Just a short note to thank Steve Zink for his editing once
again. Trust me, good editors are hard to find, and Steve
is one of the best in my opinion.
Maggie
HEAVEN AND HELL III: Angelique:
A (HELL) MAID'S WORK IS NEVER DONE
BY MAGGIE FINSON
Hello all. My name is Angelique, and as the title of this
little story hints at, I'm a Hell Maid. And something more.
Actually, my transformation from a mortal soul into who and
what I am now resulted from a mix-up of sorts. Because not
only am I one of those fierce and widely feared (hopefully)
stalwart ladies who defend the borders of Hell, I'm also
half Succubus.
That came about for reasons that I'll get into later on, and
don't blame me for the confusion. A certain troublemaking
and delightful little lady named Lorilei is the one you want
for that. Although, come to think of it, a lot of folks would
like to blame Lorilei for their troubles.
I started out as a human male born quite a while ago (by
human standards) with the name Ricardo Esteban De La Court.
I grew up in Mexico, and had a fairly normal and happy
childhood. Except for the odd object floating through or
hurled at walls around the house. Papa had some priests
in to try and get the demon, or restless spirit doing
those things to go away. None of the prayers or excorcisms
had any effect, though every priest who visited tried
mightily to get satisfactory results.
You see, I was the problem. Though I didn't realize it at
the time, my potential for using magic was so high it knocked
the scales with which most active magic users measured such
things so out of kilter they were useless. All I knew until
I was in my early teens was that I could see colored and
textured lines in the air and on objects around me, and was
able to nudge them into doing interesting things. Mentioning
this little detail to anyone never occurred to me for quite
a while, because I thought everyone could do that.
When I did finally mention it to Mama, I was twelve, she
paled and shushed me quickly, then cautioned me not to tell
anyone else what I had shared with her. At least, not
until she could contact some friends of hers to see just
how much potential I did have for that kind of thing.
Which is how I met Girard St. Thomas, a dour and frightening
Englishman spending some time in our country to wait out a
scandal of huge proportions in his homeland. You've heard
about Girard before. He was the Black Mage that Lorilei
killed, and from whom she got most of her potent magic
when she did.
Girard towered over most of the men I knew, and was gaunt
almost to the point of emaciation. But he was a friend
of Mama's for some reason, and had agreed to look me over
and even test my abilities for her. I quite happily, and
innocently, moved objects, shifted colors and shapes of
other things, and generally played with the lines I
saw everywhere I turned my eyes until the strange Englishman
stopped me.
"Boy," he growled in his deep, hollow sounding voice as
he leaned over me while wiping sweat from his forehead
with a silk handkerchief, "you have more talent for using
The Power than anyone I've seen in a very long time. Without
training, you'll be a menace to anyone around you."
So began my apprenticeship (more like slavery) to Girard St.
Thomas, the black magician. I spent over twenty years under
his tutelage and shadow, leaving my family and friends behind
to follow him back to England, where others besides Girard
would contribute to my education. Education in both
academics and magic.
Finally, I became adept enough, and sick enough of Girard's
use of my abilities for his own dark purposes, that I was
able to break away and begin making a life of my own. Our
parting was not amicable, or quiet. In fact, I had to fight
my way clear of his dominance with sheer willpower and guts.
Not to mention, clever use of my own greatly enhanced abilities.
To say that my former mentor had become an enemy following that
break would be playing the situation down. We both swore that
the other would die the next time our paths crossed, though
neither one of us managed to kill the other in numerous clashes
we had before Lorilei put an end to the evil bastard
permanently.
My estrangement from Girard and his darker practices also
earned me a number of powerful enemies in the Guild of
Mages. Those members allied with my former teacher, and
others who practiced the same sorts of black arts, took
my far from bloodless leave-taking from my teacher and one
time mentor as a declaration of open hostilities toward
any who delved into the darker side of magic. Yet, even
with my youth and relative inexperience, none of those
attempted to move against me openly.
I moved on, leaving England behind but taking full degrees
from Oxford, and a less well known but equally important
school with me. That other, the Hall of Mages,
grudgingly accredited me as a full mage once I successfully
broke away from Girard, and put me on the official Hall rolls
as a Hazard Class Mage. That being the highest rating one
with my youth could be given at the time.
Demonology was my strength, considering where most of my
training had come from, but I began branching into other
disciplines quickly. Alchemy, Transformation magic, Necromancy
and Healing were a few of the arts I mastered on my own after
leaving England. My new home, in the newly born United
States of America, was safely removed from my former master,
and the reach of those mages who ran the Hall and its
school. At least, I thought it was.
I quite blithely tapped into the powers of Heaven and Hell
to work my magics, so was acquainted with both Demons and
Angels by the time I had reached my century mark in years.
I would like to think that I had been a far gentler master
for those I called up, or down, than Girard had been. At
least I didn't imprison those who answered my callings, or
bind them to me with nearly unbreakable spiritual chains.
Life went on for another century, with my youth spells keeping
me young enough to not feel the pangs of age but old enough
to command respect from those around me. My ongoing feud
with the Hall of Mages, and specifically Girard St. Thomas,
had escalated into an almost open war during the last half
of the Nineteenth Century, and the first three decades of
the Twentieth. I lost track of how many Hall members I
either killed or rendered incapable of using magic again,
and my few allies had their numbers thinned drastically
during that period. Akin to the war between Heaven and
Hell, ironically, considering what happened later, our
hostilities faded into something of an armed truce from
the attrition. Girard and I still glared at one another
across the Atlantic, and he threatened while I simply went
on with my own business.
Then Lorilei came along. I'd always heard that the
family of Succubae were powerful in more than seductions,
but had no dealings with that breed of demon to know for
myself. What that little beauty did to and with Girard
made me see the truth in those tales. I know. I visited
Girard's gutted and burnt out citadel some weeks following
that incident, and the almost absolute devastation I beheld
humbled me. A power far greater than I had done this, and
freed all the slaves my former master had collected. That
those slaves weren't hanging about or bothering the mortal
realms probably meant that the Succubus had taken them for
her own, or actually sent them all home.
That kind of power frightened me badly, and I wasn't the
only mage feeling that way just then. Survivors of The
Hall of Mages were uncharacteristically quiet even when I
was walking their turf, so to speak, in Europe to examine
the cataclysmic effects of his death struggle with the
Succubus.
So I made one of the few mistakes I had committed during
my long life. I relaxed and let down my guard. That
mistake proved to be fatal. The Hall holds grudges as
tightly as it does its wealth, and for as long. They
took advantage of my relaxation with an ambush set up
in one of my favorite places to meditate.
There is a small clearing in a forested area high in the
Rocky Mountains just below the tree line. A clearing
with signs of many old campfires, carefully built and
just as carefully extinguished, but no trails leading to
it. Isolated, quiet, and very comfortable, it was a place
I had often gone to consider weighty matters or just to
be alone for a time.
