Pure Mirror
#9 of Mirror Peer
A commission for Orioles3 on FA
Renata looked up at the door and placed a hand on the warden's shoulder. The other armored woman glanced up at her with a raised eyebrow.
"He's here," she whispered.
The warden stood. "Already?"
The door groaned and opened. In stepped a creature that was humanoid in appearance, but also very bestial as well. He stood like a man but had the head of something that was a cross between a cheetah and a lynx, the ears more similar to the latter than the former, though the longer tail made up for this aspect of the feline. Although he was mostly garbed in the rough clothes of a woodsman, a portion of his spotted fur covered arms and legs were exposed along with his feline paws and claws. His tail twitched curiously while he stared with his slitted eyes at the others in the room. He tilted his head and took out a piece of parchment, studying it momentarily. Afterwards, he turned his gaze towards the warden.
"Warden Wolfe?" he asked.
"No," the warden said, shaking her head. "I am Warden Sharpe."
"Oh." The feline humanoid stepped forward and offered a paw. "I'm Orio."
They shook and then Orio turned to Renata. They too exchanged names and a handshake before Orio was once again speaking to the warden.
"Where did he go?" Orio asked, blinking. "I mean Warden Wolfe."
Sharpe smiled wanly. "He's no longer able to hold this position."
"Ah, but he still told you about me?"
"Yes." Sharpe nodded and gestured to Renata. "The mage and I are both aware of the letter he sent."
"Then you are still in need of my services?"
"Yes," Sharpe repeated. "Though..." She paused. "What have you heard about them?"
Orio blinked. "Them?"
"The lizards."
"Hmph," Orio grunted with a shrug. "Rumors."
"Rumors?" Renata asked.
"Strange tales of the mightiest mages reduced to lusty lizard..." Orio scratched under his chin and smiled, "Ladies."
"And that doesn't disturb you?" Orio shrugged. "Rumors are rumors, milady. Anyways, Warden Wolfe assured me the item responsible for such... Changes is not here. Even if it was, it's not out there. How could it affect me?"
Renata and Sharpe both looked to the other at the same time. Orio laughed when he saw this.
"What?"
"Have you studied any magic?" Renata questioned.
Orio shook his head.
"None at all?"
Again, Orio shook his head, one ear twitching in annoyance. Renata smiled and sighed with relief.
"Then you have no need to worry," she said. "The... Item seems only to affect those who have a grasp of even the rudimentary principles of the arcane. And, as you said, the item is not here. There is no reason to worry."
"I'm not worried," Orio said with a smile. "You might be. I'm simply curious. The task you ask is novel. You ask me to take one of these lizard... Ladies out past the forest and to another one of your jails? And you wish to pay me handsomely at that?"
"Yes," The warden said, placing a hefty bag of coins upon the table. "This is the payment upfront. The rest you will receive at Whispervale." "Seems straightforward."
"It is more than that," Renata said. "The lizard with you will not behave as a normal human--er, person might. She may be difficult."
"Ha!" Orio laughed. "From what I've heard they're simple things."
"Even simple creatures can cause complex problems."
Orio cocked his head. "Are you trying to talk me out of this?"
"No, no," the warden said, pushing the pouch towards Orio. The feline looked at the money. "We want you to be prepared."
Orio returned his gaze to the warden. "For what? Some wrangling? She can't be too much trouble. Hell, I bet I can have her well behaved by the time I reach Whispervale. How much trouble can she be?"
The warden rattled the pouch. "This much plus what awaits you there?
"Hmm," Orio murmured, staring at the bag. "Seems worth it."
"Then you accept?"
"Yes," Orio said, taking the offering. "Yes, I do."
"Very well," Renata said. "We are done here. When you leave, go to your left. The guards there will have your accomplice ready for you. Thank you, Orio."
"No," Orio said with a smile as he turned away, tossing the pouch up in the air before catching it, the clink of coins echoing in the air. "Thank you!"
The warden and mage both watched the feline depart, not turning their gaze away from him until he disappeared out of sight. Even then, they remained silent for a few moments more, remembrances of capable feline ears stopping their speech. Only when they distantly heard Orio greeting the guard did Warden Sharpe dare speak.
"You're a terrible liar," she said, turning to Renata.
"All that matters is he believed."
"We did overpay him."
"We're mages, we're wealthy--it's what he expects." Renata smiled. "We might recover our investment anyhow."
"Only if he fails."
"Yes," Renata nodded. "The experiment can only fail if the mirror's influence can extend out there too. Then...then--"
But Renata did not want to say what they both feared.
