DANCER OF VOLTATH
by Hypnosnake
NOTE: Obviously, this story is set in the same universe as The Serpent's Egg, but is set a few centuries in the past, back when Voltath had worshippers.
Within the temple of Voltath, Belanna writhed and undulated, performing the Dance of the Python. This sacred (yet sensuous) ritual symbolized the power of Voltath, he who laid the egg that was the world, and from whose spittle had risen the race of man.
As she completed the dance, the python draped around her body slithered off her arm and flowed back into its basket. The worshippers clapped their appreciation, then left the temple.
Belanna wiped her forehead. The dance always made her sweaty, with both exertion and arousal. Now she wished to wrap herself around a different kind of serpent...the kind that sprouted between a man's legs.
She went to the place of her assignation. Waiting for her at the inn was a man whom she had been seeing: Dharmu, a virile, handsome man of sun-bronzed skin and a long mane of hair.
Together, Dharmu and Belanna (posing as strangers) got a room. Belanna abandoned her disguise the moment they were alone. Raven hair, tied in a horse-tail, fell down the back of her head in a black waterfall, revealing a heart-shaped face with almond-shaped dark eyes. Beneath the clothing she had worn, she still wore her dancer clothes, which revealed a fleshy yet agile shape.
"You're very beautiful!" commented Dharmu. "I--" Then, looking beyond Belanna, he saw something that made him gasp in horror! "By all the gods!" he swore, pointing.
Belanna spun around in the direction Dharmu indicated. She let out a sharp cry. Above them floated the phantasmal image of the high priest Koloda, who was no doubt watching this rendezvous from some scrying pool.
"So, Belanna," growled the gravelled voice of the priest, "did you really think I wouldn't know your indiscretions?"
"I have a life outside the temple, Koloda," snapped Belanna angrily. "What right have you to spy on me?"
"You speak to me of rights, woman?" shouted Koloda. "Your body and soul belong to Voltath!" His eyes blazed green. "This should remind you of that!"
The green blaze shot from Koloda's eyes into Dharmu! The young man convulsed, his face grimacing with pain. Suddenly he yelled, and his body stiffened. His clothing tore away, and his arms seemed to sink into his sides as his body lengthened. His eyes became the golden orbs of a serpent, as his teeth, jaw and tongue similarly transformed. Scales formed on his body as his legs merged together, grew boneless, and became a tail. Within a matter of seconds, Belanna's lover had become a python!
"Dharmu!" screamed Belanna. "NO!"
"From this moment forth," announced Koloda's ghostly image, "you shall embrace only the sacred pythons of Voltath! Nor shall any but they embrace you, in turn!" Koloda laughed evilly as his apparition faded away.
Tears began to well in Belanna's eyes. Her lover was not only trapped in the body of a serpent, but his mind was a serpent's as well. Then, she blinked back her tears as she saw something in the once-Dharmu's eyes. A gleam of...intelligence? Memory?
"D...Dharmu?" she asked. The python nodded. Then, it slithered closer to her. She began to have an idea of what it wanted.
"If it weren't you, Dharmu," she frowned, "the idea would repulse me. But since it is, I'll be double-damned if I let Koloda's curse stop me from enjoying your caresses!"
With that, she allowed the Dharmu-python to slither over her right arm, then across her shoulders and the back of her neck, to her left arm. Edging herself along, she moved into the center of Dharmu's coiled body, allowing him to coil above her breasts. Then she slowly turned in a circle, letting another coil form beneath her breasts, and then once more, allowing her hips to be similarly encircled. When a section of tail was coiled across her buttocks and groin, she whispered, "Now, Dharmu."
The python obeyed, slowly pressing against the encircled regions of Belanna's body, then releasing, the coils moving back and forth, rippling and massaging. Belanna closed her eyes and sighed with arousal. She imagined herself into the arms of Dharmu, human once again; the coiled massagings became erotic caresses, the grinding against her genitals the motion of his manly penis inside her.
Instinctive drive to constrict and crush clashed and combined with human desire. The coils tightened, slowly constricting that much more, making the sensations that much more intense. Belanna's own instincts rose to the fore, her hips rocking and her body writhing. Her sighs became gasps of pleasure and excitation.
Tighter, tighter the coils squeezed, drawing ever inward. The man seemed to become lost inside the serpent, seeing the creamy white thing in its grip only as prey. Belanna's body squirmed, her hips thrusting and her breasts moving from side to side.
Then her hips thust upward and stayed there. Her eyes went wide as golden lightning shot through her and she tried to scream with passion -- but only a hiss of air escaped her constricted lungs.
Just as she was about to black out, she felt the pressure mercifully release; Dharmu's humanity had reasserted itself, regaining control. Belanna gasped with relief...then felt something push her soaked undergarment aside and enter her cleft. Dharmu's humanity had definitely reasserted!
Then the caresses began again...
The next day Belanna returned to the temple (with clean underwear) to reassume
her duties. Koloda greeted her with a cynical smile. "Am I to assume you have
learned your lesson?"
"I have indeed," she said.
"Then I suggest you know what to do," said the evil priest, motioning toward
the statue of Voltath.
"I do," said Belanna, walking over to the statue. Koloda anticipated her throwing
herself before the statue, confessing her sin of willful disobedience and praying
for forgiveness.
Instead, she embraced the serpent idol, her voice and expression full of fanaticism
and pleasure. "Thank you, O mighty Voltath, for showing me the way to your true
glory!" she cried. "I promise to forever be your obedient servant in all things,
in gratitude for the joys you have shown me!"
Koloda stared in confusion and disbelief. Had he looked up, he would have noticed
the statue seeming to smile at him. That will teassch you to appropriate
my power for your own purposssesss, it seemed to say to him, as if punishing
him for his sublimated desire for Belanna.
THE END
By Hypnosnake