Seventeen & Maldusk: A Supernatural Soap Opera

Well, the protagonist in this chapter is on the cover of the story in your signature and on the forum, so he clearly is important to the story. So that I'm Italian, the first thing I thought about when seeing him being threatened by two scary guys when trying to sell his stuff was that he could be in bad terms with a mafia or some similar organised crime group. Bad situation...

The following scene (which I took a while to remember from a previous chapter) makes it look like he was sort of spying on either Ion and/or Tre (but why, was this a task he was assigned?), and then apparently the protagonist immediately left for a quite suspicious and super-luxurious place, again full of those menacing bodyguards in uniforms. I was trying to understand what that place could be when I started to spot suspiciously pale characters around the place (wasn't it Vlad in the pool?), and I was about to call in the "vampire-mafia who likes pirates symbols" theory when the two guards started to attack the poor guy. The fact that the protagonist was apparently telling about what the conversation he saw between Ion and Tre is very suspicious as well...
Their boss looks particularly scary, probably she had some kind of plan in mind but, for the moment, I would not struggle to believe she could have planned this all out of evilness alone :#

Anyway, it looks to me that the characters in this chapter were indeed talking quite a lot to each other, I'm curious to understand what they were talking about!