CirKus

CirKus chapter 1

(note: I made this back in high school, and have not revised it much if any so if there are any mistakes with grammar or etc. I apologize in advance)

CirKus:

A teenage boy about 15 years old takes a trip to a carnival. He walks through the pitch black dark forest, in the Toncam desert that , seems endless and seems to lead to the middle of nowhere. Following the dimly lit signs that said phrases like "a night at the circus can be a spectacle" and at the bottoms of all these flashy signs it said: "ONE NIGHT FOR FREE ONLY" he followed the multicolored signs, wearing a tattered pair of shoes that were almost completely filled with holes by the end of the signs. He was hoping to see amazing things, he had never been to a circus before "it must be an unthinkably great place" he thought. He was told many stories by his family of what a circus was like: with cotton candy, popcorn, and all sorts of candy, he thought this must be a fun place. His family was too poor to afford to go to a circus this was his only chance. His parents disapproved of him going, because only one person from each family was allowed to come. The child didn't care though. Still walking hours on end, he noticed he had seen no one else following his path. Yet he was sure he heard loud footsteps behind him. Fear beginning to take ahold of the teen he ran as fast as he could following signs and dodging trees, until he fell. With a loud thump his head hit the ground. He was knocked out cold for at least 30 minutes. He felt something that had ahold of his ankle, he thought it was a hand and screamed for help. He laid there for a minute waiting for some person or creature to start attacking him, or rob him, when he looked behind him he realized a tree root had tripped him. He sighed with relief as he yanked his ankle out of the tree roots grip. He began walking again, this time cautiously. Finally reaching a sign that had in huge letters saying: "welcome to the Lotus Petal Circus" the teen looked around in confusion, he didn't see any carnival he had reached a dead end. He let out a shriek and turned around fearing it was all an elaborate trap to kidnap children when a hand grabbed onto his shoulder. Frozen in fear, again waiting for something to happen, a man said "hey kid what's wrong you're at the circus, here's your ticket" the teen tried looking at him and tried seeing into his eyes but he wore a hood over his face. The circus was huge, a giant tent as big as his eyes could let him see it seemed endless. He went through the gates, and noticed there were more people he couldn't see them too well, but he didn't care, he wanted to see all the circus acts. He sat down in the stands and noticed he had cotton candy in one hand wondering how it got there, a vendor wearing all black, the same attire as the man that welcomed him, had walked by saying "you're welcome for the free candy kid" "thanks I guess" the teen replied hastily. An hour had passed and a speaker went off with a mans raspy voice on it saying the show would start soon, and that this will be life changing. The stands were now filled to the brim with impatient people, yelling things like "come on let's get this shit started I didn't come here for nothing" the teen thought about telling some of the people to calm down but some of them seemed extremely hostile, biting at the bit for a fight. So he waited quietly for the show to begin. A few minutes later a man wearing a fancy dress suit and a top hat appeared. This was one of the only people he could really see. He studied the man as he spoke in that same raspy voice from the speaker earlier. What he could see of his arms and hands were pale and seemed almost rotting. He couldn't see the mans face he wore a mask that made it look like he had black and white face paint on. His hair was black and dangled from his head like slithering snakes. He was missing one of his ears and it was replaced by what looked like sewn up stitches. The man speaking into the microphone said "alright are we all ready to see the first act? Bring in the clowns!" he snapped his fingers and a little black car with spikes appeared and a little honking horn went off. The tiny little door of the car opened and several colorful clowns hopped out and began doing an act of hilarity. They hit each other in the faces with pies, each clown seemed to drop when they got hit. At least seven fell to the ground and it seemed like they treated the one that was still standing as a winner. It was as if it looked like the clowns killed each other. He quickly shook off the thoughts of clowns killing each other, as the final clown slapped the rest and they all got up like nothing happened, with red spots all over their faces, and got in the car and drove away. The teen listened to the ringmaster again waiting for something else that was a little more of a spectacle to happen. "now it's time for the fire breather sword swallower!" snapping his fingers again and coughing heavily, surely enough the fire breathing sword swallower came out. He had a huge sword lit on fire and he inhaled and then spewed flames like it was nothing. People in the stands close to the flames looked like they turned to ashes. "it has to be fake" he thought "it's all part of the act" he assured himself. He heard screams but shook off the fear again. As the man swallowed the lit sword, the teen couldn't help but notice a man walked by that looked burnt. The man walked by and said "have fun watching the rest of the show" as he seemingly put out a flame in what was left of his smoldering hair. Beginning to get afraid, he thought about leaving, when a female juggler came out she looked