The Girls of S.L.E.E.P. - N.C.U. - Part 3, Alternate ending

Key: FD, MC, Freeze, Transformation, Hypnosis

Description: Laura and Cheyenne are chosen to see who can hypnotize the other.

“So, who has number 2?” Trisha said, eyes gleaming as she looked out at her audience. 

The room was silent as the others looked down at their tickets. Finally, Cheyenne and Laura both slowly began to raise their hands as both of their faces turned red with embarrassment. “Well don’t just sit there, come on up. Move it, move it, move it!” Trisha shouted playfully, clapping her hands in an attempt to get them up and moving. 

Both girls slowly moved to the front of the room and looked around, glancing at one another nervously. “You ready for this?” Laura asked, smiling as her nervousness began to give way to adrenaline. 

Cheyenne, however, was having a very different reaction to their situation. “I guess.” she replied, shrugging off her own embarrassment. “Just don’t hold it against me if this doesn’t work the way you expect it to.” 

Trisha smiled and stepped between them, balancing the quarter on her thumb. “Heads it’s Cheyenne, tails it’s Laura. Ready?” Trisha asked as she looked between the two. Both shook their heads in agreement and, without further adieu, the older girl flipped the coin. The two blondes at center staged watched intently as it rose into the air and hit the floor with a ‘ting!’ It spun a few more times before it finally fell on its side and landed on... 

Heads.

Laura frowned as she realized she had lost the toss. Cheyenne’s response, however,  was far more entertaining. “Wait…I have to go first?” she asked as she looked to Trisha for confirmation. “What the hell do I know about hypnosis? I don’t even think this stuff is real! How would I…WHY would I try and hypnotize her?” 

“Well…” Trisha began as her brain tried to come up with a believable answer, “that’s why you’re here. This is a hypnosis sorority, after all.” 

“I’m here to support you guys, not try and join! I don’t know the first thing about hypnotizing someone!” Cheyenne shouted, both frustrated and embarrassed by the situation she found herself in. She felt like she had shown up for a test without studying, and she hated that feeling.  

For once, Trisha had no idea of what to do. Meanwhile, the rest of the girls in the audience seemed noticeably embarrassed by the scene in front of them. Fortunately, Laura knew Cheyenne well enough to know just how to push her buttons and get the reaction they wanted. “It’s ok.” the curly haired blonde started as a devious grin spread across her face. “No one here actually expects you to be able to hypnotize me. I mean, you’re just a cosplay enthusiast. You don’t know anything about hypnosis and you’re totally out of your element.” The entire remark was designed as a polite way out for Cheyenne. But Laura knew that, eventually, her ego would get the best of her and she would see it as a challenge.

She was right. 

Cheyenne looked at Laura, shocked and slightly offended. “Are you saying you don’t think I’m smart enough to be able to hypnotize you?” she asked, folding her arms and glaring at her friend.

Laura gave her a cluelessly innocent, and obviously well practiced, smile. “Of course not! I’m just saying you’re not prepared, and can’t be expected to perform on such short notice.” she said, still giving her the same practiced expression.

Cheyenne inhaled sharply through her nose as her eyes looked like they were about to start glowing with rage. She paused for a moment, exhaled, and put on her own polite, but fake, smile. “You always enjoyed going to the Ren Faire as an elf, didn’t you Laura?” she asked, tilting her head and taking a few steps closer to Laura with a look of determination in her eyes. 

Laura smiled, knowing that her little plan had worked, and was quite pleased that she had successfully managed to prod her friend into hypnotizing someone. Of course, she hadn’t realized that someone who was going to be hypnotized...was her. “Of course!” she beamed excitedly, as the thought of what was about to happen completely slipped her mind. “You know I love elves and magic!” 

Cheyenne’s smile turned even more devious. “Oh I know. You remember the game we both used to play…I forget its name…but in it there was a little elf running around, trying to save the princess. And you had the ability to use songs to do certain things…you remember that, right?” 

Laura nodded her head and giggled. She was about to point out the name of the game, but Cheyenne, whose frustration would not allow her to be interrupted, cut her off. “And you remember there was that one song…that you could play and it would put the person into a trance…and then you could control them. You remember that, right?” 

Laura nodded again. “The command melody.” she replied. “But that was played on a flute…and you don’t have a flute.” she said with a sly grin. 

“No, I don’t.” Cheyenne remarked, just as she inhaled and began to sing. It was a beautiful, almost haunting, version of the song. Her voice was perfect, and in the small room where it echoed gently off of the hard surfaces, it created a somewhat eerie effect as her voice seemed to come from all sides. 

The girls couldn’t help but watch in amazement at just how perfectly Cheyenne could mimic the song. Every note was pitch perfect. The song was short, but once it ended she simply started again and again, slowly looping it all on her own as she stared into Laura’s eyes. 

