There's Something About Melissa By Dolerat@yahoo.co.uk Fighting babe Melissa plays with her menagerie This is the first in a number of stories that I hope to contribute to Diana's site. I would categorise them all as 'Femdom Lite' mixed with some combat scenes. There will be no explicit sex or violence and no bad language. This story is a sequel to 'New Challenge' by Sportster. As I do not know Sportster's e-mail address, it has not been possible to contact him (or her) for approval to use the characters. I hope they have no objection and that they find the story a worthy follow-up! Please note that it takes place a few years after the events of 'New Challenge'. Melissa Vinson's beautiful features were screwed up into an uncharacteristic frown of concern as she left the health club, wearing a smart white tracksuit. Her older brother, Aaron, was waiting by his car and she tossed her sports bag to him. Melissa was 17 and Aaron, like his twin brother Eric, was 21. Like many young men, he thought only about girls and sports and getting a better job. But unlike most young men, he knew that he would have only a limited influence over his life choices. Most of the decisions would be made by his younger sister, Melissa, in consultation with HER younger sister, Kim, and their mother. "Take me to the gym", ordered Melissa curtly. Sensing she was not in the mood for debate, he drove off with a squeal of tyres. The gym at Melissa's High School was intensively used for after-school activities and community sports. But on Tuesday evenings, for some reason, it could not be booked. Nobody (except Melissa) knew why. Complaints to the authorities had proved fruitless. She jumped out of the car, telling her brother: "Be here at eight to collect me." Then she strode purposefully into the changing rooms. As she took off the tracksuit, she worried away at the two problems on her mind; one was her mother's lost investment in her Enron shares, the second was the business problems being experienced by her friend Kathy down at the mall. Underneath the tracksuit, she wore a black-and-jade gymnastics leotard. The silkskin fabric outlined every inch of her shapely, but muscular, upper body. Her bare legs looked incredibly long. Had she actually been performing gymnastics, she would have tied her hair back but instead she let her blonde tresses flow loose, where they made a stunning contrast with the dark colours of the leotard. Her body excited men, she knew that, and it all added to her control over them. Control was the key. As she rubbed her fingers over the clinging fabric of the leotard, an idea came to her... Melissa strode into the gym, where a dozen men were waiting for her, all clad in singlets and shorts. They were a strange bunch. Ages ranged from 17 to 37. Some were lean, muscular teenagers, others were succumbing to middle-age flabbiness. Amongst them were a local policeman, a supermarket manager, a school careers adviser, two next-door neighbours, a few would-be boyfriends, a pervert who had made the mistake of harassing Melissa in the park ... and the caretaker responsible for the gym. That explained why she had exclusive use of it on a Tuesday. One man raised a hand nervously. "Er, Ms Vinson? My parents are having an anniversary party tonight and they want me to be there. Could I leave early?" Melissa was fond of Brian. He was cute. She liked the way he was nervous around her. But authority had to be maintained. "Well d'uh! What do I care if your boring parents are celebrating their boring old anniversary?" Brian's face fell. But he did not question her decision, no man in the gym would dare do that. She clapped her hands briskly. "OK, let's get started!" Then she snapped her fingers and every man dropped to his knees with a precision so exact it was comical. She snapped again and twelve male foreheads hit the mat with a pronounced thump. One more snap and the heads were raised, one more snap and they all stood up. A circus animal trainer could not have done it better, but then that was what Melissa considered herself to be. "Right, listen up 'cause I'm not going to repeat this. One jump, two hop, three wriggle like a worm, four snog eight (no tongue), five and nine report to the wrestling mat, six" (the brightest of the bunch) "off to the office and start my homework, seven run around the room, ten, eleven and twelve, make a sofa for me." Melissa had assigned all the men numbers. From one to twelve, all launched into activity. The men designated ten, eleven and twelve (the caretaker, a neighbour and a particularly pushy door-to-door salesman) descended to hands and knees and shuffled together, so that Melissa could stretch out atop their torsos. From this vantagepoint, she watched with amusement as the men sweated and strained to obey her commands. She would occasionally throw out an instruction, a contemptuous jibe or an order to work harder. Especially amusing was the sight of numbers four and eight, actually Bill and Ben, two would-be boyfriends, burly jocks now red-faced with shame and humiliation as they snogged one another. Why did they obey her, Melissa wondered? At first, she had relied on an element of blackmail. How could Mr Simpkins, the school careers adviser, possibly explain his involvement with a shapely young girl teen to his attractive, but glacial, wife? But once they had been under her control a while, it became internalised within them. Something within the male psyche actually seemed to crave enslavement by a powerful and icily beautiful young woman, provided that she displayed total confidence and total mastery. So it was like animal training after all. She uncurled her long limbs from the human divan and strolled over to where subjects five and nine were waiting. Five was the school careers instructor, a lanky man in younger middle age. Nine was a local police officer, a muscly man in his twenties, who prided himself on his fitness and skill at unarmed combat -but he had only tackled armed robbers, burglars and street gangs, not Melissa Vinson. The two men knew that to attack her meant a thorough beating. But to not