The window was open, of course. She left it open every night now, in the hope that her mistress would visit. If she closed it…no, the window was always open now. A figure appeared outside. Could it be her? A form, female, floated into the room. A voice she loved to hear now. “Well precious, why don’t you come and say hello?” Dawn asked.
Sarah
happily got out of bed, arms reaching for her lover. Dawn had been in
her head so much lately that mind control was no longer necessary to
force Dawn’s will upon her. Just the sound of the demons voice was law
that had to be obeyed. Without being asked, Sarah began pulling her
sleeveless shirt and shorts off, waiting for Dawn to use her, to tell
her what to think, to…
Sarah awoke with a start, alone in her bedroom. “Oh, dear God, NOOOOOOO!!!
* * *
Sarah was trying to drink a large amount of coffee the next morning. Jessica sat down next to her, “What happened to you? You look terrible
“Thanks, that helps
“Sorry, but you look like you haven’t slept in days
Jake was just finishing his breakfast, “That’s because she hasn’t. Sarah, for the last time…
“Dawn is behind it! I’m sure of it!
“Dawn can’t be the reason that…
“Oh, I know she is. A large amount of time goes by and I can’t remember what happened. My entire division wiped of all mental and electronic evidence? That demon has gone too far this time!
Jessica looked at Jake, “You know, you never know how obsessive someone is until you live with them
Jake shook his head, “Sarah, Dawn is unable to use hypnosis. That leaves Fawn or me. Fawn doesn’t do it without a large audience because of her career. The industry would censure her if they suspected hypnotic singing, you know its not allowed.” Sarah glared at Jake. “Oh come on! How many times do I have to say it? No, I don’t think Dawn is as dangerous as you do, but I WOULD NOT remove the suggestion that she not use hypnosis around me or here at Mato’s. Why don’t you believe me?
“Because someone kept me from the station. The pieces all fit. That demon is…
“Good morning everyone!” Dawn pranced into the room. “Oh, I almost had such a horrible night, but then this wondrous blood curdling scream sang me to sleep.
“You!” Sarah’s eyes burned into Dawn.
“Here we go again, you sure you want to live here?” Jake asked while turning to Jessica. He found her staring curiously at him. “Um, yes?
“You use hypnosis?” she asked.
“Well, that is, you see,” Jake tried to think of something to say.
Meanwhile, Dawn and Sarah were still arguing. “And I don’t care what anyone says! I’ll prove to the world how horrible you are!
“Ha! Just face the facts, officer. I’m as innocent as the day I was born. You have no evidence or witnesses. This is just a personal attack on me.” Dawn suddenly looked very sullen. “In this day and age, to discriminate against someone because of how they are born. That is very ancient thinking Sarah. How would you feel if I was one of those ignorant fools who hated humans who turned themselves part machine?
“You are an ugly, vile, evil monstrosity and I’ll see to it that you never hurt anyone ever again!
“Hey! I am not ugly! Thank you for vile and evil though,” Dawn leaned forward into Sarah’s face. “You can’t do anything Sarah. You have no proof, and as long as you wear that badge,” Dawn pressed her finger into the badge on Sarah’s chest, making the officer flush with embarrassment and anger, “you aren’t allowed to go off and do as you see fit. So, what can you do?” Dawn’s happiness only lasted long enough for Sarah to pick up the coffee pot and throw the hot liquid in Dawn’s face. For just a second, Sarah smiled while Dawn was wide eyed in surprise. Then pain receptors kicked in. “Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot!” Dawn began running and flying around the room.
“Well, I feel much better now,” Sarah said.
Jessica was leaning forward towards Jake. Jake was trying not to look below the neck, as Jessica was wearing one of her usual cut off tank tops and panties that she slept in. “So, when Sarah told me months ago that she was kind of forced to move in here, that was you?
“Well, yes but…
“Is that why I moved in here?
“No! I swear I stopped doing that a long time ago! I learned my lesson after pairing up Sarah and Dawn!
Jessica seemed satisfied. “Oh, so you’ve never hypnotized me.” Jake was oddly quiet and looking the other way. “Wait, why aren’t you answering?
“Gee, look at the time. I’ve got to go; last day of class before vacation at the end of this term,” Jake quickly excused himself and began to leave.
“Jake, answer my question,” Jake began to run. “Jake!
* * *
During lunch, Jake found himself eating lunch at a simple fast food joint with his usual group of Mina, Diana, and since moving in, Katia. Katia was actually nice enough to respect privacy and asked her usual crowd of people to let her eat alone with her friends. Of course, Jake had reservations for other reasons.
“So, Jake, have you given thought to coming to my homeland during the break? My mother would love to meet you.”
Jake sighed, “Katia. For the last time. I like you. And we’re friends. But I’m not going to marry someone I just met a couple of weeks ago. By that reasoning, I should marry either Diana or Mina!
Mina looked up, “Hey, are you saying I’m not good enough?
“Please don’t start Mina; I don’t think I can take any more girl trouble today.” Jake looked at Diana, “Hey Diana? You’ve been awfully quiet today. Is something wrong?
Diana looked sad, “It’s just not fair is all! I love Siren much more than Mina!
Jake and Katia looked confused. Katia spoke up, “Diana? Is there something you’re not telling us?” Jake tried to get images of popstar and cat together out of his head.
“Huh? Oh, Fawn just happens to be doing a quick tour over our short vacation and asked Mina and me to go. But my sisters are coming in from college and my mom said I have to be here when they visit.
“Sorry,” Mina said. “We’ll bring you back something nice, I promise.
“Yeah, don’t worry, Katia and I will still be here and I promise we’ll do lots of fun stuff over the break. Right Katia?
“Of course! You won’t be alone this break.
“Thanks,” Diana seemed to cheer up a bit. “Hey, you seemed to calm down a bit on this whole marriage thing Katia.
“Oh that? It’s just a matter of time before he realizes that fate brought us here and we are destined to always be as one. Patience is a virtue of a princess after all.
Jake shook his head, “I’m never going to understand how things work in this universe
“What did you say Jake?
“Nothing!
Katia looked at the other two girls, “I must say though, that both of you are perfect choices for concubines. He should choose any non-elves before our engagement, since most of it will be spent in…
“What did you just say?!” Mina asked, flushed with shock.
“Oh, well you know he has to choose a certain number of girls for his harem. I assumed that he was considering you two
Mina flushed even more, and Diana began to yell at Jake, “If you even think of hypnotizing me into that, I’ll rip your head off Jake! Do you hear…?” Diana stopped suddenly as she and everyone else at the table began to sweat as Jake was banging his head on the table.
The rest of the customers just stared.
* * *
Mato was busy in his lab, working on his new greatest invention of all time. “It’s completed! My greatest invention of all time! Now I can leave for my conference, where my data on the mermaids will finally be presented! This personality altering device was the best idea I ever had.” Mato looked thoughtful for a second. “Well, except for making a microwave that could cook a one minute TV dinner in twenty seconds. THAT was sheer brilliance!
* * *
Jake woke up the next morning happy as a hypnotic clam. (No school today! Video games and pizza are my only studies) Jake went downstairs and saw Mato talking with all the various female roommates.
“…and please make sure you pick up the groceries for my triumphant homecoming Jen,” Mato was saying. “I’ll win first prize for my research at the convention for sure!
“Fine, but I still don’t understand why I do all the food relating chores around here,” Jen said.
“What else do you do Jen?” Fawn asked
“Professor, what makes you think you’ll win?” asked Sarah
“Eh? Oh, that project Jake assisted me with turned out rather nicely. Yes, I believe it can’t be beaten by those hippies who think clean air and speeding up forest growth can top it.
Lucia applauded, “Professor Mato is so smart! I’m sure he’ll win!
“With weather data?” Fawn asked
“Oh no dear! With the mer…” Mato was cut off by Jake shoulder charging him into a wall.
“Girls! The professor will miss his flight if he doesn’t go! Right now, without another word on his projects!” Jake said before the surprised group of beauties.
“Go to where?” Mato asked as he pulled himself off the ground with Katia’s help.
“The convention?” Jessica prompted
“The convention, of course! I’ll win first prize for sure. Oh, now Jake,” Mato turned to the only other male, “make sure and check the charge on the personality adjuster so I can check it when I get back
Jake can him a thumbs up, “Can do Prof.
“Well, tootles!” and with that the professor walked right out the door.
“All right ladies, elders are gone. Why don’t you all just strip to your underwear right now and save me the trouble of literally hypnotizing the clothes off of you?” Jake turned to seven very angry stares. “Kidding!
“Well, I’m out!” Dawn said stretching and then leaving out the same door.
Everyone looked expectantly at Sarah, “I’m not on active duty. The stupid higher-ups decided while I’m reassigned I can take some of my little used vacation time.” Sarah suddenly assumed an authoritarian pose. “But I will catch her one day! I swear on my honor as an officer of the law that I shall not rest until I do!” Sarah began a very long winded speech.
“I’m going to go sit this out and catch up on some of the letters the royal court keeps sending me,” Katia left.
“And I’ve got to go pick up Mina so we won’t miss our flight,” Fawn left too.
“Hey! Stop leaving before I hypnotize…” Jen, Jessica, Sarah, and even Lucia this time, all glared at him. “Seriously! Still kidding!
* * *
The rest of the day actually passed without incident. Jake played his games, helped Jen get dinner for a change, cheered Sarah up, explained some of life’s rules to Lucia (or tried to at least), watched TV with everyone, and went to bed exhausted. It was nearly two am, when he awoke, that he realized he had completely forgotten to check the professor’s invention like he promised. Sleepily, he made his way down to the lab and went to a console. There were two large metal cylinders that you could easily fit a grown person into. Jake checked the screens, “Let’s see now, which one is charge?” He suddenly heard light laughter behind him. A pair of feminine hands slid over his shoulders and chest.
“Hello, little boy,” Dawn said.
“Dawn what are you doing here?” Jake sighed. He turned around and noticed that Dawn’s taste in night clothes was very skimpy lingerie. Jake blushed and turned around embarrassed.
“Oh, what’s wrong? You can look Jake, take a good look,” Dawn said seductively.
“I really just want to get this done and get back to bed
“Oh! Don’t you usually buy a girl dinner first?
“I didn’t mean with you!
“Well, maybe I can convince you otherwise…
“Really I,” Jake looked thoughtful, “Hey, you can’t use hypnosis around me!
“Want to test that?” Dawn asked playfully. She felt a yank on her tail. “What do you want?” she snapped. She turned around, holding Jake almost off his feet, and saw Sarah, wearing pajamas, and Jessica, wearing panties and a tight sleeveless t-shirt, standing behind her. “Sarah?! Ha, ha, how long have you been there?”
“Long enough,” the woman replied. “You were about to use hypnosis!
“No I wasn’t!” Dawn dropped Jake
“Don’t lie to me!
“Are you calling me a liar?
“And a thief, and a demon, and a…
Dawn smirked, “Seductress?” she offered. Sarah fumed while Dawn stuck her tongue out at her.
Jake picked himself up off the floor. “Why are you two up?
“Heard everyone else up, “Jessica shrugged.
“Everyone else?” Jake looked to see Jen, Katia in a silk bed gown, and Lucia in a regular T-shirt and panties enter the room. “Okay, is there some new unspoken house rule that states when one of us is up, everyone has to get up?
“I can’t sleep with all this racket,” Jen complained
“I wanted to see where everyone was going,” Katia apologized
“It got lonely up there!” Lucia said
“I need my vacation to happen after sunrise ladies,” Jake practically cried. He looked around, “But at least you’ll all wearing less clothes.” He saw Jen was in her harem outfit as usual. “Um…
“I told you! I like this outfit!
“Fine,” Jake checked the screens. “That’s weird, it’s in standby mode. I thought the Prof. just wanted it to charge.
“And you smell like a demon too!” Sarah said, as Jessica moved behind her to restrain her
“Now that’s coming from a hag!” Dawn was being held by Katia now
Lucia went and stood next to Jake, “So what exactly does a personality adjustor do?
“I’m not sure,” he replied, “The old man went out so fast I never got the chance to ask him. I guess it adjusts personalities, whatever the hell that means
“Yes, the professor shall win his convention using the data we helped with!” Lucia exclaimed
“Yeah, how was he going to win with weather patterns again?” Jen asked
Jake had enough of the fighting, “Would you please knock it off?” he yelled as he turned around…right into both Sarah’s and Dawn’s fists as they both accidentally punched him in the face, sending him over the control console and accidentally pulling the lever, and flying into the left tube just before the door slide shut behind him.
“Is that what ‘knock it off’ means?” Lucia asked innocently. “Why would Jake desire pain?
“Some guys are into it, dear,” Dawn explained
“This is YOUR fault Dawn!” Sarah yelled
“It’s both your faults!!!” Jessica yelled at both of them, causing them to shrink in fear.
