It's time I got this out of my system since I've tried to contain my thoughts and ideas for this story. I got so anxious that I actually started writing in class today just to get the ideas down on paper. I hope you guys enjoy reading it and tell me if you think it's worth it to keep going. If not then I'll just try to bring it to a close faster than I wanted. Please review, I love to hear from the people who read my stories! Hope you guys have a good weekend :)

Sincerely,

Kay :)


Ryoma was tired but not as tired as his older brother Ryoga. Ryoga had worked himself to death performing and doing the work of three people since their parents died.

Ryoga had been 13 when their parents died and left them in the circus alone. Their father and mother were performers in the circus since they could remember and the brothers were raised there so performing was nothing new.

In fact if the conditions were better they might be the best at their jobs. Having parents that were known throughout the world as the best definitely gave them an advantage after-all.

Ryoma and Ryoga watched them perform every time and learned quickly. When the ring master thought the time was right he entered Ryoga into the act as well making it a family performance. He was 9 when he started performing and quickly gained the attention of many, earning their praises.

They would travel to far and many places and perform, always becoming better. Ryoma didn't want to be left out though and so he would be allowed to join in the parade they would take into the town.

He didn't know why but he couldn't help but want to be in the spotlight along with his family, getting the audience to clap and laugh. He insisted many times but his family thought he was too young, he was only a cub.

Although the ring master, a dear friend of the Echizen's, soon fell very ill and the doctors said there was no way he could recover. The ring master made his will but said he wanted his right hand man, Kline, to become the ring master and successor.

Everyone tried to get him to change his mind but he was adamant that Kline take the circus far and make it famous. Far was right alright, but in the wrong direction of course.

After the beloved ring master had passed on and Kline took control he immediately put restrictions and rules on everything, being nothing but a tyrant. He would drive people into the ground with exhaustion and would over book them to the point of chaos.

Some of the people with higher influence within their circus, like the Echizen's parents, even tried to persuade him to hold back a little but that only made it worse.

Kline became angered at their parents and said that the only reason they were still there is because the old ring master favorites them.

He went crazy trying to make everyone's routine's perfect that the shows quality dropped until no one wanted to come anymore. The performers would lose balance and fall or mess up their magic acts making it hard to watch.

Kline began making outrageous assumptions and blaming it all on Nanjiro, their father, saying it was his fault. Crazy and insane already, Kline hired a scientist to make a device to try to control Nanjiro and his family.

The scientist was shocked when he found out what the Echizen's really were, he had no idea such a thing was possible. Kline had known about their condition for a while but had never been able to do anything about it with the old ring master in his way.

The scientist that was hired was also completely insane, no surprise there, birds of a feather flock together right. He took the parents away from the brothers by force to test the invention he had created.

Of course Nanjiro would not simply let him experiment on him and his family. He was brought to the mad scientists lab and when he saw the invention he lashed out. He couldn't let his family be under the control of these crazy people.

The invention eventually killed both parents just from testing it out. It was one day when both madmen came for Ryoma and Ryoga that everything went down hill.

They managed to get the boys into the laboratory and held down. That's when they saw it, the collar. That lunatic made a collar that would be able to control the brothers.

As soon as the collar was placed around their necks it attached itself into their skin and reverted them to their original forms, panthers.

You see the Echizen's weren't a normal family and they knew it, that's why they joined the circus. Their parents had been a few of the many who were cursed or rather blessed with the power to be seen as humans so the real humans wouldn't kill them all.

They learned to control the power so they could go back and forth between human and panther forms to protect themselves. Once this was done they met the original ring master who they became great friends with because he found out about their secret.

He decided he would employ them if they could perform in his circus but not as humans, as panthers. He managed to keep their secret with the exception of the animals care taker who would have been suspicious if panthers were always disappearing.

It was when Kline couldn't find the Echizen pair that he realized what they were and even saw them turn back into humans after a performance that he demanded an explanation.

Without the power to turn back into humans Ryoma and Ryoga couldn't get help from anyone. They couldn't talk to anyone but each other and had no one to rely on anymore except each other.

Ryoga tried many times to get the collar off but it was impossible. Kline got worse and started to train Ryoma the next day to perform in the show.

Ryoma was only a cub, barely 3 years old and he couldn't keep up to Klines' expectations. Ryoga was tortured watching his brother try to do his routine only to fail and for Kline to shock him, which was another "handy" function of the collar, or whip him when he wanted.

Ryoga wasn't treated any better though and became exhausted within minutes of his "training". He was so desperate, he didn't want to see his little brother in so much pain and he didn't think he could take much more.

At night, the only time they had to themselves, they would be locked in a cage barely fitting the two. Ryoga would try his best to bite and claw at the collar on his brother's neck but it wouldn't come off. All he could do was comfort Ryoma and tell him everything would be okay even though he was skeptical about it himself.

It's been about a year since the collars were put on them and now Ryoga was plotting something. He was planning an escape. He was going to get them out no matter what.

No longer would him and his brother have to suffer at the hands of that twisted man and no longer would they be apart of the Cirque du Mystique.

The thought was bittersweet seeing as how they both grew up here and all the memories of their parents were here as well. However Ryoga had to get his brother and himself away from here before anything worse happened.


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