The Adventures of the Jade
Dragon
Episode
7
The Black Leopard’s
Triumph
Chapter
4 The Jade Dragon’s
Degradation
The Jade Dragon
groaned. She was very groggy
and the chloroform had left her feeling weak and
nauseous. For a few seconds
she feared that she might be sick, and then her head
cleared. For a few seconds she
was quite confused. She remembered
that the Black Leopard had taken her and Scorpion prisoner and that her companion
had promised to be the slave of the Black Leopard in return for her
release. But something was
wrong. She still seemed to be
a prisoner and Scorpion was nowhere in
sight. More to the point, she
was shackled into some sort of bondage rack that promised to be very painful
if used as intended.
The apparatus was simple enough in construction, but very uncomfortable to
be in. It was a form of stocks
with several holes for a victim’s
feet. The two boards forming
the stocks were fastened to a wooden platform about five feet long and three
feet wide. Such a device usually
confined its victim in a sitting
position. However, in the Jade
Dragon’s case, she was confined so that she was kneeling on the platform,
her back to the stocks. Her ankles
were placed through the holes that were farthest apart, spreading her legs
and leaving her feeling horribly
vulnerable.
Even worse, however, was how her arms had been
restrained. In front of her was
a pillar attached to the other end of the wooden
platform. The top of the pillar
was cut at an angle of 45 degrees and attached to it was a crosspiece creating
a pillory through which her wrists had been
inserted. Her body was stretched
tightly between the stocks and the
pillory. The board restraining
her arms was high enough that her arms were stretched out full
length.
“At least I still have my costume on,” Sun Lin
thought. “But that might
not last long.” She turned
her head as far as she could and caught sight of a pair of shiny black
boots.
“Welcome back Jade Dragon,” purred the Black
Leopard. “I’m so glad
you decided to stay.” She
chuckled at her own joke.
“I knew you wouldn’t keep your promise,” said Sun
Lin. “What have you done
with Scorpion?”
“I wouldn’t be much of a villainess if I kept my promises now,
would I? It was nice of your
companion to agree to let herself be used,
however. As to where she is,
why don’t you listen in?”
The Black Leopard flicked a switch, and from a speaker in the wall came the
sound of muffled screaming along with the sounds of a whip being applied
liberally. “That’s
your friend now,” said the Black
Leopard. “You can hear her,
but she can’t hear you.
I’m afraid she hasn’t been a very good slave and Wildcat
is giving her some obedience training.”
The Jade Dragon was sickened at the sound of her friend being
beaten. She could tell from the
sounds she was making that she had been gagged and she must have been in
considerable pain to be making so much
noise. “You monster,”
Sun Lin cried. “Let her
go. You have no quarrel with
her. It’s me you
wanted.”
“I want both of you,” the catlike villainess replied
icily. “You’re both
superheroines, and as such I despise you.
I’ve lost track of the number of times you and your friends have
foiled my schemes. I’m sick
and tired of your superior heroine
attitudes. I’m going to
punish you in ways you haven’t even imagined, starting with a little
pain.”
The Jade Dragon steeled herself for the coming
ordeal. As yet she was fully
dressed; even her boots had been left on, but she didn’t expect that
to last long. She knew why she
hadn’t been stripped. The
Black Leopard liked to undress her
captives. It built up the tension
and fear in the victim. Already
Sun Lin was feeling apprehensive.
Even knowing what was coming didn’t make it any
easier. She knew that she faced
a long a painful ordeal.
“First the booties,” said the Black Leopard in her soft
purr. The Jade Dragon felt the
stocks holding her ankles loosen
slightly. It didn’t matter
much, her wrists were still securely clamped in the
pillory. Then her boots were
removed and the stocks locked back down.
A few seconds later her socks were pulled off, exposing her
feet.
“Ticklish, I hope?” asked the Black
Leopard. She lightly dragged
her claws across the soles of Sun Lin’s bare
feet.
“Ahh!” Sun Lin was caught off guard by the unexpected
touch. Where she had expected
pain, she got tickling instead.
“Like that don’t you?” said the Black
Leopard. “Let’s see
how much you can take.”