“We should get him out of there,” Katia said
“Why? Nothing’s happening,” Jen yawned. “I’m going to bed; wake me if anything exciting happens.
Jessica looked up from having her hands on Sarah and Dawn, “Does anyone else hear a loud humming?” Just then the machine finished its power up sequence and began shooting electricity off of it.
A series of painful yells could be heard from inside. All the girls looked shocked as the energy pulsed around the left tube, then between the tubes, and then pulsed around the right tube. It slowly became less and less, until finally it stopped altogether with a distinctive ‘ding’ sound, as if someone was microwaving a burrito.
“Is he okay?” Katia asked.
The door slid open, and Jake emerged. Most noticeable was the fact that he was smoking, his hair was now jet black, and he was naked. He stumbled around for a bit before collapsing into Lucia, who held him up. “Mommy! I’m a big boy riding the bus today!” he spoke, completely out of it.
“I think he’s okay!” Lucia beamed. Everyone else fell down, as the angel looked on confused.
* * *
Sunlight streamed into the bedroom. Jake blinked several times, finally regaining consciousness.
“He’s awake!” Jen called. All the other girls ran into the room and surrounded the bed.
“What happened?” Jake asked groggily
“Well, a couple of people thought fighting around dangerous lab equipment was a good idea,” Jessica looked over at Sarah and Dawn, who held their heads in shame
“I’m so sorry Jake,” Sarah said
“Yeah, me too,” Dawn offered
“Is the professor’s machine alright?” Jake asked. He noticed all the girls suddenly got uncomfortable. “What?
“Well, the machine is fine,” Katia said.
“Why don’t I like the sound of this?” Jake asked. He was handed a mirror. “What? What am I looking for?” He seemed okay. (Let’s see here. Mouth, check. Nose, check. Two eyes still, check. Black hair, check) “I really don’t…” Jake did a double take. “My hair! What happened?! Aaaaahhhhh!!!
All the girls winced. “But it looks really good with your lavender eyes,” Lucia offered.
“Lucia my eyes are…my eyes! What happened?! Aaaaahhhhh!!!” Jake jumped out of bed. “What the hell did you do to me?!” He looked at the girls, who were all bright red right then. “Now what? Do I have a tail? Or how about five legs? What?!” The best anyone could do was Jen pointing down. He looked down it a panic, seeing toes, shins, knees, thighs, and…Jake realized at this point he was naked.
Outside the Mato household, there was a loud scream that scared all the birds in a five block radius away.
* * *
Some time later, Jake was watching TV in his room. Dawn poked her head in, “I’m going out to hit a bank. Be a dear and tell the others, well just make something up for me okay?” Jake crossed his arms and looked the other way. “Oh, come on! It’s a good look for you!
“I liked my old look Dawn
“Fine,” Dawn sat on the edge of Jake’s bed. “Tell Dawn what she has to do to make it up to you. Should I pick up some dye and colored contacts?
“Well,” Jake thought for a second. “There is actually something you could do to make it up for me Dawn
Dawn got a wicked grin, “Oh you naughty boy! I didn’t think you had it in you, what with the goody goodies you have around you
“I want you to drain Sarah
“You what?
“I said that I want you to drain Sarah. Hypnotize her, drain her partially, and then let me have her so she can make up for what you two did to me
“Jake..I...er..can’t hypnotize
“Yes, you can. Anyone here at the house who devoted half a brain to it could figure out you somehow broke hold of the suggestion. I really don’t care. You said anything Dawn, so do what I asked
“Drain energy from Sarah? Ha! I though you’d ask for something hard, like help an old lady across a street. This’ll be easy!” Jake got up and began to leave. “What? Right now?” she asked him.
“You late for something?” Dawn followed, a little surprised but eager to finally have Sarah in her grasp. They both went into Sarah’s room and locked the door.
Sarah looked up from her bed where she was reading. “Jake I am so sorry I…what’s she doing here?
Jake just stood back and watched as Dawn approached Sarah and Sarah stood up, “I’m just here so Dawn can make it up to me
“What?” Sarah looked over at Dawn, “She’s actually going to ask for forgiveness?
“In my own special way,” Dawn smiled as her brown eyes sparkled in the light. There was something about those eyes; they were suddenly so lovely to look at. Sarah found herself mesmerized by them. She felt as if she was falling into them. “Yes, pretty little Sarah. Look deep, deep into my eyes. See yourself, deep within my eyes…”
Sarah’s eyes began to glaze over. She tried blinking several times, but was unable to shake it off, Dawn’s sudden use of hypnosis catching her off guard. “Jake…she’s using…she shouldn’t…able to…” Sarah slurred, slowly but surly falling under the vixen’s spell.
“Don’t worry Sarah! I’ll stop her. Just relax and I’ll help you,” Jake told her. He made no attempt to move
“That’s right Sarah. Just relax. Jake won’t let me hypnotize you, so you should just enjoy it. You shouldn’t worry so much. Even on vacation you’re so stress out. Let yourself go Sarah. Let yourself fall into my big, beautiful brown eyes. Don’t worry that I ruined your investigation. Just go deeper…deeper for you mistress…
Sarah was almost out of it. “I…told…you…s…he…could…” then with a loud sigh, her eyes completely glazed over and she fell into a trance.
“Yes, deep for your mistress Sarah, deeply entranced now,” Dawn drew Sarah to her. She decided to give Jake a slow, and gave Sarah a slow seductive kiss while she drained her energy through the physical contact. Sarah’s eyes widened in surprise, but she didn’t resist and eventually melted into it, Dawn’s hands and tail stroking all over her.
“Man, the things you see when you don’t have a camera,” Jake observed
Dawn broke off the kiss, and left a dazed and obedient Sarah in front of her. “Sarah, from now on you’ll obey Jake just as if he were me. Go to him now,” Sarah nodded and walked over to stand by Jake.
Jake passed his hand across the woman’s face, and she didn’t flinch or move. “Nice
“So, that it?” Dawn turned to Jake he walked up to her and offered his hand
“Done deal,” Jake replied as they shook hands. His eyes suddenly flickered and twin beams of energy came from his eyes and poured into hers. Dawn was stunned; her mouth fell open as she felt her entire body relaxing. Jake pushed her on top of the bed, and then straddled her. She was helpless as the energy hit her eyes and pulsed. She tried to raise her arms up, but he held them against the bed. She felt her mind going blank, not submissive or sleepy, just blank, and the shock on her face was frozen. “Actually Dawn,” Jake said as he began to stroke the side of her head, “I have a change of heart. I think that you both need to make it up to me.” Dawn slowly stopped moving, only the very slow rise and fall of her chest in her small top gave any indication that she wasn’t a statue. Jake got up and snapped his fingers. Dawn obediently rose to a standing position. “Now, instead of a bank, why don’t you hit three? But you should give me all the money you collect Dawn.
“Of course Jake. How else may I help you?” Dawn asked. She was speaking in a normal voice, but her eyes were glazed over.
“You can do it right now, so you’ll be back tonight, since it’s already the afternoon.” Dawn walked straight to the window, opened it, and flew outside. Jake walked over to Sarah. “Huh, I should change out of bed clothes before I have anymore fun.” He walked past Sarah, caressing her throat towards him with a finger to make her nod and follow him. He got to his room, and began looking through his clothing. “Man, when did I start dressing like such a dork? I need a new wardrobe.” With that he changed into what he considered least heinous and went to the drawer where his hypnosis stuff was stored. He got out his trusty orange pendant. “I never noticed how lame this looked until just now.” He went out of his room and downstairs, Sarah still unable to stop following him since his only command was the nonverbal order to follow.
Katia was in the living room, “Hey Jake! You’re finally up and about! It was so late in the day that the others and I were getting worried
“No, I’m fine Katia. Thanks for asking. Hey, would you like to see something cool as a thank you for taking care of me?
Katia blushed. “Jake, a destined queen shouldn’t do anything less for her husband than care for him.” She noticed Sarah walking into the room. “Is Sarah okay?
“Sarah’s been a little depressed lately.” Before Katia could question further, the pendant was swung in front of her face. “Take a look at this, Katia. See how pretty it looks?” The elf nodded. “Yes, and watch it for a minute. Its best part is coming up.
Katia watched as Jake twirled the pendant in front of her eyes. Listened to him as he told her how she was sleepy, how very tired it was to care for someone, how she had already been up half the night…
Jake watched as the girl stood with glazed eyes half closed in mere seconds. (A gorgeous and rich girl easily hypnotized? This is one nice trophy wife I’ve picked up). “It’s okay if you can’t keep your eyes closed Katia. Just shut them for a brief second to rest. Let your eyes rest, let your mind rest.” Katia never stood a chance as she shut her eyes and head slumped down into her chest. “Now Katia, we’re going on a little shopping spree. You’re going to be providing all the cash. And obey my every desire while I’m at it. But that’s what a good destined elf does for her destined husband. Isn’t that right?”
“Yesssss…Jake…” Katia responded. His use of destiny easily fooling her mesmerized brain into compliance.
“Good, and while we’re at it, we can pick up some outfits for you and the rest of the girls here,” Jake went up to Sarah and cupped her face with one hand, forcing her to look into his eyes. “You’ll come with us, won’t you slave?”
“Yes master Jake,” the beauty breathed
“Let’s go then
* * *
Jake came back several hours later, exhausted far more than her thought he would be. He was now dressed in a long sleeve shirt, dark jeans, fingerless gloves, and new sneakers. “Man, I had no idea shopping was so hard and tiring,” Sarah and Katia walked in after him, their arms full of the stuff Katia had been forced to pay for. “Now, at least I won’t look like such a dork anymore,” He kept walking up to his room, the girls helpless to not follow him while under his thrall. They placed the packages down and stood silently, waiting to be told what to do, what to think, next. “Well, we should get organized I guess. But something’s just not right here…” Jake was suddenly hit by inspiration. “I know!
* * *
Dawn came in through the window and walked over to Jake. She didn’t notice that Katia and Sarah were busy putting all his old clothes in boxes while putting away the new ones. Nor did she notice their lack of clothing. Sarah was wearing panties and her short sleeve button down police shirt, though it was all unbuttoned so you could tell she wasn’t wearing a bra. Katia was just in underwear. Jake was simply half watching while reading a book. “Master, I have returned. What shall I do now?
Jake looked up, “It’s about time…hey, where’s the money?
“I stole so much from three banks that I had to hide it in a warehouse that I rent to keep it safe until I could carry it all back in the morning,” she stated
“That is not what I ordered you to do Dawn,” Jake pulled out a new pendant, this one sinister looking. He began to twirl it, and it glowed in an almost evil way. Dawn gasped. Now her eyes really did begin to glaze over as she watched, the pendant dazzling her mind, drawing her deeper under Jake’s control. “I told you to bring me all the money and you didn’t bring any. So now you’ll have to pay
Dawn was deep under hypnosis already, she had no chance to break or resist the even stronger hold Jake was weaving over her, “I’m…sorry…master…I…
“No excuses Dawn,” Jake spun the pendant even faster and Dawn melted, what little resistance she’d had being swept away. “Now, you’ll going to stay right where you are all night Dawn. When I snap my fingers, you will be in a small room; with the phrase ‘Jake must be completely obeyed’ playing over and over. Once I think you’ve learned to obey properly I’ll let you out. Do you understand, slave?
“Yesssss…master…Jake…” Jake snapped his fingers. Dawn looked around. She was suddenly in a small room.
“Jake must be completely obeyed” came from nowhere. Dawn looked around, trying to find a way out, but there was none. The phrase just kept going and going, she wanted out, but she was tired from her long day, there was no escape, and the phrase just kept repeating itself. Endlessly, even when she slumped in submission and defeat against a wall, and shut her eyes…
In reality, Dawn just stood like a stone statue, eyes looking and seeing at nothing. Jake turned to his other two servants. He’d have to send them out to get it in the morning. Well, that was fine. While the three were occupied, he had the others to get.
* * *
Jake awoke the next morning, and quickly put Sarah and Katia back into deep trances by showing them his new pendant. It felt more powerful. He felt more powerful. He didn’t understand why he hadn’t dominated these minds before. It was fun! He felt sheer dominance flowing through him. Jake sent his two slaves off to collect the money that Dawn had stored away. It would take them all day, unfortunately. Well, he still had a house full of girls that had yet to be hypnotized. Actually, he also had one just down the street.
Sarah awoke with a start, alone in her bedroom. “Oh, dear God, NOOOOOOO!!!
* * *
Sarah was trying to drink a large amount of coffee the next morning. Jessica sat down next to her, “What happened to you? You look terrible
“Thanks, that helps
“Sorry, but you look like you haven’t slept in days
Jake was just finishing his breakfast, “That’s because she hasn’t. Sarah, for the last time…
“Dawn is behind it! I’m sure of it!