about his age. He fell in love, she juggled various dangerous things: knives, chainsaws, guns, axes, and even hatchets. She threw the items into the crowd at the end of her act. The teen listened to the crowd scream. He finished his cotton candy by now. It didn't seem like anyone was hurt from that act. The ringmaster came back out and spoke again "ok everyone we're about to have the biggest spectacle next but first a break" The teen quickly jumped out of his seat in the stands. He realized his dream to run away to the circus and be with this amazing juggling girl. He jumped into the ring of the circus tent, and wandered the endless hallways decorated with what either looked like birth certificates or death certificates. He passed various sideshow acts that tried to grab him and get him out of what was there only place to be left alone. Finally he nearly ran past the strong man, but the huge man grabbed him with one hand. "what are you doing in here you puny child?" the man said with a condescending tone. "this is our home and you are intruding this place, now leave or I'll be forced to hurt you" he said all this with a German accent. "stop hounding that boy Nikolai" a familiar raspy voice said very seriously "oh I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself I am the ringmaster you can call me Fritz. And your name is?" "umm yes my name is Todd" "state your business boy" "I wish to be a part of your circus a juggler maybe?" "ah I see you're interested in my daughter Fifi? Well we have too many jugglers my daughter however is fairly interested in clowns." Fritz said with a very grim voice. "sure I'll be a clown when can I start?" Todd said anxiously. "right after the break go on right now and enjoy the sights until then I'll announce you when it's your number ok?" "yes sir Fritz " he said happily. Todd began heading towards signs pointing to the "star of the show" "star of the show?" he thought. "that must be Fifi." he finally made it to the room where he got to meet the girl of his dreams. "so how do you do your act?" he asked with a smile finally meeting his true love, yet something was amidst in the air that didn't feel right. "well I just pretty much juggle and throw all the weapons at the audience and the rest of the people pickpocket the dead bodies" "What?! That's terrible how could you do that?" "my dad would literally kill me if I didn't listen to him, I suggest if you joined this circus you follow his orders or you're next to die, and I don't want to see you die, you seem like a really nice person Todd " "I am" he said shyly and scared for his life. "I'm sick of people getting killed and me supposedly accidentally killing them, I don't want to kill anymore I never wanted to kill in the first place." "it'll be alright hopefully it'll all stop soon" "I hope so" she said with a twinkle in her eye, as he was called onto the stage.Then she kissed him "a kiss for good luck don't die on me Todd" "I won't Fifi I promise" "good" she said concernedly. He walked through the halls again "good luck newbie" Nikolai said laughing. This was turning from a perfect dream to a nightmare. He went onto stage and the ringmaster began to speak. "and this is the amazing Todd the clown" "oh god I forgot to get ready" he thought to himself. "umm I don't really look like a clown right now" he whispered into the ringmasters ear. "god damn it, well it looks like we have a change of plans." "everyone welcome Todd the amazing man who can take a bullet" Todd freaked out. The ringmaster pulled out a gun and pulled the trigger and a flag popped out that said "bang" "phew I thought you were serious for a second there" he said with a sigh of relief as he began to turn around, when "boom" a bullet flies  through the back of his head and out the front. He falls to the ground and the ringmaster has a wicked grin. The last thing he saw was Fifi in the stands and his number was up for good. "He was too trusting" Fritz said laughing at the dead body just laying there on the floor, as soon as everyone left the tent. He removed his mask, he had a mask underneath that made of what looked like leather and blood stained. Later after the show ended and they packed up the tent. "alright Nikolai load the body in the back of the truck it's time to do this all over again." Nikolai picked up the body and threw it in the trunk. Just as they were ready to leave Fritz fell to the ground with a thump and a gurgling sound. "you don't fuck with me anymore I loved him DIE! you bastard" Fifi said as she stood over her fallen father, killing him with an axe to the back. Still alive fritz last words were "I did it because I loved you" "I said DIE! This is for Todd!" she said as she pushed the axe further into his back, which had made a crunching sound. and he stopped moving, as a mix of blood and spinal fluid pooled around the ground he lay upon. "now for you Nikolai for letting him push you around and letting him kill Todd. Here is your punishment!" Fifi pulled out one of her chainsaws she used for the show earlier "this is for everyone else you two forced me to kill!" she turned on the chainsaw and revved it up. Fifi proceeds to cut Nikolai from the head down as he screams through it. She cuts him in half. Throws Nikolai and her fathers bodies into the truck and pulls out Todd's body. "a last kiss" she said as she gave him the final kiss. "a kiss to say goodbye, a kiss to send you to the afterlife, have fun wherever you end up, I loved you" she throws him back into the truck and turns off the chainsaw "well it's all over now this nightmare can take a turn for the better" she said to herself as she got in the truck and drove off into the distance