*KNOCK KNOCK*
“Come in, darling! The door's unlocked.”
Twilight pushed open the front door of Rarity's Boutique. The shop was closed for the day, but it seemed like Rarity always found something to do on the shop floor. Twilight entered and shut the door behind her.
“I'm in the back!” Rarity called from down a hallway.
Twilight trotted briskly, following the voice deep into the building. She was looking for an open door when Twilight suddenly tripped and fell face-first onto the ground. Looking back, she saw that she tripped on a thick, white, scaly tail.
“Whoops, at least I found you.” Twilight stood up and followed the tail as it pulled itself into a nearby room. Inside, she found herself gazing on the new monstrous form of her friend. Recently, a shady salespony came into town and persuaded Rarity into buying a bottle of snake oil. He promised that it would make her skin silky and smooth, which, Twilight though to herself, it most certainly did. When Rarity tried it out, she found out that it was a nasty cursing agent and turned her entire lower body into that of a huge snake. The spell would turn out to be simple to break, but it would be a week until the cure was ready. Until then, Rarity just had to cope.
However, it didn't seem like that big of a disability. Despite her huge size, Rarity learned how to slither pretty quickly and was able to get to where she needed to be. Not to mention, her new form was visually gorgeous. Rarity's scales where a shiny alabaster, with a sky-blue diamond pattern resembling her cutie mark. Twilight couldn't help but stare at the patterns created by the sheen of the room's lamp scattering off her scales as Rarity did some last minute sorting.
“Why good evening Twilight. How are you?” Rarity's voice broke Twilight’s trance.
“Oh, I'm fine,” replied the purple pony. “Just wanted to come over and check on you, see how you're holding up.”
“All is well. I'm actually beginning to like it. It's refreshingly different, though designing dresses for it is a bit of a nightmare. I'm thinking of something that accents the contours, but it's tough to take into account the fact that the belly drags on the ground. Maybe if I base it on a high-cut saddle...” her voice trailed off in thought.
“Uh, okay. That's actually pretty good, because I also needed to tell you that Zecora couldn't find any ripe scaleberries. It'll be a few more days until the ones she found mature enough for the cure.”
“That's perfectly fine. I don't have any big events I have to go to for a while, and, in fact, I might not change back immediately.”
Rarity's response shocked Twilight. “What do you mean? Isn't your condition a bit of a hassle?”
Rarity shrugged. “Well, it IS a bit awkward sometimes, but I think I'm getting used to it. Besides, It just feels absolutely heavenly when I lie down and just stretch.” Rarity said as she lowered herself to the ground and unraveled her coils, fully extending herself across the entire room. “Besides, I do get a lot of onlookers and I must admit that I adore the attention. I'm surprised you aren't more curious yourself, Twilight. You're one of those science-types, aren't you?”
Twilight a taken aback. “Well, I am, but I don't want to violate your personal space.”
Rarity chuckled. “Oh, it's no problem at all, dearie. I completely understand. After all, it's not everyday that your friend gets cursed.” Rarity curled her snake-body towards Twilight. “You can touch it if you want. It's surprisingly smooth.”
Twilight gulped. She was a little nervous about invading her friend's personal space, but was also extremely fascinated with it. After all, how could she call herself a scientist if she backed out from acquiring new knowledge.
She timidly approached Rarity. Her lower body was massive; it had to be two feet thick before it tapered off into the tail. Slowly, Twilight raised a hoof and gently placed it on the tube of flesh before her. Rarity was right, her scales were very smooth and dry, much like Spike's. However, what Spike didn't have was a thick track of muscle laying underneath, soft enough to press down under the hoof yet firm enough to still maintain the cylindrical shape.
“Wow Rarity, you are right, it is kind of cool.” Twilight said as she poked and prodded.
Rarity giggled, “Ha ha, that tickles!” Her snake body undulated uncontrollably, almost knocking Twilight off her feet. “Sorry about that. The muscle is sensitive.”
“It's no problem., Rarity. I shouldn't have got carried away. I'm just usually afraid of snakes, so this is probably the only time I'm ever going to handle one.”
“Hey, do you trust me?”
“Uhhh, yeah. Why?”
“Well, remember that book I checked out on lamia ponies a couple of days ago?”
“The one by Standard Brass the Explorer? Yeah. You've been reading it?”
“Yes, and I found a passage where he writes that the lamias he found could enchant other ponies.”
Twilight was curious. “Enchant? But I've never seen a picture of a lamia with a horn or wings. I just assumed they didn't have magic.”
