Chapter 24: The Elf Society Pt. 1

Theriault, Shen Yi, and Hunter have been captured by a bunch of female elves. These elves keep their males in captivity, only using them for hunting expeditions and breeding. How does this society thrive? And what are the secrets of the elves?

The elf village is located on a small island near a lake. It's surrounded by water, but there is also an old stone bridge leading up from the shore. On the other side of the bridge is an old temple.

! Theriault awoke, coughing groggily as he gathered his thoughts. He wasn't surprised to be tied up, nor was he surprised to be upside down on a pike, staring up at millions of elves, all of them noisy as he and Hunter awoke and saw their predicament. He had seen worse things, but it still took a while to get used to seeing so many elves, even when they were just sitting around doing nothing.

He looked over at Hunter, who was already trying to untie himself with his teeth.

! "Don't bother mate" Theriault said, sighing as he relaxed his body. "Elven rope can only be broken with magical steel, and we have none on us..."

Hunter frowned and then sighed, looking at the elves again. They were singing some kind of song, and Theriault could see a few of them dancing around. He couldn't hear anything, since the elves were too far away.

! "What do we do? And where's Shen Yi!?" Hunter realized their female companion was nowhere in sight, a panicked expression appearing on his face as Theriault chuckled.

"Well, if she's not here, we'll never find her." Theriault paused, glancing at the elves again as Hunter gasped. "Did they kill her?!"

Theriault smiled. "No no no, Shen Yi isn't dead, she's fine... But I don't know where she went... I'd assume the queen, to these elves... We're her slaves."

"Huh? Why would they think that?" Hunter asked, bewildered by this information.

Theriault felt a headache coming on. "If I wanted to give you every detail I'd have gotten a job at Wiki and said fuck The Master key... Elves have a stupid culture, hundreds of years ago, they decided the male members of their race were useless... So they had some kind of war, and unfortunately for us... The females won."

"Wait... What do you mean 'females'?"

"There's more than one gender among these elves dumbass, just because they are magical creatures doesn't mean they don't have sex... They're actually too sexual, I'm not sure if you're old enough to be around them..."

As Theriault sat there, deep in thought, Hunter was talking to The Pheonix.

'Should I use it?' He asked the deity, his eyes glowing a bright red as The Pheonix shook its head.

"It's too early for that boy, have patience, you are with a walking legend, you'll be fine," The Pheonix said, looking at Theriault, who seemed unbothered.

"Welcome one and all to the feeding games! Today we have two humans... But these aren't just any humans..." A squealy voice yelled out, silencing all the elves as they turned their attention toward the female elf dressed in skimpy clothing walking next to the pike that Theriault and Hunter were tied to.

"No... These humans are the legendary Keymasters! harnessers of ancient magic!"

The crowd went wild, causing Theriault's headache to worsen as he gritted his teeth.

"Yeah excuse me, what are the feeding games?" Theriault asked, interrupting the host elf and causing the crowd to turn toward him.

"You dare speak over me!" The elf yelled angrily, flashing toward him and stomping her heeled foot into his face.

She couldn't have been any more than 3 feet tall, and yet her attack was stronger than any human adult.

"As much as I enjoy seeing women in a vulnerable state... Please cover-up," Theriault said calmly, rolling his eyes as he saw the elf's skirt riding up in front of his face.

The elf blushed deeply, her ears flashing a bright red as she yelled.

"In this feeding game, The Humans will be handicapped, since they are Keymasters, they will continue to be strung up, if they manage to escape their bindings by the time the dangerous beast devours them... Then they are permitted to live on for breeding!"

The crowd booed, clearly hoping for blood as the elf looked down at Theriault. "This is for looking up my skirt pig..." She whispered, smiling cruelly as he rolled his eyes.

"More bad guy monologue... And it was a pleasure, a great sight truly," Theriault teased, glancing over at a gate that was slowly opening.

The host elf flashed up the wall, sitting in a seat next to what Theriault assumed were thrones. The elves seated in those thrones were exceptionally beautiful, almost enough to distract him. Almost.

