Felix hadn’t been sure what to expect from this Halloween auction. The first thing he noticed was the date. It was held the day after Halloween. Why bother calling it a Halloween auction if it wasn’t on Halloween?

“You’ll see,” was the only answer Alexa would give him. “I promise that you’ll enjoy yourself there.” Felix wanted to argue, but he knew his sponsor well enough to know when she wasn’t going to respond to pushing. And since she was the one vouching for him to take part, he didn’t want to do anything to risk his position as a buyer.

But now that he was actually here, he had to admit she was right.

“It’s a simple premise,” she said once she found him wandering the auction hall. The black woman wore an elegant, low cut red dress. Her long, straight hair covered her otherwise bare back. She was in excellent shape for a woman in her early forties. Felix could see more than one of the buyers shooting her looks, wishing they could take her for themselves. Alexa’s ability to flaunt her own beauty to a roomful of slavers was a testament to the value of her organization, and how dangerous she was on her own...

“Exotic creatures from all over the country were captured in their revelry last night and brought here today. All have cleaned up and made presentable for their betters, but beyond that have received no training. Every one of them has been captured in the last thirty-six hours. Isn’t that right, slut?”

They had stopped in front of a cage containing a cat woman. As her title implied, the Latina woman had been dressed in a tight, form-fitting catsuit. Matching ears were nestled in her short hair and the muzzle gag on her face had whiskers drawn on it. A long tail extended was attached to the suit, currently curled around her booted feet. Her ankles and knees had been cuffed, and the cuffs attached to the cage, secured with padlocks.

She did not appreciate Alexa’s words, and made her displeasure clear by moaning through her gag.

Alexa laughed at the costumed slave’s muffled cries. “She’s one of the less impressive catches of the night, but she’ll fetch a fair price by the end.”

Felix’s attention wandered to the side of the cage. “What’s that?” he asked.  

“Hmm?” Alexa followed his gaze. “That is the last picture of the creature before its’ capture. What she looked like before she was ‘groomed.’ And beneath that is some basic information. Age, measurements, her previous home, that sort of thing.”

The man had to crack a smile at that. The costume was certainly different. Just a skirt, shirt, thigh high socks and black heels accompanying a much cheaper looking pair of ears. She was twenty-seven years old, a bit older than most slaves, and she was from Los Angeles.

“Well,” he said as he stepped away from the mewling cat woman’s cage and looked around the rest of the room. “It looks like you were right. I’m definitely going to enjoy myself here.”

“Good. Look around, see what you want to buy. I already have my eyes on something special.” Her gaze traveled to the edge of the room. Felix didn’t follow her look just yet, instead choosing to offer her his thanks for getting him in to attend before he broke off to browse.

There wasn’t an enormous amount of merchandise tonight. The creatures had only been taken the night before, after all. There weren’t too many of them. But Felix saw plenty to catch his eye.

There was a pale woman with dark hair, bound heavily in a gothic dress. The trail of “blood” flowing down the fangs painted on her ballgag revealed she was a vampire. She glowered at the buyers. Sullen, but unwilling to give them the satisfaction of watching her struggling flutily.

A unicorn caught Felix’s eye. She was the only slave to be uncaged, instead bound to the wall behind her. She wore a bright purple latex body suit, her horn centered on the harness gag encasing her head. Booted pony feet stamped at anyone who tried to approach her.

There were other cats too, more exotic than the one form before. A leopard woman, a tiger, and even a panther whose natural skin was even darker than Alexa’s. All of them were bound up similarly to the one near the entrance. Their own catsuits were designed to match their species, and each had the fierce temperament to match their predatory costumes.

Here was a redheaded leprechaun, there a sultry witch. There was an asian dragon, a werewolf, and even a Christmas elf.

Felix seriously considered putting bids on a demon from New York. She was dressed in tight leather, a black corset with matching gloves and bright red boots that traveled all the way up her thighs, all accompanied by wings and horns. The man paused at her, looking over every inch of her, taking in the sight of her tan skin and pitch-dark hair. She was his favorite so far. Even if she was less popular than her angelic neighbor.

