93 Auction. (1/2)

Draco picked 5 elves who looked decent enough. Seeing the conditions of the elves Draco realized that they were mistreated a lot than a common house-elf. All of them had sunken faces and they were too skinny. All of them had a collar around their neck, which was tied too tightly as they had marks on their neck from it. The names of the elves were Ed, Fred, Ned, Red, and Ted respectively. All the 5 elves Draco chose were male and all of them were young and healthy. Each elf cost Draco seventy thousand and Five hundred Galleon. After paying the total sum of three hundred fifty two thousand and five hundred galleons, the man called Draco in front.

”I am assuming you're the owner.” The man said looking at Draco and ignoring Lucius.

Lucius' mouth twitched listening to the tone of the man, he was already irritated by the dirty place and seeing the drunkard's attitude towards him, made him even angrier. Draco reading the mood hurriedly nodded.

”We need to do a simple ritual.” The man said taking out a bottle of alcohol from his robe and chugging it all in, the alcohol spilled from his mouth and his entire clothes were wet. He wiped the alcohol of off his mouth and continued, ”You just walk in front and open their collar with your hands, not your wand and release them. After that, they belong to you.”

Draco nodded and walked in front of the elves opening their collar one by one, who upon doing so hurriedly kneeled on the ground.

”Thank you, Master, for releasing us.” They said in unison, ”We will repay this favor with unyielding loyalty for our entire life.”

Draco nodded happily seeing the elves behavior.

”Now that's done, I'll be off.” The man said snapping his finger and the moment he did, a sudden blackout happened for a tenth of a second and they were suddenly outside, the place was nowhere to be seen, it was like the whole building disappeared out in thin air. In the open field, Lucius, Draco and the five elves were standing there in a daze.

”What was that?” Draco mumbled to himself.

”The place is said to never exist in the first place.” One of them elves spoke.

”Explain.”

”Yes, Master. We don't know much about this but it is said that the place was never meant to exist.” Ed said. ”Some of the old elves told us stories that the place would only appear to those who seek it and to those who mean no harm but after you visited the place once, it will forever be lost.”

Draco raised his eyebrows and thought to himself, 'Seems like old magic,'

”Let's leave.” Lucius said, impatiently. The idea of just standing in an empty field talking with elves made him uncomfortable.

Draco wanted to ask more but seeing the impatient Lucius, he didn't. Draco opened the suitcase and whispered something, sticking his head into it. Soon a small growl came and Draco took out his head, ”Go inside, you don't have to do anything for now. I will later come in and explain your work to you.”

”Yes, Master.” The elves said as they slowly approached the suitcase and still afraid jumped in one by one.

”The work's done, isn't it?” Lucius said.

”No need to be so impatient father.” Draco said picking his suitcase up, ”I still want to go to the market the man talked about.”

”To buy more creatures?” Lucius asked snorting, ”The growl I heard-- what else have you got in there?”

”It's a secret.” Draco said, ”If you don't want to come, I can go alone and you can return back to the hotel room.”