"Alright, so everyone has a card? Lets turn them over."
I flipped over the card in front of me, showing a runic symbol that glowed blue. Meredith opened the book to the part that explained all the cards, and began finding all the symbols in the deck. There were five of us there that weekend for the magic retreat. Some of the others had done it before, but this was my first one.
"Jennifer," she said to me first. "You have the disappearing card. You can make anything vanish by touching it. And it also works on yourself."
I raised my index finger, focusing like she'd shown us. My fingers started glowing blue. I touched them to my left arm. The blue glow grew to envelop my whole arm and then it suddenly was gone. Not just the glow, but my whole arm.
Beside me, Jamie began to laugh. "You'd better be careful with that."
"I didn't mean to make my whole arm vanish," I pleaded. "I thought I'd just do it up to the elbow."
"You'll get the hang of it," said Meredith.
"Jamie, you have the conjuring card. You can conjure new pieces on anything you can touch."
"Oh, really…" Jamie held up her hand and it began to glow orange. She touched the stump of my arm at the shoulder, and with a brief orange flash my arm was back.
"Alison, yours is the water card. So, that lets you melt things."
"Oh, I love this one." She held up her hand and it began to glow red. She made as if to touch her arm, but then suddenly reached out and grabbed Jamie.
"You-" said Jamie, as her solid form began to shimmer. After the glow enveloped her completely, she flowed out of her clothes, collecting in a shapeless pink blob on the floor.
"I love getting melted," said Mary.
"Well, hold on. Ooh, this one's good. It's called the brain card. You can move things with your mind, and you can copy the power of anyone else nearby."
"There's a catch to this one, isn't there?"
"Yes. You are just a head."
As Meredith said this, a gold glow enveloped Mary's body up to her neck. There was a blurry flash, and her head was now left on the chair where she'd been sitting. Slowly, her head began to levitate off the chair, floating over the middle of the table.
"I don't wanna hear any complaining," said Alison. "I did that one a while ago, and it's the best one ever."
"And finally, for me… I have the oh crap. This is the automata card. So I turn into a wind-up doll." As she spoke, a silver glow surrounded her, and then slowly faded. Meredith was now quite clearly mechanical, her body plated in chrome and brass, though still shaped as she'd originally been.
I was nearest to her, so I reached to crank the big metal key in her back. After giving it a couple cranks, a whirring began and her eyes began to glow.
"Thanks," she said, her voice suffused with static as if something over the radio. "And the second part is, one you wind me up, I am your toy and will do whatever you say."
"Well, that seems fair." I said, giggling. "So is there an upside? All of us have awesome powers, and you're a servant?"
"It's the luck of the draw, dear. This isn't the worst one either. One of them is your arms and legs vanish and your body turns into a pillow. There's another that turns you into just a bust…"
"You know which one is my favorite? It was the animals card."
"Oh god. I remember that. You just got this mischievous look once you saw it. And then Meredith was suddenly a fish."
I expected Meredith to say something, but I realized she'd just run out. I gave her another half-crank.
"Can you hear when you run out?"
"Yes, I'm still aware. Which is good or bad, depending how you look at it. I'll be honest, I kinda like it though. It's restful in a sense."
"Can we go ahead and start playing around now?" asked Alison. She gave the puddle of Jamie a kick.
"Sure, that's it. Our powers will last till Sunday this time."
"Time to experiment then. I guess we'll let Jamie re-form a bit," said Alison. She focused, amassing another red glow until she touched Jamie's blob. Jamie began to take shape once again. Of course, she'd lost her clothes in the process.
"Oh not again," she said, as she came to. "How hard is it to melt my clothes too? I mean honestly."
"It's funnier this way," said Alison.
"Hey, where did Mary go?" I asked. She had been a floating head, but I'd suddenly lost track of her.
"Yea, she was just… uh oh." Jamie stopped, looking around. Alison, Jamie and I were all immobilized. That is, our limbs had vanished. We all exchanged glances as there wasn't much else we could do.
"She's must be using your disappearing power." said Jamie.
"Oh, you think?" I said.
"Don't make me come over there," she said, sticking out her tongue.
Besides the brief moment before when I was testing out my power, this was my first experience with magic. I'd known what to expect. Meredith was always talking about her favorite tricks, and this game - only known as 'the card game' was one of her absolute favorites. I was initially skeptical, then hesitant, and finally just embarrassed to ask to be let in on the game, but the more I'd considered it the more I wanted to try it out.
