Summoning 101 – Day 1 (First Draft)
By supershadey09

The other end of the portal howled just as loudly as the first, echoing an eerie screech throughout the room that was quickly joined by Kougi’s cries of frustration. The purple imp monkey grunted as he was spat out the other end onto a hard surface, his bottom hitting the floor first and his still rigid dong right after. The room was dark and rather small, with its features hard to make out with the cloud of smoke obscuring his vision; though, with his fun interrupted he was in no mood to take in his new surroundings. On his feet in an instant, the demon immediately set to berating anyone within an earshot as the portal slowly shrank from existence behind him. “Alright, asshole, ya caught me at a really bad time and I ain’t in the mood for any bullshit! Tell me what ya want so I can get outta here!” Kougi’s fists clenched tightly as his forehead throbbed with veins of intense anger, mirroring the throbbing of his rigid, unattended erection between his legs as he awaited a reply. The imp monkey was no stranger to being summoned, and having memorized the routine long ago, he was eager as ever to get things over with so he could get back home as quickly as possible. 
When the silence remained for too long, he began to hobble forward through the smoke as best he could with that weight tugging down between his legs. “HEY! I know you’re in here! Hurry up and make ya stinkin’ contract!” His beady little eyes narrowed in on a figure through the smoke, though laying down instead of standing upright as he’d expected. Just as he was nearing the edge of the cloud, he felt something hard smack against his forehead, making him stumble back half a step. “ACK! What the—Oh…right.” Kougi’s sharp fangs barred as he snarled downward at the source of his obstruction: the edge of a summoning circle, made not only for calling him from the Underworld, but also keeping him from attacking the summoner. Fortunately, he didn’t need to move much further to get a good look at his summoner. The other figure was the only other person in the room, so Kougi assumed they were the one who’d interrupted his fun. 
	
	Outside of the circle and laying on his back across from the irate imp monkey was a black cat; male and seemingly adolescent in age. Aside the feline lay a large, ornate book, with layers of dust clearly visible from the imp’s position and opened to one of the first few pages. Despite the stereotypes set by wizards and warlocks in fiction, this would-be summoner wore not a robe or pointed hat, but a short-sleeved black t-shirt and matching jeans, both loosely draped over his slender figure. He seemed skinny in build, his pitch black fur was accented with grey stripes, and a pair of small, rectangular glasses hung from his muzzle. Kougi never knew what to expect in appearance of a summoner, as anyone could do it with the right resources. Kougi wasn’t too interested in the status of this summoner, as it was his state that turned his anger into curiosity. While it may have appeared that the feline was asleep, the imp monkey knew that no summoner would cast a summoning spell then go to sleep right after. He crouched low to the ground and attempted to study the cat’s body as best he could from the other side of the circle’s barrier. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness, Kougi was able to make out more details: beads of sweat over the exposed parts of the body, chest rising and falling swiftly. It was almost as if the young feline had just finished running a marathon. Kougi’s cheeks split into a cocky smirk as he let out a light snicker. “Amateur. Usin’ up all ya energy to summon a lil imp like me.” It was then that the imp’s eyes widened at the realization. “No-ho-ho way!”, he shouted, before clasping a palm over his mouth to keep quiet. “This kid’s a rookie?! That’s gotta be it! Afterall, no real summoner’d use all their juice up callin’ me here, and they sure as hell wouldn’t need a book to do it!” Kougi didn’t want to wake the knocked-out summoner up, but he had hard time staying quiet with a high-pitched giggling escaping from his muffled mouth. “Okayokayokay, simmer down!”, he thought before taking a deep breath and releasing. His giggling fit having passed, Kougi removed his paw and began to look down at the summoning circle. At first glance to the magically-impaired, the many symbols lining the circle’s outer edge would appear to be random drawings, but to Kougi, and maybe even this summoner, they carried a meanings ranging from simple-to-hard to understand. “C’mon, it’s gotta be here somewhere….got it!” The impish primate’s eyes zeroed in on a circular symbol on the edge of the circle, luckily one simple enough for him to understand. It appeared to be a basic circle with only a single line in the middle; a long line protruding from the center and pointed to where a number 3 would be on a clock, if viewed from the outside of the barrier. “Ok, so thaaaat’s… fifteen minutes? Damn, that ain’t a whole lotta time.” Kougi glanced from the symbol over to the feline’s still motionless body as he sat on the floor, a task made woefully easy by the near-flaccid state of his once rigid dong. Kougi’s cheeky expression became a scowl once more as he glared toward the feline laying before him, his mind filling with ways to take advantage of this situation.

