The Golem Challenge

Raven cursed under her breath as she stepped on another sharp branch. Despite what some romantically inclined people might believe, traversing a forest naked was an annoying and often enough outright painful experience. There was a reason witches usually wore sensible clothes. Then again, nothing about what Raven was doing right now was sensible in any shape or form.

She'd asked herself several times why she was pushing on with this madness. A question that had reached peak urgency a couple of minutes ago when she'd found her way blocked off by blackberry bushes, and even the most careful attempt of going around them had earned her some burning scratches. But each time she wondered if she should blow the whole thing off, she only had to remember that cocky grin on Alicia's lips, and that gave her the strength to go on.

Yes, she shouldn't have boasted quite so much, and she especially shouldn't have claimed that she could take on Alicia's golem in a fair fight. Raven might be the better witch of the two, but even with magic there was only so much a human could do against a shapeshifting monstrosity made of rock. But now that the challenge was official, she couldn't back down without losing face. The rest of the coven wouldn't let her hear the end of it.

Not that going up against the golem and getting completely demolished would be any more dignified. If anything, it would get her body as bruised as her pride.

That was, if the golem operated as intended.

Raven aimed for an enormous tree to keep herself hidden as she sneaked up to the clearing ahead. A quick peek around the trunk showed her exactly what she'd hoped to see: A boulder at least as large as herself lay in the middle of that small free patch between the trees, with a glimmering violet stone on top. Alicia's golem, currently dormant as it soaked up the sun to store energy for later.

The fight was scheduled for sundown, and it was barely past noon. It only made sense that Alicia would use the time to charge her golem as much as possible, just like it made sense that she herself was nowhere to be seen. With a weather this nice, she'd be enjoying herself over at the lake with some of the other witches. For a moment Raven caught herself daydreaming of Alicia skinny tipping, but she quickly shoved that thought aside. It was bad enough that her rival was this blessed in the looks department, there was no need to let it get into her head.

The point was: There was no reason for Alicia to keep watch, because even if she expected Raven to try anything, her golem was able to defend itself even without her directly controlling it. But this was where she'd underestimated Raven: By itself, a golem couldn't sense living things. Which usually wasn't a problem since every human who wasn't crazy enough to run through the woods butt naked had some kind of dead material on their body.

Only that Raven was crazy enough.

Raven slowly crept around the trunk, although at this point it shouldn't matter if she was careful or not. She was in plain sight from the clearing now, but the golem stayed dormant, pretending to be nothing but an out of place and unusually smooth boulder. It should be easy from there: Walk over, imprint the exposed soul stone with some of her own magic, and get out again. That would allow her to break Alicia's control during the fight and have an easy victory. If she played her cards right she should even be able to make it look like her win was simply due to Alicia's lack of skill.

Even though she knew she had nothing to fear, Raven's heart still pounded in her chest as she walked up to the golem. Her eyes darted from that deceptively unassuming boulder to the edges of the clearing and back, looking for any sign that something was going wrong. The forest seemed clear, though, and the golem didn't stir even when she came within two steps of it. If it woke up now, it could grow an arm and knock her down within seconds. Better get this over quick. Raven reached for the soul stone and channeled her magic.

Only for her hand to go right through it.

"What?"

Her hand was inside the boulder up to its wrist but she didn't feel anything, as if the golem wasn't there at all. An illusion? Whatever it was, there was a good chance she was in major trouble. Raven was about to run back into the safety of the trees to reassess the situation, when she found that the illusion had suddenly turned solid. Her hand was trapped in place, enclosed by a light but unyielding pressure as if the golem had grown around it. But it shouldn't have this level of control over its body, unless...

"Now what do we have here?" Alicia dropped down from the tree she'd been hiding in. Her robe fluttered behind her, and of course she looked absolutely fabulous as she impacted on the grass in a crouched position, stabilizing herself with one hand, the other one held up dramatically. That girl was such an insufferable poser. "Looks like I caught you red-handed. Or I guess gray-handed, in this case."

"Ha ha," Raven said dryly.

She wasn't sure if her sarcasm came across as confidently as she'd intended. It was hard not to feel self-conscious about how she stood there completely naked with her body showing the tear and wear of her forest trip, while Alicia looked immaculate in her witch's robe. Raven forced herself to suppress the instinct to cover herself. With only one hand free she wouldn't be able to hide all the essential parts anyway, and acting bashful would only give Alicia more ammunition.

"That was a cheap shot," she complained after a quick experiment had confirmed that, yes, her hand was stuck for good. It was such a weird feeling not to be able to twitch even a single finger. "Hiding your golem inside an illusion of itself? Come on!"

"You're one to talk." As Alicia came closer, her golden locks waved behind her like a second cape. It was so unfair that her hair was so thick and long and pretty when she didn't even put any effort in. Raven had never been able to make her own hair grow much longer than to her shoulders, no matter what she did.

Alicia stopped a good two meters before Raven. Far enough that she was safely out of reach of any touch-based spells (or of a much more mundane attempt to slap her) but close enough that she could fully appreciate every little detail of Raven's attempts to try and hide her embarrassment. "I wouldn't complain about me playing dirty if I was you, when you just tried to screw me over like that. Not that I'm surprised, though I admit, I hadn't thought that you'd go so far as to make your attempt naked. Good thing I kept watch just to be sure, or that would have totally worked."

Raven bit her lip. Despite her best efforts she was starting to blush. If she wanted to safe face (or at least not embarrass herself even further) she had to go on the offense. "Okay, you got me. Good on you. What now?"

"What now indeed?" Alicia spoke slowly, lost in thought. There was a glimmer in her eyes that got Raven blushing for real. "I have to admit, I kinda like you this way. The style suits you. You should wear it more often."

"You'd like that, wouldn't you?" It wasn't the confident comeback Raven had intended, but it was hard to come up with something witty when she was this distracted by her conflicting feelings.

"Sure would. And I wouldn't be the only one. Or do you really think I haven't noticed the way you're always looking at me?"

"Don't know what you're talking about," Raven mumbled, though she couldn't meet Alicia's eyes. "If I look at you funny it's only because you're an annoying know-it-all."

"Sure." Alicia's voice was dripping with sarcasm. She came a step closer. Raven might be able to hit her if she made a lunge, though the chances were high that she'd twist her wrist in the process, if not outright break it.

"So you want me to believe that you've never had any less than decent thoughts about me?" Alicia continued all casual as if this was nothing more than some harmless small talk. "You realize that I could put a truth spell on you if I wanted?"

"You wouldn't dare!" Raven hissed. She knew that her threat was toothless. Trapped like this she wouldn't be able to put up much resistance if Alicia actually tried putting a spell on her, but she'd go down fighting anyway. She didn't want to begin to imagine the things she'd say if Alicia forcefully removed her filters.

"You're right, that'd be a real mean thing of me to do. And I'm too nice a person to impose my will on you like that."

Raven was tempted to point out that this supposedly nice person had put her in bondage and was openly ogling her naked body right now, but she knew when it was better to hold her tongue. If she provoked Alicia too much, she might reconsider her vow not to mess with her mind in such embarrassing ways.

"And it's not like I need a truth spell to read you like a book," Alicia continued. "Just seeing you get this defensive tells me all I need to know. Not that it's any news to me. As I said, I noticed the looks you give me. And I heard what you did after our solstice trial, when you thought that I was asleep and that the blanket would hide you."

