Vassal
by BluRider
"Eheheh, perfect!" Etna chortled, peering through the undergrowth. "You!" she snapped at the prinny behind her. "I won't be needing you after all, so go and bring me the angel!"
"Yes, d00d!" the strange penguin-demon saluted, racing off down the path as Etna returned to watching her unwitting victim.
The catgirl had wandered up just in time to save Etna testing her plan on a prinny. Dressed in a two-piece leather battle harness which barely contained her curves and wearing a massive sword, she looked the part of a wandering mercenary, but also had the legendary curiosity of a catgirl. Three of Etna's minions had only just absconded with the "Danger!" sign when this feline adventuress had turned the corner, and it wasn't long before she was cheerfully bounding up the path newly marked: "Wishing well, d00d!"
The small pool of water that bubbled in a clearing by the nearby cave mouth could only barely be seen from where she was, but Etna knew that area as the Serpent's Larder. The small succubus indulged in a fanged grin as her catgirl victim brushed past a few hanging vines, failing to notice that some of them were the coils of a vast snake. The snake did notice, and Etna saw the serpent slither downward from the treetop and spot the cute, catlike mercenary leaning down by the water. The catgirl was plunging her arms into the shallows and quizzically withdrawing a number of wet, discarded weapons and pieces of armour. Only as the ripples on the water stilled did the catgirl notice the looming reflection of a snake lowering its head toward her.
She hissed in surprise and tried to turn around, but her eyes got caught in its reflection. Etna couldn't see what she was seeing, but the catgirl turned her head more and more slowly, all the while staring down into the water as her eyes began to pulse with shifting colours. Herself fascinated, Etna crept closer to watch the catgirl fall deeper and deeper under the snake's spell. Sweating under the mental strain, however, the beautiful catgirl warrior gathered all of her resistance and tore her gaze from the water, drawing her sword in one fluid motion as she whirled around to face her attacker… only to find herself staring the snake directly in the eyes.
Etna rubbed her hands together as she pictured the same thing happening to Flonne. Today, she would be rid of that pesky little angel. Etna grinned in amusement as the catgirl's movement revealed that the snake's head had been directly behind her, its eyes visibly swirling with hypnotic colours even at a distance. The succubus watched as the catgirl slowed, stiffened and fell to her knees under the irresistible gaze of the serpent, the snake's eyes pulsing more and more rapidly as it entranced this beautiful girl. The compelling colours swirled beautifully, causing the entranced catgirl to drop her sword into the water as her hands relaxed and fell to her sides. Etna's jaw dropped as she saw the snake - amazingly - begin to speak, its eyes still swirling. It was speaking to the hypnotized girl, and Etna stared in surprise as the catgirl, completely in its thrall, began to drop her equipment in the water piece by piece.
She could not look away from the scene as she watched the catgirl, still staring up into the serpent's eyes, take off every piece of her clothing, revealing her sleek furry body and soft, downy breasts. Little did the small succubus realise that her own hands had already begun to move. Slowly, slowly, as she watched the scene at a distance, her own eyes had begun to glaze over. Watching the serpent's distant eyes all too closely, Etna was feeling the colours wash over her. Still staring with amusement at the catgirl's fate, her own jaw still hanging open, she herself was obliviously running her hands down her own body, unfastening the hooks and buckles of her revealing outfit and letting them drop to the jungle floor.
As the catgirl swayed her way obediently into the cave called the Snake's Larder, Etna herself felt an irresistible need to rise and join her. Still oblivious to her own deepening trance and leaning dizzily from side to side as she stumbled out of the undergrowth, Etna began to walk the path she'd marked herself. The colours fading from her vision as she lost track of the snake, she approached the sign labelled "Wishing well, d00d!" and walked past it. Unaware of her actions and still mentally plotting Flonne's demise, Etna wandered slowly down the trail, her eyes glazed over, her jaw hanging open, her nipples hard and pointed, and her immortal, childlike body left completely naked by the snake's control.
"E-Etna?" Flonne stammered, nearly tripping over her numerous skirts as she hurried after the cute demoness. "What are you doing?"
Etna turned around in annoyance, giving Flonne a full frontal view of her naked body. "I'm going somewhere," she snapped, before looking momentarily confused.
