Zeronia And The Circus At The Edge Of The Universe

Chapter 7: EarthWorld

The Muscular clown grabbed me by the arm. His grip was like steel. I could not break out of it. He dragged me into the tent.

"Greeting, Emerald Warrior," Zara said with a vicious grin. "How much did you hear?"

"I-I," I began.

"It doesn't matter," Zara said. "I'm actually glad you're here."

I stared at her. "You are?"

Zara's grin grew wider. "Yes, I am," she said. "I suppose you want to know why we want to move the earth."

I only stared at her and said nothing.

Zara continued. "See, Emerald Warrior, the Cosmic Order have big plans for your planet." Zara pressed a button on the round table and the image of the earth appeared over it, except it had a huge sign over it that read in neon letters: EarthWorld.

"EarthWorld?" I asked.

Zara nodded. "Yes, EarthWorld," she said gleefully. "Just think, soon families from all across the universe will be coming to Earth to take part in the oddities of the planet." Her face twisted thoughtfully. "I wish the dinosaurs on your planet haven't died out though. I wanted to open up a petting zoo. Oh, well, we'll just have the folks in the DNA lad genetically engineer some. No one would know the difference."

I could not believe what I was hearing. "You mean you're going to turn Earth into a giant circus?"

Zara narrowed her eyes at me. "Not circus. theme park. There's a difference."

"That's insane!"

Zara rolled her eyes. "No more insane than creating a theme park around a cartoon mouse."

"But moving a whole planet is," I protested

"We really don't have a choice," Zara said. "See, your planet is located in dead space, making it hard to get to. People very rarely go to your part of the galaxy. So we have to move it to a better location."

"But you said more than half the planet would die!"

Zara's grin finally left her face. "Actually, when I said that I was being optimistic," she told me. "I seriously doubt if anyone would survive."

"And that is why you brought us here," I declared. "You wanted to get us out of the way because you were afraid we were going to stop you."

"Correct."

I drew my wand from my belt and morphed it into a staff. Electricity shot from the ends of my staff. "I will stop you here and now."

Suddenly Zara's right arm split in half and began transforming as the sound of clanking and turning of metal parts could be heard until her arm reshaped itself into a cylinder. Then the cylinder began spinning as rings of light shot from it and wiped over me.

Then to my amazement, Zara began growing. She glared down at me as she kept getting bigger.  As I gazed around me I saw that not only was Zara growing, but everything was growing. Even the table was stretching above my head. Then I realized to my horror that everything wasn't growing. It was me! I was shrinking!

 I stopped shrinking and everything looked so enormous and I couldn't have been much bigger than a mouse. I've never felt so small and helpless in all my life. 

Zara transformed the cylinder back into her arm. As she began walking toward me I felt the tremble of each one of her thunderous footsteps.

When I took a few steps back I bumped into something. I spun around and saw that it was the muscular clown's floppy shoe, but it was the size of a school bus. I gazed upward and saw the clown smiling down at me, looking like a tall grinning building.

I turned back around. A scream escaped my throat as I saw Zara's massive hand reaching for me.

Toby/Zeronia P.O.V

I left the bathroom with the tampon inside me. I just hoped I put it in right. I think the string part goes on the outside so when I need to take it out I'd pull it out like a plug from a drain.

I couldn't wait until tomorrow for the cramps to stop. That is how long a period lasts, right? I don't know enough about periods to be sure.

I hoped Debra will get back with my medicine soon.

Judy must have rejoined Brian and Tak. I better find them. Maybe Debra was with them.

Suddenly someone grabbed me from behind. A strong hand pressed against my mouth as an arm went over my midsection and I was lifted into the air and pulled into an alley.

I rammed my elbow into the person's stomach.

"Oof," the attacker gasped and loosened his grip.

I pulled myself free and turned to face my attacker and saw to my dismay that it was the one person that I thought I'd never see again.

"No, this is impossible. It can't be you," I cried.

My attacker gave me a menacing grin and said, "Just as feisty as ever, aren't you, gorgeous?"