The Adventures of Larra Court

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The Adventures of Larra Court

Episode 9

Larra’s Transylvanian Adventure

 

Chapter 4  Exposed

 

Larra kept her face impassive as she was hoisted from the cell.  By her reckoning she had been in the cell for at least three days if the number of times she had been fed was anything to go on.  She had spent part of the time exploring the tiny room in which she had been confined.  It was pretty much escape-proof, consisting of a twenty foot shaft with a grill overhead.  She had been lowered into it shortly after arriving at the castle. 

 

She still wore the manacles that had been fastened to her wrists before she had been lowered into the cell.  Completely nude and deprived even of eating utensils she had no way to pick the locks and remove them.  Just a short time ago a chain with a hook on it had been lowered into the cell and orders had been shouted down to her to fix the hook into the chain connecting her wrists.  Without much choice in the matter she had complied.  She certainly couldn’t escape while she was in the underground cell.  This might be her chance to escape provided her captors were careless. 

 

It had taken her only a short while to determine that she was very unlikely to escape without outside help.  The remainder of the time she had spent recovering from the beating she had received when she was taken prisoner and trying to keep in shape by exercising.  She had to go slowly; her body was covered with bruises and from the pain in her side, she suspected that the SS thug who had kicked her had cracked a couple of ribs.  When she was not exercising, she spent most of the time huddled in the two blankets that had been in the cell.  The cell was without a source of heat and the temperature never went above freezing. 

 

Strangely, the food that was lowered from above was of reasonably good quality, even though it was usually cold by the time it reached her.  She ate as much as she could, knowing that it was important to keep up her strength, but wondering why she was being so well treated by her brutal captors.  She now suspected that she was going to find out. 

 

Waiting outside the hatch were four guards and a man in white trousers and coat.  The hoist did not stop but continued to lift her as she cleared the hatch.  As her nude body swung a foot above the floor the white-coated man stepped forward.  Larra Court,” he said.  “We meet again.”

 

Larra regarded the man impassively.  He was tall and thin, with wavy brown hair and clear blue eyes.  She answered in a steady voice.  “I am afraid you have the better of me.”  The man clearly knew who she was.  There seemed no point in attempting to hide her identity. 

 

“I suspect you were too involved with my superior to notice me,” the man replied.  “I am Doktor Wilhelm Keitel, assistant to Gerhard von Stumpel.”

 

“I see you have maintained the same high standards in seeking employment,” Larra said contemptuously. 

 

“And I see you are the same arrogant half-breed bitch you were the last time we met,” Keitel answered.  “This time, however, you will not escape.  You will make a most interesting subject for my studies.”

 

Larra did not waste her breath bantering with the Nazi doctor.  She was already beginning to feel the strain of hanging from her wrists and knew that any man who had worked with the depraved Gerhard von Stumpel was quite capable of the most degenerate and malicious of acts.  It would not hurt, however, to have some idea of what he intended to do with her.  Even the slightest bit of information might be useful in helping her to escape.

 

“Alright, Herr Doktor, you have me at your mercy.  What do you intend to do with me?” 

 

As she expected Keitel answered.  Cowards and bullies like Keitel couldn’t resist gloating when they had some helpless victim at their mercy. 

 

Keitel licked his lips before replying, allowing his eyes to drink in the incredible curves of Larra’s luscious body.  Even sporting a variety of bruises and abrasions, her heavy breasts, tiny waist, flaring hips, and long powerful legs, had his loins stirring almost uncontrollably.  He had to quickly think of something else to stop his anatomy from betraying him. 

 

“First,” he answered, his voice somewhat hoarse.  “I am going to examine you to make sure you are fit enough to survive what I have in mind for you.  Then there will be the interrogation, and finally I have a little experiment that I think you will find very interesting.”

 

Larra kept her breathing slow and steady.  The strain of hanging from the chains was beginning to tell, and she was more than aware of the eyes of Keitel and the four guards as they ogled her naked body. 

 

Keitel had not told her much that she could not have guessed.  She suspected that he was keeping the “experiment” mysterious in order to create a greater atmosphere of fear.  She was also certain that he had left out a great deal of what he intended to do to her.  They way that he and the SS guards looked at her told her that the least she could expect was to be gang raped. 