When I arrived there for the last time, my wards appeared
intact and undisturbed (they were) and the surrounding
forest seemed empty of all but the indigent life it always
held (it wasn't). Still, I was uneasy for some reason that
I couldn't quite pinpoint. My psychic senses were warning
me of nearby danger, but that warning came a little too
late. Just as I settled down to consider what I should do
about the tingling of unease, a sudden series of psychic
shocks rocked my quiet little world.
My wards collapsed with a soul rending wrench, and I
staggered to my feet with a defensive spell on my lips and
a powerful attack spell ready in my mind.
There were no less than fourteen adepts surrounding my
little getaway, over half of the Hall members left active,
and all were pouring magic into my protected circle with
every ounce of power they could muster.
I cursed myself for not being more thorough in checking
the surroundings before I ported in, or heeding my own
psychic warnings sooner than I had. That was useless,
and I rapidly stopped berating myself for something that
had been done and couldn't be changed. My first attack
was a fire spell that crisped three of my attackers
before they completed their first spells. Good and bad,
that. The undirected magic exploded in a wild arching
of unrestrained power that further weakened my remaining
wards, even as it destroyed another two of my adversaries.
But there were still nine of them left, and I was
weakening fast.
Five spells ravaged my already shrunken and depleted
wards at once, shaking them to the point of shattering.
I could either bolster them, or try a desperate counter
to all of those spells. Unfortunately, I wasn't given
time. The other four combined in a single united death
spell that penetrated my defenses and struck me at near
full force. As I blacked out, at least I had the
satisfaction of seeing my own spell go into wild magic,
and destroy another four of the bastards. Then the
darkness engulfed me.
* * *
I regained consciousness slowly, groggy and still in
shock from the massive death spell that had taken my
life. I had no illusions regarding that, I was most
definitely dead, but where had my consciousness, my
soul, ended up after that? My dulled senses picked
up a sickening stench of sulfur, a myriad of moans,
screams, and hopeless shrieks mixed with cruel laughter
and bellows of Demonic glee. All of which told me
where I was. Hell.
I could have screamed in horror, terror, or just plain
disgust. Instead, I hunkered down to rest and allow
my depleted powers to begin replenishing themselves.
One look at my hands, (odd that a disembodied soul
should still have hands, isn't it?) showed me to be
pale and half gone, even as a soul. That would
change in time, as my power regenerated, but for
the time I was horribly weak and extremely vulnerable
to anything around me.
I'd also made use of quite a few demons through my
life, and though I hadn't been cruel about it, I knew
most of those temporary slaves had resented it, but
put up with obeying my commands in the sure knowledge
that one day I would die and find myself in their power.
Well, that had come to pass, and I wasn't all that
anxious to begin my sojourn in Hell as a weak, pale
caricature of myself. So I shrank back into the
deeper shadows of the alcove I seemed to have
exclusive use of and hoped my wait would be
long enough to at least allow me to appear as
something more than a washed out, soiled soul when
my time came to be taken.
* * *
Such a thing was not to be. A rustling of paper at
the entrance to the cubicle (hole in the wall?) I
occupied alerted me to the presence of a demon that
looked more like an old fashioned clerk in some
catalogue pickup department. He waggled his
overlarge ears (better to hear disparaging comments,
I suppose), peered nearsightedly through a pair of
pince-nez glasses perched precariously on the end of
a rather long, skinny nose, and "Harrumphed!" loudly
enough to get anything's attention.
Comparing what he saw (me) with some papers on the
very mundane looking clipboard he carried like a
badge of office, he nodded in satisfaction and
cleared his throat again before intoning in a
voice that would have been the envy of every petty
bureaucrat that ever lived, "Ricardo Esteban Del a
Court, it is my duty to inform you that you have
been remanded to the precincts of Hell for an undisclosed
period in penance for trafficking with demons, practicing
black magic, and living well past your allotted span
through the use of forbidden magics.
"As such," he droned on, as if reciting by rote (he
probably was, but I didn't think it wise to point that
out at the time), "There is no appeal other than a
direct connection with the Heavenly Powers who have
thus sentenced you. Do you wish to appeal this decision?"
"Uh..." I hesitated as the scrawny creature gave me a
halfway expectant look, then questioned, "Just how
long before my appeal would be heard?"
"Well," he grinned, showing an abundance of crooked,
gnarled teeth (with a severe case of halitosis tossed
in for laughs) and shrugged, "the appeals list is
pretty light just now. I'd imagine you could get in
to plead your case in about eight hundred years, give
or take fifty."
"Eight hundred years," I grimaced, then added sarcastically,
"is that all?"
"Oh, yes," my demon clerk nodded happily, "our new system
is so much faster than the way we used to do things. You'd
be held here, of course, until your turn came up."
"Of course," I agreed, dryly. "What if I choose to just
take my chances down here?"
"Then I should tell you that the agent for your new owner
is waiting outside to pick up her merchandise." Giving
out what could only be taken as a long suffering sigh, he
added with some relish, "I don't think she's pleased with
all the paperwork and protocol. Terrible, terrible mood
she's in. Been threatening all of us with horrible torments
of Hell, as if we weren't already suffering those.
"Truthfully," he added in a confiding whisper, "I'd opt
to take my chances, if I were you. Another eight hundred
years of waiting won't do a thing to ease her disposition,
I can tell you that."
"Lead on," I said, waving to the outside. "If whoever --
whatever -- this creature would be is already in a foul
mood, I suppose I'd better get this over with. Another
eight centuries will only add to the trouble, once she
gets hold of me."
"A wise choice," the clerk agreed sagely, before gesturing
to the opening in my hidey hole. "Come along then, and
meet one of your new mistresses. And get her out of our
hair, while you're at it."
I followed him out of the holding area to stand behind
-- you guessed it -- an old fashioned wooden counter with
a bewildering variety of demonic types milling about on
the other side. Most of whom looked at me very expectantly
until the clerk droned out, "Pickup for Lillith is ready,
would the Lady's agent please come claim the package?"
The milling throng cast disappointed looks at me,
and the clerk (along with numerous growls and curses)
then parted as two very large and frightening beings
approached the counter. One was a Hell Maid, tall,
powerful, armed to the tips of her pointed white teeth,
and appearing impatient. Once she stopped a few paces
from the counter, something huge placed it's clawed
feet (paws?) on her shoulders, reared up on its hind
legs while resting a scaled chin on her shoulder, and
examined me with menacing yellow eyes. Its forked tongue
lolled lazily, and a double pronged tail lashed back
and forth with its interest.
'Oh, wonderful,' I thought, 'a Hellhound. With a Hell
Maid,' waiting for me, obviously.
