The Adventures of the Jade
Dragon
Episode 7
Chapter 22
Heroines on Parade
Nova huddled at the feet of the Chinese
crimelord. She still wore the
collar and chain signifying her
servitude. She was more miserable
than she had ever been in her life.
Pledged to do Zhuang’s biding she had been ordered her to give
up her belt for safekeeping. The
arch villain liked to keep her at his feet as a symbol of her
subjugation. To add to her
degradation she had been denied food and water for more than a
day. Famished and parched, she
desperately needed to eat and drink.
Her agony was made all the more severe by Zhuang’s continual
eating and drinking.
“Hungry my little heroine?” Zhuang
asked. “Perhaps if you please
me in the next hour you will be allowed some food and
water.” He glanced at Chen,
who stood ready as usual to carry out any
order. “Are they all
ready?” Zhuang asked.
Chen nodded. “The boys have
had their fun with them. I think
they are ready for the final humiliation.”
“Good. Bring them
in.”
Chen nodded to one of Zhuang’s guards who passed the word on to the
next until finally the door to the large audience chamber
opened. Nova gasped slightly
as the Scarlet Falcon entered, her hair and body sticky with
semen. She was followed
in short order by the Blue Avenger, and
Stiletto. All three women were
naked, covered in bruises, and were having a great deal of difficulty
walking. A heavy length of chain
connected all three women, linked to their necks by thick metal
collars. Without exception, they
seemed completely humbled, walking with their eyes
downcast.
Nova tried to make herself smaller.
How could she let her companions see how she had been
subjugated? But Suzi lifted her
eyes enough to spot her. She
gave Natassia a look of utter
hopelessness. If anyone looked
defeated it was the Scarlet Falcon.
Nova’s eyes went to Stiletto.
She appeared to be absolutely terrified, a picture of complete
defeat. Even Kyla’s dejected
and listless appearance could not match
hers. It seemed that she had
been treated particularly badly; her body, like Suzi’s and Kyla’s,
was covered in bruises and small cuts.
There was also clear evidence that she had been
flogged. All three women were
having trouble walking, unmistakable evidence that they had been
raped.
Natassia’s lower lip trembled.
To be so helpless when faced with such evidence of Zhuang’s brutality
was almost more than she could bear.
How much worse could her situation
get?
Zhuang cleared his throat, and lumbered to his
feet. He moved to the centre
of the room, four hundred pounds of bulk and flowing
silk. “How does it feel
to be so completely defeated?” he asked, addressing the three chained
women. “You were foolish
indeed to think that you could defeat me, the great Zhuang
Zhijiang. Now you know part of
the price of opposing me. But
my triumph is not yet complete.
There are a few more guests needed to complete my
parade.” He clapped his
hands twice. From a doorway at
on the other side of the room two more women
entered.
The two women were quite dissimilar in appearance, the one quite petite,
standing only about five feet tall and the other at standing least six
feet. The shorter woman seemed
to be in charge, leading the taller woman on a short chain that was secured
to her neck by a leather collar.
The smaller woman was also clothed, although outlandishly, in a revealing
black leather outfit that left her pierced nipples exposed to
view. Natassia recognized her
at once as the Black Leopard. The
other woman she had never seen before, but she appeared to have been severely
tested. Her nude body was covered
with lacerations and numerous gold rings pierced her lips, nipples, labia,
and her nose. She walked with
a pronounced limp that spoke of severe sexual
violation.
“Well done, slave,” said Zhuang, addressing the Black
Leopard. Bring the treacherous
bitch to me.”
“Slave?” answered the Black
Leopard. She kept her voice level,
without any hint of defiance, but she was clearly
surprised. “Master
Zhuang,” she continued.
“I thought I had redeemed myself and was no longer deserving
of such low status.”
Zhuang laughed uproariously.
“Redeemed yourself?
Surely you jest, Black Leopard.
You were a scheming bitch and always will
be. It suited my purpose to have
you teach Jahlen a lesson. The
fact that you thoroughly enjoyed yourself while doing so does not change
your standing in any way. You
are my slave and will remain so until it suits me to release
you. And I may never do
that.” He finished by looking
directly at the diminutive villainess as if daring her to defy
him.