Theriault smiled widely as he recognized one of the elves sitting on the throne. "So she was royalty..." He said to himself as a low growl echoed throughout the coliseum.

"Are you ready for your deaths, Keymasters!?" The host elf screamed, waving her hands and causing fire to erupt from the ground, engulfing the entire arena.

"I guess we better be," Theriault replied, feeling the heat against his skin. The growl got louder as a reptilian-like creature crawled where the gate was rising, screeching as Theriault widened his eyes.

"Oh..." He said as Hunter widened his eyes, squirming in his restraints.

"What the hell is that thing!?" He yelled, seeing the three-headed beast sniffing the air, his heart dropping as all three heads turned, locking eyes with their bodies.

"That my friend..." Theriault said as the creature ran at them, fire bellowing from one head and green smoke from another. "Is the Hydra."

***

Shen Yi woke up in a dimly lit cell, the smell of freshwater and mint filling her lungs.

"Finally awake dear? I've never seen them throw a female in the cells..." A squeaky voice said in front of her. Looking through the steel bars that separated her from the voice, she saw a man dressed in a loincloth and chainmail armor.

He was clearly supposed to be a guard, but his eyes were ones of a prisoner.

"Who are you?" Shen Yi asked as he shrugged.

"We males don't get assigned names..." He said, looking her up and down with a weird expression, one she recognized all too well. "But you may call me Breedsman 789..."

Shen Yi tried to ignore the hungry look in his eyes. A look she had begun to see more and more in men her age as she matured. It disgusted her, seeing the dirty elf guard looking at her as if she was a piece of meat.

"Where is this place?" She asked, crossing her arms to hide some of her body.

Of course, this helped none as the guard leered at her anyway. "Welcome to Ulibel, home of the forest elves..."

"And what is the meaning of this?" Shen Yi asked, pointing at her chains. "How did I get here?"

"Well..." 789 said, licking his lips as he stepped closer to the bars, closing his hands around them. "I'm not sure, but I'm glad they did."

Shen Yi widened her eyes as the cell door separating her from the male elf ceased to exist, his grin widening.

"I've never been able to be in control before, understand human, we males are treated quite unfairly... I promise not to be rough..."

Shen Yi scrambled back as the elf walked into the cell, tugging at the sides of his loincloth with a hungry look in his eyes, eyeing Shen Yi's body as he got closer and closer.

"Stop!" She yelled forcefully, her eyes glowing pink, matching with the male elf's. He quickly followed the command, his hands dropping to his sides. "What are you doing?!" She asked again.

He looked confused for a moment. "Why wouldn't I want you? You're so beautiful my love! A goddess! More beautiful than Imra herself! Oh, I wish to breed you, My Love, please allow me to!"

Shen Yi looked at the elf in disgust, now she could see why males in the elven society weren't treated so well.

"Never," She replied, getting to her knees. "Tell me everything about your society..."

789 groaned, "Ulibel is the capital of the forest elf nation, we used to have much more cities, but as the mortals continue to destroy wildlife we've been forced into a much smaller region..."

Shen Yi looked at him, still disgusted, but also, for some reason, relaxed. She had forgotten that fresh feeling, the feeling of control she had over people... And she had missed it.

"789... Take me out of here."

...

"Oh, dear... I forgot," 789 said as they neared the exit to the prison sector of Ulibel. She quickly discovered that the cells went underground for dozens of stories, hundreds of criminals locked below her, she had gotten lucky.

"Forgot what?" She asked, though her answer wasn't told to through words, but from the 4 male elves walking toward them, dressed exactly as 789.

"Today is the feeding games... So of course, security is higher than usual..."

Shen Yi looked at the male elf, "What are the feeding games?" She asked, her heart beating slightly faster as she saw the other male elves getting closer.

"The feeding games... It's not really much of a game, there's only one winner... and that's the beast," 789 looked at Shen Yi. "They are dangerous games where certain prisoners or male elves get the shot at becoming a royal breedsmen or sometimes, if they're lucky, a personal assistant... But it's rigged, the monster is undefeateable... There are hmans there in the coliseum with all the females... Unforutunately for them..." 789 eyes grew cold. "No one survives."