The Adventures of the Jade Dragon

The Adventures of the Jade Dragon

Episode 9

The Jade Dragon’s Return

 

Email: Lespion@msn.com

 

Chapter 4  Demon’s Pawn

 

Melissa’s first impression of her prison was that of a dungeon.  Then she realized that it was a bit more than that.  The high vaulted ceilings resembled that of a church although it would have been a church without windows.  Her disappearance from the room where she had left Solange and Suzi had been most disorienting.  The demon’s mode of travel caused a blinding wrench that had caused her to temporarily black out.  When she had regained consciousness she found herself in desperate straits.

 

She was suspended a foot above the stone floor, her limbs wrapped in rusted chain.  Melissa suspected that the chains were probably very old, judging from the amount of corrosion, but they were still strong enough to hold her.  The demon had wound them about her arms and legs, somehow securing the links without using any form of shackles or locks.  The ends of the chains seemed to have been somehow tucked into the links, securing them just as strongly as if they had been padlocked. 

 

The chains held her body in the form of an X, all of her weight suspended by her arms and shoulders.  How long she had been hanging there she did not know, but she was already in considerable pain and discomfort, a situation that was amplified by the fact that the chains about her calves and ankles were drawn tight, spreading her legs.  The demon could not possibly have chosen a type of confinement that would make her feel more helpless or vulnerable.  To make matters worse she knew why he had done it.

 

The demon’s invasion of her mind had enabled it to learn everything about her.  It knew exactly what form of bondage would leave her feeling most helpless and exposed.  He also knew what form of torture she feared most.  A few feet away the glow of a brazier threw a reddish light into the gloom.  It was close enough that she could feel the heat it gave off.  She shuddered as she noted the metal rods that were being heated in the hot coals.  A few feet from the brazier was what appeared to be a small icebox.  She wondered why it was there and suspected that she really didn’t want to find out. 

 

Further observation revealed something just as disturbing as the hot irons.  Neatly lined up along the top of a ledge was an assortment of knives.  She had no doubt that they had been deliberately placed where she could see them. 

 

 The demon was nowhere in sight when she awoke, but he soon put in an appearance, materializing out of the gloom to stand in front of her.  Melissa said nothing, but her heart was in her mouth as she gazed upon the demon’s terrifying form.  In the dim light of the crypt he seemed to glow like a furnace. 

 

“Yes, you are right to be afraid,” the demon glowered.  “I have never encountered any woman who can stand up to me.  You will be punished most severely for your temerity and I know just how to do it.”

 

Melissa shuddered.  It was impossible for her to hide her fear; the demon knew her too well.  She glanced quickly at the instruments of torture; the demon did not miss the direction of her gaze. 

 

He picked up one of the knives and tested its edge.  ”Shall we try a little surgery first?  I know how you fear for a certain portion of your anatomy.”

 

Melissa’s breasts heaved.  She could not hide her terror; the demon’s eyes were fixed on her nipples. 

 

The demon’s eyes became mere slits.  Slowly he moved toward her, the gleaming blade of the knife extended.  He stopped a bare three feet away and raised the knife until its point touched the areola of her left breast.  “Shall I start here? he asked.  “Or here?”  He moved the point lower and turned the knife so that its razor edged rested against the underside of her breast. 

 

Melissa did not answer.  She didn’t need to, the demon could read the fear in her eyes.  His mouth twisted into a cruel smile as he moved the knife in a cutting motion.  Melissa bit back a cry of pain as the blade cut into her flesh, inflicting a painful, but superficial wound.  “A little more pressure, and you’ll be flat-chested,” the demon grinned.  “Shall I continue?”

 

From somewhere inside, Melissa found courage.  “I can’t stop you, but cutting me to pieces won’t defeat me.  I don’t know how you got here or where you came from, but you are no different from the lowest criminal.  You prey upon those weaker than yourself, gaining strength from their torment.   Go ahead, cut me.  I’m sure it will make you feel extremely powerful.”

