Naga

by Regress Returner

請不要舉報我，我不想被禁止，我只是在這裡複製這些故事，因為我想離線閱讀。

Xander opened his hazel eyes slowly, his eyelids fluttering as he stared up at the ceiling, slightly confused.

"That's strange… I never sleep facing up." Xander thought to himself, more than used to sleeping on his stomach, trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together in his mind, as he always did when he woke up with his thoughts too foggy from a long night of sleep.

The young man attempted to move his legs, but he managed to do nothing more than shift them slightly, feeling something wrapped up tightly around them. Another attempt to move resulted in a jerk that had that something squeeze tightly in response, not enough to hurt, but to remind him of its presence and how useless it would be to try to escape.

Looking at his side, Xander eventually found the culprit.

Next to him slept a handsome man that didn't appear to be older than him, a pleased smile on his resting face, which was a thing of beauty on its own even with his sparkling blue eyes closed. Said handsome man was as naked as Xander was, although the difference was that his human features ended at his torso, in their place a long brown tail with brown spots and a cream underbelly that was currently completely wrapped up around Xander's body. Although he had been hosting that unexpected guest for quite a while now, Xander still woke up sometimes forgetting about the circumstances that led towards the naga staying with him, but, nonetheless, he had places to be.

"Janus…" Xander mumbled, not wanting to be too loud and wake up the naga. "I need to get up…"

"Mmm… Noooooo…" Janus hummed sleepily, an adorable whiny in his voice that betrayed his looks.

"Come on, Janus …"

"But it's so warm and comfy…"

Knowing there was no way to win his freedom with dialogue, Xander started to move, glad that the coils were loose enough for him to be able to free an arm and untangle himself.

"I told you last night I needed to get up early…" Xander whined as he managed to free his torso from the naga's tail, letting go of it so he could just scoop away from the coils wrapped around his legs, knowing they were too thick and heavy to grab.

However, before he could do so, Janus began to stir, since Xander had pushed the covers off him, the morning air too cold for him to handle, enough to rouse him from his relaxed state.

"Oh no, you don't!" the naga exclaimed almost gleefully, his tail snaking up before it launched itself in Xander's direction, wrapping around his neck in a firm grip and pulling him backwards.

"Gah!" Xander choked out as Janus forced him to lie back down, the naga simply turning the young man to his side and pulling him close towards a tight embrace, his muscular arms, although not as strong as his mighty coils, still strong enough to hold Xander tight.

"You're going to warm me up. It's not my fault your body feels so nice and warm…" Janus hummed as he forcefully nuzzled Xander's head against his chest, his tail having let go of the young man's neck to pin one of his arms to his side in a tighter grip.

At the same time, the coils that had been wrapped around his waist began to shift and rotate, pulling out Xander's cock—hard and leaking thanks to his morning wood— and beginning to softly masturbate him while he laid there.

"Aah… that's much better." Janus sighed, sure that he had won this battle, but Xander knew how to work around his predicament, with the naga having a weakness of his own. His hand managed to grab the end of the naga's tail, knowing it was as sensitive as his own cock was, beginning to stroke and tease it by swirling his thumb around the very tip.

"Ah!" Xander heard Janus gasp and moan, looking up at the naga's face to confirm his status, a foolish mistake, for Janus had just pretended to have a moment of weakness, looking down at Xander with a smug grin, his eyes not holding the sparkling blue he was supposed to hold, but something different.

The naga's pupils had completely disappeared, with the blue in his eyes pulsing outwards, followed by a green pulse, then yellow, then teal, each ring of colour following another, although as they began to repeat, they were pulsing at a synchronized rate in both eyes, but not in a repeated chain of colours, completely randomized, the same colour never following another.

Xander just gasped silently, holding a transfixed look as his own eyes began to reflect those same colours, having been caught completely by surprise. Enough for his whole body to stay still as Janus's tail wrapped around his free arm in order to bend it and smoothly deposit it back in his cocoon of coils, before the naga's tail began to shift and rearrange Xander's cocoon so he could wrap the lad up properly from neck to toe, giving him a firm squeeze once he was finished.

"That'ssss much better…" Janus hissed smugly, even rolling them around so he now laid on top of his coiled-up toy, squeezing and loosening his coils around his entire body in a heavenly massage, even rubbing their noses together in an eskimo's kiss, grinding his scaly hips against Xander's hard cock, clamped as it was between two thick coils. "Now, I think it's time… Xander…" Janus whispered both seductively and ominously.

"T-time for… wuh?" Xander managed to blurt out in an almost drunken daze, even if the colours in his own eyes were catching up to the pace the naga's eyes were pulsing at, so relaxed he felt that he was allowing his own mind to slip away, having completely forgotten about his appointments.

"Ping," the naga uttered playfully, before he squeezed so tightly around Xander's full body that the air wheezed out through the lad's open mouth, his cock shooting out a healthy load as he came with a raspy-sounding orgasm.

PING

At the same moment, that very sound was heard in the back of both Xander and Janus's minds, signalling their hypnotic connection, as if they now shared a mind between their bodies.

"There we go," the naga gloated with a proud smirk, leaning forward to peck Xander's cheek affectionately. "Now… just go back to sleep. You'll still be here in the morning." Janus commanded, watching as Xander's eyes shut down, before he allowed his weight to rest on top of his cocooned host and embraced his head with his arms, falling asleep himself to nap further a few more hours.

As he fell asleep, however, Janus began to dream about the very night the two had met, in the most unexpected circumstances…

When Xander arrived at the entrance to his garage in that rainy, cold midnight, the kind of awful winter nights that made your bones ache with the cold, he cursed himself silently when he saw that the door to the communal underground was open. No wonder his neighbours kept complaining about people sneaking in to sleep in there or do drugs.

Regardless, Xander parked his motorcycle and took his helmet off, revealing dark hair that almost reflected the fluorescent lights, entering his own garage to safely park his vehicle, before he heard a rustling at a distance.

"Huh?" he asked out loud, turning towards the source of the sound.

Taking out of his jacket the knife that he used for self-defence, Xander slowly approached the remote corner of the underground park, his body trembling more from the anxiety he was feeling at that moment than from the wet cold, before his eyes opened wide at what he finally got to glance at.

He had expected anything. A homeless guy yelling at him to leave him alone, some kids trying their first joint, a couple caught in the moment. Anything but a naked man. A very handsome looking one, his torso drenched with water and decorated attractively with muscle without being too thick. However, instead of looking down at either an exposed dick or ass, the strange male's lower half was that of what could only be compared to a snake's, with his torso ending at his waist, a long brown tail in the place of legs, with dark spots and a cream underbelly. He looked absolutely weak, shivering due to the cold, on the brink of passing out.

Knowing far better than to stay there, having watched enough horror films to know how that kind of stuff ended, Xander was ready to turn around and run away for his life, but that was when he heard the creature stir and groan, confirming it had acknowledged his presence.

Yet, instead of attacking him, he groaned something almost unintelligible, but that Xander heard clearly.

"Please… help…"

Xander closed his eyes and gulped silently. He knew it was the stupidest thing he could do, he had no idea what kind of things that creature could be capable of with his long, muscular tail, but he couldn't bring himself to abandon him there to a certain death with how cold it was.

So, Xander approached the creature and crouched, grabbing a wet arm and bringing it around his shoulders, dragging him towards the elevator with a lot of effort and grunting, that massive body almost limp weight, and much more than any other human's.

Fitting all those coils into the elevator was no easy feat, but soon enough they had arrived at Xander's floor, the young man sighing in relief when he remembered his next-door neighbour was away on a holiday, eventually dragging the creature inside his apartment, closing and even locking the door behind him once they were safe.

"Finally," he said, before turning towards the creature, who still shivered and trembled with almost painful cold. Although he only managed to get a proper look at how long his tail was right there and then, long enough to certainly be able to fully wrap around Xander's body from neck to toe and still have some slack, Xander still went towards his bedroom, grabbing two of his spare towels in order to bring them to the creature, who was too weak to accept them.

Realizing he'd have to dry the creature himself, Xander took off his jacket, standing only in a white t-shirt, and knelt down, before he began to rub his brown hair and torso in order to help him dry up, only then realizing he was cleaning a half-naked man with a towel, a deep blush filling his cheeks even before the creature opened his eyes, sparkling blue eyes looking back at him in fear, before quickly striking Xander with his tail, wrapping the young man up with a thick coil and squeezing tightly.

"Gah!" Xander cried out, the air wheezing out of his lungs with the tight squeeze, his arms uselessly pinned at his sides as he was lifted off the ground, his legs kicking the air.

The creature looked around, terrified and startled, clearly not recognizing his surroundings, looking up at the rescuer he was currently attacking.

"W-Where am I?!" the creature asked, eventually relaxing his hold on Xander enough only so he could speak, still preventing him from moving. "Who are you?!"

"I… I'm Xander!" the young man introduced himself, quickly realizing how stupidly useless that information was. "And I saw you downstairs and brought you to my home because you asked for help! Please don't kill me!" he pleaded as he groaned.

Looking back at Xander with enormous, awestruck eyes, the creature eventually set him down without letting go of the young man, scratching the back of his head nervously as he looked down with embarrassment.

"I'm sorry… I… I was afraid… I thought you were going to be another of those mean humans…" he said, realizing he was still holding the human's rather warm body with his tail, not wanting to let go of him just yet. He felt so nice and warm. "Please… don't make me go back outside. I was just protecting myself; I promise I won't hurt you, nice human!"

Only then did Xander realize he actually understood the creature.

"Huh, we speak the same language. That's convenient…" he thought to himself, before he reflected on what had just happened.

He hadn't magically stopped fearing that this creature could constrict him to death in his coils, but he had to admit that it was only logical he had initially feared him. Xander would just treat him nicely that night and then off he'd go in the dawn to wherever he belonged, certainly hidden away from human society.

"It's okay." Xander said, only then realizing the naga was still holding him, his coils not as cold to the touch anymore. "Uh, can you let go of me now?"

"I can but…" the creature blushed slightly, smiling naughtily. "You're so warm… and it's so cold…"

Xander was the kind of person who was never too bothered with the cold, often able to bear it inside with a t-shirt on and a light jacket, but then again, he didn't have the lower body of a cold-blooded being.

"Follow me, okay?" he asked, freeing his arms from the creature's tail if only for it to stay wrapped around his waist like a leash, something he chose to ignore for now as he led him to his spare bedroom, reaching inside the closet to take out a heater that he plugged against the corner wall next to the bed. "Here, come closer. It will be warmer."

The creature was wary, so Xander resorted to something he never did without realizing it: smiling. It seemed to relax the creature enough for him to slither closer, letting out an adorable sigh as he basked in the heat that radiated from the apparatus.

"Better?" Xander asked with a smile.

"Much better!" the creature exclaimed happily, almost huddling close to the heater.

"I'm going to get you something to drink, okay?" Xander asked, taking the chance to free himself from the creature's tail, although he stopped before he left the room when he heard the creature say his name. "Xander?"

"Hm?" he asked.

"My name is Janus. Nice to meet you," he said.

At that moment, Janus had stopped being that half-snake, half-man creature. He had just become more human to him.

"Nice to meet you, Janus." Xander said back.

Walking towards the kitchen, Xander turned the kettle on and, minutes later, brought back a mug with warm tea to the spare bedroom room, only to find the naga fast asleep, using his coils as a makeshift bed.

"Well, that was faster than I thought…" Xander thought to himself, eventually drinking a sip from the mug himself as he went back to his room, changing towards pyjamas and relieving himself before he laid down on his bed, of course not falling asleep right yet, so perplexed he was with his current predicament.

Lost, helpless creature or not, Xander had never been one for too many acquaintances, happy with his own solitude and independence, yet now he was having another guy sleep over at his place, especially with no clothes.

Regardless, he was far too interested in that creature, his fingers typing away on his laptop, googling terms that ended up providing him enough info about that creature. There were myths and legends over half-human, half-snake mythical creatures and deities, with a long flame war on a forum whether it was appropriate to call them nagas or lamias, with Xander eventually settling to consider Janus a naga.

Regardless, it had been quite an intensive day, and a yawn reminded Xander of how tired he was, setting aside his laptop on his nightstand so he could fall asleep.

Of course, Xander had completely forgotten his heater had a half-hour timer, so, as the time passed, the marvellous heat Janus had fallen asleep bathed in had eventually evaporated, the naga waking himself up with a sneeze. Touching the apparatus changed nothing, and the house was completely quiet, but Janus felt too cold, not wanting to endure the torture of an icy night making his scales ache numbly.

However, the naga quickly came to the realization that there was a natural source of heat nearby. Able to see through the night just as well as during the day without the need of artificial light, Janus slithered around the house until he reached Xander's bedroom, the young man comfily laid down on his bed, surrounded by the warm covers all the way up to his cheek.

"Xander?" Janus asked with a soft tone as he approached the mound on Xander's bed that was the young man's covered body.

However, Xander was a heavy sleeper, and Janus was too silent and light of a creature despite his impressive size for Xander to hear. The naga tried to call for his name again, but Xander didn't even stir, which eventually made Janus decide he had to climb the bed in order to shake his host awake.

When Janus finally poked Xander a bit too hard on his shoulder, the young man woke up with a startle, having completely forgotten he wasn't alone, which made him turn around with a swift move and kick the naga with enough strength to push him away without really hurting him.

"Ah!" Xander gasped as he sat back up, his eyes wide open and horrified, reaching towards his nightstand to turn on the light, only then confirming that his 'attacker' had been nothing more than his guest.

"Ow…" Janus complained softly.

"Sorry!" Xander exclaimed back, although he was still panting from the scare, his heart beating like a drum. "I'm not used to being woken up and I thought you were an intruder…"

"It's okay…" the naga said meekly.

"What's wrong?" Xander asked, before he saw how much Janus was shivering, remembering then about the timer on the heater. "Oh… crap. The room became cold again, didn't it?"

"Y-Yeah…" Janus said.

"I'll turn on the heater then." Xander said, ready to stand up once more, but Janus slithered closer, as if wanting to stop him.

"Wait…" the naga said, again meekly, as if he were embarrassed himself about what he was going to ask for, feeling like he was demanding too much from his kind host. "Do you think I could sleep with you?"

Hearing that question made Xander blush so deeply that he turned off the light to hide it, of course foolishly unaware that the naga could see his blush just as perfectly, although he quickly accepted the naga's request, scooting to the side so he could slither in next to him.

However, the covers weren't enough for the naga, who was still shuddering, his teeth chattering. Xander wouldn't be able to fall asleep with that noise, the fact he was sleeping with another male notwithstanding.

"Isn't it warm enough?" he asked. "I can always turn on the heater again."

"No, I…" Janus began, but then paused, until he realized honesty was the best policy in that situation. "Your body is so warm… it would feel much better if I could wrap my tail around you…"

Xander gulped at that statement, for various reasons. Just earlier the naga had almost killed him with that mighty tail, now he wanted to wrap it around him for warmth. And if that wasn't terrifying enough, he was another male, wanting to sleep so close to him.

However, Janus sounded so cold and weakened that Xander couldn't bring himself to reject that request, although he did wonder if the naga would just force himself on him if he just plain out denied it.

"Fine…" he said, but then quickly added "Can you at least let me have my arms free or something? I don't think I'll be able to sleep properly all wrapped up."

"Oh, thank you, Xander!" Janus exclaimed, then doing something the young man had been completely unprepared for. The naga reached forward and pulled him into a warm embrace, his upper torso warm and soft despite how cold he claimed he felt. Xander couldn't even recall when he had last been embraced so tightly, although if he thought of embracing Janus back, his arms were trapped by the naga's nonetheless, at least until Janus released him.

"Well, what do you want me to do? Just lie still or…?" Xander asked, lifting the covers with one arm to make it easier for the naga.

"That's perfect. Just relax and ssstay sstill…" Janus even hissed, making Xander shudder himself with the way those words slithered towards his ears, reverberating throughout his body. Although the naga did wish that there weren't those nasty fabrics blocking his access to his host's bare flesh, he knew he would be pushing it too hard by asking the lad to strip.

Xander felt Janus's tail slither under the covers, snaking its way around his ankles and eventually forming a loop that held them together. Despite wearing pyjama pants, the fabric was light enough for Xander to felt how cold Janus's tail was, but it wasn't unpleasant or anything of the sort, the sheer scaly muscle in the naga's tail actually quite nice to the touch, especially as it began to ascend and entrap his calves further in its scaly embrace.

By the time his legs were almost completely coiled up, Xander felt Janus's tail warming up as if absorbing his own body temperature, the naga also sighing in relief as he did so, his head already laid down in the other pillow.

"Oooh yeah… you have no idea how cold I was, Xander…" Janus hummed as he allowed his own drowsiness to take over himself, the naga clearly closer to sleep than the transfixed human was, even if he were still actively moving his tail, having to push Xander's body up whenever he was ready to start a new loop around his clothed flesh.

However, as the tip of Janus's tail accidentally grazed Xander's crotch, the young man's eyes shot open in the darkness, trying to still and control himself, moving his legs on accident, which made Janus tighten his coils on reflex, although not squeezing enough to be unpleasant or uncomfortable.

"Please don't get hard, please don't get hard…" Xander thought to himself as the naga completed a loop around his waist. Having not tucked his t-shirt under his pyjama pants, Janus's tail had managed to coil around his bare stomach, the touch making Xander tremble, especially as the tail began to thicken the more it consumed his body.

And even though Xander had asked Janus to keep an arm free, Janus was so sleepy he ended up pinning one of Xander's arms to his sides, the young man too flabbergasted by the whole surreal experience of being wrapped up in coils to complain.

"Mmmm…" Janus hummed in his sleepy state, having enough of a hold on Xander to pull him closer and turning him to his side, the covers falling on top of his almost coiled body, as the tail kept ascending and ascending, now wrapping around his chest. Xander knew better than to allow his free arm to be coiled around, so kept it away from the cocoon of coils he was already encased in, just listening as Janus sang praises over his body, sighing dreamily. "You're ssssso warm…"

By the time the naga's tail had wrapped around one of his shoulders, Janus finally had enough around Xander to just pull the remaining thicker section from the floor and under the covers. Although he could finish the job, Janus was already pretty satisfied with the hold he already had on his host, whose body felt like a furnace to the cold-blooded naga.

"Mmm… goodnight…" Janus sighed happily, his tail tip having enough slack to reach towards the exposed skin of Xander's other arm and coil around his bicep, giving it a nice, friendly squeeze, as if it were the naga's equivalent of holding him.

However, despite everything, Xander found it difficult to fall asleep. The sensation of being all wrapped up, although nice and pleasant, was too foreign for him to be able to fall asleep right away, especially as he was still too scared of having his cock harden too much against the scales that were binding him. Trying to move and shift to find a comfortable position didn't help either, as the naga's coils were too restrictive, like he was being embraced on all ends.

However, if Xander thought Janus was just going to lie asleep and end things there, he was wrong. Of course, Janus had to be a snuggler, and he ended up pulling the cocoon that held Xander towards him and slightly downwards, eventually having his own muscular arms come up to press Xander's face against his chest.

"Mmmf!" Xander couldn't help but to let out a muffled complaint as he found himself being fed a faceful of pecs. The naga smelled sweet, floral in his own way, and his skin was just like a human's, although one that was so smooth it was as if he had the best skin care routine in the world. Xander's was beating like a marching drum, he was almost sweating with the emotions he was trying to repress so badly, unable to believe the position that Janus had gotten him in. He was pretty much coiled from neck to toe, moving was almost completely impossible and, if things weren't already bad enough, he was having a faceful of the naga's warm, tight chest. And if his situation wasn't already unbelievable enough, the naga was even nuzzling against his head in his sleep!

But then, Xander could feel himself hearing something, taking a while to realize it was the naga's heartbeat. It was such a calm, sounding thing, different in pulse to a human's, much slower and more relaxing, that it was almost soothing on its own. And, listening to that, Xander's eyes eventually half-lid until they shut down closely, the human falling into quite the deep, relaxed, pleased sleep, in the arms of another male.

Yet, their story had just begun…

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Xander was the first to wake up the following morning, finding himself staring at a faceful of chest as his eyes slowly fluttered open. At first, Xander paid that no mind, for he felt like he was sleeping in the comfiest bed he had ever imagined, warm and cosy, hearing the sound of that relaxing, almost hypnotic heartbeat again, which calmed the young man enough for him to sigh peacefully, closing his eyes, ready to drift back into slumber…

Until he felt his morning wood throb and press against something firm and scaly, making his eyes shoot wide open once he remembered he had fallen asleep wrapped up in a creature's coils, and said creature was lying next to him, the naga Janus still resting with the same peaceful look he had fallen asleep with. Now that he had a good view of the naga's slumbering face, Xander couldn't help but stare, finding him so otherworldly handsome it was almost breathtaking. It wasn't as if the naga's features reached the uncanny valley, but there weren't any imperfections one could point at, a perfect symmetry, as if being flawless was part of his natural biology.

The naga must have been really drained from his ordeal, enough for the sleep that came for him being like the sleep of the dead, having not moved an inch throughout the night, and even after his bed fellow began to squirm a little, Janus still initially took no notice of him.

However, as Xander began to try and squirm himself free, despite being asleep, the naga still had the mindset of a predator. The cocoon of coils, which had become almost loose with how limp it was, began to tighten considerably, as if telling Xander he was going nowhere. If the sudden constriction hadn't already been concerning enough for the young man, it made his cock become utterly compressed between his own crotch and Janus's scales, making his eyes shoot wide.

"Mmmm…" the naga sighed dreamily, even licking some drool away from his lips. "Back to… sssssleep…" Janus hissed, his arms even coming to embrace the cocoon the panicking young man was trapped in.

"Janu-MMMF!" Xander would have shouted if it weren't for Janus then sleepily smothering Xander's face in his chest, hugging the lad against him with his muscular arms, squeezing the coils around his host so tightly that Xander felt like he was soon approaching the point of no return.

However, despite Janus succeeding in silencing Xander, the young man had been loud and squirmy enough for Janus to loosen his hold on him as he began to stir, letting of his head, although before Xander could say anything, Janus's eventually started to tighten him while he let out a yawn, as if he were trying to stretch his coils the same way he was stretching his arms, realizing he had someone trapped in them when Xander let out a grunt.

While Xander was much more terrified of the naga feeling his hard-on more than the potential of those coils crushing him to death, Janus couldn't help but smile, feeling that the body he was wrapped around fit his coils perfectly, as if Xander had been put in this world for the naga to wrap up completely. And that warmth was so exquisite, the feeling of whatever exposed skin he would rub against so damn good against his scales, that Janus almost sighed dreamily before he heard Xander's grunt, wanting to never let go of whomever that was.

"Oh." Janus said, as the implications of having company reminded him that he wasn't home anymore, but also that he wasn't in a stressful situation either. Relaxing his own squeezing motions around Xander, the naga pulled him slightly upwards so they were facing each other, smiling at his host as he propped his own head on his arm. "Good morning!"

"G-Good morning…" Xander almost stuttered, blushing deeply, looking terrified, but not for the reasons the naga would think, desperately not wanting Janus to feel how utterly hard his engorged member was, throbbing wildly despite not being close to the brink of orgasm anymore. "D-did you s-sleep… well?"

"Oh, I haven't slept this well for so long!" the naga exclaimed, unwittingly squeezing Xander again in his coils, such was his glee, clearly not having any boundaries when it came to proximity and showing affection to another male. That and he also clearly had no issues with crushing Xander in his coils and making him gasp and wheeze for air, although it was more out of unexpected shock than anything else, for the young man really didn't feel any pain or distress.

"Aah…" Xander panted slightly, his face flushed red from the effort exerted on him. "I'm… glad…"

"Thank you for letting me sleep with you… I know I am a stranger, but you're being so sweet." Janus smiled gratefully, eventually looking down at Xander's cocooned state, the coils around his crotch in particular feeling the lad's hard member, although it did not bother the naga in the slightest. Regardless, he began to unravel from his host, with Xander eventually having enough leeway to free himself from them, immediately jumping off the bed, confusing Janus, who couldn't help but ask. "Where are you going?"

"I'll be right back!" Xander exclaimed, slamming the bathroom door behind him.

Not even bothering to sit down, the young man propped a hand against the wall, almost leaning his whole weight on it as he grabbed his obscene erection with his left hand, fishing it out of his pyjama pants so he could begin stroking the fleshy pole. The sound of wet fapping was audible throughout the bathroom, and certainly for Janus with his enhanced hearing, but the young man was so sunken in his lust and need to release that he didn't even consider it, eventually shooting a healthy load towards the toilet with a very controlled, silent moan, sighing when he followed it with a stream of his other release.

Once he was done, Xander almost buried his head in the sink as he washed his face, his hazel eyes looking at his reflection in the mirror with a mixture of frustration and disgust.

"You almost came from being squeezed by a snake, you pervert," the voice in Xander's head insulted himself. Janus was his guest, a creature he had rescued, anyone looking at this situation from outside would say Xander was totally taking advantage of the naga! And, human half notwithstanding, Xander had allowed himself to get hard merely from the friction of scales against his skin, something anyone would also find disturbing. He had to control himself, this was inexcusable.

"Okay, maybe not that inexcusable." Xander thought to himself when he returned to the room after recomposing himself and saw Janus still lying on the bed, his coils hidden by the covers, although they still moved and pulsed around as if trying to feed on the remnants of the human's heat that would still be stored under them. His head was still propped by his arm, and anyone who saw that picture-perfect visage would certainly be attracted and aroused by it. The naga would without a doubt be crowned the sexiest man alive the moment anyone else saw that.

And Xander had slept with said sexiest man alive, a scenario that would have never crossed his mind had he seen Janus as a mere stranger on the street or running shirtless at the beach. Said idea made Xander's cock twitch again, forcing the human to shake away those thoughts from his mind, instead focusing on more important things.

"Is something wrong?" Janus asked, almost pouting in a childish gesture that betrayed his dashing looks, his sparkling blue eyes wide open.

"N-No…" Xander said, clearing his throat and walking towards the bed to sit on the edge. Although he tried to keep his distance from Janus, the naga slithered closer, until he was pretty much lying on his stomach facing him, his raised torso supported by his bent elbows with no visible strain or effort. "But I think it's time you answer some questions now so we know what to do with you."

"Okay." Janus said.

"Why were you hiding in my garage?" Xander asked directly.

"Hiding?" Janus asked, the mere suggestion incredulous to someone like him. He was a flawless creature, an apex predator, who wouldn't be caught dead doing such a cowardly thing. "I wasn't hiding! I was just… testing the possibility of this… alcove below being a place for prey. Nothing more and nothing less!"

But a raised eyebrow on Xander's behalf made it clear the young man didn't believe a word of it.

"Fine, I guess I was hiding…" the naga mumbled childishly with an almost spoiled tone, shifting his coils under the covers, the various mounds he was creating quite appealing to the sight with the way they undulated almost hypnotically. "I guess I should start from the beginning…"

Janus began the story of how he had arrived at Xander's town, explaining he always lived in the deep jungle. His kind had sometimes interacted with humans, but seldom enough for Xander to find it logical that the existence of half-human, half-serpent beings to only be considered a myth or a legend, which also explained how Janus was able of conceiving human speech. Although his most of his kind had interacted with one, Janus's own curiosity over humans had led him to seek them, eventually encountering one. However, said encounter with a human led to Janus being captured and trapped in a prison that kept showing him his face just like the clear waters of the jungle, according to his words, unable of even stretching his coils due to how small it was. He couldn't see anyone, but he was aware of the presence of prying eyes watching him, which made Xander deduce it was a one-way mirror glass cage.

The naga described being carried around, the sensation of movement without being able to control it beyond terrifying, as he was more than used to being the one in control in any situation, sensations of distress and helplessness more befitting of predator than prey.

Regardless, during a rainy night, the vehicle that transported the naga slipped off the road and crashed with enough force for his cage to fly off and break. Janus had managed to free himself and swam away, leaving the injured humans behind, travelling through various villages and staying hidden, surviving with some effort, desperately trying to find the jungle he had lived in all his life.

Realizing Janus had been captured by scientists who were going to study him, Xander immediately came to a terrifying conclusion.

"Wait! Did they inject you with something?!" he exclaimed, standing up, startled.

"What do you mean?" Janus asked back, cocking his head to the side, confused.

"This," Xander said, grabbing a twisted paper clip he had on his nightstand whenever he needed to take out his phone's SD card and poking Janus's shoulder hard with it.

"Ow!" Janus complained. "Yeah… a few times. I always fell asleep after that. I didn't know you humans had those powers like me…"

Gulping nervously, ignoring what the naga had just said, Xander approached Janus and started groping and pinching his skin with his fingers, feeling around his broad back and shoulders.

"What are you doing?" Janus asked, giggling slightly. "That tickles."

"Just hold on a bit…" Xander mumbled as he kept feeling around, knowing by experience with dogs and cats that's how one knew they could confirm if animals had a tracking chip injected in their body. Yet Janus had none of that, which puzzled Xander. "How long has it been since you were captured?"

"Well… I don't know exactly… but I've already shed my scales and that only happens every four moons…"

"So, close to a month…" Xander thought to himself, sighing in relief. Thank goodness for human incompetence, those scientists were so sure they had that mythical creature in their hands that they never considered installing a tracking chip in him. Never underestimate the limits of human overconfidence.

"And then I arrived at this town… I spent the whole day trying to move around hidden, since there was no one outside because of the weather, but there was so much rain and it was so cold… I eventually hid in this alcove where you found me… I think I'd die if you hadn't found me…" Janus said, before he smiled at Xander. "Thank you… my generous saviour."

Anyone listening to that story would certainly pity the naga, and Xander was no exception. Although there was still that nasty voice in the back of his mind reminding him he had jerked off thinking of this helpless lost creature and the way he had squeezed and massaged him in his coils, Xander now felt responsible for him, in the way someone would adopt a lost, homeless pet.

"Well…" Xander began. "You have my word you are safe here and you can stay as long as you want until we find a way to bring you back to nature."

"Really?!" Janus exclaimed, beaming up.

But before Xander could even finish a "Yeah", the naga almost propelled himself in his direction, jumping at him and pinning him under the weight of his torso without needing to coil him up, although he did embrace Xander tightly with his muscular arms while nuzzling his cheek against Xander's.

"Oh, you ssssweet, sssweet man!" Janus almost cried with giddy excitement, like it was the happiest day of his life, squishing Xander's cheek so hard against his own it was almost painful, with the young man too frozen in shock to even react. "I am so lucky I got to meet you. You are the most amazing human of all! Thank you so much!"

If Xander thought he was going to be able to free himself since he didn't have the naga's tail wrapping around him, he was very wrong. In his excitement, Janus started to roll them around in bed, wrestling around with the pyjama-clad lad and eventually entangling his legs in the thicker scales of his trunk, with Xander too dizzy and dumbfounded to put on a protest until Janus finally stopped, his own cock having become erect yet again.

"Okay, that's enough hugging!" Xander exclaimed, and the naga let go of him, although there was an invisible reluctance in doing so. "And if you're going to stay here, you have to do exactly as I say, or else others will find out about you and we are both in trouble, okay?"

"Yes!" Janus exclaimed.

"Follow me, then." Xander said, beginning to show Janus the house now that there was enough daylight for him to do so, explaining certain things the naga had to have into consideration in order not to get into trouble, coming up with most of them as he walked around with Janus.

Things like keeping away from the windows on one side of the house so he wouldn't be seen, keep away from the door if someone knocked or rang the doorbell and make sure he wasn't heard, ignore if the phone rang, not touch anything that could cause a fire, and not run the water unless he was thirsty. Of course, as they reached the kitchen, Janus couldn't help but comment the house was small, even though Xander owned a rather enviable three-bedroom apartment.

"Yeah… I'm sorry it's not a bigger place, but if you leave that door, you're going to draw a lot of unwanted attention, and, right now, I have no way of getting you out of here safely. I guess you're just trapped in another cage now." Xander apologized, only then realizing that Janus had wrapped his tail around his left wrist without him realizing it, shaking it free.

"It's okay. At least I'm not alone anymore." Janus smiled back, making Xander blush and want to immediately change the subject.

"Anyway, it's time for breakfast!" Xander declared, entering the kitchen. "Are you hungry? What do you even eat?!"

It was then that Xander paused, a terrifying thought coming to his mind, which made him turn around towards Janus with pure fear in his eyes, gulping silently.

"No, I don't eat humans, if that's what you are afraid of." Janus said, before showing Xander something that was horrifying yet morbidly curious to look at. There was a clicking sound as the naga's jaw began to unhinge exactly like a python's, opening inhumanly wide, before he retracted it and put it in place. "Even if I could swallow you up, you'd be too big for me to hold and digest. You might even make my tail burst open."

"Whoa…" Xander mumbled dumbly. Not only did it look freakishly cool, the prospect was oddly arousing to him, a thought he once again had to physically shake away as he pointed at his fruit stand. "D-do you eat fruit at least? I have apples."

"I love apples!" Janus exclaimed, slithering past Xander in order to pick up two apples, which he threw up and caught with his open mouth, gulping them down without even chomping them, licking his lips right after that, to Xander's open-mouthed bewilderment. "Mmmm… not as good as the ones in my jungle, but still delicious!"

Instead of fresh fruit, Xander settled down with cereal for breakfast, filling a bowl with it before pouring cold white milk, seeing the naga was curious over what he was doing, especially as he began eating the crunchy cereal.

"You want some? I don't know if you can stomach cereal or milk, though."

"Eww… you humans still drink milk? I haven't done that since I was a cub!" Janus complained, making Xander look down at his bowl with a weirded look, finishing his cereal with some effort after that, feeling like he was being judged by his scaly guest. He thought Janus how to fill in a glass so he could drink water, finding it funny how it took the naga some effort to drink.

However, before they left the kitchen, Xander's phone rang, making him go to his room to take the call, with Janus in tow. As he picked up the phone, he heard the naga slithering too close to him from behind, certainly wondering just exactly what sort of creature Xander could be talking to.

"Yeah… yeah, I'll meet up with you. Don't worry. Yeah, no need for you to come." Xander said, trying to push Janus away from him with his elbow when the naga began to wrap his arms around his shoulders to try and listen to the conversation, eventually turning around and facing Janus.

"What did that thing say?" the naga asked.

"This is what we use to communicate when we're not close." Xander said. "It's calle a phone."

"Oh, it's like merfolk and their shells!" Janus exclaimed with a smile, leaving Xander befuddled with the existance of mermaids and mermen being so casually revealed to him.

"Yeah… okay. Anyway, I have to go now…"

"NO! Don't leave me alone… please!" Janus exclaimed dramatically, even embracing Xander with his arms tightly, pinning the lad's arms to his sides as his thick trunk did the same by coiling once around his legs.

"… for a while. I'll be back. I'm not leaving you alone." Xander sighed, rolling his eyes.

"Oh." Janus replied dumbly, letting go of Xander as he sat back on the bed.

"Today is a holiday and I already promised a friend of mine I'd meet him. It won't take all day long, don't worry." Xander said, grabbing a few clothes and heading into the bathroom so he could change, before he returned to face Janus. "Just… please don't leave the house and try not to do anything I told you not to, okay?"

"What if I get cold?" Janus pouted.

Opening his closet, Xander handed Janus one of his hoodies, helping the naga put it on. Thanks to Janus's musculature and taller frame, while it fit the naga a bit too tight, it still left his lower toned abs exposed, to Xander's embarrassment.

"It's too constricting…" Janus complained.

"Yeah, so are your coils and I slept the whole night wrapped up in them." Xander teased back, unable to contain a chuckle of his own. "Anyway, you'll be fine, don't worry. It's just a few hours."

And so, Xander went on with his life, leaving Janus alone. What he hadn't told the naga, however, something that he only remembered when he was on his way, was that there was a camera in the entrance hall, one that he used to check up on Janus even when he was hanging out with his friends. From what he could catch from his camera, the naga seemed to just be lazing around, clearly still tired from all that continuous hiding around, taking advantage of the spacious hallway to stretch his coils and nap, chasing the sun as the day went by, or just staring at his fish, having been previously told to not try to eat them.

By the time Xander returned home, Janus was lying on the floor, using his coils as a makeshift bed, certainly still tired from all the hiding he had been doing for the last few days. Knowing this would give him some more free time outside, the young man decided to take the opportunity to go grocery shopping, but not without gently draping a woollen throw over the naga's clothed torso, trying to be as silent as he could when he left.

Not used to shopping for two, Xander ended up biting off a bit more than he could chew, carrying too much weight on the way home, eventually setting the large shopping bag down with an audible sound that woke up Janus from the inside. Testing his theory, Xander checked the camera, confirming that Janus had indeed slithered away from the door, smiling as he opened the front door and dragged the heavy shopping bag inside.

"You're back!" the naga exclaimed gleefully as Xander closed the door behind him.

"Yeah…" Xander panted softly, pointing at the bag. "Mind helping me bring that to the kitchen?"

"Sure!" Janus agreed, easily picking up the bag with his tail, bending it like a hook and carrying it with absolutely no effort, to Xander's dismay.

Nonetheless, the young man organized the groceries, also revealing he had bought Janus a much better fitting, comfier hoodie, teaching the naga how to take the one he was wearing off so he could wear the looser one, with Janus still complaining about how restrictive sleeves were, before Xander changed to more comfortable clothes and prepared a salad they could have for dinner, with Janus appreciating how delicious the food was. Once the dishes were clean, both went into the living room, the naga always following him like an obedient pet.

"What's that?" Janus asked as Xander turned the TV on, completely in awe as it began to show an episode of the anime Xander had been watching.

"Netflix." Xander said, before he almost facepalmed as he remembered Janus obviously wouldn't know what it was. "It's something we watch to spend time. Why don't you join me on the couch?"

As Xander sat down on the couch, Janus slithered close and next to him, trying to make himself as comfortable as possible considering he had to rearrange his coils to fit the couch. The naga found the concept of just sitting there and looking at something that wasn't real strange, but eventually became transfixed himself with the flashy animations and special effects, although they spoke a language he did not understand, with Xander having completely forgotten that Janus wouldn't be able to read the subtitles.

Regardless, once two episodes were over, Xander needed to get some water, eventually groaning once he stood up.

"What's wrong?" Janus asked when Xander returned, seeing he was clearly aching with something.

"It's my back… I think I pulled a muscle or something carrying the groceries around. They were too heavy." Xander said, sitting back once he had finished his water.

In Janus's mind, Xander had been such a gracious host so far that the naga finally saw an opportunity for him to pay back. He was no healer or anything close, but he knew a thing or two about how human bodies worked.

"Well, I know just the thing!" Janus exclaimed happily , grinning confidently as he stood off the couch. "Why don't you stretch yourself a little and get the blood flowing?"

"Huh?" Xander asked, but, before he knew it, Janus gently grabbed and lifted one of his legs, enough to slither between them, spreading them almost around his trunk as he pulled Xander in his direction.

"J-Janus, wait!" Xander said, but the naga was not taking no for an answer.

"Ah, ah, ah!" Janus tutted. "Let me take care of things. I'm gonna stretch you out like you've never been before," he said as his tail slithered over Xander's stomach, wrapping a thick coil around his chest without pinning his arms, weighing down on the young man's body to keep him pinned against the couch.

Feeling that tail becoming too chummy with him again, Xander gulped silently, his heart beginning to race right against Janus's coils.

"Now, don't look so nervous…" Janus smiled as he picked up one of Xander's ankles with his hands, sounding more dominant now that he had Xander pinned with his tail. "I've had you wrapped up in my coils already…"

And, with a teasing grin, Janus began to pull Xander's leg without really using too much strength, merely testing Xander's own flexibility.

"Yeah, that's not really gonna help." Xander began, until Janus silenced him by pulling his leg and twisting it slightly, this time also pulling a moan out of him. "Oooh…"

Satisfied with the response he got, the naga smirked, knowing he had just barely started. Ignoring Xander's complaint that the naga didn't really need to do that, Janus supported the lad's bare ankle with his tail tip and repeated the same pulling motion with his other leg, pulling and twisting it to draw another moan from the coiled human, before he finally grabbed both of Xander's feet, trapping them under his armpits, locking his arms tightly around Xander's ankles.

"Now… stay ssstill…" Janus even hissed, tightening the thick coil around Xander's chest, with the young man so turned on over his more assertive side that he failed to consider that Janus had shifted personalities merely from holding him tight in his arms and coils, feeling like he was now in charge.

Spreading Xander's knees just a bit wider, the naga began to push Xander with the coil squeezing his chest as he pulled on his legs with his own torso, even lifting Xander's butt off the couch, really giving the human the stretching experience he had promised.

Of course, the sensation was so amazing and overwhelming that Xander couldn't help but groan out loud, to Janus's great glee and amusement, truly glad he could relieve his host's stress and aches that way, with Xander almost writhing in Janus's hold, suspended as he was off the couch, with the naga beginning to sway his legs.

However, the sensation of the naga's scales brushing against his exposed skin, his feet rubbing against Janus's own skin, and the amazing stretching massage, had Xander's cock hardening in his pants again. The young man only realized it when he opened his eyes to look at Janus, who smiled confidently at him, the visage so handsomely cocky, that proud grin of Janus's beyond sexy, that it took him almost a full minute for him to see his bulge was becoming quite protruding.

"W-Wait!" Xander began to exclaim, to Janus's confusion.

"Huh?" the naga asked, relenting slightly his hold on the young man, incredulous. It was simply impossible that Xander wouldn't be liking this.

"I… need to go the bathroom, yeah!" Xander almost shouted as he managed to slip away from Janus's coil, ready to dash towards the bathroom. "I'll be right back."

Once again, the conflicting feelings returned, as Xander was alone with them, washing his face to force himself to calm down, especially his raging hard-on. He couldn't allow the naga to see that, species differences aside, nothing could guarantee him the naga would even accept those feelings.

So, as he left the bathroom, Xander made sure to keep some distance, declining resuming the massage and distracting both himself and Janus with a few more episodes. By the time they went to bed, Xander made sure to prepare the guest room properly for Janus, thinking that he now had no excuse to need to sleep with him, since he had clothes and blankets to keep him warm.

But, for Janus, Xander's body was a natural furnace, his sweet heat something the naga had grown quite fond of. As much as he had tried to prepare that room to be comfortable for the naga, it simply did not compare to Xander's own natural gifts.

So, while Xander eventually fell asleep, Janus found out he couldn't sleep properly in that awful bed with those restrictive, binding clothes, taking off that hoodie as he slithered towards Xander's room, trying to think of an excuse to ask Xander to allow him to wrap him up again, before confirming his host was asleep.

Instead of giving up, however, Janus welcomed the extra challenge of trying to sleep around Xander once more but without alerting him or waking him up, simply accepting Xander would welcome waking up in his tight embrace again.

Entering his host's room, Janus contemplated the young man's sleeping face, so peaceful that the naga couldn't help but stare at him with a sweet smile of his own. It was one thing to be saved, but this human had been so tender and generous to him that Janus genuinely wanted to return the kindness in his own way, give him all the pleasure his body could grant. It was a shame the human was so reserved about how handsy the naga could be with his affections, it was just in his nature to be so close and touchy-feely like that!

"No one who looks this sweet and handsome fast asleep should slumber on his own." Janus thought to himself a bit more deviously, slithering closer as he peeled back Xander's covers without the young man stirring at all.

Just the sensation of feeling the accumulated heat under the covers made the naga sigh silently, it was all he had been craving!

There was simply no way he would back down now.

So, sliding down into the soft bed, Janus's big arms came to fold over Xander's torso, the naga wanting to soak up as much of his heat as he could. He pressed his prominent pectorals against Xander's back as his scaled trunk too began to press against Xander's legs, greedily scooping down under his butt to bury itself into the warmth where he lay. Folding the blanket back down over the two of them, Janus continued to push more of his tail down around his legs as he cuddled in closer, closing the loop around his ankles and beginning to start another one when he realized something very flattering: his bed fellow was not only hot to the touch, but also hot under his pyjamas as well.

