A Master Course

The snow was blinding as Alice trudged through it. Even wrapped up in thick woollen clothes she felt it chill her to the bone. The only thing that kept her warm was the heat energy she channelled. Hannah's words echoed in her frozen brain.

Go easy on the heat. You are not as strong with this as others. Let your breath fuel it and it fuel you in return. Breathe in and out. Keep your core warm and let it radiate out through your body.

Alice breathed deeply as she pushed forward. She had lost feeling in her fingers and toes about an hour ago. So, she really needed to find shelter from this storm. The snow was falling hard as the wind beat down upon her. It was like she was trudging through wet cement, her body getting tireder and tireder as she trudged through it.

You're insane to even consider doing this! You don't know what is out there. Even I don't. I have never been that far north. My daughter went there and never returned!

Alice stumbled and fell in the snow. She groaned as the falling sleet began to bury her. She felt so tired. She just wanted to close her eyes and rest. Just for a moment…

I've told you, you don't have to go. You can stay here as long as you like. Forever, even. Why do you need to go follow in her footsteps? I can't lose her again.

"Because… because I need to know… I need to see if I can go home… I need to understand this… understand what I can do now…" Alice murmured to herself, repeating the words she had spoken almost three months ago. "I have always needed to know. That desire drives me."

You're so much alike… the two of you. I miss her so much… and I'll miss you too. Fine. If you are going to go then let me help. I can teach you, show you some energy manipulation, keep you alive out there to actually get that far. Just promise me you'll come back. Don't let me lose another…

Alice breathed in sharply and heated herself up till the snow around her began to melt. It wasted a lot of her energy but it was what she needed to wake herself up. Her gloved hands formed into fists as she pushed herself up, steam rising around her in the wet snow. She would push on. If not for herself than for Hannah.

I can't come with you. I don't want to risk finding out what became of… her. But if you do find her out there, whether she is alive or not, tell her one thing from me. Just one thing.

"I love you," Alice said as she rose up to her feet. "I miss you." She took a shaky step forward. "I love you…" And another step. "... and I miss you." A third step through the thick snow. Alice continued to chant as she walked. Each step she spoke the words. She used it as a mantra to push herself through the blinding snow.

Alice had no idea how long she walked through the storm or how far she made it but eventually a shadow was cast down over her. A break in the landscape. A large towering cliff face. Could this be it? Alice pushed forward as it provided enough shelter from the storm to make out engravings upon the rock face.

Alice pulled from a satchel at her side a journal. She flicked through the pages to similar looking symbols. Holding it up she broke into a grin upon her icy face. She had made it. This was it. The entrance to the temple she had been seeking. The one that Hannah's daughter had gone looking for and never returned from.

She nearly ran towards it. Almost tumbling and falling for the last couple steps before she smacked into it. The icy rock against her gloves was solid. She began searching for an entrance or break in the rock but all there was were the symbols and solid cliff face. Maybe it was buried in the snow? Alice was thinking about digging it out when she looked back at the symbols.

One of them did not match the others in the book. Alice looked towards it with a frown. It was a big circular glyph, larger than Alice's body. It had other smaller symbols engraved around it, radiating out from it. Alice rubbed some snow off of it. They felt familiar to her. No single symbol was recognisable but together… the way they were laid out… how they seemed to flow, it reminded Alice of maths.

Not just any maths either. The same equations that Alice had used to create… it couldn't be… unless… it was. Alice had a theory. She focused on the larger symbol. Reaching deep within herself for the tremor she scooped at it with her hands. Grunting she pulled as much of it as she could out and watched as a portal formed before her on the rock surface.

It started small as it always did with Alice but seemed to take on a larger form of its own. It grew without her help till it covered the entire surface area. Alice gasped as she released it and the portal did not close like it would normally. Alice paused as she stood on the edge of it. She had come this far. She stepped into the portal.

She walked into darkness that was only illuminated by the portal behind her for a moment before it closed. She was in some sort of cave or cavern and it was pitch black. At least it was warmer than out in the snow. Breathing in sharply she formed another portal, this one was a lot smaller, barely bigger than the tip of her finger, flickered in and out but it was enough to illuminate the darkness.

You are already making progress with learning yourself, do you really need to go chasing her? Here you are safe, fed and loved. It's slow going and you do seem to have hit a wall but I am sure in time you will figure it out. Just keep trying.

Alice stepped through the dimly lit cavern, forming portals as she went to light the way. She walked a winding, rocky path that seemed to go down and then opened into a lit cavern. Stepping into it she was amazed to see crystals embedded in the walls high above, they hummed with familiar blue energy that lit up the room below them, just like the portals.

