The dark elf, an unusually tall woman, clad in thick, soundless leather outfit of a rogue, chuckled soundlessly. Her delicate feet made no sound as she scaled the walls of the noble's mansion.
The Human Empire of Lescatie's cream of the crop had a massive allowance for land to build on, with gardens and maids and exotic pets.
The woman slowly leapt over the barbed wall, her levitation spell causing her only to brush on the spikes before landing gracefully on a wide open, green garden. She checked her equipment.
Ransom note: check.
Rope and handcuffs: check.
Stun sap: check.
Crossbow with tranq darts, check.
Chloroform: check.
"Time to show my mother what I am made of." She smiled to herself. Every Dark Elf mamono had a "coming-of-age" ritual : The Leash Quest.
It means, they must kidnap, or simply overpower and ransom or enslave one human. Afterwards they are a free citizen and free to live their lives, oft attended by slaves treated like family.
Rare few reject and run away, almost always to the Prince Albion Islands, or caught and enslaved.
Ina aimed high.
Like a shadow, Ina's Dark Elven heritage and boots made from softest chamois skin allowed her to sneak across the magically enhanced turf, and slip in one of the buildings.
The mansion held the children of Lescatie's oldest noble families as part of a boarding school for theology and magic, Academy of Saint Kenkou Cross.
The sacred Prophet Kenkou who brought humans their religion and was crucified by Ermorian Empire, giving the sacred cross his hallowed name: Kenkou Cross.
Ina could hear the night hymns sang by boys and girls separately, coming from a window.
"Ew, stuck up little snots." Ina smirked to herself. Perhaps she should just kidnap a maid and ransom or sell her. Then a simple human girl wasn't worth being shipped to slavery across the world save for cruelty upon her or... her hesitant consent. Ina's pragmatic mind and what passes for conscience for a monster said "no."
"Hmm... If I grab some noble brats then I can waste my only teleporter gem worth a fortune. Better this way." Slowly Ina dashed from tree to tree to close on the complex housing the kids' beds.
Taking a deep breath, the dark elf leapt over a hedge trimmed like a wave on an ocean and landed rolling inside the smaller garden of the dormitory.
"No dogs or security...seriously, what are these people?"
Slowly , she approached a door inlaid with beautiful flowery carvings. It seemed to lead to the dormitory. Much to her surprise, a rattling tray was being pushed by a human with its back turned to her passed right in front of her. A human maid, a homely girl with a frilly, white dress, portly face, small glasses resting on her button nose was passing across the corridor. She was carrying a tray of croissants, tea and sandwiches, freshly baked and the smell wafting across the night air to tickle Ina's nose. Her hair, short, red and curly, was covered by a cook's hat.
"Ahnnn, adorable!~" Ina bit her lips to suppress a giggle and the urge to hug, snatch her home and be done with it. She would ask her mom to buy a human woman like that instead.
The maid huffed and grunted as the pushed the tray's wheels across a door's threshold. The door read: "Security." Ina tiptoed across the corridor behind her, and laid her pointy ear on the door to listen.
"Ahh, thanks for the night snacks, Ashley~" A feminine voice sounded.
"*feminine grunting* There ya go, miss Beatrice. Ya know, I wouldn't do the job if I didn't need to feed my sick ma, triplets and my deadbeat husband." Ina peeked through the keyhole. The maid sat with a tall, statuesque blonde wearing a red, full plate suit of armor. Both sipped tea and ate from the tray. "But this pays double the maid's silver wages."
The woman she talked to looked twice as tall as the maid, and had a halberd rested next to her that was taller than her head.
"What the hell, does that woman have Oni blood?" Ina kept looking. Both were petting a very large dog...wait...
A kobold. A mamono girl with fuzzy dog-girl features except the face and shape of her limbs. Lescatie's only tolerated mamono were kobolds, and even then as a pet. The kobold girl lazed around the guardwoman's lap, pawing at her face and nibbling a sandwich. "Thanks for the food, miss Ashley!" She cheerily exclaimed, giving the motherly maid a hug as her tail wagged.
Ina decided to quietly sneak behind the door, and into the dormitory...
Her feet made no sound as she tiptoed towards the cavernous hall where the noble brats were sleeping after lights out. Slowly opening a wooden door, she noticed a small flicker of light. Some noble brat had his candle on.
Focusing on her magical blood, Ina invoked a small spell to be absolutely quiet. She peered above the kid's shoulder...
The book he held had a title: "Mamono Slavers: HERETICALLY HOT perversion comics with extra bondage! Extra sinful!"
It was a series of magic imprinted drawings where dark elves attempt to enslave humans and light elves, and get defeated and enslaved instead. In the end, the characters even loved it, along with the light elf characters who also seem to lose their will before sheer human might, fertility and beauty, thus willingly become maids and concubines of the protagonist.
The finale had the human male maintaining a large harem of elves of all types, and dutiful mamono and human maids and servants fawning over him as he ravished each one, last one being a feminine looking human of unexplained gender in a girl's clothes.
Ina wanted to seize the boy, and give him a sound beating beyond his nightmares. "And to think we are supposed to be monsters..."
The boy had a grin on his face, a small vial of lubricant on his lap, and a pack of tissues.
NOPE. Time to apply the chloroform. Then she'd show him a bad time in the kidnappers' safehouse so that the brat would never look down on dark elves! Her dexterous hands slipped around his throat, right hand clutching the wet rag. Suddenly she clamped down like a vice, pressing the rag tightly against his nose.
"MMMMPPPPPPHHHHHH!" Was all the boy could mumble before his struggles softened, and he went limp in Ina's arms. Ina could feel the gold jewelry such a young boy had on his arm. Equally his footlocker had a fortune in gold coins, and expensive male perfumes. What's more, his lunchbox had a different signature than his wristband. Probably a bully too.
"Little bastard..." Ina mumbled. "Before you are ransomed I'm going to make you cry for your mummy. No doubt you must be a bully."
Taking out her ropes, she quickly bound his wrists, arms, legs and hands with a loop of rope each, and gagged and blindfolded him. Bundling the noble brat like a mummy, she quickly seizes his belongings, and shouldered the boy like a small duffel bag.
"Fuck, he is heavy."
The dark elf decided on what to do. The teleporter gem was a small, egg-shaped, sparkling stone that fizzled and popped like carbonated water. It would teleport anyone within a radius of 10 feet. Better plan well. She had told her friends and hirelings that she'd teleport in hot, meaning with hostiles, if at all.
Best put him on the bed and use the bed as a getaway point. Ina let the kid sleep tied-up as she continued her search for more ransomable targets.
Several muffled screams and sounds of scraping later whene two other noble brats were returning from answering the call of nature, two more boys were fast asleep and tied-up on the bed. As Ina was busy piling them together, her heart leapt: Sounds of armor and a rattling tray.
Shit.
"Kevin? Jared? Are you up?" The maid hesitantly spoke as she could not make out the shifting shadows inside the dormitory.
"I...smell something..." The kobold girl's voice could be heard. "Like...nu...not the masters..." Ina could see her furry form shift and strain itself to look behind the maid.
