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The Dark Wood Circus

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I sat there, gazing up at the clouds. It was really creepy here in Dark City, hence the name. My short brown hair down to my shoulders was quietly brushing my face. I had hazel eyes and freckles. I was wearing a small white dress. I was 16 years old. It was boring in Dark City, only the crimes made it fun. I was at an old café that received a lot of attention, but the owner knew my parents so they left me alone in the back near the garden.

"CIRCUS!" An small girl squealed. Her parents were pulling her away from the joined people.

"Circus?" I asked myself. I had never gone to a circus before in my life. Maybe it was because of my huge fear of clowns.

"Excuse me girl, would you like a flyer?" A red dressed little girl said to me. Something was defiantly creepy about her.

"Um sure?" I said. I took the flyer from her grasp as she ran off smiling. I looked at the circus flyer in my hands. It was poorly drawn, but definitely creepy.

DARK WOOD CIRCUS. WELCOME!

It wasn't very much of a liner. But it was in the dark wood forest, the scariest place known to man in Dark Wood City. I decided to go. I got up and went to my parents.
***

"Mom, dad… I'm going to the circus today ok?" I said to them, packing some money. I was at the door before I heard them say whatever. I rushed out, thinking they said 'yes' and skipped to the circus.

The road was dark and scary, but I had my trusty flashlight and pepper spray. "Now where is this Dark Wood Circus?" I asked myself, seeing nothing but trees. Hope this wasn't a prank.

Nothing for about an hour it seemed. As I was about to turn back, I heard flashes of lights go on behind me and two large shadows appeared.

I gulped.

"Oh, you're here! You're here!"  A silver haired male said. Black striped pants and a black vest with a red tie. A black top hat with a red ribbon and a lone black cane, he had with him. He looked like he had stilts for legs same as the woman beside him.

"Tonight we will be showing, the sad fates that some of this world carries." A tall blond haired woman said. Her dress was white, and she had on white tights.

"Children that God have disowned, restlessly creeping out." The silver haired male said again, bending down to one knee. "Children who can't carry the trembling limbs they are born with."

"Their shaking tongues give an anguished cry. The crowns of their heads that caress the dark clouds. They smile as they dream of their mother's embrace." The blonde haired girl whispered, bending down to one knee as well.

"Oh the deformity! DEFORMITY! Drop by and see him." They sang creepily, getting back up to dance along with one another.

I shivered. That was plain creepy. I walked to the front of the circus to notice that no one was there. "Odd, HELLO?" I asked. "I wanna buy some tickets!" I yelled.

Just then a single ticket landed in front of me, just innocently. Too innocently if ya ask me. I picked it up anyway, heading inside to see nothing but darkness. "Hello?" I asked once more. I forgot I had my flashlight, and so I used it.

Cages. Nothing but cages was inside. I walked further inside, glancing at the cages again and again. "Hm..." Nothing so far. Was this circus fake? Just then my flashlight landed on something and it scared me to death. So shaken up, I threw my flashlight down on the ground only to hear it shatter.

"Deep in the woods... Far-far away.... There is a circus.... The chairman with big eyes..." A dark voice said. Not like dark, but like more low.

"And ten meters tall... All of us.... are jolly..." Sang a light melodious voice.

I was creeped out! THEY SOUNDED TO CLOSE TO ME. NO FLASHLIGHT. NO WAY TO SEE. I held up my hands with the pepper spray.

"Our forms are.... rather strange, but the circus... is so fun..." The low one said again.

"The Dark Wood Circus." Both sang.

"W-Who's there?! I'm not afraid! I have pepper spray!" I stuttered.

"Don't be frightened little one."

"We won't harm you."


"Who are you?!" I asked again.

"We are the act, but we are not to harm."

"We have come to escort you through the cage of freaks."


"Cage of freaks!? I saw nothing!" I shouted.

"Don't shout or he will hear you."

"Please, Susie, don't shout."


"How did you know my name?!" I asked.

"We know everything."

"Leave me alone!"

"If you wish dear Susie, but… we are kinder than those around here."

"Please, we will escort you through, if you want us too."
Their voices left, and I was afraid.

So afraid. I began to cry. "WAIT, COME BACK, I'M SCARED." I cried. A gloved hand touched my face, pulling it up. I saw nothing but blue eyes.

"Shhh… Roxas is here now." The low voice said.

"Roxas be gentle with her." The light one said.

"R-Roxas?" I whispered.

"I will Ventus…"

"Now on with the show." They smiled at me. We approached a room with some light in it with four large cages. One was already open as they others were shut tightly, chains around them.

In the light the figures who were escorting me through the darkness were two boy heads on one body. They were stitched up. The one on the right was called left was called Roxas, had blonde spiked hair parting to the left, while the right one named Ventus, had the same color hair but parting to the right.

"We are the one with two heads." They sang in a perfect melody.

"How… What happened to you?" I whispered, but they had not heard me. They lead me on to the next cage which was huge and had a slumped over figure in the back of it.

"The deformed diva…" They sang. They shoved me to the front of the cage, as I saw a blue short haired girl with a visor on her eyes. She had pale skin that was rotting and festering. A beautiful but torn dress was on her body, blue with sparkles. Her legs… OH her legs were replaced with horse legs!