The sound of flowing water filled the air. There was a pool of it on the far side and a waterfall that ran down that wall. Even greenery grew down here. Mushrooms, fungi and moss. A small forest of it along the walls and floor. It was like a hidden fairy grove beneath the ground. It felt sacred, magical even. It took Alice a while till she realised she was not alone here. A figure sat upon a stone beneath the waterfall.

Alice rushed forward to the water's edge, peering across at the water clad figure. "Hello!" Alice called as she pulled off her hood followed by her furry hat. "I am sorry to intrude but… I have come looking for someone."

The figure beneath the water rose up to their feet and stepped forward. As they did they placed something over their face and only when they stepped out from the water did Alice see it was a metal mask. There was an opening for the woman's mouth but no eye holes. It looked like it was molded for her, as her face was perfectly confined to it. She was also naked and dripping wet, a bald head and a muscular looking body that was about the same height as Alice's.

"I know why you have come," the woman spoke. "I have seen you and your journey here. You follow in her footsteps, retrace her steps and wish to learn like she did, right?"

"Yes," Alice said, surprised by this. "I need to learn, yes."

"You opened the portal so you are welcome here to learn. But you will call me Master. Is that understood?" Alice blinked as she looked across at the figure. She was so far away it was hard to tell what she was asking exactly. Not to mention that mask made her expression almost impossible to read. A portal opened both before the masked woman and Alice. Alice stepped back as the woman stepped through and they were face to mask. "Understood?"

"Yes…"

"Yes?"

"Yes… Master."

"Good girl. You will also not question any command, instruction or lesson I teach. Understood?"

"Yes Master," Alice said with a gulp.

"Good. Strip," Master said and Alice baulked. "Do not make me repeat myself. All your clothes, now, or turn around and leave. Do it girl."

Alice had ****. She pulled off layer after layer of clothing, stepped out of her boots and dropped her packs to the side before standing there in her underwear. She reached back and unhooked her bra, dropping it into the pile of clothing before reaching down to pull her panties off. It was cool in the cave but not freezing. Still, goosebumps covered her body as she hugged her arms around her torso, shivering slightly.

"Arms out," Master instructed and Alice whimpered before obeying. She felt so exposed and ****. Which was ridiculous in retrospect because the woman across from her was just as naked. Pale skin bare and uncovered save her metal mask. "Shoulders back, head down and chest out." Alice obeyed as the woman began to stalk around her.

She conjured up another portal with such ease that Alice felt more determined than ever to learn from this woman. She had brief second thoughts as the Master plunged her hand into the portal and pulled from it a long, flexible wooden rod. What was that for? Alice had a sinking suspicion but maintained her posture as the woman stepped out of Alice's eye sight.

"Let me see here," the Master spoke as she poked Alice in the back with her rod. "Your posture is poor…" Alice winced in pain as the rod pushed in firmly between her bare shoulder blades. It moved down her body and then slipped under her butt, turning horizontal as the Master used it to lift up her ass cheeks.

"Flabby butt… when was the last time you did a squat?" Alice opened her mouth to defend herself. She had just spent three months learning energy manipulation after six months working her ass off in a lab. Neither of which lent much time for squatting of all things. "Don't answer that."

Alice closed her mouth as the rod pulled back from her body. She watched as the Master stepped back into view. Her head was still downcast so she could not see much but she did notice that unlike her, the Master's body was as muscular and well toned as it had first appeared from across the water. The rod returned. This time poking at Alice's thighs.

"Spread your legs," Master commanded and Alice obeyed though not without feeling a ping of arousal that made her bite her bottom lip. The rod moved between her thighs, poking at them and wiggling the flesh that hung there. "Someone has been eating well. Home cooked fatty meals? Someone get all their favourites? Did Mummy make them for you?"

"Don't you talk about…" Alice snapped only for the rod to pull back and smack Alice against her thighs. "Ahhhhhhh!" She cried out and flinched back. Hands going to cover her thighs only for the Master to step forward and bring the rod down around her body and upon her ass. Alice yelped again and tried to step back but the Master was quicker. She reached forward, grabbed Alice in a half hug, more of a grapple really with one hand, and then rained down additional smacks on her behind with the rod.

"Do. Not. Speak. Unless. Given. Permission." Master said, each word delivered with a crack of the rod against Alice's fleshy butt cheeks, making her yelp, gasp and jump. Master pushed her back and Alice stumbled as she winced and whined in pain. Her hands rubbed her stinging ass and she could already see that her thigh had a red mark across it. "Assume your position… or give up and leave… no second chances. You may say 'Yes Master' in response to orders."

