Domination Games The final Event: The Strapping Post The nightclub of the previous evening was gone. In it's place was theater of the macabre. All the members were seated around what had been the stage the night before. Now, it was only a raised dias upon which two, tall, wide whipping posts stood, separated by about ten feet. Alex stood before one of the posts with Gemma kneeling at his feet, her head bowed in submission. The owner of the other contestant and his slave were similarly situated in front of the other post. The Master of Ceremonies stood to one side and signaled two slaves to come forward. They carried rags and bottles of alcohol. The two contestants were made to stand, turn their backs to the audience and, holding their legs straight, touch their toes. Under the watchful eye of the Master of Ceremonies, alcohol soaked rags were rubbed vigorously over the weals, bringing swallowed grunts of pain from Gemma. Then the weals were counted to verify that five, true cane cut weals were in evidence. Past contestants had attempted to gain an advantage by using cosmetics to fake some or all of the weals, thus the alcohol baths. Both women were completely nude with the exception of one inch leather straps bound tightly about their necks, wrists, elbows, waists, knees and ankles. These had been provided in the bag that each Master had been given at the same time as the cane. Each strap had a large 'D' ring to simplify the restraining of the women in whatever manner was desired by the guest dominant who would oversee the final test. The two women were brought to the center of the dias and stood facing one another. Slave attendants attached short chains that connected the two women's ankles together and then snaprings that connected the outside of Gemma's left knee to the inside of her opponent's right knee and the inside of Gemma's right knee to the other's left knee's outside. Each woman bent at the waist and had her left arm wrapped over her opponent's back and tied tightly around her opponent's waist. Now each had a clear view of the other's butt. A heavy, short handled paddle was pressed into each contestant's still free right hand. The Master of Ceremonies took center stage after seeing to these preparations. "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the final event of the Spring Games, the 'big game'. Before we begin, we will allow our athletes a short time to properly warmup the muscles that will be used in our event today. The time limit will be two minutes. In that time, as many blows may be struck as the arm can hold up for. Anywhere above the thighs and below the tailbone is fair. One warning will be given for striking outside the fair zone, then the repeat offender will be disqualified. Of course, as always in accordance with the Charter, anytime a slave concedes, the match will be over, as will the big game and the other will win, but I don't believe we need to worry about that with these two." He turned to face the two Masters. "Masters, are you and your slaves ready?" Both indicated that they were. "Very well, the two minutes begin .... NOW!" Gemma's opponent started hitting rapidly and erratically, all over the fair area of her target. She was trying to tenderize as much of Gemma's butt as she could in the time allowed. Gemma's strategy, was just the opposite. Gemma concentrated her blows on one area on each cheek. The spot directly out from the anus, midway up the cheeks. Gemma struck as hard as she could with a six inch swing, bringing to bear as much force and as many blows to those localized areas as she could. When the two minute bell sounded, Gemma's ass was tingling from the spanking, but her opponent had wasted much of her energy with wild swings, had not gotten in nearly as many strikes as Gemma had, and had tired towards the end of the time period. Gemma, on the other hand, had kept a hard steady pace, striking as hard at the end as at the beginning. The top of each of her opponent's cheeks sported a bright ruby red circle the size of Gemma's paddle. Her movements, when she was released to her Master, were slow and deliberate. Each woman was now bound to their respective whipping posts. They were hung by the wrists from hooks set high on the posts. Their arms, wrists and legs were bound around the post so that the women hugged the rough wooden logs tightly to them. Finally, their collars were fixed to rings on the post. The women could move the slightest little bit when the final restraint was tightened. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to introduce, Lady Starr, our guest dominant. She has chosen the strap as her tool, today. She is the head instructress at an academy of dominance and submission in the Alps, responsible for training slaves, dominants and other trainers. She has most graciously come here today to test our two champion slaves. The rules are, as always, simple. Each slave will be given, in turn, twelve strokes of the strap by the Mistress. If a slave should break during a set, that is, give her safety word, then the Mistress will move to the next slave and will begin with her. If neither slave yields, Lady Starr will start again with the next twelve strokes. The slave who takes the most strokes wins. Masters, please have your slaves tell the Lady Starr her safety word." Gemma's opponent gave her safety word, then the Lady came over to Alex. She shook his hand, and congratulated him on his handling of the situation the previous evening. Alex and Gemma had agreed that she would use his safety code of "white tail". She opened her mouth to tell the Mistress and Alex stopped her. Bowing formally, he asked a moment's indulgence and then bent to Gemma's ear. He whispered into her ear and her eyes went wide and jaw dropped. She looked into his eyes, fire shooting at him from her own. He merely looked at her. "You have your orders. Carry them out." Gemma swallowed her anger, but her voice still shook with emotion when she was able to speak. "Mistress, Lady Starr. My safety word is .. ... ... 