Phantom Circus. Book 1: sugar-topped memories

Chapter 4 : the phantom family

When they got into the tent, it was empty of people so they were a lot of seats to chose from. Caroline,Amy, and Sammy said down in the front row and waited for the show.

Caroline had a very uneasy feeling about being at this carnival in the first place. She scrambled trough her mind trying to figure out why it pained her to be there, after two minutes of puzzling she finally figured out why.

She remembered her older sister Monica and her best friend Chloe going to this same carnival. Her sister and friend were jumped by a magician in black white and red with yellow eyes, she barely made it out alive. But she never saw her sister and friend again. That was one of the reasons she always had that duct taped baseball bat with her, the other reason was that it was her sister's bat, she loved baseball and was a pro too. She wanted to get out of there,and fast.

But she liked Sammy and Amy, and was too much to chicken out and go to there favorite all you could eat buffet and gorge on the chocolate fountain there. but she still wanted to leave but when she finally got the courage to tell Sammy everything, she was interrupted by the lights going off. An jazzy orchestra played and got louder as the light in the middle of the preforming ring got brighter and brighter. When the beginning ovencure was almost over a black and purple shadow exploded out of nowhere. With that shadow, a tall man came. He was a tall,black figure wearing a top hat and a business suit. His face was almost completely faceless except for 3 differently sized house that glowed a bright white, like a light underneath a black night shade. He stood up, liked around and said

"ladies, Gentleman, children of all ages. Come one come all and welcome to the phantom circus." Once he had said that the place came to life, the lights turned on and the place looked like new. "Now let's meet the. Phantom family!" Walked twords a curtain in the corner of the ring and opened it. A tall female clown came out first. She had soft wine red colored hair and blue and purple eyes with a yellow outline. She wore an owfit that was the soft colors of red, blue, green and yellow.

"The cutest little clown to ever exist," the man began to narrate still keeping momentum. " She can dance, sing and be just the sweetest little thing ever. She's Sugarcrash." Sugarcrash began to sing a happy little jingle, it was an adorable little bop and she danced a little jig to it. Sammy recognized and told them that she wasn't moving her mouth, he was right even though she was singing her mouth still stayed in a big smile.

After the song and everyone's applause, Sugarcrash looked to the ringmaster and asked

" Where's stachela and dolly?" The ringmaster thought for a moment and answered. " Silly sugarcrash, stachela is in her garden and Dolly is in charge of games tonight." Sugarcrash laughed a little bit and said in a silly voice as she headed twords a stage in the middle of the circus "Silly me." Thought everything she said only her eyes moved on her face, her smile stayed the same.

Then out from the curtain came a young girl who had black hair,and looked like a gothic teen. Her outfit had little to no details except a tittle skirt that was fused to her shorts, and the yellow ribbon tie she had around her neck. She grabbed onto a bar on top of the tent and did some flips, on her 7th flip she missed the bar and fell. There was no net, she was going to fall to her death. Sammy and Amy covered they're eyes, they couldn't bear to watch a little girl die  from falling. But then, huge wings,horns,a halo and a tail sprouted out of her, and she flew up onto a podium nearby and laughed. " I couldn't believe you thought I was going to die," the young girl laughed at them. Caroline couldn't help but laugh to. Amy and Sammy sat there, showed and embarrassed.

  "Millie," The ringmaster said angerly. "What did I say about scaring the guests?"

  "Don't laugh at them after revealing. Your an angel/devil." The young girl, who they assumed to be Millie mumbled with shame. She seemed to think the ringmaster was her dad, that would make sense because they bough have ink black hair, except Millie's hair was died a bit purple. If she wasn't for her around the age of 7 anyone would assume she was Goth.

Millie, after apologizing flew right next to sugarcrash who was giggling, they seemed to act like siblings. But opposite siblings because sugarcrash was full of colors, while Millie's clothes were only red and the colors of the non-binary flag.

A cloud of  grey smoke appeared with magical sounding explosion. From this cloud came a face oh too familiar for Caroline, but completely new for Amy and Sammy .the black,white and red magician and his yellow eyes.

  "It seems one of our audience members seem to remember him,"the ringmaster began." But for those who don't know this is the charismatic magic man, Aurther."

"Of course they know me,," Aurther said sounding suductivly. He walked over to Amy and stoped in front of her face "Excuse me mis,"he said to her. Amy was slightly blushing, and was bleeding from her nose,like she always did when she simps for someone." It seems you have something behind your ear." He reached behind her ear and pulled out a bouquet of flowers and gave them to Amy
They were favorite flowers, daisies and ferns. He then walked over to Sammy and pulled out an apple for him. While he was eating it he walked over to the final person in the row, Caroline. When he got to her he whispered something in her ear, when he said it his suductive and kind changed into something much more menicing. "I know who you are Caroline,"he wipers in a menicing tone,still sounding romantic. " Mr boss says that it's time to join your friends and sister, permanently."

Just like that, Amy and Sammy fell down on the floor, unconscious from the toxens slipped into of the apple and flowers.