Lake Superior
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"I promise you, Leo we'll save Siegbert and Corrin. The Summoners working hard to find out a way to counters Surtr's curse." Camilla said waggling her finger at her little brother.
"Yes, dear sister." The Sorcerous Prince droned back clearly not listening but instead nervously darting his eyes towards the book in his arms.
"Leo, please. This isn't a regular war anymore. I know that my little brother can handle himself but Surtr's using horrid tricks and I can't bear the thought of losing my last brother to that brute."
Leo was smothered in between his tall sisters ample bosom and gasped for air as the woman again fought her ridiculous strength and squeezed the air from him.
"C-Camilla! C-can't bre-"
"Oh! So sorry my dear. It's just that when my darling little brothers in my arms like that I think for a second that I can keep you there forever. That way I won't lose you like the other two or my dear nephew. Oh, I'm just so happy that at least dear sweet Forrest is safe in our own world."
"CAMILLA I STILL CAN'T BREATH!"
"Oh! So sorry brother."
Leo was released from the purple-haired woman's vice grip and for a second remembered the pity he'd felt towards anyone on the opposite side from his sister when they were in their own world. Though here it was worth it he supposed due to how many of her there were.
"Leo look at me."
"Sister I need to.."
"Please, Leo promise me."
"Camilla I..."
"I just can't lose anymore..."
"SISTER ENOUGH!"
His sister adopted a look like he'd wounded her but he knew that stopping now would just get him pulled back into a bone-shattering hug and he'd never get anything done.
"I am no child Camilla! I am a Prince of Nohr and responsible for the lives of others just like you! Every time I step on the battlefield I know that there is a chance I will not return just as you do. All the same, to dwell on that is no better. So you will leave me be and I will return to analyzing the movements of Muspel in the hopes that I find something to save not just our siblings but all those King Surtr has taken."
"Oh Leo I know you've grown into a fine prince but surely you can indulge your only Big Sister in worrying over you."
Leo rubbed his temples as his sisters changing tactics stumped him more than any opponent he'd ever faced in war.
"That said I want you to know that no I will not be giving you back Brynhildr and that Prince Alfonse stopped by my room today to talk about an interesting conversation that you two had in the library."
Leo went pale at that last part and cursed under his breath. He'd thought that he'd successfully convinced the Prince of Askr of his innocuousness but apparently, Alfonse was sharper than he gave him credit for.
"Despite his concerns, I told Alfonse that my younger brother was far too intelligent to dabble in anything as dumb as Demonology. However, I did still promise to come and check up on you about it."
"We-well that's fine Si-sister because as you can see I've got nothing related to a practice as dangerous as that here."
"Indeed. Save that book you are trying ever so hard to conceal from your dear sister. Be a dear and hand it over, Leo."
"I-I surely have no id-AHH SISTER NO!"
Though he was of average height and a slight build Leo had always been bothered by how easily his siblings could overpower him. Both Xander and Camilla were more than strong enough to do whatever they wanted to him and in Camilla's case this was usually picking him up like a sack of tomatoes whenever he'd been naughty. He struggled slightly upon her shoulder but she held him steadfast over her shoulder with one hand quite easily.
"Leo dear don't make me ask again. Unless you want some help with your studies?"
At that threat, Leo went cold as it had been a long time since his sister had used that phrase. When they were both younger, Leo a bratty adolescent and his sister a burgeoning teen he'd been placed in her care many times due to how busy Xander was with his own duties as the Crown Prince. Leo had not made things easy on his sister and had been quite fond of hiding from her with a tome to pass the time until she found him and dragged him from his hole. That had all changed when one day his dressing gown had gotten tangled and Camilla's fingers had drawn along his ribs. The Prince's ticklishness had been revealed and from that day he was putty in his sister's hands, molding him into the proper young adult that now stood before her. She'd later used the same trick to get both Corrin and Elise in line and from what he'd heard was fond of using it on not only her own son Percy but also all five of her nephews and the male version of young Kana she'd discovered in Askr. Not to say that the boy's mother or Kana herself were spared from Camilla's etiquette lessons but just like Leo, Elise, Corrin, and Xander had learned as youths it was all out of love and to help them better themselves. He just hopes the children wouldn't be as foolish as they were and try to team up for revenge.
Now though for her to bring up those old tricks here with the effects of the curse hanging over the land made Leo's toes curl inside his night slippers.
"Fine! Take the book the sister!"
"Thank you, Leo. I would like the real one as well."
"Whatever do you mea-"
"You know Princess Hinoka's pegasus has been molting lately. I wonder if she's kept any of the feathers..."
"It's under the bed."
"Thank you, Leo."
Leo breathed a sigh of relief but was wise to not let his guard down as he ducked out of the way of his sister's attempt to seize him.
"Ple-please Camilla I've given you what you wanted!"
"And I'm trying to give you what you wanted! Clearly, you have no greater desire than to be tickled pink until your brains leak from your ears so why not let your sister do it rather than Surtr?".
"I WANT NOTHING LIKE THAT!"
"Then you'll promise big sister that you are done with this demon business?"
"If I summon one though it could show us how to-"
"If you want a demon so badly you've got one here. A tickle demon."
Camilla lunged at Leo who just got away but looked from the corner he was now trapped in. He took the fabric of his nightshirt between his fingers nervously and nodded his head frantically.
"Fine fine! Point received!"
"That's the good little brother I helped raise! Don't stay up too late now as tomorrow we'll have breakfast together. Sleep tight Leo!"
She took him into another spine straightening hug before turning to leave with both his decoy book and what Leo had said was the real one. She blew another kiss at her gasping brother as she closed the door behind her.
Leo rubbed at his tender lower back and wondered how they could be losing a war with something like her on their side before fishing under his pillow and pulling out the real tome. He locked the door quietly knowing that if she or Xander wanted that the wood wouldn't stop them. He knelt down and began etching upon the floor with the chalk to make the symbols. He felt bad about lying to his sister and about how he'd stolen the decoy tome she'd taken from one of the other two versions of himself that dwelled here in the castle. That particular version of himself hadn't seemed that interested though and instead prattled on about the sandwiches. Leo didn't really like that Leo but at least he was more upbeat than the other one who only sulked about in a swimsuit. That one made Leo feel like he should be cheerier but then the sandwiches one was abit too upbeat for Leo's taste so he usually just felt like he wanted to be more alone. His missing brother and nephew weighed heavily on his mind and so he'd decided to do something about it. He'd heard from the other heroes about what happened to those in Surtr's care and a good few had seen Corrin's new life dancing mindlessly for his new king. Nobody could save him then but now Leo had a plan to get them out before Siegbert got a matching outfit or something worse. He knew he was far from the first to try this and his toes curled again at the fates of Sothe and Micaiah.
With the circle finished Leo stood up and stretched the stiffness out of his legs and back before going to get the ingredients together for the solution. These had been trickier to get together but thankfully there were enough heroes that he didn't have to worry about getting caught with that. He sparked the flint over the bowl and coughed as the smoke started. He placed it by the portion of the circle that the tome had indicated and picked up the tome to begin the chant. Prince Lyon's notes were a bit hard to read but he believed he'd deciphered it.
"J-joule ela-elam sen gahad." He stammered out unsurely as he tried to read out the Gradan's messy writings.
"Bors hagan manj FREC!"
He yelled the last word as he expected something dramatic to herald the incantation's effect but was met with nothing.
"Let me try it without the lights" the Prince mumbled stepping over the circle gingerly to extinguish the candles in his room.
"Hope I don't have to get more of this stuff. Alfonse would definitely get wind and tell Camilla."
Leo sparked the bowl again and stepped into the circle again to try the chant.
"Joule elam sen gahad! Bors hagan manj FREC!"
He looked around the room and again saw nothing.
"Dammit. Nothing. Well, I suppose if Lyon had been any good at summoning demons he would have been stronger-"
Leo stopped his mutterings and stopped to take in his surroundings. It was colder in here than it had been a second. He swatted at the phantom feeling of something on his neck before mentally chiding himself at jumping at nothing.
"L-Leo? Br-brother is that you?!"
Leo's skin crawled at the sound of a familiar voice in the darkness and turned. A shape came forth from the darkness, that of his brother Corrin. The pointy-eared Prince shivered in the sheer dancer's outfit that Surtr had placed him in and blinked just as incredulously at the sight as Leo did.
"What-what are you doing here?! How did you get here!? Did they capture you?? CAN YOU GET ME OUT!"
Leo stared mouth agape as Corrin crawled forward on his hands and knees with the bells on his outfit jingling.
"Brother we've got to go! It's almost time for my show and if they catch you in here than Surtr will..."
"You must be joking."
"Wh-what?"
"To think that you have such a low opinion of me that I'd fall for this."
"I don't-"
"Do stop. Please. Don't lower my opinion of you any more or I'll be forced to try and summon something more creative."
Corrin stared at his Nohrian sibling in desperation mouth half forming words until the sound of a metal door slamming open made them both jump.
"Hehehee I can still feel her on my skin. It's your turn hehehe Uncle Corrin go quickly behehfore they come get-Uncle?"
Corrin moved quickly to put his arms around the still giggling frame of their nephew Siegbert who lay upon the straw-covered stone looking up at the one who didn't belong there.
"Wha-what are you dohohoing here?"
"WHAT'S GOING ON IN THERE!? SEND TWINKLE-TOES OUT OR YOUR BOTH GOING DANCING!"
"Leo please! Get us out of here! They're com-"
"SHUT UP!"
"Leo please!"
"BROTHER WHAT AR-"
"ENOUGH OF YOUR STUPID GAMES!"
"Gehet out there Uncle! I dohohon't want to dahahnce again!"
"Pathetic. Where in this book are the words to dispel this filth?"
"Ugh fine then be a pill." Said a new voice.
Corrin's frame seemed to blur and fade before surging. It changed and soon Leo was staring at what looked like an extremely tall man with skin as red as a tomato. Curiously though Corrin had changed into that Siegbert stayed the same and expressed the appropriate reaction to his uncles change.
"Wh-AHHHHAHH!! UNCLE WHAT HAVE YOU!? WHO ARE YOU?!"
"Impressive." Leo spat out if only to break the ice.
"You forgot about him though." He said as he pointed to the confused Siegbert.
"Dispel all of your illusions if you wish to speak."
He folded his arms to illustrate his point and gave a lilting glare to what was pretending to be his trembling nephew.
"Uncle, please! I don't know what's happening but if you can help me than I beg of you! They tickle me so much and I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE! Today they had me dance while Soleil poked at my bare feet until I fell! Then...I...she...too much...oh gods her tongue"
"Oh tell him, Little Prince! Sieggy here got licked all over like he was as sweet a boy as he acts didn't you!"