Laura, in contrast to the others, was completely transfixed on the song itself. She knew what Cheyenne was trying to do. The song, as she had said, would put whomever it was targeted at into a trance. “But that was just a game…” she thought to herself, never realizing that her left hand was slipping from its place on her hip. “But it’s so…beautiful…” she thought to herself as she straightened up a bit, suddenly feeling like if she didn’t she might fall over. 

Cheyenne gave a small smile as she continued the song, moving closer and closer to Laura as she did. She could see her friend’s face becoming slack, and the smile on her face was fading ever so slowly. She could tell by the corners of Laura’s mouth, as the grin on her face grew smaller, that her friend was sinking more and more under her spell. “This is actually working!” she thought to herself briefly before she turned her focus back to her target.

As Laura’s eyes began to glaze over, and her eyelids started to close, one final thought slipped through her mind. “Wait…is this actually work…work…woooorrrr…” But she never finished the thought. The mere realization that it was affecting her at all made the song and its magical effect on her completely real…to her mind. A slight sigh escaped her lips as her shoulders visibly sagged and her mind simply submitted to the song’s magical sound. 

Cheyenne, as well as everyone else in the room, easily noticed Laura slip under. But Cheyenne kept singing, moving closer and closer to Laura with each note. Finally, she was less than a foot away from Laura, staring into her blank eyes. She continued her song as she gently slid her hand up along Laura’s arm and around her shoulder, all the way up to her dear friend’s cheek. With a slight smile, she slid her hand up to the top of Laura’s head and then slowly, gently, down across her face, delicately closing her friend’s eyelids as she did. When Laura’s face emerged from behind Cheyenne’s hand, the blonde’s eyes were closed and her face was completely slack, save for the tiniest hint of a smile visible on the corners of her lips. And even then, only if you knew what you were looking for.

The rest of the girls were completely stunned by what had just happened. Not only that Cheyenne, a literal novice at hypnosis, had managed to hypnotize Laura, but at just how beautifully she could sing. Finally, one of them snapped out of their shock long enough to begin to applaud, which brought the rest of the girls back around as well. “Well then,” said Trisha with a surprised smile “I guess we have our second officer!” 

“Huh?” Cheyenne asked as she was brought back to reality, herself. “Crap! Do I have to do anything for that?” she asked, visibly annoyed. 

“Nope! Not a thing. However, I might ask that you show up from time to time and do exactly what you just did again to some more people. That was beautiful!” Trisha complimented, genuinely impressed. 

Cheyenne gave her a disinterested shrug. “I guess I could do that. Now what?” she asked, looking almost bored now that her performance was over. 

“Now…” Trisha said eagerly. “Now you get to do whatever you want to Laura.”

Cheyenne rolled her eyes, not really wanting to do anything…until she looked back at Laura, standing there with her eyes closed. Ready and waiting for commands. She cleared her throat and decided to try something. “Laura…open your eyes.” she said, the nervousness audible in her voice. To her surprise, Laura slowly opened her eyes as the rest of her body remained limp and still. Cheyenne grinned and quickly refocused herself. “You are under my spell Laura…and I control you.” She took a few steps back and motioned to Laura. “Follow!” 

The hypnotized blonde, without prompting, raised both of her arms in the classic sleepwalker position and began to walk towards Cheyenne. The younger woman moved back as far as she could before motioning for Laura to turn left. Without any hesitation, Laura did a ninety degree turn to the left and begin sleepwalking in that direction. 

The other girls all laughed at the sight of their friend as a hypnotized sleepwalker. One or two may have had a few ideas for what to do with the helpless young lady, while some others…simply longed to be in her place. “Stop.” Cheyenne commanded as Laura neared the wall. Completely on cue, yet again, she came to a stop.  

Cheyenne spent a few minutes giving commands to Laura, and walking her around the room like a remote controlled toy, before finally taking her seat on the couch again. “Come to me.” she commanded. 

Laura stopped and turned on her heels to face Cheyenne, arms still straight out in front of her, limp at the wrists as her hands hung freely while she slowly, sleepily, walked to her. Cheyenne couldn’t help but smile as her friend, hypnotized by her not only for the first time...but on the first try…stood directly in front of her. “Stop.” she said with a smile. “Kneel.” 

Laura gracefully lowered herself down to her knees in one smooth motion. The rest of her body remained unphased by the adjustment and stayed completely relaxed, except for her arms which were still directly out in front of her. 

Cheyenne gave her a very devious grin as she slid her hand along her friend’s cheek. “Good girl. I have a great many tasks you can help me with later…but for now…Sleep!” Cheyenne confidently gave the command as she moved her hand directly in front of Laura’s eyes and snapped her fingers. 

Laura’s eyes slammed shut as her arms and head fell limp. Her arms bounced off of her thighs and slid down to her butt, where they hung loosely, while her head dropped to her chest. The slightest hint of a grin was still present on her lips, for those who knew where to look. 

The other girls gave her a small round of applause, while a visibly excited Trisha fanned herself. “Wow. Alright then…who has number 3?” she asked, already knowing the answer. 

To be continued. 

Featuring: Trisha, Laura, Cheyenne, Eve, Carly, Rayne and Jackie