“Dawn can’t be the reason that…
“Oh, I know she is. A large amount of time goes by and I can’t remember what happened. My entire division wiped of all mental and electronic evidence? That demon has gone too far this time!
Jessica looked at Jake, “You know, you never know how obsessive someone is until you live with them
Jake shook his head, “Sarah, Dawn is unable to use hypnosis. That leaves Fawn or me. Fawn doesn’t do it without a large audience because of her career. The industry would censure her if they suspected hypnotic singing, you know its not allowed.” Sarah glared at Jake. “Oh come on! How many times do I have to say it? No, I don’t think Dawn is as dangerous as you do, but I WOULD NOT remove the suggestion that she not use hypnosis around me or here at Mato’s. Why don’t you believe me?
“Because someone kept me from the station. The pieces all fit. That demon is…
“Good morning everyone!” Dawn pranced into the room. “Oh, I almost had such a horrible night, but then this wondrous blood curdling scream sang me to sleep.
“You!” Sarah’s eyes burned into Dawn.
“Here we go again, you sure you want to live here?” Jake asked while turning to Jessica. He found her staring curiously at him. “Um, yes?
“You use hypnosis?” she asked.
“Well, that is, you see,” Jake tried to think of something to say.
Meanwhile, Dawn and Sarah were still arguing. “And I don’t care what anyone says! I’ll prove to the world how horrible you are!
“Ha! Just face the facts, officer. I’m as innocent as the day I was born. You have no evidence or witnesses. This is just a personal attack on me.” Dawn suddenly looked very sullen. “In this day and age, to discriminate against someone because of how they are born. That is very ancient thinking Sarah. How would you feel if I was one of those ignorant fools who hated humans who turned themselves part machine?
“You are an ugly, vile, evil monstrosity and I’ll see to it that you never hurt anyone ever again!
“Hey! I am not ugly! Thank you for vile and evil though,” Dawn leaned forward into Sarah’s face. “You can’t do anything Sarah. You have no proof, and as long as you wear that badge,” Dawn pressed her finger into the badge on Sarah’s chest, making the officer flush with embarrassment and anger, “you aren’t allowed to go off and do as you see fit. So, what can you do?” Dawn’s happiness only lasted long enough for Sarah to pick up the coffee pot and throw the hot liquid in Dawn’s face. For just a second, Sarah smiled while Dawn was wide eyed in surprise. Then pain receptors kicked in. “Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot!” Dawn began running and flying around the room.
“Well, I feel much better now,” Sarah said.
Jessica was leaning forward towards Jake. Jake was trying not to look below the neck, as Jessica was wearing one of her usual cut off tank tops and panties that she slept in. “So, when Sarah told me months ago that she was kind of forced to move in here, that was you?
“Well, yes but…
“Is that why I moved in here?
“No! I swear I stopped doing that a long time ago! I learned my lesson after pairing up Sarah and Dawn!
Jessica seemed satisfied. “Oh, so you’ve never hypnotized me.” Jake was oddly quiet and looking the other way. “Wait, why aren’t you answering?
“Gee, look at the time. I’ve got to go; last day of class before vacation at the end of this term,” Jake quickly excused himself and began to leave.
“Jake, answer my question,” Jake began to run. “Jake!
* * *
During lunch, Jake found himself eating lunch at a simple fast food joint with his usual group of Mina, Diana, and since moving in, Katia. Katia was actually nice enough to respect privacy and asked her usual crowd of people to let her eat alone with her friends. Of course, Jake had reservations for other reasons.
“So, Jake, have you given thought to coming to my homeland during the break? My mother would love to meet you.”
Jake sighed, “Katia. For the last time. I like you. And we’re friends. But I’m not going to marry someone I just met a couple of weeks ago. By that reasoning, I should marry either Diana or Mina!
Mina looked up, “Hey, are you saying I’m not good enough?
“Please don’t start Mina; I don’t think I can take any more girl trouble today.” Jake looked at Diana, “Hey Diana? You’ve been awfully quiet today. Is something wrong?
Diana looked sad, “It’s just not fair is all! I love Siren much more than Mina!
Jake and Katia looked confused. Katia spoke up, “Diana? Is there something you’re not telling us?” Jake tried to get images of popstar and cat together out of his head.
“Huh? Oh, Fawn just happens to be doing a quick tour over our short vacation and asked Mina and me to go. But my sisters are coming in from college and my mom said I have to be here when they visit.
“Sorry,” Mina said. “We’ll bring you back something nice, I promise.
“Yeah, don’t worry, Katia and I will still be here and I promise we’ll do lots of fun stuff over the break. Right Katia?
“Of course! You won’t be alone this break.
“Thanks,” Diana seemed to cheer up a bit. “Hey, you seemed to calm down a bit on this whole marriage thing Katia.
“Oh that? It’s just a matter of time before he realizes that fate brought us here and we are destined to always be as one. Patience is a virtue of a princess after all.
Jake shook his head, “I’m never going to understand how things work in this universe
“What did you say Jake?
“Nothing!
Katia looked at the other two girls, “I must say though, that both of you are perfect choices for concubines. He should choose any non-elves before our engagement, since most of it will be spent in…
“What did you just say?!” Mina asked, flushed with shock.
“Oh, well you know he has to choose a certain number of girls for his harem. I assumed that he was considering you two
Mina flushed even more, and Diana began to yell at Jake, “If you even think of hypnotizing me into that, I’ll rip your head off Jake! Do you hear…?” Diana stopped suddenly as she and everyone else at the table began to sweat as Jake was banging his head on the table.
The rest of the customers just stared.
* * *
Mato was busy in his lab, working on his new greatest invention of all time. “It’s completed! My greatest invention of all time! Now I can leave for my conference, where my data on the mermaids will finally be presented! This personality altering device was the best idea I ever had.” Mato looked thoughtful for a second. “Well, except for making a microwave that could cook a one minute TV dinner in twenty seconds. THAT was sheer brilliance!
* * *
Jake woke up the next morning happy as a hypnotic clam. (No school today! Video games and pizza are my only studies) Jake went downstairs and saw Mato talking with all the various female roommates.
“…and please make sure you pick up the groceries for my triumphant homecoming Jen,” Mato was saying. “I’ll win first prize for my research at the convention for sure!
“Fine, but I still don’t understand why I do all the food relating chores around here,” Jen said.
“What else do you do Jen?” Fawn asked
“Professor, what makes you think you’ll win?” asked Sarah
“Eh? Oh, that project Jake assisted me with turned out rather nicely. Yes, I believe it can’t be beaten by those hippies who think clean air and speeding up forest growth can top it.
Lucia applauded, “Professor Mato is so smart! I’m sure he’ll win!
“With weather data?” Fawn asked
“Oh no dear! With the mer…” Mato was cut off by Jake shoulder charging him into a wall.
“Girls! The professor will miss his flight if he doesn’t go! Right now, without another word on his projects!” Jake said before the surprised group of beauties.
“Go to where?” Mato asked as he pulled himself off the ground with Katia’s help.
“The convention?” Jessica prompted
“The convention, of course! I’ll win first prize for sure. Oh, now Jake,” Mato turned to the only other male, “make sure and check the charge on the personality adjuster so I can check it when I get back
Jake can him a thumbs up, “Can do Prof.
“Well, tootles!” and with that the professor walked right out the door.
“All right ladies, elders are gone. Why don’t you all just strip to your underwear right now and save me the trouble of literally hypnotizing the clothes off of you?” Jake turned to seven very angry stares. “Kidding!
“Well, I’m out!” Dawn said stretching and then leaving out the same door.
Everyone looked expectantly at Sarah, “I’m not on active duty. The stupid higher-ups decided while I’m reassigned I can take some of my little used vacation time.” Sarah suddenly assumed an authoritarian pose. “But I will catch her one day! I swear on my honor as an officer of the law that I shall not rest until I do!” Sarah began a very long winded speech.
“I’m going to go sit this out and catch up on some of the letters the royal court keeps sending me,” Katia left.
“And I’ve got to go pick up Mina so we won’t miss our flight,” Fawn left too.
“Hey! Stop leaving before I hypnotize…” Jen, Jessica, Sarah, and even Lucia this time, all glared at him. “Seriously! Still kidding!
* * *
The rest of the day actually passed without incident. Jake played his games, helped Jen get dinner for a change, cheered Sarah up, explained some of life’s rules to Lucia (or tried to at least), watched TV with everyone, and went to bed exhausted. It was nearly two am, when he awoke, that he realized he had completely forgotten to check the professor’s invention like he promised. Sleepily, he made his way down to the lab and went to a console. There were two large metal cylinders that you could easily fit a grown person into. Jake checked the screens, “Let’s see now, which one is charge?” He suddenly heard light laughter behind him. A pair of feminine hands slid over his shoulders and chest.
“Hello, little boy,” Dawn said.
“Dawn what are you doing here?” Jake sighed. He turned around and noticed that Dawn’s taste in night clothes was very skimpy lingerie. Jake blushed and turned around embarrassed.
“Oh, what’s wrong? You can look Jake, take a good look,” Dawn said seductively.
“I really just want to get this done and get back to bed
“Oh! Don’t you usually buy a girl dinner first?
“I didn’t mean with you!
“Well, maybe I can convince you otherwise…
“Really I,” Jake looked thoughtful, “Hey, you can’t use hypnosis around me!
“Want to test that?” Dawn asked playfully. She felt a yank on her tail. “What do you want?” she snapped. She turned around, holding Jake almost off his feet, and saw Sarah, wearing pajamas, and Jessica, wearing panties and a tight sleeveless t-shirt, standing behind her. “Sarah?! Ha, ha, how long have you been there?”
“Long enough,” the woman replied. “You were about to use hypnosis!
“No I wasn’t!” Dawn dropped Jake
“Don’t lie to me!
“Are you calling me a liar?
“And a thief, and a demon, and a…
Dawn smirked, “Seductress?” she offered. Sarah fumed while Dawn stuck her tongue out at her.
Jake picked himself up off the floor. “Why are you two up?
“Heard everyone else up, “Jessica shrugged.
“Everyone else?” Jake looked to see Jen, Katia in a silk bed gown, and Lucia in a regular T-shirt and panties enter the room. “Okay, is there some new unspoken house rule that states when one of us is up, everyone has to get up?
“I can’t sleep with all this racket,” Jen complained
“I wanted to see where everyone was going,” Katia apologized
“It got lonely up there!” Lucia said
“I need my vacation to happen after sunrise ladies,” Jake practically cried. He looked around, “But at least you’ll all wearing less clothes.” He saw Jen was in her harem outfit as usual. “Um…
“I told you! I like this outfit!
“Fine,” Jake checked the screens. “That’s weird, it’s in standby mode. I thought the Prof. just wanted it to charge.
“And you smell like a demon too!” Sarah said, as Jessica moved behind her to restrain her
“Now that’s coming from a hag!” Dawn was being held by Katia now
Lucia went and stood next to Jake, “So what exactly does a personality adjustor do?
“I’m not sure,” he replied, “The old man went out so fast I never got the chance to ask him. I guess it adjusts personalities, whatever the hell that means
“Yes, the professor shall win his convention using the data we helped with!” Lucia exclaimed
“Yeah, how was he going to win with weather patterns again?” Jen asked
Jake had enough of the fighting, “Would you please knock it off?” he yelled as he turned around…right into both Sarah’s and Dawn’s fists as they both accidentally punched him in the face, sending him over the control console and accidentally pulling the lever, and flying into the left tube just before the door slide shut behind him.
“Is that what ‘knock it off’ means?” Lucia asked innocently. “Why would Jake desire pain?
“Some guys are into it, dear,” Dawn explained
“This is YOUR fault Dawn!” Sarah yelled
“It’s both your faults!!!” Jessica yelled at both of them, causing them to shrink in fear.
“We should get him out of there,” Katia said
“Why? Nothing’s happening,” Jen yawned. “I’m going to bed; wake me if anything exciting happens.
Jessica looked up from having her hands on Sarah and Dawn, “Does anyone else hear a loud humming?” Just then the machine finished its power up sequence and began shooting electricity off of it.
A series of painful yells could be heard from inside. All the girls looked shocked as the energy pulsed around the left tube, then between the tubes, and then pulsed around the right tube. It slowly became less and less, until finally it stopped altogether with a distinctive ‘ding’ sound, as if someone was microwaving a burrito.
“Is he okay?” Katia asked.
The door slid open, and Jake emerged. Most noticeable was the fact that he was smoking, his hair was now jet black, and he was naked. He stumbled around for a bit before collapsing into Lucia, who held him up. “Mommy! I’m a big boy riding the bus today!” he spoke, completely out of it.