 

Keitel moved toward her accompanied by one of the guards carrying a length of chain.  It hardly seemed necessary considering her helpless situation, but the Nazis were taking no chances.  Probably Keitel remembered the chaos she and her companions had caused when they had escaped von Stumpel’s supposedly escape-proof prison. 

 

Clamping a shackle to each of her ankles the SS guard spread her legs by attaching a chain to a heavy bolt in the floor to either side of her.  Larra tried not to wince as the strain on her arms and shoulders increased.  Her body beaded with a fine sweat in spite of the cold, she hung helpless as the Nazi doctor began to run his hands over her body. 

 

He started with her thighs, massaging the firm muscles with both hands; moving them  steadily toward the area at the apex of her legs.  Larra fought to hold her body completely still as the doctor “examined” her commenting on the merits of her anatomy as he did so.

 

Gently he slid his middle finger into the tight slit between her legs.  “Almost virginally tight,” he murmured.  “One would never think you were little more than an English whore.” 

 

Larra bit back a grunt as he inserted a second finger and then a third, thrusting his fingers into her until the palm of his hand parted her labia.  “It is going to be most pleasant to explore this opening further with another instrument,” Keitel leered.  He withdrew his hand and moved it behind his victim, squeezing her firm buttocks before sliding his fingers over the small of her back and then moving to the front of her body.

 

Larra gritted her teeth in anger as Keitel caressed the slight feminine curve of her abdomen and then ran his fingers over the tight muscles of her washboard stomach.  He lingered longingly over her heavy breasts, lifting each one and tweaking the prominent taut nipples. 

 

“You and I are going to have a most enjoyable time together,” Keitel whispered in Larra’s ear.  “At least I will,” he added as an afterthought.

 

Larra endured the humiliating examination without comment, managing to hold her breathing steady even as the pain of her awkward position increased.  It would not be too long before she was in acute agony as her shoulders and arms were slowly pulled from their sockets and joints.  Her perspiration increased, falling in droplets upon the flagstones that paved the corridor.

 

Keitel was breathing heavily.  “Lower her,” he ordered.  “And make sure she is secured.”

 

Larra almost fell as her feet touched the floor for the first time in almost an hour, but she caught her balance and stood unsteadily as the SS guards closed in on her.  Her arms still held over her head, she was helpless as they held her while her arms were slowly lowered.  A chain was locked onto the chain connecting her manacles.  At the same time the shackles spreading her legs were unfastened.  However, to ensure that she could not escape a chain was linked between her ankles and still another chain was used to connect her ankles with her wrists, pulling her arms downward. 

 

“Bring her,” Keitel ordered, marching down the hall.  The guards followed, dragging their reluctant captive with them.  Larra could move her feet only in short steps and was forced to walk stooped due to the chain pulling her chained wrists toward her ankles.  Awkwardly she swung each leg as best she could, shuffling along behind the impatient doctor. 

 

She was escorted to a small room off the main corridor.  It contained only one significant article of furniture, an iron frame cot that was pushed against one wall.    From Keitel’s excited breathing Larra knew at once what was going to happen.  “Leave,” Keitel ordered the guards.  As the SS guards carried out his order, he pushed the door closed and then attempted to drag her toward the bed.

 

Larra did not go quietly.  Although chained hand and foot she was not entirely defenceless.  She twisted her body and broke free of Keitel’s grasp and then swinging her head forward slammed it like a hammer into the middle of his chest.  The impact hurled him back against the door.  It was not quite what Larra had planned, she had been aiming for his face, but forced to bow her back due to the restrictions of the chains, it was the best she could do.

 

It was almost enough.  Keitel collapsed against the door, allowing Larra to close the gap between them.  One more step and she would have used her feet to tramp him into the floor.  She didn’t get that chance.  The door burst open and the SS guards poured into the room.  In short order she was held by two of the guards, while Keitel struggled to his feet, his face a mask of rage. 

 

“You half-breed whore,” he raged.  “You will pay for that.  When I am finished with you I will turn you over to the guards.”

 

Larra struggled helplessly as she was forced onto the bed.  Keitel removed the chain connecting her wrists and feet.  Immediately her hands were pulled over her head by one of the guards and another took her feet.  Keitel dropped his trousers, revealing his fully erect manhood.  Forcing her legs apart he positioned himself between her silken thighs. 