Flonne's face burned bright red, the little angel lost for words. "W-w-why are you n-naked??" she finally cried.
Etna started to say something, then looked down at her own flat chest. She began to blush furiously from her horrified face to her bare feet. "I… I…" she noticed some prinnies behind Flonne staring at her, sweatdrops on their heads, and suddenly she snapped. Leaping three feet into the air, she screamed "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?? GO BACK TO LAHARL, YOU FILTHY PENGUINS!"
The prinnies scattered, dropping anything they were holding, and Flonne shrank back.
Etna's naked chest rose and fell, anger making the veins throb in her temple as she watched the prinnies leave. Then, suddenly, she was all smiles and rainbows, turning to Flonne. "I was just going to the wishing well," she beamed. "It's so beautiful there, I thought we'd have a swim. Together!"
"Wishing well?" Flonne asked nervously, trying not to look directly at Etna.
"Yeah!" the succubus pointed to the newly painted sign, "It's just up this way."
As Flonne looked at the sign, one of the nails popped out, causing the sign to swing aside and reveal an older sign depicting a grimacing skull, beneath. Quickly, Etna started pushing the little angel up the path.
"I-I'm sorry Etna, I didn't bring a swimsuit. I'd rather not swim," Flonne stammered, digging in her heels. "I think I'll stay here."
"Forget swimming, then, it's beautiful just to visit. Why don't you just come with me and take a look?"
"Uh, well…"
"Pleeeease? I don't want to be all alone, when I'm naked like this…"
"Well, OK… I might just take a look."
"Great! I'll be right behind you!" Etna said, pushing the angel down the trail before sneaking off to dive back into the undergrowth.
Once she was back at her vantage point, Etna let out a deep breath. That was too close! Relaxing, she watched Flonne flouncing up the path.
It wasn't long before the little angel approached the hanging coils of the snake. Etna snickered as she watched her brush past them, but Flonne suddenly stopped and walked back. "Etna?" she mouthed, too quiet and distant to be heard clearly. Etna saw the giant snake peer down from the treetops, but there was nobody in its clearing.
The succubus frowned, then crept through the jungle toward the waterside. "I'm here, I'm just … embarrassed! Please, could you go in first?"
Flonne smiled brightly, "OK!"
Etna watched from a closer vantage point, cheering silently as she saw the little angel enter the glade. The demon girl grinned when the serpent's coils began to slither, and she saw its head pop out of the treetops again. "Bye bye, Flonne…" she whispered to herself, chuckling.
Just then, Flonne spotted a beautiful flower, and ducked under the canopy to look more closely. The snake lowered its head and looked down, its eyes pulsing hypnotically, irresistibly… but there was no-one there. It looked annoyed.
Stamping her bare feet in frustration, Etna snuck out of the undergrowth and picked up a rounded stone at the water's edge. She angrily lobbed it in Flonne's direction, making an obvious noise nearby her as it landed. As expected, the snake rapidly slithered down to eye-level, its gaze swirling with colour.
Etna quickly averted her eyes, smiling and listening closely… but heard nothing. Confused, she cracked an eye open. The snake was hanging in the middle of the clearing… but Flonne was nowhere to be seen. Then, Etna spotted her: the angel was amongst the rocks and bushes by the cave, bending down to play with a bunny, her low stance and a large rock obscuring her from the snake's view. Confused, the snake was losing interest and coiling back upward. Etna gritted her teeth, her eyes red, crawling even closer to Flonne. Suppressing her rage, she hissed, "Psst! Flonne! You should make a wish… over by the water! Isn't there anything you want?"
"Oh," Flonne said cheerfully, "You're right!" Finally, she clambered out to the water's edge by the cave, out in plain sight. Etna grinned evilly, moving back under cover. Quickly, she threw a stick at the snake's hanging coils, and ducked downward.
She heard hissing, and the slithering of the snake… but nothing more. Again, she peered out of the undergrowth. The snake was hanging down again, carefully inspecting its coils around where the stick had struck it. Flonne was directly behind it, unnoticed. Etna's hands clenched into fists and she leapt up and down, grinding her teeth. "How can it be so stupid…!" she muttered.