'Rayna wins'." The words almost choked her and she knew she'd never be able to say them again in this life. Alex had just sentenced her to victory, and possibly, hell on earth. Actually, it was anticlimactic. The Mistress was an artist with the strap. She started with Gemma. By the end of the first dozen, she had Gemma crying like a baby, crying as she had not under corrections since her own Mistress had first started training her those long years ago. Her opponent, however, only took the first nine, before the strap caught the two bright red spots Gemma had inflicted on her. The reaction the Mistress got from her brought the next stroke to the same place and it was over. Her Master was shocked, but Gemma had prepared the girl well and she had broken. The Master of Ceremonies congratulated Alex and read the list of prizes that would be given him as the owner of the champion slave. The final prize was the weekend, anywhere in the world, with the member or members of his choice in whatever role he desired. Alex was about to speak when Gemma spoke up. "Master, please, may your slave speak?" She was still trying to regain her composure from the strapping and her voice was shaking. He told her to speak. "Master, I know what we agreed upon when you said you would master me this weekend. It is enough that I have won. If there is anything you desire, other than what we agreed upon, it would please me greatly if you would take your desires first." It was half in her mind that maybe Alex would pick her. Last night had been special and she would like more of them, a lifetime of them. Maybe this was a way to start. Alex looked at her and smiled that enigmatic smile she had seen so much of this weekend. "Thank you." He turned to the Master. "I choose Mistress Rayna and her slave, Stefan. We will meet here, the weekend after next. Both will be prepared to submit to me and my slave fully. I ask that this not be an open affair. I would like this to be a private affair for myself and for the reputation of the Mistress." "As you wish. Let it be known that, upon pain of being barred from our membership, Mistress Rayna of San Francisco and slave Stefan are to comply with the wishes of the champion's owner. Per his wishes, their trial will be closed to all but any whom he personally will allow to participate. Again, Master Alex, congratulations. Well done for a first event as a Master." Alex inclined his head in response, turned to Gemma, indicated she should follow and then, left the theater, again to the applause of the assembled membership. Things were strained between Gemma and Alex when they returned to her place. Alex, for his part, was very uncertain as to what to expect. Should he expect to stay in her house? When would she let him know just how many paybacks he had coming for his treatment of her that weekend? And worst of all, how was he going to live without making love to her again if she sent him away? For her part, Gemma was still bemused by the changes in herself and the man she thought she knew to pay attention to anything but her own confused feelings. In the end, Alex stayed on at her place while both went back to work and caught up on chores around the house. They spent the next two weeks in a crazy dance where neither one knew who was leading. The weekend The owner of the retreat had left the keys to the various rooms and facilities in Alex's hand before departing himself. Taking Alex literally at his word, the estate would be empty of all but Rayna, her slave, Alex and Gemma. Even the servants were given the weekend off so the players would have to scrounge the well stocked bars and larder for themselves while they were there. Alex was in command since Gemma had given him the choice of who to ask for. He had asked her to participate and she had agreed, half hoping that there would be a chance to get her hands on Rayna before the weekend ended. Alex assigned each of the participants rooms and handed them instruction envelopes. An hour later, all of them met in the large ball room. Alex was in a bathrobe and slippers. Stefan was dressed in a leather spanking harness that separated presented the cheeks of his ass for corrections. Rayna and Gemma were both dressed as they had been the night of the bet. Rayna was sullenly angry at the notion of having to submit herself to another woman's slave, and at the final indignity of having to do so while wearing her favorite domination outfit. Gemma was confused, an increasingly common state of mind for her these days. Alex merely sat at a table, letting them get used to each other. He rose and walked over to the threesome he had assembled. "Thank you for coming." Rayna practically snarled at him, "As if I had a choice. Expulsion from the Cabal would have the same effect on my business as disbarment would have on a lawyer. Well, I'm here, let's get it over with. What have you come up with in that little brain of yours to get back at me for my so-called insults to your overrated Mistress." Rayna's temper was in full control of her or she would have been more politic. Alex owned her for now and could make the next forty eight hours pure hell for her. Gemma hoped that he would. "Calm yourself, Mistress." Alex drawled. "I am not going to do anything to you. Instead, I propose a contest. If you win, you leave her this afternoon, your commitment met. If you lose, I give the service of you and your large friend here to my Mistress for whatever she cares to do with you." Rayna and Gemma both exploded simultaneously, each trying to shout the