Cecilia's Circus ~Book 1~ *CANCELED*

Chapter 2:Gun Fire

Chapter 2:Gun Fire
"Hell is empty.All the devils are here."-William Shakespeare

Bubbles POV

I walked down the hallway once I heard Cecilia talking to the crowd.She really doesn't need to introduce us all I'm sure these people have seen us before. I walk up to the entrance to the arena and watch Cecilia introduce the performers.

"Ladies and Gentlemen dont be fooled by her looks for she is the best of the best." She makes a hand gesture to the first performance of the night. "Please welcome to the arena the sorceress Hilda!" Hilda is the oldest act in the circus, she's what got Cecilia so popular in the first place.Hilda basically died with Cecilia so they have this huge bond but anyways,she introduces herself and her new assistant. She has a new assistant every week,the old ones always end up dead. This weeks one is an innocent boy in his twenties.Poor guy. The other performers watch in silence as Hilda does her sorcery on her assitant. It's not long before her act ends and she bows to the crowd.

"There's more were that came from folks."

The lights dem down and the spot light turns on and lands on Cecilia.
"This next act may seem like any normal act you've seen on TV but this act is taken to another level." Another spot light lands on the platform for the highwire.

"I guess you could say..two heads are better than one."

The crowd all look up where the second spot light has landed. Under the spot light are the conjoined twins Gretchen and Mabel. They have mystery objects in each hand and they raise them up to the crowd." As you can see ladies and gentlemen these lovely ladies are jugglers" the crowd stays silent waiting for Cecilia to explain more."They also each have one eye missing and their mouths are also stitched together so they cannot communicate with one another this is all based on trust." The crowd gasps as if they haven't seen this act a million times. " Half blind too, seems hard doesn't it? But just to make your nerves shot even more they will be juggling blind folded while walking across the high wire!" The crowd goes even silenter at those words. If that's even possible.

"Well this is new.." I whisper to Hilda who's right beside me."What has Cecilia been cooking in that mind of hers..." I look over at Hilda as she shakes her head slowly. The twins tie a blind fold around their heads as Cecilia explains further."And to make things even more intense they will be juggling...chainsaws!"An assistant climbs up to the platform where the twins are and gives them chainsaws and takes away their mystery objects before turning on the chainsaws.

"Queue the music!"

Old circus music starts playing as the twins start juggling and slowly walk onto the wire. Oh Cecilia what have you gotten them into?The crowd stays quiet as the twins get to the middle of the rope.All the performers lean in almost falling out into the arena. I on the other hand watch as a crowd member walks closer to the arena holding an object."What the hell.." I start walking to where the person is standing.The crowd and Cecilia are too occupied with watching the twins that they don't even notice the mystery person pull out a gun and aim it directly at Cecilia."Hey!" The mystery person looks at me when a gun shot echo's through the arena.

The crowd gasps as the man falls stone cold dead onto the arena floor. I look over at Cecilia who's still pointing a gun where the man use to stand."Jasper! Get your ass in here!" Cecilia's angry voice echo's throughout the arena as the crowd starts leaving taking it as their queue to leave early. I look up at the twins on the other side of the highwire climbing down to the ground as Jasper comes running in as if he had to run a mile to get inside."Yes Miss La Mona?" Jasper slowly stops talking as he spots the gun in Cecilia's hand and the dead man on the floor."I see this is shocking to you as well?" Cecilia questions tilting her head staring at Jasper waiting for him to get over the shock.

"I..uh..I thought security checked all the buyers."

"Well Jasper I guess they didn't do it well enough now did they?" You can just see the veins popping out of Cecilia's neck, once she's fuming there's no going back. Last time someone pissed her off who was a male...let's just say she umm well to put it lightly they weren't men anymore."Meet me at my wagon after I deal with security..." Jasper noddes repeatedly before Cecilia walks off. "You know even though she's shorter than you she sure does scare you." I walk up next to Jasper as we watch Cecilia disappear behind the curtain where the other performers are probably avoiding her. I turn my gaze to Jasper and look him up and down, no wonder Cecilia made him the ticket booth guy he's quite the looker, good way to attract a young audience."Of course she scares me, she's my boss." He looks down at me with a little fear in his eyes
"Its definitely obvious she's horny as hell when it comes to you, bet she finds any excuse to get you to her wagon." I smirk at Jasper as his face stiffens and he quickly turns away from me."You keep thinking that."

"Oh I will ."

"I swear you weirder than the other performers"

"Ha. I wish, sadly the afterlife doesn't work like that."

"You wish? What kind of person....nevermind." I smile at Jasper as we walk back where Cecilia stormed off to."Jasper!" I notice Jasper stiffen when Cecilia calls his name for the millionth time."Guess I better get going." I smirk at Jasper as he hurries off to Cecilia's wagon."Try not to be late!" I yell at him and walk to my own wagon.

"Ahem" I turn around and look up to be greeted by Sabriel the girl who watches over Cecilia to keep her crazy ass in check."Sabriel! So nice of you to drop by." I smile innocently at her as fire literally comes out of her ears."What the hell was all that about?"

"Now now no need to get all angry it was a simple mistake Cecilia won't let it happen again."

"Oh I know she won't because I'll be having a word with her." My eyes practically get smaller at her words."But Sabriel-"

"Don't 'But Sabriel' me! Cecilia needs to watch who she let's in this damned circus or my dad will shut it down!" She walks past me and her tail whips me in the face and I quickly follow behind her rubbing my cheek."I hope you realize her and Jasper are in her wagon together." I mutter to Sabriel as she storms towards the wagons.

"Well I hope Cecilia can here me coming."

"Sabriel! You'll be blinded for all the after life!" She completely ignores me as we get closer to Cecilia's wagon."Cecilia!" She screams at the top of her lungs as she throws open Cecilia's wagon door and stops immediately in her tracks.

"Sabriel I hope this is important." I look in front of Sabriel to see Cecilia in her robe with Jasper standing behind her."Trust me its as important as death himself."

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Tadaa new characters! And more to come. Hope you enjoyed this chapter I tried my best! Any who have a good day!