Escape the Night: Freak Show
A/N: Hello to all ETN fans, I am back with the next installment of the series, and there is now one artifact left to find. So, on with the show!
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Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Escape the Night. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.
PROLOGUE: DEADLY PERFORMANCE
When a small circus arrived in town, many people turned out to see the performances, play the games, and some of them were looking forward to teasing and insulting the freaks that they would most likely find there.
Little did any of them know, there was one among them who was also interested in seeing the freaks, but for an entirely different reason, and this person was looking for one freak in particular that was rumored to be at the circus.
While the visitors to the circus were paying for tickets to see the performances in the main tent, one of the performers was pacing back and forth backstage, and he really didn't want to go out there since he knew that they would probably verbally attack him like before.
It wasn't his fault that he, Sam, been born deformed, that his own parents rejected him by putting him in an orphanage when he was just a baby, or that all he could do was grunt like an animal instead of speaking like a normal human.
Sam was still grunting and pacing when the Ringmaster entered, and he immediately turned away from the tall, thin, black man. Yes, the Ringmaster had taken him from the orphanage, giving him a better life then he would've had originally, and yet, he didn't enjoy being mocked and insulted by the paying crowd.
The Ringmaster glanced at his employee before using his cane to open the flap in the tent wall, revealing that they had a full house in the main part of the tent. "The crowd is waiting," he pointed out, fixing the giant man with a stern look. "They are waiting for you."
Sam shook his head, grunted, and went back to his pacing.
The Ringmaster, however, wasn't amused and confronted the giant man. "Did you hear me, you freak?" he demanded angrily, and Sam shook his head again with a loud snort. "Go out there now, or I will make you suffer," he ordered. "Do it!" He opened the flap with his cane again, and the giant man reluctantly went through it.
"And now for the main event," the Ringmaster announced a short while later, standing on a stage and gesturing to the crowd with a wide smile on his face. "The behemoth from beyond. Sam!" He then got off the stage.
Sam, reluctantly, climbed onto the stand to show off his muscles and his strength to the crowd. Unknown to anyone, the mysterious figure magically appeared at the back of the crowd as they immediately began booing, shouting, and throwing popcorn at the giant man.
Sam did his best to ignore them, but he was way too angry not to.
When one particular woman in the crowd began shouting repeatedly, "Get off the stage, freak!", something inside Sam snapped, and he finally had enough. He jumped off the stage, and attacked her!
He wrapped his hands around her neck and lifted her into the air, her feet kicking frantically as she struggled to scream, and the crowd scattered in fear.
Just as the woman started to go limp, Sam realized what he was doing, dropped her semi-conscious form on the ground, and he fled the tent.
The Ringmaster quickly returned to the stage and did his best to reassure the fleeing crowd while other circus people went to the aide of the injured woman. "Ladies and gentlemen, it's all part of the show. It's all part of the show, relax." 'Sam, when I get my hands on you!'
Sam hid himself behind some crates at the back of the tent, hating himself for losing control like that, and he knew that when the Ringmaster found him, he was going to pay for what he'd almost done back there.
There was a popping noise and he looked up to see a swirl of black smoke transforming into the mysterious figure, which approached the giant man, who cringed away in fear.
`"They mock what they don't understand,"` the mysterious figure commented and Sam looked at the figure curiously as it bent down before him. `"But I know what you are. You're a God living among mortals."` It then straightened up and held out a gloved hand to the giant man. `"Let me take you to a place that truly understands that."`
Sam stared at the mysterious figure and the outstretched hand for several long seconds, before he finally took the figure's hand, and he was pulled to his feet. They then disappeared in a swirl of black smoke that was gone by the time that the Ringmaster reached the area.
"Sam?" the Ringmaster called out, searching for the giant man to make him pay for almost killing that woman earlier. "Sam? Sam where are you? Sam?!" 'Where is that blasted freak? Oh, when I get my hands on him!'
A/N: Ooh, hows that for an opener? See you all on Thursday. R&R everyone!