Year of the Demon

Story by Serathin on SoFurry

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Jacob found himself keeping his head down as he made his way through the snowy streets of the city, but not because he was trying to keep his face from getting wet. This was always the worst part of his day; having to weave his way through the crowds while avoiding eye contact with the strangers that walked by him, feeling the constant fear of bumping into someone he could possibly know. It was something that he always had a problem with, and though he thought that moving to the city might make it better it only cranked up his condition to eleven. It wasn't just strangers either, he had just been invited with a few other co-workers to get drinks and had to decline, pretending to have a bird that he needed to take care of when in reality there was nothing waiting for him in his apartment.

The only one that he even talked to more than once a month was his friend Dan, someone he had met during college that wasn't put off by his introverted nature. The man was a natural people person and was something of envy to Jacob, but whenever he attempted to bring him along on things he always found a way to back out. At this point his friend knew what was going on but still attempted every now and again to bring him to things, but the one time he did get brought to a party he found himself just sitting in the corner ticking down the seconds until it wasn't awkward of him to leave. As he got to his apartment he could feel his pocket buzzing, which when he pulled it out he could see Dan's smiling face on the screen.

"Speak of the devil," Jacob murmured to himself as he opened his phone and looked at the text message. "Some sort of get-together that he's planning for New Years tonight..."

As Jacob stepped inside the lobby of his building he thought about what to respond with. The last thing he wanted was to be out and stuck at a place until after midnight, but he could understand Dan was maybe a little worried about him being such a shut-in. It was something that would probably make his friend happy, and considering all the other plans that he had blown off it would be worth it to potentially go out and actually try to mingle. As his fingers flew over the keys he found that his message did not match his thinking, at least not what he had hoped as he sent off something that said he was having to work late tonight and couldn't make it.

He had typed the message out while going up the stairs, and when he had pressed send he was almost to his floor when he heard a notification sound go off that wasn't his phone. As Jacob realized what it was he had already finished going up the stairs and saw the slightly older man standing there at his door with his phone in his hand. "I see you're really working hard," Dan said as he held up the screen to show the message he had just sent. "You must be his identical twin brother."

"Dan... I..." Jacob started to stammer, only for the other man to wave his hand dismissively to stop him.

"Relax, I'm not going to go off on you for trying to dodge my plans," Dan said as he walked up to him and put his hands on his shoulders. "But aside from making a point, I'm worried about you. I know that you're an introvert and being a hermit is sort of your thing, but you at least have to be comfortable around people enough that you can stand to be with them for a while without panicking. I can't be the only one you hang around with, we're all social creatures to some extent."

Though Jacob wanted to say that he was fine the way things were he knew that his friend was right; if it weren't for him there would be no reason for him to leave his apartment, and the fact that most of the time he worked from home save for the meetings once a month that were mandatory he wouldn't see anyone. Dan told him to think about possibly coming to the party tonight and that it was a rather intimate gathering so there wouldn't be a big group, then left him to his own devices. As Jacob watched him leave he felt like he should say he would be there, but nothing left his lips but a sigh as the other man disappeared from sight. With nothing left in the hall but silence he took his keys and opened the door to his apartment, closing the door behind him and flicking on his lights.

"Well, that was slightly pathetic."

Jacob nearly slammed his back into the door as he heard someone speak in what should have been his empty apartment. With the lights on his eyes were immediately drawn to his small living room area where a creature unlike anything he had ever seen before was sitting on his chair, his fingertips pressed together while sitting and staring directly at him with bright cyan eyes. He was humanoid in form, but otherwise had a body covered with deep black feathers tipped with the same glowing blue as his eyes. What seemed to be even more exotic hten his form though, which was saying something, was the aura that this creature projected of mysticism and something else he couldn't place his finger in.

"Wh-what the hell are you?" Jacob shouted as he continued to keep his back pressed against the door.

"Eh, I've had worse introductions," the creature said with a shrug before a smirk formed on his beak while he held up a small book that he read from. "If only I was more like Dan, being able to talk to people whenever I wanted and not have this gut-wrenching fear in the pit of my stomach. He makes it seem so effortless, I would give anything just to be a little more personable."

