Sinon 13:04
Suguha, do you have time today?

Leafa 13:05
Whatup, Sinonon?

Sinon 13:07
I was given a test copy for a future release.
I need somebody to test the Multiplayer with,
and your opinion in general would be helpful, too.

Leafa 13:08
Oh, sure thing!
Always up for something new
Gimme! lol

Sinon 13:14
Okay.
But, promise you won't judge me.

Leafa 13:14
???
k, I promise

Sinon 13:21
>Attachment sent<

Leafa 13:25
O!
M!
G!

Leafa 13:34
Installing now




Shino looked at her phone for the tenth time in five minutes. She knew it would take a while before Suguha would have installed the game and played it enough to give her some feedback, but it had been a couple of hours since their exchange, so by now it was about time for her to respond, wasn't it?

She was fidgety, trying not to look too nervous on the train home. What would Suguha think? What would she say when she saw everything Shino had seen? Just contacting her about it was a risk, but if she had her friends pegged right, she was the one most likely to play along.

When she just locked the apartment door behind her and put down her groceries, her phone finally buzzed again.

Leafa
Totally ready now
Get on if you can

Shino quickly put everything away and walked over to her bed, taking off her glasses before putting on the Amusphere™ and lying down.



Your friend Leafa is logged in.
Connect with Leafa?

Shino confirmed, and got past the text box warning her from connecting with strangers, before she felt a floor forming under her feet, a red-tinted lounge area forming around her, with a table, couch, armchairs, and an empty bar. She moved over to the couch and sat down to wait.

It only took a few moments before Suguha's avatar loaded into the lounge as well. It had been updated more recently than Shino's, accurately representing her, with her longer hair, grown out since graduation, and slightly stronger build, besides making it seem like she was a bit older than Shino, despite them being the same age.

"Fancy.", she commented before walking over and sitting beside Shino, giving her an upbeat smile. "It's been a while. Good to see you."

"Yes. Hi.", Shino responded awkwardly as she returned the hug Suguha was leaning in for. She cleared her throat and tried not to sound too nervous. "So, what did you think?"

"I didn't even know you could do this kind of thing. I mean, I figured it existed, considering the technology, but something this high-budget?" She moved closer and nudged Shino with her elbow. "I didn't think you'd be into it, either."

Shino visibly flushed. "I just... test what is given to me. They gave me test codes, so it would be rude if I didn't."

"Hey, no need to hold back for me. And no need to be ashamed, either. It's well-made and it's made to be enjoyed, so no shame in enjoying it." Suguha winked. "I'm not telling anyone, so don't worry."

Shino nodded, feeling herself relax. Telling Suguha had been the right choice after all.

"So, then, how do you want to get started?" Suguha crossed her legs and swiped her index finger down in front of her, the universal gesture of opening the menu in all Full Dive games. And sure enough, a menu popped into existence in front of her. "Do you want to play a mission or just mess around first?"

"Oh, um, whichever you like." The choice of words almost made Shino a little nervous again.

"Mess around it is, then." Suguha opened an inventory menu and scrolled through before selecting a length of rope, which materialized in her hands. "Do you want to start? Or should I?"

Shino looked at the rope being offered to her and quietly took it from her. Her friend turned around and moved her arms behind her back.

Moving just a bit closer, Shino started to wind the rope around Suguha's waiting arms, tying them together horizontally. She wasn't sure about her knots at first, but to her relief, the game adjusted for her sloppiness and the rope pulled tighter on its own. She swiped to open her own menu and got into the inventory to take more rope, winding it around Suguha's torso and upper arms, just under her generous chest.

Suguha grunted softly as the rope pulled tight and shifted her arms against the bindings. She balled her hands to fists and Shino couldn't help but stare at her strong arms pulling and straining against the rope to no avail.

"Okay, good start.", Suguha said finally and turned back around, moving back against the armrest of the couch to lift her legs up onto it, smiling at Shino expectantly.

She produced some more rope and got to work on her legs, tying rope around her ankles, below her knees and around her thighs, watching as it pulled tighter, digging into the already tight jogging pants.

Once the ropes were secure and Shino looked up at her friend, Suguha started struggling again, pulling with her arms and legs, straining against the unrelenting ropes, the short-sleeved shirt stretching over her chest and her hair bouncing with her more forceful movements.

