[Serathin] In His Master's Footsteps, 1

Story by teryxc on SoFurry

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I've always loved Serathin's character Renzyl, and here, I finally have my turn :3Teryx returns to college to investigate his former Professor's disappearance. The studious dragon digs through the doctor's research to re-enact his last performed ritual...successfully. (10.1k words)

Commissioned from Serathin

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Night had begun to fall over the college campus as students hurried from the lecture halls of their classes back to their dorms or to the parking lots where their cars were, but only one happened to move against the current. The rain dragon hefted his backpack on his shoulder as he ran his blue-scaled hands over the railing of his alma mater, and what he hoped to soon be his place of study once again. When he reached the steps that led into the primary administration building he took a deep breath and started to walk in, relieved that the door he hoped hadn't been locked swung open easily for him before he walked to the front desk.

"Hi, my name is Teryx," the dragon introduced as he looked down at the snow leopard that sat there. "I'm hoping that I'm not too late, you see I was invited here by Dr. Lewis Magnan in order to discuss my return to academia in the Master's program and to possibly start a TA position." Teryx's sheepish grin evaporated slightly when he saw a look on the feline's face that he couldn't quite possibly place, a mixture of anxiety and fear. "If it is too late I can always come back, but I was told that he would be expecting me."

"No, no sorry," the young male apologized as he picked up an envelope from the desk. "Please, follow me." As Teryx followed the snow leopard he guessed that it was a college student that led him, especially as he turned and saw the anthropology books that were on the other side of the divide. They walked silently for a few minutes down a few halls and down a set of stairs, and just as the rain dragon was about to try and start up some small talk his thoughts were interrupted when his gaze looked at the door, or more specifically what was on it.

"What happened?" Teryx asked as he saw the yellow police tape that was draped lazily over the doorframe, some of it drooped across the ground as though it had fallen there.

The leopard bit his lip for a few seconds before he finally spoke. "Dr. Magnan disappeared around the middle of the spring semester," he informed Teryx. "I guess a few months before that he had grown rather reclusive, some sort of big project that he had stumbled upon that began to take up more and more of his time in his office. Then one day he didn't show up for his first class and when one of the other professors was concerned for his well-being they knocked on the door several times to see if he was in. It took them a while to get the keys to unlock the door, and when they did they found his office empty."

"So?" Teryx asked. "Maybe he just decided to take a break and forgot to tell people."

"That's the weird thing," the snow leopard continued. "They did a full investigation and the security cameras showed that he had gone into this building the previous night and then never left, and there's no way out of here but the main entrance or the fire escape and either of those would have seen him on the camera or by myself since I was on duty that day. The faculty and police are being extremely quiet about it too, but I saw some of the teachers when they left and something in there had definitely unnerved them."

Teryx stood there in the small hallway, fingers running through his golden mane as his brain tried to absorb all the information he had just received. What puzzled the dragon the most was something that the leopard didn't know, that the offer letter he had gotten in the mail was only three weeks old. He recognized his old professor's handwriting though, but if that was true then why did he send him something when he was under a missing person investigation? And why would he lead him here when it was the one place that he could be assured he wasn't?

Teryx was so lost in his own musings that he hardly noticed something get slipped into his hands before the leopard curled the dragon's fingers around it and had him clench into a fist. "A few days before he disappeared he told me that if a rain dragon named Teryx ever stopped by that I was to let him into the office without question," the snow leopard said as Teryx looked down at him. "Though he had grown more reclusive over time we still talked a lot and I would bring him food, so I would like to think that we had become friends. He also said that you were one of his best students, so if you could find out what happened to him I would be very grateful."

The snow leopard started to leave when Teryx opened his hand and found a brass key in it, then quickly looked up. "Thanks! Uh..." the dragon faltered slightly when he realized they had not been properly introduced.

"My name is Marrick," the feline replied with a coy grin. "Take whatever time you need, no one comes down here after the incident anyway so you should have free reign over the place as long as you aren't spotted."

Teryx thanked Marrick once more before the snow leopard disappeared out of sight and left the dragon alone with the door. As expected the door opened with a dull thud after he had used the key and a wave of dust particles met him at the threshold that caused him to cough slightly. The room was pitch black and it took some fumbling before he found the nearby light switch, the dragon jumping as the lightbulb closest to him flashed brightly before it went out with a loud pop. The other lights were fully operational however and illuminated the office of his teacher and mentor.

The room had changed considerably since he had last been there, Teryx mused to himself as he walked across the thick carpet in the middle of the room. Most of the space that had been occupied with furniture were now filled with books, though true to his old teacher's form they were stacked in meticulously neat fashion. Papers were also everywhere, things from articles that he had printed from his computer to handwritten notes that were in a binder as thick as a book. The only thing that remained the same was the cherry wood desk, though instead of being at the center of the room it now had been hastily pushed to the side.

"What in the heck were you doing down here," Teryx asked no one as he walked over to several books on the edge of the desk and blew the thin layer of dust off of one of them. It was a book of myths and legends of ancient cultures, one that the dragon had studied from during his tenure there. His finger ran over the letters that spelled out Dr. Magnan's name before he put the book down and moved over to the papers. "Whatever it is hopefully you did the leg work for me already."