other down to be heard. Alex merely put his hands over each lovely mouth and continued. "Do you agree? As I see it, you have nothing to lose, because if you don't agree, I give you to her right now." Anger radiated from the eyes above his hand, but she nodded her agreement. Alex told the three to sit and he would explain the rules. "We will repeat the competition of last fall. I will submit to Mistress Rayna, Stefan to Mistress Gemma. The first to cry off with the use of the safety word loses for his Mistress. Prizes are as I indicated. Now, since there is no Doctor available, only blows below the tailbone, above the thighs and cheek to cheek will be allowed. Is this agreed?" Rayna nodded vigorously, grinning widely at the thought of getting out of this humiliation. She could even work it to her advantage in a professional sense. Alex turned to Gemma. "And you, beloved?" She looked at him as if she had been slapped. "Are you sure, Alex?" He nodded. "Then, yes, I agree." And God have mercy on that bitch's slave, because she wouldn't. This time, Alex won. Alex removed his bathrobe to reveal an identical harness to what Stefan wore. "Let us begin, then." Rayna led Alex to the far side of the dias and restrained him across a block for a repeat performance. Gemma had other plans. She remembered what Alex had taught her during that magical night before the 'big game' and she would use that lesson now. "Down on the floor, on your back!" Stefan complied. "Now, I want you to jerk that pitiful little boy cock of yours off until I see cum spewing from it. Now get busy." His eyes mirrored his confusion as he did as ordered. Rayna never let him cum in her presence. He always jerked off after she left the room, but this ebony goddess was telling him to come. He had not had an orgasm since the retreat, Mistress being so angry that he had been in a cock cage until just before they arrived at the gate. Gemma straddled his head and settled herself down to a little queening while she had the chance. It was all it took. A very impressive surge of semen spewed from the slave cock, five, maybe six hard spurts. When he'd finished coming, Gemma flicked his thigh lightly with the crop, "I did not say you could stop. Do it again, just as quickly. I want to see rivers of cum. Do you hear me?" His response was muffled under the press of her ass into his face, but his hand resumed its rapid stroking. She helped him this time, tickling gently at his balls with the tip of her crop. The sound of a paddle being applied with full force sounded. Rayna had Alex restrained and was beginning his test. Gemma hoped she had the correct strategy. The sound of the paddling triggered her slave and again, his semen poured forth. Gemma rose from him and looked down at his panting, sweating face and grinned. Her most evil, frightening grin. Now he knew what she had done and would do; and he was afraid. Gemma got him to his feet and then suspended his hands above his head. His reaction to the first stroke of her crop frightened even Gemma and stopped Rayna in mid strike. Without the sexual excitement to dull the pain, the sharpness, the scream Stefan let out was deafening. Gemma looked at the bottom she had just cut. The welt was bright red and would bruise a bit at the tip end of the cut, but it was not that serious. Well, if that got that reaction... Gemma started a serious cropping. Stefan fought hard, trying to withstand the unshielded pain of the test. Rayna redoubled her efforts, but only grunts came from Alex in response to her increasingly erratic efforts. Gemma stepped back from her target and undid the harness strap that separated his buttocks, letting it fall. Then, taking careful aim, she brought her crop straight down from over her head, slicing down between his buttocks, the stinger tip of the crop digging against his asshole. The scream that Stefan emitted was unholy. "No more, Mistress," he screamed, "No more, please!" "I did not hear your safety word, slave." Gemma retorted, and she started to raise the crop again. She held it above her head, wondering if she could really do something that devastating to another person, again, when Stefan took the decision out of her hands. Some third eye warned him what was coming. Sobbing, he bellowed out his code. Rayna dropped her paddle, and ran to Stefan, unbelieving. She walked around him, amazed that so little real damage had been inflicted. "She made me come, Mistress, I didn't know. God, it hurt so badly, I'm sorry Mistress. Please don't send me away." It was a litany. Gemma watched as Rayna reached up and with gentle hands, stroked the brow of her slave, giving comfort, and telling him in a quiet, surprisingly soothing voice that she would not send him away. Together, Gemma and Rayna freed the two men and helped them to deep whirl pool baths installed at the retreat for this purpose. As they watched the two men, Rayna asked Gemma how she had done it. "It was the orgasm. I'd never realized how much potent sexual desire shields a slave taking a beating until Alex used it to dull the pain of the caning the night before the big game. Then I learned how much worse the blows feel when you aren't excited. I have done that to Alex in the past, made him come, then whipped him, unknowing of the true measure of that test. What will you do with your big blond there?" "Keep him." the redhead said. "He loves me. He'd never take what he has from me if he did not. It's not really his nature to submit. Truth to tell, I think I may love him, too. Don't know what to do about it, though." She sighed. "Well, I guess I belong to you, now. Thought I did when I came here, but your little man there threw me a curve. What do we do now?" Gemma looked at the woman beside her, a woman who was struggling with the same problems