Raven had been blushing before, but now her cheeks lit up like two little suns. She'd known that she shouldn't have risked it back then, but she hadn't been able to help herself. Or rather, she'd been unable to stop herself from helping herself.

It was customary for intermediate witches who wanted to prove their magical capabilities to walk into the giant solstice pyre and show off how long they could bear the flames by channeling the elements. It should have been the moment for Raven to shine, but of course Alicia had to undermine her as always by joining her in the fire, even though she should have been forbidden from even trying due to how young and inexperienced she was. With her barely twenty-five years of age, Alicia was one of the coven's newest members. And the most humiliating thing was that she'd almost held out longer than Raven!

That night Raven had come close to the very limits of what her body could take. The only thing keeping her in the flames had been Alicia's cocky grin taunting her, daring her to give up first and therefore to publicly admit that Alicia was the stronger witch. And it hadn't helped Raven's concentration to have a naked Alicia before her eyes the entire time.

The trial was always done without clothes, both because it was traditional and symbolized that the witches used nothing but their own skills to master the flames, and also for the practical reason that it would be a waste of magic to keep all that fabric fire-proof for so long. But tradition or not, Raven had been forced to look at Alicia as the flames painted her usually pale skin a vivid orange, her whole body glistening from the myriad droplets of sweat teased out by the heat. Leave it to Alicia to look fucking fabulous even when she was drenched in sweat.

Raven had won their unspoken contest in the end, but the victory had been too close to feel satisfying, and it certainly hadn't done anything to help with a particular itch that had taken over her body, a heat that had nothing to do with the fire she'd just stepped out of. It was a good thing that she, too, had been sweating all over, easily hiding a decidedly different wetness between her legs. She'd been annoyed at herself by how much the sight of her rival had turned her on, but there was no shame in admitting that Alicia was easy on the eyes. If anything, it had only made it so much sweeter to fantasize about all the thing she would love to do to Alicia if she ever got the opportunity to really put her in her place. But apparently these fantasies hadn't been as private as Raven had hoped.

"Don't act as if you were all innocent there!" Since she'd been found out anyway, the best thing Raven could do was to double down and shift the blame. "You were all but giving me a belly dance in that pyre. Maybe you would've had a better chance of winning if you'd focused on the magic instead of flaunting your body like that."

"So you do admit that it's me you were thinking about under that blanket. Told you I don't need a truth spell."

Raven cursed herself. She'd totally run into that.

"You know, I don't mind you having a crush on me. I really don't. It's kinda cute, actually. And you're kinda cute yourself. But it's time you channeled those feelings into something more productive."

"I don't have a crush on you!" Raven blurted out. She knew that this outburst would only hurt her believability, but that self-assured smirk of Alicia's was driving her crazy. Also: Raven was not cute. If anything she was sexy and cool and mysterious, but certainly not cute!

"And there we go again." Alicia sighed theatrically. She had to know how infuriating this act of hers was. Nobody was this obnoxious on accident, right? "Just out of curiosity: What was your plan there? Destroy my golem and hope that you'll win by default?"

"I wasn't going to destroy it. Just give myself a little edge. I can totally take that thing on if it's not all overcharged and shit."

"Of course you do. It's not like you've just proven that it can take you out the moment you touch it."

"Only because you tricked me! And since when can it even do this bullshit? Last time I saw it, all it could do was punch things."

Alicia chuckled. "I admit, I might have refined its shapeshifting abilities a little bit. You haven't seen nothing yet."

She took a round crystal out of her robe, big enough that she couldn't fully close her fist around it. The matching soul crystal, of the same deep purple as the golem's soul stone with which the thing was attuned. Raven prepared to fight (as much as she could prepare with her hand still trapped) only to stare in awe as the golem awoke.

She'd expected the boulder to unfold into a roughly humanoid granite monster, but instead the stone started flowing as if it was the world's weirdest liquid. Raven's hand stayed locked in place, but she felt ripples in the pressure around it as the bulk of the boulder shifted behind her. She turned her head to follow its movements, but it dropped out of her sight, only to flow into her feet from behind.

"What the fuck?"

It was the weirdest sensation, as if she was standing in the world's tensest quicksand. She found herself on a small stone platform, or rather in a small platform, since her legs appeared to end right above her ankles. She tried to rip her feet out, but they were just as stuck as her hand which was was now trapped in a small pillar connected to this platform.

Another such pillar grew out the other side, twisting and bending like a snake. Raven instinctively swatted at it, channeling magic into her fist to make her strong enough that she should have been able to hit the rock without hurting herself. Only that there was no hit at all, because the slithering pillar split to let her punch go right through it, only to reconnect immediately, trapping her last free limb in the process.

The whole thing had taken barely a minute, and Raven had gone from a severe disadvantage to a complete defeat. She tried to keep her calm, but it wasn't easy when she was so very aware that she was now completely immobilized, her naked body sprawled out for Alicia to gawk at. Or to do even more naughty things with, should the fancy strike her.

It was so humiliating how completely Raven had lost control of her own body, and the worst thing was that the question what Alicia would do next didn't fill her with the trepidation it should have. She'd turned into the helpless plaything of her rival for fuck's sake, so why did her traitorous body have to choose this very moment to get aroused?

"Let me go, you... you..." Raven tried to target her anger with herself at Alicia, but the words failed her. Her mind got stuck trying to find an insult that didn't sound like she acknowledged the sexual nature of her predicament.

"Don't worry, I'll let you go. Eventually." Alicia closed the gap between them. Now that Raven was completely helpless, she could come up right into her face without fear of retribution. "But only once you've admitted what this is all about."

Raven tried to figure out if Alicia was in range for a headbutt. Not that it would achieve much, but it was about the only way of fighting back that she had left. And planning her revenge was a much needed distraction from how her body betrayed her.

Not that her being aroused actually meant anything, of course. She was a bit of a kinky gal at heart, so it was no wonder that her body recognized that feeling of being bound naked. It was a trained reaction, nothing more, and certainly not a sign that she was crushing on Alicia as that little bitch wanted her to believe.

"I'm not gonna admit anything because there is nothing to admit." Raven forced herself to keep eye contact. Any show of weakness would only be used against her.

"Sounds like we're gonna be here for some time." Alicia didn't seem bothered by the prospect at all. "Let's start easy: What exactly did you think about at solstice? You sounded like you were having so much fun. It must've been something real nice."

Looking into Alicia's eyes suddenly got a lot harder. "That's none of your business," Raven mumbled.

"Given how I was apparently the main star in your mental production, I'd argue that it kinda is."

Alicia still had that infuriatingly calm tone, and having her pretty face dominate Raven's field of vision didn't help with staying cool. Raven gritted her teeth. This brat wanted the truth so badly? Then let her have it. At least that would remove any delusions about potential amorous feelings she may harbor.

"I imagined that I fucked you into submission," Raven blurted out, playing over her embarrassment by yelling at Alicia. "I imagined how I'd slap your tits and scratch you bloody and fuck you till you can't do anything but moan my name anymore. There, are you happy now?"

Raven knew that she was being a bit of an ass, but if anything, she hated how she even considered feeling bad about it. Alicia was the villain here! She'd tied her up and kept provoking her, so why should Raven mince words?