Flonne was down by the water and looking in her coin pouch, which turned out to be empty. Etna seized her chance, creeping closer to Flonne and letting out a loud whistle. Meanwhile, the angel had spotted a shiny coin inside the cave mouth. Her face brightened, and she ducked inside… just as the snake turned around. It saw nothing, cursed in a hissing tone, then turned back to inspecting the undergrowth around its coils closely.
"No! No! NO!" Etna beat her fists against a nearby tree, growling in chagrin. Then, she held her breath as Flonne came back out, flipping a coin into the wishing well.
It disappeared with a plop.
Etna beamed, her eyes watery with anticipation.
She waited.
This time, the snake didn't even bother to turn.
It tensed its coils and raised its head, returning to the treetops out of sight. Etna furiously clambered out of the bushes, sweeping off clinging leaves and branches, ranting and shaking her fists at the air. Flonne skipped back over toward her. The succubus was seething, the veins pulsing in her temple, "AARGH! How can that snake be so STUPID!"
Flonne looked at her quizzically. "What snake?"
"AAARGHHH! WHAT SNAKE?" At that, Etna snapped, grabbing the angel and shaking her violently. "WHAT SNAKE?! I HATE YOU!"
Dizzily, Flonne pointed as she was shaken around. "You mean that snake?"
"Huhuhu… what pretty morssselsss…" came a sibilant voice from behind them.
Etna froze. "… Uh-oh," she turned her head, and was suddenly looking the giant serpent directly in the swirling, luminous eyes. "That one… y-yesssss…"
Flonne's beautiful blue eyes opened wider and wider, beginning to take on the colours of the snake's. "It's… so… beautiful…" she whispered, staring deeply. "I just… want to… keep looking… so deeply…"
Etna's eyes widened too, as she realised what was happening. "N…no… m-mustn't… loooook…" she tried to pull her gaze away from the serpent's, her eyes beginning to spin with the beautiful colours. She managed to turn her head away, but the corner of her eye was still watching, staring, unable to break off completely…
Suddenly the two girls slid apart, as the nude Etna's grip slackened and her arms fell to her sides.
As Etna tried slowly to move away, Flonne began to topple over, eyes wide open, her body totally relaxed. The serpent caught her with its prehensile tail, cushioning her fall as she looked deeper into its eyes. "I… I feel so… wonderful… I just want to… I want to o-obey… o… OHH!" Flonne's small body stiffened in the giant snake's smooth coils as she completely surrendered, her mind overcome.
Etna was picking up speed, scrambling to escape, but the corner of her eye was still anchored on the serpent's gaze. She tried to close her eyes, to shut out the colours… and succeeded! Dizzily, she lurched forward, scrambling to get away, only to tumble over an unseen branch. She struck the ground hard, her head spinning, pushed herself up and began blindly feeling her way forward, using the feel of the vines and trees to guide her. She heard rustling, and then she touched something cold, and smooth. Her skin crawled, and she reversed direction, but that too felt cold, and smooth. Turning again, Etna cracked one eye open to orient herself. She was face to face with the serpent's head, and its tail pulled her in even closer.
Nose-to-nose with the reptile, she heard it speak, "Sssurely you do not want to run from me?" it hissed, its eyes flooding her vision with irresistible hypnotic colours. "Relax… it feelsss ssso good… doessn't it?"
Etna's eyes and mind were wide open, totally under the serpent's powerful trance. "Sso… good…" she repeated, as the snake pushed her back towards Flonne.
The angel was taking off the last of her lace undergarments, dropping them idly into the water as she shook out her long hair and flapped her little wings. Flonne stretched her warm, naked body as if just awakening from a deep and pleasant slumber. She looked hazy for a moment, shaking her head to clear it, and then looked down at her tiny, perky breasts in surprise.
"I… I'm naked!" was all she managed to say before she saw Etna, also completely nude, returning in the snake's embrace. Etna was watching the serpent's eyes worshipfully, her own gaze trapped in the pulsating colours. Curiously, Flonne looked up at the strange snake.
"N… no…" Etna was protesting weakly, perhaps to warn Flonne, but the angel was caught up in the colours again almost immediately.
