Circusphobia (WOTFI 2024 Rewritten)

The Weeping Widow

Story Key:
""- talking obviously
{}- inner thoughts
()- authors' intervention ;)

(This starts after Mr. Puzzles captured everyone, including SMG4 and Mario, so basically after the trailer lol)

Mr. Puzzles maniacally laughed as he looked over all his cameras. Everyone was in their rightful chambers. He decided to begin with the cat.

Mr. Puzzles: "Greetings, my furry friend!", his voice said over a speaker.

Karen woke up in a completely empty room. She sat up and looked around, but it was really dark.

Karen: "Mr. Puzzles! Where am I? What did you do to me and the others?!", she said sitting herself up.

Mr. Puzzles: "They're fine, Karen, relax. It's just you and me for a bit.", he kept the calmness in his voice, it was creepy.

Karen: "Ugh, what do you want you freak?!", she demanded as she stood herself up.

Mr. Puzzles: "Simple! YOUR SOUL— Ahem, for you to play a little game with me!", his voice changed to one of excitement.

Karen: "Are we playing the guessing game or are you just gonna tell me what it is already?", she said with an annoyed expression and sarcastic tone. She put one arm on her hip and let the other hang to the side while slightly leaning over, letting her sass show.

Mr. Puzzles: "The game is..." A course full of fire rings appeared in the room. "THROUGH THE FIRE! You gotta make it to the end in just one minute!"

Karen: "What?!" She stands there shocked as the room lights up in a fiery glow, a large timer appearing on the wall to the side of her.

Mr. Puzzles: "Aaaand, just in case you refuse to do so..." A large screen descended from the ceiling with her three kids tied up. "Well, let's just say you won't be seeing your three little critters anymore."

Karen freezes and stares at her kids as if it was the last time she would ever get to. Little did she know it might be. The timer starts to count down, 59... 58... 57... She takes a deep breath and bolts forward through the rings, jumping through each one perfectly thanks to her previous work as a hit woman. Mr. Puzzles just watches intently, knowing he programmed the course for her to fail. He wasn't going to get someone like her the easy way after all.

Karen continues to jump through each one, but suddenly... the rings start to move back and forth. It's all about timing from here! She's almost to end, when the last one shifts faster than before out of nowhere. She was already in mid jump so she missed it and landed in a heroic pose at the end of the challenge... She missed one... Just one, but...

Karen: "No... no... NO!" She knew how Mr. Puzzles was. This was a huge screw up, and now her kids' lives were in jeopardy because of her. It's all her fault. She turns to the screen of her poor scarred children calling out for her.

Mr. Puzzles: "Oh... What a shame, Karen... Would you like a chance to retry?"

Karen: {Retry?!}, she thought in a panic. Without any hesitation she screams in desperation for her kids' sakes, "YES! YES, PLEASE I'LL DO ANYTHING! JUST DON'T HURT THEM! Don't hurt my babies..." Her voice breaks into one of defeat at the end of her plea. She was completely at his mercy in that moment.

Mr. Puzzles: "Sure... Oh, OOPS!" The screen glitches for a moment then a burst of flames came through the floor and consumed the kittens. The screams...

Karen: "NOOOOOOOOO!" She falls to her knees as she watches her kittens die right in front of her... Then the video skips backwards, and replays... over and over again. She sobs her eyes out over reliving the loss of her kids repeatedly. Her sanity is breaking... but that's exactly what he wanted, what he needed.

Mr. Puzzles: He finally stops the video. "Now, now, Karen, no need to shout! You'll hurt your throat more. I don't necessarily need you to talk for my shows but still~."

There was a long, drawn out silence between them as Karen cried to herself. Mr. Puzzles just watched, amused by her raw emotion. Where had he seen that before?

Mr. Puzzles: "How are we feeling, my dear~?", he asked in a taunting tone.

Karen: "They were my everything...", she says between sobs. "I'll kill you... I swear I'll kill you!" She glared at Mr. Puzzles through her tears. She wasn't going to go down without a fight.

Mr. Puzzles: "Well then, let's see you do it again. Maybe you'll succeed this time~."

It would take a bit to break Karen fully, but that's where the fun really begins. And Mr. Puzzles had all the time in the world for it. Over and over, day after day, the same old thing. She'd jump through the flames, if she failed she got to watch her kids die again and again until she got it right. The same thing would happen if she tried to escape or fight back. He would even use an audience against her when he finally tested her out in the public. There were many children that went to the shows at the park, and He would threaten their lives every time to make sure she stayed obedient. This would go on for weeks to months, eventually she didn't see a point to life anymore. He already took away the most important thing in her life. She had no purpose without her kids. And she could never reach Him no matter how hard she tried, He was the whole park now after all. Even if she did somehow make it out, where would she go? She would eventually stop trying to defy Him. She stopped trying to escape, she stopped fighting back, she let go of herself entirely. She gave her life to Him, and started to succeed more and more to the point where she made no mistakes at all, even if she suffered from all the burns and bruises from all the times she failed before. Those could however be covered up by her costume and makeup. She became mostly emotionless except for when she saw the kids, they were the only thing motivating her now. She couldn't let IT happen again, especially not to someone else's babies. She was determined to never let someone feel the way she did... ever... no one deserves to hear their children scream and cry like that... no... never again... she vowed the rest of her life on that...

(OMG this took a whole two days to complete with my friend, can you believe this started out as just an RP?!, I also may have tweaked things a little for story telling purposes but eh it's fine, more to come soon sillies, and remember... please rate us 5 stars...⭐️, but seriously any and all feedback helps, tell us what you think)

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