 

The demon glowered in disbelief.  He had been sure that his helpless prisoner would beg for mercy.  Instead his threat to mutilate her seemed to have given her strength.  “I misjudged you,” he said.  “You are strong.  Much stronger than I would have believed possible.”  He tossed the knife aside.  “I’ll save that for later.  Perhaps you will respond better to a little fire and ice.”

 

The demon moved to the brazier.  Holding up the hot iron he grinned.  “This for heat,” he said.  “And this for cold.”  He reached into the icebox brought out a chunk of ice.

 

“Both for pain,”  he added unnecessarily.    

 

Melissa tried to keep her face impassive, but her body suddenly felt very cold.  She was defenceless against a fiend who fed on fear and pain, but she swallowed and tried to compose herself.  She would face the peril like a true heroine even if her calm exterior did not deceive the demon for even a second. 

 

The demon stirred the iron in the hot coals.  The smell of burning charcoal came to her nostrils.  Casually the demon lifted another of the glowing irons and touched it with his fingers.  He grinned as Melissa’s eyes widened.  “What?” he laughed, “Surely you didn’t expect a little heat to bother a demon?  I suspect, however, that it might have a different effect on your skin.”

 

The demon replaced the iron and selected another.  “I think this one will  do.  The other seems to have cooled off a little.”  Moving toward Melissa he raised the glowing metal rod.

 

Melissa was suddenly covered with perspiration.  She was sweating in fear even as cold chills ran down her spine.  She knew that it would do no good to plead for mercy, it would simply give the demon that much more pleasure.  She braced herself.  She had faced fire before.  The scorpion brand burned between her breasts was proof of that.  It had been placed there on her initiation into the Assassins’ Guild.  It was a trial she had endured without a murmur.  A single hot iron could not intimidate her. 

 

Somehow, however, this was different.  Unreasoning fear swept through her, a fear that she could not comprehend.  What was the matter with her?  She had faced such peril many times before.  And then she knew.  The demon preyed on the slightest weakness.  He had scented her fright and amplified it, expanding her fear until she was on the verge of complete panic.  It was not enough to merely torture her, he wanted her to scream in terror and beg for mercy. 

 

The demon drank in her fear.  He seemed to swell visibly as he drew closer.  He raised the glowing iron, holding it just millimeters from her breast.  The searing heat raised a white blister just below her left nipple.  Melissa’s breathing quickened; it was hard to hold back her terror. 

 

She used her Taoist training to calm herself, forcing her mind to go blank.  She would not give him the satisfaction of hearing her cry out. 

 

“Do you remember heroine?  Do you remember how your parents died?”

 

Melissa gasped, her concentration broken.  The memories flooded back; memories she had ruthlessly suppressed.  She relived the day her parents died.  They had been murdered by bandits in China.  That was a fact she knew well.  It was the exact manner of their death she had refused to remember.  But now she recalled every gruesome and terrifying detail. 

 

Rather than fleeing, her parents had barricaded themselves in their house when the Chinese bandits attacked.  It had proved to be a fatal error.  The bandits had surrounded the house, but instead of waiting for the people trapped inside to surrender the bandit leader had ordered the doors and shutters nailed shut.  Then he had set fire to the house. 

 

Melissa had survived simply because she had been trapped outside the house when the bandits arrived.  Her parents had not, and the terrible screams as they were burned alive was a memory she had repressed for more almost twenty years.  But now she remembered everything.  The vivid details rushed into her brain.  Her parents had died horribly, their flesh seared from their bodies, and now the same thing was about to happen to her.

 

“Ah, I see you do remember,” the demon said.  “Be brave.  I’m sure you won’t scream the way your mother did.”

 

Melissa didn’t scream, at least not at first.  She was trained to ignore pain.  She had even perfected mental techniques for suppressing it entirely, but the demon would not let her use these.  He kept her mind awake.  As he touched the iron to her breast she bit back a shriek of agony.

