Disclaimer
All characters are legal adults in the jurisdictions presented, and in any case are 18+.
This story revolves around a universe where there is legal slavery either voluntary or by debt-based indenture. This universe is loosely based off the works of Carl_Bradford, Joe_Doe_Storirs and many others.
Consent is paramount! Slavery is bad. Historical and race-based slavery was exceptionally bad. Modern slavery, in all forms is bad and should be condemned.
The concept of "legal slavery" and "self-indenture" is a fictional erotica topic with BDSM themes and should be taken lightly, not as a serious presentation of any desirable future. I'm borrowing the universes well presented on Literotica without consent or knowledge of the prior authors: I beg their indulgence.
This story employs themes of body modification, non-consent/reluctance, mind control/hypnosis, slavery, bondage, submission, control, and Domination.
Brad's Christmas Miracle - Santa's Slave
Brad hung limply in the chains of the grading area. He was devastated. A slave wrangler had just come by and announced that he was going to be released and would be free to go.
Most would-be slaves would be relieved, but it meant Brad had just missed out on another opportunity. He'd planned to have himself auctioned today for a two-year stint, but only if he managed to grade Choice Plus. Hearing he was going to be released: he knew he hadn't made the grade. It was a last-ditch attempt at a Christmas miracle.
It had been a long shot, but it was the only way he was going to get his brother the money he needed to leave that hellhole country he was trapped in. Trading his freedom for his brother's had seemed like a fair deal for a two-year stint, but he wouldn't sell himself without reservations. No medical modifications, no dick piercings, no international travel or re-sale, and no male-only households: he'd thought he'd entice at least one of the graders looking for labour or dancersβafter all, he kept a decently fit body... But there was no luck there.
One by one they had all passed by, and passed on him too, it seemed. He'd find out his grade once they released him, but it almost didn't matter. His Grandmother held his power of attorney, and she knew the stakes as well as he did: she'd be disappointed too. Tears were beginning to well up in his eyes when he heard the sound of a large man clearing his throat.
Quickly looking around and trying to switch mental gears back into that of the horny stud, he blinked and did his best to sway his hips a little as he turned a smile toward the man. The frustrating tears in his eyes made focusing hard, but it tried to not let it show.
Tall, slightly portly, and wearing a red suit and red floppy hat, he was certainly the oddest silhouette Brad had seen pass through the grading area, but he wasn't in a position to judge. Rather, his position was literally to
be judged
. The blurry outline of the man seemed to stoop to the post in front of Brad with his paperwork.
Tut-tutting, the man turned his attention to Brad directly. Brad still had trouble focusing on the man in the red suit, even though the thought of tears was long-banished as he tried to make himself comely for the stranger. There was some aura around the large man that seemed to blur him from vision. Despite his blurry appearance, Brad could sense the piercing eyes of the stranger burrowing deep into his soul. It made him squirm in his bonds.
"Now this isn't a very nice grade, is it?" asked the stranger, Brad could only shrug. "I would say this grade is downright
naughty
... And you seem like a
nice
boy." Brad looked the stranger straight in the middle of his out-of-focus head and winked. "Ho-ho! A very nice boy indeed... Were you hoping for a Christmas miracle, my boy?"
Brad nodded, he needed this miracle more than anything. "Did you want to sell yourself to save your brother?" asked the stranger.
Brad was stunned, '
How does this stranger know?
'
"I know you're devoxxed for grading, boy, so all you have to do for me is make the wish in your mind," the man continued. Brad for his part look confused. "Don't question it, just do as I say: Obey, Focus, and Wish Your Freedom Away..."
As the man in the red suit said the words, Brad let himself submit to the older man's instructions. The words of his dream were half-formed, but the substance was there. The exchange: him for his brother, one day to be reunited. As he finished forming the thought, still trying to find the words, the older man's blur seemed to slow. As Brad's focus started to flicker, he could have sworn he saw literal Santa Claus winking at him just as he lost consciousness...
[...]
"SOLD!" cried the auctioneer as the hammer rang down on the anvil. The punctuating sound snapping Brad from his reverie. Looking around, he realized he was on his knees, one hand spreading his rosebud for a crowd, his face pushed down into the sand by the auctioneer's boot. Presently the pressure lifted, and Brad rolled onto his side.
"I said SOLD, slave, and that means get the fuck off the stage!" cried the auctioneer as he threatened Brad with a whip. He immediately scrambled to his feet, fearful of the lash, and was greeted by another slave handler coming to him with a leash.
Snapping the clip of the red leash shut on his collar, Brad was dragged gruffly off the auction floor. His grandmother in the stands trying to wave him a reassuring wave as he went. To her it was a true Christmas miracle: not only had they got enough money to save Edward, but her grandson had fetched enough to safeguard her retirement too. "Such a good boy..." she said to no one in particular, as the next lot was brought out for bidding.
[...]
Brad was in a state of shock and confusion as he was dragged through the slave auction house. Brad had been devoxxed for the grading, but he found he'd been given the antidote during his blacked-out time. "Where am I going?" he asked the slave wrangler desperately.
"I should shock you for asking, but we haven't got time. Your buyer paid a premium for expedited packaging, and that's what he's getting," explained the slave handler. Presently they came to one of the side doors of the building. There was no cage, only a simple railing for tethering slaves. "Here we are slave. Kneel here, don't move, and shut the fuck up." The handler was brusque as he quickly tied Brad's tether to the railing.
No sooner had his hands left the leather strap that they heard a knocking at the side door. "That'll be your owner slave. Best behaviour now..." cautioned the slave handler as he wrenched open the door. The expression on the handler's face got slightly confused as he looked through the door. '
Do I need to clean my glasses?
' thought the handler as he tried to see who was standing before him.
The figure didn't wait long, however, and Brad's stunned eyes focused on Santa Claus himself bustling in through the door of the slave auction house. Seeming slightly stunned, the slave handler wordlessly held out the paperwork for Brad's indenture. He didn't seem to notice that the slave buyer signed the forms with a wave of his hand, ink magically scrawling on the dotted lines, nor the generally jolly nature of his acquisition.
Instead, the slave handler, mostly slack-jawed, quietly said "So, yeah, I guess he's all yours Sir. Thank-You for buying at The Big Hammer?" Santa merely patted him on the head, and the handler smiled a vacant smile and walked away.