The Erotic Mind-Control Story Archive

“So, we just all hold onto this thing and channel as much of our power through it as we can and aim it at the door?” I would still be laughing at the improbability of having unknowingly brought with me one of the very few ways out of this little room, but now we need to get started on that whole escape type thing. Then we can see about bringing down a centuries old witch. I love doing things like this. “I know you said that magic is directed thought and energy and all of that, but I still imagine there’s something to be said for knowing how the hell it all works.”

Lida nods, taking the Eye of Athena from me to examine more closely. “You bet, my dear little Lucia. This Eye isn’t even your run of the mill magical amplifier. Look.” Silver runs along her fingertips and melts into the Eye, and for just a moment it shines brightly enough to make the whole room flash. “With both of you using your new light on the Eye, the door’s enchantment should almost be simple to break.”

Sarah grins and laces her fingers together before snapping nearly all of her knuckles at once. “Then what’re we waiting for? She’s out there with Olivia, Valerie, and everyone else.”

“Yeah, but going out there sparks blazing isn’t going to help anyone.” I pull my gloves taut against my fingers before flashing a smile. “We need a plan. After we get out of here, Lida, do you know anything about how this ritual to merge her realm somehow with the moon is going to work? Would she be here, or back in the shrine – or even in Midas?”

Some day, I’m going to take down someone seemingly all-powerful with a flurry of sparks and it is going to be one of the happiest days of my life. If Yanta and Yanuka can stop my sparks then I can only imagine what Red could do to them.

Lida makes a soft, thoughtful sound as she twists the Eye around in her hand as if to test the weight. I’m finally going to ask her the thousands of questions I’ve had about my powers and our family once this is over. Knowing that I can channel them into more uses is definitely helpful, and I’ll never have to worry about a quick costume change again. That alone is something to be very thankful for. I’ve never been partial to telephone booths.

That sort of thing is a lot different when you’re a woman without super speed like myself.

“Most likely she’s back in the shrine, but once we’re out I could determine that easily enough. This realm isn’t so much like the one I was born in – for a lot of reasons, enough that I could quite easily fill a book with – but simply put, this is Red’s place of power. We can travel to and from here quite easily enough, but her power is tethered here. Even in the shrine her powers were only as strong as they were due to it being the anchoring point, and she would only be able to stay there for so long cut off from what has become a very deep part of her.

“The ritual would require also creating a focal point somewhere in Midas due to the cosmic alignment . . . but she would first need to establish a strong enough connection between here and the shrine before this third anchoring point could be achieved. We haven’t been in here too long . . . My guess is that she’s back in the shrine weaving this connection. The bad news is this will make her a little harder to deal with. The good news is that due to the nature of the magic no matter where she is the entranceway will have a portal open. Sorry, that is a lot, but you wanted to know everything, I assume . . . I could always go into the history of such unions, but I don’t think you want that much.” Lida grins as Sarah and I shake our heads.

It’s nice to have her back in better spirits. Not telling us why she knows as much as she does about the Nesatealia was still a bad move, at least we know she had a good reason. She probably didn’t even realize her own reluctance with how emotional that story was.

I’m sure I leave out details about Chronos every time I tell the story.

“I guess that really covers everything. You can lead us back to those stairs and from there we make our way to Red. Before we leave there’s just one thing I want to test. Red isn’t going to be affected by our silver. Light bearers or not, it’s still the same energy. We’ll need to use our new light . . .” Closing my eyes, I look inside of myself and wrap all of my focus around that shining beacon of self control.

Fear is lingering at the edges of my mind, but I try to ignore it. Before a confrontation, all of the “What Ifs” buzz like an angry swarm of wasps. Red isn’t The Domina. Red isn’t Quillspawn. This won’t go as smoothly as the best case scenario I’m clinging to with all of my sanity. There’s a chance I won’t ever be able to form a coherent thought again even if I get out of this alive. Yanta’s retaliation as I smashed the cognizance out of her was quite unpleasant, and she wasn’t Red. My mind might break just as Yanta’s did if Red tries to fray it apart. I’m ready for that. If that’s what’s going to happen, I’m going to go out fighting with every last ounce of my mental strength.

Channeling the light over my body feels a lot different than making my body ignite with sparks. It feels like how Olivia always makes it sound when she turns gold. My body slowly feels warmer as the clarity spreads out from my scalp, down along my neck, and delicately slides along every curve. It feels nicer too, like bathing myself in focus and serenity. Fluttering my eyes open, I hold up my hand to look at the light. In my mind it felt like a shimmering white, but seeing it now it looks almost platinum.