 

There was an audible hiss as the iron seared her left breast just below the nipple.  It was agonizingly painful, but Melissa made no sound other than a quick intake of breath.  Her chest heaved, her breasts quivering as she shuddered in pain. 

 

“Amazing,” the demon exclaimed.  “I never expected you to be so strong.  This will be very entertaining.”  Replacing the iron the demon reached into the icebox and removed a chunk of ice about eight inches long and three in diameter.  Melissa had no difficulty recognizing its similarity to the male organ. 

 

“First the fire, then the ice,” the demon explained, unnecessarily. 

 

Melissa suppressed a grunt as the demon inserted the ice dildo.  It would have been painful if it had been a normal phallus, but chilled to temperatures below freezing it seemed to burn as the demon forced it into her.  And then there was the matter of its size.  It was hardly small, being as thick as a man’s wrist.  It took a bit of effort to force it into her tight pleasure palace.  She arched her back slightly and gripped the chains as she was penetrated, her breathing coming in harsh gasps.  Her breast still burned and the added torment of the dildo pushed her close to her pain tolerance. 

 

Breathing heavily, her teeth clenched, Melissa watched as the demon took out a second iron from the brazier.  With deliberate slowness, he moved it toward her genital region, enjoying his victim’s forced calm.  She stared him in the eyes as he lowered the glowing iron to the curly brown thatch just above her vulva. 

 

Melissa was almost ill as the stench of burning hair assailed her nostrils and then the demon jabbed the tip of the iron against her skin, targeting the area just above her clitoris.  The combined pain of the ice and the iron was indescribable.  Only by a supreme effort of will did Melissa hold her silence, but her agony was evident.  Sweat poured from her body, dripping steadily onto the stone floor of the vault.

 

“You are remarkable.  Never has any woman resisted for so long,” the demon said.  “But I expect you will not last much longer.”

 

The demon took the third iron from the brazier and touched it to the nipple of her right breast.  This time Melissa gasped in pain.  The demon laughed.  “Finally a sign of weakness.  Your pain tolerance is incredible, but it is only a matter of time before you break.”

 

It took a little longer than the demon thought, but eventually Melissa gave him the reaction he sought.  Her body was scarred in over a score of places by the mark of the hot irons.  Exhausted, she screamed in agony as he touched the iron to her belly and then screamed even louder as he branded her buttocks.  After that every touch of the iron brought the desired response.

 

Two hours later the demon set down his iron.  There was hardly a place where he could touch the iron that had not already been burned.  The pain was unbelievable, but so was Melissa’s ability to withstand pain.  At the end of two hours, however, she was barely conscious.  Indeed, the pain would have caused her to faint, if the demon would have allowed it.  He forced her to stay awake and endure every agonizing touch of the burning iron. 

 

Finally, the demon stepped back and surveyed his handiwork.  “That’s a good start, but it is time we moved on to something more pleasant.”  He stretched forth his hand and touched Melissa’s charred breasts.  A sensation like a jolt of electricity surged through her.  Her breasts burned with pain so intense that everything that had gone before was insignificant, but when the burning stopped there was no sign that any torture had taken place. 

 

“It is a little talent I have, heroine,” the demon explained.  “I can heal you as often as I desire and then torture you all over again.  It is fortunate that you can tolerate pain, because you are going to enjoy a great deal of it.”

 

Melissa almost broke.  She now fully understood what she faced.  The demon could torture her forever, feeding on her pain and then restore her to the way she had been and torture her all over again.  It was a fate that no one could endure for long.  Sooner or later she would break and the demon would triumph.  Helpless and terrified she waited to see what her brutal captor would do next.

 

“Your daughter interrupted my pleasure.  It seems only fitting that you should take the place of your blonde friend.” 

 

Melissa steeled herself for the next part of her ordeal.  She feared rape, and the pain and degradation that went with it even more than torture.  Torture was just pain, but rape went beyond that, stealing a part of her soul.  The demon, of course, knew all of this.  She knew that he would make her ordeal as brutal and humiliating as possible.  As he approached her, she gripped the chains even tighter and waited for him to have his way.

