The Empress's Nest Chapter 4 (Final)

By: D. R. Nyan-chan

Based on an RP with on Deviantart


Chapter 4: Not all Snakes are Plain

Daniel stood dumfounded and horrified at the sudden transformation that Valerie had taken in both body and mind.  She now swayed and slithered with a hint of sensual authority worthy of the empress she was now claiming to be.  “What’ss wrong, Ssselasss?” Valerie inquired with a smirk and a subtle hint of concern.  “I know it’ss you.  You don’t have to hide from your empresss.”

“V-Val?” Daniel finally managed to gasp.  “Wh-what’s going on?  Who are you?  Where’s Valerie?  What did you do to her?”

“I’ve finally awakened to the truth and it’ss all thanksss to you, Ssselasss,” Valerie hissed as she cupped his chin.  “I remember who I really am, now.  That horrible name that I was imprisoned behind no longer need be uttered.  Empresss Sssorleia iss free.  Now kneel ssso that I may remind you of your own destiny.”

Daniel was clearly aroused by Sorleia’s powerful presence and seductive mannerisms. In fact, he was about to give in when he noticed her tail beginning to wrap around him.  “N-no!” he screamed as he leapt back just in time.  “Valerie would never do stuff like this, not with me at least.  You’re possessing her!” he frantically accused.  “Let her go!”

Without warning, Sorleia’s tail wrapped around Daniel’s waist and flung him back several steps.  He got up just in time to be pinned against a nearby wall by Sorleia.  “You alwayss did tend to come up with explanationsss-sssteeped in pure randomnesss.  Of courssse, that’ss what I love about you, Ssselasss.  Your plan worked.  The Fickle Compasss, my Empresssesss’ss Band, it all came together.”

Before Daniel could say anything, Sorleia leaned in and forcefully kissed him.  His face turned bright red as her lips rubbed against his and her tongue whipped around inside his mouth.  Daniel was frozen stiff in more ways than one and was completely unsure about what to do regarding the fact that his childhood friend was making out with him like a pro and that he was actually enjoying it.  Sorleia’s tongue went everywhere inside his mouth.  It painted his teeth.  It licked his lips.  It entwined around and massaged his own tongue.

After what seemed like an eternity, Sorleia slowly released her lip lock, smiled lustfully, and hissed, “Doess that help you remember, Ssselasss?  Can you recall the promissesss that we made together?”

“I-I…I…uh,” Daniel stuttered like a fool.  He wouldn’t dare move from his current position and was clearly having trouble thinking straight.

“Perhapsss you need another reminder,” Sorleia suggested before kissing Daniel once again.  Daniel wasn’t sure why, but he liked the sensation of snake tongue swirling inside his mouth and actually tried to kiss back in the middle of it.

“That’ss my Ssselasss,” Sorleia sighed as her eyes glowed all the colors of the rainbow.  “I knew you were still in there.  Now follow me.  It’ss time you came back to your sssenssesss.”

Daniel simply followed obediently as Sorleia led him along by the tip of her tail through a crawlspace that had just opened up.  On the other side was what appeared to be some sort of den with an unknown, soft material that could easily pass for bedding.  “That’ss a good girl,” Sorleia coaxed.  “I’m going to bring you back, Ssselasss, just asss you did for me, my loyal sssister.”

“S-sister?” Daniel suddenly gasped as he came to.  “What’s your deal?” he demanded, pushing Sorleia back into the bedding in the process.  “First you possess my friend and then you mistake me for some chick?”

“Are you in one of your feisty moodss, Ssselasss?” Sorleia giggled and she crawled back towards Daniel at an angle that gave him quite the view of her cleavage.  “Don’t worry, onssse you’re back to normal, we’ll have plenty of time to…reacquaint.”  At that moment, one of Sorleia’s snakes hissed a code and the passageway disappeared, trapping them there.

“Stop calling me by that name!” Daniel shouted.  “I’m not going to go along with what you wish.  Give Valerie back!”

“That name wass a prisson!” Sorleia angrily hissed as she smacked Daniel down with the tip of her tail and pinned him to the floor with her arms.  Daniel tried to resist, but the sheer weight of Sorleia’s tail proved to be too much leverage for him to overcome.  Sorleia continued to rant, “Daniel and Valerie were our cagesss.  Don’t you sssee, Ssselasss?  I’m back and sssoon you will be, too.  Then we can have our revenge against thosse humansss that tried to destroy our kind.  Come,” she commanded, “it would be rude to keep our daughtersss waiting when they want to come out into the world.”

“A-are you trying to…with me?” Daniel blushed before outright objecting, “No!  Never!  Not to Val!  NO!”

“Patienssse, Ssselasss,” Sorleia hissed with a smirk while placing a quieting finger on Daniel’s lips.  “You’re not ready yet, but sssoon there will be plenty of eggsss for usss to watch over, just like we promissed.  You ssswore to alwaysss be by my ssside, after all.”