The Black Leopard bowed her head.
Meekly she replied, “Yes Master,
Zhuang. I exist only to do your
bidding.”
Zhuang smiled his approval. If
only all of his followers could learn proper respect so
quickly! “Secure the chain
to your neck. I wish to see that
you clearly understand your
position.” Zhuang was enjoying
the display of his power. Truly
he was the greatest crimelord
The Black Leopard, her face blank, complied with Zhuang’s request and
moved toward the other three women.
It was only then that she saw Elenah for the first
time. She halted in midstride,
a flicker of emotion crossing her face.
Recovering, she reassumed his impassive manner and stood with head
bowed next to the Scarlet Falcon.
Jahlen, now tethered to Li Mei by stood beside her, a picture of utter
dejection and defeat.
Zhuang swelled with pride, if such a feat were
possible. Before him were five
of the most dangerous women in
The eyes of every woman in the room as well as that of every man turned to
the door. Beyond could be heard
the clink of chains, and then two of
Sun Lin and Melissa were heavily chained, heavy metal links connecting their
necks, and manacles connected to leg irons by further lengths of
iron. But it was their swollen
bellies that immediately caught the eye of everyone in the
room. Several of the women, Kyla,
Natassia, and Suzi gasped in horror and
disbelief. It was clear that
the two women had met with the ultimate superheroine
humiliation.
Jahlen and Elenah, who knew what had happened, merely
stared. Li Mei on the other hand,
almost burst with pride. So her
scheme had worked. She had achieved
the ultimate in superheroine degradation.
Only two things marred her
satisfaction. First, she had
not counted on being a victim of enslavement
herself. And two, she had not
expected Elenah to suffer a similar degrading
experience. The thought of one
of the few people she could trust being subjected to rape and torture filled
her with a silent rage. Zhuang
would pay for that outrage. She
didn’t know how, but he would pay.
“Behold,
Nova got up from her crouch. She
turned her head away from the incredulous stares of her companions crossing
the open space between her and the crimelord, and bowed before
him. “What is your biding,
master?” she asked.
“I have heard of your ability to
heal. Now I wish to see it
demonstrated.” He handed
Nova her belt. “Heal these
women and then return the belt to me.”
“Yes master,” Nova replied.
Placing the belt about her waist she moved over to Suzi and placed
her hands on the naked heroine’s
body. Almost immediately, the
ravages she had suffered at the hands of Zhuang’s henchmen began to
disappear. While Zhuang watched
in amazement the healing energy of the
Dragon’s Eye restored the heroine to perfect
health.
Taking no chances Zhuang ordered Suzi’s wrists and ankles to be chained
to preclude any escape attempt.
In the meantime, Natassia had moved on to Kyla and repeated the
performance. Once finished with
her friend, however, she stopped.
“The others as well,” Zhuang
ordered.
“Yes master,” Nova answered, and moved to the Black Leopard, and
the other villainesses. In each
case it was the same. The evidence
of violence disappeared from the body of each woman, with the exception of
Jahlen. In her case only the
removal of the numerous rings the Black Leopard had used to pierce her anatomy
would return her to complete normalcy.
Zhuang watched in amazement as Nova healed the injuries his men had inflicted
on his captives. “What a
power,” he thought. “And
I control it. His mind was
racing. With Nova under his control
he could not only control all crime in
Nova had finished her healing of the
women. Returning to Zhuang she
knelt before him as he had taught her.
“They are healed, master,” she said.
“Good, now bring the heroines before me,” Zhuang ordered.
Nova did as she was instructed, fetching her three companions, and in the
case of the heavily fettered Jade Dragon and Scorpion, helping them to carry
their heavy weight of chain.
“Excellent,” said Zhuang, “Now give me the
belt.” Obediently, Natassia
took off her belt, returning to normal strength once more.
