THE FIRST STEP by John Castle - written for DTM / Amy's Conquest Based on a true story, of when our very own author was first introduced to the world of tall, powerful, sexy female muscle. This is a true story. That is to say, it's as close to the truth as a guy who's 36 years old can accurately remember regarding events that happened over half his lifetime earlier. The events I'm going to relate to you in this story are the ones that set me on the path that led to me writing stories like this, stories which I hope you've all enjoyed as much as I've enjoyed writing them for you. Every writer, musician, artist, actor, director, producer - really, any kind of creative professional - has one event, or sometimes a series of events, that he or she can look back on and say, "That's what started it." Well, for me, a writer who pens stories about female muscle domination, wrestling, being squeezed in the dangerously powerful thighs of strong, controlling, just slightly (or maybe not so slightly) sadistic, horny girls, well... this is what started it. ********** I was sixteen years old and starting my sophomore year at John Marshall High School. Although the school itself was and still is kind of famous in its own right - it's been in I don't even know how many movies, TV episodes, music videos, and it has more than its share of famous alumni - it's probably not too different from any other high school, at least during my time there. You have all the usual cliques - the nerds, the jocks, the goths, the emo kids - well, they were just goths back in those days. And then you have the kids like me, who didn't really fit into any of those groups. I would have been a nerd, I guess, but I wasn't into the things the nerds were into. I was more interested in Raymond Chandler novels than Dungeons & Dragons, and I liked old Orson Welles flicks better than I liked the movie Hackers, or whichever Star Trek spinoff was on the air back then. Basically, I was a loner - but this was before Columbine, so back then being a loner wasn't something people got all freaked out over. It didn't hurt that my usual hobbies - reading old novels, writing short stories, watching old movies, writing short films - put me in the same mold as a lot of the more famous alumni of the school. I was weird, but I was an okay kind of weird, the school's traditional, nodded-at-and-tacitly-approved-of kind of weird. It was during my lunch hour, though - I believe it was mid September, we were just getting rolling with the school year - that my nice little illusion of being if not exactly popular, then at least accepted, came up against a brick wall, hard. The sun was bright and warm on my lunch hour that day - I remember that because I remember having to try to think of a way to explain the bloodstains on my t-shirt, first to my English teacher Mr. Ferguson, and then to my parents later that afternoon when I got home. Sorry, didn't mean to get ahead of myself there. Anyway, I sat alone on one of the benches that lined the school's courtyard, idly munching on the BLT I'd packed myself, Reacting to that odd sensation we all get when someone is standing over you, I looked up. There were Mike Strickland, Sam Segovian and Bobby Vincent. I didn't know their names at the time, of course, but everything comes out in the paperwork. "Hey." Mike smirked. "You're sitting on our bench." He stood there with his arms crossed over his chest, flanked by Sam on one side and Bobby on the other. I guess my reaction wasn't what they were hoping for, and it wasn't a smart one, but I couldn't help it - it was out of me before I could rein it in. I laughed. "Seriously?" I asked. "Did you hear yourself just then? Do you know what the word 'cliche' means?" I didn't even see Mike's Converse sneaker moving, but it smacked into my hand like a freight train and my one-third-eaten sandwich went flying in an explosion of bread (with mayo), lettuce and tomatoes like a burst of unusually nutritious fireworks. And, as sometimes happens in moments like that, my brain actually manufactured that exact phrase, on the spot - "unusually nutritious fireworks." That that phrase managed to surface just now, as I'm recalling this for you, is to me equally as remarkable as the circumstances under which it first came to me. I sighed, shook a gob of mayo from the back of my finger, shook my head. "Okay." I said in a resigned-sounding voice. They wanted a fight, they were bound and determined - might as well get it over with. I had a pretty good idea what Mike expected my next move to be - jumping up off the bench. Well, that would have been the logical next move - so I made an [i]illogical[/i] next move. As he raised his foot to try to pin me to the bench, I reached out with my right hand to grab the Big Gulp sized paper cup full of Coke next to me and pivoted my upper body counter-clockwise just as he pushed his foot toward the bench's backrest. His foot glanced off my shit and planted itself to the backrest as my hand arced up along a diagonal line and pegged him full in the face with the cup, which exploded in a red-brown spray of carbonated fizz. At the same time, I pushed off the back of the bench with my left hand to launch myself