The Adventures of
the Jade Dragon
Episode
9
The Jade Dragons Return
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Chapter 2
Homecoming
Suzi Kendall stood at dockside watching the
Empress of the Orient as the tugs pushed it into
position. Two years,
she said to the woman standing beside
her. Its not a terribly
long time, but it seems like ages.
Kyla Smith nodded her
agreement. I never realized
what a big part of my life they were until they
left.
Suzi made a wry
expression. Kylas comment
certainly understated the events of the last few
years. Fighting crime without
their former companions had taxed her and Kyla to the
limit. Several times they had
barely escaped with their lives and only the infighting of
Still, they had prevailed.
Only the Black Leopard and the
crime syndicate headed by Stiletto still
operated. The two villainesses
were like rats. It seemed that
no matter how many times they were beaten down they always resurfaced as
bold and dangerous as before. The
last few months, however, things seemed to have quieted
down. Suzi allowed herself the
hope that she and Kyla might have at last had some permanent impact on the
crime scene in
There they are! Kyla shouted,
waving her arms. I can
see them and I can see the children.
Suzi squinted as she sought to make out the
tiny figures lignin the rails of the luxury
liner. She spotted them at last
and just behind them four other figures, the daughters they had taken with
them just two years ago. I
should have brought my binoculars, Suzi
thought.
She was most anxious to see the four young
women. The daughters of her former
companions were something completely out of the
ordinary. They had departed only
two years ago as year-old infants and were now returning as young
women. If Natassias letter
was to be believed they had undergone a dramatic
transformation. They had been
taken to a mystical place in southern
It was something Suzi wanted to verify and
she waited anxiously along with an equally eager Kyla for the ship to
dock. Finally the huge vessel
was tied up to the pier and the passengers began to
disembark. Half an hour later
the two young women each in her mid-twenties, ran toward their returning
companions.
Pandemonium reigned for the next few minutes
as amid laughter and tears the five heroines met, embraced, hugged, and kissed
one another. Among the crowds
on the dock a few people noticed that one of the women exchanging hugs and
kisses was clearly oriental, and looked on with
disapproval. Most, however, were
too concerned about their own affairs to take exception to the breaking of
1930s conventions. And even those
that glowered their censure would probably have giving grudging consent had
they known that the Asian women who mingled so freely with the four Caucasians
was Sun Lin, the Jade Dragon, the greatest heroine of crime-plagued metro
City.
Sun Lin wiped away her
tears. It is so good to
see you again, she said to Suzi and Kyla, her voice choked with
emotion.
Suzi dabbed with her handkerchief at her own
tear-filled eyes. She could only
nod dumbly in reply, but Kyla spoke up.
Welcome home, Sun
Lin. She kissed the beautiful
Asian once more on her cheek and then held her at arms
length. You certainly
dont look like the mother of a teenager, she
smiled. Why dont
you introduce me and Suzi to the girls?
The four young women bowed as they had been
taught, bending low in obeisance to their
superiors. Kyla and Suzi looked
somewhat embarrassed despite the fact that they had long been schooled in
the ways of oriental etiquette.
Their eyes and faces smiled on the four nearly grown daughters of
their returned companions.
Huan Yue,
daughter of the Jade Dragon; her luminous blue eyes shining, stepped forward
first.
Her half-Asian half-European heritage showed to the
full. She was tall, perhaps just
an inch shorter than Sun Lins
five-foot-nine. Although born
of a brutal rape by the half-witted giant, her mother had shown her only
love and the weakness of her fathers mind had not been passed on to
the daughter.
Huan Yue bowed even lower than the first time, embarrassing
Suzi and Kyla still more. The
girl was almost heart-stoppingly beautiful, her mix of Asian and Caucasian
features blended to perfection.
Solange, Scorpions daughter presented
herself next. Tall like her mother,
she stood eye to eye with Suzi, but was more slender of
build. Her ebon hair and dark
eyes reminded Suzi of Shark Stevens, the criminal who had forcibly impregnated
her mother, but her slender figure and full bosom were clearly inherited
from her mother. As she met
Suzis eyes the blonde heroine noted the same strength of character
that radiated from Scorpion. This
was a young woman who was clearly confident of her own
ability.
Vala and Lari were last, Novas twins
shyly holding back. Like her
mother they were dark-haired and
full-figured. However, there
was no mistaking the fact that they owed a great deal to their father, the
vicious crimelord, Zhuang Zhijian who had forcibly impregnated their
mother.
Suzi reflected on the sorrow and the triumph
that the four young women represented.
All had been born of rape, but the blood of their heroine mothers
flowed through their veins imparting to each of them a grace and beauty that
was more than mortal. And then
too was the fantastic story or their
childhood. Taken to the mysterious
Turning her thoughts in more pleasant directions,
Suzi smiled. Welcome,
she said. I bid you welcome
to your new home. May it bring
you much joy and happiness.
Her friends fell in about
her. Together the seven striking
women walked from the ocean terminal.
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