Sawblade circus

Chapter Twenty-Two

"What're you doing?" Annabelle screamed as the cold metal was placed to her head. "Use your brain, detective, what do you think?" She struggled to get out of his grasp and away from the gun. He snarled when he heard running near the tent. "Why'd you have to get involved? What did I do that was so bad?" He snarled in Annabelle's ear. She turned to glare at him but stopped dead when she saw the drastic change his eyes had made. They were now pitch black everywhere, except for the pupils, which were white. The black under his eyes was gone. "What-" She tried to ask, but knew it was a stupid idea to try. "Annabelle!" She heard Nathan scream. The Ringmaster looked up at him and his smile was very sinister. "Come on then, take one more step." He growled and pushed the gun further into her head. Night Angel and the rest caught up shortly after Nathan found him.

"Put her down." Nathan growled. The Ringmaster smiled. "Well you have certainly proven to be a troublesome bunch haven't you?" "It's over, we've got you." Mr.Hil said. He turned towards him, dragging Annabelle with him. "Really? That's what you said the last time...” Then the pigman stepped forward with the bible and holy water. "He didn't have this last time." He held up the items. Annabelle felt the Ringmaster shiver behind her. "It's over." Nathan repeated. "For her, it will be if that shit gets any closer to me." He snapped. Night Angel jumped then to try and get the gun, but with a flick of his wrist he pistol whipped her and sent her flying back. She landed with a thud on the ground. "Grandma!" Annabelle shouted, tears rushing down her face. "That's it!" Nathan screamed, " Time to send you back where you belong!”

He lunged towards them then and the pigman opened the bottle of holy water, quickly throwing some of the liquid onto the Ringmaster. His scream was inhuman as his leg began to burn horribly, emitting smoke and destroying skin. Nathan grabbed for his sister during the mayhem, and managed to get her free when the demon went to grab his leg. His reflexes were fast however and he managed to regain enough sense to raise the gun and shoot Annabelle near her hip. "Look out!" Mr.Hil tried to warn them as pigman landed another dose of holy water on the Ringmaster. This time it cascaded down his shoulder and he lunged back screeching. Nathan laid his crying sister onto the ground to look at her wound.

"Dad!" He screamed, not knowing where the blood was coming from. He looked up to the demon panting and laid back against a tree. His dad standing over him, until he saw Annabelle, he rushed over to her and pulled her shirt up to expose to the wound. "Okay, its not as bad as I thought." He panted. "It nicked her hip bone, but it didn't go through it. Nathan looked back and saw that Night Angel hadn't moved from her spot, and he feared the worst. "Now, here we go." He heard pigman start and looked over to see him standing over the Ringmaster, who had third degree burns on his shoulder and leg.

 Pigman was holding the bible and was on a specific page. "Never took you for the religious type, heh." The Ringmaster wheezed. "Well with the extra time you gave me by locking me in that cell for so long, had to pick up a hobby. Just be lucky that we don’t know your name, otherwise this would be a lot more-" "Painful!" The Ringmaster screeched and jumped for the pigman. The two landed with a thud and before he could reach for the holy water his arm was pulled back and then ripped off completely. He screamed and the Ringmaster sat atop him devouring the flesh from the appendage. Mr.Hil jumped up then and made for the bottle, but knowing better than to call his bluff this time, The Ringmaster jumped up, and disappeared into the shadows.