Altair Guardians: Chapter 3 - Hypnosis

After returning to her hideout, Velka appeared before the grunts still in her Shinjou form. Footage of Marine pleasuring the grunts appeared in the air. The men were wildly aroused, breathing heavily while their crotches grew hard.

“We are making good progress,” said Velka.

“Superb progress even,” replied the grunts.

“It looks like not even Mizuno Rena suspects kind and obedient Shinjou Saya could be me, especially after rescuing her from Hypnos. Well, she was suspicious at first, but fooling her magic detection was simple enough. Heh heh. But she doesn’t even try that anymore. The naïve heroine isn’t as coldhearted as she likes to pretend. So what do you think? Cute, aren’t I?”

Still disguised as Shinjou, she lifted her skirt to flash her thighs. She laughed as she transformed into her usual warrior form in the toxic costume.

“The hypnosis is finally taking effect. She was a tough nut to crack, but I suppose that’s what you get with an Altair. This just leaves Rose.”

Velka sighed at this success.

She had risen to the position of commander at a young age and Altair Rose, aka Mizuno Rena, had been her greatest concern when she had decided to defeat the heroines with the hypnotic attacks she specialized in.

She did need to get the key from those two, but she was also obsessed with those two warriors for repeatedly repelling her and wounding her pride. The red one in particular caused her to burn with rage.

So instead of making the girl submit through simple force, she would humiliate her far more before stealing the key away. That was why Velka had infiltrated enemy territory and applied hypnosis to her nemeses.

Every Hypnos technique was far greater than the equivalent on earth. Their hypnosis was no different. Unlike earth hypnosis, the Hypnos variety could make people do things they did not want to do. It worked so well it had become a primary strategy used by their spies in the battle against the Dimensional Alliance. But no matter how many times Velka tried it on Mizuno Rena, the girl’s mind would not open to her and the technique failed.

The tea and aroma she had used on Karin relaxed the mind to make hypnosis easier. The tea used Hypnos magic to make any earth human – even one with the power of light – feel relaxed and open their mind. But Rena hadn’t just resisted it. She had never once relaxed in front of Velka in her Shinjou form. Velka had been forced to focus on the younger sister and worked on Karin’s hypnosis first.

While Rena never let her guard down because she was worried about her sister and about their secret getting out, Karin was innocent and unsuspecting. Nevertheless, the girl had mastered her Altair power and had shown no sign of being hypnotized at first. But Velka had finally managed to get it to work a few weeks earlier. At first, she had only been able to get Karin to give the tea to Rena, but the hypnosis had shown some bare minimum of effect today and a false duty had been planted in Marine’s mind.

After thinking she had lost, Marine’s mind had been laid bare, allowing Velka to plant an even mor powerful hypnosis. Karin would now hypnotize Rena and give her the same humiliating duty.

“But won’t it take time for Marine to ensnare Rose? Marine resisted a lot herself, so what if Alliance reinforcements arrive first?” asked one of the grunts.

The others expressed their agreement with worried looks, but Velka maintained her confident smile.

“I have a hunch that Rena is – hee hee – very fragile indeed once you get past her outer shell.”

 

A red aura rose from Rena while she leaned back in the sofa. Her long hair floated up and wavered like she was underwater.

She was engaging in her usual after-dinner training in the Mizuno living room. She drew out her Altair power and meditated to grow stronger. She would focus her mind, access the red flame within her, and surround herself with that energy. In the half a year since she received her Altair power, she had grown strong enough to use some of that power without transforming.

“Here, Onee-chan. I made you some tea.”

Hearing Karin’s voice, Rena opened her eyes and smiled. She thanked her sister, accepted the cup, and took a sip of the faintly-steaming light purple tea.

“This is Shinjou-sensei’s tea, isn’t it?”
She knew that from the moment she got a whiff of it…no, from the moment Karin had brought it to her. Karin had been making her this tea for several days now. She was used to the flavor now, but she still wasn’t tired of it. She emptied her cup in no time and held it out, asking Karin for more.

 

Rena was conflicted when Karin returned with more tea. She had suspected from the beginning that Shinjou, the teacher who was so kind to Karin, was in fact a Hypnos spy.

Hypnos knew who they were. They had scientific powers far beyond earth’s and they could wield seemingly magical powers using their energy, so they would have easily discovered what school Rena and Karin attended. She had considered going into hiding with Karin, but then Hypnos might destroy the city as payback. So Rena hadn’t been able to leave their current life.