 

Held by two men and pinned by a third, the adventuress continued to struggle even as Keitel had his way with her.  With a triumphant grunt he penetrated her, driving his shaft deep into her warm sexual cave.  Larra arched her back in a vain attempt to stop the rape, but her action simply served to drive Keitel even more deeply within her.  A terrible scream split the air. 

 

Keitel froze, as did his victim.  The scream had not come from the struggling beauty.  “Damn von Jagger,” Keitel murmured.  “He will play his little games.”

 

Larra’s reaction was one of acute horror.  She knew that scream.  “Melissa,” she thought.  “What are they doing to you?”

 

 

Melissa sobbed as von Jagger pulled the hot iron away from her breast.  The sickening stench of burned flesh filled the air.  Von Jagger replaced the iron in the brazier “So, you are not as strong as you thought?  Perhaps now you will be more willing to answer my questions.”

 

Melissa fought to control the sobs that wracked her overstretched body.  The agony of the swastika burn on the inside of her left breast had her close to swooning, the pain more acute than anything she had ever experienced. 

 

Von Jagger approached.  Raising his hand he touched the livid wound he had burned into her breast.  Melissa flinched even though the additional pain hardly registered.  “Such magnificent breasts.  I am afraid my little decoration hardly improves them; however, if you continue to prove stubborn I may be forced to repeat the process.”

 

Melissa’s breath came in harsh gasps as she battled the pain.  The limited training she had received from Larra did not allow her to control pain, and the anguish of the burn was so intense she doubted that such pain could have been controlled.  However, she could not betray Larra.  She would die first; even if it meant enduring the most excruciating torture.

 

Her silence, or rather her refusal to respond seemed to anger von Jagger.  He returned to the brazier and took out the hot iron once more.  “Stubborn bitch, I’ll brand every inch of your body if I have to.”

 

“I’ll never tell you anything, you Nazi scum,” Melissa gasped.  “You are not a man, just a coward, who victimizes those who cannot fight back.” 

 

“British whore,” von Jagger growled.  “I’ll show you how much of a man I am.”  He tossed the iron into the brazier and moving to the winch that raised and lowered her chains, he cranked it until her feet were once again on the floor. 

 

Exhausted from the pain and the physical strain of her ordeal, Melissa could not stand.  As she was lowered she collapsed to her knees.  Von Jagger took advantage of her weakness to chain her arms behind her and then forced her to her feet.

 

Wobbling on legs that would barely support her, Melissa was half-walked half- dragged across the room.  Just ahead of her was a table.  Melissa had been planked enough times on table tops to realize what von Jagger had in mind, but she was too weak to stop him. 

 

She whimpered in pain as her seared breast touched the rough wood of the table and then cried out in rage and pain as von Jagger dropped his trousers, moved between her legs and took her.  Von Jagger’s idea of sex was about as subtle as his idea of interrogation.  He rammed into her again and again until he finally spurted into her.  Melissa lay semiconscious on the table.  Humiliated and in terrible pain, she vowed vengeance on the vile Nazi. 

 

 

Keitel watched as the last of the SS guards had his way with the English spy.  Her magnificent body was covered with sweat, and her features were twisted in anger.  “Not so haughty now are we, Miss Court?  It is going to be most pleasant having you as a guest in the castle.”

 

Completely humiliated, Larra said nothing as her captors pulled her to her feet.  Her own degradation was secondary to her fear about Melissa’s safety.  The scream she had heard had been blood-curdling; the cry of someone in terrible pain. 

 

Keitel led the way down the corridor, the SS guards escorting their mortified prisoner.  They passed several doors and finally stopped at one.  Keitel pushed it open and then stooped.  “Ah,” he exclaimed, “my apologies Standartenführer.  I did not know you were so busy.”

 

The smirk on his face belied his words.  Whatever was happening in the room Keitel seemed to find quite amusing.  “I have the other woman.  Shall I bring her in?”

 

Larra was dragged through the door.  Von Jagger leered as she entered.  “I see you have been busy as well,” he commented, noting the bruises on her thighs and the bite marks on her breasts. 

