Magnetic Mayhem

"So, you lost all your charms, huh? While that is fascinating, it does complicate things quite a bit," Acacia mused, the still blushing Min sinking in the bathtub she prepared for her. Well, not a tub per se, but rather a barrel full of water. 

Min scarcely made eye contact with the apprentice mage, everything below her nose submerged in the water. Her mind was still racing and reliving every mocking smirk and ogling glance she received in her embarrassing trek back. She even heard the townsfolk christen her with a new nickname, tomato face. Not the heroic epithet she wished to earn. 

"S-so it's hopeless? I'm cursed forever?"

"Hmm, I wonder... If the curse is unaffected by our charms, maybe it didn't come from this world. The hex could have originated from your home dimension." Acacia leaned on the barrel's rim. "If so, we have been thinking about this all wrong."

"What do you mean?"

"We should try some of the wards from your planet. Maybe they can keep the curse at bay."

What? There wasn't any magic back on Earth... or was there? It would explain a lot of things… maybe Min's untimely demise was due to her curse and not her reckless desire to eat toast in the bathtub. "S-sorry, but I don't think I know anything that could help us."

"Come on, you have to remember some sort of ritual to ward off bad luck from your homeland. Don't be shy, I'll do anything, no matter how complicated or bizarre it is!"

Something clicked on Min's mind. She perked up. "I might have an idea or two…"

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"Bwa! Min frowned. "These are the worst pancakes I've ever tasted, it's like you never made them before."

"No, I haven't!" An annoyed Acacia replied, drops of gooey pancake mass sticking to her hands and clothes. 

"Eh, don't worry," Min shrugged. "You'll have plenty of practice."

"Are you sure this flat meal is supposed to bring good luck?"

"Absolutely." 

"And the extensive massages? Those supposed to help as well?"

"Reflexology baby, it aligns the chakras or something."

"And that weird bath with the scented bubbles? Was it necessary for me to scrub you with a sponge?"

"Absolutely, you exfoliated the evil from all my pores. Also, it felt nice."

"Great, so you are as protected as you can be! Now, come on, I have a spell that is super prone to backfiring. We'll see how effective your rituals are."

Min gulped. "Y-yes, we'll see."

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Acacia and Fica were standing in front of the tower's entrance. Between them was the middle half of a cut tree trunk and a horseshoe resting on the ground. Min took cover behind a wall, bracing for the worst. They were going to try a spell to magnetize the log to attract the horseshoe. Min would object that such a feat was physically impossible, but she had no idea how magnets worked.

Acacia tapped the log with her magic staff. The horseshoe went flying and glued itself to the wood. "Oooooooohhhhh." A few of the townspeople watching clapped politely.

Mesmerized by her magic, Acacia didn't notice that the tip of her staff was brushing against her robe. "Ack!" The young mage felt a force pulling her towards the log, but she dug her heels and held her ground. As she did, her cane swayed, touching the hem of Fica's brown robe as well.

"Ack!" Fica's feet left the ground as she was pulled towards her fellow apprentice, tackling her and causing her to drop her cane onto the floor. 

"Fica, what are you doing!?"

"Not my fault, something is forcing me to…" Both apprentices looked down at their robes, the garments were pushing away from their bodies and trying to tangle with one another. They immediately understood what happened. They had been magnetized with different polarities and were trying to join together. Their eyes turned towards the staff laying tantalizingly out of reach. 

"Min, bring me my cane!"

"O-ok," with the caution of a scared mouse, Min timidly approached the staff as if it was a bomb. She didn't trust it enough to grab it with her own hands, opting to stretch her sleeves and lift it that way.

Such caution was not misplaced, although it was ultimately useless. As soon as Min's sleeves touched the staff, Acacia and Fica flew at her, tackling Min as if she was about to make a touchdown. 

"Ugh," Min groaned, now on the ground and sharing an intimate hug with two very miffed girls. 

"This is your fault," Fica barked at Acacia, her lips hovering over her cheeks. She tried to pull back but her robe refused to let her move away from the other two girls. "How are we going to get out of this mess?! The wizard is out picking ingredients, who knows when he´ll be back to help us! We are stuck!"

"Not necessarily," Acacia replied, a candle burning in her head. "Only our clothes are magnetized. W-watch this." Pulling her arms into the sleeves, Acacia shimmied out of her robe. "Ta-da!" 

Acacia stood free in nothing but her sandals and underclothes. For a mage, her body was surprisingly fit, if a bit pale. Wrappings held her grapefruit-sized chest in place, and a loincloth hid her most intimate secrets from view. 