When the lamia empress tried to kiss Daniel again, he defiantly pushed her away.  “NO!” he cried out.  “My name isn’t Sell-Out or whatever you think it is.  I promised Valerie, not you.”

“But you even renewed our union vowss at the mural, Ssselasss,” Sorleia indicated.  “They’reeternally binding.  No one can shatter our bondss.  Your new ear iss proof of that.”

“You mean the one you bit off?” Daniel accused as he placed a hand on the side of his head.  To his surprise, not only had his ear lobe grown back, but he was also now wearing some sort of dangling earring.  “H-how?”

“It’ss proof of our union,” Sorleia explained as she revealed a similar ornament of a snake on her own, pointy ear.

“U-union?” Daniel exclaimed.  “A-as in like…marriage?  Oh no!  I like Val and everything, but I have no bonds with you, you manipulative b-MMPH!”

“You ssseem to forget where you are, Ssselasss,” Sorleia lustfully smirked as she bound and gagged Daniel within her coils.  “Thisss isss one of our ssspecial love nesstsss.  For example, that wall behind you hass one of many sssecret chambersss where ssspecial toolsss are stored that havemade many of our dreamsss come true.  We have ssspent many wonderful nightss here and I will ensure that you remember each and every one.  You may be refussing with your mouth, but your eyesss betray your true dessire to gaze upon your empresss onssse more.

Daniel continued to fruitlessly struggle as one of the twin snake bands began to slither down Sorleia’s arm and onto his shoulder.  The pair quickly entwined around his upper arm and sank their fangs deep into him, causing him to gasp and wince in surprise.  However, instead of the searing pain he was expecting, a strange sensation of warmth and bliss filled his entire being.

“Don’t worry, Ssselasss,” Sorleia cooed as she wrapped her coils tighter around Daniel.  “Your transitionwill be much sssmoother than mine, even though more fixing iss required.”  Sure enough, Daniel’s body hair was already disappearing and he soon felt a strange pressure on the roof of his mouth as new fangs began to form.

“N-no…” Daniel weakly gasped; Sorleia’s squeezing was leaving him barely enough room to breathe.  “E-even if you…change me.  I won’t ravage you.  I…care too much about V-Val to…do that to her.”

“Let the changess take hold, Ssselasss,” Sorleia gently whispered as her entrapping tail undulated around her captive, creating a strange massaging sensation.  “Sssoon you will be back to normal,” she hissed as she moved in for another kiss.  Daniel didn’t exactly return the gesture, but in his rattled state, he didn’t reject it, either; the feeling of their two tongues tangoing together filled his thoughts.  Meanwhile, Daniel’s hair began to grow out and adopt a color scheme similar to Sorleia’s do as his face softened and his hips and chest expanded alongside his shrinking waist.  One of his eyes was already identical to Sorleia’s as well.

“P-please,” Daniel gasped in a voice that was higher, smoother, and very feminine, “g-give Val…back.”

Sorleia immediately scowled and grumbled, “It ssseemsss there’ss more I must do for you.”  Her eyes began to shift a rainbow of colors, enrapturing Daniel immediately.  “You are Ssselasss,” she commanded.

“I am Ssselasss,” Daniel flatly hissed back as the small “tail” that was normally between his legs receded outside in.

“I am your empresss.”

“Y-you are…you…are…” Daniel uttered before falling silent.

“Ssso that falssse mind of yoursss-sstill hasss-sssome fight left,” Sorleia smirked while Daniel stared off blankly into space, not aware that her chest was expanding even further and her legs were beginning to warp.  “Fortunately, I know just what turnss you on, my love.”  Daniel’s pants began to rip and tear while Sorleia squeezed him as tight as she could without removing his consciousness.  Daniel’s reddened face soon bore an obviously aroused expression.  As the shifting colors in Sorleia’s eyes intensified, her tail wrapped around the one that was forming from Daniel’s legs.  Snake-on-snake, the two pairs of coils intertwined around one another in a sort of double helix tangle.

“Now, let’ss fix you, Ssselasss,” Sorleia blissfully sighed.  “I am your empresss.”
 
“………You are my empresss,” Daniel eventually replied with a flickering of her forked tongue.

“You are my love.”

“……I am your love.”

“You are my mate.”

“…I am your mate.”

“Do you remember what you normally called me when we were alone?” Sorleia gently enquired.

“No,” Daniel monotonically replied.

