Chapter Two

In the morning, May cooked us some pancakes and brought fruit punch from the refrigerator.The punch didn't taste fruity, it tasted like a cow's blood. Yuck! Of course, I almost forgot they were vampires. I took a glass of water instead. May sat down next to me at the kitchen table.

"So, did you have a nice sleep, Sparkle?" May asked as she passed the syrup. I pushed the "punch" aside or whatever it was.

"It was nice. Um, can you show me a place where I can get a job? I really need to find my own place now," I asked, thinking how I was supposed to live my life here with only $10 in my pocket. May stood up as Lilli walked up towards the kitchen ready to serve her some pancakes.

"Lilli and I are looking for jobs ourselves because being a waitress doesn't pay enough!" May said, pulling a chair over for Lilli. Lilli yawned and looked at me.

"Ya, there are some greedy, ugly cooks who stink in that kitchen at Topsy Tea!" Lilli chuckled. May went over to the magazine rack on the counter and grabbed the Cordurador City Newspaper. She turned to the job ads. I drank my water and quickly took a bite out of the steamy pancakes. I had 5 pancakes stacked up on one another on my plate with syrup dripping from the top of the first pancake. May brought the newspaper to the table.

"We're thinking of joining this," May said pointing out in the newspaper ad. "This seems really exciting!" May took her plate of pancakes on the counter and brought that over to the table and she started eating.

I glanced at the pancakes and quickly gobbled up three pancakes on my plate. "A fighting crime kind of group? That seems silly! I'd rather waitress!" I laughed, with my mouthful of pancakes and syrup. Syrup dripped off my mouth and I wiped it off with my shirt. Lilli turned to me, and gave me two napkins. She finished most of her pancakes and had half a pancake left.

"Well, it's better than being with sticky dishes at the restaurant! I just really need to get out of that place and this job seems fun!" Lilli exclaimed stuff the rest of the pancake in her mouth. Why can't they pick a different job. Why does it have to be this?

May ate two of her pancakes and started drinking her 'punch.' "Well lets hurry up and finish so we can take a look at this defense and attack training job. It says here while we train and work, we would find our inner powers and abilities. I wonder what that is," May said. May took my plate and her plate to the sink. May's pancakes were only half finished. I guess she wasn't too hungry. Lilli finished up her drink and I got up to help with the dishes. Lilli went upstairs to May's room to get her clothes on. I went upstairs as well and did the same. May finished up with the dishes and joined us. Lilli and I got our stuff and headed to Lilli's house first to drop off her stuff. Lilli lived only 5 homes down from May's house. These were simply small houses they lived in. Only 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, a living room, kitchen, basement, and dining room. It's not much.

We entered into Lilli's house and it looked pretty much the same as May's house except the only thing different was the furniture and stuff. Lilli dropped off her things and said, "If you want you can leave your stuff here too Sparkle. We're going to go to the restaurant today to finish our last day working there." I left my stuff in her living room and we headed out the door and walked all the way to the restaurant. Do they ever get tired of doing this every day, I mean, walking to work and all?

I stayed with May and Lilli all day at Topsy Tea Restaurant for their last day of waitressing. I had nothing else to do anyway. After lunch, we headed for a short walk to the Defense and Attack Combat Society. (The DACS.) We entered into a tall city building. I saw all kinds of people there, elves, vampires, fairies, and a lot of other kind. Downstairs was a jail of bad guys. We went downstairs together, past jails and into an office with other new applicants. These applicants are also signing up to join DACS. We stood in line and May took the papers for all of us to fill out. Then we went to another line where we met the whole person in charge of the society. He was known as, "BOSS." He right away accepted us, not even asking us if we had experiences. Hmm, doesn't he test people incase they could be unlawful people or outlaws?

An assistant in a blue DACS uniform led us to an empty room very quickly where we met a guy in a yellow DACS uniform. On his shirt, a badge her wore read, "Teacher, Mr. Broon." I then suspected he was maybe going to be our tutor with skills to show us hot to defeat enimes. The lady in the blue DACS uniform went away quickly to go back to the BOSS. The teacher gave us forms to fill our with personal information we had to fill out. We stood in front of the door with these papers and Mr. Broon greeted us kindly.

"Hello, welcome to the Defense and Attack Combat Society. Other words, we're called the DACS. Please fill out those forms, here are some pens," Mr. Broon said. "My name is Mr. Broon. I will be your teacher and tutor to teach you your combat skills and other things. You will also find in yourself elements, abilities, and powers you may never know you ever had! Girls, you may take a seat on those chairs over there!" He pointed out. I wondered if he knew only three people were going to be here because there were only three chairs and a fourth chair in front of them. The room was empty and the only things in the room was us, the teacher, 4 chairs, and a closet. Mr. Broon looked like an elf-human and had huge eyes. He looked like a 40-year-old man. I decided to raise my hand and ask a question about the new job.

"So, this is sorta a training society? It said in the newspaper we'd get paid. How will we get paid" I asked, looking at May and Lilli. I sat in the middle chair, may on the left of me, Lilli on the right. Mr. Broon sat on the 4th chair facing us.

"You don't just earn money, you earn strength, a power, and a spirit inside you. But of course, you get a small wage of $100 a week for the hard work you'll be doing. Plus, if you catch criminals and the usual bad guys in the Kingdom you get paid $1000."

May, Lilli, and I looked at each other with amazement. Lilli turned to Mr. Broon. "Wow! We get that much?! That's more than what we get at Topsy Tea!" Lilli said with excitement. Mr. Broon nodded, He went over to the closet. I thought for a moment about where I was going to stay at the Dungwell Apartments or at May's house again. Maybe I can move in one of the homes in their neighborhood. I truly did not want to live in a dung apartment at all. I couldn't afford a five star hotel either. Mr. Broon took our papers we finished up and told us to get up.

"Ok, girls. Come with me to the Inner-Finder room," Mr. Broon said holding a clipboard. I looked staid and kept quiet, complying to all of Mr. Broon's commands. So, we started off to work upstairs to the strange room.

End Chapter Two