I lost some more of my soul's coherence just then, trying
to manage my trepidation at the sight of the creatures
who were there to collect me. What kind of torments would
the two of them come up with to amuse themselves while
getting me to wherever I was supposed to end up? I really
didn't want to think about that too hard.
"All right," a smooth, sensuous voice interrupted my
daunted thought processes, and another creature saucily
walked to the fore. She was voluptuous beyond mere mortal
comprehension of the word, and so lovely my heart nearly
froze before it melted while I took her in.
Delicate appearing leathery wings in varying shades of
blue furled then unfurled as a barb tipped tail thrashed
with what looked to be a will of its own. At least she
gave that member an annoyed glance and slapped lightly
at it before turning her large, almond shaped blue eyes
in my direction. Small, crimson nailed hands planted
themselves on luscious hips, and her head cocked
quizzically as she watched me watch her. "What's
wrong with you? Never seen a Succubus before?"
"No, madam." I tried the polite approach, hoping that
would mollify her and in consequence, her vastly amused,
but watchful companions. "I never had the honor of
dealing with your sisterhood before this."
The vision of hellish beauty snorted in weary disbelief,
but she accepted what I'd said at face value while lifting
one high heeled, delicate hoof and fastidiously shaking
something I'd rather not identify off it with a grimace.
She then nodded briskly and motioned toward the Hell
Maid and Hellhound with a wicked smile. "Well, you have
now, bubba, so get your eye full, then get your poor
excuse for a behind over here. Just remember that
my two friends would really like to play with you before
we get to Lillith. So take my advice and behave."
"Advice taken," I agreed, hurrying as best my depleted
state would allow to do as she commanded. "I'll be good."
"Good doesn't enter into it," the Succubus actually
laughed, a mesmerizing combination of pure bell like
tones and velvety purrs, "considering where we are.
I'm Lorilei, Syl, Helga," she gestured gracefully at
the Hell Maid, who grinned ferociously while stroking
the blade of a large, sharp battle axe slung over her
shoulder, then at the Hellhound, who gave me
a cheerfully demonic doggie grin but remained silent.
"Now, let's get out of here. I've really had enough
of these damned bureaucrats for this century. You
don't look like much, De La Court, I sure hope you're
worth all this trouble."
So did I. I sensed a vast reservoir of magical power
in her, one that was surging with anger, frustration,
and curiosity regarding me. I hoped she would rein
that in as far as I was concerned. Happily, she did.
Then led us straight back to behind the counter.
"Uh, Lorilei," the Hellhound growled very carefully,
then turning its awful head in another direction than
the one we were heading, "the way out is over there."
"There is a portal right over there," she answered,
pointing to a dark recess in the huge wall that my
cubby hole had been hollowed out of, "and I intend to
use it right now."
"What if the clerks here won't let you?" the Hellhound
persisted, then winced as Lorilei hissed and grinned
very evilly.
"I hope they try and stop us," she grated out, still
proceeding directly to a space well behind the counter
and its milling throng of Hell's minions. "I'm ready
to give someone something to remember me by around here.
A nice big hole in their precious wall where one of
those idiot clerks was standing would do a lot to
soothe my jangled nerves just now."
"Hey, you there!" an officious clerk screeched as he
barred our way to the supposed exit with a scowl.
"This is for gate personnel and official business
only. You'll have to go the other way."
"Official business?" Lorilei purred in growing pleasure,
as the stubborn target to be insisted on blocking her
path. "Shall I tell Lady Lillith that some numb dicked
clerk held up delivery on a soul she specifically sent
me to collect in all haste? Or should I just blow you
to one of the lower slime pits and walk on through?
"Of course, you could just let us pass," she grinned
wickedly, and I felt the buildup of power in her small
frame. Inanely, I wondered how such a petite, delicate
frame could contain so much of it without sizzling,
crackling, and glowing like radioactive waste on a
dark night. Evidently, the clerk noticed too, because
his normally bright red complexion went hot pink, and
the bluster left him like a sailor leaving Saturday
night's love on Sunday morning.
"All right, go on then," he grumbled, then straightened
and attempted to glare at the diminutive hellion facing
him. "But don't think you've heard the end of this!"
"If I do hear any more," Lorilei promised sweetly, "I'll
be sure to come let you know personally."
The clerk blanched, a pretty good trick considering white
was not a dominant color in his complexion, and scuttled
out of the way.
"Okay, let's go," the Succubus said, glancing at the
portal. It looked like just another cubbyhole to me;
she nodded, ran a small, lovely hand across one of the
stones, then gestured for the rest of us to enter the
arch. "It's set for Home. Move it, everyone."
I shrugged (to myself, anyway) and walked into the arch.
Darkness, multi-colored sparks and a feeling of disorientation
took me in a maw determined to mix and shake me until
my internal organs (if I had any just then) exchanged
places with each other, then deposited me in the last
kind of place I would have expected to see in Hell.
* * *
I was staring in open wonderment and no little
bemusement at a panorama stretching farther than I
could see. What the place looked like was an immense,
well tended park in the late stages of spring
blossoming. After the sulfurous atmosphere in the
receiving/waiting area I had awakened in, the sweet
floral scents wafting to me on a soft, warm breeze
were heavenly. But I knew I wasn't in Heaven, unless
I considered all the lovely, voluptuous ladies milling
about and expectantly watching the very portal I had
come out of.
"Move that skinny butt out of the way!" a strong female
contralto bellowed in my ear, completely ruining any
fantasies I had been conjuring. That was accompanied
by a powerful shove from behind, and I stumbled forward
to land in a tangled heap on the green lawn-like grass
several yards beyond the portal.
The Hell Maid strode past me with a disdainful little
sniff and an almost pitying expression on her lovely,
if daunting face. The Hellhound loped up, stopped
to sniff at me experimentally, then licked at my face
before offering another doggish grin and loping off
to join the Hell Maid, Syl.
A cute(?) little female imp clothed like a little girl
skipped up with a wide smile marring the little girl
image with its mouthful of wickedly sharp teeth and
cheerfully lisped out in a sing-song voice, "Oh, boy,
are you in for a BIG thurprise, thweety!"
Finally, the Succubus, Lorilei regally stalked to stand
beside where I had tumbled with a shake of head that had
her lustrous chestnut mane teasing suggestively at more
parts of her anatomy than I could have described without
going into instant lust. Letting out a long suffering
sigh, she gestured for me to get back on my feet and follow
her. "Come on, Meat, Lillith is waiting down there, and
let me tell you, SHE isn't one you want to have even a
little upset with you. Especially not around here."
Meat. She called me Meat, capitalized no less; I could
tell from her inflections. Did that mean I was to be
nothing more than a feedbag for the collected group of
Demonesses? Calmer thoughts intruded with the notation
to my frantic, fearful ape brain, that Lorilei wouldn't
have warned me to hurry so as not to irritate Lillith if
I had been brought in as food. It wouldn't have mattered
if I angered Satan himself (well, maybe in that case...)if
that's all I was meant to be.
