The Potionmaster's Experiment

The room was dark, lit only by torches and candlelight. The floors and walls were made of stone brick, built by masons centuries before. There stood three men in the chilly room facing the Potionmaster, waiting for him to acknowledge their presence. Their faces a mixture of anticipation, discomfort, and nervousness. But the Potionmaster paid no heed to the men as he and his attendants meticulously tended to the flasks and test tubes on the table of the center of the room.  At the edge of the table was a vial of swirling silver liquid, shimmering like stars on a clear night.

The first man leaned against the stone archway, fingers drumming against his thigh in a nervous rhythm that matched the dripping water from the ceiling. He was blonde, tall and lean, with a sharpness to his shoulders. His blue eyes kept flicking to the vial on the table, then away, trying not to stare.

Next to him, the second man stood, perfectly still. His posture was military and his face, severe. His coarse black hair was cropped short. His eyes were also on the vial.

The third one wasn’t looking at the vial at all. His blue eyes were studying the Potionmaster instead—watching the way his wrinkled hands moved, the way his robes caught the dim torchlight. His face was boyish and clean-shaven, his curly hair chestnut brown. He looked young in years.

The Potionmaster finally turned, his shadow stretching across the stone floor as he wiped his hands on a stained cloth. His gaze swept over them, lingering, as the attendants silently exited the room. "So. You all answered the ad." The Potionmaster's voice was soft but firm."I know why you’re all here. Something was lost, correct?" His lips curled around the words, not quite a smirk. "Not just fingers or toes. The special bits. The ones that define a man." His eyes flicked to the groins of the men. The Potionmaster's words caused the men to shift uneasily. 

"Clothes off," the old man said. "All of them. Folded neatly on the bench there." He jerked his chin toward a warped wooden bench pressed against the wall.

The second man let out a sharp exhale through his nose but didn’t hesitate. His hands went to his belt buckle, movements precise even as his fingers trembled slightly in apprehension. The third man blinked rapidly, glancing between the others as if waiting for someone to protest. When no one did, he swallowed and reached for the hem of his tunic, his cheeks flushing pink in the flickering torchlight.

The Potionmaster uncorked the vial, releasing a scent of oak and crushed juniper berries. "This," he said, swirling the liquid so it caught the light in shifting silver threads, "is untested but it should work. Emphasis on should." The Potionmaster paused. “But If it doesn’t, well. You won’t be worse off than you are now.” He examined the three men before him.

The blonde man was lean and wiry, the kind of build that suggested he’d once been broader and muscular before the unfortunate removal of his manhood years ago. A jagged scar ran from his collarbone to his ribs, likely from a battle years ago. Where his manhood should have been, only a smooth, concave expanse remained. The flesh too perfectly healed to have been anything but magically sealed. No trace of what had once been there, no hint of anything salvageable—just absence, stark and undeniable.

The second man was shorter than the first but still tall. His body, unlike the first, was still statuesque and showed off old wounds: a puckered arrow scar on his thigh, thin, linear scars no doubt made by a blade. But it was his groin that made the Potionmaster pause. Coarse scar tissue marked where his cock should have been but his plump, ripe gonads still fueled his muscular body with testosterone.

The third man's body was athletic and toned, untouched by war or labor, his skin unmarked except for a scattering of freckles. He was likely popular with the girls before his mishap. His entire manhood too was missing like the first man but a single, clean scar was present. It was evidence that his nullification was swift and deliberate. Not a stray stroke of the blade in battle but a cold and calculated act.

The Potionmaster tapped the vial once with a bony finger, the sound sharp in the hush of the room. "You," he said, nodding at the first man—the one with the sharp shoulders. "Come here. Let’s have a look.” The man hesitated, just for a heartbeat, before stepping forward. His bare feet whispered against the stone floor, the torchlight casting his shadow long and gaunt behind him. Up close, the Potionmaster examined the groin, completely smooth as a baby's bottom. "Impeccably clean work," the old man muttered. "No stitches. No scar. Just—gone." His brows knit together. "How?"

The first man’s throat worked silently before he spoke, his voice rougher than expected. "I was cursed," he admitted. The words tasted bitter. "Ten winters ago. A sorceress—powerful and unparalleled in beauty." His fingers twitched at his sides, restless. "I was young, horny, and stupid." His lips pressed together, then parted again. "I saw her bathing in a moonlit pool. She didn’t notice me at first."

