Fantasy Island Revisited. Part 1 By Lomax "Hey, Baas! What is her fantasy?" Tatoo exclaimed, gesturing toward the dark- haired, attractive woman who had just stepped from the boat and was walking toward them cross the lawn. "Tattoo…[Mr. Rork leaned close and spoke in a low voice so as not to be overheard]…her fantasy is very unusual. She wants to…turn her body into a weapon…to become extremely hard and strong…to become "cut," "ripped," and "chiseled" beyond belief…and she wants to fight the world heavyweight champion, in the ring." "But Baas!" Tattoo exclaimed. "She is only a woman. It's impossible!" But Mr. Rork had no time to answer. The woman had approached and was standing before them. Her hair, long and lush, fell in a dark sheet across her shoulder as she came up. "Welcome," Mr. Rork said, extending his hand, "Welcome to Fantasy Island." A short while later, Heather came into Rork's office. Heather's training had begun. In the strange time-warp of the island, her match against Lennox Lewis, the heavyweight champion, would take place in 6 weeks. If she didn't pull out, her trainer told her. Fred shook his head as he handed her a pair of 25-pound weights. "I don't know if this is going to happen," he muttered. "Do you doubt me, Fred?" Heather asked. She held the barbells. They felt heavy, but her muscles felt energized by the chance to defy them. Fred instructed her to curl the barbells, alternately, one arm, then the other, a set of 20. As she did so, he observed her posture. He also admired her body. Her figure was absolutely exquisite: curved hips, slim waist, nice-sized breasts. Her arms were smooth, yet wiry, with good definition already. Fred had trained a lot of people before; he was an expert. He knew how to make people's bodies hard as hell, if his client was willing to work enough. But he couldn't see turning a 5 foot 5, 128 pound woman!, of all things, into an opponent for Lennox Lewis. The fighter he would bring in to coach her in fighting would teach her how to box, but what good would it do? Heather finished the set. Fred instructed her to do another set. Her arms really ached now, but she loved the strain. She loved the feeling of getting stronger, the burn as her muscles contracted and grew harder. She finished the set. Fred told her to do a third. By the time she finished the third set, her arms were on fire. She was ready for more. Next came stomach muscles. Fred didn't want to waste gym time on situps. He instructed her to do 300 before bed every night, another 300 in the morning. Heather couldn't believe it, but she smiled because she loved that Fred was starting to believe in her. Her stomach looked smooth and solid. Fred almost felt bad prescribing the situps, thinking of the changes that stomach would have to endure. But it was she who had said she wanted to be chiseled. She would be, he thought. Fred told her to lie on her back on the mat. He walked away and came back with a bowling ball. He told her "now I'm going to drop this on your stomach. You throw it back up to me." He dropped the ball, and it smacked her stomach hard. She had a quick intake of breath and a moment of nausea, but she quickly recovered. She grasped the ball with both hands and pushed it off. The ball rose two feet and fell back down, smacking her stomach again. Ouch! She realized, "This is going to be really tough!" She gathered up the ball again, and this time, really put some force behind it. The ball shot upward, and Fred caught it. He smiled: she didn't give up quickly, that was for sure. He immediately dropped the ball on her stomach again. She tossed it back up. They continued another 20 times. By this point, Heather's triceps were sorer than she'd ever felt, but she felt great. Next, it was outside and the track. Fred told Heather to run the track 12 times; twice was a mile. She started to run, and Fred went back inside. A minute later, he came back with the 25-pound weights. He motioned to Heather to stop running. When she came over, he handed her the weights. "Run with these," he told her. "Finish the laps." She ran with the weights in her hands, not slowing down. It had been one week, so Mr. Rork called Heather into his office. "Well, he said," you are looking good! How is it going?" She did look good. Her sleek hair fell across shoulders that looked hard. Her arms were beginning to be cut, with veins visible across her biceps. Her stomach was flat and hard and ridged, like a washboard. The muscles in her legs danced as she walked. "It's going well!" she told him, with a smile. "Your trainer is great. I start my boxing lessons today." "Good, that's good," Mr. Rork smiled. "But be careful…" he warned. Heather looked up expectantly. "What you are about to attempt, is very dangerous." Heather smiled back. "So am I," she