Teryx sat down in the one good chair left in the room and began to pour over the notes, which were all directed to a single area of study that the snow leopard had mentioned. It was a ritual with no origin; one found in a book of similar magical hexes and curses but had been written in an entirely different manner. The dragon's mouth subconsciously moved as he read over the notes on how several people had attempted to enact the ritual in the attempt to try and reap the reward promised at the end of it, only to have those people either fail or, in a rather startling discovery, disappeared without a trace. The last recorded incident was nearly twenty years ago when four people went out into the woods with it and never returned.

The last few words sent shivers down the dragon's spine as he began to wonder what potential fate befell them. Did they really manage to enact some sort of ancient curse, and if so is that what happened to Dr. Magnan as well? The next few pages were a discourse that it looked like the professor had intended to write about how ancient curses and myths can still affect modern day life, but before he could get to the lecture itself he nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard a knock at the door. It was Marrick, who had a bag of food for him and the announcement that he was leaving for the night.

After Teryx thanked him and settled back in the chair he looked inside the bag and found one of his favorite dishes, something that he had eaten with Dr. Magnan as they discussed various anthropology topics right in that very room. "I don't know what happened to you," Teryx swore as he looked at the pile of notes in his hand. "But I'm going to find out."

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For the next two months Teryx had poured all his free time into the mystery that surrounded his teacher's disappearance. In order to explain his presence there he opted to go ahead and sign up for the Master's program he had originally come for anyway, and though he did enjoy his classes it was mostly a smoke screen in order to justify his being on campus. Marrick continued to help him with anything he needed, the two forming a partnership over the search. But though the snow leopard continued to aid him the one thing that he never did was help with the research himself, which Teryx found out was something that Dr. Magnan had him promise.

In some ways Teryx was glad, especially with what he continued to dig up on the subject of this ritual that had held Dr. Magnan in such fascination. It was told that if the caster was able to perform it correctly then he would gain 'the physical and mental perfection of a god', something that the dragon knew would tempt many to try and attempt it even with the sordid history that came with it. As he looked over his own frame, which while lithe didn't have as much muscle as he'd like, he started to wonder what he would look like with such a body. He imagined that would be something like the artist's speculations he referenced, though he found himself blushing more than once when several of the drawings were completely nude and quite well-endowed to the point of borderline ridiculous.

Finally, about an hour after he had been delivered Chinese food by Marrick before he left for home, Teryx found what he had been searching for; the ritual itself. From the meticulous notes and dating the dragon surmised that his teacher had spent nearly five months preparing to actually cast it, and when he read the first thing that was required it caused him to lift his eyebrows up in surprise. He put the notes down and went to the middle of the rug that he had stood on for the better part of two months before he knelt down and began to feel around. Finally his fingers caught on an edge and with one smooth motion Teryx ripped up the square of cut fabric and tossed it to the side with a flourish.

"Whoa..." Teryx gasped when he saw the intricate magic circle underneath it, the lines a deep black that shined in the light. When he pressed a finger against the runes written around the outer circle the material felt slick, like thick paint or something of that nature. The sight of it caused the dragon to shake his head, he had never remembered his teacher being into the occult enough to try something as insane as this, much less destroy his office to do so. Yet something had driven him onward to do it... and though he didn't realize it until just then he had been doing the same thing, but with a slightly different reason.

It took only twenty more minutes to find the rest of the ingredients that were needed to perform the ritual; there were several standard black candles, a jar of white powder that smelt strongly of spice, and a jar of black liquid that smelt like latex. It was an odor he found himself smelling once more, a hint of pleasant arousal at the memory of past antics with the substance distracting him for a second before he set the jar down on the desk. When he had everything gathered he looked at the notes, then at the ritual ingredients, and finally at the circle as he realized... he still hadn't solved the mystery of where Dr. Magnan had gone.

"This doesn't help anything," he muttered as he sat down in the chair with a sigh. "All I know is that he attempted the ritual himself, it doesn't tell me how he disappeared. Unless... no, it can't be, there's no way this thing holds any merit. Maybe when it failed he was so shamed he hid from the cameras and ran out to go and lick his wounded pride. It couldn't be that he disappeared because of the ritual... could it?"

The echo of his voice faded as Teryx looked back down at the notes that described how to perform the ritual in detail. The dragon couldn't believe he was actually considering it, but if the ritual was real then that could be where his teacher had gone, and if that was the case if he performed the same ritual then perhaps he could see what happened to him. He went back to his now cold Chinese food and pondered while he ate, the same page of the ritual still staring him in the face as he looked at it. Even when he had finished he still was unsure of what he was about to attempt, or whether he even should in the first place.

In the end though it was his determination to find out what happened that won out and the rain dragon swooped up every note he could in order to prepare. Most of it was rather simple, since Dr. Magnan had mixed up the reagents that were needed ahead of time all he had to do was put them in the proper placement. What Teryx knew would be the most consuming was the application of the black rubber substance on his body to mimic the markings on the sheet the professor had translated. He took the paintbrush he found and dipped it into the inky liquid, but just as the coated brush hovered over his first stroke he saw something that caused him to pause.

"Wait... 'mimic the designs' isn't translated correctly," Teryx said to himself as he put the brush back in the bottle and picked up the paper from the perch he had put it on. The language that the ritual was translated from was rather complex, but it was something that the rain dragon had found fascinating with its subtle nuances, one of which he found as he scribbled out the translation and made his own. "There, 'mirror the designs'... which means that he would have put it on backwards when he did it..."