The Potionmaster’s eyes gleamed in the torchlight. "And you stayed."

A muscle in the man’s jaw jumped. "I did more than stay." He exhaled sharply through his nose. "I touched myself. Watched her from behind the bushes." His gaze dropped to the floor, shoulders tensing. "She turned just as I—" He stopped abruptly, swallowing.

The sorceress had turned at the worst possible moment—when his breath hitched, when his fingers tightened, when his hips jerked forward against the rough bark of the bush. His release came in hot, desperate spurts, the evidence of his transgression arcing through the moonlight to splatter against the damp earth at her feet. It should have been silent and quick. But the sorceress's eyes—gleaming vermillion like the fire of a blacksmith's forge—locked onto him with a focus so sharp and intense he felt he was being impaled by a sword to a wall.

Her lips parted and menacing words she spoke weren’t even words—just ancient syllables that lingered in the air. The curse hit him mid-thrust, mid-pulse, his climax stuttering into nothingness as his body seized. He felt an intense warmth radiate from his groin with such intensity, he fell on his knees. Then the nothingness. The smooth, impossible blankness where his cock and balls had been, where his release had just been moments ago, now sealed over as if it had never existed at all.

The Potionmaster listened without interrupting, his gnarled fingers tapping the vial. When the blonde man fell silent, the old man exhaled through his nose, the sound almost amused. "And you thought stumbling across her bathing was the crime?" He shook his head. "No. She didn’t punish you for looking. She punished you for finishing, for making a mess of her sacred ground." The blonde man’s head was bowed in shame and regret.

The Potionmaster chuckled dryly, turning to a weathered oak cabinet behind him. His bony fingers traced the cabinet's carvings before pulling open a drawer with a creak. Inside, nestled on a bed of velvet black as a moonless sky, lay a bowl of human testicles—plump, unblemished, and freshly harvested.

With ceremonial slowness, the Potionmaster lifted a gonad between thumb and forefinger, letting it dangle for a moment in the torchlight. The men stiffened—especially the second, whose own juicy plums twitched in sympathetic reflex. Without ceremony, the old man dropped it into a glass beaker with a wet "plop". The sound was obscenely fleshy, like a ripe fruit hitting water. He poured a measure of water from a ewer before a stingy pour of potion from silver vial. The mixture hissed, sending up coils of steam.

The testicle floated, bobbing lazily before it began to dissolve, revealing strands of glistening tissue beneath. The Potionmaster stirred the mixture with a glass rod while the men watched silently, until the substance became pearlescent and clung to the rod in trembling strands. "Let's see if this works," the old man murmured. "Let's see if I can give you back what you lost."

The Potionmaster lifted the beaker towards the blonde man, its contents swirling with an opalescent sheen that caught the torchlight in strange, liquid patterns. "Drink," he said, his voice like dry parchment. "All of it." The man hesitated, his fingers twitching at his sides before he reached out and took the glass. It smelt similar to the vial with the silver potion but also sour like unripe persimmons. With one swift motion, he tipped the glass back and drank the elixir. It tasted bitter and herbaceous, coating his tongue thickly. He gagged once, swallowing hard to keep it down. Then—nothing. The room was silent except for the racing heartbeats of the naked men. The black haired man exhaled sharply through his nose as the brown, curly haired youth wrung his hands nervously.

Then the fire hit.

It was a molten river erupting from his pelvis, a white-hot forge hammering flesh into existence where there had been only smooth, blank skin moments before. Threads of muscle and sinew were being pulled from some unseen reservoir, knitting themselves back into the shape they’d once held. The skin stretched taut, then split with silver light, seams of liquid radiance spilling forth before sealing instantly into pink, new flesh. The blonde man doubled, fingers clawing at his thighs as his spine arched like a bowstring. There was an ear-piercing scream as the heat radiated outward in concentric waves, pulsing like a second heartbeat between his legs. The second man recoiled, while the youth stumbled backwards in terror.