The beast pulled Siegbert up to his knees and pinched at his cheeks to force them into a smile.
"Oooh, he's still a bit sticky from that. Don't worry little one Soleil's job was to protect you for so long that of course, she'd love that smile of yours. Shame she never got to tell you but now she'll get it whenever she wants!"
"Wha-What do you...I don't."
"Oh don't cry little royal. Your uncle didn't come all this way to save a sniveler did he?"
"Your puppet show is wearing on my last nerve. Stop it and speak to me as an adult."
"Oh but I am second Prince."
Leo's distaste for the creature grew at that title being brought up.
"You summoned me to save this one and King Surtr's twinkle toes didn't you? I thought you'd want to see him hence why I brought him. A shame that you're so greedy as to only want to save your family though. After all, there are so many other poor unfortunates here in Muspel. Do you want to show him your friends little Sieggy?"
"I don't believe you for a second," Leo said rolling his eyes at this pageantry he was being forced to sit through.
"I wish Prince Lyon had included how demons were such terrible bores in his writing so that I could have put a chair in this circle while I waited for you to be done."
"Oh, poor boy he just doesn't care about you does he? He must like you seeing laugh just like everyone else."
The creature pulled young Siegbert over his lap and began skittering its nails over the Princeling's lower back and perky bottom.
"AH-AHAHA-PLEASE! AHAHAHA PLEEHEESE! PLEASE NO! I NEEHEED A BREAHAHAK! I CAHAHAN'T-BAHAHAHA!"
"Oh, poor little guy. This could end but his uncle just doesn't care. Oh well, I'm sure King Surtr will appreciate you."
"That's not the real Siegbert. You don't have that kind of power."
"UNCEHEHELE! PLEEEHEESE!! MAHAHAKE HIM STOP!"
The demon pulled Siegbert up into a sitting position upon his lap and knotted his arms behind the princes. He held the Prince trapped in a full nelson while Leo looked with disgust at this whole show.
"Oh, I don't? Tell me who exactly did you think you were summoning Mister Second Prince? You can't have thought that some lower-level pit scrubber of a demon was going to help much?"
Smoke billowed and obscured both the demons lower half and Siegbert's. If Leo squinted he could see something writhing in the smoke probing all along the borders of his sacred circle.
"So let's say that is my nephew."
Hands came from the smoke and drilled their fingers hard into Siegbert's ribs at the accusation.
"I AAHHAHAM!! PLEEHEESE UHUHNCLE LEO!"
"Then he would know something that only he would know wouldn't he?"
"You're interrogating me while I play with your bound nephew in front of you? Are you sure you aren't the demon?"
"What did your mother say to me when Xander assigned Soleil as your retainer?"
"PLEEHEESE! I-I CAN'T! NAHAHAHT THEHEHERE!"
"Aww but you've got such a cute little tum. Ticklish too huh? BEAK!"
Suegbert's stomach fat was pinched hard by the phantom hands and the lad practically doubled over. He tried to grab at his tormentor's hands but his weak hands were slapped away to allow his soft baby fat to be pinched and poked.
Leo tapped his slipper clad foot impatiently and waited for an answer but it seemed that Sieggy wasn't going to be allowed a break to play trivia.
"Alright so dispelling takes three steps..." He mumbled as he flipped through the pages of the book.
"Hey, hey! Fine! Answer him then. Your no use to me if he won't give me anything.
"She...she told me that there was nobody b-better."
"Not even close."
"Dammit worth a shot."
The room went to darkness for a second and Leo breathed a sigh of exasperation. He'd kept his cool but he'd been secretly hoping that he really could have saved young Siegbert. Sudden light attacked Leo's eyes and he took a step back instinctively. Remembering himself though he stopped at the last second so as not to exit the circle. He looked back at where he'd almost placed his foot and saw a flower blooming. In confusion, he peered closer and saw it's petals coated in a sticky and shiny liquid. The center of the flower was filled with flailing tendrils that he suspected probably ached at missing out at tasting his sole. He couldn't help but feel smug at having dodged that little trick until he heard the creaking behind him. He turned and saw the horrible game that had been constructed. In the center of the room was a small stone that had a chain going three ways protruding from it. Each of the ends of those chains kept the ankles of three heroes in place. Siegbert...the real one he assumed was one. The other two were darker-skinned and Leo supposer they were the heroes who'd been captured in the last sortie Gray and Boey. Each of the three was still in their full battle clothes but with their arms bound tightly to their sides. Save one bared foot each that the chains secured. The stone was surrounded by more of those flowers that Leo had almost stepped upon. Specifically three of them, One for each boy. Leo winced as he realized that Boey and Gray were overpowering by pulling on their chains and Siegbert's as a result, he was getting pulled closer and closer. As in slow motion, his nephew's barefoot was pulled into the flower which quivered and moved to greet the size 9. The petals folded to greet the foot and the tendrils immediately began to lap all along the trapped foot's sole and reaching out new ones to savage the ball and heel with attention. Tears pricked in the boy's eyes as he dropped to his knees still trying to pull his foot free. A heavy metal clink rang through the room and Leo swallowed hard at how the chain binding Siegbert suddenly had no give for him to escape. Siegbert sank from his knees to face down on the floor still trying to hold it in as the chains on Boey and Gray started to reel in.
"What do you think? I don't know how Surtr got those flowers but their certainly effective don't you think. So you don't think I'm cherry-picking I'll let you know. This keeps repeating once they're all in. It lets them go then starts winding them all in again."
Leo whirled around to confront the tricky demon that was now behind him but was struck at how different it was. If it hadn't the same disgustingly smooth sounding tone Leo would have believed he'd been handed off to another denizen of the pits. Now the creature that stood before him hulked even here in the dungeons it stood somewhere between 12 and 15 feet and was hunched against the stone ceiling which Leo believed was entirely intentional to add to its intimidation factor. Its human features were gone and now he spoke to what seemed to be a reptilian creature's who's head tapered down into an anteater like tiny mouth, complete with a tongue that protruded from it and hung several feet down, coiling and twisting as if alive. It extended a clawed hand and Leo shuddered at how it looked big enough to easily hold his entire body. Still, he remained consciously aware not to jostle about too much in the circle for risk of exiting it. The creature's hand hung in the air expectantly as Leo raised his eyebrow in confusion.
"It's called a handshake. A way to greet each other as equals and to signal the cease of hostilities." The creature rumbled.
Leo sighed at the way he was being talked down to.
"Yes, I'm quite aware of what it is. I'm just wondering if you thought me a fool who'd exit this circle of protection for such an obvious trick "
"Looking down on people and tricking them come hand in hand as a demon so you can't really blame me for trying. That circle of yours doesn't offer as much protection as you think though."
"Hence why you're trying to trick me into exiting it, I'm sure."
"My name is pronounced Fric."
"I'm sorry?"
"When you summoned me in the chant. You said my name as Frac. A common mistake but it's Fric."
"Sorry if my apologies don't seem sincere but I was simply writing what Prince Lyon wrote. Oh and also if I don't offer them at all due to my distaste for you."
"There's no reason to be so hostile. You summoned me after all."
"Yes and then you greeted me by tickling a facsimile of my missing nephew and brother into a puddle of mewling goo."
"It's not like that's not happening you know. I just showed you it as an attempt to trick you."
Boey was the next to fall. The mage placed his foot wrong and it skidded out from under him. The white-haired mage was dragged upon his robe-clad bottom into the flower which eagerly wrapped up his wiggling size 11. The tendrils forced apart his toes and allowed new ones that were clad with fuzz to run through the sensitive canyons. Leo didn't know why he knew that's what was happening in there at first but quickly rationalized as just another trick by this demon "Fric" to get under his skin. He adjusted his night robes uncomfortably all the same and winced at how his comrade threw his head back immediately in uncontrollable laughter.
"BAHAHAHA NOO-NOO-NAHAHAOO! NAHAHAT AGAHAHIN!"
"You did want to save them didn't you? I was just illustrating what you were saving them from. In case you'd forgotten."
"Yes, I'm sure. So now you'll say this is actually him?"
"It is."
"Can you prove you are not lying again."
"AHAHAHA I CAHAHN'T TAKE IHIHT!"
Boey yelled himself hoarse as Gray's form was dragged along the floor towards the flower.
"Suppose I can't. They can't see us or hear us so there's no way to communicate. I worked hard on this trick so if you don't mind."
A puff of smoke and suddenly standing between Leo and Fric was...unmistakeably another Leo. His doppelganger stood before them completely nude save for-
"Oh, good gods. Why would you?"
Adorning the exact duplicate of Leo's own rump was a tight pair of underwear that his sister had gotten him as a joke. They were white and adorned with Leo's favorite food.
"Tomatoes. Gods, Camilla still thinks I have that."
"Yes, and it was rude of you to hide it under the bed."
"Oh so either you read my thoughts or you have access to the whole room except me inside the circle."
"You're so sharp you'll cut yourself. Now button up for a second. Put her there!"
The doppelganger took Fric's claw and shook it with a smile so bright Leo wanted sunscreen. Unsurprisingly Fric's claws closed over the stupid copies hand and pulled him out of his circle. The fake Leo tried to plant his heels and pull his hand back but then started laughing.
"WHAHAT? STAHAHAP LICKING IHIHIT!"
Leo noted with a raised eyebrow that saliva dripped out from between the hand of the faux him and Fric's claw. He assumed that creature had shapeshifted a mouth to its palm and was now assaulting his palm with the tongue from said mouth. Leo examined his own palm. Could it be ticklish? He'd always focused more on magecraft than swordsmanship and used a number of Hoshidan creams to soften his skins. He supposed he could be ticklish there. Gray's foot was finally engulfed by the flower and Leo's mind pictured that is unlike the others was attacked simply two or three long and wet tendrils, not unlike tongue in his current form. They wound themselves along the swordfighters foot and writhed and whipped while the man cackled and shook with laughter.
"NOHOHOO! NOOHOO NOOHOO! I HAHAHATE THIS ONE THE MOST! STAHAHAP THAT YOU WEIHIHIRD PLAHAHANT! HEHEHEELPP MEE!!"
"So is this you showing me what you want?"
"No silly prince this is me showing you what is."
"Quite so I suppose you devouring my hand like that is just in the other room?"
"Oh, that! That was for me yes. I suppose I did want that. You got me."
"So if that was a lie then how do I know any of this is true?"
"I suppose you don't. All I wanted was a little fun but if you don't want the power to help everyone..."
"I never said tha-"
Leo looked away for just a second and the scene changed once more. Now they were in a much more well-lit room. Torches adorned the walls and in the center of the room, something hung from the ceiling. Leo peered at it quizzically but it was too far away to get a good look.
"Just walk over to it lazybones."