 

The demon teased her at first.  He loosened the chains holding her legs, and placing his hands beneath her buttocks he lifted her slightly and then lowered her onto his erect phallus.  It was so huge it seemed impossible that it could penetrate her, but the demon held her body in place and allowed gravity to do its work. 

 

Slowly, Melissa’s body settled onto the huge organ.  She did her best to avoid the rape, lifting herself by the chains that bound her wrists, but she lacked the strength to hold herself up forever.  Slowly the demon’s immense organ entered her, parting her vulva and forcing its way into her vagina.  The demon moaned in pleasure as her warm tight flesh surrounded his penis.  Shifting his grip he placed his hands just above the swell of her buttocks and drove himself deep within her. 

 

“Oh yes, you are so tight!” the demon exclaimed as he ripped into her.  She cried out, partly in pain and partly in shame as the demon split her.  He had penetrated to her womb and she was seized with an intense fear as she suddenly realized that it might be possible for the demon to impregnate her.  She had heard of  “demon seed”, but she had never thought about the term literally.  The thought that she might be forced to bear a demonic child filled her with horror. 

 

The demon read her mind, and forced into it a vision of what her imagined child would look like.  It was a monstrous thing of fangs and claws.  The demon’s laughter rang in her thoughts.  “I thought the severing of your breasts was your greatest fear; now I see that there is something that frightens you even more.”

 

As he spoke, he sank his claws deep into her derriere and pulled her hard onto his thrusting phallus.  Melissa screamed as he penetrated her to the full extent of his heavy organ.  As she arched her back in agony he bent his head and buried his fangs in her left breast, worrying it like a dog.  The six inch fangs sank into Melissa’s quivering breasts, ripping her chest open.  “Let’s see if I can fulfill both your fears at once,” the demon sneered.  As Melissa shrieked in agony he spurted his seed into her.  It was like being injected with molten metal, and filled her with a pain unlike anything she had ever experienced.

 

Mercifully, at least for the moment, the rape ended.  The demon stepped back from her and stood for a few seconds as if surveying his handiwork.  Melissa hung sobbing in front of him, her body torn and bleeding.  Her womb burned with an unnatural heat, filling her with dread.  If she was impregnated again – this time with a demon’s child…  The thought was so horrifying that she could not complete it.

 

The demon nodded in satisfaction and stretched forth his hand once again.  Once more Melissa experienced the pain of healing, but she slumped in the chains, barely conscious. 

 

“I think I will have to find some other way of amusing myself,” the demon said.  “Something completely degrading; and your inner thoughts have shown me the way.”

 

Melissa raised her head.  She knew what the demon meant.  She had caught a hint of it in his mental message.  It would be humiliating beyond belief, but there was nothing she could do to stop him.  She could only hope that somehow her friends might find some way to rescue her before the demon had time to carry out his plan to completely debase and humiliate her.  Unfortunately, her faint hope was not to be.  A few hours later, just before noon, the demon put his plan into operation.

 

 

Melissa entered the frat house if “house” was the proper term to describe the filthy premises the demon had chosen.  Phi Delta Gamma Lamba smelled as if it had not been cleaned for months and it looked worse.  Bottles, dirty plates, bits of old food, and other filth littered the room she walked into.  To describe the room as a disgusting mess would have been a complete understatement.  But the smell and the collection of garbage was not its worst aspect; that place of honour was reserved for the half dozen young men lounging on whatever pieces of furniture were not covered with trash.  She would have turned and left immediately if she could, but the demon had other ideas.

 

“What’s the matter, heroine?” he taunted.  “This group not to your liking?  That’s unfortunate, because you are going to get to know them well – very well.”