"Yes… Master," Alice gasped out as she struggled to regain her breath. She took a moment before removing her hands from her butt, putting them back at her sides and bowing her head. She also spread her legs as they had been before and tried to hide the tears welling in her eyes.

"This is… acceptable," Master said as she stepped forward and brought the rod to bear upon her thighs once more. Alice hissed as it brushed against the red welt forming there. "As I was saying, you've enjoyed yourself greatly." The rod moved up and Alice stiffened as it prodded at her lower lips. "Though maybe not quite as much as you have enjoyed this?" The rod pushed in between her lips and Alice had to fight not to step back.

She could feel it slide in there, parting her wet lips, the slick noise of it shifting against them made Alice burn red in shame. It pulled back out of her and she was mortified to hear the whimper that came from her lips. Master rose the rod back up to herself and Alice dared to take a peek. She caught her licking along the end of it, where Alice's juices stained it. The rod swung down and hit Alice in the other thigh.

"Eyes down!" Master commanded and Alice obeyed as she held back a half-sob from the impact. How could she even see Alice in that mask? It looked like solid steel across her eyes. "You are really testing me. Disobedience after disobedience. And you are a slut to boot. I bet you actually want me to punish you. We'll see how you like it when we get to training. If you even make it that far." She scoffed and Alice shuddered on the spot. The rod returned to her body, thankfully just above her pussy this time.

It moved up to her stomach. "Flab here too… Mummy must have kept you really well fed in that cozy house of hers. Filled your belly and your cunt with her meat. You'll find things here are a lot less homely." Alice frowned, how did Master know so much about what she had been doing the last few months. She said she had been watching but how? The rod moved up to Alice's breasts. It poked and prodded rather roughly at them. "Hmmm… well at least you have one thing going for you… you have a nice rack."

Alice did not know whether to feel objectified or flirted with on that one. Maybe both. The rod moved up through the valley of her breasts and pushed her chin up to look at the Master. "You are an unfit, undisciplined and disobedient slut," Master said simply as she pulled the rod back and stalked around Alice once more. "What are you?"

Alice paused, not sure if she was meant to answer or not, but the crack of the rod on her ass made her cry out. "I said, what are you?" Master asked again as Alice heard the sound of the rod swishing back through the air.

"Um… ahhhhhh!" Alice was too slow as the rod nicked the back of her thighs making Alice jump a little in pain.

"Answer me!"

"An unfit, disobedient…"

*Crack*

"Wrong. Say it again."

"An unfit, undisciplined and disobedient slut," Alice gasped out as she felt the tears begin to flood her eyes once more.

*Crack*

"Say 'I am' before that."

"I am an unfit, undisciplined and disobedient slut," Alice sobbed out now as the tears flowed freely down her face.

*Crack*

"Address me when you talk to me."

"Yes Master… Sorry Master," Alice said through gritted teeth as she breathed rapidly to keep the crying at bay.

*Crack*

"Say what you are."

"I am an unfit, undisciplined and disobedient slut, Master," Alice said, her hands balling into fists, fingernails digging into her palms to try and distract herself from the throbbing pain that covered her well spanked ass. Every hit came at a slightly different angle and made sure to impact a new part of her ass but the worst ones were the smacks that overlapped. The pain that lanced through her at that was like nothing she had felt before.

*Crack*

Alice jumped and cried at this impact. It was almost too much for her. Her knees were weak. She was going to collapse if she was hit one more time.

"Say it loud and proud."

"I am an unfit, undisciplined and disobedient slut, Master!" Alice braced herself for the next impact but it never came.

Instead she felt the rod placed softly against her shoulder. "Kneel," Master said, pushing down a little and Alice let her knees buckle as she fell to them in her pile of clothing. "Head down, ass up, hands out in front of you, like you are bowing to me."

Alice obeyed, she heard Master come down to her knees alongside Alice. A hand reached out and touched Alice's burning ass, making her wince. "Relax… you have done well. You made it through. Now you get rewarded."

The same golden healing energy that Hannah used radiated out from the Master as she ran her hand across Alice's ass. It still stung as it was touched but the soothing energy made up for that. Unfortunately, another sensation overcame Alice.

Her susceptibility to the healing touch of others turned from just soothing to arousing within moments. She could not hide the moans she let out or the way her body leaned so desperately into the touch, like a bitch in heat.

The Master did not seem to mind. In fact, she seemed to enjoy it, chuckling as her hand moved down from Alice's butt, between her thighs from behind her and then three of her fingers lay across Alice's pussy. The middle one even pushed in between her lips while the others parted them. "Wow you really are a slut," Master said as she rubbed her fingers along and around Alice's slit. "You are drooling over my hand… all that from just a spanking?"

