An Unlikely Alliance (2/4)

Story by Serathin on SoFurry

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A hawk alchemist named Xenix is making trouble for Renzyl, snagging his minions through alchemical means and turning them into his slaves. The rubber dragon isn't one to take that lightly but certain complications makes it hard for him to do it through normal means. Fortunately through his travels he happens to know an alchemist that will help him with what he needs.

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"I have MANY objections to this idea that you're floating here Sslytha," Chrono said as they sat around the table. "We're trying to prevent him from getting captured, and now we're going to just serve Renzyl up on a silver patter to him?"

"Oh ye of little faith," Sslytha replied with a smirk. "This isn't just him capturing your master, we have a very specific and controlled environment. All we have to do is set the scene and let him fall into the trap."

"A trap that you're using Master Renzyl as bait," Chrono replied. "If we're going to bring this Xenix and him face to face why not let him do so without your extra little enhancements? Renzyl could easily take him down even if he's not here in his realm, I don't know why we need the whole extra charade."

"This Xenix is no slouch," Renzyl explained. "Even if I could somehow get him to arrange a meeting with me, which I doubt he would accept after studying my power for so long, he would either attempt a trap of his own or just run away at the first sign of trouble. We need to lure him into a false sense of security and give his mind something else to think about instead of what we might possibly be scheming, which is where Sslytha's history with him comes in."

"He's stolen a number of very powerful alchemical enchantment tools from me," Ssyltha continued. "As such he knows that he's not on my good side and that it would be perfectly reasonable for me to swoop in and take his prize from him in order to seek revenge for such an act. After a little gloating in his face I'm hoping that he is the one that comes forward first and makes the deal with me, otherwise it still gives me the ability to engage with him and have Renzyl ready by my side to take him."

Chrono just frowned and looked down at the table, knowing that despite his objections they would likely conduct the plan anyway. While they had been discussing the latex alchemist apprentice had been dutifully working on several rubber straps that had been carefully laid out on the table. The gryphon was carving runes into it from a book that had been provided to him, one that most creatures in the realm had never even glanced upon before in their life. Renzyl could see that it was one of the many things that made the silver raptor uncomfortable with the situation considering what was contained within those pages.

Once they had finally gotten Chrono enough on board with the idea to help them with the cause Sslytha went to aid Serathin in the construction of the items while the rubber dragon and raptor took a walk around the hallway. "You'll see that we're fine Chrono," Renzyl said once they were out of earshot. "Plus you know how those runes work, they evaporate from the mind as soon as the book is closed and I'll get them back when this is finished."

"It's not what happens after we're done that I'm worried about Lord Renzyl," Chrono admitted. "These two are both alchemists and they have a history with one another, what if it's not animosity that they share with one another. You said yourself this Xenix is clever, what if he called in a favor to an old friend to help with the capture of a particularly powerful nexus creature that neither could handle themselves?"

"I would hope that I could read people a little better than that," Renzyl replied with a chuckle. "But deviousness and dishonesty are not quite the same thing, just because you have one doesn't mean you have the other. I am willing to trust her enough to put myself in the line of fire if it means ridding ourselves of a potentially dangerous and increasingly powerful enemy."

Chrono side and leaded against the railing of the stairwell they ended up in. "Normally I would agree with you wholeheartedly," the rubber raptor stated. "But I know how you get around creatures like her, ones that have the ability to exercise some modicum of control over you. This isn't going to be some temporary thing that you can just slip yourself out of whenever you feel like, if something happens to you then you will be at the mercy of those two."

"Then it's up to you all to rescue me," Renzyl replied with a wink, causing the rubber raptor to sigh. "You worry too much, not only will you know where I'm going but it'll also be luring the hawk to an area where we can breach the veil of the nexus much easier. If things go sideways then just bring the full might of the realm down on their heads and show them that we're not just some force that can be manipulated."

Though it was clear that Chrono was still a bit uneasy about the entire prospect his master's words seemed to have some effect of calming him, to the point where he was actually smiling a little as they made their way back to the makeshift alchemy room that had been set up. Almost all of the tools that were there had been brought by the two alchemists, as someone who was able to infuse rubber with his power to make it do whatever he wanted the rubber dragon saw little need for such things. He might consider an exception though after this, he thought to himself as he watched the two worked. With Chrono no longer needed in the planning phase anymore, his job being to send out a fake alarm that Renzyl had been captured to help sell the story, he walked out and left Renzyl to examine the pieces laid out.