I jumped to my feet, showing more energy than I had up to
that point, and regarded the amused, half surprised look
in Lorilei's gorgeous, vertically pupiled eyes. "Well,
well, maybe there is more to you than I first thought,
little one. Let's get going. You have some people to
meet and some things to do before you can get any rest."
"Coming, Lady," I replied, with some relief in discovering
there had been plans made for me that didn't include
becoming food for what I knew could turn out to be a clan
of ravenous Succubae. "Let's not keep Lillith waiting."
"Mother Lillith, to you," Lorilei responded, then gave me
a grin that was far from reassuring, but beat the you know
what out of the scowl I'd seen her giving those poor
clerks earlier. "And to everyone else here at Home except
maybe Mama herself.
"Never mind," she shrugged at my questioning expression
while we approached the gathered group of female Demons.
"You'll find out soon enough."
I wasn't sure whether to be glad or worried about that.
But the sheer awe I felt as the gathered beauties formed
a ring of delectable female flesh around us soon had me
forgetting any worries I might have harbored. Belatedly,
I realized that I'd let some damned stupid masculine
reactions blind me to what was actually going on, and I
very reluctantly (really stupid male and masculine reactions)
pulled my eyes away from the rainbow of colorful and
luscious females surrounding me to find a slightly taller
one with fiery red hair, powerful green eyes, and scarlet
wings shifting at her shoulders regarding me with no small
amusement.
"This," Lorilei supplied formally (and needlessly; even if
I hadn't dealt with the Succubae as a mage, I had heard of
Lillith, and had her described to me), "is Mother Lillith."
Turning her lovely gaze toward Lillith, the lesser Succubus
gestured at me with one small hand while the other idly held
her tail, which seemed determined to insert itself into
her exposed sex. "And this, Mother, is what was left of
Ricardo Esteban Del a Court."
"Hello, Senor Del a Court," Lillith greeted me with a
rich feminine tenor that had my nerve endings twitching
with barely suppressed lust from my ears all the way to
my curling toes. "Welcome to Home.
"This place's name," she supplied at my confused look,
then returned her attention to Lorilei. "Well, there's
much more involved with this one than I expected to get.
But you spotted that right away, didn't you, dear daughter?"
"Yep," Lorilei nodded, then fixed a predatory look and
grin on me that made me shudder while longing to let
her have her way with me. "That's why I hustled everyone
back here. He's recharging at a pretty good rate."
"Yes, he is." Ignoring the lack of honorific from a
lesser succubus (which had me rapidly reestimating the
status of that messenger, or what I had taken to be a
messenger and delivery girl), she continued, "Well, we
may as well get this thing started. You do the honors,
Lorilei."
"Me?!!" The lovely, powerful, creature who had collected
me at The Gates of Hell appeared surprised and a bit
doubtful. "But I..."
"You'll do fine, dear daughter," Lillith assured her, with
a fond smile. "Mama and Syl will help with some of the
input you'll need to get the results we want. Now, don't
argue, this is something that you deserve and can do with
your eyes closed."
"If you say so." Lorilei shrugged, then nodded while
favoring me with a soft, sexy grin that had my heart doing
its best to hammer out of my chest and land in her pretty
little hand. "Come on, Ricardo. Come to me. You'll
enjoy this part, I promise."
Something else was working very hard to attract attention
too, my manly rod was standing at attention so hard it was
painful. Too late, I understood that I had lost caution,
volition, and any chance I might have had to bargain my way
out of whatever was planned. Let me tell you, a Succubus
could stop a charging rhino in its tracks if she really
wanted to, and the rhino was male. Every physical part of
me (how could I have a physical being in Hell? No matter,
I wasn't worried about that little detail just then) strained
toward the inviting, sexually charged embrace she offered
with a seductive smile.
"Come to me, Ricardo," she crooned, making my name into a
musical wonder while gently beckoning with hands, eyes,
and her very active tail. There was nothing at all gentle
about my attraction, I had about as much chance of pulling
away from her mesmerizing call as an iron filing has of
running away from a magnet. Less, even.
Wearing a stupid grin that stretched out my mouth to
unreasonable proportions, I quite happily went to her
without a thought. Part of me, the cold analytical piece
that had made me such a natural at sorcery, was screaming
for me to run and hope for the best. The rest of me had
no intention at all of running, but also hoped for the
best. Getting laid by a Succubus in her home territory
was an experience my animal instincts just couldn't resist.
"I promise to be the best lay you've ever had," she crooned
in triumph as I eagerly embraced her while she was pulling
me to lie on top of her lush, softly curved and incredibly
inviting body. "This will be a lovemaking that you'll never
forget."
Brother, was she right! Looking back, I sometimes curse
myself for falling into her clutches so easily, but believe
me, there was nothing I could have done to prevent it from
happening. Not when every fiber of my being tingled with
her mingled scent and presence openly inviting me to partake
of the wonderful treasure between her wide spread legs.
Even now, I still go weak at the knees and find myself
breathing a bit hard whenever I call up those memories. Now,
I had been no virginal, monkish character in my life, and had
experienced sexual play with some of the finest courtesans in
history. Not one of those fine ladies could so much as stand
in Lorilei's shadow when it came to pleasing a man sexually,
though given what my Hellishly gorgeous seductress was
and how she fed herself, that should have been no real
surprise.
Lorilei engulfed me, teased me, played me like a well tuned
instrument, and so many other descriptive superlatives that
I won't bore you by listing them all. Hell disguised as
Heaven, I had heard these creatures described as. Those
descriptions were all true, if somewhat lacking the full
impact of actually having a succubus give her entire attention
to you. My Go...(Oops, Syl has told me not to swear like
that anymore, or she would do her level best to beat me into
a quivering pulp.) Anyway, you should get the idea by now.
Wrapped in her soft arms, legs, tail and wings, I felt her
heat filling me with something equally powerful. So
powerful, in fact, that I barely noticed what was slipping
away from me each time I orgasmed and shot my seed into her
ravenous belly. Or what was creeping in to replace what was
being taken. I have no idea of how long our sexual gymnastics
went on. It could have been eternity, a mere century, or
bare moments. No matter, I was in pure, unadulterated ecstasy
the entire time.
When we finally ran out of energy, (at least, I was drained)
our wings pulled back and folded against our shoulders, our
tails loosed their loving embrace and we reluctantly pulled
apart. Exhausted, I recall wondering, 'Tails? Wings?' in
plural, not as a single person's, but was far too spent to
have the strength to consider the implications of that.
"Sleep well, Sister Angelique," Lorilei fondly smiled down
at my still supine form. "You are going to be something
to behold when you wake up. I'll be here to help when
you do awaken."