All of the heroines, including Nova were still
masked. Zhuang had ordered that
no heroine should be unmasked unless he expressly ordered
it. There was always the possibility
that knowledge of the heroines' identities might be useful to him and he
wanted to share that knowledge with no
one. “Clear the room,”
he ordered Chen. “Leave
only my most trusted lieutenants.”
Chen nodded. In a few seconds
only a half dozen of Zhuang’s men
remained. These were more than
enough, however, to deal with the heavily shackled women he held
prisoner.
Zhuang pointed to the Scarlet Falcon.
“Remove her mask,” he ordered
Nova.
Suzi looked aghast at Natassia hardly able to believe what she was
seeing. Her erstwhile companion
seemed to be completely under the control of one of the vilest of
“But why, Nova,” Suzi
whispered. “Why have you
chosen to serve Zhuang?”
Natassia did not reply, but instead pulled the mask from Suzi’s face,
revealing her to Zhuang and Chen.”
“Well, I’ll be…!” exclaimed Chen.
“You know her?” asked Zhuang.
“Yes,” said Chen thumbing through a copy of
Zhuang nodded, filing away the information for further
use. He wasn’t sure how
it would help him, as he did not intend to allow any of the heroines to leave
his HQ alive, except those he thought he would be able to
control. “Now, the Blue
Avenger,” he ordered.
Natassia removed Kyla’s mask and again Chen consulted the social
registry. “Kyla Smith,”
he said. “Heir to the Green
family fortune. Her father is
the owner of a major pharmaceutical
agency. I expect he might be
willing to pay to get his daughter back, should we decide to ransom
her.”
Zhuang nodded. Or perhaps, her
father might be induced to further Zhuang’s political
ambitions. One could never have
too many rich and powerful “friends” when trying to influence
government.
“Now the Jade Dragon,” said
Zhuang.
As Natassia unmasked the oriental beauty both Zhuang and Chen stared long
and hard at her. “Never
seen her before, boss,” Chen said finally.
“Nor I,” said Zhuang somewhat
disappointed. The Jade Dragon
remained as much a mystery unmasked as she was completely
disguised. “Whoever she
is, she keeps a very low profile.
Let’s have a look at her friend,
Scorpion.”
Natassia removed Melissa’s mask, revealing the face of her one time
ward. “Yes,” said Chen,
thumbing through the pages of the social
registry. This one is in
here. I’ve seen her
before.” He stopped and
held up the page for Zhuang.
“Melissa Gallant.
Orphaned in
Natassia removed her own mask confirming Chen’s
guess. “Quite a haul so
far,” said Chen.
“Several members of the social
register. A couple of heiresses,
and one or two who will make mighty fine additions to our
brothels.”
Zhuang nodded. “But we still
have the Black Leopard and Stiletto to
investigate. Come here,”
he said to Li Mei,” and bring the other two
women.”
The Black Leopard led Jahlen and Stiletto
forward. Zhuang paid no attention
to the tall green-eyed villainess, he knew full well who she was, but he
focused his attention on Elenah.
“Remove her mask, Black Leopard, and then your
own.”
Reluctantly Li Mei complied. Zhuang
raised his eyebrows as Elenah was
unmasked. “Elenah
Firenza,” he said. “Even
I know who you are, although I am never invited to move in such exalted
circles.” He
laughed. “We have Italian
nobility among us, Chen. Imagine
that. We are moving up in the
world.”
Neither he nor Chen recogniozed the Black
Leopard. But that was not
surprising. No Chinese could
be expected to be in the pages of
The Jade Dragon and Scorpion had watched incredulously as Nova had assisted
Zhuang in the unmasking. Finally
able to contain herself no long Melissa spoke, “Nova, what are you
doing? Why did you not use your
power? What hold do these
scum have over you?”
“Silence,” thundered
Zhuang. “I gave no one
permission to speak. For that
you will be punished.”
“Nova,” interjected Sun Lin, ignoring the crimelord’s rage,
“I do not understand. What
binds you too him?”
My word,” Natassia replied miserably, “I gave my word to serve
Zhuang.”
“Your word as a superheroine?” asked Sun Lin,
astounded.