Easy money said the angel was the one Alexa wanted. Golden blond hair, blue eyes, and just a tad chubby. It gave her an appropriately cherubic look. She was the lesbian slaver’s type, no question about that. The pure white, puffy lingerie that matched her fluffy angel wings so well was driving a number of buyers crazy. A look at her information said she was eighteen, from Connecticut. Her costume had covered quite a lot more before her abduction.

It was nearly the end of the browsing period when Felix saw the slave he wanted.

The mermaid sat still in her cage, shrinking away from even the slightest bit of attention from the many buyers. Nice and demure, just the way Felix liked them.

Above her waist she wore only a silver bikini that managed to contain her large bust very well. A simple cleave gag kept her quiet, although she was quiet enough on her own that it almost wasn’t necessary. Below her waist, her tail was a seafoam green color. It was a latex hobble skirt that kept her folded legs together very tightly.

She was a fit woman, one clearly used to exercise with a swimmer’s build. He dark hair fell down to the small of her back, and her cuffed hands were neatly on her skirted lap.

The information sheet on her cage revealed that she was from South Carolina, and was captured at a beach party. Felix idly wondered if she had a Southern accent. Her previous costume was much rough looking, made out of a sewn-up blanket.

“Ladies and gentlemen,” came and announcement. “If you’ll proceed to the auction room, it will soon be time to begin bidding.”

Felix smiled.

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The first item was the cat woman Felix had originally encountered. She was brought in out of her cage, leashed and contained by handlers she struggled against. As expected, most were not overly interested in her. A short contest ended with her costing a respectable $30,000.

Respectable, but she ended up being the cheapest purchase of the night. Every other item went for at least $10,000 more. Things progressed relatively quickly, all things considered. Many of the costumed slaves for sale that night were the subject of bidding wars, but most had decided on what they wanted before the auction itself began.

Felix had to remind himself not to bid on the demoness when she came up for sale. He wanted to save his money for his real target. He could have surpassed the final $80,000 bid if he had wanted to, but not without risking his chance at the mermaid.

Finally, she was carried out and placed on the stage. She didn’t’ struggle as much as the other slaves, due to both her temperament and the hobble skirt and heels that made walking a dangerous proposition in the best of circumstances.

“Our next item this evening is a twenty-two year old mermaid from the southern United States. She was collected from a beach party and has so far proven highly docile and accepting of her new life.” The slave looked away in shame at hearing those words.

“As always, bidding will begin at $10,000. Do I hear $15,000?”

Felix held up his sign at the same time as at least five others.

“Multiple bids for $15,000, do I hear-- $20,000, thank you sir.”

“$50,000,” Felix called out when he raised his sign this time. A few heads turned. Next to him, Felix could see Alexa smirk.

“And we jump to $50,000, do I hear more?”

They did. Many of the interested parties stopped after Felix went up that high, but a few were left, and competention remained fiece until…

“Sold! To the gentleman in the back for $95,000.”

Felix grinned at the pronouncement of his victory, his eyes fixed firmly on his new pet. The mermaid stared back until the handlers nudged her off the stage, forcing her to keep eyes in front of her feet. The victorious bidder signaled at them to bring her immediately over to him, and they did.

Most slaves were brought back to await their new owners at the end of the auction, but the mermaid was calm enough that the handlers had no issue bringing her directly to them. It took them awhile to march her over in the hobble skirt, but Felix was willing to wait. He filled out a check for her and enjoyed the jeers she was given by the other bidders while she was walked past them. In the meantime, the unicorn was brought out for sale.

“Excellent choice,” Alexa congratulated Felix as the mermaid was deposited on his lap. He didn’t answer immediately. Instead he ran his hands all over his new pet’s body, groping her breasts, feeling out her legs through the skirt, and enjoying the sound of her whimpers.

“Thank you,” he eventually said. “I suppose I’m just glad that angel is here to catch your eye, otherwise I might have had to bid against you.”  

“You know me too well,” she said back. She then reached over, “do you mind?”

“Not at all.”