Teryx put the piece of paper back and pressed on, his body shivered slightly as he placed the cold latex on his body. Thankfully the substance seemed to warm quickly with his body heat as he painted down his arms and face, then took off his shirts and pants to continue. Though the lines weren't complex they covered his body quite thoroughly and by the time he had finished he stood in the office of his old teacher completely naked, his light and dark blue scales criss-crossed with the deep, black lines that had a runic, almost tribal pattern. He couldn't help but admire his handiwork in the nearby mirror, though as he looked at himself it also made him keenly aware that he was still nude and darted back towards the circle.

Once he had lit the candles he ran over to the door and, after he had made sure that it was locked, turned off the lights before he moved into the design. He originally considered putting his clothes back on for the next part, but he didn't accidently want to smudge any of them as he sat cross-legged in the circle with his tail wrapped around his leg. With the preparations complete all he had to do was sit and meditate on what he desired the most, which in Teryx's case was the perfect body described in the texts that he had started to fawn over, while he sat there with his eyes closed. Part of him wondered why he didn't have to do a silly chant or something of that nature, a thought that caused him to grin momentarily before he focused himself to a more serious nature.

As Teryx sat there butt naked his body shivered slightly and he began to wonder if this is exactly where his teacher had been months ago, covered in black latex body paint and surrounded by lit candles. In the spirit of the ritual though the rain dragon tried to maintain his concentration on the mental image of what he thought his perfect body would look like. The potent mix of smells from the candles, spice powder, and latex on his body started to make his head swim, though he managed to keep his thoughts on the task at hand. When he felt the room start to spin he was forced to open his eyes again and saw the flames of the candles had grown taller and started to swirl around him as he tried to get up only to have his muscles feel like lead weights against the floor.

There was a loud thud as the rain dragon numbly felt his back hit the floor, the light from the candles now merely an orange glow around him as the rest of the room seemed to grow darker. Even if he could Teryx knew there was no use for him to call for help in the otherwise empty building, which meant that he would have to ride out whatever was happening to him. He tried to close his eyes again to stop the vertigo but as soon as he did he would hear something that would cause them to snap open again. Then after a while he could hear the noise without needing to close his eyes and it got loud enough for him to identify what it was; the sound of deep, low laughter.

"Looks like someone finally got it right," a rich, honeyed voice seemed to whisper all around him, with Teryx powerless to do anything to stop it as he laid there. He began to see the darkness coalesce around his body, like a fog of blackness that hovered just above him. "Your former master was so close... but he did have great faith in you, and as such you're about to get what you most desire." Teryx watched as the smoke seemed to form a vague draconic shape in it before it drifted down and pushed into his open mouth and nostrils, which caused the rain dragon to shudder slightly as a cold, rubbery tasting sensation filled his maw and throat. "I'd say that I hope it's worth it, but I know that it always is... it always is...

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Teryx awoke with a sharp gasp and bolted upright as he heard a hard knock on the door, the naked male panting heavily as he tried to look around in the pitch darkness. The candles he had been surrounded by had long since extinguished themselves and left him scrambling in the darkness towards the sound of the knocking. He could hear Marrick's voice on the other side calling out if he was okay and with as much composure as he could muster the dragon called out that he would be right there. Finally after he fumbled around and knocked over several piles of books he reached the lights and turned them on, unprepared for the blinding sensation as he hissed and covered his eyes with one arm while he opened the door with the other.

"Hey Teryx I got you oh my god," Marrick stated in shock as Teryx saw the snow leopard's eyes widen slightly once his own got used to the light. In took the dragon a few seconds to remember that he was still completely naked, covered in black rubber lines, and when he looked down realized he was sporting a full erection. "Do you... want me to come back later... or..."

Teryx reached out and grabbed the breakfast sandwich and tea and closed the door as quickly as he could while he mumbled out an apology. A second after he slammed the door shut he ripped into the breakfast sandwich and devoured it, followed by gulping down the warm tea before he tossed the empty cup to the ground. He hadn't realized how hungry he had been until he been offered the food, and what he was given did little to satiate him. Despite his need to begin to piece together what happened last night in his hazy memory a voice in his head told him that hunger was a first priority and that he could figure things out while he ate. The dragon nodded to himself and put on his clothes as fast as possible, tucking in his still erect cock as best he could and leaving the paint on his body before he bolted out the door.

Twenty minutes later he found himself at a local diner staring hungrily at a menu, his eyes slightly glazed over and a stream of drool running from his lip that he promptly wiped off when the wolfess came up and asked if he was ready to order. Teryx nodded and before he could stop himself he ordered half a dozen things off the menu, which even with his draconic appetite he would have never attempted before as the waitress gave him a strange look. Once she had written down everything she asked if she could pour him a cup of coffee, which he agreed to and ran his hands through his mane as he heard the sound of a cup being placed in front of him and filled with liquid. The second she left he took a sip from it and pulled out the one thing he had enough composure to remember, the personal notes of his professor that he laid down on the table.

"Maybe... maybe it was all a dream after all," he tried to reason as he set his head against the book in frustration. "The fact that I even attempted such a thing in the first place was insane, why did I think I could summon some sort of ancient demon that is hardly a rumor in the first place. Plus it still puts me no closer to what happened to him in the first place."