"Beautiful, aren't they?" Ssyltha said as she slithered up to him. "A modified version of my own design, a little pet project that I enjoy working on when not tending to my alchemical or garden matters. Of course such things wouldn't have even come close to containing you without the additions you provided us, something that Xenix would have seen through in a second even with his limited arcane ability."

"You do always seem to have a flair for elegance," Renzyl replied as he ran his fingers over the etchings and saw them glow with a faint light. "So once these are on me it'll look like I'm in your control, and then once we have in a false sense of security you release the runes and we'll take him town together."

"Finally getting my tools back and some much needed revenge," Sslytha replied. "Now go ahead and put on your outfit, then we can put you on display to catch ourselves a bird."

The rubber dragon nodded and picked up the entire get-up to look at it himself. It consisted of a pretty simple pattern; the main focus being on the chest harness that came up in an x to a black metal ring that was also covered in ruins, as well as a pair of cuffs for both wrist and ankle, a collar, and a band to go around each bicep and thigh. Even with the knowledge that this was all for show the feeling of getting his power muted as he slipped the rubber bondage gear on his body caused Renzyl to shudder slightly. The response caused the naga to grin slightly as she slithered around him to help all the straps fuse into place. Unlike normal gear this wasn't just going to be worn by the rubber dragon, as the runes continued to glow the straps merged with his body to form a completely seamless seal.

"Well don't you look dapper," Sslytha commented as she ran a hand down his chest, watching Renzyl shift slightly as he grew more aroused while his power signature was absorbed by the runes now embedded in his chest. "I think Xenix is going to have a hard time keeping his eyes off of you even if he is dealing with me. Perhaps we didn't even need the second part of this plan after all."

"I think in this case I wouldn't mind overwhelming him," Renzyl replied, shaking off the growing lust building up in his system and giving the naga a nod. "Let's go get my minions and your tools back."

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About half an hour later Sslytha and Renzyl stood in the communication's hub of the rubber dragon's realm, waiting for a connection to be made to the conniving avian alchemist. The synthetic serpent stood front and center in front of the glowing obsidian stone while Renzyl sat at her side. Sslytha held onto a leash that was connected to the collar of the rubber dragon, helping to add to the feel of her dominance as the runes continued to glow. As they continued to wait a worrying thought crossed both their minds that the hawk wouldn't answer the call even if it was the naga on the other end, fearing retribution for the tools that he stole. All they could do is sit there and hope that the curiosity of her reaching out from Renzyl's domain was enough to pique his interest enough to at least look into it.

Just as Renzyl was about to suggest potentially attempting to track him down through other means the swirling light on the stone suddenly flared to life, revealing the hawk standing there in what they guessed was probably a mirror. "So Sslytha," he said with a smirk on his face, though both rubber creatures could see the nervous twitch at the end of it. "Come to call about my tools? I told you what the price would be if you ever wanted to see your precious enchanted implements again."

"And once more I'm going to have to decline sweetie," Sslytha hissed, her own muzzle showing a devious grin as she rubbed down one of her breasts to keep his attention. "Of course I wouldn't have bothered to reach out to you if I didn't have something of value to trade you, something that you've been going after for quite some time. It's right over here to my left."

With the very large screen the two could clearly see the look of the hawk go from pride to shock at seeing the restrained rubber dragon kneeling there. "It... no way... I..." it was clear the revelation shook him to the core and Sslytha couldn't help but chuckle, and though Renzyl felt the urge to do the same the runes on his body kept him in check from the naga's order to continue to be subservient. "How did you... what the... how!?"

"Eloquent as ever," Sslytha simply replied. "The what or the how is not important right now, what you should be concerned about is the why, and the why is for those tools. You thought that you could just taking something from me that I worked so hard on after I trusted you, now I've taken something that you've been working very hard on and it's time to make a trade. The tools for the keys to this creature's kingdom... and if you make me wait I may just start considering how nice it would be to be the Queen of an entire realm of rubber creatures."

"Humph... fine..." the hawk replied after regaining his composure enough to form complete sentences, his smirk once more reappearing on his beak. "One of the main reasons I still have these tools, besides irritating you, was to enslave those rubber creatures. It appears you've done that work for me, so if you would like I can give you the coordinates in order to come over here and we can make the exchange."