“I think he’s okay!” Lucia beamed. Everyone else fell down, as the angel looked on confused.
* * *
Sunlight streamed into the bedroom. Jake blinked several times, finally regaining consciousness.
“He’s awake!” Jen called. All the other girls ran into the room and surrounded the bed.
“What happened?” Jake asked groggily
“Well, a couple of people thought fighting around dangerous lab equipment was a good idea,” Jessica looked over at Sarah and Dawn, who held their heads in shame
“I’m so sorry Jake,” Sarah said
“Yeah, me too,” Dawn offered
“Is the professor’s machine alright?” Jake asked. He noticed all the girls suddenly got uncomfortable. “What?
“Well, the machine is fine,” Katia said.
“Why don’t I like the sound of this?” Jake asked. He was handed a mirror. “What? What am I looking for?” He seemed okay. (Let’s see here. Mouth, check. Nose, check. Two eyes still, check. Black hair, check) “I really don’t…” Jake did a double take. “My hair! What happened?! Aaaaahhhhh!!!
All the girls winced. “But it looks really good with your lavender eyes,” Lucia offered.
“Lucia my eyes are…my eyes! What happened?! Aaaaahhhhh!!!” Jake jumped out of bed. “What the hell did you do to me?!” He looked at the girls, who were all bright red right then. “Now what? Do I have a tail? Or how about five legs? What?!” The best anyone could do was Jen pointing down. He looked down it a panic, seeing toes, shins, knees, thighs, and…Jake realized at this point he was naked.
Outside the Mato household, there was a loud scream that scared all the birds in a five block radius away.
* * *
Some time later, Jake was watching TV in his room. Dawn poked her head in, “I’m going out to hit a bank. Be a dear and tell the others, well just make something up for me okay?” Jake crossed his arms and looked the other way. “Oh, come on! It’s a good look for you!
“I liked my old look Dawn
“Fine,” Dawn sat on the edge of Jake’s bed. “Tell Dawn what she has to do to make it up to you. Should I pick up some dye and colored contacts?
“Well,” Jake thought for a second. “There is actually something you could do to make it up for me Dawn
Dawn got a wicked grin, “Oh you naughty boy! I didn’t think you had it in you, what with the goody goodies you have around you
“I want you to drain Sarah
“You what?
“I said that I want you to drain Sarah. Hypnotize her, drain her partially, and then let me have her so she can make up for what you two did to me
“Jake..I...er..can’t hypnotize
“Yes, you can. Anyone here at the house who devoted half a brain to it could figure out you somehow broke hold of the suggestion. I really don’t care. You said anything Dawn, so do what I asked
“Drain energy from Sarah? Ha! I though you’d ask for something hard, like help an old lady across a street. This’ll be easy!” Jake got up and began to leave. “What? Right now?” she asked him.
“You late for something?” Dawn followed, a little surprised but eager to finally have Sarah in her grasp. They both went into Sarah’s room and locked the door.
Sarah looked up from her bed where she was reading. “Jake I am so sorry I…what’s she doing here?
Jake just stood back and watched as Dawn approached Sarah and Sarah stood up, “I’m just here so Dawn can make it up to me
“What?” Sarah looked over at Dawn, “She’s actually going to ask for forgiveness?
“In my own special way,” Dawn smiled as her brown eyes sparkled in the light. There was something about those eyes; they were suddenly so lovely to look at. Sarah found herself mesmerized by them. She felt as if she was falling into them. “Yes, pretty little Sarah. Look deep, deep into my eyes. See yourself, deep within my eyes…”
Sarah’s eyes began to glaze over. She tried blinking several times, but was unable to shake it off, Dawn’s sudden use of hypnosis catching her off guard. “Jake…she’s using…she shouldn’t…able to…” Sarah slurred, slowly but surly falling under the vixen’s spell.
“Don’t worry Sarah! I’ll stop her. Just relax and I’ll help you,” Jake told her. He made no attempt to move
“That’s right Sarah. Just relax. Jake won’t let me hypnotize you, so you should just enjoy it. You shouldn’t worry so much. Even on vacation you’re so stress out. Let yourself go Sarah. Let yourself fall into my big, beautiful brown eyes. Don’t worry that I ruined your investigation. Just go deeper…deeper for you mistress…
Sarah was almost out of it. “I…told…you…s…he…could…” then with a loud sigh, her eyes completely glazed over and she fell into a trance.
“Yes, deep for your mistress Sarah, deeply entranced now,” Dawn drew Sarah to her. She decided to give Jake a slow, and gave Sarah a slow seductive kiss while she drained her energy through the physical contact. Sarah’s eyes widened in surprise, but she didn’t resist and eventually melted into it, Dawn’s hands and tail stroking all over her.
“Man, the things you see when you don’t have a camera,” Jake observed
Dawn broke off the kiss, and left a dazed and obedient Sarah in front of her. “Sarah, from now on you’ll obey Jake just as if he were me. Go to him now,” Sarah nodded and walked over to stand by Jake.
Jake passed his hand across the woman’s face, and she didn’t flinch or move. “Nice
“So, that it?” Dawn turned to Jake he walked up to her and offered his hand
“Done deal,” Jake replied as they shook hands. His eyes suddenly flickered and twin beams of energy came from his eyes and poured into hers. Dawn was stunned; her mouth fell open as she felt her entire body relaxing. Jake pushed her on top of the bed, and then straddled her. She was helpless as the energy hit her eyes and pulsed. She tried to raise her arms up, but he held them against the bed. She felt her mind going blank, not submissive or sleepy, just blank, and the shock on her face was frozen. “Actually Dawn,” Jake said as he began to stroke the side of her head, “I have a change of heart. I think that you both need to make it up to me.” Dawn slowly stopped moving, only the very slow rise and fall of her chest in her small top gave any indication that she wasn’t a statue. Jake got up and snapped his fingers. Dawn obediently rose to a standing position. “Now, instead of a bank, why don’t you hit three? But you should give me all the money you collect Dawn.
“Of course Jake. How else may I help you?” Dawn asked. She was speaking in a normal voice, but her eyes were glazed over.
“You can do it right now, so you’ll be back tonight, since it’s already the afternoon.” Dawn walked straight to the window, opened it, and flew outside. Jake walked over to Sarah. “Huh, I should change out of bed clothes before I have anymore fun.” He walked past Sarah, caressing her throat towards him with a finger to make her nod and follow him. He got to his room, and began looking through his clothing. “Man, when did I start dressing like such a dork? I need a new wardrobe.” With that he changed into what he considered least heinous and went to the drawer where his hypnosis stuff was stored. He got out his trusty orange pendant. “I never noticed how lame this looked until just now.” He went out of his room and downstairs, Sarah still unable to stop following him since his only command was the nonverbal order to follow.
Katia was in the living room, “Hey Jake! You’re finally up and about! It was so late in the day that the others and I were getting worried
“No, I’m fine Katia. Thanks for asking. Hey, would you like to see something cool as a thank you for taking care of me?
Katia blushed. “Jake, a destined queen shouldn’t do anything less for her husband than care for him.” She noticed Sarah walking into the room. “Is Sarah okay?
“Sarah’s been a little depressed lately.” Before Katia could question further, the pendant was swung in front of her face. “Take a look at this, Katia. See how pretty it looks?” The elf nodded. “Yes, and watch it for a minute. Its best part is coming up.
Katia watched as Jake twirled the pendant in front of her eyes. Listened to him as he told her how she was sleepy, how very tired it was to care for someone, how she had already been up half the night…
Jake watched as the girl stood with glazed eyes half closed in mere seconds. (A gorgeous and rich girl easily hypnotized? This is one nice trophy wife I’ve picked up). “It’s okay if you can’t keep your eyes closed Katia. Just shut them for a brief second to rest. Let your eyes rest, let your mind rest.” Katia never stood a chance as she shut her eyes and head slumped down into her chest. “Now Katia, we’re going on a little shopping spree. You’re going to be providing all the cash. And obey my every desire while I’m at it. But that’s what a good destined elf does for her destined husband. Isn’t that right?”
“Yesssss…Jake…” Katia responded. His use of destiny easily fooling her mesmerized brain into compliance.
“Good, and while we’re at it, we can pick up some outfits for you and the rest of the girls here,” Jake went up to Sarah and cupped her face with one hand, forcing her to look into his eyes. “You’ll come with us, won’t you slave?”
“Yes master Jake,” the beauty breathed
“Let’s go then
* * *
Jake came back several hours later, exhausted far more than her thought he would be. He was now dressed in a long sleeve shirt, dark jeans, fingerless gloves, and new sneakers. “Man, I had no idea shopping was so hard and tiring,” Sarah and Katia walked in after him, their arms full of the stuff Katia had been forced to pay for. “Now, at least I won’t look like such a dork anymore,” He kept walking up to his room, the girls helpless to not follow him while under his thrall. They placed the packages down and stood silently, waiting to be told what to do, what to think, next. “Well, we should get organized I guess. But something’s just not right here…” Jake was suddenly hit by inspiration. “I know!
* * *
Dawn came in through the window and walked over to Jake. She didn’t notice that Katia and Sarah were busy putting all his old clothes in boxes while putting away the new ones. Nor did she notice their lack of clothing. Sarah was wearing panties and her short sleeve button down police shirt, though it was all unbuttoned so you could tell she wasn’t wearing a bra. Katia was just in underwear. Jake was simply half watching while reading a book. “Master, I have returned. What shall I do now?
Jake looked up, “It’s about time…hey, where’s the money?
“I stole so much from three banks that I had to hide it in a warehouse that I rent to keep it safe until I could carry it all back in the morning,” she stated
“That is not what I ordered you to do Dawn,” Jake pulled out a new pendant, this one sinister looking. He began to twirl it, and it glowed in an almost evil way. Dawn gasped. Now her eyes really did begin to glaze over as she watched, the pendant dazzling her mind, drawing her deeper under Jake’s control. “I told you to bring me all the money and you didn’t bring any. So now you’ll have to pay
Dawn was deep under hypnosis already, she had no chance to break or resist the even stronger hold Jake was weaving over her, “I’m…sorry…master…I…
“No excuses Dawn,” Jake spun the pendant even faster and Dawn melted, what little resistance she’d had being swept away. “Now, you’ll going to stay right where you are all night Dawn. When I snap my fingers, you will be in a small room; with the phrase ‘Jake must be completely obeyed’ playing over and over. Once I think you’ve learned to obey properly I’ll let you out. Do you understand, slave?
“Yesssss…master…Jake…” Jake snapped his fingers. Dawn looked around. She was suddenly in a small room.
“Jake must be completely obeyed” came from nowhere. Dawn looked around, trying to find a way out, but there was none. The phrase just kept going and going, she wanted out, but she was tired from her long day, there was no escape, and the phrase just kept repeating itself. Endlessly, even when she slumped in submission and defeat against a wall, and shut her eyes…
In reality, Dawn just stood like a stone statue, eyes looking and seeing at nothing. Jake turned to his other two servants. He’d have to send them out to get it in the morning. Well, that was fine. While the three were occupied, he had the others to get.
* * *
Jake awoke the next morning, and quickly put Sarah and Katia back into deep trances by showing them his new pendant. It felt more powerful. He felt more powerful. He didn’t understand why he hadn’t dominated these minds before. It was fun! He felt sheer dominance flowing through him. Jake sent his two slaves off to collect the money that Dawn had stored away. It would take them all day, unfortunately. Well, he still had a house full of girls that had yet to be hypnotized. Actually, he also had one just down the street.
* * *
Diana’s mother opened the door to see Jake standing there. “Jake sweetie! It’s so nice to see you, come on in,” Kitty said.
“Thank you ma’am,” Jake bowed and walked into the house. Kitty, Diana’s mom, went straight into the kitchen and Jake followed. “Is Diana available to hang out? I know she has to spend time with her sisters while they’re here but I promised her.
“Oh yes dear, unfortunately her sisters had to cancel their trip. I feel just awful about it, because some of her other friends had wanted her to come and go on a trip for most of the break with them,” Kitty turned her back to Jake and began looking through a cabinet. “I really appreciate your coming over actually. I hope it will cheer her up. My husband is out of town until the end of the month and she’s so upset that I just don’t know what to…” Kitty was cut off in surprise as Jake clasped a collar around her neck. The woman’s hands reached up to it in shock, and found they couldn’t get it off. It was just a simple metal collar with, oddly enough, a little silver bell in the front. The bell just then began to ring. The sound was wondrous, filling her ears with the sweetest music she’d ever heard in her life. Kitty began to sway in a daze, “Maybe you…could cheer…the…poor…thing up…?”