 

Melissa’s brow was beaded with sweat from the effort of fighting the demon.  But she could not resist his power.  He had forced her to dress in an outfit that was both innocent and at the same time alluring.  It consisted primarily of a white blouse and dark skirt, but the demon had made sure that she left the top two buttons of the blouse undone, so that the sweet curve of her breasts and the top of her blue bra were revealed.  It had been one of Melissa’s favourite outfits before she had left Metro City for China.  She doubted that it still existed, but the demon had dredged its memory out of her head and had created a reasonable facsimile.  It came complete with nylon stockings and high heels, and accentuated her tall, trim figure.  To further emphasize the fullness of her breasts she had knotted the blouse just above her skirt, revealing her flat belly and a hint of her navel.  It wasn’t exactly 1930s fashion, but it got the attention of every pimply-faced young man in the room. 

 

She was completely under the demon’s control.  Every action she had carried out in the last few hours had been performed under duress, but after her frightful ordeal in the vault of what she now knew was Metro City’s largest church, she could no longer force the demon out of her mind.  The demon gave orders and she did what she was told.  That did not mean, however, that she was unaware of what was happening to her or what the demon intended to do with her.  She had fought him every step of the way and was fighting him even now, but he contemptuously pushed aside her resistance. 

 

He forced her legs to carry her into the middle of the room.  It didn’t take more than a few seconds before one of the fraternity brothers got up off his ass.  “Well, what we got here?  You lose your way, baby?”

 

A cigarette dangled from one corner of the speaker’s mouth.  He appeared to be a slack-jawed idiot, the sort of trumped up little boy Melissa would have slapped back into his corner if she had been able.  But she wasn’t able.  She opened her mouth, the demon’s thoughts becoming her own.  “Pardon me.  I seem to have lost my way.  I was looking for a rooming house.  Isn’t this 345 Apple Blossom Drive?”

 

The slack-jawed youth looked at her and removing his cigarette, licked his lips before answering.  “No, this is 345 Apple Road.  You’re lost baby.” 

 

“Oh, sorry for disturbing you, I’ll just go back to my car.” 

 

By this time several more of the indolent young men had gotten to their feet.  They partially surrounded her, but Melissa pretended not to notice.  She turned to leave. 

 

“Oh, don’t go baby,” another of the men said.  He was blonde-haired and chunkily built.  It looked as if he hadn’t changed his clothes in a few days, which was probably close to the mark.  He swept a pile of papers off one of the chairs.  “Here, have a seat.  I’ve got a city map upstairs.  Make yourself comfortable and I’ll get it.”

 

“Ah, thanks,” Melissa replied.  She sat down in a position that revealed a good deal of her long legs.  Several of the men sat next to her while the slack-jawed youth she had spoken to first introduced himself and his friends.

 

“My name is Vince.  The tubby guy looking for the map is Bobby, and this is Sid, Jack…”  He went around the room introducing the other members of the fraternity.  Several other men came into the room while he was thus engaged and he introduced them as well.  In the meantime Bobby came back with his map.  He had something else as well.

 

“How about a drink?” Bobby said setting down a bottle of rum and a none-too-clean glass on the table in front of her. 

 

“Thanks,” Melissa answered, “but it’s a little early.”

 

“Just a little one,” Vince said.  “Look, I’ll join you.”

 

“OK just one,” she agreed.  “But use lots of Coke and just a little rum.”  By this time she noticed that there were about twenty people in the room.  All were young men under the age of thirty.  Most of them joined her in the drink.

 

Melissa downed her rum and coke.  It wasn’t the sort of thing she normally did, like the Jade Dragon she tended to avoid alcohol; it interfered with her heroine training.  But she was no longer acting like a heroine.  She was the demon’s puppet, acting out one of her deepest fears and fantasies.  Her choice of Phi Delta Gamma Lamba was no accident.  The fraternity was notorious for its wild parties and several of its members had been charged with sexual assault. 

 

She drank another rum and coke.  It was mixed the opposite of the way she had asked for it, a fact that did not surprise her.  She hadn’t eaten in hours and the alcohol had an immediate effect on her.  “I should go now,” she said.  Somewhat unsteadily, she got to her feet.

