Things went well during Fey, Dave, and Sammy's first week of performing. Their tricks and illusions worked as they should. However, during their second week, things started going bad.

At first, they were just small things. In some of the escape acts they performed, the locks wouldn’t perform as they were designed to do. Or, Fey would get trapped inside one of their trick cabinets. Days later, Sammy would come down with a severe case of food poisoning. The food poisoning is so severe that it takes Sammy out of the act for a week.

At the beginning of the third week, some of their props catch fire without an explanation. The security personnel on duty didn’t notice anything unusual during their rounds. When they are performing one of their escape tricks involving a water tank, Fey’s outfit and undergarments dissolve while she is in the water—leaving her completely nude in the tank. The water inside the tank causes her skin to blister and turn red.

When the stagehands managed to break the tank's plexiglass to rescue Fey and get her out, the water inside turned her skin red. She was as red as a lobster from being boiled. Not only had her skin been burned so badly, her hair had turned pure white.

Dave hadn’t come out unscathed either—the standard handcuffs he used to escape from tightened on his wrist. They had tightened so much that they had to be cut off and removed right away before they cut through his wrist. Even after they had been removed, his wrist had a bloody ring circling his wrist where they broke through his skin.

Hotel management had to bring an end to their residence until whatever was causing these incidents was solved. They couldn’t risk that Fey,
Sammy, and Dave were killed during their act or someone from the audience was hurt by one of their performances.

One night, while Sammy was in their suite recovering from her food poisoning. Two mysterious figures appear from the shadows and start beating on her. She couldn’t tell who they were, but she managed to get a few good licks in on them before one of them hit her in her groin area.

The blow to her groin area was so severe that it shattered her pelvic region. When Dave and Fey returned to the suite, they found Sammy in the middle of the common area, bloody and unconscious. Fey does what she can to keep Sammy from slipping away while Dave calls the paramedics.

“How in the hell did this happen, and why her?” Fey was doing everything she could to keep Sammy from slipping away.

‘I don’t know, but this has gotten out of hand.” Dave’s wrists were bandaged up and barely working right.

The paramedics arrive and fly Sammy to the nearest hospital. Dave and Fey look around the suite and notice that everything is torn up and broken. It looked like the fight broke out in Sammy’s room and ended in the common area.

Fey and Dave, hear someone knocking on the door to their suite.

“I’ll get it.”

“Be careful.” Fey watches as Dave walks towards the main door to their suite.

“Who is it?” Dave had stepped to the side, using the wall to protect himself instead of standing behind the door.

“It’s me, Nike, your teacher.” Nike wonders why Dave is being so cautious.

Dave opens the door and steps in front of it. He spots Nike wearing a nice dress and open-toe heels.

“Come on in, Nike.” Dave steps aside to let her in.

Nike steps inside and notices the mess. She spots Fey and notices that Fey’s usually black hair is pure white, and her skin is bright red, like she spent too long in the sun. She also noticed certain areas on Fey’s body were covered in bandages.

She noticed Dave's wrists were covered in bandages, and his face was a little red. He also had circles under his eyes, like he hadn’t slept well.

“What the hell happened here? And to the two of you?” Nike wanted to know what happened to the people she was supposed to train.

“It’s a long story.” Fey was worried about Sammy.

“Then, start at the beginning while I help you clean this mess up.” Nike walks over to Fey and helps her stand up. While she was at it, she mumbled a few words and waved her hand at the bloody spot Fey had been kneeling next to.

“It began a week after we started performing. At first, some tiny things, like the locks or doors on some of our props, didn’t want to work right.
After that, several of our props caught fire and are now ruined. One of our escape tricks, dealing with our water tank, caused me to be severely burned and dissolved all the clothes I was wearing. I got blisters covering my body in places you don’t want them. The hair on my body has been turned pure white. Also, Sammy got severe food poisoning and has been laid up for a week and a half. She couldn’t keep anything down at all.
The handcuff trick we always do nearly detached Dave’s hands from his arms, and the wound isn’t healing like it should. We come home tonight from a meeting with the talent manager here and find Sammy beaten all to hell. Whoever attacked her damaged her groin area so severely that they might have smashed her pelvic region. Plus, the beating she received destroyed her face, and it looked like the attackers used some sort of bladed weapon on her.” Fey was finding it hard to keep everything together.

Nike reaches over, gathers Fey into her arms, and holds her. She cast a little spell onto Fey to find out what was used on her to turn her skin so red and cause blisters to form on her skin. The spell informs Nike that what was done to Fey was natural and magical. She could do nothing to either speed up the healing process or get rid of the things done to Fey.

After calming Fey down and letting her rest against an overturned chair, Nike walks over to look at Dave’s wrists and discovers a cursed item had been used on him. It neutralized his natural healing ability, and he would need a magical healer to restore his healing ability.

“Well, what did your magic tell you?” Dave looks into Nike’s eyes.

“I’ll need to call a friend to restore your natural healing ability. Also, a cursed item was used on you, and you're lucky to still have your hands.”

“A cursed item? How is that possible?” Dave was confused.

“Easy. If you find an object with an evil tint, you can always use black magic to enhance the darkness inside that item. It’s fairly easy to do, but it's not something I would do.” Nike rebandages Dave’s wrists.

“Can your friend help Sammy, Nike?” Fey was worried about their assistant.

“Yes, but she must be careful if Sammy is already hospitalized. The doctors will question how she managed to heal so fast.” Nike hopes Leto can help out.

“Let’s go ahead and finish getting this suite back into shape, and afterward, I’ll summon my friend to come and heal you guys and find out what happened to Sammy as well.” Nike starts picking up damaged stuff and uses a repair spell to fix it.

“I hope your friend can help me as well.” Fey hated feeling like she did.

“That is a good question; only she can answer it.”