Alicia was taken aback by that outburst, but she didn't look as shocked as Raven would have expected. "That's a vivid imagination you've got."

"You asked for it." Raven scoffed at her. "So much for me having a crush on you, huh?"

For a moment Alicia just stared at Raven, then she broke out laughing. A bright belly laughter that shook her to the point where she could barely even breathe.

"What's so funny?" Raven was starting to get pissed for real. Alicia was supposed to be shocked and disgusted by her bluntness, not laughing at her.

"I'm sorry, you're just too damn precious." Alicia wiped the tears out of the corners of her eyes, slowly getting herself back under control.

Precious? The claim was so outlandishly ridiculous that Raven was at a loss for words. She glared at Alicia, once again evaluating the headbutt potential of their current distance.

"Anyway." Alicia suppressed the last bout of chuckles. "Do you really think you'd have it in you? If I released you and told you that you could do whatever you wanted to me, with zero repercussions, would you actually do all these things? You know, the tit slapping and the fucking and all the rest?"

"If I didn't have it in me before, I certainly have it now."

"Is that so?" Alicia gently stroked her fingers over Raven's cheek and giggled when Raven tried to bite her. "You know, seeing you bound there all naked, I was so tempted to pay you back for trying to pull a fast one on me. Maybe tickle you a little, maybe even some pinches that just so happen to go into less than decent territories. The kind of punishment where we can both pretend that it's just some harmless bullying and totally not a sex thing. Not that I'd have done it, since a good girl like me would never abuse her power like that, but now that it turned out that you're not a good girl..."

Raven froze up (not that it made much difference with all of her limbs already completely immobilized). Alicia wasn't going to use her helpless state to go down on her, right? Raven would die from shame if Alicia fingered her and realized how wet she was. "I swear, if you touch me..."

"Relax. I told you, I'm the good girl here." Alicia's mischievous giggle stood in stark contrast to her words. "But since we're already talking about solstice, how about we do a different kind of trial? I'll release you, and you prove that you're not just all talk. I'll even give you control over my golem."

"What would I need that for?" Raven spat back before she could actually think about it. Given that this thing apparently doubled as the world's most versatile bondage tool, it certainly had its applications. But the point was moot anyway, because there was no way Alicia would actually let it come to this. She was holding all the cards now, there was no reason for her to turn the tables on herself. This had to be some kind of trick, although Raven couldn't see what Alicia might be getting at here.

"You really can't think of a use after I showed you what my golem is capable of now? Let me give you a little hint." Alicia took her soul crystal out again. The stone slab around Raven's feet came to life and a new pillar rose between her legs. A pillar with a bulbous tip, heading straight for her crotch. Raven shrieked at the prospect of being speared by this thick stone shaft.

Alicia giggled as she stopped the pillar before it could reach its target and let it retreat into the platform. "Any more questions about why you might want my golem?"

Raven struggled to catch her breath. Her heart kept pounding heavily. Even with the living rock holding her in place, Raven hadn't fully realized how vulnerable and at Alicia's mercy she was until now. And the worst thing was that for a crazy moment it had felt so right, as if her body and mind had fully accepted that she was Alicia's plaything now. She forced herself to push this memory out of her mind. It had been a stress reaction, nothing more. Once she was free, she was going to kill Alicia for humiliating her like this.

"I like this fire in your eyes. That's the look of a wild beast just waiting to be unleashed." Alicia tapped her fingers along Raven's arm. It was such a playful and harmless kind of touch, but after this recent reminder of how little control Raven had over what happened to her, it still made her flinch and spiked her heart rate again. "So I take it you're up for my idea?"

"Don't bullshit me. What's your game here?"

"My game? I already told you: I want to see what you're really capable of. I didn't lie: If you're up for it, I'll let you do whatever you want. There just one teeny tiny catch."

Of course there was. Raven prepared herself to shoot down whatever bullshit Alicia would come up with next to weasel out of her ridiculous proposal, only to get completely blindsided when Alicia continued "We're going to be soul linked while you do it."

"What?"

That was crazy on so many levels. A soul link was one of the most intimate spells known to witchcraft, something you wouldn't even begin to consider doing with someone you weren't really, really close with. While active, it linked the sensations of two people, making each one feel what the other was experiencing, getting them as close as possible to making each of them inhabit both of their bodies while still keeping them as individuals.

While the spell had sometimes be used for untraceable communication over long distances (for example by pinching yourself in a specific spot as a signal to your linked partner), almost everyone utilized it as the ultimate way of getting intimate, enhancing their love making by sharing their pleasure in the most literal sense. Just thinking of forming this kind of bond with Alicia made Raven's stomach flutter. And that was still just the tip of the iceberg of problems with the idea.

"Why would I ever agree to this? Everything I do to you, I'd do to myself."

"That's the basic idea, yes. But that shouldn't be a problem for you. You wanted to fuck me into submission, didn't you? Well, now's your chance. If you think you're better than me, prove it! Unless you're one of those pathetic bullies who can't handle a taste of their own medicine."

Raven's mind raced. She knew that she should call Alicia out on her bullshit and force her to stop this madness. At this point they'd left any semblance of sanity far behind them. But rejecting the offer would make her look weak.

Alicia was right in one thing: This was the solstice trial all over again, only with much more at stake. Alicia was basically saying that she could take more than Raven, a claim that couldn't be allowed to go unchallenged. While Alicia's behavior and the upgrades she'd made to her golem suggested that she might be less innocent than Raven had assumed, there was no way she could keep up with the kind of hardcore shit Raven was into.

Was Raven letting her hormones get the better of her? Definitely. But she didn't care. She needed some way to work off the shameful arousal that had come with being at Alicia's mercy, and the best way to get a grip of herself was to prove unambiguously which side of the power distribution she belonged at. "Whatever, let's do this."

"I have to admit, I didn't expect you to actually take me up on the offer, but I'm certainly not complaining." Alicia laughed, but there was a tension in her voice that made Raven listen up. Seemed like she'd been right: Alicia was talking a big game, but she wasn't as confident as she wanted Raven to believe. Still, she hesitated only the tiniest bit before she continued. "Okay, I'll prepare the soul link. Get yourself ready."

Raven had never done a soul link before, since she'd always thought it kind of creepy to let her partner have such an intimate look at what was going on inside of her. But while she had no practical experience with the spell, the theory was simple enough. Her skin started tingling all over as she channeled her magic but kept it simmering unused inside of her, ready to mix it with Alicia's once they touched. It had to be just a side effect of her nerves, but Raven couldn't remember her magic ever feeling so sensual as it waited to be used. It was as if the softest of fingers were stroking her all over.

Alicia leaned in, her lips slightly parted. Wait, she wasn't going to...

She was.

Alicia's kiss caught Raven completely by surprise and made her lose her focus. Her own magic dissipated, so Alicia's didn't have anything to latch on to. It sparked from Alicia's lips like a more mellow form of static electricity that made Raven's mouth go numb as she stood there utterly perplexed by what was going on.

Alicia pulled back when she realized that it wasn't working. "What you waiting for? I told you to get ready," she said, endlessly amused by Raven's frozen expression.

"You didn't tell me that you'd kiss me!" Raven blurted out her indignation, which only amused Alicia even more. "I thought you'd just touch me or something."