A big grin began to spread across the naga's lips as he felt himself looking down at him with a new appreciation, confirming right there and then that Xander did love being in his coils!

So, the naga rolled Xander so the human could face him as his tail began to once more wrap up around his host, although it first sneakily slid down his pyjama buttons, wanting to feel the direct heat that came from Xander's soft-haired legs. Janus took his time, as Xander did not stir at the contact, even when he began to enclose his crotch once more, the naga grinning proudly as he felt how hard Xander had become, taking that erection as a compliment.

The scaly embrace was so appreciated by the sleeping human that Xander surprised Janus by suddenly hugging him back, rubbing his cheek affectionately against the naga's chest, letting out an adorable pleased sound that warmed Janus's heart so much the naga couldn't help but squeeze Xander's legs affectionately, making him moan from the tightness in particular around his crotch.

"Oh, you silly human… why can't you be this cuddly when you're awake?" Janus thought to himself, containing a silent giggle at his own complaining.

Regardless, the naga couldn't help but stroke Xander's dark locks in response, loving how fluffy and soft the young man's hair was as he curled it with his fingers, curling his own neck downwards to rest his lips on the crown of his head, pecking it tenderly.

However, Janus decided he would be the one doing the hugging here, so his tail gently coaxed Xander's arms back to his sides so it could welcome them into the ascending cocoon of scales, this time not stopping until Xander was encased once more from neck to toe, finishing with another tender squeeze that had Xander sighing adorably.

"Ssssweet dreams… my sssweet…" Janus hissed as he leaned forward to kiss Xander's forehead, before he welcomed him into his chest once more by hugging his head against him, falling asleep peacefully once again.

When morning came, Xander opened his eyes to once more find himself with a faceful of warm smooth skin, a blush immediately filling his cheeks. His eyes widened as he slowly looked up to see Janus's beyond handsome sleeping face, the naga snoring silently with no awareness that his 'prey' had woken up before him yet again. Although once more Xander couldn't help but admire Janus's beauty, he eventually realized that he was obscenely hard once more, his erection pressed against those coils. Terrified that the naga would feel it, Xander began to move, but, unfortunately, the sleeping Janus began to tighten his hold around him, not enough to hurt, but enough to make it difficult to breathe… and impossible to move.

"Ah!" Xander exclaimed, squirming harder, but the more he fought, the more those coils tightened, not in a painful way, but in an imposing binding massage. "J-Janus…" he grunted.

"Mmm… nooooo…" the naga whined, half-asleep, trying to smother Xander in his chest again to silence his host up.

"I need to go get up, it's urgent!" Xander shouted, a lame excuse, but one he hoped that would make the naga free him.

The humanoid serpent drew in a sharp breath through his teeth before his coils finally stopped squeezing, although as his eyes opened, a rather pouty look came over Janus's face, clearly bothered with the interruption and sudden awakening-

"Mmmm… fine…" the naga grumbled with a spoiled tone as his grip relaxed completely, Janus's coils even helping Xander sit up before they relented completely, piling up over his waist, sending the message that Xander had to be the one to get himself free, the naga starting to get suspicious of why his host was so visibly terrified of cuddling, with the way he ran towards the bathroom, almost tripping on his pyjama pants, which had pooled round his ankles, eventually coming back once he had willed his erection down without having to jerk himself off.

"Why are you so afraid of my coils?" Janus asked to himself, but thought it would be better to change the subject, not wanting to scare the prickly human.

"Did you sleep well?" the naga asked as if it were nothing, a look so innocent on his face you could almost see a halo hovering over his head.

"What were you doing in my bed after I prepared a room just for you?!" Xander immediately barked back, trying not to blush at how adorable Janus's responsive pout was.

"Well… as nice as it was… you were so warm that I couldn't resist…" Janus said, a half-apology. "I really didn't do it on purpose… but I couldn't sleep without holding you!"

"Well, you can't come into other people's beds without asking. From now on, you're staying in your room, okay? People don't just sleep together without knowing each other."

"Fine…" Janus pouted childishly, but ended up following Xander towards the kitchen so they could eat.

"Yesterday was a holiday, so I didn't have anything to do, but today I'm going to have to spend the whole day working." Xander said as he ate, to Janus's confusion. "It's something we humans do to gain money so we can eat and survive."

"Why don't you just hunt?" Janus asked back, confused.

"It's… complicated." Xander replied, not feeling like having such a philosophical debate over human society and capitalism right now. "Regardless, I'm going to need you to fend for yourself today. I'll leave the television on so you don't get bored, but I want you to be patient and behave until I'm done, okay? Starting tomorrow, I'll have more time for you."

"I shall be the most patient naga you have ever met!" Janus exclaimed confidently.

"You're the only naga I have ever met." Xander chuckled back.

Regardless, with Janus knowing how to take care of himself, the young man went towards his office to work on his computer, praising the concept of teleworking for being able to do it in his sweats. True to his word, he sat there for hours almost without end while Janus distracted himself with the television, completely enamoured with the flashy cartoons, with Xander occasionally checking up on the naga, pausing so they could have lunch and for the occasional bathroom breaks.

By the time Xander was done with his work, it was past ten and quite dark outside, the young man having pushed himself hard so he could have a free day after the weekend, which he needed to sort out a way to deliver the naga back to his nature.

However, sitting for too many hours had its toll on Xander, whose back hurt enough for him to groan slightly as he approached the living room, looking at the naga, who laid down on the floor happily after having been binging an entire anime the whole day. He knew the naga could fix that issue with one of his massages, but he wouldn't dare to ask for them, knowing the effect they had on his body.

However, after making dinner for himself since Janus wasn't hungry, and sitting back on the couch, trying to find a position to sit in, Xander realized his back pain was too much, still affected by yesterday's efforts, which eventually made him turn to Janus.

"Do you… think you could help me like you did yesterday? I mean… if it's okay." he asked, almost meekly with how embarrassed he was, fearing he was taking advantage of the naga.

However, Janus was nothing but happy that Xander had asked that, thinking his host was finally starting to understand how much he loved his coils.

"Aawww… of course!" Janus exclaimed, rising his torso as he 'stood', slithering in Xander's direction. "Is it your back again?"

"Yeah… I was sitting down in the same position all day." Xander said, stretching his legs as he began to sink on the couch.

"You poor thing…" the naga said as he slithered behind the couch, his strong hands finding Xander's shoulders, beginning to squeeze them, kneading the palpable stress away from him. "You are so tense, Xander…"

"I know… I worked too much. But I wanted to make sure I had more time for you…"

"But you are all wound up… and you aren't being wound up by me… oh, I know just the thing!"

"Huh?" Xander asked, but it was too late.

The naga's tail slithered in his direction from behind the couch, wrapping a coil around Xander's waist, although instead of wrapping over his clothes, it slithered inside his T-Shirt.

"H-hey!" Xander complained, but, at the same time, Janus was beginning to pull his T-Shirt up, speaking in a more stern, dominant tone.

"Now, now… if you want me to help you really let go, I have to be the one in charge here. And it's going to be so easy. Just… relaxsssss."

Janus hissed the last word so strongly into Xander's ear that the young man shuddered all over, a moment of weakness that allowed the naga to easily help him out of his T-Shirt, as his tail began to slither up his shirtless torso without trapping his arms this time, Janus assuming that could be one of the reasons Xander was so distressed over being in his coils, far from assuming it was the exquisite pleasures that were hardening his cock at the moment.

"B-But…" Xander mumbled, trying to move his arms to stop Janus's tail from slithering much further, but the naga responded by squeezing his stomach, winding him out enough for Xander to not try to stop him at all as his tail ascended enough to cover him from his chests to his waist, finishing with a coil around his armpits.

"Now… relaxssss" Janus hissed once more, loving the way Xander shuddered in his coils yet again. Massaging Xander's shoulders the same way he was squeezing and relaxing his coils around his torso, the naga could see by the way Xander sighed and groaned that his movements were having the intended effect, mellowing the young man enough for him to not notice the naga was beginning to lift him up, hovering him off the couch.

"Huh?" Xander then asked, looking down as Janus slithered around the couch. "What are you doing?"

The answer came in the form of another punishing squeeze, with Janus merely lying down on the couch with Xander on top of him, resting his host's head on his chest. The young man's face was flushed beyond belief, as red as tomato, really regretting having asked the naga to massage him like that.

Regardless, Xander had to admit that no massage could compare to that. Janus's coils were like a thousand hands working on his torso, the naga's own hands also beyond a human's, as his fingers began to dig and knead Xander's head, making him close his eyes and release a loud moan that immensely pleased Janus.

"Oh yeah! Please don't stop!" Xander said, with Janus happy to obey.

Although the massage on his torso had indeed got Xander erect once again, the one on his head made so many powerful waves of relaxation wash throughout his body that the young man even felt it leaving him through his sighs. It was so good that those accumulated extra hours of work that had taken their toll on him were as if they had never existed.

"Feelssss good, hm?" Janus asked with a smug, proud grin.

"Oooh yeah… sssoo good…" Xander groaned back, even hissing without realizing it, his voice growing much sleepier, as he even yawned.

"Are you ssssleepy, Xander?" Janus asked, intensifying his hisses on purpose.

"Yeah…" Xander replied, yawning yet again. "So sleepy…"

Janus's hands let go of Xander's head, with one arm snaking around Xander's face, covering his mouth and cupping it between his bicep and his forearm, while the other started to knead Xander's forehead, making his eyes start to droop, especially as Janus began to just hiss, the rolling of his tongue having an almost hypnotic effect on Xander.

"Then sssssleeep…" Janus hissed soothingly in a whisper.

The naga kept hissing without uttering words, knowing the somniferous effect his hisses could have on an already sleepy mind, smiling joyfully when he felt Xander's consciousness leaving him with a final sleepy sigh.

"Mmmm… much better…" Janus sighed himself, lifting up Xander's torso off his own, ready to wrap him up completely so he could fall asleep himself.

However, before Janus began to do that, he looked at Xander's sweatpants, frowning at the fabric as if it was an enemy of his.

"Mmm… you'll sssleeep so much better without those in the way, Xander…" Janus whispered, even though the young man wouldn't hear him.

The naga pulled down Xander's sweatpants, eventually disrobing him completely until only his dark slim boxer briefs were left. The protruding bulge in them made Janus think that, since Xander really did enjoy being wrapped up snugly in his grip, nothing should come between them, so he also slid them off his body, exposing a hard cock that the naga couldn't help but chuckle at, loving that he could arouse the human just by holding him.

"Mmmhmm… much better indeed…" Janus commented smugly.

Hovering helplessly, Xander just snored slightly, his legs kicking the air in a hypnagogic jerk, making the naga chuckle at how adorable he looked at that moment.

"I know… I know… let's put those legsss where they belong," the naga smiled proudly as he began to rotate Xander in his coils, slowly but surely wrapping the young man up until he was once again bound from neck to toe in his scaly cocoon, his cock squished between two thick coils like a hot dog in a bun.

After lying Xander back down, Janus loosened his coils only so he could deposit the young man's arms in them, giving Xander a tender squeeze once he was finally completely cocooned, enjoying the way the lad moaned in his sleep, his cock even throbbing in appreciation, leaking some precum against his scales. The naga beamed with pride at the fact he could arouse Xander solely from squeezing him, of course, far from imagining how much that issue was bothering Xander beyond no end.

"Hmhm… sssweet dreams, Xander." Janus smiled as he yawned himself, stretching his arms before he wrapped them around the young man's head, squishing his cheek against his pecs he allowed himself to be embraced by the warm arms of sleep as well, of course unaware of just how much what he had just done would change their relationship irrevocably the moment Xander woke up…

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Although Xander slumbered soundly the whole night despite sleeping on the couch, when the sun started peeking in through the blinds and shining on the young man's face, he started grunting, his eyes clenching tightly before they fluttered open very slowly, his vision blurry as he tried to gather his thoughts.

Once again, he was completely wrapped up in Janus's coils from neck to toe, the naga lying with his back against the back of the couch, sleeping soundly with an arm draped under Xander's head. A squirm of his body was met with a responding squeeze, although that squeeze in particular made Xander aware of two very important, concerning facts.

One was the naga had stripped him in his sleep, making him feel the full friction of scales against his bare skin, the sensation simply exquisite. It was like his nude skin was being embraced by dozens of arms on all ends, the heat exchanged between the two making it just as warm as being under his bed's covers. However, the most important fact was that the friction of those scales against his cock had it point straight at the ceiling with an obscene hard-on, dripping pre-cum freely over the naga's coils.

"What the fuck?!" Xander thought to himself as his eyes shot wide open, panic instantly setting in, far beyond the one he already had felt the previous mornings waking up wrapped up and hard. He had to get out of there, and fast.

"Janus…" Xander whispered, but the naga was still in a deep sleep, breathing placidly, as if he were perfectly pleased with his current predicament and the naked flesh he was embracing with his coils. Desperate, the lad tried to will his erection back to normal, but nothing worked, so his only solution was to try and get up.

With how easy it was for Xander to wiggle himself enough to move his arms and free one of them from those lax coils, the young man would think it correct to assume Janus was too deep asleep to be able to control them, which would allow him to escape silently and just pretend none of that had happened.

However, Xander could not be any further away from the truth. Janus was indeed asleep, but Xander had forgotten the naga was a predator, an elite one at that, and even in his sleep he knew exactly when to restrain his prey. The poor young man just had the bad luck of disturbing Janus's dream, for the naga had been dreaming exactly of playing with a human back in the jungle where he lived in.

The sleeping naga only allowed Xander to wiggle himself enough to move his arms, freeing one of them and beginning to untangle his tail from himself. The young man was just about to completely remove them from around his belly, therefore freeing his other arm, but little did Xander know he had just become prey at that moment.

And once he got them into his coils Janus never let go of his prey, no matter what.

So, even though Xander had managed to get a few loops off his stomach and chest, the slack that was gained was used to squeeze his hips down, forcing Xander still with the mere weight of his coils.

"Ssssssh…" Janus hushed in a hissy whisper, speaking in his sleep. "Someone will hear you… and you shouldn't resist fate. Why… I'm a much better fate than what some other sssnakes would have in ssstore for you…" the naga hissed with dominance as the tip of his tail began to press against Xander's stomach, forcing him to lie back down on the couch.

"Ah!" Xander exclaimed as he felt Janus pulling him down with a strong tug, the limp loops around his waist still strong enough to weigh him down into lying on his side. Hearing the naga's voice, the young man turned to Janus to confirm that the naga was indeed still asleep, certainly dreaming.

"Janus, wake up!" Xander yelled louder, but it was futile, since the naga was really enjoying wrapping him up in his dream. Before he knew it, most of his progress had been undone, with the tail returning to wrap further around his bare stomach, eventually gaining enough slack to catch his arm.

"Ngh…" Xander grunted as he managed to break free and tried to stretch his arm to smack Janus awake, but the naga's tail was much faster, easily wrapping around his wrist and pulling it back, eventually depositing his once free arm back into the cocoon in order to now pin his arms at his sides while reclaiming his elbows, only the young man's chest and head free now.

Xander had had enough. He didn't care how roughly he woke up Janus, he had to get free.

"JANUS WAK-nnnnnggghhh!" the young man was about to shout when he was silenced with a tight squeeze to his torso, one that wound him out and made him stop speaking completely, panting heavily to try and recover as those coils easily began to reclaim him further once more, with the poor human too distracted by his recovery to put up a fight.

However, in Janus's slumbering mind, as he began to hear Xander's voice, the featureless young morsel he had captured in his coils was beginning to morph into Xander's more familiar handsome features. The poor, fearful young man had managed to reach out and crawl towards the mouth of the cave they were in, screaming for help, if only the naga hadn't silenced him for his own good, knowing nothing desirable could come out of that supposed help, only trouble.

"Sssssh… sssssssh…" Janus tried to console Xander as his tail continued to use its rhythmic squeezes to make him moan, the coils around his body having claimed up to his chest, as the now free tail tip lazily slithered up to his face. "You're not leaving my coilsss until I sssay ssso," Janus chuckled, slowly bending down to come face to sleepy face with his gracious host.

However, if Xander thought the naga would be satisfied with just lying side by side, this time he was very wrong, as a slow, yet powerful slide began to make Xander sink inch by inch down as Janus's began to rotate both of them so he slid over the cocoon.

"Now, why don't you jusssst relaxsss… and enjoy…" the naga hushed seductively, unaware of how terrified his host was.

However, despite how intimidating the whole situation could be, Xander couldn't deny it was just as equally arousing. His cock, which had been at full mast the whole night, was now leaking pre-cum almost like a faucet, and his heart was racing with excitement, his body shuddering not with fear, but with anticipation, now that the naga was showing off just how dominant he could be, even if he were fast asleep.

With that tail wrapping around his throat, Xander realized that a quick squeeze meant danger, so he decided to obey Janus and hold still, even as he was smothered under the weight of the naga's torso as Janus further pulled them down. Even without covers, the heat shared between them was like a furnace, and the perfume-like natural smell of the naga was almost heavenly. Xander's cock was compressed between Janus's coils and the naga's trunk, making the unable to contain a moan.

"No, you can't let yourself get excited like that. What is he going to think when he wakes up, you pervert?" Xander thought to himself.

"Janus, please… let go…" he pleaded, unaware that this would be the straw that would break the camel's back, and turn the sleeping Janus into a full predator, intending to silence his prey and milk him for all he was worth.

"Mmmm… no. Hehe…" Janus giggled teasingly, as if he were drunk, nuzzling his cheek against Xander's with a dreamy smile. "I know you want thissss all to be over ssssoon… but trussssst me…" the naga said as one of his arms began to slide around his head, pulling his jaw and lips up into the crux of his arm, almost smothering his mouth in his armpit to silence him while his soft cheek nuzzled the crown of Xander's dark head.

"Mmmmf!" Xander let out a muffled complain, utterly in disbelief at the fact he was even further trapped at that moment. Worst, he could smell the naga, that natural perfume of his almost arousing on its own, like pheromones, with Xander only realizing from that unexpected close proximity that Janus smelled like a full greenhouse of sweet flowers.

"Yesss… ssssslower issss sssso much… better." Janus sighed dreamily, his powerful hisses drawing shudders out of Xander, who was losing more and more control over his own body. "Now… no more sssstruggling. You're mine… All mine." Janus almost purred, drawling with a voice that was beyond sexy for Xander, who despite his distress was turned on beyond belief, enjoying the soft, gentle grinding of the naga's coils, giving him a massage just as pleasing as the one he had fallen asleep under, almost pulsing with erotic energy while that lusting, sleeping beast dominated the young man's body.

Regardless, he couldn't believe the position he was in. Completely immobilized, whether by coils around his body, or the weight of the naga's chest on his face, with his obscene erection trapped between two thick ones while the bulbous head of his erect member ground against the scales of Janus's trunk. And still the naga did not awake, dreaming of doing that exact thing to him!

Yes. He was his now. And that was all he wanted. All his.

Completely losing any semblance of control and composture, Xander allowed himself to sink into his now submissive position, smothered and buried as he was under Janus's weight, and finally began to try to thrust against the coils that contained him. He moaned and whimpered against Janus's bare skin while the naga affectionately nuzzled against him, massaging him with his muscular coils.

"Mmmmm… mmmmmph…" Xander moaned, the build-up for orgasm beginning. And little did he know Janus was far from being done, intending to give him an orgasm that would knock him back into dreamland, now that his poor prey had finally accepted his fate. Tired and defeated, he had let the naga's coils completely assert their claim over his body, and Janus had finally gotten his victim in a position to do what he had been dreaming of all this time.

"See?" the naga chuckled, giving Xander's whole body a firm squeeze, giggling at the way the air wheezed out of Xander's lungs while he prevented him from orgasming. "You jusssst let it happen, and I'll make ssssure there is no pain… no fear… jusssst… ssssweet… blisssss."

If the situation didn't already look hopeless enough for Xander, the naga just had to start grinding against his coiled-up body, his scaly trunk in particular keeping a constant friction against the wet head of his cock. At that point, Xander was so consumed by his own lust and arousal that all barriers of modesty and hesitation were completely shattered. He tried to thrust back against Janus even harder with his own coiled-up body, making the naga squeeze him in reflex.

"Yessss… that'sssss it…" Janus moaned back in arousal himself, massaging and undulating his coils around Xander's body to intensify his experience even more, his powerful hisses once more reverberating throughout Xander's brain. "Ssssssweet… releasssssse…"

The utterly unfair combination of all those different sources of stimulation eventually reached a point where they became completely unbearable and wrapped up human simply could not contain himself anymore, finally reaching the point of no return as he came with a powerful orgasm, shooting his load all over Janus's scales and trunk, his body almost spasming like he was having a seizure, or the best way it could, trapped as it was by the naga's muscular coils. So intense was that orgasm that Xander actually fell back asleep after a while of panting, feeling completely exhausted in a good way, like the warm arms of sleep had reached for him to pull him into a snuggly embrace, letting him know he had no need to stay up that morning.

When Xander woke up again, it was already past noon, the young man still feeling quite drained from that ordeal, his body difficult to move, even if the coils were lax around him once more. He could feel a gentle hand playing with his hair as he opened his eyes, turning his head to see Janus's handsome face smiling at him, those sparkling blue eyes warm and inviting, the naga looking like he had won the lottery.

"Good morning, sunshine." Janus said tenderly, the hand that had been stroking Xander's hair caressing his cheek with its back. "Did you sleep well? It sure looks like it… hehe."

And that was when Xander remembered it. The way he had cum obscenely in Janus's coils, having surrendered to the moment and taken advantage of the naga's sleeping state, who clearly didn't sound like he remembered what had happened. The young man became so angry at himself it was like a switch had been flipped in him, making him writhe and struggle viciously in his cocoon of scales.

"Let me go right now!" he demanded angrily.

"Huh? Why?" Janus asked, surprised at that sudden request.

"Get your fucking coils off me, damn it!"

Confused and hurt, Janus actually gasped that that, but when he saw the way Xander's hazel eyes glared at him, the naga reluctantly let go of his host, who almost ran off the couch, slamming the bathroom door so he could wash the shame and guilt off his body, scrubbing himself so hard in the shower that his skin almost reddened from the intense friction.

Of course, knowing no concept of personal space and privacy, Janus tried to follow Xander around, waiting patiently at the bathroom door for the young man to come out, smiling when he saw Xander doing so wrapped up in just a towel, although that smile was not returned.

"I want to be alone right now, Janus!" Xander exclaimed, turning towards his bedroom immediately, not able to see the heartbroken look on the naga's face.

Despite getting dressed immediately, Xander took a while to leave his room, and when he did so, he only left to start tidying the house, terrifying the naga with the sound of his vacuum as he started to clean every room, apart from the spare bedroom, knowing Janus would be there. As terrified as the naga was of that awful sound, he was equally terrified he had hurt or done something wrong to Xander, simply not understanding why the human was having those awful feelings!

Even though cleaning had helped keep his mind off from what had happened, Xander still felt guilty enough to not be able to stay in the same house as Janus, so he left to go for a walk without even letting the naga know he was going to leave, grabbing his motorcycle and driving around until he found a remote place to spend the time, trying to forget about what had happened, but it was hard.

Eventually, by the time Xander got home, it was starting to get dark, and all the lights were off. He had tried to forget about what had happened that morning so much that he had completely forgotten about Janus, taking his shoes off and strutting around the house without realizing the naga was hiding in the living room.

"Hehe, he's gonna gave such a scare." Janus thought to himself, of course assuming Xander had already overcome whatever had bothered him so much earlier.

Wanting to surprise the human, thinking he would enjoy yet again a massage like he had done the previous days, Janus had waited until Xander passed by the living room to launch his tail in the human's direction, hugging a coil around his waist and yanking him away from his original destination, making him drop his groceries bag on the floor without thankfully ruining anything, lying the clothed human on his back as Janus towered over him, like he was floating in the air.

"There you are! I've been missing you all day!" Janus exclaimed, but Xander's reaction was the complete opposite of what he had expected. Used to having someone giggle or laugh after a scare, Janus gasped openly when Xander glared back at him.

"Can you let go of me? I'm tired of you wrapping me up in your tail all the fucking time!" Xander shouted, even kicking Janus's trunk. Although it didn't hurt him, it made the naga settle him back on the floor, the young man releasing himself to storm off into the kitchen.

Xander's nasty thoughts had returned, his heart racing, not just by the frightening scare, but with how aroused the scenario of being prey, Janus imposing himself on him and squeezing him in his coils made him become. The young man was starting to grow slightly panicky, not knowing how to address that massive issue from then on, not wanting to live in a house with a creature that he simply did not know how to be around!

But little did Xander know Janus was going to take care of things for him this time.

At first, the naga had just looked disappointed as he watched his host storm off into the kitchen, but there was no room to hide in that flat.

"What could distress him so much? If only I had a way of knowing what he's thinking…" Janus thought to himself with concern, before he suddenly remembered something, almost like a light bulb had appeared over his head. "Wait, I do!"

Slithering after Xander, Janus had decided to take care of that issue for once and for all, knowing he had a way of convincing Xander to talk. Although he hadn't considered using that talent of his on his gracious host until now, Janus was too hungry for the truth, knowing there was a barrier between human and naga that he had to break right there and then.

Seeing Xander scoff and get ready to force his way past him once he was done organizing the groceries, the naga cocked his hand on his hips and stood his ground, making it clear Xander was not going to leave that kitchen, before he started to slither even closer, pretty much trapping Xander between him and the corner of the counter, his tone going from soft to almost sultry.

"Now, now… what's going on here, Xander?" Janus asked, a serious look on his ocean eyes.

"I don't want to talk about it, so leave me alone!" Xander exclaimed stubbornly. He would have tried to push Janus away to get past him, but the naga was not only taller and hunkier than him, but also longer, which made escape pretty much impossible even if none of that tail was wrapped up around him at the moment.

"You woke up so angry when I didn't do anything wrong with you… whenever I'm trying to help you with my coils you are blissed and happy one moment, panicky and terrified the next. It isn't normal… I feel such distress in your heart."

"It's nothing, I already told you!"

"See? You aren't telling me the truth." Janus said, staring into Xander's face with a tender look of concern.

"Janus, go away and leave me alone!"

"No. If you are serious about looking after me, you and I are going to have to see things eye to eye," the naga said, speaking like a stern parent as he waited for Xander's inevitable pout, already knowing how spoiled the human could be. "Now look at me and say: I am hiding something from you and I am sorry."

"I already said, I'm not–

As he spoke, Xander did look straight at Janus's eyes as the naga suggested, having expected that sparkling blue. However, what Xander had not expected was that, instead of just blue, the naga's eyes had shifted to show something beyond it, as their blue was replaced by a ring of green pulsing outward from their centre, then another ring of yellow, followed by teal, cyan, then back to blue, and yellow, and so on, each colour followed by another at a synchronized rate, a mesmerizing display of colours that kept pulsing outward so beautifully that not only it captivated Xander but also made the young man lose his train of thought.

"W-whuh?" the human asked out loud, so confused by what was happening that he had no other words. His jaw hung ajar as his lips remained parted with an awestruck look, staring back dumbly at the naga's eyes.

Janus smiled proudly, knowing the first and most important step was complete. Thankfully he hadn't lost his touch with this skill, and now that he had the human where he wanted him, all he had to do was take it nice and slow, making sure Xander was as happy as possible that he wouldn't realize he was being hypnotized by the naga's eyes.

All members of his kind shared this skill, each colour filling their victim's body with a different induced emotion in order to lull them into a state of complete trust and obedience. Although some would use dark purples that would render their prey a total drooling drone, or even reds that completely broke their minds, Janus much preferred filling his prey's minds with sensations of relaxation and bliss, arousal and happiness, which was exactly what was going to happen to Xander at that moment, whether he wanted it or not, judging by the way his own eyes began to reflect the colours in Janus's, albeit the colours pulsed in them at a mismatched rate, signalling he wasn't completely under the naga's spell yet.

"That'sssss it…" Janus began to hiss, knowing that the sound he produced would reverberate throughout Xander's mind, further weakening his host, who was pretty much his prey at the moment. "Keep looking at my eyessss, Xander. The coloursss are ssso pretty, aren't they? Yet not asss pretty assss you."

Nodding silently, Janus stifled a chuckle as Xander nodded dumbly along with him, liking the blush that filled Xander's cheeks at being praised.

"Good. You're behaving sssso well, Xander…" Janus praised the young man as he slithered closer, keeping that handsome, confident smile on his own face, as if he were showing he was proud of Xander's progress. "Now… repeat after me: I am hiding something from you, and I am ssssorry."

"I am hiding something from you, and I am…" Xander mumbled.

"Yessss. Go on…"

"I am hiding something from you, and I am s-sso…" the young man almost said it, but then stopped himself, realizing Janus was doing something to him. He didn't know what, but it couldn't be good, considering the way his mind was being clouded, as if a fog were setting in on it. "N-nno!" Xander grunted, trying to push the naga away by his chest, but failing miserably at it, as Janus didn't even budge.

"Awww, come on now…" Janus chuckled almost mockingly in Xander's face, holding a teasing pout, a dark desire to win seeming to bubble up to the top as the naga took the opportunity to guide those poorly planned pushes to rest Xander's hands on his chest, even encouraging the young man to cup his pecs by making them bounce. "Let'ssss try again. I am hiding something from you, and I am ssssorry."

If Janus thought Xander was going to be easy prey, however, he was quite wrong. Not only was the young man very stubborn, his own insecurities had given him enough willpower to resist the naga to the best of his ability, trying to force his mouth shut and prevent any words from coming out, although try as he did, his lips would eventually return holding that awestruck look.

"P-Please… J-Janusssss…" Xander stuttered, even beginning to hiss without realizing it.

"Just ssssay the wordsss… I'm hiding sssomething from you… and you make me feel ssssso good…'" the naga changed the words in an attempt to confuse Xander as he continued to pummel his eyes with the intoxicating rings of colour, knowing the young man's initial shock of confusion was beginning to be replaced with confusing and distracting sensations of pleasure and desire, keeping his focus from keeping his own mind clear, and exhausting him into wanting to simply follow the instructions being presented to him.

However, Xander wasn't that easy to hypnotize, something that made Janus feel strangely happy and proud, making the naga actually want that human to be something different, not just a gracious host and saviour. A friend, or something like than that.

"That's it… keep putting up a fight for me." Janus thought to himself, unaware that Xander was also having his own struggles in his mind, coming to a conclusion about the naga's spell.

"It's his eyes…" Xander thought to himself throughout the massive fog that was building up in his brain, so, letting go of Janus's pecs, knowing he would never have the strength to push the naga's chiselled body away, he instead brought his hands up to try and cover Janus's hypnotic eyes, a stupid mistake.

"Oh, you poor thing!" Janus exclaimed with exaggerated concern as Xander cupped his cheeks on accident, completely failing at covering his eyes. "It'sss okay… if you wanted me to come clossser, all you had to do was assssk."

If the situation was already difficult enough for Xander, now it was starting to become hopeless. He tried moving his hands yet again, but instead of being able to cover the naga's eyes, Janus moved him so he was now holding the naga's head, his fingers brushing against his soft light brown locks, like he was holding him as if they were tender lovers. Janus kept his hands where they were as he grabbed Xander's forearms in a gentle yet firm grip, pushing forward with his body and tail enough to coax Xander into sitting on the counter behind him, pinning him in place so he had absolutely nowhere to go, with the kitchen cabinet preventing him from scooping back any further.

"It'sss okay… you can tell me… anything… jussst say it… I am hiding ssssomething from you, and I'm too tired to fight you…"

"N-Noooooo…" Xander whined pathetically, feeling more and more helpless every passing second, the colours in his own eyes picking up the speed. "I'm hiding sssomething from you… and you… you…" the young man stuttered.

His initial confused face looked more awestruck by the moment, as if the young man were trying to predict the next colour that would come. Bliss and happiness were washing over him like waves, making him want to submit, to give in, but his stubbornness, anxiety and insecurity kept preventing him from doing so, being the only shield he had against the naga's hypnotic spell.

However, Janus just kept filling his mind with those intoxicating colours, weakening him further and further with each moment that passed, until eventually Xander had stopped struggling just enough for those words to be parroted.

"I'm hiding something from you… and I'm too tired to fight you…" Xander finally repeated just like Janus wanted, to the naga's great amusement, even if he kept an exaggerated concerned look.

"Ssssee?" the naga asked, almost teasingly. "It feelsss ssooo good to be honesssst. Doesssn't it feel like a big weight has lifted off you? You ssshould feel very good about what you did… why don't you bring my face clossser so you can drink up more of these pretty coloursss?"

Despite there being a hesitating twitch, Xander did just that, bending his elbows to draw Janus's head closer, the naga even purposely making it heavier on purpose to tire out Xander further, having the young man pull him so close that Xander lost control of his own head at the same time, allowing it to fall forward until their foreheads touched, with Xander becoming so overwhelmed by the hypnotic colours that his eyelids were starting to droop.

All of what the naga was doing to him was so new and foreign, so blissful and relaxing… it was the most powerful drug he had ever tried, and pretty much all of him was wondering why he had even tried resisting that sensation.

"Oh, you poor thing… are you tired?" Janus asked, nodding once more to force Xander to nod along.

"Yessss…" the young man hissed, completely mimicking Janus's speech.

"You ssssweet boy… no more hiding from me…" the naga sighed dreamily, even filling his face with his warm breath, their noses sliding along in an eskimo's kiss as Janus's eyes became all that Xander could hope to see, the colourful rings drowning out all outside stimuli that were not related to the naga.

Everything but Janus ceased to matter to Xander: his sight was focused completely on the colourful rings of colour, his hearing on the naga's hissy voice that was becoming sexier and huskier by the second, his smell on the naga's intoxicating natural perfume, his touch on the naga's warm, smooth skin, and Xander sweore could even taste Janus somehow in his tongue, as if that were possible.

"Yesss…" Xander repeated yet again.

"Yesss… Jusssst let go…" Janus said, finding himself looking at a tired, tender face that was just overwhelmed by the world, unable to deny he was himself falling for that face in a way that he would had never imagined thinking about another humanwhen he was running from the rain and the scientists.

"Jussst let go…" Xander repeated dumbly.

However, as he found himself feeling his warm breath rolling against his lips, Janus slowly let his eyes lid, and in a tender moment, as if sensing that all Xander needed was one final push, the naga leaned even closer so their lips finally touched in a simple, almost chaste kiss, the first of many they'd share.

PING

That sound was heard in the back of both Xander and Janus's minds, signalling their hypnotic connection as Xander finally fell into a trance. He was all Janus's now, not that he was any bothered by it, with the way his lips curled into a content, placid smile, his eyes pulsing steadily with rings of colour at a now synchronized rate, matching Janus's completely.

Two bodies, one mind. Xander belonged to Janus now.

Wanting to admire his handiwork, the naga allowed Xander's hands to let go of his head as he drew back a few inches, looking straight at his prey's face with abject delight, eventually letting the colours drain from his gaze, knowing they weren't needed anymore, as Xander's eyes would remain swiftly encircled in pleasurable colours until he woke up from that trance, which wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

Nonetheless, tnaga took his time admiring his hypnotized host with a proud grin because he already found Xander handsome enough, but seeing him with those colourful eyes, that placid smile, that slouched back, utterly carefree… he simply could not resist wanting to take things somewhere more… private and comfortable, as if knowing they were going to get frisky.

"Now, you and I are going to have a little chat… c'mere" Janus said, spreading his arms.

At first, he expected his prey to know what to do, but the foolish grin on Xander's face told him he was going to have to be more direct with the hypnotized human. So, Janus gently coaxed Xander to wrap his legs around his waist, making sure the human held tightly before he pulled him into his arms, knowing Xander was so relaxed he'd be just dead weight, but the naga was strong enough to carry him effortlessly.

Enjoying the way Xander just sighed and laid his head on his shoulder, Janus slithered through the house, ignoring the way the fishes in the aquarium even turned their heads as he passed, just smiling proudly until he reached the bedroom and almost dropped Xander on the bed, smiling at the way the mindless human giggled in response.

"Let's get comfy first." Janus declared as he took off Xander's light jacket and jeans, leaving him only in a T-Shirt and underwear as the naga took off his own hoodie, pulling back the covers in order to lie down next to the hypnotized human. "Much better, isn't it?"

"Yessss…" Xander hissed dumbly, although he'd have happily agreed even if Janus suggested they'd throw themselves off the window.

"Now… why don't you tell me why you don't want to cuddle with me? Are you scared I'll hurt you?" Janus asked sweetly with an exaggerated pout, knowing the human would be simply incapable of keeping anything from him. He was an open book to the curious naga, ready to tell him everything Janus wanted to know. "You know I'd never do that, right? Not only do I like you, but you saved me… I owe you ssssso much…"

"Well… I was scared at first of your tail… and I still am a bit… but even though I thought you almost tried to crush me to death in your coils at first, the fact is you've never hurt me after that…" Xander said as Janus kept smiling, the naga's smile so contagious that the young man kept smiling even as he admitted his deepest fears. "The truth is… I love cuddling with you… being wrapped up in your coils and squeezed so much that I get aroused just from feeling your tail touch my bare skin. It's so warm and comfy I never want to leave your coils. But…"

"But…" Janus said immediately, giving Xander to quarter to possibly lie or hide anything, although he knew his hypnotic spell would be prevent it.

"I feel like I am taking advantage of you… your body… your coils… that's why I am so afraid of being aroused around you… I feel like I'm taking advantage of you since you have nowhere else to go and you don't have to feel forced to do these things with me because you think you owe me…" Xander finally admitted.

The young man had admitted all of it so freely, directly, and quickly, that Janus took his time digesting Xander's words, merely staring back at the young man in complete and utter shock, although he did bring one of his hands next to Xander, lacing their fingers together as his thumb gently massaged the back of his hand, before Janus's own face changed into a big, blushing grin.

"I… arousssse you?!" Janus couldn't help but giggle himself, his coils twitching and shifting around them, as if responding to that enticing statement, the naga squeezing Xander's hand in response, while his tail tip brushed against Xander's bare foot, loving the way he squirmed. "Is it the feeling on my tail on your skin?"

"Yessss… and when you squeeze me in your coils… I get so horny…" Xander said, even moaning softly when Janus squeezed his foot with his tail.

"Oh, I love it!" Janus exclaimed gleefully, hugging Xander against himself, staring straight into the lad's hypnotized eyes. "And you can trust that I can take care of myself around you. After all I'm so much stronger and more powerful than you… I can look after myself, Xander. Even if you wanted to, you'd never be able to take advantage of a perfect being like me."

"Yesssss…"

"And you are such a sweet, caring person… I knew my coils were making you feel good, after all that's what I love doing to others the most. Giving them pleasure and bliss. But tell me… what elsse do you think about me? I want to know everything." Janus said, again having no concern for the human's privacy, unable to conceive such concepts.

"You are the most handsome, beautiful, gorgeous male I have ever seen in my life and… and I think it's even better you have a tail instead of legs… hehe…" Xander giggled naughtily as he admitted his feelings, blushing with embarrassment yet having absolutely no problems with pouring his thoughts out. "I love your tail… your coils… I love that you can wrap up around me completely. It's like my body was made to fit your entire tail… and you can make sure I don't move a single muscle… that I can breathe only what you allow me to breathe… it's kinda scary… but hot… yet it's so cosy and comfy at the same time. You are perfect…"

With his kind being narcissistic by nature, Janus was no exception, and he could have just laid there for hours listening to Xander singing his praises, but his own arousal was starting to make him want more. Much more.

"And you are indeed a perfect fit for my coilsss… so handsome, as well. I like you a lot, Xander. Do you want to be my friend?" Janus asked, his of course having a much different definition of what friendship was.

"Yessss… I want you to be my best friend!" Xander giggled, of course picturing a very different kind of friendship, one that could be described as having benefits, much closer to the naga's own definition.

"Then my best friend you shall be, Xander. And now that we're finally being honest with each other… it's time we both get a little sssssomething that we've been wanting from each other."

Janus sniggered seductively as he said that, planting a sweet kiss on Xander's jaw as he felt his host freely snake an arm of his own to feel the naga's broad back, which prompted Janus to finally kiss Xander's lips, chaste at first, before his tongue probed inside the young man's mouth as the two started making out, kissing each other as if they were two admitted lovers, their eyes even closing as their tongues got to know each other as close and intimately as the rest of their bodies had already done.

Throughout the kiss, Janus made sure to roll them around until he was lying on top of Xander just like that morning, enjoying the sharp contrast between his terrified earlier look and the now absolutely blessed one on his charming face.

"Mmmmm… this is all I could want, Xander. Holding you still… holding you close… oooh and your body is so warm I just want to hold you forever and never let go!" Janus sang his praises of the human as he began to take off his T-Shirt, unable to contain himself from complaining. "Why do you even need these pesky garments anyway?"

"I'm not comfortable without clothes… unlike you…" Xander replied, helping Janus strip him while he felt the naga's tail tip pulling down his underwear, the sensation of his legs against the naga's scales beyond exquisite, especially as a thick coil curled around his thigh and squeezed playfully, making him moan. "Tighter…"

"Hmhm… tighter you say?" Janus chuckled teasingly.

"Yeah… I wanna be squeezed so tight… hehe…" Xander giggled with no restrains at all, no fear that the naga could crush his body with his powerful coils now.

"Awww… you poor thing…" Janus pouted mockingly as he began to shift his coils in order to prepare to wrap the boy up, knowing exactly what he was going to do to him. "Just hold still… I'll cover you up."

However, as he shifted, Janus's trunk brushed against Xander's now very hard cock, the naga looking back at that proud erection and contemplating it for the very first time, even licking his lips at the pearly glob of precum that had gathered in the head.

"Mmmmm… I knew I had felt sssssomething poking against me." Janus snickered softly to his prey as his coils finally began closing around his legs, pinning his calves together and drawing upwards, part of him wanting to get frisky and jump into action, although the naga knew that the slower he took things, the more pleasurable this would be for his hypnotized friend.

"Hehe, your coils are making me horny." Xander giggled.

"Don't worry, my sssweet. I have ssssomething very tight in mind for you." Janus smiled, even bringing his fingers down to give Xander's nipple a tight pinch, waiting for his tail to get a good hold on his legs to do the same thing to his cock, halting its ascent so it cocooned around the human's fleshy rod.

"Ooooooh!" Xander closed his eyes and moaned loudly, writhing in ecstasy as Janus's tail gave him a proper hand job for the first time, his toes even fanning out and curling wildly. "That feels so nice, Janus!"

This was beyond anything Janus could have asked for. The drunken, pleased look on Xander's face, the way that cock throbbed and leaked openly against his tail, those cries of pure pleasure. Even if Janus were only doing it as a way to pay for his hospitality, it would have pleased the naga nonetheless, but pleasure was something he craved by nature, especially pleasing others.

So, Janus kept stroking Xander's cock and teasing his nipples, looking down at his friend with a happy, pleased smile, one that he kept even as he sensed that Xander was approaching the point of no return, eventually squeezing his cock tightly to prevent him from orgasming, embracing him in his arms and holding him still as the young man cried out pleadingly, feeling him hold him tightly in his own arms as if clinging onto him for dear life, his nails even digging into the skin of his broad back.

"I'm gonna… cum…" Xander moaned.

"Shhhh… not yet, my sweet…" Janus said as he brushed Xander's locks, helping him calm down and control his panting, while his tail unravelled from his hard, wet cock, knowing that the longer he prolonged it, the more intense Xander's orgasm would be. After all, he could hold on for days himself. "Not… jusssssst… yet."