"Do you really think I could have taken the creature the way I have and stand now in his own realm if I was a fool?" Ssyltha hissed. "We will meet in a neutral ground, and since I believe I have the higher value item and you haven't exactly shown yourself to be trustworthy it's going to be of my choosing. From what this one said to me you can use the General you recently acquired to dimension shift to Renzyl if he sets off a proverbial flare, so once I find a suitable place to make the deal you will come to me."

The hawk sneered at that, his displeasure obvious as he backed away from the mirror slightly. "How am I supposed to protect myself from one of your traps then?" he asked. "You could be doing the same to me that you're accusing me of potentially doing to do you."

"I will give you my word that there will be no trap waiting for you when you arrive," Sslytha replied, slithering up to the control console. "Plus I think that you are willing to take the risk in order to reap the reward, but that is up to you. As I said I could make myself comfortable in a place like this, so the choice is yours."

Before the hawk could respond Sslytha killed the feed, both the serpent and dragon breathing a slight sigh of relief at the end of the call. "It's like pulling teeth with him," Renzyl said as he shook his head. "Of course if I stole from you I would also probably keep my eyes open. Do you think he took the bait?"

"I think he's too greedy not to," Sslytha replied. "Now comes the difficult part, with your General there he has the capacity to potentially run. It's time to put on your best defeated face Renzyl."

Renzyl just nodded, then the two of them hopped onto the nexus hub as the energy began to rise. As it got ready to send them to the coordinates specified Serathin ran into the room and hopped onto the pad as well, handing the synthetic serpent her bag. Together the three of them stood there as the purple, red, and blue clouds of the realm swirled around the twisted obelisks while the stone beneath them thrummed with energy. Finally after about thirty seconds the entire relic discharged and the clouds swirled around the outer perimeter of the wall with the three on the platform completely vanished.

A few seconds later Renzyl and Sslytha reappeared on a balcony of a rather large estate that sat on the edge of a lake. The two rubber creatures looked out at the sunset for a few seconds before opening the bay doors and walking into the main room. Renzyl looked up at the wooden beams and ran a hand over the leather furniture. Once they had made themselves comfortable the rubber dragon sent up the nexus energy beacon so that his corrupted General could find them.

"This is a nice place you have here," Renzyl commented once everything was said and done, Serathin handing them both a drink before heading down to the first floor to take care of a few things. "Very relaxing for a summer home."

"While I'm glad you appreciate the aesthetics this isn't my home," Sslytha replied. "It belongs to someone else who lets me stay here whenever I please as long as I allow them to do the same. It's much like an arrangement that we have, except that I get the pleasure of your company instead."

Renzyl just grin and sipped his drink, the two continuing to chat while they waited for the other alchemist to arrive. Though the rubber dragon was confident that their plan was going to work he wondered if Xenix was going to come or if the allure of finally bringing down his prey wasn't enough to overwhelm the suspicion that this was a trap. He looked down at the glowing runes on the leather straps he wore and knew that even though they were being fueled by his own power they would quickly start to degrade from it as well. That meant that if the hawk was late it might be possible that he would see the cracks in what the serpent had touted was a completely inescapable means of restraint.

But Renzyl didn't have to dwell on it long as he felt the presence of his General coming towards him, moving through the Nexus realm with the hawk. Due to the restrictive nature of the area he wasn't able to bring the full force that he had magically enchanted, at least not without sending the General back to get them. Only the rubber dragon himself would have had the power to do such a thing, and that was a power that he wasn't ever going to get his hands on. The rubber naga and dragon quickly got into position, this time Sslytha on the couch while grabbing onto the leash as Renzyl sat on the floor.

For a few moments the air crackled with energy before the rubber wyvern general and alchemist hawk appeared, landing on the floor in the middle of it all. Renzyl had to restrain a frown on how he saw he essentially turned Zander into a riding mount, complete with alchemically treated bridle and straps around his muscular body that made him look like he belonged on all fours despite still having a somewhat humanoid build. The rubber dragon couldn't believe it, how had he not thought of something like that for the wyverns that were under his command? He made a mental note of the design in case something happened during the exchange that would ruin it as Ssyltha got up and tugged on the leash to do the same.

"So this is the infamous Renzyl," Xenix said as he looked the taller creature over, leering at his rubberized musculature. "From the way that your minions croon about you, at least until I get to them, I thought that you would be some six-winged deity that could swallow nations and breathe fire."

