It was evening at Shokushu, most student heading home after classes, some staying to work on special projects or to dally with friends in the cafeteria.
A few were gathering in the common rooms, maybe to while away a few hours with a movie or console games.

Pia usually were not with them, spending most of her evenings studying, or as was more common these days, finding good reasons to hand out with Susan. This particular evening though, she was heading towards the activity rooms.

She paused briefly, having forgotten exactly which room she sought. She glanced down at the note in her hand, noting the room number again, as well as once again reading the bold text on top of it.

Magician seeks assistant!
No experience needed, but must be willing to learn.

SO much for discretion, Pia thought to herself. Now, right here an explanation might be in order. Pia had herself been dedicating a lot of her time to the study of the occult, even finding some talent in herself. Pia considered this one weapon against the school and the monsters, one weapon in a sadly small arsenal. Because of this, she had some interest in others who where doing the same. Sometimes that could be a challenge, because most who shared her interest surrounded themselves with some secrecy. Pia was no exception to this. It was thus with surprise she had seen a flyer where someone not only advertised that they were a magician, but openly sought others. She had contemplated staying away, but felt she could not.

This Marianna Stenhouse might be unaware of the dangers here. In that case, Pia had to warn her. It seemed nothing quite exited the horrors here such as the chance to enjoy a nubile sorceress.

So focused on this was Pia, it did not really occur to her that 'Magician' most places meant a stage illusionist.

She reached the room. She knocked, then opened the door, peeking in.

"Uh, hi! Is this were the audition for an assistant is?"

Marianna calmly sat in the small interview room she had been able to sort of acquire beforehand and was awaiting anybody coming in to be interviewed for the part of her assistant, Marianna wearing her uniform for now smiled as she sat in the chair one leg crossed over the other, Marianna being a Magician a bit of a Stage Illusionist but also with a little real magic hidden beneath it all to help her become better, she right now was looking for a cute assistant to help her since some talent shows where popular and she needed someone to help her.

Marianna was about to go get something to eat when the door opened and the most cutiest looking girl she had ever seen stepped inside as she smiles.

"Why yes it is, welcome, I'm Marianna Stenhouse, please come in and have a seat," She giggles.

Pia fully entered the room. She too was wearing the school uniform, its white blouse hugging a nice full chest, the tiny, light blue skirt grazing the upper part of her thighs, showing of some skin before her thigh-high stockings took over. One her feet she wore pink front clasped shoes. Her gently bobbing pigtails gave her a somewhat girlish image, accented by big blue eyes behind her glasses.

"Uh.. HI! My name is Pia. Pia Marie Hov."

Pia eyed the other girl. It was hard to tell the size of the other girl when she was sitting down, but she appeared to be a little taller than Pia. Her position did reveal she had long slender legs, at least. She also had beautiful, long blonde hair and seemed a tad more busty than Pia. Sometimes, she wished she looked a bit more like that herself.

She sat down, as instructed. "Uh.. am I the only one who has come? Uh.. I am not too late, am I?"
She fidgeted a little with her pigtail, without even realizing she was doing so.

Marianna smiles enjoying the sight of the cute image Pia gave as she giggles.

"No your the only one to show up, most people are a little weirded out by the whole magic thing," Marianna said softly as she walked over to Pia and smiles looking her over, "Hmm lovely hair, cute face, the glasses add to that charm, and an amazing body, hmm you look like the part," Marianna giggles.

"But question, how do you feel about magic and how far are you willing to go in this little part?" She asked.

Now at this point, Pia was a little confused. She was not entirely sure what kind of magic this Marianna meant. She decided to play along anyway, perhaps hoping to find out. She was not about to regale the other with tales of her own exploration of the occult art.
Pia hoped her experiments and research might give her what she needed to reach her ultimate goal. A way back home, back to her parents in Norway, or failing that, something to make her resist the monsters. She had no doubt the school would move to stop any success, and had chosen secrecy as her method.
And if Marianna was not a real mage after all, her blabbing about mystic powers would probably make her look like a nut-case.

"Well, I do not know much. But I am willing to learn!"

This was the truth anyway. She considered herself a poor mage at best, but she had a genuine curiosity towards just about anything, taking delight in mastering new things.

"Well I'm glad to hear you say that," Marianna smiles brightly.

"Well for introductions, I'm Marianna Stenhouse, and I'll be taking part in a little magic show coming up soon, and I need a cute assistant, with the cute costume and all that," She giggles as she shows Pia a zipped up black container that held the outfit as she unzipped it slowly showing to Pia a cute Pink bunny suit, the leotard, some fishnet stockings a cute fake pair of bunny ears, and a fluffy tail at the part just above where her cute rear would be rested.