"By the gods give up already. That's not even slightly clever."
"Fine then."
Suddenly Leo was right next to the action. So close that he could see the sweat on Corrin's skin as he gasped for air.
The silver-haired prince was suspended in a harness by his waist and was clad in only a dancer's sarong. Bright red ribbons mummified his arms above his head. On either side of him were two more from Surtr's list of victims L'Arachel and Micaiah. Micaiah had one of Corrin's size 12's in her hand and was tracking a finger along through his toes while L'Arachel was dancing her fingers over his ribs.
"Now c'mon Twinkle-Toes you've got to remember the steps. It's heel, toe, heel, toe-"
Her finger went to the spots she named in time.
"-And then sliiiide"
Down the sole, it went.
"Then one, two, three and biiiig finish!"
The toes were counted, twiddled and the baby pinched as she built to...
"The big spin!"
Her nail worked up a whirlpool on the ball of Corrin's foot.
"Now play it back Twinkle-Toes."
"Heel,tohohe, heeheel toe, tohohoheHEHEHE!"
L'Arachel went wild in the dragon princes pitties upsetting his balance and causing him to hang from his side in the harness horizontal to the floor.
"He's not getting it! I'm soooo tired of him messing up our performances. This is why only that bard's getting invited to the King's chambers!"
"BAHAHAHA I'M SOHOOHOHRRYY!!"
"See he's sorry L'Arachel! So let's mess up at least another five or six times and disappoint King Surtr!"
"I WAHAHAS A BEHEHETTER DANCER SOLO!"
"You were but now we're a troupe. And we go Heel, toe, heel, toe-"
They resumed tickling Corrin's but now they made no sound. Leo heard something else though. A faint sound of wet slapping and familiar laughter. He looked back to see that the false him had been brought along as well and had looked as if he also had been given the advice to walk over and actually fallen for it. Now he was pinned under yet another new form for the demon. Which had long purple hair and-
"Oh by the dragon of dusk you must be joking."
The tomato bottomed Leo across the room had been tackled to the ground as soon as he'd trod out of the circle by none other than his own older sister Camilla who was now engaged in ruthlessly raspberrying him into submission. She paused to beckon and the room moved to place him right by the scene. A look over his shoulder told him that his half-brother's dance lessons weren't going any better now that they'd been muted. He looked down to see Camilla had paused and was looking up at him absentmindedly rubbing his own tingling belly. He flushed at how he'd allowed her to know that it was getting to him.
"My, my is the cold second prince starting to thaw. Don't you want Big Sisters kisses on your precious tum?"
When she spoke it was with the voice of Fric and that made Leo's skin crawl just as much as the memories from his childhood that came flooding back with the words.
"That's your most offensive form yet."
"Oh, you wound me. To think that you would say such a thing to your own big sister."
"You are NOT my sister."
"Maybe not but I have her form. If anything her body without her blood is perfect. Now, these pretty nails can explore that cute body with no nasty hang-ups to ruin the fun."
She wiggled her nails and beckoned the repulsed Prince to step from the circle and join her atop his other self's pale chest and reddened belly.
"Disgusting. I'd meant to summon a demon not....some child eager to try repulse...is there anyone I could contact for someone better?"
"No, I'm afraid the Queen is as high up the ladder as you can go sorry-I MEAN how could you say something like that your loving big sister?"
Him saying it again made Leo's skin crawl almost as much as the expression on the face of the tomato bottomed fake under her. The way he squirmed in his wet undies so disgustingly made Leo once again adjust his nightclothes. Fric noticed this and again the room whooshed past Leo causing him to blink and try and take in the sudden change. They were back in the center of the room but Corrin and the others were gone. Instead residing in the now tomato patterned harness was that disgusting pig that had his face. Between his lips was a bright red ball gag that had been patterned to look of course like a tomato.
Leo bristled at not only the change and the disrespect but also at how he couldn't look away from it. He searched for the demon but couldn't see what trick it was playing this time. He checked behind himself and the other him and came up empty. He searched around the room from inside his circle and did everything in his power to not look at how that disgrace in the harness was shaking and murmuring something through his gag.
"Do you play all these same tricks with everyone who summons you?"
"It's only been you and one other and you've made it much further than him." came a voice from beneath his feet.
Leo looked down and lost his composure finally due to the shock at the sight of the burning fire beneath him. He fell back onto his rear and just barely managed to keep himself inside the circle when he realized that the ground was still just as solid beneath him as it always had been. Both the Leo's were now suspended over a circle of white-hot fire in the center of the room. The disgusting Leo trilled in delight at the new heat as the disgusted one squinted down at the black spot that was growing in the fire. It was getting bigger and splitting off into lines that were spreading out beneath them. Leo was scared that these tentacles of blackness that were coming towards him and would be able to touch him. They reached up and as they drew closer he could make out more details about them that scared him even more. They dripped with slime but yet had fuzzy patches along them in random places and feathery tufts in other. One looked absolutely maddeningly bristly while the looked soft enough to sleep atop. They were drawing closer, higher and higher they reached towards Leo and Not Leo. He swallowed as they traced along the solid bottom of his circle of protection, tracing along under his feet. He tried moving the size 13's away but found they followed where ever he moved his feet too. Leo wondered when he had lost one of his night slippers when he was woken from the trance by the rattling of the device that held his doppelganger. The tendrils had wrapped themselves around the tomato boy's ankles tight and slowly wound themselves up his over his thighs and around his waist. They wiggled and vibrated as they did so and made the gagged hero's due throw his head from side to side at the sensation.
One of the tendrils was wrapped around a thin piece of wood that it brought up to the defenseless chest. It played what Leo realized was a brush along with the slight pectorals and wrote a message.
"You should feel proud Leo!" It read across the one side. "I'm definitely strong enough to save anyone and everyone." The other side said. The little brush played with the fake's nipples as Leo crossed his arms over his chest defensively.
"Your phrasing is...odd. I sense a trick in the words. You said that you could. Not that you would. I assume that should I agree then you'll have your fun with me?"
Another Leo was forced up between them also wrapped in tentacles that played along with silver forks in his restrained armpits. They twirled the short blond hairs like pasta as they dragged along the hollows. The tendrils bent this Leo into an L to show off a painted sole that read "You're so smart!" The other foot was clad in-
"My slipper! So it fell from the circle? Did you expect me to reach for it?"
It fell from the wiggling foot to reveal another message.
"Can't trick you!"
Leo looked away as this doppel's face was even harder to look at due to that disgusting expression of pure joy on it. "Enough of your tricks Fomortiis! Cease whatever spell your working and instead let us arrange the terms of our deal!"
The air whooshed through Leo's hair and made him pause as the room changed again.
He turned to see both of his copies lounging on their bellies in opposite directions over a familiar pair of muscled calves. Leo's eyes traveled over the abdominals to see that now this demon was repeating itself but with his other older sibling. His brother Xander now sat shirtless with two copies of Leo draped over his lap. He waved hello with a hand that held his missing slipper.
"That name you called me...did you think it was mine?"
"Is it not? You've been rather clumsy at hiding it."
"I was only trying to trick you again."
"Why?"
"To make you unsure. You've been so ahead of me the whole time but were you really? Or was all of it a trick as well? How much that you know is real?"
"Wha-what do you mean by that?"
"Well now, why would I tell you? All I'll say is that maybe that circle protects you but not the rest of the castle."
"Wh-what?!"
That's when Leo heard it. If he focused to drown out the supposed Fomortiis's blatherings he could hear it faintly. Screaming and battle with the faint stony echo of the castle applied.
"What are you doing?! I thought we were to make a deal!"
"You still don't seem to realize what's happening. Tell me what do you think I am?"
"A demon!"
The creature that was neither Xander or Fomortiis chuckled. It waved it's hand dismissively and the room lightened. Leo could now see that they were in his room but that the hole in the floor from before was still there. Now though rather than fire from before fog rolled from it. Some of it was close enough to Leo's for him to feel just how cold it was. The most pressing concern though was the bound and gagged woman before the hole. Camilla pulled at her bonds and yelled something into her gag at Leo when she saw.
"BRMMPPH? WHMMPPH HHMMPHH?!"
Leo was at a loss for what to say as suddenly one of the tendrils snaked around his sister's ankle and pulled it from beneath her.
"NOO! GIVE HER BACK! GIVE HER BACK!"
"So self-centered. How many have gone down that hole so far and you only care when it's your sister?"
"Wh-what?! How many?!"
"Do you remember Leo? When we were young and did something wrong?"
It spoke in his brother's voice now and ignored the panicking prince's words. Brandishing the slipper Xander's fingers reached down and pulled down the tomato patterned bottoms of both of the still gagged Leo's before him. His free hand caressed their pale bottoms as Leo's own tightened. His hands flew to it as his composure was now long gone.
The door was thrown open and a shade wearing the armor of Muspel marched a prisoner in. They wore only pajamas and had a sack over their head so Leo couldn't discern their identity. Instead, they were unceremoniously shoved into the pit as the shade exited. Tears pricked in the corners of Leo's eyes as both bad memories and intense guilt for what he had done flooded his mind.
"What was it the maids said when they punished, you, second prince? "This is for all." That's right. They would say "This is for all" when they paddled your bottom with their slippers."
Xander's hand brought down hard into one of the bottoms before him and made his guest moan into his gag. The hand came down for another as the pig with his face squirmed over his brother'slap and Leo's own bottom ached in sympathy.
"That was to let you know that your behavior didn't befit a Prince of the realm. It was a lesson you needed to be taught early as not just a child of the King of the one of the strongest military powers but also as an aspiring mage."
THWACK!
Leo sunk to his knees as another shade marched in a prisoner and flung her to the pit. Leo watched in horror as it grew bigger this time and if he squinted he could see things squirming inside through the icy fog.
THWACK!
"You needed to know that actions have consequences and that for a royal those consequences are tenfold."
THWACK!
Leo's hands ran along his own bottom as he squeezed his eyes shut to not look at the scene anymore. He couldn't bear it but he could still hear the whoosh of air and muffled scream of another being thrown to the pit.
"After all who knows who could take advantage of a foolish prince who thirsts for power. When he extends an invitation into the realm of the dead who would see it first?"
Leo's eyes shot open at that and took in the sight. His brother was gone once more and now the true form of his tormentor sat before him with his simulacrum laid atop her ragged dress. Hel's bony fingers danced over the tomato red bottoms of the two tomato boys and made the peach-shaped rumps jiggle and squirm.
"Wh-how?! I DID NOT SUMMON YOU!"
"Where do you think demons come from boy? Who is it they torment? The dead!"
One more hooded form was thrown into the foggy pit before Leo as he swallowed hard at the realization of what he'd done. The queen of the dead chuckled and played her fingers along the thrashing boy's buttocks while Leo pounded a fist against the floor of his circle.