Jake smiled. Mato had apparently been doing a lot more hypnosis experiments than even he had realized. The old fart had been expanding his containment areas to get more groups of females and run constant test on them, just like the mermaids. One of the considered groups was cats, and he had built hypnotic kitty collars as a precaution. (Professor was looking to expand pretty soon. I wonder when he was going to tell me?) “Now miss, actually I think I’ll call you Kitty slave. It’s not like you can disagree, is it?” Kitty turned around. She was smiling broadly, the magical rings of her bell filling only her ears. “Just stand here until your husband comes home. I’m sure it won’t be long.” Jake left for Diana’s room, leaving her mom standing entranced.
* * *
Diana was moping on her bed, hugging a stuffed animal. She looked up as Jake knocked on her open door. “Hey, did you hear?
“Yeah, your sisters cancelled. Too bad.” (For you, anyway) “You okay?
“Sure, if you call missing going on tour with the biggest star in music’s history for nothing being okay.” Diana sighed. “Hope your vacation has been going better than mine,” she moaned as she looked out the window.
“Well, it has been good so far. Why don’t you join me? Forget about what didn’t happen and just come have some fun.” She heard Jake walking up next to her.
“Jake I really don’t…” she suddenly jerked as a collar was locked around her neck. Diana looked down in surprise as the silver bell began to ring. “Oooh…” the ringing began to fill her ears. It was suddenly hard to think, to do anything but listen to the bell. Diana began to smile, for the first time in days feeling at peace. “Sounds…nice…” she managed to squeak out as she sat there, listening to hypnotic tones which overrode all conscious thought. Her eyes glazed over, and as Diana sat there her mind just went blank.
“Diana, I really wasn’t giving you options here. Come on, I always wanted a pet,” Jake left the room. Diana’s bedazzled mind couldn’t resist a command, and she meekly followed her new owner out of the house.
* * *
Lucia was reading one of the history books in the garden, trying to overcome countless years of being locked away. Someone was standing over her, and as she looked up Dawn was over her, reaching a hand down towards her. “Hi Dawn! I’m reading one of Mato’s books on history. So much happened while I was asleep!” Lucia leaned up to a sitting position, and Dawn suddenly began to rub her shoulders. “Oh! Thanks that feels nice,” Lucia pulled her hair over a shoulder so Dawn could rub easier. “See, I don’t understand why Sarah dislikes you so. You can be nice!” Dawn moved behind Lucia and sat down. The angel didn’t notice the strange green misty glow radiating off the enchantress’ hands. Lucia just took a deep breath, enjoying Dawn’s hands. She’d never felt so good. It was so nice of Dawn to help her! Dawn was great, her hands were soft…beautiful…Dawn was beautiful…
* * *
Jen awoke from her afternoon nap, restful and restless at the same time. She began to look around the house, but it was awfully quiet for a change. She peeked into Jake’s room, noticing Jake reading a hypnosis book while Diana appeared to be just disappearing down the hall. “Hey, what’s with the lack of noise levels in this house?
Jake looked up, “I thought you were complaining that things were too hectic around here.
“Hey, do you hear me complaining now? I was just asking what blessed event happened to give us some peace
Jake began to absently swing his black pendant from one hand. “Yeah, a lot of new people just keep coming through, huh?
“You should stop making girls you meet move in, if you don’t like it either,” Jen’s green eyes began to absently follow the pendant
“I didn’t make the last two move in. And you want me to complain about the girl/guy ratio? You really don’t know me. Or any other guy for that matter
“Would it really kill you to ‘persuade’ someone to move out?” Jen asked
“I think I’d die a little inside, yes
Jen noticed the pendant glowing, black energy flowing off of it. “Hey, is that thing new?
Jake didn’t seem to notice the question, “So many things and people to learn and remember. It must be tiring. That must be why you nap so much. You aren’t lazy Jen, you just get tired out from all the stuff that happens
Jen tried to look back at Jake, but found her gaze locked on to the pendant. “Yeah, I’m not…lazy. It’s just…hard to…
“Hard to think,” Jake put in for her. Jen found herself nodding in agreement before she knew it. “Hard to do so many things, Jen, because you just need a little help. You make dinner every night. I bet it’s so tiring; I bet you can remember how tiring it is Jen.” Jen found herself swaying slightly.
“Um…yeah hard…to…what’s going…?” Jen was falling into a trance, but still she tried to fight it off. Jake countered by suddenly swinging his pendant right up in her face. Jen gasped as the energy was now literally inches before her lovely eyes, which glazed over just from having the pendant so close to them.
“Jen, why don’t I help you? If you follow a simple suggestion, I can give you a place where you can’t be bothered. Isn’t that what you want? A place to call all your own, that the other girls can’t bother you from?” Jen was smiling. She would’ve agreed even without being hypnotized, but now she had no choice. “Well, you’re a genie. Why don’t you just make a bottle? Don’t lots of genies have them? Go ahead and make one; it’s the best idea you’ve heard in a long time Jen
“Best idea…heard…” Jen agreed. Her hands magically waved, and a genie bottle the same shade of pink as her clothes appeared on the bed.
Jake picked it up. “There, now you have your own private place. And since I’m holding your bottle, what does that make me?
“Master…
“Excellent…hey, can you belly dance topless for me?
“Yesssss, master…
“Sweet!
* * *
Jessica was walking through the house. She couldn’t find anyone. She heard noises as she passed by the back door, and went outside to the yard to see. “Hello?” Jessica began to look around.
“Why are you by yourself? Where is everyone?” she turned around to see Jake standing behind her, confusion on his face.
“I don’t know. I just got here. When was the last time you saw anyone?
“Hours ago.” Jake stood beside her now. “This is weird. I’d blame Dawn, if she wasn’t missing too.
“Yeah…”Jessica looked at Jake. “Um, there is something I’ve been meaning to ask you,
“What?
“About this hypnosis thing. You don’t find it a little strange?
“First of all, you can blame Mato for that little gift. And second of all, with the angle, demon, cyborg cop, genie, and pop star living in the mad scientist’s house do you really think I’M the strange one here?
“Good point. Especially since I drive a bot the size of a house,” Jessica looked at him. “What’s it like? I mean, being hypnotized. I’ve never been under myself.
“I haven’t either. What’s it like? I really don’t know
“Can you hypnotize me?” Jake looked at her surprised. “Just for a minute. So I can know what its like. It kind of interests me.
“I can. Are you really sure though?
“Yeah, come one. Maybe I’ll be your slave!” she laughed
Jake laughed too. “Fine then,” His eyes suddenly glowed and beams of energy poured into Jessica’s eyes. The suddenness of it all shocked her. Her mouth fell open as her mind was wiped clean. Jessica fell to her knees, looking up helplessly as Jake continued to enslave her mind. He apparently wasn’t satisfied with just that. “Disrobe for me Jessica,” The woman began to discard her small shirt and shorts, leaving only a bra containing her massive chest and panties on. The light stopped and Jessica knelt there, glazed blue eyes looking deep into Jake’s.
“You will be my slave
“I will be your slave,” Jessica replied. That thought was all she had left in her head as Jake bent down and kissed her. Jessica just responded in her hypnotic daze as she felt his hands running from her chest to her back, getting closer to her back and began to take off her bra…
* * *
“That was a great couple of days!” Mina was happy as she and Fawn walked up the path to Mato’s front door a few days later.
“Yeah, come on. We’ll say hi to everyone, and find Diana. We can cheer her up for not getting to go.” Fawn opened the door, and the two girls walked inside to the living room.
Where Diana and Jen were. It wasn’t their presence that stunned the two. It was their outfits. Diana was in a bikini, lying out on a couch as she submissively watched Jen belly dancing. It wasn’t that which was most surprising. It was the fact that the top portion of Jen’s costume was laying on the floor that shocked them. Fawn rushed over to Jen, and noticed the glazed expression. “Jen! Snap out of it!”
Mina went over to her friend, “Diana! What are you doing?” The catgirl just sat there, watching Jen. Mina noticed her collar. The bell was ringing itself, but no sound came from it. “Huh?” Struck by inspiration, Mina removed the collar. Diana blinked several times, her eyes normal now.
“Wha…? Mina! I thought you weren’t coming back until later this week
“It is this week! I mean today, I mean…
Fawn shook Jen, but the genie just smiled right through her. “Fine then,” the popstar reared back and smacked Jen as hard as she could. Jen stumbled, and came out of her daze. The genie suddenly slapped Fawn. “Ouch! Hey, why’d you hit me?” the popstar yelled
“Why the hell did you hit me?!
“I was helping!
“How does that help?!
“You were hypnotized!”
Jen looked up to see Diana and Mina standing there too. “Hey Diana, where are the rest of you clothes?
Diana was not happy, “Look at you first,
Jen looked down to see her own breasts. She flushed red and scrambled to put her clothes on. “This is all Dawn’s fault! I’ll kill her! I’ll kill her until she’s dead!
Fawn looked around. “Where are the others?
* * *
Soon all nine girls were gathered in the living room. “Okay, where were they? Fawn asked of Sarah, Katia, and Jessica.
Mina replied, “We found them in Jake’s room, counting a large amount of money in their underwear.” Sure enough, Jessica had just been putting a tank top on when they had walked in.
“How about those two?” Diana nodded of Dawn and Lucia.
“Ummm…” all four exchanged glances. “Let’s just say, they weren’t wearing much, and they were together.
“Dawn! How could you do all this to us?” Sarah asked
“I didn’t do it!
“I distinctly remember you hypnotizing me! And confessing that you destroyed my investigation
“Oh…you do?
“Yes and…wait, Jake was there, but he didn’t try and help me. Why not?
“Jake hypnotized me!
“Before or after you hypnotized me?
“After! Crap, I should have lied about that
Fawn looked at the others, “Did Jake get all of you?
Nods were given by all. Mina looked confused, “Why would Jake do such a thing?
“Let’s ask him,” a voice from behind said. Everyone turned to see Jake standing at an entrance to the living room. He looked thoughtful for a second, and then nodded in agreement. “Jake just told me that he’s tired of having sexy friends when he could have sexy slaves
Fawn and Mina looked surprised,” Jake! Nice hair
Jen suddenly realized it, “He’s been acting weird every since he was thrown into the machine!
“Weird? What’s so weird about it? I should be allowed to do what I please. And now I can. I feel stronger than ever. All of you who were under my power know how much better that damn machine made me at my abilities. So, let’s just all get topless and...
Sarah cracked her knuckles, “What makes you think you can take us all?
“I can’t. That’s why hypnosis beats brute force.” Jake held up his pendant
Fawn took a step back, “Um? What did I miss? When I left, Jake wasn’t good enough to get us all at once, especially if we knew he as trying to
“I distinctly remember him being nice too,” Mina put in
“That’s what happens when you leave the game,” Jake said, “Someone is always leveling up. Now, what do I want you to do for me?
“New plan!” Sarah yelled. She turned and then ran from the room
“That’s not a new plan,” Jake said, “That’s just…” suddenly all the other girls ran after Sarah. *Sweat drop on Jake’s head* “Hey! Get back here and be topless!
Sarah ran down to Mato’s lab, noticing everyone following her and Jake following them. Katia, being an elf, was the only one easily able to keep up with the enhanced human. “Do you actually have a new plan?” she asked
“If the machine screwed him up, it can undo it” the cop replied.
“That’s brilliant! How do we get him inside? If he catches up to anyone, he’ll hypnotize them and force her to help get the rest of us!
“I haven’t figured that out yet,” Sarah noticed they were suddenly out of room, a wall in the way. She and Katia stopped in time, but the other seven plowed into them
Jake stopped running, “Whoa, babe pile
Mato walked up next to him and nodded, “They should be more careful in my lab
Jake jumped and suddenly turned to Mato, “When the hell did you get back?!
Mato yawned, “Early morning, but I wanted to check on ‘our’ project
Jake remembered the mermaids and hung his head, “How could I forget them? They’re already brainwashed!
The girls had collected themselves by now, “Professor! Jake is dangerous!” Jessica yelled
“What’s wrong with Jake?” he asked
“He fell into you machine and went nuts!” Dawn said
“Yeah, remember? You explained your personality machine to me a few days before you left. Then you asked me to check its charge, and they girls shoved me into a tube over there,” Jake gestured at the nearby tubes and console, “and now I’m going to enslave a few dozen harems. Starting with these
Mato looked puzzled. He walked over to the console, and pulled out a device that looked a lot like a toaster and unplugged it. “How did Jake fall into this?
Everyone stared, unable to speak. “What is that?” Mina asked
“My personality adjustor. It also makes perfectly buttered toast,” Mato hit a switch, and perfectly buttered toast popped out
Lucia clapped her hands, “Yay Professor!
“I’m a genius!
“Wait!” Sarah yelled, “Before the toast, what is that?” she gestured towards the tubes.