“I was weak,” Natasiia said, her eyes filling with
tears. “In order to save
myself I promised to serve him in any way.”
“I said silence,” screamed Zhuang, his face purpling with
rage. “Nova, gag that
bitch.”
The instinct to obey was so strong that Natassia looked around for something
to place over Sun Lin’s mouth.
Then she stopped. How
could she gag the greatest of
“You are a heroine,” cried
Melissa. “Pledged to do
good. Aiding this piece of human
excrement is a violation of the superheroine
code. Your promise was not
binding. A superheroine’s
word can only be given freely, and never in the service of
evil.”
“Silence her,” shouted Zhuang.
“Chen, deal with these bitches.”
Natassia mind whirled. Wasn’t
a superheroine’s word always
sacrosanct.? And hadn’t
she given it to Chen and Zhuang?
Was Melissa right? She
had
given her word, but it had been forced from her under the most painful of
circumstances. She looked at
Zhuang. There was fear in his
eyes. That single look confirmed
Melissa’s argument. A
superheroine’s promise had to be freely
given. Zhuang knew that and now
so did she. But her hesitation
gave Zhuang the chance he needed to
act.
“Point your weapons at the Jade Dragon,” he
ordered. “Prepare to
shoot.”
Too late, Natassia saw that she should have acted
immediately. Had she done so
there might have been a chance of saving her friends and
herself. But there were too many
armed men in the room to prevent all of them from firing their
weapons. If she attacked one
or more of them was bound to hit the Jade
Dragon. With great reluctance
she stood still while Chen chained her wrists and ankles, leaving her
helpless.
“Defeated again,” Zhuang
sneered. “And so
easily.” “Chain her
and the others to the wall, but leave the Jade Dragon and
Scorpion. It is apparent that
they have not yet learned their place.”
Chen and the other henchmen still in the room scrambled to carry out
Zhuang’s bidding. While
they did so he turned to the Jade Dragon and
Scorpion. “You never learn
do you bitches? Your disobedience
has cost me dearly. And for that
you will both be punished.”
Zhuang waddled back to his divan.
“Chain all of them together,” he said, “except for
the two brood mares. I have other
plans for them.”
Zhuang’s guards rushed to do his
bidding. All were keenly aware
of the danger posed by the women in the
room. The more chains they wore
the better. All of the non-pregnant
women, including the Black Leopard were line up against one wall, where they
were all chained together and the end of the chain anchored to a heavy staple
in the wall. The Jade Dragon
and Scorpion were left alone in the centre of the room, and then Zhuang’s
men closed around them.
“You are filth,” Melissa said, as her ankles were chained to the
floor. “It is not enough
that you rape and torture women, but you must also violate those who are
helpless to defend themselves.”
Pregnant, surrounded by thugs, and with no hope of rescue, Melissa
could not simply submit to Zhuang’s pleasure without some show of
resistance, even if it was only verbal.
“Why is she still speaking?” asked
Zhuang. “Did I not order
her gagged?”
Chen forced a bar gag into Melissa’s mouth as she was arranged for
Zhuang’s punishment. The
same was done to Sun Lin. At
the same time, the arms of both women were shackled behind their backs and
then hooked to the ceiling. Their
arms were pulled upward, strappado, forcing both women onto their
toes. Heavy with child they were
tilted forward, their swollen breasts dangling above their distended
bellies.
“Pollock, Sanders, take them,” ordered
Zhuang. Grinning, two
of Zhuang’s larger thugs
moved toward the helpless heroines, unbuckling their belts as they did
so.
“No,” screamed Kyla, from her place by the wall, “you can’t
mean to violate two pregnant women.”
“Why not?” laughed Zhuang, “They can’t get pregnant
twice.”
Zhuang’s joke brought general laughter from Chen and his
henchmen. While Kyla, Suzi, and
Natassia watched in horror, and Elenah, Li Mei, and Jahlen watched in interest,
Pollack and Sanders positioned themselves behind Melissa and Sun
Lin. Both heroine’s eyes
were wide and staring as they realized that they were to be brutally raped
once again.