Coaxing Xander's arms to their sides with his own, Janus's tail pinned them there with a loop, which made Xander plead with a panting voice.

"Tighter…"

"Oh?" Janus chuckled, although he did not obey, instead leaning closer to Xander's ear, as his hand came down to start stroking the hard member whose release he had denied earlier. "Ask me again, my sweet… you sound so… sssexy when you ask to be sssqueezed!"

"Oooooh…" Xander moaned again as he felt that hand grab his cock with a firm grip, stroking it just as slowly and precisely as his tail had done, pleading with the same hisses Janus spoke. "I wanna be ssssqueezed!"

"Again…"

"Please Janussss… Sssssqueeze meeee…" Xander whined, like a child begging for a new toy.

"Hmhm… yesssss… I'm gonna sssssqueeze you sssso tightly I'll be taking more than jusssst your breath away." Janus's hisses were becoming more predatory, the naga surrendering to his instincts as his coils further ascended Xander's body, getting a good grip on the boy's chest before the naga suddenly squeezed Xander like he had asked, making him groan loudly.

However, then Janus surprised Xander by rolling them yet again so that the naga was now lying on his back, embracing his wrapped-up prize's face against his chest with his own arms, squeezing him tightly, although not as tight as his coils.

Feeling his lips brush against the naga's skin, Xander began to kiss and lick Janus's chest, focusing especially on his nipples. There was nothing but tenderness and affection in his motions, as if the hypnotized young man wanted to make sure Janus knew just how much he was loving all of this.

"Oooh yesss… that's perfect…" the naga sighed as he felt those little kisses rolling up and down his chest, his eyes fluttering shut as he felt his friend's pleasure mounting. The way his hips desperately tried to buck his erection around in those coils were making Janus feel so powerful, knowing all he had to do was clench around Xander's legs to bind them and force him to hold stiff.

However, the constant friction around Xander's cock was becoming maddening, making him shudder and tremble heavily despite the cocoon growing higher, approaching his chest, having never ceased massaging him, making him once again get close to orgasm, although his submissive mind made him feel like he should warn Janus.

"Imma… I'm gonna… aaah… cum…" Xander moaned between heaving, panting breaths.

"Mmmm… no you're not!" Janus grinned, tightening his arms around Xander's head to truly smother him in his chest. "You're jussst going to have to wait… after all… I'm the one in charge now," the naga smirked as another loop scooped under Xander's chest and began to lift him up, his face having to hang low as he began to parallel the naga's body, until he was finally hovering over Janus, his cock dripping precum into the naga's trunk.

"So, you're jussst going to have… to… wait…" the naga said, emphasizing each word with a squeeze on the young man's body before he finally paused to cross his arms behind his head, admiring his handiwork.

As the naga did so, Xander also got a good look at his captor. Janus was already handsome enough for Xander to consider him the most beautiful male alive, but right now, in his hypnotized mind, the naga was the very definition of perfection. Just that mere confident smirk of his made Xander's cock throb, the young man finally cocooned just like he was starting to get used to as Janus finished wrapping him up with a firm squeeze to his throat, followed by a tight constriction to his whole body that had him actually wheeze.

"It's like you and I were made for one another." Janus thought silently as he massaged Xander's whole body, squeezing him like a stress ball. ""I've never had so much fun with anyone else… hmhm… and you are jusssst the perfect fit for my coils."

Without saying a single word, Janus began to give in to his predatory instinct and truly tighten his hold around Xander. Were the boy awake, the discomfort would be enough for panic to set in, but since Janus had hypnotized him into a happy, blissful trance, Xander took all of it like a champ, his cock even leaking further down into Janus's trunk as his breaths began to run more shallow, the sound of coils tightening against one another audible between the boy's breathless gasps as the naga truly tested out just how much he could humanly take without actually injuring him.

With true snake-like instinct, Janus was letting each shallow breath return later and softer, like thicker snakes did when they wanted to squeeze the very life out of their prey, the asphyxiation truly giving him a rush of all sorts of energy that washed through his body like waves, their destination the same place. He could see the colour changing on Xander's face and imagined the redness on his cock drooling much the same like his parted lips, but as he felt the moisture dripping down the sides of his scaly hips, it was even more exaggerated than his face, with Janus's tail tip pressing against Xander's jawline to force his mouth closed, enjoying that dopey grin.

"Yesss… Now that I have you all for myself, I'm never letting you go." Janus thought with a proud smile. "Of course, I could just hypnotize you every day into being mine… but I'd never do such a thing to a sweet boy like you."

"You're learning to trusssst me… aren't you, my sssweet?" Janus asked as he lifted his own torso by pressing his hands against the bed, getting closer to Xander. "Sssssee? It'ssss all jussst sssome fun and gamessss with me… no need to feel shy or embarrassed ever again…" the naga teasingly as he let his long tongue reach up to Xander's nose, poking against it before turning Xander's head slightly so he could give him a good lick, tasting his skin.

"I'd eat you all up if I could… you're just too deliciousss for your own good."

"Mmm… ssso ssssweet…" Janus complimented out loud, to Xander's great glee. Hypnosis or not, Xander indeed knew deep down he could trust the naga, that this otherworldly experience was something the naga was blessing him with. All fun and games like he said, knowing that it was Janus's way of showing affection.

But of course Xander had his limits, and they were running low, his stamina pretty much at its limit. Janus was seeing how this was taking its toll on the poor helpless boy, and was starting to feel like his prey deserved a breather. It was time for Janus to finish it with a bang, the naga knowing just how to apply that final tight squeeze…

"Oooh you're jussst ssso clossse… You don't have to hold back anymore…" Janus slowly began to lower his prey in his coils, drawing his hot exposed head down to his face, while the firm phallic tip of Xander's drooling erection was gently drawn up and down against Janus's pre-soaked scaly lap, keeping those torturous motions as he grabbed Xander's cheeks, squeezing them tightly between his hands and making his lips comically puffer up like a fish's.

"My sssweet boy is going to cum for me… when I sssay the word…" Janus ordered softly as his own eyes began to pulse with rings of colour again, his time flashing out powerful reds with the rest of the rings of colour, filling Xander's own gaze with them.

The thick coil around Xander's stomach tightened up and squeezed the last gasp from him as the other coils followed along, pulsing outwards from the centre until they reached his neck and ankles, wringing him out as he drew him up with the tightened grip, seeing the veins in his neck standing up against the mighty grip the naga was forcing on him, squeezing the whole cocoon around him tighter than ever before, squeezing not only the breath out of the poor boy but also forcing an orgasm on him, especially as he let out his most powerful hiss.

"Releasssssssssse."

The orgasm that followed was so powerful that Xander pretty much spasmed to the best of his ability in the naga's tight cocoon, harder than he had that morning. His cock throbbed almost painfully before it load after load all over Janus's scaly lap, the thick coils around it even rubbing around as if to make sure the poor boy was milked out of every last drop the very same way they had squeezed away every last breath of him until he was pretty much empty.

"Mmmhmmhmmmhmm…" Janus kept his hands on Xander's distressed face gently caressed it while he came, even claiming his supple lips. The look of stress and release blending into one pleased the naga greatly, as he had no idea he could have such an impact on a human.

And, as Xander began to cease his throws, the naga gently relaxed his grip on him, the coils around his neck drawing back to a limp, single ring under his throat, as he brought him down to rest on his perky pectorals. The poor boy was gasping breathlessly, panting heavily, drenched in sweat. He was visibly exhausted now, his eyes half-lidded yet still pulsing intensely with colours after such an intense, mind-wrecking orgasm, that would pretty much keep him in a trance the whole night.

Regardless, Xander kept staring forward at the naga, who looked back at him with tender affection, proud of his handiwork and this… development in this relationship.

"That'sss a good boy…" Janus said, as he slowly started to slide his hands back from his face to his hot neck and moist hair, fixing it into a proper coif, wanting Xander to look his best as they prepared to fall sleep.

"Mmmhmmm…" Xander hummed sleepily, not even knowing what he was agreeing with,

"Now you jussst lie back… and let yourssself float away…" the naga whispered soothingly as he slid one hand up to his face, and pushed his eyelids down to shut them, letting his own drip shut.

"Mmmhmmm…" Xander hummed yet again, this time followed by a yawn.

"Yesssss… and all you have to do isss… sssssleep…" Janus sighed dreamily, the hot body of the young man he was holding feeling like a cosy bed the naga had snuggled into, his coils drawing back to a firm hold, but nothing like the animalistic constrictions from before. Just a nice, firm, friendly hug that lulled Xander to sleep with that one command.

The two slept side-by-side like angels, with Janus holding a nude Xander like he had always wanted, not needing the covers this time, the heat they had generated during their love making more than enough for the naga to sleep through the whole night peacefully, although he couldn't wait to find out how Xander would wake up the following morning!

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"Oh Xander…"

For Xander, there was no better sensation than sitting on his massive couch, resting his bare feet on the coffee table and just relax after a nice hot shower. It was that time of the day where he could ignore the rest of the world existed and focus on his videogames, holding his Nintendo Switch controller with both hands as he played through the most obvious choice of videogames when one wished to relax.

Dark Souls.

"Stupid dogs…" Xander thought to himself as he tried to advance through the most controversial part of the game, although that teasing voice calling for him eventually repeated his name with that same sing-song tune, this time catching his attention.

"Oh Xandeeeer…"

Xander turned his head to the side to see the hunk of a naga that had pretty much become his flatmate now, the one who he now felt perfectly comfortable sharing his living space, his bed, his shower, now that they were finally honest with one another after days of indecision. Janus's handsome face smiling at him the way a trickster would, making it clear to Xander he wanted something.

And whatever that something was, Xander wouldn't give it to him so easily.

Saying nothing back, Xander just smiled, knowing what was going to happen, now that he had committed the massive mistake of teaching his naga roomie how to play videogames on his Nintendo Switch.

"I wanna play…" Janus said almost like a spoiled child.

"Not yet. We talked about this, you let me finish this part, then it's your turn to play." Xander replied, turning back towards the TV screen. "You've been playing for the last hour."

"Aww… come on. Just a couple more minutes!"

"No." Xander said plainly, touching the buttons and moving around, completely focused, until he felt Janus's hand touch his bare foot, the naga starting to raise himself in order to block the TV from his sight.

"Come on, Xander…" Janus pleaded almost childishly with a begging smile that betrayed his dashing looks.

"Can't you be just a little more patient?" Xander smiled back, but Janus didn't reply.

Instead, the naga began slither closer, his smile returning to that confident, handsome smirk, even going as far as placing one hand right next to Xander's head, pressing it against the back of the couch when he tried to scoop back, as if letting him know he wouldn't be going anywhere.

"Uuh… Janus…" Xander mumbled, unable to contain a deep red blush from filling his cheeks. "You're too close…"

"Of coursssse…" the naga even hissed. "The better for me to look at you."

Before Xander knew it, Janus's eyes began to pulse with those rings of colour again. Blue, green, yellow and all other hues that swiftly but surely made waves of relaxation and bliss wash throughout Xander's body in an attempt to bend him to Janus's will, although for more selfish reasons than the naga had done in the past few days.

However, Xander was quick to turn his head away from Janus's eyes in an attempt to protect himself from falling under the naga's spell, Janus's eyes still pulsing with rings of colour as he began to pout once more.

"Oh, you don't want me to look at you?" Janus asked, his tail sneakily wrapping around Xander's forehead and even pulling his hair slightly back so he could turn the human back to him, grinning seductively, even flashing a pearly-white smile. "Then… you look at me!"

Looking at those hypnotic eyes once more, Xander felt himself wondering why he was being so foolishly reluctant when it came to embracing them, but, regardless, he began to lean forward, making Janus assume he was doing so in order to drink up more of those mind-numbing colours, only to bury his own face in Janus's shoulder to shield his sight, embracing the naga with his own arms to prevent him from pulling back.

"That's just unfair, you cheater. You can't just use your hypnosis to make me do whatever you want." Xander said with annoyance, not really angry with Janus at all, knowing that despite being selfish, the naga's intentions weren't exactly evil. Just bratty.

"Aww… come on. But you love being under my ssspell…" Janus complained back teasingly, although he did embrace Xander in return, loving holding the human he had grown very fond of over the last week in his arms just as much as he did in his coils.

The look on Xander's face did show hesitation. After all the effect of Janus's hypnosis was almost drug-like, making anyone crave it when confronted by it, thankfully something easy to forget about once one woke from a trance, not making him feel any withdrawals or anything similar like one would like a drug. Yet, he knew he had a point, and he made sure to double on it.

"Yes." Xander admitted, feeling the naga's tail brush his hair without letting go of his forehead, maybe in an attempt to butter him up. "But I stand for what I said. You'll wait your turn, just like we agreed. And no more hypnotizing me to get what you want from now on."

"Fine…" Janus grumbled.

"Say it…" Xander insisted, like dealing with a troublesome pet.

"I won't use my hypnosis to get what I want from you…" Janus said, his arms letting go of Xander as his tail began to pull him back. However, by the time Xander realized that Janus's eyes were still pulsing with colours, it was far too late, as the naga pulled him so their foreheads were brushing together. "… from now on."

This time, Janus's eyes were too close for Xander to be able to close them, his own beginning to reflect Janus's colours, always starting with having them pulse much slower, at a mismatched rate, that picked up speed the more Xander fell under Janus's power. His own lips parted and his arms weakened enough for him to drop his embrace around the naga, but he still grunted and used all his effort to move his head away from Janus's.

"Ah, ah, ah." Janus tutted, squeezing his tail around Xander's forehead as he held his cheeks with his hands, even making Xander's lips pucker up like a fish's as he squeezed them, letting go of the lad's forehead once he had a good grip. "No looking away. Not this time. Jusssst enjoy the pretty colourssss…"

"Stoooop…" Xander sighed weakly as Janus embraced his head and shoulders, his tail slithering down to begin wrapping up around his waist, pinning his weak arms at his sides after he formed the initial loop with a teasing squeeze. "Oooh… that's… nice…"

"Yessss… much better, right?" Janus asked, even teasingly nodding to make the mesmerized lad nod along, his human half shivering while his coils began to absorb the heat from Xander's body as he ascended. "Mmm… your warmth is sssssublime."

"Mmmmmm…" Xander hummed in response, his mind so fogged he had forgotten why he was supposed to be resisting.

"Hmhm…" Janus said and, with a final squeeze to the lad's body, finally had the familiar-sounding PING resonating in the back of their minds, chuckling as Xander began to smile dumbly, with the colours in his eyes now pulsing at the same speed as his, in a perfectly synchronized rate. And, as expected, the young man's cock was hard in his sweatpants, although Janus had no intention of playing with it. Not now, at least.

The infamous YOU DIED message showed up on the screen, but Janus just ignored it and closed the game, opening the profile Xander had created for him on the console. The naga wasn't too bothered, knowing Xander would recover his souls quickly.

"See? You died anyway. Now, you just sit there and warm me up. It's my turn to play." Janus smiled and closed Xander's game to open his profile, while the hypnotized smiling lad began daydreaming, reminiscing on the happy times that had led to them becoming so perfectly comfortable around one another.

When Xander woke up after that intense night where he was first exposed to the naga's hypnotic power, he felt so utterly drained, like he had been exercising hard the previous day, yet at the same time completely relaxed, like he had just slept for a whole day. He was already so used to waking up all wrapped up in coils that he didn't become distressed over it. In fact, it was impossible to deny. They were far more comfortable than any fabricated bed.

"MMmmmm…" he hummed without opening his eyes, although as he tried to move to stretch, he realized once more he was in the nude, something that made his body become stiff in Janus's coils, afraid he was going to be squeezed and constricted again, but more afraid he would become erect.

Yet, they did not tighten in response. The naga was awake.

"Oh no…" Xander thought to himself as he slowly opened his eyes to see that Janus's head was propped on his bent arm, the naga smiling tenderly at him as he stroked his cheek with the back of his hand.

"Good morning, sunshine." Janus smiled with a sweet tone. "Did you sleep well?"

The memories of the previous night were almost completely fuzzy, as if he had been drinking, but there was no headache. Just a sore ache all over his nude body. Yet, Xander was perfectly aware that Janus had done something to him. And that something had made him cum, because he could feel the dried seed on his abdomen.

"You and I… we… what happened?" the young man asked, feeling Janus's coils tightening their grip around him just enough to grab him and pull him closer, so close that their noses were touching.

"Well…" Janus chuckled, rotating his coils just enough so he could stroke Xander's hair with the tip of his tail. "I finally got you to be honest with me. And you enjoyed it so much… I bet you feel so silly for trying to hide how much you liked my coils and how they made you feel, don't you?"

Seeing those sparkling blue eyes staring straight at him, Xander closed his own, remembering that whatever the naga had done do him, he had done it by staring at him.

"It's your eyes!" Xander accused. "You did something to me, didn't you?!"

"Yessss…" the naga hissed, loving the way it made Xander shudder, although the young man began to struggle against his coils, requiring the naga to constrict him sternly to calm him down. "Calm down, Xander… all I did was hypnotize you. I wanted you to tell me what was worrying and angering you so much… and I am so happy it was all a misunderstanding. We can be completely honest with each other from now on!"

The memories were slowly but surely returning to Xander, who now started to remember things. Admitting to Janus how he felt about his coils. Being squeezed by them so hard that he came in a way he had never orgasmed his whole life.

"Why did you do it? I… I…" Xander stuttered. He didn't know what to say or do. Until yesterday he had been absolutely terrified of being hard around such a powerful creature like the naga, afraid of the way those scales aroused him, now, not only had the naga revealed that he had an until then completely unthinkable ability of hypnotizing him, but he had also used it to pretty much have sex with him.

He had to get away.

"I need to go to the bathroom!" Xander exclaimed, although Janus raised an eyebrow, logically wary of the truth behind the wrapped-up lad's words. "I swear… I… I am not lying!"

Nonetheless, Janus let go of Xander, although, as the young man rushed to the bathroom, he realized when he grabbed his cock to aim it that Janus had kept his tail wrapped around his wrist, like he had him on a leash, even if he hadn't followed him inside the bathroom. A stern yet silent reminder that their conversation was far from being over.

So, although Xander took his time digesting what had happened in the bathroom, that he had just made love with a non-human, that he had just described something with those words, and that the mere memory of the pleasures he had shared with the naga had gotten him hard again, he finally returned to the bed, where Janus awaited him with a patient, yet eager smile, that visage of his always looking like the painted picture of perfection.

"Fine." Xander said, sitting on the edge of the bed. "I liked what happened between us and I'm hard as hell just thinking about it. But… that isn't me."

"What do you mean?" Janus asked as he slithered closer, taking the opportunity to slither closer so he could sit with his scaled trunk on Xander's lap, clearly feeling much more confident in doing so now that he knew his host had the hots for him.

"Well, you aren't human like me."

"So? It's not like my kind hasn't shared their pleasures with yours for ages." Janus replied, embracing Xander's neck with his muscular arms. "Besssidesss… you know I have ways of making you ssssee things… my way…"

And, with that, Janus's eyes began to light up with their hypnotic colours once more. Xander gasped silently as he saw those familiar colours pulsing away from the centre of Janus's eyes, making his mind begin to cloud up, but this time he was wary enough of them to close his eyes shut, shaking his head and making Janus cease casting his spell.

"What? You don't like my hypnossssis?!" the naga exclaimed, flabbergasted.

"No! It's not that!" Xander exclaimed back. "I just… don't feel comfortable with the idea yet. It's… strange knowing that not only can you just wrap me up in your coils and crush me to death, but if you wanted, you could hypnotize me to ask for it and enjoy it."

"I would never do such a thing!"

"I know, but… it's not you, Janus. It's me. I'm not really the sexiest person and I… well, I'm not that experienced in the field. I've never even brought a guy home."

"I know." Janus said plainly, making Xander instantly think that the naga could be a little less blunt, but then Janus revealed the source of his knowledge. "The fish told me."

To say Xander was speechless would have been an understatement, the look on his face absolutely dumbfounded, although he should have expected by now that the naga would be able to converse with fish.

"I'm sorry, they what?"

"I talked to them about our issues when you were gone. They said you are a lonely person and that you've never even brought another lover to your abode."

"Did… did they say anything else?"

"That you treat them very well and they're always well-fed, but they wouldn't mind a castle in their tank." Janus said, before he reached upward in order to plant a kiss on Xander's cheek. "You have nothing to worry about when you're with me, Xander. Let me take care of you… pleassse you… I'll help you… loossssen up. And without needing to use my… hypnosssisss on you at all"

"H-How can you do that?" Xander asked, shuddering at the naga's hisses.

"Trussssst me," the naga hissed in response, accepting Xander's silent sigh as a sign of submission, which he rewarded with a slow lick to his cheek. "Mmm… tassssty."

Being referred to as 'tasty' should terrify Xander, considering he now knew what the naga was capable of, but with the utterly sultry way Janus whispered it, coupled with the way he felt the naga's warm breath on his skin, it was enough to finally have his cock at full mast, something Janus took notice of by wrapping his hand around his shaft in a firm grip.

"Hmhmhm… see? I told you I'd loosen you up… and I haven't even started yet."

"Huh?" Xander asked in response at the naga's gloating, before he felt Janus slide behind him, a hand coming up to cover his eyes, while the other slowly but seductively wormed two fingers into his lips.

"Just close your eyesss… and feel. Focus your senses on me… my hisssses… the feel of my ssssscalesss…" Janus kept whispering seductively against Xander's ear, even giving the lobe a slow, teasing lick, as he began to wrap his tail around Xander's bare flesh, although instead of binding his legs together starting from the ankles like he always did, Janus instead wrapped around one of Xander's thighs, pulling the boy back towards the centre of the bed as he did so, waiting until he had formed three loops in order to slither his tail across Xander's back, repeating the same movements with his other thigh.

Once he had a good grip on Xander's thighs, Janus began to rotate his coils around them in order to feed more slack on his tail and guarantee he had a good grip on the human, entangling the young man with a thick coil across his stomach in the process, all without allowing Xander to see what was going to happen to him, merely nibbling on his earlobe with his lips shielding Xander from the naga's teeth, his fingers having left Xander's mouth to stroke his hair tenderly.

"J-Janus…" the young man sighed.

"Ssshhhhh…" the naga whispered, his words almost floating towards Xander's ear like mist. "Feel."

And feel Xander did. The rotation of scales on his bare flesh, back and forth, going as far as making the almost invisible hairs on his forearms stiffen like pinpricks and deliciously erotic goosebumps decorate his olive skin, a moan escaping his lips when Janus tightened his grip on him.

"A-Aah…" Xander's moan became a prolonged one when the naga began to pull his thighs apart with his coils, a pain surging in Xander's hamstrings the more Janus forced them open. "J-Janus… a-aaaah!"

"Shhhh… shhhh… hold it… trussst me," the naga hissed against his ear, his tail coming to wrap over his hand covering Xander's eyes, tightening around Xander's head once Janus freed his hand from under it, the tip coming to brush Xander's hair.

"Aaaah… aaah…" Xander panted between pained moans, although, the more Janus pulled at his muscles, the more he realized it was a good kind of pain, indeed pleasurable, being stretched out like that.

It was just like Janus had said. That he was going to loosen him up. Xander just never thought the naga was being literal about his words, but damn if that didn't feel amazing!

However, before he could focus solely on it too much, however, Janus's wet hand came down to grab his erection, squeezing it in a firm grip as he began to stroke the shaft, up and down, in a nice, slow, teasing rhythm. His thumb would come to smear Xander's pre-cum over the head, making the immobilized human writhe and moan loudly in desperation, before the naga would squeeze him still.

"You like that?" the naga asked, resting his head on Xander's bare shoulder.

"Ooooh yes…" Xander moaned, even sucking the air through his teeth as he did so. "Fuck, that's so good!"

"This is what I want to give you, Xander… all the pleasssure you need and more…" the naga hissed with more tenderness than seduction in his voice now, knowing this was a barrier he had to overcome. "And all you have to do… is trusssst me… and give yousssself to me."

"B-But…" Xander mumbled between moans, those barriers still present in his stubbornness.

"Shhhh… sshhhh… it's okay, you can take your time… but, for now, jusssst enjoy…" Janus smiled as he kept working on Xander's cock, the pleasure having overshadowed the pain in his legs to the point that the naga had pretty much spread them open almost horizontally without Xander acknowledging it, the lad's body immobilized without requiring him to be cocooned up, as if the naga were showing him the various ways he could dominate his utter being.

Once again, Xander's cock was just about to release, but the naga abruptly let go of it, enjoying the way Xander whined and pleaded in response.

"Noooooo…" Xander almost cried out. "Please, Janus… I need to cum!"

"I know, I know…" the naga teased as he pecked Xander's cheek. "But I know you can sssstill hold on a bit more. Trusssst me, Xander… it will feel so much better when I'll let you release. Jussst power through it. I'll hold you the whole time…"

Of course, Janus wasn't about to let things end so soon, but, at the same time, he knew Xander was still visibly drained from the intense orgasm of the previous night.

So, this time, he edged the lad just a a couple more minutes, chuckling and soothing him down as Xander pleaded for release with an increasingly needy tone, loving the way the human to uselessly struggle against the coils that bound him like chains.

Eventually, seeing how sweaty and exhausted Xander had become, the naga decided to end it, stroking Xander's cock to near release, before his other hand came over Xander's free nipple, the other hidden by a coil draped over it, and gave it a decisive pinch, unlocking the lad's release as if he had flipped a switch.

Xander cried out once more as his cock shot rope after rope of cum, thankfully aimed at himself and Janus's coils in order not to dirty the sheets, the naga holding him through the throes of orgasm before he finally laid back with his host on the bed, letting go of Xander's thighs before safely welcoming his legs back together into his coils, although he didn't wrap him up in a proper cocoon this time, just draping a good amount of tail over the human.

"That was… amazing…" Xander breathed out, turning towards the smiling Janus. "Think we can do it again?"

"As many times as you want, my ssssweet." Janus said, leaning forward to kiss Xander's lips, before the two just laid there, embracing one another, gathering their strength for round two.

And so, both human and naga began to settle into a home life, this time doing it their own special way.

Sitting on the couch and watching TV became much more enjoyable now that they cuddled together and, although Janus liked wrapping up Xander in his coils, that didn't mean the naga didn't enjoy being the little spoon sometimes, happily lying down with his back against Xander's torso as the human stroked his own hair, admiring how perfect and soft it felt to the touch, like Janus had just left the hair salon.

It wasn't as if Janus had ever felt trapped or like a prisoner in that apartment, but now he felt truly free, like he wasn't a mere guest anymore, comfortable with slithering into empty divisions when Xander wasn't there, and even taking on some household tasks like feeding the fish or cleaning the floor, something he happily picked since it helped him exercise.

Of course, that was intersped with moments where they shared their bodies over the days, always with Xander in full consciousness. The human was like an orgasming machine, like his body was trying to compensate for all those times he had been neglected, matching the naga's libido almost perfectly.

One of those times ended up being in the shower, the hot water pouring over both of them while they embraced and kissed, with Xander's hands drawing down to try and grope Janus's ass, remembering he didn't technically have one the moment he felt scales on his palms. He soaped the naga with his sponge, although he couldn't help but stroke Janus's washboard abs with one of his hands, admiring just how perfectly chiseled the naga's torso was.

"Your body is perfect…" Xander sighed dreamily.

"So is yours… you fit my coils perfectly." Janus smiled back, kissing Xander's forehead in response.

As he said that, Janus's tail began to slither up one of Xander's legs until the tip finally found its destination, tickling Xander's scrotum and making him gasp out-loud.

"J-Janus!" the young man exclaimed, but Janus squeezed him harder in his arms as his tail approached Xander's hole, circling the entrance teasingly.

"Shhshhhshhh… you want this, I want this. Is there any reason we shouldn't do it?"

Although Xander's first thought was to come up with some bullshit excuse, he knew he had no legit answer, so he limited himself to just shaking his head slowly, burying his face in Janus's shoulder and moaning against it as the naga's tail began to slowly penetrate him, entering with an ease that shocked Xander, as if it had belonged inside him all along, even if it were slightly lubed by the soap.

"Ooooh…" the young man moaned against the naga's skin, his legs wobbling slightly, although he did not require the naga to support his weight, able to stand still.

However, Janus did not stop there. Clasping Xander's firm asscheeks with his hands, Janus began to coax the young man to thrust his hips against him, grinding his cock against the naga's abs.

Once he was used to the naga's tail lodged inside his ass, Xander lifted his head up and looked at Janus's eyes, which looked even more beautiful with his wet eyelashes. The two kissed, their tongues embracing one another and trailing pure fire and passion as they wrestled not for dominance or control, but out of a pure desire to feel each other the most they could, embracing each other tightly with affection and need.

However, Xander could have never predicted what happened next. The tip of Janus's tail pressed against that spot, making Xander's eyes shoot wide open, as his body began to spasm.

"J-Janu-AH!"

Nothing had ever come close to what he had just felt. It was as if Janus's tail was continuously stimulating his body throughout that special spot in a way that was inhumanly possible, uncontrollable bliss and pleasure splashing throughout his body like violent waves, keeping his muscles immobilized, his body perfectly still and stiff, just like his cock, which shot another healthy load of cum all over Janus's abs as if Xander hadn't cum in days.

Collapsing on top of the naga, who finally had to support his weight with his arms, Xander felt Janus kiss his head as he smirked with triumph, before he heard the human's words.

"I want to shower like this every day from now on…" Xander said, making both chuckle in response.

While his wish would be to have Xander wrapped up in his coils all day, Janus knew he couldn't force the human to stay home against his will, and so he waited patiently in front of the apartment door, lying anxiously on the floor with his hands supporting his head.

"Yes, I know we were too loud last night." Janus replied, seemingly to no one, rolling his eyes after a while of hearing bubbles coming from the fish tank. "Well, I guess you all should just start getting used to it then, because I am here to stay. If it weren't for me, he wouldn't even have considered buying you that castle."

Looking back at the fish, Janus smirked, before he heard the click of Xander's keys against the door. Before the human could even open it properly, Janus's tail was already wrapping around his clothed form, squeezing him tightly before bringing him towards the naga's arms, which somehow squeezed even tighter around Xander as the naga's cheek nuzzled against his.

"I missed you so much!" Janus exclaimed happily.

"I was out for just two hours…" Xander replied as if trying to say Janus was exaggerating, but still allowed the naga to take his shopping bags from his hands, although he couldn't help but complain as he was hoisted off the floor and carried away to the kitchen. "Janus, I can walk!"

"I know," the naga chuckled in response. "But you must be tired from your trip, so you might as well let me sort everything out now!"

Of course, when it came to the moment of actually cooking, it had to be Xander taking care of that, because Janus was visibly afraid of fire, something his kind called the red flower. And although he had brought a whole chicken, he sliced just enough to cook for himself, watching in awe as Janus stretched his jaw to gulp in what remained of the raw meat.

"Well, at least cooking is still only for one." Xander thought to himself, not really freaked out by what he just saw.

The coil kept being wrapped around his waist as Janus eagerly awaited for him to finish eating, although the naga did not try to pressure Xander to hurry up, waiting patiently until Xander finished his plate so he could drag him to the living room, wanting to know what was in the other shopping bag ever since Xander told him it was a present for him.

Although the concept of clothes had initially been foreign to Janus, the naga did like the ways the outfits Xander bought fit him, of course, with any kind of those awful constricting sleeves banned. Janus quite appreciated the way that muscle shirts and tank tops highlighted the definition in his arms, even posing as he tried them on, chuckling when he noticed one of the tank tops Xander had brought him was a green one featuring Kaa the Snake and his hypnotic eyes, with the words TRUST ME written underneath.

"Xander, if I didn't know any better… I'd say you do want to try my… hypnossssissss…" Janus grinned deviously at Xander, even allowing his eyes to lit up with those intoxicating colours, before the young man stopped him with a hand pressed against his eyes.

"No." Xander said bluntly, before he chuckled at the way the naga silently gasped almost in offence. "Well, I bought it because I knew it'd look sexy on you, but not this much."

"Then I'll gladly wear it for you." Janus smirked confidently, ready to slither away.

"Wait." Xander said, waiting for the naga to turn around before he continued. "Let's try it."

"Hm?" Janus asked, before he realized what the human meant, exclaiming with happiness. "Oooh, you want me to hypnotize you?!"

"Well… I guess we can give it a try." Xander said with a slight blush, more excited than uncomfortable with the idea now. "I mean… the idea does turn me on."

"Excsssselent." Janus grinned deviously as he slithered past Xander, sitting on the couch and patting his trunk, signalling he wanted Xander to straddle him, but, as the young man took a step closer, the naga stopped him with his tail tip pressed against his chest, poking it playfully. "Why won't make yourself comfortable before we start? We both know those clothes are going to end on the floor anyway, sssooo…"

Although Xander did raise an eyebrow as if to say "Seriously?", he did take off his T-shirt and pants, thinking that if the naga wanted to strip him naked, he'd have to be the one to get him to take his underwear off, before he climbed onto Janus's lap and knelt slightly as he sat on it.

"So… how does it work?" Xander asked.

"Hm? You look into my eyesss… and relaxsssss."

"No, what I mean is… the colours. How do they work? That snake is from an animated film, so I never thought it could be real…"

"Snakes can't do what I can do!" Janus pouted with pride, making Xander wonder if said film had been inspired by a naga's power, before he focused on Janus once more as the naga began to explain. "What I do is have you feel nice, pleasant sensations as I take control of your mind, until you finally succumb to my spell and obey my every single command. I could take control of you by force if I wanted to… but those methods are beneath me."

"Oh, please. You just caught me by surprise that day, I bet I could resist it if you tried it on me right now."

"Oh, is that so?" Janus chuckled, his turn to raise an eyebrow.

"Yeah." Xander grinned defiantly, foolishly cocky.

However, before he could even attempt to prepare, Janus's eyes began lighting up with those hypnotic colours once more. Green, blue, yellow, cyan, teal, perfectly synchronized and at a fast enough rate to make Xander lose his train of thought, raising his arms to protect himself too late, as Janus gently grabbed Xander's hands with his, squeezing them tenderly.

"Wai–

"Shhhhshshshsh… I told you I'd be able to hypnotize you, ssssso just let me show you…" the naga whispered with that specific seductive tone he employed whenever his eyes flashed their sinful spectrum, as if it also honeyed his sultry words with pure lust.

Once more, as he kept staring into those hypnotic eyes, Xander's own began to lose their hue as the hazel in them was replaced by the same colours flowing from Janus's, pulsing at a mismatched, slower pace, with the lad's lids parting in awe, try as he would to resist.

"I could jusssst sssit here and sssstare at you… sssslowly wear you down with my hypnosssisss and jussst wait… but it would be ssso dull, don't you think?" Janus asked, even chuckling after he nodded and Xander nodded along with him without realizing it. "Sssso thisss is what I do. Firssst I'll wrap you up in my coilssss… you can't even look away from me, much less esssscape… but I can't rissssk having my prey esssscape me…"

Xander found it so messed, but being referred to as 'prey' turned him on so much.

The naga began to wrap his coils around Xander's waist, pinning his arms at his sides once he established a loop, all without letting go of the young man's hands, even massaging them with his thumbs.

"My hypnossssisss enchancesss your sssenssses and makess the touch of my ssscales ssso much better, doessssn't it, my dear?" Janus asked with another nod that the human was forced to reproduce, although the pleased sigh that escaped Xander's lips was an eagerly taken sign of acceptance, the young man not even stirring as those coils kept ascending his bare flesh.

Giving a final squeeze to Xander's hands, Janus's own came up to press on Xander's shoulders, allowing the naga to slide his trunk slightly upwards so Xander would be forced to look up as Janus loomed over him to get closer.

"And when my coilsssss aren't enough, there is ssssomething I just love doing." Janus grinned.

"Wha-mmmmmm."

Xander could even ask what Janus loved doing, but the eager, dominant way the naga's lips claimed his in a fiery kiss answered the young man's question without any words. This time, Janus gave no quarry, his much more flexible tongue as dexterous as the naga's tail, wrestling Xander's into submission, almost stealing the lad's breath as he tried to keep up with the kiss, making it almost impossible to resist the naga's spell.

Still, Xander did so, if only to prove his own point, as it could be seen by the way the colours in his eyes hadn't picked up the speed as fast as the previous day. It was to be expected, the shorter the time between a trance, the harder things would be for the hypnotist, even if he had Xander coiled up from neck to waist now.

But Janus was no beginner, and he knew exactly how to wear Xander down. Without saying anything, he began to hiss, knowing the powerful effect his hisses had on Xander's body, making him shudder to the best of his ability in his coils. As he did so, he gave Xander's cocoon a tender squeeze, not enough to even cut his breath, but to lift him up as the naga ascended with him, never losing eye contact.

"Januuuuus…" Xander whined as he felt himself ascending upwards, almost touching the ceiling, the naga supporting both of them with a sublime control of his body, proving just how mighty and powerful that tail of his was compared to his muscular torso.

"Shhhhhh…" Janus hushed Xander, giving him another tender, prolonged, wet kiss, before he smiled proudly at the human, their foreheads touching. "It'sssss time, Xander…"

"T-Time for whaaa…" the young man replied as if he were drugged, his mind certainly almost gone.

"Ping." Janus said simply, as he gave Xander's cocoon a firm squeeze, choking off the young human as he really poured out his hypnotic power, assaulting Xander's mind with such a powerful wave of bliss that his flatmate simply would not, could not resist.

PING

"Perfect." Janus smiled proudly, giving Xander another teasing squeeze as if proving a point, loving the way the young man moaned in response. "I like you sssso much better when you're holding that adorable dopey grin."

"Hehehehe…" Xander giggled in response, blushing with appreciation.

Allowing his eyes to return back to normal, Janus reached down to strip Xander's underwear off him, looping another coil around him so that his cock was perfectly clamped between two thick coils, before he finally set them down once more, although this time Janus was lying back on the carpet, crossing his arms confidently behind his head, with Xander straddling the naga.

"Now… ssssuccumb to lusssst…" Janus hissed, grinning as Xander began to thrust his hips, knowing exactly what to do despite the ambiguous command.

The young man humped and humped, giving in to his desires just like Janus had commanded him to. If only he could see himself, Xander would be aghast at how much of a drooling, panting mess he looked, fucking Janus's coils like his life depended on it, moaning loudly whenever the naga teased him or encouraged him with further squeezes.

And that smile. That immensely pleased smiled of his. Janus just couldn't resist falling for Xander, almost wanting to betray his natural instincts and mate solely with this human for the rest of his life.

"What kind of spell have you put on me?" Janus thought, but did not let his expression show it, still keeping that dominant grin as he addressed Xander.

"That'ssss it… sssso clossse, aren't you?" the naga hissed.

"Ye-yes! Ssso close… so very c-closssse, now!" Xander exclaimed, moving his hips faster and harder.

"Hmhm." Janus grinned, knowing exactly how to end it, shifting his coils so Xander's cock ended up trapped between them and his stomach, as he snapped his fingers, focusing on cancelling the spell he had on the young man.

Xander's trance was undone in that moment, the mental connection between them broken. However, as the colours started to slow and become mismatched in the lad's eyes, his expression going back to confusion, Janus squeezed Xander as tight as he possibly could without hurting the human or causing distress, making the air wheeze out of Xander's body as the young man let out a drooly gasp.

And then Xander came with a powerful, swift orgasm, his eyes almost rolling in their sockets as his cock released spurt after spurt of warm, creamy cum, the lad convulsing to the best of his ability, feeling like he had just been run over by a car, but in a good way.

Janus however said nothing, waiting patiently for Xander to recover any sort of coherence in his thoughts, holding a cocky grin as the lad finally focused his eyes on the naga's handsome visage.

"That was…" Xander began, before he took a deep breath to recover. "Amazing…"

"Hmhm… Good." Janus grinned cockily, before the colours returned to his eyes. "Because that was jusssst the firssst one. Now… let'sssss put you back in a trance…"

PING

"Oh Xander…"

When Xander woke up again from that trip down memory lane, he was confused that his surroundings were not the sunlight-filled living room anymore. He was not sitting on the couch, wrapped up from neck to waist, warming Janus up as the naga gamed, but back in his room, and it was night, his bare back lying on something firm and scaly, although not less comfortable.

Before Xander could think properly about where he was lying on, however, there was a wet, moist sensation between his legs. He felt them lying on warm, bare skin, before that wet sensation probed deeper as if acknowledging Xander was awake, the young man acknowledging that, whatever it was, it was inside him.

The high-pitched cry that escaped Xander's lips was one completely unheard of until now. In fact, the young man didn't even know he could let out such sound, his legs kicking the air slightly before they stretched in pleasure, the toes in his feet fanning out and curling, with Xander unable to contain himself from squeezing whatever was between them. That wet, probing sensation didn't stop at all, roaming around inside his hole, making Xander sigh and smile in a way almost as dopey as he did under a trance, his eyes even tearing up, feeling that sweet need to release once more foaming up inside him, like waves gathering on the seashore.

"Aah… yesssss!" Xander moaned, making the origin of that pleasure chuckle against his asshole, allowing him to confirm it was indeed Janus's tongue rimming him. Instead of allowing him to release, however, the naga pulled his head back, easily breaking free from the hold Xander's thighs had on him.

Trying to move around, Xander realized he resting on Janus's coils, although he was not wrapped up from neck to toe this time, as he already become accostumed to whenever he woke up. No, instead, Janus had his tail spread out in strategic curves and loops under both of them that still managed to entangle and entrap Xander's limbs without binding them completely, with only a couple of coils across his torso. The young man's arms were spread like Christ on the cross, with a coil wrapped around Xander's armpits like a harness, providing not only a rest for Xander's head but also preventing him from moving his arms at all.

Without saying anything, the naga dove back into Xander's hole, making the young man cry out like he had just been stabbed, injected with a heavy dose of pleasure. This time, he felt those waves striking harder, as if his whole being was going to erupt like a volcano, but once more, the naga stopped licking him and began to withdrew his head, stopped midway by Xander's legs trying to squeeze him back into rimming him.

"J-Janus!" Xander whined pleadingly, but all the naga did was raise his head to gloat with a teasing smirk.

"I do the sssssqueezing around here, okay?" Janus declared as he squeezed whatever coils he had around Xander, of course not able to constrict him completely like he could when he had him all cocooned.

Gently grabbing Xander's calves, Janus formed a loop with the thicker coils closest to his waist, burying and entrapping Xander's feet in them before giving a firm squeeze, the coils feeling squishier since it was where the naga stored his fat, before Janus's head returned once more to Xander's crotch, the young man unable to look at where the naga was headed, although he did feel the naga's warm breath near his cock.

Gulping loudly, Xander was completely unprepared for when Janus's mouth opened and the naga began engulfing his cock in one go, making him gasp breathlessly, so loud that it was as if he had been dumped in a pool of ice.

It wasn't as if Xander had never received a blowjob in the past, but the naga's mouth was simply unbelievable. Smooth as velvet, pleasantly warm as a sauna, and so tight that it had to stretch to accommodate his cock, supplying a friction that was simply beyond exquisite.

"Oh my god…" Xander breathed out, feeling like he was going to burst this time. "Oh my god! Oh fuck!"

The young man began to spasm, ready to accept that blissful orgasm, but Janus held him still with his coils while tightening his throat around his cock, clamping it so hard that Xander simply had no way of moving it at all, just one hump away from obtaining his desired release. Xander almost cried in response, letting out a pathetic whiny moan, one that Janus chuckled almost evilly at, releasing the lad's cock once he was sure Xander wouldn't be ready to burst.

