Circus of Misfits

Welcome to the Circus

     Tripping and stumbling, Tay, a white and green mutated fox, ran through the dreary bushes and trees not looking back. It was night and the moon was shining brightly in the sky over the land. Heavily breathing and limbs weak, Tay falls onto the ground and into a clearing and has fallen on what seems to be a sidewalk. Tay looked exhaustingly up, hearing loads of commotion just a few feet away. She sees a huge circus tent and tons of bright colorful lights shining from inside and outside the tent and a bunch of circus props were outside of the tent, they didn't seem to be using the props that were outside right now. She slowly helps herself up, holding her arm with her hand, she was wounded and has scratches all over half from running and stumbling and half from something else. They start stumbling towards the tent in hopes of finding a place to rest for the night, and not raise too much attention to herself. Nobody was outside of the tent so she took that chance to dart towards the back of the circus grounds.
    Tay navigates her way through the back areas of the circus, peeping around corners. She soon finds a small room filled with props, it seems that they don't use this room much, maybe it could be a storage room? Tay doesn't think too much about it and plops herself down next to a softer prop, she leans up against it, slowly watching her breathing. She starts to calm down, the noise and music is just perfectly muffled in the small room so that it isn't so loud. Tay glances around the room looking at all the props and thinks about what they could be used for. Tay starts to doze off into deep sleep, it's been a long night after all, and all that running made them extremely tired.

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Rustle Rustle

   Tay opened her eyes slightly, half asleep. She was hearing inaudible talking. She rubbed her eyes trying to awaken herself so she can be aware of what's going on.
She opened her eyes wider and saw two blurry figures standing over her. Tay jumped and backed up more onto the wall behind her, "PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!!" Tay instinctively shrieked, covering her face with her arms. "Woah woah! Calm down we aren't going to hurt you, love" one of them said. Tay felt a hand on her arms which slowly brought them down. She got a clearer look at the two in front of her, one crouched in front of her and one standing a bit farther from them. "We're just as startled as you are- finding someone you don't know in your storage room when no one is supposed to be back there is kind of concerning y'know?" The person standing farther from Tay said. Tay started to calm down, "oh thank goodness... so you aren't going to hurt me...?" Tay asked, shakily. "Of course not! We have no intentions of that, hun. Don't worry, we're just wondering how you got back here... and why?" The figure crouched in front of Tay said. "Oh u-uh well, I was just looking for a place to rest... I've um... been running in the forest all night... I'd rather not share why... and this circus was the only thing I found when I got out of the forest... I'm sorry for randomly showing up like that-" Tay looked down at her hands, embarrassed. The person crouched in front of her patted her shoulder, "hey don't worry about it, we'll let you stay, you look a little roughed up" The person that was crouched, stood up, "we can patch ya up" they smiled. Tay looked up at them with sparkling eyes, "r-really? You're so kind! Thank you!" She smiled. "Oh I'm Lark by the way, and that's my friend Gray" They pointed toward the person behind them with their thumb. Gray waved. "Oh wow! I'm Tangle! But you can call me Tay" she giggled. "I've heard about you guys! I love your performances!" Tay bounced up and down.
Lark chuckled, and started leading Tay and Gray out of the storage room, "well thank you sweetheart~ we do our best" Lark nudged Gray with his elbow. The three of them approached a room with a curtain as a door and went inside. It looked like a make-shift infirmary. "Here we are, you stay here Tay I'll go get the med-kit" Lark walked out of the room. Tay turned to Gray, "so what's it like here? I've always wanted to visit this circus in person! Is everyone I've seen on tv here!? I bet they're so cool in person!!" Tay rambled. Gray looked at her and cracked a small smile, "we do normal circus stuff here, but we feature misfits from all over! We welcome them with open arms! Oh, I've noticed just now you have three arms-" Gray said, staring fascinated at Tay's third arm. She looked down at her arms, "oh haha- yep I sure do" She nervously laughed. "It's so fascinating! How did you get it? We're you born with it?" Gray asked, leaning closer to Tay. Tay leaned back from him a bit uncomfortable, "oh uh, I um... well..." just as Tay was going to speak, Lark walked into the room with a med-kit. "I'm back~! Here Tay, allow me" he said, sitting next to Tay and opening the med-kit to start patching up Tay's wounds.

    After Lark was done tending to Tay, he got up, "there we go, all better" he smiled. Tay abruptly hugged Lark tight. Startled, Lark slowly hugged Tay back, patting her back. "Thank you so much" Tay said, obviously crying, she was not quiet when she cries. "It's no trouble dear" Lark hugged her back tight. Tay let go and looked at Lark, "if it's not too much to ask, can you please show me around?" She was beaming with happiness. "Of course! Gray, would you like to give her a tour?" Lark said, turning to Gray. "sure thing" Gray responded and stood up. He guided Tay out the door and began the tour.
He showed her around the backstage and some mostly unimportant areas but still exciting. He finally wanted her to meet some members of the circus. They walked into a big room, there was furniture like couches and chairs scattered in the room, tables with cups and plates on them, a big rug in the middle of the floor. There were people in the room having conversations with each other, overall they seemed to be having a good time, and were happy. Gray cleared his throat to get the peoples attention, "hey everyone how you guys doing?" The people in the room turned their attention to Gray and collectively all responded at once. It was hard to understand all their responses but it sounded like they were generally doing good. "I'd like you to meet a new member at our circus!" Gray rose his hands dramatically towards Tay, like a grand introduction. Tay became flustered and looked at Gray, "new m-member?" She sputtered out. Gray winked at her, "of course! It didn't seem like you had anywhere you were particularly going so if you want you can stay here as a member of our circus!" Tay smiled brightly and her eyes started watering. "This is Tay everyone!" Gray said turning back to the people in the room. Everyone seemed really excited and started greeting Tay. Tay never felt more welcome than now. "Hello! I'm so glad to be here and meet all of you!" She giggled. Tay met everyone individually, and got acquainted with everyone.

There was Maggie, she looked just like Tay but pink and had a hat on, and her eyes were two different colors, left was blue and right was yellow. She also has a bird with her named Harry, he had a headband with bunny ears on it, she said that she was a magician. Then there's Stagger, he's a bunny and he's a clown, he also has a big hammer with him which is pretty cool. And there's Winter, he's a bear and he's made of ice! There's also Liina she looks like Tay too, she's green, gold and pink. She also has a little lizard with her named Biscuit. She says she's a serpent. And then of course there's Lark and Gray who've Tay has already met.
    "It's so nice meeting you all, and I'm sure we'll have a great time together" Tay announced. She smiled and turned to Gray. Gray smiled back at her.

"welcome to the Circus, Tay"

{hey! You finished the first part! Good job :) I hope you like this first introduction to 'Circus of Misfits' I will be writing the second part soon! Make sure to save to your library if you enjoyed! See you in the next part!}
Characters in this part:
Tay (Tangle) [Protag]
Lark (Lolbit)
Gray (Ringmaster Foxy)
Maggie & Harry (Magician Mangle)
Stagger (Clown Springtrap)
Winter (Frostbear)
Liina & Biscuit (Serpent Mangle)