Instead, she had poured all of her energy into her training and learned to draw out her simpler powers without transforming. She considered it likely Hypnos had someone hidden nearby, so she would periodically send out probing waves to search for a Hypnos presence. True to her suspicions, she had found grunts disguised as random people around the city, so she had transformed into Rose and dealt with them.

Her Altair eyes had the ability to view people’s mental state as a color, but she had avoided actively using that power. She had used it once when transformed as Rose inside a Hypnos field, but the color of the captured men had been just as sexual as the Hypnos grunts. And their dirty thoughts had been directed at Rose and Marine. She understood the Hypnos field amplified people’s lust, but she had still burned with embarrassment and decided only to use the probing technique instead.

She had of course probed Shinjou that way. She didn’t want to suspect Shinjou and it had saddened her to suspect someone she knew personally instead of just random people, but she had hardened her heart and done it anyway to protect her sister and the earth. She had been especially thorough with Shinjou since the women had only come to the school this year, had become the advisor for their swim team, and had even approached Rena and Karin personally.

But all the probes came back clean. She had even tried transforming into Rose to draw on her full power, but the result was the same. Shinjou was nothing more than a kind and gentle woman who was popular with the students. After that, even Rena had decided Shinjou was not a Hypnos spy and chosen to trust her.

She had felt guilty doing it behind Karin’s back, but she had even investigated the tea and found it contained nothing harmful. The tea was not a threat. In fact, drinking it filled her with a pleasant warmth and helped her relax more than other teas. She had come to enjoy it quite a bit recently.

She had trouble relaxing while drinking it out of the house, but once she was back home with Karin, she found it soothing to drink it at mealtimes or teatime. Outside, she was always tense, like she might have to fight a battle at any moment. Shinjou had invited her to drink the tea with her like Karin did. The tea she had had then would have been the same as this, but the relaxing effect was so much greater when she drank it in the warm lights of home.

“Here you go. You’re incredible, Onee-chan. I wish I could use my power that well.”

Karin poured herself a cup of tea as well and sat next to Rena with a self-deprecating smile.

“You’ll get there. You have to do things at your own pace. Besides, I wouldn’t be much of a big sister if I let you surpass me, would I? So let me have this.” Rena rubbed Karin’s head.

“But I want to protect you too. I’ll train just as much as you and surpass you.”

Karin took a sip of her tea. “Hot!” She grimaced with her cute tongue showing and Rena stared at her.

Rena thought Karin was cute as a button. She knew she couldn’t let her weakness show in front of that brave and hardworking little sister. She swore to herself she would always be strong for her. She appreciated Karin’s desire to protect her, but she was not going to give up her position as the big sister who protected her little sister.

Rena finished her second cup of tea. The ticking of the clock sounded awfully loud. She stood up to go get her own refill, but Karin stopped her, took the cup, and stood up. She held a bag under her arm and came back with more tea.

“We will defeat Hypnos one day,” said Rena, looking Karin in the eye while accepting the cup.

“Of course,” firmly replied Karin.

After reconfirming her determination and confidence, Rena began to drink the tea. She tilted the cup back to let the hot, light purple tea flow down her throat. She felt warm from the top of her head to her pantyhosed toes and felt so comfortable she almost thought she was floating up from the sofa.

She grew suddenly curious how many cups she had had now.

“Oh, right. Sensei gave me some of her special aroma oil today. Have you smelled it before?”

Her curiosity was cut off by Karin’s question.

“Yes. Just once. It was very nice.”

“Right? So I thought I would open it up here.”

Karin smiled innocently and pulled a small glass container from the bag she had carried over.

“That sounds lovely.”

“Right, right? It makes me feel all floaty. It’s really weird.”

Karin opened the container’s lid and a sweet aroma immediately filled the living room.

“Ahh…that is nice.”

Rena breathed in deep and then let it out as a relaxed sigh. Just like the tea, it was so much more relaxing at home. She could truly enjoy the aroma while alone with the sister she trusted implicitly. She filled her lungs with the pleasant scent.

“Here, Onee-chan. More tea.”

Rena took the cup Karin passed her and sank back into the sofa. The scents of the tea and oil mixed together and she sighed like a contented cat.

