Fists, feet, and justice By Jack A female self-defense teacher takes justice into her own hands and feet! "UNKNOWN RAPIST STRIKES AGAIN" Hollis put the morning paper down on her desk, steaming with anger. How someone could rape five women was beyond her, but how she could let it go on any further was even more outrageous. Beth, her most promising new student, picked up the paper and shuddered, unable to read any more than the headline. "It's disgusting," mumbled Hollis. "What I wouldn't give for ten minutes alone with this guy ... " Beth tried to take another glance at the paper, but she immediately turned away in fear. "So what are you going to do?" Hollis licked her lips and smiled grimly. Slowly and deliberately, she lifted her legs up and propped her tan bare feet on the counter. She wriggled her toes and took a long, knowing look at those thick tough soles who had brought pleasure to so many men and all-punishing pain to so many more. "Introduce him to the joys of bare feet. Now that would be a headline worth reading." The fact was, Hollis and her self-defense studio had made plenty of headlines over the past year. A self-made millionaire, Hollis had long since not needed to work through a combination of unstoppable victories in martial arts competitions. Add to that a string of lucrative modeling gigs and a financial brilliance in the world of investments, and she was able to do what she wanted by the age of 27. After a year of traveling the world, Hollis decided she wanted to open up a martial arts studio. Unfortunately, she could not hold with the belief that her skills should be used only in self-defense. More and more, she would read the papers and dream of righting some of the wrongs which would offend her sense of justice, particularly when she read about crimes against women or children. Vigilantism was reprehensible, she told herself, unless she could establish solid ground rules. She would never maim or kill when she dispensed justice, only beat and humiliate. Also, she would ensure that only men who were deserving would receive the bone-crushing fury of her fists and feet. And it worked. Every now and then, the police would receive an anonymous call tipping them off to major criminals with incriminating evidence waiting to be arrested. When the police would arrive on the scene, they would their culprits beaten to bloody pulps, usually unconscious or crying uncontrollably in pain. When she knew that someone would benefit from viewing the punishment, Hollis would videotape the thrashings and send them to the victims of the criminals. Thank you notes poured in, and Hollis knew she was doing good. Her next step was to open a women's self defense studio. She would teach beginning, intermediate, and advanced classes. Due to her incredible mastery of a plethora of fighting styles, Hollis was able to teach all levels a variety of methods of how to deal with attackers, yet since it was her own system, Hollis was not forced to comply to the rules imposed by a particular breed of martial arts. She wanted to teach only women as a way to instill bonds of female physical empowerment. The classes were never anti-men; in fact, Hollis had just started up a new relationship with a guy who she was totally nuts over. In fact, she saw this to be a common theme: once the women respected themselves and knew they could handle themselves, they saw their dating prospects flourish, along with the intelligence of their choices. Of course, she stressed that the skills she taught were never to be used when not deserved. She showed how perfect fighting ability was meant to ensure a woman's self-esteem and safety, not turn her into a brute or a bully. As a result, Hollis saw her students, who ranged in age from 16 to 42, blossom in terms of confidence, physical appearance, and particularly inner beauty. Hollis had a strict rule of bare feet only in her studio; "Free your feet and your mind will follow" was her motto. Practically, Hollis would tell her students that most women's shoes (like high heels or sandals) were impractical for fighting, but very easily removed if necessary for a fight. If you weren't used to going barefoot, though, most terrains would shred your soles in no time. Therefore, her most important homework assignment for new students was "bare feet 24-7 if you can ... build up those soles!" Indeed, Hollis, who had probably worn shoes only once or twice in the past year, could walk barefooted on any terrain, and have it feel really good, too. In terms of fighting satisfaction, bare feet were infinitely more satisfying than shoes; when kicking the shit out of a deserving scumbag, Hollis loved nothing more than feeling the contact of her sexy soles into their newly swollen testicles. On a lighter note, bare feet were one of Gods greatest fashion inventions ... they looked great, felt great, easily accessorized, went with absolutely any outfit, and only got stronger the more they were worn. Finally, it was a spiritual thing. Being a true barefoot meant being open, free, alive, sensual, giving, and powerful. Shoes and socks were constraints; the truly free woman was barefoot, beautiful, and confident. The first year had been incredible. Hollis had more full classes than she knew what to do with. Since it was her program, she taught all the classes, and she was immediately beloved by her students for kindness, strength, beauty, brains, and