The last thing I really remember about that time was Lorilei
leaning forward to place a gentle kiss on my forehead. Then
I floated quite comfortably into warm, soothing darkness
while desultorily wondering who exactly Angelique was.
* * *
My dreams were chaotic and uncomfortable during that sleep.
I first saw myself wielding an old fashioned broadsword that
was alternately red with flames or blue/white with the sheen
of ice against foes that could be nothing less than Angels
and their minions. They fell to my sweeping, potent strokes
like grass to a lawn mower, and others scattered in fear.
I shouted my victory scream, a piercing lovely warbling in
a low soprano range, and slowed my breathing so the metal
armor I wore wouldn't chafe my heaving breasts through the
tough but supple leather I wore under it.
In another I was flying. Really flying, using wings that
beat strongly with the flex of muscles in my chest,
shoulders and back. The sword, named Heaven's Bane,
was secured to my back, between the out-thrust of wings
and I had no intention or need of using it then. Instead,
I glared at the approaching phalanx of flying Angels,
and mouthed the words to a spell. A darkly glistening
sphere emerged from my outstretched hands to instantly
enlarge and engulf the group of Angels who were my mortal
enemies.
Their beauty died within that terrible sphere, unlike any
spell I had ever used or been familiar with as a Human
sorcerer. Withered husks rained upon the chaos field
of heaving battle below as the hated enemies fell before me.
Next I saw myself naked and welcoming a Human male into
my heated embrace, and self. I took something from him
in our coupling, not enough to really harm, but very satisfying
regardless. Sated, I pulled away from his relaxed, slumbering
form and watched with interest as his nearly pure soul grew a
little gray around the edges, while tinges of azure and silver
shot through the darkening parts. I knew that male would be
mine forever if I chose to claim him fully, and took familiar
satisfaction in the knowledge.
"Angelique," a firm, strong, but feminine voice interrupted my
uneasy dreams. "It's all right, sweet, don't be afraid of these
visions. Rest quietly now."
I did. Until awakening to a plethora of unfamiliar sensations
crowding my mind for immediate attention. My breasts were a
little sore from being lain on while I was asleep, and their
nipples tingled with the pain and pleasure of the feeling.
Breasts?!
Wait a second here! My muddled brain searched for the highly
unfamiliar feeling of two large, soft objects attached to my
chest, quivering and moving with every small change of position
I made. And found them.
A low moan escaped my swollen feeling lips as other areas of
my vastly altered body began reporting in. My hips were
broader, with thighs farther apart than my body memory allowed
for. There was nothing at all between them, either. At least,
nothing I was personally familiar with possessing. Thick,
silvery strands of soft hair obscured my vision as I painfully
forced myself to sit up.
Stars filled my vision as very abused body parts urgently
complained about the motion. I felt as if I had literally been
taken apart and rebuilt to very different specifications
than the original. Everything ached, on top of feeling out of
synch. Mentally uttering a prayer (I know, I know, no more
cussing like that, but this is telling my story) I forced
myself to look down at my chest. And beheld two huge,
gorgeous mounds of creamy flesh tipped with erect azure
nipples.
"Yep," I told myself quietly, cautiously. "Those are female
breasts, all right."
My hesitant exploration continued with hands that were both
smaller and stronger than mine had been before, running
themselves down my slender waist and over the sudden outward
curve of lush hips and bottom. "Hips and ass, too," I
muttered distractedly, while my hands slowly neared my
crotch.
I gasped in involuntary and reluctant pleasure as the fingers
of one hand parted fleshy lips between my legs, then pushed
into a moist, warm recess. I yanked my hand away
from something that burned my sense of self as if it had
been a white hot coal.
"That can't be what I think it is," I whispered, noticing
as I did that my voice sounded a great deal different, too.
Higher, and lilting with a musical accent that was really
very appealing. Hesitantly, I returned to what was between
my legs -- with the other hand that time, in case the first
had been lying to me.
It hadn't.
"Well," taking a steadying breath, I considered things,
after shifting to release a pair of attachments to my
shoulders that pulled painfully while I was sitting on them.
And a third part of me that sprang free in joyful abandon
and began teasing at my crotch. The latter was a tail,
flexible and ending with a barbed tip that was currently
manipulating my nether regions with lascivious intent. I
slapped it away, wincing as pain shot through my backside,
but it left those foreign parts alone after I did.
"Hmmm," I muttered in a breathy little sigh, while thinking
furiously. "If it has tits, ass, and a warm slit between
its legs, it must be a woman." Something in that logic was
very disturbing, until my frazzled mind recalled that I had
been examining myself. The logic went from merely
disturbing to traumatic.
"Which must mean that...I...Have...Become...A...Female," my
voice reluctantly acknowledged what my brain had already
decided. "Oh, no they don't!"
Briefly considering my options, I tried some shape changing
magic that I had known as a Human. It worked. Sort of. I
was different, but still apparently female, and when
my concentration faltered I returned to what must have been
my default body setting. You know, the one with wings and
a tail.
Now, I ask you. What would you have done under the
circumstances? The last thing I remembered was being male
and having the most fantastic sex in my long experience. Then
I awaken as a female. Be honest, here. How would you have
handled such a thing?
Running over several options, I settled on the one that
seemed to be the most productive of the weak ideas I had
formed. Drawing in a deep breath (that caused my
newly inflated chest to heave) I gathered myself for the
effort, opened my mouth wide, and screamed bloody murder.
Then did it again, and again. And again, until I was
getting a sore throat.
But kept going, anyway. I'd built up a head of very
hysterical steam, and wasn't about to let go of it
until I subsided into mute inability to holler any more.
* * *
My screaming got results. Fast.
"Calm down, Sweetheart," a soothing, deep but feminine
voice pleaded with me. I didn't, and wasn't going to do
so until I had used up all the energy I had. The
voice retreated with a near frantic, but half-amused
call elsewhere. "Lorilei!"
Soon a pair of delicate hands that were much stronger
than anything looking like they did should have been
gripped my shoulders, and a familiar voice intruded
upon my very satisfyingly berserk panic attack.
"Calm down, Angelique," Lorilei's voice soothed, while
her hands stroked my back and outraged wings. "You're
going to wake everything in Hell, and trust me, some of
those are far better left sleeping."
"Uh, uh, uh..." My scattered train of thought faltered,
as did my feminine cries of total, absolute anguish. I
glanced at the succubus and flinched. "Get away from me!
This is your fault! What have you done to me?"
"Tell me what you did to me!" Without thinking, I had
reached my feet, and put my smaller hands to the very
satisfying use of choking the very life out of her. Then
realized she was already dead (probably) just like me, and
that I'd likely never get more than an incoherent gurgle
out of her with my hands locked around her slim throat
and squeezing hard as I could.
Just as I was reaching that conclusion and beginning to
release my grip, a wall hit me frontally. Hard. The
invisible but very solid force threw me several feet, to
land on my rump with a soft thud. But my shields had
been up and active, I realized. A result of my raising
magic to attempt the shape change.