The ticking of the clock seemed to speed up and slow down at random. It was such a strange feeling. But with Karin by her side, it wasn’t a bad feeling. She smiled, raised the cup to her mouth, and drank down its contents.

(Huh? I…feel…slee…py…)

Drowsiness rapidly fell upon her. She wondered if that was her daily stresses and worries unwinding. A sweet scent hung around her. The clever girl tried to recall what that aroma was, but the bookcase of her memories was uncharacteristically cluttered and she couldn’t find the memory she was looking for.

Her eyelids grew heavy. She couldn’t open her eyes. …No, her eyes were open, but her vision was blurry. Were her eyes unfocused? No, they were focused. It was her brain that wasn’t interpreting the image correctly. She saw movement out of the corner of her eye.

It was Karin. Her beloved sister stood up and leaned over her. She couldn’t see the girl’s face with the light shining down from behind her head.

“Uhh…Karin?”
She was ready to just go to sleep. Karin was with her, so it would be fine. She could relax and go to sleep.

Darkness enveloped her mind.

“Onee-chan. Will you believe everything I’m about to tell you? Because it’s all true.”

Rena nodded.

“Of course. I can trust…anything…you tell me.”

“Good. Then I’ll tell you.”

“I’m glad. I know you…will tell me…the truth.”

“It’s true. She really does seem delighted. And I’m happy too.”

Karin whispered sweetly, which was like the most pleasant lullaby imaginable for Rena.

As her consciousness faded, Rena identified the aroma.

(This is a rose aroma… Yes, a rose colored…a purple so dark it’s nearly black…)

All light finally vanished from her eyes and Karin whispered in her ear with equally empty eyes.

 

“Nh…h-huh? Karin? Eh? Marine?”
“Hweh? Onee- huh? Rose?”
A sparrow was chirping out the window. When Rena woke up, she viewed her surroundings and realized that she was in her bedroom, that she and Karin were holding each other close in the bed, and that they were transformed. Their proximity during a summer night had left them both sweaty.

“Why are we transformed?”

Karin – Marine – looked puzzled and tilted her head. Rena – Rose – frowned at a throb of pain running through her brain. She suddenly recalled what had happened.

“We were training yesterday and we were just so tired…I think?”

“Was that it? Oh, yeah, it was. But if we were transformed this whole time, wouldn’t our energy…?”

“What about our energy?”

“It would…what was I thinking? Never mind. It’s nothing.”

The heroine sisters shook their woozy heads and got out of bed. Their boots sank into the carpet. Rose was already taller than Marine, but the high heels and low heels expanded that gap even more. Yet there wasn’t much difference in the size of their curves.

Their curvy bodies wobbled a bit as they exchanged a glance. Rose realized her cheeks felt hot and she saw Marine’s cheeks were flushed pink.

She nearly commented that looking at Marine’s face made her heart pound, but she swallowed the words.

“My heart is really pounding,” said Marine. Rose’s shoulders jumped, but she masked it with a shrug.

“Is it?” she said instead. “Also…is my costume incomplete?”
Something felt off about her transformation suit. The odd feeling came from near her thighs and she rubbed them together restlessly. She noticed Marine frowning uncomfortably, pressing her lips together, and wiggling her hips a little.

“We need to get ready for school,” said Rose, brushing aside the awkward feeling.

“Oh, you’re right,” replied Marine. Red and blue lights surrounded the two of them.

They dispelled their transformations and then left the room.

“I would love more of that tea. I really helped me relax,” said Rena with a smile.

“I can make more now,” answered Karin.

The house was already full of the sweet aroma oil’s scent.

 

Neither of them noticed anything wrong.

After drinking plenty of tea, they left their home and joined the other students on the way to school like they always did. But after entering the main gate, they left the group continuing to the main entrance and walked to the counselor’s office near the pool.

The room wasn’t locked and Shinjou was waiting inside.

“Good morning, Shinjou-sensei,” said Karin.

“Sorry, Sensei. Karin insisted on seeing you as soon as we arrived.” Rena bowed.

“Good morning. I don’t mind, so please come in.” Shinjou greeted them with her usual gentle smile.

The sisters vanished into the counselor’s office with all the light vanished from their eyes. The door shut behind them.

As their consciousness faded, Rena and Karin heard a soft and gentle voice as if from a vast distance.

“Hee hee. I have some new hypnotic suggestions for you.”