Orio shaded his eyes when he stepped outside, a smile overcoming his feline features as he felt the sun's heat on his fur. It felt so good, especially compared to the cold dark of the mage's so-called "institute." He purred in contentment, tail twitching lazily as he soaked in the sunlight. He might have stood like that for a few minutes had he not heard a hiss behind him. He spun around and looked to who would be accompanying him for the next week or so of their journey together.
It was a humanoid lizard with green scales garbed in a simple brown tunic. At present she stared down at herself while she rubbed at her perky breasts, a hiss escaping her snout each time one of her claws caressed a stiff nipple that poked firmly against the thin cloth. Orio watched in bemusement as she dropped one of her clawed hands towards her crotch.
"Hey," Orio said before the lizard could reach her nethers. At the sound of his stern voice, she stared up at him with her black, pupiless eyes and tilted her head. She hissed questioningly. The feline chuckled and shook his head. "None of that lewd stuff, ok?"
The lizard whined and dropped her arms by her sides. She looked up towards the sky and squinted her dark eyes at it.
"Don't look too long," Orio said. "You'll be blinded." He reached and grabbed the lizard woman by her shoulder. She dropped her gaze to him. He nodded towards the distant trees. "Come on, we're going through there. You'll love it. Hmm." He paused and patted the lizard. "You've probably been cooped up in there, huh?" The lizard hissed. Orio was not sure whether that was a yes or no, but at least it was some sort of response. Shrugging, he walked away from the lizard and towards the forest. After a few steps, he noticed the lizard wasn't following him. He looked back.
"Come on," he said, motioning towards her. "Let's go."
The lizard walked towards Orio, wide hips swaying enticingly. Orio shook his head and wiped away that thought. Though the lizard lady was admittedly attractive, he could not think of her like that. And even if he would be with her for only a week before the wizards would have her again, he did desire to at least try to train her out of her more carnal habits. Of course, he could not quite do that until he understood her current state. According to what he had heard, she had been a man once, a prideful human male. Did she still retain her mind then and the sexy sensations of her altered body had overwhelmed her academic brain? Or was there nothing left of the mage and the creature before him was exactly what he saw--a lusty lizard lady? Or what it a mixture of both? Orio really couldn't be sure. All he really knew was that he was not going to lay the lizard.
Orio resumed his route towards the forest and this time the lizard followed without any further instruction from him. He paid her very little mind as they journeyed through the woods save for the few times when she attempted to pleasure herself again. All it took was a single "no" and she would stop, the time between each attempt becoming farther and farther apart. He was glad to find the guards had been mostly right about the lizard; that is, she was pretty docile to begin with and would do as she was told. Certainly, they had been more explicit in their descriptions on how this affected her interactions with other lizards. Again, Orio tried to not focus on this aspect of her so much even if her breasts did look luscious under the baggy tunic and her curves were likewise quite apparent, not to mention--
Orio came to a stop and looked back at the lizard. She too halted and returned his gaze, her tongue flicking out of her mouth momentarily. Despite himself, Orio found himself looking over her feminine form, admiring those attributes he had just thought about. Why not lay the lizard? Who would ever know? She was willing enough and it's not like she could tell the wizards, he wasn't even sure she could speak their language--
"Ugh," Orio groaned, tearing his gaze away from the lizard. He looked instead to the sky. What was up with him? He supposed it was close to that time of the year and he was missing the company of female of his species. The lizard just wouldn't do anyhow. She was probably too cold with those scales, fur was just so much warmer, and plus, he just wasn't going to lay the lizard, period. He was going to take her to the mages and never think about the fine form again.
Orio blinked. The sky was dim, the sun's light was dying. He glanced around. No, this would not be suitable for sleep. They had still a bit farther to go.
Thus, the lizard and feline journeyed through the forest for a couple hours more until it was nearly dark. Only then did Orio remove the pack from his back and began to set up camp. The lizard merely watched him while he went about making a fire, placing their sleeping arrangements, and finally procuring food from his pack for dinner. He gave some trail rations to the lizard and she ate it quite readily. Once he too had eaten, it was dark. At this point he brought the lizard to her sleeping roll and pointed towards it.
"That's your bed," he said. "Better than a cold cell, eh?"
The lizard stared at roll. When Orio walked away towards his on the other side of the campfire, she hissed.
"Like this," Orio said, getting into his bed. "It's comfy, I promise."
Instead of laying inside the roll, the lizard laid on top of it. Orio chuckled and shrugged.
