The Black Snow Circus

Here Comes Hell

I skipped along to my tent, and black and white one, closest to the circus tent. I pushed the curtain away and entered. First, I went to the mattress where I slept, and lifted it, revealing a trapdoor, and I opened it, showing a compartment with multiple types of knives in it, from squiggly blades to completely straight ones. There were other things like poisons, clothes, and a few torture devices like whips and non-lethal poisons. I thought to myself, thinking about which things I'd use on Mary. I grabbed a few things and put them in the bags hidden on my legs. I sang a song to myself quietly, which was called "Here Comes Hell"

"Oh lovely girl, who are you?
The one with the blood-stained dress..
How'd you end up like a red jewl?
Oh right, that was me!
Right, I used that poison
And now you say you want to be free?
Oh, lovely girl, what are those orange flames behind you?
They burn to hot, my skins going black...
Your body is like a red jewl...
Oh right, I know those orange flames.
It's hell, isn't it.
Ah, so Here comes Hell"

I sang that to myself with a smile on my face as I exited my tent. I slowly snuck over to Mary's tent, an orange and black one, the farthest from the circus tent. I made sure she was awake, and grinned as I snuck up behind her, after slipping into the tent a different way, and I covered her mouth and eyes. She squirmed, trying to get away, but I straightened my hand and hit her neck, and she went unconscious. I dragged her out of the tent. "Jeez I forgot how heavy you are-" I said to myself as I dragged her across the dirt path into the forest, right by a river. I tied her wrists up to the tree branch, letting her hang. I smacked her face, and she jolted awake, and looked around frantically.
"What's happening, why are you doing this?" She said with a fearful look, but annoyance and hatred were in her eyes and tone.
"Well, little Mary, it seems you have been disobeying orders recently, so obviously I have to teach you a lesson" I said with a crazed look in my eyes as I pulled out one of the squiggly knives, and slowly cut her arm, making it as painful as possible, and she screamed, and I laughed, my pupils probably small in her eyes. I stabbed her in the wrist, right where a vain was, and the blood splattered all over my face. I looked at her, and did the same with her other arm, then her leg, and I stabbed the knife into her ankle, and enough force that it shattered. Her screams were loud, but no one could find us here. I smiled, and pulled out one of the non-lethal poisons, and forced her to drink it. I knew the pain that she was going through, as an Assasin this was part of my training. I let out a long, happy sigh. Good memories, I thought. The pain was excruciating, making it feel like your blood was literally boiling. She could barely even scream as she looked at me with a pleading look in her eyes. I snickered, and that turned into a cursed cackle.
"Oh, your screams were so beautiful....so nice. I wish this didn't have to end, but well, orders are orders." I said, and grabbed on final poison, a lethal but extremely painful one. I forced her to swallow it, and she looked at me with crazed eyes as she squirmed and everything as the poison coursed throughout her body. White foam formed at her mouth, her skin went a dark grey, and right before she finally died, I said to her.
"You should have followed the rules, dear little Mary, so here comes hell." As I finished that last sentence, her head dropped, and I checked her pulse, and she was very much dead. I snickered, and my laugh echoed through the forest, sending chills down each and every persons spine, even in their sleep.

Soon, morning came as the sun rises. I stretched and sat up from my mattress. I had slept great. I grabbed the same steampunk dress as usual, but white and without the bloodstains. There was a little blood in my hair, but that was needed so everyone knew. I heard everyone walking outside, so I exited. We walked along the dirt path right to where Mary's body hang. Everyone gave a slight glance, seeing the blood in my hair. Mary's body was covered in blood, and on the tree behind her, was marked with "Always Follow The Rules." Everyone shivered, besides me since I had been the one to write that. They unwrapped her arms, and put her down. We burned her body with a match, and I took a few ashes and places them in a small jaw with multiple other ashes, of other...troublemakers of the mafia. Then, we walked away after putting out the fire, right back to the set-up. It was time to pack up. We all hummed a tune in sync, the exact same one I had been singing before, Here Comes Hell. We separated to our tents. I appeared at mine, and dragged out my mattress, lifting it and bringing it to the cart which we travelled in, since we didn't have enough money to buy a car or a truck, we had little money despite being a Mafia. They just probably wanted to keep us in check, not giving us to much money so we don't become greedy. I heaved my mattress on top of the others, and then went back and forth as I grabbed my stuff, from my bags to my knives, everything. Now was the fun part. We all met up at the main circus tent, and each started pulling the pegs out of the ground, and slowly bringing down the circus tent. Once it finally was, we all helped fold it up, and place it in the back of the cart, somehow fitting it. It was Jacks turn to drive the cart, and we were all pretty quiet as we went along the stone road, off to the next town, for the next group we would have to kill, or maybe a man who had tried to cross us who had to be assasinated. We all took a breath in, and at the same time, started singing.

"Oh lovely girl, who are you?
The one with the blood-stained dress..
How'd you end up like a red jewl?
Oh right, that was me!
Right, I used that poison
And now you say you want to be free?
Oh, lovely girl, what are those orange flames behind you?
They burn to hot, my skins going black...
Your body is like a red jewl...
Oh right, I know those orange flames.
It's hell, isn't it.
Ah, so Here comes Hell..."