Everyone in it is 18+ and everyone outside should be as well. This chapter is almost entirely a clip show, since it has been a year out of universe and almost nine in universe since I began.
Spellbinders Saga
By Arthur N. Owen
Volume IV: The Wilson War, Chapter 1: Naked Truths
David Wilson had been curious for a long time about the extent of his mentor’s network. Partially so he could measure his own contribution to it, partially to figure out just how powerful Malcom was, but mostly because he stood to inherit control of it one day. Now that Malcolm, or rather Knees, had pulled every last string taut, the question had finally been answered. It was more vast than David had ever estimated, almost a million innocent mindless women worldwide! And now he had to satisfy everyone else’s curiosity over what the hell had happened and how he and Kelly were involved.
The fateful party had been less than 12 hours ago, but the thralls had already been organized into an army, impeding the workings of municipalities nationwide, and even in certain other countries. However, Los Angeles County had the highest concentration of mindless women. David figured that this was due to LA being the closest major city to Malcom’s home, along with the fact that the city was inundated with female celebrities, and drew in aspiring ones like flies to a corpse. In any event, the city had been completely ground to a halt, the mayor had declared martial law (for all the good it did) and the airport had been shut down. Kelly’s family never made it to LAX anyway, as their Uber drivers had been triggered en route. Dan and Eric had to take control of the cars from the respective enger seats as the drivers stripped off their clothing instead of controlling their vehicles.
David was reminded of a subplot of the second Oz book, where a general temporarily performed a coup of the Emerald City because no one was willing to fight her army of pretty girls. Similarly, the LAPD had difficulty focusing on the horde of naked beautiful women. The ladies were clearly not in their right minds, so lethal force was not allowed (for now). They couldn’t be felled with tazers, tear gas, or martial arts because their hypnotized state prevented them from feeling pain. And since they were already asleep, tranquilizers kept them down for moments at best.
Malcom/Knees had allowed David and his family to leave, except for Jacob, who had been enthralled right before the big reveal. David and Kelly had gone in their own car, which spared them an extremely awkward conversation, at least for the thirty minutes it took to get back to their home because his parents were following them. Kelly’s family were waiting there, having driven their “abandoned” vehicles to the only people they knew in Los Angeles. As Kelly went to pick up their daughter from Mackintosh, David was surrounded by confused family and in-laws. Nobody was more inquisitive than John Wilson, whose questions were the loudest. “How did you really know this Malcolm Masterson? What does he do for a living? And how the hell did he somehow become my dead father?“
As soon as Kelly came back with Eliza, Dan started grilling her on what was going on. Suddenly Eliza started crying, which broke the situation. David begged to wait to explain until morning. John offered to put up Dan, Holly, Tori, and Peter while Rebecca, Eric, Benjy and Ron stayed with David and Kelly. Dan and Holly would stay in Jacob’s room (as he wasn’t there, he didn’t need it), Tori stayed in David’s old room, and Peter bunked with Steven (who would have preferred the other sibling but said nothing). Benjy and Ron were in Eliza’s room and their parents were in David and Kelly’s guest bedroom.
The next morning, David and Kelly had a very awkward breakfast alongside Rebecca and her family. David had refused to tell the story more than once, so Rebecca and Eric would be kept in suspense until their parents and siblings arrived. But the first arrival at the house was not from either of their families. It was Penelope. “What are you doing here?” asked David, skipping over the irony of how their positions had been reversed from the previous morning.
“Weird dream about you last night.” she said. “I know I told you I dream about you pretty often, but this one was way different.“
“How?”
“You didn’t fuck me dressed like a judge. You just came to my apartment, asked me about some ‘Master’ guy, told me to go back to sleep, and then you left. And I’m sure you’re aware by now about the unclothed masses that are all over town...”
David sighed. “I was going to tell the whole story to my and Kelly’s families anyway. You might as well stick around and hear it, because it’s got a lot of answers for you as well.”
Eric, who had overheard part of the exchange, asked loudly. “You said the dream was weird because he wasn’t fucking you?“
Kelly and Rebecca chastised him as one. “NOT IN FRONT OF THE KIDS!”
Suddenly Scott and James pulled up. David and Kelly went outside to greet them, and saw their respective wives sprawled out on the back rows of their cars, naked except for ropes tying them up.
“Did you really expect that the cops wouldn’t ask about the naked, restrained woman in the back seat?” asked Kelly sarcastically.
“I’m pretty sure that right now, the LAPD is a lot more concerned about all of the naked women who aren’t restrained.” answered James.
“What he said.” agreed Scott.
