Ch. 2: Stacey's Night Out
After school, a bus pulls up in the Tenderloin, the seediest and most gang-filled part of San Francisco. Stacey gets out of the bus with her cell phone as she talks to her brother.
"I'm in the Tenderloins, Bro," she tells him.
"Now remember, if you call mom, you lose the bet," Ice reminded her on the phone.
"Get ready, Iggy, because I got a list of chores for you and your friends to do."
Stacey hangs up her phone.
Her brother is at Section 13 along with Drago and Hsi Wu, who is having doubts about the bet.
"I don't know, Ice," Hsi Wu opinionated, "Don't you think sending your sister to the most dangerous part of town to prove a point is a bad idea?"
"Since when are you concern about her?" Ice asks cynically, "This will be good for her. When she sees what kids on the streets have to do to survive, she's gonna start appreciatin' what she has. Besides, with any luck, she'll get so scared out of her wits she won't pick anyone."
"I just hope she survives for twenty-four hours," Drago says under breathe.
Back in the Tenderloins, the Jackals are setting up in their new home-an abandoned office building.
"This place is perfect for setting up our new territory, Jacko," Kaine said to himself, "Xua Wing may have forced us into exile, but we are gonna own this town once we restart our old business."
"You're not gonna steal and sell more human slaves!" Jacko sounds scared.
"Yes I am as soon as Rep gets over here. In the meantime, let's all celebrate at the Club Creature and play a little pool, Boys!"
The Jackals leave for the pool hall.
Meanwhile, Stacey has already been in the Tenderloins for three hours. It has gotten very dark, and she is already scared to death.
"This place sure gets scary when it gets dark," Stacey mumbles to herself nervously, "If I back out now, my brother and his friends will never let me live it down."
Stacey walks through a dark alley by herself. She is walking steadily; making sure nobody is behind her. Then, she hears a Klink near some garbage cans. Stacey got scared and ran the other way, but appearing from the cans is a white cat meowing.
Moments later, Stacey finds herself lost.
"Great! Now I'm lost, and my cell ran out of juice," she whines.
Then, she hears voices and music coming from a nearby pool hall.
"Sounds like people are in there," she says to herself, "I'll spend time there until closing time."
Stacey walks to the pool hall and goes right in. Insides, she finds a sight she hoped to never see: a room full of magic creatures, which she thought are geeks in costume. They are made up of gargoyles, werewolves, hobgoblins, regular goblins, 7ft. tall ogres, and snake creatures.
"Oh great," she said cynically, "I walked into a fantasy convention."