It was more than the spanking. Being told to strip, repeat those words about herself, punished for making mistakes or disobeying, commanded about and inspected like she was property. Yeah Alice was more than a little turned on by it. The waterworks were more than proof of that and she could feel how her nipples throbbed as they were pushed against the ground in this position.

Master continued to tease Alice. Her fingers worked around Alice's pussy and her hole like she was trying to make her into a slip 'n' slide. She seemed to know just where to place them to make Alice into a moaning, shallow breathing, hot mess of a puddle below her.

She pointedly ignored Alice's clit, nor did she penetrate her properly, leaving Alice to huff and whine. She wanted to bed Master to finger fuck her or at least rub her clit but Alice held her tongue, fearing punishment.

"Good girl," Master finally said and Alice felt like she had passed another test. "Here's your reward." Alice felt those fingers pull back slightly and then together push in between her lower lips. Alice moaned loudly as her wet hole was penetrated by the triple digits. They were a lot for Alice to take.

Nothing on the cock she had taken through the dimensional hole but a far cry from what Alice was used to being fucked with over the last few months. Hannah's sizable, but not three fingers wide, cock was comfortable and pleasant but this was another level. Good thing her pussy was more than worked up for it.

Alice bucked and moaned loudly as she panted and trembled from being filled so fully. The fingers did not relent. They were barely in her before they were pumping in and out of her hole. Thrusting into her like Master was in a race to finger fuck Alice straight to orgasm faster than anyone had before her.

She was well on her way to setting some sort of land speed finger fucking record. Once more they seemed to know just where to press in, where to linger a moment, where to separate and find her hidden little spots.

It drove Alice wild. She gave up on any pretenses or attempts to remain little more than a sex wild slut. She loved every moment of it. Her hips thrust back to meet with Master's fingers. Her voice echoed around the cavern.

Her eyes rolled back in her head and she felt her cunt gush all over them both. Alice was right on the edge when she felt the most devastating thing imaginable happen. Master pulled her fingers out.

"Master… why did you stop?" Alice whined as she gasped between her bated breaths.

"Are you questioning me?" Master said and Alice knew already she had fallen for the trap. Immediately the rod came down hard on her ass and Alice yelped as she tried to scramble away. "Oh no you don't. You stay right there you bitch." Alice froze on the spot. "And spread your fucking legs. It is time for a punishment." Alice remained frozen for a moment, kneeling there down on her hands and knees, She was not really going to… the rod smacked against her ass once more. "Now!"

Alice obeyed and spread her legs, dreading what was to come. "Never question me," Master said and swung down with the rod. It hit Alice right on the edge of her pussy lips making her holla in pain. She instinctively went to close her legs. "Don't you fucking dare move. Stay there or I will make it ten times worse." Alice kept her legs open.

*Crack*

This impact hit her pussy dead on and Alice broke into sobs. She could no longer hold any of it back. "You don't decide when we are done or when we keep going," Master said and brought down the rod and it struck not only her pussy lips but nicked her aching clit as well. Alice collapsed fully onto the ground, her body violently shaking as she wailed. "Get up."

Alice **** herself back up onto her hands and knees. "You wanted to cum right? Answer me." Alice nodded her head and got a slap across her thighs from behind with the rod.

"Yes… Master," Alice cried.

"Well guess who gets to decide when you cum slut?"

"You do Master," Alice gasped out and flinched, expecting another smack.

"Correct. Do you want to cum?"

"Yes Master."

"Even after all this pain?"

"Yes Master… please."

"Funny how pain turns you on but can't quite get you to cum. It pulls you away from it as much as your slut of a body enjoys it," Master said and Alice whimpered. She was right. The pain kept her on the edge. Right on that sweet spot. Enough to keep her at her peak but pulling her just down from it at the same time. "Oh how things change and, yet, stay the same."

There was a pause for a moment. "You are not cumming today or any time soon. But you will be getting one last smack to your pussy… with your lips spread and on your back… understood?"

"Yes Master," Alice said and then felt Master nudge her over onto her back. She did not say anything to Alice, just stared down at her with that blank mask. Alice's hands shook as she reached down and spread her red lower lips. "Like this Master?"

"Good girl," Master said as she stood up to her full height. She towered over Alice there on the ground. She toyed with the rod. "You may close your eyes if you like."

Alice regretted following that suggestion, not knowing when it was coming was almost worse than the pain of the rod, but she dreaded going back on her choice and regretting it. The swish of the rod through the air was the only warning Alice got and then her world exploded into pain. This was going to be an experience unlike any other, Alice thought as she screamed out into the underground cavern.