Skilled Soles By Jack A female art gallery owner beats up two bullies with her always bare feet! Kristin glanced up at the sign: "BAREFOOT ART GALLERY" Well, I've got to try this place, she thought to herself. So, she parked her sports car, opened her door, and slipped a pair of stylish flip-flops onto her bare feet. A tiny wince crossed Kristin's face. The simple fact was that her feet hated having any kind of shoe on them. As she walked down the street to the front of the gallery, she smiled as some traffic literally did stop to look at her. The former model was simply one of the most beautiful women on the planet, and she'd gotten used to this. Of course, she had personally thrown herself out of the modeling business by beating the living shit out of the industry's most powerful producer three months ago, as well as his two bodyguards and photographer. In addition to being one of the world's most perfect-looking women, she also happened to be one of the most perfect female fighters (and her over- 150 IQ made her a pretty smart cookie, to boot). She'd invested her money brilliantly, so she let her sense of justice take over when she found out about this slimeball's ongoing habit of raping up-and-coming starlets. Her testimony had helped put him into jail for rape, but she had to admit that that wasn't quite as satisfying as when her fists and feet had put him and his assistants into the hospital for weeks. But now, she was out of a job and roaming the country, looking for what to do next with her life. A cute woman in her early 20's with a snappily hip business suit padded up to Kristin as she entered the Barefoot Gallery. "Hi, welcome to the Barefoot Gallery," she smiled welcomingly, "I'm Trish Johnson, the manager. I'm so glad you came!" Kristin glanced down and smiled. "I see we share the same taste in shoes!" The two barefoot women laughed, as Kristin held her pair of flip- flops in her hand. "You know," Trish laughed, "this place has been open for six months and you are the first customer to take me up on going barefoot. I'm glad there's someone else who believes that shoes are Satan!" Kristin hadn't laughed in a while, but she was quickly warming to this new trend. "I never put it that way, but it was definitely the name of the place which drew me in." Trish nodded. "There are three basic needs in life for me. Art, business, and going barefoot as much as possible." The two women started to wander through the gallery. "Oh, and wine. And sex with guys who look like Brad Pitt. That last one was probably too much information." Kristin shook her head. "No the last two are definitely nice, but going barefoot as much as possible and doing good in the world would have to be my top two." Trish nodded. "Good choices." Three hours later, the two barefoot babes padded with dirty soles into a local bar. Kristin was impressed. Her new friend displayed taste, elegance, intelligence, wit, and a true barefooted spirit. The art gallery which she ran was hip, trendy, and stylish. The final noticeable aspect about Trish was that she was man-crazy bordering on nymphish. "Look around," Trish grinned as they took a table. "Every guy in this place is staring at both of us." Kristin glanced. It was true, but not much of a surprise. Kristin was more than used to it, and this Trish was quite a little dish herself. "Have you got a boyfriend?" Trish asked. Kristin shook her head. "I'm an ex-model, I've got a 150 IQ, I'm independently wealthy, and I have impeccable taste. Unfortunately, most men seem to find me intimidating." Trish grinned. "Yeah, I can believe it. Me, I have too much fun to get tied down yet." Their drinks arrived, and Trish verified her last sentence by enjoying a sip of a Margarita. "Anyhow, I've got pretty high standards for any guy I'm actually going to marry." Kristin started into her drink, as well. "Well, be careful with too much, it can get you into trouble." She couldn't help noticing that some of the guys ogling the two of them didn't look like the classiest guys on the planet. Trish laughed. "Well, don't worry, I can take care of myself." She brought her right foot up and flexed the sole for Kristin to see. "My feet are pretty interesting. For a nice guy, they can give him some pretty incredible pleasure. But for a bad guy ... " Trish gave a self-satisfied, slightly evil grin. " ... they can mean a whole lot of pain." Kristin was now a bit interested. "What do you mean?" "There's one other thing that's very important to me which I forgot to mention," Trish confided. "I believe every woman should not only know how to defend herself, but should actually make it her duty to teach lessons when necessary." Kristin shook her head. "I don't know what you mean." Trish was enjoying a few memories in her head. "I'm a black belt in karate, and while I'd only use it when I have to ... well, let's just say that if you've never beaten a serial rapist into a bloody pulp, then you're just letting the best in life pass you by." At that moment, fate delivered an opportunity for Trish to show what she was talking about. Two guys were hovering over