"Hey," he said. "Whatever works for you."
As much as Orio wanted to sleep at that time, the feline instead kept an eye on the curled of lizard until she lay mostly still, the only part of her moving was her twitching tail. Only then did he close his eyes and fall into restful slumber.
Sometime later Orio was awakened when he felt something lick his nose. He murmured sleepily and rolled his head to the side, nearly drifting off back to sleep until again, he was licked, this time on his ear. This prompted him to open his eyes and look up groggily. He immediately sat up when he saw the lizard descending towards him and then she was upon him, her knees straddling his sides and her clawed hands upon his shoulders. With a start, Orio realized the lizard was naked, her bare breasts bouncing invitingly in his face while down below he could make out a trace of her scaled sex. She hissed and licked his face again, before pressing down on him, rubbing his crotch again her. Immediately Orio felt a surge down below and soon enough it was quite easy to see his erect manhood poking up from inside the roll. The lizard squealed with delight and reached for Orio's member. It was the touch of her claws upon the cloth-covered cock that got him moving.
"Hey!" he shouted, pushing the lizard away, one paw momentarily brushing against one of her full breasts. She fell away onto her side, hissing and whining while he squirmed out of his sleeping roll. He quickly got to his feet and looked down at her, doing his best to hide his excited member via crossed legs. Needless to say, it didn't help much. Mewling pathetically, she reached for his crotch with her claws and so he back up. He slapped her hand away.
"No!" he said. "I'm not going to bed you and you're not going to try to fuck me, understand?"
The lizard hissed and looked away.
"Don't you dare try that again! And hey, I'm talking to you! I'll tie you to a tree if it keeps you in check, I'm not going to--hey!"
The lizard abruptly got to her talons and rushed off into the darkness. Orio sighed and watched her tail trail away. He shook his head and looked down at his sleeping roll. Naturally he had taken off his armor before going to sleep so he wasn't wearing anything particularly protective at the moment. Still, he didn't think he would need it. There was nothing too dangerous in this area. He reached down and picked up his dagger, slipping it into his vestment before setting off after the lizard.
The lizard was fast. In the time it had taken him to get the dagger, she had already fallen out of his vision. Thus, Orio depended on his low-light feline vision and her tracks to lead him towards her. Luckily, there was a rather full moon tonight, the silver light it shed proving particularly helpful in uncovering her tracks. For a little under an hour Orio followed the lizard's tracks until they finally vanished just at the edge of a lake. Orio blinked and looked out to the lake's moonlit surface. The lizard was nowhere to be found. The feline scratched his head and looked over his shoulder before returning his gaze to the water just in front of him where he could see his reflection--or so it should have been.
Instead of it being his reflection in the water, Orio found himself staring at something familiar: a yellow-scaled lizard with black spots much like the black patches amongst his otherwise yellow fur. Unlike him, the lizard was female, and quite a well endowed one at that. She possessed a generous bust that belied her short height, her breasts appearing ripe and almost swollen. She was suitably curvy as well, her waist thin, her hips wider than her slender shoulders, and her rear round and firm. Orio blinked, not quite comprehending what he saw. When her large, pretty blue eyes too blinked, the feline was further taken aback. Confused by the apparition's appearance, Orio reached towards the water to dash it as if that would do away with the lizard. His hand never reached the water for he stopped moving when she too reached towards him.
"What the--?" Orio murmured. Instead of mimicking his mouth movements, the lizard flicked her yellow tongue out at him. This provided Orio the impetus to resume what he had begun. With a yowl he slashed at the water. It splashed onto his face, causing him to blink away water until he could see again. By this time, the image had reformed and it was the same as before: that of a busty yellow-scaled lizard and not his reflection.
"No," the feline muttered, shaking his head, the lizard following his movements. He reached to slash the water again when he caught sight of his paw. He paused. There was something different about it...the claws were slightly longer, silver instead of black and some of the fur had fallen away, gleaming yellow scales having taken their place. Orio shook his head again, not believing what he was seeing.
Suddenly something hissed behind him. He turned around and saw the green-scaled lizard lady standing on the shore. She peered down at him, tail lashing excitedly. She crouched down.
"Wait!" Orio shouted.
The lizard sprang, bowling into Orio. The feline grunted as he felt into the water with the lizard woman atop of him. She clung to him, grinding into his body while he resisted and try to pull her off. Her tail proved quite troublesome, however, as did the water and so he and she thrashed in the lake, with movements that could be mistaken under the moonlight. Orio, however, was having none of it. With a yowl he grabbed the lizard and flipped her under him while getting to his feet. Holding onto his shoulders, he looked into her black eyes and snarled.
