A Risky Gamble

(Alison P.O.V)

“I have talked with him, and he said that he will help us,” Ethan said while walking inside the room.

“Cool, how about we go and buy some wig or something to use as a disguise?” Ella asks me. We agree and go to the costume store and buy two blonde wigs, two pairs of lenses, and three hoddies from the mall. I wanted to pay for all that, but Ella stopped me, saying that she wanted to do something to help me since she couldn’t come up with any safe ideas, even though I had told her that she didn’t have to worry about it.

By the time we reached home, it was already time for dinner. After dinner, we go to Ella’s room, complete our homework, and pretend to fall asleep after talking for some time.

An hour later, we heard someone knock on our door.

“You guys get ready. We are leaving now. Mother and father had already fallen asleep,” Ethan said while peeing inside the room. I wear my wig, eye lens, and hoodie, check everything I need for street fighting, and then follow them out of the house. We almost came out of the house when we heard a squeak and turned to see that Ella bumped into a table and almost broke the vase but managed to save it at the last minute the vase. She smiled at us sheepishly, and we shook our heads at her clumsiness. We sighed in relief when we all walked out of the house and closed the door after us.

Ella and I looked at each other and giggled silently, while Ethan just shook his head at us with a chuckle, who had known that sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night could be so much fun. We all sit inside the car and drive to the lowest area of our city. It only takes us an hour to get there. We parked in the shadowed area and walked towards the person waiting for us outside the building.

“Hi, Robbin, long time, no see buddy,” Ethan said to the bulky man standing in front of us.

“Yeah, it's been a long time, I have been busy lately that's why I wasn’t able to come and visit you, and who is these beautiful ladies with you?” a bulky man or Robbin asks while shaking hands with Ethan.

“Oh, this is my sister Ella and my friend Roxy, the one who I talked about with you,” Ethan introduced us with the name I have chosen to go within the underworld.

“Oh, the girl, who wants to join the street fighting?” Robbin asks.

“Yes,” Ethan said while nodding at him.

“Can this cheek even fight?” Robbin asks him while looking me up and down, judging me weather I can stand my ground or not. I open my mouth to say something, but Ethan beats me to it.

“Don’t judge the book by its cover dude, she can even take Robert down,” Ethan said with a cocky smile.

“No way,” Robbin said while shaking his head at him.

“Who is Robert?” I ask them.

“One of the best fighters in this area,” Ethan said to me.

“However, I highly doubt that you can take Robert down,” he said while smirking at me.

“Well, we wouldn’t know until we try, right?” I ask while smirking at him.

“True,” he said with a smile on his face.

“Well, won’t you introduce him to us properly, brother?” Ella asks him.

“Right, Roxcy, Ella, this is my friend, Robbin, he is used to be a referee in all the fights, but he left after getting married. He knew lots of things about the underworld and can help us with lots of things here,” Ethan said to us.

“So, how does one enter in the street fighting?” I ask him.

“First, you have to register your name or a nickname in the books if you are new in this world, and if you have already entered in this world, then you have to give the name of the fighting street you used to fight before. Then you have to sign the fighter list. There are four categories of fighters B, A, S, and S+. S and S+ are for the highest categories of the fighter and the category where the fighter earned the highest price/awards. The newcomers start with the B category. Only experienced and strong fighters can directly enter into S and S+ categories,” Robbin explains to us.

“Is there any fastest way to get into the highest categories?” I ask him.

“No, I don’t think so. If you want to reach there faster, then you have to fight as many matches as you can, I guess,” Robbin said with a shrug of his shoulder.

“Don’t worry about it, Roxcy. I know it won’t take you much time to climb the highest category,” Ethan said while smiling assuringly at me.

“Shall we walk inside the building?” Robbin asks, and we nod our heads at him and then walk inside the building when two bouncers stop us and ask for the password.

“Stolen,” Robbin said to them, and they moved aside to let us enter inside the building.

“The password to enter the building changes every day. Once you register yourself, you will receive a message for the password every day. I hope you have another sim card or mobile no with you, for this purpose and for safety reasons.” Robbin asked me, and I nodded my head at him.

The place is crowded, the fighters and spectators crowded around the ring where two guys were in the middle of a brawl, and I feel Ella grabbing my hand and squeezing it in fear while trying to get as close as she can, as we inside the crowd.

After the fight, Robbin guides us to the table where we have to register and sign up for the fight. The register forwarded me the book where I had to write my name, age, mobile no, and signature.

“Now, all you have to do is wait for your name to be called,” Robbin said, and then we all back near to the boxing ring to wait for my turn to come.