Jacob felt his cheeks flush with embarrassment and frustration as he realized what the strange man was reading from. "Hey, that's my journal!" Jacob shouted, prompting the avian to shrug his feathery shoulders once more and toss it behind him. "I don't know why you're here, but-"

"I'm here to help you, Jacob," the creature said as he rose up from the chair and began to move towards him, Jacob suddenly feeling the very dominating presence of the other man. "My name is Slypher, and I specialize in such things as... let's just call it behavior augmentation. Now normally someone with essence as sour as yours doesn't attract my attention, but even with the tartest of lemons the sweetest lemon meringue pie can be made, with the right chef at the helm, of course."

With the initial shot of adrenaline wearing off, Jacob began to feel anxiety and worry creep into his mind while Slypher approached. As his mind processed the situation he realized that he had a giant bird man that was approaching him in his own apartment, despite what was being offered he felt himself continuing to try and slide along his wall to keep away from the one approaching him. "I'll have you know that I'm a rare soulfire phoenix, not just some big bird," Slypher corrected, Jacob gasping slightly at the fact Slypher seemed to be able to read his mind before the phoenix continued on. "Also I can't read your mind per se, but I can pick up on certain surface thoughts."

"So... what do you want from me?" Jacob asked as he quickly found himself being corralled into a corner. "My soul?"

To Jacob's surprise Slypher laughed at that, which despite everything made him feel vaguely insulted. "That sour thing? Oh no... at least, not yet," Slypher said, his voice dripping with both promise and mischievousness as he held up his arms that had a pair of bright silver cuffs on them. "But I can give you exactly what you want and more, if you'd just do me a favor and release these cuffs, you'll allow me to grant you your wish."

"You want me to... undo your cuffs?" Jacob asked, the phoenix nodding his head in response. "Can't you just do them?"

"Trust me, if I could, I would," Slypher replied as his eyes rolled slightly. "Just give me a little freedom, and I promise you that you won't regret it. Don't you want to have a stronger, more confident demeanor? Maybe impress that friend of yours?"

Jacob found himself swallowing hard at the mention of his friend, the phoenix batting his eyes at him while continuing to hold up his bound wrists. In reality when he had made that journal entry he had been thinking about how much he had let his friend down, just like he had done in the stairwell when he didn't go to that party. As those feelings threatened to overwhelm him this strange entity continued to wait for him to make a choice, and the strange thing was he felt like he knew that the phoenix could do exactly what was being promised. A chance to finally go out and interact with the world, to be with his friend and not be uncomfortable... as Jacob looked at those silver cuffs he wondered if it was worth whatever cost would come of such a gift...

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A few hours later Dan had already started to prepare for his party to ring in the new year, and as he got done preparing the snacks there was a knock at the door that caused him to look up. He hadn't been expecting any guests for another few hours and when he looked at his phone he didn't see anyone saying they were coming early. When he walked up to the door and answered it he was even more surprised when he saw who it was.

"I hope you don't mind that I showed up a little early," Jacob said as he gave Dan an easy smile.

"Uh, no!" Dan replied, his initial shock quickly disappearing as he ushered the other man inside. "I was just surprised that you're here, though pleasantly so. Come on in, make yourself comfortable."

"Actually I was hoping that I could help with set-up," Jacob replied as he walked in and closed the door behind him. "It's the least I could do for you helping me out like this." As Dan nodded and was about to show him where he had put the supplies for decorations he felt a hand on his shoulder, looking up to see Jacob had not only approached him but did so without flinching. "It's really the least I could do for everything really."

"Whoa, where is all this coming from?" Dan said with a chuckle.

"Let's just say that your visit showed me that I needed to take a few more chances in my life," Jacob replied, his eyes gleaming as he looked at the other man. "Plus I found something that really gave me a confidence boost, and I have to say I've been enjoying it so far." As Dan nodded and told him to keep up the good work Jacob just continued to smile and began to help with the decorations like he said.

It was a leap that Jacob couldn't believe he had taken himself; when he had initially taken off the cuffs of the phoenix he didn't feel any different, and though Slypher had told him to go to Dan's place and enjoy himself it still felt like he was his old self. As he had walked towards the apartment however he could sense his own demeanor was changing; he started to walk a little straighter, his head was a little higher, and he didn't mind glancing at others that were passing by him. While it hadn't been much to most people it felt like he was an entirely new person, and even when he went up and knocked at the door what little anxiety he had vanished upon it. He felt better then he had ever been before, and it was only getting better the longer he was hanging out with his friend.