“Hard to argue with that one.” conceded Kelly. “What are you doing here, as if it wasn’t blatantly obvious?”
“Last night, right after we put Liam to bed, Eleanor just started taking her clothes off.” explained James. “I hadn’t mentioned anything sex-related, and she never does that outside of a bedroom or bathroom. I felt like such a heel restraining her, but it beats having to watch her run down the street in her birthday suit! All the emergency services had busy signals, so you are my last hope!“
Scott then explained. “My story’s about the same as his, with a single caveat. Caroline went naked right after taking a pregnancy test, and the positive result didn’t come until after she’d finished! She’s got one in the oven and doesn’t know it!“
“Ummm, congratulations?” said David. “Where are your children?”
“The help’s taking care of all of both of ours.” said James. “Minus the pending one, anyway.”
Kelly got a call from Louis, who was visiting his family in New Orleans. He pretty much had the same story as the other two, except Monique had overpowered him and ed the naked parade. Louis joked that it was less noticeable in New Orleans than other cities (despite Mardi Gras being over a month ago). At this point, the elder Stones and Wilsons finally showed up, and helped get Eleanor and Caroline inside and secured in the office and guest bedroom respectively.
After sending Peter upstairs to watch the children, Eric asked, “How secure are those two women?”
David explained. “The chair in my office cannot be broken out of, and I’m not going to second-guess the knot-tying ability of a former Eagle Scout. Unless one of those two women is Houdini, they’re not getting free under their own power.“
David had the group gather in the living room so he could explain the entire story (along with Louis on Zoom).
“This all started about ten years ago, during my freshman year.” he began. “I discovered a light frequency that allowed me to hypnotize anyone who saw it. I used it to become an extremely successful tutor and sleep with attractive clients.”
“HAVE I TAUGHT YOU NOTHING?!” shouted John. David had never seen his father so angry, not even when he learned that David had “locked” his baby brother in the office.
Kelly interjected. “Please save all questions until the end. Otherwise we’ll never finish.“
“To mitigate Dad’s concerns, I never touched anyone in a relationship. I’m not that amoral.” added David. “The real story begins early sophomore year, when Malcolm Masterson approached me. He had discovered what I had been doing and offered to pay me to give him control over the girls I hypnotized. He demonstrated the legitimacy of his offer and it was too good to up.“
Kelly then added. “As some of you might know, Dominic Paterno, David’s then-faculty advisor, had a similar thing going on and caught me in it. I had signed up as a client of David’s and he accidentally discovered what Paterno had done and freed me from it.”
“I convinced Malcolm to help us get rid of Paterno after Kelly and I found evidence proving that he was abusing his position and those girls. I’m going to have to ask you to take this next part on faith, especially you, Dan.”
“Why?” asked Dan.
“Because after Kelly deduced what I was doing, she wanted to me in these endeavors of her own free will. I never forced her to get involved. I even had to beg Malcolm to let her keep her mind!“
“Daddy, I’m bisexual. I saw this as an opportunity, and David explained everything about how he’s helping these girls more than helping himself to them. He uses hypnosis to make our sex better even when it’s just the two of us. Our relationship is open, but we tell each other who we’ve done, are with each other more often than not, and he is actually the one who advocates moderation!“
“Kelly and I worked for Malcolm until we graduated. We still were loosely d with him, but we only found out about his connection to Grandpa earlier this week, and everything that happened last night was as much a shock to us as it was to you.”
Dan then realized. “You two tell each other everything. This seems like a life threatening situation, so why didn’t you come clean?” he asked Tori.
Tori explained. “I knew that David was hypnotizing Kelly so they could have better sex. I knew that Kelly is bisexual, which she never told you. I suspected that Kelly and David were letting other women into their bed, even though she denied it. Everything else they just told us is as much news to me as it is to you.“
Steven tried to the conversation, but he suddenly had a coughing fit. Kelly said. “The cat’s out of the bag, he really doesn’t need a content blocker anymore.”
David said. “You’re right. Steve, start to stop.”
Steven’s head slumped forward. “No... Go...”
“When I snap my fingers, you will wake up and be able to speak freely about what you know.”
David snapped his fingers and Steven perked back up. He then added. “I found out that he was fucking his secretary on Monday. I figured he was also doing Penelope. David told me most of what he and Kelly had done. I agreed to be hypnotized to ensure my lips were sealed, as you saw, if he gave me a girl to fuck. It was the stacked redhead you saw last night. She was my second choice, though.” Tori, knowing full well who his first choice would have been, briefly smiled at that ission, not that anyone saw. “I didn’t know a thing about Malcolm before last night, especially not that Grandpa pulled a Return of the Joker on him!“
“That redhead looked familiar.” said Melissa.