The first man collapsed to his knees, his hands hovering over the impossible heat and weight between his thighs—solid, real, his. His fingers brushed against warm, newly formed skin, and a sob tore from his throat so violently it startled even the Potionmaster. Tears streaked down his face, dripping onto the stone floor as he pressed his forehead to the ground in wordless gratitude. The second man shifted uncomfortably, his own untouched groin twitching in reflexive sympathy, while the chestnut-haired one simply watched, blue eyes wide with something between fascination and dread.

“Success!” the ancient Potionmaster exclaimed. "But for now, step back as I tend to the others." As the first man stood up and stepped back, continuing to fondle his revived cock in disbelief and joy, the Potionmaster turned abruptly to the two men left. "You. Next." The Potionmaster's finger swung past the black haired man—who stiffened, his jaw tightening—and landed squarely on the chestnut-haired youth. The second man inhaled sharply through his nose but said nothing, his fingers curling into loose fists at his sides. The youth blinked, his boyish face caught between surprise and nervous excitement as he stepped forward.

Torchlight played across his body as he moved—lean but densely muscled, the kind of physique built by climbing trees and swimming rivers rather than swinging swords. His shoulders were broad and his waist narrow. The skin over his ribs stretched taut with each breath, smooth except for a dusting of freckles that trailed down his flank like spilled cinnamon.

The Potionmaster's gnarled hands traced the scar that was once his manhood. Unlike the first man's seamless void, it was one smooth but notable. There was a slight puckering of skin where something sharp had bitten deep and taken everything in one ruthless motion. The old man's thumb pressed into the highest scar, and the youth hissed through his teeth. "Knife work," the Potionmaster muttered. "Not battle. An execution."

The curly haired man's throat bobbed as the Potionmaster's fingers lingered on the scar. His lips parted, then pressed together again—a silent debate playing out behind his blue eyes. The torchlight caught the sweat beading along his hairline when he finally spoke. "I was a servant of Callias, the most powerful lord and aristocrat in Crete. At least—until..."

The Potionmaster's thumb pressed harder into the scar, and the youth flinched. "Until you fucked the wrong girl," the old man finished for him, voice dry as tomb dust. The third man's cheeks flushed, but he didn't deny it. "Her name was Phaedra, Callias's only daughter" he said, the syllables curling around his tongue like smoke from an incense burner. "I was a stable boy. She came to me on the pretense of wanting to learn to ride the horses. I didn't know it was me she wanted to ride until it was too late." He swallowed. "She was as beautiful as Aphrodite. We spent our summer days there, celebrating our bodies. She would brush her fingers over my manhood while I kissed her. I remember she remarked that my cock was as big as the stallions that I tended to." he smiled and shook his head. "Then one day, she thrust her cunt onto me and before I knew it, I was inside her." A shaky exhale. "We were reckless. We were in love."

The Potionmaster’s lips curled, not quite a smile. "Until..."

The youth swallowed hard. "...Until Callias found his daughter and I making love in her chambers one evening. Phaedra was moaning in ecstasy, her eyes closed, my manhood deep inside her." His throat worked around the memory. "She was so wet. I can still feel her now. That’s what betrayed us—the sound. He heard us before he stood at the doorway."

"Callias is not a man who loses his composure. I remember his cold fury as he commanded the guards to apprehend me. They moved like wolves and dragged me naked from the bed and brought me to my knees in front of Callias. Phaedra was in tears, begging her father to spare me. I don't think he even looked at Phaedra once. Then he unsheathed his dagger."

The youth grimaced as tears flowed down his face. The lord firmly grasped the totality of his manhood and placed the blade at the root of the cock. He remembered the cold steel on his cock before the macabre act. In a single brutal arc, the dagger parted skin, tissue, and cord as it severed his organs, liberating his manhood from his body. His scream echoed the chambers and the halls. Once the cruel act was done, Callias dangled his cock and family jewels in front of him before letting his semi-erect cock and ball sack drop onto the ground. There was a PLOP! before the lord relentlessly stomped the cooling manhood into paste as if he were trying to make wine from grapes. Phaedra’s wail was the last thing the youth heard before darkness took him.

The Potionmaster's gnarled fingers lingered on the youth's scar for a moment. "You deserved it," he said bluntly, watching the way the words made the young man flinch. "Fucking your lord's daughter in his own house? Even the village idiot knows better." The torchlight caught the glimmer of unshed tears in the youth's eyes as he bowed his head, his chestnut curls falling forward to shadow his face.