up and toward him - But the aim wasn't to hit him. Hard-headed idiots, which most bullies are, tend not to be fazed in the slightest by a good stiff punch in the jaw, regardless of what Hollywood likes to pimp out. When it comes to a bully, especially one that's bigger than you are, their egos are involved - and when somebody puts his ego into picking a fight, he'll keep right after it until he just flat-out can't fight anymore. So you don't go for a punch in the nose. You get right down to the business of making sure he can't fight. That's why I slammed my heel into his kneecap with everything I had and hoped like hell it would be enough. It was enough - at least enough to put him on his ass long enough for me to get my feet under me. As far as taking the fight out of him - he climbed to his feet, favoring the other leg enough for me to be satisfied that - bare minimum - I could have outrun him. And then we get to the other Hollywood myth about bullies - that when there's a group of them and you put the leader out of action, his friends will just pull a quick fade. Well, dear reader, I'm here to tell you that that is not how it works in the real world. They hang out together for a reason. That reason is, they're buds. They see the world the same way. They have a unity of purpose. And every single one of them thinks that he is the leader, apparently, or at the very least, every single one of them wishes he was. And failing that? Even if they are just henchmen? They all want to make the grade with the leader. Which is why I didn't get three steps before Sam and Bobby caught my t-shirt, and then me. "The fuck do you think you're goin', huh?" Bobby barked, and before I could answer, Sam dropped an atomic bomb of a punch square in my gut that saw me sag in their tandem grip. It didn't take Mike too long to get back to his feet. That was more than a little disappointing, but not unexpected; he was a big guy even for a high school sophomore - and I remember thinking, in another of those detached, clinical thoughts, that it must've been because he'd been one until he was 19 years old. He didn't say anything. We'd moved beyond pre-fight banter and wisecracks. I remember seeing him wind up for the punch, but I don't remember seeing him actually throw it. There was just a loud 'crack!' and white light throughout my field of vision, then I felt a little sick. The next thing I remember was hearing a totally new voice, "Hey! Stop it!" I looked up - from just in front of the bench, and at the time I couldn't even remember how I ended up there. It was a girl's voice, and as my head began to clear, I figured that would be the end of the fight - well, there was a 50/50 shot of that. Bullies fall into two camps - there are the ones that are trying to get popular, and they don't quite have the confidence to do much more than pull a threaten-and-fade deal when they're discovered. They're not really sure of themselves yet, see. Then there are the bullies who are popular. They're the ones who either don't give a rat's ass if anybody sees them up to their villainy, or they go out of their way to turn the villainy up to 11 specifically because they have a crowd to play to. Well, this sounded like just one girl, and just one girl doesn't make for a crowd - okay, most girls don't. This girl was a very possible exception. My lip was split and beginning to sting - I wiped it with the back of my hand, not even to pull the cliche move of looking at it. That sort of faded away as I saw her, though. Her. There are a million words and no words for her. I've tried four dozen times, in various stories, to capture the image I saw that day in the California sun as the trailing edge of summer faded away at the advance of fall. I don't think I've ever really done her justice. I don't think anybody's mere words can, but I'll give it another try. It might not be flattering, but the first word that came to my mind when I saw Molly was giantess. Nothing else really captured the game my eyes and my brain were playing with each other as she approached the bench in the courtyard, because while her build was that of a girl half again too muscular to be a cheerleader but with all the right curves and plenty of them, my eyes and brain couldn't resolve exactly how far away she was. A gust of wind kicked up and brushed my hair over my cheek and neck - I had long hair back then, down to my shoulders - it barely touched hers because she was blocked from it by a tree that I knew was about twenty feet away. That didn't jibe with what my eyes were telling me, which was that she was only five feet away. But as she got closer, she got... bigger. If she'd been five feet away, she'd have been a petite 5'2" or so, though her face seemed unusually small for that height. But by the time she reached us, her face was a normal size. The rest of her, however, was anything but. Mike, Sam and Bobby had to crane their necks back, and each one of them had a good six inches on my scrawny, runt-of-the-litter 5'6". "What are you," Mike sneered, "his girlfriend or somethin'?" She flicked her vibrant green eyes down at me and the corner of her lips twitched upward. But as quickly as she'd looked at me, those