"Are you going to gag me, too?", she asked eagerly, in a tone that sent heat through Shino's body.

"D-do you want me to?"

There was a moment of tense silence that passed between them, during which Shino could see Suguha's cheeks visibly heat up as well.

"I mean... i-it's fine like this, I guess a gag isn't necessary..."

"Y-yeah. This is probably enough right now."

Suguha leaned back again, subtly moving against the ropes still, while Shino stared at the menu, occupying herself with the inventory to avoid staring at her friend. Some time passed between them, with only the soft background music of the lounge preventing total silence.

"So, do you want to try a mission?", Suguha finally spoke up again.

"Yes. Yes, we should do that." Shino shook off her more intrusive thoughts and moved to the Scenario menu. She did invite Suguha to help her with testing, after all. "Let's choose an interesting one."



Suguha blinked and stretched as her avatar reformed without the bindings. As first instinct dictated, she looked around her new surroundings, finding herself sitting at a long table in a cushioned chair. The ceiling of the room was high and there were rugs, shields and sheathed weapons hung up on the walls. It invoked the distinct impression of the dining hall in a medieval castle.

Suguha looked down at her avatar and carefully felt her ears and lifted a strand of her hair to look at it. Sure enough, she found herself with her Alfheim avatar, the blonde elf-like Leafa. The room, however, didn't seem like any location she recognized from the game.

She also took notice of the fact that she was by herself. The room was empty, Shino - or rather, Sinon - was nowhere to be seen. Just as she wondered whether she should go and explore, she heard muffled steps from behind her.

Quickly getting up out of the chair, she turned around, just in time to see a door at the end of the room swing open. In the frame stood a pale, dark-haired woman, her black dress tightened around her waist by a lace corset and ending just halfway up her calves. Besides the dress, she wore long black silk gloves and heeled leather boots, laced up in the front.

Leafa instinctively moved her hand to her waist to take the hilt of her sword, only to find nothing there. Weapons were apparently out of the question.

"Are you not going to run?", the woman asked with cold amusement, her red lips pulling into a taunting smile. "Are you really going to make it that easy for me?"

She began walking towards her, her heels clicking on the stone floor. She moved eerily graceful, her smile widening into a grin, two gleaming fangs becoming visible in her upper row of teeth.

An immediate tingle of genuine fear shot up Leafa's spine. Even in the safe haven of a simulated game world, she did not want to tangle with this lady. She immediately turned on her heel and started running towards the door at the opposite end of the room.



Sinon carefully moved down the winding stairs, taking every step slowly to keep the sound from echoing down the hall. Occasionally, her ear twitched and she stopped to listen. She knew something was going to leap out at her, she just didn't know when.

When the simulation started, she had been sitting in a small bedroom at the top of the tower, all alone. She didn't want to just stick around for her eventual captor to find her, so she had decided to head down and explore, perhaps meet up with Suguha.

The staircase ended at a wooden door. Opening it revealed a wider hallway, moonlight drifting in from the windows on the right. Sinon carefully closed the door behind her and kept walking, hastening her steps just a bit as the unsettling silence started to eat at her patience.

She flinched and turned when she saw movement out of the corner of her eye but quickly relaxed, when she found it was only her reflection in a mirror.

"Geez, I need to get my act together.", she said out loud to break the silence, smiling at her reflection. "I'm getting way too freaked out."

"Good.", a voice said only inches from her ear. Sinon flinched and yelped, but her voice was quickly cut off by a cold hand firmly pressing over her lips, while another arm wrapped around her torso.

Sinon's eyes widened, watching herself struggle against an invisible attacker. She felt the tight grip heard the husky chuckle behind her as clear as anything she had ever experienced, but the mirror only showed herself, wrestling with whatever phantom had sneaked up on her.

"You smell sweet.", the voice whispered and a moment later, she felt a dull sting in her neck, watching two small puncture wounds appear on her reflection. Sinon screamed but was muffled by the hand as her consciousness started to dull.



Leafa almost stumbled as she turned the corner, not daring to look behind her for her pursuer. Every hallway looked the same and they seemed to be going on for far longer than they should. But her stamina was holding out and if she could find an exit--

Her leg hit something. She tripped, unable to catch herself at her speed. Just out of the corner of her eye, she saw the pale face of the woman, smiling. She hit the floor, adrenalin still pumping, and tried to get back up immediately, but a weight dropped onto her back, straddling her hips.