“Unnggh!”
Melissa grunted as Pollack forced his way into her vulva, spreading
her lower lips with his rigid organ.
Both Pollack and Sanders were generously endowed, which was why Zhuang
had chosen them. Penetration
was slow, difficult, and painful.
But neither man was in any hurry.
It was not every day that they got to completely humiliate two of
“Ugghh!”
Now it was Sun Lin’s
turn as Sanders entered her. He
ground into her from behind making her entire body shake with every
thrust. Beside her she could
see Melissa’s heavy breasts bounce as Pollack drilled into
her.
Chained to the wall, tears rolled down Suzi’s cheeks as she watched
her companions being subjected to the painful and humiliating
ordeal. True heroines, they bore
up under the brutal assault well, but their distress was plain to
see. Within minutes sweat poured
off their straining bodies and sprayed the floor with hundreds of
droplets. Both women arched their
backs in pain, trying to move their bodies as far away from their assailants
as possible. Melissa’s features
in particular were distorted with pain as the man raping her clamped his
large hands over her enlarged breasts and squeezed them like ripe
melons.
The rape continued until both men
climaxed. In Melissa’s case
that took about an hour. Sun
Lin had to endure longer, as Sanders ravaged her for a good ninety
minutes. Exhausted from their
ordeal, both women slumped forward, the strappado dislocating their shoulders
and causing acute pain.
Melissa fought to deal with the pain shooting like a lance through both her
shoulders, but Zhuang was not quite finished with
her. His anger over her
“subversion” of Nova was
unspent. She must be further
punished as an example of what happened to those who defied him, and her
large dangling breasts were an obvious
target. He spoke a few quick
words to Chen who smiled in anticipation.
The huge henchmen crossed to the equipment bench where the instruments
of torture were kept and returned to the
heroine.
Melissa was breathing heavily, still suffering from the shock of the
rape. Her pain was heightened
by the continued rape of Sun Lin, whose muffled sounds of stress escaped
from the cleave gag in her mouth.
She looked up at Chen with an air of hopelessness, but there was still
a spark of defiance in her deep brown
eyes. Chen grinned, he intended
to change that.
“Stupid bitch,” he said.
“Maybe this will take some of the fight out of
you.”
Reaching out her grabbed her left breast, and stretched it toward him, making
every effort to cause her as much pain as
possible. She moaned slightly,
the sound muffled a little by the gag that jammed her jaws
apart. Then she grunted as Chen snapped
a large alligator clip over her nipple.
The teeth of the clamp bit into her tender flesh causing extreme
pain. Swollen by the approaching
termination of her pregnancy, Melissa’s already sensitive breasts and
nipples hurt intensely. But the
pain was about to get much worse.
Chen attached a large weight to the clip, dragging Melissa’s
breast down and causing exquisite agony.
Melissa bit down on the gag, wincing in anguish as her breast was stretched
by the heavy weight. But Chen
was only half finished. He repeated
the process, distending the elastic flesh of her right breast as
well. Chen stepped back to admire
his handiwork. Melissa was a
picture of suffering, bent forward by the strappado and her once perfect
globes stretched out of shape. Her
body trembled from the terrible pain and sweat rolled down her satin skin
in rivulets. Her breath was forced
in and out past the gag in harsh gasps.
From deep in her throat a whimper
escaped.
“You think it hurts now, bitch,” gloated Chen, “wait a half
hour.” Another smile twisted
his lips as he returned to Zhuang’s
side.
Across the room, Li Mei was watching less
closely. She had almost finished
picking the locks on the chains that secured her to the wall and the women
next to her. For a burglar of
her skills, such an operation was relatively
easy. The hardest part had been
obtaining the lock pick. Even
while acting as Zhuang’s servant, she had been closely
watched. Anything that might
be used to aid in an escape had been denied
her. But during her torture of
Jahlen she had managed to secret a tiny piece of wire she had found in the
drawer containing the torture equipment.
