Emily the Escape Artist

"Because the next trick will be performed by none other than Elvira herself!" Alphonse loudly proclaimed. The crowd's energy surged at that, as many were more excited about seeing the nearly naked and drop dead gorgeous "Elvira" onstage than the magic tricks themselves by that point.

"What are you talking about?!" Emily worriedly whispered as Alphonse drew near to her. "I don't know any magic tricks!"

"You'll be fine, this trick practically does itself'" he scoffed. Then, after a moment's pause, said, "You can hold your breath for 60 seconds right?"

"I... I think so," Emily said.

"Excellent!" Alphonse said as he turned to face the stagehands who were wheeling out some large piece of equipment.

It appeared to be a tall but skinny glass tank, maybe 20 inches wide and deep, and 8 feet tall. It also had several large tubes connected to it, which trailed off into the darkness backstage.

"Now, some of you may have noticed that my lovely assistant," Alphonse proclaimed to the audience, "brought her own cuffs with her tonight."

He teasingly pulled the empty cuff loop out from behind Emily to show the audience. Emily, in turn, fought to tug her bunched up dress low enough to keep her pussy out of view.

"And while I appreciate the gesture," the magician continued, "for this next trick, we'll be using a few cuffs of my own..."

With that, he produced a pair of jet black handcuffs from his pocket and flourished them for the crowd. Then, he swiftly clamped them around Emily's wrists. Emily couldn't help but gasp in shock. Alphonse then repeated the process, locking a pair of handcuffs around Emily's ankles. The involuntary assistant didn't like where this was headed...

"Ladies and gentlemen, my lovely assistant Elvira is about to make a daring escape. She will be chained up in that! The Wretched Tank of Drowned Souls! Once she is secured, the case will fill with water. Elvira will have just 60 seconds to free herself from her chains and escape from the tank altogether! Let's give her a little encouragement!"

Emily was beginning to get extremely nervous. How on earth was she supposed to do that?!

Alphonse wordlessly shepherded Emily over to the glass case. The front face of the case swung open, allowing Emily to slowly waddle her way inside. The magician pulled out another pair of cuffs, winked at the audience, then turned his back to them and faced Emily.

"I don't think I can do this!" Emily said, sounding more than a little scared.

"Look at this pair," he whispered, holding up the handcuffs he'd just produced. The two of them were close enough together that no one in the crowd could have seen what he was doing or saying. Emily glanced down and noticed as his thumb pressed a small metal button under the locking mechanism. The loop sprung free. "All you have to do is uncuff your hands, then bend down and uncuff your feet. After a minute, the water will drain from the tank and we can play it off that you're still just a magician in training, so you were only able to get halfway through the trick."

That gave Emily a small bit of relief at least.

"Just hold your breath, wait for the curtain to go up, then press the buttons on the cuffs," Alphonse said as he used two more pairs of handcuffs to fix Emily's bound wrists to the roof and bound ankles to the floor of the tank. "You'll do fine!"

With a wink, he closed the tank's door and turned to face the audience once more. He continued speaking loudly to the assembled crowd, but it was clear most of them had their focus trained on Emily. She was now chained up in the small glass case, with her hands bound well above her head. And, although she still had her tassels and a few inches of fabric on her body, she was a long way from being decent. She couldn't help but feel embarrassed with so many people staring at her and so much of her body on display. There had to be 300 people out there, if not more!

Before she knew it, Emily felt her feet getting soaked. The tank was filling with water, and it was filling fast! She shivered as the cold liquid raced its way up her calves, her thighs, her hips, and then began submerging her breasts. As late as she dared, Emily took a deep breath. A moment later the water surged up and over her head. And a few moments later she felt even her fingers get wet. Emily barely opened her eyes as she distantly heard Alphonse's voice shout something, and a few seconds later the world got darker. That must have been the curtain! Emily didn't want to disappoint the huge crowd eagerly expecting her release! She got to work.

As the beautiful stage assistant began dutifully feeling around for Alphonse's release button, she couldn't help notice the release of... something else. She glanced downwards and opened her eyes a bit more, but what she saw only confirmed what she'd just felt. One the the nipple tassels had fallen off of her boob, and it was lazily drifting down towards the floor. Emily stifled an underwater whimper at her now half-topless state. Perhaps whatever adhesive was used to keep the tassels in place didn't hold up well to being soaked. Sure enough, the second tassel soon followed its sibling, leaving both of Emily's round breasts fully exposed.