“Not magic enchant, you know, mesmerize, enthrall...run of the mill hypnotism.”
Twilight laughed. “Hypnotism is a load of rubbish. There's no way swaying a pocketwatch in front of my face is going to make me a mindless slave.”
“No Twilight, theirs was apparently something different. They did something with their eyes, sort of like a spell. I was just wondering if I could do it. I would have just tried it myself, but I realized practicing hypnosis in a mirror might not be the best idea.”
Twilight shift her haunches. Those entries in the book were almost certainly exaggerations of some sort of cultural practice or something. Still, the thought of being put into a real trance both scared and excited her. She was a bit cautious about willingly turning her mind into mush, but it would definitely be something new. It might be the the only chance in her life to experience this. She took a deep a breath and resolved to go through it it. For science!
“Well, I guess we could try it. Don't know if it'll work though.”
“Oh splendid!” Rarity squealed with delight. She shifted her body to move a particularly thick segment next to Twilight. “Why don't you take a seat and then let's begin.”
Twilight walked over to the little seat of coil Rarity had prepared and sat her butt on it. “And this doesn't hurt?”
Rarity quickly moved herself right in front of Twilight's face, causing her to jump a bit. “Not at all, dear. It's very tough. Comfy?”
Twilight shifted a little on the fleshy log. “Yeah. It's actually like a nice pillow.”
“Alright, then let's try this.”
Rarity stared intensely into Twilight's eyes. She furrowed her brow never once breaking eye contact. After a minute, Rarity raised a hoof and spoke with a dramatic voice. “Yooou are getting veeeeeeery sleeeepyyyy....”
Twilight just looked quizzically as Rarity continued.
“Your eyelids are getting heeeeeavyyyyy...” she continued, waving her hooves all over the place in some sort of bizarre gesture.
“Uhh, Rarity, I don't think this is working...”
“It isn't? Hold on, let me try something different.”
Rarity closed her eyes and rubbed her temples. “Alright Rarity,” she thought to herself, “Just concentrate and focus. Reach for the inner serpent...” She breathed deeply one last time to clear her mind, then Rarity opened her eyes.
Immediately Twilight was bombarded with waves and waves of beautiful color. It was like a fountain of circles flowed freely from Rarity's pupils. Twilight's jaw dropped at the amazing display.
“Whoa, Rarity, something's happening...” her voice trailed off as the colors continued to draw her in.
Rarity's eyes widened. “Oh, really!?” Her surprise disrupted the flow.
As the colors stopped, something in Twilight's mind felt cold and empty. In the brief moment she had looked, her mind was filled with warm, calm feelings, like laying in bed after a long day. Now she just felt cold and stressed, like if a headache was quickly coming. Whatever that spell was, she wanted more. She NEEDED more.
“Rarity, don't stop, please.”
Rarity was taken aback, but she wanted to continue too. “Well, I suppose.” She closed her eyes, refocused, and began the spirals again.
Twilight felt the calming colors wash over her once more. She stretched her neck to get closer to Rarity's face. She wanted to fill up as much of her vision as possible.
Rarity decided to try her act once more. “You are getting veeery sleeeeeepy...”
Twilight's eyes immediately dropped as her whole body felt heavy and sluggish. She was sorely tempted to collapse right then and there, but closing her eyes would mean that she'd once again be deprived of those beautiful colors.
Rarity saw how much Twilight reacted to her first command. The entry in the book was true, she had been the one to teach something new to Twilight tonight, not the other way around. A smile crept across her face as Rarity's confidence rose. Instinctively, she curled the part of her body Twilight was sitting on around the hapless unicorn's midsection, forming a single snug-but-not-tight loop.
Out of the corner of her eyes, Twilight saw Rarity smiling. Good, if Rarity was happy, Twilight was happy. If Rarity was happy, she might let her look more at the colors. Twilight barely even felt Rarity beginning to coil around her, and what she did register was just being encased in something soft and comfortable.
Rarity began to sway back and forth, watching Twilight turn her head to constantly maintain eye contact. She felt a little bad for utterly dominating her friend like this, but also felt a sick sense of glee of how much Twilight was becoming her plaything.
“You like this, don't you? My eyes are so pretty, aren't they?”
The question caused Twilight to try to formulate a response, but the colors were making it hard to think. “Like this...so pretty...” was all she could muster.
Rarity chuckled and raised herself so that she was looking down on poor little Twilight, causing the purple unicorn to lift her front half up to keep staring. As she did, Rarity continued to curl around Twilight, adding a second full loop around her chest.