"That's how people usually do it. And what are you getting all ruffled about anyway? You just told me you wanted to fuck me up in all kinds of ways. What's a little kiss compared to that? Unless, of course..." Alicia leaned in, her breath tickling Raven's face as she continued with the most infuriating smirk "Unless this isn't only about sex and I just made the butterflies dance in your stomach."

"I was just surprised, that's all," Raven huffed.

"Well, you're not gonna be surprised this time. Ready?"

Raven forced herself to calm down and focus again. Something that took far more effort than necessary because her eyes continued to dart to Alicia's soft lips and her heart kept pounding away.

Emotions could be so stupid. Raven would have been all ready to pin Alicia down and ravage her mouth with her own. Alicia was pretty after all, and there was nothing wrong with wanting to kiss someone pretty. And logically it shouldn't matter who initiated the kiss, so why did it feel like such a big deal that Alicia would taste her lips while she was in this vulnerable state?

When Alicia leaned in again, Raven was ready, although she couldn't stop the blush from returning to her cheeks. It didn't help how the interplay of their magic made the kiss feel so much more intimate. The soft touch of Alicia's tongue against her own sent a hot shiver through Raven's body, the flowing magic feeling like smooth ice in her mouth, but the weirdest sensation by far was how it seemed as if there was more than just one set of lips brushing against hers, as if there was a phantom copy of Alicia, or two or three or even more, all getting intimate with her at the same time.

Raven's lips kept tingling long after Alicia had broken the kiss. Other than that, though, she felt nothing that would indicate that the soul link had worked, no sense of them having become one or anything soppy like that. There was a weird excitement humming at the back of her mind, but given the weirdness of the whole situation it wasn't surprising for her nerves to act up. "Did it work?"

"Let's see." Alicia's hand disappeared into her robe.

Raven's nipple flared up as if invisible fingers were pinching it. Hard. "Ow! What the fuck?"

"I'd say it worked like a charm." Alicia giggled and took her hand back out, together with the soul crystal. As much as she tried to keep it cool, she couldn't hide her own anticipation anymore. "Okay, time to set you free."

Raven sighed in relief when the stone melted away from her and reassembled into the big boulder it had started out as. She shook her arms and legs which had turned uncomfortably stiff from being kept so unnaturally still for so long.

"Here you go!" Alicia threw her the crystal. "No tricks and no illusions this time, I promise."

The soul stone emerged from the boulder, settling on top of it like before. Or rather, like it had appeared to do before. Raven was a lot more careful as she reached for it this time, prodding it with her fingertip first, but it seemed like Alicia was true to her word. The soul stone was solid, and even at this gingerly touch Raven could feel the magical vortex within it.

She was no trained golemancer, having never seen the appeal in tinkering with crystals for hours on end, but controlling a construct that someone else had already built and calibrated was simple enough. It barely took a minute to infuse the golem's inner workings with her own magic, and she had to admit that it felt amazing to control.

The golems she knew were clunky creatures, slow to act and to adapt to commands, solving problems with strength and tenacity instead of any kind of grace or efficiency. But this flowing mass of stone was like a natural extension of her body, shifting and changing at the speed of a thought. And it wasn't just the golem's movements Raven had full control over. She could sense the stone itself and control its very makeup, changing it from a smooth boulder to sand to jagged gravel and everything in between at will.

As much as she was loathe to admit it, Alicia had done some amazing work there. Raven couldn't remember having ever seen a golem this versatile. It barely even felt like a golem at all. This wasn't a bunch of rocks with an illusion of life forced onto them, turning them into a primitive beast. This was more like Alicia had infused the stone with a vague awareness of itself, enhancing the natural power of creation that was found within every part of nature.

But this wasn't the time to be awed by the intricacies of this piece of witchcraft. Raven looked over to Alicia who was watching her back, not quite able to stop herself from fidgeting in anticipation. Raven's first instinct was to tell her to strip, to make it immediately clear that she was in power now, and also to test if Alicia was really going to play along with whatever she asked of her. Now that she'd gotten a feel for the golem's abilities, though, there was an even better way of getting things started.

Raven turned the stone into a stream of liquid sand and shot it at Alicia. She barely managed not to flinch as she felt the phantom sensations of that dry coarseness flow over her own skin until these faintly ticklish coarse eddies played all over her body. It was such a weird experience, but at least it let her know without a doubt that she'd gotten the sand everywhere it needed to be. With a single thought transmitted by the soul crystal, the sand solidified into a tense network of sharp edges pointing outwards.

Alicia's clothes got shredded to little pieces that exploded from her body. For a second she looked like a battle golem herself with her entire skin covered in rocky spikes. Until Raven retreated the golem, leaving Alicia just as naked as she was.

"That's one way of of doing it."

Beneath her excitement, Raven suddenly felt supremely vulnerable. An emotion that made zero sense given how it was finally her who was being in control. Then she looked at Alicia's nervous grin and the realization dawned on her. "Wait a second, am I feeling what you're feeling right now?"

"Of course you do. That's the whole point, isn't it?" Alicia smirked, and Raven started as she realized that she could actually feel Alicia's smugness within herself. She'd thought that they would only share physical sensations. This development added a whole new level of weirdness to this game of theirs.

"Don't let it distract you. It's pretty easy to tell what's your own emotions and what's not once you get the hang of it. But I have to say, the vibes I'm getting from you are real interesting. I really hit your buttons, don't I?"

Fuck! Raven had been worried about the truth spell, but it seemed like she'd agreed to something that was even worse. She had to keep her emotions regarding Alicia at check at all cost, and the best way to do that was to focus only on the demeaning things she wanted to do to her and how good that would feel.

"Of course you do. You've always done everything in your power to get on my nerves." Raven stepped over to Alicia and did what she should have done a long time ago. The loud slap echoed through the clearing as she struck Alicia in the face as hard as she could.

Raven gasped as her own cheek lit up with a sharp pain. Did it always hurt this much to get slapped? Alicia flinched back and rubbed her cheek. Raven could feel Alicia's shock within herself, but it was pushed to the background by a spike of arousal as she watched Alicia realize what she'd gotten herself into. Or was it Alicia's arousal she felt, and that girl was secretly a raging masochist? It would explain why she'd even made this proposal in the first place. Even if that explanation didn't really fit with how gleefully she'd mocked Raven before. But if she wasn't a masochist at heart, would sharing Raven's arousal make her love the abuse anyway? This whole thing was so weird and fucked up on so many levels.

Raven did the only sane thing by ignoring this entire train of thought and focusing only on having fun with her payback. Speaking of which, it was time Alicia got a taste of the golem's bondage capabilities herself.

Alicia didn't even try to resist when Raven turned the golem into flowing rock and entrapped her wrists and ankles with it. But she wasn't satisfied with simply keeping Alicia in that same standing pose. Raven made the stone construct holding her in place rise up until Alicia's feet left the ground, leaving her in a floating stretched out X in front of her.

It was a real brain fuck to feel the pressure from the bondage around her limbs while remaining able to move, just like there was a growing strain in her shoulders from how Alicia hung by her arms, even though Raven's own shoulders were relaxed. But as weird as these sensations were, they were easy enough to ignore, especially with a naked and now utterly helpless Alicia in front of her.