Then, unexpectedly, the old man reached out and cupped the back of the youth's neck with a grip that was somehow both firm and gentle—like a grandfather steadying a child after a fall. "But," he continued, his voice dropping to a raspy murmur, "no man deserves eternal suffering. Not even treacherous little shits like you." The youth's breath hitched, his shoulders trembling under the Potionmaster's touch. A single tear splashed onto the stone floor between his bare feet.

The second man cleared his throat loudly, he did not come to listen to the sad little tales of other men. The Potionmaster shot him a glare that could wither grass. "Your turn comes," he snapped before turning back to the chestnut-haired youth. He wiped the tear tracks from the boy's cheeks with his stained sleeve. "Now enough weeping. This won't hurt half as much as the dagger did."

The Potionmaster turned back to his cluttered table, fingers dancing over glassware with the precision of a spider spinning its web. He selected the same silver vial, its contents still swirling with that uncanny luminescence, and poured a measure into a fresh beaker. His hand hovered over the bowl of harvested testicles, picked one up gently, and dropped it into the potion with the same wet "plop". The mixture hissed violently, sending up spirals of steam and the familiar scent juniper and green persimmons.

"Drink," the Potionmaster commanded, thrusting the beaker toward the chestnut-haired youth. The young man's hands trembled as he took it, his throat working visibly as he stared into the opalescent depths. For a heartbeat, he locked eyes with the first man—now whole again, still cupping himself in stunned reverence—then tipped the potion back in one desperate gulp. His face contorted at the acrid taste, a strangled gag escaping his lips before he forced it down.

The reaction was swifter this time. The youth's knees buckled almost instantly, a soundless scream tearing from his throat as silver light erupted from his pelvis. Tendrils of supple flesh lashed like living ropes beneath his skin, weaving themselves into the ghostly memory of what had been taken. The Potionmaster watched, unblinking, as the tissue furiously knit itself together.

The silver light flared one final time before fading, leaving the chestnut-haired youth panting on his knees. His hands scrambled between his thighs—first hesitant, then desperate—as his fingers brushed against warm, living flesh. There it was: thick, heavy, unmistakably his. A sob burst from his lips as he curled forward, forehead pressing against the cold stone floor while his hands clutched at the miracle between his legs.

The Potionmaster leaned down, squinting critically at the results. One calloused finger prodded the newly formed sac, then grunted. "Hmph. One short." Indeed, where there should have been twin weights, only a single testicle hung, the other side of the scrotum slightly deflated. The youth blinked up at him, tears of joy and relief down his smooth, freckled cheeks. "But—but it’s there," he whispered hoarsely. His fingers trembled as they traced the length of his resurrected cock, marveling at the heat of it. "Gods above, it’s there."

The old man shrugged, wiping his hands on his stained robe. "The potion isn't perfect and it only works once. The seed’s intact, though. You’ll still sire children if you try." He glanced at the reborn manhood and then at the youth. "Assuming you’ve learned your lesson about noblemen’s daughters." The boy’s breath hitched—half laugh, half sob—as he shook his head vigorously. "No more mischief," he rasped. His voice cracked as he cupped himself again, fresh tears spilling over.

The second man, his coarse black hair bristling like an angry boar’s, moved before anyone could react. He shoved the chestnut-haired youth aside with a force that sent the boy sprawling onto the stone floor. "Enough," he snarled, voice raw with something deeper than impatience. "My turn. Now!" His hands trembled from a fury held too long in check. The torchlight carved harsh shadows under his cheekbones as he glared at the Potionmaster, his body rigid with the tension of a bowstring drawn to breaking.

The Potionmaster didn’t flinch. He merely arched one wiry eyebrow and reached for the silver vial again. "Pushy," he observed dryly, pouring the liquid into a fresh beaker with the same unhurried precision. The potion swirled, its luminescence casting jagged reflections across the man’s scarred chest. “Patience is a virtue." He selected another testicle from the bowl—this one larger, veined—and dropped it into the mixture. The wet "plop" echoed obscenely in the tense silence.

The black-haired man’s nostrils flared as he watched, his jaw working. Up close, his body told a story the others hadn’t. Despite his body statuesque and toned, he was adorned with battle scars. They were mostly old but a couple looked new, still pink at the edges. Most noticeable was the scar where his cock should have been, and from the size of it, the black-haired man's organ was majestic. All that remains were his gonads. Plump and heavy, they twitched in anticipation as the potion hissed.