said. In the gym, her routine was the same, but now she was curling 40-pound weights. These were also the ones she had to run with. And Fred was no longer using bowling balls. Now he had a 50-pound ball that he dropped on her midsection. Heather had been doing her sit-ups as assigned. Her stomach muscles were rock- hard and her midsection looked like the granite rock-face of a mountain. Fred timed her when she ran the track, and to his amazement, her times were increasing. As her muscles hardened and her body became more and more defined, she seemed to be gaining in energy, too. And that was not the fault of the island; it was simply the result of Heather's dedication and will. Her fighting lessons were also going well. Mick, her coach, was a professional. He was impressed by how quickly she learned. And he had never coached a body that was so well trained, or so hard. He didn't think the fight with Lewis was for real. Nonetheless, at Heather's insistence, he arranged her first match to be against a male fighter, even though he thought it was probably a mistake. Her opponent was a lightweight, 135-pound amateur fighter named Hugo. Hugo was furious when he found out he was fighting a woman, and had boasted to all his friends that he would knock her out in the first round. Heather was excited about the match, about finally getting a chance to prove herself to Mick. Fred was there, and the crowd was about 100 spectators, intrigued at the idea of seeing a mixed sexes fight. Heather stepped into the ring wearing a black sleeveless top that cut off above her midriff, and boxing shorts. As she walked out under the lights, people leaned forward, shocked at her muscles, her iron-board stomach, her ripped arms, her chiseled legs and thighs of stone. The fight began. Hugo wasted no time, coming directly for her. He hit her with a dizzying barrage of shots, mostly to the head and neck. She was able to protect herself, but taken by surprise, found herself backing up, into the ropes. Sensing his advantage, Hugo came in close and began to pound her in the stomach. Suddenly, he backed up and realized that she had raised her arms, not even bothering to defend the blows. Slowly, Heather raised her arms over her head, reached back, and, as if coincidentally, undid her hair and shook it out. The audience laughed, and it had the desired effect on Hugo: he turned red with rage, drew back his right fist, and drove it into her midriff with all his strength. There was a shrill yell, but not from Heather. It was Hugo, recoiling from the stinging pain in his arm. Heather walked toward him, smiling. Just then, the ring ended the first round. When the second round started, Hugo came out a bit less confidently. He was trying not to hold his arm, but the pain was killing him. Heather circled, danced in and out, practicing the steps she had learned, but not trying to tag him at all. It got to the point where he seemed to be backing up and retreating all over the ring, as she pursued him, goading him to hit her again. She was taunting him, daring him to hit her. Finally Hugo realized he had no choice. As Heather turned away from him, and flexed her muscles to the crowd, he rushed at her, hoping to catch her by surprise. But Heather was more than ready: as Hugo hurtled toward her, she bent low, so that his momentum carried him across and over her right shoulder. She placed her hand on his stomach, then pushed suddenly and powerfully upward, simultaneously standing up, until she had pressed him up over her head. Heather walked to the edge of the ring, carrying Hugo's 130 pounds over her head, in one hand. When Heather put Hugo down, he shook unsteadily, more from humiliation than actual exhaustion. She hit him then, a single punch with her left fist that snapped his head back, and convulsed his entire body, as he collapsed in an unconscious heap on the floor. The referee raised Heather's strong, incredibly chiseled right arm high in the air. The following week, Fred didn't let up on her workouts at all. They still continued with the usual routines. But now, Heather was curling 60-pound barbells. Fred now had to have two men, big men, help him with the stomach exercise: the three of them, together, hefted a 120-pound iron ball, which they then dropped unceremoniously on Heather's midriff. She tossed it back up to them, and they repeated it. Fred had to admit that by this point Heather was much stronger than him. In fact, he was starting to think her strength had surpassed that of any athlete he had seen. Her stomach was hard beyond belief. When she ran the track, she carried the 60-pound barbells. In addition, Fred made her race against men who sprinted against her for a lap. Sprinting, pretending the 60-pound weights were weightless, was Heather's favorite game. She