“Wow Lucia . . . Just looking at you glowing like that makes me feel a little fuzzy . . . It’s a nice feeling, but a little intense.” Sarah’s eyes look a little glassy as they gaze into mine, and with a grin I bat my lashes as cutely as I can. “Okay, that . . . seriously, you don’t know how strong it . . . It’s like . . . bathing in starlight, only a loving tender starlight that knows your name and wants to wash all of your worries away . . .”

Okay, this, I did not see happening. Apparently focusing my light outward doesn’t exactly have the stabilizing effect that it has focused inward. Sarah looks spellbound, her irises seeming to slowly melt into a singe shade as her lips twitch and faintly part. Her body faintly sways as she quivers with a sharp intake of breath.

Red’s aura . . . she must be tapping into a power like this! If at the center of her power is lust, craving, and desire, focusing that outward would draw others to her like a magnet and scramble their brains like an old floppy disk. If my inner light feels like that, I guess it says something positive about my personality. Being a soothing ray of light makes me feel so warm inside, and the light shines a little brighter.

Lida gently mewls, and when I look to her eyes her pupils are lightly shining. This is definitely rather potent. “It’s like . . . I can feel it . . . inside of me, shining into my eyes and wrapping around inside . . . It’s . . . really nice . . . I’d love to feel more of it, to be melted by it . . . feel my thoughts blinded by it . . .”

“No, no, none of that you two . . . I’m going to need you two to focus, please?” They both sigh, nodding almost in unison. “Uhm . . . no. That’s not quite what I meant . . . Let’s try this.”

Before, when I focused my light into Yana, I could control its nature and its direction. Maybe if I change the light, make it shine in that same way it shone inside of my head when I was fighting off The Lady’s Tanda programming, it’ll have a different effect. My mind doesn’t need to be shone back into place now, but I focus on my light as if I did while still pulling it around my body. Hopefully they won’t just fall and make puddles on the floor. Yummy as they both are, I’m much more concerned with getting out of here than with getting it on.

Their eyes start to flutter, but luckily for me they straighten up instead of tumbling down. Sarah blinks her eyes as if she’s waking up and raises a softly shining eyebrow. “If I didn’t know any better, I would say you did that on purpose . . .”

“I would think knowing me as well as you do would only raise your suspicions – not put them to rest.” Glowing like this doesn’t take as much focus as keeping my body sparked. I know that this much won’t stop Red. She’s had centuries to perfect her magic. If this can get me closer to having an edge, I’ll consider it a goddess send.

“No, that’s why I know you’re thinking about it. Nice little trick. Whatever you did just now snapped me right out of the fuzz. Either that’s because it was what fuzzed me in the first place, or our light can help people’s minds clear without being shoved into their skulls.” Sarah grins and nods in the most satisfied way imaginable. I think we’re all in much better spirits than we were a good five minutes ago. “Nifty. Now, why don’t you use your dimmer switch and help us bust the hell out of here, eh?”

Is it wrong to be delighted in the behavior of a woman who is essentially you because you know that what’s cool about her has to translate over to you in at least some small way? I don’t think it’s wrong, but worrying about such things is sort of like worrying about being sane or insane because you know that if you worry about being insane it means that you aren’t.

Nodding, I hold out my hand and press a fingertip into the metal disk before closing my eyes to turn off my glow. It almost feels sad to make the light retract, but this would be a bad time to find out if these powers have use limits.

“I’m ready when you are, Sarah. Let’s break this door down.” The first sight I see when I open my eyes is her finger pressing to the Eye. The second is Sarah’s hopeful smile.

Lida takes a deep breath, looking between us before looking at the door. “Give it everything you’ve got, I’ll direct the energies at the magic sealing the door. We’ll know if this will work very shortly, though I don’t see why it wouldn’t. If she hadn’t liked to throw women in here to be reprogrammed to her specifications, she would have been smart and set up a null magic field. Sigh. Her loss, our gain, huh, my gorgeous daughters? So come on, put your subconscious into it!

With identical laughs, Sarah and I start to flood the Eye with our light. Lida’s eyes close as she starts to very softly mutter under her breath. I guess if I tried harder I could get to the point where I wouldn’t need to do that, but magic isn’t really my thing.

The pupil of the Eye starts to glow, but I try to focus more on powering the spell. All of my hope, my will, my desire, has to be focused on this. It’s what I need more than anything.

“Now!” Lida’s voice is a sharp cry as a beam of pure light fires from the Eye like a double helix twirling around itself. The door doesn’t react at first, but it’s not the door we need to worry about, it’s the spell keeping it shut. I can feel my energy twined with Sarah and Lida’s, and I can feel the resistance against it. I push harder, and it feels so much like when I was slamming into the door, but this is working a lot better.

