The Magical Islands Of Da

Chapter 6.5

Briella walked back to the three of them, she looked down at Elijah in particular. 

"How much more time do you need? Like I've given you more than enough. Why should I give you more time when your performance won't be as good as Gedeon and Hadeon's?" Briella asked.

"Because this time will be different, it will be better. Please give us a chance." Yuna responded. 

It took some time before Briella hesitantly nods; she walked backstage. Elijah took a breather and looked back at Cole. 

"Okay now what genius? What's your big solution to this big problem?" Elijah asked.

"You'll see, just give me a second. I'm gonna try something ehm...crazy. So crazy, it will even impress you. All you both have to do is catch me, okay?" Cole responded.

Cole's face was still slightly red as he went backstage to Elijah's room. He went to his satchel and looked through it, all the items were in there. He went between the Fear Flag, the Magic Dice, the Red Winged Rose, all of the items. 

One item in his satchel caught his eye, he pulled it out and put it in his pocket. He left his open satchel on the ground and walked outside; he was confronted by a crawling Jessica. 

"Gah Jessica! You scared me, please don't do that again."

Jessica stopped crawling and stood up. She looked puzzled as she tilted her head to one side, her eyes still piercing Cole's soul.

"Oh, my bad. I didn't see you there. I just wanted to let you know your performance is about to start. Good luck, I'm rooting for you." 

Cole's face got even more red, he nodded and ran past The Jester. He went back to Yuna and Elijah on the performance stage, catching his breath.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Elijah the cookie entertainer! And today I will be showing you three performances, two of which will be done by my volunteers. Give a welcoming greeting to Cole and Yuna!"

Nobody cheered, just silent crickets. Elijah nodded slowly with an awkward smile creeping on his face.

"As one final reminder, please don't try anything we show you here at home!" Some of the crowd chuckled and whispered. Cole noticed Gedeon and Hadeon watching from backstage, they were smiling while also making silly faces at Cole. 

He looked back at the massive audience; it was a daunting sight.

Elijah got on the unicycle and started to peddle back and forth until he could eventually balance, Cole pulled out a pillow from the box. He lightly threw the pillow to the entertainer; Elijah started to balance the pillow on his hand while balancing on the unicycle. 

People in the audience started to cheer, they watched with curiosity. Elijah started to spin the pillow while balancing. Cole shakily pulled out a dinner plate, he lightly threw it to Elijah. 

Elijah caught the dinner plate with his other hand. Elijah caught the pillow and dinner plate. He threw the pillow and plate at Cole.

He caught the plate, but the pillow fell. The dinner plate and pillow were put back in the box as Elijah got off the unicycle. Cole looked back at Yuna, she was on the bicycle. There was a propped-up ring in between the ramps. 

"Thank you, that was our first act in this three-act performance, the next act will be done with Yuna. She will have to go through this ring, which will be on fire. She is a crochet doll, wish her luck." Elijah said as he lit the ring on fire, Cole walked up to Yuna. 

They both looked at each other, Yuna was taking deep breaths.

"Hey even if you don't think people believe in you or that you don't think you believe in yourself...know that I believe in you. No pressure but ehm...oh you get what I mean. You got this, show the haters wrong." Cole whispered.