For the next few minutes Mei Li amused herself by tickling the Jade
Dragon’s feet. The heroine
was visibly disconcerted as her sensitive soles were stimulated almost
unbearably. Only by exercising
great discipline was Sun Lin able to prevent herself from giggling and screaming
uncontrollably. Fortunately,
or perhaps unfortunately the Black Leopard soon tired of the
game. As much as she enjoyed
tormenting the heroine, merely tickling her was not nearly painful or degrading
enough. She wanted to hear the
Jade Dragon beg her for mercy, and tickling her feet was not going to do
that.
The Black Leopard took hold of the Jade Dragon’s
cowl. “Time to see what
you look like, dearie.” With
a quick tug, she pulled the cowl free, exposing Sun Lin’s gorgeous
face. “Well, aren’t
you the pretty one?”
Sun Lin knew that the Black Leopard’s comment was
rhetorical. The villainess had
seen her face before when both of them had been captured and tortured by
the evil scientist Dr. Ivan Retinoff.
In spite of her fame as a crimefighter, Sun Lin was almost unknown
among the people of Metro city. She
seldom went out in public and when she did, she was usually heavily
disguised. As a result, she really
had no secret identity to expose.
Still it was a little disconcerting to have the Black Leopard reveal
her face. The fewer people who
knew what she looked like the better, especially when one of those people
was the Black Leopard.
What was really bothering the Jade Dragon was the sounds of Melissa’s
muffled screams as they came through over
the speaker. She sounded
as if she was in great pain, and Sun Lin would have given almost anything
to end her friend’s suffering.
But there was no way she could help her companion, and the Black Leopard
was now diverting her attention.
The catlike villainess had inserted the edge of one razor edged claw
under the neckline of the Jade Dragon’s skintight
costume. Slowly she drew her
claw through the material, slicing it open as if with the sharpest
blade. She drew her claw down
the perspiring oriental beauty’s chest leaving a long scratch between
her heavy breasts and folding back the clinging material as if she were peeling
an orange.
“You have no idea how long I have wanted to do this,” said the
Black Leopard in her most honeyed voice.
She bent under the Jade Dragon, situating herself so that her face
was between the perfect teardrops of the heroine’s
breasts. Extending her tongue
she gave the gentle curve of the Jade Dragon’s left breast a long slow
lick. “Mmmm,
salty. I like
that. I wonder what they would
taste like when they are full.”
Slowly she continued her oral exploration of the Jade Dragon’s
magnificent hemispheres, finishing by sucking on each of the
nipples.
At that point Scorpion’s screams rose to a crescendo, spoiling the mood
the Black Leopard was trying to create.
“Oh, isn’t that a shame?” purred the
arch-villainess. “Your friend
doesn’t seem to be enjoying herself.
That certainly isn’t the case for you is
it? Your nipples are so hard
they are like little rocks. I
think you are enjoying this.”
Sun Lin took a deep breath. She
couldn’t explain why she felt so strangely aroused by what the cruel
villainess was doing to her. It
was hardly an erotic situation. Her
hands and feet were clocked into a pillory and she was stretched face down
between the two bondage devices.
Her costume had been slit open to the navel, exposing her dangling
breasts and she was being fondled and molested by one of the most notorious
and vindictive of
The Black Leopard snorted in derision.
“Oh, but I am already having fun with
you. Why should I let your friend
go? You are completely at my
mercy. I can do anything I want
with you and you can’t do a thing about
it. You are
helpless.”
“I… I…I’ll let you have me and pretend that I like it,”
Sun Lin stammered. She flexed
her smooth muscles, trying to find a more comfortable
position. Already she was feeling
the strain of the awkward bondage position the Black Leopard had placed her
in. At that moment her reply
was interrupted by an especially loud scream from
Scorpion. “Please,”
she said. “Please, I beg
you. Let my friend
go.”
The Black Leopard smirked.
“I’ve already played the broken promise
game. If your friend’s screams
bother you then we’ll just have to cover them up with a few screams
of you own.”
The Jade Dragon’s utility belt had already been removed so it was a
simple matter for the Black Leopard to continue her disrobing of the stretched
out heroine. Hooking her clawed
finger into the Jade Dragon’s costume once again she sliced down both
of her legs, leaving the costume hanging in
shreds. With a flick of her hand
she pulled the tattered suit away leaving her victim completely
naked. Then the Black Leopard
stepped back to admire her victim.