“Oh, that. That’s just the…” Mato looked thoughtful for a second, then walked over the left tube and opened the door. Jake stumbled out and fell down.
“Did anyone get that truck’s number…?” he looked up. He saw Mato looking pleased, the girls looking confused, and himself…Jake jumped to his feet, “Why can I see myself?!” he pointed wildly.
Mato gestured, “This is my clone machine. It allows you to make perfect clones of individuals, but also, with my personality adjuster, to give them a distinctly different personality so as to help tell the clones apart.
“Jake, I mean bad Jake, is just a clone?” Jessica asked
Evil Jake sniffed, “I prefer the term ‘vast improvement’”
Lucia looked at the dark haired Jake, “Why didn’t he tell us he wasn’t Jake?
Jen sighed, “With everything else he did, are you really that surprised?
Mato nodded, “See, the adjustor was set to evil, so the clone came out evil
Sarah looked at him, “Is there an actual good reason to create something that makes evil clones?
“To see if I could, of course!
Jake was still confused, “Wait, I get the sense that I’ve missed several important things. Can someone tell me what’s going on?
“Of course, pal,” Evil Jake said. “See, once officer hotness and sexy demon threw you in and I came out, many changes were made. Hypnotizing and dominating all of your friends would have been easy if Fawn and Mina weren’t away, but it doesn’t matter. We’ll just have to start fresh all over again,” Evil Jake gestured to Katia. The elf girl suddenly gasped, her eyes glazing over as she started to walk over to him. Diana and Jessica held her.
“Katia!
“Are you nuts? He’s a psycho!
Evil Jake gestured again, and now Jessica and Diana gasped and glazed over. The other girls all held the three as they tried to walk over to their master. Evil Jake laughed, “Not like they can help it. It’s been over three days since Jessica went under, and hers is the weakest trance I’ve done so far. Jake allowed morality and friendship to hold his powers back. But these are just words, bro. You and I were given powers to use them! Not make friends and live normal pathetic lives! These girls should be serving us right now!
“Jake would never do that!” Mina yelled
“Oh, please,” the dark haired said, “Jake just needs to realize that you won’t even care what you’re doing. He’s already got you all to move and live with him. You know he has fun. And with the Professor being his male role model, I’m quite frankly surprised he hasn’t established his own nation filled with hypnotized servants for himself! Right, bro?” Evil Jake looked over to Jake, who had by this time walked over to stand next to his counterpart.
And his right hand, in fist form, chooses that moment to connect with his face.
Evil Jake fell down, “That was stupid, you little…
“Can you call me little when we’re the same height? You were hurting my friends!
“Please,” evil Jake picked himself up off the ground, “You call them your friends, but didn’t you force the bonds of friendship on them? Do they really have any will, or do you just hypnotically push reset when they make choices that you don’t like? Are one-sided friendships all you have, Jake?
“Shut up!
“Gladly,” evil Jake got up, “See, none of the girls can stand up to me since I’d just turn their cute little heads off. And let’s face it, the old man causes more problems than all of the rest of you put together
“Hey!” Mato said, “Show some respect to your genius elders!
“So that leaves you. And once I kick your ass, they belong to me!” He charged suddenly. Evil Jake swung with all his might, and punched Jake in the stomach. And…the two Jake’s just stood there.
Jake blinked, “Um, that doesn’t hurt
Evil Jake stood up straight, “Actually, I’m surprised myself. What the hell happened?
“Easy!” Mato suddenly had a view screen showing pictures of Jake and Evil Jake, with empty bars on it. Both Jakes suddenly found themselves sitting behind desks as if they were at school, confusion apparent on their faces. “See, everyone has an ‘aura’ that adjusts based on their strengths. Jake’s is like this…” The bar filled up, about a third blue, and the rest red. “The red is his physical aura. The blue is his hypnosis aura. Now, that doesn’t mean he’ll always be physically better than hypnotically better. It means that when the clone was made, thirty percent of his power was in hypnosis. Now our new friend here was made from this. However, due to an anomaly of genetics, a perfect clone could not be reached. The physical portion was messed up, so the machine compensated by coping the hypnosis aura enough times to fill up all available space.” Evil Jake’s bar was almost entirely blue, with just a little red at the top
“So, Evil Jake is…” Jake started to say
Mato nodded, “He’s already much stronger than hypnosis, but has the physical abilities of old cheese.
“Hey!” Evil Jake yelled, “Do you really expect me to buy that complete load of…” He was cut off by Jake knocking him down and proceeding to beat the living daylights out of him. “Ouch! No! Help!
“Yeah, give him one for me!” Dawn cheered
“Oh, he might be sorry,” Lucia turned to Sarah, “Don’t you think this is a little much?
Sarah’s eyes were ablaze, “Kick his ass!
*Sweat drop on Lucia* “Heh…
* * *
Forty minutes later…
As the clone had the stuffing beaten out of him, Jessica, Katia, and Diana had managed to snap out of their trances. Mato had simply broken out some bleachers and the group had sat down to watch Jake in action. The monitor nearby finally registered a game over, with Jake having a new high score of two million points.
Jake finally was hunched over, the beaten form of his evil clone on the ground, “I…think he’s…had enough…
Evil Jake couldn’t even manage that much, “Owie…
Jake sat down, and everyone looked around. “What do we do with him?” Sarah asked
“Fear me,” everyone turned to see Evil Jake sitting up, “because this isn’t over, not by a long shot!
“There’s no where left for you to run to!” Jessica said
“Wanna bet? Jen, ‘open the gate’,” Jen’s eyes suddenly glazed over as she gasped. As everyone turned to stare at her in surprise, the genie gestured magically and Evil Jake was teleported away.
Jen suddenly blinked, her eyes returning to normal, “Um, what did I just…?”
Mato was happily surprised, “A classic villain who thinks of even escape routes! My machine is amazing!
Fawn shook her head, “This can’t possibly be good…
* * *
Jake was helping the Professor lock away the Personality Adjustor. “Sorry for all the trouble it caused. Apparently, the world just wasn’t ready for you
“Yeah, a good thing that moron wasn’t an equal to me because of that genetics thing
“Oh, there’s nothing wrong with your genes, Jake
Jake looked at the old man, “What? But you said…
“I covered for you, just like you do for me. See, the only part of you that’s actually from this universe is your hypnotic power. But you yourself are not. The machine was just barely able to make the clone, and had to copy the hypnosis portion several times over to make your twin.
“Oh,” Jake shook his head, “So, what is he? My evil side?
“I’m not entirely sure. Sometimes good and evil are objective. What one considers righteous another may call heresy. Is your clone the other side of a coin? Is he a projection of your inevitable future, your hidden desires? Or is he just an immature brat, who acted the way he did because in reality he hasn’t lived for a week despite his appearance, and may he eventually mature into you? I can’t answer these. Only time can
“That’s…surprisingly insightful for you, Professor” Jake was awed
“Of course! I’m a genius!”
*Sweat drop as Jake hangs his head* “THAT’S more common” he moans
The two leave the lab, hitting the lights as they go. “On the plus side, at least I’m better looking than him,” Jake said.
“Now that’s objective too!
‘Hey!
* * *
Jake was putting the last of his imposters’ new wardrobe into boxes. “Can’t believe this guy’s love of darkness.” He held up his trusty orange pendant, “To think he replaced the original. Can’t beat number one, baby!
“I’m inclined to agree,” Jake turned to see Sarah standing in the doorway. “Everyone else is ready outside. Mato’s victory dinner for his triumphant conference was a sure thing after all. I still don’t understand how he won with weather data.
“Who can fathom the mysteries of science and the weird folks who study it?” Jake stood up and stretched. “Great, going out to dinner will help make up for most of my vacation being spent in a tube!” Jake looked to see Sarah still standing there, “What’s wrong?
Sarah seemed a little sad, and she suddenly moved forward and took hold of his hands, “Oh Jake! I’m so sorry! Everything that happened was my fault!” She declared, staring into his eyes. “If only I could make it up to you, I would!
Jake blushed, “It’s okay! Really I,” Jake tried to free his hands, but she wasn’t letting go, “it was just an accident
“No! You have been so nice,” Jake tired pulling harder, “so sweet and understanding,” Jake tried leaning back while pulling, “so considerate to all our feelings!” Jake braced both legs on her arms and pulled hard with all his might, but the cyborg still wouldn’t let go. “Can you ever forgive me?” she asked, sadness in her eyes
“Well, of course!” Upon hearing this, Sarah suddenly swept Jake into a big hug and kissed him on the cheek, causing him to turn bright red. “Um…I…er…” Jake finally got a hold of himself when she let go, hands and face throbbing for different reasons. “Well, my evil idiot did have at least one idea that was good
“What could that possibly be?”
“Wanna see something cool?” The beautiful cop nodded, “Follow me
* * *
Jake led Sarah to the kitchen. Sarah looked around. The place was a mess, the clone obviously having better things for his slaves to do than the dishes, or cleaning for that matter. So it was a great surprise that Dawn was scrubbing at the sink. Sarah was about to say something when Dawn turn around to get a rag she dropped. Sarah was shocked to see Dawn was deeply hypnotized, glazed eyes and an emotionless face as the trouble making demon silently cleaned the mess. “What is she doing?
“From what I can gather, Dawn can use hypnosis again
“I KNEW IT!!!!
“But I can’t seem to program her to stop again for some reason. But, this whole thing was mostly her fault, since the Professor said that if she hadn’t somehow gotten me to lift her post hypnotic suggestion, than she wouldn’t have been able to hypnotize with my clone in the room with you. There is the small chance you could have stopped all this from happening if Dawn and clone boy hadn’t teamed up at first. So, I took a lesson from our unwanted guest on changing minds. Dawn will be on dish duty for the next thousand years or so.
“I have to admit, I do like this,” Sarah smiled as the powerful demon meekly went about her duties.
“Yeah, I thought you would. But unfortunately, you did help knock me into the tube, so it’s partially your fault as well Sarah
Sarah suddenly took a step back, “Jake, I really don’t want to hurt you…
Jake put up his hands, “Let’s just say that you owe me a non-hypnotic favor.” Jake offered his arm, “Shall we join the others for a night on the town?
Sarah smiled and took his arm and the two left the room.
“You know, you could spend some time with me in the hot tub to make it…Ow! Okay! That’s a no! Let go!
The end? Not quite…
* * *
Epilogue
Somewhere on the planet, the clone was walking in what he hoped was the direction of Mato’s house. “This isn’t over,” he fumed, wishing he hadn’t told the genie to teleport him randomly so she couldn’t recall him. “I’ll get all of them before I’m through. Especially that goody boy scout. When I get my hands on him,” he was cut off by a chopper suddenly coming towards him. He shielded his eyes as it landed not ten yards in front of him. “Who the hell?” The door opened, and he caught a mere glimpse of the symbol on it. A gigantic letter S on a dark spiral pattern backdrop. An elderly man descended, wearing a business suit and using an expensive cane to walk. The clone noticed the gem on top of the cane was a perfect induction device. “Hey you old geezer! Clear the road!
The old man looked amused, “You should be thanking me, young clone of Jake. If I didn’t have Mato’s lab bugged, who knows who long it would have taken you to reach Nitenan, much less Yoto Town.
“How the hell do you know me? Answer!
“Silly little boy. I recruit for my business’…shall we say, less public division. It’s my job to know when someone of your persuasive talents may be interested in employment.
“Employment?
“But of course. Tell me, what do you want? Money, power, slaves, revenge? I can give you things beyond this, and more, if you work for me?
It seemed a lot better than walking in what could be the wrong direction. “How much do you pay, mister?
“Why, Stenson is my name,” the man said with a slight bow. “And for payment, a better question would be how much do you want to start with? But this is hardly the place for negotiations. You deserve far better! Why not ride to one of the many mansions I have, where we can talk in comfort?
Evil Jake smiles, “You talk a language I like, old timer.
“But of course! One must keep the workers happy. So, shall I call you friend, master Jake?
The young man makes his way to a new destiny, “That weak name? No way! I’d much rather prefer if you called me…Vice…”
“Vice? A fine name indeed!” Stenson ushered the newly christened individual into the chopper, which shortly took off. Storm clouds seemed to gather in the distance…
“Thank you ma’am,” Jake bowed and walked into the house. Kitty, Diana’s mom, went straight into the kitchen and Jake followed. “Is Diana available to hang out? I know she has to spend time with her sisters while they’re here but I promised her.