Of course, being with his friend in preparation for a party was a much different experience then actually being at the party, but Jacob was feeling very confident that he would be able to handle it. As he started to hang things up however he found that nervousness starting to creep back in, the feeling that he might not be personable enough to handle even something as intimate as a few people. Perhaps he needed more practice... which was something Slypher had told him that if he ever felt lacking in confidence that he could always get it from another. It seemed to work when he put a hand on the shoulder of the other man, and while it only lasted for a little bit he realized where it had come from... and where to get more.

With Jacob preparing the decorations for him it gave Dan more time in the kitchen to prepare food, though he was more just flabbergasted at seeing his friend there and needed a moment to process. While he had hoped his friend would eventually respond to his invitation at some point he had never expected him to do it, much less with bells on like he was. It almost made him a little anxious that his friend wouldn't be having a good time, especially since this was Jacob's first time at a party as far as he knew. He quickly shook it off however and went back to making the appetizers for the party, only to suddenly feel a pair of hands press against his back.

"Jacob?" Dan asked, feeling a slight shock as the contact had sent electric tingles down his spine. "What are you doing?"

"I'm getting to know you better," Jacob replied, his grin widening as he could start to feel that confidence returning, welling up in his chest as he continued to maintain contact with the other man. What had just been the need for a simple touch quickly grew into more and his hands slid downwards, eventually pushing up underneath his shirt and against the bare flesh of Dan's sides. "Oh... you feel amazing, is this what it's like to be so sure of yourself all the time?"

Dan was unsure of what to say to that, especially as he felt his usual eloquence leaving him the more that he was being touched. Jacob found the sensation of being so charismatic to be thrilling, and the longer he held onto the other man the more that it was flowing into him. Suddenly he felt a pang of desire as he looked into the eyes of the other man, which had grown slightly cloudy since he had first grabbed onto him, and as he found himself leaning down to kiss the other man. There was no hesitation, Dan was hungry for his friend, and as soon as their lips touched it felt like a firework had gone off in his mind.

In reality something was happening to his head; as Dan and Jacob began to make out with one another a pair of bumps began to push their way out of his forehead. They were subtle points at first but as the skin around it started to shift to a red hue they continued to push their way out. But even when Jacob could feel something happening to his forehead he didn't stop his powerful makeout session, he craved the contact like a starving man craved food as he pushed his lengthening tongue into the mouth of the one in front of him. It felt so good, so delicious, and as they kissed he pressed his hands against chest of Dan while fingernails began to sharpen slightly unseen.

Finally Jacob had enough and took a step back to breathe, and when he did he found that even though he had just had the most intense kissing sensation in his life that it wasn't enough for him. It was only the fact that Dan seemed winded, and the concern for his friend was enough that he led him over towards the couch so that he could recover. While he was unsure of what happened he found that as he helped the other man sit down he looked pale, almost sickly, and the usual charm that he radiated didn't seem to be there. He also looked skinnier than before, not to the point where it was noticable in his clothing, and to Jacob he found that his attractiveness and general demeanor were not what they were supposed to be.

"Jacob... your head," Dan said as he laid back on the couch, Jacob watching the hand of the man go up and touch something that he only somewhat recognized was even there. As he brought them up there himself he let out a gasp as he could feel actual horns that had sprouted from his forehead, and as they trailed down to where they met with his skull even the relatively humanoid flesh felt hardened under his touch. "You look... rather devilish."

"I... think something is happening to me," Jacob admitted, the swagger that he had been feeling diminishing slightly as he looked at his hands and saw they had the same reddish hue. "I... did something, made a deal with someone. I wanted to be able to go out and finally hang out with you like you wanted, they promised that I would be able to have the same charisma as anyone else in the room.... I didn't think much of it, but if all I had to do was release the cuffs of some strange bird creature to finally get here I wondered what I could possibly use."

"That's... insanity," Dan replied, though as Jacob gestured to the horns on his head it caused him to nod in resignation. "So you made a deal with a strange creature and that's what's changing?"

"That's not else," Jacob stated, biting his lip and revealing the slightly sharper teeth behind them. "Somehow I know that if I have sex with you, whatever was happening in the kitchen will continue. At the same time it's taking all my restraint not to pounce you, it's like I hunger for you, and I know if I take you that way then I can have all that wonderful charisma for myself."

There was a moment of silence between the two and Jacob waited for Dan to tell him to get the hell out of his apartment, but to his surprise he found the other man pulling off his pants instead. "I... I want you to fuck me," Dan said, his normally eloquent words devolving slightly to more crass language as he exposed his groin after his underwear followed suit. "Whatever happens to me, I don't care, I just want you."