The Jade Dragon’s muscles rippled under her smooth skin as she once
again tried to adjust her body.
Under the single naked bulb of
the tiny room the heroine’s skin gleamed with jewel-like beads of
perspiration. Li Mei
smiled. It was distinctly cool
in the room and yet her victim was sweating
profusely. It was a good start
to what she had planned. The
Jade Dragon turned her head slightly, trying to peer under her arm to see
what the Black Leopard was up to.
“Don’t worry, dearie,” said the villainess, “I
haven’t forgotten about you.
I’m just wondering how I should best go about entertaining
you. I must admit, you are a
gorgeous creature. It is almost
a shame to have to mark up that incredible body.”
She lay her hand on the Jade Dragon’s taut
thigh. “What musculature,”
she said. “Almost like a
marble sculpture.” Gently,
she swept her fingers over the heroine’s exquisitely rounded buttocks
noting the splendid muscle tone.
“Skin like satin,” murmured the oriental
villainess. Then tantalizingly,
she pushed her fingers between Sun Lin’s thighs, noting the slight tremble
in the heroine’s body as her claws approached the Jade Dragon’s
nether region.
“Ahhh,” purred the Asian felon, “I see you are getting very
warm down there.” Her fingers
were probing the outer defences of the Jade Dragon’s treasure
trove. “Are you
wet?” She inserted a finger
between the lips of Sun Lin’s vulva.
“No,” she answered herself
disappointedly. “Not
yet. But perhaps I can help
that.”
Sun Lin’s superb body quivered as the Black Leopard continued her
examination. Already she had
forgotten about Melissa even though the sounds of her friend’s torment
had not ceased. There was a slight
grunt as the Black Leopard arched herself over backward so that she could
move her head between the Jade Dragon’s
thighs. “I hope you don’t
mind that I do this,” she said, “but I guess you know that I am
very partial to pussies and yours seems particularly
inviting.”
“Ah!”
the Jade Dragon gasped as Li Mei’s tongue darted
between the folds of her vulva. She
had never felt anything like this before.
Other than the time she had been pumped full of Ivan Retinoff’s
sexual stimulant, (Read the Jade Dragon
Meets the Black Leopard)
not once had she
felt any sense of arousal, but this time something unexpected was
happening. The Black Leopard’s
mouth caressed her tiny clit with the soft roughness of a kitten’s tongue.
In spite of the horrific sounds
of Melissa’s torture and the deadly peril she found herself in, she
could feel her treacherous body
responding.
“Mmmm,” came the muffled voice of the Black Leopard from between
Sun Lin’s legs. Now I see
why they call it a honey pot. You
are delicious.”
Sun Lin was hard pressed not to arch her
back. What was she
doing? She was in
a desperate situation and totally at the mercy of a cruel woman whose cohorts
were torturing one of her best friends and companions and yet she was reacting
as if the Black Leopard was a lover.
Using every mental resource at her command she tore herself away from
the evil villainess’ spell.
The Black Leopard immediately noticed the change.
“What? She exclaimed from between Sun Lin’s
legs. “Cooling off
already? And I was just beginning
to have fun. Well, perhaps I
can find another way to warm you
up.” She extricated herself
from Sun Lin’s thighs and crossed to a low bench near the
wall. On that bench, Sun Lin
knew, were a number of devices intended to promote
pain. Her eyes followed the Black
Leopard as she picked up a many tailed whip from the bench.
“This should do the trick,” the Black Leopard said, slapping the
whip into the palm of her hand.
“Ow!” She exclaimed.
“That did hurt! I
think it will be just right. Not
heavy enough to do any real damage but at the same time with enough weight
to cause some real pain.”
The Black Leopard positioned herself beside the Jade Dragon in a spot where
she could reach every part of the helpless heroine’s body with the
whip. The villainess cracked
the whip in the air for show.
“Oh,” she said.
It’s perfect. Nine
tails you see. A cat just like
me.” Then she brought the
lash down across the Jade Dragon’s back.
