A Meruette Heist (Patreon)

You can find the full piece in your respective Dropbox folder for July, available to all tiers!STUDENT — SORCERER — DESIRE KEEPER

"Gosh... I-I really don't think this is such a bright idea..!"

Felicity should've known better than to follow Claire's lead quite so gladly. Still, earlier this evening when the happy-go-lucky koala knocked on the ever sulking panther's door and offered her a fool-proof way to unwind, the girl didn't find it within her to oppose her dear friend's unrelenting enthusiasm.

Well... here they were. When sneaking across the castle in the dead of the night, it almost seemed like Claire's mischievous ambitions weren't that far out of line! Perhaps they'd sneakily "borrow" a few of Darefell's silly VHS tapes, maybe they'd pay Sharon a visit around and see just how ticklish the sheep can be... oh, if only!

Instead, with the short koala barely containing her excitement, they stood with baited breath in the last place you'd would want to be caught in — Mistress Meruette's very own bedroom. The pale feline laid bare in her silken sheets, her black hair flowing, surrounding her voluptuous figure. After a long day of whipping her unruly subordinates into shape, the mistress rested peacefully. The last thing on Felicity's mind was getting front row seats for an encore!

"Y-you can't be serious!" the panther stuttered in panicked whispers, "If t-this is your idea of relieving stress... I shudder t-to think what you get up to otherwise!"

The koala smiled back, gleaming with joy, "Oh, Feli, c'mon! Don't be such a square! You know best that the forbidden fruit is the sweetest!"

"I-I'm sorry — I'm DEATHLY allergic to being used as a footstool for the following month!" Felicity furrowed her brows at Claire's smug grin, "...you can be my guest, but I'm out before she gets wise!"

As the koala fetched the ropes she prepared in advance, laying them out right next to the sleeping mistress, Felicity got up and started heading for the exit, huffing triumphantly. Sure, the cat could very well use some humbling... but she won't have anything to do with it! Besides... there's really nothing she could get out of this... right?

"You know..." Claire smiled, almost purring as she stretched the ropes out, "That rare... that intoxicating laughter of hers... it sure is something to behold. The joy with which that elegant voice flows from one note to the next... it's truly something special!"

Felicity paused. Everything was telling her to keep on walking, and yet that heart of hers kicked up the pace~!

"And wouldn't you know it... I have it on good authority that our dear mistress... is HORRIBLY ticklish" Claire stretched out on the bed, meeting eyes with Felicity's wagging tail, "Just imagine... oh how loud the bossy kitty can get in the right hands, just how infectious that laugh may be~"

Struggling to keep her breathing steady, Felicity turned around sharply.

"You're bluffing"

"Hardly"

"I-It's absurd...!"

"It'd be absurd to let such an opportunity go to waste~"

They both paused. Claire looked on to Felicity with immesurable smugness to her big magenta eyes. The tiniest Desire Keeper knew full well her friend was already on the hook. The panther, on the other hand, desperately tried to find it within herself to deny the obvious.

"Alright... say... i-if we DID go through with this... what's stopping this from this coming back to bite us VERY badly...?" the girl took slow steps, inching back into the bedroom.

"Oh... don't you worry, I've got it all covered! With the two of us, and with how heavy of a sleeper the big ol' mistress is, we'll have no trouble bundling her up in a healthy abundance o' rope!"

"B-but what--"

"And the next week or so we hop dimensions and lay low while she throws her hissy fit... c'mon now, Feli... you and I both know full well THIS catto could use some good spirited humbling! Especially after that chewing out she gave you the last week!"

Claire smiled warmly, extending a bundle of rope to her friend. Felicity stood right by the bed. Her tail wagging almost uncontrolably as her heart drummed to the beat of her growing excitement. To have Mistress Meruette like this... all to themselves... yes... yes, this would be a most welcome change of pace~

She took the rope.

"F-fine... but with one condition...!" the panther looked over the ropes in her hands, "let's make absolute sure these are as tight as they get~"

...

Slowly rolling in her sleep, the kind Mistress furrowed her brows. Amidst the smooth sheets, something coarse kept rubbing against her skin, almost akin to timid snakes carefully embracing their catch in a firm hug.