Though the offer surprised Jacob, including the fact that he was looking at the completely bare lower body of his friend, that hunger he had mentioned returned with a vengeance at seeing that half-hard cock. Even with him looking a little worse for wear the sight of his body laying back on the couch was beautiful, having a grace and sensuality to it that he had never experienced before, much less had. As the words of the phoenix echoed in his mind as well as what happened during their make-out session he wondered if he was about to change that, but it really didn't even matter to him. Even with the warning given to other man Dan didn't seem to care either as he reached down and gave his shaft a few strokes to harden himself up while his chest was straddled by the increasingly demonic male.

Even though Jacob didn't know much about the terminology of demons he found his mind drifting to one term in particular that he had at least heard once before. Incubus... the demon that stole the life force from men and women in order to fuel their own beauty. Though his body was becoming a little more animalistic then what he normally saw portrayed, looking back to see the nub of a tail forming while he guided himself down on the cock of the other man, he found the similarities in story to be somewhat disturbing. Despite that he found himself unable to stop, and as he let the tip of Dan's cock slide into his hole, which yielded easily to the pressure and let it slip inside, he felt his back arch and could see it growing out even more while he sank down on the throbbing shaft.

Almost immediately Jacob could see the veins in the stomach of the man throb, which came from his groin where his cock was being enveloped by the increasingly demonic creature on top of him. While the demon's face became more detailed, scales spreading over his forehead and his hair had turned lavender while growing and falling around his eyes and down his neck in a thick mane. At the same time as he could feel himself growing bolder and more confident he could see something else happening to Dan that caused his eyes to widen slightly. The man beneath him were also starting to have his flesh turned red, but his facial features were becoming less defined as his lips began to merge shut and his nose melted into his face.

For a brief moment Jacob thought that perhaps Dan was actually getting killed like an incubus would, but even when his mouth and nostrils closed he could hear a muffled groan of pleasure that came from him. Whatever magical means that was turning him into a demon seemed to be bending reality for his friend as well, allowing him to breath even as his nose and lips continued to melt into his face that turned completely red. While his was forming into a scaly pattern however the one beneath him didn't have any sort of texture, turning his entire head into something that was rather... bland. But Jacob couldn't stop riding this guy's cock, his hissing and groaning becoming more animated and pronounced while he watched the wide eyes of his friend slowly shut before smoothing over as well.

As he slammed his scaly butt down to the hilt on the cock of the man the newly emerging demon found that the changes to his friend were not just relegated to his head. While Dan wasn't a bodybuilder or a professional athlete he did have a decent body, but as he leaned back while his own pectorals plumped out he saw the red skin becoming smooth and uniform like melting wax. He found his hands roaming over the body and saw his scaly arms growing more defined, Jacob finding it hard to look away from the gleaming ridges that defined the new muscle that he was growing. As his serpentine pupils traveled up his own body and leaned back to inspect his eight pack abs that led down to his cock, which had grown several inches already, he began to feel something happening to the one that was inside his tailhole.

At first he thought that Dan was starting to pull out of him, but the more he bounced up and down on that shaft the more his inner muscles seemed to clench tighter around it. But as he looked back and saw that while his long, thick tail was growing longer, the cock of the one inside of him was getting smaller. Not only that, but the powerful energy that had drawn him to the one beneath him in the first place was ebbing quickly. He had drained the last of the essence out of Dan, Jacob realized, and with one last spurt of orgasm his scaly butt went from being spread open to grinding against the bulge that had formed on the groin of the creature.

With the last of the charisma drained out of the one beneath him, Jacob leaned back and stroked his own new cock while still pressing their bodies together. There was something so... intense, about having taken the confidence, the allure, and even the physical beauty of the one beneath him as his clawed hands stroked on his throbbing member. He let out a hiss of pure pleasure as the new snake demon got up, pulling his hand away eventually while looking down at his friend. No claws, no scales, just a blank red creature that could have been a mannequin if he didn't move and squirm occasionally.

"Rise," Jacob said, one hand still teasing his new pectoral muscle as his thrall did what he was told. "Thank you so much, my friend, your sacrifice has not gone to waste." As Dan continued to stand there Jacob found that even just looking at him bored him out of his mind, and as he heard a buzzing on the table next to them, he messages that people were getting ready to arrive that put a smile on his serpentine snout. "There's no way I'm going to leave you like this, you deserve much better... but I can fix it."