Although she had been searched later, she had managed to hide it through
sleight of hand. She had been
waiting for just such a moment as now presented
itself. The attention of every
man in the room was diverted from her, drawn to the spectacle of the Jade
Dragon’s and Scorpion’s
torture.
The last lock fell away. Chained
next to her were Elenah and Jahlen.
The tall dark-haired woman she had tortured so brutally said nothing,
but there was something in her strange yellow-green
eyes. Without really knowing
why, Li Mei used the lock pick to release not only Elenah, but Jahlen as
well. She was taking a chance,
but risk-taking was part of her way of
life. And Zhuang’s ex-inquisitor
could have given the alarm, but had remained silent throughout the entire
episode.
The three villainesses held their chains in
place. From a distance it appeared
as if they were still securely chained to the
wall. They were now ready to
take advantage of any opportunity to escape, and the Black Leopard knew just
how to provide that opportunity.
It was actually the most dangerous part of her
plan. Li Mei glanced toward the
spectacle of the Jade Dragon’s and Scorpion’s
rape. Every male eye in the room
was glued to the two writhing heroines.
Silently, she removed her shackles and edged toward the three captive
heroines. A look of puzzlement
clouded the visage of each of the three
heroines. They had watched silently
as the Black Leopard had released each of her
companions. There was no point
in interfering with the escape attempt.
Anything that made life more difficult for Zhuang could only be to
their advantage. But they had
not expected that Li Mei would use her skills to release
them. In actual fact she did
not release the heroines. Instead
she gave them the means to release themselves, handing the lock-pick to Suzi
and then returning to her original
position. Anyone glancing her
direction would suppose that she was still a
prisoner.
Suzi nodded slightly in recognition of the Black Leopard’s
action. It took her only seconds
to use her highly developed skills to remove her
fetters. Freed, she chose to
attend to Kyla next. Of the three
heroines, the Blue Avengers ability to become invisible was the most powerful
weapon at their disposal. Now
she understood the motive behind the Black Leopard’s
actions. Alone, the three
villainesses might have had some difficulty in escaping. Adding the three
heroines to their numbers would greatly improve their
chances. They were almost
ready. Deftly she removed the
last of Nova’s locks. The
six women tensed. In a few moments
they would make their move.
But it was Kyla who took the initiative.
Suddenly she disappeared, using her power to cloud the minds of those
about her. Her chains went slack,
indicating that she was no longer there.
The remaining five women held their breath, waiting for something
to happen. They were not
disappointed.
There was the sound of bare feet rushing across the room and then a split
second of silence. Zhuang turned
his heavy-jowled head in the direction of the sound just in time to receive
the full weight of Kyla’s body.
Trained as a gymnast, Kyla had
launched her body like a javelin directly into the unsuspecting
crimelord. The impact knocked
his immense bulk right across the divan and jolted Nova’s belt from
his hand. It was the perfect
distraction. As all heads turned
toward the stunned crime boss the other five women leaped into action, hurling
themselves at the remaining thugs.
Within seconds the few trusted henchmen Zhuang had allowed to remain
in the room found themselves overwhelmed.
Only Chen offered any real
resistance. Squaring off against
Suzi, he more than held his own, forcing the intrepid heroine to give ground
until she was joined by Nova.
Although Natassia had not yet recovered her belt she was still a
formidable opponent. Trained
from childhood in the arts of the Shaolin monks of
Stunned by the initial assault, Zhuang recovered surprisingly
quickly. Nova’s belt had
disappeared, a sure sign that the Blue Avenger had picked it
up. He knew that the situation
was temporarily out of control. But
he had one more trick up his sleeve.
He had not survived as long as he had as a master criminal without
having at least one backup plan.
Rolling toward the back of the divan, he pressed a button revealing
a hidden panel. Smoothly for
a man of his immense bulk he slid into the opening and closed the door behind
him. He was in a tiny room within
the walls of his fortress. He
fumbled in the darkness and found a light
switch. As the light came on
he found what he really wanted, a large
lever. Putting his weight to
it he depressed the lever and then with a satisfied smile made his way down
the hidden passage. In a few
minutes if all went well the problem of his escaped prisoners would be solved.
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