I reached into the cage to tell her to stop crying, but Roxas and Ventus pulled me back and led me onto the next cage. I still looked over my shoulders to see her glancing at me sadly.

The next cage was huge and had no bars, but was made out of unbreakable glass. I could see through it though. There was a black spikey haired male in a strait jacket sitting in chair behind a black table with a plate on it. His hair was tousled.

"A blue beast that loves to eat cold things…" Roxas and Ventus sang again. Just then some light shown on the plate, and I nearly screamed, but Roxas held my mouth shut. There were bloody hands on the plate, looking so cold. That's when the black haired male smiled. He ravenously dug into the flesh, tearing away and away. There was nothing left in a matter of seconds as a large bone was in the male's mouth. His golden eyes stared straight at me. He smiled again.

I was terrified. "No… Don't feed me to him." I begged and sobbed.

"We won't dear Susie." Roxas murmured.

"No we won't. Something else is in store, but one more cage is for sure."

They pushed me to the last cage, which was right beside the blue haired diva's cage. "The Fallen Doyen…" They sang. Light shot on a teen with brown spikey hair, the same as the cannibals, and a blindfold over his eyes. He had no shirt on, but he had black pants that had chains coming out of them. They held the cage tightly. Chains were holding him high in the air, painfully. Blood dripped down from the chains. His hands were underneath him. Blood fell from his lips.

I gagged. The sight was sickening. "What have you people done?" I yelled but Ventus gently held my lips with his own. I stopped yelling. I sank into a trance.

"Does anyone wish that I were alive?" The diva sang sadly. Her voice was inhuman, but somehow made me cry. I walked up to her cage as did Ventus and Roxas. Ventus and Roxas took off the visor, and I saw the saddest eyes in the world. "Am I so undesirable in this body?"

"Who's doing this to you?! You're not ugly, you're pretty!" I sobbed.

"Why do you look at me like that?" She sang oddly. She seemed sad instead of angry.

Something dripped onto my face. It burnt my cheek so I held it in pain. I looked up in shock to see a teenage girl hanging from the ceiling in a bar lock on her head. Flowers were growing on her body as they fell down, they turned into acid. Her red hair was flowing a bit and her pink dress was stained in blood.

"This face is rotting." She looked at me in pain. "It's painful…" She held her hands up to her face, weeping sadly.

"It's painful, but it can't be helped." Ventus sang sadly, reaching into the cage to the diva. He took a piece of her longer hair strands and held it to his face. He closed his eyes in sadness. "She said it, but we still continue this circus… FOREVER."

"It's fun! So fun!  This circus is so fun!" Roxas sang darkly at me. "Rotten fruit… to dissolve my eyes. My skin festers, reflected on my eyes…" Roxas sang, looking at me in a look I couldn't look away from.

"I want to die. Want to die… Get me out of here please…" The diva sang, shaking the bars as she cried in sadness. "It is impossible for anyone to say and feel…" She sobbed as she saw a shadow behind me and she slowly shouted.

I looked behind me to see a large figure dressed in black with tan skin and long silver hair. I cried in fright as they took me down in one single swoop. As I lay on the ground of the circus floor, I saw Roxas and Ventus sadly waving to me. "Why?" I cried as I fell into everlasting darkness.
***

"The body is distorted and in order to bend into that wretched twisted figure."

"To crawl on the illuminated street with paper lanterns."

"Everyone knows the feeling of walking down the street."

"The child has to cower alone."

"I guess the shadows reach long."

"But the friends that talk have their waists aligned."

"You are later and before and by yourself."

"Oh you're here, you're here!"

"Drop by and see him."

"Drop by to the Dark Woods Circus."


I woke up to see Roxas and Ventus in front of me smiling sadly. "Where am I? Who am I??" I asked. I didn't notice the blood on my hands. The blood pooling was pooling in the floor. My body ached. My limbs felt heavy.

"Susie, hello, you're in the Dark Wood Circus." Roxas said.

"Yes, the Dark Wood Circus… Don't you remember? You're our friend here. Your stage name is 'Little Dolly'. Dolly, come with us. The master wants us to get people." Ventus smiled.

"Ok, Roxas and Ventus…" I smiled as I stood up. I looked down to see my body had been stitched up like the twins. My brown hair was now longer but had blond in it as well. My dress was blue and pink.

We walked into the next town which was called Dark Water city. Everyone looked at us in wonder. "COME TO THE DARK WOOD CIRCUS."

A little girl in red was carrying flyers… "It's fun." She said as her eyes turned from blue to red.
NO I DIDN'T DRAW THE PICTURE... :iconcomicbook-girl: did... I like Vocaloid now, and I love The Dark Wood Circus one <3 So I decided to put down KH people instead of Loids :3 AND SUSIE IS AN OC.

The Silver haired male in the beginning was Riku. The blonde female was Namine.

The Twins were Roxas and Ventus.

The one in the strait jacket was Vanitas and Sora was the one in the chains.

Aqua was the deformed diva.

And Xemnas was the head master.
Copyright @ Vocaloid to Yamaha
Copyright @ Susie to me
Copyright @ KH to Square Enix
© 2011 - 2024 chibilover12
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ms-base-lady's avatar
wow so sad but good.