"So what do you think?" She teases

Pia's cheeks shifted through several shades of colour, heading towards red strawberry. First it was embarrassment from discovering that this was indeed stage magic. Then it was both pleasure and awkwardness at being called cute two times in a row. Typical of many people who are naturally shy, Pia liked compliments, but had no idea how to handle them. She looked away, most demurely, but could not hide her flattered smile.

"Uh.. I.. err.. thanks.. I.. uh.."

Covering up her stuttering reply, she looked at the outfit more closely. "Oh, that is soo cute!" was her first reaction to seeing the bunny ears. She could not help it, she just liked cute, fluffy things. "Uh.. but..Do you think I can wear this?".

"Well it depends on if you want to be my assistant? I'll give you a slight introduction to my usual act to my assistants, so please put it on and please don't be afraid to show me that lovely body of yours," Marianna teases giggling handing the outfit to Pia as she smiles.

"I'm sure your already a cute bunny, you just needed the right appearance of a bunny," She teases.

Oh, what have I gotten myself into now!

Being a shy person, Pia did not really wish to be the sexy assistant at stage show, even if being thought to fit the role was kind of flattering. Yet she was not sure she should pull out either. Getting Marianna's hopes up, then backing out was not very nice, and besides, she lacked a plausible excuse as well.

Thus, even though she muttered her feeble protests, Pia found herself in her underwear, the white blouse and the skirt in her hands, somehow ending up in the situation due to a mixture of Marianna's enthusiasm, flattery, and confusion of ending up in a situation not at all like what she had expected.

She halfway tried covering up her breasts, concealed under a pale pink bra. Somehow, the gesture only managed to frame her cleavage better.

"Uh.. I think maybe this is a mistake. Maybe we should wait to see if more candidates arrive.."

Marianna giggles as she shows her sapphire jewel slowly to Pia as she smiles and strokes her cheek the girl half naked now as she giggles more.

"Oh my dear do relax, and besides I want to show you this trick," She said as she channeled her magic which if Pia noticed was a calming blue color as it channelled into the jewel as Marianna began swaying it back and forth infront of Pia.

"Now please relax...and look at the shiny shiny." She whispered sensually to pia

If Pia was not already both flabbergasted, and a bit panicked about the situation she was in, she would have not let herself be tricked that easily. She was a student of magic, after all, and besides, her mind had been psionicaly and magically assaulted by some of the strongest monsters on the island.

But she was already off guard, and did not really except any foul play from Marianna.
Besides, being shown a magic trick, that could be fun, right? Stage magic, that is just for fun, everyone knows that..

So Pia stared at the pendulum as ordered.

"Ohh.. it shines.. how did you do that?", Pia said, looking at the pendant. Excepting some sleight of hand, she was unaware of the real magic behind this.
It was soothing, so soothing..

The Blue aura was a relaxation trick to calm it's victims to make hypnotising them easier as Marianna giggles.

"Well it's simple, I am a user of light magic...and I can channel my aura into my sapphire necklace and make this dazzling effect as you can see." She said as the jewel glowed as the swaying made a beautiful blue light show that was so mesmerising.

"So my pretty bunny relax and fall into my power," She whispered.

Pia was startled by the realization. I was right! She IS a sorceress!

"You mean you know real magic, not just stage trick.. oh.. nice.."

She was about to turn too look at Marianna, something that might have been enough to break the spell in the beginning, but she was just a smidgeon too late. The light was so pretty, the crystal was pretty. She was just feeling so calm. It felt good. It was nice not being tense all the time.

At some level, she realized she was being manipulated, but the calming influence made her not care.
I should probably find out what she is doing. In a few more seconds. Yeah. Relax. That sounds like a good idea.

"..so calm..", she muttered in a sleepy, heavy voice.

"Thank you, I like to show off my real magic to my assistants and you my cute bunny are her," She giggles as she slowly changes aura colours as her Pink arousal aura changed with the Blue Relaxing aura as she giggles,

"Now become mine, your body is mine and your mind is too," She said giggling as she strokes the cheek of Pia softly as she calmly began moving the girls feet into the fishnet like leggins and pulled them up covering her thighs and hips and legs and buttock barely hiding any of it as the first part of the suit came on just narrowly hiding her pussy and the fluffy tail at the back was on now as she calmly began putting on the costume for Pia.

Pia willingly let herself get dressed. At first she just did it passively, her mind being saturated by the calming influence of the blue light. As it shifted into the pink, she began feeling a bit of titillation and excitement.
She giggled a little, running her hands down the fishnets covering her legs. She slipped out of the bra, so that the tight leaotard would fir better, squashing her round melons under the pink fabric.

".Cute!", she grinned, putting the bunny ears on her head.