"You invited me here and gave me free rein over this castle and all the souls I could catch in it. So I will make you a deal my prize."
Leo sniffled as yet another was thrown into the pit but couldn't look away from the bony fingers that toyed with his bottoms. Suddenly he couldn't think of anything but those bones. What did they feel like running along his skin? Were they as cold as he imagined?
"Leave that circle and swear to be my tickle-pet second prince. Come home with me and let me explore every inch of your body to see what noises I can force you to make. Do so and I'll stop. I will leave with only you.
"Y-y-you swear? Yo-you'll le-let Camilla go?! And the others?! Thi-this isn't just a tri-trick t-to make me le-leave the ci-circle?"
Hel's hand covered her mouth but through the bones, her black smile was easy to see. Leo wasn't looking at the god of death's smile. Instead, all that was on his mind was how those fingers would feel roaming along his body for eternity. He was curious at how they'd feel and that disgusted him but most of all he would be able to save the others! If he didn't give himself to Hel than what kind of person would he be?
"Silly boy that circle is meaningless. If I wanted you in there I could have you just like these two. Watch."
She held up the slipper that he'd lost and for a second it seemed to shimmer. She extended one bone towards and the second it tapped the sole he felt fingers on his other foot still hiding in its match.
"Whahah-what? How could you-how are you?!"
"Scitchy-kitchy second prince!"
The finger wiggled along the slippers sole and Leo could feel fingers along his own pink foot. He tried to pull the slipper off but that just made Hel speed up her exploration. He yanked and pulled at the shoe but when felt his toes being pinched and plucked he threw his head back. The Prince rolled and beat his fists trying to get relief but couldn't until Hel calmed down and allowed him to breathe.
"See? My giggly princey if I'd wanted to take you I could have snatched you away in the night. I want you to give yourself to me. Present yourself like the tasty little dish you are and I'll let them go."
"But...how?! The circle should-the spell!"
"Blah, blah, blah do you give up or no?"
"I-I-I but-"
Another prisoner was thrown in as Leo's mind raced.
"Y-yo-you pr-promise?!"
"Yes."
"This isn't-"
"If you promise yourself to me and exit the circle then I'll take only you."
"I....F-fine."
"Say it."
"I pr-promise to g-go wit-with y-you..."
Leo moved to get up but couldn't for some reason. He felt something was wrong...
"Just stick a hand out. That'll do."
"F-fine."
"Refer to me properly pet. As your mistress."
"Yes, Mistress."
Leo stuck his hand out and touched the ground. All of a sudden the room swirled and changed once more. The two Leo's on the ground faces changed from utter drooling contentment to contempt. They shook their heads at Leo and sneered through their tomato gags at how he'd been fooled. The pit disappeared as well like it had never even been there. Leo searched the room for where the prisoners could be but then noticed something else. He was holding his own ankle in his hand for some reason and his own nails were pressed into the pink sole.
"Wha-what? Bu-but...did I?"
Cold hands of bone closed around his wrists and pulled him back into the embrace of Hel. He looked up at her then at his former doppelgangers. He paled at their true forms for before him were now the Princes of Askr and Nifl respectively with their hands bound behind them and tomato's between their lips. Alphonse shook his head while the taller Hrid still thrashed and pulled at his bindings, refusing to give up.
"When did you-"
"They almost interrupted us but thankfully you were so deep in my illusions that you didn't notice. Your mind was like putty second prince. I even made you tickle YOURSELF into submission. A promise is a promise though.
"YOU PROMISED I'D BE THE ONLY ONE YOU'D-"
"Shh"
Smoke came from between Hel's lips and filled Leo's vision. He breathed deeply of it and the room swirled. His limbs felt like jelly and his eyelids heavy. He heard Hel's words but didn't understand.
"I'll keep you. They'll be given to Surtr."
The two shook as smoke filled the room and whirled about. When the door was broken down by the concerned sisters of the three there was no trace of them.
Leo shivered in fear in the seat he was strapped too. He could see nothing around him but blackness. The last thing he remembered was passing out due to Hel's mist in her lap. It felt like he'd been sitting in this chair for an eternity. When he'd first awoken he was naked and afraid bound to this chair but now he was creeping upon annoyance. He tested the skeletal hands that gripped his wrists and ankles tightly and kept them trapped in place finding that still they gave no inch. He also eyed the most worrisome part of his bondage. The single skeletal hand that protruded right between his thighs. It held a black as night feather straight up and hadn't moved an inch the entire time he'd been here.
"Why is she doing this..." He wondered aloud only to immediately be greeted with an answer.
"Why? Why did I wait so long to do this? I've been watching you for a while my ripe little fruit."
Hel stepped forth from the darkness and gave the naked Nohrian a start.
"Wh- How long hav-have you been there?! When did you come in?"
"Come in? I've always been here. You time works differently in Hel. A year or even a decade in here is whatever I want it to be to the outside world. I supposed a bit of waiting for you was fair considering how long I waited to take you. Watching you take care of not just a tasty body but also cultivate a delectable brain through my magic has been a treat. To finally sample you...oh I'm ecstatic."
She trailed a bone along Leo's cheek and frowned at how he tried to pull away. The hand between his legs responded by suddenly resting its plume upon one of Leo's thighs.
"AH!"
"You see I have little use for most of the heroes that Surtur so desperately wants to collect but when I saw you I was quite taken."
The hand trailed the feather slowly up Leo's thigh and made the Prince fidget about snickering.
"Hehehee whahahat?"
"A bit of idle interrogation got some nice information from that Siegbert you were so eager to save. He told me about his intellectual uncle Leo and I was ever so interested."
The feather now traveled along the underside of Leo's sack and his fidgeting was getting worse.
"I asked Surtr if I could keep a hero for myself and he relented. He did ask for some hands-on time so don't get too needy pet. We will have to share but don't worry I'll keep to our arrangement. I get most of your time."
Now the feather went down Leo's other thigh in the opposite direction.
"You heeheheehe won! Why are you puhuhnishing me?"
"Punishing? No my dear boy why would I do that?! You've done nothing wrong. In fact, you've done only what I wanted you too since you first tried that silly ritual to lure something from Hel."
Now the feather teased the underside of Leo's knees making his legs jump and try to flee. Hel frowned again and suddenly his chair protruded a rest for his legs that allowed the hands to pull upon his ankles hard enough to straighten them out and allow the feather easy access under his knees.
"You see this is training Leo. House training if you will."
"Hoho-house training?!"
"Yes. You see part of what made you appealing to me is your mind and that wasn't going to very well settle you into life as a ticklepet would it?"
Another set of skeletal hands erupted from the chair in front of his feet. Their long fingers pointed at the sky while the feather again began another trek up Leo's thigh.
"No, you'd just keep trying to escape or talk your way out of here instead of laying back and taking it in that you'd lost. So this is us getting all of that out of the way."
The fingers placed themselves against Leo's toepads and began sliding doooown slowly, matching the maddening pace of the feather at Leo's balls again.
"Neheheoo! I ssweehear I wohohn't!! Stahahap!"
He begged as the fingers began traveling along his warm pink soles and the feather got to his other thigh again.
"So we're going to get all of that out of your system here. We're going to stay in here and tickle-"
Every time she said the word more happened. Leo's wrists were dragged up above his head.
"Tickle"
A pair of arms emerged and played artists brushes along Leo's erect nipples.
"BAHAHA DOHOHN'T!"
"Tickle"
Another set of hands emerged to jam long-nailed fingers into his now exposed armpits.
"NO! NOHOHO! NOHOHO PLEEASE!"
"Tickle"
More hands joined the fray to begin kneading the baby fat of Leo's belly like dough.
"GEHEHEHT AWAHAHAY!"
"Tickle"
A thousand legged centipede emerged and began to wind its way through the forest of Leo's toes before getting lost and ending up back where it started only to set out once more on its journey.
"AHAHAHA!! MIHIHISTRESS I'LL NEHEHEVER-"
"Tickle"
More bony fingers emerged to explore Leo's own ribs as if trying to liberate them.
"AHAHAHA MEHEHERCY!! I'M LOHOHOSING MY MIND!"
"Oh, pretty thing don't worry. I'll never let that happen. Maybe to Surtr, that's okay but a mind is a terrible thing to waste so I'll make sure you are always aware and here. You'll know what's happening but those rebellious thoughts will be long gone."
The flowers from the dungeon were produced and they enveloped Leo's balled fists. They pried open his hands and played tendrils along his palms and in between his fingers.
"GAAUHAHA GAHAHAWDS SAVE ME!"
"You see I call you a pet affectionately but you are more than that."
More feathers emerged and stuffed themselves into Leo's face. Tormenting his neck, Teasing his ears and bullying his nose.
"You see I the Queen of the dead am looking, for...a King."
She reached down and teased a finger up Leo's throbbing cock. Smiling as it released when she reached the tip.
"So what do you say?"
The feather between Leo's legs was speeding up.
"Do you Leo-"
"GAHAHAHA!"
Faster, faster, faster. Thighs, balls, knees. Thighs, balls, knees.
"Take this god of the dead."
"DODHOHON'T!"
It was moving over each area so fast.
"To be had and held by.
"AHAHAHAW!"
The fluffy buzzsaw was going wild.
"For eternity and forever."
"AHhahHAHAHHhahHAHHA!"
"For death will never take us."
"HAHAHAHAHPLEEEHEEAESE!"
"I was looking for a different answer. No matter I will ask again later. There is no time here in Hel."
"I'LL DIHIHIHIE!"
"There is no death here Second Prince. Only what I will."
She sat upon Leo's lap and nuzzled her head into his neck. Waving off a few of the feathers assigned to it so as not to bother her.
"Your laughter is quite beautiful. So very soothing. Let me just rest my eyes for a year or two and then I'll ask again. second prince."
"NOHOHOO PLEEHEHEASE! I DOHOHOO! GAHAWDS MIHIHISTRESS I DOHOOHOO!"
Leo got no answer as his bride to be dozed peacefully. Enjoying the sleep of the dead.
Leo's eyes shot open and he sat up breathing heavily. The nightmare was still fresh in his mind. He rolled over on the bed and snuggled close to his cold wife. It still snuck back every once in a while. The funny story of how they'd met. It had been an ordeal but he supposed becoming King of the Dead would require sacrifices. He kissed her cheek and smiled at how her black lips curled up into a smile in her sleep. His eyes alighted upon the open door that he knew led back to Askr and what she'd assured him would have been the very moment before they'd met. He'd been trained well and thoroughly though so not once had the thought of it passed through his head. Draping a leg over his wife he adjusted the tight undies his wife had gifted him that read "TICKLEPET" along the bottom. He snuggled in and drifted off back to sleep atop her. He needed rest before she woke and they began their games for the day. Today was toe day after all.