 

A pair of hands settled on her shoulders and pushed her back down.  “No you don’t, baby.  We’re just getting started.”

 

Melissa looked over her shoulder.  Bobby stood behind her, his pudgy hands on her shoulders.  His gaze was fixed on the place where her breasts swelled from her bra.  She noted that somehow there were now several buttons undone. 

 

“I’ve had enough,” she said.  “Let me up.”

 

“Another couple of drinks first,” Vince said.  “Then you can go.”

 

“No,” Melissa protested.  “Let me go.  I’ll scream.”

 

Several of the men laughed.  “Scream?” one of them said.  “Go ahead.  No one will pay any attention to screams coming from here.”

 

Vince shoved the bottle toward her.  “Drink, baby.”

 

“Get away from me,” Melissa responded.  She slapped the bottle from his hand.  She wanted to do much more than that.  She wanted to tear the room apart and scatter the men about her in all directions, but the demon kept her meek – a helpless young woman who had carelessly walked in to a den of iniquity. 

 

Vince grabbed the bottle from the floor, his slack features twisted in anger.  “You stupid bitch, you spilled the booze.  You’re going to have that drink if I’ve got to pour it down your throat.”

 

Melissa jumped to her feet.  “The hell you will, asshole,” she said.  She slapped him in the face and turned to leave. 

 

The blow was too feeble to do more than anger him, exactly as the demon had intended.  Vince grabbed her shoulder and spun her around.  He struck her open-handed, returning the blow.  It knocked her back into the chair where several pairs of hands seized her.  Melissa struggled, but Vince hit her again, this time a little harder, rocking her head.  Then he pinched her jaw and jammed the bottle between her lips.

 

“Drink, damn it,” Vince ordered.  He upended the bottle, pouring its contents down her throat.

 

Melissa was forced to swallow or drown.  She gulped down the harsh fluid, spilling a good deal of it down her chest but swallowing enough that her pretended resistance weakened.  Vince continued to make her drink until she had swallowed enough that she no longer needed to pretend to be drunk. 

 

“You bashturd,” she slurred as he set the bottle down.  “You won’t get away with thish.”

 

“You got a smart mouth,” Vince replied.  “Let’s see if we can’t put it to better use.”  He straddled the chair and unzipped his fly.  His erect penis was only inches from her mouth.  “Come on, suck it, bitch.”

 

Melissa tried to turn her head away, but Vince grabbed her hair and forced her head back.  Her mouth opened involuntarily and Vince shoved his phallus between her lips.

 

Melissa bit him.  It was something she might have done anyway, even if the demon had not made her do it.  It was, however, something that under the circumstances was not be wisest move.

 

“You fucking bitch,” Vince roared.  He drove his fist into her face.  The first blow blackened her left eye.  The second split her lip and the third bloodied her nose.  Then he stopped for a few seconds.  “Pick her up,” he ordered.

 

“But Vince…,” Bobby protested. 

 

“Do it!” Vince shouted. 

 

She was dragged to her feet, her head reeling from the rum and the beating.  Vince hit her in the stomach and then slammed two blows into her ribs.  There was sharp stab of pain as one of them cracked.  The breath knocked out of her, and barely conscious Melissa would have fallen if she had not been held up by Bobby.  Vince pushed her to her knees and jerked her head back again. 

 

“Now let’s try it again.  And this time do it right,” he said. 

 

Melissa was almost sick.  The rum was now fully affecting her.  She had been forced to drink half a bottle a bottle, an amount that would have gotten her nicely drunk even without the beating she had received. 

 

“Come on, slut.  You know you want to do it,” the demon taunted.  “Suck it like the cheap whore you desire to be.”

 

Melissa fought back tears as she took Vince’s member between her lips.  She dutifully sucked his cock until he groaned in pleasure.  He grabbed her hair and pushed deep into her mouth just before he climaxed, shooting his semen down her throat.  Almost immediately someone took his place and after that someone else. 