After what felt like only a split-second, the feline began to feel a splitting pain in his forehead, making him let out a groggy groan as feeling returned to his body. Despite the warmth of the room, the feline himself felt ice cold, even down to the beads of sweat covering his fur. The first part of him to move were his eyes, lids raising to reveal a dark yellow pair and giving him a view of the room’s ceiling. “What the—Agh!” The young feline raised a paw to his forehead, finding even a move that simple difficult with how sore his arm seemed to be. He nursed his sore forehead for a moment before slowly sitting himself up, grunting with legitimate exertion before leaning up to face a wall across the room. “My head…what in the world happened?”, he thought to himself, perhaps the only action he could take at the moment with little difficulty. His eyes adjusted to the room’s darkness quickly, the smoke having disappeared long ago, and as he turned his gaze toward the circle they began to widen dramatically. A yelping cry flew from his muzzle as his legs found the energy to scoot him away from the edge of the circle; perhaps too fast, as the back of his head hit the door with a loud THUD. The feline only winced for a moment, focusing less on his sore head and more on what had given him such a shock. 
In the middle of the circle sat one pissed off demon, or at least that’s what it looked like to him. “A…demon? Here?” , he thought, his memory came back to him in fragments, reminding him of what had happened to make him pass out earlier. His shock immediately began to fade behind ecstatic glee, as evidenced by a soft chuckle and a grin spreading across his face. “The spell worked?! On my first try?!” His laughter became more audible as it rang off the room’s walls, and at this point he’d recovered just enough energy to bring himself to his feet. A paw ran over the back of his head as he slowly made his way to the edge of the circle, eyes looking over the strange creature sitting at its edge. “So, this is a demon.” Kougi glared fiercly at the feline as he looked him over, but the cat seemed less interested in the imp’s disposition and more in his body. The cat’s yellow eyes traced down from the duo of horns atop the imps head to his purple fur, catching a sight or two of that flicking spaded tail as they went down. Everything about the imp monkey was about what the feline expected from a demon as seen from storybooks and othe folklore. It wasn’t until his eyes drifted between the imp’s legs that they widened, a red tint filling his dark cheeks. “That’s….excessive.” Even near flaccid Kougi’s immense prick dwarfed an average male’s in size, and though his plan required that he sit still for the moment, he couldn’t help but smirk and spread his legs to give the curious cat a better view. Realizing what the imp was doing, the feline quickly turned his face aside, shaking away the lewd image of the imp presenting himself before walking back across the room. 

	“Ugh, can’t believe I used up all my energy summoning something so…lewd.”, he spoke, kneeling to the book laying on the ground. A content smile lay across his face as he flipped through the pages, not noticing a slight red glow that’d begun to overtake the white color of the summoning circle’s chalk. Kougi fought the urge to crack a grin as he took notice of this development, intent on seeing his plan through to the end. The feline’s left eat twitched a bit as it picked up a faint crackling in the room, just enough to get him to look toward the circle again. His content expression faded as he caught sight of the once calm summoning circle, its white chalk gone blood red and crackling with small red bolts that grew louder by the second. Sprinting over, the feline frantically looked over the runes, eyes flitting about until they focused on the very same rune that Kougi had earlier. “Shhhit, was I really knocked out for that long?!” A quick glance to a clock on the wall made the feline’s expression sink even further, before he turned his attention to Kougi. “Hey…uh, demon! Imp! Whatever you are! We need to make our contract. NOW!” Kougi’s smirk faded behind an expression of confusion as he raised a brow to the frantic feline. The cat grit his teeth as he let out a groan of frustration, running his fingers through the fur atop his head as his frustration only grew. “Augh! You don’t get it?!” He flung a finger down and pointed at Kougi. “You are a demon! You’re not allowed to be here, in the mortal world, for long unless you’re under contract! That keeps you from getting into trouble!” He then pointed down at the circle. “This circle has a symbol on it that takes demons back home if they don’t have a contract within a certain time limit! Do you get it now?!” The feline’s face began to fill with hope as he watched Kougi slowly get to his feet, brushing off his knees before stepping toward the edge of the circle. “Yes! Come on! Just name your price so we can do this already!” The feline watched with slight confusion as Kougi turned his head to the side, facing one of his large ears toward him and raising a hand to the side. He saw the imp’s mouth move, but heard no sound. “Wh-what?...You mean you can’t hear me?!” And for that matter, it turned out he couldn’t hear Kougi either. 
The cat sank to his knees with a loud wail of defeat as he clutched his head in his paws. “No! No! No! This can’t be!” His eyes frantically searched over the circle as its howling grew louder, surely closer to creating the portal from earlier. “Where did I go wrong? What symbol did I screw up to make this happen?!” Running out of time and options and knowing that a contract had to be made verbally, the feline was left with only one option. He focused less on the circle’s symbols and on the circle itself, rising back to his feet and taking a few steps back. “I can…still make the contract if he’s out of there, right?” His chest felt heavy as his breaths grew short as he briefly considered this solution, but not for long as he realized he was quickly running out of time. As the portal began to slowly creep into view behind Kougi, an almost sheepish grin spread across the feline’s face. “It’s just one imp. How much trouble could it be?” He cautiously extended a foot from his position and began using it to wipe away the outer edge of the circle. The cat kept his eyes on the imp inside the circle as he’d almost wiped away enough chalk to set him free, and just as he completed his task, he saw the imp disappear and darkness obscure his vision as something heavy and warm impacted his face . His other four senses were taken swiftly after the first, a feeling of sudden warmth and slight wetness around his face and a pungent, unwashed musk cutting off his flow of clean air and filling his lungs. The stench was of such strength that he could even taste it as it permeated his tastebuds, coaxing a wretch from his throat and sending him into a coughing fit. Above the sounds of his coughing, the feline no longer heard the crackling of the circle and howling of the portal, but a high-pitched cackle bouncing off the walls of the room. It became evident where the imp monkey was and where he had the feline’s face as the youth felt ten grimy fingers tightening their grip on the back of his head. Terrified as he was of his position and the unsettling sensation of something thick and warm throbbing against his lips, the cat was just attentive enough to pick up on the imp’s words. “First rule of summonin’, kiddo: NEVER break the circle without makin’ a contract!” 
END OF DRAFT