“She was David’s RA sophomore year.” said Penelope, having deduced who they were referring to. “I think she’s a supermodel now. She was the ‘demonstration of legitimacy,’ wasn’t she?”
David nodded. “He hypnotized her right then and there as I watched. Kelly and I had her several times over that year, but then Malcolm took her to be a model.”
John said. “That doesn’t really explain what happened last night.”
Dan added. “And what’s been happening ever since, all over the city.”
Louis, on Zoom continued. “Not just there, nationwide, according to the news. Maybe even universel!“
“We weren’t the only ones gathering girls’ minds for Malcolm.” said David. “Just the only ones who were doing it of their own free will.”
Kelly added. “He owns a lot of businesses all over the country and even internationally, and every one of them brings the babes in.”
“But to answer your question, Dad, Knees Wilson was a master hypnotist. It’s how he could have so many affairs and so much stock success.”
John’s jaw hit the floor. “He was more of a monster than I thought.”
“I had the same reaction.” said Kelly. “Specifically, when Malcolm’s mother rejected him, shortly after yours committed suicide, he hypno-cuckolded her husband, Elijah Masterson III.”
“Malcolm was Knees’s son, but nobody knew it but him. Not even Malcolm himself.” said David. “But that wasn’t the only revenge scheme your father cooked up. He hypnotized Malcolm and put a copy of his mind inside the child. Knees was secretly influencing Malcolm to create the network of hypnotized women for his entire life. Using the money and influence the Masterson name gave him.”
Kelly finished. “The Knees copy sent the information about Malcolm’s true heritage to Penelope to give to us, which started the chain of events which led to you and Malcolm meeting, which activated the dormant programming in Malcolm, and then he took control of every thrall at once, and they...I think it’s obvious.”
“Wait a minute.” said Penelope. “If he got me to get the evidence, then I’m a thrall. How come I’m not part of the Birthday Suit Brigade?”
“Dumb luck.” said David. “Malcolm didn’t know that I’d programmed you to avoid me, so you got Steven involved. That led to me realizing that you were used as a pawn, so I cut off his ability to trigger you. The programming that activated in everyone else is still there, it just remained dormant. And if James and Scott were wondering, it’s too late for that to be done to Eleanor or Caroline, sorry.”
“Why did you program me to avoid you... The dreams... Oh my God! You really have been having an affair with me!“
“Not that I wasn’t fully aware of it, or didn’t participate.” said Kelly. “But after you convinced yourself that you were in love with my husband, I had him cut you off. We all knew that if you acted on those impulses, John would fire you.”
“Not anymore.” said John. “She’s clearly innocent.”
“I don’t want to be innocent anymore.” said Penelope. “You blocked the memories, give them back.“
“Do you really want them?” asked David. Penelope nodded. “Fine. Nell and Void.”
“Case... closed... defense... ressssssssssssssssssssssssts...” she said as she slumped into her chair.
David said. “Remain in your chair, Miss Simmons. Coital Court is in session. Judge Wilson presiding.”
Penelope’s eyes snapped open as she sat up straight, a big smile on her pretty face. “Ready for court, Your Honor!”
John was about to interject, but Kelly, who had gotten the dry erase board from the refrigerator, thrust it into his face with the words “SAVE IT!”
David said. “What must be said in Coital Court, Miss Simmons?”
Penelope responded. “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, Your Honor.”
“Then know that this is the truth. After this session is adjourned, you will the proceedings for the first time, and all subsequent proceedings. Once you have awakened, if you say ‘Declassification, Discovery, Disclosure’, the memories of all previous proceedings and other times in trance will be returned to you, in chronological order. In addition, from now on, your emotional suppression has been voided, and you will be able to feel your emotions normally. Do you understand, Miss Simmons?”
“Yes, Your Honor.”
“Good, Court Adjourned. Wake up after counting to five in your head.” Penelope returned to the slumped position for a few seconds, then popped up. She was about to say the trigger she had been given, but David stopped her. “It’s going to be overwhelming. You should go up to the bedroom before you trigger yourself.”
“Thanks for being truthful.” said Penelope. “Better late than never.” She kissed him on the cheek and went upstairs to David and Kelly’s bedroom. She lay down on the bed and said “Declassification, Discovery, Disclosure.” Suddenly, her eyes went wide and she started removing her clothes as the sex-charged memories hit her in rapid succession...
