Akko holds open the door for Thai, exaggeratedly gesturing for the crocobold to get inside the small movie theater. He makes a tiny bow aimed towards Akko in appreciation, before making his way inside. Once he’s in, Akko closes the door and walks back up to the crocobold, wrapping his arm around Thai’s shoulders and giving him a soft kiss on the cheeks.

‘So, you excited for our date, cutie?’ Akko asks, looking around through the mostly empty theater halls.

‘Absolutely!’ the crocobold responds. ‘So what movie are we gonna watch? I haven’t kept up with any new releases.’

‘That’s a secret, you silly goober!’ Akko says, an almost-innocent grin forming on the kobold’s face. It’s been a while since they had the time to go on a physical date together, and Akko’s been planning this one for quite a while now. ‘You want some popcorn, cutie?’

Thai excitedly looks over at Akko, his long, spiky tail dragging heavily over the red carpeted floor.

‘Ah!! Can I?’ The crocobold immediately darts over to the bar, closely followed by Akko, where the two are immediately greeted by a colourful bat wearing a boring, dark blue uniform with the cinema icon embroidered on the chest.

‘Hi! I’m Fable, how can I help you two guys today?’

The two take a look at the mildly overpriced menu items, before settling on a big mixed bucket of sweet and salt popcorn, topped by peanut M&M’s, alongside two large colas that will likely be finished before the movie even begins.

‘What movie are you two gonna watch if I might ask?’

‘I don’t know! It’s a secret, apparently!’ Thai says, leaning over the bar, to grab the bucket. Meanwhile, Akko flashes the ticket for Fable with a naughty wink.

‘Ah, I see! Well, you two have fun!’ Fable says, returning the wink to Akko.

With their confectionaries in hand, the two slowly make their way towards the auditorium marked on the tickets in Akko’s paws. It’s the big door with the number ‘1’ marked on it, which can’t be missed, since it’s the first door that they see. Akko once again holds the doors open for his boyfriend. Thai walks inside, seeing that all of the seats are empty.

‘Damn, we’ve got the luxury of choice, cutie! Where do you wanna sit?’ Thai asks.

‘Hmm… I’m not too big on front row seats… Wanna sit right in the middle?’ Akko responds, pointing at the row right in front of them.

‘Let’s do it!’ Thai says, carefully shimmying through the narrow aisle, until he’s roughly half way, after which he plants himself down into the soft cushioned chairs, his tail slipping right through the convenient hole in the back of the chair. He leans backwards, throwing one leg over the other, patting his free handpaw on the seat next to him while he places the popcorn on the empty seat on the other side. ‘Come have a seat, cutie!’

Akko moves over towards the aisle, until he facepalms.

‘Ah! I forgot to collect the glasses! Those are very important if we want to experience the movie the way it was intended…’ the kobold says, handing the two drinks over to Thai. ‘Let me go get those real quick, I’ll be right back!’

Thai chuckles. ‘They better not start this movie without you.’

‘I hope not,’ Akko replies with a wink.

The kobold turns around, barely able to hide his giddy smile from his boyfriend. He leaves the auditorium again, sprinting to the desk. There, sitting behind a laptop, is a green-scaled dragon with red horns. They smile when they see Akko running at them.

‘Hey Ayres! Has everything I’d requested been prepared?’ Akko asks.

‘Ah, Akko. I assume you’ve come to pick up the 3D glasses?’, Ayres says, before reaching down into a basket and taking out a single pair.

‘Yes! Indeed. And indeed I’ll only be needing the one,’ Akko replies with a wink, revealing his own pair that he’d been hiding in his tail. He holds the two glasses in his paw, showing the difference between then - the glasses that he brought himself being significantly darker in tint than the ones that Ayres handed to him.

‘I see… Well, have fun, you two,’ the dragon says with a knowing grin.

With the two glasses, Akko quickly returns to the auditorium, and as he enters the lights dim as the commercials begin to roll. The seats—besides the ones that Thai and the bucket of popcorn are occupying—are still fully empty, and the door closes automatically behind Akko as he shuffles through the aisle and sits down next to the crocobold.

‘Guess it’s gonna just be the two of us, cutie!’ Thai says excitedly as he lays his head on Akko’s shoulder, who instinctively gives the crocobold gentle chin scritches.

‘Indeed… But now we can just enjoy the movie in privacy,’ Akko replies. He puts on the first pair of glasses on his snout, immediately noticing that he can still see everything quite clearly—too clearly—and passes it onto Thai. ‘Here you go, cutie! Here’s your glasses,’ the kobold says as he puts the second pair on. This time, it almost entirely obscures his vision. Perfect.

‘Thank you, honey!’ Thai excitedly puts the glasses on his own snout as well, and takes a sip of his soda.

Finally, the commercials fade to black and the lights in the cinema are turned off fully. Akko cuddles up to Thai, looking at the crocobold sitting in the red chair next to him, and reaches down into the big bucket of popcorn, scooping up a handful and stuffing it in his mouth in one go. The screen remains black for a while, and a soft, low hum starts playing over the speakers.

‘That’s weird, don’t they usually show trailers before the movie?’ Thai asks, leaning forwards in his chair.

Then, starting out as the tiniest speck in the middle of the screen, but rapidly expanding outwards and enveloping the entire screen, a massive swirling spiral appears. It pulses and sways rhythmically, almost as if in timing with the droning hum produced by the speakers in the auditorium.

‘Woah, th… that…’ Thai stutters, caught off guard by the sudden hypnotic visual. Reflexively, the crocobold pulls his eyes away in an attempt to look away from the screen. However, Akko immediately puts his paw underneath the crocobold’s chin, and redirects his snout towards the screen.