There was one card I'd heard about and really wanted in particular. The fairy card. It's not hard to imagine what it does, but just to be clear it shrinks its user down to about two feet tall, then gives them wings and flight. I didn't think I'd really get it on the first go, but I was hoping that before the weekend was over we might reshuffle. I'd been completely enamored with the idea.
Of course, my sudden state as a quadruple amputee wasn't without it's appeal. Safe in the knowledge that this was indeed, reversible I didn't panic. I just sat there. It occurred to me that Mary must have been using my power to do this, and that for at least the rest of tonight I should get used to this. Since I'd likely be spending more than a little bit of time partly disappeared.
Mary's head appeared again where she'd been floating.
"Oh, the creepy floating head is back," said Alison.
"Don't taunt her, she'll do something else."
Mary floated down to rest on the table, then turned to face Alison.
"What are you lookin' at?" said Alison. "Gimme back my arms so I can melt your face off."
Mary started giggling. "Go ahead and try. Get it? Go ahead? Ah well. I thought it was funny."
"I - wait. Our bodies!"
I came to the same realization right as Alison did. Mary had just vanished our bodies, leaving the three of us only as floating heads under her power. She set us down on the table facing her.
"Hey, wind up Meredith for a sec," said Jamie. I couldn't see from where my head was sitting, but I heard Meredith whir to life.
"Yes?" she said.
"Get us some beers," said Jamie.
"Okay." Meredith got up and left.
"Wow, it really works. I didn't think she'd do it."
"I don't know how I feel about just … using her like that," I said.
"Don't worry. She likes it. Plus, she would use the hell out of you if she could. One time, I got a card that turned me into a table. Do you think she let up?"
"A table? How did that work?"
"Four legs. Ahh, legs. What a luxury those would be."
"Well, you're not getting any. Cause I'm in charge."
"Yes, you are. And you forgot something."
"What?"
"This!"
In a moment, Alison's head was encased by a red glow and melted into a blob, her two earrings floating on the surface.
"Well that was pointless," I said, but then I realized what was happening. Alison's blob flowed across the table and collected underneath Mary, who only had a chance to look confused before she two melted, mixing together into a larger blob on the table.
"Huh," said Jaime.
"So here we are…" I said. I raised my eyebrows.
"Yep. Well, you know what, enough of this. My nose itches.
From the base of Jamie's neck two arms sprouted out in a orange glow. She propped herself up and walked to the edge of the table where she gradually created shoulders, a torso, and finally legs. Once more she was complete.
"So… little help?" I said.
"Help? Help yourself. You gotta learn."
"How can I? I can't regrow like you apparently can."
"Right. You can only disappear things. So disappear!"
"Completely?"
"Yea."
She picked me up and held me at arms length. A look flashed in her eye.
"Otherwise… it's noogie time!"
She tucked me under her arm. I blipped out just in time.
Disappearing. That's a strange sensation, let me tell you. It's a little bit like being everywhere, and a lot like being nowhere. I thought everything might turn dark, but there wasn't even any dark at all. The only thing I was really aware of was my own paradoxical non-existence. It's possible to wrap your mind around being self-aware of your own existence. But this was the opposite.
So how could I get out of this? That was the question. There was nobody to ask.
But somehow, even though I had no body from which to spark it, I was aware of one other thing. I still had my power. I could disappear again. Vanish from non-existence. Trippy. It was the only thing to do, so I did it.
And there I was. Back in the kitchen, just in time for Meredith to walk in with four beers.
"Well done," said Jamie. "It's cool isn't it."
"That was … it was like meditation."
"So are they just gonna… sit there?"
"Oh, them?" she gestured to the single blob on the table. It was somewhat strange to regard it as a them, or as an anybody. I was still getting used to that. Of course, I was also coming to terms with my new robot friend who clanked over and gave me a beer.
"Enjoy!" said Meredith, opening it for me.
"Melting is … it's like getting the best massage ever. So it usually takes a little while."
"Aw, I wanna try."
"You'll get to I'm sure. Right now, I wanna try this out. I've never been able to conjure before. Seems easy enough."
Her hands began to glow orange and she touched my shoulders. I watched smiling as two more arms sprouted out.
I tried to raise my new hands up for inspection. It took a bit of getting used to. I kept moving the wrong arm by mistake.