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About an hour later the party at Dan's apartment was in full swing, but while the New Year's party was focused on bringing in the new year there were many focused on something, or rather, someone else. Under the guise of it being the year of the snake Jacob mingled with those that didn't even know who he was, and while the excuse was rather flimsy they all accepted it as fact. While he left most of his beautiful body on display he had put on a speedo that Dan had, which was unnecessary considering that his cock had slipped into a slit that had formed around it. Jacob found everything to be so exhilarating; he had never so much as thought about talking to people like this before, yet as the night wore on as his thrall served food and drinks he was on the couch with several practically fawning over him.

But while his hunger had recently been satiated, he had planned to gorge, and as he found one particularly loud guest that had been one of Dan's coworkers he found that it was exactly who he was looking for. The guy was rather handsome, definitely not afraid to go up to people, and came on to others with a confidence that even rivaled Dan. When he had tapped his thrall on who it was he found that it was a salesman at the company that Dan worked for, and that hew as considered a top contender for various accolades and awards. He was also rather insufferable socially, often going overboard with his displays of dominance and aggression on other salespeople and women alike.

In short, he was perfect.

It only took ten minutes of conversation and a few touches with his scaly hands before his incubus magic did its magic, and hours before the ball dropped on the television he had his cock balls deep inside the other man. He had lured the guy into the bedroom, his name something that Jacob didn't even care to remember, and before they even closed the door they were fiercely making out with one another. The demon snake wasn't sure what was better; turning this straight boy into someone moaning as he opened his pants and started sucking his dick, or that he could already see those abs and chest that he had exposed by opening his shirt during their make-up session starting to deflate.

By the time the man had realized that something was happening to him it was too late, the tail of the demonic creature had wrapped around his legs and the scaly lips were suctioned onto his cock. The look of shock and pleasure disappeared along with his face, his mouth sealing shut immediately with his nose, eyes, and ears doing the same. After his first time Jacob had gotten better at creating thralls while consuming his charisma, the red spreading down his increasingly featureless face and down his flattening chest before the last of the tanned skin was around his groin. The demon continued to hold onto the guy's hips even as he began to orgasm, pumping not only the last of his cum down his throat but also sealing his fate as the cock in his mouth eventually disappeared and turned into nothing more than a smooth crotch.

Another thrall in less then ten minutes, Jacob thought to himself as he stood back up and told him to take off his clothing. The thrall complied; there was no more confidence, no more free will that would have caused him to resist. It mattered little to the demon snake, but it did provide him for a replacement as he brought him out to serve the guests while he got Dan's attention. Though the two were identical in every way he instinctively knew which one was which as the other thrall entered into his own bedroom.

"It's time to pay you back," Jacob said as he brought the thrall over and put him on his back, his finger tracing over his rear as his butt formed once more. "Do you wish to be like me, Dan? Another incubus?"

The thrall nodded his head, and Jacob knew that he meant it as he took his heavy cock and began to push it into him. The sensation of finally being able to thrust into someone after having the desire to do so was a welcome relief, a low hiss escaping from his lips as he watched inch after inch sink down into the other man. Almost immediately he could feel the energy he had taken from the other man start to flow back into his thrall, and as he did he realized that he had the ability to control the power and shape his drone into whatever he wanted. While he hadn't thought about it a form came to mind as he gave his first thrust into him, watching as bright red feathers began to sprout from his skin.

Jacob's eyes glinted in the light as he saw the head of the thrall forming next, looking down at him while he began to thrust as facial features emerged once more. "Ah!" Dan cried out when his mouth finally formed, the flesh splitting as it pushed out and hardened until it formed into a beak. "I'm... a bird?"

"A phoenix," Jacob corrected, leaning in close and pressing their chests together as he felt the muscles on his thrall swell and grow, returning to the state that he had before with a little extra. "Well, a demon phoenix, but it's the first thing that popped into my head. Now shut it and let me fuck you until the ball drops, I'm going to ring in the new year repaying you for everything that you did for me."

"Wow, this is... incredible," Dan continued to gasp, Jacob feeling the cock of the avian creature push out from the smooth groin and throb against his stomach while he pumped in and out of him. "But we're demons now... what do we do?"

"Whatever we want," Jacob replied with a grin. "It's the year of the demon snake, baby."