 

The next couple of hours she serviced every man in the house.  She stank of sweat, booze, and sperm and her jaw ached from the strain of accommodating so many male members.  But her ordeal was just beginning.  By the time she finished the last man Vince was ready for something else.

 

“Let’s take her upstairs,” Vince said.  “I want to fuck her on a bed.”

 

Drunk, battered, and exhausted from her two hour fellatio, Melissa offered no resistance as she was dragged up the stairway by Vince and Bobby.  She was hauled to a room containing a double bed.  It was unmade, but that hardly mattered to the men who piled into the room to watch the fun.  At that point, the demon allowed Melissa to struggle. 

 

“Hold her down,” Vince ordered. 

 

Willing hands grabbed Melissa’s arms and legs.  Although her blouse was wide open, she was still dressed and Vince had the enjoyment of removing her clothing item by item. 

 

Her blouse went first.  Underneath she wore a decorative blue brassiere that enhanced as well as hid her breasts.  It took Vince only a few seconds to slide the straps over her shoulders and slip it from her body.    

 

“What a set of tits,” Bobby exclaimed.  “They’re like ripe melons.” 

 

Melissa’s breasts quivered as she struggled in the hands of the men who held her.  Had the demon not restrained her she would have broken free of the puny fools who held her.  But her efforts to escape were not wasted.  Every man who watched the heaving of her magnificent body achieved an instant erection.  Vince leaned over her and squeezed her breasts with both hands. 

 

“Almost as firm too,” Vince he said, agreeing with Bobby’s comment.  “Now let’s have a look at her pussy.”

 

He unbuttoned her dark skirt and tossed it to one side.  Underneath Melissa wore a pair of panties to match her bra, and a garter belt to support her nylons.  Her shoes were already gone, kicked off when she had been dragged up the stairs.  Gripping her panties with both hands he eased them down and whistled as he revealed the dark brown triangle covering her mons veneris. 

 

Vince then ripped off her garter belt and threw it aside.  Kneeling on the bed he cupped the tender region between her thighs.  Melissa heaved her body as his finger slid between the folds of her vulva.  “Nice tight little clam,” Vince observed.  “It’s going to be fun forcing my way in there.”

 

Melissa bucked, fighting against the many hands that held her.  She was being mauled everywhere, her breasts and buttocks being fondled and pinched unmercifully.  Terror and revulsion filled her mind.

 

“Whore,” came the demon’s taunt.  “Stop pretending that you are not enjoying this.  I have peered into your mind and seen your secret rape fantasies.”

 

“No,” protested Melissa in her thoughts.  “That’s not true.”

 

“You know it is, heroine.  You pretend that you fear rape, but you secretly enjoy it.”

 

Melissa started to deny the accusation and then grunted as Vince entered her.  It was nothing like being raped by the demon, but it was completely mortifying to be taken by such a pathetic little man.  It got even worse when Bobby joined in.  The tubby frat brother heaved his bulk onto her face and forced his phallus into her mouth.  The disgusting act almost choked her, his weight crushing down on her chest and his thick member tickling the back of her throat. 

 

The rape went on all day until every man in the house had enjoyed her then it started all over again with Vince turning her over and taking her anally.  She gasped in pain as he penetrated her tight backside.  Face down on the bed, her mouth was even more accessible and the other frat members took full advantage of that. 

 

By now the demon no longer had to hold her back.  Every inch of her body had been pinched and fondled.  She was bruised from head to foot and stank of the semen of more than a score of men.  Her vagina and anus were raw and her jaw felt like it had been dislocated. 

 

Finally, somewhere in the early hours of the following day she was released.  She had been subjected to almost twenty-four hours of violent sex and was almost too weak to stand.  Even her superheroine powers of endurance had been stretched to the limit.  She was allowed to pull her clothes back on and escorted from the house by Vince and several others.  They dumped her into the trunk of a car and drove her to the edge of town.