Lorilei was warily watching me as that understanding came.
"You...you used magic on me!" I accused in a surprised voice.
"Yeah, I did, didn't I?" Lorilei actually smiled, then
offered me a grin.
"But you shouldn't have been able to do that!"
"Well, I did," was her simple, oddly pleased answer as I
glared at her in stupified amazement.
"I was shielded," I protested uselessly, since I was quite
obviously on my bottom (which was complaining loudly at
the mistreatment) and there because a force wall had
been used on me.
"I know," she answered half smugly, but with a note of
wonder in her voice, before going on. "Besides, how in
Hell did you expect me to give you any kind of answer
with your hands around my throat? That wasn't the best
way to go about asking, you know."
"Sorry."
"That's okay," she smiled, while rubbing lightly at her
shapely neck, "I guess. Have you calmed down enough to
talk like a civilized being yet? Or should I zap you
again?"
"Talk," I assured her, not wishing to feel the force of
whatever else she might do to defend herself. I had
been right about the innate power in her small frame,
and stood gingerly while rubbing at my shapely, but
abused bottom with a wince. "I'll be good."
"Oh, don't worry about it," Lorilei chuckled, while
looking me over. "When I woke up this way, they tell me
I just about startled Mama into Full Defense Mode."
"Who's Mama?" I questioned.
"Me," the deep voice that had awakened me first joined
in, though it spoke in my mind. "I'm this whole place,
honey. I'm home, succor, love, and taskmistress all
rolled into one."
"Oh," I rather intelligently responded. "What's Full
Defense Mode?"
"Never mind that for now, child," Mama replied. "You just
pay attention to Lorilei here, and keep in mind that she's
one of my favorites around here."
"Uh, I will, Mama." My response was a bit sheepish, and I
felt the threat, veiled though it was. "Just chalk up my
attacking her to post whatever trauma."
"That would be Post Transformation Syndrome," Mama chuckled,
then was gone.
"Wow." I shook my head, then abruptly stopped myself as
the motion set up waves of sensations I was still not all
that prepared for. So I tried changing the subject.
"You wouldn't be the Lorilei who got Girard, would you?"
"Yes, that would be me," she responded with a heavy sigh.
"Which is where I absorbed all this damned magical power.
But we need to talk about you, and what has happened to
you right now. Anyone here in Home could tell you that
story, and I'd really rather not go into it just now, if
you don't mind."
"Control problems?" She winced as I asked that, so I
nodded and reassured her, "Not to worry, you'll have that
power sitting up and begging like a puppy pretty soon. It
was a lot to absorb in one sitting; Girard was extremely
powerful and very old. You can't expect to master all
his old power in a few days, months, or whatever."
"Don't I know it!" she grumbled, then gave me a halfway
hopeful look. "Think you might be able to help me with
that?"
"Probably."
"Good." With a nod, she waved a hand and a beautiful
full length mirror appeared right in front of me. "In
the meantime, you may as well get used to seeing yourself
as you are and will be for a very long time to come,
little sister."
"I..." I started, but became speechless at what that
mirror showed me. The creature standing there was
absolutely the most gorgeous female I had ever seen
in my life. Present company and Mother Lillith excepted.
"Oh, my..."
"Don't say it," Lorilei interrupted. "That name is a
no-no around here, and would probably burn that pretty
mouth of yours just now. At least it would until you
get more used to yourself this way."
I didn't answer, mostly because I was unable to. What
I was seeing was a succubus with glowing azure eyes set
in a doll-like oval face and built to please. Men,
anyway. Long, silvery hair very exuberantly tumbled
around her slim shoulders, covered both luscious breasts
(which weren't nearly so huge as I had first thought,
though they were by no stretch of the imagination small,
either) and down her straight slender back to happily
tickle her firmly rounded (and slightly bruised) bottom.
Gem-like azure tinted high heels graced her delicate
feet, but closer examination showed them not to be shoes
at all, but specialized hooves with a small cleft where a
big toe should be divided from the other toes. The spur
I had first taken for the heel was part of that hoof.
A pair of small, curved horns sparkled with silver
highlights on my forehead just below the hairline and in
line with the large, almond shaped azure eyes. Leathery
wings unfurled and spread for examination once I thought
about it. But the leather was very supple and soft in
both appearance and feel. The edges were a dark, almost
black shade of azure that gradually shaded to pale silver
in the center, and a pair of very wicked spurs protruded
from the second joints rustling softly above the level of
my head. Those would be formidable weapons at need, I
noted.
As would the inch long, sharply pointed silver colored
nails tipping smooth, small hands. Upon close examination
of her figure, I found that nothing was really
disproportionate about it, just overly voluptuous and
quite obviously designed for sex while being slim enough
to hint at speed and agility that could be astounding if
used.
I would have been in instant lust at seeing her. Only one
problem held me back from that. She was most definitely
me! "Damn! I'm a wet dream incarnate."
"I said just about the same thing when I woke up the first
time," Lorilei grinned.
"But it couldn't have been such a shock to you," I groused,
while taking in her unstudied feminine and feline grace of
posture and presence. "Having been a woman before."
"Me?!! A human woman?" Her laughter pealed out in richly
musical amusement for a few moments, before she sobered and
gave me a commiserating look. "Believe it or not, Angelique,
I was just as determinedly male as you started out. At least
I was until a cuckolded husband caught me with his wife and
shot both of us to death."
"You were a guy?" I questioned incredulously, while watching
her ultra feminine gestures in response to my question.
"Yep, 'fraid so, little sis," wrinkling her nose and drawing
in a breath, the lovely little succubus shrugged in dismissal
of a past that couldn't be returned to under any stretch of
the imagination. "But all these wonderfully femme gestures
and mannerisms just kind of grow on you real quick. You'll
see soon enough, trust me on that one."
"So, I'm a succubus, too," I mused, while still entranced
by the vision in the mirror. That was, no matter what angle
I chose to look at her from, me.
"Among other things," Lorilei nodded as she agreed -- with
that almost guilty provision -- with me.
"Other things?"
"Well, you see," my companion/tormenter shrugged another
time before telling me the rest. "What we needed from you
was something unique in Hell, and probably Heaven, too."
"I suppose that you'll get around to telling me within the
next century or so, won't you?"
"Mother Lillith wanted a being with a succubus' alluring
qualities," Lorilei continued, completely ignoring my little
sally of bitter humor, "still able to use magic, and well
versed in the spells she would need to have. Plus," drawing
in breath sent a very interesting surge of sympathetic
vibrations through her delectable flesh, I idly noted,
while also noticing it did nothing whatsoever for my libido,
"we needed a strong fighter type who could just as easily
handle a sword or other weapon as cast spells."