"Yes, dear sister." The Sorcerous Prince droned back clearly not listening but instead nervously darting his eyes towards the book in his arms.
"Leo, please. This isn't a regular war anymore. I know that my little brother can handle himself but Surtr's using horrid tricks and I can't bear the thought of losing my last brother to that brute."
Leo was smothered in between his tall sisters ample bosom and gasped for air as the woman again fought her ridiculous strength and squeezed the air from him.
"C-Camilla! C-can't bre-"
"Oh! So sorry my dear. It's just that when my darling little brothers in my arms like that I think for a second that I can keep you there forever. That way I won't lose you like the other two or my dear nephew. Oh, I'm just so happy that at least dear sweet Forrest is safe in our own world."
"CAMILLA I STILL CAN'T BREATH!"
"Oh! So sorry brother."
Leo was released from the purple-haired woman's vice grip and for a second remembered the pity he'd felt towards anyone on the opposite side from his sister when they were in their own world. Though here it was worth it he supposed due to how many of her there were.
"Leo look at me."
"Sister I need to.."
"Please, Leo promise me."
"Camilla I..."
"I just can't lose anymore..."
"SISTER ENOUGH!"
His sister adopted a look like he'd wounded her but he knew that stopping now would just get him pulled back into a bone-shattering hug and he'd never get anything done.
"I am no child Camilla! I am a Prince of Nohr and responsible for the lives of others just like you! Every time I step on the battlefield I know that there is a chance I will not return just as you do. All the same, to dwell on that is no better. So you will leave me be and I will return to analyzing the movements of Muspel in the hopes that I find something to save not just our siblings but all those King Surtr has taken."
"Oh Leo I know you've grown into a fine prince but surely you can indulge your only Big Sister in worrying over you."
Leo rubbed his temples as his sisters changing tactics stumped him more than any opponent he'd ever faced in war.
"That said I want you to know that no I will not be giving you back Brynhildr and that Prince Alfonse stopped by my room today to talk about an interesting conversation that you two had in the library."
Leo went pale at that last part and cursed under his breath. He'd thought that he'd successfully convinced the Prince of Askr of his innocuousness but apparently, Alfonse was sharper than he gave him credit for.
"Despite his concerns, I told Alfonse that my younger brother was far too intelligent to dabble in anything as dumb as Demonology. However, I did still promise to come and check up on you about it."
"We-well that's fine Si-sister because as you can see I've got nothing related to a practice as dangerous as that here."
"Indeed. Save that book you are trying ever so hard to conceal from your dear sister. Be a dear and hand it over, Leo."
"I-I surely have no id-AHH SISTER NO!"
Though he was of average height and a slight build Leo had always been bothered by how easily his siblings could overpower him. Both Xander and Camilla were more than strong enough to do whatever they wanted to him and in Camilla's case this was usually picking him up like a sack of tomatoes whenever he'd been naughty. He struggled slightly upon her shoulder but she held him steadfast over her shoulder with one hand quite easily.
"Leo dear don't make me ask again. Unless you want some help with your studies?"
At that threat, Leo went cold as it had been a long time since his sister had used that phrase. When they were both younger, Leo a bratty adolescent and his sister a burgeoning teen he'd been placed in her care many times due to how busy Xander was with his own duties as the Crown Prince. Leo had not made things easy on his sister and had been quite fond of hiding from her with a tome to pass the time until she found him and dragged him from his hole. That had all changed when one day his dressing gown had gotten tangled and Camilla's fingers had drawn along his ribs. The Prince's ticklishness had been revealed and from that day he was putty in his sister's hands, molding him into the proper young adult that now stood before her. She'd later used the same trick to get both Corrin and Elise in line and from what he'd heard was fond of using it on not only her own son Percy but also all five of her nephews and the male version of young Kana she'd discovered in Askr. Not to say that the boy's mother or Kana herself were spared from Camilla's etiquette lessons but just like Leo, Elise, Corrin, and Xander had learned as youths it was all out of love and to help them better themselves. He just hopes the children wouldn't be as foolish as they were and try to team up for revenge.
Now though for her to bring up those old tricks here with the effects of the curse hanging over the land made Leo's toes curl inside his night slippers.
"Fine! Take the book the sister!"
"Thank you, Leo. I would like the real one as well."
"Whatever do you mea-"
"You know Princess Hinoka's pegasus has been molting lately. I wonder if she's kept any of the feathers..."
"It's under the bed."
"Thank you, Leo."
Leo breathed a sigh of relief but was wise to not let his guard down as he ducked out of the way of his sister's attempt to seize him.
"Ple-please Camilla I've given you what you wanted!"
"And I'm trying to give you what you wanted! Clearly, you have no greater desire than to be tickled pink until your brains leak from your ears so why not let your sister do it rather than Surtr?".
"I WANT NOTHING LIKE THAT!"
"Then you'll promise big sister that you are done with this demon business?"
"If I summon one though it could show us how to-"
"If you want a demon so badly you've got one here. A tickle demon."
Camilla lunged at Leo who just got away but looked from the corner he was now trapped in. He took the fabric of his nightshirt between his fingers nervously and nodded his head frantically.
"Fine fine! Point received!"
"That's the good little brother I helped raise! Don't stay up too late now as tomorrow we'll have breakfast together. Sleep tight Leo!"
She took him into another spine straightening hug before turning to leave with both his decoy book and what Leo had said was the real one. She blew another kiss at her gasping brother as she closed the door behind her.
Leo rubbed at his tender lower back and wondered how they could be losing a war with something like her on their side before fishing under his pillow and pulling out the real tome. He locked the door quietly knowing that if she or Xander wanted that the wood wouldn't stop them. He knelt down and began etching upon the floor with the chalk to make the symbols. He felt bad about lying to his sister and about how he'd stolen the decoy tome she'd taken from one of the other two versions of himself that dwelled here in the castle. That particular version of himself hadn't seemed that interested though and instead prattled on about the sandwiches. Leo didn't really like that Leo but at least he was more upbeat than the other one who only sulked about in a swimsuit. That one made Leo feel like he should be cheerier but then the sandwiches one was abit too upbeat for Leo's taste so he usually just felt like he wanted to be more alone. His missing brother and nephew weighed heavily on his mind and so he'd decided to do something about it. He'd heard from the other heroes about what happened to those in Surtr's care and a good few had seen Corrin's new life dancing mindlessly for his new king. Nobody could save him then but now Leo had a plan to get them out before Siegbert got a matching outfit or something worse. He knew he was far from the first to try this and his toes curled again at the fates of Sothe and Micaiah.
With the circle finished Leo stood up and stretched the stiffness out of his legs and back before going to get the ingredients together for the solution. These had been trickier to get together but thankfully there were enough heroes that he didn't have to worry about getting caught with that. He sparked the flint over the bowl and coughed as the smoke started. He placed it by the portion of the circle that the tome had indicated and picked up the tome to begin the chant. Prince Lyon's notes were a bit hard to read but he believed he'd deciphered it.
"J-joule ela-elam sen gahad." He stammered out unsurely as he tried to read out the Gradan's messy writings.
"Bors hagan manj FREC!"
He yelled the last word as he expected something dramatic to herald the incantation's effect but was met with nothing.
"Let me try it without the lights" the Prince mumbled stepping over the circle gingerly to extinguish the candles in his room.
"Hope I don't have to get more of this stuff. Alfonse would definitely get wind and tell Camilla."
Leo sparked the bowl again and stepped into the circle again to try the chant.
"Joule elam sen gahad! Bors hagan manj FREC!"
He looked around the room and again saw nothing.
"Dammit. Nothing. Well, I suppose if Lyon had been any good at summoning demons he would have been stronger-"
Leo stopped his mutterings and stopped to take in his surroundings. It was colder in here than it had been a second. He swatted at the phantom feeling of something on his neck before mentally chiding himself at jumping at nothing.
"L-Leo? Br-brother is that you?!"
Leo's skin crawled at the sound of a familiar voice in the darkness and turned. A shape came forth from the darkness, that of his brother Corrin. The pointy-eared Prince shivered in the sheer dancer's outfit that Surtr had placed him in and blinked just as incredulously at the sight as Leo did.
"What-what are you doing here?! How did you get here!? Did they capture you?? CAN YOU GET ME OUT!"
Leo stared mouth agape as Corrin crawled forward on his hands and knees with the bells on his outfit jingling.
"Brother we've got to go! It's almost time for my show and if they catch you in here than Surtr will..."
"You must be joking."
"Wh-what?"
"To think that you have such a low opinion of me that I'd fall for this."
"I don't-"
"Do stop. Please. Don't lower my opinion of you any more or I'll be forced to try and summon something more creative."
Corrin stared at his Nohrian sibling in desperation mouth half forming words until the sound of a metal door slamming open made them both jump.
"Hehehee I can still feel her on my skin. It's your turn hehehe Uncle Corrin go quickly behehfore they come get-Uncle?"
Corrin moved quickly to put his arms around the still giggling frame of their nephew Siegbert who lay upon the straw-covered stone looking up at the one who didn't belong there.
"Wha-what are you dohohoing here?"
"WHAT'S GOING ON IN THERE!? SEND TWINKLE-TOES OUT OR YOUR BOTH GOING DANCING!"
"Leo please! Get us out of here! They're com-"
"SHUT UP!"
"Leo please!"
"BROTHER WHAT AR-"
"ENOUGH OF YOUR STUPID GAMES!"
"Gehet out there Uncle! I dohohon't want to dahahnce again!"
"Pathetic. Where in this book are the words to dispel this filth?"
"Ugh fine then be a pill." Said a new voice.
Corrin's frame seemed to blur and fade before surging. It changed and soon Leo was staring at what looked like an extremely tall man with skin as red as a tomato. Curiously though Corrin had changed into that Siegbert stayed the same and expressed the appropriate reaction to his uncles change.
"Wh-AHHHHAHH!! UNCLE WHAT HAVE YOU!? WHO ARE YOU?!"
"Impressive." Leo spat out if only to break the ice.
"You forgot about him though." He said as he pointed to the confused Siegbert.
"Dispel all of your illusions if you wish to speak."
He folded his arms to illustrate his point and gave a lilting glare to what was pretending to be his trembling nephew.
"Uncle, please! I don't know what's happening but if you can help me than I beg of you! They tickle me so much and I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE! Today they had me dance while Soleil poked at my bare feet until I fell! Then...I...she...too much...oh gods her tongue"
"Oh tell him, Little Prince! Sieggy here got licked all over like he was as sweet a boy as he acts didn't you!"
The beast pulled Siegbert up to his knees and pinched at his cheeks to force them into a smile.