Acacia pretended to be super proud of her idea, that it did not bother her at all, but the red blush on her cheeks said otherwise.The townspeople clapped more enthusiastically, and Acacia gave them a little bow out of instinct.

"Oh man, but it's my third robe this month!" Min lamented, shaking her head and closing her eyes. 

She followed Acacia's lead and shimmied out of her robe, standing next to her with her arms folded across her body. Unlike Acacia, she was wearing nothing underneath, for the apprentice had grown tired of Min losing her loaned underwear.

"We'll never speak of this again," Fica was the last one to wiggle free of her clothing, the three robes now free to share an unbreakable magnetic hug. Fica was not as fit as Acacia's, her smooth olive skin devoid of much muscle or filling. She was a slender and mousy girl. 

While their blushes grew hotter, Acacia grabbed her staff and nodded at her companions to stand beside her. The three stood under the archway of the tower entrance.

"I'm going to demagnetize our clothes," Acacia said, aiming at the robes. Her staff began to emit a low-pitch rumble, sparks coming from the tip. The spell charged up and then exploded with a deafening roar. The three girls were pushed back by the shockwave that shredded not only the staff but also sent the girl's undergarments and even shoes flying away.

Neither of the three even had time to stand up again before a powerful force pulled them back together. "EEEP!" Acacia and Fica crashed head-on. Their faces uncomfortably stuck to each other, their nipples touching as if they were shaking hello, their legs refusing to move apart from the other.

Thankfully, their collision was softened by Min, who was stuck in the middle of the girl sandwich. Her face was coddled by the mage's breasts, more Acacia's than Fica's. Two different groins were pushed against her waist, their trimmed hair tickling her a bit as they wiggled and squirmed.

If only Min was into girls, the situation might have been somewhat enjoyable. Alas, she was not, so it was extremely awkward. Maybe if she tried looking away? You know, towards the ...crowd.

A mother shielded her son's eyes. Boys were staring slap jacked as if they had never seen a naked woman before, and now they had three to choose from. And of course, there was that damned painter with his canvas to immortalize Min´s humiliation once more. 

The trio tried to separate, but it was impossible. It was as if they were superglued together. "Look at what you did, you idiot! Now we are stuck together!" Fica complained, her lips tickling Acacia's. "And we are naked to boot! So much for your good idea."

"I'm not happy about it either Fica, but it's not like we lost our robes. They are right there!"

"Oh boy, free cloth!" A boy said as he picked up the magnetized robes, prompting Fica to glare at Acacia with the sharpness of a hundred daggers. Min tried to speak to broker peace, but as she opened her mouth, her tongue accidentally licked a brown nipple. It was probably for the best if she kept quiet.

"I can still fix this, I just need to grab my staff, or what's left of it…" 

"Fix this? Half the town saw my tits, you can't fix that!" Fica said while pinching her rival's thigh. 

"Ow! Don't be a drama queen, there are less than two dozen guys here. On go, we are all going to crouch, I'll pick up what's left of my staff and dispel this spell. Ready? Go."

There was a long, if splintered, wooden pole near the mage's feet. All three girls bent their knees, even if Fica scoffed while doing so. Acacia grabbed the wood with the tip of her fingers and channeled powerful magic through it. The staff glowed and shot a beam of light… that missed the girls and hit the top of the doorway above them. "Oh no… Eeep!"

The trio were pulled upward, towards a now magnetized stone on the top of the archway, they dangled underneath it like a sign beckoning people to enter the tower. Their legs hung over the doorframe as they desperately struggled.

"Great job Acacia, you fixed the problem!" Fica sarcastically said while kicking her feet into Acacia's calves.

 "I d-don't understand what went wrong." Acacia asked, her eyes swimming in circles. "This has never happened before, it was like if we were-?"

"Cursed?" Fica said, pinching Min this time. "Maybe it has something to do with your bad luck charm over here."

"That can't be, Min's curse should not affect us at all."

"Ermmm," Min mumbled while looking down at her feet, getting an eyeful of nipples instead. "A-actually, the fairies said that the curse can affect people around me too..."

"Oh come on!"

"You are telling me this NOW!?"

"I didn't want to scare you… ow! Please no pinching! Look at the bright side, at least now you are 100% sure that I´m actually cursed!"

"Yeah, and so are we, apparently!"

"Ow, please stop!…" Min took a look at the congregating crowd under their feet. There were quite a lot of people looking right at where the sun did not shine. Fica noticed them too, for she had stopped her attack to try and squirm her body into a more modest position. 

"Err, when was your master coming back again?"

Acacia sighed. It was going to be a while.