The Adventures
of the Jade Dragon
Episode 5.
The
Jade Dragon and the Vampire’s
Kiss
by L'ESPION
Chapter 1
Vampire
Metro City,
1924
The Jade Dragon perched
precariously on the head of a gargoyle high above the streets of
She shivered, but it was not from the winter’s
cold. Her costume was insulated
against the freezing December
temperatures. Her mind flashed
back over the two years and six months of her crimefighting
career. Two and a half years
and she was only twenty years old.
Not yet of voting age, provided Orientals were ever given the
vote. She had encountered a number
of brutal criminals during that short time and had defeated them
all. But she had paid a high
price for her victories. The
images of the supervillains she had beaten paraded through her
consciousness. First there was
Boss Crunch – under his hands she had been raped and
tortured. Then there had been
Brick Henson. Again she had been
raped and tortured. Finally she
had beaten Ivan Retinoff, and she had been raped and tortured
again.
She shifted her position, peering more intently into the darkness below the
church tower. Her friends and
companions had also suffered. The
gutsy Suzi, also known as the Scarlet Falcon, had been captured and suffered
sexual torture along with her. Then
there was Kyla Smith, the tall,
beautiful gymnast with the power of invisibility who went under the name
of the Blue Avenger. Kyla had
saved both her and Suzi from certain
death. But later she had paid
a heavy price, losing her virginity in a brutal
rape. And finally, there was
Natassia Green, the super strong heroine called
Nova. Natassia had probably been
more brutally raped than any of them.
“It is a sad legacy,” thought the Oriental
heroine. “Every time we
go up against one of the city’s more notorious criminals we pay with
our bodies.”
She got to her feet. It was time
to change position. The dizzying
drop below her caused her no concern
whatsoever. She was quite at
home at any elevation. Fifty
feet away was another gargoyle. It
would enable her to view the other side of the
building. Using the power of
her mind to augment her muscles, she flexed her muscular legs and sailed
across the gap with seeming ease.
It seemed an impossible jump, but she had barely strained
herself. She landed catlike on
top of the narrow perch and caught her
balance. Then she settled down
to watch the streets below. There
had been a series of muggings in this area of town in the last few
days. She suspected that it was
the same criminals involved and was determined to put a stop to
it.
The street was quiet. She resumed
her previous line of thought. Was
the pursuit of justice worth the sexual humiliation and degradation that
she and her friends were subjected to every time they had the misfortune
to blunder into one of the numerous traps set by
supervillains? It was a hard
choice. Sun Lin believed that
she had been given great gifts for a reason, and that reason was to help
out the oppressed citizens of
“One day,” she mused, “I will have a real
lover. A man who will give me
children and a proper home.”
Strangely enough, physically she was still a
virgin. It was one of the side
effects of the incredible healing power of the
Dragon’s
Eye, the mystical
gem that gave Nova her powers. It
restored everything, returning the bodies of the heroines it healed to immaculate
condition.
Immaculate.
That was certainly the word for
it. Her maidenhead had been restored
and was likely to remain that way.
She sighed; perhaps someday…
One the other hand, she was not totally dissatisfied with her
life. Master Zhou had given her
a place to live and had trained her in the development of her
skills. But it was not a place
to meet eligible young men. Suzi,
Kyla, and Natassia had other lives.
They were able to socially interact with members of the opposite
sex. Sun Lin, however, was
alone. She did not mix with the
Chinese community of
Bored, she shifted her weight again.
So much of her job consisted
of waiting and watching, often without
result. It was already past
“Like myself a creature
of the night. And a most exquisite
creature at that.” The
apparition who spoke moved deeper into the
shadows. He had been watching
the Jade Dragon for more than half an hour, fascinated to find someone as
strange as he was in the darkness of
“Amazing,” he thought, “I did not think any mortal could do
that.” Emerging from the
shadows the black clad figure changed shape, diminishing rapidly in
size. Wings sprouted from his
dark furry back and he took flight in the direction the Oriental heroine
had traveled. He found her on
the roof. She was moving rapidly
toward the other side of the building.
Flapping his leathery wings he sped toward
her.
The Jade Dragon turned, tensing, and then
relaxed. “A bat,” she
thought. “Another night
traveler like me.” She turned
back in the direction she had been moving and then she
froze. Sun Lin experienced a
strange sensation. A voice seemed
to be sounding inside her head.
“That’s it my beauty.
Wait for me. I have come
for you at last.” Her muscles
seemed paralyzed, but she was unafraid.
The voice was strangely alluring.
There was something moving behind her, but she did not fear
it. Instead she wanted it to
come closer. It exuded a powerful
sexual presence such as she had never felt
before. For a few seconds she
stood still, frozen and then instinctively reacting against the invasion
of her mind, fought back.
It took all of her will to fight against the strange power that had intruded
into her mind. She swayed like
a drunkard, her costume soaked in sweat, as with every fibre of her being
she struggled against an influence so vile and sinister that it made her
sick to her stomach.
The bat swept toward her and then dissolved, changing shape and increasing
enormously in size. In a second
the figure of a man dressed all in black materialized beside the immobile
heroine.
Count Rodna projected his mind into that of the Jade Dragon, maintaining
his control over her only with some
difficulty. He was amazed at
her strength. He had never
encountered such resistance in a mortal.
“Do not fight me my beautiful green
dragon. You are meant for
me. We are both attuned to the
darkness.” The Count now
knew who the Jade Dragon was. His
mind had fathomed her identity and had determined that she was one of the
most beautiful women he had ever
encountered. He was overcome
with the powerful animal desire that was part of his
nature.
The Jade Dragon’s lips parted slightly and her breathing
increased. Try as she might,
she could not rid her mind of the overwhelming presence, and even worse,
she was being slowly subdued by an enormous sexual craving as the Count’s
carnal appetite swamped her mind.
She had never experienced anything like this, not even when she had
been injected with the powerful sexual stimulant invented by the Mad Doctor
(See Episode 4, The Jade Dragon Meets
the Black
Leopard).
The Count
smiled. It was a cruel smile,
devoid of joy, but brimming with triumph.
He always felt like this when he had taken control of the mind of
a woman. But this time the sensation
was especially strong. He was
controlling the mind of a superheroine and soon he would have more than her
mind. He would have her body
and her soul!
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