A 'real magic' stage show fantasy

Content warning: this story is based on the fantasy that stage magicians with real powers are - without most of the audience realising - actually sawing, impaling, transforming or vanishing their assistants and volunteers for real, but with the aid of magic that prevents the subjects suffering any lasting harm and which transforms their experience into one they can even enjoy, albeit often in a twisted sexual sort of way.

Mina was pleased to see almost no empty seats at the two dozen tables filling the modest-sized club. If their short slot was a hit, maybe they'd get a whole show to themselves at this monthly, invitation-only 'real magic' stage show. Although the punters here were notoriously hard to please, performing here at least had the advantage that audience knew what they were getting into. No onlookers would scream when they worked out what was happening before their eyes, because they already knew. No volunteers would freak out when they realised they were actually being sawn in half or incinerated for real, because they knew to expect it even before they stepped up on stage. The only rules were that everyone had to be restored by the end of the show, and that the volunteers had to experience at least as much pleasure as pain.

For this, their first gig in front of a live audience, Mina's twin sister Eve had insisted they go the whole Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve thing, playing off their names: Adamina (Mina) and Eve. And that included wearing fig leaf costumes. Showing a bit of skin would put the audience in a good mood right from the get-go, she'd argued. The fig leaves Eve had found were tiny, too. Thank goodness for magic, to reinforce the glue holding the scraps of green in place.

Not having the budget for a full cabinet based illusion, they'd decided to go with some simple, if spectacular, transformations and vanishings. They'd need one of their volunteers to have turned up in a pretty specific choice of clothing, but Mina had made the requisite offerings to Lady Luck and looking into the gloom of the club floor she saw that her wish had been granted.

As soon as the MC had announced them, Mina strode up to the front of the low, temporary stage, letting her tits jiggle as she walked.

"You, and you," she called out, pointing. "Up here." For these short slots, brevity was expected, so she wasn't being rude.

The two female volunteers showed admirable alacrity in joining them on the stage.

Mina didn't bother asking names. She could hear the rumble of wheels as Eve rolled their painted plywood cut-out Garden of Eden scene into position behind her. She counted to ten, giving her sister the necessary time to step up onto the low, shallow platform, rest her behind on a cut-out of a branch, and take hold another behind her.

"You," she said, pointing to the volunteer with long, curly black hair, who was wearing a leather mini-skirt and a leather jacket over a white t-shirt. "You are Temptation. The serpent."

She turned to the other volunteer, a blonde in a red sheath dress, the particular costume she'd prayed to Lady Luck for.

"You are the Apple. The forbidden fruit."

She turned back to Temptation, tapping the woman on the head. Immediately Temptation vanished in a puff of black smoke, leaving her empty clothes hanging in mid-air for a fraction of a second before they collapsed into a heap on the ground.

Mina looked down. A massive snake was emerging from the arm of the leather jacket. She knelt down, putting out a hand, letting the snake coil up her arm and around her neck. The moment the snake's tail left the jacket sleeve, the unneeded clothes vanished too.

Without further ado she turned to the Apple. She tapped the woman on the head. Just like her fellow volunteer, she too vanished, this time in a puff of red smoke. The smoke coalesced into a bright red apple, which Mina adroitly plucked out of the air before it could drop. The red sheath dress, though, fell to the ground where it too vanished.

Mina turned and strode towards her sister, who was leaning against the fake tree, striking poses judged to best show off her assets. Mina lifted her arm, letting the snake crawl off it and wind around the trunk of the tree, head downwards. Then she handed her sister the apple and stepped to one side.

Now Eve was the centre of attention. She licked the apple sensually then took a small bite. It crunched deliciously as her teeth broke the skin. At the same time she stretched her bare foot sideways towards the serpent's head. It opened its jaws wide, swallowing first her toes, then her whole foot.

A second bite of the apple saw Eve twist so that the snake could take in her other foot, swallowing the scantily clad magician to just below her knees.