And then Alexa was feeling up the mermaid herself. “Don’t feel bad, slave. My protégé here is going to take good care of you. Trust me, you could have done a lot worse with the buyers here.”

“Oh, absolutely,” Felix whispered in the mermaid’s ear. “Maybe I’ll even get you a nice fish tank to live in, so you can feel right at home.”

Alexa chuckled at that, and enjoyed the dark-haired slave’s quiet moaning even more than Felix had, but stopped as the unicorn was sold on the stage. “That’s right, this beauty was tempting. But did you see the information on the angel?”

“I skimmed over it,” he said as he pulled his hand through the mermaid’s silky hair.

“She was taken from a costumed Bible study party instead of a real Halloween party, can you believe that? And she grew so much more distressed when she noticed my interest in her earlier.”

Felix thought back to the eighteen year old. She had the look of a WASP about her. “And was that distress because you’re a woman or...?”

Alexa laughed. “Either? Both? I honestly don’t know. But I can promise you that I’m going to find out.”

She made good on that promise near the end of the night, when the angel was led out second to last. Bidding was fierce, but in the end Alexa won her with a $140,000 bid, the most expensive purchase of the night.

The last item, the witch cleared $100,000 as well, the fourth slave to reach that expense tonight after Alexa’s angel, the unicorn, and the vampire. Felix took a closer look at her as he did so. She was an alluring purchase, to be sure. Her tight-fitting dress and long heeled boots accentuated her figure very well. And she had a fierily look in her eye even as she remained relatively calm. Feisty and smart, Felix could see the appeal even if he personally wasn’t interested.

Without another word, Felix followed Alexa along as she collected her own property. Instead of waiting for his pet to hobble along though, Felix hoisted her onto her shoulder. Not only was it faster to carry her, it let him get a full grasp of her ass as they walked.

A heavyset woman was collecting her purchases as they made it to the holding area. She had been the one to purchase three of the cat women on sale tonight.

“The panther was the one I wanted the most,” she declared to her new slaves as they were wheeled past her and prepared for delivery. “You stupid sluts are going to pay for costing me too much to be able to pay for her, I can promise you that.”

Alexa was next after the slaver equivalent of a cat lady left the area. The handler smiled as she handed over the biggest check of the night, and Felix set his mermaid down next to him so he could enjoy the show.

The angel girl’s legs and been hobbled with soft white rope rather than a skirt, and her arms were bound tightly behind her back the same way. Nearly every part of her clothing, the bra, panties, stockings, high heels, even the collar and the ball gag were all pure white. She wailed as her new mistress approached her.

The sight of Alexa’s hungry grin as she loomed over her new slave was unforgettable. The demoness Felix had considered bidding for was in the background, still uncollected, and the male slaver found himself substantially less interested in her as he realized the real demon was standing right in front of him, ready to corrupt the sheltered slave that was now her property.

“I’m going to enjoy breaking you in, precious,” she said as she took hold of the angel’s leash and pulled her close. “I can already tell you'd rather be owned by a man, but I'll show you that my touch is everything you'll ever need. Teaching a spoiled little brat like you to live for my pleasure… Oh, yes, we’re going to have so much fun together.”

She continued like that for awhile, inspecting the plump teenager without a care in the world. Then she turned to Felix. “I think we can take the next day or two off to enjoy our new slaves, don’t you Felix?”

Felix grinned. “You’re the boss.”

“That’s right, I am. Now have fun with the mermaid. Precious and I are going to be very busy tomorrow.”

The angel finally broke a bit, tears spilling out her eyes as Alexa cooed over her. Felix didn't stick around to see what happened next.

The mermaid had fallen silent until now, but let out a surprised cry as Felix picked her up, bridal style this time, and began carrying her to his car. “Don’t worry pet, I won’t do anything to damage your tail right away. There are plenty of ways we can have fun in the meantime.”

Really, the novelty of the Halloween auction was only a passing thing. He’d tire of his new slave’s costume within a few days and then she would go on to wear more normal attire. But there was no reason not to have fun with it in the meantime.

“Now, that fish tank may take a few days to set up, but I have a beachfront property you should feel right at home in…”