★ LABYRINTH ★ JAX X GN! READER || TADC

⭑ silly little games ⭑

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~second-person pov~

Caine explained his adventure for all of you, called "gather the gloinks", in which small colorful creatures were running amuck throughout the circus, and you had to catch and put a stop to their shenanigans. With his final words of encouragement, he disappeared.

After the gloinks stole Zoomble and dragged them into a mysterious black hole in the ground, Jax took initiative in pairing you all up. He pointed to you, ragatha, and pomni- saying that you were all going to check on Kaufmo. He then paired up Kinger and Gangle to rescue zooble.

You four walked down the hallway, Ragtaga and Pomni absorbed in their own conversation. Jax glanced at you, then away. "You haven't been talking much. What's your name again?" He asked, disinterested as his eyes wandered to the paintings on the hallway walls.

"Uhh...y/n." I responded nervously, the name still sounded unfamiliar to me. Jax hummed in response. "You've been pretty calm, I don't think anyone has acted this collected after being thrown into the digital world." He chuckled, almost degradingly.

"Yeah...I think the other people here are panicked enough that I get my fair share." You glanced over to Pomni, who was still talking to ragatha. "Eh, you'll get used to it." You all stopped at a door that had a picture of a wide-smiling clown. ragatha rung the doorbell as Jax's words settled with you. I don't think I'll ever get used to this place...

Ragatha stepped back and raised an eyebrow. "Hm. I suppose he's not in his room?" She shrugged, motioning towards the door. "Don't worry, dollface. I e got a key to his room." Jax dug out a golden key from his poket and slug it around in his finger before getting on one key and unlocking the door. "Wai- wh-w-why? Y-you shouldn't have keys to anyone's room!" Ragatha stuttered, putting her hands on her hips disapprovingly.

"Nah, I've got keys everywhere, and you'll all been fine." He said nonchalantly. "By the way- I may have left something in your room earlier. You're not afraid of centipedes are you?" He remarked teasingly, glancing back at ragatha.

"Jax! That's literally my only fear WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?!" She exclaimed, her hands on ether side of her head as she glared at the rabbit. "Whaaat? It could be a completely unrelated question! You never know until it's too late!" He chuckled, flipping his wrist as he shrugged. You crossed your arms, as someone who admired ragatha's kindness and hospitality from the start, You began to get a sour taste in your mouth from Jax.

Jax pushed open the door. You clenched your teeth when inside everyone saw inside kaufmo's room. Red and black scribbles filled the wall, decoding it of color. Grotesque images and hasty drawings filled lined everything in sight, unintelligible words scrawled across paintings and portraits of the once-sane clown. Only the words you could read were 'EXIT', written over and over again. And in the middle of the room, a gigantic ink-black and distorted creature covered with disfigured eyeballs let out an ear-splitting roar. It's eyes focused to us and you felt everyone tense.

Jax glanced down and picked up a blue-marbled bowling ball right in front of him. "Oh, I've been lookin' for this! Thanks for keepin' an eye on it, Kaufy. I'm gonna head out, see ya." You felt Jax put his hand on the top of your head, and you two were suddenly transported back to the main area of the circus tent. You gasped in surprise and felt around, making sure everything was still there. 

Jax looked down at you with a raised eyebrow and you immediately kicked him in the shin, causing him to keel over and glare at you. "What the $#%! Y/n! What was that for?" He huffed.

"What was that for?!" You mocked angrily. "You left ragatha and pomi! And you dragged me along with you! By the way your clown-friend looked, it doesn't look like his intentions were good. What the $&#%! even happened to him anyway?!"

Jax stood and rolled his eyes, sighing. "He's abstracted, that's what happens when you officially lose it. You can't really be sad about it though, Kaufmo was a nuisance. And for being a clown, he wasn't that funny." 

You kicked him again, harder this time. He fell to his knees again. "Y'know, I'm starting to think you don't like me." He groaned in pain. 

"Sorry, I just didn't think the first kick was hard enough." You smiled smugly as you stared down at him. You bit your tongue, wanting to say more. It was pretty extreme to not give two shits about someone so much, but You said nothing- besides, you didn't even known Kaufmo.

Jax stood and looked down at you, a glint of admiration in his eyes that made my head spin. He shrugged and began walking. "C'mon toots, we should meet up with Kinger and Gangle."

We met up with the two, who were still standing at the edge of the black hole where zooble and the gloinks disappeared. "Sup...fellas." Jax greeted, the both of us out of breath from running. "W-we found the zooble hole!" Kinger exclaimed, you wanted to laugh from that sentence, but you restrained as to not emberass yourself or Kinger. 

"How is Kaufmo doing? I hope he's not still mad at me for not laughing at his jokes..." Gangle buried her teary face in her ribboned hands, her weak voice moments away from a sob.

Jax smiled and waved his gloved hand in dismissal. "Oh he's greeattt. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen him this happy before." He exaggerated happily. You narrowed your eyes as you glanced up at him, opening your mouth to tell the Kinger and gangle the truth, but Jax shushed you by putting two gloved fingers over your mouth. He glanced back as a low growl from behind everyone filled your ears. Your blood froze in fear as Jax gingerly lifted his glove from your mouth.

"-he actually asked me to give you this." Jax pulled out the blue bowling ball from...his back pocket? Jax spun the ball atop his finger before throwing it at Kinger, knocking him into the zooble hole. Kinger grabbed a loose end of one of gangle's ribbons, sending her unraveling until gangle and her comedy mask were dragged down the hole with a frightened wail. Jax chuckled, grabbing your hand and diving into the hole as you shouted in fright...

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