Sun Lin winced as the nine lashes cracked across her perfect
skin. It was not a hard blow
as beatings went. She had certainly
been hit harder in other situations where she had been tortured, but it hurt
nevertheless, and she had no doubt that the Black Leopard had the patience
and the strength to keep on beating her for as long as it took to get the
desired response. And that response
would be screaming with every contact of the
cat. For a brief second she
considered giving in right away to cut her ordeal short, but she knew that
the oriental villainess would not be fooled by such an
act. And in any case, it would
be a violation of the superheroine’s code of conduct to submit so quickly
to a simple flogging. Honour
required that she hold out for as long as possible before giving
in. She set her
jaw. She would act like a
heroine.
The next blow struck her shapely
backside. And the one after that
was laid across her shoulders. The
Black Leopard varied her target, watching with delight as a long row of welts
was raised the entire length of the Jade Dragon’s
body. As yet, the lash had not
broken the skin. But a few more
blows repeated in areas already struck would begin to peel off her hide like
paint off a wall. She swung the
lash again, noting pleasurably the way the Jade Dragon’s swinging breasts
bounced under the impact.
“Feeling a little warmer now, dearie?” she
purred. “I certainly hope
so. I’m getting quite
warm.”
The Black Leopard was quite expert with the
whip. There was no part of the
Jade Dragon’s body she could not
reach. Most of her blows rained
down on her back, but occasionally she flicked the whip beneath her victim,
so that the lash cut into her quivering
breasts. None of the blows was
hard in itself, but they were continual and
well-aimed. For awhile Sun Lin
counted the blows, but as the pain mounted she stopped and simply hoped that
the brutal flogging would end. By
that time she had counted up to forty, and her satin skin had been
lacerated. Blood dripped from
several score of open wounds, turning her back bright
red.
“My, you are really giving me a workout,” panted the Black
Leopard.
“I had not expected you to last so
long.” Sun Lin heard the
black clad villainess through a haze of
pain. She was in too much agony
to reply, but she would not give her tormentor the satisfaction of crying
out or pleading with her any more.
“I am going to have to find some other way to stimulate you,”
the Black Leopard continued. She
put down the whip. “But
first I am going to have to clean you up.
Wait here. I’ll be
right back.”
Sun Lin hung limply from the pillory.
Her body felt like one big wound.
There was hardly a spot below her neck that was not covered in bleeding
welts. The cat o’ nine tails
had removed most of her skin with remarkable
efficiency. But she was still
conscious and well aware of her
surroundings. Fortunately, although
the Black Leopard had been very efficient, her blows had not been particularly
hard and as a result most of the wounds were
superficial. The pain, however,
was incredible and she had to grit her teeth whenever she made the slightest
movement. For now the Black Leopard
was gone. Sun Lin had no idea
why the Chinese villainess had left, but this might be a chance for her to
escape. In spite of the pain
she tried to see if she could pull her hands free of the
pillory. So much blood had been
splattered when she had been flogged that her arms were slippery with
it. With enough effort she might
be able to pull her hands through the
holes.
She tensed her muscles and pulled with all her
might. Her hands slipped halfway
through the holes of the pillory and then
stuck. She gasped in
agony. Just a little bit
more. Breathing deeply she gathered
herself for the final effort. She
pulled again, ignoring the fact that she was leaving some of her skin behind
as she pulled her hands free. She
caught herself as her body slumped
forward. Her legs were still
confined in the stocks and she would have to twist her bloodied body around
to reach the catch on the wooden frame that held
them. But she was almost spent
from her first effort. However,
she could not afford to relax. The
Black Leopard could return at any time.
She flipped herself over, crossing her legs in the action and then
bent forward ignoring the terrible pain that coursed through her
body. The catch on the stocks
was just out of reach. Bracing
herself against the pain she forced her body a few inches farther forward
and caught the catch with her fingertips.
A sharp click signaled her
success.
Lifting her feet she kicked open the stocks and rose unsteadily to her
feet. She had been confined so
long that her senses swam as she returned to the
vertical. There were no longer
any sounds coming from the speaker that had piped in the sounds of
Scorpion’s suffering. She
wondered if her friend was still alive and then realized that killing Melissa
would not be part of the Black Leopard’s
plan. That would be too easy
a fate. She steadied herself
by placing one hand on the pillory.
She couldn’t afford to waste any time, but she was too weak to
move much faster. In her weakened
condition she would be no match for even one of the
Pussies. She had to find a way
to escape so that she could come back and rescue
Scorpion. Uncertainly, she staggered
toward the door.