“Are my coils comfortable, dear?” Rarity asked with a devilish smile on her face.
“....comfortable...Rarity....” At this point Twilight was beginning to slur her speech as her mind dulled considerably.
“Tonight, why don't you call me mistress, hmm?”
“...yes...mistress...”
Twilight could barely register what she was saying. Her mind was filled with images of the beautiful spirals. Thinking was hard. Mistress could do the thinking for her, and they'd both be happy. Feeling warm and immobile in Rarity's serpentine grip didn't help her focus, either.
“Relax, just relax and obey,” Rarity said as she curled yet another loop around Twillight, completely trapping her front legs and pressing up against her base of her neck. Rarity even wiped off a bit of drool that began to drip from the corner of her open mouth.
Twilight was almost totally gone. The prolonged bombardment of colors, combined with the wonderful sensation of being wrapped snug in smooth, silky scales, had turned her mind to mush. All she could do was stare at Rarity's beautiful eyes and listen to her words.
“Poor little Twilight, you look like a little bunny rabbit in the grasp of some big bad snake,” Rarity taunted.
Twilight just continued her vacant stare.
“Let's play a little game. You said you trusted me, right?”
“...Trust...you...”
Rarity smiled and, slowly began to tighten her grip. She took her time, but she could hear Twilight's breathes getting more shallow, with little moans as air was forced from Twilight's chest. Twilight herself could feel much, but that didn't matter much in her current state. Mistress said she could be trusted, so anything Twilight was feeling had to be good, right?
Rarity continued cinching her muscles, morbidly curious to how far she could go before the trance would be broken, if at all. As her body pressed into Twilight, she noticed just how bony the purple unicorn was. Rarity could feel the outline of individual bones and ribs as she continued to constrict. “Not much meat on her, then again she's so involved with her books and experiments that she probably forgets to eat half the time.”
By this point, Twilight's breathing seemed to be short and strained; her tongue rolled out from the force of exhaling so much. Rarity was actually concerned when Twilight's eyes began to flutter and relaxed her muscles. Immediately, Twilight inhaled deeply, her subconscious mind determined to suck up that delicious oxygen if her conscious mind was out of commission.
Rarity was a little bit shaken. The hypnosis was so powerful that she probably could have crushed her friend without her so much as making a peep. She closed her eyes and shook her head, letting her focus dissolve and her eyes return to normal. Rarity was going to unwrap and break Twilight out of trance, but she kind of liked how warm Twilight was in her coils. She swore her lower half had to be col-blooded with how freezing she had been at night lately, and the thought of having a personal heater was too tempting.
Rarity turned to still hypnotized Twilight. “Listen, Twilight. On the count of 3, Mistress commands you to sleep deeply. When you wake up in the morning, you're be out of trance and only remember the hypnosis being pleasant and a fun new experience.”
“Alright, three...two...one.” Rarity gave Twilight a gentle tap on the forehead and she was out like a light. Rarity took a moment to admire how serene Twilight looked in her brilliant white coils. As she dragged Twilight to the bedroom, Rarity just hoped she didn't make her fear of snakes even worse.
Twilight groaned, emerging from a dark and dreamless sleep. She tried to stretch, but for some reason her arms wouldn't budge. Opening her eyes, she was surprised to find herself wrapped up by her still-snoozing friend. The coils were loose though, and Twilight slowly inched her way out of them before giving Rarity a bop on the nose.
“Hey Rarity, wake up.”
Rarity's eyes shot open as she sat up. “Oh, Twilight! Did you sleep well?”
“Yeah, I'm actually feeling really refreshed right now.”
“That's...good”
“So, about last night...”
Rarity scrunched as nervousness overcame her. How much did Twilight remember? Did she go a bit overboard? Would Twilight not want to be her friend anymore?
“It was a surprisingly cool experience.”
Rarity breathed a sigh of relief. She was glad Twilight didn't remember the squeezing, or if she did, she didn't mind.
“I guess hypnosis isn't just a parlor trick. It was a little scary at first, but then I was just lost in a sea of bliss. It was so relaxing to just let go and just ride it to the end.”
“Well, I'm glad you liked it, dear. You did look a little silly. Shall I go make us something for breakfast?”
“Okay, but Rarity...”
“Yes, Twilight?”
“Not tonight, but maybe we can do this again some other time? It was fun, and maybe you can show the rest of our friends it, too”