attack her meant disobeying her orders and THAT meant a thorough beating too. She clicked her fingers and they looked at each other hopelessly. Then they shrugged and charged at her. What happened next seemed miraculous. One moment she was there, in their path, the next she was gone, with the merest twitch of her torso, and the two men crashed into each other and fell to the floor. For the next five minutes, they made strenuous but singularly unsuccessful efforts to lay a hand on her. Melissa strolled around, hands resting on her hips or casually folded behind her back, making encouraging comments, smiling wickedly as they tired themselves out. "Men", she thought, "they really are feeble!" The other men dotted around the hall would surreptitiously interrupt their monotonous activities to watch as Melissa effortlessly took apart her would-be assailants. They did not know whether to pity or to envy the two victims who found their bodies twisted into ever more improbable contortions or locked helplessly between Melissa's sinuous limbs. The sobs of mercy or high-pitched screeches they emitted, as Melissa's steely grip fastened onto a tender limb or as a stiffened finger jabbed mercilessly at a nerve centre, were alarming but the proximity of the victims to her shapely leotard-clad torso did arouse envy. With her powerful arms clamped around the necks of the two men, Melissa giggled as they pawed helplessly to get free. Then she shouted, "Brian!" Brian had been hopping on alternate legs for half-an-hour and was lathered with sweat. Fearfully, he rushed over to her. "Yes, Ms Vinson?" "You can go to your boring party, now. See how good I am to you guys? But show your appreciation before you leave." "Yes, Ms Vinson." While the two male heads remained in place between arm and chest on either side, the third man knelt down at Melissa's feet. Brian tenderly kissed each foot in turn. "Thank you, Ms Vinson." She smiled to herself. Well-trained animals responded to both kindness and discipline - the trick was knowing the right time for both. As a thankful Brian hurried away, she released her two exhausted victims. They crawled to her ankles and began lavishing kisses on her feet and lower legs. "Look up at me," she ordered. They did so, with all the pathetic eagerness of young puppies. "Who is your superior?" "You are, Ms Vinson." "What do I expect of you?" They knew the mantra by heart now. "Total, unconditional, unthinking obedience." "That's right. Off you go." She raised her voice. "All of you, back in line!" A group of frightened, tired, perspiring men faced her. Their minds and spirits had been broken. Time for some new recruits, Melissa thought. A little resistance would be fun. Now what about the new Drill Sergeant down at Fort Baxter? Apparently he had boasted about doing the assault course in 17 minutes, a record time. Big deal! Melissa had snuck in and done it in 15 minutes when she was just 12 years old. It was too easy for her now. With military matters on her mind, she strode up and down like a sergeant-major as she inspected her bedraggled subjects. They looked on with mingled fear and devotion, admiring the curves of her body, the dancer-like balance and the martial arts trained limbs that had inflicted so much torment on them. "Right, now listen up! My friend Kathy's dancewear shop down at the Eisenhower Mall needs some more customers. So from next week, we're going to have a new costume for all you slaves." Apprehensive faces watched her. "I want you all to go down to the shop - it's called "Tight Spot" - this week and buy a leotard, tights and legwarmers. Kathy will help you try them on and she'll close the shop when you do it. Isn't that kind of her? I'm sure you'll all look sweet in Lycra." No dissent. Not a murmur. Just glum resignation. Damn, she'd programmed them TOO well! Melissa snapped her fingers and her subjects filed away to the changing-room. She threw on some sweats over her leotard - she would shower at home later - and ran out to the car, where Aaron and Eric were waiting. She was 10 minutes late but it didn't matter. They would wait till the crack of doom if she told them to. Back home, she bounced cheerfully into the house. Her mother, a bored expresion on her face, was armwrestling with her new boyfriend. He was red-faced, panting, straining to hold her, while she was idly examining her nails. "Nice day, dear?" "D'uh! Men are such wimps." Melissa turned to her two brothers. "Take my stuff upstairs then get started on my homework. If you're quick, you can watch TV later." Aaron shuffled uncomfortably. "I - I can't Melissa. Kim took all my pens away." He looked about to cry. "Aaah, poor baby! Tell Kim I said to give you one pen back, okey-doke?" Her mother slammed her opponent's hand down on the table and turned to face Melissa, leaving her new suitor a gasping wreck. "There's a report on CBS about Enron and that Mr Lay. Really, those people were a bunch of grasping crooks! It's about time our government took more interest in Main Street and less in Wall Street. Still, I suppose it's partly my fault for buying their shares." As Melissa listened to the TV, a name caught her attention. "...and Mr Lay is presently believed to be staying with his sister in the small town of Barlow Falls, while he awaits the outcome of Congressional and Justice Department investigations..." Barlow Falls was just fifty miles down the road. She pondered a moment and then flexed her right arm, causing her mother's boyfriend (who was crawling past at the time) to give an apprehensive yelp. "Mom" she said, with a wicked grin. "I'm going to pay a visit on that Mr Lay tomorrow. He says he believes in market forces - well, let's try him with Melissa's forces!" And with that, Melissa Vinson, high school babe, athlete, boxing and wrestling champ, idolised by the men who didn't know her, feared AND idolised by the men who DID know her, departed for the shower. When you're young, beautiful, strong, athletic, intelligent and superfit, life is good and the world lies at your feet ... or under them. There definitely was something about Melissa. END