As Teryx continued to lay there he felt a presence on the opposite side of him, which he thought was the waitress with his meal until a deep male voice spoke up. "Looks like you had a rough night there," it speculated, which Teryx merely nodded in agreement with his head still pressed against the book. "Looks like you were searching for something, whether it was something to believe or someone important to you oftentimes those hunts are the hardest to endure. Of course sometimes the answers are sitting right across from you, and all you have to do to obtain them is look... up... now..."

The rain dragon paused at the cryptic message the stranger had given him and slowly he lifted his head up to see who sat in front of him in the first place. When his gaze met the glowing red eyes of a demonic face a surge of adrenaline unlike anything Teryx had ever felt coursed through his body and his mind immediately screamed at him to run. But when he tried to make that happen every fiber of his being refused to move, a small grin forming on the shiny muzzle of the demon in front of him as he continued to sit there with a dumbfounded look on his face. His brain felt like it was about to melt as it tried to process what just happened, though unfortunately this was the exact time that the waitress came back with a large tray filled with plates of food.

Teryx's heart pounded in his chest as he looked up at the wolfess for any sign of terror that she saw the same thing that he did, but all she did was ask if he needed anything else. "Oh no, I should be fine with all this," Teryx spoke, though mentally no words ever reached his mouth to say anything at all as he felt a soft smile creep across his face at her. "Thank you so much for bearing with my empty stomach my dear, I will make sure to compensate you thoroughly for such a laborious task I gave you."

To his surprise the waitress's sour expression lifted and he found her trying to stifle a giggle as she waved him off. "It's no trouble, you're not the biggest order I've ever gotten," she gushed slightly as she put her order book back in her pocket. "Well I'll let you get to it, if you need anything though let me know."

Teryx continued to feel the smile on his muzzle as he nodded and watched her go before it fell away as soon as she was out of sight. The dragon brought his hands up to his entire head as the demon continued to watch him silently, and though it appeared that he had regained full control of his body every time he tried to get up to leave he found himself stuck in place. "What did you just do to me?" Teryx hissed at the demon.

"I saved you from a very awkward social faux pas," the demon replied with a shrug as he sat back. "Your original plan of staring at her in sheer horror or bolting past her while screaming at the top of your lungs would have made a rather undesirable scene, so you're welcome on that. Oh and do be sure to tip her well for bringing you all this food, which you really should eat because you burned up a lot of your energy reserves summoning me here and if you don't refuel things are going to get really ugly for you really fast."

There was an awkward moment of silence as Teryx continued to just stare at the demon, whose glowing red eyes remained on him as the creature motioned for him to eat. "You... you..." the dragon stammered in a mixture of anger and fear.

"Oh!" the demon suddenly exclaimed, sitting up and smiling as he clasped his hands together on the table. "Please forgive me my lack of introduction, it was a rather long trip. My name is Renzyl, and I have to say I am so happy to have a fellow dragon be my host body in this realm. Now hurry up and eat Teryx, we have so much to do."

Teryx said nothing in reply, instead he continued to stare at the creature in front of him as his thoughts finally caught up with the situation. The creature that sat across from him was the epitome of the demonic entity described in the texts, though now that he saw it in the proverbial flesh he realized the pictures did little justice. Despite his sitting down the rain dragon estimated that Renzyl stood about seven feet tall with draconic features, though instead of scale or fur his skin seemed unnaturally shiny that reminded him of someone covered with latex body paint that he had seen at a campus party. The demonic parts of him were the small spikes that jutted out from him, the horns that twisted as they swept back, and the deep red, glowing eyes that furrowed slightly at him in annoyance.

"While I believe you are fully capable of analyzing while you eat we don't have time for this," Renzyl said with a sigh. Teryx cocked his head slightly, then found it was the last movement he could make as his hand lifted up of his own accord, grabbed the nearby fork, and began to dig into the plate of eggs that was nearest to him. If he could his eyes would have went wide as he ate with no mental commands coming from his brain to do so, though after the third bite control was seemingly relinquished back to him as he continued to feed himself.

"How... how are you doing this?" Teryx managed to ask between bites, not eager to lose control of his body once again. "What's happening to me?"

"There we go, two things at once," Renzyl joked as a smirk formed on his muzzle. "Alright, where to begin... well, the short of it is that you are undergoing what is commonly called a demonic possession, with me being the demon and you being the possession. Now I know what you're thinking, literally, how can you see me if I'm possessing you? Since I'm not a big fan of the whole 'ominous voice in your head' bit that most demons seem to pride themselves on I simply tweaked your optic nerve to give an image of what I actually look like. If you're thinking that somehow this means that you and I are separate then think again, as you've seen I can be in complete control of your body however and whenever I want."

There was a brief pause in the conversation as Teryx continued to eat, the demon letting the rain dragon have a minute to process the information he was just given. As he finished his first plate of food, something that he hardly realized that he had done until his fork scraped against empty plate, he casually looked around the diner while he reached for the second one. No one apparently noticed that there was a rubber dragon sitting opposite him, and other than a few looks for the amount of food that he was consuming no one seemed to pay him any attention. In the back of his mind he realized that he still had the latex on his body and face, but though a quick glance revealed it was still there no one seemed to be bothered by this either.

