"Ann, look at you!"

"Charlie!" Ann opened her arms wide and hugged her friend. "You're heading to the show too?"

"Yes I am! Half-clothes, half-off a ticket? How could I not?" Charlie was a stunning woman with stringy brown hair and brown eyes that stood on the sidewalk wearing a burgundy hoody that went down to her hips and nothing else. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a silver ticket to wave at Ann. "See?"

Ann pulled a similar ticket out of her pants pocket, the long-haired blonde woman's jeans riding low over her hips, and nothing else either. "Here's mine!"

"I wonder if anyone was daring enough to get the free ticket," Charlie asked as the two women turned to head for the front door of the place hosting the show, a side entrance of stairs heading down to the private venue. "Someone probably did, right?"

Ann had to agree. "Show up naked, get in free? Would save you a ticket."

"And you won't have to hold it either," Charlie replied. "So you know, there is that."

"I suppose," Ann wouldn't have minded trying that, but then she would have had to consider how to deal with her keys. "But what do you think this Magician will do? Buying these tickets means we could be called up to Assist you know." She glanced at Charlie and her exposed privates, ignoring her own assets on display. "These shows can be very raunchy I hear."

Charlie laughed. "Tell you what, why don't we get seats beside each other and we'll see? Personally if I get called up, I'll ask him to make sure sexy things happen to me!"

Ann laughed too. "Maybe he'll cut off my tits," she gave them a lift, "or he'll cut off my head."

"ooooh..." Charlie cooed at the thought of a headless Ann. "But I suppose if I don't get called up, I'll just have to find some stud to do his own magic, you get me?" she winked at Ann, who rolled her eyes. They got to the doorman, who took their tickets without a second glance at either of them and let them in.

The room was dark, with just enough lighting for people to find seats for themselves. Ann looked around and saw plenty of women in various states of undress, all on display for the men in the room. Just like she was, if the hungry looks some of the guys were giving her meant anything. But she and Charlie ignored them for now as they took seats up near the front, Ann checking out the ... they weren't the competition, she had to think to herself. Sure, she wanted really badly to be up there, to have the Magician do things to her.... things she was definitely feeling. But she knew, just KNEW her time would come.

"Oh, that guy looks so hot!" Charlie nudged her and gestured to one side where another table with several men were looking at the two of them. "I should go say hello!"

Ann grabbed her friend by the shoulder and dragged her back to her seat. "No! If they want, they can come over here," she scolded Charlie. "Make them earn it," she added more quietly.

True to her expectation, the guys had an argument before two of them stood up and worked their way over to their table. "Hey there," one introduced himself. "I'm Jack, and this is Lee." Charlie and Ann introduced themselves as well. "Want to join us at our table?" Jack asked.

Ann looked over. "I think all your seats are taken," she observed.

"I wouldn't mind sitting in someone's lap!" Charlie suggested.

"You would," Ann joked back.

"I would love for you to sit in mine," Jack smirked and Charlie blushed.

Ann rolled her eyes in annoyance at that even as Lee approached her. "How about you?" he asked. "Aren't you cold?"

"You just want to touch my tits," Ann stated.

"Yes," he replied, blunt and honest. "They are out and about, and it seems like a shame that they go unloved."

Well, at least he was open about what he wanted. "Why don't I think about it?" Ann wasn't against the idea in general, but she wasn't just going to go with the first offer that crossed her.

Whatever response anyone else may have had was shorted when the lights started to go from 'dim' to 'non-existent', leaving only the stage faintly glowing in dark red lighting. Ann heard the other two seats at their table be taken, and she realized the guys had sat down given they might not have made it back in the darkness.

"Hello," a gorgeous woman strolled onto the stage, dark skin and white hair. She was dressed in a golden wrap that was part sash and part held up by dreams. "My name is Vella, and I am your lovely Magician for the evening," she introduced herself. "A quick reminder for the ground rules. Some of you ladies have purchased tickets at a discount based on what you're not wearing. You will be my assistants for the evening, no arguments. I call you up, you will come and you will participate." She smiled and Ann felt a flush at the thought of being in her hands. "Once you are done, I may or may not send you back to the audience depending on your state," she said, "and what happens in the audience stays in the audience."

She turned around and reached behind the curtain to pull out a rolling table that had a top-hat on it. "In here are the names of everyone who is my volunteer tonight. Don't worry how I know, it's magic." She reached in and pulled out a slip of paper. "Kelsy, please come up!"

"FIRST!" a woman yelled and a shirtless black-haired woman dashed for the stage. "I'm ready!"

"Welcome!" Vella kissed the new woman on the cheek, Ann feeling a little jealous that she wasn't first. She did watch as the Magician quickly put her new Assistant through the Modern Art illusion, separating her top half from her dressed bottom for all to see before sending her back to the audience.

"Bet you want to be up there real bad, don't you?" Charlie whispered.

"Uh-huh," Ann agreed without meaning to. She found herself imagining being up there and her hands when to her chest without meaning to as another woman was called up. She wore a shirt and the Magician removed her head. This time, she didn't restore her assistant before returning her to the audience, where there were suggestions about what she should do with herself now.

The third woman was called up and she was totally naked. The Magician smiled at that and put her into a mis-made cabinet that she visibly took apart, put her on display and restored her before sending her back out.

"Ann and Charlie, please come up!"