“Don’t worry, Ssselasss, you will,” Sorleia assured her hypnotized prisoner as she uncoiled from her.  Daniel slumped to the floor, but continued to gaze at the lamia before her.  Never before had she seen someone so beautiful as her empress.  She wanted to be with her with all her body and soul.  Sorleia soon curled up her coils in front of Daniel and twirled them back and forth, causing the golden runes etched along the length on her tail to glow.  “Remember, Ssselasss,” Sorleia instructed.  “Written along my body iss the history of our people, our wonderful dayss together, and the reasson thossse humansss must sssuffer.”  Daniel simply staredstraight ahead at the alternating bands of beautiful color.  Strangely enough, information began to fill her head.  The gaps were coming together…

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“Wake up, Sssleasss,” Sorleia gently whispered as she squeezed her lover’s tail.

“Isss my Lessser lover ready for more?” Selass hissed with a smile as she adjusted her cobra circlet.

“Don’t forget that sssometimess I’m the Greater,” Sorleia replied as she flicked Selass’s revealing brassier.

“Of courssse,” Selass hissed as the two shared another passionate kiss.  “You rule over me.  I rule over you.  Together, we are the True Empresss.  However, don’t forget that it wass my idea that brought uss back together.”

*crackle*

“It ssseemsss it’ss time,” Selass hissed as the two looked over at the myriad of hatching eggs before them.  One by one, pairs of golden snakes completely identical to the ones around the two Empress’ arms slithered out like a golden river and flowed towards the outside world.

“Sssoon our daughterss shall be awakened,” Sorleia sighed triumphantly.  “Then thosse humansss shall know our true fury.

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SOCC Situation Report:

Despite previous claims to the contrary, there were no native human bio-signatures to be found anywhere on the world in question by the time agents had arrived.  Instead, the planet was littered with lamias that were mostly distrustful of humans.  Fortunately, the SOCC agents assigned to investigate were able to rendezvous with some local allies of the Peppermint Foundation who had been monitoring the situation.  After meeting with Informants Stanley Alfred and Alfred Stanley, they were able to gain an audience with the two rulers of the lamias, Empress Sorleia and Empress Selass.

There was clearly a previous conflict of disastrous proportions that had taken place, but the inhabitants of this world were slowly but surely rebuilding their lives.  According to the information gathered, the ones responsible for almost destroying the lamias’ culture belonged to the interdimensional telecommunications cult Black Horizon.

Black Horizon was still seeking to control all forms of communication and regulate the flow of all information, all while profiting off hidden fees and atrocious customer service.  They have intervened in many worlds in the past in order to stifle concepts like net neutrality for their own gains, even going as far as claiming that they had every right to do so at the expense of everyone else.  Their leader, Lester McAdams, has been said to have so much financial power and influence that he could get anything he wanted with two snaps of his fingers.  Neither the Peppermint Foundation nor the SOCC have ever had good rapport with Black Horizon, mostly because both organizations have reliable means of communication on their own and they also operate without the need for currency of any kind, rendering all of Black Horizon’s attempts at leverage and bribery useless.

Unfortunately, Black Horizon resorted to invading this world in order to turn it into a utopia from their perspective.  All of the lamias that survived were captured and forcefully transformed into humans, some even being converted to males in addition.  Their minds were also altered to create a dependence on their new smart phones and thus cement their loyalty to Black Horizon itself.  When the empresses saw the impending danger, Empress Selass sealed up one of Empress Sorleia’s armbands and her tiara in the hopes that their powers would restore her fellow ruler later on, allowing her to do the same for her lover and daughters.  However, not even Empress Selass could anticipate Black Horizon utilizing temporal accelerators to artificially age their old homes into ruins.

One year of local time later, the two former empresses found Sorleia’s armband despite being under nearly constant watch by agents from Black Horizon,.  However, the time acceleration had taken its toll; most of the artifact’s power had been drained and it could only accomplish a slow, incomplete transformation.  Fortunately, the two had some unexpected help in both Stanley Alfred and Alfred Stanley.  When Abby, a specially designed enchanted saw blade, shattered in Sorleia’s presence, it released wave of anti-temporal energy, which revitalized Sorleia’s armband enough for it to communicate the location of her tiara. 

By this time, Lester McAdams had gotten wind of Sorleia’s partial reversion and with two snaps of his fingers, he ordered the empress’ capture.  Unbeknownst to “President” McAdams, another stroke of luck was on the lamias’ side.  Empress Selass had somehow managed to keep ahold of her magical compass despite her previous capture and subsequent brainwashing, allowing the two of them to find Sorleia’s tiara.  What followed soon after was a disaster for Black Horizon as the lamias awoke to their true selves almost en masse and easily overwhelmed the cult.  Many details regarding the subsequent scuffles have remained sketchy, but Black Horizon was ultimately forced to retreat.

Both empresses refused the assistance of the Peppermint Foundation in their reconstruction due to bad blood towards outsiders following the Black Horizon incident and the desire of their people to fix things on their own, but they have allowed the SOCC to conduct regular patrols in order to discourage Black Horizon from ever coming back and repeating the atrocities of the past.