Instinctively, she moved her arms, only for a strand of some sort to tug them right back into place. What is... the meaning of this? Slowly opening those drowsy eyes, she squirmed, trying to stretch, to sit up, to see what is it that was getting in the way... only for a realization to hit her most abruptly.

She was... tied up! Tied up, thoroughly so, in her own bedroom! With cheerful voices snickering all around her! Those voices... they were... oh, they wouldn't DARE...! The cat struggled, tugging against the firm ropes, thrashing in place, wide awake in an instant!

"What's--?! What's the meaning of this?! You lousy brats best cease this nonsense right aw--HRMMPH! MM-MMPH?! MNNPH!" the feline growled, her emerging rant cut short with her own sock pushed right into that massive mouth of hers, none other than Claire coming into view.

"Morning, sleepyhead, teehee!" the koala teased as, in no time at all, a cloth was tied right over the sizable wad of stuffing, rendering the mistress' complaints into feeble muffled grunts!

"GHMM?! GHMM HMMF MMPH! MMN!" the feisty feline thrashed in place, the bountiful ropework keeping her in place.

"We couldn't help but notice how lonely you were tonight, Mistress~" the koala cooed, playfully tracing her fingers across Meruette's newfound gag, "With how stern you've been with us, with how hard at work you've been lately... we simply couldn't pass up the opportunity to put a smile on that face!"

"Shhmml?! Hll SHWW yhmm hmmf shmml hnnf uhmf--"

Before the cat could finish mumbling her threat, right on cue... tickle! Felicity grabbed onto those legs, plastering her hands across the mistress' very vulnerable feet, tickling away!

"H-HNN--?! HMMF-! N-NNGH-- HRMMPHHMMHMM-- FGH-- NHM-- HRMM-- MMPHHMMHMMMHMMM--!"

The room filled with most wonderful laughter, one rarely heard, yet ringing most loud and clear now, gagged or not! The panther couldn't help but smile. Oh, just how right Claire was! That voice, ringing in tune with the sharp ticklish sensation, truly was something special! She couldn't help but laugh along, tickling away those most sensitive soles.

"See? You know you can always trust your bestie~" Claire chirped, climbing onto the fruitlessly thrashing villainess, "Would you trade this for a boring ol' night by yourself at your place?"

"Never!" Felicity gasped, grinning from ear to ear! The sight of her, all happy and carefree, lost in the blissful moment... was almost just as satisfying as seeing the cruel feline put in her place.

"Let's make it count, then!" the cheerful koala hugged the panther, getting to work on the tightly trussed up domme herself, grabbing onto those incredibly hard to come by feet! This will be a night the kind mistress most certainly doesn't forget!

"HMMHMMMHMMF-- GHMMF-- HMMHMMHMM--! DHMM HHT, STHHF! NNGHMMM-HMM-HMMM-HMM-HMMF..!"

This has got to be the biggest drawing I've done in a solid while and I'm incredibly happy to have finally taken on such a monumental task. This exact scenario has been living in my head rent-free for a solid while now, so when our gracious Mistress has won the monthly poll — I simply couldn't pass up the opportunity to depict our beloved Keepers of the Feet and Tickling Desires getting back at the mean Mistress!

With seven gag alts, five sleepwear alts and separate PNG versions of the drawing, I hope you'll be as amused by Mistress' peril as Claire and Felicity are! :>

In a way, you could view this as a sort of a prequel to this piece from Limpurtikles. I adore seeing the dynamic koala and panther duo together, the green gremlin getting her timid friend up to all sorts of hijinks! I'm sure there's little doubt as to how their ventures conclude, but it's the journey that matters, not the destination!

Thank you all for the patience with this one. This piece took quite a bit of work and bumped me way out of my schedule. I can only hope that the wait was well-worth it! I'm certainly happy with the final piece. Always a treat to depict our most unusual family of Keepers in their habitat.

It's worth noting that Mistress' bedroom was inspired by an old design featured in her debut piece. I've taken some creative liberties, but I'd say overall I could definitely see this being the kind of interior she'd choose.

Oh well, let's hope those ropes hold on tight for Claire and Felicity's sake!

— Best wishes, DMZ