eyes were back on Mike - and then she said something that both confused and excited me. "Jealous?" He stood there visibly fuming. Clearly, he didn't like being outsmarted, although I was pretty sure that most kitchen appliances could do that job. For my part, I couldn't stop staring. She wore a miniskirt - though I couldn't figure whether it was supposed to be so mini or whether it just couldn't help being that way on her. Her hips were as wide as two of me stood shoulder to shoulder, and her legs were just insane. There was no way human legs could be that big, yet I was staring at mind-altering proof that I was wrong. Her thighs were monstrous, and I mean that at the time they looked like something you'd see on a monster. Each one was as thick as Mike's linebacker chest, never mind my puny torso, and the muscular definition in them was something I'd never seen before, anywhere. Cords of marble muscle as thick as my forearm descended from the hem of the miniskirt to divide the inner thighs from a teardrop shaped muscle bigger than my head. The sides of those thighs were deeply creased with the division between quadriceps and hamstring. Her outer thighs seemed to stand a full foot out from her knees like gravity-defying walls, and her calves were the size of basketballs. Her upper body, though not as large as her lower body - this girl was all legs - and hips, and ass, and tits... but I digress. Her upper body, sheathed in a sleeveless olive-green turtleneck, was equally as well developed, with broad shoulders and thick upper arms sporting softball sized biceps, gigantic horseshoes of triceps. Her forearms sported thick cords of muscle that tapered to almost strikingly slim, long-fingered hands tipped with nail polish the color of carbon to match her lipstick Her tits... good God, I still lay awake at night trying to fall asleep against the memory of her tits. I never did have the balls to ask her, but there's no way in the world they could have been natural. For one thing, no girl with abs that are not only etched but stand out like hers did could have enough bodyfat to have tits that size. For another... they were that size, and that size was twice the size of my head, each. I'd guess somewhere in the neighborhood of 54 H. The rest of her measurements, by the way, were 42-58, at a height of 6 foot 8 and a weight of three hundred twenty pounds Her face wasn't exactly pretty in the conventional sense - maybe it was the raven-black page-boy hairstyle she wore, but her prominent, slightly angular cheekbones, wide Irish face and rounded chin made her look severe, stern, like a goddess but one of war, not love. Of course, her reaction to Mike's next remark didn't do a thing to dispel that impression. Not a thing. "Well, that figures," he smirked. "only piece of ass freaky writer boy here could get would be a circus freak." "Sweetie," she smiled, and it was a smile of sweetness and light that parted her plump lips and showed off pearly white teeth. "I think I misunderstood you just then. Would you mind repeating that?" She took one step closer to him, and with that one step, covered the four feet of distance between them to stand towering over him. I did some quick math in my head, not believing what I was seeing. He was a good head and shoulders taller than I was - she was head, shoulders and almost tits taller than he was, and if she'd stepped even a little bit closer, his face would have been buried between them. As it was, he stepped back - he had to in order to look her in the eye over the colossal promontory of her breasts - and said the most stupid thing he could possibly have said. "I said," he growled, "you're a freak. You should be locked up in a c-" He didn't get the rest out. I'd thought he'd thrown a punch fast, but I didn't even see her hand move until she was returning it to rest on her hip. I heard the slap, though - I'm pretty sure people inside the nearby buildings heard it; it was so loud that Sam, Bobby and I all together winced as though it had been us who had been slapped. Mike, on the other hand, probably never heard a thing, because that slap took him off his feet and drove him to the ground hard enough to knock his left shoe off and leave him laying there like a discarded toy. She bent down, felt his neck, and ascended to her full height again, which was astonishing. She'd actually slapped him so hard she was worried she might've killed him. He was only unconscious. Sam, for his part, stood there frozen. Bobby looked down at Mike, at the runnel of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, and wasn't much smarter. He charged at the towering figure with a roar of, hell, I don't even know what he was thinking. Manly outrage at seeing a girl so handily pound his jock friend into the turf with a girlish slap. Loyalty to a complete douchebag. I don't know what it was, but whatever his dumb animal motive was, he charged right at her like a brainless bull. What happened next was actually hilarious and set me off laughing again immediately after I saw and, more importantly, heard it - it was really the sound he made that was so funny. Just as it looked like his hauling-ass, arms-spread-wide tackle was going to