"Well someone is catching on very quickly," Renzyl commented with a smirk. "Your mentor spoke very highly of you, he's going to be so proud when he finds out that you managed to complete his work."

The fork clattered against the table as Teryx's muzzle curled up with slightly bared fangs. "It was you..." Teryx growled lowly. "You were the reason why he disappeared."

"Yes and no," Renzyl replied with a slight shrug. "You see he was one of many people from your world who tried the incantation, but those who originally formed it in order to harness my power didn't have the magic to keep my form here so I was sent back to my realm. Eventually, as most things do, the idea that some ancient incantation was able to grant you power beyond measure was eventually relegated to nothing more than a mere myth. That isn't to say that there weren't those who tried, but by most either failed the ritual or got the translation wrong and sent themselves to my realm instead of summoning me here. You were the first that had both the correct translation and magical aptitude to keep me here, something that the last invoker of the ritual said would happen when he arrived at my realm several of your months ago."

Teryx could feel his blood boil as it dawned on him that this creature was not only responsible for his teacher's disappearance but likely for his downward spiral into the obsession that had now ensnared him too. He wanted to shout and scream at him but he could feel his entire body grow rigid, the demon's power once more ensnared his muscles until he calmed down enough to not lash out at what would have been an empty seat. "I'm going to stop you," Teryx stated angrily as he started to eat once again after he felt his arm begin to move towards the dropped fork on his own. "You may have power over me right now, but I know I can wrestle control away from you."

Renzyl's eyes seemed to glow even brighter as his muzzle curled up in a smile from the other dragon's challenge, but didn't say anything at all. As Teryx watched him curiously he suddenly felt his pants tighten so much that it caused him to nearly choke on the food that he had just put on his mouth. His grunt of arousal caused several to look his way and the dragon tried to drink from his water in order to cover it up, only to nearly spit it out as he felt another surge course through his body that originated at his crotch. Renzyl continued to watch with a bemused expression as the rain dragon tried to discretely put a hand below the table to try and readjust his spontaneous erection, only as his hand squeezed down there he felt something that caused his eyes to widen.

"Like I said," Renzyl repeated as he stood up from the table. "I own all of you, totally and completely. I'll let you ruminate for a while on that particular lesson, do try not to get yourself in too much trouble while I'm away, and while you wait for that to settle I would suggest finishing your food."

Teryx tried to stand up as Renzyl walked away, though as he did the tip of his arousal bumped against the table with enough force to cause him to wince and sit back down. As he took deep, steady breaths to try and refocus himself the waitress came over and asked if he was alright. He looked up at her and told her that he was fine and had just spilt a bit of hot egg on himself, and though it caused her to raise an eyebrow she continued on with her rounds and left him alone. Teryx breathed a sigh of relief and realized that for the first time since he sat down in the diner that he had completely regained control of his appendages... all but one that continued to remain stubbornly erect despite himself. At this point he sighed and picked up his fork once more, beginning to eat as he hoped that he would be granted reprieve soon... he had a lot of work that needed to be done.

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It took nearly half an hour before his crotch finally stopped tenting enough for him to leave without embarrassing himself, though he had taken a quick stop in the restroom to confirm what he had already guessed had happened to him. Once he did he raced back towards Dr. Magnan's office in order to begin research on how to counteract the ritual that he had performed. When he arrived though it was to more bad news, there was campus police in the lobby of the building and a very frustrated looking Marrick who went up to him as soon as he saw him.

"Marrick, what the heck happened?" Teryx asked before the snow leopard could say anything.

"I'm so sorry Teryx," Marrick managed to reply as his lower lip began to quiver. "Someone had called in a tip to campus police that some students had been using Dr. Magnan's office as a place to get drunk and high, and when they got there they saw all the stuff scattered about and the Dean of Students thought that someone was trying to practice witchcraft or summon a demon. I managed to sneak out your personal effects before they were able to lock down the room but I'm afraid that they took everything else before I could get in there, I'm so sorry Teryx."

The rain dragon felt his blood run cold as he half-heard the feline's explanation while he watched the campus security and real police officers hold evidence bags that contained everything that he had used in the ritual to summon Renzyl. A large part of him wondered if the demon had something to do with it, especially since he had already proven that he could even talk through him if he wanted. Even if it wasn't intentional though he had no way now to try and reverse the ritual with all the knowledge Dr. Magnan had collected locked up, though as he thought about it there was something that escaped the police raid. His hand hesitated for a second as he reached for it, but continued on and pulled out the journal as he realized the demon would have already stopped him if he had the power.

"Listen Marrick, I need you to look into something for me," Teryx instructed the snow leopard as he put the book into his hands. "This journal is everything that Dr. Magnan wrote about the ritual that the police are currently investigating, I need you to look through it for me and try to find anything he wrote about reversing the ritual after it has been initiated."

"But why-" Marrick started to say before the dragon stopped him and, after looking up at the cops once again, moved their conversation to an empty part of the building. "Why do you want me to do that? Does it have something to do with Magnan's disappearance?"

"Most definitely," Teryx replied. "I need you to do this for me as soon as possible, and if you find an answer let me know the second you do. Also... if for some reason I'm acting strange or something like that then trust your instincts and stay away from me. I can't explain why, just make sure that you do it."