Louis asked. “You’re okay with her doing... that on your bed?“
Kelly smirked. “The guest bedroom is occupied, and it wouldn’t be the first time for her in that position.”
John collapsed into the chair that Penelope had just been sitting in. “All this time... all those women... even under my nose, with one of my employees! If I didn’t see the proof with my own eyes, I’d never believe it! How many times!?“
Kelly said. “Twenty-five, but only seven were since you hired her.”
James then grabbed David. “Penelope’s about to learn what happened to her, but you’re going to have to come clean with me and Scott the old fashioned way, got it?”
“That goes for me too!” said Louis.
“I’ll handle you, Louis.” said Kelly, picking up the tablet he was on. “Monique is still my best friend. David and I had a possible sexual encounter with her only once, during the orgy with all of the Tau Nu Alpha sisters when we first got together.“
“YOU HAD AN ORGY WITH THE WHOLE SORORITY?!” said multiple people at the same time.
“Several times.” answered Kelly. “But I’m not sure if Monique actually made with me or David during it, so much was happening. A week after that, you two were together, and for David, that means she was off the table. For every subsequent orgy, I programmed Monique to find you for fun of your own. And don’t forget, David and I set you two up in the first place!”
“Non, you didn’t.” said Louis.
“Oui, we did. You both were tutoring clients of David. Monique got the confidence to ask you out, and you got the focus to want to date someone exclusively. You said David’s tutelage kept you enrolled, and I’d posit it got you to your Olympic podiums as well, though David might disagree.“
“Vous aveis raison. (You’re right) Whatever you did to my and Monique’s minds, we’re better people for it. Je pardonné. Now, I need to file a missing person’s report, if I can. Au revoir.” Louis switched off the meeting.
“My turn.” said James. “I might not be a lawyer, but I still want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, or so help you...”
“And you’ll get it.” said David. “I never went further with Eleanor than blowjobs. She said she was ‘grateful’ after the tutoring session and then I got... surprised.”
“I don’t think that compares to a rescue, but I’ll give you that one.”
“I didn’t think I deserved it either, particularly when you consider how good she is. After that, I put her under and convinced her that it was in her best interest to give in to her feelings for you and accept your invitation for a date. Also, the ‘expressions of gratitude thing’ is a warped response to her upbringing. She saw blowjobs as a loophole to the celibacy that her parents imposed. You and I were the twentieth and twenty-first people she expressed gratitude towards. She was so timid that if I hadn’t intervened, she never would have worked up the courage to give you a shot.“
“What about Number 22?”
“You mean Brandon. That was an accident. I was supposed to alter her programming to stop losing her inhibitions after you two went all the way, but I forgot. She wasn’t in her right mind when she did that, and you have to know she regretted every moment of it. I’m sorry that both of you had to go through that.“
“So then you ‘fixed’ her so she’d want to earn my forgiveness?”
“Technically Kelly did, following my script, but yes. I’d like to point out that I never did anything to her after the tutoring session, and Kelly wasn’t even involved back then.”
“I’m reserving judgement over whether I accept your apology.” James released David, and Scott came up to him.
Suddenly a loud “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” echoed out from upstairs and Kelly said. “She lasted longer than I expected.”
David looked at the floor. “Unlike the other two, I can’t categorically say that you and Caroline wouldn’t have gotten together without my intervention. Also, unlike the other two, Kelly and I had Caroline multiple times. She was caught while we hunted at the mall, rather than as a client.”
“What does hunting mean?” asked Scott.
“It means we found her, thought she was pretty, and enthralled her. That was the first time we had her. The second time was after she witnessed James and Eleanor’s reconciliation. We had her twice more after that. Then she said she wanted to date you, and we stopped.
“Caroline never said anything about being bisexual.”
“She’s got a side of her that even she isn’t fully aware of. She’s a natural submissive, and enjoys being in trance and obeying. As a going-away gift, we programmed her to get horny when she heard her favorite song in an intimate setting.“
“I always wondered why it got her so hot... I’m also reserving judgement.”
Kelly was now surrounded by her family. Tori started. “This is how you got those concert tickets, isn’t it?”
“Malcolm pulled strings in both cases, yes.” said Kelly.
Suddenly Tori’s eyes went wide. “YOU AND DAVID FUCKED LIVVIE DOMINGO?!”
“And Adu Sipa, and Naan Gladi, though that one we enthralled ourselves.”
“How many has it been?” asked Dan.
“Sorry, but I’m not the sister with the math skills.” said Kelly. “I’d estimate between one fifty and two hundred individual women, and at least a thousand encounters.” She noticed Tori grinning widely. “What do you have to be so happy about?”