That was as far as she got. She
was six feet from the door when it opened revealing the Black Leopard along
with Ocelot and Tiger. The
villainess’ eyes widened in
surprise. “You never fail
to amaze me,” she said.
“How did you do that?”
Sun Lin did not reply. Instead
she launched herself at the three cat-suited
women. Or rather she tried
to. Had she not been so weak
from her flogging and loss of blood she would probably have
prevailed. But she was now only
a pale shadow of her former self.
The Black Leopard easily sidestepped her attack and hit her with a
quick combination of blows that the Jade Dragon was not able to
avoid. She went down in an agonized
heap. “Damn!” exclaimed
the Black Leopard. “I got
blood on my clothes. You must
be punished for that.”
Before she could recover the two Pussies seized
her. They dragged back into the
centre of the room. “Put
bar shackles on her,” ordered the Black
Leopard.
Unable to resist, Sun Lin could only lie helplessly while her wrists were
secured by steel cuffs connected by a solid steel
bar. A chain was attached to
the bar and fastened to shackles that were locked on each
ankle. Then with a Pussy on either
side of her she was led out of the room and down the
hallway. A trail of bloody footprints
marked her progress as she was guided to another door halfway down the
corridor. Moving ahead of her,
the Black Leopard opened the door and held it wide; and the Jade Dragon found
herself in a locker room equipped with a row of
showers. Unceremoniously the
two Pussies shoved her into one of the stalls while the Black Leopard turned
the water on.
“Ah!” the Jade Dragon grimaced as the needles of water struck
her lacerated skin. It felt as
if the Black Leopard was still lashing her, and to make matters worse the
water was barely above freezing.
The water rushing down the drain turned scarlet with her blood as
the pounding water washed her clean.
In a few moments the pain of the shower diminished as her skin went
numb from the cold, but now she began to shiver
uncontrollably.
“Oh, the poor Jade
Dragon is cold,” exclaimed the Black Leopard in mock
dismay. “Well, we will find
a way to warm her up again.”
At that moment the other two Pussies
appeared. They were dragging
a very battered Melissa between them.
Like Sun Lin, her wrists were locked behind her by shackles connected
by an iron bar, and connected to her ankles by a length of strong steel
chain. Her breasts were horribly
bruised and she walked with a slight
limp. But her head was still
held high in defiance. Then she
saw the Jade Dragon. A look of
despair followed by rage crossed her
face. “You promised to let
her go,” she protested.
The Black Leopard sniggered.
“Now, you really didn’t think I would keep my word did
you? What a silly dear you
are.” She reached out and
touched the vivid scorpion scar that had been branded into the space between
Melissa’s breasts. “My
my, what happened here? Looks
like someone had fun with you at one
time. It must have hurt a great
deal.”
Melissa did not reply; she was seething with rage at how she had been
deceived. It was better to have
been tortured than to have given in without a
fight.
Sun Lin was horrified at what had been done to
Melissa. The girl’s breasts
were mottled shades of black, blue, and brown due to the extensive bruising
they had received, and her backside was covered with welts, which accounted
for her limp.
Scorpion was equally mortified at seeing the Jade Dragon so
humiliated. It was obvious that
she had been badly beaten, and it was apparent that she was not enjoying
her cold shower. But she was
not given much time to think about it.
Her escorts shoved her into the cubicle next to Sun Lin and the cold
water was turned on. She stood
there shivering and listening to Sun Lin’s teeth
chattering. As in the Jade
Dragon’s case, the cold water soon numbed her injuries, and she stood
shaking, dispirited, but seething with a quiet
rage. She was determined to exact
her revenge for the brutal treatment heaped on them by the
arch-villainess. If she ever
managed to escape.
Just when she thought she could not stand any more of the cold shower, Wildcat
turned the water off. She and
the Jade Dragon were pulled clean but shaking from the shower
stalls.
“Well now, that’s better,” said the Black
Leopard. “Nice and
clean. Now it’s time to
introduce you to two people you are going to get to know very
well.” She grinned like
a Cheshire Cat. “Yes, you
are going to get to know them very well
indeed.” She giggled fiendishly,
and lifted the dripping chins of the two helpless
heroines. “Oh yes, very
very well.”
Both Sun Lin and Melissa shuddered.
What did the cruel villainess have planned for them
next?
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