"Oooh, he's still a bit sticky from that. Don't worry little one Soleil's job was to protect you for so long that of course, she'd love that smile of yours. Shame she never got to tell you but now she'll get it whenever she wants!"
"Wha-What do you...I don't."
"Oh don't cry little royal. Your uncle didn't come all this way to save a sniveler did he?"
"Your puppet show is wearing on my last nerve. Stop it and speak to me as an adult."
"Oh but I am second Prince."
Leo's distaste for the creature grew at that title being brought up.
"You summoned me to save this one and King Surtr's twinkle toes didn't you? I thought you'd want to see him hence why I brought him. A shame that you're so greedy as to only want to save your family though. After all, there are so many other poor unfortunates here in Muspel. Do you want to show him your friends little Sieggy?"
"I don't believe you for a second," Leo said rolling his eyes at this pageantry he was being forced to sit through.
"I wish Prince Lyon had included how demons were such terrible bores in his writing so that I could have put a chair in this circle while I waited for you to be done."
"Oh, poor boy he just doesn't care about you does he? He must like you seeing laugh just like everyone else."
The creature pulled young Siegbert over his lap and began skittering its nails over the Princeling's lower back and perky bottom.
"AH-AHAHA-PLEASE! AHAHAHA PLEEHEESE! PLEASE NO! I NEEHEED A BREAHAHAK! I CAHAHAN'T-BAHAHAHA!"
"Oh, poor little guy. This could end but his uncle just doesn't care. Oh well, I'm sure King Surtr will appreciate you."
"That's not the real Siegbert. You don't have that kind of power."
"UNCEHEHELE! PLEEEHEESE!! MAHAHAKE HIM STOP!"
The demon pulled Siegbert up into a sitting position upon his lap and knotted his arms behind the princes. He held the Prince trapped in a full nelson while Leo looked with disgust at this whole show.
"Oh, I don't? Tell me who exactly did you think you were summoning Mister Second Prince? You can't have thought that some lower-level pit scrubber of a demon was going to help much?"
Smoke billowed and obscured both the demons lower half and Siegbert's. If Leo squinted he could see something writhing in the smoke probing all along the borders of his sacred circle.
"So let's say that is my nephew."
Hands came from the smoke and drilled their fingers hard into Siegbert's ribs at the accusation.
"I AAHHAHAM!! PLEEHEESE UHUHNCLE LEO!"
"Then he would know something that only he would know wouldn't he?"
"You're interrogating me while I play with your bound nephew in front of you? Are you sure you aren't the demon?"
"What did your mother say to me when Xander assigned Soleil as your retainer?"
"PLEEHEESE! I-I CAN'T! NAHAHAHT THEHEHERE!"
"Aww but you've got such a cute little tum. Ticklish too huh? BEAK!"
Suegbert's stomach fat was pinched hard by the phantom hands and the lad practically doubled over. He tried to grab at his tormentor's hands but his weak hands were slapped away to allow his soft baby fat to be pinched and poked.
Leo tapped his slipper clad foot impatiently and waited for an answer but it seemed that Sieggy wasn't going to be allowed a break to play trivia.
"Alright so dispelling takes three steps..." He mumbled as he flipped through the pages of the book.
"Hey, hey! Fine! Answer him then. Your no use to me if he won't give me anything.
"She...she told me that there was nobody b-better."
"Not even close."
"Dammit worth a shot."
The room went to darkness for a second and Leo breathed a sigh of exasperation. He'd kept his cool but he'd been secretly hoping that he really could have saved young Siegbert. Sudden light attacked Leo's eyes and he took a step back instinctively. Remembering himself though he stopped at the last second so as not to exit the circle. He looked back at where he'd almost placed his foot and saw a flower blooming. In confusion, he peered closer and saw it's petals coated in a sticky and shiny liquid. The center of the flower was filled with flailing tendrils that he suspected probably ached at missing out at tasting his sole. He couldn't help but feel smug at having dodged that little trick until he heard the creaking behind him. He turned and saw the horrible game that had been constructed. In the center of the room was a small stone that had a chain going three ways protruding from it. Each of the ends of those chains kept the ankles of three heroes in place. Siegbert...the real one he assumed was one. The other two were darker-skinned and Leo supposer they were the heroes who'd been captured in the last sortie Gray and Boey. Each of the three was still in their full battle clothes but with their arms bound tightly to their sides. Save one bared foot each that the chains secured. The stone was surrounded by more of those flowers that Leo had almost stepped upon. Specifically three of them, One for each boy. Leo winced as he realized that Boey and Gray were overpowering by pulling on their chains and Siegbert's as a result, he was getting pulled closer and closer. As in slow motion, his nephew's barefoot was pulled into the flower which quivered and moved to greet the size 9. The petals folded to greet the foot and the tendrils immediately began to lap all along the trapped foot's sole and reaching out new ones to savage the ball and heel with attention. Tears pricked in the boy's eyes as he dropped to his knees still trying to pull his foot free. A heavy metal clink rang through the room and Leo swallowed hard at how the chain binding Siegbert suddenly had no give for him to escape. Siegbert sank from his knees to face down on the floor still trying to hold it in as the chains on Boey and Gray started to reel in.
"What do you think? I don't know how Surtr got those flowers but their certainly effective don't you think. So you don't think I'm cherry-picking I'll let you know. This keeps repeating once they're all in. It lets them go then starts winding them all in again."
Leo whirled around to confront the tricky demon that was now behind him but was struck at how different it was. If it hadn't the same disgustingly smooth sounding tone Leo would have believed he'd been handed off to another denizen of the pits. Now the creature that stood before him hulked even here in the dungeons it stood somewhere between 12 and 15 feet and was hunched against the stone ceiling which Leo believed was entirely intentional to add to its intimidation factor. Its human features were gone and now he spoke to what seemed to be a reptilian creature's who's head tapered down into an anteater like tiny mouth, complete with a tongue that protruded from it and hung several feet down, coiling and twisting as if alive. It extended a clawed hand and Leo shuddered at how it looked big enough to easily hold his entire body. Still, he remained consciously aware not to jostle about too much in the circle for risk of exiting it. The creature's hand hung in the air expectantly as Leo raised his eyebrow in confusion.
"It's called a handshake. A way to greet each other as equals and to signal the cease of hostilities." The creature rumbled.
Leo sighed at the way he was being talked down to.
"Yes, I'm quite aware of what it is. I'm just wondering if you thought me a fool who'd exit this circle of protection for such an obvious trick "
"Looking down on people and tricking them come hand in hand as a demon so you can't really blame me for trying. That circle of yours doesn't offer as much protection as you think though."
"Hence why you're trying to trick me into exiting it, I'm sure."
"My name is pronounced Fric."
"I'm sorry?"
"When you summoned me in the chant. You said my name as Frac. A common mistake but it's Fric."
"Sorry if my apologies don't seem sincere but I was simply writing what Prince Lyon wrote. Oh and also if I don't offer them at all due to my distaste for you."
"There's no reason to be so hostile. You summoned me after all."
"Yes and then you greeted me by tickling a facsimile of my missing nephew and brother into a puddle of mewling goo."
"It's not like that's not happening you know. I just showed you it as an attempt to trick you."
Boey was the next to fall. The mage placed his foot wrong and it skidded out from under him. The white-haired mage was dragged upon his robe-clad bottom into the flower which eagerly wrapped up his wiggling size 11. The tendrils forced apart his toes and allowed new ones that were clad with fuzz to run through the sensitive canyons. Leo didn't know why he knew that's what was happening in there at first but quickly rationalized as just another trick by this demon "Fric" to get under his skin. He adjusted his night robes uncomfortably all the same and winced at how his comrade threw his head back immediately in uncontrollable laughter.
"BAHAHAHA NOO-NOO-NAHAHAOO! NAHAHAT AGAHAHIN!"
"You did want to save them didn't you? I was just illustrating what you were saving them from. In case you'd forgotten."
"Yes, I'm sure. So now you'll say this is actually him?"
"It is."
"Can you prove you are not lying again."
"AHAHAHA I CAHAHN'T TAKE IHIHT!"
Boey yelled himself hoarse as Gray's form was dragged along the floor towards the flower.
"Suppose I can't. They can't see us or hear us so there's no way to communicate. I worked hard on this trick so if you don't mind."
A puff of smoke and suddenly standing between Leo and Fric was...unmistakeably another Leo. His doppelganger stood before them completely nude save for-
"Oh, good gods. Why would you?"
Adorning the exact duplicate of Leo's own rump was a tight pair of underwear that his sister had gotten him as a joke. They were white and adorned with Leo's favorite food.
"Tomatoes. Gods, Camilla still thinks I have that."
"Yes, and it was rude of you to hide it under the bed."
"Oh so either you read my thoughts or you have access to the whole room except me inside the circle."
"You're so sharp you'll cut yourself. Now button up for a second. Put her there!"
The doppelganger took Fric's claw and shook it with a smile so bright Leo wanted sunscreen. Unsurprisingly Fric's claws closed over the stupid copies hand and pulled him out of his circle. The fake Leo tried to plant his heels and pull his hand back but then started laughing.
"WHAHAT? STAHAHAP LICKING IHIHIT!"
Leo noted with a raised eyebrow that saliva dripped out from between the hand of the faux him and Fric's claw. He assumed that creature had shapeshifted a mouth to its palm and was now assaulting his palm with the tongue from said mouth. Leo examined his own palm. Could it be ticklish? He'd always focused more on magecraft than swordsmanship and used a number of Hoshidan creams to soften his skins. He supposed he could be ticklish there. Gray's foot was finally engulfed by the flower and Leo's mind pictured that is unlike the others was attacked simply two or three long and wet tendrils, not unlike tongue in his current form. They wound themselves along the swordfighters foot and writhed and whipped while the man cackled and shook with laughter.
"NOHOHOO! NOOHOO NOOHOO! I HAHAHATE THIS ONE THE MOST! STAHAHAP THAT YOU WEIHIHIRD PLAHAHANT! HEHEHEELPP MEE!!"
"So is this you showing me what you want?"
"No silly prince this is me showing you what is."
"Quite so I suppose you devouring my hand like that is just in the other room?"
"Oh, that! That was for me yes. I suppose I did want that. You got me."
"So if that was a lie then how do I know any of this is true?"
"I suppose you don't. All I wanted was a little fun but if you don't want the power to help everyone..."
"I never said tha-"
Leo looked away for just a second and the scene changed once more. Now they were in a much more well-lit room. Torches adorned the walls and in the center of the room, something hung from the ceiling. Leo peered at it quizzically but it was too far away to get a good look.
"Just walk over to it lazybones."
"By the gods give up already. That's not even slightly clever."
"Fine then."