The Potionmaster stirred the potion with a glass rod, watching the testicle dissolve into pearlescent strands. His knobby fingers worked with methodical precision, but his gaze remained fixed on the black-haired man. "So," he rasped, the word hanging like smoke in the torchlit air. "How did a strapping legionary like you lose his spear?"

The man's jaw clenched hard enough to grind stone. His fingers flexed at his sides—once, twice—before he spoke through gritted teeth. "We took a coastal town. Last campaign before winter." The torchlight caught the sheen of sweat along his collarbone as his voice dropped lower. "Found a woman hiding in a wine cellar. Young. Pretty." The Potionmaster's stirring slowed. The silver liquid thickened, swirling like molten mercury. "Ah."

The black-haired man's voice roughened like gravel under a boot as he spoke. "Armor was too heavy and I wanted to feel her skin." His fingers twitched at his sides, unconsciously tracing the memory of buckles and straps. "So I stripped it all off." The torchlight flickered across his chest as if illuminating the ghost of each removed greave, each discarded cuirass. His breath hitched slightly from the visceral recall of heat and urgency. "She was huddled behind a cabinet. Saw my shadow first. Then... me. All of me." The man grinned.

The black-haired legionary's grin widened in the torchlight as he recalled the moment—the way her breath had hitched when she saw him fully erect, the way her eyes darted to his discarded belt with the dagger still sheathed. "She didn't scream," he murmured, his voice thick with memory. "Just stared at me like a rabbit in a snare." His fingers twitched at his sides, tracing the phantom weight of her thighs as he'd forced them apart. "I thought she was too scared to fight."

The Potionmaster's stirring slowed further, the glass rod catching silver threads of potion as they thickened. The black-haired man didn't seem to notice, lost in the retelling. "She was tighter than a vice," he said, his voice dropping to a rough whisper. "Wet, too—once I got my fingers in her. Didn't even have to spit." His tongue darted over his lips as if tasting the memory. "Just pinned her wrists with one hand and shoved in."

The torchlight flickered as he rocked forward slightly, unconsciously miming the motion. "Fuck, she was warm. Clung to me like a second skin." His breath came faster now, his plump gonads twitching against his thighs. "I remember thinking—gods, this cunt's made for me. Felt her shaking under me, heard her little whimpers—" His voice broke off as his hips jerked once, a dry thrust into empty air.

Then his voice turned to gravel. "That's when the bitch moved."

The black-haired man's hips jerked forward in memory—just as they had in that wine cellar—his phantom cock pulsing with the remembered ecstasy of that final thrust. His breath hitched in the same ragged rhythm, his plump gonads tightening in sympathetic reflex. That was when her hand had moved with deadly purpose.

"I remember when she freed her hand. Her fingers scrambled for the dagger I left on my belt on the floor. The bitch swung my blade and sliced off my beautiful cock just when I came. I remember it soaring through the air and falling on the floor, still twitching."

The man's eyes burned with malice in the flickering torchlight, his voice dropping to a guttural rasp as he finished the tale. "I strangled the bitch until the light went out of her eyes." His fingers twitched at his sides, curling into phantom fists around the memory of her throat. I took my time. Watched her face turn blue." A slow, humorless grin split his lips. "Then I pissed on her corpse with what was left of me."

The Potionmaster’s fingers stilled on the glass rod mid-stir. The silver potion dripped thickly back into the beaker with a sound like molten lead. For the first time, something flickered in the old man’s eyes. It was only a fleeting moment but the other two men recognized it: disgust. The chestnut-haired youth had gone pale, his newly restored manhood momentarily forgotten as he edged backward on the stone floor. He wanted to leave as soon as possible.

The black-haired legionary didn’t notice. His gaze was fixed on the swirling potion, his plump gonads twitching against his thighs as if they could already feel the phantom weight of what was to come. "Now," he growled, the word more demand than request, "give me back what she took."

The Potionmaster handed the potion silently, his face cold as ice. The black-haired man snatched it with the desperation of a parched traveler seizing water after days in the desert. He gulped the entire concoction, his throat working violently as the potion flooded down his gullet. A single silver droplet escaped his lips, tracing a gleaming path down his stubbled chin before he wiped it away with the back of his hand, his breath coming in ragged bursts.