"No!" he said. "You've been enough trouble as it is! I'm not going to fuck you! You--you sex obssessed--"
Orio's voice trailed off as he spotted his scale covered paw upon her shoulder. His vision lingered there for a moment until his gaze fell upon the water behind the lizard, where the reflection of a yellow-scaled lizard lovingly holding the green-scaled one lay. The yellow lizard with her black spots was so familiar, if he could just reach out and touch her it would be like poking his reflection...
Orio let go of the lizard, caring little as she felt into the water with a whine and a splash. Instead, he focused on the yellow lizard in the water. He walked towards her, his undershorts loosening as his hips widened with each step, the padded region of his feet flattening out while his claws grew out into proper talons. He bent over as he looked into the reflection and so did the lizard, allowing him to admire her full bosom. Orio stared at her thick, black nipples and wondered how they would feel between his paws. The feline licked his chops, his shorter muzzle growing longer and broader with each passing moment, his nose dissipating in place of twin nostril slits. His tail twitched excitedly as a narrow tip speared the end, the fur quietly falling off into the water until he had a tail completely covered with yellow scales and small splotches of black here and there. It extended from its current length, causing Orio to shiver with pleasure as it grew until it was twice the length of before. Its length fell into the water with a slight splash, causing the feline to shiver slightly while his otherwise toned rear bubbled out larger and larger so that his undershorts were even looser than before.
Orio's ears twitched when he heard movement to his left. He tried to tear his gaze away from the lizard, but there was something so alluring and familiar about her that he just could not. He purred happily as his ears shrank, receding into an ever more reptilian cranium until he simply had no ears at all, merely small holes to hear from.
When a clump of hair fell in front of his fully blue eyes, he sighed and brushed it away, along with the rest that followed, until he had rightfully rid himself of all the fur that lay upon his head. What remained were the same yellow scales that lay upon his tail, save for two patches of black on either side of his lizardlike snout. His purring transitioned to a low hiss that soothed him even as his tongue, so rough before, softened and thinned, sliding forward until it fell slightly out of his mouth. Underneath his tongue his teeth ached slightly, the discomfort temporary as they sharpened and more grew in to fill missing spots within his reshaped muzzle.
There was that sound again. This time Orio looked up and hissed in annoyance when he saw the green lizard again, staring at him with a smile painted across her snout. Orio hissed again to tell her off when he realized what he was doing. He clapped his hands to his unfamiliar muzzle and found this to not be the only strange part of him. His hands were also different, digits slightly thinner, the silver claws making up a majority of their length. In addition, his paw pads were gone and so was his fur, his lovely fur!
"No!" Orio murmured, muffled by his own hands. He held them up in front of him and looked upon them, a rush of fear flowing through his body once he saw they weren't his precious paws, but clawed lizard hands! Worse, he felt his tail now with his thinner, yet longer length and the coolness of scales that was climbing up his legs. He looked down there and saw thicker thighs, wider hips, and feet beneath the water that had the same, shadowy, sinister reptilian form. He lifted one taloned foot out of the water and let out a screech when he saw it in full form. With each second he was becoming progressively less feline and more and more lizardlike and he wasn't even sure why.
Feeling scales upon his chest, Orio tore away his tunic and sobbed as he watched the last patch of fur upon his body shed away, his waist sharply pinching inwards. His body trembled in terror as he realized he was a cat no longer. At least, he consoled himself, he still had his manhood and his mind, though he wasn't sure how long that would last. Well, he didn't intend to stay here to find out.
Orio dashed towards the shore and instantly ran into the green lizard. She hissed softly and gripped his shoulder harshly. For the first time Orio stared up into her eyes, having seemingly lost height as part of his transition into lizardhood. Squirming, he reached up to push her away and failed, his hand instead falling squarely upon one of her breasts. She hissed in pleasure, but managed to twist him around so that he was facing the water--and his reflection. Of course, it wasn't his reflection, but the busty yellow lizard that he so closely resembled. He had the scales, he had the face, the hips, the curves, the height but he was missing a few key features, things he really did not want to gain at the loss of other characteristics. Numbly he struggled and so the green lizard pushed him down so that he fell onto his knees, the water coming up to his childbearing hips.
"No, no, please," he pleaded even as he kept his gaze solely focused on the yellow lizard. He very much wanted to look away but at the same time he did not, for she was so familiar, so attractive, so much like him, so much like her...