Though Renzyl had the urge to respond with a snappy comeback he knew it wasn't his place to speak, using the submissiveness being fed to him from the runes in order to help sell the part as Ssyltha snapped her fingers to get his attention. "That's quite enough," she said in an authoritative tone. "He's not your property yet, you can play with him and see what he's capable of after you show me that you have my tools. If you don't then I'll just take my new dragon back to my new realm and I'll get them from you the next time we meet, which I guarantee will not be under such amicable circumstances."

Despite trying to remain as cool and collected as possible they could see the hawk flinch slightly and swallow hard, then go back to Zander and take something out of the bag that was hanging there. Ever since Sslytha had mentioned them Renzyl had been curious on what sort of tools were worth all this effort. When the avian produced a large leather sack he opened it so that only the synthetic naga could see what was inside, preventing the rubber dragon from satiating his curiosity. Whatever was inside seemed to please the other rubber creature as she grabbed the bag while holding out the leash to the hawk.

"Hold on," Xenix said as he continued to maintain his grip on the bag before Sslytha could pull it away. "You're getting tools that you can be assured of are the real deal, how do I know that this is the same? Sure I can sense that he's bound to you but there's nothing here that says that such control hasn't been fabricated."

"Still as paranoid as ever," Sslytha said as she shook her head, then looked over at Renzyl. "Perhaps a demonstration is in order then. Renzyl, kneel."

Renzyl quickly did what he was told, aided by the straps as Ssyltha gave the frowning hawk a smirk. "As you can see he will do anything that I desire," she explained before putting a hand on the top of his head. "Now Renzyl, I want you to close your eyes and open your mouth. Show this bird that you are completely under my control."

It was definitely quite the order, one that Xenix likely knew no one would do with two alchemists in the room. Renzyl could see that the hawk was being drawn into the ruse though so he immediately did as he was told, closing his red eyes and opening his mouth wide. A few seconds later something splashed against the back of his mouth and he nearly sputtered from the liquid suddenly introduced into his maw if Ssyltha hadn't taken her other hand and clamped it shut. The sound of a glass vial hitting the floor could be heard as Renzyl felt the familiar tingle of some alchemical potion being introduced to his system, but as much as he wanted to try and spit it out a stern word from the naga activated his bindings and with her hands on his muzzle the only thing he could do was swallow.

"Good boy," Sslytha sneered once she was confident that the potion had been consumed. "I was a bit worried that you would have caught on to my plan by now, but it appears that you are quite trusting. Of course in this case it was quite the mistake, and this mistake is going to cost you the kingdom."

"I have to admit my heart was pounding in my chest," Xenix commented as Renzyl began to feel dizzy, falling onto all fours as he immediately attempted to muster up a connection to Chrono to get him to storm the place only to find his ability to reach out completely severed. "Are you sure that this potion of yours is going to work to keep him restrained until I can take over his realm? That was part of the deal you know."

Renzyl couldn't believe what he was hearing, even as the voices became slightly muffled from the gas mask that was pushed onto his face to seal him inside. As the lenses over his eyes glowed with a dull red he could still see the two as Ssyltha took the bag with her tools, closing it up and shaking the hawk's hand. Thoughts raced in his head, part of them were how to escape as he could feel the bindings that were supposed to be temporary strengthening as the gas mask fused with his collar while the other was how he managed to miss a double-cross like that. Chrono had been right all along, he realized as he felt his arms get pulled behind his back and secured together, he shouldn't have trusted the serpent all along.

"I think someone is finally starting to get the hint," the naga said as she took her hands and brought up his head so that they could see eye to eye. "Thanks to the runes that you provided me I was able to do a few more modifications to the gear that we're putting on you now, as well as figure out a concoction that completely cuts off your ability to contact your realm without them knowing. It won't be long before they figure it out, but by that time Xenix and I will have created quite the aerosol so that the rest of your realm falls just like you did."

Xenix chuckled and knelled down in front of the restrained rubber dragon, letting his hands touch over the muscular chest and the runic bindings. "I have to hand it to you Sslytha," he stated as his hand went down lower towards his exposed groin and thighs. "Even with all the preparations you had put on him I can still feel the power oozing out of him, if we hadn't collaborated then he would have gotten us both for sure."

"Well maybe you at the very least," Sslytha replied. "Now since he is almost finished why don't you go ahead and get that special item I commissioned from you and we can put him into storage." Renzyl continued to attempt to shake off the potion that had been given to him but his entire body felt heavy and his mind felt groggy even with the lustful attention being given to him by the hawk before he pulled away. "I have one last piece that I would like to personally put onto him."

