Fiona brought her torso upright, then thought about getting off her knees before thinking better of it. âWe came from the misty isles with nothing--â
After a few minutes, the paddles mercilessly paused, before disappearing. The crowd quieted down and a smiling Marianna spoke.
Just as before, the magic paddles chastised their targets, to the music of the Selena and Fiona groaning, and the crowd laughing. Even Marianna was chuckling so hard she covered her mouth.
The crowd laughed not only at the resounding sound of the magic feet making contact with the blubbery backsides, but with the graceless way the two would-be-conqueresses, who moments ago said they refused to kneel, had tumbled to their hands and knees. Neither had taken notice of the glowing paddles that had reappeared behind them.
Not to be discouraged, if such a thing could ever be said of disembodied sky feet, they made their way around to the now well-presented targets on the other side of the doubled-over duo.
At that point, she tossed the ball of energy at the sisters, which set off what the crowd could only imagine as a kind of magical circus act. First, two disembodied feet, blue as the sky, kicked each sister in her most private area. At least one audible âsquishingâ sound was heard in addition to the slapping sound of contact and the groans of the sisters. This caused the two women to double over in pain, although the spell prevented any serious injury.
âDo we really have to go over this again?â Marianna asked, exasperated, as she conjured a small ball of energy between her hands. âI am a powerful sorceress. You were piddling witches who thought you were sorceresses. But now, Iâve taken what little power youâve left, and you have none. So kneel. I wonât ask again.â
Fiona glared at the sorceress. âYou have no right to judge us! What makes you think that weâll kneel before you!â
âAnd why would you do that?â Selene said, suspicious. âThatâs easy darling, youâre going to need it for the sentence Iâm about to pronounce on you. Mind you, it will protect you from bodily harm, but it wonât stop you from feeling whatever is happening to you. We couldnât have that. Now kneel for your sentencing.â
After a few moments, the odd blue patterns that had been circling around each of them dissipated. âWhat was that?â Fiona asked. âOh, just a spell to protect you from harm.â Marianna replied, smiling craftily.
Marianna began whispering a chant, and soon, a clear, blue field was scintillating around each of the ex-sorceresses bodies. âThis tingles! What are you doing?â Selena asked, confused. âMy head!â Fiona shouted.
Their tortured backsides were still glowingâFionaâs red and letting off steam, while Selenaâs would occasionally pulse with a bolt of blue lightning.
That was useless, though, since the crowd had seen everything on offer when Mariannaâs magic had held them stretched out above the scaffold for the whole town to mock.
The two former sorceresses were gradually lowered to the ground, and used their new-found freedom of movement to wipe their faces and try to cover themselves.
The Foxglovesâ punishment had been so intense that they hadnât noticed the constant jeering and mockery from the crowdâthe soldiers Marianna had brought, the townspeople they commanded such rough treatment for, and even the soldiers they once commanded, now part of Mariannaâs army. But now, the sounds of the crowd suddenly seemed more menacing. âOh, have they had enough up there yet? Is it time to bring them down to your ministrations?â Marianna said, pandering to the crowd.
Now it was Fionaâs turn to laugh. âIt burns!â Selene shouted, about the pepper in the mixture. âOf course it does, I made it to temporarily blind your troops. But glad it seems to work just as well on sorceresses,â Yvette responded. âEx-sorceresses, and pathetic specimens at that,â Marianna corrected.
âBullseye!â shouted Yvette as her next peppered cream pie hit home. âNo,â Marianna mused, âMore like a cow.â âCowâs eye!â Yvette shouted, in correction.
So taken up by Fiona's ordeal was she, as well, as the occasional spark of blue lightning that flew across her backside, that she missed Yvette's calculations going on below.
Even Selena couldn't help but break a smile; while she was in a terrible state, stripped of her powers, spanked, zapped with lightning as she was, the power of shadenfreude for her counterpart, lover, and sometimes rival, was too tempting.
Marianna chuckled, âYou finally look like the ridiculous excuse for a sorceress that you are, or should I say, âwere,â since I took your powers? You can finally drop that âCountessâ poppycock, now, dear Fiona, we all know what you are, a piglet from the swamp left on our doorstep to feed and educate. From what Iâm seeing, it seems we did too good a job of the former, and not well enough at the latter.â
Fiona spat some of the cream that had gotten in her mouth, and tried to close her eyes as the pepper-laced cream burned her face, but Marianna's magic kept her eyes open.
After a few agonizing minutes, Marianna was interrupted. âI brought the catapult, and some ammunition, extra pepper in them, as you requested,â the inventor said. âHow good is your aim?â Marianna replied, gesturing. Yvette rubbed her hands together and smiled as she knelt down to calibrate the machine.
Again, the lightning didn't harm the ex-sorceress, but she could feel the pain. The shock made her hair stand on end, freeing itself from the buns of her elegant coiffure, before falling to her shoulders.
âI didnât forget about you, either, Selena, remember I have your wand as well. Itâs muchâŠthicker. And I think it likesâŠlightning!â Marianna waved her hands, and suddenly Selenaâs wand was shooting blue lightning bolts at her backside.
After a few intense moments, it subsided, leaving the countess' warmed backside shedding smokeâŠor was it steam?
Fionaâs jaw dropped as her entire backside was engulfed in flames. The burning sensation was unspeakable. But, true to her word, the fire didnât harm a hair, although it did occasionally invade some of Fionaâs more private areas.
"Oh, dear!" said Marianna, "did that hurt your expansive backside? Try this!" Marianna produced Fiona's wand, and with a flick, it floated past her to a position behind her. With another flick, it let forth a tongue of flame like a dragon's fire.
As her rear cheeks turned red, Fiona could handle the pain no longer. Her eyes welled up with tears, and soon her own makeup made rivulets down her front cheeks.
Shocked as Countess Fiona was, however, she refused to give the sorceress the satisfaction of her tears. She set her jaw and tried to bear the pain.
The pain and humiliation brought tears to Selenaâs eyes, and her makeup started running down her face.
As the cloth tightened, the sisters began to bounce up and down, their bodies jiggling with the force of the spell, but more importantly, the strained garments finding their way deeper and deeper into hidden places.
âWhat lovely undergarments!â Marianna said, and, with a wave of her hand, the backs of the sistersâ panties flew up ward, as if some invisible force was pulling on them, shoving the bunched cloth into their nethers.
The two women levitated above the jeering crowd, their bodies laid bare so different from what people had seen before. With only undergarments and footwear, little protected their modesty.
âI hear youâŠyouâre dreading the corset coming off,â Marianna said, âit hides sooo many sins. I can feel your strength of will when you enchanted it. You never wanted it to come loose in public. But your magic is mine, nowâŠmay the fabric tear as it will!â
then Selena's dress started to rip around her navel, and the tear spread up between her breasts. Marianna was weakening the magic and letting their flesh tear the fabric, but then, she started to manipulate the clothing to clear it away.
She waved her hands in smooth, circular motions, as if unwinding a large spool of string. As if in answer to her, the sistersâ clothes started to pull, to strain, and tear, mostly along seams.
âNo! Please!â Selena said. âWeâll do whatever you want, please donâtâ Fiona begged. âYouâll do whatever I want, because I am Marianna le Foy,â the redheaded witch smiled.