 

The ride in the trunk was terrifying.  Battered and confused, Melissa was certain that she was about to be murdered.  It was that fear that pulled her back together.  It did not occur to the frat brothers that she might try to escape from the trunk of a moving car and they had taken no precautions other than closing the lid. 

 

It took Melissa only a few minutes to locate the tire iron and not even that long to pop the trunk.  As the car slowed to take a corner she leaped from the car.  She slammed hard into the ditch and fetched up against a tree.  The car sped on, its occupants apparently completely unaware that she had escaped. 

 

“That was well done,” the demon chortled as Melissa spat dirt out of her mouth.  “I would have had to help you escape if you had not done it yourself.”

 

The demon’s comment made Melissa realize that her ordeal was far from over.  She had escaped from Phi Delta Gamma Lamba, but she was still controlled by the demon.  Too exhausted to even stand, she lay in the ditch and wondered what else was in store for her. 

 

The demon let her lie where she was until nightfall.  He made no attempt to heal her and Melissa was too done in from her ordeal to do more than lie where she was.  Night found her shivering with the cold.  The demon seemed to have left.  When she searched her mind she could find no trace of him.  At that point she forced herself to her feet.  Only her superb conditioning and martial training enabled her to clamber out of the ditch to the road.  She was nude, covered with bruises, and had at least one cracked rib.  In addition, her head ached abominably, both from the rum hangover and the beating Vince had given her. 

 

Slowly she walked down the dark road, wondering what she should do if a car chanced to come along.  Should she seek help or attempt to avoid discovery?  One thing she did not want to do was attract attention to herself from the media and that would almost certainly happen if she asked a passing motorist for help.  She had suffered enough humiliation for one day without staggering beaten and naked up to some astounded passerby and begging for assistance. 

 

For awhile she did not have to make that sort of decision.  It appeared that she had escaped in a particularly deserted area and traffic seemed nonexistent.  There was no one around she could have asked for help.  Sooner or later, however, she would make it to a more populated area and then she would have to make a decision about whether to ask for help or not. 

 

She staggered through the night, growing progressively more exhausted.  It was fortunate that it was a warm summer night otherwise her lack of clothing would have resulted in a bad case of hyperthermia.  Just when she was about to give up and look for a place to sleep the situation finally resolved itself when she spotted a light in the darkness.  It turned out to be a farmhouse and Melissa approached it with caution.  Her assassin training helped her here otherwise she would have set off the dog alarm. 

 

There were three mutts patrolling the farmyard and she avoided them by approaching from downwind.  Reaching the farmhouse she pried open a window.  She was helped by the fact that the farmer and his family were practicing the “early to bed, early to rise” code.  Moving through the darkened house she found the telephone.  To her dismay she found that it was a party line.  She had not counted on that, but she took the chance that no one would be up late and dialed the number.

 

To her relief the phone was answered on the first ring.  “Natassia,” she said, “it’s Melissa.  You’ve got to help me.” 

 

She had no idea where she was, but she could read the number of the telephone and gave that to Natassia.  Then, she left the house as silently as she had come, and reaching the road, she waited.

 

It seemed to take forever for Natassia to show up.  She was not alone.  The first person out of the car was the Jade Dragon.  The oriental heroine didn’t say anything, not even to comment on Melissa’s nude and battered condition.  Instead she simply helped the fallen heroine into the car and wrapped a blanket around her. 

 

Inside the spacious back seat of Natassia’s limousine, Melissa tired to explain what had happened.  The Jade Dragon silenced her.  “Don’t talk now.  Sleep.  There will be time enough later for explanations.” 

 

With a sigh of relief Melissa settled into the blankets.  The Jade Dragon cradled her head and she suddenly realized how completely exhausted she was.  She closed her eyes and allowed herself to drift toward sleep.  “Everything will be alright,” she thought.  “Jade will know what to do.”  And then the peaceful oblivion of sleep overtook her.


PREVIOUS CHAPTER WIZARD'S LAIR MAIN PAGE   L'ESPION'S STORY PAGE   NEXT CHAPTER