"Ohmygod!" Charlie screamed in delight as she stood up, Ann following in shock a moment later. Two of them? At the same time? What? How? Why? Her feet carried her up to the stage where the eager Charlie waited beside Vella.

"There are two of you, and I noticed you arrived at the same time," Vella said as she had the two women stand side by side facing the audience. "So, you must be friends, right?"

"Yes," Ann replied still in a state of shock. "We are."

"Best friend! Share everything!" Charlie agreed eagerly.

"That's great!" Vella said as she drew two thin sawing cabinets out from behind the curtain. "Now, everyone who knows where this is going, please be quiet," she addressed the audience. "Would the two of you each climb into a box," she told both of them.

"The same box?" Ann asked, earning wolf-whistles from the eager audience.

Vella visibly thought about it. "No... these are one-woman sized," she shook her head sadly.

"I'll take the blue!" Charlie jumped into the box with that color and Ann found herself looking at the red one in confusion and trepidation.

"Need a hand?" Vella asked. "Stage fright happens to the best of us."

Ann shook her head. "No," she slowly climbed into the box, looking up at the ceiling as Vella moved to close both boxes. Her head and feet were outside the box, and they were quickly secured, as were her hands through holes in the top of the box. She looked to the side and saw Charlie in the same state as her, hidden from view. "You ready?" she asked.

"Born!" Charlie replied as she checked over Ann's box as well. "I'd say you're looking good, but I can't see you!"

Vella pushed their two boxes together. "Apologies to the audience for the bad view, here's a mirror to look down on them!" she said as indeed above Ann and Charlie, a large mirror appeared, angled so that the two of them could see out into the dark audience while the audience could see them.

She shivered in delight. Up there, strapped in, helpless? This was pushing some of her buttons for sure!

"And now for the magic!" Vella proclaimed as she held up a very long saw! Ann gasped in shock as the Magician lay it across the rough middle of the two boxes, where she had noticed there was a line. The saw was big enough to do both boxes at the same time, and Charlie giggled as they both realized what she was about to do. "Don't worry, I work my arms even if it doesn't seem like it," the performer performed for the audience as she straightened the saw.

The box, Ann glanced down, was very thin, and there wasn't much room for her to wiggle. Vella began to saw into both boxes at the same time, and she watched in mounting anticipation as the saw slid into the tiny gap that Ann was very sure wasn't there before! And with that gap there, there was nothing stopping the blade from reaching her bare waist!

She squealed as the saw touched her skin, echoed by Charlie to her side. The biting teeth weren't painful at all, rather they were quite pleasant, almost like a massage. "oooooh..." Ann relaxed as the felt the warm flush of the saw go through her.

"Yeah, that's the good stuff," Charlie moaned as she too was sawn in half.

"Careful ladies," Vella warned them as the saw was halfway through both of them now, "we all know how this is going to end."

Ann tried to think about that, but the nice feelings in her stomach distracted her until the saw fell through the bottom. "Ah!" Ann's eyes opened in shock as she tried to process that, but Vella didn't give her a chance before she flicked two sets of divider blades into her hands, magically and professionally holding them in place with her fingers. "Can I get some applause for these two ladies?" the Magician asked and the audience erupted into cheers as she dropped a blade into each box!

"!!!!" Ann felt it go through her! Front to back! The blade touched her and she knew, she just knew that she was really cut in half now! "Hmmmm!" she moaned beside Charlie as the Magician dropped the other blades into place, sealing off the top and bottom halves of the two boxes.

"Tah-dah!" Vella called out as with a magical gesture, the boxes split! Ann watched by turning her head to the side as she and Charlie were separated and spun around and around and around! She saw blue and red and blue and Charlie and herself and the Magician until she came to a stop! She couldn't see Charlie at all, but she could hear the Magician by her feet. "And so, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to deliver the most obvious result you could think of!"

Ann heard and felt the boxes touch, her stomach shaking for a moment as the two sides lined up. She breathed a sigh of relief as the Magician then magically raised the blades from the box and Ann felt herself whole again!

Something was different, but she couldn't tell what it was as Vella was just a whirlwind of motion, unsecuring her hands and encouraging her and Charlie to open up their own boxes and step out.

She did just that and Ann blinked in confusion. Why was her box the top Red and the bottom blue? And then reality caught up to her.

She stood there, on stage, in full view of the audience, completely naked, too shocked to move. Beside her, Charlie climbed out of her own box, dressed in her hoodie and to Ann's shock, her jeans! "Those are my pants!" she cried out!

"Ann, these are your legs, those are mine!" Charlie laughed and pointed and with a burst of recognition, everything caught up to Ann. The two of them had been double-sawed and their bottoms had been switched!

She was so turned on right now.

"Thank you!" Vella stood between them, and took a bow. "Thanks to Charlie and Ann. And Ann and Charlie," she gestured at each as the only thought in Ann's mind right now was that Charlie had her wallet and her keys in her pocket. She wasn't going to be able to get home without them. Then with a gentle push, she sent Ann and Charlie back off the stage and into the audience.

Ann was naked. In the darkness of the audience where she could barely see anything or anyone. Naked even as Charlie vanished into the abyss taking her bottom with her.

Surrounded by wolves in the dark. Hungry, hungry wolves.

"Come on then," she said quietly, wondering who was listening. "Come and get me.... Dinner's ready...."