“Oh yes dear, unfortunately her sisters had to cancel their trip. I feel just awful about it, because some of her other friends had wanted her to come and go on a trip for most of the break with them,” Kitty turned her back to Jake and began looking through a cabinet. “I really appreciate your coming over actually. I hope it will cheer her up. My husband is out of town until the end of the month and she’s so upset that I just don’t know what to…” Kitty was cut off in surprise as Jake clasped a collar around her neck. The woman’s hands reached up to it in shock, and found they couldn’t get it off. It was just a simple metal collar with, oddly enough, a little silver bell in the front. The bell just then began to ring. The sound was wondrous, filling her ears with the sweetest music she’d ever heard in her life. Kitty began to sway in a daze, “Maybe you…could cheer…the…poor…thing up…?”
Jake smiled. Mato had apparently been doing a lot more hypnosis experiments than even he had realized. The old fart had been expanding his containment areas to get more groups of females and run constant test on them, just like the mermaids. One of the considered groups was cats, and he had built hypnotic kitty collars as a precaution. (Professor was looking to expand pretty soon. I wonder when he was going to tell me?) “Now miss, actually I think I’ll call you Kitty slave. It’s not like you can disagree, is it?” Kitty turned around. She was smiling broadly, the magical rings of her bell filling only her ears. “Just stand here until your husband comes home. I’m sure it won’t be long.” Jake left for Diana’s room, leaving her mom standing entranced.
* * *
Diana was moping on her bed, hugging a stuffed animal. She looked up as Jake knocked on her open door. “Hey, did you hear?
“Yeah, your sisters cancelled. Too bad.” (For you, anyway) “You okay?
“Sure, if you call missing going on tour with the biggest star in music’s history for nothing being okay.” Diana sighed. “Hope your vacation has been going better than mine,” she moaned as she looked out the window.
“Well, it has been good so far. Why don’t you join me? Forget about what didn’t happen and just come have some fun.” She heard Jake walking up next to her.
“Jake I really don’t…” she suddenly jerked as a collar was locked around her neck. Diana looked down in surprise as the silver bell began to ring. “Oooh…” the ringing began to fill her ears. It was suddenly hard to think, to do anything but listen to the bell. Diana began to smile, for the first time in days feeling at peace. “Sounds…nice…” she managed to squeak out as she sat there, listening to hypnotic tones which overrode all conscious thought. Her eyes glazed over, and as Diana sat there her mind just went blank.
“Diana, I really wasn’t giving you options here. Come on, I always wanted a pet,” Jake left the room. Diana’s bedazzled mind couldn’t resist a command, and she meekly followed her new owner out of the house.
* * *
Lucia was reading one of the history books in the garden, trying to overcome countless years of being locked away. Someone was standing over her, and as she looked up Dawn was over her, reaching a hand down towards her. “Hi Dawn! I’m reading one of Mato’s books on history. So much happened while I was asleep!” Lucia leaned up to a sitting position, and Dawn suddenly began to rub her shoulders. “Oh! Thanks that feels nice,” Lucia pulled her hair over a shoulder so Dawn could rub easier. “See, I don’t understand why Sarah dislikes you so. You can be nice!” Dawn moved behind Lucia and sat down. The angel didn’t notice the strange green misty glow radiating off the enchantress’ hands. Lucia just took a deep breath, enjoying Dawn’s hands. She’d never felt so good. It was so nice of Dawn to help her! Dawn was great, her hands were soft…beautiful…Dawn was beautiful…
* * *
Jen awoke from her afternoon nap, restful and restless at the same time. She began to look around the house, but it was awfully quiet for a change. She peeked into Jake’s room, noticing Jake reading a hypnosis book while Diana appeared to be just disappearing down the hall. “Hey, what’s with the lack of noise levels in this house?
Jake looked up, “I thought you were complaining that things were too hectic around here.
“Hey, do you hear me complaining now? I was just asking what blessed event happened to give us some peace
Jake began to absently swing his black pendant from one hand. “Yeah, a lot of new people just keep coming through, huh?
“You should stop making girls you meet move in, if you don’t like it either,” Jen’s green eyes began to absently follow the pendant
“I didn’t make the last two move in. And you want me to complain about the girl/guy ratio? You really don’t know me. Or any other guy for that matter
“Would it really kill you to ‘persuade’ someone to move out?” Jen asked
“I think I’d die a little inside, yes
Jen noticed the pendant glowing, black energy flowing off of it. “Hey, is that thing new?
Jake didn’t seem to notice the question, “So many things and people to learn and remember. It must be tiring. That must be why you nap so much. You aren’t lazy Jen, you just get tired out from all the stuff that happens
Jen tried to look back at Jake, but found her gaze locked on to the pendant. “Yeah, I’m not…lazy. It’s just…hard to…
“Hard to think,” Jake put in for her. Jen found herself nodding in agreement before she knew it. “Hard to do so many things, Jen, because you just need a little help. You make dinner every night. I bet it’s so tiring; I bet you can remember how tiring it is Jen.” Jen found herself swaying slightly.
“Um…yeah hard…to…what’s going…?” Jen was falling into a trance, but still she tried to fight it off. Jake countered by suddenly swinging his pendant right up in her face. Jen gasped as the energy was now literally inches before her lovely eyes, which glazed over just from having the pendant so close to them.
“Jen, why don’t I help you? If you follow a simple suggestion, I can give you a place where you can’t be bothered. Isn’t that what you want? A place to call all your own, that the other girls can’t bother you from?” Jen was smiling. She would’ve agreed even without being hypnotized, but now she had no choice. “Well, you’re a genie. Why don’t you just make a bottle? Don’t lots of genies have them? Go ahead and make one; it’s the best idea you’ve heard in a long time Jen
“Best idea…heard…” Jen agreed. Her hands magically waved, and a genie bottle the same shade of pink as her clothes appeared on the bed.
Jake picked it up. “There, now you have your own private place. And since I’m holding your bottle, what does that make me?
“Master…
“Excellent…hey, can you belly dance topless for me?
“Yesssss, master…
“Sweet!
* * *
Jessica was walking through the house. She couldn’t find anyone. She heard noises as she passed by the back door, and went outside to the yard to see. “Hello?” Jessica began to look around.
“Why are you by yourself? Where is everyone?” she turned around to see Jake standing behind her, confusion on his face.
“I don’t know. I just got here. When was the last time you saw anyone?
“Hours ago.” Jake stood beside her now. “This is weird. I’d blame Dawn, if she wasn’t missing too.
“Yeah…”Jessica looked at Jake. “Um, there is something I’ve been meaning to ask you,
“What?
“About this hypnosis thing. You don’t find it a little strange?
“First of all, you can blame Mato for that little gift. And second of all, with the angle, demon, cyborg cop, genie, and pop star living in the mad scientist’s house do you really think I’M the strange one here?
“Good point. Especially since I drive a bot the size of a house,” Jessica looked at him. “What’s it like? I mean, being hypnotized. I’ve never been under myself.
“I haven’t either. What’s it like? I really don’t know
“Can you hypnotize me?” Jake looked at her surprised. “Just for a minute. So I can know what its like. It kind of interests me.
“I can. Are you really sure though?
“Yeah, come one. Maybe I’ll be your slave!” she laughed
Jake laughed too. “Fine then,” His eyes suddenly glowed and beams of energy poured into Jessica’s eyes. The suddenness of it all shocked her. Her mouth fell open as her mind was wiped clean. Jessica fell to her knees, looking up helplessly as Jake continued to enslave her mind. He apparently wasn’t satisfied with just that. “Disrobe for me Jessica,” The woman began to discard her small shirt and shorts, leaving only a bra containing her massive chest and panties on. The light stopped and Jessica knelt there, glazed blue eyes looking deep into Jake’s.
“You will be my slave
“I will be your slave,” Jessica replied. That thought was all she had left in her head as Jake bent down and kissed her. Jessica just responded in her hypnotic daze as she felt his hands running from her chest to her back, getting closer to her back and began to take off her bra…
* * *
“That was a great couple of days!” Mina was happy as she and Fawn walked up the path to Mato’s front door a few days later.
“Yeah, come on. We’ll say hi to everyone, and find Diana. We can cheer her up for not getting to go.” Fawn opened the door, and the two girls walked inside to the living room.
Where Diana and Jen were. It wasn’t their presence that stunned the two. It was their outfits. Diana was in a bikini, lying out on a couch as she submissively watched Jen belly dancing. It wasn’t that which was most surprising. It was the fact that the top portion of Jen’s costume was laying on the floor that shocked them. Fawn rushed over to Jen, and noticed the glazed expression. “Jen! Snap out of it!”
Mina went over to her friend, “Diana! What are you doing?” The catgirl just sat there, watching Jen. Mina noticed her collar. The bell was ringing itself, but no sound came from it. “Huh?” Struck by inspiration, Mina removed the collar. Diana blinked several times, her eyes normal now.
“Wha…? Mina! I thought you weren’t coming back until later this week
“It is this week! I mean today, I mean…
Fawn shook Jen, but the genie just smiled right through her. “Fine then,” the popstar reared back and smacked Jen as hard as she could. Jen stumbled, and came out of her daze. The genie suddenly slapped Fawn. “Ouch! Hey, why’d you hit me?” the popstar yelled
“Why the hell did you hit me?!
“I was helping!
“How does that help?!
“You were hypnotized!”
Jen looked up to see Diana and Mina standing there too. “Hey Diana, where are the rest of you clothes?
Diana was not happy, “Look at you first,
Jen looked down to see her own breasts. She flushed red and scrambled to put her clothes on. “This is all Dawn’s fault! I’ll kill her! I’ll kill her until she’s dead!
Fawn looked around. “Where are the others?
* * *
Soon all nine girls were gathered in the living room. “Okay, where were they? Fawn asked of Sarah, Katia, and Jessica.
Mina replied, “We found them in Jake’s room, counting a large amount of money in their underwear.” Sure enough, Jessica had just been putting a tank top on when they had walked in.
“How about those two?” Diana nodded of Dawn and Lucia.
“Ummm…” all four exchanged glances. “Let’s just say, they weren’t wearing much, and they were together.
“Dawn! How could you do all this to us?” Sarah asked
“I didn’t do it!
“I distinctly remember you hypnotizing me! And confessing that you destroyed my investigation
“Oh…you do?
“Yes and…wait, Jake was there, but he didn’t try and help me. Why not?
“Jake hypnotized me!
“Before or after you hypnotized me?
“After! Crap, I should have lied about that
Fawn looked at the others, “Did Jake get all of you?
Nods were given by all. Mina looked confused, “Why would Jake do such a thing?
“Let’s ask him,” a voice from behind said. Everyone turned to see Jake standing at an entrance to the living room. He looked thoughtful for a second, and then nodded in agreement. “Jake just told me that he’s tired of having sexy friends when he could have sexy slaves
Fawn and Mina looked surprised,” Jake! Nice hair
Jen suddenly realized it, “He’s been acting weird every since he was thrown into the machine!
“Weird? What’s so weird about it? I should be allowed to do what I please. And now I can. I feel stronger than ever. All of you who were under my power know how much better that damn machine made me at my abilities. So, let’s just all get topless and...
Sarah cracked her knuckles, “What makes you think you can take us all?
“I can’t. That’s why hypnosis beats brute force.” Jake held up his pendant
Fawn took a step back, “Um? What did I miss? When I left, Jake wasn’t good enough to get us all at once, especially if we knew he as trying to
“I distinctly remember him being nice too,” Mina put in
“That’s what happens when you leave the game,” Jake said, “Someone is always leveling up. Now, what do I want you to do for me?
“New plan!” Sarah yelled. She turned and then ran from the room
“That’s not a new plan,” Jake said, “That’s just…” suddenly all the other girls ran after Sarah. *Sweat drop on Jake’s head* “Hey! Get back here and be topless!
Sarah ran down to Mato’s lab, noticing everyone following her and Jake following them. Katia, being an elf, was the only one easily able to keep up with the enhanced human. “Do you actually have a new plan?” she asked
“If the machine screwed him up, it can undo it” the cop replied.
“That’s brilliant! How do we get him inside? If he catches up to anyone, he’ll hypnotize them and force her to help get the rest of us!
“I haven’t figured that out yet,” Sarah noticed they were suddenly out of room, a wall in the way. She and Katia stopped in time, but the other seven plowed into them
Jake stopped running, “Whoa, babe pile
Mato walked up next to him and nodded, “They should be more careful in my lab
Jake jumped and suddenly turned to Mato, “When the hell did you get back?!
Mato yawned, “Early morning, but I wanted to check on ‘our’ project
Jake remembered the mermaids and hung his head, “How could I forget them? They’re already brainwashed!
The girls had collected themselves by now, “Professor! Jake is dangerous!” Jessica yelled
“What’s wrong with Jake?” he asked
“He fell into you machine and went nuts!” Dawn said
“Yeah, remember? You explained your personality machine to me a few days before you left. Then you asked me to check its charge, and they girls shoved me into a tube over there,” Jake gestured at the nearby tubes and console, “and now I’m going to enslave a few dozen harems. Starting with these
Mato looked puzzled. He walked over to the console, and pulled out a device that looked a lot like a toaster and unplugged it. “How did Jake fall into this?