leadership. Hollis was happy to see that every single one of her students quickly became strong, beautiful, successful, and totally barefoot. Also, about 1/3 of the students had used their skills on the street, either in self-defense or helping someone in need. Quickly, word spread in the local news. One student, a 105-pound middle school teacher had kicked off her shoes on the playground and beaten three trespassing drug dealers into bloody messes. Another woman, a single mother, had used her flying feet to thoroughly ass-whoop her abusive ex- husband who had tried stalking her after his release from jail. He was now serving a fresh sentence for breaking a restraining order and a host of other attempted charges. The courtroom had laughed and cheered as this swollen-faced loser now missing several front teeth got shipped off by a tough female judge as he bawled uncontrollably. The judge had now joined one of Hollis' classes, and the ex-husband was receiving psychiatric counseling in prison for his terrifying nightmares about flying female feet. One of Hollis' favorite memories of the past year was going to see four of her students in a rock band called Barefoot Babes (Hollis' suggestion for a name; the girls loved it!). A fight had broken out when four muscle-bound bullies had gotten drunk and started picking on guys in the crowd who were enjoying the show with cute dates. The bullies had picked out the girls they wanted and beaten up the guys who were with them. Three bouncers came over and were quickly knocked senseless by the boozing football players. At that point, the girls stopped their show, and made the announcement that no one behaved like this in one of their performances. Hollis laughed and cheered as each girl took a guy and gave him the thrashing of his life. The sun was out, shining brightly on the early morning dew. He huddled behind a tree, clad in black, a mask over his face. Women were scarce these days. Few dared to come out anymore. He had scared off his prey. But time would pass and they would forget. They would come back for their early morning jogs, before jetting off to their successful lives. He would show them all. But what was this? A slap-slap against the jogging trail. He looked and saw the single most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his entire life. Jogging barefooted, she was something, she looked strong, invincible in fact. A woman whom he could never have in real life. Her legs were covered by sweat pants, but those arms looked pretty strong. Reason should have told him to wait for easier pickings, but this woman's obvious superiority to him in every way (looks, class, athletic ability) drove him wild. Fortunately, he was a man, she was a woman. He'd heard about women's self-defense ... it was a joke. He'd taken some pretty athletic women, and he was no athlete, that was for sure. His growing gut was proof of that. Most men would probably wipe the floor with him, but taking out women was easy. The more they bought into all those silly movies about super-karate-kicking babes just made things all the easier for him. Little did he know, he was about to make the biggest mistake of his life. And this woman who filled him with such hatred was about to fill him with more fear, pain, fists, and feet than he had ever dreamed possible. "Oh my God, please don't hurt me!" cowered Hollis, savoring every moment she could drag this out. She was drawing him in like a fly to a spider. A ski mask and all black clothes, who was he kidding? Was that heavy breathing supposed to be scary? Better play along, give him his few last kicks before the hiding of his life. She'd have given anything to see the look on his face when he would realize he was the prey, but it was going to be more fun to leave that mask on until his face was properly pulped, then pull it off to see how pathetic this loser would be then. "Just come easy," he threatened, "maybe you'll enjoy it." Drool was coming out saturating the mask where his mouth was. Hollis smiled inwardly, knowing soon that it would be blood and teeth. "Uuh! Uuuh!" Hollis flailed her fists wimpily, like a girl who couldn't fight, while letting badly acted tears and fear show in her eyes. The creep started laughing. Hollis wanted to laugh, too ... he was actually buying this crap? "I'm gonna fuck you silly!" OK, that was it. When he said that, he crossed the line, and this charade was gonna end now. "Oh, REALLY!" said the barefoot bad-ass. It really was a perfect morning. Hollis didn't understand how people could a) not jog on a morning this beautiful, and b) wear shoes when they did it. The soft grass and dew on naked soles was the perfect morning refresher, and all the experts said than bare feet were the best running shoes in the world. Oh, well, they were also the greatest weapons in the world, as this guy's testicles were about to discover. "TAKE THAT!!!!!" The toes bent back, the ball of the foot stretched and breathed, and Hollis drove her thick calloused, dirty sole right into that assholes balls. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" They probably heard that in the next county. Well, that was the change in facial expression she'd wanted to see. Hollis noted with satisfaction that he'd had an incredible hard-on when she'd kicked him, not that she'd noticed it before because of how incredibly tiny his dick was. You see, extra things like that you just don't get if you wear shoes when fighting. Ah, well, her crusade to liberate the female population's feet would have to wait. Right now it was her crusade to send every pervert and rapist to the intensive ward, court, and prison. She bent down a bit, felt the energy build in her toes, shoot up through her waist, into her right fist, and she sent out the single greatest uppercut in the history of man""sorry, humans. It caught that asshole right on the chin and actually sent him flying straight up in the air. Hollis watched with pride as her victim reached his peak, then fell right straight back to the ground, flat on his back. For a moment, she was concerned. She didn't want his jaw broken. She also didn't want him out cold yet. Fortunately, he was moving, actually, crying. Here came the blood and teeth. Hard to spit those things out with a ski mask on, you should've thought of that, you moron. Even with a ski mask on, Hollis could see that look of absolute terror in his eyes. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" The coward let out a scream of absolute terror, jumped to his feet, turned, and ran for all that he was worth. An enormous smile was fixed on Hollis' face. For all the justice she had administered, this was the most, fun, satisfying, and ... actually, pathetic. This guy was such a loser, she wondered how he'd actually gotten up to five women. He looked behind him. She was just standing there. Standing still, and laughing. Whatever she was up to, he didn't care. He just ran for all he was worth. "Now you know what it's like!" He turned. What had she said? "Now you know what it's like to be fifteen seconds from the worst beating of your life!" Her smile disappeared. That look of anger on her face filled him with dread. And she started running. Poor guy. Hollis had been the single fastest runner (male or female) in the state for all four years of high school. Actually, Hollis had dominated every sport she ever tried. But martial arts were her true calling. As this guy was about to find out. He ran with all his might, but the next time he looked back, she was just about to leap. And leap she did, with one bare foot outstretched. Out of all of this, that sight was the one which would cause him to wake up crying and peeing for the next five years. THUD!!! He went flying, in more pain than before, while Hollis landed neatly and ran to his side. "I hope you like your pain bloody, because that's how you're going to get it!" WHAP!!! A punch straight into the face sent him back to the ground. "Oh, please," he begged. "I'm the rapist, I'll turn myself in! Just don't beat me up anymore!" And then he just cried his eyes out. "I saw those women. You beat them to a pulp. And I'm gonna do the same to you!" Hollis picked him up. "Here's a little rule. Never mess with a Southern woman in her bare feet. It'll just make you get your ass kicked." Two punched to the face ensured that he wouldn't be seeing much through those swollen eyelids for days. WHAP!!! A kick broke his nose, and the follow-up cleaned out the rest of those front teeth. WHOOMP!WHOOMP!WHOOMP! WHOOMP!WHOOMP! A flurry of gut punches had him coughing up blood. "And now," Hollis smiled, "I'll make you a deal. Stand up straight, legs apart, and I kick you in the balls once." He smiled. That wasn't that bad. Hollis grinned. "Once for each woman you raped!" His eyes widened in terror. "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" WHAM!WHAM!WHAM! WHAM!WHAM!!!!!!! Her right foot flew back and forth so fast, it could have been registered as an automatic weapon. His eyes rolled back in his head and he didn't move from that spot on the ground until he was found an hour later. Hollis bent down and peeled off the mask. His face was a disgusting mess, but she took supreme satisfaction in it. She'd seen those women, and they'd looked just the same. She slapped his face, just enough to make sure he could hear her. "Now listen to me. My Name is Hollis Johansen. I have beaten the living shit out of you, and I will do it again, once a week, until you have served at least five years in prison. Someone will come and take you to a hospital where you will confess and plead guilty. Or else ... " She pulled back a sledgehammer fist for one last punch. His eyes widened and he fainted in total fear. Hollis laughed and patted the sleeping idiot on the head. From her pocket she pulled a previously written note. She he used his blood to stick it onto his chest. It read: "HELLO. I AM THE SERIAL RAPIST WHO HAS BEEN TERRORIZING THE CITY. THIS MORNING I PICKED THE WRONG WOMAN AND SHE BEAT ME SILLY. I DIDN'T STAND A CHANCE; I BEGGED AND PLEADED LIKE A CRYING BABY. PLEASE TAKE ME TO A HOSPITAL, COURT, AND PRISON. YOURS TRULY, A BIG LOSER." Hollis made her anonymous phone call. She went to the arraignment a few weeks later. When asked how he would plead, she saw the slightest hesitation in her victim's eyes. Hollis smiled and propped those gorgeously dirty bare feet up for him to see. His eyes filled with fear. Then the most terrifying thing happened. The whole front row (all Hollis' students) did the same thing. A whole row of strong, thick, powerful, dirty bare female feet. The result: that worthless loser pleaded guilty, BEGGED for five years jail time, broke down crying, and peed his pants to soaking. Hollis smiled. Now that was barefoot justice.