her shoulder, both big, loud, and drunk. "Hey, baby," said the first one, "wanna have some fun. You and your friend are about the best-looking things in here." Trish grinned wryly, "Yeah, well you two sure don't give us much competition." The first guy's jaw dropped open. "Why, you little bitch!" Trish cocked her head to the side, hoping these guys would ask for it, but knowing she had to wait until they did. "That's some mouth you've got there, honey. Do lines like that usually work on women?" The second guy laughed. "She's making you look like a fool, Zeke? You gonna take that?" Trish shook her head and turned to the second guy. "Wow. I thought Zeke here was the least appealing guy in here, but I guess that's you now." Now it was the second guy's turn to stand open-mouthed while Zeke laughed. Kristin sat primed in here seat ready for action, not knowing if Trish could deal single-handedly with the trouble she was courting. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a bulky bouncer coming this way, which caused her to relax. But when the bouncer saw Trish, he simply smiled, and said: "Just don't mess up the place." Trish grinned, waving at the bouncer. "All right boys, why not go back to your seats and just leave me and my friend alone." She really hoped they wouldn't, but then beating up assholes wouldn't be any fun if they weren't really asking for it! Over at their seats, a bunch of guys were laughing at their two friends striking out. Kristin noticed that they looked dumb and full of testosterone. Trish, however, was just focused on the two in front of her. It was then that Zeke did just what Trish had been waiting for: he crossed the line. He grabbed hold of her and pushed himself right up in her face. "Now you listen to me ... you and your dyke are coming with me one way or another, and we gonna have a whole bunch of fun." He smiled. This usually resulted in a fight where he'd beat up the girl's boyfriend or the bouncers, but Zeke wasn't really a plan for the future guy. He just saw what he wanted and took it. His friend was smiling. Zeke was the man! Trish reached her hand delicately into Zeke's pants. "Why don't we just have some fun right now?" But then Zeke's eyes turned from delight to sheer pain as Trish squeezed her hand tight. "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Before Zeke's buddy could register what was happening, a well- manicured bare female foot with a blackened dirty calloused sole slammed into his solar plexus. As he doubled up is pain, two more kicks from the same bare foot slammed into his face. He reared back, bawling in pain and covering his nose as blood spurted everywhere. Trish's grin was plastered straight across her face. Using that same foot, she drove a kick straight into that guy's groin area. He fell to his knees, crying uncontrollably. He looked up at Trish, a pleading look in his eyes. All he got in return was that cocksure glint that registered pride in how skillfully she was taking him to pieces, along with amusement that it was so darned easy. "Say goodnight, dickhead!" she quipped, wriggling her toes. One last kick from that same foot shot straight into her victim's head. His eyes rolled back in his head, and he was unconscious before his body hit the ground. Suddenly, her hand released, and Zeke fell to the ground in pain. By now, the whole bar was staring. Those bouncers were giggling to themselves, as if this were a semi-regular show which they were used to. Everyone else in the bar looked quite happy to see Zeke and friend getting their asses handed to them. Only Zeke's friends didn't look like they were taking this well. "Well, Zeke," clucked Trish, "are you gonna be smart or are you gonna be dumb?" Trish had been very careful not to squeeze too hard. She wanted to make sure that her fun wouldn't end too quickly. As if to invite him further, she turned around and padded back toward her chair. Little did Zeke realize that she could see him in a mirror on the far side of the bar. Sure enough, that male ego couldn't comprehend that a totally gorgeous woman could beat him up, so he grabbed a chair and charged. SWOOSH! Trish spun on the padded ball of her right foot, while that left foot smashed the chair to pieces with a devastating kick. Zeke just stood there, dumfounded. Trish turned to her bouncer friend and shrugged. "OK, but that's the only thing I'm going to break!" The bouncer just pointed back at Zeke. Trish had only a second to duck as Zeke's fist sailed over her head. Three more swings came, but they came nowhere near touching the adorable Trish. "Here's how you do it," she teased, and sent three little love taps to bust up his face. As Zeke's buddies hopped up from their seats, a row of bouncers suddenly appeared in their way. "He asked for it, boys. So keep it fair." Another bouncer mumbled, "There ain't anything fair about it!" Bleeding and frustrated, Zeke whipped out a knife, brandishing it wildly. "I'll kill you, bitch!" Trish just smiled. "Ah, you're about to finish stage two." A few slices of the knife came her way, but she avoided them with ease. "You