Stuck in the Void: A Plikki Story

Circus

Tikki's POV

But I guess you can't change the inevitable because there I was again, falling again in a bottomless black abyss. My eyes searched for a bottom, but there was nothing for as far as I could see.

I closed my eyes until I landed on something a lot softer than last time. I opened my eyes and I ran my hand through my fall breaker. Is this, sand?

I looked around to find myself in some kind of circular tent with red curtains, type ropes, clowns, acrobatics, I was at the circus. Why would Plagg send me here of all places?

"I destroy things Tikki, it's what I do" Plagg said with disgust.

"Y-you tried to cataclysm their miraculous?" I gasped as I tried to wrap my head around it.

"It's all they said I was good for. They mocked me....they laughed at me!" Plagg yelled as the red curtains opened revealing an audience. Hundreds of people stared as they all had their eyes on me, on the spotlight.

A second later they all immediately erupted in laughter. Hundreds and hundreds of people pointing, laughing, mocking me. I would be lying if I said it didn't hurt my feelings. What kind of sick nightmare is this?

"They were fake. They were all fake, every single one of them." Plagg said.

I remained silent. I was mostly distracted by the bellows of the audiences laughing. It took me a second but I figured out that whatever Plagg was saying, his mirage would copy. That's why he sent me to a circus, the audience laughing reflected the Kwami's who made fun of him.

"They pretended to be so nice but they really thought of me as the disease, as the outcast," Plagg sneered.

"I took it personally, despite what I told myself" he admitted.

"What did you tell yourself exactly?" I muttered as I stared at the audience in shock. They sat and yelled out insulting names at me, pointing out every insecurity. It wasn't long before tears pricked my eyes, but I refuse to let them fall.

"I told myself that they were only envious of me." He said. "I was one of the two most powerful kwami's and they knew I could've easily destroyed them all"

"Plagg..." I mumbled.

"What? They were terrified of me. That's why they decided to band together and try to intimidate me." He explained. "They tried to weaken me and make me feel useless, to keep me under control.

"Why?" I questioned. This was all new to me. I knew they might've called him an few names but I never knew things went this far.

"Because they knew what I was capable of." Plagg faltered. "They knew that I didn't know what I was capable of"

"Oh" That was all I said. I was too caught up in the laughter. They always came up with new things to call me. Naming new insecurities that I haven't even realized about myself. I gave in and let a few tears run down my face. This was a little harsh, even for Plagg.

The ground beneath me started shaking, and I knew what was coming. The ground was going to crumble and I was going to fall through the floor into a new traumatizing scenario. Nope.

I jumped up and ran. I ran out of the tent, into a different dark room with those mirrors that make you look tall, short, skinny, plump, or long. I immediately spun around to escape back to the audience, I was sick of mirrors for one day.

I searched the curtains and attempted every escape route to find nothing, I was trapped inside. I faced the mirrors as they shifted and changed. They formed a maze, trapping me as I ran through any possible escape. But the mirrors were endless, they just kept leading to dead ends.

When will this nightmare stop?

At this point, I wasn't holding back my tears anymore. They streamed down my face as I raced through the maze. I was sick of my reflection.

"I had a lot to think about during those thousand years Tikki" Plagg's voiced boomed. The mirrors shook from the vibration.

"You and our argument from the night before" My heart raced as I ran into another dead end.

"The kwami's and their torment that I allowed for years"  Another dead end. I scrambled up and stumbled into another possible solution.

"Master Fu who was brainwashed by everyone else" I ran faster, my breathing became harder.

"The hundreds of millions of people I killed" I collapsed at the hundredth dead end and closed my eyes, panting to catch my breath.

"Eventually I linked it all back to one thing" he said sternly. "The one thing that they all had in common"

"I was a disease" He yelled. His voice rang through my ears as I let the tears come down, not giving a care in the world.

"That's what it all comes down to isn't it?" He said. At this point I was sobbing. I backed myself into a corner and ran a hand through my hair.

"P-Plagg stop" I mumbled. I pulled my legs up to my head and scrunched myself up.

"Eventually I had to accept it. I could barley live with myself but I had to come to terms with it" He raised his voice again. The mirrors shattered leaving me covered in broken glass.

"By the time my thousand years were up, there was no one left to go to" he explained.

"Everyone hated me! You were the only one left, and I couldn't even see you because you were serving a ladybug!" He yelled.

"P-Plagg stop it" I yelled as loud as I could, releasing every emotion I had bottled up. He stopped talking and everything seemed to freeze.

"Please just stop it" I sobbed harder. The room flickered and mirage faded, leaving me back in the original void.

"Just stop" I whispered. I closed my eyes as hard as possible as my breathing calmed down. When I opened them I saw Plagg in front of me with an unreadable expression...grim, worried, sorrowful, depressed.

I immediately shot up and tackled him in a hug. "Plagg I am so so sorry" I cried into his chest. "I didn't know-I-I understand everything now."

"It's okay, I promise Sugarcube" He wrapped his arms around me and held me there for a while. I didn't know how long we were there but I knew one thing for sure.

I wouldn't ever let Plagg feel any of that ever again.