"J-Janus, please!" Xander begged between laboured breaths, before he felt the tip of Janus's tail wrap around his head, squeezing his cheeks as it pulled him forward, right into Janus's seductive smoulder, but more specifically into his hypnotically pulsing eyes, which instantly caught Xander's gaze like a pair of magnets, try as the human did to look away sheerly out of mere instinct.

"Ah, ah, ah. Look me in the eye when I'm speaking to you." Janus smiled, keeping his hypnotic gaze flowing with colours, although there was a noticeable absence of more relaxing hues there, replaced by pink and orange rings that were meant to stimulate Xander's dopamine receptors, inducing a drug-like high on him with each pulse.

"Buh… Bu-But…" Xander mumbled, turning his head to the side, only looking back at Janus with one eye, which was reflecting the naga's colours at an increasing rate. It wasn't as if the young man were afraid of falling into a trance, or trying to resist Janus seriously, it was simply his need to cum prevailing over his willingness to submit to the naga's hypnotic power.

"With both eyes, if you'd pleassse." Janus chuckled teasingly, not even needing to use his tail to turn Xander's head back, with the hypnotic power of his eyes and his persuasive hisses enough to convince the young man to just give in and surrender willingly to the naga's hypnotic power, his body stiffening as he reached that familiar state of emptiness.

PING

Seeing Xander smile dumbly just like he wanted him to, Janus allowed his eyes to return to normal, although there was a glint in his azure eyes that made it clear the naga was hungry for something, and he was getting that something out of Xander no matter what.

Leaning forward, Janus surrounded Xander's head with his arms in order to slowly run his tongue across his cheek.

"Mmmm… you're so delicious. Makes me want to eat you all up…" the naga whispered, with Xander giggling in response.

"You make it sound so sexy I might just take you up on that offer…" the young man replied, having enough of his wits to speak in his entranced state like Janus had intended, although he soon burst into another fit of giggling, completely drugged.

The naga began to move down Xander's body, trailing his exposed skin with kisses, before he returned to Xander's sausage, intending to feast on it. He enjoyed the way the human just relaxed in his coils and enjoyed that heavenly blowjob, although this time the naga refrained from edging Xander too much, instead thoroughly lubricating his respectably sized member before he finally slithered back up, embracing Xander's head in his arms, claiming his lips in a deep, passionate kiss that had Xander wanting to embrace him but unable to thanks to the coils binding him, with the naga breaking the kiss and smiling as he instead rubbed their noses together in an eskimo's kiss.

"I think you're ready…" Janus then said.

"For what?" Xander giggled back.

Instead of replying, however, Janus moved his trunk, slithering slightly upwards until Xander felt the head of his cock poke against something. It was scaly, just like the rest of Janus's tail, but Xander could feel it being specifically different, like a slit in the middle of the naga's waist that he had never noticed nor acknowledged until that moment.

"Now… do not cum." Janus ordered, and started to slowly push his trunk forward, Xander felt his cock being engulfed into a place that was much tighter, warmer and damper than the naga's heavenly throat, walls of flesh clamping around his obscene erection as if shaping themselves around it.

The sensation of having his cock being welcomed into that place was beyond heavenly to Xander, who tried his best to hang on with heavy, laboured breaths, the coils around his ankles loosening enough for him to lift them and wrap them around Janus's waist, pressing the arches of his feet against the naga's scales.

"Oh fuck… oooh fuck…. Oooooh fuck! Janus… it's so… sooo… OOOOH… s-so t-tight!" Xander cried out between panting moans, smiling with pulsing eyes and an absolutely blessed grin, even unable to contain his drooling.

However, his reaction wasn't anything compared to the naga's, who, once he had Xander's cock dug deep inside him down to the base, simply allowed his weight to plop down, burying Xander under him as his arms came to embrace the lad's face against his chest.

"Oh, Xander, yeah!" Janus cried out louder than hander, drawing his hips back despite having Xander's legs wrapped around him so he would release the lad's cock from him down to the head, before slamming forward again, skin slapping against scales. "YEAH!"

Janus moans were beyond animalistic, rough and masculine, with the naga basically dominating the young man even if it were Xander who had his cock inside Janus. From outside, with the way Janus was restraining and dominating Xander's body completely, it would look as if the naga was just using Xander as an object for his pleasure, but the truth was anything but that.

With their minds linked due to the naga's power, the pleasure one felt was mirrored in the other's mind, multiplying and intensifying with each passing second. With each moan that came from Xander, Janus smiled with triumph, and each moan the naga left out was followed by a blessed sigh from the sweating, panting human. It wasn't just sex, no, it was also pure love making, and the two were so happy that, in that moment, there was absolutely nothing wrong going on in the world, and even if there was, they likely wouldn't care.

Their mental connection also helped Xander hold out for longer than he would have humanly had, with Janus supporting part of his stamina and need to orgasm, despite his own thrusting going harder. Although at times the naga paused and just laid there, nothing heard from them other than their ragged breaths, others Janus would thrust so hard his hips would be a blur, each moan and cry that escaped Xander's lips the fuel for the naga's rapid pumping.

And then both of them cried out in a perfectly synchronized pitch.

Xander's legs spread apart as he finally reached the point of no return, letting out muffled cries against the naga's chest as he shot load after load inside the naga, shooting out everything he had been accumulating until that very moment.

Janus rode the throes of orgasm with Xander, thrusting until he knew the lad had no more to spend, at which the naga finally paused and rested his whole weight on him, letting out a deep sigh, before he let go of Xander's head, smiling proudly at the expression on his handsome face, knowing Xander had never looked so blissful.

"Hmhm… that was… amazing." Janus said as he kissed Xander's lips, eventually rolling them to their sides before he finally laid on his back next to the human, sighing and wiping the sweat off his brow.

"I… loved… it…" was Xander's just as pleased response, his half-lidded eyes confirming it even if he hadn't said anything, the colours in them having faded away with how intense that orgasm had been, enough to awaken him from trance.

Once he had recovered enough strength to move, Janus gently embraced Xander and rolled them off his coils so he could cocoon the human properly, giving him a goodnight kiss on the cheek.

"Mmm…" Xander hummed as he rested his head on Janus's chest, sighing when the naga stroked his hair tenderly. "I don't think I can fall asleep after this…"

"Want me to help with that?" the naga asked tenderly.

"Mmm? How?" Xander asked, having forgotten about how exactly Janus could help with that until he was lifted up so he could look straight into Janus's pulsing eyes, only warm colours flowing in them, blue, cyan and teal, to help lull him into sleep in combination with the naga's sickly sweet slithers, as Janus began to croon a lullaby that sounded like he had made it up just for Xander.

"Sssssleep now… ssssleep for me… ssssslumber with me, my ssssweet Xander… sssshut those eyessss… jusssst for me… ssssleep now and sssweet dreamsss…" the naga sang as he kept hypnotizing the young man, with it not taking long for Xander to fall under a trance once more, exhausted as he was.

PING

"Ssssssleep…" Janus hissed one final time, smiling warmly as Xander sweetly closed his eyes, before he followed suit and both flatmates sunk together into the warm arms of sleep.

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"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog…" Janus hummed as he tried to copy the letters he saw in the book by writing them in the free space below, wondering why a fox would jump over a dog. His handwriting was clunky and scribbly, the naga still getting used to those tools humans used to write, loving how many different colours they used to write those words. Just like his eyes!

Janus was lying on the carpet on his stomach as he practiced his writing, having asked Xander to teach him some basic human skills so he wouldn't have to depend on him too much. He was particularly interested in knowing how to read, so Xander had helped him mainly with the former, the naga already good enough at it to start practicing how to write.

Looking back, Janus watched Xander work, the naga's coils wrapped around his torso for warmth, although the lad's arms were free so he could type away on his laptop as he worked. He was utterly silent, focused, although there was something evident in his eyes that he wasn't his real self at the moment. Instead of their hazel, Xander's eyes were pulsing with rings of black, red and purple, having pretty much turned him into a drone that could only focus on that one task, no matter what.

The fact Xander had a job, a concept Janus did not understand at first, presented a problem in their relationship, even if he worked from home. However, thanks to the naga's powers, they soon found a solution. Under that powerful trance, Xander was able to do an entire week's worth of work in a day, all they had to do was organize things properly and allow Janus to take care of him as he remained in that completely dronelike entranced state and he would be able to work more hours in one week than a whole month in his normal condition!

BEEP BEEP BEEP

"Stop." Janus ordered, and Xander froze, in a completely robotic, unnatural way. The absolute lack of emotion and humanity in his face was a reminder of why the naga utterly refused to use those colours on his prey, but, nonetheless, that was a good enough reason for Janus to make an exception.

Lifting Xander up like he weighted nothing, Janus carried him to the kitchen, serving the dinner he had prepared after cautiously following Xander's instructions, before he sat the human on a chair, allowing his arms hang free as he began to massage the human, smiling while he began to break their mental connection in order to wake him up.

The colours were slowly blinked away from Xander's eyes, who always woke up from his trance feeling like there was a heavy fog clearing away from his mind, a sensation comparable to a slight hangover.

"Ugh… I'm so glad this is over for the month." Xander sighed, before he realized where he was, particularly what was in front of him, a full pizza prepared for him. Just for him, since it had all of his favourite ingredients and no pineapple.

"You like it?" the naga smiled proudly

"Janus!" Xander exclaimed. "You didn't have to!"

"I knew you'd wake up hungry. Eat up. Or I'll have to hypnotize you again and feed you myself!" Janus chuckled, knowing it would be unnecessary, since Xander was famished.

"What were you up to while I was zonked?"

"Studying your language. I tried watching one of those foreign films with subtitles and I understood everything perfectly!"

"That's amazing! You're learning it so fast!" Xander exclaimed, feeling a sort of pride in being responsible for the naga's knowledge.

"I had an amazing teacher." Janus smiled back, leaning forward to kiss Xander's lips, with the two of them ending the night in their second most favourite way: cuddling together on the couch while watching their favourite series.

Xander couldn't help but pause and reminisce, thinking that he had it all now. A house, a stable job, and someone who fulfilled all his needs for affection, companionship, and lust in a way that no other human could. He didn't know what to consider the naga, a flatmate, a friend, a pet or a boyfriend, but he didn't want to dwell too much on that. The less he thought about feelings, the better.

However, although things had pretty much settled into perfection for Xander, who had absolutely nothing to complain about, it wasn't the same for Janus.

The shedding of the naga's scales was a stark reminding of him of his captivity, which as welcome as it was, still wasn't the ideal predicament. And although Janus wasn't exactly complaining about it, being the politest guest one could wish for, Xander noticed that the naga would sometimes have a distant look in his eyes, clearly missing his home.

"You okay?" Xander asked, even lying down next to Xander on the floor, as cold as it was on his boxer brief-clad body.

"Yeah…" Janus said as he scooped closer to Xander, enough for their noses to rub together. "Well… not okay."

"You're tired of being stuck in this apartment, right?" Xander said immediately.

"No! I mean… it's not your fault! You've been taking care of me so well, I just… I…"

Half-lidding his eyes, Xander slid his index finger against his curved thumb in order to strike the naga's forehead hard with it , enough to make Janus wince and cover his face childishly as he complained about the pain.

"Don't be silly, you goof." Xander said with teasing annoyance, smiling. "Of course, you must miss your jungle. I know I haven't been able to come up with a way to return you there, but I haven't given up on it. I promise we'll find a solution, Janus."

"But that would mean us going off our separate ways and I don't want that either…" the naga pouted, his blue eyes almost shining as he said it.

"We'll worry about that when the time comes." Xander said, brushing Janus's hair affectionately as he said so. "But… is there anything I can do to help you, well, I don't know… make up for it?"

"You're so kind, Xander. But don't worry." Janus smiled, placing a tender kiss on Xander's lips.

"Come on… there has to be something I can do. Want to squeeze me to the point I pass out in your coils like you do to your prey? I mean… I don't mind as long as it doesn't hurt too much."

"Well… if you insssssist…" Janus hissed teasingly, gaining a naughty blush on his handsome face, scooping even closer against Xander, a new predatory hint in his sapphire eyes. "There is… ssssomething we could do."

"Oh, is that so?" Xander asked back with a raised eyebrow and a matching teasing grin.

"I want you to fight me, Xander… fight to resist me like unwilling prey… fight to sssssurvive so I won't eat you alive…" Janus hissed with pure lust in his eyes, even giving Xander's cheek a slow lick that had his cock hardening inside his slim underwear.

Without saying a word, Xander surprised Janus by pouncing on the naga, straddling his trunk, moving his arms quickly moving in order to press the naga's wrists against the floor, letting out a triumphant chuckle as he did so.

However, the naga was no beginner predator, his tail moving in a flash, much faster than Xander had been, moving in three loops around his torso to give him a quick, winding squeeze, which had Xander gasping for air and loosening his hold slightly on Janus, although he eventually managed to double down despite his suffocation, not wanting to lose.

The naga just chuckled in response, giving in to excitement and squeezing Xander even tighter, his coils clenching tighter and tighter to the point where Xander began to turn red, his arms weakening and losing their grip on Janus's wrists.

"Gah!" Xander gasped loudly as Janus relented, his torso flopping forward, requiring the naga to hold him still as he crossed his arms behind his head cockily.

"Had enough?" Janus teased, clearly not having had enough. Not even close.

"I guess I have…" Xander panted, pretending he was going to give in, before he gained a confident look on his handsome face. "To do this!"

Once again, Janus was taken by surprise as Xander attacked him yet again, remaining in his position as his fingers dug into Janus's armpits, quickly confirming how ticklish Janus actually was by the way the naga began to laugh and giggle uncontrollably. Enough that the his coils tried to grip him again but were unable to, the naga losing control of his tail thanks to Xander's attack before he could succeed in giving him a proper squeeze to halt him.

"Hah, who would have thought the apex predator of the jungle would be taken out with tickles?" Xander gloated as he kept attacking Janus throughout his laughter, loving the way the naga had to let go of him in order to swish his tail to try and be able to hold on throughout his laughing fit. "Guess I'm gonna become the king of the jungle this way!"

"Haha! Stop! You… hahahaha… you won't!" Janus tried to shout throughout his laughing fit, but things became even more dire when one of Xander's hands drifted down to pinch the naga's sides, making him actually release tears as he pleaded for Xander to stop.

Xander did relent slightly, but Janus's own control of his stamina was better than a human's, so his worry about Janus running out of breathing ended up being his own downfall, which allowed the naga to grab his wrists and pull the human towards him. The tickling he had endured had done an effective job of weakening his coils to the point where his tail was almost heavy and limp, but it had affected his arms and the rest of his torso like it would any other human.

And, even if they were nothing compared to the might and strength of his coils, Janus's arms were still much more powerful than Xander's.

"Ah!" Xander let out what was almost a yelp as the naga went in for a bearhug, squeezing him tightly in his arms.

However, Xander was so used to being crushed and constricted in Janus's coils that it felt like a mere hug in comparison . Enough for him to be able to move an arm in order to poke Janus's right side with the tip of his fingers again, pinching and weakening him enough for the naga to lose again.

Xander had never been one for fights, but any guy would be turned on by some manhandling. Enough for him to give in to the intensity of the moment and try to turn the tables against Janus, with the two of them rolling around on the floor as they wrestled.

At some point, the naga wasn't using his tail on purpose, content with just trying to dominate Xander with his human half, even if it technically put him at a disadvantage. Sweating and grunting, the two ground against one another, with every time that looked that Xander was going to be able to claim victory ending up with Janus managing to block him from securing him in a tight hold every time.

Eventually, Janus had his back against the wall, trapping Xander in a full nelson of his own, his arms locking Xander tightly from under his armpits, making any writhing and kicking a simple useless waste of energy.

"Give in?" Janus gloated teasingly.

"N-No…" Xander grunted, a grave mistake.

Interpreting that as a challenge to try and dominate him further, Janus finally decided to use his tail, however, instead of coiling up Xander's legs like he normally would, he instead decided to weigh his tail down on him, lying his thicker coils over his legs and allowing them too pool and tangle up in order to be too heavy to Xander to be able to move his legs. Not satisfied with doing just that, Janus manoeuvred Xander's arms down while his tail tip slithered up to bind the lad's wrists behind him like handcuffs, wrapping them up in a crossed loop.

"Perfect. Now you can't move at all." Janus gloated with a teasing lick to Xander's ear that had him shuddering in his hold, grunting as he confirmed he was indeed utterly immobilized under the naga's weight, his legs utterly entangled in them, in a different way from how Janus tended to bind him in a neat cocoon.

"Damn it…" Xander grunted, especially as Janus planted a teasing peck on his cheek, teasing his right nipple with his free hand as he gave his neck a playful squeeze with the other arm.

"Are you ready to give in now, my prey?" the naga asked cockily, licking Xander's cheek. "Mmm… sssso delicioussssss…"

If the whole roughhousing hadn't been enough to arouse Xander, as well as the utter sensation of being bound and trapped, the way Janus licked his cheek and treated him like food certainly made the bulge in his underwear press against the naga's scales. Janus took notice of it, grinning lecherously as his hand came down to fondle Xander's bulge, before fishing his cock out to grab it properly in a firm grip.

"Oh… does my prey want to be eaten ssso much he'sss horny?" the naga teased with another lick to Xander. "Hmmm… ssssuch a delicioussss, willing prey…"

Entering the role play, Xander decided to act like the prey Janus wanted him to be, squirming as he put on a whiny, spoiled voice.

"I'll never let you eat me, you snake!" he said with a grunt, feeling Janus cup his chin, realizing the naga was about to use his hypnotic colours on him, which made Xander clench his hazel eyes shut. "Oh no you won't! I will fight to my very last breath!"

"Is that so?" Janus chuckled.

Xander felt the naga's tail begin to slither upward, those scales rotating around his wrists so Janus had enough slack to do something that Xander realised too late what it was, with his eyes being blinded by scales when the naga's tail clenched tightly around them.

"J-Janus…" he whispered.

"Shhh… you're my prey now, manling… and I intend to have my fun with you before you ultimately become my meal."

The naga's declaration made Xander gulp, going back to his role as helpless prey, trying to sound scared to the best of his ability. He shuddered again as Janus breathed against his neck and licked his ear, eventually feeling the naga's hand move, beginning to stroke his member.

"Ooh…" he found himself unable to contain a moan.

"You sssee manling, I don't need my hypnotic eyesss or mighty coilssss wrapped around you to get you exactly how I want you to be. You're going to beg for releassse, my sssweet manling. And once you do, you're going to be ssso weak, sssso drained, you're going to enjoy a nice ride down the long, elongated hatch…"

"N-nooooo" Xander whined in his victim role, but Janus just chuckled and choked him with a tighter squeeze around his throat.

True to his word, the naga worked Xander over for what was hours, making him writhe and sweat as he pleaded for release over and over. At one point it began to be difficult to understand if Xander was still playing his role as the naga's helpless prey or if he was genuinely letting out those tortured, painful moans, begging and pleading with Janus to be allowed to cum.

Revelling in the idea of making Xander gasp and choke breathlessly with his arms instead of his coils, Janus was pretty much controlling Xander's breathing, his bicep pressing tightly against his carotid artery, of course never going over the limit where he would actually cause injuries, knowing Xander's body as well as the young man did by now, working him like a well-oiled machine.

By the time Janus allowed Xander to orgasm, the poor sweat-drenched young man was absolutely exhausted and weakened, letting out almost painful-sounding moans as he shot rope after rope of cum, cumming all over his torso, decorating his fair skin in a delicious creamy seasoning, ready to be eaten.

Of course, Janus didn't have any of that in mind, but it had been quite a fun way to reminisce on being a jungle's apex predator, enough for him to sigh in bliss as if he had actually just finished a good meal.

"Thank you so much, Xander. I loved it," the naga smiled as he let go of Xander's eyes and turned his chin upwards to kiss him lovingly on the lips.

"I'm glad… you liked…" Xander sighed almost breathlessly, before Janus picked him up in his arms and extended his tail, carrying him to the bathroom so they could clean up.

This kind of roleplaying became an occasional habit of theirs. Xander would be a poor, helpless human, lost in the jungle, or a hunter who was manhandled and dominated by the very naga he had to capture, or even a sacrifice to please a deity, always loving the various scenarios they conjured together with their devilishly creative minds.

However, it still wasn't the same as being in the jungle, and Xander knew it. So, he decided to surprise Janus in his own way, taking the naga out of the apartment and into the garage, where a rented car with tinted glasses awaited them. It had cost quite a bit, but Xander thought it was worth it, considering everything Janus had done for him so far.

Of course, what Xander didn't expect was Janus's absolute lack of patience during the trip, acting worse than a petulant child.

"Where are we going?" Janus asked.

"Janus, it's the tenth time you ask that, I already told you it's a surprise!" Xander complained, although he couldn't blame the naga, considering he had had to pile himself up in an uncomfortable position in the car trunk. Fortunately, it was only a half-hour car ride to where he intended to go, the road pretty much empty at that time.

Parking in a secluded area of the woods, Xander made sure there was absolutely no one around them (as there shouldn't be, it was past midnight on a weekday) before he set up the tent he had brought, finally unlocking the trunk door so Janus could cautiously slither out, looking around warily as he should.

"Xander, is this okay? I mean…" the naga uttered nervously.

"Relax. People barely come to this place during the week. And I thought you've been needing some contact with nature. Just… be yourself and do whatever you do, I guess."

"R-really?!" Janus asked, astonished.

"Yeah."

In response, Janus took off his shirt, ready to return to his roots. The weather wasn't as cold as it used to be, so the naga could perfectly handle slithering around in his natural state, stretching his coils and the muscles in his torso in a way he couldn't inside that apartment, despite being spacious. The feel of dirt, twigs and weeds on his tail was like returning home, even if the soil wasn't anything like what the naga was used to.

"Ooooh… this feels great." Janus sighed in appreciation, slithering around as if making himself acquainted with the terrain that surrounded them, although there was still a clear reluctance in distancing himself from Xander.

"Janus." Xander said, approaching the naga and patting his bare shoulder from behind. "It's okay. The woods are big enough for you to take a stroll. I know it's not going back to nature the way you would wish, but… you can be yourself here."

"What if someone comes?" Janus asked fearfully.

"Weren't you supposed to be an apex predator?" Xander teased, despite the naga's annoyance.

"Fine… you're right." Janus said, sighing in relief. "When do you want me to come back?"

"In about three hours, if you don't mind." Xander said, having given Janus a watch on purpose so the naga could have track of time.

Xander watched as Janus finally slithered away, knowing he'd be safe in those woods. Besides, it's not like the naga could take that long, he'd certainly be back before the three hours had passed, there couldn't be that much to explore on that rather small forest.

Smiling, Xander crawled into the tent he had brought, turning on the portable torch he had bought and lying back so he could cover himself with a blanket, turning his Kindle on in order to read the manga he had downloaded into it.

However, after a while, he decided to pull out something he hadn't enjoyed recently, for he only really used it when he was alone.

A joint.

Lighting it up, Xander leaned back and took a deep drag as he got ready to start another chapter of his manga, appreciating the pure quiet. Knowing that he would likely be safe, the young man wasn't too worried about anyone else coming in, so relaxed that when he heard sounds approaching, he was so sure it was Janus that he put on a flirty smile when the tent's zipper was open…

… only for it to reveal being a police officer.

The absolutely mortified look that took over Xander's face would have been hilarious if he weren't in an extremely dire situation at that moment. Although he wasn't doing anything illegal, there was always that fear, his heart racing as he spoke with a slight stutter.

"G-Good… night, officer." Xander said, speaking loudly on purpose so Janus could hear him. "Is something wrong?!"

"What are you doing here, son?"

"Reading?" Xander asked back, as if the smell of the joint hidden behind his back wasn't obvious.

"Out here alone? At this hour?"

Xander sighed. He knew there was no way the truth would get him anywhere.

"Okay, officer. I'll admit it," he said. "I was supposed to meet this chick here from Tinder, but she stood me up. I don't know if I was catfished or whatever, but I didn't want to go home yet. Spare some compassion for a heartbroken guy?"

The act he had put on was already great, although the police officer didn't seem to buy Xander's explanation completely, but, the hearing of rustling in the trees, along with how eerily dark and silent the woods were other than that, made him decide to not purse any further action.

"Give me that," the officer said, accepting the joint and crushing it under his foot just to be an authoritarian prick, before he turned to Xander. "Have a good night, son."

Xander sighed in relief, crawling out of the tent to watch as the police car drive away, waiting until it was out of sight so he could address the naga.

"You can come out now," he said, eventually turning towards the source of Janus's slithering as the naga approached him.

"Is everything okay? Who was that?" Janus asked, seeing the way Xander trembled, smelling the almost pungent scent of fear in the human. "This was a bad idea… wasn't it? Should we go home?"

"No!" Xander exclaimed, turning towards the naga, looking down in slight shame. "I'm sorry, Janus. I really wanted to let you be in touch with nature again. I knew this was risky, but I didn't want someone to interrupt it. I wanted it to be perfect… for you to feel like you're back in your jungle."

"You're too sweet, Xander." Janus smiled as he embraced the human, taking him in his bare arms and planting a kiss on Xander's cheek. "It's nowhere near close to the jungle I hail from… but I see it has its dangers."

"Yet none as dangerousss assss my favourite predator, I assume." Xander chuckled, even mocking Janus's hisses, although an idea did come to him, making him blush as his cock hardened in response to it.

"Oh?" Janus chuckled, pressing his trunk against Xander's crotch in response, prolonging his hisses teasingly to make Xander shiver. "I sssee ssssomeone likesss danger."

"I may have come up with a scenario in my mind…" Xander admitted, although a bit shyly.

Having spiked the naga's curiosity, Xander laid out his proposal, one that really excited Janus. It was the perfect idea considering where they were, and it would also guarantee they could enjoy some private time of their own in that dark forest.

So, Xander returned to his tent, taking his clothes off except for his underwear as he laid under his blanket, although not covering himself properly, exposing a bare leg.

"Boy, I sure hope there aren't any predators around!" he exclaimed, before he closed his eyes, pretending to fall asleep as he entered his role, with it not taking long enough for his predator to find him.

"Well, well, well… what have we here?" Janus said in a whisper, as if he were musing to himself, loud enough for Xander to hear but for his 'sleeping' character not to.

Xander tried to steady his breathing in response, moving slightly under the blanket to expose his underwear-clad self, his cock already starting to harden in anticipation.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd ssssay you came here jussst to offer yoursself to me…" Janus gloated as he slithered inside the tent, filling it with his tail before closing the fly behind him, before he beheld his 'prey', even smacking his lips audibly as he did so, knowing Xander was playing the part of the sleeping helpless traveller who was all alone against a hungry predator.

"Oh well… today isss your lucky day, human. Because I jussst love playing with my food." Janus chuckled lecherously, enjoying the way Xander's lips almost curled into a smile before he pretended to be asleep again, remaining still as the naga laid himself on top of him, pressing his trunk perfectly between Xander's parted legs, taking a deep, audible whiff of the lad's neck.

"Mmm… you ssssmell sssso good…" Janus whispered, a truth, since he absolutely adored Xander's cologne. His tongue then came out for a slow lick that had Xander shuddering and moaning, decorating his already delicious skin with goosebumps. "And sssso tasty… hmhmm… I'm gonna eat you all up."

It was a challenge for Xander to try and not move, but it was all part of the fun. His breath was trembling as Janus began to slowly trail kisses down his neck and torso, interchanging them with teasing licks, as if he were stealing a taste of the prey he would eventually consume.

By the time he reached Xander's underwear, Janus planted a teasing kiss on the lad's bulge, before he kept sliding down one of his soft-haired legs, with his tail doing the job of pulling down Xander's slim boxer briefs as Janus approached the lad's feet, finishing with a lick to the soles that had Xander shuddering, the naga even teasingly allowing Xander's underwear to just remain down there, restraining his ankles like handcuffs.

Sliding back on top of the human, Janus this time trailed back up, again filling Xander's other leg with kisses and licks, before he paused at Xander's crotch, planting a kiss on his V-line before he took a whiff of his sexual musk, sighing himself at how much his prey smelled sexily of sweat, but mainly arousal.

"Oooh, jusssst divine," the naga moaned, looking up at Xander as he chuckled, planting a kiss on his navel while giving his cock a few jerks with his hand, waiting until it was nicely hard and leaking before he returned to sliding up, lying completely over Xander, their bodies pressed against one another, Xander's cock grinding against his scales, making him moan and part his lips, just perfectly so Janus could claim them with a kiss.

"Mmmmm…" Xander hummed in his fake sleep as they kissed, allowing Janus to take full control of it, enjoying the absolute sensation of being taken advantage of like that, his body completely for Janus's to play with as he wanted.

And play the naga did, grinding his trunk against Xander's cock until he was nice and wet, before his hand slid down to gently guide the human's fleshy rod as he raised slightly upwards, beginning to engulf Xander's cock with his slit.

"Mmmmmm!" Xander exclaimed in a hum, even biting his lip. Every single time he penetrated Janus it was as if it were the first, the walls of the naga's insides so velvety and tight that it was as if they would never stretch, no matter what.

"Open your eyessss…" Janus hissed against Xander's ear and Xander knew it was time for him to play his part.

Opening his eyes, Xander let out a shocked gasp, pretending to be afraid and trying to push Janus away. But, regardless, the naga only had to light up his colours to freeze him in place, making his lips part in wide awe as he beheld those hypnotic colours.

"Aww, come on, you won't even put up a fight?" Janus pouted mockingly, but it was fair. The lad was that horny.

Chuckling as he felt Xander try and embrace him, Janus even coaxed his prey's hands down so he could grope his trunk where he expected the naga's ass would be, loving the way he was even starting to hump, that all-familiar PING even resounding in the back of their minds mid-hump.

"Oh well, I didn't expect you to give in sso soon… hmhm… I guesss we can try ssssomething different." Janus said as he turned them around, lying on his back with his arms crossed behind his head as Xander knelt over his trunk. "Fuck me, Xander. Act like the predator for once."

Grinning dopily in response, Xander began to pump his hips back and forth, moaning as he pleasured himself fucking that immense tightness. He happily fell forward as Janus pulled him in, closing his eyes and kissing the naga as they made out, both of them starting to sweat and moan as they shared that moment of ecstasy.

However, this time, Janus did not allow Xander to cum, flashing his eyes with those darker rings of black and purple.

"Sssstop," he commanded, with Xander becoming almost petrified in a second.

Freeing Xander's cock, Janus slid back and rearranged the young man so that he was lying straight, covering his nude body completely with his blanket, except for his feet.

Returning towards them, the naga planted two matching pecks on Xander's soles, always finding the shape of feet so adorable, especially with the way those little piggies wiggled, before those kisses turned into licks, the naga's jaw clicking as he unhinged it.

Xander felt his damp feet being welcomed somewhere warm and wet that enclosed over them, sucking them deeper into the damp tight warmth of the naga's mouth, making him moan, completely unaware or uncaring of the fact he was being eaten alive by the naga!

However, almost on cue, when Janus hummed his approval of Xander's delicious taste, the hypnotized young man couldn't help but echo it with a hum of his own that had the naga chuckle around his ankles before he started gulping down his legs further. The powerful sucking sensation kept the young man's legs tightly pressed against one another so they could be further welcomed into Janus's mouth, and, as the naga progressed up to his succulent thighs, the powerful muscles in Janus's throat continued to slide and contract around the swallowed portion of his body

Xander was still smiling deep within his stimulating trance, but, at one point, he could not stop himself finally letting out what sounded like a cross between a moan and a gasp when Janus's tongue slipped up from between his legs and accidentally flickered over the surface of his firmed up, cum-filled balls. As the rest of the naga's mouth began to slide around his firm buttocks and waist, Janus's tongue continued to stir Xander's groin into a frenzy, until finally, the glistening tip of his shaft disappeared into the warm confines of his captor's maw.

Janus knew he had reached his limit, now that he had Xander's legs completely engulfed all the way up to his waist, and now it was time for Xander to be aware of it too.

So, the naga snapped his fingers, forcing himself to break the hypnotic connection between them.

Although Xander's trance did break, the awareness didn't return to him as quickly.

The young man remained there motionless, staring blankly at the tent's cover as he tried to regain his train of thought, remembering he had been hypnotized by Janus at a certain point. Trying to shift, Xander realized he was immobilized, already used to the sensation, only it felt different somehow. Just as tight, but as if his legs were enclosed in something damp and moist.

"Huh?" Xander asked to himself, looking forward, his entire body covered by his blanket, making him wonder just what could be happening, with the reveal coming in the form of Janus's chuckle under the blanket.

The naga then lifted the blanket with his tail, making Xander gasp loudly as he realized his legs had been consumed by Janus, the naga's jaw completely unhinged and his throat inflated so he could fit them in. It was a sight that would have horrified Xander had he had enough capacity to see in the dark, but the darkness was just enough for him to be mildly surprised, his heart skipping a beat as he confirmed that he couldn't even squirm with his legs, barely able to move his toes!

"J-Janus!" the young man gasped, any notion of what they had been role playing forgotten. "Wh-what are yo–OH!"

Although Xander's arms weren't bound, it wasn't needed. Janus's tongue came up and licked Xander's engulfed cock, making him close his eyes and moan loudly. The naga already gave head with such a skill that had pretty much ruined human mouths and throats for the rest of Xander's life, but what Janus was doing at the moment was just sublime.

"Oh fuck… oh fuck…" Xander breathed out through laboured moans, a mix of panic and arousal setting in, as if his sudden awakening had made him forget about the fact that Janus couldn't consume him fully.

Nonetheless, it was enough for the naga to work him over, the powerful wet suction and clamping around Xander's legs feeling just divine. It was such a fantastic sensation that it made one want to be consumed, with Xander feeling depraved enough to just contemplate that scenario.

Regardless, Janus was far from being done with him, as seen with the way the naga chuckled in response to Xander's moans. He clamped his throat harder over Xander's compressed cock, his prehensile tongue instead worming itself somewhere else, with poor Xander too distracted by his frenzied moans to notice it until the very moment Janus penetrated that very special spot of his with it.

"AH! JANUS!" Xander cried out even louder, any concern over being caught by others completely forgotten. Why should he even care, when his cock was throbbing so wildly and his ass was being licked and pleased so exquisitely?!

Xander's useless arms remained at his sides, gripping the sleeping back tightly as he tried to hold onto any semblance of control, which he soon lost, reduced to a sweating, panting, moaning wreck, flailing his head around as he tried to plead for release once more, feeling even more helpless than when Janus had edged him for hours with just his hands.

And, like then, when he was finally allowed to cum, Xander cried out with a powerful moan, shooting rope after rope of cum all over himself, even hitting the tent's cover as he did so.

"Oh my god… oh my god…" Xander kept repeating with breathless, almost raspy grunts, before he felt Janus's tail tip pressing behind his back, forcing him to sit up slightly so he could contemplate the naga's wide maw slowly letting go of his legs as he slid back, his jaw hanging ajar in a dumb, awestruck look as he watched Janus eventually finish releasing his legs and allowing his jaw to click back to normal, slithering closer to him and picking him up in his own warm, tender embrace.

"Sssso… how was that?" the naga teased, pecking Xander warmly on the lips, but Xander did not reply to him, merely sighing breathless. "Better than usual, hm?"

"Yeaaaaaah…" Xander drawled out in a sigh, teary-eyed, before he caught his breath and look down at his saliva-soaked legs. "But now I'm gonna have to drive home with my legs all wet and sticky because of you!" he complained in a way became a laughter when Janus just let him fall back, tickling him with tender kisses and licks to his cheek.

Eventually, after relaxing and cuddling for a while, the two managed to return to the car, although by the time Janus was ready to slither inside, they were both surprised by a rustle in the bushes that revealed itself to be a wolf, certainly out for a final night hunt.

Of course, expected to other creatures, Janus wasn't minimally worried, unlike Xander, who instantly froze.

"J-Janus…" Xander said with a trembling voice, the wolf pausing as he smelled Xander's fear.

"Shhhh…" the naga said as he slithered back out of the van, smiling gently while he approached the wolf, allowing the animal to sniff him. "See? He knows we aren't going to hurt him. He was just curious. Come closer."

"But…" Xander mumbled, taking an unsure step closer regardless, yet pausing once more. "Are you sure, Janus? He might see me as food."

"He can smell me all over you. He knows that if you're going to be anyone's food, you're mine." Janus assured Xander.

Although he wasn't completely convinced, Xander eventually came close enough for the wolf to take one step to close the distance between them and take a proper whiff of Xander's scent, letting out a small sound of approval as he rubbed its snout against Xander's forearm, before finally walking away.

"What was that all about?" Xander asked, confused.

"He heard the sounds of our mating and wanted to know who exactly was doing it." Janus smiled, turning to Xander with a slight blush. "That gesture meant we have his blessing."

"Blessing for what?"

"For a relationship as mates." Janus shrugged. "It's a nature thing, you wouldn't understand."

And although he didn't understand, Xander gained a massive blush at that, one that had remained throughout the whole ride home, the ride to the stand to return the rented car and for a few more days.

One night eventually, Janus's eyes fluttered open, feeling Xander move in his coils. With a sleepy grunt, the naga loosened them, knowing Xander likely needed to hit the bathroom if he was waking up during the night, something that hadn't happened that frequently, but enough for Janus to know what to do, knowing he'd eventually fall back asleep, Xander would wiggle back into his cocoon, and he would just tighten the coils reflexively in his sleep.

So, the naga did doze off, but, after a while, he woke up again, finding a distinct lack of a nude human body in them beyond strange.

Seeing the bathroom light still reflected on the bedroom window made Janus find it strange, but, as Xander turned it off to return to the bed, the naga just closed his eyes, thinking they would finally fall back asleep.

Only Xander didn't immediately return to the cocoon, instead remaining there, looking at the sleeping naga.

"Janus, are you awake?" Xander asked.

Janus was about to turn around and ask what was wrong, but he didn't. A sixth sense, almost as if the naga knew how to read the situation, prevented him from reacting. The naga remained perfectly still, pretending like he was still in a deep sleep, even as Xander walked around the bed just to make sure.

"Good. Because if you were awake, I'm not sure I could say this. I just wanted you to know that I… I…"

It took Janus every ounce of control to not open his eyes and take Xander into his arms and coils when the young man began sobbing, unable to contain a few tears. He knew him well enough: the human simply did not know how to vocalize his true feelings.

This was going to be a once in a lifetime opportunity.

"Say it…" the naga thought to himself.

"Shit." Xander sighed. "I'll never be good at this kind of thing. Maybe one day I'll be able to tell you how much I really lo–"

"Come on, say it!"

Xander sighed.

"Fuck… I really can't say it, not even like this, with you asleep." Xander sobbed, wiping the tears away from his eyes. "I really wish I could tell how much I lo… see, I can't even say the word! Anyway, I… more than like you, Janus. A lot."

Janus's eyes remained wide open. He hadn't said the word completely, but he had tried it.

"Love?" the naga asked to himself. "He loves… me?"

"Okay, I'll shut up now." Xander chuckled. "I can't fall asleep now anyway, but I don't think I'll ever get used to not sleeping without you and coils in my bed. I just wish I could tell you how much you mean to me. Hell, I wish I could call you my boyfriend."

And although Xander closed his eyes, ready to fall asleep, Janus remained awake the whole night, having even completely forgotten to tighten the coils around the human like he always did.

However, the naga decided that, from that moment on, they were boyfriends, whatever that meant.

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Teaching a non-human to read and write was easy. Teaching them how to work the washing machine and dishwasher was slightly less easy. Teaching them to overcome their fear of fire and cook was not as easy.

Teaching them how to use gadgets was dangerous.

"DON'T!" Xander shouted as he paused his ironing, almost jumping over the couch to pounce on Janus and prevent him from starting an Instagram Live and reveal his identity to his hundreds of followers, thankfully having the camera still covered, requiring the naga to catch him with his tail before he could land face-first on the floor and break a few teeth.

"What was that for?!" exclaimed Janus, hovering Xander in front of him, who was panting heavily from the scare, feeling like he had aged ten years with that quasi-heart attack.

"From now on, no touching the iPad without my supervision! It's too dangerous!"

"But you let me play on the Switch all the time…" Janus pouted, sitting Xander on his lap.

"The Switch is different. This can expose you to the whole world if you're not careful." Xander sighed, before he opened the iPad. "I'll create a children's profile for you, it's easier that way."

"I'm not a cub…" Janus pouted childishly, seeing Xander was looking at something on the screen, having opened the other apps. "What are you looking at?"

"Hm? Oh. I completely forgot I had this open." Xander said, showing Janus the webpage of a real estate website, with a farmhouse for sale that was kind of run down, but it was located in quite the open field, far from everything and everyone.

"What's this?"

"A silly dream. Don't bother."

"Am I going to have to hypnotise you to make you open your mouth or are you just going to tell me from the start?" Janus asked with a raised eyebrow and, although Xander knew the naga would never force him to say anything he didn't want to, he sighed.

"Fine… I've always been enamoured with this house and the idea of just letting go of everything and moving there." Xander smiled with longing.

"Then why didn't you?"

"I never had the guts. It's far away from here, it would require a lot of work and it would be too big for lonely ol' me. That and it's expensive as hell."

"Expensive?"

"So you have an idea, the apartment we're living in is valued at five hundred thousand. That house is eight hundred thousand. I'd never be able to afford it and renovations."

"Why can't you just print more money? You can print other things…"

"Janus, you can't just print money. It can only be printed in one specific place."

"Then why don't they print more money?"

"Okay, let's not get into that discussion." Xander rolled his eyes. "Besides, this house has always been good enough for me. You'd be surprised, but this is actually a big apartment considering where we are located."

"Really?" Janus asked with an almost condescending doubt, finding that apartment so ridiculously small, considering the wide swaths of forest he had been used to.

"Yeah. And quite coveted by the asshole next door. He almost threatened me to sell him the house when I inherited it. He's always been envious of the view I have and wants to turn the whole floor into his penthouse. Well, too bad for him, I'm staying here as long as I want to and won't sell him the house for nothing." Xander said, tapping a few more times on the iPad before handing it back to Janus. "Here you go. I blocked everything that can be considered dangerous… or so I hope. Have fun."

Janus entertained himself with the tablet, swiping along and trying different apps, eventually coming to the conclusion that the games on it weren't nearly as fun as the ones they played on the Switch. So, the naga did what any bored person would do and opened YouTube, finding it strange all the recommended videos were related to The Jungle Book.

Specifically, a certain scene in the film.

"I'm not afraid, I can look out for myself…" was heard coming from the iPad's speaker, resulting in Xander dropping the hot iron with a loud thud, startling Janus, who looked back.

"Everything okay?" the naga asked, lifting a curious eyebrow at the shock on Xander's face.

"Y-yeah, sorry, just got distracted by something! Slippery fingers!" Xander giggled rather unconvincingly, but Janus didn't pursue further inquiry, instead focusing back on the video he was playing.

"A delicioussss man-cub…"

Janus could detect the faint smell of arousal wafting from Xander, ready to turn around again and ask him what exactly was going on, but then he looked down at what he was wearing: the very first present Xander had gifted him, the green tank top featuring eyes of the same snake he was watching, pulsing with hypnotic colours.

Truth be told, the naga almost scoffed at the concept, finding it utterly unrealistic, wondering if whoever had come up with that scene had met a naga before, since there was no other explanation for getting the detail of the hypnotic colours right. However, it was just plain insulting that they had given those powers to a snake.

But if Xander was excited by that prospect, of being caught by surprise, lulled into sleep with the threat of danger surrounding his helpless being, Janus was more than happy to entertain him. The right opportunity just had to come up…

Said opportunity didn't take long to come up, surging the next day, when both of them were binge watching a show before going to bed. However, since Xander had already watched it, he wasn't as focused on it as Janus was, having turned on his Switch at a certain point to play Stardew Valley, his biggest addiction.