Orio mewled as he felt his manhood come to attention. Beneath the water it throbbed, begging for attention. The green lizard was all too happy to provide this, reaching around him into his undershorts. Orio shuddered when he felt her claws upon his cock. She playfully caressed it, teasing him to point where he thought he might climax yet climax he could not. Instead, his member, still at full mast, began to withdraw, throbbing in pleasurable pain as it pulled back inch by inch, losing girth but not any of its hardness. When it was half of its once impressive length, Orio whimpered pathetically once he actually climaxed, the final discharge of seed entering the water seemingly speeding up the process of the loss of his masculinity. It continued to spew what remained until he was totally empty and his manhood was merely a nub. Only then did his testicles draw in close, pressing painfully up until they were gratefully sucked into a cleft. Orio shuddered as they withdrew and were repurposed, the crevice widening and puffing out in a pair of scaled lips with her nubby clit at the top.
At this time, the green lizard tore away the last of Orio's clothes before digging one claw firmly into her counterpart's freshly formed folds. The new lizardess whined as an unfamiliar heat built down there, so similar to what she had felt as a male yet completely different at the same time. Her arousal was warm and natural, enticing and electric. Her tail lashed into the water as her body demanded. Instead of granting this request, the green lizard moved both of her clawed hands to Orio's upper chest and held the yellow lizard in place as one final development took place. She massage Orio's smooth scales and nipples, awakening sensations Orio had never felt there before. It fed into her arousal, her thoughts dimming as she tried to fight the stimulation and ultimately losing. It was proving too much for her and when the scaled flesh under the green lizard's claws began to swell, she knew it was too late. She let out a hiss of defeat as she felt her oh-so sensitive chest expand, growing larger and larger until the green lizard could barely cup the twin mounds in her claws and then beyond so that Orio possessed quite a bust, topped by thick black nipples.
Afterwards, the green lizard released Orio, letting the yellow-scaled lizard fall upon her hands and knees into the shallow water. The new lizard winced as her bust bounced, wobbling pendulously with just the barest movement. She stared at the reflection in the water, her_reflection in the water, so sexy, so busty, so curvy, so perfect, so _her--
No, no, no, this wasn't her, it was him, her, no him, her, her, her--
The yellow-scaled lizard shuddered, her head dipping low, the tip of her snout hitting the water. She snorted and shook her head, hissing when her breasts bobbed from her movement. She brought her hands out of the water and felt her breasts, moaning slightly as she caressed herself until her pussy demanded some attention. She reached one clawed hand towards her nethers until she stopped and saw herself in the moonlit water. It was funny how the silver shape in the sky looked more rectangular in the reflection, but the lizard lady was more focused on the other reflection in the water, her reflection. She admired her form, her curves, her busty bosom, her perfectly shaped snout, and those spots of black amongst scales of yellow. She hissed happily and smiled when she saw another lizard in the reflection.
Opening her mouth, she rolled onto her back, splashing a bit as she propped herself on her elbows and looked up at the green lizard. She flicked her tongue out teasingly and spread her legs, puffy pussy warm and ready, tail swishing from side to side beneath it. In response, the green lizard fell upon her, pressing her smaller breasts into her brethren while they locked muzzles together into a firm, lizardy kiss. Inside their snouts their tongues wrapped around each other. The yellow lizard suddenly squealed when their feminine folds briefly came into contact. Grinning deviously, she rolled, taking the other lizard with her so that she, the shorter, bustier lizard, was on top of the thinner, shyer one. With increased gusto the yellow lizard pressed into green, doing her best to grind their pussies and clits together and ultimately succeeding. The lizard ladies squealed and splashed in the shallow water, working each other into a frenzy until they finally climaxed simultaneously. Only then did the yellow lizard roll off of the green and onto the shore, panting happily while her tail slithered against the ground. Mewling softly, the green joined her on the shore, resting her head in the yellow's bosom while she snaked a hand down to her lover's slick sex, claws digging into her folds to work on round two. In response, the yellow's tail wrapped up green's thin legs until the tip pushed up into green's feminine folds and the pleasuring was once again mutual. And so the night went...
In the next morning, a trio of guard and a disappointed Renata found the two. From there, the two lizards were transported back to the institute and put into the cell with the others. Whereas before the yellow lizard might have cared about being stuck inside, it was of no consequence now. All that mattered now was that she had her sisters and the occasional glimpse of a mirror that was often there when it should not be and of the reflection within of her beloved mirror peer.