"So," I questioned with a lift of one eyebrow and a half
despairing sigh, "what am I, exactly? Please use
descriptions of two syllables or less when you explain this
to me, I'm still in pretty heavy shock, you know."
"About half succubus," she rushed to answer, "and half
Hell Maid."
"Oh, okay." I wished I hadn't asked, but come to think of
it, I was taller and broader shouldered in proportion to
my body shape than she was. Flexing an arm revealed smooth,
powerful, muscles sheathed in female fat. "So I'm the
Amazon from Hell," I muttered in disgust.
"Not exactly," Lorilei grimaced. "The Amazon from Hell is
coming to take you through some training workouts pretty
soon."
As if on cue, a voice I recognized as belonging to the Hell
Maid, Syl, cheerfully interrupted our conversation. "Ho,
there! Lor, is our new girl awake and ready yet?"
I privately thought I'd never be ready for that one, but
wisely held my forked tongue (which, incidentally, had
developed the embarrassing habit of tangling up in my
prominent canine fangs) and let out a quiet little groan
in anticipation of just what that hulking, female Hellion
had in mind for me.
* * *
Boy, did I ever find that out. I nearly wished I hadn't,
but rapidly changed that to wishing I'd never been born so I
ended up getting killed and sent to Hell.
Weapons training, oh my. Swords, axes, and brawls, oh my.
Bruises, scrapes, and aches in every part of my body. At least
I was given my own sword. Sort of. Maybe I was given to the
sword.
"This is for you," Syl said as she solemnly handed me a sheathed
sword. It nearly pulled my arms out of their sockets when I
accepted it, and weighed what felt like a large, ungainly ton.
"Her name is Heaven's Bane," Syl continued, ignoring my difficulty
in even holding the thing off the ground. "She was made
specifically for you. Get to know her well, and she'll be your
best friend."
I was privately skeptical of that. Being able to hold the damned
thing up, let alone use it, anyway. Heaven's Bane seemed to be
skeptical, too. Don't ask how I knew that, but I did. I knew it
as clearly as if someone had whispered the fact into my shell-like
ear.
"Great, thanks." I attempted to heft the long, slender weight
while putting on a smile. Much to my shock, the thing rose into
the air with my hand still gripping the hilt and stayed there, with
me on tip-toe, or more precisely, tip-hoof, trying to hang on without
resorting to using my wings.
"Get back down here!" I commanded/pleaded with it, while trying to
force it -- her -- back down so I could return her to the plain
leather scabbard.
I glanced toward a highly amused Syl as I was struggling mightily
with the recalcitrant thing while gritting out, "If I didn't know
better, I'd swear this damned thing was laughing at me."
"She is," Syl laughed, as I continued to try bringing the thing
down to at least hip level, without much in the way of results.
"But don't call her an it, hon. She was made especially and
specifically for you, and holds enough of your own essence to
be marginally intelligent as it is. You'll hurt her feelings."
"Oh, we couldn't have that," I gritted in mock horror, and the
sword actually pulled me off the ground for a few seconds. "All
right, all right. I believe you, HB, now would you please come
down and behave yourself?"
I felt a distinct, if reluctant agreement, and Heaven's Bane
literally dropped into my lap with what I could have sworn was
a girlish giggle of glee.
"Wonderful," I muttered, while closely examining the gleaming
surface and razor sharp edges of my own personal, and smart aleck,
sword. "Now I have my own sword, only I'm going to have to talk
nice to it just to do anything but look at it."
A warning twinge in my lap caused me to amend part of that last
statement. "Okay, okay, HER."
Lucifer take me to the deepest slime pit of Hell if that thing didn't
start purring while laying across my lap. While I was feeling a
strong measure of contentment. "I give up. Hello, Heaven's Bane.
Do you mind my calling you HB?"
Evidently not. The purring got stronger, and the warmth increased.
Sheesh!
My training consisted of simple things at first. At least, they
were supposed to be simple. I was told to stand and hold my arm
straight out from my shoulder, with Heaven's Bane gripped in my
hand and supposedly as straight as my arm. Not to mention
convincing HB that either adding or subtracting weight from herself
was cheating while I was doing it. When the first arm felt like it
was about to pull out of the socket, taking my shoulder, part of
my rib cage and back with it in abject surrender, I was allowed to
switch arms. Until that one felt just as bad as the other.
"Damn!" I muttered to myself, while wiping sweat out of my eyes
during a too short break. "I thought we didn't sweat or get aches
and pains."
"This is Hell," Syl, hearing me in spite of my saying that under my
breath laughed, good naturedly, "not Heaven, and don't go deluding
yourself, kid; Angels sweat and cuss just as much as we do."
"That's soooo encouraging," I grunted, as the hand massaging my
still numb left arm encountered a muscle with some feeling left in
it. "I thought this body was supposed to be ready to go, and all
that good stuff?"
"It was," Syl agreed, with a ferocious grin that boded ill for my
immediate future and sense of physical well being. "But even the
finest instrument needs tuning up, off and on."
"How wonderful," I sarcastically retorted, "that my weapons teacher
is a barracks philosopher, in addition to a sadist."
"Time to go over the forms and positions again, Little Sister." She
arose gracefully, planted hands on generous hips, and cocked her head
to the side expectantly. "I expect you to get at least some of them
right this time around. If you don't, it's more straight arm
exercises for you."
"Oh, all right, all right." My response sounded both glum and a
little petulant. I was supposed to be some special hybrid minion of
Hell, and here I was being subjected to near constant physical abuse
in the guise of training. Painfully getting to my feet (Hooves,
actually; have you ever considered practicing swordplay and hand to
hand battle techniques in high heels? Take my well tutored and
experienced advice, don't.) I grimaced at my teacher. "Go ahead
and hurt me again, you grinning torment specialist."
"All those hang out in The Pits," Syl equably replied, then laid
into me in a blinding flurry of attacks with a long wooden rod she
kept handy for such occasions, so quickly I automatically went into
the proper defensive form. Just, not quite quickly enough.
"Better," Syl said, nodding judiciously while I sorted my own
form from the ground I'd been pounded into with a series of soft
groans and loud curses that would have horrified a longshoreman.
"You didn't get knocked down for a whole three or four seconds
that time."
"Oh, great. Twice as long as last time," I answered, with a wry
and very pained grimace. I considered a sneak attack to get even,
then discarded the idea upon thinking of how my bruises would feel
if they got bruised.
"Yes, Little Sister," Syl replied, then nodded with a grin that told
me she had noted my impulse, and my quelling of it. "You're getting
the hang of it at last."
"Glad to hear it." With a sigh, I took the first movement's starting
position, and steeled myself for another beating. "Well, let's get
on with this debacle."
* * *
"Hi!" Lorilei greeted me, with a somewhat frazzled smile. I could
tell she had been practicing some of the spell casting techniques
I'd been showing her in my free time. "How did it go with Syl
this time?"