Everyone stared, unable to speak. “What is that?” Mina asked
“My personality adjustor. It also makes perfectly buttered toast,” Mato hit a switch, and perfectly buttered toast popped out
Lucia clapped her hands, “Yay Professor!
“I’m a genius!
“Wait!” Sarah yelled, “Before the toast, what is that?” she gestured towards the tubes.
“Oh, that. That’s just the…” Mato looked thoughtful for a second, then walked over the left tube and opened the door. Jake stumbled out and fell down.
“Did anyone get that truck’s number…?” he looked up. He saw Mato looking pleased, the girls looking confused, and himself…Jake jumped to his feet, “Why can I see myself?!” he pointed wildly.
Mato gestured, “This is my clone machine. It allows you to make perfect clones of individuals, but also, with my personality adjuster, to give them a distinctly different personality so as to help tell the clones apart.
“Jake, I mean bad Jake, is just a clone?” Jessica asked
Evil Jake sniffed, “I prefer the term ‘vast improvement’”
Lucia looked at the dark haired Jake, “Why didn’t he tell us he wasn’t Jake?
Jen sighed, “With everything else he did, are you really that surprised?
Mato nodded, “See, the adjustor was set to evil, so the clone came out evil
Sarah looked at him, “Is there an actual good reason to create something that makes evil clones?
“To see if I could, of course!
Jake was still confused, “Wait, I get the sense that I’ve missed several important things. Can someone tell me what’s going on?
“Of course, pal,” Evil Jake said. “See, once officer hotness and sexy demon threw you in and I came out, many changes were made. Hypnotizing and dominating all of your friends would have been easy if Fawn and Mina weren’t away, but it doesn’t matter. We’ll just have to start fresh all over again,” Evil Jake gestured to Katia. The elf girl suddenly gasped, her eyes glazing over as she started to walk over to him. Diana and Jessica held her.
“Katia!
“Are you nuts? He’s a psycho!
Evil Jake gestured again, and now Jessica and Diana gasped and glazed over. The other girls all held the three as they tried to walk over to their master. Evil Jake laughed, “Not like they can help it. It’s been over three days since Jessica went under, and hers is the weakest trance I’ve done so far. Jake allowed morality and friendship to hold his powers back. But these are just words, bro. You and I were given powers to use them! Not make friends and live normal pathetic lives! These girls should be serving us right now!
“Jake would never do that!” Mina yelled
“Oh, please,” the dark haired said, “Jake just needs to realize that you won’t even care what you’re doing. He’s already got you all to move and live with him. You know he has fun. And with the Professor being his male role model, I’m quite frankly surprised he hasn’t established his own nation filled with hypnotized servants for himself! Right, bro?” Evil Jake looked over to Jake, who had by this time walked over to stand next to his counterpart.
And his right hand, in fist form, chooses that moment to connect with his face.
Evil Jake fell down, “That was stupid, you little…
“Can you call me little when we’re the same height? You were hurting my friends!
“Please,” evil Jake picked himself up off the ground, “You call them your friends, but didn’t you force the bonds of friendship on them? Do they really have any will, or do you just hypnotically push reset when they make choices that you don’t like? Are one-sided friendships all you have, Jake?
“Shut up!
“Gladly,” evil Jake got up, “See, none of the girls can stand up to me since I’d just turn their cute little heads off. And let’s face it, the old man causes more problems than all of the rest of you put together
“Hey!” Mato said, “Show some respect to your genius elders!
“So that leaves you. And once I kick your ass, they belong to me!” He charged suddenly. Evil Jake swung with all his might, and punched Jake in the stomach. And…the two Jake’s just stood there.
Jake blinked, “Um, that doesn’t hurt
Evil Jake stood up straight, “Actually, I’m surprised myself. What the hell happened?
“Easy!” Mato suddenly had a view screen showing pictures of Jake and Evil Jake, with empty bars on it. Both Jakes suddenly found themselves sitting behind desks as if they were at school, confusion apparent on their faces. “See, everyone has an ‘aura’ that adjusts based on their strengths. Jake’s is like this…” The bar filled up, about a third blue, and the rest red. “The red is his physical aura. The blue is his hypnosis aura. Now, that doesn’t mean he’ll always be physically better than hypnotically better. It means that when the clone was made, thirty percent of his power was in hypnosis. Now our new friend here was made from this. However, due to an anomaly of genetics, a perfect clone could not be reached. The physical portion was messed up, so the machine compensated by coping the hypnosis aura enough times to fill up all available space.” Evil Jake’s bar was almost entirely blue, with just a little red at the top
“So, Evil Jake is…” Jake started to say
Mato nodded, “He’s already much stronger than hypnosis, but has the physical abilities of old cheese.
“Hey!” Evil Jake yelled, “Do you really expect me to buy that complete load of…” He was cut off by Jake knocking him down and proceeding to beat the living daylights out of him. “Ouch! No! Help!
“Yeah, give him one for me!” Dawn cheered
“Oh, he might be sorry,” Lucia turned to Sarah, “Don’t you think this is a little much?
Sarah’s eyes were ablaze, “Kick his ass!
*Sweat drop on Lucia* “Heh…
* * *
Forty minutes later…
As the clone had the stuffing beaten out of him, Jessica, Katia, and Diana had managed to snap out of their trances. Mato had simply broken out some bleachers and the group had sat down to watch Jake in action. The monitor nearby finally registered a game over, with Jake having a new high score of two million points.
Jake finally was hunched over, the beaten form of his evil clone on the ground, “I…think he’s…had enough…
Evil Jake couldn’t even manage that much, “Owie…
Jake sat down, and everyone looked around. “What do we do with him?” Sarah asked
“Fear me,” everyone turned to see Evil Jake sitting up, “because this isn’t over, not by a long shot!
“There’s no where left for you to run to!” Jessica said
“Wanna bet? Jen, ‘open the gate’,” Jen’s eyes suddenly glazed over as she gasped. As everyone turned to stare at her in surprise, the genie gestured magically and Evil Jake was teleported away.
Jen suddenly blinked, her eyes returning to normal, “Um, what did I just…?”
Mato was happily surprised, “A classic villain who thinks of even escape routes! My machine is amazing!
Fawn shook her head, “This can’t possibly be good…
* * *
Jake was helping the Professor lock away the Personality Adjustor. “Sorry for all the trouble it caused. Apparently, the world just wasn’t ready for you
“Yeah, a good thing that moron wasn’t an equal to me because of that genetics thing
“Oh, there’s nothing wrong with your genes, Jake
Jake looked at the old man, “What? But you said…
“I covered for you, just like you do for me. See, the only part of you that’s actually from this universe is your hypnotic power. But you yourself are not. The machine was just barely able to make the clone, and had to copy the hypnosis portion several times over to make your twin.
“Oh,” Jake shook his head, “So, what is he? My evil side?
“I’m not entirely sure. Sometimes good and evil are objective. What one considers righteous another may call heresy. Is your clone the other side of a coin? Is he a projection of your inevitable future, your hidden desires? Or is he just an immature brat, who acted the way he did because in reality he hasn’t lived for a week despite his appearance, and may he eventually mature into you? I can’t answer these. Only time can
“That’s…surprisingly insightful for you, Professor” Jake was awed
“Of course! I’m a genius!”
*Sweat drop as Jake hangs his head* “THAT’S more common” he moans
The two leave the lab, hitting the lights as they go. “On the plus side, at least I’m better looking than him,” Jake said.
“Now that’s objective too!
‘Hey!
* * *
Jake was putting the last of his imposters’ new wardrobe into boxes. “Can’t believe this guy’s love of darkness.” He held up his trusty orange pendant, “To think he replaced the original. Can’t beat number one, baby!
“I’m inclined to agree,” Jake turned to see Sarah standing in the doorway. “Everyone else is ready outside. Mato’s victory dinner for his triumphant conference was a sure thing after all. I still don’t understand how he won with weather data.
“Who can fathom the mysteries of science and the weird folks who study it?” Jake stood up and stretched. “Great, going out to dinner will help make up for most of my vacation being spent in a tube!” Jake looked to see Sarah still standing there, “What’s wrong?
Sarah seemed a little sad, and she suddenly moved forward and took hold of his hands, “Oh Jake! I’m so sorry! Everything that happened was my fault!” She declared, staring into his eyes. “If only I could make it up to you, I would!
Jake blushed, “It’s okay! Really I,” Jake tried to free his hands, but she wasn’t letting go, “it was just an accident
“No! You have been so nice,” Jake tired pulling harder, “so sweet and understanding,” Jake tried leaning back while pulling, “so considerate to all our feelings!” Jake braced both legs on her arms and pulled hard with all his might, but the cyborg still wouldn’t let go. “Can you ever forgive me?” she asked, sadness in her eyes
“Well, of course!” Upon hearing this, Sarah suddenly swept Jake into a big hug and kissed him on the cheek, causing him to turn bright red. “Um…I…er…” Jake finally got a hold of himself when she let go, hands and face throbbing for different reasons. “Well, my evil idiot did have at least one idea that was good
“What could that possibly be?”
“Wanna see something cool?” The beautiful cop nodded, “Follow me
* * *
Jake led Sarah to the kitchen. Sarah looked around. The place was a mess, the clone obviously having better things for his slaves to do than the dishes, or cleaning for that matter. So it was a great surprise that Dawn was scrubbing at the sink. Sarah was about to say something when Dawn turn around to get a rag she dropped. Sarah was shocked to see Dawn was deeply hypnotized, glazed eyes and an emotionless face as the trouble making demon silently cleaned the mess. “What is she doing?
“From what I can gather, Dawn can use hypnosis again
“I KNEW IT!!!!
“But I can’t seem to program her to stop again for some reason. But, this whole thing was mostly her fault, since the Professor said that if she hadn’t somehow gotten me to lift her post hypnotic suggestion, than she wouldn’t have been able to hypnotize with my clone in the room with you. There is the small chance you could have stopped all this from happening if Dawn and clone boy hadn’t teamed up at first. So, I took a lesson from our unwanted guest on changing minds. Dawn will be on dish duty for the next thousand years or so.
“I have to admit, I do like this,” Sarah smiled as the powerful demon meekly went about her duties.
“Yeah, I thought you would. But unfortunately, you did help knock me into the tube, so it’s partially your fault as well Sarah
Sarah suddenly took a step back, “Jake, I really don’t want to hurt you…
Jake put up his hands, “Let’s just say that you owe me a non-hypnotic favor.” Jake offered his arm, “Shall we join the others for a night on the town?
Sarah smiled and took his arm and the two left the room.
“You know, you could spend some time with me in the hot tub to make it…Ow! Okay! That’s a no! Let go!
The end? Not quite…
* * *
Epilogue
Somewhere on the planet, the clone was walking in what he hoped was the direction of Mato’s house. “This isn’t over,” he fumed, wishing he hadn’t told the genie to teleport him randomly so she couldn’t recall him. “I’ll get all of them before I’m through. Especially that goody boy scout. When I get my hands on him,” he was cut off by a chopper suddenly coming towards him. He shielded his eyes as it landed not ten yards in front of him. “Who the hell?” The door opened, and he caught a mere glimpse of the symbol on it. A gigantic letter S on a dark spiral pattern backdrop. An elderly man descended, wearing a business suit and using an expensive cane to walk. The clone noticed the gem on top of the cane was a perfect induction device. “Hey you old geezer! Clear the road!
The old man looked amused, “You should be thanking me, young clone of Jake. If I didn’t have Mato’s lab bugged, who knows who long it would have taken you to reach Nitenan, much less Yoto Town.
“How the hell do you know me? Answer!
“Silly little boy. I recruit for my business’…shall we say, less public division. It’s my job to know when someone of your persuasive talents may be interested in employment.
“Employment?
“But of course. Tell me, what do you want? Money, power, slaves, revenge? I can give you things beyond this, and more, if you work for me?
It seemed a lot better than walking in what could be the wrong direction. “How much do you pay, mister?
“Why, Stenson is my name,” the man said with a slight bow. “And for payment, a better question would be how much do you want to start with? But this is hardly the place for negotiations. You deserve far better! Why not ride to one of the many mansions I have, where we can talk in comfort?
Evil Jake smiles, “You talk a language I like, old timer.
“But of course! One must keep the workers happy. So, shall I call you friend, master Jake?
The young man makes his way to a new destiny, “That weak name? No way! I’d much rather prefer if you called me…Vice…”
“Vice? A fine name indeed!” Stenson ushered the newly christened individual into the chopper, which shortly took off. Storm clouds seemed to gather in the distance…
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