Janus let out a yawn and stretched his muscular arms, patting his own scaly trunk as he turned to Xander, who was completely entranced by his console's screen.

"Xander… it's getting late."

"Hmhm…" Xander mumbled, not paying attention to what the naga was saying.

Regardless, Janus began the process of getting off the couch and slithering towards the bathroom to brush his teeth, eventually realising Xander was still in the living room when he went towards the room and realised the light was still on.

"Xander…" Janus scolded the young man like a concerned parent. "It's time to go to bed. You have to work tomorrow…"

"Yeah, yeah…" Xander replied back absentmindedly, becoming the most impossible person to talk to when he was completely addicted to something.

"Xander…" Janus decided to use a more stern approach, his tail nudging the human's bare foot, but he ignored yet again. He then decided to brush Xander's bare sole with it, eliciting a shudder from his boyfriend, who ended up squeezing his tail tip between his big toe and the other one.

"Ugh, go away and leave me alone!" Xander complained, unwittingly quoting the very scene Janus had been wanting to role play with him. And now that he had done so, Janus couldn't help but grin, even nodding along like Kaa did, as if Xander had just given him an idea.

"Yesss, man-cub…" Janus hissed more seductively, his torso almost floating over Xander as he slithered closer, distracting him enough to make him lower his console, the naga beaming up with a wide smile, his eyes beginning to pulse with those all familiar colours.

"Pleasssse go to ssssleep, pleassse go to ssssleeep…"

Although Xander was more than used to looking into that spectacular display of rippling colours, every time Janus surprised him with his hypnosis it was like he was being affected by it for the first time, as if he had never seen such a sight before.

The young man fell silent as the whites of his eyes grew wider and wider in shocked amazement, his lips parting as he looked deeper into Janus's gaze, the centre of his pupils throbbing with a pulsating bright blue band until his own eyes finally began to burst into expanding circles of colour, reflecting the naga's.

Janus then moved his torso up and then slightly backwards, gently picking Xander's console, turning it off and resting it on the table, before grabbing Xander's hands and helping him sit up, forcing Xander to crane his neck up to keep looking into his eyes.

"Pleasssse go to ssssleep…"

The naga kept singing, swaying his torso and undulating his stomach almost like a belly dancer, chuckling at the way Xander followed him, wasting his energy as his head was forcefully following along in circles, mirroring Janus's own rotating head, looking so adorable it took everything for the naga to not plant a smooch in those kissable lips.

"Pleasssse go to ssssleep…"

Janus continued to move his whole human torso in different directions as he urged Xander to sleep in that low, sultry, pleading voice, loving that Xander was unconsciously resisting just like the man-cub in the film. However, while he had initially been moving his head and body with as much energy and at the same speed as Janus, his eyes, pulsating with bands of colour had now become more unfocused, his own movements becoming more and more sluggish by the second.

All while Janus slithered his tail around the couch, positioning it behind the human, moving his own head in a more predictable, circular movement, finally beginning to wrap his lover up as if he were prey.

"Ssssleep little maaaan-cub… resssst in peace…"

The naga's tail came meandered around his right wrist, his buttocks, and then curved around his left wrist until it had encircled his bare torso with one coil. The scaly appendage continued its work, creating a second coil that passed around his veiny forearms, covering the few hairs in the abs Janus had been carefully crafting on his lover's body with hypnosis-induced hard workouts, assuming a slow, steady climb.

Xander, who was now looking almost straight up at the naga's eyes, could no longer keep up with his circular movements and felt his own eyelids growing heavier and heavier. All while Janus kept winding his tail around the human's torso, getting closer and closer to his exposed neck. As the tail moved upward, all of the coils beneath it moved as well, caressing his already aroused body in a massage that felt beyond heavenly.

"Ssssleeeep…. Ssssleeep…"

The naga's lullaby was beyond what the animated snake could sing, making Xander feel like he was completely at peace, lulled into the warm arms of sleep by that haunting melody. However, the desire to keep looking was stronger than ever, and so he forced his eyes to stay open, but, thanks to the powerful effect of those continuously pulsing colours, his eyes eventually became too heavy and they nearly closed for good. His head fell back and then rolled limply to the side, his will almost completely gone.

The poor human was so out of it that he was confusing the film's events with reality, a thought that he was in danger rising to the top of the his bewildered mind, having completely forgotten he was safe in his home. Nonetheless, a word filled his mind, one that he croaked out as Janus's tail began to envelop his shoulders.

"Bah… Bagheera!"

The naga couldn't contain himself, letting out a chuckle as his tail wrapped around Xander's neck in a swoop and gave it a quick, tight squeeze.

"GULP!"

PING

Xander had finally fallen into a trance, safe and sound in Janus's coils, grinning dumbly with that familiar dopey expression of his.

Unable to resist, Janus brought the cocooned young man up for a taste, his tongue running along the human's cheek before ending up by his earlobe.

"Ssssssleeeeeep…" he hissed seductively in his boyfriend's ear, chuckling as Xander fell into a deep slumber.

However, Janus wasn't going to stop there. Lifting Xander up with his coils, he carried the sleeping human to bed, of course brushing his teeth for him, before he rotated him in his coils, finishing with a firm squeeze that had Xander adorably gasping for air, yet still sleeping soundly.

And, closing his eyes, Janus kept their hypnotic connection as he fell into a slumber himself. However, unlike humans, his kind had the ability to willingly enter a lucid dream–in this case, one where Janus's coils were much longer and thicker, with the naga looking more bigger and more muscular himself.

Just like before, he had hypnotised Xander slow and steadily with that haunting lullaby, finishing off his pitiful cry for help with a firm squeeze to his throat.

However, unlike in reality, poor Xander was in the nude, the trance forced in his mind so powerful that he orgasmed merely from falling into it, the powerful coils keeping the poor boy choked and unable to cry out, making weak grunting noises as his entire body seemed to shudder inside his cocoon of scales, his cock throbbing desperately against his coils one final time before he came, his rolling up as he spurted out warm cum over Janus's scales and his own naked body.

"Hmhm… you won't be here in the morning," the naga chuckled evilly, turning Xander around in his coils so he could bind his legs, although at that point, it wouldn't make a difference.

Janus's jaw then dislocated, lengthening to inhuman proportions as he slowly consumed the sleeping Xander's head. The poor, helpless young man showed no signs of rousing, his cock continuing to throb even as the coils wrapping him lifted him up, deeper and deeper into Janus's mouth. The sheer taste of the man-cub was just as delicious as in reality, making the naga moan aloud in almost sexual bliss, his own sapphire eyes rolling around in their sockets, loving the way Xander's toes seemed to twitch by the time the human had disappeared down to his waist, by which point it was much too late.

There was ultimately no resistance as Janus's throat contracted around Xander's cock, his tongue tasting the juices of an utterly hypnotised man-cub, and it wasn't long before he felt the human groan, his body twitching and jerking as he came on the inside of Janus's throat to the naga's great delight.

Janus took his time devouring the rest of him, licking his lips once the boy's toes disappeared past them, and, after one last gulp, he could feel the boy fall inside of him, sliding past his human half to be welcomed into his snake half, the bulge his body formed ultimately hanging off a tree branch like lying safely on a hammock.

"What a deliciousssss meal you made…" Janus mused, taking a moment to lie back on his own coils, knowing the fun wasn't over yet, feeling Xander still wide awake in his trance despite the earlier song having been beckoning for him to fall asleep.

Inside of him, long, warm tendrils, every bit as prehensile as the naga's tail, were wrapping and caressing the human's naked skin even as he slept, binding his limbs separately while entwining around his stomach and chest, until the human was almost completely engulfed by them, bound even tighter than Janus's coils had wrapped around him.

Xander felt another tendril twist and wrap around his cock before engulfing the head with a suckling motion, making him moan inside of Janus. His toes curled, and he would have tried to stretch his legs or move if there were any room to even do so, with the naga's insides being so warm, damp, and tight that escape would have been utterly impossible even if he had wanted to.

"Ssssshhhh" Xander would hear echoing inside the naga's coils, as another tendril began rubbing against his grinning mouth as though seeking permission before it extended further anyway, easily working its way past his lips, lodging itself deep down his throat.

"It'sssssss time to sssssleep… time to dream…" Janus's sultry voice echoed deeply, speaking like a mantra, causing the human's eyes to droop, his cock to twitch, eventually shooting yet another load, which was gulped down by the tendril latched onto it. However, the tendril didn't stop its suckling, intending to milk Xander throughout the night.

From the outside, Janus watched the sizeable bulge in his coils twitch and shudder, before it finally went completely still.

"Goodnight, man-cub…" Janus stroked the bulge while he stifled a yawn, his own eyelids beginning to droop. "Sssssweet dreams…"

The next morning, both human and naga woke up at exactly the same moment, although one was clearly more satisfied than the other. Xander somehow knew that the naga had linked their dreams , making him completely experience that otherworldly sensation of being eaten alive and milked endlessly by tentacles, which had translated to the real-world, with the way Janus's coils were obscenely stained with Xander's dried cum.

"Wow…" Xander sighed, the naga interrupting him with a good morning kiss, his expression making it clear he couldn't wait for his boyfriend to review that experience. "I want to do that every night from now on…"

However, at a certain point in their relationship, Xander began to come to the conclusion that Janus was always the one making him feel good. Always the one making sure to please him and shower him in bliss. Although Janus insisted that he derived pleasure from giving it, Xander felt like he should reward the naga somehow.

So, he pretended to go to the bathroom during one of their binge watches, setting up the scenario. Not wanting for it to be a planned role play, but a spontaneous one, Xander improved an outfit similar to Aladdin's: a sleeveless vest and cream, baggy pants. He had noticed the grin on the naga's face when Jafar had pretty much claimed victory in the climax of the film, enslaving the princess and turning himself into a giant snake to crush the street rat to death. However, Xander amped it up a bit, with an ankle bracelet and a chain around his neck, finishing it with a final touch of a white handkerchief wrapped around his mouth, silencing him.

Eventually, Janus called for his name, but Xander did not reply. He waited patiently, knowing the naga would worry after calling for his name a second time and obtaining no answer.

Janus would eventually slither off the couch to find the door separating the common area from the bedrooms closed, a letter taped to it. Having always had that childish want to receive mail, Janus lifted a curious eyebrow with a smile as he opened that letter, reading its contents. Although there was some hesitation, the naga eventually opened the door with a grin, seeing the one that was going to be his slave for the night kneeling on the floor, the only source of light in that part of the house a few aphrodisiac candles, smelling of jasmine and lavender.

"Welcome back, master." Xander said with an obedient smile. Janus already found his boyfriend handsome, but at that moment, he looked utterly perfect.

And it wasn't as if the human had been too out of shape when both of them started living together, but Xander was self-admittedly a person too lazy to work out properly. With the help of the naga's hypnosis, the human had stuck to a firm regimen, ending up looking quite the snack, to the point where Janus couldn't help but lick his lips seeing him dressed in that outfit that made him look like he was asking for it.

"I've prepared your bath," Xander continued, speaking in a submissive tone that Janus had never heard before, playing his role well. "Would you like me to lead you there?"

"Yes, my pet." Janus smiled, although, as Xander stood up, he couldn't help but grab him by his chained collar, yanking it without really hurting him, giving it a twist to choke him, knowing his boyfriend would love that, before he claimed his lips in that kind of dominant kiss that he only blessed Xander with when he was in his happy place.

The two danced with their tongues, although Janus made sure to dominate Xander's with his stronger, more prehensile one, taking charge throughout the whole kiss, keeping at it until his slave was pretty much breathless by the time it ended, requiring the naga to support him in his muscular embrace, chuckling with a rush of power as Xander smiled at him back with half-lidded eyes.

"Ssssstrip." Janus commanded and Xander obeyed, unzipping the sleeveless hoodie Janus had been wearing, doing all the work.

However, Janus wasn't satisfied with just that, rising as Xander undressed him until his chest was at the same level as Xander's face, flexing his pecs.

"Come to me…" the naga whispered, bouncing his pecs in a dance that was almost hypnotic, beckoning Xander in his direction. "Worship me."

The young man did as commanded, taking a step forward and burying his face in Janus's pecs, letting out a muffled sound he knew that would please the naga, before he began to kiss and lick them. Xander's hands came up to grab Janus's biceps, kneading and squeezing them, feeling the muscle in his body with appreciative gestures.

The way Janus breathed out was beyond erotic, allowing Xander to know that the naga was feeling like the most powerful creature in the world, an absolute deity at that moment, being given the respect and appreciation his prideful kind so craved.

His lips latching onto Janus's nipples, Xander even gave them a small bite, smiling and enjoying the way Janus hissed in response, a shiver reverberating so deeply throughout the naga's body that his tail even swayed around on the floor, smacking Xander's bare ankle with a thick coil, although not playfully.

Janus felt content to enjoy the appreciation, even as Xander moved along his chest, worshipping his abs to the point he left a hickey on each ridged muscle, the skin almost decorated red. Finally, Xander was made to kiss and appreciate the raw strength in each bicep, making declarations of worship and appreciation of the naga's power, feeding Janus's ego to levels beyond belief that night.

"That'ssss enough, my pet. Now, about that bath…" Janus chuckled, although his torso had pretty much been bathed by the human's saliva now.

Xander escorted him to the bathroom, where he prepared the naga a warm bath, filled with bath bombs and foam, just like Janus had grown to love, but couldn't always experience due to how much water it required and how much he wasted on the floor with his massive size.

Nonetheless, that day was a special occasion, so Xander waited for the naga to pile himself up in the bathtub, smiling at the way he sighed, revealing that wasn't just it.

Hidden in the bathroom counter was a plate of cheese, Janus's favourite, and a bottle of wine that Xander poured in a glass to serve Janus. The naga had tried alcohol, but a single glass of wine was like drinking a whole bottle, to the point where Janus had been reduced to a primal, sex-crazed beast after he had a few glasses a first time, so it wasn't too advisable to let him have it, but the human figured that he could make an exception for that night.

"Fantastic, my pet." Janus smiled with appreciation as he took a sip from the glass, munching on the cheese. "But you know what would make this even better?"

"What, master?" Xander asked.

"I'm always the one massaging and squeezing you with my coils… it would be only fair if you retributed the favour once in a while, don't you think?" Janus grinned, the alcohol clearly beginning to affect him, judging by the way his cheeks were becoming rosy.

"Yes, master." Xander said obediently, kneeling behind the tub in order to knead Janus's shoulders, giving the naga a massage that was pitiful compared to the one his coils were capable of, but that had Janus sighing in appreciation, enjoying being the one pampered for once.

However, just as expected, the naga eventually succumbed to the intoxicating effects of the wine, wanting much more than that.

Hearing Janus snap his fingers, Xander stood and walked into his obedient position next to the tub, looking down at his master, whose sapphire eyes were burning with lust for him.

The fun was going to start.

"Sssstrip." Janus commanded. "But put on a show for me."

Xander wasn't that good of a dancer, but he did a decent job of moving and swaying his hips, all things considered, to entertain the naga as he slid off his vest, before he turned his back to him, bending forward as he pulled down his pants, as if presenting Janus his ass for the naga to claim, letting out a yelp as Janus whipped it with his wet tail.

Nonetheless, Xander stripped and presented himself naked, taking a step forward when Janus yanked his chain yet again, climbing onto the tub and straddling the naga's trunk, burying his legs in the piled coils, which immobilised them without needing to wrap around them.

The naga's hands came up to grab Xander's hips, welcoming his hard cock into his velvety, tight insides, although before his boyfriend could get too comfortable, Janus gave his bare ass a smack so hard it had Xander letting out a scream that echoed throughout the bathroom, to Janus's great delight.

The message was received nonetheless, and Xander began to pump his hips back and forth, his hands coming up to grab the naga's shoulders, in an attempt to hold onto him for support.

However, what Xander did not imagine was that Janus wasn't done directing the penetration. The tip of his tail began to move and shift behind him, rising slowly, almost threateningly, like a predator stalking its prey, making sure it aligned perfectly with Xander's bare rump…

… before it shoved right in with a rough jab, pressing so hard against that special spot that Xander gasped like he had been stabbed, his vision going blank with stars.

"AH!" he cried out even louder than when he had been smacked, being hit with such a rush of pleasure that he would have cum right there and then if Janus hadn't squeezed his balls with a dominant, firm grip, staring straight at him with those deep blue eyes in a way that made Xander feel like the naga was staring straight into his soul.

"You're only going to cum when I allow you, pet."

Xander realised there that the naga was really enjoying being in charge without having to hypnotise him, gulp with nervous fear despite knowing the naga would never really hurt him, beginning to thrust his hips again as Janus nodded, the silent command clear.

Even though he was the one fucking the naga's slit, Xander had no semblance of control in that situation, being nothing but a mere sex toy for the naga to pleasure himself with, judging by the way Janus had him doing all the work for once, crossing his arms behind his head in a cocky, confident pose, enjoying the whole thing. Sometimes he'd move just to give Xander's ass a few more hard smacks, others engulfing him in a tight embrace to claim those lips with more dominant, possessive kisses.

Yet, he never allowed Xander to approach orgasm, enjoying the way Xander just allowed his energy to be drained with the way he thrusted without pause, a true test of his stamina.

Janus eventually signalled the end of that experience by grabbing Xander's collar, twisting it twice in order to choke him. Thinking it was temporary, Xander kept thrusting, although at a certain point the lack of air began affecting him.

"Can't… breathe…" Xander whispered with a raspy tone.

"That's the idea, my pet…" Janus chuckled cockily, reaching forward to plant a teasing kiss on Xander's lips.

Xander began to falter, but Janus didn't let him stop, using the tail that had never left his ass in order to push him back and forth, making the young man let out breathless, raspy moans. His cock throbbed wildly, the choking intensifying the blissful experience tenfold. All Janus had to do was finish it with a bang, which he did by yanking Xander close to him.

"Cum!" the naga exclaimed in a whisper.

In that precise moment, Janus jabbed Xander so roughly that he forced his boyfriend to bury himself balls-deep in his slit, the air wheezing out of his body as he came with a powerful, mind-blowing orgasm, emptying his balls inside the naga as much as his mind became empty, utterly passing out as he did so.

Letting go of the chain, Janus brought his arms up to embrace Xander tenderly, kissing his hair as his tail withdrew from his boyfriend's ass so the naga could begin washing him with the warm water.

"That was amazing." Janus told the sleeping Xander. "I really don't deserve you…"

And with a blissful sigh, Janus allowed himself to doze off, more than pleased with that surprise, especially Xander's dedication as his lover.

Occasionally, the thought that things were going too perfectly surfaced in Xander's mind, but the closer and closer he grew to the naga, the happier he found himself in that relationship, the less that thought resurfaced, until apparently it had drowned completely.

To the point that Xander was even humming a tune after returning from his shopping trip, finishing locking his garage from the outside as he hoisted his bag over his shoulder, ready to walk into the elevator.

Until a voice called for him.

"Hey neighbour!"

Xander turned around, recognizing the voice of his next door neighbour, Thomas, who smiled at him, that kind of smug grin that was faker than his veneers. "You're a tough one to find. I've been looking for you for days!"

"Is there anything I can help you with?" Xander asked with an uninterested tone, his distaste for the lawyer clear.

"I just wanted to show you something." Thomas smiled as he took his latest model iPhone out of his pocket, opening a video in the gallery. "Have a look."

Xander watched the video Thomas showed him, high-quality security footage of an empty parking lot, not really understanding what exactly he was supposed to be looking at, until he finally raised his eyebrows as he added the pieces of the puzzle together in his mind, realising this was the common area of his building, looking behind Thomas to confirm that, at one point, his neighbour had installed a security camera over his garage door without Xander ever noticing it!

"Should show up at any moment now," Thomas said.

Xander knew what was going to show up on the screen, but he still couldn't believe it when he saw it. Clear footage of him helping Janus out of the trunk of his rental car, the naga's long tail visible for over five seconds of footage as Xander led him through the door that connected to the building, coming back later to park the car. It was unmistakable evidence.

And Xander's look as beyond horrified as he saw that, with Thomas merely chuckling as he recovered the iPhone back, safely storing it in his coat pocket.

"And I already made a backup, just in case. Now, I don't know what the hell you're doing with that kind of monster nor do I care, but it would be awful if this video ended in the wrong hands, don't you think?"

"What are you going to do?" Xander asked, knowing Thomas was completely in charge of the situation at that moment.

"Me? Nothing. But I would be willing to part with all the copies for a fair price…" Thomas said teasingly, naming it. "I want your house."

"I can't just give you my house, I have nowhere to go!"

"I know, silly. I'm kind enough to make a small payment. A hundred thousand and no more worries for you. No one will ever suspect you sold it under duress with that price. I'll even have a notary friend of mine certify it beforehand!"

"But it's worth four or five times that, you know it!"

"I don't care. Take it or leave it. You have twenty-four hours to ring at my door. I'm doing home office tomorrow" Thomas chuckled, even giving Xander's back a mocking pat, pissing the young man enough to make him slide his hand into his left pocket, where he contained his pocket knife, ready to do something stupid and insane, until Thomas stopped and turned back with a shit-eating grin. "By the way, I have this backed up, in case something happens to me. Just so you know."

And, with that, Thomas left Xander alone in the common area. The terrified young man didn't know how he was able to almost drag himself back home, his legs quaking the whole way. His hands were shivering so much he took a full minute to unlock the door, closing it behind him so he could finally drop onto the floor, clutching strands of his raven hair with his hands to the point he would have ripped them out painfully if Janus hadn't come.

"What's wrong?!" he exclaimed, only succeeding in making Xander pause, for the young man did not answer him, did not even look at him, his breaths becoming more panicked the more time passed. "Xander?! Talk to me!"

Janus grabbed Xander's shoulders to shake him, but his boyfriend's limbs were locked in that position, as if his bones had somehow petrified. The naga had never seen a human having a panic attack in his presence, he had no idea how to act.

So, Janus did the only thing he could think of to take Xander out of that state, hypnotising him with his eyes, pulsing calm blues and purples to force him into a relaxed state of emptiness. He said nothing, he did not touch the human at all, just stared at him silently, exerting his hypnotic power for ten full minutes, forcing Xander into a trance without him considering a fight.

PING

Unlike what almost always happened when that telling sound was heard, there was no smile on Xander's lips this time. His eyes were merely half-lidded, pulsing back Janus's hypnotic colours at a synchronised rate, his body limp and heavy as the naga picked him up in his arms, carrying him to their bed so they could lie together on their sides, with Janus almost smothering Xander's face in his chest as he held him close.

"Sleep… Shut your eyesss and ssssleep those worriesss away…" Janus instructed.

Xander obeyed as those coils began wrapping around him, holding him tight enough so that, even as he fell into that dreamless slumber, he would know that Janus was there to hold him through his worries.

When Xander woke up, Janus was stroking his hair, half-cradling him by holding his torso in his arms and his legs in his coils. Seeing the gentle, charming smile of his naga boyfriend made Xander smile back, almost as if it were contagious, blushing as Janus leaned close to nuzzle him, their noses rubbing together.

And then Xander gasped, remembering the events that transpired that led to his slumber. Janus saw the way those hazel eyes widened, that body stiffened in his coils, squeezing them firmly in response.

"Xander, it's okay…" the naga hushed the young man quickly, wanting to prevent his return to that panicked state, although he wasn't able to do anything about the way Xander began to sob.

"Janus…" was the only thing the young man could say, before he began to cry.

"Xander… please, don't cry!" the naga pleaded, trying to wipe away the tears from Xander's eyes before deciding it was futile, instead cradling his head against his chest. "Shhhh… I'm here… and as long as I'm here, I promise I won't let anyone harm you."

"It's hopeless, Janus!" Xander exclaimed. "There's nothing you can do! Fuck, there is nothing I can do!"

"But what is it?! Talk to me, Xander, please!"

"No!" Xander shouted back stubbornly, clenching his eyes shut. "And I won't let you hypnotise me into revealing!"

"I see…" Janus said, his tail quickly climbing up Xander's body, restraining him with a tight squeeze to halt his attempts at resisting before he could even hope to free one arm out, acting like the alpha predator he was for a moment. "Then I won't let you go free until you tell me what made you so scared!"

"This is so unfair!" Xander complained with grunts as he kept crying, desperately trying to get free from those coils, like his life depended on it. "Let me go! You're being nothing but a stupid bully!"

"Because if I don't do this, you bottle everything up!" Janus shouted back.

"I don't have to tell you everything!"

"Of course you don't. If I weren't pretending to be asleep, you wouldn't even tell me you wanted me to be your boyfriend!" Janus revealed, to Xander's flabbergasted look, completely frozen. "And if you bothered to tell me, you would know that my answer would be an obvious yes! I want to be your boyfriend, I want to be close to you, I want to be here for the amazing sex and the good cuddles and the bad things. So, please, Xander. I beg you. Please tell me what worried you to that point!"

The human took a while to react not only to those accusations but to that revelation, his crying growing louder and messier, but Janus waited patiently, even if it pained his heart deeply to see his lover reduced to a sobbing, helpless mess like that, merely bringing the coils back so he could embrace Xander with his arms, allowing him to vent it all out, to cry everything he had been accumulating inside him, even whatever wasn't related to the events of that day.

"You were found out…" Xander finally admitted in an almost silent sob.

"Huh?" Janus asked, with confusion and alarm. "But… who… how?!"

"Thomas, that fucking asshole!" Xander yelled, projecting his hatred with that shout. "He had a security camera in his garage door and I never noticed! He caught us on video that night we went to see the ocean! I am such a fucking moron, Janus!"

"You're not a moron." Janus hushed the human, embracing him close again once he let out more tears and sobs, although he loosened the coils so Xander could embrace him back.

"And now he wants me to sell this house at a stupidly low price so he can finally have it… what a petty bastard! I'll never be able to find a place around here with that kind of money. We're fucked, Janus!"

"We'll figure something out, Xander… we always do."

"Not this time… I have to give him an answer tomorrow, or else he's going to post the footage on YouTube for everyone to see or some shit like that."

"Oh…" Janus let out a disappointed sound, starting to get worried himself, fully aware of the circumstances. Even if he left at that precise moment and willingly got captured, Xander would certainly suffer repercussions from other humans for hiding the naga in his apartment for months.

Like inmates on death row, both went towards the kitchen to enjoy some ice cream, figuring they might as well eat the whole box since their conundrum was still filling their minds.

"So… how will it happen?" Janus asked. "Does he come here, you give him the keys and this house becomes his because he owns them? I can steal them from him!"

Xander couldn't help but chuckle. Janus's naïveté and lack of knowledge of his world were always too adorable.

"No, it doesn't work like that. We both must sign a contract," he smiled, knowing Janus would require an explanation. "It's a document that has a text explaining I am selling him the house in exchange for a specific amount of money. We both sign it, then a notary certifies it. Well… in his case, he told me he can get a notary to certify it beforehand, I could even sign it in his home."

"And that's it?" Janus asked.

"Yeah. He'll likely pay in cheque; I go to the bank and the money is transferred to me."

"So… that means it would be just you and him, no one else in his house?"

"Yeah… he lives by himself."

In response, Janus grinned. However, it wasn't that sly grin of his he put on whenever he was being naughty, the kind that made his eyes sparkle and Xander blush. No, this was a cruel smirk, of one who had just come up with something nasty.

It was a sight that should have made Xander feel nervous or uneasy, gulp aloud, but all he could do was put on a curious look.

"Janus?" he asked.

"I think I know how to turn the tables on this…" the naga grinned deviously, to Xander's awe.

The next day, Xander knocked at his next door neighbour's door, holding that same fearful look he had had the previous day, shuddering. His eyes were filled with bags from a night spent awake, slightly bloodshot, a look that made Thomas's wicked grin grow wider when he opened the door.

"Hey there neighbour! Why don't you come in?" the lawyer said with fake politeness, ushering Xander inside.

"Thomas, please… do we really have to do this?" the young man asked pleadingly. "Please… consider, I beg you. I have no way to find a house around here!

"Well… I guess you should have thought of that before you hosted a freak in your house." Thomas chuckled mockingly. "Where did you take him last night, anyway?"

"You were watching?!"

"Of course I was! What, thought you would have managed to just drop him off at some woods and plead mercy? I'm not stupid, Xandy. Just accept you're cornered, man, and we this is going to be so easier for both of us."

Xander tried everything not to sob in front of Thomas, but he eventually lost control, with the other man rolling his eyes and scoffing.

"Ugh… cry all you want then come into my office." Thomas grunted, turning his back on Xander and walking towards another room in the house, mouthing insults without a care. "What a fucking pussy…"

The sobbing quieted down after a moment, but Xander still hadn't approached the office, making Thomas curse in frustration at him, eventually losing his patience and storming back to where he had been.

"For fuck's sake, you're signing that shit even if I have to– Xander?"

The young man was nowhere to be found. Thomas stormed around his house, checking the kitchen, the bathroom, the living room, everywhere, but the only logical conclusion was that Xander had panicked and ran back home.

"Why, that little…" Thomas grit his teeth, grabbing his keys and leaving his house, knocking on Xander's door, wanting to not cause a scene if possible.

However, Thomas was so angry that he was completely blind to his surroundings, taking a moment to recognize that the lights hadn't turned on. Hearing movement behind him, Thomas turned around, but there was nothing he could do, as something seemed to grab him, wrapping in thick loops around his body and lifting him off the floor, squeezing him so tightly that the air was wheezing out of his lungs, his eyes wide open as the lights turned on to reveal that very same creature he had tried to use as blackmail material against Xander. And he looked furious.

Janus held Thomas as tightly as he could without causing any irreversible damage to his body, although it wasn't out of any concern. Putting a hand on Thomas's chin to cup it with a firm grip, the naga stared deeply into his eyes, allowing the colours to pulse from them. Unlike the happy colours he used to lull Xander into that blissful state of relaxation and arousal that had him holding that beyond adorable dopey grin Janus so loved, the naga was using those invading blacks, reds and purples that forced his prey into a state of dronelike obedience, having absolutely no interest on Thomas's well-being, with it not taking long for the crushed young man to surrender into a trance.

PING

Their minds connected, it was a simple task of Janus just tapping on Xander's door so the young man could welcome them inside the safety of his home.

"You did it…" Xander said, with a tone of disbelief, quickly stepping forward to hug Janus, burying his head in the crook of the naga's neck. "I can't believe you did it… oh goodness, oh… fuck, we did it!"

"Yes." Janus smiled, hugging Xander back, both of them basking in the safety of each other's embrace, completely forgetting about their entranced prisoner for the moment.

The plan had been simple, yet risky.

Xander had rented a car and picked up Janus, allowing Thomas to believe he was dumping the naga somewhere else. However, Xander had merely taken Janus for a ride, coming back much later and making sure there was absolutely no one on the street in order to have the naga enter the building through the main door, slithering up the stairs all the way to his apartment, having deactivated the sensors so the common area lights wouldn't turn on whenever Janus passed them. All to lead Thomas into a false sensation of security, enraging off enough with improvised crying and pleadings to make him chase Xander into his apartment, where he would be caught by surprise by the naga, who had hidden himself in the darkness of the stairs.

And now Thomas was utterly at the couple's mercy. And as much as Xander wanted to get his deserved revenge on him and call him out on his helpless predicament, he wanted to act with utmost caution. He had studied with Janus how to interact with Thomas in that state, knowing the mental connection he had with the naga would forbid him from uttering a single lie.

"Are there any cameras in your house?" Janus asked.

"None at all."

"Are you expecting any visits?"

"No one at all."

"Let's go, then." Xander said.

Since Thomas hadn't activated his alarm system, it was a simple task of stealing Thomas's key and invade his apartment, heading towards his office, where the contracts awaited them, presented on the desk, along with an unwritten cheque. The hypnotised lawyer obediently followed along, forced to walk with the burden of the weight of the naga's coils, who paid no effort on carrying him along.

Unbeknown to Thomas, Xander had paid a different lawyer to have a look at the contract that morning and confirm that, once it had both signatures and the cheque was cashed, there was nothing that either party could do if they changed their mind, no matter what, for it had been done with a notary verifying their signatures and consent. Of course, what Xander didn't reveal to the lawyer was that he had edited the contract on his computer, making one teeny tiny little change to the specified amount.

So, the hypnotised Thomas obediently signed Xander's edited contract without as much as looking at it twice, before he followed Janus's command to write a cheque for the amount stated in the contract: exactly one million, more than double the real value of the house, and ten times more what he had been expecting to pay. It was fraud, it broke laws, but Thomas would have no way to prove it. And, to be frank, Xander did not care about the moral implications, for Thomas had lost any claim of morality when he tried to blackmail him into giving up the house for an unfair price, as well as having considered future blackmail with extra copies of the files.

"Delete every footage of your camera for the last week." Janus ordered like Xander had told him to say, but the young man still didn't feel completely safe yet. There was a sensation in his gut that told him Thomas wouldn't have given them up so easily.

"Ask them if he kept any more as blackmail." Xander said, knowing Janus had no idea what the term meant.

The wicked lawyer revealed he had made a copy of the footage that he safely stored in his laptop, intending to out his secret anyway. Footage that Xander proceeded to delete once Thomas had obediently given up his password, before the lawyer was made to confirm that, with the footage and backups deleted, he had no way of blackmailing Xander, nor had he told anyone else what he had seen.

Janus kept Thomas in his coils as Xander grabbed his motorcycle and took a quick trip to the bank, holding his breath until he had cashed that cheque, confirmed the amount in his bank statement and returned home to confirm the lawyer was still dutifully hypnotised and wrapped up in a tight cocoon, with the naga having so much disdain for him that he hadn't even tried to squeeze him.

"Is it done?" Janus asked with concern.

"Yes." Xander nodded, watching Janus unwrap from Thomas and sit him down on the office chair. "How does this go now?"

"I'll break the connection and he will wake up with no memory of what happened. It will be like he just lost his train of thought for a moment, you have to 'remind' him of what you were doing. Just keep up the act until you're back home, okay?" Janus asked.

"Okay." Xander nodded.

He remained there, watching the colours pulsing in Thomas's empty gaze before he saw them slow down, the lawyer eventually blinking them away, looking around with a confused expression.

"Wh-whuh?" he asked.

"I said, what now?" Xander asked, pretending he had just finished signing the document, hoping Thomas wouldn't dare to reread them.

That shit-eating grin didn't take long to return to the lawyer's handsome face, who stood up from his chair and handed Xander his signed copy, even snaking an arm around his shoulder as he led Xander forward.

"It was a pleasure doing business with you. But now I want you out of my fucking house," he said mockingly, watching as Xander went towards his own apartment, pressing the key into its designed hole. "See you in a month for those keys, Xandy!"

Ignoring Thomas, the young man closed the door, locking it without saying good-bye. Hopefully, the lawyer would take a while to realise he had just spent one million on a house that was worth, at most, half, but regardless, there was nothing he'd be able to do about it.

"Phew…" Xander sighed as he allowed himself to slide down until he sat on the floor, looking up at Janus with a smile, who approached.

"Now what?" the naga asked, a fearful tone, as the future was still unpredictable.

"Now…" Xander stretched his arms, cracking the joints in his hands. "Now we start packing up and go look for a new place. We have thirty days to find a new home. But first… do you think you can wrap me up? I think I really need one of those hypno-massages of yours."

Janus just smiled back, slithering closer, his eyes already pulsing with colours…

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The clock struck midnight and Xander was beyond worried, walking through the woods with the flashlight of his phone's camera illuminating the way. He had been forced to leave Janus in their new home alone for days without end as he finished solving the issues that arose from having been threatened into selling his house, the fear that the worst could have happened weighing down his body like the heaviest lead, all the bad scenarios he had been trying to avoid conjuring in his increasingly worried mind.

However, hearing the sound of rustling in the leaves out of a sudden, Xander yelped, startled, his flashing phone acting as a shield without him realizing it. His heart was racing, a shudder running through his body, a loud gulp almost echoing through those now intimidating woods.

"Who's there?" he asked, trying to hide his slight fear, eyes open wide to try and make out which animal it could be, ready to strike at any moment with the pocketknife he had in his pocket.

But little did he know danger was right behind him.

"Excusssssse me…"

Xander sighed in relief as he recognized that smooth, hissy voice, turning around with relief and a smile on his handsome face, only for his jaw to almost drop once he was met by the naga's hypnotic colours.

"J-Janus…" Xander stammered, captured as he was by the naga's hypnotic eyes, frozen in place.

"Shhhhhhh…" Janus hushed down his boyfriend, as he cooed further, staying in character, having them both role play yet another particular animated scene without Xander realising it. "Might I be of some… assssssistance?"

Xander, unable to do anything but, kept staring into Janus's eyes as the naga kept flashing those pulsing colours, although given the distance between them it was evident that, despite being mesmerized by them as he always was, he would not be succumbing immediately. However, it was distracting enough that he didn't flinch at all as Janus drew closer, just trying to stammer softly, some of the colours beginning to reflect in his own hazel eyes as he looked like he was trying to ponder the suggestion, even if it logically made no sense.

"Are you lossssssst, little one?" the naga asked, an almost mocking undertone to the overarching sound of concern, his tail tip coming from behind Xander to brush his hair, before Janus pulled his own head back, watching the human slouch forward, nodding with a teasing chuckle and forcing his boyfriend to nod along, all while those colours were slowly starting to build in intensity

Xander's mouth moved, as though he was trying to find his words, thinking that it didn't make any sense. He wasn't lost. Janus had just likely they were so close to the house they had so recently purchased. He had to remind him!

Unfortunately for poor Xander, he would never get the chance to vocalize those thoughts, the colours making it harder and harder for him to think properly, forgetting about everything else but his current predicament, lost as he was in those woods, in need of assistance.

Janus smiled as he watched Xander's arms slowly drop to his sides the longer he kept staring into his eyes, the young man's phone finally slipping from his arms onto the forest floor, which the naga proceeded to pick up with his tail and store safely in the pouch he carried. Despite the loss of the light, however, those colours kept beckoning to Xander in the darkness, with the helpless young man utterly unable to look away, especially as the naga finally closed the distance between them, ready to take things to the next step.

"Are you… horny?" Janus cooed softly, slithering around the bewildered boy, circling Xander with one of his thickest coils, allowing it to weigh down on his slumped shoulders before holding his head between his hands, keeping those wide eyes focused on his.

By this point, Xander's wide eyes now perfectly reflecting the rapidly shifting colors in the naga's, a tent forming in the gym shorts he was wearing that he had changed to once he had arrived at their new home.

"I'm sssso… hard…" Janus hissed in an almost whiny, desperate, mocking tone, as he picked Xander's hands with his, encouraging the young man to take a step forward, his own massive grin so contagious it decorated the lad's handsome face with a matching one.

The back of one of Janus's hands caressed Xander's face at the same time that the tip of his tail lightly rubbed the underside of the young man's cock, already stiff and dripping by the time it had been unleashed when the scaly appendage pulled down the young man's shorts.

"And judging by that adorable smile, I think you're going to love helping me. Hmhmhm… that idea makes you oh so very happy… doesn't it?" Janus asked, having to merely nod slightly to make the entranced young man nod almost overenthusiastically in response, even if he had no way of comprehending just what he was insinuating, all while the naga stripped him off his shirt. "Yesssss… I thought it would… Now… close your eyes for me… jussssst for me… keep that smile right where it is as you realize that even with your eyes closed, you can sssssstill see those pretty colours… ssssstill feel them occupy your mind…"

Xander did as he was commanded, remaining still while Janus helped him out of his clothes and shoes, standing perfectly naked in the middle of that forest, something he would have never accepted were he awake.

Nonetheless, the young man was picked up in Janus's muscular arms, the naga effortlessly ascending a tree, having gotten to know the area they now lived in like the palm of his hand, now that they finally lived in a place where Janus was free to slither around. He remembered the joy he had felt the moment they arrived like it was yesterday.

Before you met me

I was alright, but things were kinda heavy

You brought me to life, now every February

You'll be my Valentine, Valentine

If anyone had told Xander a year ago that he would have been driving a van across the country, carrying his essential belongings as he moved towards his dream home in the countryside, he would have laughed in their face at how ridiculous of an idea it was.

Yet, there he was. Driving with his shirt completely unbuttoned with how hot it was, wearing dark sunglasses, singing along to a song that, in hindsight, pretty much described exactly how he felt at that moment. Living a teenage dream, with the most unexpected lover behind him, singing the song playing from the car radio in a perfect tune with him.

"Let's go all the way tonight, no regrets, just love. We can dance, until we die. You and I…" Janus sang, although Xander completed that verse.

"Will be young forever!" the human exclaimed in preparation for the chorus.

"You make me, feel like I'm livin' a, teenage dream, the way you turn me on, I can't sleep, so let's run away and don't ever look back, don't ever look back!" the two lovers sang at the same time, their voices bathed in glee and joy, of course happily unaware that the fish swimming in their temporary tank, resting on Janus's lap, were cursing their current predicament, praying for their arrival or for the two to shut up, although it didn't look like it was coming anytime soon. "My heart stops, when you look at me. Just one touch, now, baby, I believe, this is real. So take a chance and don't ever look back, don't ever look back!"

And although both of them were happy and carefree, the road to their happy ending hadn't been that smooth.

The weeks that followed the contract signature had been a hell of pure anxiety for both, since, as expected, Thomas had had the worst possible reaction when he found out that he had been duped.

Threats, shouting, slamming at the door, for days seemingly without end, until it escalated to violence. Xander knew he had to allow himself to be beat up by the lawyer's fit of rage, but thankfully he only had to endure a couple of punches before Thomas got restrained by a neighbour of theirs, the police summoned with a call at the same time.

Of course, Xander had predicted that Janus's existence would come up in Thomas's accusations, but an invitation for the police to inspect his quarters and garage had proved that Janus was nowhere to be found, as if he had never been there. The extra toothbrush, clothes, any proof that there had ever been another living thing in that house other than Xander's fish had been carefully removed. As if it all had been a product of Thomas's less and less reliable mind.

None could have predicted that the naga had indeed never left that building, instead safely hidden in another apartment, the deaf old woman's house broken into using the old x-ray file trick, after Xander had carefully studied it on YouTube for over an hour. Janus had waited there patiently for hours, safely hidden away in an unused room, until Xander deemed it safe for him to leave and return to their safe heaven.

The lawyer had been taken to the police to be charged for assault and stalking, with the accusation of the 'stolen' money pretty much rejected, interpreted as seller's regret.

And that's why Xander and Janus were on their way to the dream home, having negotiated the whole deal at a distance. Of course, Xander didn't sign a single thing until he arrived there and had a good, proper look at the house, knowing the issues to check for, confirming that while it would need some work, it was hospitable enough to live in.

Of course, Xander waited until the sunset had settled in to allow Janus to leave the van, covering the naga's eyes as he led him inside, eventually allowing Janus to have a good look at their new property: a three-bedroom house, which despite not being that much bigger than Xander's apartment, was close enough for Janus to slither away into the woods without being seen by any prying neighbours, isolated as it was from the rest of the village.

It was the perfect location for one to hide in, away from civilization. With the added benefit of a moderately-sized poor in the backyard that wouldn't be too hard to restore.

And Janus was indeed both in awe and shock as he realized that, unable to contain a massive, genuine smile.

"It's perfect," he smiled, while Xander draped his arms over him from behind, kissing his cheek.

"It's our home now," the human declared, eventually giving a playful smack on Janus's trunk where the naga's ass would be. "I mean… it will be once I'm back. You sure you can survive here for a week?"

"I'm an apex predator. That question is insulting."

"An apex predator who panics when someone rings at the doorbell." Xander chuckled.

"That's different. Anyway, don't worry your pretty little head." Janus smiled, kissing Xander on the cheek.

