hair flowed like thick honey.
"What... are... you... doing... you... bitchsss?!"
Her tongue felt too big and thick for her mouth. Speaking became more difficult. Jin drew closer and moved her hand through Helen's thickening locks, chanting her strange spell.
Helen's golden hair, in which she took great pride and care, flowed and slithered, darkening and changing color. Gold turned to green jade, merging and solidifying to form a cobra's hood.
Jin's final touch was upon Helen's mouth. Beckoning her over with a chant, Helen found impossible to resist, Jin cupped the woman's chin and hissed.
Helen's tongue lengthened, filling her mouth as such to force her to open it. "Aaaahhssss!" she screamed. The tongue, her tongue, was long, thick, and forked.
Jin stood back to view her handiwork. Helen gazed back, shock, anger, outrage shifted across her face.
"It has been ages since I last viewed a naga," Jin Mudan sneered. "I must admit you are a creature of monstrous beauty."
Helen looked upon her body in horror. Her long forked tongue flickered, involuntarily, in and out of her open mouth.
"Uh... uh... hissss! Hissss!" Words refused to come to her.
Her snake body slipped and slithered wildly. Helen had no control, unused to her new form.
Jin stood triumphant, eyes gleaming with mirth and malevolence, hands on her shapely hips. Her annoyance at her victim's wildly gyrating body, damaging some of her antiques, was mild. She'd not had this much fun in decades, centuries even.
"So, do you have anything to say bitch? Or should I say, snake?"
"Hissss! Hissss! You f-f-f-fucking witch!"
"Witch you say?" Jin said with some, but not completely, mock outrage. "I'm a sorceress, not a common witch." She slinked forward. "You haven't learned your lesson on who's in control, round-eye. Let me explain it to you once more. Wú bì de! Arms to me!"
The change, for Helen, was mild, compared to the massive alteration of just moments ago. She barely noticed her arms disappear, manifest only in a slight change to her sinuous form.
Jin, however, changed radically. The skin in the pit of her underarms swelled and bulged. Jin laughed wickedly as the bulges grew; new muscles formed, new bones were created. Helen's arms melted while new arms, correspondingly, grew on Jin's body.