Suddenly Leo was right next to the action. So close that he could see the sweat on Corrin's skin as he gasped for air.
The silver-haired prince was suspended in a harness by his waist and was clad in only a dancer's sarong. Bright red ribbons mummified his arms above his head. On either side of him were two more from Surtr's list of victims L'Arachel and Micaiah. Micaiah had one of Corrin's size 12's in her hand and was tracking a finger along through his toes while L'Arachel was dancing her fingers over his ribs.
"Now c'mon Twinkle-Toes you've got to remember the steps. It's heel, toe, heel, toe-"
Her finger went to the spots she named in time.
"-And then sliiiide"
Down the sole, it went.
"Then one, two, three and biiiig finish!"
The toes were counted, twiddled and the baby pinched as she built to...
"The big spin!"
Her nail worked up a whirlpool on the ball of Corrin's foot.
"Now play it back Twinkle-Toes."
"Heel,tohohe, heeheel toe, tohohoheHEHEHE!"
L'Arachel went wild in the dragon princes pitties upsetting his balance and causing him to hang from his side in the harness horizontal to the floor.
"He's not getting it! I'm soooo tired of him messing up our performances. This is why only that bard's getting invited to the King's chambers!"
"BAHAHAHA I'M SOHOOHOHRRYY!!"
"See he's sorry L'Arachel! So let's mess up at least another five or six times and disappoint King Surtr!"
"I WAHAHAS A BEHEHETTER DANCER SOLO!"
"You were but now we're a troupe. And we go Heel, toe, heel, toe-"
They resumed tickling Corrin's but now they made no sound. Leo heard something else though. A faint sound of wet slapping and familiar laughter. He looked back to see that the false him had been brought along as well and had looked as if he also had been given the advice to walk over and actually fallen for it. Now he was pinned under yet another new form for the demon. Which had long purple hair and-
"Oh by the dragon of dusk you must be joking."
The tomato bottomed Leo across the room had been tackled to the ground as soon as he'd trod out of the circle by none other than his own older sister Camilla who was now engaged in ruthlessly raspberrying him into submission. She paused to beckon and the room moved to place him right by the scene. A look over his shoulder told him that his half-brother's dance lessons weren't going any better now that they'd been muted. He looked down to see Camilla had paused and was looking up at him absentmindedly rubbing his own tingling belly. He flushed at how he'd allowed her to know that it was getting to him.
"My, my is the cold second prince starting to thaw. Don't you want Big Sisters kisses on your precious tum?"
When she spoke it was with the voice of Fric and that made Leo's skin crawl just as much as the memories from his childhood that came flooding back with the words.
"That's your most offensive form yet."
"Oh, you wound me. To think that you would say such a thing to your own big sister."
"You are NOT my sister."
"Maybe not but I have her form. If anything her body without her blood is perfect. Now, these pretty nails can explore that cute body with no nasty hang-ups to ruin the fun."
She wiggled her nails and beckoned the repulsed Prince to step from the circle and join her atop his other self's pale chest and reddened belly.
"Disgusting. I'd meant to summon a demon not....some child eager to try repulse...is there anyone I could contact for someone better?"
"No, I'm afraid the Queen is as high up the ladder as you can go sorry-I MEAN how could you say something like that your loving big sister?"
Him saying it again made Leo's skin crawl almost as much as the expression on the face of the tomato bottomed fake under her. The way he squirmed in his wet undies so disgustingly made Leo once again adjust his nightclothes. Fric noticed this and again the room whooshed past Leo causing him to blink and try and take in the sudden change. They were back in the center of the room but Corrin and the others were gone. Instead residing in the now tomato patterned harness was that disgusting pig that had his face. Between his lips was a bright red ball gag that had been patterned to look of course like a tomato.
Leo bristled at not only the change and the disrespect but also at how he couldn't look away from it. He searched for the demon but couldn't see what trick it was playing this time. He checked behind himself and the other him and came up empty. He searched around the room from inside his circle and did everything in his power to not look at how that disgrace in the harness was shaking and murmuring something through his gag.
"Do you play all these same tricks with everyone who summons you?"
"It's only been you and one other and you've made it much further than him." came a voice from beneath his feet.
Leo looked down and lost his composure finally due to the shock at the sight of the burning fire beneath him. He fell back onto his rear and just barely managed to keep himself inside the circle when he realized that the ground was still just as solid beneath him as it always had been. Both the Leo's were now suspended over a circle of white-hot fire in the center of the room. The disgusting Leo trilled in delight at the new heat as the disgusted one squinted down at the black spot that was growing in the fire. It was getting bigger and splitting off into lines that were spreading out beneath them. Leo was scared that these tentacles of blackness that were coming towards him and would be able to touch him. They reached up and as they drew closer he could make out more details about them that scared him even more. They dripped with slime but yet had fuzzy patches along them in random places and feathery tufts in other. One looked absolutely maddeningly bristly while the looked soft enough to sleep atop. They were drawing closer, higher and higher they reached towards Leo and Not Leo. He swallowed as they traced along the solid bottom of his circle of protection, tracing along under his feet. He tried moving the size 13's away but found they followed where ever he moved his feet too. Leo wondered when he had lost one of his night slippers when he was woken from the trance by the rattling of the device that held his doppelganger. The tendrils had wrapped themselves around the tomato boy's ankles tight and slowly wound themselves up his over his thighs and around his waist. They wiggled and vibrated as they did so and made the gagged hero's due throw his head from side to side at the sensation.
One of the tendrils was wrapped around a thin piece of wood that it brought up to the defenseless chest. It played what Leo realized was a brush along with the slight pectorals and wrote a message.
"You should feel proud Leo!" It read across the one side. "I'm definitely strong enough to save anyone and everyone." The other side said. The little brush played with the fake's nipples as Leo crossed his arms over his chest defensively.
"Your phrasing is...odd. I sense a trick in the words. You said that you could. Not that you would. I assume that should I agree then you'll have your fun with me?"
Another Leo was forced up between them also wrapped in tentacles that played along with silver forks in his restrained armpits. They twirled the short blond hairs like pasta as they dragged along the hollows. The tendrils bent this Leo into an L to show off a painted sole that read "You're so smart!" The other foot was clad in-
"My slipper! So it fell from the circle? Did you expect me to reach for it?"
It fell from the wiggling foot to reveal another message.
"Can't trick you!"
Leo looked away as this doppel's face was even harder to look at due to that disgusting expression of pure joy on it. "Enough of your tricks Fomortiis! Cease whatever spell your working and instead let us arrange the terms of our deal!"
The air whooshed through Leo's hair and made him pause as the room changed again.
He turned to see both of his copies lounging on their bellies in opposite directions over a familiar pair of muscled calves. Leo's eyes traveled over the abdominals to see that now this demon was repeating itself but with his other older sibling. His brother Xander now sat shirtless with two copies of Leo draped over his lap. He waved hello with a hand that held his missing slipper.
"That name you called me...did you think it was mine?"
"Is it not? You've been rather clumsy at hiding it."
"I was only trying to trick you again."
"Why?"
"To make you unsure. You've been so ahead of me the whole time but were you really? Or was all of it a trick as well? How much that you know is real?"
"Wha-what do you mean by that?"
"Well now, why would I tell you? All I'll say is that maybe that circle protects you but not the rest of the castle."
"Wh-what?!"
That's when Leo heard it. If he focused to drown out the supposed Fomortiis's blatherings he could hear it faintly. Screaming and battle with the faint stony echo of the castle applied.
"What are you doing?! I thought we were to make a deal!"
"You still don't seem to realize what's happening. Tell me what do you think I am?"
"A demon!"
The creature that was neither Xander or Fomortiis chuckled. It waved it's hand dismissively and the room lightened. Leo could now see that they were in his room but that the hole in the floor from before was still there. Now though rather than fire from before fog rolled from it. Some of it was close enough to Leo's for him to feel just how cold it was. The most pressing concern though was the bound and gagged woman before the hole. Camilla pulled at her bonds and yelled something into her gag at Leo when she saw.
"BRMMPPH? WHMMPPH HHMMPHH?!"
Leo was at a loss for what to say as suddenly one of the tendrils snaked around his sister's ankle and pulled it from beneath her.
"NOO! GIVE HER BACK! GIVE HER BACK!"
"So self-centered. How many have gone down that hole so far and you only care when it's your sister?"
"Wh-what?! How many?!"
"Do you remember Leo? When we were young and did something wrong?"
It spoke in his brother's voice now and ignored the panicking prince's words. Brandishing the slipper Xander's fingers reached down and pulled down the tomato patterned bottoms of both of the still gagged Leo's before him. His free hand caressed their pale bottoms as Leo's own tightened. His hands flew to it as his composure was now long gone.
The door was thrown open and a shade wearing the armor of Muspel marched a prisoner in. They wore only pajamas and had a sack over their head so Leo couldn't discern their identity. Instead, they were unceremoniously shoved into the pit as the shade exited. Tears pricked in the corners of Leo's eyes as both bad memories and intense guilt for what he had done flooded his mind.
"What was it the maids said when they punished, you, second prince? "This is for all." That's right. They would say "This is for all" when they paddled your bottom with their slippers."
Xander's hand brought down hard into one of the bottoms before him and made his guest moan into his gag. The hand came down for another as the pig with his face squirmed over his brother'slap and Leo's own bottom ached in sympathy.
"That was to let you know that your behavior didn't befit a Prince of the realm. It was a lesson you needed to be taught early as not just a child of the King of the one of the strongest military powers but also as an aspiring mage."
THWACK!
Leo sunk to his knees as another shade marched in a prisoner and flung her to the pit. Leo watched in horror as it grew bigger this time and if he squinted he could see things squirming inside through the icy fog.
THWACK!
"You needed to know that actions have consequences and that for a royal those consequences are tenfold."
THWACK!
Leo's hands ran along his own bottom as he squeezed his eyes shut to not look at the scene anymore. He couldn't bear it but he could still hear the whoosh of air and muffled scream of another being thrown to the pit.
"After all who knows who could take advantage of a foolish prince who thirsts for power. When he extends an invitation into the realm of the dead who would see it first?"
Leo's eyes shot open at that and took in the sight. His brother was gone once more and now the true form of his tormentor sat before him with his simulacrum laid atop her ragged dress. Hel's bony fingers danced over the tomato red bottoms of the two tomato boys and made the peach-shaped rumps jiggle and squirm.
"Wh-how?! I DID NOT SUMMON YOU!"
"Where do you think demons come from boy? Who is it they torment? The dead!"
One more hooded form was thrown into the foggy pit before Leo as he swallowed hard at the realization of what he'd done. The queen of the dead chuckled and played her fingers along the thrashing boy's buttocks while Leo pounded a fist against the floor of his circle.