"Very well then." Xander smiled, before he went back to his usual cheeky self. "Since I drove all the way here, you're moving those things yourself. I'm too tired and still gotta make that trip back so I'm gonna lie down for a bit."

"Sure." Janus said, carrying the various boxes effortlessly with the help of his strong tail, of course taking extra care when it came to the ones labelled fragile, or the fish tank, addressing their concerns. "Stop complaining, I'll set up your aquarium when he's gone."

It was only when the naga was done carrying all the boxes inside that he remembered that they hadn't brought most of the furniture, which made him wonder where exactly Xander could be, eventually finding his lover lying in a corner on an exercise mattress, curled down into a foetal position covered by a blanket and using a folded towel as a pillow.

The way the young man grit his teeth in his sleep made it clear to the naga he wasn't having a comfortable slumber, which made Janus sigh and slither closer to him with a worried, almost paternal smile on his handsome face.

"You poor thing…" the naga whispered gently, slowly pulling the blanket away from Xander, chuckling as the young man tried to grip it with his hands, grunting childishly in his sleep, but calming down when Janus hushed him with sweet hisses, enough for the naga to rest his arms at his sides so he could wrap them up in his ascending cocoon of coils, eventually covering Xander all the way up to his neck.

Sitting back against the wall, Janus cradled his lover in his toned arms, nuzzling their foreheads together as he spiced Xander's face with dozens of small pecks until the young man was smiling joyfully in his now blissful slumber, completely at peace and relaxed in the cocoon of coils that bound him, even beginning to squeeze and massage his whole body, plucking an appreciative sigh out of him.

"I swear you grow more handsome by the day…" Janus sighed in a whisper, his turn to confess things in Xander's sleep. "You know, Xander, I never envisioned myself with just a mate, but… here we are. And now that I've got you in my coils, I never want to let go of you, ever again."

"Mmmm…" Xander let out an agreeing hum, even if he wasn't aware at all of what the naga was saying.

"And I know that deep down you still think this is all just because you took me in, but… I know deep down in my heart that regardless of the circumstances we'd meet in, my tail would only want to wrap around you, no matter what." Janus chuckled at his own joke, the tip brushing Xander's hair back. "But still… I will never be able to repay everything you've done for me. Thank you, Xander. Thank you so much. I love you and I will cherish you forever."

The only response Janus obtained was a sleepy snore on Xander's behalf, one that the naga silenced with a kiss to the lips, continuing to massage and caress his sleeping lover, ensuring he recovered properly so he could drive back safe and sound.

That had happened a week before, with Janus easily surviving on his own and protecting the empty home while Xander dealt with the final move of their heavy furniture, having managed to sell a few things that would be unneeded in the new house.

What neither had expected, however, was that the day of Xander's return happened to fall on a full moon, which had given Janus an idea to celebrate their move.

So, intending to surprise his lover with the experience of a lifetime, Janus had awaited patiently in those woods to ensnare the human, the hypnotic colours still pulsing faintly in Xander's eyes as he smiled at nothing, blissfully unaware and uncaring in what concerned his current predicament.

Regardless, were he fully awake and conscious, there was little the young man would be able to do about it, for he was utterly naked, suspended in the air, wrapped up in thick green vines like he was starring in a bondage flick: his arms crossed behind his head and bound at the wrists, completely exposing his armpits, with more vines crossing his chest and stomach in a perfectly organized, net-like display. His legs were bound the same way his arms were, his knees bent, with the back of his soles pressing against the back of his thighs with the way fines were also binding his ankles.

Perfectly helpless, just the way Janus loved it, judging by the way he was grinning smugly at his hypnotized captive, even licking his lips while admiring how perfect Xander looked, of course, using the young man's phone to snap a picture so he could have a look later and enjoy seeing himself like that, knowing that, thankfully, Xander didn't have his phone backing up pictures into a cloud.

"Ssssso beautiful… ssssso perfect…" Janus whispered sultrily, a hand playing with his own nipples as his breathing was growing ragged before he had even done anything, the moonlight painting both of them with its radiance.

He had never told it to Xander, nor had there been the opportunity to do so when he was trapped in that awful, constricting apartment, but the full moon had an… effect, for lack of a better term on his kind. It didn't change his physique like it did to certain rare species of wolves, but it was what made the naga enter a state of heat, making his arousal utterly impossible to control, as well as giving him something… special that could only be used on those nights.

"Sssso sssssexy…" Janus kept whispering as he slithered closer, easily entangling his coils with the web of vines that Xander was bound in, like a spider's prey, positioning himself behind the human, his lips brushing against his earlobe. "Ssssso perfect…"

Xander bit his lip as Janus's teeth dug into his neck, branding him with a hickey that would be impossible to hide the following days, not that the naga cared, so consumed was he by his own uncontrollable lust.

"My perfect mate." Janus declared, before he aligned his own scaly trunk with Xander's backside.

Xander just sighed along, before his eyes opened wide and his lips even wider, feeling something definitely pressing against his hole, yet not quite entering. Its thickness was clear enough for him to know that it wasn't the naga's tail, but a different, fleshy girth, dripping with the naga's juices as it slowly slid inside.

Having never been invaded by something like that, Xander's breaths grew deep and ragged, almost laboured, as he slowly got used to the sensation, with Janus being nothing but gentle as he mated his lover in a ceremony that was like marriage for his kind, his massive cock slowly penetrating Xander's insides.

"Shhhh… shhhh…" Janus whispered, embracing Xander from behind as his cock was buried to the hilt, knowing his hypnotized mind would dull out the pain from having his hole being stretched like that, but still wanting to make sure Xander would feel only pleasure from that carnal act. "Feel it pulssse inside you, my ssssweet… soothing you… relaxing you… taking all the pain away and leaving only blissssss…"

As the young man's breathing start to slow, Janus began slowly moving his trunk, each throb slowly beginning to turn Xander's whimpers into softer moans. Any discomfort slowly being dampened while his sense of touch and smell were slowly increasing due to his entranced state, surrounded as they were by the aphrodisiac pheromones Janus was emitting.

"Thaaaat's it…" the naga began to pick up the pace as Xander's moans began to grow louder, although shielded by the tree's thick foilage. "Moan for me, Xander… show me how much you love me mating you."

Janus punctuated that sentence with a hard smack to Xander's bare ass that had the young man yelp loudly.

"Beg for me to fuck you…" Janus whispered in a dominant tone.

"P-Pleassssse…" Xander moaned pleadingly, the words heartfelt.

Happy with that response, Janus gave the young man three solid, nearly tree-shaking thrusts as a reward, before establishing a steady fucking pace. As Xander's ragged cries grew raspy and broken eventually, the lad's orgasm building up, Janus pulled his cock back until only the head was left in, planting Xander's nape with kisses and soothing him down.

Eventually, the naga slithered around the web of vines to face his lover, smiling at the sight that greeted him.

Xander's nude body was coated in a layer of sweat, his hypnotized, pulsing eyes staring at Janus as if he were the most handsome creature on Earth, his heart fluttering like a schoolboy smitten by his crush.

"Hmhm…" Janus chuckled smugly for a moment, caressing Xander's cheek with the back of his hand, leaning forward to claim his lover's lips, before professing his love for the umpteenth time, although it would never be enough. "I love you, Xander."

Xander smiled and sighed in response, his mind too far gone to repeat those words back at Janus, although the naga knew they weren't needed.

Working around the vines still binding Xander, Janus had it so the lad was instead wrapping his legs around his scaly waist, his ankles bound once again, their faces nuzzling together as Janus pressed just the head of his cock again against the lad's hole.

The naga then hissed as he lowered the lad onto his cock, his eyes bombarding Xander's with those entrancing colours, wanting to further drown him in bliss throughout their intense moment of shared lust.

Xander's entire body was being moved up and down, up and down by Janus's arms, with the naga's tail even slithering around the lad's neck intermittently choke him throughout the process. He had been reduced to a whimpering, moaning mess, leaking pre-cum all over the naga's abs as he was bounced up and down like the pure receptacle of cock that Janus was truly reducing him to.

And, although Xander had initially wanted to cling onto Janus as though for dear life weren't he bound up, between the naga's eyes, the ongoing onslaught against his hole and his mind, as Janus's fucking progressed to its roughest and fastest yet, the young man went truly limp everywhere save for his cock, nothing but pure lust, pleasure and bliss in those hypnotized, colourful eyes.

Savouring that beautiful sight, the naga eventually lost his words as his own lust broke through any sort of dominance he had used to get his lover into that situation.

"AAAAH!" Janus cried out with a loud, animalistic roar, a torrent of cum flooding out of his cock with throb after mind-shattering throb. The man-cub's eyes nearly rolled back, his own cum bursting and spilling onto the naga's body while Janus filled his insides with his creamy snake load, the naga finding himself being the lightheaded one for once, slowly catching his breath as he almost smothered Xander in his muscular arms, burying his head on the lad's shoulders, both of them remaining in that panting embrace for hours.

When dawn came, Xander woke up in Janus's arms, their nude bodies lying together on the tree branch. His stirring movements woke the naga up as well, the two of them looking at one another like they hadn't been separated for a week, as if the passed time didn't matter.

"Let me guess…" Janus began before Xander could speak. "You want to do this every day from now on?"

"Every full moon." Xander smiled back, kissing Janus's lips.

Although the moving company had brought all of Xander's things the day after Xander had arrived to move into that house for good, most of them hadn't been unpacked, other than the basic essentials, for a very good reason.

And, for someone who had always hated doing any sort of work in his house, always wasting money by hiring someone to do something that he could easily look up on YouTube, if he had the patience to do so, now that he wasn't alone, and had a boyfriend with two hands and an even stronger scaly appendage, Xander was actually finding that kind of activity enjoyable, especially with the most pleasant kind of company.

"Who needs a ladder when your boyfriend's tail works even better, huh?" Janus teased as he hoisted Xander near the ceiling with a coil wrapped tightly around his waist, both of them having been painting the walls together, pretty much done.

"Okay, I think that's good for now." Xander said, the cue for the naga to put him down. "Why don't we take a break, huh?"

The two went towards the room that was serving as both kitchen and living room for the moment, sitting down on the couch while Xander turned the TV on, which was airing the one thing Janus hated watching.

The news.

"Come on, Xander… can't we watch something else?" the naga complained childishly.

"No." Xander said with a serious tone, predicting Janus's movement to reach for the remote and switching it to his other hand.

"Give me that!" Janus exclaimed, stretching his torso to grab the command, leaning more and more of his body over his boyfriend's, until the two of them became an almost entangled mess on the couch, the remote lost in Janus's piled up coils, both of them panting with the effort, with Xander even sighing in frustration, which alerted Janus. "What's wrong?"

"What do you mean?"

"You've been insisting on watching the news every day since we arrived here. Why?"

Xander moved his head to the side, looking away from Janus as he always did when he tried to hide something, which filled the naga's sapphire eyes with a worried gaze, although it softened when the human looked back at him, sighing.

"I'm afraid." Xander said. "Afraid of them somehow believing Thomas. Of them putting out a warrant for you or for me. Of them tracking us and coming to find you."

"But I thought you had deleted the videos…"

"And I did. There is literally no evidence of your existence. But… I don't know, Janus. I always have this fear in me. I don't think I'm allowed to be happy, so I'm always waiting for what we have, for this to end and be ruined at any moment!"

There was a full minute of deep eye contact between both of them, before Janus leaned his head forward, pressing his forehead against Xander's, closing his eyes and sighing.

"And we'll take care of it somehow if it happens. And that is a big 'if'." Janus said with his most serious tone. "Now, stop worrying about these trivialities and hand me the remote. I want to watch that ladybug cartoon."

However, Janus's precious time was interrupted a few minutes when someone rang at the door, a sound that both initially ignored, used to doing so at the apartment, since it was always either the mailman or some snake oil salesman. But a second ring reminded both of them they weren't at the apartment, with Xander signalling for Janus to be silent as he went towards the door, opening it without asking who it was, revealing an old lady accompanied by a blond young man around Xander's age.

"He… llo?" Xander asked, raising a surprised eyebrow at the unexpected visitors.

"Hello, dearie," said the older woman, gesturing towards the younger man, who proceeded to hand Xander a basket he carried. Xander took it in his hands, looking at it to find a variety of fruit and vegetables, from apples, to oranges, to potatoes.

"Uuh… I didn't order anything." Xander said, with an awkward tone.

"See, grandma. Told ya he's a city-dweller," chuckled the young man, earning a smack from his grandmother in the back of the head.

"Don't be rude, Sam," said the old lady.

"Granny here heard there was a newcomer and insisted we brought you a welcome present." Sam said, flashing a bright smile at Xander that almost had him blushing, his tanned visage beyond handsome.

"Oh…" Xander said, eventually smiling in appreciation. "Thank you. That was very kind of you both."

"Any particular reason you moved to our village, dearie?" the old lady asked.

The funny face that Sam made behind his grandmother was a clear message for Xander: he was about to being subjected to that kind of old lady interview that would put a CIA torture-induced territory to shame, his payment for that basket.

"I felt like I needed a change of air." Xander smiled.

"And how was a young man like you able to afford this house?"

Xander could hear Janus sniggering in the living room at that, stomping his bare foot on the naga's tail in order to shut him up, hearing him gasp silently and try to contain a painful shout.

"It became impossible to live in the city." Xander sighed, describing the naga's situation as if it were his own. "Too much noise, too cramped, and, most importantly, not enough fresh air. No contact with nature, you know?"

"I see… and not running away and hiding here from troubles, I hope?"

"Nope."

"No skeletons in the closet? Theft, murder…"

"Granny!" Sam exclaimed.

"I was mayor for fifty years, it's natural for me to worry about these things!" the old woman complained. "He's been living here for a week and hasn't been to the village yet!"

"It's okay." Xander smiled warmly, the kind of genuine expression that would melt the old lady's heart. "I don't mean any harm, I promise, granny. I've been taking care of unpacking and painting the house first, but I've been meaning to drop by and check it out once I finally had the time."

"Oh," said the old lady. "Well… I guess that's a valid excuse."

"Well, drop by in the centre later tonight if you wanna have a drink and I'll introduce you to everyone else." Sam said with an inviting smile.

"Oh… sure." Xander said, awkwardly. "I'll meet you there… Sam, right?"

"Yeah. And you?"

"Oh! Sorry, I didn't even introduce myself! Call me Xander!" the young man exclaimed, extending his hand.

"Nice to meet you, Xander." Sam greeted Xander back. "And see you later."

Bidding farewell to the two, Xander closed the door behind him, not even given a second of reprieve before Janus's tail wrapped around his waist to pull him close, a teasing grin on the naga's handsome face.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say my boyfriend was replaced by someone else. I've never seen you being this nice to anyone but me," he teased. "Should I be jealous of that hottie?"

"Don't be silly." Xander complained. "I only have eyes for you."

"I know. I'm perfect compared to him." Janus grinned, even flexing his arms in a show of pride, before he chuckled along with Xander. "And before you say anything, I want you to go meet that Sam. If we're going to live here, I don't want you to be stuck to this house."

"Oh, what a considerate boyfriend." Xander said, although with a raised eyebrow. "How much is this going to cost me?"

"Well… I just saw a commercial for a videogame…"

Xander rolled his eyes and sighed. His boyfriend always knew how to ask for his credit card.

Xander had never considered just how damaging light pollution could be until he started to look outside during the night in his new home and become shocked with the beaches of stars speckled in the dark skies, a show so beautiful he wished his phone's camera weren't too crappy so he could capture it properly.

And it was that amazingly beautiful sky he was contemplating in that moment, lying as he was with the naga on a hammock he had ordered for their backyard, large enough to support both of them, both being rocked slowly by the naga's coils, entangled as they were around them both as they huddled close together.

"I don't think I'll ever get used to this." Xander said.

"What, the skies?" Janus asked back, confused.

"No. This. What we have. Where we're living. It's all so perfect, so flawless."

"And what's wrong with that?"

"I…" Xander mumbled, before he grew silent, a pensive, almost fearful look filling his hazel eyes.

"You think you don't deserve it." Janus sighed, sounding almost disappointed. "Xander, we talked about this…"

"I know. And it's not your fault. It's me, Janus…" Xander said as he tried to get up on all fours and face the naga. "I'm always waiting for something to go wrong, because… never mind."

"No, Xander." Janus said with a serious tone, frowning for a change. "I told you that you have to stop bottling things up. Talk to me, please…"

"I never thought I would be this happy. I got so used to being alone that I pretty much accepted I'd be living this way for the rest of my life. And then you came up in the most unexpected way and I… I… well, you became everything I ever wanted in my life without realizing it."

"Come here, you." Janus smiled, wrapping Xander in his warm embrace and squeezing him tightly with his arms, enough to make Xander sigh. "You deserve all of that and more. I just wish I could give it to you."

"It's okay. You've given me all I could have wanted in a boyfriend. Well, almost everything."

"Oh?" Janus asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It's not like we'd be able to do it anyway, don't worry."

"Just tell me!" the naga exclaimed, squeezing Xander playfully in his coils.

"Fine!" Xander chuckled, blushing with embarrassment. "I always wanted to get married. But no one's going to marry a human and a naga, as you can imagine."

"Oh…" Janus mumbled, with a slight frown.

"Don't worry about it, silly. What we have is perfect, anyway." Xander smiled, lifting a hand to stroke the naga's hair as he made himself comfortable on top of his bare torso.

Janus didn't respond that moment, however, but the idea did not go forgotten.

"That will be 29,78." Sam said after he had finished tallying Xander's groceries.

"Keep the change." Xander said as he handed Sam three bills, the other young man making sure Xander's groceries were well-stored in the paper bag before handing it to the former city-dweller.

"So, how's country life treating you?" Sam asked.

"I gotta say it's… an adventure." Xander smiled at Sam, although he knew the greengrocer wouldn't be having the same definition of adventure Xander had at that moment, that being wild sexual nature exploring.

"An adventure, huh?" Sam chuckled. "Never expected to hear that describing this place, but you do you."

"Well, new beginnings and all that. But I'm really, really liking it. It's like coming back home, even if I've never been here before now." Xander said, smiling without realizing it. "I feel safe here. Happy. And I never want to leave."

"And I'm glad about that, because I really like having you around." Sam smiled, although Xander was too daft to understand the second meaning of those words.

"Well, catch you another day?" Xander asked.

"Sure." Sam nodded, watching as Xander left the store, sighing once the young man was out of sight.

Hopping onto his bicycle, having purchased a more environmental-friendly alternative, Xander made sure his groceries were safe in the front basket before he started pedalling home, thinking that, after weeks of living peacefully in that village with no worries, that he could indeed start relaxing with the assurance that Janus's existence wouldn't be revealed to the outside world.

Coming home, Xander even found himself humming as he stored the groceries, although at a certain point he found the absence of a half-human half-snake resident of that house strange.

Looking around, Xander only found out where Janus was when he stepped into the backyard and had a good look at their recently inaugurated pool.

Janus had managed to slither into the giant swan-shaped inflatable Xander had bought for the pool, snoring out loud, his head resting against the neck. His long tail was draped over the stone floor surrounding the pool, allowing the naga to completely bask in the sun, working on his tan while he warmed up his scales, completely knocked out by an almost hypnotic, somniferous solar induction.

The scene in front of Xander was so unbelievable that he couldn't help but snap a picture with his instax camera, wanting to immortalize it in a polaroid print, although a sly smile then filled his handsome face.

Stripping himself naked, Xander launched himself into the pool, hugging his legs cannonball-style. Although he did not hit Janus, Xander weighed enough to shower the naga's whole body in a splash of cold water that made him gasp loudly as he was awakened from his slumber with a shock, enough to roll away from the inflatable tube and fall onto the water.

Xander couldn't help but laugh as he rose to the surface, although, before he could properly do so, Janus's tail wrapped around his ankle, giving him a rough tug before pulling him back down, eventually hoisting him back up and dangling him upside down so he could face his boyfriend's angry glare, his hair touching the water.

"You have made a sssseriousss misssstake, my friend." Janus hissed angrily.

"N-now, Janus, I…" Xander began to explain, but the naga was having none of it.

"Look me in the eye when I'm ssspeaking to you!" he exclaimed. The hypnotic colours began to pulse from his eyes, capturing the human with their mesmerizing spell, although Xander was able to close his eyes, not falling for the same trick an animated panther had.

"Ah, ah, ah. Not gonna get me this time!" he teased Janus, knowing the naga would never really hurt him, even if he let out a yelp as Janus threw him into the air almost effortlessly, that tail of his always surprising Xander with how much sheer power was contained in that scaly muscle.

Although Janus launched the human into the air a couple more times, Xander just laughed along the way, genuinely enjoying what he was being subjected to, although he had to admit he would have become queasy if Janus hadn't stopped, instead taking him in his arms.

"My, oh my, you really are determined to not open those pretty peepers, huh?" the naga teased.

"I managed to stay a whole day with my eyes closed, I think we know who wins in stubbornness by now." Xander provoked back.

"Is that so?" Janus replied with a raised eyebrow, seeing that as a challenge.

Before he knew it, Xander felt the naga's tail wrapping around his, pinning his arms at his sides, but it wasn't just enveloping him in the ascending cocoon. No, Janus's torso was also being wrapped up, although his arms were being left free, so that Xander was almost glued to his torso, the naga's coils squeezing them both tightly once they finished wrapping them up in a neat cocoon, from neck to waist.

"Agh…" Xander grunted slightly, trying to now show emotion as he felt their nipples rubbing together. "What are you… doing?!"

"Getting you to open your eyes." Janus replied smugly

Feeling his cock hardening against the naga's slit, the young man gulped.

"J-Janus…" Xander mumbled, fearing the worst. "Can't we… uuh… talk over this?"

"No." Janus said plainly, giving yet another teasing chuckle, leaning forward to lick Xander's neck. "Are you afraid I'm going to do something in specific?"

Xander shook his head no, but was unable to contain a gulp when he felt Janus's hands coming back down towards his hips, perfectly manoeuvring him so his cock was aligned with his slit, constricting them both with his coils to force Xander to shift his hips forward, impaling him in one go.

"AH!" Xander gasped out loud, almost opening his eyes with the realization of the predicament he was in.

By binding them together, the weight of the coils was such that Xander never had a comfortable position to stay in, requiring him to keep moving his hips in order to stand still. Of course, with his cock clamped tightly by the naga's slit, it would be impossible to do so without effectively thrusting into Janus, and with how sleek and tight the walls of the naga's insides were, it was a true test of character for Xander to not surrender to his desires.

Janus just laid back against the walls of the pool, crossing his arms behind his head as he took in the beyond beautiful sight of Xander trying to resist the impossible. The naga knew he would break, it was just a matter of time, but the longer it took, the more delicious it was to behold.

However, Janus did not just remain still, waiting until Xander finally succumbed and came inside him. With the poor lad already panting, the naga instead tightened his coils around them both and began to swim around, his impressive control over his body allowing him to move his arms and carry them both, poor Xander treading water with his feet out of instinct, until they stopped again and he was once more fucking the naga's slit, unable to see Janus had just changed their position so they were in the shade, protecting Xander from a potential sunburn.

"Jaaaaaaanuuuuussss…" Xander pleaded in a whine, his voice sounding tortured enough already. "Come on… this is unfair!"

"You know what you have to do to make this end, my dear… jusssst open your eyessss…" the naga chuckled.

"Ugh…" Xander grunted, finding himself thrusting once more.

The two remained at that for hours, until the young man couldn't handle it anymore and gave up, opening his eyes.

However, Janus did not greet him with those hypnotic colours, instead leaning forward to kiss Xander as his coils loosened from around them, allowing the naga to wrap him up in his embrace once more and instead give him a tight squeeze with his muscular arms.

That was the straw that broke the camel's back, making Xander close his eyes and cry out as he came with a powerful orgasm, dumping a massive load inside the naga, accumulated after an hour of being milked, collapsing forward into Janus's welcoming embrace, with the naga just teasingly kissing his cheek.

"I win." Janus declared with a singsong tune, as he always did.

After weeks of living in that place, Xander was more than used to arrive home from the grocery store and have a bird or two singing in the window sill, a fox sunbathing on his backyard or any sort of creature that Janus had befriended interested in seeing what the naga's mate looked like.

Yet, the last thing he had ever expected was to see an elk at his doorstep, as if it had been waiting for him.

Xander gulped as he approached the wild beast, but all the elk did was stare at him and follow his movements, even cocking his head diagonally, as if messaging him to enter the house, which Xander did, seeing a note written in Janus's handwriting, telling him to dress up in the clothes the naga had left behind for him—a white tunic and matching cloth pants—and allow himself to be led by the elk.

As much as Xander was used to riding his motorcycle, he had never felt comfortable doing so with animals, so the lift he was given by the elk was nothing but awkward, especially the further they dwelled into the woods. Along the way, he was met by a pair of white doves, who held a crown of white roses woven with branches and twigs, which they proceeded to place on his raven hair. The young man was growing more and more confused, looking around until they reached a clearing, where Janus awaited him, surrounded by other forest animals.

"Just what the hell is going on here?" Xander asked.

"Welcome to our wedding!" Janus exclaimed, slithering closer to hander to help him get off the elk.

As the naga wrapped his tail around Xander's waist to lift him off, the young man wanted to tell him that he had done everything wrong. That he should have proposed first. That such wedding would never be legal nor recognized by anyone.

But Xander didn't do so.

Because what Janus had done was magical, giving both the wedding even an influencer could dream of. Their guests were the various animals the naga had acquainted himself with, ranging from birds to deer, all witnesses of that union between man and nature. Although he had forgone clothes for that occasion, Janus was wearing a matching flower crown, certainly woven by him.

Even the most glaring issues – the lack of a priest to celebrate and people to witness – were fixed in the most creative way, even if Xander felt shoddy over the solution, having picked a YouTube video to air a ceremony over a loudspeaker.

"Now, your vows," the recorded voice said, after the introduction.

Had he known, Xander would have produced a piece of paper burned in the corners to make it look like a scroll, which he would have unrolled to read, his penmanship sublime. But there wasn't any need to do so, for the words were already printed in his tongue, his heart used as ink.

"Janus, for so long I wondered if I would ever find my prince, my soulmate. Then you showed up at my doorstep. I thought I was just giving you a temporary home, but instead I found everything I'd been looking for my whole life. And now, here we are, with our future before us, and I only want to spend it with you, my prince, my soulmate, my friend…unless you don't want to, of course!"

"First of all, I shouldn't have to say this, but I do. I love you," the naga began, with a proud smile that made Xander blush. "You've helped me through so much that I can spend my life trying to repay you and I will still be in debt when I perish. But things changed, and now I feel that anywhere you go, I go. And what I feel for you now is the wonder that keeps the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart. Which I will forever preserve. Ever mine, ever thine."

Xander had already been crying before Janus had finished his vows, tears streaming down his face, although he didn't sob.

And, as if that moment couldn't have been any more perfect already, it was then that the doves showed up again, to Xander's surprise, each carrying a dark, resin wooden band, with a ring of green in the middle, of course purchased with Xander's credit card without his knowledge, not that he cared at that moment.

The exchange of rings finally pronounced them husband and husband, or mate and mate, a bond they celebrated with a kiss, in a moment that wasn't photographed, but still ingrained in their minds forever.

And, as cliché as it sounded, they lived happily ever after.

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The worst things in life always come unexpected.

Xander had planned it all out, having always been a meticulous, organised person, and the circumstances had ruined it.

It had been a year since that fateful night where he met Janus at the entrance to his garage, which required a celebration. They were supposed to have woken up early, stroll through the woods and reach a secluded, crescent-moon shaped beach near their house, one that was almost always empty since it was too bothersome to reach by car and too far away to reach by foot, the shore surrounded almost completely by rocks.

However, Janus had been nothing but uncooperative. The naga was apparently at that time of the month again and, while it had always resulted in hours upon hours of blissful, beyond amazing sex induced by the naga's state of heat, this time something about it was different.

This time, Janus was lying back on his towel, drenched in sweat, scoffing and sighing, having spent the whole morning complaining. Instead of fucking Xander's brains out, he had spent the last couple of days just eating, to the point where his stomach was starting to bloat, the contours of his abs all but gone.

"Do you want to go for a swim?" Xander asked, peeking away from his phone's screen, trying to put up a peaceful front.

"No…" Janus grunted from under the straw hat that was covering his face.

"Do you want to do anything except moping and being unpleasant?"

"Well, if someone had just respected my desire to stay home, then I wouldn't have to be here!" Janus spat back angrily.

"You know what?! Go home yourself then. I'll do just fine on my own!" Xander shouted, glaring back at Janus when the naga pulled the straw hat back up to glare at him.

While normally it was Janus who won their staring contests by unleashing his hypnotic power and bending Xander's will to his own, this time the naga was too angry for that, merely rising his torso off the towel and slithering away, picking it up with his tail tip, not even turning around when his husband shouted at him a final time to not come back.

"Ugh… ruined the whole day. Asshole." Xander spat under his breath once Janus was gone, ready to walk towards the sea and enjoy a nice swim in the crystal clear waters. Although the beach was empty, he wasn't brave enough to take off his swimming trunks, allowing the sea to welcome his almost nude body as he sank, the water so clear he could open his eyes and see perfectly.

However, he wasn't alone, a pair of sea-green eyes feasting on him from deep underwater. He knew this human had brought company with him, able to hear their fight from that deep thanks to his enhanced hearing, but now he was all alone, and with how hard it was to find someone all alone, with no one to come for them, on that secluded beach, he wasn't going to give up a chance to have some fun.

Completely oblivious to the fact he wasn't alone, Xander kept enjoying that tour of the underwater, appreciating the natural beauty of a sea barely touched by civilization. He wished he could hold out his breath for much longer and not be affected by the pressure, to swim in that calm dimension and relax in that sunken quiet, but unfortunately his body had its limits.

So, the young man began swimming back towards the surface, until he heard something similar to a hum echoing through the deep waters, making him halt his movements and look back. At first, he thought it had just been his impression, but then he heard it again, this time loud and clear.

It was singing.

My heart is pierced by Cupid, I disdain all glittering gold. There is nothing can console me, but my jolly sailor bold.

"What the…" Xander thought to himself. That voice was impossibly beautiful, beyond any singing he had heard, only comparable to how sweet Janus's singing voice sounded when he sang one of his hypnotic lullabies, acting along with his hypnotic, colourful eyes.

Yet, looking around, Xander saw nothing or no one. The whole situation was starting to weird him out, so he swam back towards the surface, taking a deep, audible breath, before he opened his eyes and saw that he wasn't alone anymore.

Standing in front of him was a man who couldn't be that much younger than him, looking back at him with a handsome smile, those sea-green eyes of his almost sparkling as they reflected the sun. While he was slightly slender than Xander, he was more toned than him, somehow able to tread water without needing to move his arms.

"Hey there," the stranger smiled at Xander. "Not used to seeing someone else on their own around here."

"Who are you?" Xander asked, a wary look on his hazel eyes. He didn't recognise this stranger from the village, and with how small it was, he was sure he knew literally everyone, but there was always the possibility he was talking to a traveller, or someone who had just moved in, just like him, so his suspicion didn't remain for too long.

"I'm Rio." Rio introduced himself as he began to swim around Xander at a slow pace. "What's your name?"

"I… my name is Xander," the young man said as he followed Rio, turning around while the other young man kept swimming in a slow circle.

"Nice to meet you, Xander." Rio smiled. "What brings you to this beach?"

"I came…" Xander began, but then remembered he shouldn't reference Janus's existence, instead changing the topic, wanting to confirm the source of that voice he had heard. "Was that you?"

"Huh?" Rio asked as he stopped swimming, cocking his head to the side, a confused look on his handsome face. "What are you talking about?"

"I heard someone… underwater…" Xander said, finding the whole situation strange. "Singing."

"Oh, you could have said so earlier!" Rio giggled amicably, his sparkling eyes gaining a teasing hint. "Was it this?"

And then, to Xander's amazement, the young man began to croon.

My heart is pierced by Cupid, I disdain all glittering gold. There is nothing can console me, but my jolly sailor bold.

To any ears, Rio's voice would sound like the most tuned, practised singer in the whole wide world, but that wasn't all. Hearing the verse sung once more, Xander realised that the voice hadn't been echoing around him underwater, no, it was echoing in his head, as if he were listening to a recording of the young man's voice while wearing high-quality headphones.

It was such a haunting, mesmerising melody that his whole body froze, and he would have just sunken there and drowned while listening to Rio's alluring concert, feeling like the strange young man was singing to him, just for him, but then Rio gently took Xander's hands in his, holding him afloat, pulling him forward and welcoming him into his embrace.

"Will you be my jolly sailor bold?" Rio asked with a seductive smoulder not unlike Janus's, holding Xander against him and allowing the young man's torso to brush against his, feeling the almost inhuman smoothness of his skin, just like Janus's.

"I…" Xander mumbled, wondering to himself why he wasn't breaking away from Rio's embrace, wondering why he even wanted to, when he felt so good in his arms.

"You… you don't like my song?" the stranger asked with a pout, even slowly moving his head to the sides, before he smiled, a smile so contagious that Xander felt it curling at the edges of his lips. "Well then, why don't I sing you something else, hm?"

"Yesss…" the young man almost hissed, not unlike when he was starting to fall under Janus's hypnotic control.

"That's a good boy." Rio smiled at Xander, pecking him sweetly on his forehead, making Xander's heart skip a beat as he began to sing again, this time crooning a different melody.

Bet you never thought you would ever be, falling so in love with someone like me. Mmm, yeah…

Xander's eyes widened as Rio sang, feeling his heart fluttering as if he were facing a crush, a blush filling his cheeks, although he wondered why exactly he would fall in love with someone like Rio when he already loved someone. They had fought just recently, though…

Bet you never thought you would ever find, everything you wanted for the rest of your life. Mmm, baby…

If Rio's voice told Xander that this stranger was everything he wanted, Xander didn't think he was in a place to disagree, nodding faintly, too mesmerised to realise that his swimming trunks were being pulled down, leaving him completely in the nude.

The other young man then pulled Xander to him as he laid back, the human's legs reflexively straddling what he expected to be Rio's, only to realise that Rio only had one. No, it wasn't a leg. Xander had been straddling a familiar thickness for a year now. It was…

Bet you never thought, never did expect, to find the perfect man, finally connect, ooh yeah, baby…

The young man's verses made Xander lose his train of thought whenever they were sung, making him just stare wide-eyed at Rio's handsome smoulder, leaning his weight into him, relying completely on this stranger to stay afloat as he supported both their weights.

Bet you never thought I could mesmerise, have you in a way like you're hypnotised, hmhm, baby…

So that's what Rio was doing to him. He was hypnotising him, just like Janus did. And Xander was falling under his control, but the awareness of it was going to change nothing.

If you hold me close, I can make you see. All that you are when you're swimming with me.

As he sang, Rio began to swim back, luring Xander away from the shore, into deeper waters where he would have trouble swimming back on his own. The forked end of a fish's tail could be seen surfacing, splashing against the water, not that Xander would be able to look behind him and acknowledge it, mesmerised as he was by the young man's enchanting song.

Oh, it's true, there's nothing you can do. It's in the way I croon. I put a spell on you…

Rio swam until they reached one of the rocks, which was shallow enough for him to rise and lean back against it as if it were a makeshift chair, allowing for Xander to finally confirm that this stranger who had enthralled him with his siren wiles was yet another creature thought to be just a myth.

The torso of a man and, instead of legs, the long, beautiful tail of a fish, whose scales glistened and sparkled with bright warm tones of the colour spectrum.

A merman.

But Xander had fallen into a trance throughout the whole time Rio had been singing, and, unlike Janus, there was no 'ping' to signal that he was under, no hypnotic colours to allow any outsider to be aware of it.

No. Just a dopey grin that matched his usual one and a half-lidded, utter blissful look on his hazel eyes, ones that looked at Rio as if he were the most beautiful creature in the world, as the merman nuzzled both their foreheads together.

"Now, my sweet Xander…" Rio cooed lustfully, hunger in his eyes. "Are you ready to have some fun with me?"

"Yessss… hehehe." Xander hissed, giggling dumbly.

"You're such a good boy, my sweet. And good boys get rewarded," the merman whispered with pure sex in his voice, leaning his head closer, claiming Xander's lips in their first shared kiss.

As their tongues made contact, Xander let out a soft hum, finding that Rio's tongue tasted strangely salty, but in a sweet way at the same time, the two of them sharing a passionate kiss, like a pair of long-lost lovers.

Coaxed by Rio, Xander's hands began rubbing over the merman's back, feeling the smoothness in his skin while Rio also felt and groped Xander, both of them moaning into each other's mouths, until it was the merman who broke the kiss, licking a way a trail of drool that connected their mouths, ready to take things a step further.

"Now… sit back and spread your legs." Rio commanded, enjoying the way Xander smiled in anticipation, of course not suspecting at all the long history the human had of enjoying sharing the pleasures of the flesh with half-human creatures like him.

Gently draping Xander's legs over his shoulders, Rio's head dove in slowly, taking a whiff of the human's taint and moaning at the intoxicating smell of sex he so loved in them, before he gave his hole a slow, teasing lick, enjoying the way it made Xander's legs try and squeeze around his head.

"Hmhm…" Rio chuckled slyly, before finally digging in.

Xander threw his head back the moment Rio's wet tongue made contact with his hole, crying loudly as it prodded inside. It felt salty and tingly against his flesh, not at all in an unpleasant way, but definitely in a way that drove him mad, making him moan as loud as he could, not a single thought spent on the possibility that anyone else would hear them.

Rio's tongue kept working on Xander's hole until the young man was approaching the point of no return, the merman withdrawing his tongue a second before Xander would cum, pulling his head back and chuckling at the human's sweating, panting state.

"Liked that?" the merman asked, nodding in order to coax Xander to nod along. "Then you're going to love this."

Xander's eyes opened wide and the lad gasped breathlessly as Rio instead engulfed his hard, leaking cock, the tight confines of his throat wet and cold, although in a pleasant way, making his member throb wildly, a powerful suckling motion following right after, one that had Xander going crazy, even sitting back up and grabbing Rio's hair, running his hands through the merman's wet locks.

The more Rio sucked on his cock, the crazier Xander was becoming, buckling his hips forward, desperate to cum, but the merman knew once more when to leave, pulling his head back when Xander was about to orgasm yet again, loving the way the human's heart raced as he whined from being cut off from sweet release yet again.

"Ssshhhh…" Rio whispered almost huskily, caressing the human's cheek with a warm hand. "The fun's going to begin."

The mention of 'fun' had Xander grinning dumbly again, watching as the merman leaned back, crossing his arms behind his head, beckoning for him to come forward with his index finger.

"Fuck me, my sweet." Rio said, the command more than clear.

The merman didn't even have to specify where Xander's cock was going, for the young man was knowledgeable in the art of fucking creatures that were supposed to be mythological, crawling forward on the rock, getting on all-fours on top of the merman, surprising Rio by turning them around so Xander was lying on his back now.

However, just before Rio could welcome Xander's flesh into his wet tightness, a loop of scaly tail fell down around him and tightened around him, pulling him up in one quick swoop. Before the merman could even react, he was turned around and wrapped from neck to tail in a snake's muscular coils, pulled up from the sea so he could meet his attacker.

Rio was gasping and sputtering, looking back wide-eyed in horror at someone who was just like him: a half-human creature, yet with the long tail of a snake.

"And just what do you think you're doing with my mate?" Janus asked with a glare as he squeezed Rio even tighter in his coils.

The air wheezed out of Rio's lungs as the merman coughed and hacked, a horrified look on his face. Although he tried to squirm and break free from the naga's constricting embrace, it was simply impossible, his human half even weaker than Xander's, even as the coils loosened just enough for him to be able to talk, while keeping movement utterly impossible, much less escape.

The merman found himself seething, envious of the naga for having quite the long, thick, muscular tail. He wished his own could be used to wrap around the men he seduced with his siren voice so he could play with them in different, creative ways, instead of just being an appendage that allowed him to swim at faster speeds, leaving him to be completely useless on the ground. Although, on second thought, that naga probably was an awful swimmer compared to him.

Nonetheless, he was currently trying to choke him to death. Rio had to get out of that one somehow

"I was… I was just… having some fun!" he exclaimed, chuckling nervously. "You can't blame me, can you? After all, your kind loves getting into the same kind of fun we do."

"I don't care." Janus spat, constricting Rio again in his coils in a grip so tight that he would have broken bones if it had been Xander in the merman's place. "No one takes what's mine, you stinky fish."

"Nnngh…" Rio grunted. Although his bone structure was different from a human's, able to take tighter squeezes than even Xander had had without breaking bones, it was still quite the torturous experience. Yet, he still had an ace up his sleeve, which made him chuckle teasingly back at the naga. "Come on, don't be such a spoilsport. You can join in on the fun too, if you want. I don't have any problem sharing, never been the jealous kind. In fact…"

The vice-like grip on his body returned once more, forcing him to grit his teeth to try and power through. Especially, because, just like Janus did when he had Xander under his hypnotic power, Rio had established a mental connection with the human. Unlike Janus's, it thankfully didn't have Xander feeling the pain he was enduring, or else he would have woken up, but it did allow Rio to communicate with him telepathically and control him.

With Janus too distracted with punishing the merman for stealing his mate, the naga could have never been prepared for when the hypnotised Xander sneaked in from behind, attacking his human half with his fingers, tickling the naga's most sensitive spots, perfectly aware of his weaknesses. As those digits brushed against his armpits, poking his sides, Janus couldn't handle it and began to laugh, eventually relaxing his grip on Rio's body enough that the merman managed to slip away, falling onto the sand.

"Take me, my sweet!" he exclaimed to Xander, who smiled at the merman, dashing in his direction like a gallant prince.

Unlike Janus's coils, which were many times heavier than his human torso, Rio's tail was somehow even lighter, allowing Xander to pick him up in his arms effortlessly and carry him bridal style, taking Rio away. The merman realised too late that he should have had Xander jump into the water so he could carry him instead, for Janus was much faster than he had expected, able to chase them down in a heartbeat like the jungle predator he was, eventually getting close enough to them that he could launch himself at Xander, knocking him down along with the merman.

However, Rio was a quick thinker, hugging Xander against himself and grabbing the human's ass cheeks, aligning the lad's cock with his slit as he squeezed them and pulled him in, engulfing his flesh in one go.

"Cum" he commanded.

Janus had no time to do anything as he saw Xander give the merman a single thrust, his body going rigid as he came inside Rio, filling the merman's insides with his warm seed, making him sigh with half-lidded pleased eyes as the waves splashed over them, before he turned to the naga with a smug, almost cruel, smirk.

"Ha!" Rio exclaimed smugly, wrapping his own slender arms around Xander, holding the hypnotised young man close, grinning provokingly at the naga. "He's mine now. And there's no way you're pulling him out of here!"

"You…" Janus said between grit teeth.

"Keep thrusting, my sweet." Rio ordered in that sickly sweet, whispering voice, moaning as Xander began to thrust his still wet dick inside of him.

The human was almost drooling as he began to fuck the merman, drowned in utter bliss too out of his mind to even recognise that the warm tightness that was surrounding his cock wasn't the one he was used to. The arms that embraced him weren't the powerful, muscular ones he was used to either, but Rio's embrace still felt pleasant enough, the merman's scent of salt and the sea a perfume that invited Xander to bury his face in the crook of his neck and take a loud whiff, one that had Janus seething in response.

Determined to save his mate, the naga wrapped his tail around both Rio and Xander, giving them a rough pull so Rio couldn't slip back into the sea, lying the merman's body on the wet sand, before he laid down, beginning to cast his own hypnotic spell, hoping to bring Xander under his control.