‘Ah-ah-ah, no looking away… the movie has just begun, cutie,’ Akko says, ensuring that Thai’s gaze is centered firmly into the spiral.

The kobold’s darkened glasses help obscure the lighter parts of the spiral, whereas Thai’s generic 3d-glasses from the cinema ensure that he receives the full blast from the swirling vortex on the screen. It continues to pulse inwards, drawing his focus closer and closer to the center. It slowly begins to tug away at his thoughts, because the colours are just so… pretty. So enticing to look at.

‘That’s it, there you go. It’s so much easier to stare and relax, isn’t it?’ Akko says, his words only amplified by the constant, powerful hum emanating from the speakers, and the swirling spiral on the big screen.

‘Y… yeah… easy…,’ Thai responds, his voice already starting to get softer and quiet as his body begins to relax. Akko guides the crocobold back into the seat, making sure that he’s leaning backwards rather than sinking down. After all, it would be unfortunate if the crocobold was slumped forward so far that his eyes drifted away from the screen.

‘Good boy. Just stare nice and deep into the spiral for me,’ Akko says. ‘It feels so nice to let those silly thoughts just fizzle out… It feels so good to just focus on my words and the swirling colors, your mind blanking out as you’re completely enthralled by my voice…’ the kobold continues, his free paw rubbing the crocobold’s shoulder.

Thai’s eyelids continue to grow heavier and heavier as he can’t help but stare into the spiral. His blinking is getting slower and out of sync, and his maw hangs open from sheer relaxation, causing a single droplet of drool to form and dribble down into the bucket of popcorn. The crocobold’s thoughts get fuzzier and fuzzier while Akko whispers quietly into his ear, beckoning him to sink further and deeper into his control.

‘Now… Just continue to sink further and further down as you stare deeper and deeper into the spiral for me…,’ Akko continues, holding Thai’s chin to keep his head from sinking to his chest. Obediently, the crocobold keeps his eyes open—albeit barely—and begins to notice words flashing on the screen as the spiral continues to draw his mind deeper into blissful emptiness. Words like [i]Obey[/i], [i]Sink[/i], [i]Pleasure[/i], and [i]Drop[/i] appear for a fraction of a second, and just when he’s done registering it, the word has already faded. The words seem to carry such an intense weight of truth to them, that through the foggy daze, the most logical thing to do would be to say them out loud. So, following that instinct, Thai begins to quietly mumble the words out loud.

‘Obey…’

‘Good boy. You’re nice and deep into that trance. You love to obey.’

‘Sink…’

‘Good. Sinking deeper and deeper with every swirl, with every breath.’

‘Pleasure…!’

Thai whimpers softly as he repeats that word, feeling a ripple of warmth and comfort rolling down his spine, starting at the very top of his head and shooting down into the very tip of his tail. With the wave, the crocobold feels himself getting more and more comfortable as the last bits of stress and tension fizzle out of his mind and body.

‘Drop…’

‘Good boy. Dropping nice and deep for me now,’ Akko says, snapping his finger and starting the cycle anew.

‘O… bey…’

The words get harder to repeat as Thai’s mind crumbles apart with every flash. The spiral has dragged his very being into a haze of pleasure and bliss, and Akko’s constant guiding words alongside the droning binaural beats emanating from the speakers have his mind swirling in a constant loop of raw ecstasy.

‘Now, as you continue to drift in this wonderful blank bliss of trance, it’ll feel even better to obey my words. You’ll feel a deep craving to make me feel pleasure. To obey my commands. You want to make me feel good too,’ Akko commands, spreading his legs to give the crocobold easy access to his growing member.

Thai, of course, can’t help but obey. Akko is telling the truth, he [i]does[/i] want to make the kobold feel good. Pleasure. He [i]does[/i] want to obey his commands… and if the spiral is making Thai feel this good, surely, it’ll have the same effect on Akko…? The crocobold takes a second to let the command sink into his subconsciousness, and then, when Akko lets go of his chin so that he can focus on his new command, he looks at Akko and sees what’s keeping the kobold from feeling the same pleasure as he does. For whatever reason, Akko’s glasses are darker than his, making it so that the spiral isn’t as effective. So, obediently, Thai nods.

‘Yes… I obey… I will make you feel good…,’ Thai says, and without hesitation he reaches for the kobold’s glasses and swiftly takes them off.

‘W-wait a second…’ Akko says, realizing far too late what’s happened, but Thai is obedient. Thai knows what to do, Thai has to make Akko feel pleasure. Thai has to make Akko feel good. And the spiral makes Thai feel good. The crocobold immediately grabs Akko’s chin in the same way the kobold had done to him, and forces him to look into the spiral.

Akko is instantly caught of guard by the swirling. With the glasses no longer protecting him, the hypnotic visual immediately begins to tug at his mind. The kobold’s thoughts are pushed to the back of his mind, and the subliminal messaging on the screen begins to affect the kobold in the same way as it did with Thai.

‘O… obey…,’ Akko mutters, his arms sinking to his sides.

‘Obey…,’ Thai repeats, keeping the kobold’s gaze directed at the screen.

‘Sink…’

‘Sink…’

‘Pleasure…,’ Akko says, suppressing a quiet moan.

‘Pleasure,’ Thai obediently repeats, Akko’s command still echoing through his empty mind.

‘Drop…’

‘Drop.’

Akko’s body slumps backwards into his chair as his eyes roll upwards at the command of Thai, dropping deeply into the hypnotic spell. Meanwhile, Thai’s primary directive is still to make Akko feel good. And with the kobold’s legs still spread wide open, and with his throbbing cock practically begging for attention, there’s a very obvious path forward.