"This is hard," I said.
"Give it some time. Ooh, I know…"
Her hands glowed again and she cupped them to her boobs. Suddenly, her chest began to swell, bursting against her shirt. I should say that Jamie was not a big girl, and didn't even have to wear a bra out in public. But now she had what just have been the biggest pair I'd ever seen.
"Is there such a thing as a G cup?" I asked. "Cause… Damn."
Jamie laughed. "Are you jealous?"
"No, but I kinda want to cop a feel."
I used all four hands to grab at her, but flashed her with a bit of a disappearing blast.
"Oh, five minutes of magic and you think you're ready for a battle?"
She cracked her knuckles, looking at me with a smirk. She reached out, and I foolishly let her touch me on the mouth.
I didn't have a comeback. Not because I couldn't think of one. But my mouth was full. I opened it to see what had happened, and felt an intense and pleasurable sensation from my … tongue?
Sort of. In place of a tongue, I now had a rather well endowed cock.
Blushing, I tried to stuff it back in but that only felt better. I got excited. It was a good six inches past my mouth by now, getting harder. It was … difficult not to touch it.
Jamie just watched, giggling.
I attempted to say, "I can't believe you did this." It came out something like "Ah ca bahleh oo ih thih."
Jamie seemed to understand. "Hey, don't complain, or I'll give you so many cocks you can't move without jacking off. I mean, you vanished my tits! That's a pretty tall order for a first timer. I gotta say, you're catching on quick though. Your move."
"Hanks." I grinned, still looking down at my new face. I wanted a mirror.
I got up to leave to the bathroom, motioning for Jamie to follow. She came in after me, seeming to have the same idea. As I inspected my tongue, teasing it with my fingers, she removed her shirt and ran her hands up and down a featureless chest. She resembled a boy in only the vaguest sense, but it was an interesting impression.
She began tugging on my shirt.
I grabbed her hands. Without meaning to, I zapped them off. Her whole arms.
"Oh, you want me helpless do you?" she teased.
I had questions, sure. Thoughts stirring around, as to what this meant, but one thing was pretty obvious. I now had the proper equipment to explore something I'd never really considered, but wasn't outright opposed to it.
Something in my face must have given me away.
"Relax," said Jamie, "This is just for fun. I mean, like 90% of what we do here is kinky stuff like this. Those two on the kitchen table? They're basically fucking. I mean, think about it, they're both melted and just sort of … mmm… mixing together. You'll have to try that later. But for now-"
I cut her off, embracing her with all four arms, and sticking it right into her mouth. She worked her way up and down until finally managing to fit it down so that our lips met. She sucked, pulling her mouth off of it, all the way to the tip.
"C'mon," she said. "Let's go to the bedroom."
I followed her my head swimming with anxieties, uncertainties, questions, but most of all with the upwelling memory of just how pleasurable the kiss had just been.
I closed the door. She sat on the bed, her legs spread.
"You'll have to undress me." She shrugged her shoulders alternately, flaunting her lack of arms.
I did, slowly pulling her shorts and panties down her legs. I was pretty much dripping with excitement, pulling my own shirt over my head and kicking aside my skirt and panties, I was just about ready.
"Wait," she said. "I still have one more addition to make." She grinned, her foot rubbing between my legs. This one was not surprising. She gave me just what I expected there. Wide-eyed I watched it swell in my hands, even bigger than the other one.
I decided to return the gesture. A couple seconds later, she was legless as well.
"You just ruined my escape plan," she said, smiling.
"Ahh," was all I could reply.
It took a moment, figuring out how to manage my new acquisitions. But the extra arms certainly helped. I started sitting down, lifting her up and gradually setting her down on top of it. That feeling of first penetration, always so good, well, it feels just as fantastic from either end. Just as the intensity of that began to die down, I drove the other one into her mouth again.
We began to work into a rhythm. The sensation of pleasure, coming from two different areas at once, well, I can't honestly say I lasted very long. Maybe five minutes, but it seemed to be over almost before I could get started.
But still, they came just about the same time, first the one from my face and after that the "regular" one, although I don't think that word applies to anything anymore. For a couple moments, I lay gasping, sweaty, euphoric. Then I opened my eyes and saw what a mess I'd made of Jamie. She was smiling, but there was some on her face, her  stomach, even her hair.