Before Marrick had the chance to ask him any questions Teryx turned and ran, not only because he didn't want to have to explain that he actually performed the ritual but also because he began to feel strange around the other male. It was hard to describe, but to the rain dragon he swore he could feel the feline's want of him, in his mind's eye he had begun to see flashes of the two of them together with Marrick tied down while he lorded over him while his eyes glowed a brilliant red. Even as he ran the images threatened to overwhelm him as he barged through the first door he saw and sat on the nearest seat he could find.

When he finally caught his breath Teryx looked down and frowned at the erection that strained his pants once more. Though he was in a public place he had to get more comfortable and after taking a quick look around, which revealed that he had wandered into one of the small study lounges scattered around campus, he grabbed his fly and unzipped it as quickly as he could. Almost instantly he was greeted by a thick, black rubber cock that was nearly a foot long. It was no doubt part of the demon's 'lesson', something he had since the diner as Renzyl's little reminder that he now owned his body fully and completely.

The slam of a door behind him caused the dragon to jump and scramble to put the half-hard member back in his pants. He grimaced slightly as he had to bend it in order to hastily shove it back as he heard footsteps approach, then put his shirt over the open zipper as he looked up to see the Arctic Fox look over the back of it at him. "Oh, sorry there," the fox said. "I just didn't expect to see anyone else here, normally this place is completely abandoned and I can just sit here and study alone for a few hours."

Teryx just nodded and tried to adjust himself so that his bulge wasn't too predominant that the vulpine could see it, luckily even if the other male did notice he was too polite to say anything before he moved to one of the tables with the books he had brought in. The rain dragon breathed a sigh of relief and sat his head back against the cushion of the couch. Once he was sure that the fox had taken his attention off of him he looked towards the door as he silently began to zip up his fly. His plan was rather simple, wait for his erection to go down enough to awkwardly leave the room and then get back to his dorm in order to figure out more about his possession predicament.

That quickly changed when his fingers stopped pulling his zipper when it was only halfway up, then his eyes widened in horror as it began to go back down. His entire body tingled with warmth as he felt the demon's presence well up inside him once more, the corruptive energy oozing through his entire body as he felt himself begin to lose control. With every passing moment he tried to move anything he could, but the second he tried to move a muscle he immediately felt it get taken away from him. As he wrenched his neck to try and keep control of it his gaze landed on the male fox, and when he realized the predicament he tried to shout out only to have his muzzle freeze the second it opened wide.

In the next instant Teryx's mouth snapped shut and a grin spread across his face, though it wasn't the rain dragon that caused it as his body stood up. From the reflection on the television Teryx saw an almost otherworldly look on his own face and his eyes glowed with a soft red, a strong indicator that Renzyl was completely in control now. As much as the rain dragon tried to struggle mentally or use his magic it only seemed to feed into the demon's power as Renzyl moved his body towards the fox. By the time the other male could feel the dragon's presence behind him a pair of strong hands gripped the vulpine's shoulders.

"I apologize for interrupting your studies but I don't believe that we've been properly introduced," Teryx spoke, and though it was still his voice the trapped rain dragon could hear a honeyed tone to it that would have made his own member twitch if he was still in control of it. "My name is Renzyl."

"Jamison, though most call me Jamie," the Arctic Fox introduced as he shook the dragon's hand, completely unaware of who he was shaking hands with.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Jamie," Renzyl said warmly while Teryx still tried to figure out what the demon's angle was. "I see that you're studying Computer Science, that's a rather difficult subject. You must have to come here a lot, all by yourself, hitting the books so to speak."

Jamie nodded and Teryx watched as Renzyl slid his hands onto the vulpine's shoulders, seeing the male tense up for a second before he seemed to melt and talk about his major. The rain dragon could feel his magic begin to shift in his body, but it wasn't like his normal energy. It brought his thoughts back to the ritual right before he passed out and he realized that the demon had begun to hijack his own essence. He turned back his thoughts to try to figure out how to warn the fox, but when he focused on his body he was shocked to find that one of his hands was already under Jamie's shirt while the other had slid down into his pants.

"Mmmm, didn't want you to miss all the fun," Renzyl whispered into the white-furred ear, though Teryx knew those words were for him as Jamie looked back slightly in question. "Don't worry about it foxy, why don't we get you somewhere more comfortable and we can see how badly you really want this."

Teryx watched dumbfounded as the arctic fox let out a small whimper, then he stood up and followed Renzyl to the couch that he had sat on only minutes ago. "I am so happy that I found someone like you," Renzyl continued to coo through Teryx's lips as he laid down on the couch and motioned for Jamie to do the same. "You see there's someone out there who doesn't appreciate my company, and I thought that I would show him what he would be missing out on all the amenities that can come from it. You want to share my company, don't you my little pet?"

"Yeah, I do..." Jamie managed to reply as he unzipped the fly of the dragon's pants. "Your words make so much sense to me now, and if you can do half the things you promised then I will be your... your pet. Just... just let me serve you."

If Teryx had control of his jaw it would have dropped at the sudden change in the other male's demeanor as his rubberized member sprang free once more. He wondered if this was truly the demon's power, making people submit to his desires. With his body no longer his and his magic unavailable to him all he could do was watch as the vulpine nuzzled and licked his new endowment, which caused shivers to travel through his entire body. He felt his toes curl when Jamie took the next step and eagerly began to split his lips and slide down the sensitive, rubbery flesh.

