Circus[BOOK ONE]

One

The boy stood staring at the abandoned tent years later. He sighed as the past memories started flowing through his mind. The wind blew his hair to the side as he stood in front of the empty place.

"Sora~" a faint voice whispered into the boy's ear. Sora looked around to see where that voice came from, to see the owner of that familiar voice. He shook his head and stared back at the empty tent thinking the voice was just his haunted imagination or just the wind. Sora stood there staring at the tent as he put his hands in his pockets. He whispered a faint 'I'm sorry' to the tent and walked away before any of his tears formed. What Sora didn't know is that he got a response: "Sora, don't leave me~"

Then the owner of the voice appeared in front of Sora's eyes. His mouth slowly gaped open as he saw his childhood friend in bloody rags.

"Y-Yumi...?" he whispered as his eyes filled with tears. He stepped closer to his friend looking at her. Her eyes are now black no longer the beautiful greenish grey like they were years ago, her skin pale and cold with bloody welts, her stomach ripped open and pieces missing as if the intestines are eaten and her beautiful angelic face remains the same. Sora sobbed looking at his friend. "Yumi..."

An abnormal force grabbed at the saddened boy's ankles pulling him down to the ground and dragged him towards the inside of the tent.

"Yumi!" he screamed as the force pulled harder. He watched his friend stand there and laugh as he was being dragged inside the abandoned circus. "Yumi! Don't leave me!"

From those words his friend appeared in front of his face screaming wildly.