A light peppering of mist filled the air as James sloshed through the muddy dirt trail behind Cody, his best friend. For once, James was happy he’d worn his thick rubber galoshes even if they made him look like a total geek for the sheer fact that his feet were safe from the cold mud. He began to pant as the trail started to incline while the mud suctioned his boots, making every step a chore.
Cody called out behind him, “Almost there. Trust me, it’s worth it!” before returning to his nearly robotic walking, seemingly ignorant to the bitterly cold mud soaking his pants and shoes.
‘How good can this place be?’, James pondered to himself. The whole reason he was out here was to figure out the cause of the sudden change in Cody.
James had known Cody for as long as he could remember. Starting in pre-school and all the way through the county’s jr. high, the two were always in the same classes. Even in high school, they’d managed to get all of their electives and extra curriculars together. Cody had to be the one person James knew better than anyone.
Yet, about a month ago a major change took place in Cody. One day after a solo hike, a hike they were making right now, Cody had left his normal jockular, messy, and easy going self only to return a different man. Upon arriving back, he’d cleaned the apartment to near photogenic perfection before James returned home from work. Cody had also stopped smoking weed with James and ceased watching porn on their high definition flat screen, things which had been a daily occurrence. On top of that, James couldn’t remember a single joke being told after that day. While most of this couldn’t exactly be construed as bad changes, the dramatic change concerned James.
Reaching the top of the hill, the trees began to grow sparce. Cody pointed off into the distance. “There. That’s why were here.”
James looked off in line with the point and grew even more confused as hints of rage began to smolder. In a gap in the tree line stood an old abandoned logging camp. Having grown up in the area, James was very familiar with that history. He’d been to multiple that existed in more easily accessible areas. “You dragged me out here in the mud and cold for a fucking logging camp?” he barked out, visibly annoyed at his friend.
“Yes. It’s really cool. Come check it out.”
Before James could respond, Cody had already stepped off the trail and sloshed through the wet ground towards the abandoned site. Unwilling to leave his friend alone out here, James followed.
Reaching the site, James discovered exactly what he’d expected. A collection of old buildings, bent steel bed frames, and a thick layer of time. Cody merely walked through the site and stepped into one of the dilapidated buildings.
“Cody, stop! What’re you doing? That building could fall on you any minute!”
“It’s fine. The cool thing is in here.” Cody proceeded to step further inside, disappearing into the shadows.
The building wasn’t very large, maybe 15’ by 7’, and James hoped he could jump out in time if it came tumbling down. Against his better judgement, James stepped inside.
Upon crossing the threshold, the door slammed shut behind him and locked. “The fuck? Cody!” James screamed out as the small room was enveloped in darkness.
All at once, light returned. Floor to ceiling, every inch was covered in a series of pink and black spirals spinning off into infinity as they pulsed in and out, quickly alternating between light and dark. There was no escape from them, no safe place to look, just the spiral spinning in and out and throbbing.
Still facing the door, James decided to bust out. Expecting the whole building to crumble at the slightest force, James forced his shoulder into the door. Rather than crumble, the door held firm. For his troubles, James was rewarded with a shooting pain in his shoulder. Remembering an old saying about kicking doors down, James threw all of his weight into the door with his foot. This too was absorbed by the door, the only hint at James effort being a momentary wave of discoloration in the spirals.
Finally remembering that Cody was here too, James turned into the room. Cody was there, but to James it felt like he wasn’t.
Cody’s previously excellent posture was replaced by a heavy slouch as his arms dangled beneath him. Drool escaped his lips as a simple smile grew larger on his face. His eyes were fixed, looking directly into the center of one of the spirals.
“C-cody?” James choaked out as he stepped towards his friend. Desperation to escape had been replaced with concern. Grabbing Cody by the shoulder, James attempted to shake him back to reality. “Snap out of it Cody!”
Cody made no response.
The room changed again as the flashing increased in intensity, sending the room into pure light and near darkness multiple times every second. With it, came a low hum that rang the ears.
The change momentarily consumed all of James’ attention. His eyes fixed on one of the spirals opposite Cody, he stood there and stared. The flashing both blinding him and informing him, his breath slowing in line with the throbbing, every muscle relaxing until only those needed to stand and watch the spiral held any tension. Drool began to pool in his open mouth.
“Fuck!” James exclaimed as he managed to drag his attention away from the spirals. It had taken everything he had, but he’d just managed to drive the whole of his attention to Cody. ‘How long… uh, head fuzzy.’ His brain felt as if sludge was poured in.
As if knowing James had just regained control, the spiral changed again. Mixed into the spiral, was the image of a man’s naked crotch with a hard 11 or so inch cock resting against one thigh. As the spiral pulsed in, the cock began to rise. When it pulsed out, the cock fell and rested on the other thigh. On and on, the cock’s motion followed the pulsing.
The change in the spiral had once again gotten James’ attention as he was forced to look onto a cock the size he’d only ever seen in porn. This brief moment of focus was enough to consume James as his body relaxed and he stared.
The spirals began moving, slowly pulling into a single point, the multitude replaced by a singular. One massive spiral consuming the whole of their vision as they stared and stared. An array of voices began speaking at once, filling James’ head with new ideas, new thoughts taking over, a new self being built.
The sun was setting when the spiral finally blinked into darkness for good and the door opened. Slowly, the muscles in Cody and James’ body’s began to regain their normal tension as they returned to reality.
“Shall we go home slave James.”
“Yes slave Cody, let us go home. Can we stop by the sex store on the way? I must lock my worthless slave cock in chastity and get a dildo to train for master.”
“Yes slave James. I must get a bigger plug to train my slave ass for master. Let us go.”
Together, they walked out of the room and back to the trail. Heading towards their car, the cold mud no longer concerned them. Their only priority was that to a superior being, their master whom they must serve with each and every fiber of their being.
Magic Fable 