The
Misadventures of the
Black Leopard
Episode
1
The
Black Leopard’s Revenge
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Chapter
1 New
Lives
“Oooh God, make it stop hurting,” Li Mei, howled. She couldn’t remember the last time she had been in so much agony and she was a woman who had experienced a great deal of pain during her short lifetime.
“Take it easy Blackie, I mean Black leopard,” said the tall blonde who was holding her right hand. It’s going to be alright. Childbirth is supposed to hurt.”
“That’s easy for you to say, you blonde moron. Why don’t you try having one?” Li Mei’s body arched as another contraction rippled through her abdomen.
“Push Blackie, push!” said Cheetah.
“I am pushing you idiot! I’ve been pushing for twenty four hours.”
“It’s only eighteen actually,” said Tiger, tightening her grip on her hand.
“Thanks for that useful bit of information,” Li Mei said through clenched teeth. It seemed more like days. God damn Zhuang! She would get back at the Chinese crimelord who had forcibly impregnated her if it was the last thing she ever did.
“Aaahh!” Another contraction forced a cry from her lips. Childbirth was such a brutally humiliating experience. Normally she would only spread her legs like this for a member of the opposite sex – or sometimes the same sex if she liked her enough, but gasping in pain in front of her underlings and friends was something else. It not only hurt like hell it was incredibly degrading.
She cried out again. Something especially painful was happening. Her once exquisite body was swollen like that of a hippopotamus. Naked and soaked in sweat, she was attended by Tiger and Cheetah, two of her ‘Pussies,’ and by her former lover Elenah Firenza, one of the most ruthless women Li Mei had ever had the pleasure of meeting. She watched the Black Leopard whimper with pain through hooded eyes, her beautiful face impassive.
Li Mei tried to compose herself. Who would have thought that giving birth would be so agonizing or last so long? She tried to find the strength to fight back the cries of pain that rose to her lips. Just a room away she knew that another woman was giving birth, and doing it with much less drama.
Jahlen’s yellow-green eyes widened. “Hold me,” she whispered, as she pushed with all her might. Like the black Leopard she had been in labour for over eighteen hours, but she had made much less of a production of it. On either side of her Wildcat and Ocelot gripped her hands and held tight as Jahlen struggled to give birth. Bearing down she forced her abdominal muscles to contract.
“I see something,” Ocelot shouted, her voice quivering with excitement. “I can see its head.”
A room away Li Mei heard the sharp cry of a newborn. “That bitch, Jahlen beat me to it,” she growled. Then she was too caught up in the next wave of pain to pay any more attention to what was happening to someone else. “When I get Zhuang, I’m going to hang him from his genitals until they fall off.”
“Easy Blackie, just push,” Tiger coaxed.
“Don’t…call…me…Blackie,” Li Mei replied, between clenched teeth. Then she grunted in pain as her unborn baby pushed toward daylight.
“Oooh, it’s coming. Isn’t this exciting?” Tiger gushed. Li Mei shot her a look of pure hatred and then gripped the hands of the two Pussies like a vice as another contraction rippled through her.
“God,” she thought.
“To think that this could happen to her, the most dangerous villain
in all of
“Uuuunnggh!” That contraction had been particularly painful. Li Mei wanted to shriek her head off. The ordeal of childbirth was so agonizing that there were hardly words to describe it, and it had been going on for almost a day. She looked up at the anxious faces of her Pussies. All four were present. Now that her newfound friend Jahlen had given birth they had all come in to watch her agony.
“Don’t you have something better to do?” Li Mei managed to gasp between sessions of agony. “Maybe you could all go out and polish your nails.”
The Pussies did not reply, but the anxious looks on their faces told of their concern. In spite of the way Li Mei verbally abused the four beautiful young women they were completely devoted to her as she was to them. Just now, however, she was tired of having them watch her humiliating and painful ordeal.
A busy little man bustled into the room. “And how is our other patient coming along?” he asked.
Lit Mei narrowed her almond eyes to slits. “You’re the doctor, you stupid bastard. Why don’t you tell me?” She glared at the short sandy-haired gynecologist she had recruited to attend her and Jahlen.
“Sounds like you’re doing fine,” the doctor replied. “Your companion just gave birth to a fine, healthy young daughter.” He moved around the bed so that he could peer between Li Mei’s legs. “You’re fully dilated. It won’t be long now.”
A sense of relief swept over Li Mei, not because of what the doctor had said about her condition, but because of what he had said about Jahlen’s child. When Zhuang had raped her and her companion Zhuang had boasted that she was going to give birth to a monster. He had reinforced that boast by having her and Jahlen injected with a drug developed by the evil genius Ivan Retinoff. The drug not only accelerated the development of the fetus, but it was also supposed to result in the development of deformed monstrosity. During her short pregnancy, Li Mei had worried constantly about what she might be carrying. Jahlen’s normal birth had dispelled some of that fear.
But there was still a chance that her child might be the one who was abnormal. In spite of her tough exterior the Black Leopard was a bit of a paradox. Utterly cruel and ruthless when she chose to be, she nevertheless harboured a soft spot for her Pussies, and despite her seeming lack of emotion regarding the child she carried and an undying hatred for the man who had forced it on her, she really did care about the well-being of the unborn infant who was causing her such acute agony.
“Nnngghh!” Li Mei’s philosophical musings were interrupted by another sharp jolt of pain. This one was the worst yet and it was very difficult to keep from screaming.
“Ahhh,” said the doctor.
Li Mei couldn’t remember the little man’s name and it didn’t really matter anyway. But she felt like killing him. “Ahhh what?” she wondered. “Was it good or bad?”
“It’s coming,” the doctor said, placing his hands between her thighs. “One more good push.”
Li Mei forced her muscles to contract one more
time. She was pretty well done
in and didn’t think she could last much
longer. “Bastard,”
she thought. “You better
be right, otherwise you shouldn’t have your hands between my
legs.”
“Yes,” the doctor said. “I can see it.” There was one more blinding sequence of pain, followed by an unbelievable sense of relief, and suddenly the doctor was holding something very red, very slimy, and incredibly noisy.
“Your daughter,” the doctor said amidst the oohs and aahs coming from the Pussies. He placed the squalling infant on Li Mei’s belly.
Li Mei looked at the helpless mewling creature lying below her milk-heavy breasts. “My baby,” she thought. “I’ll bet it’s more beautiful than Jahlen’s.” She lifted the newborn to her breast and felt the strangely comforting sensation of the infant’s swirling tongue as it clamped onto her nipple and drew nourishment for the first time.
Li Mei closed her eyes. She had done it. She had given birth. The feeling of well-being was almost overwhelming. Maybe she wouldn’t kill the doctor after all.