Forgotten Carousel

Chapter 1

Ah okay-- first story on here. -shrugs-
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"Sylliorah!" A male voice sounds behind me, causing me to turn around and weakly smile. I knew that voice, it was my friend Raluukir. He ran up to me and curled his arms around me, practically crushing me before I wheeze slightly. He loosened his grip before he starts talking. "I heard you got your tattoo, where is it..?" I turned so Raluukir could see my purple tattoo, the area around the purple marking already bruising on its own, making it look like a pattern of red and dark purple. "Purple huh? I'm glad you didn't get stuck with my color." Raluukir then let go of me and turned around, showing off the large green tattoo that decorated his back. I made a noise signalling that I flinched as I touched my new tattoo. Raluukir turned back so he was facing me and talked with me quietly until we heard a loud thud and a scream.

"I think someone just got a Rank Red.." Raluukir speaks in a depressed tone while I practically hid behind him.
"Who do you think it was Raluu?"
"I don't know, we just have to wait until they drag the poor hybrid to the carousel.." My ears flatten against my silver hair, bumping the golden ribbon that an entertainer carefully tied in my hair while Raluukir wraps an arm around me before picking me up, causing me to yelp. "Wow, just as light as you are small."
"Put me down you ass."
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I sat down on the dying grass, wheezing before I started coughing. I had thin but long lines leaking small trails of blood on my back, giving off that I had been whipped. It hurt to stand. Raluukir spotted me before picking me up and carrying me into the clearing, close to my tent. He sat me down on a crate before looking at my back with a blank expression. "They must've hit you pretty hard.. Hold on. I'll get Chryl.." Raluukir looks at me before walking over to a larger tent, a hybrid dressed in white following close behind him while he walked back over to me. Raluukir kept me busy while Chryl silently tended to my back. We talked for a while before we heard a loud scream, watching a large bulky hybrid drag along someone that looked familiar. Raluukir turned around to see who it was as his ears flattened. "Oh god.. They branded Landi.." Landi was another one of my friends, she worked in the back, making sure everyone had their items and checked if we were okay.
Landi was getting dragged by her hair, making her scream and kick as she tried to wriggle herself free. The large hybrid grunted before lifting Landi up into the air by her hair, making her scream loudly in pain before they injected something into her neck, pulling a syringe away before dropping her to the ground, watching her painfully change into a albino mountain lion. I make a scared noise and cover my mouth while Raluukir watches with silence, a depressed look plastered on his face. They waited after Landi was done transforming into her animal before effortlessly lifting her up and holding her still, other performers watching in silence as a heavy pole comes crashing down on her back, making her screech before it impaled her to the carousel. Her intestines and other organs hung from the pole as her body soon becomes lifeless, her eyes becoming glassy and dull as they propped her body up in a position that made her look like she was running in place before removing all organs besides her intestines, leaving a gruesome reminder of how terrible this place can really be.
"..We need to get out of here.."
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I laid still on my stomach, still whimpering quietly in pain as I tried falling asleep, the bandage wrapped around my upper torso already becoming heavily bloodstained. They're going to do that again soon aren't they..? If they found out Chryl was helping me they're going to brand him too.. There's a rule for medically staffed hybrids here. 'Those that help a wounded hybrid due to punishment will get branded, no warning given.' There was already an example of that given to the medical hybrids, the hybrid named Leinah was impaled and set for all to see, it was made publicly too. All of us saw what happened, Leinah was the only deer hybrid that was impaled and set. The medical hybrids denied giving punishment given wounds any healing, leaving most of them as scars or death. I sat up and groaned, looking at my bandages before starting to pull it off, flinching as my tail fluffed out from the pain of me moving.
"What do you think you're doing?" Raluukir's voice sounded behind me, causing me to jump and practically squeal from being startled before I quickly turn around.
"Are you trying to give me a heart attack or are you trying to become a Walrider?" I retorted with an unamused face as he smiles, his smile quickly going away before he sighs.
"You should really leave that on.."
"Raluu, I'm only taking these off because I don't want to see Chryl get branded next.. We already lost everyone else do you really think we want to lose a hybrid that can heal others?" Raluukir sat down next to me and ruffled my silver hair before sighing while I continued to tug at the bandages.
"I can't really stop you now can I? You're really stubborn when you feel like it Syll." Raluukir ran his hand through his black hair before sighing. I watched Raluukir in silence before starting to claw at the bandages again, Raluukir taking notice and helping cut them off before he looks at my back and making a face. "They're still bleeding but not as bad.. you could probably sleep with cotton on your back and see if that helps."
"Since when did you become a doctor Raluu?"
"Ever since I've known you, you're always clumsy."
"...Point taken." Raluukir laughs and ruffles my hair again before standing up and stretching.
"Even if i were to become an Alp Syll, I probably would've killed the Ringmaster by now and you know it." Raluukir looks at me with a smile before yawning. "I'll be in my tent if you need me Sylli." My ears flattened when he called me that nickname, that nickname turned into my stage name, intentionally meant to make myself sound ridiculous.
"Don't call me Sylli!"
"Aw, don't be Sylli, Sylliorah."
"..I fucking hate you."
"Love you too Syll!" Raluukir looks back over at me and grins before walking back over to his tent. I sat still for a while before laying back down on my stomach, sighing and finally falling asleep.
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It only felt like I was asleep for a minute before I got pushed off the bed by a large hybrid, causing me to yelp in pain before I got picked up and set down outside, the large hybrid later walking out of the tent with my bloodstained bandages, looking right at me.
"Where did you get these?"
"F-found them!"
"You attempted to help yourself?"
"O-only to make my cot not bloodstained." The hybrid stared at me for what felt like forever before walking away, throwing away the bloodstained bandages while I sighed in relief, feeling like my legs were starting to buckle. I sat down on a crate and groaned whenever I tried to move. A few other performers passed me, some helping get food ready before the endless torture that is also known as rehearsal. Raluukir was helping the performers carry around crates of food before he glanced at me, silently walking over and handing me a roll. I looked at him before he shrugged.
"I know you don't eat much, but you're gonna need as much as you can get for today so you don't look like a pale mess before the performance tonight." I groaned, my ears flattening before I quietly started eating. Raluukir watched me in silence before walking over to the performers, helping them cook the food he carried over. Chryl passed and glanced at me from going back to talking to the Ringmaster, making a small hand gesture behind him as he passed me and I responded with a noise, causing him to nod while Raluukir walked back over to me, handing me a plate full of food. My eyes widened as I looked at the pieces of food piled onto my plate before looking back at Raluukir. "Shibii wanted to make sure you had enough so you didn't faint from blood-loss and hunger."
I silently started eating, somehow finishing a while after, the plate cleared of the pile of food that was sitting on it before. "You realize now I feel like throwing up because of you and Shibii right?" Raluukir laughs quietly before carefully picking me up and setting me on his shoulder.
"You'll just have to deal with me mothering you."
"Since when did my 'mom' turn gay?"
"You little shit."
"Love you too Raluu." I smile and start swinging my thin legs, the shoes that Chryl had given me were slowly slipping off my feet while Raluukir walked around and talked to a few performers, talking to me most of the time after he was done before we went into the main tent for rehearsal. The main thing we had to do we me standing on his shoulders while I threw knives at hybrids with small fruits on their head.
God I hope I don't miss.