Tori said. “There is no way that I’ll ever do something worse than this. I’m never going to be the most embarrassing daughter again! I could do a Lady Godiva ride through downtown San Francisco and it still would be more acceptable. Thank you so much!“
Dan’s response was pre-empted by another, even louder “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” This caused Peter and Benjy to come out of Eliza’s room.
“Why is there so much noise?” asked Peter.
“And why is Grandpa turning purple?” asked Benjy.
Kelly ran to the kitchen and grabbed a paper bag for her hyperventilating father to blow into. Rebecca rushed upstairs to try to explain things to her son and brother.
John glared angrily at his son. “You have made a mockery of all the lessons about women I have taught you. Do you have anything to say for yourself?”
David said. “I never went further with a woman than she was comfortable with. I never touched anyone in a relationship, as I said already. I helped them with their studying, which they paid for, before I took any advantage of anyone. I also increased their ability to comprehend the material. Once I became a counselor, I didn’t touch any of the couples unless they were doomed. Kelly is fully aware of everything and everyone I have done, and vice versa. She abides by the same restrictions. And most importantly of all, as I stated already, Kelly ed this endeavor of her own free will!“
Melissa spoke up. “If I’m being honest, that’s the least believable part of David’s whole confession.“
After several statements of agreement, Kelly said. “We get that a lot, although everyone else who found out no longer re doing so.”
David said. “In conclusion, Dad, I am not your father. However, there is someone else who thinks he is, and he’s going to destroy countless lives if he isn’t stopped.“
“How so?” asked Holly.
“For starters, every woman in his power just left their lives very abruptly, Some of them had young, helpless children who are now alone. Or significant others who are now kinda confused.” said Kelly.
David added “And while the cops have been simply containing the naked masses for now, it’s only a matter of time before people start talking about ‘acceptable losses,’ ‘collateral damage’...”
“I get it.” said Eric. “So how do we lay your grandpa’s ghost to rest?”
“I’m the only one who can do it, in such a way that no innocents are killed. But I cannot do it alone.”
“You have me already.” said Kelly. “Your family issues are my issues too.” She held up her hand with the wedding ring on it. “Till death do us part.“
David said. “Most controllers don’t deal in true death, but ending up a mindless slave or vegetable is a possibility.“
Yet another “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” echoed from upstairs, this one the loudest of all.
“Where can I get some of that?” asked Tori.
“THE SUPPLIER IS OUT OF BUSINESS!” shouted Kelly.
“And how can you even think about getting off at a time like this?” said Dan.
“Relax, Daddy.” said Tori. “I’ll help David stop his evil grandfather... or is it his uncle? Whoever it is, he has Livvie Domingo in his power, and I won’t let that stand.”
Rebecca, who had just come down the stairs, said. “What about the other million women he’s enslaved? You need to get your priorities in order, sis!“
“I’m in too.” said Steven. “I can’t let my brother go alone.”
“If this is my father, the line to kick his ass forms behind me!” said John.
Penelope came downstairs, looking very disheveled. She immediately slapped David’s face, followed by Kelly’s. She then kissed their respective cheeks where they had been slapped. “I probably would have said yes if you’d bothered to ask. That was AMAZING!” she said. “And I still consider you both my friends, so I’m not abandoning you. I heard enough of the discussion from upstairs.“
“I’m in too.” said Melissa. “Till death do us part, like our daughter-in-law said.”
“We’re stuck here until this guy is dealt with, we might as well help.” said Holly.
“And I can’t let my daughters go up against this nightmare of a man.” said Dan.
“Kelly, Tori, as your older sister, I’m still responsible for you, so you’re not going to certain doom without me.” said Rebecca.
“I don’t want to be the only adult in our families who says no.” said Eric.
“I know we haven’t heard from James and Scott.” said David. “Look, you two might be angry at me, and I’m not going to say that anger isn’t justified. However, if you want your wives, not to mention the city as a whole, back to normal, I am your only chance.“
“That is not something I can disagree with.” said Scott with a sigh. “Fine, I’ll help. You get me Caroline back the way she’s supposed to be, I’ll call us even. Whether we’re still friends at that point is up in the air.”
“That goes for me and Eleanor.” said James. “And if I can’t get her back, I’ll hold you just as responsible as the guy you were working for, whatever name he answers to, and I’ll make what he does to you seem merciful!“
“That goes for me too.” added Scott, narrowing his eyes.
“I’d expect nothing less.” said David. Now, here’s what we need to do to stop Knees and save all those innocent women...”