 

“Have you learned anything of interest?” von Jagger asked.  

 

“Nothing that I did not already know.  This is Larra Court and I suspect the tall bitch you have been entertaining is her companion, Melissa Gallant.” 

 

“You knew of this and did not tell me!”  Von Jagger’s voice pitched high in a mixture of outrage and surprise. 

 

“I did not know until a few hours ago when I first set eyes on her.  As for Miss Gallant I know how much you enjoy “interviewing” female suspects.  Have you met with the Gypsy girl yet?”

 

Von Jagger shook his head.  “I doubt she knows anything.  I might keep her around for a little sport, but nothing else.”

 

“Is ‘sport’ what you are calling it now?” Keitel grinned. 

 

Von Jagger shrugged.  “I call it what I choose.  In any case, did you find out anything else while you were enjoying Miss Court?”

 

“I… ah…I really didn’t have the time to interrogate her properly,” Keitel stammered.

 

“No, you were too busy stuffing her loins,” von Jagger rejoined.  “Not that I blame you,” he added, his eyes traveling over Larra’s sweat-begrimed body.

 

“Chain them both up over the pulley,” von Jagger ordered. 

 

The SS guards moved to carry out his bidding.  Larra and Melissa, the latter still gasping from the pain of the swastika burn, were dragged into the centre of the room.  Larra’s manacled hands were attached to a chain looped through a pulley that was hanging from the ceiling.  The guards hauled on the other end, jerking her arms over her head.  Then they took the other end of the chain, and forcing Melissa on to the tips of her toes, linked it to her shackles raising her arms into a position identical to that of her companion.

 

Both women grimaced in pain.  They stood just a few metres apart staring at one another’s exhausted bodies.  Larra had to fight back tears rage and grief when she saw the red outline of the oozing burn on Melissa’s right breast.  Melissa on her part had to battle with tears of her own when she saw the evidence of the multiple violations her mentor had endured. 

 

But it was only when both women attempted to relieve the pain of their stretched bodies that they realized what von Jagger had done to them.  Their arms raised painfully over their heads, they could relieve the stress only by hanging from the chains in order to place more weight on their feet.  Unfortunately such a maneuver was possible only by increasing the strain on the arms of the other woman. 

 

Helpless and close to collapse from pain and exhaustion, Larra and Melissa faced one another, the terrible strain of their ordeal more than apparent on their faces.  Unfortunately, von Jagger and Keitel were not quite finished with them.

 

Von Jagger slapped a buggy whip into his palm.  It consisted of a leather-wrapped handle about four feet in length and ten feet of twisted rawhide. 

 

Keitel raised an eyebrow.  “Are you sure that you want to mar those perfect bodies any more than you already have?  I would certainly like to be able to enjoy the English bitch at least one more time.”

 

“You are thinking with your penis,” von Jagger growled.  “We need to know how much the British know about this operation.  The last thing we need is a raid by the Royal Marines catching us off-guard.  Reichsführer Himmler gave this operation top priority; however, he did not see fit to give us more than fifty of his men to act as security.  Instead we must rely upon the Hungarian police to patrol the area and they are far from satisfactory.” 

 

“The Canadian girl did not break when you burned her with a red-hot iron.  What makes you think she will talk after a little flogging?”

 

“Torture is my area of expertise,” von Jagger answered pompously.  “The breaking of a subject, especially one as stubborn as these two women, is a cumulative process.  Given enough time I can break anyone.  Normally I would be content to take as long as necessary to get the information I want.  However, I am in a bit of a hurry.  So far these two women have been raped and one of them has been branded.  Flogging is just one more step in the process.  Eventually the cumulative effect of the torture will have them telling me everything I want to know.”

 

“Provided they do not pass out from pain and exhaustion,” Keitel countered.  “I would say that neither of these women can take much more.”

 

“That is why you are here, my dear Doktor,” von Jagger replied lightly.  “It is your job to make sure that they are revived as soon as possible if they should faint from the ordeal.”

 

“Surely there must be another way other than beating them to a bloody pulp,” Keitel protested. 

 

“As I said, Herr Doktor,” von Jagger sneered.  “I am the expert.”  He raised the whip.