"Mmmm, that's it," Renzyl encouraged as he took a hand and began to wrap his fingers through his white headfur as Jamie gripped his thighs. "This isn't your first time, that much I can say for certain... I bet you use that muzzle of yours quite a bit." The fox continued to slide his warm maw down as his tongue swirled around the ridges of flesh that popped inside, drawing another lewd groan from the bigger male as he shifted slightly against the couch.

As Jamie stuffed his muzzle to the limit and began to bob his head up and down with Renzyl's aid Teryx couldn't help but begin to enjoy himself. It wasn't just the blowjob either, though that certainly aided in his lustful experience, but it was also the fact that none of this was in his control. He should have been disgusted that the demon was using his body for such an act but instead he squirmed mentally from the sheer sensation of feeling and seeing everything without being able to do anything about it. Even when he heard his voice in the demon's tone he couldn't help but shudder, though for now it was his body tensing up as Renzyl gripped Jamie's head and began to thrust his hips up quickly and erratically.

The arctic fox let out a muffled groan of surprise as the rain dragon's body climaxed, his eyes widening as he swallowed the unnaturally large load that came out of his latex cock. Teryx nearly lost it from the pleasure of their orgasm as Renzyl kept Jamie's head down as jet after jet of his spunk was fed to him. When a small amount of liquid did manage to escape the smaller male's stretched lips Teryx had enough of his faculties to see that his normally pearlescent cum was shiny and black now, no doubt another part of his body corrupted by a demon he thought as he began to come down from his climax. As his body relaxed on the cheap cushions Teryx suddenly realized that he had control of himself once more and shot up so quickly that it caused the arctic fox to roll off onto the floor.

"I'm so sorry!" Teryx nearly shouted as pulled up the staggered male and got him to sit back down on the couch. "Are you alright?"

"I feel... strange..." Jamie stated hazily as he looked around as though lost, his eyes glazed over. Teryx frowned in concern as he looked at the spaced out fox and waved his hand in front of his face a few times. As he tried to rub the other male's back to comfort him he suddenly felt a pair of hands on his shoulders that nearly caused him to jump. When he looked back he saw it was Renzyl, the creature once more giving him a caress that caused the rain dragon to shudder when he realized he could now feel tactile sensations the demon fed him.

Renzyl sat back on the couch as Teryx gave him a dirty look. "What did you do to him?" the rain dragon asked. "This isn't a typical reaction to someone giving a blowjob, he can hardly hold himself upright much less say a coherent sentence."

"Alas, normally you would have seen it by now but I'm still rather weak from the trip and whole... possessing you thing," Renzyl replied as he twirled his hands in the air. "I think that you'll find that you will be getting your answer very, very soon. Just sit back and enjoy the show."

Teryx was about to demand more answers when he heard the fox behind him gurgle, the rain dragon snapping his head around as the fox held his muzzle with both hands while his eyes widened. There was another loud gurgle and at first Teryx was about to be sick, but as the arctic fox lurched forward a thick, black ooze seeped out from between his fingers and began to drip down his wrists. Teryx leaned back in shock as the vulpine's back arched and his hands shot down towards the couch, his mouth open in a silent gasp. Jamie's eyes rolled back into his head as the shiny black liquid continued to pour out of his mouth, completely covering his snout and coating his head.

"Wha... what is this..." Was all Teryx could say as he continued to crawl back on the couch as the male next to him began to tear his clothes off with claws that had formed from his rubber-covered fingernails. The demon just grabbed him by the shoulders and whispered in his ears to continue to watch as the transforming creature finished with his shirt and began to pull off his pants, where a black blotch had already begun to form at the groin. When Jamie stripped them off it was clear why, the fox's cock had already transformed into a tapered reptilian version that stood completely erect and leaked the same black fluid.

As the thick liquid continued to coat over the entirety of the pure white fur of the fox the texture of the demonic substance turned scaly. Jamie's maw turned blunt and his vulpine ears melted into his skull while he thrashed his new head around in what Teryx could only guess was pure lust. The heavy latex oozed over the fluffy tail and it thickened with pure muscle as the transforming male fell completely forward while his spine cracked to give him more tail length and a few extra inches of height. The former fox continued to squirm and writhe on the floor as the amount of muscle on his frame exploded, and by the time the rubber coated his toes and turned them to a large three-toed configuration he had gone from scrawny bookworm fox to bodybuilder lizard.

"He won't harm you," Renzyl said as he circled around and hovered over the still thrashing creature. "It's not my best work by far, but it helps solidify my presence in your realm and it never hurts to have a bodyguard while we have our fun. All he needs is a sharp suit and a pair of sunglasses and he'll be positively intimidating, don't you think? Teryx?"

The rain dragon was frozen on the couch, unable to tear his gaze away from the corrupted creature on the floor in front of him. He hadn't just allowed the demon to take control of him, he had allowed the unholy creature to use his magic to turn an innocent creature into a hellspawn like him. "Oh shush," Renzyl said suddenly, waving his hand. "Trust me, what you see before me is the product of our dear friend's desires."

"He... wanted to be some sort of rubber lizard?" Teryx asked incredulously.