"How does it feel to be the one tied up and helpless?" Raven leered at Alicia, taking in every detail of her pretty form. The pale skin of hers that was just screaming to get turned into a canvas for Raven's sharp nails. Her small but so soft looking breasts topped off with obscenely erect nipples. And talking about obscene, Alicia's pussy was fully displayed, showing not a single stub of hair. Raven had never bothered messing around with these hair-removing potions herself. She liked herself in her natural state. But she could appreciate how Alicia's completely bare pussy emphasized her vulnerability even more.

Despite her strained position, Alicia managed a wild grin. "Why do you ask? You should know the answer already."

"Don't get smart with me!" Raven trapped Alicia's nipples between her fingers.

The touch she felt on her own nipples was accompanied with a rush of anticipation and horny excitement. There was a tinge of nervousness as well, but with growing annoyance Raven realized that she didn't feel any actual fear. Was Alicia really not afraid of her and what she might do? When Raven had been in her situation, the realization that she couldn't prevent anything from happening to her body had been a major anxiety. Was her will that much weaker than Alicia's?

Raven funneled her anger into pinching Alicia's nipples as hard as she could. She bit her tongue to prevent herself from making any sound as she felt that hot pain herself. Alicia gasped out loud, and that infuriating grin of hers finally disappeared from her lips. For all of five seconds or so.

"You realize that I can feel you biting your tongue, right? Don't try to play tough, you can't hide anything from me right now."

"I'm not playing anything. This is nothing to me!" Raven spat back, hoping that she had her embarrassment under control enough that Alicia wouldn't notice it.

Her nipples ached, more than they should have from a simple pinch, even a strong one. Seemed like Alicia's nipples were a lot more sensitive than her own. Time to use that against her. Technically she'd also be using it against herself, but no matter what Alicia might claim, Raven's toughness wasn't just an act.

She was going to show Alicia some applications of her golem that she would have never figured out on her own. Alicia might have felt all creative and naughty when she'd molded the stone into a dildo, when in reality this only showed off the limits of her creativity. Raven made two thin rock snakes grow from the pillars holding up Alicia's bound form, and sent them sneaking towards her breasts.

Turning the golem into sand had shown her that it was possible to take autonomous parts out of the main body. She trapped Alicia's nipples in the same bondage they'd used on each other's limbs, encasing them in an almost fist sized chunk of rock each. Now she only had to turn the connections to the main pillars into streams of quicksand, leaving the two chunks to themselves so gravity could do its parts.

For a crazy second she thought her nipples would rip off.

She barely managed not to scream as the rocks' drop got stopped by Alicia's breasts, her nipples taking the brunt of the force. These chunks of the golem had to weight close to a kilo each, and the whole weight tugged at those sensitive nubs so hard that they stretched Alicia's breasts down. Fuck, that hurt! Raven clutched at her own chest, but of course that did nothing to soothe the pain since it wasn't her own.

At least she'd finally managed to make an impression on Alicia. That girl hasn't been able to stifle her shriek, and her breath came in shallow bursts as she tried to deal with the pain. "That's evil," she pressed out between clenched teeth.

"Don't flatter me just yet, I'm only getting started." Raven blinked a few times to hide how her own eyes were tearing up, but she wouldn't have stopped for the world. Not when that expression of sweet suffering on Alicia's face was so much hotter than anything she could have dreamed up in her masturbatory fantasies.

Raven took a deep breath and steadied herself, mentally reaching out to the golem. Not that anything could have prepared her for the special kind of hell she put both of them into as she took the smooth stone against Alicia's nipples and turned its surface into jagged spikes.

They shouldn't be sharp enough to break the skin, but fuck did it feel like her nipples got shredded to pieces there. With them still completely enclosed by the stone there was no escaping these pointy tips digging into these sensitive nubs, and the gentle swing of Alicia's breasts rocked the spikes, never allowing the sensations to settle down. That was going to bruise for sure!

There was no staying silent this time, though Raven prided herself on at least not screaming as pitifully as Alicia did. Still, there would have been no way she'd been able to bear this under normal circumstances. The sweet vindication of proving her superiority gave her the strength to push through the pain, although her arousal played no small part, either. Fuck, she was horny! As much fun as it was to torture Alicia, her pussy shouldn't have been this tingly already. She was horny enough for two.

"Wait a minute, you're getting off on this, aren't you?" Raven almost managed to keep her voice from shaking. Between her raging arousal and the screaming pain in her nipples, thinking straight was turning into an impossible challenge.

"And you aren't?" Despite panting like crazy, Alicia managed a smirk. "Admit it, you're at least as much of a helpless masochist as I am. No normal person would have done that to herself."

"I'm not a masochist!" Yes, not many people would have willingly suffered having their nipples squeezed by sharp stones, but that was only because Raven was ready to go the extra mile where others weren't. She'd gladly bring some sacrifices if it meant that she could put Alicia in her place. "Don't get any wrong ideas. You're only feeling how much I love seeing you squirm."

"Which is the only thing you love about me, of course."

Alicia cried out as Raven made true on her earlier promise and slapped her breasts. That alone would have been painful enough, but with the jagged rocks tugging at her nipples, every little movement was pure agony. Raven almost choked on her own screams as she doubled over, clutching at her breasts.

She forced herself to straighten back up. Alicia must not see how much the pain was getting to her, even if it felt like someone was biting off her nipples. Speaking about biting, though...

"Let me show you the kind of love I have for you." Raven sunk her teeth into the firm flesh between Alicia's neck and her shoulder. It wasn't a kiss by any stretch of the imagination. Raven dug in as hard as she could, even when the sharp ache in her own neck made her eyes water.

Alicia's skin tasted of the summer sun, of dry soil, and slightly salty from how the pain had started to make her sweat. It wasn't a bad taste at all, and Raven had no second thoughts about enjoying herself as she sucked hard enough to guarantee a giant bruise. Getting turned on by Alicia's body was not a sign that she had any feelings for her, even if it did make it so much sweeter to dominate her.

When Raven let go again, she had left two shining rows of tooth marks around a spot that was already turning a dark purple. She felt the throbbing ache on her own neck, but as she gloated over how visibly she'd claimed Alicia as her plaything, she realized one essential imbalance in the soul link: Raven's neck might feel like it was badly bruised, but it wasn't actually affected. She might suffer the same pains as Alicia, but only one of them would bear the marks. That seemed like a concept worth exploring.

Raven roughly grabbed Alicia's sides, wincing as she felt all these prickly stings herself. She liked to file her nails into sharp points, giving her the appearance of having claws. Usually it was just a fashion statement so everyone would instantly know that she wasn't to be messed with, but right now it gave her exactly the weapon she needed. This wouldn't be easy, but it was going to be so worth it.

"Regretting your cockiness already?" Raven growled as she slowly and methodically slid her hands down to Alicia's hips. Her nails trailed fiery lined that burned like a bitch, but no matter how it might feel, Raven stayed unharmed while shining red welts bloomed on Alicia's skin. The girl was going to feel that for a good while longer.

"The only thing I regret is not making a move on you sooner." Alicia's laugh was as crazy as this whole situation. "I'd always figured you as a kinky gal, but I'd never thought you'd be this fun when you really get going."

"Who's playing tough now? I know that-"

Raven's taunt ended in the most embarrassing whimper as her nipples exploded with pain. Alicia might be almost immobilized, but one of the few things she could still do was something like a full body shrug. It would have been utterly ineffective, had it not made her breasts bounce, sending the rocks on her now exceedingly tender nipples flying.