she herself was fighting. She could do something about Rayna. Alex would approve. Alex .... Maybe he'd approve if she.... "Wait here. I'll be right back." Gemma walked over to the whirlpool and talked quietly with the two men. Stefan jerked a disbelieving look at Rayna and then returned his gaze to Gemma. Suddenly both men looked as if they had been handed the keys to paradise. Gemma walked back to Rayna with a jaunty step and a self satisfied smirk on her face. The two men padded after her, dripping water. "Rayna, for the remainder of the weekend, you and I both have the following commands. We will each take our young man to our room and we will proceed to fuck their brains out." Three pairs of eyes slewed to her in astonishment at the crude words spoken in the light feminine voice with the Oxford English accent. "We will accept their cocks in every possible manner at least once before the weekend is over. Also, and this is the hard one, before we leave here tomorrow night, we will each tell our man that we love him. Do you understand and will you comply?" Rayna looked up at the massively built Stefan, who was looking at her as if everything good in life was wrapped up in her, and swallowed hard. He was the only submissive she had ever accepted who was taller than she was in her heels. Maybe now she knew why that was. "I'll still want to play my games. I'm still a bitch, Stefan, and I like my life. And I like being dominant, too, especially with you." Stefan nodded his understanding and agreement. "Then I understand, Mistress Gemma, and I will happily comply." She was gone in an instant as Stefan swept her up, squealing in her surprise, over his shoulder and made for the doors. As she watched them leave, Gemma became more aware of Alex intently watching her than ever before. She turned to face him. "If I tell you I love you now, can I get a ride like that to our room?" She asked hopefully. He decided to go for it all. "Only if you marry me." Gemma had thought nothing could shock her after today. She was wrong, but that did not stop her from dealing with his offer in her own inimitable manner - forcefully, dominantly and positively. The wedding - Spring Games II The spring air was warm, fortunately for the men and women standing in the open air arena. Seated around on the ground and benches were the various dominants and submissives who were here to watch the upcoming spectacle. It was the first weekend retreat of the Cabal since before winter and the turnout at the secluded mountain estate was heavy. Gemma and Alex, Rayna and Stefan stood before their friends and fellow members reaffirming their wedding vows. All were registered as switches for this weekend, and, in an approved variance to normal procedure, no one would attempt to claim them. One of the members, a federal judge, presided over the ceremony which was a first for a Cabal meeting. However, both couples felt that since the Cabal had helped to clear the obstacles from their romances, they had to share their joy with the other members. Unique in this ceremony was that the man and wife were joined physically by the officiating judge, with shiny silver handcuffs, the keys for which would be withheld until they left. For Gemma and Alex, it was their third ceremony having said their vows in his family's Catholic parish and in her family's church in England. Needless to say, when each had brought the other home to family, shock was the mildest response. But they'd worked it out and now, each was accepted, perhaps grudgingly, by the other's family. It would work out in time. The only minor skirmish came when Gemma had proposed to wear flat heeled shoes with her gown. It was her first experience with Alex's temper. She wore full four inch heels and had been happy she had when she saw the look in Alex's eyes. The pair of them had attended the summer and fall retreats together. Gemma was back in full dominant form for the summer retreat. True to her promise, she had gotten the woman who had failed to lubricate her during the games. Pairing up with the woman's Master for a two-on-one, she had seen to it that the bitch had been ass fucked with only the lubrication she could provide with her mouth. When Gemma'd whispered "Ain't paybacks a bitch?" to the woman, she'd burst into tears and into orgasm at the same time. Much to the surprise of the members, in the fall, Gemma had registered as Alex's submissive. She remained intensely dominant with any other person, but now she happily switched from time to time with Alex. The only thing that had topped that surprise was when they'd met Rayna in the Cabaret that night. A radiantly happy and very naked Rayna who was wearing Stefan's leash and collar. Gemma and Alex were not the only ones who switched from time to time, now. The ceremony ended and their friends crowded to congratulate the newlyweds. The handcuffs were already getting in the way of shaking hands or returning hugs. One of the well wishers asked how would they ever perform their wedding night duties. Alex smiled. "I am very well trained. I have all sorts of ways. We'll make do." Gemma smiled herself. She'd just make sure he had to work a little harder at it tonight than normally. He knew her smallest erogenous zone and lately, he'd been using his expertise to keep her in a continuous daze of sexual bliss. A dominatrix with a satisfied, goofy smile on her face loses some of her impact, somehow. Well, he definitely had to be brought back to earth. Good thing she thought to bring her special hairbrush and she *was* lefthanded. Yes, she'd see things were warmed up a bit tonight first. He could take it. Yes indeed. She figured this man could take just about anything. . . for her. Happy anticipation lit her face, as she bent down and ravaged his mouth with hers.