"In a manner of speaking, yes," Renzyl answered matter-of-factly. "The second you laid eyes on Jamie I knew that this was a person who wanted nothing more than to be a big, dumb, muscle-bound creature that someone else ordered around and took care of. To not have a care in the world, to let the burden of intelligence weigh him down... just sleep and work out and have sex all day, every day. He didn't want to have control over anything, not even his own body... not that a concept like that would be something that you're familiar with."

Teryx grimaced slightly as the demon hit close to home for him. It brought back every sensation that he felt while Renzyl had complete control of his body, from the initial feeling of helplessness all the way up to when he was receiving a blowjob from his fellow student. He found himself almost... missing the rubber dragon's influence on him, and though he would never admit it he knew that the possessing creature already knew his feelings. "So... now what do we do with him?" Teryx asked quickly as he crossed his arms.

"That's all up to you," Renzyl informed him with a smirk. "Since you want to still be in control so badly then you're going to have to accept all the responsibilities that having demonic abilities affords you, and that includes the 'spawn' that you create when the power gets too much for your mere mortal psyche to handle."

"You want me to take control... of that?" Teryx said as he pointed to the latex lizard, who had gotten to his feet and looked around hungrily.

"You have my power flowing through you," Renzyl explained. "You will be the only one he listens too, and since he's not all too bright it would probably be best to keep a short leash on him. Wouldn't want him to go off and create more like him, do you?"

Teryx scratched his mane in concern, his frown deepening as Renzyl continued to stare at him with those glowing red eyes. "You know what, that's fine," Teryx exclaimed defiantly. "You think you can throw this at me in order to make me succumb to you and have you take over? I'll tame this beast of yours and then find a way to reverse the curse, using the very subject that you've provided me as soon as I get back to my room-"

"He's gone," Renzyl interrupted, the rain dragon's eyes going wide as he looked where the rubberized male had been mere seconds before. "Better get to work finding him, I would hate for him to be out there on the loose with no other prerogative then transforming others to sate his lusts."

After taking a moment to swear mentally, which Renzyl mentioned that he heard, he started to think of how he could possibly track a creature like that. Even before when he was still a fox all that the dragon had gleaned from him was a name, and just the first name at that. Part of him wanted to call Marrick and see if he knew anything, but he quickly pushed that thought out of his mind. While he wasn't sure how good the demon's ability to see his thoughts were he wanted to try and keep the snow leopard as secret as possible since he might be the only way to reverse the possession. Instead he turned his thoughts towards where Jamie was studying, which was where his books still sat.

The textbooks themselves were rather useless, Teryx looked through the front covers before he set them aside and moved on to the coat hung over the back of the chair. He went through each pocket, finding nothing that would be of aid to him until he came to one on the inside of the lining. "There you are Jamie," he said triumphantly as he saw where the fox's dorm was before he put it in his pocket. "I figure if he would go anywhere it would probably be back to his dorm room, maybe somehow he shook free of your influence."

As Teryx looked around he realized that the demon was nowhere to be found, though that suited the rain dragon just fine as he tested his limbs to make sure he was still in control of them before he ran out of the study room and back out onto the campus grounds. It only took ten minutes for him to reach the dorm that the fox lived at, and from the quiet nature of the building it didn't seem like anything was amiss. That changed though when he got up to the door and saw someone had wrenched it open to the point where the frame was nearly destroyed and the door itself hung at an odd angle. It made entering the building easy though as he pushed the broken piece of metal aside and walked in.

"Least I know I'm probably in the right place probably," Teryx muttered to himself as he walked up the stairs and made his way to Jamie's dorm room. "Hopefully I can reach him before he does something that we'll both regret." When he got to the fox's dorm room he found it to be slightly ajar, which caused a pit to form in the dragon's stomach. Each door could only be opened with a specific code that the student could put into the door, so if Jamie still remembered it in his altered state then it was possible that he would find the massive rubber lizard in his own room. The only thing that worried Teryx was that there was a second name on the door next to Jamie's, though it was still early enough that the roommate probably had classes somewhere on campus... at least that was what he hoped.

When he went inside and walked into the common room though there was entirely different story that caused Teryx to cringe. There he found Jamie on the couch, his huge frame propped up on the armrests as his tail thrashed and his hips humped up and down. When the dragon walked around he saw what he could only guess was the former fox's roommate, the German Shepard's tongue rolled out of his mouth as a thick, black drool ran down his muzzle while the thick lizard dick was buried nearly completely between the expanding muscle of his furry cheeks. Teryx was about to tell Jamie to stop but failed to see the point, the other male was clearly in the throes of demonic transformation and corruption as the thick liquid rubber began to ooze out of the dog's nostrils and ears where it began to cover his head.

As Teryx stood there he felt his vision begin to swim, the scene growing fuzzy as he began to feel dizzy. As he turned away from the lewd scene to steady himself he saw the demonic visage of the rubber dragon smiling at him, then those muscular arms reached out and wrapped around the rain dragon's waist before he was pulled down into the chair. Teryx felt a wave of euphoria sweep through his form as warm latex engulfed his body, crawling over his skin as the demon once more claimed his body. Just before darkness swept over his vision he could feel his jaw start to move of its own accord towards the two servants before he blacked out completely in the haze of lust.