"Am I missing any important parts?" I questioned sourly.
"Nope!" The little Succubus shook her head with a knowing grin.
"Then, I guess it went okay."
"Great." Stretching her wings to their full, glorious length, the
beauty at least half responsible for me looking the way I did licked
her lips and grinned at me. "Now it's time to have some dinner."
"Dinner?" Giving her a blank look, I shrugged. "I thought Mama
was taking care of that for me."
"WAS, DEAR." Mama's voice filled my brain so quickly I could have
sworn I heard something inside rattle. "YOU'RE BIG ENOUGH TO FEED
YOURSELF NOW, SWEETHEART. BE GOOD, AND GO WITH LORILEI. SHE'LL SHOW
YOU HOW TO DO IT RIGHT."
"Does that mean out of here? On Earth? Like this?" I questioned,
gesturing at my sweat streaked and dirty body, disheveled hair,
and bruised face. "I'm not ready for that yet."
"Yes you are," Lorilei responded, with a little giggle. "Just use
our auto cleaning and healing function, and you'll be ready for a
debutante ball in no time at all."
"I always seem to forget that ability," I grimaced, concentrating
on being clean and at my best in appearance. In a few seconds, I
actually felt better, and smelled more like a flower garden than
a sulfur pit with assorted noxious fumes thrown in for grins.
I examined myself in the mirror that had obligingly appeared in
front of me, and decided that what I saw was as good as it was going
to get. Which was actually pretty damned good. (I know, I know.
Vanity is one of the Seven Deadly Sins, but...WAKE UP out there,
where am I, already? Going to Hell isn't exactly something to
hold over my head as a threat any longer, is it now?)
"Okay," I said, then with a final check of my appearance I grimaced
and made a face at the image in the mirror, who quite cheerfully
returned the gesture. "I guess if Mama isn't going to feed me,
I'd better get to know how we do it for real. Besides, I'm famished."
"That's the spirit!" Lorilei flashed me a wide smile, and gestured
theatrically into the distance. "Let's go eat!"
* * *
I savored the light breeze blowing into the alley we had emerged
in, and let out a long, blissful sigh. It seemed like forever
since I had set foot on Earth, or The Human Realms as both Demons
and Angels called it. "Ah...Oh my...what's that awful smell?"
"Pollution," Lorilei grinned, then wrinkled her own nose in
distaste. "Humanity is every bit as good, no better, at ruining
a nice place than we Demons and Devils ever dreamed of doing. Kind
of makes you long for the old sulfur pits, doesn't it?"
"Almost," I agreed, provisionally, while recalling references I'd
heard to The Pits, and the creatures who ran them for the poor
souls condemned to their care(?). "But give me a little smog any
day over what I've heard about some other places in Hell."
"Good choice." Lor nodded with a grin that displayed her cute
little fangs. "We really have it pretty good being Succubae, and
even Hell Maids are favored creatures of His Satanic Majesty,
Lucifer."
"Oh, good." My response was less than enthusiastic, which drew
a giggle out of my companion. "By the way, is this sex changing
stuff mandatory in Hell, or is just a fluke that you, me, and Syl
used to be men?"
"You noticed that, huh?" Lorilei chuckled, then waved off my
retort before it could get a good running start. "Not really,
but some of us have been hand picked by Lillith to replace losses."
"Losses?" I was interested, and a bit nervous at the mention of
losing creatures like us.
"When the war was hot," Lorilei sighed, as she began a lecture
that she'd probably heard and used many times already, "Succubae
were Hell's messengers, magic users, and diplomats. Hell Maids
not only patrolled the borders of Hell, they were Lucifer's own
elite cadre of battle lieutenants, who personally led some other
elite troops from Hell in the battles with Heaven.
"As such, both Succubae and Hell Maids tended to be targets for
every Angel or any of their allies who ran across us. Both cadres
suffered horrible losses in the fighting before both sides ran
out of troops," she told me. "Syl lucked out, and actually killed a
Hell Maid in hand to hand combat, so Lucifer grabbed his soul before
any of Heaven's spawn could, had him transformed to replace the
Hell Maid he'd killed, then gave Lillith pretty free rein to pick
any new souls she could find that would suit her own clan's needs.
"Which takes care of explaining me." Taking a breath, she went
on slowly, "You were a special case; Lucifer himself gave Lillith
permission to create you."
"I suppose I should be honored, then." I didn't feel that way.
In fact, I got a very distinct feeling of uneasiness as the idea
bounced merrily around inside my transformed head. "But why me?"
"You," Lorilei replied, then shrugged while sniffing the air coming
in through the mouth of the alley, "could already use magic, had a
large store of your own that could be maintained even once you were
transformed, and had the temperament to be a fine Hell Maid."
"Okay." Turning to try and catch what she was sniffing at so
appreciatively, I caught a sweetish, salty tang in the breeze that
caused my stomach, or the equivalent of that which I now possessed
to grumble with hunger pangs. "I'm a fighter type who can also
use magic...what is that, uh...wonderful aroma?"
"Ambrosia," my companion sighed happily, then tilted her head and
winked at me. "For us, anyway. What you're smelling is the scent
of Human males blundering about and just waiting for beings like
us to have a snack off their masculine energy."
"I think I'm in the mood for more than a snack." My retort seemed
a little too eager to my intellect, but my sexual nature found it
a bit reticent. I was starved. Almost literally. I knew
instinctively that I badly needed to replenish my energy to
replace what I had been losing in my training exercises with Syl.
"I think a full fledged buffet is more to my liking."
"It's out there," she said, waving toward the dim light spilling
into our alley with a note of invitation in her voice. "Why don't
we go feed ourselves, dear?"
I didn't require any more urging. With a nod that still seemed
far too eager, considering some of my sensibilities as a Human,
I motioned for my smaller companion to lead the way, while
licking my full lips in anticipation of quelling the gnawing
hunger I felt.
I won't dwell on the details of that first feeding. I was
sloppy, mostly because I was famished for the kind of energy
upon which Succubae thrived. All I will say is that I latched
onto my first victim with such a single minded intent that I
hadn't realized what was happening to the poor guy until Lorilei
found us and interrupted me with a not so light tap to the
shoulder.
"Huh?" I responded, with a great deal more intelligence than I
thought myself capable of at that moment. "I'm not done yet,
Lor."
"I think you are, sweetie," she giggled, and pointed to where
my first real meal as a Succubus was twitching in his induced
sleep. Or rather, her induced sleep. "You've siphoned off
all that one's masculinity and maleness. Shame, shame."
"Uh oh." I felt a pang of regret while looking down at the
beautiful young woman who had been a very virile and physically
powerful man not an hour earlier. "Did I do that?"
"Yep," Lorilei nodded with a sigh. "You drained every bit
of the food you wanted, but that didn't leave anything for
him...