"Don't think you've got me yet. I can do this all day." Alicia's cracked voice was living proof that she definitely could not do this all day, but there was nothing fake about the confidence with which she challenged Raven. They both knew that she didn't have to hold out all day. She only had to hold out longer.

The pain in Raven's nipples made her stomach churn. They'd become so raw and sensitive, and every second these sharp spikes dug into them only made them hurt even worse. It was so tempting to call the golem back and give them some rest.

In hindsight it had been a really bad idea to go for this kind of torture. Usually the sensitivity of Alicia's nipples would have left her at a disadvantage, but the soul link turned everything on its head. While it had to be just as unbearable for Alicia, she knew what she'd gotten herself into. Due to how unresponsive Raven's own nipples were, she wasn't used to this level of intensity, and her body desperately screamed for a break. But if she let them both off the hook now, it would prove that Alicia could take more than her.

In her frustration Raven slashed at Alicia's belly, her legs, even her sensitive inner thighs. The itching burn of the scratches was infuriating in its own right, but it took Raven's mind off the pain in her nipples, and Alicia looked so hot covered in this network of bright red stripes.

With every scratch, every pained gasp, every burning sting her arousal only grew. Soon she'd entered a horny frenzy where she couldn't have stopped herself even if she'd wanted to. Her body hurt all over, and every attack on Alicia only added another lingering ache. Under normal circumstances she wouldn't have been able to do much but groan and wait for pain to subside, but in her current state all these countless discomforts only egged her on even more. Hell, the biggest spikes of arousal came when her nails cut especially deep into Alicia's skin, making her eyes water from the truly insidious burn.

When she finally relented, both of them were drenched in sweat and panting heavily. Alicia looked as if she'd been thrown to the tigers. The entire front of her body from her collar bones down to her knees was scratched raw and itching like crazy. Even the giant bite mark at her neck had gotten company when Raven hadn't been able to suppress her primal urges.

But the sweat wasn't the only reason both of them were dripping wet. They were shivering with need, their lust for each other at the forefront of their minds. During the last bite Raven had spent far too much time kissing and licking Alicia's neck for her to have plausible deniability, and she'd just barely kept herself from stealing an actual kiss. She needed some real action and she needed it now, or she would do something real stupid that would give Alicia more ammunition to tease her with.

Raven formed a part of the golem into a giant rounded shaft. Maybe it was foolish to make it quite this thick, but she was too horny to be reasonable. And with how wet Alicia was, shoving that thing into her shouldn't even hurt. Much. "Ready to really get to know your golem?"

Alicia scoffed. "You really think I've never used it on myself before? Why do you think I put so much time and energy into taking the shapeshifting to the max?"

Fantasies of Alicia stealing away in the dark of the night to get fucked by a monster of her own creation floated into Raven's mind. Seemed like she still hadn't given her rival enough credit when it came to the depths of her perversion. But there was a big difference between playing with a glorified sex toy by yourself, and having someone else use that some toy on you when you were helpless to stop them. A difference that Raven was all too glad to teach Alicia.

Her initial plan had been to fuck Alicia just the way she was, hanging in the air as exposed as she could ever be. But if Alicia flaunted her experience like that, then Raven had to find an even more demeaning pose for her, and she knew just the thing.

She took control of the stone pillars holding Alicia in place and bent them over, shoving Alicia's face into the grass. She forced a stone bar against Alicia's spine and the back of her knees so she had no choice but to bow down on all fours, her hips the highest point of her. Raven would have appreciated the sight, but the moment Alicia crashed onto the ground, Raven dropped down herself and her vision blurred as her chest flared up with an absolutely disgusting amount of pain.

For several seconds she could do nothing but curl up into a fetal position and whimper, vaguely aware that beside her Alicia howled, trapped in the clutches of the same agony. It wasn't just her nipples that hurt like there was no tomorrow. Her breasts felt as if someone had punched them with all their strength, and they ached under an awful squeezing tension that didn't let up. It took Raven a moment to figure out what was going on: Not only had the sharp rocks around Alicia's nipples made the impact on the ground pure agony, her breasts were now trapped between those same rocks and her full weight.

Raven released these parts of the golem, turning them back into soft sand that became one with the main body. She didn't care about appearing weak anymore. If her nipples didn't get any rest from the pain, she was going to piss herself for real. Not that they stopped hurting, but at least there were no sharp spiked digging into the tender bruises anymore, and the tension in her chest got a lot easier to bear now that Alicia's breasts got flattened only against the soft soil, especially with how they weren't all that big to begin with.

"You okay there? That was a lot worse than expected, huh?"

Raven forced herself to get back on her feet. She would have loved to stay curled up for a few minutes more as she waited for the pain in her nipples to subside, but how pathetic would it be if she let Alicia pity her? "I'm fine. Just caught me by surprise what a sensitive snowflake you are, that's all."

She took a couple of deep breaths, trying to stop her legs from shaking. Suffering through this blinding pain had left her so fucking exhausted, but she quickly found that she was just as horny as before, if not even more so. Between being made to share Alicia's masochism and seeing her rival in this humiliating pose, it didn't matter how tired and battered her body was.

She crouched down behind Alicia and spread her butt cheeks to full expose that bright pink pussy of hers. Raven might feel like she needed it bad, but that girl looked absolutely desperate. Her pussy was sopping wet, her outer lips swollen with need and her gushing entrance pulsated with hungry contractions. The smell of her arousal was thick in the air, making Raven's mouth water. She'd never seen such a juicy pussy before, and thanks to how well Alicia kept herself groomed, she couldn't hide the tiniest detail of her arousal.

"Feel free to have a taste." Alicia's voice had dropped a register from how horny she was.

"You wish." Raven had to admit that it was so tempting to sample this pretty pussy with her tongue, to find out if Alicia's taste was as intoxicating as her smell, but eating someone out was just about the most submissive act she could think off, except maybe for kissing one's feet, so there was no way she was going to do it.

Although that gave her an idea...

But first things first. Raven let the stone dildo grow towards Alicia's entrance. On closer look that thing really was crazy thick. Someone with less awareness for the female anatomy and less sense for adventure would have wondered if it would even fit at all. To Raven's lust-addled mind though, this challenge only made her even more eager to push on.

Both of them moaned in unison as the dildo's tip forced Alicia's pussy open. It was so weird for Raven to feel this oppressive fullness working its way into her, when she could at the same time feel her own pussy excitedly clenching around nothing. Maybe she'd been too quick to judge the soul link. Crawling through each other's emotions was still kinda scary, but being able to feel the pleasure of two people at the same time more than made up for it. She was sure, if she'd fingered herself now while she enjoyed the sensations of this monster dildo ripping into her, she would have exploded within minutes.

She kept pulling Alicia's pussy lips apart to help the dildo slide into her. Even with her gentle assistance and the copious amounts of lubrication thanks to Alicia's arousal, the friction was absolutely brutal. Yes, that thing did fit, but it felt like Alicia had to rearrange her insides to make it so.

Raven's eyelids fluttered from the overwhelming pleasure as that giant stone shaft speared Alicia. She let it settle as deep as was comfortable and left it there for the moment. Just dealing with having this thing inside of her was distracting enough, and there was something else she had to do before completely surrendering to the pleasure. After all, it wouldn't do for Alicia to forget who was in charge here.