 

Larra braced herself for the pain.  She had been saving herself for the expected ordeal, refusing to let fear weaken her any further.  Still, the touch of the whip upon her skin sent a jolt of agony through her.  Across from her Melissa’s face expressed a new agony; that of watching her friend being flogged.  That changed slightly when a few seconds later von Jagger applied the whip to her back as well. 

 

Van Jagger was democratic in his use of the whip, flogging Larra on the forehand and Melissa on the backhand.  He was also expert in its use, just a flick of his wrist sending the lash hard against the backs of each hapless victim. 

 

By the tenth blow, Larra was breathing hard.  Melissa, in much greater pain to begin with was close to collapse.  Only the thought of what might happen to Larra kept her struggling to remain standing, but the quivering of her long, powerful legs signaled her imminent collapse. 

 

Von Jagger kept up the flogging until Melissa’s legs buckled.  She lasted thirty lashes before her strength gave out.  Her collapse left her hanging limply by her wrists, the pulley transferring her full weight to Larra, jerking her mentor off the floor.  Larra bit back a cry as her shoulders were almost wrenched from their sockets. 

 

Von Jagger lowered the whip.  “I’m disappointed.  I had thought from you reputation that you would last longer than this.” 

 

Keitel moved forward and inspected first Melissa and then Larra.  “They’ll survive, but they are going to have a painful next few weeks.”

 

“Weeks?” snorted von Jagger.  “I have no intention of keeping them alive that long.  But first, before they die, they will tell me everything they know.”

 

As he finished speaking von Jagger moved to a shelf containing assorted torture paraphernalia.  “This should keep their minds focused on what I want,” he said picking up what looked like a couple of C-clamps.

 

He marched over to Larra first.  “It seems a shame to mar the beauty of your breasts, fraulein, but unfortunately the needs of the Reich supersede that of your bosom.” 

 

Larra chest heaved as she fought back the urge to scream.  She was unable to prevent a low moan from escaping her lips, however, as von Jagger closed the C-clamp on her right breast.  It turned to a shriek of agony as the centimeter-thick screw pierced the soft underside of her heavy, globular breasts. 

 

Keitel shook his head and turned his head away, sickened by the sight of such beauty being defaced.  Von Jagger, however, was not finished.  He still had the second clamp.  Leaving the sobbing adventuress he moved around to Melissa and repeated the gruesome process. 

 

As the screw began to penetrate the young woman’s rounded breast her eyes opened and a gratifying scream issued from her mouth. 

 

Von Jagger stepped back.  “Take them away, and make sure that they are chained so that they cannot remove the clamps.  “Perhaps tomorrow when I ask my questions I will get a more favourable response.”

 

Weeping in uncontrollable agony the two women were dragged from the room.  Tomorrow the interrogation would begin again, and this time von Jagger expected to be successful.

 

 

In his private chambers Count Rodna frowned as he heard the screams.  The Nazi idiots.  Didn’t they realize how dangerous such sounds were?  No, of course they didn’t.  The Nazis were the overconfident arrogant fools they always were.  He could only hope that nothing came of their stupidity.

 

He frowned.  Victor was late with his meal tonight.  His stomach growled; he was famished.  The damned Nazis were screwing up the castle routine.  He went to the wine cabinet and poured himself a glass of the deep red liquid.  He sipped it thoughtfully.  Matters were getting out of hand.  Yesterday one of the SS guards had even attempted to have his herd of goats removed from the castle.  He had been forced to intervene with von Jagger to prevent that from happening. 

 

A faint bleating sound in the servant’s passage caught his attention.  He sighed in relief.  Victor had finally arrived.  Tomorrow he would speak with von Jagger again.  Perhaps he could stop matters from going too far.

 

 

In their cell Larra whimpered in agony.  Her back was raw from the flogging, her loins ached, but most of all the clamp piercing her breast had her in excruciating pain.  Her wrists shackled to the head of the iron cot she had been thrown onto, she could do nothing to alleviate the pain except called on her training to suppress the worst of it. 

 

Just as bad as the pain, however, was having to listen to Melissa’s moans.  The girl was suffering terribly and her cries wrenched at Larra’s heart.  The situation was hopeless.  Ravaged, brutalized, and mutilated she and Melissa were doomed.  And then she heard a strange grating sound.


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