"Gotcha~", the woman giggled, taking both of Leafa's wrists. She prided herself in her strength, both her trained body in the real world and her high combat stats in Alfheim, but her resistance was useless as her monstrous pursuer turned her arms onto her back, holding them together horizontally with one hand while she rummaged around somewhere.

"A few of these~", she coldly sing-songed as firm leather straps closed around Leafa's arms, three of them in total. Longer straps were then pushed under her and pulled tight around her torso, above and below her breasts, pinning her upper arms.

The entire time, her desperate struggles felt useless. The leather pulled tight around her, leaving her arms completely trapped and next, she felt the tight grip of her captor in her hair, pulling her head back.

"Anything you want to say?"

"Let me go!", she pleaded, sounding more desperate than intended, before a thick black rubber ball was forced behind her teeth.

"Cute. No." The woman fastened the gag and turned around to effortlessly trap Leafa's legs in leather as well, ending her struggles as simply as pushing her legs down and holding them, her grip like an iron vice.

She stood up, casually dusted off her dress and picked Leafa up by the straps to carry her on her shoulder, humming a low, haunting tune as she started carrying her off.

Leafa struggled on their way through heavy doors and down narrow stairways, but the restraints were tight and unrelenting and even if they did come undone, she wouldn't be able to escape this woman.

Her heart was pounding in her chest. All of her strength and pride had been taken away so quickly and she had been powerless to do anything. She was rendered helpless and being carried off for some unknown purpose. The frustration and panic slowly made way for excitement as she continued to dwell on the predicament in her mind.

Finally, one last door opened and her captor stopped. Leafa was moved and dropped, landing on something soft. She oriented herself again and immediately found herself face to face with Sinon, looking back at her with an expression of frustrated embarrassment.

She had a hard leather bit gag shoved between her teeth and her arms were trapped behind her back in a leather armbinder. Her legs were restrained in the same way as Leafa's.

Looking up and around, Leafa quickly recognized where they were lying and the panic briefly returned to her. They were lying face to face in an opened black coffin, the inside padded with a soft red fabric. Over them stood the black-haired vampire who had carried her down here, as well as a second woman with similarly obvious features. Long blonde hair, pale skin, in a wine-red dress clinging to her figure, sharp fangs gleaming between her lips.

"Took you long enough to bring her.", the blonde vampire said with a smirk, bending down to her victims.

"I like playing with them first. Let's make sure they don't wiggle around too much."

Both of them took the ends of leather straps that had been lying under Leafa and Sinon in preparation and fastened them, one around their torsos, around their waists and their thighs, forcing the two captives to press against each other as the straps tightened. This was quickly followed by the rattling of small chains being led through the straps, pulling taught as the ends were locked into the inside walls of the coffin, trapping them in place.

"Good night, girls, see you at feeding time~", the dark-haired vampire cooed as the lid closed, falling shut with a sound of haunting finality, followed by the sound of a key turning in a lock.

Sinon screamed into the gag as soon as the lid started lowering and began to struggle, pushing up against Leafa and making her squirm as well. Her panic died down quickly, however, and in the muffled silence and darkness of the coffin, between leather and chains, the two of them were left alone.

They could hear each other breathe and feel each other strain against the relentless bindings, trapped in close proximity, their bodies, most of all their chests, pushed up close against one another, feeling the intimate contact every time one of them squirmed, muffled breathing turning to soft moans and sighs...



Suguha's face was bright red, even in the simulation of the virtual lobby. Even though it rightfully shouldn't, she felt like her body still ached from the heavy restraints, like phantom pain.

Shino sat next to her, equally as silent and with an equally tomato-like face. The air was heavy and there was an unspoken tension between both of them.

"So...", Suguha finally started, "That was... good."

"Yes.", Shino slowly agreed, "Good. Definitely... good."

"Kinda scary."

"Yes. A little. If you have... certain fears."

"And, um... exciting."

"Yes. Certainly... definitely exciting."

"Do you..." Suguha peeked over at the different tabs of games. "Did you want to test... everything?"

Shino didn't answer, biting her lip as she stared at the menu.

"Because, after that...", Suguha continued carefully, "Why not, right?"