Getting up again took two tries with how shaky her legs were. She walked back to Alicia's front, looking down at her pretty rival who couldn't return her leering stares. The golem's unbreakable grip forced her head down, but conveniently it didn't fully mash her face into the grass.

"There! So you can show me a little gratitude for making you feel this good." Raven shoved her foot into the gap between Alicia's face and the soil.

She'd only meant it as a practical joke at Alicia's expense. It gave her such a rush of power to force her into this demeaning position. What she hadn't expected was for Alicia to play along with zero hesitation.

"What the..." For a moment Raven was completely flabbergasted as she felt Alicia's soft lips traveling over the top of her foot, covering it with adoring kisses. "You're actually doing it?"

Alicia giggled. "Of course. Could it be that you're still thinking of me as this innocent cinnamon roll?" She enclosed Raven's big toe with her lips and eagerly sucked on it.

Raven knew that Alicia wasn't bluffing. If Alicia had felt any shame or disgust at debasing herself like that, Raven would have felt it through their soul link. What she did feel, though, in what had to be the weirdest development of this entire madness, was the sensation of her own toe in her mouth.

Her first instinct was to twitch away, but if she did that, Alicia would laugh at her for sure. That little bitch had once again managed to turn the tables on her. No wonder she was this ready to humiliate herself, knowing that she passed the humiliation right on. Surely she was just waiting for Raven to complain or back out so she could gloat about her little victory.

Normally she would have let Alicia have it, because no way was this stupid challenge worth it to gobble her own toes. Only that Raven was too horny and too invested to make this kind of reasonable assessment. And it wasn't like it was that bad. After walking barefoot trough the forest, her feet barely had their own smell to them, having taken on a grassy, mossy taste that wasn't unpleasant at all. And while it was demeaning to experience the sensations of giving such dirty oral worship, Alicia's soft, wet mouth felt real good. Also: The actually dirty part was only with Alicia, just like the bruises and scratches were only hers to bear.

When Raven made the golem move again, the pleasure melted any last doubts she might have had. That thick stone shaft felt so amazing as it slid out a little only to force itself right back in. Even though she was going slow, due to its girth that dildo absolutely shredded her insides, making her ache in a way that perfectly rounded out all the lingering pains in her body. Even the stomach-churning throbbing in her overly tender nipples only enhanced the experience, giving the pleasure an excitingly kinky edge.

Staying upright quickly became impossible. As much as Raven wanted to keep her dominant position, her legs simply refused to carry her any longer as the pleasure shook her to her very core. She dropped onto her butt, using her hands to steady herself so she could at least remain sitting.

Alicia was just as affected by the slow, heavy fucking of the golem. Raven could feel her moans vibrating against her toes, just like she felt them in her own mouth. If anything, the haze of arousal had only gotten Alicia even more eager to worship her feet. Maybe it was because this was the only distraction the strict bondage granted her, or maybe she really was this much of a raging submissive, but her lips and tongue never rested as she all but devoured Raven's toes.

But while Alicia proved to be the perfect sexy plaything in so many ways, it quickly became apparent that she wasn't one of the lucky few who could come from penetration alone. Getting speared by this thick shaft felt mindbogglingly amazing, but while the tension kept building up in her loins, it would simmer there forever if Raven didn't change it up.

It would have been so hot to keep fucking her until Alicia was so desperate with need that she begged for more, but Raven wasn't ready to face that same desperation. The need was killing her, and she was mentally exhausted from much she'd suffered through already. But the nice thing about the soul link was that she didn't have to change anything about what she was doing to Alicia. She could go ahead and continue to enjoy this thorough fucking while she brought herself to her well-deserved orgasm.

The moment Raven reached between her legs, she lost all awareness for her surroundings. Even with that haze of hot need drowning out her conscious mind she'd still underestimated just how crazy aroused she was. She'd judged Alicia's pussy for its sorry state, but her own private parts were no less sloppy and swollen. Her clit had grown into a hard nub, and the slightest touch to it made her almost blank out from the intensity of the pleasure. At this rate she would come in a matter of seconds, but there was no way she'd be able to control herself enough to draw this out. Now that she'd gotten a taste of the bliss, she needed it all.

Her mouth hung open as she sat there, rubbing her fingers over her clit in slick circles. Maybe she was drooling. She didn't know and didn't care. In this moment nothing else mattered except for how amazingly good she felt. Even the sensations of her tongue licking between her dirty toes felt raunchy instead of irritating. As she rapidly approached the edge, her fingers only sped up even more. This was going to be so glorious.

Both of them screamed as the climax hit them. Raven barely managed not to collapse to the ground from how violently her body shook. The pleasure pulsating from her clit was painfully intense, and yet she couldn't stop herself from rubbing that crazy bundle of nerves. The fullness from the giant stone dildo combined with the contractions of her own empty pussy, forming a potent cocktail of pure bliss that let her experience so many different forms of pleasure at the same time. Every time she thought she'd slowly come down, something set her off again into another round of that mind-melting orgasm.

She only stopped when she was completely and utterly spent. Her clit burned from all the pleasure she'd ripped from it, and that familiar sweet relaxation was washing through her body. Only that the relief was a lot weaker than it should have been after such an explosive finish.

Raven started as she realized that she was just as horny as before. The dildo stretching her to the brink should have been supremely uncomfortable in her now oversensitive pussy, but it still felt absolutely heavenly. Hell, her body was loudly demanding an orgasm even though she'd just had one and the slightest touch to her swollen clit made it very clear that another round would be nothing but torture.

It didn't take her long to figure out what was going on: She might have come to her heart's content, but Alicia had not. And while Alicia's mind had shared the pleasures of her orgasm, her body remained unsatisfied.

As far as Raven was concerned, it could stay that way. Just like with all the sensations they'd shared, it felt so supremely right that all the nice things belonged to Raven's body and all the not so nice ones to Alicia's. Now she only had to release the soul link so she could properly bask in the satisfaction of her afterglow, with the extra benefit of getting to see Alicia squirm.

"Okay, playtime is over." Raven pulled her foot out of Alicia's mouth and called the golem back into its dormant boulder form. Alicia groaned as she slowly got up onto her knees and stretched her stiff limbs. Raven felt every little detail of how sore she was all over. One more reason to cut their ties as soon as possible.

"Thanks for being such a willing victim, I guess, but all good things have to come to an end." Raven got up onto her own knees and shuffled closer. She was no expert on soul links, but it stood to reason that they were broken the same way they were set up. And while she definitely hadn't developed any feelings for Alicia, she found that she was looking forward to ending this whole adventure with a kiss.

"Giving up already? And there I was sure that you could handle so much more."

"I'm not giving up. I got what I wanted, so why drag it out? And also: I gotta leave some tricks up my sleeve for next time." Raven put her smuggest grin on, and she almost managed to convince herself with her own cockiness. Even if there was this little voice at the back of her mind which worried if maybe it would have been her who'd tapped out first if she'd pushed the two of them even further.

"Next time, huh? So you admit that you want more of me?" Alicia wiggled her eyebrows suggestively, wiping the grin from Raven's lips. Looked liked she'd once again been outplayed.

"Don't get any wrong ideas. You've got a hot body, and it's fun to see you squirm, that's all."