Her third bite - a slow one accompanied by a long, low moan of delight - saw the snake devour her all the way to the base of her ribs, Eve writhing as her groin disappeared out of sight. Unable to sit on the branch now, Eve was supporting most of her weight from her left hand, which clung tight to the branch above her. The snake's jaws were stretched obscenely, its neck and the upper few feet of its body clearly showing the shape of Eve's lower half trapped inside, slowly sliding deeper down that its gullet with the aid of lubricating digestive juices.

Another bite was followed by the snake swallowing her chest. There were a few cries of disappointment as her breasts disappeared from view, but most of the audience were more enraptured seeing her ingested alive by the serpent.

Eve was able to take one last bite before her head disappeared. Just before her right arm vanished, she threw the partly-eaten apple to Mina, who caught it and set it on a branch on the opposite side. Eve's now-free fingers wiggled in goodbye before they too were swallowed.

With a final surge, the snake stretched up Eve's remaining arm, swallowing it completely before sinking back to the ground where it coiled, full and sated on the stage floor, a massive Eve-sized lump stretching its middle section.

Mina looked down, shrugged as if the ingestion of her sister was of little import, then turned away. She went over to the tree, took a short branch, and poke the snake with it. There was a flash and the snake flopped over, its eyes now lifeless and white. Its digestion of Eve continued apace, though, the shape of Eve's form becoming less rounded and more skeletal by the second. When the digestion process had reached its conclusion, a mere fifteen seconds or so later, Mina knelt, pried open the snake's jaw and reached in.

Rummaging around a bit, she soon withdrew, holding tight to a set of skeletal fingers. She pulled and a full skeletal arm emerged down to the elbow, the bones somehow, magically, remaining joined even though there was not a scrap of flesh or sinew left on them.

As the lower arm emerged, Mina heard some oooo's from the audience, from those who had seen that the bony arm was encased in the sleeve of a leather jacket. Pulling some more, a skull with curly black hair emerged. Then shoulders. Then an entire torso, including the second arm. Finally the legs slid free, though missing Temptation's black leather mini-skirt which must have slid off to remain inside the snake.

Mina fetched a cloth with straps attached from behind the tree. She laid it on the stage floor, dragged the skeleton onto it, jacket and all, then wrapped the apparent corpse up and tied it into a secure body-shaped bundle.

Mina looked over at the dead snake, which melted into smoke and vanished.

Now Mina fetched the half-eaten apple. She tossed it into the air and caught it again. Once. Twice. On the third toss she whipped away her hand and when the falling apple was back at head height it exploded into red smoke, which cleared to reveal the shocked blonde. She looked frazzled, her hair askew, but she seemed unharmed. The same could not be said of her dress, which had bits missing wherever the apple had been bitten into, holes edged with the clear shape of tooth marks. One was mid-way up her ribs on the left, extending round the front far enough to give the audience a clear glimpse of side-boob. Another was over her crotch, which she quickly covered with her hand, despite her panties still being present. There was one less hole in her dress than bites in the apple, though. This final bite corresponded instead to a large love bite on her neck.

Mina theatrically produced an identical apple from behind her back. She raised it to her mouth and flicked out her tongue, licking the bite mid-way down the apple. The blonde volunteer gasped, doubled over, bit her lip, whimpered, then let out a long low moan.

Mina smiled at the now thoroughly mortified woman. "Thank you for your help, Ms Apple," She said. "You can return to your seat." Ms Apple scuttled away as fast as she could walk in her ruined dress.

Then she turned to the canvas-bound corpse of Temptation. It suddenly started wriggling. Mina strode over and ripped it open, helping the now-restored Ms Temptation out of her temporary body bag. The woman struggled to rise while still closing her jacket over her now-bare breasts and trying to conceal her naked sex.

Mina thanked her. She knew everyone was now wondering where Eve was. She'd been swallowed by the snake, but it was the now red-faced Temptation who had emerged, albeit via a brief detour through the Underworld.

"Did you come here with anyone?" Mina asked the restored woman.

She nodded. "My husband."

"Well you can go back to him now," Mina said.

A spotlight flicked on, illuminating one table and one chair in particular. In it sat a sheepish-looking man.

And on his lap sat a grinning Eve, her arm around his shoulders, her almost naked right breast pressed against the side of his face. She waved cheerily, then took a bite of the apple she held in her free hand.

THE END