"You invited me here and gave me free rein over this castle and all the souls I could catch in it. So I will make you a deal my prize."
Leo sniffled as yet another was thrown into the pit but couldn't look away from the bony fingers that toyed with his bottoms. Suddenly he couldn't think of anything but those bones. What did they feel like running along his skin? Were they as cold as he imagined?
"Leave that circle and swear to be my tickle-pet second prince. Come home with me and let me explore every inch of your body to see what noises I can force you to make. Do so and I'll stop. I will leave with only you.
"Y-y-you swear? Yo-you'll le-let Camilla go?! And the others?! Thi-this isn't just a tri-trick t-to make me le-leave the ci-circle?"
Hel's hand covered her mouth but through the bones, her black smile was easy to see. Leo wasn't looking at the god of death's smile. Instead, all that was on his mind was how those fingers would feel roaming along his body for eternity. He was curious at how they'd feel and that disgusted him but most of all he would be able to save the others! If he didn't give himself to Hel than what kind of person would he be?
"Silly boy that circle is meaningless. If I wanted you in there I could have you just like these two. Watch."
She held up the slipper that he'd lost and for a second it seemed to shimmer. She extended one bone towards and the second it tapped the sole he felt fingers on his other foot still hiding in its match.
"Whahah-what? How could you-how are you?!"
"Scitchy-kitchy second prince!"
The finger wiggled along the slippers sole and Leo could feel fingers along his own pink foot. He tried to pull the slipper off but that just made Hel speed up her exploration. He yanked and pulled at the shoe but when felt his toes being pinched and plucked he threw his head back. The Prince rolled and beat his fists trying to get relief but couldn't until Hel calmed down and allowed him to breathe.
"See? My giggly princey if I'd wanted to take you I could have snatched you away in the night. I want you to give yourself to me. Present yourself like the tasty little dish you are and I'll let them go."
"But...how?! The circle should-the spell!"
"Blah, blah, blah do you give up or no?"
"I-I-I but-"
Another prisoner was thrown in as Leo's mind raced.
"Y-yo-you pr-promise?!"
"Yes."
"This isn't-"
"If you promise yourself to me and exit the circle then I'll take only you."
"I....F-fine."
"Say it."
"I pr-promise to g-go wit-with y-you..."
Leo moved to get up but couldn't for some reason. He felt something was wrong...
"Just stick a hand out. That'll do."
"F-fine."
"Refer to me properly pet. As your mistress."
"Yes, Mistress."
Leo stuck his hand out and touched the ground. All of a sudden the room swirled and changed once more. The two Leo's on the ground faces changed from utter drooling contentment to contempt. They shook their heads at Leo and sneered through their tomato gags at how he'd been fooled. The pit disappeared as well like it had never even been there. Leo searched the room for where the prisoners could be but then noticed something else. He was holding his own ankle in his hand for some reason and his own nails were pressed into the pink sole.
"Wha-what? Bu-but...did I?"
Cold hands of bone closed around his wrists and pulled him back into the embrace of Hel. He looked up at her then at his former doppelgangers. He paled at their true forms for before him were now the Princes of Askr and Nifl respectively with their hands bound behind them and tomato's between their lips. Alphonse shook his head while the taller Hrid still thrashed and pulled at his bindings, refusing to give up.
"When did you-"
"They almost interrupted us but thankfully you were so deep in my illusions that you didn't notice. Your mind was like putty second prince. I even made you tickle YOURSELF into submission. A promise is a promise though.
"YOU PROMISED I'D BE THE ONLY ONE YOU'D-"
"Shh"
Smoke came from between Hel's lips and filled Leo's vision. He breathed deeply of it and the room swirled. His limbs felt like jelly and his eyelids heavy. He heard Hel's words but didn't understand.
"I'll keep you. They'll be given to Surtr."
The two shook as smoke filled the room and whirled about. When the door was broken down by the concerned sisters of the three there was no trace of them.
Leo shivered in fear in the seat he was strapped too. He could see nothing around him but blackness. The last thing he remembered was passing out due to Hel's mist in her lap. It felt like he'd been sitting in this chair for an eternity. When he'd first awoken he was naked and afraid bound to this chair but now he was creeping upon annoyance. He tested the skeletal hands that gripped his wrists and ankles tightly and kept them trapped in place finding that still they gave no inch. He also eyed the most worrisome part of his bondage. The single skeletal hand that protruded right between his thighs. It held a black as night feather straight up and hadn't moved an inch the entire time he'd been here.
"Why is she doing this..." He wondered aloud only to immediately be greeted with an answer.
"Why? Why did I wait so long to do this? I've been watching you for a while my ripe little fruit."
Hel stepped forth from the darkness and gave the naked Nohrian a start.
"Wh- How long hav-have you been there?! When did you come in?"
"Come in? I've always been here. You time works differently in Hel. A year or even a decade in here is whatever I want it to be to the outside world. I supposed a bit of waiting for you was fair considering how long I waited to take you. Watching you take care of not just a tasty body but also cultivate a delectable brain through my magic has been a treat. To finally sample you...oh I'm ecstatic."
She trailed a bone along Leo's cheek and frowned at how he tried to pull away. The hand between his legs responded by suddenly resting its plume upon one of Leo's thighs.
"AH!"
"You see I have little use for most of the heroes that Surtur so desperately wants to collect but when I saw you I was quite taken."
The hand trailed the feather slowly up Leo's thigh and made the Prince fidget about snickering.
"Hehehee whahahat?"
"A bit of idle interrogation got some nice information from that Siegbert you were so eager to save. He told me about his intellectual uncle Leo and I was ever so interested."
The feather now traveled along the underside of Leo's sack and his fidgeting was getting worse.
"I asked Surtr if I could keep a hero for myself and he relented. He did ask for some hands-on time so don't get too needy pet. We will have to share but don't worry I'll keep to our arrangement. I get most of your time."
Now the feather went down Leo's other thigh in the opposite direction.
"You heeheheehe won! Why are you puhuhnishing me?"
"Punishing? No my dear boy why would I do that?! You've done nothing wrong. In fact, you've done only what I wanted you too since you first tried that silly ritual to lure something from Hel."
Now the feather teased the underside of Leo's knees making his legs jump and try to flee. Hel frowned again and suddenly his chair protruded a rest for his legs that allowed the hands to pull upon his ankles hard enough to straighten them out and allow the feather easy access under his knees.
"You see this is training Leo. House training if you will."
"Hoho-house training?!"
"Yes. You see part of what made you appealing to me is your mind and that wasn't going to very well settle you into life as a ticklepet would it?"
Another set of skeletal hands erupted from the chair in front of his feet. Their long fingers pointed at the sky while the feather again began another trek up Leo's thigh.
"No, you'd just keep trying to escape or talk your way out of here instead of laying back and taking it in that you'd lost. So this is us getting all of that out of the way."
The fingers placed themselves against Leo's toepads and began sliding doooown slowly, matching the maddening pace of the feather at Leo's balls again.
"Neheheoo! I ssweehear I wohohn't!! Stahahap!"
He begged as the fingers began traveling along his warm pink soles and the feather got to his other thigh again.
"So we're going to get all of that out of your system here. We're going to stay in here and tickle-"
Every time she said the word more happened. Leo's wrists were dragged up above his head.
"Tickle"
A pair of arms emerged and played artists brushes along Leo's erect nipples.
"BAHAHA DOHOHN'T!"
"Tickle"
Another set of hands emerged to jam long-nailed fingers into his now exposed armpits.
"NO! NOHOHO! NOHOHO PLEEASE!"
"Tickle"
More hands joined the fray to begin kneading the baby fat of Leo's belly like dough.
"GEHEHEHT AWAHAHAY!"
"Tickle"
A thousand legged centipede emerged and began to wind its way through the forest of Leo's toes before getting lost and ending up back where it started only to set out once more on its journey.
"AHAHAHA!! MIHIHISTRESS I'LL NEHEHEVER-"
"Tickle"
More bony fingers emerged to explore Leo's own ribs as if trying to liberate them.
"AHAHAHA MEHEHERCY!! I'M LOHOHOSING MY MIND!"
"Oh, pretty thing don't worry. I'll never let that happen. Maybe to Surtr, that's okay but a mind is a terrible thing to waste so I'll make sure you are always aware and here. You'll know what's happening but those rebellious thoughts will be long gone."
The flowers from the dungeon were produced and they enveloped Leo's balled fists. They pried open his hands and played tendrils along his palms and in between his fingers.
"GAAUHAHA GAHAHAWDS SAVE ME!"
"You see I call you a pet affectionately but you are more than that."
More feathers emerged and stuffed themselves into Leo's face. Tormenting his neck, Teasing his ears and bullying his nose.
"You see I the Queen of the dead am looking, for...a King."
She reached down and teased a finger up Leo's throbbing cock. Smiling as it released when she reached the tip.
"So what do you say?"
The feather between Leo's legs was speeding up.
"Do you Leo-"
"GAHAHAHA!"
Faster, faster, faster. Thighs, balls, knees. Thighs, balls, knees.
"Take this god of the dead."
"DODHOHON'T!"
It was moving over each area so fast.
"To be had and held by.
"AHAHAHAW!"
The fluffy buzzsaw was going wild.
"For eternity and forever."
"AHhahHAHAHHhahHAHHA!"
"For death will never take us."
"HAHAHAHAHPLEEEHEEAESE!"
"I was looking for a different answer. No matter I will ask again later. There is no time here in Hel."
"I'LL DIHIHIHIE!"
"There is no death here Second Prince. Only what I will."
She sat upon Leo's lap and nuzzled her head into his neck. Waving off a few of the feathers assigned to it so as not to bother her.
"Your laughter is quite beautiful. So very soothing. Let me just rest my eyes for a year or two and then I'll ask again. second prince."
"NOHOHOO PLEEHEHEASE! I DOHOHOO! GAHAWDS MIHIHISTRESS I DOHOOHOO!"
Leo got no answer as his bride to be dozed peacefully. Enjoying the sleep of the dead.
Leo's eyes shot open and he sat up breathing heavily. The nightmare was still fresh in his mind. He rolled over on the bed and snuggled close to his cold wife. It still snuck back every once in a while. The funny story of how they'd met. It had been an ordeal but he supposed becoming King of the Dead would require sacrifices. He kissed her cheek and smiled at how her black lips curled up into a smile in her sleep. His eyes alighted upon the open door that he knew led back to Askr and what she'd assured him would have been the very moment before they'd met. He'd been trained well and thoroughly though so not once had the thought of it passed through his head. Draping a leg over his wife he adjusted the tight undies his wife had gifted him that read "TICKLEPET" along the bottom. He snuggled in and drifted off back to sleep atop her. He needed rest before she woke and they began their games for the day. Today was toe day after all.