"Of course it is."

Raven should have been annoyed, but the lingering arousal made it hard to focus on anything but Alicia's glistening lips right in front of her. She needed to get out of that horny body of Alicia's, or she would do something that ruined this perfectly dominant ending of their shared adventure. "Stop screwing around. Let's break this link. I need my body back."

She leaned in for a kiss, but Alicia blocked her off. "Wait a sec. Before we break it off, I want to hear you admit that you enjoyed yourself."

"I told you already, didn't I?"

Alicia chuckled. "No, I mean that you enjoyed suffering everything with me. And don't try to deny it. You would never have been this ruthless with me if you didn't like getting fucked up so thoroughly."

Raven wanted to protest, but really, what would have been the point? Alicia had been there with her for the entire time. She knew how much the pain and the intensity had enhanced the experience for her. "Yeah. So what?"

"Oh, nothing. I was just thinking, since you mentioned a next time: Now that you know what it's like, how about you let me take charge the next time?" She raised her hand as Raven was about to make her indignation at this suggestion heard. "Don't play hard to get, unless you want to tell me that you couldn't handle the things you did to me yourself. You're not such a chicken, are you?"

"Of course I could!" Raven knew that her arousal was making her reckless, but she had to make it unmistakable clear that she wasn't a coward. She was still embarrassed thinking back to how afraid she'd been at the beginning, when it had been her bound and hyper-aware of her vulnerability. Given everything she'd seen today, it was no wonder that Alicia would have some wrong ideas about being the tougher one of them two. "I'm game. You'll see, I can handle everything I did to you and more. Easily!"

"I'll hold you to it. Just one more thing." Alicia held out her hand. "The soul crystal, if you please. I want my golem back."

Raven reluctantly handed the crystal over. She could've gotten used to having such a versatile toy at her disposal. But as much as she wanted one for herself, she knew that she'd never be able to create a golem at this level, and the only witch she could have asked for help was Alicia, which wasn't going to happen. She wouldn't come to her rival begging for freebies.

"Okay then," Alicia said once she'd infused her own magic into the golem's inner workings again. "Let's do this. And make sure to relax your magical flow as much as possible, to ensure a smooth separation."

Raven did as she was told. She let herself fall into the kiss and was only a little embarrassed by how it made her moan. They made out as intimately as the first time, and with how horny she still was, this smooth dance of their tongues felt far too good.

Until she felt something like a mental hiccup, a flash of darkness and disorientation. She stumbled back, holding her head. The sensations within her body had changed and she no longer felt the experiences of two people. But why was there still the infuriating itch of countless scratches all over skin? That painful tenderness of her nipples? Or that raging need within her that suddenly wasn't mellowed out by the satisfaction of her orgasm anymore.

"Wow, you actually fell for it."

It had to be Alicia saying these words, but her voice sounded all wrong, and yet weirdly familiar at the same time. Raven blinked a few times to get her vision back into focus, only to see herself standing right in front of her.

"What?"

"I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist." The fake Raven laughed, her eyes shining with mischief. "I thought it was a little unfair that after I let you have all the fun I'd be the one frustrated and hurting all over. And you said that you can handle everything you did to me, so it's only fair game if I make you prove it, don't you think?"

"You little bitch! Give me my body back!"

Alicia was utterly unimpressed by her outburst. "Don't worry, I can't keep that spell up forever. It will break on its own when I go to sleep, at the latest. And before you strangle me: It's not like there's nothing in it for you. Remember how you boasted in front of everyone that you can take on my golem?"

Right, there had been a reason to this madness. With all the violent sex going on, Raven had almost forgotten why they were here in the first place.

"How about this: We do that fight as planned, but not tell anyone that we switched bodies. Since I'm the one controlling the golem, I can easily make it look like an epic fight that you win in the end. That's a crazy good deal and you know it. You set yourself up to get your ass kicked in front of everyone, and now instead everyone will think that you're an absolute machine and so much stronger than me."

Raven had to admit that Alicia had a point there. If she stayed true to her words, it would save Raven a lot of humiliation. That was definitely worth dealing with a couple of scratches and bruises for a bit.

"Guess I don't have to strangle you after all. But you better not fuck around with my body. I swear, if I don't get it back just the way it was..."

"A bit scratched and dirty, but floating in the afterglow of a real nice orgasm? That can easily be arranged," Alicia said with a grin. "But speaking about preserving bodies in the right state..."

She snatched the soul crystal from the ground (Raven must have dropped it in her shock at suddenly inhabiting Alicia's body) and sent a small stream of flowing sand towards Raven. Before Raven had any time to react, it had already formed into something like panties made of stone.

"You know, I've been really looking forward to that orgasm. You built me up so much, it's gonna feel so great. Would be a shame if it went to waste when I'm not around to enjoy it."

"You little bitch!" Raven yelled again as she realized what was going on. The layer of stone between her legs wasn't all that thick, but it prevented any and all access to her naughty bits. Well, to Alicia's naughty bits, but that didn't make a difference right now. Knowing that she couldn't do anything about this hot itch immediately made her feel the frustration of her unfulfilled need so much worse.

"What's that? It shouldn't be a problem. Unless, of course, you planned to have some less than decent fun with my body first chance you got."

Raven glared at Alicia.

"Okay, I'm not unreasonable. I'll give you a little something to have fun with."

Raven gasped as she felt something push against her dripping entrance. The insides of the stone panties grew a dildo not unlike the one she had used herself, but thankfully it was significantly smaller. It also seemed to be only loosely connected to the panties, allowing it to move around. That was a blessing and a curse. A rigid dildo would have made walking all but impossible and a major pain to boot, but feeling it shift around inside of her with every step made it impossible to forget about her simmering arousal. "You expect me to have that thing inside of me the whole day? I'll go crazy! And everyone will notice it immediately."

"Only if you lack the skill and the willpower to hide it." Alicia's mocking tone grew a little softer. "I know you're a strong girl. You can handle it. And if I may focus your attention on a tiny little detail of this whole situation..."

Alicia leaned in, and for a crazy moment Raven thought she would kiss her again. Which would essentially mean that Raven would be kissing herself. Maybe it was just because of how horny she was, but in that startled moment Raven realized that this thought wasn't repulsive at all. In fact, the idea of getting intimate with her own body from outside was strangely alluring.

However, Alicia swerved to the side to whisper into Raven's ear. "Remember: Tonight, when 'Raven' wins against 'Alicia', you'll still be in my body. And I can't stop you from making me say whatever you want when 'Alicia' admits her defeat."

Raven's heart sped up as her gears got turning. Alicia was right. Not only would Raven get to humiliate her in front of everyone, she could even make her offer a juicy forfeit to "Raven". One Alicia would be bound to uphold since the entire coven would witness her promise. Raven didn't have the perfect idea yet for what that would be, but she was sure, the hours of frustrating teasing she'd have to endure until then would make her come up with something real good. Alicia was so going to regret this.

And maybe Raven would regret making her regret it later, since she'd already agreed to a future date with Alicia in control. But that was a problem for future Raven. And she certainly didn't mind if this kinky adventure of theirs grew a long tail-end of additional opportunities to get down and dirty with Alicia and show her who was the tougher one.

Although she didn't have any feelings for Alicia, of course. Absolutely none. This was just about sex and power, nothing else.