"Ohh… yesss…" Flonne said, going deep under the serpent's power, her body and her puffy red nipples standing stiffly at attention.
Etna shuddered impotently in the serpent's grasp, the irresistible gaze overwhelming her as well. "N… no… o… ohh…" her willpower gave out, obedience taking over her conscious thought. "Masster… I musst obey…" whispered the nude little succubus, standing up perfectly straight in the snake's coils as she began to sway from side to side.
"Deliiicioussss…" It leaned in closer, savouring the moment, tasting the air around the hypnotized young slave girls with its tongue.
"Y-yess… masster…" both girls whispered breathlessly, totally enthralled.
With a slight smirk, the serpent insisted: "You can call me Kaa."
"Yesssssss…. Kaaaaaa…."
The serpent opened its mouth wide, preparing for a feast.
The naked little girls just stood there, drinking in the power of its eyes.
"Pleased to meet you."
A red streak flashed by.
A cloak engulfed the snake.
Tightening, it slammed the serpent's head against the ground. Grunting, the snake dizzily jerked its head to eye level. A gauntlet punched it in the nose. It fell back down.
There was a squishing sound as Laharl's boot came down upon Kaa's head. The rightful ruler of the Netherworld leaned out over the fallen snake, and waved at the girls in front of it.
The colours slowly faded from their eyes. They saw Laharl. Etna gasped. Flonne blushed furiously. Both naked girls dived for cover in the water just nearby.
"Quit fooling around," the demon rasped. "Bad enough I had to rescue you. With you two," he added, staring pointedly at their nude, childlike bodies through the crystal-clear water, "there's nothing much to look at anyway."
Etna was about to make a biting retort, but she jerked back when Laharl hefted Kaa's head in his gauntlet, holding the stunned snake up by the head. "And you two are MY vassals. Not some snake's."
Kaa began to revive slightly, and twisted to look at Laharl. The demon's cloak interposed itself, and he squeezed the serpent's neck with his gauntlet, causing its eyes to pulse frantic colours as it choked, before he punched it in the nose with the red cloak.
Laharl directed a flat look at Flonne and Etna. "Seriously, you two. How could you lose to something like this?"
As both girls tried in vain to cover their nakedness, Etna angrily said, "It was an accident!"
"Yeah," added a prinny behind the demon lord, pointing at Flonne. "It was only supposed to be her."
Etna went pale, and then turned red, "SHUT UP YOU STU-"
"You dare defy me, Etna?!" Laharl snapped, violently jerking the snake's head around. "You DARE disobey my orders by attacking another vassal?"
Etna sunk into the pool, as one sweating prinny desperately sidestepped away into the undergrowth. "It… it won't happen again, your Lordship…" she said meekly.
"No, it won't," replied Laharl, holding up Kaa's head. The dizzy snake gasped and choked as the demon squeezed its neck, its eyes once again shimmering with colours.
"What are you d-doing?" Etna and Flonne asked together, staring at the hypnotic green snake and Laharl.
"I'm going to make you girls get along, whether you like it or not…" the demon said, grinning.
"Oh… n-no… pleasssee…" Flonne resisted as the snake's hypnotic eyes threatened to take over her mind once again.
"Y-you can't…" Etna pleaded, "I… I w-won't…"
"You will, Etna. You will obey. Like a good vassal should. You will obey me. Both of you will. Forever."
Their eyes were filling with the hypnotic colour. They shrank back in fear, clasping hands. Their bodies rose, dripping, out of the shallow water, standing naked before the snake and Laharl.
"I… don't… want to…" Flonne gasped, her resistance fading, "be… your… slave… ohhh…"
"It's… too… powerful…" Etna said, "I… can't… resist… ohh.. OH!"
Both girls stiffened. They thrust out their chests, nipples rock-hard, standing up straight.
"We must obey you…" they both said helplessly, locked deep in trance.
Laharl grinned, "come here, my lovelies."
They walked up out of the water, hand in hand, droplets trickling down all over their smooth, naked bodies.
"Now show me how well you two will get along, under my power."
Etna gathered up Flonne, they leaned together, and they shared the deepest, most passionate kiss of both their lives.
Laharl could not make out the muffled sound of what they said as they were kissing;
But it sounded like, "Yes, my Lord."