Author's Note:
This is a shorter story with a bit of an... eclectic mix of categories. Not for everyone, so if you're easily offended or uncertain check out the spoiler tags before diving in. As always, thanks for taking the time to check this out.
Spoiler Tags:
Reluctance, Transformation, Lamia, Naga, Eldritch, Cthulian, Twinning, Male to Futa, MtH, Transgender, Futanari, Mind Control, Corruption, Futa on Futa, Futanari, Self-Fellatio
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My eyes popped open, the light from the hotel bedside lamp harsh after the darkness of sleep. Supine on the floor, I blinked my eyes a couple of time, clearing away the remnants of my nap. This was an unusual thing to me, I didn't normally take my naps on the floor of my hotel room. Also unusual, at least for the last couple of weeks, was the well rested feeling. My looming presentation had been robbing me of my sleep, as well as the tips of my fingernails, both acting as fodder to the gods of anxiety. Anxiety that was no longer plaguing me.
Wow that meditation video
actually
worked.
Absentmindedly, I scratched at the day and a half's worth of stubble that was currently irritating my face and neck.
No time like the present. I should be fine for the presentation tomorrow if I shave now. You've got this Gregory.
The steam billowed from the faucet as I laid out the necessary supplies. Wiping the mirror clean, I stared into my soft brown eyes, happy to see the bags that'd been staring back at me were now gone. My modest frame showed off my dedication to rowing at least three times a week while my lack of muscle definition showed off my love of cookies. Smirking, I gave my tummy a couple pats, appreciative of the limited flab. Lathering up, I closed an eye and gave myself a pirate smirk, brandishing my razor along with my fluffy white beard.
As I washed away the remnants of lather and stray facial hair, a strange whisper, like that of fingers drawn across a taught sheet, sounded from behind me. Curious, I looked around but found no potential source for the sound. Shaking it off, I finished washing up before applying aftershave and leaving the bathroom.
I sat on the bed and actually felt better than I had all last week. With a freshly clean face and relaxed attitude, I was ready to take on tomorrow's presentation. Reclining, I put my hands behind my head, the overly fluffy pillows embracing me. My laptop caught the light of the bedside lamp, reflecting it into my face. With a minor huff of irritation I pulled myself from the bed, closing the lid on the meditation video I'd used. Flashes of the memories of the video sparked, unbidden, through my brain.
It'd started off normal enough. An attractive woman with tight yoga clothes sitting in lotus pose walking through breathing exercises. Telling me to, "Breathe in. Breathe out. Visualize the air entering your lungs. Hold it there before letting it go." The sounds of soothing ocean waves play, almost inaudibly in the background, setting a soothing atmosphere. Normally these things don't work great on me but this had me sinking deeper into the haze. Individual muscles relaxed in my neck, shoulders and, back, as my eyes drifted closed. The woman continues to talk but I let her words flow through and around me, gracefully taking them into my mind and releasing them without conscious thought. Then my free floating mind, on the cusp of sleep, found something drifting in the wilderness of unconstrained thought. It whispered to me, unknown words with sibilant syllables that twisted the air as they slipped into my ears, saturating the room with a heavy atmosphere. The voice sounded pleased as we continued this call and response for an unfathomable amount of time. I remember at some point in the conversation she chuckled as I offered my name. The whisper of a scaled hand on my cheek confused me enough to ease me from the dream state.
The recollection startled me, before now I hadn't remembered any of that experience.
"I guess that's what stress and lack of sleep can do to you. That and random bouts of talking to oneself while alone," I said into the empty room of the hotel. "Hahaha your funny Gregory." My laughter a little forced.
Unease trickled through my brain, echoes of from the time that humans were regular prey to the things that stalked in the night.
From when we were
hunted.
My instincts were telling me I wasn't alone, that the hotel room wasn't quite as empty as it seemed. The shadows on the edge of my vision writhed and I jerked my head in that direction. Nothing but curtains, waving interminably under the cold air of the air conditioner. My rapidly pumping heart slowed, but I couldn't banish the feeling that there was someone,
something,
in the room with me.
"Hello?" I called out to nothing, wincing at the tremulous note in my voice.
I'm being ridiculous. Anxiety is getting to me again. All I need is a good night's sleep and everything will seem better in the morning. There's nothing in here. I'm all alone.
I'd almost managed to convince myself of this when the nothing whispered back.
"You're not alone," the voice echoed through the room, and I was unable to pin down the source.
"Who's there?" I asked, throat quivering with fear. Whatever was speaking felt older than time and deeper than reason. This was something that could swallow me whole, dragging me kicking and screaming into madness.
"You wound me Gregory Ludvilla. Forgetting your friend Kishanthesserantus. And after we were so recently introduced." The sound of... Kisha's chuckling laughter shifted, rotating from each corner of the room in turn as it circled around me. My peripheral vision showed inky tendrils reaching for me from under the closet door. Yet, when I turned to look, there was nothing there, just unremarkable closed. A cold sweat doused my brow and I held the comforter close to my chest. I threw the blanket over my head, creating a quiet sanctuary of warmth, much like I used to do as a child.
I'm going crazy. This is all in my head. Maybe it's a nightmare?
I pinched myself on the forearm and it felt like I'd been stabbed with a knife. Beyond the pain I felt the warm trickle of blood as it flowed down my arm to drip off my elbow. My stomach churned, and I watched my unblemished arm while the hot invisible liquid cascaded across my skin.
"Oops. Sorry about that. Still figuring out the nuances. Humans are such complicated creatures aren't they?" The voice asked rhetorically as the nauseating sensations vanished. "I think what I was looking for was somewhere around here." A trail of pleasurable kisses from phantom lips, followed the reverse trail of the blood, tickling a line from my wrist to my elbow.
"That was good, but what about if I do-" The taste of citrus bloomed across my tongue, like I'd just bit into a slice of ripe oranges.
The bizarreness of the situation began to overwhelm me and I started to lose track of my surroundings, taste, sight, and sound blurring together into an unappetizing goulash that was taking me straight toward a blackout.
The acrid ammonia scent of smelling salts blazed through my sinuses, making me jerk my head, stabilizing me, bringing me closer to equilibrium.
"Nope. Can't have you passing out on me."
"Why are you doing this?" I asked in the voice of a child, wrapping my arms around my shins, bringing my knees to my chest.