As Xenix disappeared from Renzyl's vision Sslytha held up something in front of his face; it was a ring similar to the one on his chest with black metal and runes engraved on it, except this one was much smaller. Already the rubber dragon could sense what kind of magic was on it but he was completely under the thrall of the naga, which was where he had put himself as the snake creature put her hand against his groin and began to rub it. His already stimulated body was quick to produce his member and as her skillful fingers continued to massage the sensitive rubber flesh she took the cock ring and slid it down all the way to the base.

The jolt of pleasure that Renzyl would have brought him to his knees if he wasn't already there, letting out a muffled groan through the gas mask as the arcane magic continued to entrap him. All the plans that he had been attempting to make melted out of his mind from the lust that was being fed to him as he began to pant, something that he normally didn't even have to do. As entire being was ensnared by the runes that glowed almost entirely over his body he was hardly aware of something being built up around him. It wasn't long before rubber walls were put up, feeling his body move from an order that he couldn't quite comprehend in his foggy state.

Once Renzyl had gotten into the proper position with the last rubber sheet underneath him Ssyltha and Xenix sprayed another potion onto it, watching as the cube they had put the dragon in quickly began to pull inwards like there was a suction inside. Soon the muscular features of Renzyl and the bondage gear he wore could be seen, his hips humping slightly in the air from the stimulation as he was sealed into the alchemical vac-cube. Once every inch of the rubber had suctioned itself to the restrained male's body Sslytha and Xenix moved it from the main room down to the basement.

"Man, he is heavy," Xenix grunted as he had to brace himself from another series of wiggles from the drugged and bound nexus creature. "Couldn't we have brought him downstairs first and then put him into it?"

"The second that he became aware of the deception the clock had started," Ssyltha explained as she took the lead and slithered down the stairs holding onto the head portion. "Even with all of the previous bindings there was no telling how long this concoction was going to work, the vac-cube adds another layer of prevention for him to call in the rest of his minions. Chrono had already been suspicious of my intentions and if anything became amiss he would have come here immediately."

"Another good reason that you're on my side I guess," Xenix replied. "Shame though, I kind of wanted to see what would have happened if you had betrayed me instead and I got to use the potion I had hidden in Zander's maw. The look on Renzyl's face would have been priceless."

"A pity," Sslytha replied dryly. "Let's just focus on this new concoction of yours so you can go and take over the realm and I can have my things. You do remember the deal, correct?"

"Yes yes," Xenix said in a mocking tone. "I get the realm and everything in it, you get your tools and this one here after we condition him to be a proper dragon slave. Don't need him slipping the leash and trying to go after me again anytime soon, not until I cemented myself as the new ruler of the nexus realm at least."

The two had a chuckle and finally got to their destination, a storage room that was off to the side of the main room. They put the rubber vac-cube containing the restrained dragon in the corner and then proceeded to leave, turning off the lights as they went.

No longer moving and with the initial surge of pleasure from the items being placed on his body gone Renzyl was able to claw his way above the lust to try and think about what had just happened. From what he had been able to understand the snake had this deal in place all along, possibly even before he had contacted her to help. He felt the fool, having been taken advantage of like that right in front of the one that he had sworn to defeat. The only way that he would be able to redeem himself was to try and fight the effects of the potion that had been given, but even as that thought entered into his mind the words of the naga echoed in his mind the order that he wasn't allowed to do so.

Eventually his strength would return to him, Renzyl thought, but by that point he would have to wrestle control of his realm back away from some psychotic alchemist after escaping from someone who knew how to keep him occupied. Even at the moment he could feel the pleasure and submissiveness threaten to overwhelm him, dragging him back down to a place that he had put countless others before. He could only imagine how much flak he was going to get from his brothers, it would be worse than the time Famjin got trapped in a magically-enchanted bottle and had to pretend to be a genie in order to get himself free.

But Renzyl didn't have long to think about this until he once more felt his grip on the present loosen, losing enough strength that he once more sank back down into the depths of the stimulation that was being constantly fed to him through his entire body. Once more he found himself panting and humping against the rubber that bound him there, knowing somewhere in the back of his mind if he could just get himself to climax that he could think clearly enough to escape. But the second that he got close the runes on the ring would activate, denying him his prize and causing him to let out a muffled groan in pure frustration. His thoughts were becoming increasingly depraved, his focus only on the sexual stimulation that he could give himself from what Mistress Ssyltha would allow him to have. Soon the powerful nexus creature was just like those he had encased before, a drooling, mess of pure need and arousal as Renzyl completely lost track of everything...