felt energized as she soared past the tired men, who stared in disbelief at the girl who had passed them while carrying 120 pounds in her hands. Her strength was growing by leaps and bounds. Now, however, Fred had amped up the workout with a new routine. He told Heather to stand still, with her feet slightly apart, and raise her arms out to her sides, until they were parallel with the floor. She did so. Then, using two hands to life each one, Fred handed her the 60-pound weights. "Keep holding 'em out like that," he told her. Heather tensed her arm muscles, flexing her biceps and triceps as hard as she could, and found that she could hold the weights. Her arms did not move. Soon, however, her arms burned. She felt sweat dripping down her back, dripping down between her breasts. However, she wouldn't let herself release the weights. Somehow, she kept her arms at 90%, but they started shaking slightly. Through the corner of her eye she saw Fred motioning toward the dark corner of the room. From the shadows, a dark shape emerged and gradually materialized into the figure of a man as he sauntered over. Dressed in nothing but boxing shorts, he was short and heavily built. "Stay where you are. Don't move," Fred cautioned Heather, as she was trying to turn to see what was happening. "This is Diego, your new sparring partner." He turned and held a brief, whispered conversation with Diego. Then he turned to Heather. "You – don't move. Until you have to." She was still holding the 60-pound barbells at 90% to her body, but she knew she couldn't keep it up any longer. Fred turned and left the room. As the door clanged shut behind him, Diego moved in. Crouching low into a boxing stance, he let loose at Heather with a sharp jab to her stomach. Heather's stomach muscles were so hard that it didn't hurt, but it took her by surprise. She leapt back and dropped the weights. "Holy shit, girl, you got some six-pack," Diego muttered. Fred burst through the door. "I thought I told you to keep holding those weights!" He looked pissed off. "Now you want to fight Lewis or not?" Heather felt herself turning red from anger and embarrassment. Fred handed her back the weights, one at a time. "This training session doesn't end until either he makes you step back or he gives up," Fred told her. Heather raised the barbells back into position and gritted her teeth. "Bring it on" she said to herself. She willed herself to raise the barbells back into position. Diego closed in and delivered a sharp jab to her midriff. Heather closed her eyes and focused. Diego hit her again, then again. But his blows didn't hurt. Compared to the medicine ball, it was nothing. Just as Diego danced back in for another shot, she tensed her stomach muscles as hard as she could. Diego launched a hard right. "Ouch!" he yelled, jumping back. Diego rubbed his fist in pain. Heather grinned to herself; she knew she would win this competition, as long as she could hold the barbells in place. She hardened her arms and held on. The knotted veins in her forearms bulged from the strain. "Fuck this!" Diego spat, and walked away. Suddenly the gym door opened and Fred came in, placed a hand on Diego's shoulder and spun him around. "Where the hell you think you're going, macho man? You see that girl?" He gestured toward Heather. Unwillingly Diego raised his eyes to look at her. She flexed her abs again as hard as she could, making the hard ridges stand out in bold relief under the gym lights. "This here little training session ain't over 'til you either move her backwards, or YOU drop dead 'cause you're too tired to hit any more, you got that?" Fred reminded Diego. Resigned, Diego got back to work. He drilled Heather with a series of jabs, which had no effect. Then, he drew back his right, but thought it over and got ready with his left instead. He thought that over too, and decided it was better to still have one good arm. Diego didn't know what to do. Fred stood there, watching. He was actually staring in amazement at Heather's rock-hard body. He couldn't believe she was still holding the 60-pound weights – it didn't seem possible. She was stronger than anyone. "Come on, macho man!" he called out. Furious and humiliated, Diego fell upon Heather with a dizzying series of punches to her midriff. Again and again, he pummeled her, letting go of all his inhibitions in a huge yell of rage. Through the entire barrage, she continued to stand still, holding the 60-pound barbells at 90% angles to her body, immovable, hard as stone. Finally Diego collapsed in a sweat-soaked, exhausted heap at her feet. Heather placed one foot on his chest. Then, she raised the two barbells in a double-biceps pose, flexed her arms to rock-hard, chiseled definition, and smiled at Fred. "I'm ready," she told him. To be continued…