Then his gonads began to glow. Like twin lanterns under his skin, the flesh turning translucent as the potion’s magic surged through him. His plump sac swelled unnaturally, stretching tight as overripe fruit, veins threading across the surface like cracks in porcelain. The legionary gasped as his balls pulsed with an otherworldly radiance, casting jagged shadows across his trembling thighs. But something was wrong…

The black-haired legionary hunched forward with a wet, guttural gasp—as if an invisible boot had just slammed into his groin. His fingers scrabbled at his thighs, knuckles whitening as his plump gonads pulsed grotesquely under the skin. The torchlight caught the moment they swelled past the size of apples, then oranges, the flesh stretching obscenely tight like overfilled wineskins.

"Gods—fuck!" His voice cracked into a whimper as veins spiderwebbed across the distended sac, purple and throbbing. The Potionmaster took a single step back, but his cold demeanor never changed. The legionary's knees buckled; he caught himself on the stone floor with one hand while the other clutched at his swollen, glowing balls. "Make it stop!" he begged, the words strangled.

The chestnut-haired youth scrambled backward until his spine hit the wall, his newly restored manhood twitching in horrified sympathy. The first man—the blonde—froze mid-step, his own healed groin clenched tight as if bracing for impact.

The Potionmaster spoke softly, his voice barely louder than the hiss of torches. "As I said—the potion doesn't always work." His knotted fingers tightened around the empty beaker. "And the side effects..." A pause, deliberate as a blade being drawn. "...are terrible."

The gonads pulsed once. The black-haired legionary understood now.

The gonads pulsed again. He looked at the Potionmaster, tears streaming down his face.

The gonads pulsed one final time.... He gazed at his bollocks. This was it.

SPLOOOOSH!!!

The black-haired legionary plump gonads burst like overripe melons struck by a hammer! The explosion wasn’t clean. It was messy—visceral—a wet detonation of flesh and fluid that painted the stone floor and adjacent walls in viscous nut-guts. Chunks of ruptured testicle clung to the man’s own trembling thighs, still twitching as if trying to reassemble themselves.

The legionary screamed in agony as he stared down at the ruin between his legs. Where his proud sack had been, there was now a ragged crater, edges frayed like worn rags. Strings of connective tissue dangled, swaying grotesquely. Drops of concentrated seed fell from his severed spermatic cords onto the floor.

The Potionmaster flicked a strand of gelatinous gonad off his sleeve with clinical disinterest. "Hmmm," he mused, peering at the twitching remains. "The potion still needs some work. Unfortunate." The chestnut-haired youth retched into his hands, his newly restored manhood instinctively curling inward as if trying to retreat into his body. The blonde man—once whole again—clutched himself protectively, his face pale.

The Potionmaster sighed, brushing a fleck of gonad off his robe with the detached air of a man flicking away breadcrumbs. "Well," he said, his thin lips curling into a smile that didn't reach his eyes, "back to work, I guess." He snapped his fingers once—a dry sound like twigs breaking—and the heavy oak doors groaned open. Attendants streamed in, their faces blank and emotionless, moving with the eerie synchronization of puppets on strings. They didn't flinch at the gory ruin sprawled across the flagstones. Two seized the black-haired legionary by his armpits, dragging him backward as his heels scraped twin trails through the pulverized remains of his own manhood. His mouth hung open in silent agony, his vocal cords shredded from screaming. The chestnut-haired youth and the blonde man merely stood frozen, their eyes wide open in horror and shock and their hands cupping their genitalia.

The Potionmaster turned, his intelligent eyes flickering between the two men still clutching themselves in shock. A slow grin cracked his weathered face like old parchment splitting. "Well?" he rasped. "Aren’t you going to use your newfound manhoods or do you want to stay for the next experiment?" 

It was an invitation to leave and the two men were glad to take it. The chestnut-haired youth bolted for the door and the blonde man half a step behind him.  They nearly crashed into each other at the threshold, their cocks and balls swinging like pendulums as they scrambled out.

The Potionmaster chuckled as the oak door slammed shut behind them. "Boys." He paused to grin for a moment. Then he turned to the table of flasks and potions before him, sighed, and went back to work.