see, a trained barefooted woman will not only win a fight with almost any man, she can usually do it without breaking a sweat or getting a mark on her." Two more swipes were nowhere near her. "Usually, the fight breaks down in to three stages." Another ease dodge of the knife. "First is disbelief/laughter as the macho asshole can't believe some woman isn't afraid of fighting him." Another desperately unsuccessful swipe. "Then comes anger and frustration as he can't believe that he's getting one- sidedly beaten to snot by a girl. There's usually a little arousal here to, because, hey, every guy gets aroused around me." The last two desperate knife swipes of the night. "And finally comes fear and begging, when every ounce of pride leaves the man, if only to stop the worst beating of his life." And then it happened. Full-blooded fear filled Zeke's eyes, and he knew that he was about to get what she promised. Then he realized, she'd used his distraction to grab his knife arm and was twisting it painfully. The knife clattered harmlessly to the ground. Trish's toes wrapped themselves nimbly around the handle and sent it sliding out of the way. And with one final grin she uttered the words that would bring on the single worst five minutes of Zeke's life: "And here it comes." BLAM! BLAM!! BLAM!!!!! Trish's fists pounded into Zeke with terrifying speed and power. She paused a moment just to hear a half- hearted "no, no, please!" before starting up the fist machine again. Rat-a- tat-tat-tat! Six or seven punches, so fast they could hardly be seen, and so loud they could not help but be heard. KICK! KICK! Those filthy bare feet left two big imprints on either side of Zeke's bloody and swollen face. "Oh, God, please!" he begged. "Please, I'll do anything!" Tears were streaming down his face. Not one ounce of macho male pride was left ... just the basic desire to stop this Amazon from barefooting him to death! "Awww," teased Trish. "Is the big tough bully afraid of a pretty girl?" "Yessss!" he spat teeth. "Yes, anything just please don't kill me!" Trish looked this way and that, mock considering and dragging out this moment of pure humiliation for everything it was worth. Kristin had to admit to herself that although Trish was rash and merely excellent in terms of fighting skills, she was far superior to Kristin when it came to humiliating the deserving bully. "All right," sighed Trish, "but I do want you to take a long time to consider how rude you've been to a 100% lady like myself ... " Zeke nodded, with a glimmer of hope in his eyes. "And I've got the perfect place for you to do it." Zeke's eyes filled with terror as he saw Kristin's hips dive and pivot, sending a supercharged uppercut (seemingly in slo-motion) right up into his jaw. Zeke's body actually flew up into the air and sailed perfectly head first into the wide-open trash can which Kristin had been targeting all along. There was a satisfying SCRUNCH! as Zeke's unconscious body landed in the bag of nasty old food. Trish put her hands up in the air and cried out in victory: "Two points!!!!!" An instant standing ovation went up throughout the bar. As she walked away, Trish couldn't help but quote her favorite movie, CHARLIE'S ANGELS: "And that's ... kicking your ass!" The bouncer turned to Zeke's friends. "I think you better leave, and take your two boys to the hospital. And if I were you, I'd never pick on a sexy powerful barefoot woman again." Trish sat down at the table and met Kristin's overwhelming praise. "That was amazing! Those guys were totally asking for it, and boy, did you ever give it to them." Trish nodded, smiling. "Let me tell you, Kristin, a woman who is in touch with her girl power, and in touch with her bare feet, and has had training can do anything. To be honest, I've always wanted to do more. To use my bare feet to bring more justice to the world. And let me tell you, I've done my share. I beat up Tommy Markins back in first grade for bullying my friend, and I've been doing it ever since. In high school, these the whole football team spread scorecards for how they rated girls they had slept with. The girls on that list were horrified. So, sure enough, each one of them got an ungodly ass-whooping from these two feet, after which I made each one of them eat dirt and say it was great. Then I made 'em sniff my bare feet, and then I kicked them into unconsciousness. I've got a gift Kristin, and I just want to use it to make the world a better place." Thoughts were surging through Kristin's mind. She'd finally found someone who she could relate to ... and she was also sure that Zeke's friends were going to try to ambush them at some point. That would be the moment to reveal to Trish exactly what her bare feet were capable of. Sure enough, later that night Kristin got the opportunity to give absolute and 100% ass-whoopings to seven guys at one time! The sexiest and most destructive pair of bare feet on the planet took seven guys who hoped to ambush two women, and those gloriously dirty calloused soles barefooted them into fear, pain, and agony. But that story will come later.