92 Elves For Sale.

"I understand." Lucius said, "I will focus my attention on this charm and enchant our house with it."

Draco nodded, "Is mother going to be okay?"

"She is living in the Greengrass family house after I left, along with some caretakers," Lucius said as Draco nodded.

"I will try to learn the charm too but I don't have much time in my hand right now to focus on it." Draco said, "I want to prepare more for the future so I wouldn't be caught off-guard like this."

Lucius sighed, "Make sure to not stress yourself out, among the young wizards you are probably the one with the most talent."

"The one with the talent isn't me?" Draco said knocking on his suitcase, "If this wasn't with me, I am not sure I could do anything."

Lucius didn't continue on the topic, "So what do you plan to do next?"

"I want to move school this year." Draco said shocking Lucius. "I want to go to Durmstrang."

"Why?" Lucius asked confused,

"Didn't you want me to?" Draco said looking at Lucius whose face was hard to read, Draco couldn't guess if he was happy or weirded out.

"Wh-- I mean its good but why so suddenly?" Lucius asked with a smile.

Draco's mouth twitched watching Lucius's creepy smile, "I think you are misunderstanding something. I want to just switch school for this year." Draco said, "Maybe as an exchange student for half the school year-- you said that you were friends with the current headmaster, didn't you?--then why not ask him this favor."

"Why do you even want to go there?" Lucius asked, as his smile faded away, "There is no reason to go there just for a certain amount of time and go back to Hogwarts again."

"I want to try it first." Draco said after thinking for a good lie, he didn't want to explain too much stuff, "If I like the school then I can completely shift there."

Lucius looked at Draco doubting him, "Fine, since I am helping your friends, Vincent and Gregory to move this year, I will write about you as well to Karkaroff, with your fame, I am sure he won't even hesitate."

"Oh, by the way, how is their family relation going?" Draco asked suddenly as he was reminded of Crabbe and Goyle. "I tried to talk with them in school but they just kept ignoring me."

"It's not too good." Lucius said sighing, "Vincent's father wasn't too happy about all this, I heard that he even fought with Gregory's father, accusing him of making Gregory influence his son to the point of becoming an idiot like him."

"So have they calmed down yet?"

"They had a small fight in our house last time, but suddenly they stopped." Lucius said, "I think they finally realized fighting isn't going to solve anything."

Draco nodded, this time he was prepared to face his enemy without much worry, since unlike the original, Lucius wasn't jealous of Potter so Draco was sure he didn't have the need to send Tom Riddle's diary to Hogwarts, so there wasn't going to be any basilick attack in Hogwarts this year. So he didn't have to worry about Pansy, Daphne, Hermione, and the others.

Draco had tried to search for the diary in the past but he never could really find it, he had searched all the bookshelves and hidden rooms in his house but there wasn't even a sign of the diary. Since it was difficult to explain to Lucius how he knew about the existence of the diary in the first place and how he knew that he had it, Draco couldn't ask about it directly as well. So he just gave it up for now until he learns some spell or finds a method to destroy the Horcruxes.

Talking about Pansy, Hermione, and Daphne; Draco was sure that he would get in a lot of trouble after he returns back home tonight.

After walking for several minutes, stopping here and there to shop for some interesting herbs, Draco and Lucius finally reached an old medium sized building, with the huge wooden board hanging outside with 'Elves For Sale.' carved on it.

"Well, that was easy to find." Draco said walking in with Lucius. Both of them looked around as they passed through a dark passage filled with bats.

"You here for the elves?" A fat man suddenly came out of nowhere, scaring both Lucius and Draco.

After calming down, Draco observed the short, fat man who had a scruffy beard and from his hazed eyes and the weird smell around him, Draco figured that this guy must be a drunkard.

"Yes, we are here for the elves who are proficient in taking care of magical beasts."

The man happily smiled and said, "This way, sir." As he led both of them through the passage which started lighting up one by one. Draco and Lucius looked at each other, signaling each other to be careful and be aware of their surrounding.

The man didn't say anything at first as he kept walking forward, in front of them was an opening which looked like an entrance of a cave with the outside light shining in. The man suddenly turned back and said, "We are the best sellers in the market, so I can assure you that you wouldn't be disappointed."

Lucius didn't say anything as he looked at the man with disgust and Draco nodded in response to be polite.

"We have the best service in all of Europe, as we don't ask nor tell anyone of our buyers identity, so you can rest freely." The man continued in a monotone voice as if he was reading from a book. "We have all sorts of elves here, ones who do household chores, ones who can help in potions and alchemy, ones who can take care of magical beasts and one who can do anything you want them too."

Draco was a bit creeped out by the guy but he still had to ask a couple of questions, "So what assures their loyalty?" He asked. "They are neither family elves nor have they been raised in that environment, how can I be sure that they wouldn't run away after I purchase them?"

"It's simple." The man said, "These elves have different teaching than house-elves, for them, loyalty is the most important thing in life, their loyalty can't even be compared to the house-elves. For them, anyone who buys them is their master, their god. All this, I can assure--its the same concept of house-elves but they will be loyal to anyone who buys them, even if you give them clothes or release them, they will still stay loyal to you till the very end."

Draco thought for a while and asked, "How many types of magical creatures can they take care of?"

"Almost all of them." The man replied immediately, "They have all been taught to only take care of animals their entire life, but just to let you know, they aren't good at anything else other than that. So if you want them to do other jobs I suggest you buy other elves as well."

The man was trying hard to sell and advertise more elves but with the tone of his voice, Draco was sure that no other people would be interested in buying more.

"How many elves do you have?"

"How much do you need?"

Draco started calculating the work lord in his mind and said, "5 elves and they should be able to handle XXXXX level creatures."

The man nodded and led them towards an open field out of the passage, the field had many animals in them with the elves running around here and there, taking care of them, some feeding and some cleaning.

"Are these creatures for sale too?" Draco asked interestedly as he saw a couple of unique creatures.

"Only Elves." The man replied lazily, "If you want to buy some creatures, there is a shop, 20 minutes from here but you will need a legal permit and if you want to buy it illegally you need to walk towards the west side for 45 minutes to reach there. Beneath is a black market where they sell some creatures, but it will cost you a lot of money."

Draco noted it all down as the man began gathering the elves for Draco to choose.