While the door felt like cold, hard gold, its spell feels a lot more like plywood. If all we had was maybe a single shot, we’d probably be stuck in here forever. As it is, the spell is starting to splinter. I can feel the cracks spreading in and out as its strength melts away.

Visibly, it’s not an impressive sight; with my seventh sense, it’s beautiful. The only way to describe it is a thousand fractals all slowly shattering into smaller, simpler designs as their light is slowly sucked away. The spell was so beautiful when it was solid, but that doesn’t make me feel the slightest bit sorry for tearing it down. A loud popping sound fills the room as the door shines a bright silver for just a moment before creaking open. I never thought I could be so happy to see a door open. That’s what they’re supposed to do, after all.

I start to pull my light back from the Eye, and Sarah does the same. Lida’s eyes flutter open, and her pupils flash as brightly as the Eye’s. “Wow. The two of you are . . . a lot stronger than you give yourselves credit for. You might have been able to break the door open without the Eye. Now’s not the time for ego boosts though. We need to get the hell out of here.” “Lead the way, Mom.” Sarah’s smile looks as sweet as her voice sounded. It makes Lida smile even more. I can’t wait for the day when Aurora will say something like that to me. Hell, the first time she smiles up at me and says “I love my mommy” will be the happiest moment ever.

“Sure thing, kiddo. It’s not that bad of a walk. Try to keep up!” Rejuvenated by success and her daughters’ love, Lida springs forward and pries the door open. We follow her out of the room and down the boring hallways. They’re wide and lavish, but no detail about them matters except their relation to our goal. At least Red can’t exactly hide from us while she’s casting her spell.

If she’d had any equals challenging her constantly through the ages, I don’t think we would stand a chance. No one she’s had to deal with has presented her with a single problem. She’s had failures, but not like I have. I wouldn’t be half the woman I am today if I hadn’t failed to resist Dust in that elevator, or Yanta in that diner. Every stupid move I made helped make me that much stronger after. Even losing Lida didn’t really hurt Red. I’m sure she took others after, and was only temporarily embarrassed if anything.

Thinking like this doesn’t make me feel any better for all of the times I screwed up, not really, but it makes me feel better about this moment. Everything comes down to now. Whenever now is, every moment before has and will lead to now.

I have to hope it’s enough.

A lifetime of hurried walking later, we empty back into the foyer. At the base of the stairs is a red tear in space. That’s what it looks like, anyway. Rippling and flashing with that eerie red light, that’s the only description coming to my mind.

I pull the aura of light back over my body carefully, focusing on making it the same piercing light that’s gotten me out of too many tight squeezes. When neither Sarah nor Lida collapses helplessly to her knees, I figure that I’ve managed fairly well. “Sarah, you might want to give this a try too. It might not block out all of her aura, but it’s worth a shot.” “Yeah . . . Sure thing.” Sarah smiles nervously before closing her eyes and seeming to focus quite intently. It might take her a moment to get the hang of it, but it won’t be too hard.

“Lida . . . You can stay here and wait for this to be over. There’s probably not a lot that you’ll be able to do, and I know how absolutely unfun that feeling gets after awhile.” She won’t listen to me. I know that she won’t. Offering might even be insulting, but it doesn’t feel right to force her to step through and confront Red.

Sure enough, Lida smiles and slowly shakes her head. “Sorry, Lucia. With the Eye in hand I’ll at least be able to stop Quillspawn from interfering too badly. Besides, I might have gotten decent at teleportation, but I’m still not that good. Going from here back to the shrine once the portal closes, which it will after you defeat her, wouldn’t be all that easy or if it’s even possible. I want to be there to see my little girl . . . my little girls . . . stop the Nesatealia once and for all.”

I nod, and I think she can see the understanding in my eyes because hers light up more brightly. Speaking of brighter, Sarah gets a lot brighter too. For just a moment I feel fuzzy looking at her, but that evens out rather quickly.

The portal beckons. Everything before now feels like it was to prepare me for this. So many places along the way I could have faltered and given up on this lifestyle of saving the world, but I didn’t and I’ve never been happier for it. Maybe being a heroine was something built into my blood. I’d like to think it was a choice I made on my own, but it is a little fun at the same time to imagine this being my purpose. With sense in my head, I don’t believe in fate.

“You’re right, it’s not too bad and it feels pretty damned nice. Just have to be careful not to make it a rather piercingly melting light . . .” Sarah opens her eyes with a grin and nods, motioning toward the portal. “Let’s go.”

I nod, and the three of us approach the portal together. For better or worse, this is the end of the line. Hopefully we can all spend the rest of the night staring up at a silver moon when this is over.