However, the young man's eyes didn't reflect his own colourful ones, that pleased half-lidded gaze remaining there, as if Janus didn't even exist, making the naga gasp in complete disbelief!

"Hah!" Rio chuckled mockingly, leaning his head back to interrupt his moaning so he could taunt Janus. "You might have that long strong tail of yours, but my song is echoing in his mind, numbing his senses! So, unless you have a way of breaking my spell, he's mine, you worm!"

Janus grit his teeth, wanting for nothing but to grab that menace with his tail and throw him far away into the sea. He knew that the merman was right, their hypnotic power was leagues ahead of a naga's, and his song would echo in Xander's mind for as long as he wanted. He simply had no way of fighting it.

No, he did.

Rio's smug grin increased as he saw Janus move, thinking the naga was finally going to leave him alone and enjoy his toy for a while, of course, having no intention to keep Xander spellbound once he was done enjoying sharing that carnal pleasure with the human.

However, Janus then began to slither around the two of them, the smugness in Rio's face washed away and replaced with a confused expression.

"What are you–

Then he saw it.

The naga was grunting with effort as, from the scaly slit near his waist, a fleshy rod began to emerge, long and thick, a sexual snake that outperformed any human cock.

And, before Rio could even finish his question, Janus pumped his hips forward and began to penetrate Xander's hole with his gargantuan cock, making the young man let out a loud, prolonged moan as the naga filled him with a sudden rush of pure, unfiltered bliss.

"Fuck!" Rio cried out loud, his eyes almost rolling back into their sockets, for the hypnotic connection he had with Xander was also making him feel those extremely blissful sensations. It was as if Xander was being a mere extension of Janus's whole being now, especially as the naga began to pick up a pace, fucking Xander and, in return, making Xander pump his hips harder against Rio.

As if Janus hadn't turned the tables enough, that was when the naga's tail began to slither under Rio's back, digging through the sand to do so, enveloping both Xander and Rio in its loops as it began to ascend their frames, binding Xander's arms although it was unable to do the same with Rio's.

"Aaah… fuck!" the merman cried out, his arms flailing and having escaped Janus's coils without him even having realised it, another moan escaping his lips as the naga gave the two coiled-up bodies a tight squeeze.

"AH!" Xander cried out in response, unable to control his drooling anymore, completely drugged with bliss.

"Ooooh yeah… take it!" Janus moaned out, now in complete control of the situation.

There was no singing nor spell that would save Rio this time, and the merman wasn't sure that if his siren voice would work on the naga, but he couldn't even hold onto that thought for long, for Janus was fucking his brains out along with Xander. Enough that, at one point, Rio just gave in and let himself be dominated, focusing instead on pleasing the human, allowing his arms to sink into the confines of the naga's coils so he could embrace Xander while he focused on his slit and tightened it around the lad's cock, wanting for him to feel pleasure beyond bliss, not wanting to give up and lose to the naga on that front.

However, Janus seemed to have read his mind somehow, beginning to thrust even harder against Xander's hole, which in return made Xander's cock prod even deeper inside Rio.

The three remained in that intense exchange of carnal lusts and pleasures for what was an hour, going well beyond the limits of human stamina, with Xander only being able to take it due to being used to that intense kind of fucking after months of being together with Janus.

The three sweat-drenched males finally reached the point of no return when Janus gave Xander an especially rough thrust, hitting that special spot in the human's insides as he did the same to Rio, who finally threw his head back and opened his eyes wide, his slit clamping hard around Xander's cock.

The orgasm that hit Xander was beyond anything he had ever experienced in his life, the strongest, most mind-numbing one, with not only his ass but also his cock being worked on. He came with a roar, shooting load upon load inside Rio as the merman also reached orgasm along with Janus, who filled Xander's abused hole with his own creamy, warm naga cum.

Xander passed out in his naga-merman sandwich as the two creatures recovered their breath, exchanging a silent look that confirmed who had been the victor in that match, although they both then blushed in mute agreement that they had, despite their differences and animosity, enjoyed that experience. Quite a lot.

By the time Xander woke up again, he was lying on the most comfortable bed he knew, Janus's body, the sound of waves splashing against the sand a pleasant background music, although as he felt skin rubbing against his own, he realised he wasn't there alone. With the way his hair and face were being tenderly stroked, he didn't pay it much thought, moving an arm to caress back the one that was sharing his scaly bed, assuming it was Janus for whatever reason, until the pleased hum that he heard in response was unequivocally someone else's.

Xander let out a confused hum as he opened his eyes, his vision filled with the handsome face of the merman who had enraptured him earlier.

"AH!" he gasped, stiffening in his scaly bed, trying to get away from the creature, before a pair of arms wrapped around him from behind, soothing him down.

"Shhh… it's okay…" Janus whispered from behind Xander, who turned his head to him, a terrified look in his wide-open hazel eyes.

"Janus, I… I… he did something to me! With his voice!" Xander shouted.

"I know, it's okay." Janus smiled back at his mate, claiming his lips in a sweet, reassuring kiss, quelling away Xander's fears and concerns. "Rio and I had a little chat… and he knows not to touch what's mine anymore, right, Rio?"

"Yeah." Rio smiled back at Xander and Janus, although he couldn't help but wink after a sly remark. "Unless you want me to sing to you again, of course. I'm always available for that."

"Well…" Xander blushed. "I'm flattered, but uninterested."

"Harsh." Rio pretended to be hurt, bringing a hand to his chest in a dramatic fashion. "And here I thought I had made two new friends…"

"I never said I didn't want to be your friend, silly." Xander replied with a half-lidded annoyed tone.

"It's nice to get to know someone who I can show myself to." Janus smiled.

"Yay!" Rio exclaimed with a youthful cheer that betrayed his looks, embracing Xander and nuzzling his head against his chest. "As a reward, I'm taking you underwater, deeper than any human can go!"

"Huh?!" Janus gasped, offended. "You're not going to drown him!"

"No, silly!" Rio smiled at both. "I can help humans breathe underwater!"

The smile that took over Xander's face was the one of a giddy child who had just come face to face with something magical for the first time.

"Really?!" he exclaimed. "You can do that?!"

"Yeah! Wanna try?"

Although it required Rio to kiss him so he would surround the human's lungs in an air bubble, of course with Janus's assent, Xander was soon holding hands with the merman as he was led through even deeper waters than the one he had visited, not having to worry about his breathing. He saw sceneries he hadn't thought possible outside wearing scuba diving gear, met schools of fish who ran away from any humans, but not from him, seeing who kept him company.

By the time they resurfaced, half an hour later, the sun was setting down, and it was time to go home. Any hostility and suspicion gone, the couple bid farewell to Rio with warm hugs, promising to return often, having been given a conch shell each by the merman that they could use to call for him from the shore.

"I guess I was wrong." Xander smiled as he walked through the woods on his way back home, holding hands with the naga.

"About Rio?" Janus asked, still feeling ill and queasy, but not as bad as earlier that day.

"No. I always thought that the worst things in life always came unexpected, I was so pissed this morning after I spent so much time organising our day. But it's the complete opposite. Not only was this quite the interesting day, we finally got you a friend of your own kind. I mean, I know he's not your kind, but you know what I meant.

"Yeah…" Janus said. "You know, he reminds me of myself. Well, the me from before I met you."

"How so?"

"I was even more dominant and forceful than what he was with you. And I just wanted to… uhm… have fun with as many people as I could," the naga sighed, before he turned to Xander with a smile. "But now that I have you, I want no one else, no matter what."

Xander couldn't help but pause and let out a joyful laugh, even clutching his stomach as he did so.

"What's so funny?" Janus replied, annoyed.

"I just can't believe we're starting to have these conversations!" the young man exclaimed, wiping a tear from his eye. "We're too young for these things. Well, me, since you're ancient compared to me, you old fart."

"Am not!"

"Yes you are!" Xander exclaimed, letting go of Janus's hand and beginning to run. "Try and catch me, you old snake!"

The two of them had been close enough to their house that Xander was able to run inside to hide, but of course Janus's superior capacities eventually had the naga catching up to his husband and pull him back onto the couch, where he became the victim of a hands-and-tail combination tickling attack that had him breathless, begging for mercy.

After a nice, prolonged shower (with a quick fuck in-between), Xander was finishing getting dressed in his pyjama shorts, with it being too hot to put any sort of top on, when his phone rang.

"Hey, Sam," Xander said as he picked up the grocer's call.

"Hey, you wanna go out or something?" he heard Sam asking, but before Xander could say anything, Janus slithered in from behind, wrapping his bare, still wet arms around Xander's shoulders, kissing his neck and shaking his head 'no'.

"Sorry, dude. I'm really tired today." Xander sighed, having always been good at that kind of excuse. "But I'm all yours tomorrow, okay?"

"Sure." Sam said on the other side of the line, before he hung up.

Xander felt bad for rejecting Sam, but that day was special, and although the picnic hadn't gone exactly according to plan, not that it had gone completely wrong thanks to Rio, there was still a candlelit dinner to be had.

Sam was out for a night stroll, wanting to be alone. Well, he didn't want to be alone, but Xander had rejected his company once more, claiming to be tired.

He thought that the arrival of that beautiful city boy in the village was fate smiling on him, finally giving him the chance of loving another man who could love him back, but Xander just didn't seem to be that into him. He didn't understand why: he was handsome, he was hunky, and he was honest.

"I guess I'm fated to be alone in this world…" he sighed sadly to himself.

So far did Sam stray off the village as he walked through the woods that he reached the beach, thinking to himself that it had been ages since he had visited it. The sea was calm, and a swim couldn't kill him.

My heart is pierced by Cupid, I disdain all glittering gold. There is nothing can console me, but my jolly sailor bold…

Sam had just finished stepping onto the water when he heard that, looking around. He didn't recognise that voice, sure that no one he knew had such an amazing singing voice.

Come all you pretty fair maids, whoever you may be, who love a jolly sailor that ploughs the raging sea.

Sam knew he wasn't a pretty maid, but if that voice was calling for him, then he was definitely going to meet its owner, whoever it was.

The young man began to swim, his arms slashing the water with his butterfly style, hearing that haunting melody echoing in his mind, guiding him safely to his destiny, to his desire.

My heart is pierced by Cupid, I disdain all glittering gold. There is nothing can console me, but my jolly sailor bold…

By the time Sam got to meet the owner of that beautiful singing voice, he was staring open-mouthed at a young man, just like him, his smooth bare flesh illuminated by the moonlight, lying as he was on a rock near the shore.

Sam was so mesmerised by the singer's enchanting voice that he wasn't even fazed with the fact that the stranger's torso ended at his waist, his lower half a fish's tail, thick and with a forked end.

"Hey there, handsome…" Rio smiled, beckoning the mesmerised young man towards him with his index finger. "Will you be my jolly sailor bold?"

The young man just smiled back and nodded. He had finally found someone.

The dinner had been a complete success, and now Xander and Janus were lying together on their lounge chair, huddled close together.

"I still can't believe it sometimes, you know?" Xander said as he beheld the starry sky, speaking without looking at his husband. "That you showed up in my life and despite not being human you ended up becoming everything I've ever wanted. You're so perfect, Janus. And I love you, love you so much that I can finally say the word 'love'. I sometimes wonder if this is all just a dream and I'm going to wake u–

A soft snore interrupted Xander, which made him turn to the side with annoyance, realising Janus was dozing off.

"Hey, wake up sleepy head." Xander said, flickering the naga's forehead.

"Huh? Wha?!" Janus exclaimed, startled, before he paused and stretched his arms, yawning loudly, sighing. "I think it's best that I go to bed."

"Sure." Xander smiled, kissing the naga goodnight on the cheek. "I'll stay here a while longer. I'm not tired yet. And you look too exhausted to be able to hypnotise me to sleep."

"You're such an understanding husband." Janus chuckled, kissing Xander back. "I'll leave a coil cocoon ready for you to slip in!"

Xander at first remained still on the chair, looking up at the starry sky and wondering just what other sort of mythological creatures were real and inhabited their world other than mermen and nagas, and if it would ever be possible for humans to accept them, finding it would be quite difficult, when they didn't even accept the differences in each other.

While a few distant grunts were easily accepted by the young man, who figured Janus must have eaten something spoiled, hoping the naga would be able to recover and it wouldn't be anything too serious, he then started to get worried once those grunts became louder, sounding more painful, until he finally heard the naga shouting in pain.

"AAAAAAH!" Janus cried out, with such a painful tone that Xander didn't think twice and almost jumped off the hammock, running up the stairs into their room.

"Janus! Janus! What's wrong?!" he shouted as he entered the room, able to see the naga's silhouette lying on the floor, clutching his body with his arms.

"Aah… aah…" Janus sighed between laboured breaths, although they weren't coated in pain like earlier, a hint of relief in them.

"Janus!" Xander shouted.

"Xander, I…" the naga whispered, before he had to take a deep breath.

It was then that Xander remembered to turn on the light, but, when he did so, the scenario in front of him made him freeze.

"What the…" he mumbled in utter disbelief.

The awestruck look he had had when he first saw that half-man, half-snake creature, lying down, weak, wet and helpless near his old garage, the one he also had had when he found out about Janus's hypnotic prowess, the one he had put up every time the naga had surprised him with something new, all of that did not compare at all with the pure look of utter astonishment he was holding as he contemplated what was lying on their floor, right next to Janus's curled up body.

It was an egg. A soft-textured, oval-shaped, barely off-white egg.

And judging by the grunting, laboured breaths that Xander had heard earlier coming from their room, it was one Janus had just laid.

Turning back to Xander, the naga at first looked at the egg with the same astonishment as the human, before he turned his head up, a genuine smile covering his handsome face.

"I… guess we're going to have a baby!" the naga exclaimed, chuckling with joy.

It was all too much for Xander, who, confronted with the very realistic scenario that he was now going to become a father, fainted. He would have hit his head on the floor if Janus hadn't caught him with his tail, shouting for his name in a panic.

The best things in life did come unexpected, after all.

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Although the merman Rio had swum in a few oceans, countless lakes and rivers, and even in hot springs, he was sure he would never understand those why humans had those artificial pools in their homes, finding them so small and restrictive, the still water driving him crazy sometimes. Yet, he was currently in one, his beautiful body bathed by the moonlight that shone on him, arms spread across one of the edges of Janus and Xander's pool.

The naga had asked the merman to keep him company that night, for his mate had taken advantage of a human festivity called Halloween, one where they dressed as all sorts of creatures and characters, to throw a party in their house. Janus had been the one to suggest Rio came, wanting to feel like he was part of it as well, not feeling any concern over their identities, for they would be able to pass off their scaly tails as mere disguises.

They wouldn't be able to mingle with the others, of course, that didn't mean they couldn't enjoy a small party of their own, sharing a bottle of wine while lounging together on the pool, both of them having become quite drunk in an instant, their cheeks flushed red as they laughed over Janus's retelling of what he had done to the person that had blackmailed the couple with the secret of Janus's identity and forced them to move to that location, having heard that he had been caught embezzling funds to compensate for the money he had lost after trying to blackmail Xander.

"Serves him right, I'd say." Rio stated as he finished his glass of wine, already quite tipsy, judging from the red on his cheeks. "Although if it were me I'd force him to wear a sweaweed wig for a whole month."

"Really?" Janus asked, incredulous at such a silly suggestion.

"Yeah. Worst punishment you can give a merman."

"Ours are worse. Having a knot on your tail!"

"That sounds horrible!" Rio gasped.

Neither of them heard the door to the backyard opening, revealing one of Xander and Sam's friends, Kris, dressed up as Aladdin, most of the guys having worn rather revealing costumes due to the still warm autumn nights.

Janus had heard enough of him from his husband to know that he was a pleasant guy, a laid-back stoner, who was happy with living a simple, carefree life, as long as he could get high whenever he wanted. And, as if proving that statement true, Kris held a big, fat joint in his hand, lighting it with a wide, naughty smile, after Xander kicked him out of the house when he had attempted to smoke it inside, claiming he didn't want the smell to permeate the walls.

As luck would have it, it was in that precise moment that, seeing that they had run out of booze, the naga had slithered his tail out of the pool in order to grab the wine bottle and refill their glasses without bothering to check his surroundings first. Neither party noticed the existence of the other until the sound of wine being poured was heard, making Kris finally get a good look at the pool, staring open-mouthed at Janus and Rio, the naga overfilling his glass and allowing the wine to sip into the waters with the shock of having been discovered.

"What the…" Kris mumbled in awe.

"I…" Janus mumbled. "There is a very good explanation for this!"

Such explanation had not been conjured in the naga's mind yet, but, regardless, he had no time to dawdle any further, for his merman buddy swam closer to Kris, propelling himself through the pool with astonishing speed and reflexes while thinking in his drunken state that there was only one way they would be able to deal with that situation.

"Hey there, stranger." Rio smiled as he raised his torso off the edge of the pool to have a closer look at Kris, not even bothering to hide his tail, as if still passing it off as a mere costume.

With how laid-back and airheaded Kris was, he had genuinely never considered that he was currently facing two creatures who were until quite recently only ever thought of as being mythical, thinking Janus's tail was a an elaborated costume, but the merman couldn't be blamed for his quick thinking, knowing that one of Xander's biggest fears was for their identities to be discovered.

"Whoa, who are you guys? Your costumes are awesome!" Kris exclaimed joyfully. "Are you supposed to be a mermaid dude?"

"A merman, yes." Rio replied cordially, although the corner of his lip could be seen twitching with slight annoyance. Yet, that sweet tone never faltered, for he raised an arm to gently grab the young man's wrist. "Would you like me to sing you a song, my jolly sailor bold?"

"Whuh?" Kris chuckled, too oblivious to notice whenever someone was flirting with him. Even if he did, there was nothing he would have been able to do, to explain himself he wasn't into dudes, that he was completely unaware of Rio and Janus's true identities.

"Sit down, give me your hand… I'm gonna tell you the future." Rio began to croon with his siren's voice, caressing Kris's wrist and hand with the back of his own as he lowered himself back down into the water, his smile growing wider when the human began to follow his commands right away, having had a hunch he would be a perfectly malleable mind to mould to his desires.

Meanwhile, Janus had completely slipped out of the pool himself, slithering past until he was standing right behind Kris, helping him sit down without tripping.

"I'm going to get Xander. Don't go too far with him…" Janus said quietly, obtaining a silent nod from the merman, who was much more focused entrancing the hapless young stoner, who was still holding onto the joint as he sat down, one that the naga safely extracted from his fingers and put down so it wouldn't cause an accident nor sully the pool.

"I see you, swimming happily…" Rio kept singing as he began to pull on Kris's legs, increasing the strength he was using so he could slowly but surely lull him into the cold waters of the pool. "With somebody who really suits you. Someone like me…"

While Rio worked on the entranced young man, Janus slithered towards the window, peeking inside to try and find Xander, who wasn't anywhere to be seen, the naga having no idea that his husband was in the bathroom.

However, he had caught someone's attention, a certain guest having turned his head when he saw a figure outside, forcing Janus to duck in time, but still prompting him to check out what it was.

Certain he had seen someone, Sam, the very first villager Xander had become friends with, started to make his way outside, but Janus was quick to slither away, hiding himself in the bushes and blending in perfectly with the foliage. Having no idea of Rio and Sam's connection, the naga just watched in hopes that the blond would just go back into the house and he'd have another opportunity to alert Xander to what had happened, otherwise he would have done everything in his hand to prevent what unfolded next.

With Rio having brought Kris into the pool water, sunken all the way down to his waist, the human had roused enough due to the temperature difference to regain some of his awareness, not exactly realising yet the effects of Rio's song on his mind and breaking free from the merman's spell, but enough to put up some resistance, taking a step back to get away from that captivating stranger, only to be cornered by the walls of the pool, letting out a confused gasp.

Not that Rio was going to give him any quarry, the wine he had ingested rousing the most predatory part of his personality, determined to corner Kris and conquer his mind.

"Stand still." Rio commanded in a sweet whisper, placing his hands on Kris's broad shoulders, giving them a gentle squeeze.

"Breathe in," the merman continued, smiling as the mesmerised lad took a deep breath with his mouth, at which point he got close enough so their lips could touch. "Are you-

KSSSHHHHK

The sound of glass breaking caught Rio's attention, with the hapless Kris having fallen under the merman's spell enough to not hear it, not that he would have reacted appropriately had he paid it any attention.

Looking behind Kris, the merman was able to see Sam's horrified expression, neither having expected to see the other there, the blond dressed up as a Dothraki from Game of Thrones, make-up included. And although Rio's gasp was one of pure, simple shock, Sam's expression quickly shifted into an angry one, before he turned away and stormed off without uttering a single word.

"Wait!" Rio exclaimed, but he had no way of chasing Sam, trapped as he was in that pool.

By the time Xander was back from the bathroom, having dressed up as Toad, he found out that the blond had inexplicably left the party, which was the trigger for most guests to also part ways, although with the request to repeat it some other time. The young man didn't think most of it, although he was suspicious of what could have gotten Sam to leave in such a rush, eventually daring to go into the backyard to quickly confirm his worst fears had become true.

Of course, Xander's reaction was an immediate angered panic, prompting Janus to lead the situation, the naga having hypnotized Kris into falling asleep, knowing Xander would be able to blame everything on a hangover the next day, with the naga helping him bring the lad to their guest room so he could sleep properly. It was only once Xander was sure that Kris had been properly dealt with that he returned to the pool, where he gave Rio the scolding of his life, one the merman wasn't sure his singing would be able to save him from.

And It was during this scolding that Xander and Janus found out that Rio had been fooling around with Sam since the day they had met, something that shocked the human further.

"You've been doing what with him?!" he exclaimed, in utter disbelief. It would never have crossed his mind that his friend would have had a run-in with the merman, but now that he thought about it properly, it shouldn't be that far-off of an idea, considering Rio hung around by the beach every single day. "Why didn't you say anything?"

"Do you also tell me every time you and Janus mate?" Rio asked back with a pout, almost childishly immature as always.

"Well… no." Xander admitted, although he quickly went back to his scolding, pointing at the two creatures as if Janus shared any blame in what had just happened. "Still! He told me he had a boyfriend now!"

"Yes, and?!"

"You're his boyfriend, Rio! Do you even know what that means?!"

"Of course! I am a boy and I'm his friend. That makes me his boyfriend, no? Duh!"

Xander became so flabbergasted by that response that he couldn't handle it anymore, palming his face.

"You know what?" he said, turning to Janus. "You both have tails, you fix this mess along with him. I am not going to lose Sam as a friend because of this and risk having your identities exposed, are we clear?!"

"Y-Yes!" the two creatures exclaimed, utterly terrified by the human's angry expression, who at that moment was more intimidating than the jungle's most vicious lion or the deep ocean's most ferocious shark to either creature.

The two remained in that paralysed state even as Xander turned away, walking back towards the house and leaving them alone.

"I had no idea he was this scary when he got angry…" Rio said, turning to Janus.

"Yeah. Usually, I just hypnotise him and we deal with things when he's cooled off…" the naga sighed, slithering towards the pool again to join the merman in there. "He and I used to be boyfriends before we did this marriage thing humans do."

"What's the big deal about being boyfriends with someone, then?"

"It's when humans decide to only have one mate, even if it isn't for life. At first, I didn't understand either and, back then, it's not like there were other humans I could play with. Not that I wanted to, though. I already liked being with Xander so much back then it's like I already knew I wouldn't need anyone else."

"And I like Sam as well! He's so sweet to me. I love spending time with him, even if it's something small and silly, like just lying on his lap, singing to him while he pets my head." Rio exclaimed, blushing slightly. "Why do humans make everything so complicated?"

"Beats me." Janus shrugged. "But we need to fix this or Xander is going to fillet you."

"What?!" Rio shouted with fear, clinging onto Janus with his arms around the naga's neck as if asking for protection. "I can't be eaten, I'm too pretty and sexy for that! And I certainly mustn't taste well! You've got to help me, Janus, I can't even leave this tiny human lake by myself!"

That seemed to have given Janus an idea, the naga pointing a finger upwards with an expression on his handsome face reflecting his sudden realisation, as if a lightbulb had surged over his head. Rio noticed it and lifted a wary eyebrow, but Janus just smiled back at him.

"Don't you worry, buddy!" the naga exclaimed as he snaked an arm around Rio's bare shoulders, squeezing him in a friendly gesture. "I know just what to do!"

For years, Sam had been literally the only gay in the village, as a character from one of his favourite series would refer towards himself. That had severely limited his options when it came to romance, which consisted in hook-ups he had enjoyed in the few cities he had visited, having never experienced those things one did when they went out on a date, such as going to the theatre or a museum together. The blond had already resigned himself to accept that being his predicament for pretty much the rest of his life, coming to terms with it.

Which was why, when he visited Xander after he had moved to the village and saw that handsome young man his age checking him out right out of the bat, a spark of hope had been lit in his heart, the bells tolling as his mind made plans for them together for the rest of their lives.

At least, until the next time Sam saw him and noticed the ring in his hand, which had made him give up all hope.

Regardless, Sam was pretty sure that, even if Xander didn't have a husband (and a nasty, pissed off side of him wondered if said husband existed and wasn't just a lame excuse Xander had come up with to reject him), he wouldn't have liked someone like him. Xander was educated and smart, while the blond felt like he was just a simpleton, a mere grocer who sold his own produce. He wasn't the kind of intellectual or cultured mind a city boy like Xander would like for sure.

When Sam thought all hope was abandoned, that's when fate smiled on him with the most unexpected, yet most interesting and unique acquaintance.

It would never have crossed Sam's mind that he would ended up meeting a merman, much less grow close to one the way he had grown attached to that once-assumed-mythological creature he looked forward to seeing almost every day, on that lake they had met, one that he found out that was connected to the ocean by a series of deep tunnels he had been led through by Rio, who helped him breathe either with long, deep kisses, or by surrounding his head in an air bubble that granted him oxygen for half an hour.

It had all been so joyful, so beautiful, so relaxing, so utterly perfect that obviously it had to end, or so Sam thought, amidst his depressive stupor as he rode his truck to work.

Xander had barely slept that night, not having had Janus lying on his bed next to him. It wasn't a usual thing to happen, with the naga sometimes liking to go for some nightly slithers on his own, but, after such an event, the young man really needed Janus to lie there and keep him company, for the more he was consumed by worry, the more he tried to sink under the covers, wishing they were the naga's coils holding him snugly, protecting him from everything outside. He had grown too used to them, enough to not be able to sleep as comfortably anymore without being all wrapped up.

Although he had easily lied to Kris and bid farewell to him after feeding him breakfast, the thought of dealing with Sam terrified him to no end. One thing was finding out his friend had been fooling around with a merman, another thing was a heartbroken young man vengefully revealing the existence of until then previously thought mythological creatures to the world. If word came out that there was a merman residing in the waters near the village, Xander knew he would eventually have to hide Janus again, confine him in a slightly bigger cage this time and doom him to a life of delinquency. It would be their apartment life all over again, and as fond as those memories were, Xander knew Janus had grown too accustomed to freedom to go back.

And this time, it wasn't as if he'd be able to afford a home like that, with how much he had invested in a credit to renovate their current one.

Looking back at the egg which they kept in a basket next to their bedroom window, Xander could only feel shame. It had indeed been a shock when they found out they had been able to somehow reproduce, with Janus having never mentioned that sex didn't play a role in it, so both of them being male wasn't a barrier when it came to mating. But the worst part indeed was that Xander didn't feel ready to be a father. Not when he had to hide Janus from everyone else in the world. It would be impossible to raise a child in those conditions.

Little did Xander know, however, that the naga's absence could have been justified by his wild plan of carrying Rio all the way to the village during the night, both of them waiting at the fountain for the sun to rise before they stalked Sam's home, knowing he got up very early.

Once the house was empty, Janus had used his recently acquired skill of picking locks with a hairpin, having mastered it after dozens of hours of watching YouTube videos, since always forgot to take a key whenever he went out to slither in the woods. Sneaking inside with Rio, the naga carried his merman buddy towards the bathtub, leaving him behind and heading safely back home, his stealth mission having succeeded perfectly.

Although Janus had originally intended to come home to brag about it with a smirk, knowing Xander would scold him for it with how much he worried over everything, he was surprised to find the house completely empty, unaware that Xander had gone out looking for him early in the morning, drowned in worry since Janus hadn't taken his band with him, which would have allowed Xander to track him with his phone.

Yet, Xander would have never expected the naga to turn the tables on him with that technology, with Janus using his tablet to find Xander's phone, seeing he was in the woods, unmoving.

It didn't take long for Janus to find his husband, who was lying on a tree branch with his legs outstretched, having likely dozed off while looking for him. The naga could see by the pained expression on Xander's face and the way he breathed that he hadn't slept well, certainly worried by the whole mess involving Sam and the merman.

In all those months of living with Xander, Janus knew that the sadness in his husband's heart was like a weed that was impossible to completely pluck off from the ground, the roots always finding a way to spread in his most vulnerable moments, no matter how much love he tried to shower him with.

And he knew exactly how to get rid of it, a devious idea coming to him with how vulnerable Xander was, the naga slithering off in order to find a special couple he had acquainted himself with.

After all, it was Halloween. It was time for some trick or treating.

While he normally would have never been caught driving under the influence, Sam had been too heartbroken by the merman to be able to resist not drowning his sorrows in liquor after work, surprising everyone at the local tavern with how much he consumed and storming off when service was eventually refused to him, although people weren't quick enough to stop him from driving back home, the speakers of his truck blasting loud, sad music, as he used every iota of his efforts not to break down and cry.

Although he had arrived safe and sound at home, despite the reckless speed and wild turns, Sam took a while to get out of the car, making sure his face, covered in grime and dirt after a hard day of work helping his granny work on the fields, picking up potatoes, was free of tears.

With his back killing him, his body glistening, coated as it was in a light layer of sweat, Sam wanted nothing more but to fill his tub with hot water and lie there for hours, basking in his depression and heartbreak, away from everything and everyone. His phone had been on silent the whole day because of that, with five calls from Xander he had rejected, along with texts and voice messages from other people wanting to make sure he was well.

Sam walked towards his bedroom as he stripped, as he always did, almost completely in the nude once he was near the door, the massive bulge in his loose underwear flopping around with each step as he kept wishing he could just disappear and not have to put up with that heartache, taking his socks off as he stepped into the bathroom.

Nothing, however, could have prevented him from what he would find inside it.

Lying in his filled bathtub was the very same merman he had walked away from the previous day, looking back at him with an ashamed expression on his irresistibly handsome face, having clearly not prepared himself for what he would say when he saw Sam.

"H-Hey…" Rio said, the expression on his face giving away that, no matter how much he had practised his speech for when the blond would arrive home, he had been caught by surprise anyway.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Sam asked with a shocked expression that didn't take a full second to shift into an angry one. "In fact, how the hell did you even get here?!"

"T-that doesn't matter!" Rio exclaimed. "I came here to… to talk! About what happened last night!"

"Seems pretty clear to me what happened." Sam spat angrily, crossing his arms. "You grew bored of me and wanted to have your 'fun' with someone else. Now, get out before I pick you up and throw you out of the window!"

"I literally can't!" Rio exclaimed, fearing the possibility of that threat. "Please, just hear me out! I'm just curious about you humans and your relationships, Sammy–

"Don't call me that!" Sam exclaimed back, growing angrier by the moment, looking so unlike himself that the merman felt like he only had one solution.

"Come to me… and you'll be…" Rio began to sing, crooning with that impossibly beautiful voice of his. "In a world of pu-MMMMF!"

Sam's drunken mood had acted as a sort of shield for his mind, allowing him to be able to react before Rio's sinful song could permeate into his ears and bend his will to the merman's desires. The urgency to silence him had been so strong that Sam didn't think twice, throwing the balled-up sock in his hand and landing a perfect hit on Rio's open mouth, leaving the merman stunned with wide-open eyes, reflexively suckling on the stinky sock.

Before he could even react, Sam approached the bathtub and shoved the sock deeper in Rio's mouth, before picking the merman up in a bear hug, squeezing him tightly in his muscular arms and dragging his body towards his bed, throwing him so roughly that Rio's whole body bounced upwards before he went still, just in time for Sam to take off his underwear and crawl on top of the helpless merman, whose tail flopped around uselessly under the human's stronger, bigger body.

"Phahmmf…" Rio tried to call out to the blond, who ignored him, immobilising him by grabbing his wrists in a firm grip and crossing his arms behind his head, before lowering his own head to kiss the merman's neck, before probing the skin with his teeth, suckling to the point he branded Rio with a hickey, licking his lips once he was done.

"You know what…" Sam grinned wickedly as he pulled back to look at Rio straight in the eye, rubbing their noses together. "Always using that singing of yours to play with people however you want… I bet you never had someone teach you some manners and put you in your place. And I think it's time to change that."

Although the merman shuddered in response, his skin deliciously covered in goosebumps, he still opened his eyes wide and let out a muffled complaint sound, but there was nothing he could do, as Sam's erection would find itself aligned with the merman's slit, lubricated by its own juices.

"You're going to learn what it's like to be dominated yourself…" Sam mused aloud, unable to resist leaning in to kiss the merman on the forehead as he ground against him. "And I know just *how…"

The blond grinned down at the merman, who was now staring back at him with wide open eyes that almost bulged out of their sockets as Sam began to press his monstrous erection right into his slit, which expanded to accommodate the big, bulbous head of that cock before it started to engulf it.

The merman's eyes widened with surprise, since it was the first time in his life he was being fucked without being in control, his tail swishing wildly and smacking against the blond's knees, although Rio made no effort to move. Even if he tried to, he wouldn't be able to get off that bed, so heavier and stronger Sam's body was.

"Shhh…" the blond whispered as half his erection had disappeared into Rio's slit. "It's okay… I'm not gonna hurt you, baby. I'm just gonna fuck you so hard you're never going to want to sing to anyone else ever again."

"MMmmf!"

Whatever Rio wanted to say didn't matter, for Sam thrust harder, the merman's slit finally engulfing his cock whole, the blond loving the sight of the merman's expression in front of him changing from one of trepidation to mind-numbing pleasure. As the walls of Rio's slit squeezed around the blond's cock reflexively, Sam could hear Rio moan out wantonly, his back arching off the bed as Sam's cock leaked and throbbed inside of him.

Not that the blond was ready to relent just yet, though. He was even chuckling as he began to rock his body forward, beginning to fuck Rio properly while groaning and panting with lust himself.

"Such a sexy little fish I caught" Sam grinned wickedly, loving the sight of Rio's sweat-matted face, powerless to do anything but be fucked. It was more than clear that Rio had given in to the bliss of being fucked by a conscious, drunken Sam, who gave him three rough thrusts before stopping, pulling his sock out of Rio's mouth and stopping the merman from being able to cast his spell with wet, passionate kisses that Rio helplessly melted into.

Eventually, just as Rio was drawing close to the edge, rather than just stopping his movements, Sam pulled back altogether, his dripping member slipping free.

The look of worry on the weakened merman's face was priceless, with Sam chuckling almost mockingly in his face, before reassuring him with yet another tender kiss. All while he turned them around so that Rio was now lying on top of him, the blond's hands roughly grabbing the merman's waist, holding him firmly and effortlessly.

"Don't worry, baby…" Sam cooed softly, keeping Rio's lips trapped in continuous kisses whenever he wasn't speaking, before directing his erection back to where it had just been. "I'm not done with you yet."

Entering Rio's slit again, Sam's hands trailed up and down the merman's back before taking hold of his hips and roughly pulling him forward so his cock would go all the way in.

"Not even close…" the blond chuckled gloatingly, slowly starting to move Rio's ass backwards and forwards in a slow, fucking motion, effectively having the merman fuck himself on his massive cock. Squeezing him where his ass cheeks would be, Sam even felt Rio trying to pump his hips in response, staring blankly ahead of him, into his eyes, so consumed by the sheer sensation of being dominated that he didn't even try to use his siren's song anymore, his mouth drooped open and almost drooling with pleasure.

That sight was all that Sam needed to finally squeeze Rio in a crushing hug, his eyes screwing shut, his entire body tensing up as his cock throbbed and spewed cum inside of Rio's slit. The merman moaned helplessly and came himself as Sam kept riding out the throes of his orgasm, eventually collapsing into his embrace with his face buried in the crook of the blond's neck.

Both of them were too drained of energy to do anything but just lie there and bask in each other's presence for what was an hour as they recovered, just shifting their positions so Rio's head laid on Sam's ample chest, the slow beating of his heart a melody that was almost as hypnotic to the merman as his voice was to everyone else, its steady rhythm broken by Sam's voice.

"I'm sorry." Rio heard the blond say.

"For what?" the merman asked, confused.

"Acting like this." Sam sighed. "I was so blinded by rage that I couldn't stop getting so angry and taking it out on you like this. Did I hurt you?"

"No…" Rio smiled slyly. "You could have been rougher, I'd take it."

"You little shit." Sam chuckled, ruffling the merman's hair.

"But I'm the one who has to apologise for real, Sammy…" Rio said, speaking awkwardly. "It was all a big misunderstanding yesterday. I was trying to prevent that guy from realising I was really a merman and I was drunk and… well, I got carried away."

"It's okay." Sam smiled, kissing Rio's hair.

"So… we're good now?" Rio asked, looking up at Sam.

"Yes."

"Well…" Rio pouted, blushing as he circled one of Sam's pecs with his index finger. "If you're not mad at me anymore… I was wondering if you'd still like to be my boyfriend."

"And what makes you wonder I wouldn't?" Sam asked.

"I don't know, I just… this whole thing is strange for me, you know? I've never really thought of just settling down with a human… my kind doesn't do that, we only mate with one another…"

"Oh…" Sam mumbled, his turn to feel awkward. "I guess I never thought of that either. I thought you were like me because… well, you being half-human and all."

"But that doesn't mean I'm not willing to try, though!" Rio quickly exclaimed, looking straight at Sam in the eye. "If that's what it takes to keep spending time with you. I… I really like you, you know?"

"You don't have to do anything you don't want to, Rio." Sam smiled, brushing Rio's hair with his right hand. "I'll still hang out with you, even if it's just as… well, boys who are friends."

"But I want to, Sammy! I want us to be like Xander and Janus. He's a naga and they are married!"

"What?!" Sam asked, flabbergasted.

"A naga. You know, same as me, torso of a human, scaly tail, snake in his case? His tail is much longer than mine, but my hypnosis is stronger!" Rio couldn't help but clarify.

Sam said nothing in return, looking back at Rio with such flabbergasted eyes that the merman's eventually widened in return, realising he had spoken too much.

With Janus's ability to talk to the animals in the woods, Xander enjoyed a special status no other human did, watched and protected by all, who cherished the naga enough to extend that sympathy to him. Even certain species that were mistakenly assumed not to inhabit that area had made themselves known to him, such as nearly extinct lynxes and even supposedly exotic pythons.

So, after having walked for countless minutes, after hours of not having been able to fall asleep, Xander felt safe enough sitting on a tree branch that was easily climbable due to the tree being next to a slope, straddling it and eventually stretching his legs to close his eyes for what he thought that would be just a few minutes.

Knowing that no animal would dare to hurt or even disturb him thanks to Janus, Xander had felt safe enough to fall asleep, of course, far from even imagining that the greatest danger that was being posed to him right now was his closest acquaintance, his legs being anchored to the branch by strong muscle, while his bare feet were freed from the loafers that they had been clad in, those toes wiggling adorably as they made contact with fresh air.

The young man sniggered slightly as he felt something wet brush against his skin, his feet just twitching, bound as they were, as that wet sensation kept spreading all over his sensitive soles, growing more and more ticklish until Xander snorted audibly, enough to finally be roused from his sleep and open his eyes, his blurry vision taking a while to adjust to the daylight.

As he pulled his torso up with his hands pressed against the bark, the sleepy Xander was able to see that Janus was feasting on his feet, having somehow freed him from his T-shirt and shorts, leaving him clad solely in his underwear, with two thick coils wrapped around Xander's bare calves and the branch, keeping him trapped there.

"W-whuh?" the young man asked, alerting Janus to his awakened state, who just grinned deviously at him without saying a word. "Janus, what are you…"

It was then that Xander noticed that Janus had painted his face to resemble tribal markings with some kind of substance, the highlights around his eyes making them look even more alluring and sinister at the same time, giving him a completely different, more menacing look.

"I don't know who this Janussss isss, man-cub…" the naga answered in a predatory, almost evil tone, forcing his hisses purposely to make Xander tremble. "My name isss… uuh… uuuuh… Kaa… lun! Yesss… Kahlun."

And, with that, 'Kahlun' snapped his fingers.

Before Xander could truly register his husband had just started an impromptu role-playing session with him, he felt his arms being gripped by something that was just as tight and strong as his muscular coils, making Xander look to his sides and see that two snakes had coiled themselves around his wrists and forearms, pulling them so now he looked as if he were stretching his arms, his smooth armpits on display as the young man found himself completely unable to move them, that scaly muscle of those two snakes much stronger than him, just like the naga.

"And you're all mine now…" he then heard 'Kahlun' say.

"Stop that." Xander said with a pout, but the naga slithered closer with a teasing sneer, the lad gulping silently as he felt the tip of his tail pressing against his soles, as if making itself known.

"Lookssss like ssssomeone needsss to be taught sssome manners…" he chuckled, licking Xander's ear slowly and teasingly, making the human writhe all over. "We're going to have so much fun."

Xander gulped again, giving another look at the two snakes that bound his arms, who just hissed back at him in an attempt to sound as menacing as the naga who commanded them, all part of the act, of course. And, despite his earlier worries, it didn't take much convincing for the young man to submit to that role play, turning back to the naga with a more worried, trembling expression.

"W-What kind of fun?" he asked, with a more scared tone.

"You'll see…" the naga chuckled, hovering back in front of Xander before lying himself on the branch once more breathing air against Xander's soles through his nostrils, causing his toes to fan out.

Xander only had time to steady himself with a deep breath before the naga's tongue came out to lick his soles again, only this time it didn't come out alone, joined by his hands working on Xander's toes and squeezing them or just sliding against the bare sole his tongue wasn't working on.

"Sssssuch sssensssitive feet you've got, man-cub…" he commented as Xander's chuckles turned into full-on laughter, any attempts to writhe or break himself free from the two snakes' grip being rewarded with tighter squeezes, with poor Xander to sit there and take it all without any reprieve, subjected to the sweet torture of tickling up to a point where he began to cry throughout his laughter.

"S-stop… stop! Hahahahahaha! Oh fuck, stop that!" he exclaimed mid-laughter as 'Kahlun' had begun to suckle on his toes, his tongue brushing between them, having discovered those were Xander's most sensitive spots. "I can't take it anymore!"

That somehow made the naga pause his torture, looking back up at Xander with a shit-eating grin as he hovered closer, nuzzling their noses together teasingly.

"Sssstop?" he asked, almost offended. "Why, thisss is only the beginning, my prey. My friendssss haven't even joined in on the fun yet."

Xander's eyes widened as he looked to his left and right, to the two snakes that were staring deeply into his eyes, almost petrifyingly, seeing the tips of their tails moving along, their target clear.

"Oh, no…"

That was all Xander got out, the poor young man not even being able to take a breath before the snakes' tails began to tickle his armpits, with the naga joining along and tickling him somehow even harder than before, as if everything he put up with until now had just been a mere warm-up.

Not only were the snakes attacking his armpits with their tails, but their tongues had also come out, thin and forked unlike the naga's, but just as prehensile and lively, caressing his abs and sides with their dry surface, turning the tickling experience into sheer, pure, torture, as if it hadn't already been so for the poor young man.

"Haha! Hahahahaha!" Xander kept laughing, his heart racing like he was running a marathon, although the naga and the snakes were cautious enough to stop when they felt him reach his limit of pure breathlessness. "Please… please… stop! I beg you!"