Emily tried to put that humiliating fact out of her mind, though, and resumed feeling around for the release button. But she couldn't seem to find it anywhere! She thought she heard Alphonse's voice loudly shout something from outside the tank and redoubled her efforts. But to make matters worse for Emily, she began to notice the fabric around her hips had started slipping down them! Emily thought she knew what was happening there as well. The heavy metal cuff still looped around the dress, combined with the waterlogged fabric, were simply obeying gravity and sliding down her body. She tried to stop or even slow their descent, but with her feet essentially trapped in place there wasn't much she could do! The garment picked up speed around her thighs and, after just a couple more seconds, was pooled around her chained ankles.

Emily heard Alphonse call out again, and this time the crowd began chanting along with him. Emily realized her minute was almost up! She felt every square inch of the cuffs around her wrists, but couldn't find any sort of release button. With just seconds left, Emily was left with nothing but the knowledge that her naked form was about to be unveiled to a crowd of hundreds of people. And there was nothing she could do about it!

Suddenly, the curtain fell away and Emily blinked in the bright light. The water began rapidly draining from the tank, somehow even more quickly than it had filled it. The water level dropped below her face and Emily gulped in a deep breath of air.

"Sorry folks," Alphonse said in his showman voice, "guess she needs a little more practice! She is still a magician in training, after all. But at least she was ab-"

The magician trailed off as he noticed what the rest of the gather audience had. Not only was Emily still in the tank. Not only was she still chained up. She was also completely naked! The audience went absolutely ballistic. Deafening cheers and shouts drowned out everything else as the enthusiastic crowd all drank in Emily's beautiful curvy form.

Emily's face was the reddest it had been all day as she tried to register the fact that this wasn't a nightmare. She was well and truly naked in front of an enormous crowd, and she couldn't even use her hands to cover herself! Every single person in the crowd could see everything!

As if to make matters worse, the drainage tube for the tank was still on. But the only thing left in the bottom of the tank was the dress around her ankles. As its attached handcuff was gobbled up by the tube, the dress finally reached its breaking point. It ripped completely, freeing itself from Emily's beautiful body. Sophie's old handcuffs, along with the now ruined borrowed dress, were both sucked away to some tank backstage, presumably joining the two purple tassels.

The sudden yank from around her ankles sent Emily falling forward in the tiny tank. Her face and torso pressed up against the cold glass as her footing faltered, driving the audience even wilder at the sight of Emily smooshing her lovely tits against the glass. She had thought she'd escaped the fairground earlier when she'd made up her mind to leave after her disastrous first day. And yet here she found herself, completely exposed in front of her biggest crowd yet. Emily closed her eyes in humiliation, wondering how on earth she'd gotten into this scenario.

It took nearly a minute before Alphonse was able to completely free Emily from the tank. He had spent that time quietly berating her about not even being able to make it out of the "idiot cuffs" until he'd suddenly stopped.

"Oh..." he said, looking at the cuffs around Emily's wrists and ankles. "I may have used the wrong cuffs on you, I'm afraid. These require a key after all. My mistake!"

"You mean you can't unlock these?" Emily pleaded. She was standing behind Alphonse, so she was mostly out of sight. But the soaked woman was acutely aware that she was still standing naked onstage in front of a giant cheering audience.

"Afraid you're stuck like that for the time being. And that means you won't be able to help out with the show any longer," Alphonse sighed. "Just as well, I suppose. You nearly doubled the size of the crowd, so I can't exactly say you did a bad job tonight. When you get offstage, look for a man named Carl. He's a pro and will be able to get you out of those cuffs in no time!"

"...Thanks," Emily wearily said with a tired sigh. Before she could say another word, Alphonse had turned to address the audience once again.

"I'm afraid that's all for my lovely assistant for the night folks! So say goodbye to Elvira the Enchantress!"

And with that, Alphonse stepped aside, baring Emily to the crowd once more. She froze up for a moment, trying desperately to cover both her womanhood with her hands and cover her breasts with her arms. But her large wet boobs didn't cooperate, popping out from behind Emily's arms and constantly forcing her to re-adjust. Alphonse not so subtly signaled for Emily to bow and then get offstage. Emily gave an embarrassed and awkward bow before beginning her slow waddle offstage. The crowd's cheering only intensified at the sight of her perfectly round ass.