connect, she bent slightly at the knees, caught him by the collar of his shirt and the crotch of his jeans, pivoted on her heels, took a step and threw him bodily through the air. The sound he made was something like, "Rrrrrrraaaaaaaawwwwwaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiigghhhhh!!!" He sailed clean over another of the benches, then continued on for a few feet until he was caught by one of the tall, Christmas-fruitcake-thick hedges that line the outer perimeter of the courtyard, where he immediately set about yelling like a scalded cat as he tried to extricate himself from the rough, tightly-interwoven branches and spiked leaves. Sam, who hadn't moved during the brief but brutal battle, still couldn't; not even when she took another step back from launching his friend to tower over him now. "Your friends are retards," she remarked to him mildly. "Are you?" And poor Sam, who had probably been corralled into the whole thing by Mike, who I found out later after we actually became good friends hadn't even had a problem with me in the history of ever and who only went along with it so he wouldn't get beat up himself... poor Sam just whimpered as a dark spot at the crotch of his jeans started to grow, and then to stink. "You should probably run now." she suggested, and so he did. She looked down at me - I still sat on the bench, and all I could do was stare back. "You're bleeding all over yourself." she remarked. I looked down and saw that my split lip had decorated my t-shirt a bit. I nodded. "Looks that way." "Come on," she half-turned and started to head back toward the rotunda; she paused when she noticed that I was still frozen in place. She reached back and seized my upper arm in a grip that was painfully tight and hauled me after her. It took some quick footwork on my part to stay on my feet. "Hey!" I exclaimed, though it came out more as a squeak than as the manly expression of indignation I might have liked. She turned and flashed a smile down over her shoulder at me. "Would you rather I carry you?" I stared up at her slack-jawed, not entirely sure what I would answer something like that with; it didn't much matter, though, because she spun and with feline grace and speed scooped me up into her arms, those bright green eyes framed by long lashes and black eyeliner staring down at me with a fusion of mirth and what I would come to recognize later as triumph and satisfaction. "Got you now." she smiled. There was a whole catalogue of things I began to notice as the pain in my lip began to subside. First there was the fact that I was late getting back from lunch; next, that I hadn't gotten to finish my lunch and I was still hungry. Then I began to notice things more specifically about her. She held me tightly enough that I knew there was, first, no way that she would drop me and, second, that there was no way I was getting loose until she was good and ready to put me down. Then, as a light breeze whispered her bangs across her forehead a little, I began to notice the scent of her. Mostly it was just soap and water - she didn't use much makeup, and apparently she didn't use any perfume or perfumed bath stuff. Under the scent of soap there was the scent of girl. There was a little hint of perspiration, light and sweet, though as she smiled down at me again I knew it wasn't from carrying my scrawny hundred and forty pounds. And there was something mixed into that that at only 16, I couldn't identify. The next thing I noticed about her was, well, that she was cradling me right up against those magnificent tits of hers and that, more significantly, I could feel something small and round and hard pressed tightly against my upper arm. I knew what that was - I might've only been a nerdy high school kid, but I'd seen enough of my old man's Hustler back issues to know a hard nipple when I felt one. Instantly, the erection I'd been unaware of - or maybe tried to ignore - went from quarter-mast to full-on flagpole. And then the thing I feared most happened. She looked down - looked right at it - and giggled. "I guess you like big girls, huh?" I didn't know what to say. My mind was a blank, and for a guy who even then fancied himself the next Stephen King, that was a hell of a thing. When I finally opened my mouth, exactly the wrong words came out of it, "I don't know..." A frown flickered across her pretty face, her brow furrowing a little, and I tried for a Hail Mary pass of a save, "I just mean, I never met a girl as big as you before. But..." She huffed, but she didn't put me down. She just gave me a look of long-suffering patience. "Do you want me to put you down?" "No!" that came out clearly enough. She let a smile tug at the corners of her mouth but didn't let it bloom. I couldn't fight my own. "I think maybe I do like big girls." I confessed. "It's just... most girls don't even notice me, so I guess I never thought about..." I trailed off, worried I'd say something else that would do damage. "You're adorable." she stunned me again by letting her smile show, her green eyes sparkling. **** For The Full And Complete Story, Come Visit us In Our Amy's Conquest (www.amysconquest.com) Exclusive, Members Only, Text Stories Section ****