And stop they did, with the naga lifting his head from Xander's feet to behold his flushed, sweat-drenched face, as he allowed his prey to recover.

"That'ssss more like it." 'Kahlun' said, still holding that sexy, confident smoulder. "I think you've earned a prize for that, don't you think?"

"I…" Xander began to answer, but seeing the naga's eyes darting to both sides as he nodded made it clear he wasn't the one being addressed, but the snakes, who began to lick his nipples instead, hardening them into little nubs.

At first, the young man said nothing, his blush just growing deeper with awkwardness. However, something else also began to harden, at which he looked back at his captor, shaking his head.

"Don't worry… we're sssstill not done with you." 'Kahlun' said, punctuating his sentence with a wink.

Xander was back to chuckling and sniggering, distracted by the ticklish sensation to truly see how much his cock was hardening inside the underwear that contained it, tears welling up in his eyes, until he finally let out a moan, which prompted the naga to move onto the next step.

"Aah… there we go." 'Kahlun' grinned as he wrapped his hand around the bulge it formed, giving it a firm squeeze. "Ssssomeone'sss getting excited. Which meansss you're ready."

"R-Ready?!" Xander exclaimed foolishly, unaware of the way the snakes were unwrapping themselves from the tree branches while keeping their coils anchored to his arms, with the naga's coils doing the same. "Ready for what?"

The answer came in the form of a rough tug, with Xander letting out a loud yelp as he was sure he was going to fall headfirst into the forest floor, only for both Janus and the snakes to firmly reattach their grip on both his body and the tree branch, keeping him perfectly stuck upside down, his arms bound together at their forearms by the snakes' heads and necks, while their tails bound his calves and ankles to the branch, the naga contributing nothing to that binding.

"What the…" Xander mumbled, looking at the naga's grinning face, who had also turned himself upside down to face his captive.

"Beg me to allow you to cum." 'Kahlun' demanded.

"Never." Xander replied, playing the role of the defiant prey perfectly, only turning the naga on even further, who chuckled at his plight.

"Very well then."

The naga did nothing, with it being the snakes who struck four different sensitive points in Xander's body: the first one licked his nipple and the other one of his armpits, while both teased and tickled his soles and toes with their tail tips at the same time, a combined merciless assault that had Xander laughing and crying all over again, especially when the naga fished his cock out of underwear in order to begin stroking it slowly, the friction beyond amazing.

And, while one of his hands just stroked Xander's cock, his other hand and tail didn't want to be left out of the game either, tickling and teasing whichever free skin they could find: from Xander's sides, to his thighs or back, poking, pinching and brushing every inch, nook and cranny, to the point where the poor lad had begun to sweat profusely in response, his cock even leaking pre-cum like a faucet.

Xander felt like his body was going crazy with how much it was being overstimulated by three different beings, those tails like tentacles, giving him no quarry nor mercy. And he was so ready to burst, his cock was like a volcano, something 'Kahlun' took notice of as he tore apart his prey's underwear with a nail.

"Are you ready to ssssubmit?" he asked as he looked down at his captive.

"Never!" Xander shouted back defiantly, a grave mistake.

"Very well, then," the naga chuckled. "We'll try again in the near future."

Grinning at Xander's confused gasp, the naga merely wrapped a thick coil around the lad's mouth, silencing him so they wouldn't attract any unwanted guests, as he and the serpent couple went wild on Xander's body for what was nearly an hour, licking, poking, tickling and teasing.

The poor young man could only let out muffled moans and cries as he was blissfully tortured and edged, his body utterly drenched in sweat and almost glowing red with flushed exhaustion by the time the naga finally relented, freeing his mouth from that thick coil and giving him a gentle, teasing kiss on the lips, looking at him straight in the eye.

"What sssay you, now, oh captured one?" 'Kahlun' asked.

"Please, Janus!" Xander shouted desperately, having completely dropped the act, his hazel eyes filled with tears. "Please let me cum… I'm gonna go crazy!"

"Hmhm… I knew you would ssssay that." Janus winked, hovering his torso back up.

Before Xander could utter a word, the naga engulfed his cock in one go, willing the fleshy walls of his throat to clamp as tight as they could around the lad's member before he began to gulp, acting almost like a vacuum as he sucked so powerfully that it made Xander's eyes almost bulge out of their sockets.

The loud, almost shrieking shout that was heard throughout the forest floor was the sound of a maddening orgasm, with Xander's whole body convulsing so hard in the snakes' grip that they felt like they were going to lose control of him for a moment and accidentally drop him.

Nonetheless, Xander's captor would have held him still with his mouth around his cock, gulping every drop of cum that the lad shot until the very last one.

As Xander panted weakly in afterglow, the snakes released him so he would fall into the naga's arms, who carried him bridal style while looking down at him with a tender smile, nuzzling their foreheads together.

"There we go… that felt good, right?" the naga asked sweetly.

"Maybe…" Xander pouted with half-lidded eyes, watching the snakes slither away now that they didn't need to be props anymore in the couple's kinky activities. "I would never have thought you'd actually do something like that to me."

"Well, 'tis the season. Trick or treat!" Janus chuckled.

"You were supposed to ask that before you goof." Xander chuckled back, but accepted the tender kiss his husband gave him nonetheless, being carried away in Janus's arms as he slithered back home with him.

Although Xander had slept much better that night, wrapped up nice and tight in Janus's coils, of course with a little help of some naga hypnosis to ensure he would recover his energy completely, both of them woke up early on that Sunday morning, setting up the breakfast table with cereal, since there was nothing else in the house.

"You know what I miss about our old apartment?" Janus asked. "You being able to summon food with your phone. It was so convenient…"

"Eh, all it did was encourage me to be lazy." Xander said between bites of cereal.

"Xander." Janus said with a serious tone for once, the crestfallen human looking back at him. "I really don't mind if we have to return to that apartment, okay? I mean it. As long as I get to be with you, I'm happy."

Xander had almost choked on his cereal when he heard that, the tears ready to well-up in his eyes once more, but, before he could even react to the naga's statement, the sound of their doorbell was heard.

Both human and naga looked at one another in shock, not expecting anyone at all, since Xander always asked for people to call him on the phone if they were coming over. Having completely forgotten there was one person who had that habit, Xander gestured silently for Janus to disappear, slowly approaching the door.

Nothing, however, could have prevented him from what he would see once he opened the door.

"What the…" Xander mumbled in shock, his jaw dropping instantaneously.

His unexpected guests consisted of one clothed Sam, carrying Rio like a bride, the merman's arms wrapped around the blond's neck for support in a loving, tender way.

"So…" Sam began. "The secret's out."

"I…" Xander mumbled, stuttering, not really knowing what to say or how to react.

"I guess there's someone I should meet, don't you think?"

That simple question said it all, relieving Xander enough to make him settle into a smile, one that made it seem as if the previous hours of sadness had simply not existed.

"I guess there is." Xander nodded back, opening the door further so Sam could pass. "Go ahead to the pool. I'm gonna get changed so we can meet you there."

Once Xander had changed to his swimming trunks, with Sam having brought a pair for himself as he always did whenever he visited his friend's home, it was finally time for the young man to do something he had always wanted to: to introduce a lover to one of his friends. Sure, he hadn't expected to do so only after getting married, but better late than never.

Although Sam had been visibly intimidated by Janus's sheer length once the naga had revealed himself from the patio door, especially when he decided to play a prank on the blond by wrapping it around his waist, pinning his arms in the process, and shaking him in the air after Sam tried to give him a handshake, the two got along quite nicely, clicking instantly, especially when it came to teasing Xander mutually, as if the fact they weren't the same species did not bother a single bit.

Sam, of course, was fascinated by Janus the way any human would be if they got to meet a creature like him, the same way Xander had been when he had gotten to know Rio and explore the unreachable part of the seas thanks to his air bubbles. In Sam's case, he was obviously interested in how strong and flexible Janus's tail was, enjoying a nice massage that had him utterly melt on the towel he was lying on, wrapped up as he was in the naga's coils, his arms free.

However, that seemed to have annoyed Rio somewhat, who felt his pride being affected by the way Sam reacted to Janus's affections, reminding that the naga could have his strong, muscular tail, but his siren's voice was still much more powerful than his hypnotic rings of colour.

"It is not!" Janus exclaimed, offended.

"It is so!" Rio exclaimed back, even childishly sticking out his tongue.

"Nuh, uh!"

"Huh, huh!"

"Oh my god, will you two stop that?!" Xander complained with a shout, lying as he was on a pool mattress, while Sam just chuckled, almost dozing off thanks to Janus's continuous massaging squeezes. "You are both powerful hypno alpha manly sexy predators, whatever, we get it!"

But the two creatures ignored his complaints, continuing their wordy competition, their rivalry when it came to their abilities overcoming any established companionship, even if it was relatively friendly.

"I seem to recall a certain someone fell right away under my spell when we met…" Rio chuckled teasingly, a shit-eating grin on his handsome face as he remembered how easily he had caught Xander by surprise that first time. "Why, those colours of yours didn't even faze him. He remained under my spell for hours."

"I keep telling you, you just took him by surprise. I'll have you know he's quite good at resisting me when he can!" Janus bragged, knowing Xander's limits.

"So, we're making this about me, now?" Xander mumbled in disbelief, while Sam kept sniggering.

"Heh, what's the big deal about colourful eyes anyway?" Sam chuckled as he yawned, stretching his arms before crossing them behind his back. "You can just look away, not even covering your ears helps with Rio's voice, so he wins by default."

"Is that so?" Xander asked with a raised eyebrow, before he turned to Janus, mouthing off two words so Sam wouldn't hear him. "Hypnotise him."

Janus tried to shrug a 'but', but Xander would be having none of that.

"Now!" the young man almost ordered as if addressing a pet, pointing at Sam, who at first didn't realise that Janus's torso was closer to him.

And before the merman could say a thing and warn the blond, Xander surprised him by rolling off the mattress and coming back to the surface in a quick move, covering Rio's mouth and restraining him easily, since Rio's human torso wasn't nearly as strong as Janus's.

By the time Sam felt the naga placing his hands on the towel on either side of his head while looking straight down at him, it was too late for him to try and get out of that situation, for Janus forced a hiss so strong that, as is reverberated throughout Sam's whole body, coupled with a firm squeeze, it caused him to open his eyes regardless of his desire to do so or not, looking right into the naga's pulsing, colourful ones.

"W-whuh?" Sam asked with bewildered amazement as he beheld that spectre spectacle for the very first time, feeling his own gaze become magnetically drawn to Janus's as he tried to turn his head away but failed to do so, even before the naga spoke.

"Look into my eyessss…" Janus hissed, reinforcing the need for Sam to do so, although he had to suppress a chuckle at the adorable awestruck expression on his prey's face, thinking it had indeed been a very long time since he had had someone new to seduce for a change.

And now that he did, he was going to take his time and savour it.

Flashing a teasing grin, Janus pressed his forehead against Sam's, keeping the colours in his eyes moving at a steady rate, enough to capture the blond's gaze, but not enough to overwhelm him. Not yet, at least. There was no concern in Sam's eyes as he kept staring, even as the colours began to form over his brown ones, slowly but surely catching up to the pace at which Janus's eyes were pulsing with colours.

"Yessssss…" the naga hissed as he saw that, smiling as he allowed himself to lean forward so he could nuzzle their foreheads together, giving him an eskimo's kiss as a result, his hands travelling up to either side of the blond's head so they could lightly caress his cheeks. It wasn't as if he intended to do anything remotely sexual with Sam, but some affection always ended up making a hypnotic induction much more enjoyable. For both.

As Janus's eyes continued to stare, almost unblinking back into Sam's, both Xander and Rio watched from afar, with neither the naga nor the blond hearing the struggle that was going on between them.

In any other situation, Xander would have had Rio restrained for as long as he wanted to, but the merman wasn't going to allow himself to remain trapped like that. Dry land was one thing, but with his body almost completely submerged underwater, the merman was able to almost wiggle himself free of Xander's hold, his whole body becoming almost impossibly slippery.

"Gah!" Xander gasped as the merman slipped underwater so he could swim to the edge and sing for Sam to resist Janus's spell.

Also sinking underwater in an attempt to grab Rio, Xander managed to hold onto the merman's tail, being dragged along for a split second before Rio looked back at him, seeing that Xander wouldn't give up anytime soon.

However, water was indeed Rio's domain, so the merman began to blow air bubbles repeatedly back at Xander, which pelted him painlessly, barely pushing the human away.

Xander chuckled underwater, a smug grin on his face as if asking if that had been all, before Rio began to blow a much larger bubble, swimming in Xander's direction as he did so. The human was flabbergasted with the way the bubble pushed against him like an inflating balloon, trapping him between itself and one of the pool walls, before Xander felt his hands being pulled inside, the rest of his body following suit, to the human's complete shock.

All while Janus steadily increased the rhythm at which the colours emanating from his eyes pulsed, enough for Sam's lips to fully part open into an awestruck gaze, but not utterly removing his ability to think. Not yet.

"Yessss…" Janus said in praise, as the hands caressing the blond's cheeks wandered down to his chest, the naga smirking to himself as he drew out a shiver from him by caressing his nipples. "Ssssso tired… ssssso sssssleepy…

Wanting to show off to his fishious rival, unaware of what was going on underwater, the naga then began to draw back, his smile growing wider as he saw the lad's head instinctively following his despite his weakened state, those eyes starting to droop as more and more bands of colour began to cover them. Pouring more and more of his power into his eyes, the naga only continued to rise, chuckling as he watched those hands press down on the ground so he could push himself upwards to keep following, to keep watching.

"Ssssssleeep…" the naga continued to hiss sensuously, watching his prey gradually lose himself, his arms straightening as he continued to look almost hungrily into his eyes. There was no sign of discomfort on the Sam's despite his awkward position, his cock having even begun to harden just from the experience. Janus lightly caressed the side of the blond's face, smiling tenderly at the boy's glazed expression before he started to sing.

"Sssssleep… go to sleep… please go to sssssleeep…" Janus cooed softly, more than used to singing that lullaby to Xander when he was having one of his uncommon cases of insomnia.

All while he continued to trace soft circles over the boy's cheeks with his thumbs, seeing that awestruck look in Sam's face curl into a smile, before the inevitable PING resonated in the back of their minds, requiring only one final verse of that song to seal the deal.

"Sleep little mancub… ressssst in peace."

The naga watched with delight as the blond's eyes were drooped nearly shut. Gently turning the young man's head, Janus kissed Sam lightly on the cheek and, by the time he turned the lad's head forward to meet him once more, those eyes were now pleasantly closed.

He then heard a sound coming from the pool, of something being pushed onto the surface, gasping as he saw the way a massive air bubble containing Xander was floating on the water, with the human trapped inside in a kneeling position, not having enough space to be able to completely stand.

"What the…" Janus mumbled.

That was when the merman surfaced, a cocky grin on his handsome face, who knew he had won that fight.

"Didn't think I'd pull out this one, huh?" Rio teased, winking teasingly back at the human, who glared back at Rio first, before looking back at Janus and Sam, seeing his friend sleeping in his husband's coils.

"Hah, you lost anyway!" Xander exclaimed, looking at the band he wore on his left wrist. "Four minutes and twenty seconds, he didn't last as long as me!"

"Ugh…" Rio scoffed, especially when Janus crossed his muscular arms, holding that kind of shit-eating grin that only made him seethe further, popping the bubble that contained Xander and causing him to sink underwater with a pathetic yelp of his own.

At least he had claimed that small victory.

Once the sun had begun to set, Xander and Janus bid Sam and Rio farewell, the blond insisting on taking the merman to his lake so he could swim away, promising to return once he had enlisted Xander's help in finding a way for them to communicate, improvising technology as he had also done with Janus.

And, best of all, Xander felt like he now finally had a friend he could confide these more unnatural aspects of his life with.

He felt happy, so happy, that he couldn't stop and stare back at his egg once he had returned to his bedroom, still looking at it by the time Janus had found him there.

"Is something wrong?" the naga asked.

"No, I…" the young man sighed, turning back towards the naga with a smile. "I think I'm finally ready."

"Ready for what?"

Xander just kept looking at the egg, smiling.

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The snow had decorated the fields in a chilly layer of sheer white, adding a blanket of silence to the whole area, fitting of a White Christmas, meant to be experienced with company and joy, although neither was felt by the lonely Xander, who stood at his doorstep, all dressed up appropriately for winter, holding a wicker basket, its contents concealed with a white cloth.

A truck stopped by his doorstep, one that he approached, opening the front right door to sit inside, putting on his seatbelt and placing his basket on his lap, looking to the side and seeing Sam's handsome face, who tried to brandish an encouraging smile, before confirming through Xander's expression that his hopes had been for naught.

"Nothing?" he asked with worry.

"Nothing at all." Xander sighed.

It had been twenty-four days since Janus had disappeared, without a trace. Not just him, for Rio had stopped showing up at his usual lake, leaving no sign nor message behind either.

As if either creature had never existed.

"Sorry, man…" Sam said as he revved up the engine.

"I am going to fillet that merman when I see him again." Xander grumbled.

"Oh, come on! You can't blame Rio for this!"

"Oh, no, the fact both of them disappeared after we talked about Christmas and Rio brought up some crazy quest to go to Atlantis—which I am pretty sure doesn't exist—in search of some artefacts is a mere coincidence!" Xander snapped at Sam.

"Well, I'm sure they're fine, anyway. Wherever they are, they'll be much better than us at looking out for themselves, don't you think?"

"I guess you're right…" Xander sighed, slipping a hand under the cloth covering his basket to stroke its contents.

"You brought… uhm… it, with you?" the blond asked.

"Yeah." Xander smiled, pulling on the cloth to reveal the egg, which had grown to a considerable size. "I feel like it will hatch anytime now… ugh, and Janus might not even be here for that!"

"Xander." Sam said as he turned to his friend, resting a friendly hand on his wrist. "Things will turn out fine, okay? They've always done so ever since you've met him, it's not like they're going to change now, right?"

Xander wanted to deny that, to counter Sam's words with his usual negativity, but deep down, he knew the blond was right, sighing in defeat.

And although he brought up his most cheerful expression to the Christmas Feast held in the town centre by the villagers, along with a tray of chocolate salami, Xander found it almost torturous to interact with other people, especially the happy couples, one of which was expecting and had decided to spark up a conversation with him.

"Oh, he's been just perfect!" the heavily pregnant woman said, talking about her husband, who rubbed the back of his head bashfully. "Always making sure I'm comfortable, taking care of everything, calling me whenever we're apart for over an hour. I feel like I hit the jackpot!"

Although Xander smiled back at that, inside he wanted to scream bloody murder, the corner of his lip twitching as he did so.

Janus had been the opposite of what that woman had described. Yes, laying an egg wasn't really the same as the gestation of a being, but not once had he checked up on their offspring, unlike Xander, who clutched the handle of that basket tighter upon hearing that statement.

"That's great," he said simply. "Well, I'm going to grab something for myself if you don't mind."

Although Janus could now read him like a coverless book, Xander was still a master at disguising his feelings whenever the situation called for it, especially when it concerned other people, walking around with a guise of placid normality as he picked up some food for his place, eventually sitting down on a remote corner, where hopefully no one would bother him

"Xander…" Sam said as he approached him. "Come on, enjoy the feast. Try not to think about it for once."

"Just leave me alone, Sam." Xander replied coldly, without looking back at the blond, wanting to remain alone with none but the company of his dark thoughts haunting him again.

That Janus had left him, for whatever reason.

That with Rio's absence in the mixture, Sam would somehow resent him for it.

That he was going to have to raise a baby alone, hidden away from the rest of civilization.

That–

"Xander!"

That maybe he had misjudged the situation.

"What the hell…" Sam mumbled after turning around, looking completely flabbergasted, but his reaction was nothing compared to Xander's utter disbelief once he turned towards the source of that voice, recognising it loud and clear.

The lad was completely paralysed for a couple of seconds, before he stood up from his chair, taking slow steps forward so he could contemplate what was in front of him.

It was Janus, but not in the way that would have shocked everyone else had they seen him. No, his husband was not dressed in his usual nude or barely nude way, but donning a long coat that fit his frame just perfectly, making him look as sexy as always despite not showing an inch of skin. But what really stood out on his outfit was the trousers he was wearing, along with a pair of boots.

Boots.

"Wait up!" Rio exclaimed from behind Janus, dressed up as well, with a blue cardigan and jeans, although from where he was standing, Xander couldn't see his feet.

His feet.

"Scramble my eggs, the guys got legs." Sam couldn't contain himself from commenting.

The mythical duo had also captured everyone else's attention, not by the fact they had somehow acquired each a pair legs instead of their scaly, beautiful tails, but by the fact they were two unknown utterly handsome strangers, dressed like Hallmark protagonists, and who were acquaintances of Xander and Sam, their curious minds instantly conjuring theories as to what their true identities could be.

But Xander didn't care about them. At that moment, there was only him and Janus, who opened his arms to accept Xander in them as he ran in his direction.

Only for Xander to punch him in the chest instead with the side of his closed fist.

"You asshole!" Xander shouted with tear-filled eyes. "I was so worried about you!"

"I'm sorry, I really am! I didn't expect to take this long!" Janus said while embracing Xander in his muscular arms. "But I'm here now, darling. That's all that matters!"

"I don't care. You're sleeping on the couch tonight. No, in the doghouse! And I don't care if we don't have a dog!" Xander attacked between sobs, although he was also embracing Janus back at this point, crying into his husband's chest.

"It was just a month, what's the big deal…" Rio couldn't help but comment, but that was when Sam grabbed him into a hug of his own, kissing him on the lips.

"I missed you so much!" the blond exclaimed, practically smothering Rio's face in his chest with how tight he squeezed his head.

Yet, despite the lack of air, the merman didn't try to pull away. He nuzzled against Sam's chest instead, feeling warm and fuzzy, understanding now what the big deal was.

The villagers' curiosity was sated after that, with Janus finally being introduced as Xander's mysterious husband, an intelligence officer who worked for the government, a perfect cover that allowed for him to not have to answer many questions. And Rio was introduced to Sam's family under the guise of being a foreigner he had met in the capital, accepted by them as a new addition with ease.

However, there was still the elephant in the room to be addressed once the four of them were alone.

"How?!" both Xander and Sam exclaimed almost at the same time.

"Well, you know our biggest issue was our identities…" Janus began.

"So I came up with an amazing plan!" Rio bragged, but he couldn't finish that sentence, because Xander's hands came around his throat, choking him in a comical, almost familiar way.

"Why you little…!" he complained, although letting go of Rio after Sam asked him to. "I knew this was your fault, you… you fish!"

"I just told Janus that the solution to his problem was in Atlantis. He was the one who wanted to go."

"It's real?!" Sam exclaimed.

"Duh, it's right in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle." Rio shrugged, as if it were the simplest fact. "Anyway, we went there to look for a solution to this. And we found it… well, these."

With a triumphant grin, the merman erected his left hand, showing a seemingly transparent ring that looked as if it had been forged by the ocean itself, with coral and seaweed entwining it.

"And that's…" Sam mumbled in confusion, seeing that Janus held a similar ring.

"A Cock Ring" the naga declared.

Both Xander and Sam couldn't help but burst into laughter, to the two transformed creatures' confusion, who clearly had no idea what a cock ring was.

"Nothing, nothing…" Sam said when Janus and Rio asked him what was so funny, which prompted the transformed merman to continue.

"It's called this because it was forged with a scale of a cockatrice." Rio explained, prompting Xander and Sam to reply with an echoed sound of relief. "With the power of the waves, it allows one to turn into whatever they wish to become. Which is why Janus and I now look like this."

"Do you go back to normal if you take the ring off?" Xander immediately asked.

"You can't take it off. It's like it's fused to our bodies." Janus said, demonstrating it by trying to pull it away, with no result.

"We can only put it on or take it off while a wave is splashing on our bodies." Rio quickly added. "That's when our bodies change. We tried it on the way here; Janus turned into a merman so we could swim faster on our way back from the sea witch's home."

"The sea witch?!" Sam exclaimed in a whisper.

"Please tell me she didn't ask you to give up something…" Xander said while burying his face in his hands, already expecting the worst.

"Oh no, I thought the same, that she was going to ask me to give up my beautiful voice. Turns out that was all a myth to scare us mermen off from seeking her in Atlantis!" Rio exclaimed happily. "She was nice enough to give us a ring each as a reward for our bravery once we told her about our journey."

"I was afraid we wouldn't get back in time for Christmas!" Janus exclaimed. "But now we're all here."

"You could have at least said something!" Sam complained. "Xander and I spent a whole month worrying and fearing the worst…"

"What are you talking about?" Janus asked, confused.

"Huh?"

"We sent messages," he said, pointing at the transformed merman. "He made sure to send a message in a bottle every day."

"Yeah, you two should have checked out the beach." Rio said.

That made Xander snap again, going back to choking Rio, who just gagged and stuck his tongue out comically.

"A message in a bottle?!" he shouted, angered. "I am going to fillet you!"

Janus just laughed at his husband's reaction, while Sam palmed his face with embarrassment, eventually standing up so he could save his boyfriend from Xander's wrath.

Once the feast was over and they left Janus and Xander at their doorsetep, Sam drove Rio along with him, although the transformed merman eventually became confused when they drove past the road to the lake.

"Hey, where are you going?" he asked.

"Taking you home with me, no? It's the family's Christmas Eve dinner"

"So… uhm…" Rio mumbled, suddenly blushing. "Your whole family is going to be there?"

"Yeah." Sam nodded, before he recognised Rio's expression. "What's wrong?"

"Well… I…" the merman looked down. "I don't really know how to be around a family. Never had one."

"You were abandoned?!" Sam gasped.

"Well, uhm… we all are. Our parents lay our eggs and go on with their lives." Rio explained. "It's not like we're alone, though. We mer-cubs just go on with our lives together, as a community. But it's nice that you humans have families that stay with you forever."

Although Sam wondered to himself if all those half-human creatures laid eggs, he became more concerned with Rio's reveal, knowing that deep down, no matter the bridges one burned with them, or how happy one was with the friends adopted as family, there was always that missing link, that wondering why it wasn't possible to enjoy the same as others.

Which was why, when both of them arrived at Sam's place, with the blond finding out his parents were already there, despite his awkward yet polite smile, Rio remained in a corner without saying a word, at least until Sam finally brought him close so he could introduce him to his father and stepmother, who welcomed him just as warmly as if he were their own son.

By the time dinner ended, Rio felt like he was already part of the family, all of them cheating on Christmas tradition to open an early present. While at first the merman felt bad for not having brought anything, having always intended for the rings to be a thing for Janus and Xander, but Sam assured him it was fine, that he could always make up for it.

And he did that while handing Rio his own present.

The merman's lips parted in awe as he unwrapped his gift, revealing a silver bracelet that Sam had gotten him, with the letters RS discretely engraved in it, their initials (or, at least, Rio was told right after, not able to read, unlike Janus).

"I love you." Sam said, kissing Rio's lips lovingly.

"I love you too." Rio smiled back.

"I still can't believe it." Xander said while cuddled close to Janus on the couch, both of them having finished watching Mamma Mia, the young man's favourite comfort film on Christmas.

"What?" Janus asked, stroking Xander's cheek with the back of his hand. "That I can become a human now?"

"Not just that…" Xander said while nuzzling back against Janus's hand. "Everything. That I met a guy who is half-human half-snake, who is everything I ever wanted and who is perfection incarnate."

"You forgot flawless and humble." Janus teased.

"Don't get cocky." Xander chuckled back, a sneaky look on his handsome face as his hand snaked down, a finger brushing against Janus's bare soles, making the transformed naga spasm, before he froze.

"S-stop it!" Janus exclaimed in a gasp, even blushing in response, having never felt such a strong sensation on his body.

"Oh…" Xander's expression grew even naughtier. "Of course… if you're that ticklish, then…"

Janus's body almost became livewire as Xander really unleashed his tickling prowess on his husband, the pyjamas he was wearing giving him little cover. The bare flexibility he had over his legs compared to his tail had the transformed naga feeling like the helpless one for a change, allowing Xander to eventually start leaning more and more of his weight on his husband.

However, the transformed naga was still heavier and stronger than Xander, which made it so he wasn't completely dominated by the young man, able to attempt to wrestle and immobilise him with his four limbs working in tandem, trying to restrain Xander's arms with his own while squeezing his waist with his legs.

It was Xander who managed to claim victory in the end, straddling Janus on the couch, with both of them panting heavily, their bodies as hot as a furnace. Amidst their playful roughhousing they had almost stripped one another off their clothes and, more importantly, their cocks had become erect, the bulges almost pointing at one another, making no words necessary.

Once they had stripped, Janus then rolled on top of his husband, allowing his body weight to bear down on him before initiating a passionate kiss, allowing for instinct to take over him the same way it did whenever it was in heat, his lips to speak through kisses, his hands through caresses and gropes, and even his newfound legs, rubbing their bare calves together.

Once his erection had located the target, he then pressed with just enough force to keep the tip in place without breaching the opening, trembling throughout, feeling like this was his first time.

"Please…" Xander sighed in a lustful whisper, which prompted the transformed naga to lower his upper body, bringing the couple into their most intimate proximity since they had laid down.

Smiling, Janus lightly touched the side of his husband's face.

"I love you," he said, and began to push.

Xander moaned when he felt the head of Janus's cock spreading open his ass, a moan that became louder still when the crown fully penetrated him and he felt it resting inside, his whole body quivering and shivering, feeling just like his husband, like he had just lost his virginity, so foreign this experience of laying down with another human already felt to him.

"Does it hurt?" Janus asked, concerned.

"No…" Xander sighed, smiling. "It feels amazing. You can go deeper."

As if highlighting his words, Xander wrapped his legs around Janus's waist and, with his husband already halfway buried in the warm, steamy tunnel before he realised what Xander was doing, in a move that was completely unlike him, he used his own lower body strength to force his husband inside.

Rather than object or resist, Janus allowed for that newfound behaviour to continue, permitting to be pulled forward until he could sink no deeper, letting out a loud grunt himself, using every iota of strength in his body to muster control, not even half as resilient as he knew he would be were he in his original form.

"Oh my god," he shouted. "This feels incredible!"

Amidst his own sexual bliss, Xander beamed with pride from the knowledge that this time he was the one responsible for both of their bliss. No need for hypnosis, coils, or any other tools that would make Janus conduct the whole experience.

When he peered up and saw his husband's captivating smile, as well as those beautiful, piercing eyes, he felt the magic in them even without the mesmerising pulsating colours they could produce, the influence they naturally possessed to so alter his mood and pierce through him, straight to the most heavily guarded areas of his psyche.

Reaching upward for that handsome face, Xander used his fingers to brush back a few strands of brown hair behind Janus's ear, his palms in due course coming to rest on the back of his lover's head, pulling him down in order to kiss him again. All while he flexed the muscles in his legs, as if on a mission to force still more of Janus's cock inside.

However, with composed gentleness, Janus extracted several inches of his cock and leisurely sank back inside.

Xander reacted by engaging his hips and rocking back on the unyielding erection as it bottomed out once more.

"Do it again," he whispered.

On and on this went, deliberate and measured in the beginning, like two virgin lovers sharing their first time, but soon with increasing speed and passion. For most of it, the couple remained locked in a loving embrace, lips forced against one another, tongues exploring, giving in without reservation to the mixture of hunger, affection, and desire that was rapidly consuming them both.

"Faster." Xander begged.

"Are you sure?"

"You won't hurt me, I promise. Go as fast as you can. I can take it."

Although Janus found this request difficult to manage with the entire weight of his upper body resting on Xander, he rose somewhat, supporting himself with his arms.

This gave his hips additional room in which to manoeuvre and allowed for greater force behind his penetrations and, eventually, he was fucking even faster than he could with his tail, somehow. Nonetheless, he watched closely for signs of discomfort or pain, but thankfully there were none to be found.

Instead, there was an expression of pure, uninhibited lust spread across the boy's features, as if he were hypnotised yet without any pulsing colours in his beautiful hazel eyes.

That had been all the confirmation Janus required. Xander wanted, no, he needed that. And that observation led to a conscious decision to stop holding back.

So, Janus began to pound his lover in earnest, although not without stealing a glance from Xander's crotch, confirming his husband's prick was ridiculously rigid, the swollen shaft pulsing out of control. Essence flowed freely from the slit, bead after sparkling new bead emerging each time Janus bottomed out.

That encouraged him to rise even further, allowing his weight to be supported by his still newbie knees, shins, and feet. He dragged Xander toward him, impaling him deeply and taking note of his lover's reaction to this somewhat different angle of thrust.

"OH FUCK!"

The response pleased Janus enough to make him grin slyly.

Reaching between Xander's legs with one of his hands, he grasped his boyfriend's cock and began to stroke in time to his plunges, although finding it less flexible to do so compared to his tail.

Providing a few more domineering thrusts as incentive, Janus pumped that cock until Xander couldn't hold it anymore and began shooting, crying out with pure, sheer ecstasy.

This sight, the sounds, even the smell, all of it was too much for Janus.

He was simply unable to stave off his own orgasm while both watching this spectacle and feeling his own cock engulfed in the warmth of Xander's insides, which clamped around him almost desperately.

He released the young man's dick mid-orgasm, allowing the remaining pulses of semen to explode between them hands-free, and fell back onto his boyfriend, raising his hips in preparation for the final passionate assault he knew would finish him off.

"I'm gonna cum, Xander," he whispered.

After those words were spoken, Xander felt the hot, sticky semen of the creature with whom he had fallen in love filling his insides. He groaned and arched his back, forcing his ass onto Janus as much as his husband was forcing into him, torn apart by the synchronised sensations of his own still-shooting erection and the second blast of spooge exploding from his husband's dick.

Clamping down on that dick in an effort to gratify them both and feeling his ass being seeded, Xander looked upward, drinking in the sight of Janus hovering over his twitching, writhing body, blasting his creamy essence deep inside his well-used opening.

By the time Janus had finished, Xander's ass could not contain the volume of fluid that had been injected into him, feeling the slippery seed flowing out around the shaft of the still-thrusting erection ploughing his hole. He knew they'd have to clean that mess off the couch but forced those thoughts to scatter away from his mind.

For now, he wanted nothing to come between him and indescribable contentment he felt from being underneath the love of his life.

Panting, sweating, and now utterly spent, Janus looked down at his lover, the joy pasted upon his sweet features impossible to miss.

"How was it?" he asked, his voice sounding hesitant, as if he were unsure of the quality of his performance.

"Loved… it…"

"Me too." Janus smiled, leaning down to kiss Xander's cheek. "But not as much as I love you."

Unlike the human-naga couple, the human-mermaid duo had had to keep their own sexual activities more restrained, knowing they weren't alone in the house, having fallen asleep nice and cuddled together, with Sam's strong limbs embracing Rio tightly.

And although the merman could easily slip out of the mightiest octopus tentacles, his body having a naturally slippery ability to wiggle out of any hold, that human body he now possessed did not have that same ability, requiring Sam to wake up with a grunt to loosen his hold on him so Rio could go to the bathroom after repeated useless attempts to break free.

Having drank a lot of water at dinner, used to staying constantly hydrated as a merman, Rio found out that humans had to relieve themselves much more often than merfolk, staring at the toilet for over a minute, wondering just how he was supposed to use such a complicated artefact, before squatting over the bowl in an almost comical picture.

It was in that position that Rio was found by Sam's stepmother, who stared at him with a flabbergasted look, the merman so distracted by his efforts in not losing his balance that he took a couple of seconds to look to the right and see her.

"Ah!" he gasped, jumping off the toilet and pulling up his pyjama pants to cover himself, blushing deeply. "I… I… I can explain, ma'am!"

"It's okay," the woman smiled. "I didn't know how to use it either when I came here."

"Huh?" the merman asked.

"Oh, well…" she giggled. "I guess it's been too long for me, but I can still smell the sea in you. It was so obvious; I didn't even have to look at your hand."

"W-What are you talking about?" Rio asked, nervous.

Instead of answering, however, Sam's stepmother just smiled, raising her right hand and revealing that she wore a Ring of Cockatrice in her index finger as well.

Xander had been so blissfully knocked out by his first time being fucked by a human Janus that he didn't remember if he had gone to bed or had been carried there, but, nonetheless, he was very pleased to have woken up embraced by his husband's limbs, who was clinging onto him from the side as if his life depended on it.

The sight of Janus's sleeping face was, as always, the most beautiful thing Xander had ever seen in his life, filling his fluttering heart with indescribable joy, making him blush and smile.

Shifting with very slight movements, Xander managed to, for the first time since he had met the naga, to get out of the bed without having to rouse Janus, concluding that his human body had dulled his senses to normal human ones, although he ended up shifting around, turning onto his back and crossing his arms behind his head.

It was then that Xander noticed something else for the first time in their relationship, grinning naughtily at it.

Janus's morning wood, a bulge protruding on the covers.

Moving with practised stealth and silence, Xander slowly pulled back the covers as he moved towards the end of the bed, watching as that beautiful cock pointed straight up at the ceiling, the veiny head pulsing with need in an almost hypnotic way on its own.

Parting his lips, Xander took that cock in his mouth, watching as Janus's head sunk into the pillow, the sleeping naga's hands, which had been crossed behind his head, moving as Xander devotedly went down on him.

The young man had worked the head and first few inches well, using his hand only at the base, although he stopped when he felt Janus's right hand at his head, running his fingers through the soft, dark hair, caressing his scalp gently. Then, Janus began to press down, lightly at first, but soon with enough pressure for Xander's eyes to widen.

As another inch slipped inside, Xander's mouth began full, saliva dripping from the tight seal provided by his lips.

Janus left his hand in place, not allowing Xander to retreat up the shaft and even pushing gently again so his cock now probed the entrance to the lad's throat. Xander barely had a few minutes to adjust his breathing before Janus pushed again, this time even snapping his hips up slightly. The inner gate breached and the head slipped inside, predictably causing Xander to gag.

The transformed naga's hips pulled back in response to that, but he maintained the vice-like grip on his husband's head, barely giving him a few seconds to catch his breath before snapping his hips upward again. The tight column of his throat felt beyond marvellous and Janus held him longer this time, moaning loudly in his sleep in approval of how well Xander was going.

After a while, once he was ready for another attempt, Xander pushed forward again, this time making it almost to the bottom before gagging.

A couple of attempts later, Xander's nose was buried in Janus's crotch, who moaned at the exquisite pleasure of being serviced, even flexing his cock in his sleep inside his husband, revelling in the sensation of his dick impaling him.

The human held this position momentarily before rising long enough for a quick breath and slipping back down the throbbing, slippery cock, enjoying the way Janus moaned again in his sleep.

"Aaah… aah…" Janus panted, starting to sweat.

However, instead of pulling back and finish the job with a few strokes to Janus's cock, Xander instead began to quiver, moaning himself, and opened his mouth as if he had the ability to dislocate his jaw like Janus did, forcing his throat to accommodate the wickedly hard, pulsing shaft.

When he started making swallowing motions that was all Janus could take, unloading unloaded fiercely inside Xander, all the while comfortably relaxed on his bed, contributing nothing but his hard cock and sticky semen to this encounter.

Xander barely tasted Janus's seed during that orgasm, the fluids bypassing his tongue almost entirely, pulled toward his stomach by the regular swallowing motions he maintained throughout.

Only once the cock stopped spasming did he lift his head, milking a few stray curds of semen onto his tongue before releasing it completely.

His hand took over as his lips slipped free and he looked up at Janus, who had woken up in the meanwhile, feeling like he was in nirvana, holding an expression almost as dopey and just as blissful as Xander did when he was hypnotised.

Sliding back up on the bed, Xander made himself comfortable next to Janus once more, who pulled the covers back over them, huddling close to his husband.

"Did you sleep well?" Xander asked with a smile.

"Hmhm…" Janus smiled back, although there was a 'but' in that statement, one that he clarified once he saw the suspicious hazel looking back at him. "Well, it was strange, not being able to wrap you up. Legs are nice, but it's not the same thing…"

"Yeah, let's get you your tail back. It's much comfier to sleep that way. Plus, you sweat less." Xander easily admitted with a chuckle, blushing naughtily. "Your coils have become my favourite blanket, I'll admit."

"And you're my favourite prey to squeeze and cuddle." Janus smiled back, kissing Xander tenderly on the bridge of his nose.

The two remained lying together like that in pure, joyous, comfortable silence, just basking in each other's bare flash, exchanging tender nuzzles and pecks, before the sound of his rumbling stomach broke the silence between them.

"You know what…" Xander said. "How about we make this a special Christmas breakfast?"

Despite the leftover layer of snow on the fields, the path was good enough for Xander to be able to ride his bicycle, albeit with some effort, since he wasn't used to bringing passengers along and, despite not having coils weighing hundreds of pounds of sheer muscle at the moment, Janus was still quite taller and heavier than him.

Yet, it was the perfect setting for them to immortalise in photographs of a couple that could pass off as a normal, average couple, for one who had no knowledge of just how special that relationship was.

Once they finished feasting on a delicious breakfast prepared by Xander, watching the waves together with nothing but the sounds of nature accompanying them, it was finally time for Janus to transform back into a naga, walking towards the ocean completely in the nude.

As the transformed naga allowed the cold winter waves to splash his body, Xander was looking at the pictures he had taken that morning, looking at a picture of his husband's bare backside, the last he took, with a naughty grin.

And then he heard it.

A crack.

Gasping silently, Xander turned towards the indisputable source of the sound, looking back at the egg Janus had laid all those months before, which was starting to squirm and move, signalling new life was about to come into the world.

"Janus!" Xander exclaimed, looking back at the ocean, his husband nowhere to be seen. "JANUS!"

Panic washed over him stronger than any ocean wave, a terrified look filling his wide eyes as his hands fumbled about, eventually grabbing the egg and setting it on his lap.

"Janus, come quick, I… I'm not ready for this! I don't even know how to handle this… I… I…"

He began to cry with the rush of intense emotions, settling into loud sobbing the more that egg cracked itself open, until it finally revealed the creation of their love.

A beautiful, precious baby with a head full of brown hair, darker than Janus's, crying while taking in air for the first time in his life, an almost ear-piercing shrieking sound that obfuscated Xander's. He swayed a short, thick scaly brown tail wildly, flailing his arms.

"No… no… don't cry! Please don't cry!" Xander exclaimed, stopping his own sobs so he could speak to the baby. "It's okay… I'm here, I… I…"

He then paused, smiling and speaking with a soothing voice.

"Daddy's here."

Rocking the baby slowly in his arms, Xander got him to cease his cries after a while, those eyes eventually opening, revealing tear-filled bright green eyes, just as beautiful as Janus's.

And that was the sight the naga got once he finally rose to the surface and managed to slither out of the cold ocean, gasping and freezing in place once he saw Xander, kneeling on the picnic towel, holding their baby and smiling at him.

Slithering with speed that he had never revealed before, Janus was quick to close in on them, surrounding both his husband and his son in his bare, wet, muscular arms, quick to share the same tears of joy Xander did.

"I can't believe it! Finally!" Janus exclaimed once he took the baby in his arms, cradling him against his bare chest, natural instinct taking over the baby and allowing him to feed.

"He's so beautiful…" Xander smiled.

"What do we call him?" Janus asked. "We never thought of any names!"

Xander just grabbed his phone unceremoniously, propping up a search engine and looking for baby names. He searched and searched silently, with Janus looking at the screen along with him, until he finally stopped on one, looking back at his husband, who nodded. It was the perfect name.

"He made us joyful, just by existing." Xander said, turning his head to his son. "And for that you shall be named Caio."

"I love it." Janus beamed with pride.

The two parents rejoiced, sharing a heartfelt kiss in celebration of their own Christmas miracle.

The miracle of life.

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